Chapter 3152: In the Trees

"We will guard this place for generations... until the last moment!"

This is a creature called the 'white tree'.

The symbolism of these creatures is primarily... having a solid 'bark', and a metallic structure within.

Originally, they grew up on 'land'... Their initial growth process was similar to that of ordinary trees.

They rely entirely on their root systems to absorb nutrients...and they also store large amounts of minerals in their bodies.

However, after growing to a certain size, they will break away from the surface and float into the void.

At this time, the white tree will undergo great changes. The cells inside will continue to strengthen the outer shell and use the minerals absorbed in the past to construct many... channels, rooms and other structures in the body. In this process, their size will further increase.

In the process of growing in the void, they mainly survive on the "nutrient barrage" emitted by the white trees still growing on the surface.

Eventually, the white trees in the void will grow into individuals as large as several hundred meters, and they will produce... a lot of 'fruits' in the rooms formed in their bodies.

These fruits grow to about two meters in diameter, and the cells inside use a special set of nuclear information to synthesize... one or more organisms inside.

Eventually, the fruit matures and a creature called a 'Tree People' grows inside.

This is a creature... a hybrid of the Ershi people and the skeleton dragon.

The nuclear information of the tree people themselves is very similar to that of those two creatures... but not exactly the same.

Their original skin was replaced with a bark-like structure, but as for other aspects, such as intelligence, there is no difference.

These creatures receive "education" from birth. They must protect the white trees and... the white tree forests growing on the surface of the earth.

At this time, the white tree will grow many weapon-like structures inside its body, and what the tree people have to do is learn to control them and drive... this white tree.

Tree people have a short lifespan of only a few years, so they grow very quickly.

When they get old, they will be launched back to the surface, and there are many white tree seeds in the bodies of the tree people...

These seeds will grow into new white trees on their corpses, repeating the process over and over again.

Lin discovered during her research that although the tree people and the white trees appear to grow together, they do not use the same set of nuclear information.

That is, the growth of white trees has its own set of nuclear information, while the tree people use another set.

However, the birth of tree people requires the cells of white trees to help them synthesize nuclear information and prepare "fruits" so that they can grow.

The whole process is... quite interesting.

Lin felt that it must be the database that integrated the data of the Skeleton Dragon, the Ershi people, and... the Dragon Roost, and then... created these wonderful creatures.

Because Lin discovered that the nuclear information of the 'White Tree' itself was also very close to that of the Dragon's Nest, Lin thought that it used that data.

In fact, it did not directly use the nuclear information of Ershimin or Hailong. Lin believed that this nuclear information should have been made by itself, but it was made very close to the original creature.

But the white trees and the tree people cannot survive in the void on their own, they need some other help.

There is a gravity reactor inside the white tree, and the tree people adjust the position of the white tree by controlling this gravity translator.

This reactor did not grow out of the white trees themselves, but was probably... stuffed in during their growth process.

However, the reactor itself does not generate any gravity, it just sends some signals.

What really generates gravity is the surface on which they grow...that is the wreckage of the bus that may have been the initiator of the war.

Now, Lin's disc aircraft is landing on the wreckage.

There were dense forests of white trees growing on the ground, and a large number of white trees were also flying in the void... However, when Lin was about to land, the attacks of these white trees became weaker.

They don't want to harm the forest, so they use more direct tactics.

Many white trees crashed directly towards Lin, trying to knock Lin's aircraft away from the ground.

Of course this is meaningless. Even if they smash themselves to pieces, they cannot prevent Lin's aircraft from landing.

This is actually quite amazing. The weapons that the white tree grows on itself are almost all weapons similar to "machine guns" that fire small solid warheads.

They don't have any explosives or anything like that. Although they use gravity to move, they don't use it as a weapon.

Lin tested several white trees and found that most of the tree people living in them had some experience in fighting against creatures that civilization feared.

However, they did not engage in fierce battles. They only attacked slightly and the creatures that were generally afraid of civilization would leave.

Maybe those creatures thought this place was a settlement after being attacked...

As Lin was thinking, her aircraft was approaching the surface of the earth. When it was only thirty meters away from the surface of the earth...the aircraft emitted a dazzling white light towards the surface of the earth.

In the light, countless miniature soldiers were generated.

This is Lin Xue's previous 'printing' tactic, and although it's not necessary to do this, it's quite interesting.

These miniature soldiers fell to the ground the moment they appeared and drilled deep underground in large numbers.

During the whole process...Lin did not encounter any obstructions.

They drilled to a relatively deep position, and here, Lin discovered... a large underground building.

These buildings... to be more precise, are a large number of complex underground tunnels.

The interior of these tunnels feels a lot like... a laboratory.

The walls and floors inside are all silver-white, and when Lin's micro-troops come in... you can see a lot of...civilians walking around.

They are not tree people because their skin is smooth, but they are not Ershi people because they have long tails.

Lin felt that this was also a creature that was a hybrid of the Ershi people and the skeleton dragon.

But it's different from those tree people.

Why does the database have so many hybrid creatures here?

At the same time, Lin also discovered the neural structure of the bus, the main target Lin was looking for.

Between these silver-white tunnels, Lin can also see many...jars.

These are large transparent jars filled with liquid and soaked with what appear to be offal.

And these 'internal organs'...are just a small part of the bus's neural structure.

Like a split brain of a database, these bus neural structures have also been broken down into many small parts and placed in different jars.

These neural structures are not active and look more like 'specimens' or research materials.

And the people inside seem to be studying neural structures.