"Parasitic mayflies in heaven and earth, a drop in the sea. Mourn the moments of my life, and envy the infinity of the Yangtze River. Fly the fairy to swim, hold the bright moon and end long. I don't know it suddenly, and I will leave it in the sad wind. ”

Death is an unavoidable problem for everyone, and eternal life has been a goal that people have aspired to since ancient times.

Human beings are afraid of death, because "seeking advantages and avoiding harm" is born before all thoughts, all consciousnesses, and all god-level organizations.

Life is not a conscious desire to "survive", just because those who "can't survive" have been eliminated and disappeared into the long river of time, and those who remain are just eager to "survive".

Intelligence is a derivative of the desire to survive, a tool in the service of survival.

In other words, the fear of death is an instinct, not a human thought, a basic ability engraved in the DNA that has been passed down for 3.8 billion years.

The captured bull will struggle desperately, and the earthworm that is stepped on will writhe wildly, and this feeling and reaction of humans is the same as them.

If we don't look closely, we often forget that we are just an ordinary animal.

Compared with people or animals, plants are much happier.

They have hundreds of years at every turn, thousands of years of hard work, God will give them a little more face, and there will be no problem at all if they live for more than 10,000 years.

Among the other animals, the longest-lived is said to be the lighthouse jellyfish, which can live forever. But this kind of thing doesn't look like it has a brain.

Living without a brain will always have a sense of ignorance and sadness, which makes people feel very uncomfortable.

In the past, Ouyang also reciprocated the same emotions for the emotions and cognition of the tree.

Ignorant and unconscious, like a dead thing, even if I saw a "mushroom man" who could speak, because although the "mushroom man" could speak, it could not communicate at all.

It can only be expressed in the language it has set, and it can't even do basic active stress responses, and it's a bit too high to say that it's a robot, and it may be more appropriate to describe it as a repeater.

Can a tree become a human being? Can a big banyan tree become a spirit like the grandmother in "A Chinese Ghost Story"?

After living for so many years, why hasn't we evolved to be like human beings, with thinking, pain, and sentient beings?

Ouyang had thought about it, but he didn't know until the answer.

It wasn't until he came to the center of Pengcheng that he saw such a spectacular "plant brain".

According to the instructions on the map, this was originally the location of Pengchengzhi, that is, the government office of Jingyang, but now it has been completely encroached upon by a huge and incomparably large "forest pillar" standing between heaven and earth.

This "forest pillar" is a columnar plant formed by long vine-like branches rising from the ground one by one, and then intertwining tightly and twisted with each other.

It looks like a ballbed of yarn that has been tightened by people, and the chaotic order has its own order, and there is an indescribable visual impact.

But overall, it's not a mess.

The long branches are translucent, and you can see the texture of the fibers inside, and the sap flowing rapidly, as if it were a highway with a car speeding through, and occasionally electric sparks can be seen.

"Really...... It's spectacular. ”

Ouyang looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help muttering to himself.

With his realm of "Heaven and Man", he could naturally see what such an obvious thing was.

This is a brain that grows from a plant, and on those translucent branches, there are a large number of protrusions, which seem to be nerve nodes, whether you see the electric sparks in the translucent branches, which are used to transmit signals.

"Makes you laugh. A young man with a huge plant rhizome attached to his back walked out, stiffly made an ancient aristocratic salute to Ouyang, and then said, "It's not spectacular, it's just barely able to think that it's not very complicated." ”

The man's face was unusually mechanical, expressionless, and lifeless, and his tone of voice was paused and sounded very slow.

Although the wording of the words is emotional, the tone sounds like talking with an artificial intelligence translator, which sounds particularly awkward, and has "the same effect" as the previous "mushroom man".

No, the AI is a little more "gentle" than it, it feels like fast wood, too stiff.

The rhizome at the back looks like some kind of wire connecting to the energy source, like the tube behind the first machine in EVA.

In the face of such a strange existence, Ouyang didn't dare to slack off, and immediately gave him a noble salute:

"I wonder where Your Excellency is sacred?"

