The biggest impression given to Shen Cong in the apocalypse is that the sky is very blue, the earth is very gray, and the blood of monsters is very bright red.
Green barely ever appears.
But at this moment, Shen Cong saw a flash of emerald green.
"what is that?"
Shen Cong took out his binoculars and looked ahead.
It's a tree, a big tree with lush branches and bright red fruits, much like a peach tree. The peach tree grows on the slope of a low mountain. The solitary one looks a little shabby.
"peach?"
"Tree?"
"There are actually trees?" Shen Cong asked three times in succession, very surprised.
It is obviously incredible that the doomsday storm did not destroy the vegetation on the earth.
Putting down the telescope, Shen Cong said nothing and drove the King Kong directly towards Aishan. Ten minutes later, it stopped at the bottom of the slope of Aishan. After stopping, the King Kong was less than a hundred meters away from the peach tree on the slope. Shen Cong was not in a hurry to get out of the car. There must be something fishy about a peach tree growing alone here.
Looking through the telescope carefully, Shen Cong couldn't help but frown.
This peach tree doesn't have many fruits. It has about twenty or thirty fruits, which are bright red. Each one is bigger than an ordinary fairy peach, and is as big as a baby's head. What made Shen Cong frown was that in the open space under the peach tree, there were several animal carcasses lying in the open space. They had become decomposed and the bones of the chest and abdomen were exposed.
Judging from the shapes, there are monkeys, wild boars, and snakes, and the scene is a bit strange.
Shen Cong continued to observe with the telescope, while guessing why animal carcasses appeared under the peach tree and why the peach tree could survive.
Why the peach trees survived is quite difficult to guess.
The animal carcasses may have been attracted to the peach tree and then fought with each other to death, or the peach tree may have been the killer. A tree killed a group of animals. Before the end of the world, Shen Cong would not have thought about it. But in the end of the world, the changes brought about by activity were too great, and nothing was impossible.
Waited for ten minutes.
There was no movement, only the leaves of the peach trees swaying gently in the breeze.
Shen Cong thought he could try to get close to the peach tree and observe it up close... He first picked up the slingshot and shot the animal carcasses and branches of the peach tree to test his reaction.
There was no movement.
So he put on the Optimus Prime 1.0 active armor, put on his weapons, and jumped off the King Kong.
I am not in a hurry to get closer, but I am preparing to climb over this hillside, climb to the top of the short mountain, stand high and see far, and carefully observe my surroundings.
Five minutes later, we reached the top of the mountain.
The surroundings are unobstructed, with bare rocks, and further away are undulating rocky mountains. It seems that this peach tree is exuding vitality in this area.
There is no movement on the ground, and the surface is solid rock, reducing the danger.
With doubts and caution, Shen Cong carefully leaned into the peach tree. From a long distance away, the stench of dead animals hit his nostrils. Shen Cong frowned, didn't care, and walked slowly under the peach tree. He was afraid that the peach tree was a "man-eating tree" that could move, so he first stabbed the trunk with a fang javelin.
Keng, Keng, Keng!
The sound was very strange, like the collision between stones or the collision between metals.
Seeing that the peach tree showed no signs of the "man-eating tree" rising, Shen Cong avoided the animal carcasses and touched the trunk. The trunk of the tree was very cold, emitting bursts of active radiation—this peach tree had indeed mutated. This is not surprising. Without mutation, there is basically no chance of survival.
"The bark is very hard, and it feels like touching metal... It seems that the bark has a metallic gradient, like the active core of an animal?"
Immediately, Shen Cong discovered that the leaves also had a slight metallic gradient quality. He shook the branches, and suddenly a large number of leaves made a crisp sound.
"Could the mutated peach tree grow into a metallic peach tree?" Shen Cong guessed that activity was closely related to metals, and his first reaction was to have such an association.
The tree trunks and leaves all showed signs of metallic gradient, but Shen Cong did not find this gradient on the mutated peach the size of a baby's head. There was only strong active radiation, and the intensity of the magnetic field radiated far exceeded the activity of Shen Cong's mutated animals. Perception at its core.
This is a good thing, and anything rich in activity is a good thing, but I don’t know whether it can be eaten or whether it is toxic.
Looking at the mutated peach in his hand and the rotting corpse lying on the ground, Shen Cong felt that this peach was definitely not serious. It was very likely that these animals were poisoned to death after eating the peach.
Thinking.
Shen Cong bent down and came to a monkey corpse. He endured the smell and fiddled with it a few times with his fang dagger.
This is like a mutated monkey, because the body shape has changed, and the four canine teeth on the mouth are huge, and they seem to be active cores. It's just that there is no trace of activity on this corpse, probably because it has been dead for a long time. Inadvertently, Shen Cong turned the monkey corpse over with a dagger.
Turning over, he immediately discovered something that made his scalp numb.
I saw dense white threads growing out of the place where the monkey's corpse had been lying, inserted into the monkey's rotting fur.
This is the root of a plant.
Shen Cong directly aimed at the mutated peach tree. There was only one plant here. Use the engineer shovel to shovel the rocky powdery soil, and sure enough, these white filamentous tree roots passed through the shallow soil, bypassed the rock gaps, and extended to the roots of the peach tree.
The mutated peach tree is using this method to absorb the activity of animals!
"peach."
"animal."
"root."
"peach."
Shen Cong instantly came up with an inference: the peach tree uses active peaches to attract mutant animals to eat the peaches, and then the peaches poison the mutant animals to death, thus becoming fertilizer for the peach tree.
He turned over the corpses of several other mutated animals one by one. Underneath were the white thread-like roots of the peach tree sticking out.
"If this is the case, the peach cannot be eaten. After the mutated animals ate it, they all died within three meters of the peach tree. It is obviously very poisonous."
Shen Cong looked at the huge heart peach in his hand with some pity. The extremely rich active radiation was so addictive.
He is currently lacking in activity. King Kong's activity has dropped several times, but he has never been able to catch up. The activity enhancements exchanged for him are not that much. As a result, his current physical fitness is still at the strength of two oxen, and his progress is not obvious. .
"If it can be stored for a long time, it can be used as a disguised poison..." Shen Cong's thinking was rather unconventional, and he quickly thought of the suspected prehistoric giant crocodile monster that bullied him.
If we encounter him again and throw a few poisonous peaches over, I'm afraid all that's left is to collect the corpses.
Regrettably, Shen Cong decided to pick all the poisonous peaches. The poisonous peach is just his speculation, and it cannot be determined until it is confirmed by research; even if it is determined to be highly poisonous, it will still have a role to play, and it can be regarded as a good thing.
However, Shen Cong did not pick it immediately. He planned to study the mutant peach tree for a period of time. It was rare to encounter a surviving plant. This was a rare opportunity to gain more knowledge about activity.
Click, Shen Cong used the fang dagger to directly cut off a branch of the mutated peach tree; then he used an engineer shovel to dig out a section of filamentous roots; holding the poisonous peach, branches, and roots, he returned to the King Kong carriage. inside.
Research begins.
First, he cut a small piece of poisonous peach pulp and put it in a glass bottle. Then he lured a blowfly out of the gauze and shut it in the glass bottle.
Waiting for the blowflies to devour the pulp to die.
The poison peach toxicity experiment, the first test is launched.