green.
After a short period of time, Richard's vision returned to normal, and then he saw a patch of green—a rich green.
The light blue "round mirror"-shaped portal disappeared behind him, and he appeared in a dense forest.
Looking around, you can see that the field of vision is full of tall and tall trees, each of which is tens of meters or nearly a hundred meters high, vying to pierce the sky and compete for sunlight. And it works hard to spread its branches around to occupy the living space of other trees.
Looking at the feet, there is a carpet-like grassland not far away. A little further away, there are continuous shrubs. Moss grows in the corners, and some vines are wrapped around the trunks of the trees, trying to climb up.
This gave people a feeling of vitality, but for some reason, Richard felt a hint of aging from this vitality.
The air is filled with a faint smell of moisture and decay, which comes from the accumulation of dead branches and leaves, which are thickly spread on the ground, giving people a soft feeling like stepping on cotton.
"Shashasha..."
Richard walked among the trees, observing everything carefully, trying to get as much information as possible to understand this strange plane.
Is this in the center of a large forest in a strange dimension? Or maybe... the forest has already covered this strange plane
From a logical point of view, if the productivity of a plane is high enough, then the forest area will be relatively small, because the intelligent life of this plane needs more space for production and development, prompting them to develop the forest. On the contrary, if the productivity of a plane is low enough, or it was once high but suffered some kind of blow, then the forest area will continue to expand, gradually swallowing up the settlements that have lost the habitation of intelligent life.
At the extreme end, if there is no intelligent life in the entire plane, it is not impossible for the forest to occupy the entire plane, or occupy most of the area of the plane.
So... what is the situation in this current plane
Richard narrowed his eyes, chose a direction, and flew forward quickly.
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A few days later.
During the flyby, Richard had explored most of the entire plane. He fell from the sky and frowned.
At this time, he was still in the forest, and there was no sign of reaching the edge of the forest. It was hard to believe that such a large forest would exist in the normal world. From this point of view, the latter possibility he had guessed before was greatly improved. improve.
It is worth mentioning that after flying over such a long distance, he noticed that the surrounding trees began to wither.
Like a lack of water or some kind of nutrients, cracks as thick as a finger appeared on the surface of the tree, and fine wood chips continued to fall from the cracks. Other surrounding plants were affected, the grass turned gray, the shrubs drooped, and the vines wrapped around the tree trunks became loose.
The vague smell of aging in the air is getting worse, making people feel a little uncomfortable.
Looking at the entire forest, it is obviously full of life, but for some reason, it feels lifeless.
Richard pursed his lips and was thinking about what was going on in this plane and what he was going to do next, when he suddenly heard a "rustling" sound coming from the distance.
Turning his head to look, not long after, a petite emerald green figure burst into view.
It was a little girl who looked to be only seven or eight years old, riding on a brown elk, holding the elk's antlers with both hands, and kept moving in the forest. The little girl's hair is bright green, with two ponytails tied on the back of her head. It is constantly swaying and swaying as the elk jumps over dead branches and bushes on the ground.
After traveling for a while, the elk carried the little girl to a dry tree. The little girl grabbed the elk's antlers hard, slid off the elk, which was taller than her, walked to the root of the tree, and pressed her hands up.
Strangely enough, I saw that as the little girl touched the trees with her hands, the dry trees recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye—the cracked appearance healed, the yellow leaves turned green, and the branches became taller—and the surrounding grass, shrubs, and vines also Then it becomes normal.
In just one minute, a small area returned to its former appearance.
The smell of aging in the air suddenly disappeared, and then Richard saw the little girl walking towards another tree.
"Yoyo~"
The elk barked.
The little girl was a little confused. She first looked at the elk, then noticed something and suddenly turned her head to look at Richard.
The moment she saw Richard, the little girl was obviously stunned for a moment, then her eyes brightened, showing a bit of surprise, and she ran over without any warning.
After running for several steps, he realized something was wrong. He stopped slowly, looked over and said hello to Richard, somewhat unskilledly: "Hello... how are you?"
It's the 'Baluku' language, a popular language in the ancient wizard civilization... After hearing the little girl's voice, Richard's thoughts turned around and he quickly switched to the 'Baluku' language, nodded, and responded to the little girl. :"Hello."
"Are you from another world?" The little girl looked over and asked directly, without any detours or cover-ups.
"Yes." Richard nodded and answered. He was also happy to have such direct communication, so he said to the little girl, "Because I come from another world, I am very unfamiliar with your world. I want to understand your world. Can you introduce it to me?"
"Introduction?" After listening, the little girl seemed to be recalling the meaning of the word. After a few seconds, she said, "I can introduce it to you... but there is nothing to introduce - the scene you see is what the world looks like, and the rest The place is the same, but you see me as the only person in the world."
