Chapter 162: Hunting the Stars (2)

A thin spacesuit, even a technological product of human interstellar civilization, can never resist the raging and scorching volcanic eruption head-on, and in such a situation where there has been a drastic change in the earth's crust, the wisest thing for Gong Yaming, who has not been strengthened by any transcendent power, as a stand-in, is to return to the Star Hunter and take off to avoid this crisis. (The update is the fastest and most stable, see, .k.)

It's a pity that Gong Yaming didn't choose this safest approach, and the stubbornness and madness in his heart were triggered, and a distorted expression appeared on his face, his eyes closed, and he desperately drove the stand-in to rush towards the green light cluster.

Time passed slowly, and the shaking on the flat ground became more and more violent, and the area spread from a few square kilometers to a wider area.

In the end, the violent shaking that seemed to spin the world made Gong Yaming, who was already physically exhausted, unstable on his footing and fell to the mud.

The unexpected sudden weightlessness made his heartstrings tense to the limit, and after he fell to the ground, his body involuntarily twitched extremely violently, and his mouth also let out a cathartic roar of pain: "Ah..."

The sudden manifestation of the abnormal performance of consciousness caused Gong Yaming's stand-in to pause abruptly in the infinite dark space reflected in his mind.

When Gong Yaming took a breath and subconsciously continued to drive the stand-in to rush towards the green light cluster, he found that his stand-in had inexplicably crashed into the green light cluster.

At the same time, a slender, delicate plant sprout sprouted from the fertile dirt of the Hunter's entire food culture room on the Crimson Planet.

The mutant banyan sapling bud seemed to be weak, but it had experienced the test of the harsh environment of the Red Planet, which was not suitable for any living creatures to survive, and began to absorb the nutrients of the surrounding black fertile soil as soon as it was born, and slowly grew.

Gong Yaming, who noticed that the mutant banyan tree seeds had finally germinated, opened his eyes and found that when he inspected the mutant banyan tree sprouts, he was still the same as he was looking at the mutant banyan tree seeds, and he couldn't get any information by relying on the 'Ming Ghost' talent, so he struggled on the mud floor to stand up, but found that because of the violent shaking of the crust under his feet and the serious overdraft of his physical strength, he had no ability to stand up at this time.

In the end, Gong Yaming could only kneel on the ground helplessly, looking at the continuous growth of green shoots in front of him, feeling the tremor of the mountains under his feet, and gasping for energy with hope and fear.

With the nourishment of sufficient nutrients, even if the growth environment is very harsh, the mutant banyan seedling buds still more and more reflect their unique and powerful vitality, and when it digests and absorbs all the soil of the growth base rich in the growth base of the Hunter Food Culture Room, although the height is only less than 1 meter, the root system has been densely covered to an area of 1,000 square meters.

Unfortunately, after absorbing the nutrients prepared by Gong Yaming, the growth of the mutant banyan sapling's buds stagnated, and slowly its root system began to wriggle in the flat heights of the Crimson Planet, as if it wanted to absorb and decompose the soil of the Crimson Planet and turn it into nutrients, but it couldn't do it anyway.

Gradually, in this futile wriggling, the roots of some mutant banyan sapling shoots began to decay rapidly and turn into gray dust.

Seeing this scene, Gong Yaming, who had already recovered a little energy, did not dare to stand by anymore, he hurriedly closed his eyes and cast an assimilation appearance, wanting to use his stand-in ability to transfer his will to the mutated banyan sapling bud.

With the brilliance of the 'Shangtong' Ding Wen behind him, in an instant, Gong Yaming felt that he had turned into a young plant, struggling to survive in a scorching land, and the harsh environment and lack of nutrients around him were constantly killing its life.

Faced with such a desperate situation, Gong Yaming, whose state of mind had been tempered by dozens of life and death dangers, suppressed the fear in his heart and began to slowly explore a glimmer of life that might not exist. With the passage of time, the rate of death of the rhizome of the mutant banyan seedling began to gradually accelerate, and after losing the supply of nutrients, it seemed to become like an ordinary plant, and it had no possibility of surviving on a harsh planet.

