Twisted Woodland, a place with a strange atmosphere.
There is a completely different ecological environment here from the outside world, and stepping into it will even give people the illusion of accidentally falling into the Alien Forest. There are no green leaves in the woodland, and the leaves of all the flowers, plants and trees are purple with a metallic luster, which looks coquettish at first glance, but after a long time, it will make people feel very strange. Most of the plants in the forest grow tall and twisted, and there is a bush that is as tall as a person and even grows in circles like flames. Under the bushes and where the humus is thick, you can see strange fungi clustering along the terrain. They look a bit like a combination of mushrooms and moss: large lavender fungus covers the surface of rocks or other plants, and A canopy-like structure suddenly grows on this layer of bacteria. These fungi thrive in dark corners with bright colors, but I don't know if this world also follows the rule of "the more beautiful the fungus, the more toxic it is". The woodland is covered with thick fallen leaves and other plant remains, and all the plants grow wantonly according to the most natural laws, showing a primitive appearance that is rarely disturbed by people.
And apart from those dwarf plants that accompany the forest, there is only one kind of tree in the entire twisted woodland: it is a tall and twisted broad-leaved tree with iron-gray bark, no branches in the lower part, and the trunk runs along a It grows to high altitude in a slight spiral arc, and then suddenly bursts out a large branch at a very high position, and the canopy is covered with purple-red oval broad leaves. This kind of broad-leaved tree is spread all over the forest, and their shapes are almost identical. Except for the difference in size, they are almost copy-pasted in the twisting of the trunk, the shape of the branches, and even the distribution of each branch. Hao Ren discovered it immediately. Noticing the abnormalities of these trees, he carefully observed the crowns of two strange trees that were far apart, and finally confirmed that their branches were 100% identical. Now a group of people are walking on the "official road" in the twisted woodland. This road was opened up by the church hundreds of years ago with a lot of manpower and material resources. Many generations have devoted their lives to maintaining this not very wide forest road. Now that hundreds of years have passed, the ferocious monsters in the Twisted Woods have gradually become accustomed to the existence of this road. And take the initiative to stay away from the outpost near the road: the road has become part of the woodland ecosystem, and the forest has given way to the man-made road.
This allows travelers traveling through the woodland to get the most basic security. As long as they don't stray too far from the boundary line drawn with magic lamps on both sides of the road.
"These trees don't have a scientific name, because they are just a part of the huge creature 'Twisted Woodland', just like the hair on the body of a beast, but mercenaries and adventurers gave them a common name 'Spiral Tree', which is pretty impressive, right?" Becky noticed that Hao Ren's eyes had been fixed on those strange trees, and she took the initiative to introduce, "All trees are one. They grow intertwined underground, and the surface part is only used to receive sunlight. Back then, a group of elf scholars It took a long time to investigate this fact in the Twisted Forest. It is said that the Twisted Forest was the back garden of the goddess before the extinction of the world, and Lorisa, the magic emperor of the elves, stole the life factor of this forest and used the Twisted Forest to The root of the tree copied the tree of life. However, the tree of life has been burned into a large piece of coke in the flames of the destruction of the world, and I don’t know how much similar they can be.” “Well, you said this before The whole forest is a single plant," Nangong Wuyue said with a sniffled nose, the woodland was filled with water vapor, which made the siren girl a lot more comfortable. "But such a large forest... How big does it have to be underground?"
"I don't know. It is said that the roots of the Twisted Woodland spread westward to the center of the Blood Lake of Beinz, and eastward to the foot of the Dragon's Back Mountain Range. The entire land is supported by the roots of the Twisted Forest. And It is said that more than a hundred years ago, a group of dwarf miners wanted to mine pyroxene in the Dragon's Back Mountain Range. They dug the mine too deep, and finally dug a huge black root in the mine towards the side of the blood lake. All the miners went half crazy on the spot—later the church explained that there was still a backlog of anger under the forest when the goddess died, and it would take thousands of years to be digested by the roots of the forest, so no one was allowed to dig mines west of the mountains Well, even digging a well requires the approval of the church.”…
Hao Ren looked at the towering trees around him in amazement. Just from the surface, it was hard for him to imagine how a huge life form was dormant in this land, and it only had some tentacles for breathing from its body. Such a vast forest was formed. But he knew Betsy was right, for the striking similarity in shape of the trees was difficult to explain otherwise. This is not a naturally occurring phenomenon and can only be attributed to the fact that they are organs in the same organism.