Is this what the world is like? You are the only person in this world... Richard raised his eyebrows after hearing this, and then his heart sank... Some of his guesses were correct. The current plane is indeed a declining plane, and it is a declining one. The ultimate plane... The traces of the ancient wizard civilization have been completely erased and turned into a primitive plane.
The little girl didn't know what Richard was thinking, and continued: "Actually, I wasn't alone before, and there was my mother. But my mother passed away not long after she gave birth to me. Since then, I have followed my mother's words to take care of the world. forest to this day. My mother once told me not to be afraid after losing her, because one day there will be people from other worlds who will help me and take care of the forest with me."
"So..." At the end of the sentence, the little girl looked over with her big eyes and asked Richard seriously, "Excuse me... are you the one who is here to help me take care of the forest?"
"Take care of the forest?" Richard smiled bitterly after hearing this, "I'm afraid I can't, at least not now - I have other important things to do."
"Other important things?" The little girl was a little confused and couldn't understand after thinking for a long time. "Could it be that... besides taking care of the forest, are there other things?"
"Of course it does."
"Okay... then... if you finish other things, can you come back and help me take care of the forest?"
"Of course you can if you have time. But now, I hope you can tell me, is there anything special, different, or dangerous about this world?" Richard asked aloud.
According to his thinking, since there are no traces of ancient wizard civilization in this world, there is no point in staying any longer. His purpose is to go to the native plane of the ancient wizard civilization and the plane swallowed by white light. Then he needs to get the jumping point from this plane to the next plane and continue to jump to achieve it.
He was not sure how many more jumps he would have to make to reach his destination, but he had to try.
The little girl opened her eyes wide and looked at Richard for a long time. In the end, she did not refuse Richard's request. She stretched out her hand and pointed in one direction and said: "If you are looking for a special place... keep walking forward from here, the trees will It will wither more and more, until you reach a place where all the trees are withered, and you will see a black hill. My mother told me not to get close there. I don’t know if it is the place you are looking for, but you can go and have a look.
By the way, this is for you. My mother left it for me to bless me. Now I leave it for you to bless you, so that when you see it, you can think of me and remember to come back and take care of the forest with me. "
At the end, the little girl handed Richard a pointed silver leaf. The texture of the leaf was a bit hard, as if it were made of metal.
Richard pursed his lips, but after all he did not refuse the little girl's kindness. He took the silver leaf and said, "Okay, thank you. By the way, what's your name?"
"Green." The little girl said.
"Lu Xi... Lu Xi, let's meet again when we have the chance." Richard said, waving his hand, turning around without hesitation, and quickly flew towards the direction the little girl pointed, disappearing from the little girl's field of vision.
The little girl stared blankly for a while before looking away. Her mood was not very high, but she didn't know why, because no one had ever taught her what disappointment was.
She didn't lie. She had lived alone since her mother died when she was very young. This left her with no clear concept of many things, such as time, distance, and even the inability to distinguish between good and evil.
If nothing unexpected happens, she will live in such ignorance until people from other worlds break in and change her, or she dies alone as the last person in this world.
Today, she was lucky enough to meet someone from another world, but unfortunately, she was separated soon after meeting.
She wasn't sure if she could really meet the other person again, but she had no other choice. After all, she couldn't leave here. She had to follow her mother's words and take care of the forests of this world... forever.
The little girl pursed her lips, stopped looking at the direction in which Richard disappeared, walked towards the dead tree on the side, and began to use her innate special ability to treat the "injured" trees.
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A little later.
Richard appeared on the black hilltop that Lu Xi mentioned. Not far in front of him was a nearly two-meter-high light red "round mirror" that he had just activated. It was one of the space jump points of this plane. one.
From this aspect, Lu Xi did not lie to him.
This made Richard feel a little emotional: It must be admitted that Lu Xi is an extremely innocent little girl. Due to the lack of sufficient communication with outsiders, her intelligence may be more immature than her appearance, resulting in her words and deeds being incomprehensible.
Some of Lu Xi's experiences and ability to heal trees also interested him. If possible, he would be willing to stay and have more contact with him.
But he also knew what was most important at the moment, so he could only do what he told the other party - come back after completing important things.
Hope there will be such a day...
Thinking of this, Richard looked towards the light red space jump point that was opened.
Compared with the previous space jump point, this one is obviously smaller.
It stands to reason that there may be more than one jumping point in a plane, so if he is willing to spend time, he might be able to find a second, larger space jumping point outside the hill.
However, due to the lack of enough information, he did not know which plane the space jump point would lead to. Even if he knew it, he could not be sure how the plane he was going to would develop over a long period of time. He could not rule out that it would be as extreme as the current plane. decay.
In this case, there is actually not much difference between randomly choosing a space jump point and carefully choosing a jump point.
Then it is better to choose a space jump point at will.
It all depends on probability.
Let's see how the probability makes the next plane he goes to look like.
bring it on!
Richard straightened his expression and stepped into the space jump point.
The space point fluctuated, Richard disappeared, and the world became quiet again
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