900 square meters, 850 square meters, 500 square meters, 400 square meters, Gong Yaming, who incarnated as a mutant banyan tree seedling, felt that the seedling originally exceeded 1000 square meters of rhizome area, and most of it withered and disappeared in just 10 minutes, and the situation had deteriorated very seriously.

It turns out that the reason why the rhizomes of the mutant banyan seedlings die so quickly is not only because of the lack of nutrient supplementation, but more importantly, it is consuming a lot of energy on its own, constantly evolving the decomposition and absorption ability of its own rhizomes, intending to obtain the nutrients needed for growth from the hot crust of the Red Planet.

However, although the crustal soil of the Crimson Planet is similar to that of the natural world, there are dozens of unknown refinement elements in it that not only cannot be converted into nutrients, but also prevent plant rhizomes from absorbing other nutrients in the soil.

In the current lack of nutrient supply, it is impossible for the mutant banyan tree seeds to evolve the rhizome to be able to fully absorb these delicate elements in a short period of time and decompose the nutrients from them to provide their own growth, after all, no matter how good the species is, it has its limits.

Knowing the problem of the rapid withering of the rhizomes of the mutant banyan tree seedlings, Gong Yaming's heart became a little more relaxed, and there was no hope for the mutant banyan tree seedlings to evolve to the state of absorbing all the refinement elements of the crimson constellation soil before they perished, but if the target was positioned as a single refinement element, it was entirely possible.

Thinking of this, he restrained all the root movements of the mutant banyan tree seedlings, first chose to find a refinement element with moderate content from dozens of specific refinement elements in the crimson star soil, and intuitively felt that it was rich in nutrients, and then consciously controlled the seedling rhizome to consume all the energy on evolutionary adaptation and absorption of the selected single refinement element.

400 square meters, 380 square meters... 100 square meters, 80 square meters... Under Gong Yaming's deliberate control, the rate of extinction of the roots of the banyan tree seedlings has indeed decreased a lot, but the situation is still deteriorating, and the fate of the final extinction is still irreparable.

Until the root area of the seedling is less than 0.1 square meters, and the last 3 or 4 thin rhizomes gradually turn yellow, suddenly this seemingly irreversible withering process pauses, and then the situation begins to reverse, and the root system of the Banyan seedling begins to slowly grow and spread again, showing its infinite vitality on the Red Planet again.

At this time, Gong Yaming, who felt that his energy had reached the limit, finally moved his consciousness back to his body from the mutated banyan seedling, and he slowly let out a long breath of relief, lest he would faint if his spirit relaxed slightly.

So he just opened his eyes and took a look at the mutant banyan tree seedlings whose root system had re-expanded to an area of about 300 square meters, and regardless of the environment that had shaken around him as if he was in a stormy sea, he closed his eyes again, and transferred his will into the banyan tree seedlings with the talent of 'Shang Tong', and began to transform the seedling root system to absorb the refined elements in the soil of the second Red Planet.

After Gong Yaming began to consciously control the evolution of the mutant banyan tree seedlings for the second time, the spread of the seedlings' rhizomes slowly stagnated, apparently because the newly absorbed nutrients were turned into energy to support the re-evolution of the rhizomes, so that it could not continue to grow rapidly.

In fact, according to the general logic, Gong Yaming's current approach is undoubtedly very stupid, after all, since the mutant banyan tree seedling has obtained a stable source of nutrients, then patiently waiting for it to grow to a certain stage, and then controlling the evolution of its root absorption ability, will undoubtedly get twice the result with half the effort. It is a pity that Gong Yaming sowed the seeds of the mutant banyan tree, and the rapidly deteriorating crustal environment on the flat plateau did not leave him time to wait for the mutant banyan seedlings to grow up.

The unexpected evolution of the situation, as well as the greed and madness in his heart, had unwittingly pushed Gong Yaming into a competitor's position at this time, forcing him to engage in a terrifying competition of speed with the Red Planet.

