Looking down from a high altitude in the night sky, the entire forest seemed to be shrouded in fog. The trees trembled slightly in the windless night, and creatures wailed in the darkness...
The battle between the skeleton dragons continued. They still wanted to kill each other, but they had to stop now to face a new threat from underground...
Huge tree roots extended from the depths of the ground. Not only were they present in Scorpion City, but they were also present in the rift valleys, salt flats, and rivers.
The virus, like smoke, spread with the appearance of the tree roots. The plants affected by the virus underwent some strange changes...
Whoosh!
An arrow rapidly shuttled through the air and pierced into a fluorescent tree root. This was the forest south of Standing Scorpion City. A new battle had begun here. A group of skeletal dragons gripped their weapons tightly. They were all facing the same target … a tree that was emitting fluorescent light.
There were many arrows and spears stuck in its body, but the tree was still moving slowly. Its roots wriggled like tentacles, trying to bind the skeleton dragons around it...
"Gah!" Suddenly, several spears fell from the sky and pierced into the top of the tree.
"Coo..." The tree suddenly made a strange sound, then stopped moving.
"What the hell is going on?" The Skeleton Dragons gathered and looked at the tree in confusion.
"This is a Dumetha Tree..." Tucker seemed to remember something from the past. Once, the pompoms were "reborn" in this tree, but after that, Tucker learned about this tree from Lin. He also knew that the appearance of the pompoms had nothing to do with this tree. Therefore, the skeleton dragons had no special feelings for this kind of tree.
"This kind of tree is very rare," Tucker said. "Many years ago, I saw one before. I've seen one before, and it did attack us, but this one is much faster. "
Just as Tucker finished speaking, some sounds were suddenly heard in the forest.
"What is it this time?"
When the skeleton dragons turned to look, they saw some small flowers "crawling" out of the grass.
"... Flowers?"
At the same time, on the other side...
"This is not a Wood Spirit, you stupid things! They're just a kind of weird-looking monster! " Jing Kuang and a large group of guards gathered at the edge of the forest. They were facing some strange trees that were about three meters tall. One of the guards quickly dodged the tree's attack and used the axe in his hand to chop off the tree's branch.
The tree without branches was still swaying, but the Skeletal Dragons quickly surrounded it and cut it into pieces.
"Isn't this the wood spirit attacking us out of anger?"
Some of the White Skeleton Dragons were hiding at the back and watching. They were the White Skeleton Dragons that had been attacked at the beginning. Due to the various noises they had caused, Jing Kuang had also woken up.
"We didn't chop down any trees, so the wood spirits here won't be angry!" Jing Kuang shouted, "Don't be harassed by these boring monsters. Hurry up and get back to work. We have to think of a way to attack during the day!"
'Boom!' Suddenly. A loud noise interrupted the Jing Kuang's words, and he saw a tree covered in thorns. A tree more than six meters tall appeared in the forest. It waved its thick branches as if it was waving a huge arm.
"Why did such a strange thing appear here …" Jing Kuang looked at the terrifying plant and immediately shouted, "Hurry up and get rid of it!"
"Caw!" The White Skeleton Dragons picked up their crossbows and shot at the tree, but the arrows had almost no effect on the tree. The tree used its branches to support the ground and quickly rushed towards the White Skeleton Dragons. It also used another pair of branches to smash at them!
"Caw!" The White Skeleton Dragons were instantly sent flying by the thorny branches. Jing Kuang saw this and hurriedly shouted, "Attack it with fire!"
"Caw!" Many of the White Skeleton Dragons who were holding torches immediately threw them at the tree. The flames quickly burned along the tree's dry and cracked body.
Its entire body crackled as it was burned, and its movements slowly came to a stop.
But it was not over yet. There were still strange noises coming from the forest, and more strange figures were approaching.
It seemed that Jing Kuang's plan to attack the Jade Dragon had to be postponed.
…
The effect was getting worse …
The Flyer flew quickly in the air, observing all the changes.
Not only in Standing Scorpion City, but also in the Rift Valley and the Salt Flats, as well as in many other places, the tree roots began to release the virus. A large amount of the virus spread in the forest with the wind and dust. Most of the plants were infected and changed. Not far from here, some trees also began to change strangely.
