Chapter 019: Mutation
"How should this pit be used?" Aoki kept fiddling with the pits. "Would you like to plant one?"
I don't know if the flesh really played a role, Aoki felt that the two squirrels were more agile, their bodies became a little bigger, and their movements became more agile. It's easier for Aoki to communicate with them with a sense of thought, and the things you communicate can be a little more complicated.
Seeing that the pulp had such obvious benefits, Aoki finally made up his mind to take out a seed and find a place to plant it. After weighing it, Aoki finally chose the opening where the stream connected to the lake.
Aoki found a shallow pit and put the seeds in it, then dug a little soil and covered it to cover the seeds tightly.
Aoki was looking forward to it, but he was a little worried.
With the rainy season approaching, Aoki finally felt the seed begin to break its shell. When Aoki attached his thoughts, Aoki was horrified to find that his perception had changed.
A soft, stubborn feeling came to my heart, and there seemed to be a force around me that imprisoned me, making me suffocated and breathless.
Aoki was shocked and hurriedly wanted to go back, but found that it was unsuccessful. Aoki panicked: "What's going on?" How so? ”
Aoki forced himself to calm down and perceive carefully.
Then Aoki discovers that his new body is constantly consuming something, and the cells are dividing at a geometric rate. The body continued to expand at an accelerated pace, and the space around it became more and more suffocating. Eventually, the body splits and grows, filling all sides.
This confinement is no longer enough to contain the body, but the body is still dividing and growing. Gradually, the confinement began to burst, and cracks gradually appeared.
After some struggle, the body finally broke free from the confinement and began to reach out of the confinement for a short period of freedom. The feeling of being confined to him outside is completely different from the feeling of being confined inside, although there is also a pressure of bondage, but there is also a other taste, the taste of intoxicating "people".
At this time, the nutrients in the body have basically been consumed, and now they can only absorb nutrients from other places. At this time, Aoki naturally thought of the root-like things under his body.
At this time, the confinement had been cracked, and he was completely unable to prevent Aoki from escaping. The roots grow, crawling out of the cracks and into the surroundings.
Soon, Aoki "saw" countless nutrients from the roots to the body, and the body began a new round of division. At this time, the main nutrients of the body are concentrated in the parts that grow upward, and some of them are left for the roots.
I don't know how long it took, but Aoki finally broke through the ground and ushered in the first ray of light, as well as free and fresh air.
At this time, Aoki was finally able to withdraw his consciousness into his original body and guess what had just happened.
The sense of thought was scanned to the place where the seeds were sown, and sure enough, the tender yellow and petite leaf buds were exposed in the soil at this time.
The leaf buds grow day by day, and the tender green body attracts insects that like to eat leaves, but they are all stopped by Aoki.
Under Aoki's careful care, the plant thrived, but its appearance was somewhat different from Aoki's. Aoki found that his consciousness could possess it, and that he could control it freely.
After some familiarity, Aoki found that through it, the distance of his mind had increased slightly, about 2%, and the deep principle Aoki was not clear for the time being.
If you think of yourself as a radar mother station, is it considered a substation? Thinking about it again, it fell from himself, and it can indeed be regarded as a mother-son relationship, but Aoki prefers the term father-son relationship.
Knowing that this tree species has this function, Aoki was ecstatic. Aoki quickly set his sights on the other 11 seeds.
"This time, we have to choose a good place to grow the 11 seeds."
"Let's try it first, and put it in the farthest part of the telepathic detection range." Aoki made up his mind, took out a seed, and chose the jungle outside the southern valley. At this time, Aoki's sense of thought had reached a distance of 15 kilometers in a straight line, and he had already explored the extent of the valley. As for why the seeds were planted this time, why the south side was chosen because the south side of Xishuangbanna retains very rich jungle resources, and the area is much larger than that in the north.
I am a tree, so I must occupy the jungle first.
Choosing a location next to a stream, Aoki planted the seeds.
After a few days, the seeds successfully broke through the soil. Three months later, Aoki officially connected it with a sense of mind, but the effect was not ideal, and the increase in distance was only 2%. This result disappointed Aoki, who was full of expectations.
Aoki then tried to place the third seed on the top of the highest mountain on the edge of the valley. Three months later, I tried to connect to it, which had grown to a height of 1 meter, and found that the distance was almost 3% higher.
