In the painting, the forest is rampant and the trees are stopped, and the green leaves are flying and killing is lurking.

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A wide river, as if a line divides two worlds.

On the other side of the river, it's not hard to find signs of critter activity in the seemingly quiet Astral Groves, and you can even occasionally see some frizzy little ones running straight through the ground, or spotting the bloody remains left behind by predators, but on this side of the river...... Something is wrong, yes, something is wrong.

"It seems to be ...... here," Xinglan looked at the relatively dwarf woods with a somewhat strange look, "too. It's quiet, it's so quiet that it's unsettling. ”

Behind him is a big river full of golden-crowned turtles, and when he finally came to this island, he naturally didn't have a reason to retreat immediately. Xiao Mi Xin cautiously walked into this forest, the trees here are relatively low compared to the Star Illusion Tree, and they are not the shape of tall plants, the average height is about five or six meters, and the leaves are also clusters of palm-shaped green leaves, growing tightly together on the branches.

The whirring wind passed through the forest, blowing up the raised blue-gold hair, but Xinglan was not busy lamenting that Xiao Mixin's hair had grown a lot more recently. This silent forest seems to have magical powers, and you can't help but be attracted to it, and there is a strong sense of disobedience everywhere but you can't grasp the key points.

Xiao Mystery Xin also seemed to instinctively feel uneasy, it did not run and jump in the forest as excitedly as before, but carefully moved its steps on the ground, looking around with a hint of nervousness in its eyes, and the electromagnetic induction was also engrossed, not letting go of any details.

After thinking about it, Xinglan withdrew the diffuse signal and closely surrounded Xiao Mystery Xin, while sharing its vision, trying to figure out what the problem was.

Suddenly, an inexplicable sensation came from a network of signals, not from the forest, but from the distant space of the star system.

"It happened...... What the? With a feeling of surprise, Xinglan didn't care about the problems in the forest, and hurriedly connected to the overall signal subnetwork...... Compared to a forest in the Star Continent, the problem from space is obviously more important.

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In the darkness of space, the light emitted by the stars no longer seems to be completely integrated with the other stars in the galaxy, but obviously becomes a more dazzling white light cluster in the starry sky.

The spherical space city with its exterior camouflage turned on silently passed through the outermost area of planet-maker's activity, but it is not known if it was unlucky, as it advanced deeper into the star system, it passed through a graviton observation membrane composed of signal tons......

While acquiring a large number of foreign technologies, Xinglan did not give up on exploring the universe through her own efforts, and the detection of gravitons in the universe is one of the important projects. This kind of observation is too high-end, and the base cannot make suitable equipment, so Xinglan uses invisible signal sub films directly arranged in the universe, and directly captures the disturbance caused by gravitons through signal protons for related data collection.

Although the signal sublayer diluted to an area of tens of thousands of square meters already seems very thin, the passage of a whole spherical space city still touches the limit of signal feedback, and sends information to the subject's consciousness through the quantum entanglement network.

Even if the main system and the manipulators of the spherical space city were not aware of what had just happened, they had indeed alarmed the master of the star system.

"Large graviton fluctuations...... It's as if the relative intensity is completely overlapping and rubbing past ......" Xinglan recalled the data stored in the memory bank and quickly deduced it, "but there was no optical image data, and there was no infrared reaction, as if something was invisible and invisible, only gravitational fluctuations passed through...... Dark matter clusters? ”

If there is really a dark matter group passing by, it is really a once-in-a-lifetime research opportunity! Xinglan instantly became excited, and calculated the opponent's course and speed through the extremely short track data in the signal subfilm, and then decisively sent several metal spaceships that were waiting in outer space to fly towards the predicted trajectory to prepare for research.

"The nearest probe spacecraft...... How close is it? Xinglan was slightly surprised, although the function was not exactly right, but at least it was better to find out the truth of the other party first, "Well, let's do it." ”

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Magnificent patterns bloom in the rosy atmosphere, and the gorgeous streamlines are beautiful ribbons that are naturally formed, and the specks that seem small are large enough to stuff multiple solid planets, all of which are slowly moving and changing on the surface of a huge planet that stands tall and earthy.

A gas giant in the extraterrestrial system: the Dome.

And in the orbit of this behemoth, a space transfer station like an hourglass slowly rotates, as the command information from the subject's consciousness spreads rapidly along the signal subnet regardless of the spatial distance, the six concentric rings on both sides of the space station begin to rotate in opposite directions to each other, and the acceleration orbit components floating inside the space transfer station also enter the full power operation mode, although due to the lack of relevant information and high-precision machine tools, Xinglan cannot replicate the complex annular neural acceleration network of the earth, But it is not a problem to make an ordinary track for accelerated ejection.

The research ship quietly sprinted in the acceleration orbit, its shape was a white cone, like a discharged bullet quickly broke through the orbit and slid into space, the tail erupted bright tail flame and continued to accelerate towards the calculated track location, ready to wait for its arrival in front of the target object.

