The professor was originally an archaeological researcher, and he would like to find out about these unknown things, so he called Kansa to scrape the moss off one of the dead corpses with a dagger, and after careful identification, the professor found that the dead corpse was actually wearing a soldier uniform that was in a semi-decomposed state. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The professor was very surprised how this dead corpse could appear in the costume of a generation, because this remote jungle had always been deserted, how could a few soldiers suddenly appear? And he died here for no apparent reason!

Stern, who was in the distance, noticed the professor's unusual behavior and asked him, "Professor, what are you doing over there?" ”

"I found that the origin of these dead corpses is abnormal, they seem to be modern!"

Stern heard the professor say that he noticed that the corpses were abnormal, and thought something was wrong, so he walked over.

The professor told him that the corpse was wearing a soldier's uniform, and that it didn't look like an ordinary person. Stern was also curious, so he carefully examined the features of the uniforms, although in this tropical humid environment, the uniforms had rotted away, so there were no features. But Stern knew that the epaulettes and collar badges sewn on soldiers' uniforms were generally made of non-perishable metal and leather, so he used a dagger to scrape off the moss on the shoulders of the dead corpses, revealing the epaulettes sewn on the uniforms.

"This is the field uniform of the French army during World War II!"

After careful identification, Stern remembered that the uniform was the field uniform of the French army during World War II.

But he wasn't sure if it was French, or if it was stolen from the battlefield by the locals, or if it was just a local mercenary. Stern then went to examine the other two corpses in turn, and saw the same features, telling Professor Morrill what he thought.

Professor Morrill told him that the three bodies had been dead for more than twenty years, judging by the extent of the decomposition, which coincided with the age of the French army in the Indochina colony. But what he doesn't understand is why these French soldiers come here, although Cambodia has been under the colonial protection of France since the last century, and it is normal for French troops to operate in Cambodian territory, but after all, this place is far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, and it is deserted, what are they doing here?

But what the professor is most anxious to know at the moment is where these dead corpses came from, why they are here, and if they have some unusual connection with Samsara City? Why did you suddenly die here? The most bizarre thing is why corpses that have been dead for more than 20 years suddenly reactivate, and there seems to be a simple act of consciousness, as long as you look at them, these corpses are obviously no longer living organisms. From a biological point of view, if the three corpses were indeed dead for more than twenty years, as he had speculated, then in this tropical climate of high temperature and humidity in all seasons, what should be seen now should be a pile of decaying human bones. None of this is in line with common sense, is it really as Kansa said that there are gods here?

Stern thought the same thing as the professor at this time, these dead corpses that could not be explained by common sense were able to move again, and there seemed to be a certain danger! Combined with all the strange creatures he had encountered before, could it really be true that what he had heard from the people in Phnom Penh before, that there were really some ghosts and spirits under this huge banyan tree......

He didn't dare to continue thinking about it, so he could only comfort himself that at least these ghosts could still be seen and touched, and it didn't seem to be dangerous, otherwise he wouldn't be standing here safely until now.

At this moment, Kansa, who was on the side, was helping to clean up the corpses of the three soldiers, and found a slender strange tree root connected to their bodies, and he quickly told Stern, who was still studying on the side, about this discovery.

So Stern turned his attention to the roots of the tree when he heard what Kansa said, and after careful comparison, it turned out that each corpse had a dry brown root attached to it, and the ends were also attached to the tail vertebrae of the dead corpses, and went straight into the bark-like skin that had already dried up.

The professor also saw this strange phenomenon at this time, when the corpse suddenly appeared, everyone was concentrating on fighting with the corpse, and did not notice the roots attached to its body, and suddenly Stern and the professor thought of a conclusion that could not be ignored at the same time, they looked at each other and shouted the word they thought of at the same time - tree god!

The two of them came up with the incredible answer at the same time, that is, these dead corpses were manipulated by the tree god with tree roots! Shocked, Stern told the professor about the basis for his belief that he was a tree god because of the headless monster he had encountered along the way after he and Kansa had separated from him in the root labyrinth to find Donnie, the giant eye snake with its head that would swell into the shape of a tree the size of a head, and the green giant eye that he didn't know if it was real or hallucination, as well as some strange things he remembered about the banyan tree being the tree god that the Shina had told him before they entered the root labyrinth.

The professor told him that he was based on the "humanoid tree" in the first fresco he had found on the city walls, and at first he thought that the function of highlighting this "humanoid tree" was to guide Brahmins to the path to find the temple at the time of sacrifice. However, it wasn't until they entered the labyrinth of tree roots that they began to find Donnie separately and discovered more and more that the wisdom of the ancient Brahmins was not simple. He was able to use an ancient banyan tree that was thousands of years old to create a maze with no rules to follow, and when he and Anne were about to get to the trunk of the banyan tree, they always found that there was a "person" following them, and had been creating some movements in the shadows that could attract their attention, disrupting their path. But when they looked back, they couldn't see anything, considering that they didn't have weapons on them at the time, and their vision in the maze was limited, so they kept pretending not to see it, and just quickened their pace to get out of the maze. It wasn't until he heard Stern's gunfire and thought something was wrong that he followed the direction of the gunshot, and then he saw Stern, who was near the main trunk.

After listening to their respective narratives, Stern and the teacher couldn't help but gasp at the same time, and they both began to look at the huge "tree god" not far away, and instantly felt that they were surrounded by an invisible and powerful mysterious force......

Anne, who was sitting not far away, had been watching Professor Morrill and Sergeant Stern on the ground as they studied the dead corpses, and had been analyzing their conversation. Suddenly, I saw them all looking in the direction of the main trunk of the banyan tree, and I felt that something was not quite right with them. Anne, on the other hand, is a calm and organized person, she knows the danger of the environment at the moment, and must find out the source of the dead body, and get away from the strange old banyan tree as soon as possible before more unpredictable and strange phenomena appear.

So Anne walked over and reminded them, "I think we should now understand how these dead corpses move, regardless of whether or not they are so-called tree gods. Now that we've found the root that may be controlling the dead corpses, if it is controlled by the banyan tree, why not analyze why this root can control the dead corpses from a scientific point of view? Is it possible that these dead corpses were parasitized by some mysterious parasitic plants, absorbing their nutrients before taking root in their bodies? There are many fungi in nature that rely on parasitism to survive in animals, or some plants such as pitcher plants and flytraps, because they live in an environment where nutrients are extremely deficient, their leaves have evolved to lure insects into traps deformed from their leaves, and secrete digestive juices to digest the captured insects...... Is it possible that the roots we see behind dead bodies are something like this? ”