13 Trees in the Lake
The direction that the hairball was pointing to turned out to be a direction that Xu Zheng had not explored. This way flew over, and at Lulu's current speed, it also flew for nearly three hours.
After flying for a while, he faintly saw a small lake in front of him, and the hairball pointed his fingers and feet again, signaling Lulu to fly towards the lake.
Lulu corrected his direction and flew diagonally towards the location of the lake. When he flew to the surface of the lake, he was still at a high altitude from the lake, and his body shook, and the momentum of his flight stopped, as if he was hitting an invisible wall head-on. Xu Zheng was surprised, leaned out from Lulu and touched it, until he touched a layer of invisible diaphragm that felt soft in his hand but was very tough and elastic, and then his heart moved, and he secretly guessed that there was something similar to a prohibition here.
Sure enough, the hairball flew up from Lulu's head and landed on that layer of things, and after shouting and emitting a long list of strange syllables in his mouth, Xu Zheng only felt that Lulu's body sank, and he had broken through the prohibition and slowly landed towards the lake. Xu Zheng looked sideways at the hairball that looked very tired after opening the ban, and couldn't help but look at this little thing with admiration, but he didn't expect that this little big body was still the key to open the ban. A small body, full of eccentricity, and the secrets are not ordinary.
Lulu's body kept declining, and Xu Zheng looked down at the small lake below him on Lulu's back.
This lake is much smaller than the one where Xu Zheng and Lulu often go hunting. The lake is covered with low grass within 20 meters of the shore, and there is not a single plant that is taller than a calf. It stands to reason that the flowering period of herbaceous plants in the vast forest sea at this time has passed, and they have all entered the stage of seed formation, and it is reasonable to not see a single flower. But here is full of wild flowers, colorful and all kinds of small flowers bloom all over the lake, and the scenery is still full of gorgeous.
Looking around, not a single herbivore can be seen in such a fat lakeside pasture. If the same scene were to the lake where Xu Zheng and Lulu often went hunting, you would definitely see a picture of a fat animal that looked like a mouse and a rabbit and was diligently digging in the mud. But there was nothing here, not even a flying bug in sight, everything seemed to be too quiet.
Xu Zheng was amazed, and turned his head to look at the lake. The water is turquoise and the visibility is so high that you can see through the shallow water to the bottom of the lake, and it looks no different from an ordinary lake except for being more beautiful. But if you look closely, you can see a faint difference, there is not a single fish swimming in the whole lake, and between the slight waves of water, there is a golden luster, revealing a mysterious atmosphere.
At this moment, Xu Zheng saw a tree at a glance. A tree grows in the middle of the lake.
The tree was so abrupt, growing alone in the middle of the lake, it was really difficult to ignore it, so Xu Zheng saw it at a glance.
The furball was in a hurry again, pointing and waving its slender limbs, and the target was the strange tree. Xu Zheng's heart moved, patted his lur, and leaned over towards the tree together.
Flying in front of the tree, the furball jumped down impatiently, rushed to the tree and hugged the tree, whining and crying.
Xu Zheng stepped forward to take a closer look, and finally understood the reason why the hairball was in a hurry.
It turned out that there was an island in the middle of the lake the size of a tea table, made up of rocks, and the part that outcrops the water was more than three meters high, and there was no soil in sight, and it looked like a sharp stalagmite emerging from the water. For some reason, this strange tree actually grew on this isolated island, and it survived tenaciously.
In addition to being emaciated, the species also has broad leaves, which seems to be no different from other trees in the forest. The whole tree is not tall, twice as tall as Xu Zheng, and only as thick as Xu Zheng's waist, with few branches and leaves, and it looks sick, as if it can wither at any time.
But it lived strong and unyielding, and the branches of the tree struggled to lift towards the sky, stretching out a few leaves to meet the sun. There is no soil on the island, so the tree has no way to grow itself from the nutrients obtained from the soil, so it has to work hard to stretch its roots and draw water from the lake to provide it with the needs to grow. The growing conditions were so harsh that the whole tree was in a state of malnutrition. But it is so active in life, showing a tenacious and unyielding style, making it look at a glance with an extraordinary style. The more Xu Zheng looked at it, the more he was moved by its proud demeanor.