"Wait a minute. I'll leave first." Hao Ren suddenly remembered something, and ran to the side with his daughter's pot in hand. Becky called out from behind, "Where are you going?! It's dangerous outside!"
Hao Ren waved his hands and yelled, "Go back, you won't run too far!"
Becky looked worried, Lily explained to Hao Ren: "The landlord must have gone to the bathroom, his kidneys are not good..."
Vivian was taken aback: "How do you know that his kidneys are not good?!"
"Didn't you suffer from diabetes collapse in the mountain people's village a few days ago?"
Everyone: "..."
Dare to feel that the girl's thinking circuit has been stuck at that time and she hasn't turned the corner yet!
But at this time, Hao Ren had already run outside the official road, looking for a place that Becky couldn't see, but he didn't dare to run too far. There were magic lamps made by the church with magical crystals on both sides of the official road, and these magic lamps radiated radiation. The place outside the range is still the world of monsters. He opened the girl's pot behind a bush, and Doudou immediately poked her head out of it and greeted Hao Ren happily, patting the water.
Hao Ren poked the little guy's head to show his affection, and then called to the data terminal: "Come out and scan it, it's powerful."
"You have a bit of a working attitude." The data terminal floated out of the kettle with a whimper, and rose into the air under Doudou's curious eyes, and then the blue light all over him was bursting.
High-intensity radar signals began to penetrate deep into the ground, analyzing the subterranean structure of this forest.
"The discovery of an unprecedentedly large plant root system really convinced that little girl that the forest is one." The data terminal released a holographic projection, showing the distorted underground situation of the forest in a three-dimensional picture. Hao Ren saw the underground of the forest. The sight is really amazing: there are huge plant roots everywhere, radiating from the forest for many kilometers, you can see the root system, they grow entangled underground to form a whole, like a flattened, ravine The ellipsoid is a bit like a crooked walnut.
It looks disgusting.
The data terminal commented next to it: "If these roots disappear, a large hole with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers will be formed underground in the Twisted Woodland and a large area around it, which is enough to make everything here fall deep underground. You can Imagine how large this thing is. The other little girl said something inaccurately: the forest root system extends westward beyond the center of the blood lake. It has already crossed the blood lake and is about to grow to the crystal on the other side of the lake The plain and the mountains to the west are below, but it may be that there is a problem with the soil quality of the crystalline plain, and a large area of the root system extending past is dead, and it should not continue to grow."
"I didn't expect the underground part to be so much wider than the above-ground part." Hao Ren was amazed. He was not marveling at the ancient "miracles", but marveling at the ingenious workmanship of nature - just like Raven 12345.
"In addition to the underground root system, this machine also discovered one thing, which should be more valuable for research," the data terminal said suddenly, "This forest... Well, it should be that the ecosystem of the entire Beinz Blood Lake area is actually the same as the outside. Incompatible."
Hao Ren didn't understand for a while: "Incompatible?"
"This is the terrain of this area," the data terminal switched to a high-altitude holographic image, "You can see that the entire Beinz Blood Lake area is actually a closed environment, with the Longji Mountains on the east and the mountain people on the west. There is a large rift valley on the north side of the holy mountain, and the ocean on the south side. The rift valley and the ocean can more or less play a role in separating the ecological zone. Surrounded by this series of terrains, the Beinz area has formed In a closed ecosystem, the plants growing here—the ones detected locally—are not adapted to the external environment, and their use of nutrients is very peculiar, and only the Beinz Blood Lake can provide them with this environment.”
"Can't adapt to the outside environment at all? Can't survive at all?"
The data terminal is categorical: "I can't survive at all."
Hao Ren became more and more curious about the Beinz Blood Lake.
It is maintaining an ecological environment in ancient times. What is in the lake