"Isn't it like a signal transmitter? High places to be able to launch farther? However, the principle of the signal transmitter is to adjust the frequency of the electromagnetic wave of the signal to a higher level, so that the attenuation of the electromagnetic wave in the air will not be so strong, so it can be transmitted farther. Perhaps this is also the principle of this sense of thought. ”
Now that he had the hint given by the third seed, Aoki straightforwardly planted the remaining nine seeds on the relatively high hills around the valley and surrounded the valley. No matter how high the mountain is, it has not yet been found within the extended range of the mind.
After three months, the seeds had grown to a height of 1 meter, and Aoki couldn't wait to connect all the subtrees (the trees that grew from the seeds were called subtrees).
"Buzz !!"
When Aoki connected to the last tree, a loud high-frequency concussion nearly overturned Aoki's consciousness.
Aoki was dizzy and confused. It took a long time to come back to my senses and realize that something was wrong.
Aoki found himself forming a kind of web with the 12 subtrees, all of which were nodes, and Aoki was the largest node.
And within the scope of this web, Aoki has a clearer image of everything that feels like. A grain of sand, a drop of water, a bacterium, all of them are conveyed to Aoki through the entire web, becoming clearer and more thorough.
This web feels like an amplifier, a processor.
Soon after, a hot sensation came to his heart, and Aoki was horrified to find that the cells in his body seemed to be dividing, and they were constantly breaking as they divided, and a sharp pain came.
"What's going on?" Aoki was terrified, and at this time, his whole body was blazing and cracking, as if he was being burned by fire, and the intense pain hit Aoki's consciousness like waves.
Just as Aoki was about to be overwhelmed by the severe pain, a cool breath quickly spread from the roots throughout his body, and the broken cells began to repair, and the severe pain was relieved. But the division continues, and the number of broken cells continues to increase, and the speed of repair cannot keep up with the speed of damage.
Seeing this sad situation, Aoki was really full of inner bulls, and originally thought that there would be a more awesome prospect, but he didn't expect it to be like this.
Soon, though, Aoki came to his senses.
"Flowering, fruiting, and sowing are all in accordance with nature, and if this is the case, it means that I must be doing the right thing! So," Aoki pondered for a moment and affirmed, "Now maybe the darkness before dawn, as long as I hold on, I can complete a new round of evolution." ”
Thinking of this, Aoki was no longer pessimistic, but plucked up courage and worked hard to fight the severe pain in his body.
As time passed, the number of damaged cells on the body increased, and the repaired cells accounted for less than one-tenth. The pain made Aoki unable to restrain himself, and he wanted to yell and vent it.
Maybe it's a minute, maybe it's a world, the cells on the trunk begin to divide and slowly slow down, and the rate of breakage begins to decrease. The coolness from the roots of the tree has not diminished, and the broken cells are still repaired step by step.
Seeing this, Aoki exhaled lightly, if he continued like this, he would definitely be able to repair his body.
After the crisis passed, Aoki's consciousness finally couldn't stand it anymore and fell into a deep sleep. The next day, when the sun rose, Aoki woke up.
"Huh!" Aoki looked at his whole body and found that his body had changed.
At this time, Aoki grew directly from 13 meters high to 20 meters, the trunk and branches were more than three times thicker, and the main trunk should be 4 meters in diameter. From the inside of the trunk, Aoki can feel that the wood has become tougher.
The trunk grew taller and thicker, and the roots did not fall. At this point it grew thicker and promerged 50 meters into the ground, a terrifying depth of contrast. That's not all, Aoki's roots are very developed, like human hair, densely rooted in the land, absorbing the nutrients of the earth, extremely terrifying.
These are not the most terrifying things for Aoki, the five underground tentacles that have been unpopular with Aoki go directly to a depth of 100 meters underground. Although it was impossible to see what they were really useful for, Aoki remembered that the cool feeling from yesterday came from them.
Seeing these 5 tentacles, Aoki couldn't help but look at the 5 tentacles that grew from the trunk, and at this time, except for the change in the color of the skin, the length and size were exactly the same as the original, and there was no change.
Aoki has changed more than that, the leaves that used to be green have now turned white, and the trunk and branches have also turned white. The overall appearance of the broad canopy and lush leaves resembles a large white banyan tree.
"Am I the Prince of the White Tree!?" Aoki entertained himself.