Chapter 50: Finding a Needle in a Haystack
The bee was tugged at by his tentacles, and could only fly straight up. Seeing that he was about to reach the area of the evergreen forest above, a loud birdsong whistled behind him. Then even the bees and the people were caught in a huge bird's beak.
Dearlando quickly pulled out his dagger and slashed it in the bird's beak before pulling his stuck leg out. As soon as the pained yellow-billed finch let go, the bee that had been caught by it fell out of its mouth. Diarrando grabbed the feathers from its beak and transferred them from the bee to the yellow-billed finch.
The bird flew much faster than sealed, and Diarrando did so, riding on the bird's back, pulling the feathers from the bird's beak with both hands to control the direction in which it fought. He started by going around the entire area. You will find that there are all kinds of animals and insects in the jungle. If it weren't for the fact that the size was not normal, he would have thought that what he saw was an ordinary evergreen forest.
Compared to the birds below, the bison and deer he saw were the size of cats and dogs. Herds of bison look like a herd of rats moving across the ground as they run through the jungle.
"What's going on? Why is the size of all living things reversed?" The plants that I thought were huge trees just now are actually herbaceous plants in reality, such as a plant that looks dozens of feet tall, and when I passed by, I realized that it was actually an ordinary kale.
In other words, not only insects and mammals are opposite in size, but also trees and flowers are inverse in size. It's no wonder that the flowers I just saw have each petal the size of a bed.
The yellow-billed bird swept over the level at high speed and began to fly towards the coniferous forest. Dearlando suddenly remembered that Faelon had said that he was a member of the high-altitude mountain elf clan, so was it possible for him to be at this level.
Thinking of this, he relaxed the strength of his hand, so that the yellow-billed bird did not continue to climb, but flew around the hundreds of egg-shaped areas of this level.
As the yellow-billed bird flew close to the vegetation beneath its feet, it began to be attracted by the ground below, and the direction of its flight changed from the ground perpendicular to the tree of life to the ground perpendicular to individual areas.
Giant yellow-billed birds skim over cedars that are only as tall as celery. It left a huge shadow on the ground. Dearlando's eyes widened. Carefully looking for any traces of humanoid creatures, Rao is his eyesight is extraordinary, and he began to feel dizzy after more than a dozen areas.
"Damn, can't you give me a hint......? It's like looking for a needle in a haystack!" he grumbled under his breath. Then I started to feel hunger and fatigue rushing together.
As he skimmed through an area densely populated with pine trees, he saw several mushrooms the size of a hill. So he pulled the yellow-billed bird and fell in that direction. It is not possible to hunt or forage for food at the moment. Then dig two mushrooms and eat them on the way, probably to temporarily make up for your thirst.
He grasped the two paws of the yellow-billed bird in one hand and the dagger in the other, intending to cut two pieces as he swept past the mushroom. As a result, when he approached the mushroom, he was taken aback by the human who was only a palm's height on it.
The other party was also startled when he saw Diarlando, and the whole person sat down on the mushroom. Dillando caught a glimpse of the other's pointed ears and immediately let go of the hand that grabbed the yellow-billed bird, allowing himself to land on the mushroom. Then he quickly pounced on the little elf and grabbed the other party in his hand.
"Ah!!!!!!!!!!h In order to protect his ears from torture, Diarrando directly pinched a small mushroom and blocked the other party's wide open mouth.
The elf who was stuffed with a mouthful of mushrooms had a flushed face, and after seeing that he couldn't spit out the mushrooms, he simply swallowed it in a big gulp, and soon swallowed most of the innermost mushrooms.
Dillando took advantage of his time to eat and hurriedly asked: "Don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person, I didn't intend to hurt you, I just wanted to find something." ”
The miniature elf had swallowed all the mushrooms in his mouth, and just as he was about to open his mouth to continue screaming, Diarrando threatened him: "If you scream again, I will stuff the mushrooms again!"
The warning worked, and the other party hesitated and closed his mouth. After a while, he asked in a normal volume, "What are you looking for?"
Diarrando could tell that the other party was speaking a completely different language than his own, probably some kind of elvish, but it was amazing that he didn't need any translation to understand the meaning. It seems that the creatures here can communicate directly with each other, which saves a lot of trouble.
