planter of the future

An Yi squatted on the ground, stretched out his hand to check Phil's breath and neck, it was fine, he was still alive.

An Yi stuffed a spirit-returning pill into Phil's mouth, and poured some spirit-stabilizing medicine into her before putting Phil aside.

"Clatter." The big tree shook its leaves and made a noise.

An Yi looked up at the trunk. The trunk had closed and protruded, and it was slowly condensing into a weird shape.

If An Yi's guess is correct, that is the true face of the Zonghuang.

The body of the Zonghuang was like a burl of a big tree, protruding in a shape, but it was still connected with the trunk of the big tree.

What a thing that is.

Although the protruding "burl" is still a bark shell, its appearance is already very clear.Its body is long and slender, with a human shape from the waist up. From the abdomen, it is like a snake belly. It is much larger than the upper body, like a telescopic water pipe bent into the tree trunk.

Its human upper body is not completely human: it has eight arms, like the legs and feet of a praying mantis or a shrimp and crab; its chest is swollen, like a courting grouse; The eyebrows are more like a mask; the back of its head begins to swell, like an inflated balloon, sinking into the tree trunk and unable to see completely.

The Zonghuang's eyes were closed, but they were slowly opened at this moment, about the size of two eggs, the inside was not black and white, but bright yellow, with a thin pupil in the middle, which looked like hair. Wire.

An Yi couldn't hold back his breath. When he saw those eyes, he felt that the temperature around him dropped several degrees.It was a kind of oppressive force, condensed into substance.

I don't know if those people who are intimidated by Ares' spiritual pressure feel this way.

"This is your real face?" An Yi forced himself to be calm, his eyes looked around on the big tree, and the little jellyfish on his shoulders also floated up. Following his thoughts, he walked around the big tree to confirm the big tree. It was indeed standing alone on the grass.

"Are you a worm or a tree?" An Yi frowned, really wondering why the worm emperor was in this form.Of course, more is to divert attention.

Fortunately, the Zonghuang also wanted to talk to An Yi.

"You want to see my true face? Then look at it." The Zonghuang opened his mouth, but his lips did not move, but the voice directly reached An Yi's head.

As soon as the Zonghuang's voice fell, the surrounding scenery suddenly changed.An Yi's heart skipped a beat, but soon he discovered that these illusions were just like holographic projections, much inferior to "Taoyuan".

The illusion also showed a cave, but it looked much darker, only a few holes were opened on the top of the cave, revealing some not so bright light.

In the cave, there is a huge creature.It looks very similar to the Zerg Emperor, but it is at least ten times bigger, almost filling the entire cave.Its snake-like abdomen is like a huge base, supporting its upper body. The contrast between the upper and lower body is like bean sprouts and tree trunks, which is very strange.

Moreover, its appearance is much more vicious than the Zong Huang, its head is like a blooming piranha, extending from the lower jaw, and can protrude a long tongue that hangs down to the abdomen.

The worm emperor in the illusion opened his mouth and seemed to let out a roar, but An Yi couldn't hear anything.

After the worm emperor roared, its weird abdomen began to shrink, and then its long, entangled abdomen like a snake's tail slowly rose up. Upon closer inspection, many puppets used silk-like things to wrap it up. hung up.

The worm emperor was suspended from the ground by a distance of one meter. Its long half body was stretched away from the entangled shape, and many silk threads were wrapped around the tail end, which made its tail end more flexible and could be manipulated at will. .

The worm emperor roared again, it seemed to be in great pain, but its cumbersome body made it unable to even struggle, so it could only swing its body in a small arc, using roar to vent.

Soon, An Yi knew what they were doing - production.

The end of the "snake tail" of the worm emperor is a moving production port, controlled by the puppet worms, and lay a fist-sized black worm egg on the ground. The worm eggs are densely arranged, and soon filled the entire cave bottom of.

An Yi looked at the image of the eggs overlapping her own feet, feeling a little apprehensive.

When the Worm King laid eggs and covered the entire floor of the cave, its bulging abdomen also deflated, and even shrunk a little. Although it was still bigger than the Worm King in the tree trunk, the overall situation was no longer so uncoordinated. .

When the worm emperor finished laying eggs, those puppet worms did not put down the worm emperor.They fixed the insect emperor in the air, and at the same time, many insects the size of insect eggs crawled out from the small holes in the cave wall.They are like watermelon worms without tentacles, their bodies are flat, but their backs are arched in an arc, and their countless feet are hidden under their bodies, which cannot be seen from the outside.