The end of this competition is either the conquest of the planets and the transformation of the natural world, or the eruption of the planets, which will turn the arrogant human on its body to ashes with scorching magma and spewing air, and there is no other result...

Compared with human beings, whose lives are only more than 100 years, the time of planets is undoubtedly longer and more ancient, and the moment of a planet, when converted into human time, may be 10 hours or even longer.

For example, although the flat highland crust of the Crimson Planet where Gong Yaming is located has been undulating and shaking for several hours, as if it will turn into a volcanic purgatory in the next moment, the lava underground has never erupted.

Another long time passed, and Gong Yaming, who had transformed into a mutated banyan tree seedling, suddenly felt a new stream of nutrients pouring into his body from the soil of the Crimson Planet, nourishing his dry vitality.

Gong Yaming immediately realized that he had successfully controlled the root system of the mutated banyan tree seedlings, and had evolved the ability to absorb the second Crimson Planet soil refinement element.

After completing the second root system transformation, he felt that although the accumulated source of nutrients was not sufficient, he could already barely give it a try, this time he didn't even open his eyes, and directly began to control the root system of the mutated banyan tree seedlings with consciousness, and began to absorb a single refinement element that was the most abundant in the soil of the Red Planet, accounting for almost a quarter of the total proportion of all refinement elements.

Time continued to pass slowly, and the flat ground that had vibrated violently under Gong Yaming's feet gradually returned to calm, but slowly cracked into countless thin cracks in the ground, and some gray smoke and gas erupted from those cracks.

As the smoke and gas jets became more and more violent, the cracks on the flat ground were gradually torn apart and joined together, forming larger and larger ground cracks.

These cracks, which are densely packed like terrifying and ugly scars, continue to extend, slowly dividing the flat ground into dozens of irregular splinters.

At this time, the root system of the mutant banyan seedlings has recovered an area of 1,000 square meters and is still growing slowly.

Suddenly, Gong Yaming, who was kneeling next to the seedling, opened his eyes, he looked through the hood of the spacesuit and saw the harsh and terrifying scene around him in a blur, and hurriedly pulled the stand-in out of the mutated banyan tree seedling, and flew to the precarious not far away, shaking and about to fall into a deep, long crack Star Hunter.

At the same time that Gong Yaming's stand-in was extracted from the mutated banyan tree seedlings, the mutated banyan tree seedlings that were free from the shackles of his will began to grow at a speed unimaginable to ordinary people.

When the Star Hunter flew to the sky more than 10 meters above Gong Yaming's head, Gong Yaming found that in only 5 or 6 seconds, the mutant banyan tree seedling had grown from 1 meter to 2 meters, and although its root system began to dig deep into the soil and was no longer visible, the area where it could spread should have increased exponentially.

Seeing this scene, Gong Yaming looked deeply at the mutated banyan tree seedlings, and muttered: "I have done my best to give you, the greatest help I can give you, the rest is up to you..."

The float floated according to the pre-set program of Gong Yaming through the double, and took him back to the Star Hunter, and then the Star Hunter activated the automatic sailing mode, and flew away from the Crimson Planet according to the predetermined command, hovering in the universe. Soon after the Star Hunter lifted off, the mutant banyan tree seeds grew to a height of several tens of meters, and the root system hidden in the ground occupied a fragment of flat highlands with an area of 20 square kilometers.

After that, its roots continued to grow, like a thick python, and sturdily plunged into the other flat highland fragments, and slowly, a spreading green vein weaved across the crimson planet.

With sufficient nutrients converted into energy, the mutant banyan tree seedling can continue to evolve the ability of the root system to absorb the subdivision elements of the Crimson Planet's soil, and as its size increases, the root system evolves to absorb more and more elements, and from time to time new subdivision elements are added to its diet.

The more subdivided elements in the soil of the red star that the roots of the mutant banyan tree seedlings can absorb, the more nutrients it obtains, the more blocks its growth rate, and the stronger the ability of its root system to evolve and absorb new subdivided elements.