In the Crystal Forest, the silent trees here began to move. They kept trembling, and the crystals wrapped around the surface of the trees slowly collapsed with the trembling.
After breaking away from the crystals, their roots began to break, and finally, their whole bodies broke free from the ground. These moving trees let out a series of screams and slowly moved in the direction of the forest.
This phenomenon was happening all over the place. Many plants that had been in a state of stillness all their lives began to behave abnormally. They broke free from the ground that bound them, moved their roots, waved their branches, and slowly moved forward in the forest, looking for a target, and then … killing!
Slap! A Protophorned Dragon was sent flying by a thick branch and crashed heavily into a rock. Blood gushed out from its mouth, and its body was no longer alive.
The creature that killed it was actually a tree. To be more precise, it was a tree that could move. Lin called this tree 'Hardwood Tree'. It was a type of tree that was about 5 meters tall. Although it wasn't tall, its body was very thick. Generally speaking, it didn't even have a basic muscle structure, so why could it move?
At this time, the tree climbed onto the corpse and wrapped its roots around the whole body.
This was the effect of the virus released by the tree roots in Standing Scorpion City.
This virus was very special. It had no effect on common animals, so Jing Kuang did not feel uncomfortable at all after inhaling it.
Lin only had a preliminary observation of these viruses. She did not observe the changes in their bodies in detail, but she could guess from their appearance. For the 'Hardwood Tree' below, she could see that its leaves had completely disappeared, but there were a few dried up leaves hanging on it. The bark had also fallen off. Lin guessed that it had decomposed the cells in the leaves because it needed a lot of nutrients to change.
After receiving nutrients, it began to grow a muscle-like structure in its body, and shed its tough bark. It began to use its roots or branches to support the ground and move in this way. Lin felt that there was a structure similar to a nervous system in its body, because its reaction speed had become much faster.
When plants entered this state, they would become like animals and could distinguish their own kind. They would not attack other infected plants, nor would they attack stationary plants, but they would attack animals. When an animal was killed by them, they would try to decompose its body, and then put it under their roots to absorb.
In other words, after being infected by the virus, the plants would begin to slaughter animals!
There was still a lot of observation in this regard. In fact, not all plants were affected. Most of the trees were still motionless, while some died quickly after being infected. Small plants were usually unaffected.
Many flyers quickly flew through the forest. After a period of observation, Lin discovered something. Although there were many kinds of infected and active plants, they all had a certain degree of offensive ability.
These plants either secreted toxins or grew sharp thorns. Some could even set fire, and many had the ability to devour their prey.
They left the place and began to search for prey on their own. However, this was only the initial effect. It seemed that these plants would undergo more changes. Some plants began to grow structures that were not there before after absorbing large amounts of blood and other nutrients.
It was indeed strange that this virus could have such a strange effect on plants, but what was even stranger was that the roots that drilled out were storing so much of this virus.
Although he didn't know the cause, its goal … seemed to be very obvious.
If this virus continued to be released, it might overturn the biological environment of the entire continent. Animals and plants would fight each other, but who would be the victor in the end? What would happen to the scattered corpses?
Lin had a feeling that these plants might have encountered the same thing in the past. Those common carnivorous plants might have come from the same 'origin'.
Not only did animals evolve faster than other places on this continent, the same was true for plants. There were a large number of carnivorous species among them. They must have been affected by something in the past, and this influence was — — the 'creator'.
Perhaps, a long time ago, the extinction of large arthropods was inseparably related to the 'creator'. Perhaps at that time, the plants were as crazy as they were now, and they waged war against the arthropods.
After the war, wreckage was everywhere. The 'creator' recycled the corpses of the entire continent as energy and returned underground to hibernate. The energy of the entire continent was enough for it to hibernate … for quite a long time.
Many small reptiles survived at that time and developed into the rich variety of dinosaurs that we have today.
Some plants might have escaped the influence of the virus, but they still retained some of their mutated forms and developed into the carnivorous plants of today.
At this time, the 'creator' woke up again and released the virus in an attempt to continue its … cycle of destruction.
This was only Lin's initial speculation. The real situation was still unknown, and it was possible that the situation would be completely different after further observation.
However, Lin knew what she had to do now. Floating astronomy.
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