btmnovel Chapter 428 The Sleeper
Chapter 428 The Sleeper
Chapter 428 The Sleeper
Because she was too shocked, Rose didn't even pay attention to Nie Yun's conversation, and when she came back to her senses, she found that the tip of the unknown creature had opened like a petal, revealing a platform for standing, and Nie Yun was waving to her.
"Hey! Your Majesty, this guy is quite enthusiastic. It seems that he intends to take us to his house to entertain us. Come up quickly." Nie Yun said, turned around, bent his knees and jumped onto the platform.
Rose's eyelids couldn't help but twitch, why did she have an inexplicable sense of disobedience...
Resisting the [-] whys in her heart, Rose, like Nie Yun, jumped onto the platform. As the petal-like structure slowly closed, the unknown creature returned to its original appearance.
With a "crash", the unknown creature plunged into the magma and disappeared, and the underground space regained its calm...
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About an hour later, in a huge lava lake farther underground, a black unknown creature emerged again, and its petals opened, revealing Nie Yun and the two standing on the platform.
Nie Yun looked around, feeling the hotter temperature in the underground space than before, and couldn't help but swear, "The environment in your home is really bad..."
Then the next moment, he was completely attracted by a huge black figure in the distance...
"This... this is..." Nie Yun's eyes widened, his head began to rise slowly, and then continued to rise...
Nie Yun finally saw the top of the huge object in front of him after his eyes were almost raised by 90°, and he couldn't help opening his mouth slightly.
Even the well-informed Nie Yun was stunned by the scene in front of him for a moment.
Pangu rested his hands on the sky, his feet on the ground, propping up a chaotic world... The scene in front of him made Nie Yun involuntarily think of such a legend.
In the middle of the lava lake, a huge black body with a height of tens of kilometers extended to the dome of this underground space like a towering sky.
Under its feet is a tumbling lava lake, and at the top of its torso is a forked structure like antlers, like a huge crown worn on top of its head.
The dense fork-like structure extends upwards until it submerges into the dome, like a world supporting this underground space.
What's even more peculiar is the huge pattern on its torso that resembles a human face. Although it still quietly closes its eyes, it gives Nie Yun a weird feeling that he will open his eyes in the next moment.
"This is the body of the Immortal, and it is also the first ancestor of all Kalaluo on the planet - the longevity tree!" Rose's voice came from the side, with a kind of piety like worship.
"Longevity tree? Wait! You said it is a tree?!" Nie Yun was stunned.
He looked back at the crown-like canopy, only to realize that it was indeed a canopy, but there was not a single leaf on it, and the covered area was much smaller than ordinary trees, almost thicker than itself. The body is more like a bamboo hat than a tree crown.
Rose finally regained some sense of superiority that "I'm the tour guide", she couldn't help pointing to her feet and said, "Of course, or do you think... what's under our feet?"
Hearing this, Nie Yun couldn't help but look down at his feet. The strange creature that transported them at this moment was slowly lifting the two of them up, approaching the body of the longevity tree.
Then he discovered that the inside of the lava lake at the foot of the Longevity Tree was actually densely packed with such giant python-like "creatures", but some were extremely huge, and the branches exposed to the lake were even tens of meters thick.
"This is... its tree roots?!" Nie Yun was stunned.
Through the global positioning system, Nie Yun can be sure that he and Rose have just been moved hundreds of kilometers away. The roots are actually hundreds of kilometers long, even... maybe even longer!
Looking at the well-developed root system leading to all directions, I am afraid that the immortal in front of him has already extended his tentacles to half of the planet Kara, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he has lived in symbiosis with the planet Kara.
"There are such miraculous plants in the world, it reminds me of a fairy tale in our hometown..." Nie Yun rubbed his chin in amazement.
"The longevity tree is the biggest secret of the Kara planet. It is the origin of the Kara civilization. It can even be said that the longevity created the Kara civilization..." Rose's tone was full of faith.
"Creation?" Even though there were speculations about the lofty status of this "little brother tree" in the eyes of the Kara people, Nie Yun still found it a bit inconceivable that Rose used this word to describe it.
