Chapter 29: Mutant Man-Eating Peach
The biggest impression of Shen Cong in the last days was that the sky was very blue, the earth was very gray and yellow, and the blood of monsters was very red.
Almost no green ever appeared.
But it was at this moment that Shen Cong saw a touch of emerald green.
"What's that?"
Shen Cong took out his binoculars and looked ahead.
It was a tree, a large tree with a lush branch, and it also bore bright red fruits on it, much like a peach tree. The peach tree grows on the slope of a low mountain, and the lone one one looks a little shabby.
"Peach tree?"
"Trees?"
"There are trees?" Shen Cong asked three rhetorical questions in a row, very surprised.
It's incredible that the Doomsday Storm didn't destroy the vegetation of the land.
Putting down the binoculars, Shen Cong stopped talking, and drove the King Kong directly towards the low mountain, and ten minutes later, stopped at the bottom of the slope of the low mountain. After stopping, the King Kong was less than 100 meters away from the peach trees on the slope. Shen Cong didn't get out of the car in a hurry, there must be something strange about growing a peach tree alone here.
The telescope boy looked carefully, and Shen Cong couldn't help frowning.
There are not many fruits in this peach tree, about twenty or thirty of them, red and red, each one is bigger than an ordinary fairy peach, and the baby's head is average. What made Shen Cong frown was that in the open space under the peach tree, there were several animal corpses lying horizontally, which had been corrupted, and the bones of the chest and abdomen were exposed.
Looking at the form, there are monkeys, wild boars, and snakes, and the scene is a little weird.
Shen Cong continued to observe with the binoculars in his arms, while guessing why the animal carcasses appeared under the peach tree, and why the peach tree was able to survive.
Why the peach tree survived is quite difficult to guess.
Animal carcasses, perhaps attracted by the peach tree, and then fought each other to death, or simply the peach tree was the killer. A tree killed a group of animals, and before the apocalypse, Shen Cong would not have thought about it, but in the last days, the mutation brought about by the activity was too great, and nothing was impossible.
I waited for ten minutes.
There was no movement, just the leaves of the peach trees, swaying gently in the breeze.
Shen Cong felt that he could try to go down and get close to the peach tree and observe it up close...... He picked up a slingshot and shot the remains of animals and the branches of peach trees to test his reaction.
There was no movement.
So change into the Optimus Prime 1.0 active armor, bring your weapons, and jump off the King Kong.
I didn't rush closer, but I was ready to climb over this small hill, climb to the top of the low mountain, stand high and see far away, and carefully observe the surroundings.
After five minutes, reach the top of the mountain.
All around, bare rocks, and in the distance are rocky mountains. It seems that in this area, this peach tree exudes vitality.
There is no movement on the ground, and the surface is hard rock, making it less dangerous.
With doubts and caution, Shen Cong cautiously leaned into the peach tree, and the smell of animal corpses came to his nose when he was far away. Shen Cong frowned, didn't care, and slowly walked under the peach tree. He was afraid that the peach tree would be a moving "man-eating tree", so he first stabbed the trunk with a fanged javelin.
Clang, clang, clang!
The sounds were weird, like stones colliding with each other, like metals colliding with each other.
Seeing that the peach tree did not show signs of a "man-eating tree", Shen Cong avoided the animal carcasses and touched the trunk. The trunk was cold, emitting bursts of active radiation—the peach tree had indeed mutated. This is not surprising, it is basically impossible to have the slightest probability of survival without mutation.
"The bark is hard and feels like metal to the touch...... It seems that the bark already has a gradual change of metallic nature, like the active core of an animal? ”
Immediately, Shen Cong discovered that the leaves also had a trace of metallic gradient nature, and shook the branches, and suddenly a large number of leaves made a crisp sound.
"Mutated peach tree, can't it grow into a metal peach tree?" Shen Cong guessed that there was a great correlation between activity and metal, and his first reaction was to have such an association.
There are signs of metal gradient on the trunk and leaves, but on the mutated peach the size of a baby's head, Shen Cong did not find this gradient, only a strong active radiation, and the strength of the radiated magnetic field far exceeded Shen Cong's perception from the active core of the mutated animal.
This is a good thing, and everything that is rich in activity is a good thing, but I don't know if it can be eaten or not, and whether it is toxic or not.
Looking at a mutated peach in his hand, and then looking at the rotting corpse lying on the ground, Shen Cong felt that this peach was definitely not serious, and it was very likely that these animals were poisoned after eating peaches.
Thinking.
Shen Cong bent down and came to a monkey corpse, endured the stench, and fiddled with the fanged dagger a few times at will.
It resembles a mutated monkey, with a changed body shape and four large canine teeth on its mouth that seem to be the active core. It's just that there is no trace of activity on this corpse, probably because it has been dead for a long time. Inadvertently, Shen Cong turned over the monkey corpse with a dagger.
When he turned over, he suddenly found something that made his scalp tingle.
I saw that where the monkey's corpse was lying before, dense white silk threads grew and inserted into the monkey's rotten fur.
This is the root of a plant.
Shen Cong directly set his eyes on the mutated peach tree, where there was only one plant. The sapper shoveled through the rocky powdery soil, and sure enough, the white filamentous roots stretched through the shallow crust around the cracks in the rocks to the roots of the peach tree.
In this way, the mutant peach tree absorbs the activity of the animal!
"Peach Tree."
"Animals."
"Roots."
"Peaches."
Shen Cong instantly combined a brain-supplemented inference - the peach tree used the active peaches to attract mutant animals to come and eat peaches, and then the peaches poisoned the mutated animals to death, thus becoming fertilizer for the peach tree.
He tossed over the corpses of several other mutant animals, and underneath them were white filamentous roots sticking out of the peach tree.
"If that's the case, this peach can't be eaten, and after the mutant animals eat it, they all die within three meters of the peach tree, which is obviously very poisonous."
Shen Cong looked at the huge red heart in his hand with some pity, the extremely rich active radiation, hooking people.
He is now lacking in activity, and the activity of the King Kong has fallen several times, but he has never been able to rush up, and the activation enhancement exchanged for him is not so much, resulting in his current physical fitness, which is still maintained at the strength of Erniu, and the progress is not obvious.
"If it can be stored for a long time, it can be used as a disguised poison...... Shen Cong's thinking was relatively out-of-the-box, and he quickly thought of the suspected prehistoric giant crocodile monster that had bullied him at the beginning.
If it is encountered again, a few poisonous peaches will be thrown over, and I am afraid that what remains is the link of collecting corpses.
Regret is regret, Shen Cong still decided to pick all the poisonous peaches. The poisonous peach is just his speculation, and it cannot be qualitative until research is confirmed; Even if it is characterized as highly toxic, it will have a role to play, which can be regarded as a good thing.
However, Shen Cong did not pick it immediately, he planned to study the mutated peach tree for a while, and it was rare to meet the surviving plants, which was a rare opportunity to obtain more knowledge about activity.
With a click, Shen Cong used a fanged dagger to directly cut off a branch of the mutant peach tree; Then a sapper shovel dug up a filamentous root; Holding poisonous peaches, branches, and roots, he returned to the box of the King Kong.
The study begins.
First, a small piece of the flesh of the poisonous peach was cut and placed in a glass bottle, and then a green-headed fly was drawn out of the gauze and put in the glass bottle.
Wait for the green-headed fly that devours the flesh of the fruit, whether it dies or not.
The toxicity test of the poisonous peach, the first test was initiated.