Chapter 001: Twelve Mysterious Murals
In a deep cave in the depths of Kunlun Mountain, several expedition members were fiddling with the two large searchlights at this time.
At this time, there are only two relatively faint lights in the cave that are constantly shaking, but this cave is too big, and the surrounding objects can only be seen vaguely.
"No, the lighting range is too small, Don Jr.? Okay, okay? At this moment, an older voice sounded.
"Professor, wait another minute, and you'll be fine right away."
After a minute, the searchlight was finally fiddled with, and as soon as the light was turned on, the darkness around it suddenly disappeared, revealing the whole large cave. The cave is the size of a football field, and its height should be as high as a 50-story building.
"It's spectacular!" The exclamations kept ringing out.
The crowd was not amazed by the magnificent cave, but by the twelve huge murals carved into the stone wall in front. Each mural is about 10 meters long and wide, rough and powerful, and a quaint atmosphere comes to the face.
"What is this drawing?"
The first mural is of a young sapling, unremarkable. Then gradually look at the mural behind, the small sapling gradually grows, and its roots are extremely developed. By the time of the fifth pair, groups of animals could be seen prostrating around the tree, and the birds in the sky were flying around the tree in flocks.
"Professor, can you tell what these animals are?" Another student next to him asked.
"I don't understand most of it, except that there are ancient crocodiles, legendary saber-toothed tigers, and mammoths, but these are my guesses." The professor was also staring at the picture at this time, trying to identify it.
By the time the eleventh mural was seen, the tree had become a towering tree.
When I turned to the twelfth mural, it was a pity that the mural was incomplete, and only half of the trees remained, and nothing could be seen on it.
"Quick, get that uranium-lead dating, I'm going to find out how old this mural is."
After a long time, the results finally came out.
"1.4 billion years?!! Oh my God! ”
"The instrument must be broken."
"Test again!"
The crowd continued to be busy, and after a while, the results came out.
"1,000,000 years ago!"
Everyone looked at each other.
It seems that the instrument is broken, otherwise how could it be so unstable?
Aoki didn't pay attention to this at this time, but stared intently at the tree on the mural. Aoki felt that the tree was particularly kind, and the whole person couldn't help but be attracted to it, and slowly approached it.
"Amu, what are you doing?" The others asked in amazement when they saw Aoki's strange behavior.
Aoki didn't answer, and at this time his whole world was only the tree in the mural, and as he approached, he couldn't help but reach out and rub it.
Just as Aoki touched the mural, a strange feeling came to everyone's minds, and then the cave hall roared and the mountain shook.
"Oh no, the cave is about to collapse, everyone run!" The crowd fled the cave in panic.
"Oops! Amu hasn't come out yet! ”
"Amu ......!!" ……
Aoki only felt as if he had become an ethereal object, constantly drifting in the cold and darkness with no end.
I don't know how long it has passed, maybe it's a moment, maybe it's tens of thousands of years, but Aoki finally feels warm.
"What's wrong with me?" Aoki finally regained consciousness.
It took a long time before I could concentrate on it.
"Why? Why can't I move? Aoki was terrified.
"Am I in a vegetative state? Also, why can't I see anything?!! I can't hear anything?!! "Aoki has never encountered such a horrible thing.
After a long, long time, Aoki calmed down a little, and finally remembered his previous experience, "I was hit by a rock in the cave, could it be that I really became a vegetative person?" Someone, someone! At this time, Aoki just wanted to have someone by his side to give him a spiritual comfort.
It's a pity that no matter how much he shouted, there was nothing, and it still felt so cold and dark.
A month later, Aoki finally recognized the reality, and it turned out that he had become a small sapling. At first, Aoki didn't know anything, but then he felt a little wrong, because he had his own unique vision, his unique perception, and another system that was completely different from human beings.
At the beginning, because of habitual problems, I didn't notice these visual and perceptual systems at all, so I felt dark and couldn't move.