"The old man is Peng Keng, that is, the founder of Peng Cheng, Peng Zu. He said, gesturing to the "plant brain" in the back and said, "Of course, I mean the one in the back...... Translucent head, not the mutilated body that speaks to you right now. ”

"Uh...... Ouyang showed a surprised expression, "Peng Zu, you are actually Peng Zu, you have lived for more than a thousand years?!"

He stared blankly at the young man in front of him, then at the brain, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Maybe I should really take Mr. Li Er to take a look at this "old birthday star", the two must have a lot of common topics.

"Although it is true that I live longer and age slower than ordinary people, I will not live for a thousand years. To be precise, it's not that I have lived for so many years, but that it took so many years to come back to life again. ”

Peng Zu manipulated the young man's body and explained: "I was originally Wu Peng from the Yellow Emperor era, in today's words, I was a medical officer, and my life has become like this since then. ”

"Has it been like this since the time of the Yellow Emperor?!" Ouyang was stunned for a moment by the other party's antiquity, and then immediately reacted,

"No, isn't it true that the supernatural anomaly has only appeared in the past few years?How could you have such exaggerated supernatural powers before this?!"

"Supernatural powers? It's not supernatural forces, everything is just a product of natural selection. ”

"Peng Zu" shook his head, rejecting Ouyang's idea, and then said: "But this explanation is more troublesome, shouldn't you introduce yourself first?"

Where are you from? Why are you here? You and your companions don't seem to be products of this world, you're still a little bit like you, but your companions...... IMHO, the colors are too flashy and do not want to be the product of natural selection. In fact, you are like supernatural forces. ”

"Uh...... Ahem. Ouyang cleared his throat and said, "I'm Ouyang, if nothing else, it should have been more than two years before I appeared in this world." ”

"So you're from the future?" asked Peng Zu.

"Hmm...... Sort of......" Ouyang gestured with his hand to everything around him, and then said in a strange tone, "But these things here, as well as those monsters I encountered, I haven't seen them in the history books of later generations. ”

"A world that is highly similar to this world, but not the same, you are a future person in that world, can you understand it like that?"

"Peng Zu" said as the translucent "plant brain" was rapidly circling electrons at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if it was thinking along with it.

"To put it simply, that's roughly the ......" Ouyang spread his hands and shrugged, "Actually, I'm not sure if this is the past of my world, because the history books may have been tampered with, or erased by some kind of force." ”

"That's impossible...... "Peng Zu" shook his head and said, "What happened must exist, and no matter how much you bury it, you can't hide the truth."

Even a few words will become a rumor, and then with a hint of unbelievable mythological attributes, it will continue to circulate. They will become a nursery rhyme, or a legend, or a child's story, until civilization disappears. ”

As he spoke, "Peng Zu" looked at his super brain and continued: "Not to mention that such an exaggerated thing has ever existed, even if there are no fossils, the remains should leave a little trace. ”

"So this is a parallel world?" asked Ouyang.

"Peng Zu" shook his head: "I don't know. I have never been to your world, so it is impossible for me to know what your world has developed, or the difference between the two worlds. ”

Ouyang meditated for a moment, not wanting to dwell on such meaningless things, so he diverted the topic and asked, "Then how did you become what you are now, the main body is a huge 'plant brain', but you manipulate such a body to communicate with the outside world. It's not a supernatural force, is it really the result of natural evolution?"

"It's not the result of completely natural evolution. Peng Zu explained, "Natural evolution does not evolve such a deformed species, and my becoming like this is actually the result of human intervention in evolution." ”

"Could it be that the Yellow Emperor era has been able to influence genes to the extent that it has been able to do so?!"

This news is far more difficult to accept than the intervention of supernatural forces.

Transform a person into a "tree man"?

What is difficult to do with modern technology, even Diochisis can't change the genes of a race, is there such advanced technology in ancient times?

This is a bit of an exaggeration.

Could it be that super-ancient civilizations really existed, and humans were not the only intelligent creatures in the long years of the earth?

"Genes, you're talking about blood, aren't you? genes...... The foundation of life, the cause of all spirits, it is really appropriate to use it to refer to the bloodline, and the future people will really be ahead of our group of old antiques. ”