What is it like to be a saint?

Chapter 581 Ecology (1)

Looking down from the hatch of the helicopter.

An incomparably weird and strange tree rose from the ground in the river bend and gorge below.

It is estimated to be at least 20 meters high.

The trunk is quite wide!

It's daytime now, and it's three o'clock at noon when the sun is at its strongest.

Therefore, from the air, the canyon looks normal.

Only in the area covered by the shadow of the tree canopy, traces of living creatures can be faintly seen.

However, just looking down from the air, the scene in the canyon still makes one's scalp tingle.

The huge ghost tree canopy looks like a mushroom canopy when viewed from the air.

But it has leaves, branches, and all the characteristics of a 'tree'.

It's just that these things are a little scary!

The kind that normal people would have nightmares after watching!

The leaves of this 'Naga Ghost Tree' are green in the sun, and look like snake scales from a distance.

There are normal traces of vegetative veins between these scales.

Xu Ji's eyesight is far superior to that of ordinary people.

It is comparable to holding a high-precision military telescope.

So he can see more details!
Especially when Xu Ji used his mana to concentrate the power of the Golden Crow's sun into the pupils of his eyes.

He saw that in the texture veins of these leaves, there were faint liquid fluid things that were invisible to ordinary people flowing slowly.

In Xu Ji's eyes, they are gray-green or miserable green.

The flow is very slow!

But they do flow!

Follow the veins and veins of the leaves and circulate throughout the canopy.

Moreover, from this perspective, it can be clearly found that the canopy itself is dark red, like blood clots that are about to coagulate.

The reason why it turned turquoise is because of the liquid fluid flowing in the veins of the leaf texture.

They change the cognition of normal people.

The color of people's eyes has changed.

In addition, Xu Ji also saw those branches exposed to the sun.

The bark outside these branches is also like scales of snakes.

Neat and fit.

From Xu Ji's perspective, these snake scale-like bark, when exposed to sunlight, some hairy microscopic objects similar to hyphae appear on the surface.

These things are like drops of dirty blood, covered with scales.

Under the sunlight, the dirty blood was roasted and smoked.

Then it dries up quickly, turning into traces of turquoise, miserable green or off-white smoke.

The green smoke curls up and is absorbed by the upper canopy leaves.

It was also at this time that Xu Ji discovered the source of the turquoise liquid fluid between the veins of the leaves of this ghost tree—they were all smoke from the branches, which were captured by the veins of the leaves and transformed!

In other words - this ghost tree is performing photosynthesis!
However, its photosynthesis is completely different from that of plants!
It uses the sun to burn the dirty blood mycelium that 'grows' on the bark of those branches.

Through the power of the sun, some unknown reaction occurs to these hyphae.

The products of the reaction, that is, those gray-green, turquoise, pale green or gray-white smoke, will be absorbed by the leaves of the tree crown.

Then transform into those liquid fluids.

According to the photosynthesis of plants, Xu Ji speculated: "Those liquid fluids are probably the carbon dioxide-like things needed to maintain the growth and development of this 'Naga Ghost Tree'!"

"Plants perform photosynthesis, absorb carbon in carbon dioxide, and then release oxygen!"

"So, what is this 'Naga Ghost Tree' absorbing? What is it releasing?"

He muttered to himself, then rolled his eyeballs, activated his mana, and concentrated the divine power of the Golden Crow from his dantian to his eyeballs.

This is the trick he mastered in the past two days of "casting magic eyes" on Blue Star by simulating those earth immortal monks in the mythical world, using his supernatural powers and activating his magic eyes. (He doesn't need to be like this in the mythical world, as long as he thinks about it, the Taoist ancestor's eyes will wake up and see everything!)

However, when Xu Ji did this, the movement became a bit louder.

Especially on this helicopter, especially when he further stimulated his mana and used the Golden Crow's divine power.

In the eyes of the pilot and the accompanying CSOC staff, his eye sockets seemed to be on fire!

The golden plasma flame replaced the original normal eyeball structure.

There was even a trace of golden streamer overflowing from the corner of his eyes.

Everyone on the helicopter was terrified, but excited.

"Fairy!"

"This is really a fairy!"

In the golden eye sockets, the plasma flames are like flares on the surface of the sun.

The streamer overflowing from the corner of the eyes is like matter thrown out from the sun.

After these streamers left Xu Ji's eyes, they disappeared completely in the air, as if they never existed.

The camera on the helicopter faithfully recorded this moment.

Other instruments also began to record and analyze the current airflow in and around the helicopter cabin.

But they are doomed to fail to detect any elements.

Most of the instrument values ​​are normal.

Only the 'ghost warning radar' installed on the top of the helicopter had a red light on.

The value is getting higher and higher!
In just a few seconds, the highest record of 'ghost aura concentration' that can be detected by Blue Star humans has been broken!
But Xu Ji didn't know this.

He concentrated on looking at the ghost tree below him.

That so-called Naga ghost tree!

He stared closely at the ghost tree and everything around it, so he 'saw' the shadow area cast by the top of the ghost tree.

The projection area of ​​the tree shadow.

There seem to be some things growing on the surface that only the 'eyes of justice' can see.

These things are clumps of mycelium.

There seems to be something in these hyphae.

Xu Ji looked familiar, and remembered it after thinking about it for a while.

"Ghost!"

He thought of those ghosts who were captured by the old gods, and then transplanted or sealed into potted plants with magical powers.

This is what they look like when they are pulled out of the parasitic thing.

fluid!

Fluid without shape and weight!

Like the air, but also like the sun!

You can see it, but you can't touch it or smell it.

The stuff in these hyphae, too!

They squirmed and twisted in the mycelium, scrambling to be the first, devouring something?
Looking at this scene, Xu Ji inexplicably remembered the echinoderm he had seen in the aquarium when he was in college.

Those creatures that are motionless and grow on the seabed and rocks of the seabed filter the nutrients in the seawater in this way!
and so……

"This ghost tree itself is an ecological circle!"

"Belongs to the ghost ecosystem!"

"If so..."

"I'm afraid... the birth and appearance of the ghosts on the blue star are all inseparable from these ghost trees!"

"These ghost trees may be the source!"

"It's even possible that Blue Star's first ghost is the so-called ghost tree!"

(End of this chapter)