"This... this is..." Li Qingshui looked at the resin-wrapped thing in front of him, and carefully identified the brain lines in it, and then his eyes widened, showing an expression of extreme disbelief.
"This is the human brain." Although he saw it with his own eyes, Li Qingshui still couldn't believe it, because what happened before his eyes had completely overturned his previous understanding of biology. "Is this brain still alive?"
"Yes, it is alive, and it can still function normally. Being able to keep the brain alive can be said to be the ability I am most proud of since I mutated." Willow spoke, and the complex and precise The rattan combination retracted into the air and disappeared in the mist.
"Now, do you know why I can speak human language?"
"Understood." Li Qingshui nodded, existence is reasonable, he slowly took a few deep breaths to suppress his emotions, and asked: "But, how much of your brain can you control?"
"There are not many at present, only seven." Willow said, showing regret in his tone, "The amount of information in the human brain is too complicated, not only many, but also extremely heterogeneous. When controlling the sixth brain, I just feel that the information is converging together, creating conflicts and coagulation, like a bunch of twisted twines, which makes it difficult for me to handle. Therefore, after I controlled the seventh brain, I decided not to make any changes for the time being. More control, so as not to completely condense the amount of information and let my brain 'short circuit'."
"So that's the case, then what's your intention in grabbing the two of us?" Li Qingshui looked at the phantom in the sky and asked, "Originally, trees are producers in the food chain, so you shouldn't be short of what they need to grow. organic matter, so it seems useless for you to swallow me. And you also said just now that things like roots are useless to you, which shows that you have evolved other ways to obtain nutrition. Two ways to obtain organic matter Under this condition, your body will never lack of nutrients."
"And if my body is useless to you, the only thing that is useful is my brain. But you said just now that you have no room for more information, so what I want to ask you is, do you grasp what are we going to do?"
"You are so smart. You should have a lot of knowledge in your brain. I really want to replace this brain." As the willow tree spoke, another delicate combination of branches protruded from the air, "This person's brain is full of knowledge. Useless information, sex, violence, and the same everyday life, I really want to leave his position to you, but unfortunately, I have cut off the roots myself, and I don’t have this ability for the time being.”
"Oh, so I'm still lucky." Li Qingshui smiled wryly, and continued to ask: "You haven't told me yet, what is your purpose of catching us."
"Doubt." The old and hollow voice came again, "I have doubts in my heart, and I have to solve them. Although I can't tolerate a huge amount of information now, one or two questions are definitely acceptable. Yes. So, I want to ask you a few questions."
"what is the benefit?"
"I am satisfied with the answer. I can let you go. If you are not satisfied, you can only exist as my nourishment." Willow spoke, and another extremely thick willow vine stretched out from the air. This vine The vines are extremely ferocious, completely different from the delicate combination of rattans just now. The branches are not only thick but also have sharp barbed blades on them. The blades are lined up, and there are dozens of hollow human skins hanging on them. , you'll be like them."
"Why should I believe your words?" Li Qingshui swallowed hard as he looked at the hollow human skin.
"Because you have no choice." Taking back the hanging human skin, Willow said, "If you don't tell me, I will naturally find someone else. My life is very long, and I am also very patient. I am not in a hurry to know the answer, and I know the answer." There should be a lot of people. You can choose not to believe that I will be turned into fertilizer immediately, or you can choose to believe that I take a gamble. But what I can tell you is that there is no need for me to lie to you."
"Well, I admit, I have no choice, and what you said is very artistic. I suspect that one of the seven people in their minds is a lawyer." Li Qingshui was under the eaves and said by Liu Shu Having no choice but to answer: "Ask, what do you want to know?"
"What I want to know is, what is wisdom?" There was a tremor in Willow's hollow voice.
"Humans' general definitions of intelligence are divided into many kinds, such as innovation, discovery, integration, logical thinking ability, etc., and so on. But I think the core definition of intelligence is imagination."
"How?"
"According to the knowledge and memory in your brain, you should know that the ability to discover, integrate, and even logical thinking, etc., in fact, many animals have it, and it is not a unique ability of humans."
"Yes, mice will clean up their nests, lions and tigers have the ability to find prey, monkeys, orangutans and other animals can move wooden boxes and step on them to pick them up in order to eat bananas that cannot be reached from high places. Therefore, Many species do have all the abilities you mentioned, including logical thinking, but they don’t seem to be very intelligent. According to you, the core difference between humans and other animals is... "
"Yes, it is imagination, which is the core definition of wisdom." Li Qingshui said: "Including the reasoning of scientific formulas, the manufacture of various utensils, and even humanistic poetry and drama, everything in human civilization is built. Wisdom over imagination."
"I understand. I am very satisfied with your answer." After Liu Shu finished speaking, he fell into a deep silence, as if he was imagining what "imagination" was, and Li Qingshui was waiting silently below. .
After a while, Willow's voice sounded again: "Then, the second question, how did human beings get their imagination?"
"There are many theories, but I think the more reliable one is that human beings' assumptions about natural disasters have created the current imagination." Li Qingshui slowly recalled the knowledge in his mind, "After watching a documentary, it seems It is said that the Africans were the first to generate imagination among human beings. Because they can get abundant food and water in the rainy season, but in the dry season, people will die on a large scale due to lack of water. Therefore, after countless generations of evolution, A certain generation of them gradually had the illusion of disasters in the dry season during the rainy season, so they began to invent utensils to store water and food when the water was plentiful in the rainy season, so this is the first batch of human beings who got imagination.
"Is it an illusion of crisis? So it is." Willow fell silent again.
However, after this moment of silence, Li Qingshui suddenly felt the roots entangled around his waist squirming, and then he looked down, and found that the vines began to retract, from the waist to the thighs, and from the The thighs retracted to the ankles, finally fully into the ground.
"I'm satisfied with your answer, you can go." Willow's voice came from the air.
"Before I leave, can I ask you a question?" Hearing that he was free again, Li Qingshui couldn't bear the ecstasy on his face, but he didn't leave immediately, but stood still and continued talking .
"Okay, let's ask."
"Why do you ask me what wisdom is when you already have a human brain?"
"Because I don't have wisdom."