A tree created a civilization?
"Yes, without the immortals, there would be no Kara civilization today!" Rose seemed to hear Nie Yun's incomprehension, but she still nodded firmly.
"Kara, in our ancient language, means 'longevity', and this word represents the origin of our civilization.
More than 3000 years ago, because of the harsh living environment on the planet, we Kara people were still a nomadic race that drank blood and lived by water and grass. Not only did they have low intelligence, but their average life expectancy was less than 30 years old.
Until our ancestors stumbled upon the water of life in the Burning Zone... Most of what I told you earlier was true history.
However, the ancestors not only discovered the lake filled with the water of life, but also discovered the seedlings of the immortals in the center of the lake! "
Only then did Nie Yun realize that looking at the roots of the immortals planted in the lava lake, with such a high fire resistance, it is not difficult to create a green belt in the burning area. The water of life alone does not have this cooling effect.
"At that time, the immortals had just been born with consciousness and could not communicate with our ancestors, but after the ancestors became enlightened, they still enshrined the immortals as holy trees and took good care of them.
And our ancestors suddenly awakened the ability to communicate with the immortals in their later years, and the two sides communicated for the first time. "
Nie Yun nodded. According to what the immortal said just now, it seems that only people with strong souls can hear its spiritual communication.
So, Rose's ancestors probably drank too much water of life, and their souls were also strengthened?
Hmm... With such a large pool of water of life, a pig should be able to evolve into a second senior brother.
Rose didn't know what Nie Yun was thinking, and continued to say, "After the two sides established communication, through the knowledge imparted by the immortals, we have a better understanding of nature and life, and gradually become a highly intelligent race on Kara.
And not long after, through the cuttings of the branches of the immortal, Kalaluo was born out of nowhere!
It provided us with a mobile settlement that could permanently avoid the burning zone, and started our transition from nomadic civilization to farming civilization. Only then did the subsequent era of social and technological development lead to the birth of the brilliant Kara civilization! "
Nie Yun couldn't help being amazed that the sacred plant Kalaluo in the eyes of the Kara people was actually the cutting product of the immortal in front of him.
But why do the two look so similar?Can cuttings also mutate genes?
"Wait! According to you, this immortal person can be said to be your reborn parent, but why is there no mention of this in your history books?" Nie Yun asked.
Nie Yun has already copied the information on Kara civilization collected by Gemini, and the subject of "Kara History" is at least at the senior doctoral supervisor level!
But the name "Longevity Man" has never appeared in unofficial history, let alone official history.
Even after thousands of years, the age may lead to loss of information, but the Kara royal family obviously knows this well, and the inheritance has not been broken, so why not vigorously promote it?
To say that this kind of behavior is forgetting the classics is light, right?
And you said that you, as a tree, don’t stay on the ground to bask in the sun and rain, and brush your face to collect some beliefs. You have to dig into the ground to eat soot, and you choose such a harsh living environment. up?
"Because of evolution!" A thunderous voice rang in his ears, interrupting Rose's explanation.
Nie Yun turned his head to look, and it turned out that the roots supporting them had unknowingly brought the two of them to the tree pattern shaped like a human face, and the voice came from the tree pattern.
Can still speak ventriloquist? !
It seems that this guy is not like ordinary plants that can only grow wildly. It actually has a certain ability to control and transform the body, which can be seen from the flexible roots and simulated vocal organs.
"My body is still evolving and growing over a long period of time, and my image is very different from that of 3000 years ago.
As my body grows bigger and bigger, every time I move or move, the sky will collapse, and the nutrients I need are too amazing, so as long as the area where I have taken root, the soil will be barren, and the fertile black soil will turn into a piece of ashes. .
Such an existence would cause great damage to the natural environment on the surface. I am no longer the patron saint of children, but a destroyer of nature, so I chose to migrate underground and fall into a long sleep...
In order to keep me from being disturbed, my first and only friend Tata agreed to me, and only told his descendants by word of mouth. After more than 2000 years, only his descendants in the world know of my existence.
Compared to the immortal, I prefer to call myself... the eternal sleeper! "
(End of this chapter)