It's a very virtuous cycle, and after getting through the initial hard times, the mutant banyan tree has begun to defy the harsh environment of the Crimson Planet, and instead begins its beginning of affecting this harsh planet...

After a long coma at the exit of the Star Hunter, Gong Yaming slowly came to sense, first his fingers began to move slightly unconsciously, then his tightly closed eyes turned rapidly, then his breathing increased and thickened, and finally his whole body suddenly trembled, and he woke up.

Without the dazed expression of ordinary people who had just woken up, Gong Yaming regained his consciousness in a breath, he got up from the floating tray with difficulty, rested on the bulkhead of the Star Hunter spaceship for a while, and then staggered into the wheelhouse.

Enduring the pervasive soreness of his body, Gong Yaming sat on the high-backed chair in the middle of the cab, rubbed his eyebrows with his eyes closed, and said softly without thinking too much: "How long has it been since I last gave an order?" ”

A mechanical female voice from the cab of the Star Hunter replied, "7 hours, 23 minutes, 31 seconds." ”

"7 hours and 23 minutes, that should already be the result." Gong Yaming frowned tightly and said to himself with a serious expression, and then turned on the Star Voyage virtual machine with a stand-in and slowly opened his eyes.

In an instant, the latest three-dimensional virtual image of the crimson planet scanned by the Star Voyage Virtualizer was mixed with black, red, gray, and white tones to get a little bit of green, which caught his eye.

The green color on the hologram of the red star was dozens of square meters, and it only occupied a position less than the size of a thumb nail, but for some reason it was particularly dazzling, making Gong Yaming's blood boil for a while.

He took a deep breath, suppressed his excitement, precipitated his emotions slightly, and began to operate the Star Voyage Virtual Machine to outline the detailed features of the green of the crimson planet.

With Gong Yaming's operation, a three-dimensional projection of a dense tree with parameters showing 198.31 meters replaced the hologram of the red star, the trunk of the large tree is only 13.21 meters in diameter, but the round crown is extremely huge, covering an area of 492.01 square kilometers.

Looking at the mutant banyan trees that have successfully passed the seedling stage and are growing healthy, the height of the growing mutant banyan trees continues to increase by 0.01 meters and 0.01 meters; The increasing area of 0.1 square kilometers and 0.1 square kilometers, Gong Yaming was stunned for a moment, and his mood suddenly relaxed while thinking, and he said to himself: "It's really successful, I really succeeded in planting the mutant banyan tree seeds on the harsh planet!"

Although the process was extremely difficult and crazy, the rewards proved that everything I did was worth it.

However, the 500 square kilometre canopy area is obviously not enough, and there are no 'aerial roots' to form new roots in the soil, and the most important characteristics of the mutant banyan tree are not shown, and it seems that there is still a lot more to be done. Speaking of this, he estimated his physical state in his heart, gritted his teeth, and manipulated the Star Hunter to rush towards the Crimson Planet.

7 or 8 minutes later, the Star Hunter stopped on the crown at the top of the trunk of the mutant banyan tree, and after Gong Yaming stood on the floating tray in a spacesuit and flew out of the Star Hunter, he pulled the stand-in out of the Star Hunter and melted into the mutant banyan tree again, starting to induce the growth process of the mutant banyan tree.

After replacing the plant instinct of the mutated banyan tree with his own consciousness, Gong Yaming, who incarnated as the mutant banyan tree, temporarily gave up continuing to grow, and slowly cultivated the nutrients extracted from the rhizome into 6 aerial roots, which plunged into the soil of the Crimson Planet.

Compared with the main trunk, the slender aerial roots are initially difficult to provide too much nutrients for the huge mutant banyan trees that have grown to a certain stage, but because Gong Yaming deliberately inhibits the growth of other aspects of the mutant banyan tree, all the nutrients are provided to the aerial roots to grow, and continue to drag down the growth rate of the entire mutant banyan tree

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