"Uh...... I'm looking for an elf, a black-haired mountain elf named Fay. I suppose he's your kindred, do you know where he is?" thought to Deirlando, since he had found an elf, there must be many others. Maybe Fikelen is hiding in it, waiting for an opportunity to do something bad.
The mini-elf, who was also also black-haired, glanced at Diarlando and said, "I'm the only elf here, and there's another human, a dwarf, a centaur, and a feathered man...... There won't be that many of the higher lifeforms, otherwise the balance here would have been upset. ”
"Ah, you're the only elf in such a large area, what if you're sick or injured or dead?" asked Dearrando curiously, and then dug out the mushroom next to him and stuffed it into his mouth.
This large white mushroom, which looks like a mushroom, has a creamy aroma and apple texture when eaten, and although the moisture is not very much, it is soft and delicate, and it does not make the mouth thirsty at all.
The elf's eyes widened as he saw that he had eaten a large piece of mushroom in a blink of an eye, and finally couldn't help but stop it: "Don't eat it anymore!
"Ahh Diarlando poked the white and tender mushrooms beside him, although this thing tasted good, but after all, it was still a mushroom, saying that he had eaten too much, and the other party was not exaggerating.
"Mushrooms here grow very slowly, and I have to count the amount of good food to keep myself alive without affecting their growth. All the plants here are limited in number, and once we get more than a certain amount, the whole balance is broken. You're a robber!" the elf looked at the big white mushroom that had been dug by Diarrando in distress, and complained to him sadly.
"Uh...... Do you eat meat?" asked Dillando cautiously as he looked at the mini-elf in his palm, wondering if all the creatures here were vegetarians.
"What does it mean to eat meat? to eat other life? God! What a terrible thought, do you know what it means to kill a single individual here? It is the extinction of the whole race! We are all reflections of the species of the outside world, and the death of any individual means the rapid extinction of the same kind of creatures outside. ”
"What!Then why is there only a single sample of higher life here?, isn't it easy to die?" Deirlandor cried out in surprise, if they were so important and so fragile, shouldn't they have more to prevent accidents?
The elf glanced at him with disdain and said, "The higher the creatures, the more resources they consume, and in such a closed ecological environment, such a large area can only support very few higher creatures. If we have more, we will rob other creatures of their resources. For example, the mushrooms under our feet are one of the main sources of food for elves and humans, and I negotiated with humans to take turns harvesting them so that we don't get too hungry for each other. ”
"But if anyone is greedy and harvests too many mushrooms, then it will affect its further reproduction, and over time, we will all starve to death. In the same way, if there are two elves or two humans here, the food required will be doubled, and the probability of the balance of the whole system being upset will be greatly increased. ”
"......" Diarlando didn't seem to understand, and after a moment of silence, he finally asked the question he was most concerned about: "Then are you the only elf in the entire space of this tree?"
"Of course not, from here until the eco-eggs in the snowline zone there is a spirit in each area, and they correspond to the same kind of creatures living in different worlds in different areas. But no matter what genie you're looking for, he won't have a specific name. My name is Deciduous District 17 Elf Sample, and I don't have a name. Only God has names, and we are all just samples, so there are only numbers. ”
Dearlando looked at the elf in his palm and fell into deep thought, the tree of life was not only strange in appearance, but the world it represented completely subverted his own view of life. It's an inverted world here, and in reality, the creature that consumes the least resources is actually larger. In reality, the higher creatures are smaller and fewer in number.
He remembered what Lever had said - where you had to find the branch where the source of pollution was perched and cut it off. In this way, it will be removed from the orbit of life evolution, lose its nourishment, and gradually die.
If each area here is a branch it refers to, then does that mean that the elven samples of that area should be killed?
"If I kill you...... I mean, what would happen if?" said Dearrando earnestly, asking the elf sample of the Fallen Leaf 17 Standing in his palm.
The elf showed a little fear on his face, but he still answered honestly: "All the elven races in the world I represent will be wiped out in an extreme period of time, and none of them will be spared. (To be continued......)