As a graduate student in paleontology at Tsinghua University, he constantly compared his accumulated knowledge with his current situation, and finally made him realize that he had become a plant. Over the next month, he became accustomed to his new vision, perception, and survival systems. Gradually, they applied back and forth between plants and humans, and finally realized the surrounding environment.
It's a dense jungle full of towering trees, moss and grass, and not far from the Aoki sapling, there is a small stream. As for a little farther away, Aoki can't see it.
However, according to Aoki's observations, this place should still be Earth, and the age should be not long ago before his rebirth. Because ants, small lizards, spiders, snakes and other animals sometimes pass by or near Aoki, these animals Aoki can match the knowledge he has learned.
Through the comparison with other animals, Aoki still has a little understanding of his size, and he is about 10cm tall, which can be said to be small. As for what it looked like, Aoki didn't recognize it, it felt a bit like a banyan tree, but it felt different.
After a month of adaptation, Aoki's transformation from a human to a sapling has slowly come to accept. Enjoying the breeze and blowing the leaves is sometimes quite pleasant.
"Hey, the tree is the tree, anyway, the original body is also fatherless and motherless, there is nothing to worry about, and there is no need to wander around like other poor second generations."
Having settled down, Aoki officially accepted the fact of becoming a sapling.
The sunlight shines through the gaps in the jungle leaves, and Aoki feels warm and excited. Upon careful perceiving, it was found that there was something very tiny in the leaves, which was constantly absorbing some gas from the outside, and then extracting something cool from the body, and soon after, producing a substance and exhaling a gas.
"Could it be photosynthesis? Sucking carbon dioxide and water? Is it oxygen and organic matter that is spitting out? ”
Aoki suddenly became interested, although in the previous biology class, the teacher taught this thing many times, but after all, it was only a description between fonts, and it was far from being able to achieve the current feeling of lightness. Yang Guang was full of interest, continued to study and studied, and finally he discovered that he could control this photosynthesis, make it work, or make it strike. But in the end, I found that with photosynthesis, my whole body felt more active.
After studying photosynthesis, I turned my attention to the rhizome.
"Huh! How is my root system so well developed? ”
According to perception, the roots of Aoki's small sapling are more domineering than the other saplings and grasses next to it, and the root system is 4 times larger than the width of the canopy on the ground, and it goes directly to a depth of 1 meter.
Regarding this result, Aoki could only secretly say: "Tough! "Because in general, the canopy and root range is a 1:1 ratio.
After that, Aoki tries to control photosynthesis as much as possible during the day, and at the same time develops roots outward and deep, crowding out the living space of other trees.
Aoki has heard that in the jungle, being able to get more nutrients and grab more sunlight means that you can thrive faster than others.
Therefore, for growth, Aoki can be said to be merciless to the surrounding trees.
But one day, this peaceful life was shattered.
Aoki found that he had several rows of tiny insect eggs on his body, and he didn't know how they came about, maybe they were secretly laid while sleeping at night, or some other inexplicable reason.
"Worms! What if a green worm grows that eats leaves? What if this bug is very edible? Aoki measured his 21cm body and was immediately deflated.
"If it really was a green worm that could grow into a fat body, wouldn't I be dead?" Aoki felt that he was sad, and he finally lived a peaceful life, but at this time, it was broken, and it was likely to be the kind that directly asked for his life. What made Aoki most aggrieved was that he had no means to fight back at all, so he could only be beaten passively.
In a state of apprehension, after 5 days, Aoki finally saw that the worms in the eggs were born, a total of 2, and the other eggs may be necrotic.
"......, it's really green!" Looking at it carefully, he was still fat and fat. But these images are not cute at all in Aoki's eyes, but like two fat little devils.
"What to do? The assumption has come true! "Aoki hasn't thought of a way for so long, and he doesn't even have a bad way.
It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and Aoki has no offensive and defensive means, so it can be said that he is waiting to be slaughtered.
"Is it just over 2 months before I can be reborn? I haven't had enough of it! Aoki swayed the leaves on his body and scolded.;