Looking down, I saw that the roots on the rock were intertwined and densely packed, tightly coiled on the rock as the foundation for it to stand proudly. Unfortunately, I don't know if it was because of the rise of the rocks or the decline of the lake, but its longest roots were nearly half a foot away from the water, and it could not absorb the lake water at all.
If it is separated from the water and loses its roots, how will it live? This is probably the real reason why the hairball is in a hurry.
Xu Zheng looked down at the hairball and asked, "Do you want me to help it?"
I didn't expect the hairball to understand his words, but after knowing that the hairball listened, he not only nodded humanely and didn't know whether it should be the head or the body part, but also ran to his side to rub it one by one, trying his best to please him.
In this forest, it is not strange to see more strange things. Xu Zheng was not surprised at the strange ability of the hairball, but was a little smiling at its flattering behavior. This little thing is really clever.
Stroking the furball to calm it down, Xu Zheng saw the tree from head to foot, and then from head to head. He couldn't help but mutter, how could he help with this favor? He didn't have the ability to raise the lake a few feet high, and he couldn't cut off part of the rock so that it could reach the surface. The only way to do this was to move it from this bare island to the fertile shore. Thinking of this, Xu Zheng couldn't help but look at its dense roots. This thing grows so densely, how can you move it without hurting its roots? It's a headache......
Just scratching his scalp and thinking of a way, the tree suddenly moved and made a series of actions that made Xu Zheng stunned.
It first separates all the roots that it has attached to the rock from the bottom up, quickly rolls up, and all of them are collected under the trunk of the tree, rolled into a ball, and simply and effectively separates directly from the rock. Immediately afterwards, it stretched out the two thickest stems towards Xu Zheng, and fixed the posture into the action that the child wanted to be hugged by an adult, so that Xu Zheng could move.
This series of actions was completed in the blink of an eye, and the branches quickly came to rest as if nothing had happened. Xu Zheng stared at the trunk of the tree that stretched out towards him like an arm, and couldn't help but stiffen all over, and his scalp was numb for a while. It's weird......
Do you want to hug it? The tree will move...... Thinking that those branches, leaves, roots, or something might be entangled the moment he hugged it, Xu Zheng kept goosebumps all over his body.
During the stalemate, the hairball was dissatisfied, and flew to the top of Xu Zheng's head with a snort, pulling his hair hard, urging him to hurry up.
Xu Zheng looked at the hairball in embarrassment, stared at the tree for a long time before finally hardening his scalp and accepting its 'hug'.
It's okay, there are no weird things as Xu Zheng imagined. The tree was quietly and excellently held by Xu Zheng, pulling it out of the rock, and did not make any troublesome movements such as the old tree rooting. Xu Zheng breathed a sigh of relief.
Holding it in his arms, Xu Zheng realized that the tree was not as heavy as he imagined. Hurriedly carried the big tree on his shoulder, beckoned Lulu, and let it fly to the shore with himself and the tree.
Xu Zheng rode Lulu and flew around the shore, and finally found a place with relatively low terrain, which looked fertile and was next to the shore, and put down the big tree.
As soon as the tree touched the ground, it became active. The two branches stretched out to Xu Zheng were retracted, and the leaves were held up to the sky again, and the roots that were rolled into a ball were all opened, and one by one they stretched out and burrowed into the ground. The body of the tree gradually stood up under this movement, and the whole set of movements was very gentle and fast, and not even a flower or grass on the grass was damaged. At the moment when it completely stopped moving, I don't know if it was an illusion, Xu Zheng heard a sigh of satisfaction that was so fast that he almost missed it.
What the hell?!Xu Zheng's scalp just exploded. Turning his head to look at Lulu, who was licking his claws idly, and looking down at the furball, which was also hugging the tree and jumping happily. The only thing that could make such a strange sound is this ghostly tree.
Xu Zheng only felt a chill in his vest. There are many strange things to see in this forest, flying tigers, goats that shoot lightning from their horns, fish that climb trees, rabbits that spit fireballs, and furballs that are completely impossible to classify, but nothing more strange than a tree that sighs in contentment.
Therefore, Xu Zheng felt that the big tree had been placed. The first thing was to grab the hairball and quickly jump on Lulu's back to escape, not paying attention to the fact that after the tree was placed, it bent the tree at Xu Zheng's back and made a gesture of thanks.