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Lan Xing, Star Continent.

Xiao Mixin had been on the new island for more than an hour, and the golden river had long been left behind, and it was occupied by the strange trees that were low, left and right. Although the speed of progress this time is relatively slow, so it can't be compared with the usual one-hour journey, but all the way has been this terrible dead silence, and the strangeness of this forest is too obvious, after all, no matter what, there should not be any small animals in sight.

It can be seen from the satellite pictures in space that this island is not a little smaller than the previous one, so Xiao Mystery Xin has entered the middle of the island after passing this distance.

Xiao Mi Xin walked through a hollow in the forest, and suddenly stumbled violently, as if his hind legs had been pulled hard by something invisible...... In fact, this is not the first time this has happened.

Xinglan took control of her body and clearly felt the huge resistance coming from the joints of her hind legs. She turned her head, her blue eyes scrutinizing her hind legs, her claws reaching out to nimbly pick up a nearly transparent silk thread.

Although the silk thread is so strong that it cannot be broken by force, it can still be cut with sharp claws. Gently raising her claws, Xinglan cut the silk thread directly in the air at the most perfect angle.

And then that doesn't mean the end...... Yes, it's not over yet. Xinglan squinted her eyes and swept around the trees, and a faint white reflection could be seen in the air, which was the translucent silk threads that covered the forest, compared to the silk threads crisscrossing the heights, the little mystery Xin on the ground encountered only a drop in the bucket.

This kind of thing is scattered in the forest, it is certain that it is not laid by spiders and other creatures, first of all, they cannot be on such a large scale, and secondly, from Xinglan's analysis, the composition of this silk thread is not animal protein, but should be ...... Cellulose.

This thread is a plant, but it is not part of those trees, but a parasitic plant! What's the name...... Let's call it filament.

"Well, things are terrifying......" Xinglan continued as she went, careful not to touch the bare roots, "The whole forest here is parasitized?" But the trees that are being drained of nutrients are unlikely to be as verdant as the trees here, if they don't die...... Wait, verdant? ”

Another gust of wind blew gently through the forest, but Xinglan suddenly felt a chill in her heart, and she looked up in a daze, finally realizing what that strange disobedience was.

Gusts of wind blew through the forest, but there was only the sound of the wind, not the rustle of the leaves in the wind...... The leaves that looked verdant and green did not move with the wind at all, but were firmly fixed to the branches like sculptures! The whole forest is like a still picture, beautiful but without a trace of vitality!

Slowly, Xinglan controlled the electromagnetic sensing range to gradually decrease, while enhancing the accuracy of perception, and then ...... She could even clearly feel that Xiao Mi Xin's consciousness suddenly fluctuated strongly, and she herself was really taken aback......

It represents the faint current group of life, very small and weak, but dense, every corner, every leaf...... Everywhere, like a pair of dense eyes in the darkness staring at them with emotionless empty eyes, the terrifying scene that is enough to make the attack of dense phobias surround them like this, and spread outward!

What does it feel like to be watched in the dark by thousands of hollow eyes? I believe that no one will be happy to know that reason has completely prevailed at this moment, and Xinglan calmly maintained his original movements and continued to move forward slowly.

The trees here have no leaves, every leaf is an animal, they are everywhere, and those real trees ...... This forest has long since died, under the powerful parasitic ability of the filament, and there are no small animals living in the woods, because this is a place of complete death.

Since before so long these animals ...... Let's call it a leaf worm, they don't make any moves, so they continue to stay the same, and they can get closer to their destination in this calm, on the contrary, if they suddenly show panic, they may immediately invite great trouble! Xinglan didn't want to bet on the gentle and friendly creatures of these leaf insects that had almost completely wiped out the island.

"This creature is really terrifying to make people's scalps tingle......" Xinglan lightly jumped over a tree root, "If they go together, it can't be an opponent at all...... Not good! ”

The smooth ground of the forest suddenly sank and made a muffled sound, firmly lassing the front legs of the newly landed Xiao Mi Xin, this familiar way couldn't help but Xing Lan couldn't help but smile bitterly, although she really wanted to see a fourth creature here besides leaf worms, filaments, and that unknown tree, but it was definitely not it...... Trapped......

The sound of rattling quickly came from every direction, Xinglan raised her head, and found that countless leaves began to be windless and automatic, and the folded green wings opened to the sides, revealing a pair of black compound eyes on the antennae, and now she was really watched by countless eyes......

The still world in the painting comes to life.

The rustle of the shaking leaves sounded intensively, and feeling every nerve fluctuation in the electromagnetic perception was amplified a hundred times in an instant, Xinglan did not hesitate to desperately break free from the trapped beast that had not yet fully exerted his strength, and quickly ran towards the front of the woods: "Oops, this is big. Trouble! ”

The green storm poured down like a flood......