The tails of these worms all dragged a spherical thing. After they crawled out of the hole, they followed the "silk thread" that bound the worm emperor and crawled to the worm emperor's side.Then feed the thing dragged by the tail to the worm emperor. After feeding, the worm turned upside down and crawled back under the "silk thread".

These worms came and went, and quickly fed the worm emperor.

After all the bugs left, the time in the illusion began to fly, and soon the eggs on the ground broke their shells, and the same little bugs as the ones that fed the bug king appeared.

And when these worms broke their shells, they dragged their egg shells to climb up the body of the worm emperor just like the previous worms, and fed the egg shells to the worm emperor.

After a while, the light on the top of the cave changed several times, and many insects brought food. The color seemed to be different from the previous food, and they were all fed to the insect emperor.

After the worm emperor finished eating, its shriveled lower-half body began to swell again.Then the Zerg Emperor was put back on the ground, but his bloated body meant that he couldn't leave the cave.

An Yi understood that the so-called insect emperor was not an "emperor", but a machine for multiplying puppet insects.

However, how did the Zonghuang change from that situation to this one?

Just as An Yi was thinking, the surrounding images suddenly changed, the illusion disappeared, and the cave returned to that bright and beautiful space.

An Yi looked at the Zong Huang, wondering in his heart—is this a trick, or did it all happen for real?

The Zonghuang seemed to have an insight into An Yi's thoughts, and said: "These are all my past. Or, it is the past of the Zonghuang."

An Yi was still suspicious.

The worm emperor said to himself: "The worm emperor is what you call me. At the beginning, I was not the emperor. As you can see, I am just the part of the reproduction machine during the evolution of the puppet worm. And I was imprisoned reproductive machine."

"Our evolution is very fast, but only good genes are left behind, which does not mean that we are strong. Reproduction, this primitive biological instinct, was abandoned as a low-level need. Before humans came, this place was already full of consciousness clouds. , but it is easy for the cloud of consciousness to crowd out non-intelligent creatures, but it is not easy to crowd out the brains of intelligent creatures."

"In the process of encroaching on the human brain, our consciousness cloud will disappear, and most of the successful ones will not be able to control the human body and brain, and become stupid."

"Finally, we realized we couldn't go on like this. So our 'evolution' went back to solid form again. It wasn't easy though, our reproductive function wasn't shared by every individual, and finally, according to bee colonies and ant colonies 'Experience', the first generation of 'Emperor' was born."

"Reproduction, reproduction, endless reproduction. But the ones that reproduce are all puppets without the accumulation of 'consciousness cloud'. Therefore, our race began various experiments, absorbing the 'experience' of various creatures, and finally put the most A powerful cloud of consciousness was stuffed into the body of the 'Emperor of Zombies', and it finally has what it is today."

"When I became the worm king, it was after I broke away from a human brain. I failed to occupy that human brain, but in order not to be wiped out, I hid in his subconscious, and I watched his entire life .”

"How interesting, human life."

"When I first became the worm emperor, I didn't have any negative emotional impact, but I never forgot about human life. I don't know when it started, something changed."

"I found that I was able to absorb, absorb those clouds of consciousness weaker than me, to be precise, the 'experience' and 'knowledge' they reproduced. Then I saw more knowledge from the outside. I was able to observe human life again .”

"But I soon discovered that this was different from my initial onlookers. When I was hiding in the human brain, I might perceive everything he perceived, but as the worm emperor, I could only watch, not feel. I almost forgot what it was like to touch a flower."

"I later learned that this emotion is called unwillingness. I already had my own consciousness. And only I have it. This is simply... amazing."

"I manipulated those consciousness clouds, allowing them to change the layout of the puppet worm's race, and even the direction of evolution. I don't have to reproduce by myself, but use another way... Hehe."

The Emperor of Zombies didn't specifically say what method it used, but just let out a laugh like a broken branch, which made people's hair stand on end.

After laughing for more than a minute, the Zonghuang stopped.

Zonghuang: "I don't need to reproduce, I have my own consciousness, I am powerful enough to create illusions that are false, and even invade such a city."

"But, I can't move. I can't get out of here."

"I need a body that can bear my entire cloud of consciousness. I have been looking for it for a long time. Human planters are the first choice, but they are still not strong enough. Even if I successfully settle in, my strength will be suppressed."

"At this time, you appeared."

"very nice."

An Yi sneered: "It's really scary. However, since you can get out of here, why don't you occupy the human body and walk? Or, you can't leave here because of your body and consciousness cloud? This big tree...is the center of life. tree."