plant master

Not everyone understands the truth of the matter.

On the surface, Green Tree Group is just a company with a stronger scientific research level.In the eyes of people who don't know the truth, the oases appearing out of nowhere in Ethiopia are just mysteries that cannot be explained by science and superstitions of local people.

Some famous biological companies and some scientists are deeply interested in this and want to know the truth about the desert oasis.However, what awaited the expedition team was the expulsion of the locals, who were not allowed to get close to the core of the oasis—that is, the magical giant tree that can produce water.Every oasis has such a giant tree, which is tens of meters high. The crown of the tree is like a giant umbrella opened, or a hemispherical mushroom cap, presenting a fairly regular circle, as if made from a mold. Come out average.It's a pity that outsiders can only observe one or two through satellite pictures, and cannot see its true appearance clearly from close up.

The canopies of these trees are very huge. It is estimated that the diameter may be about 300 meters, which is bigger than a football field.

Surrounding these giant trees, the dense trees radiate to the surroundings, forming forests ranging in size from tens to thousands of hectares, which are abruptly entrenched on the barren and barren land, which is unforgettable at a glance.

Victor is one of many botanists interested in one of these oases, and since learning of the existence of these "water trees", he has been very interested, trying to collect various data.But what he didn't expect was that he would have the opportunity to study these plants face to face in person.

Sainz, the largest biochemical company in the United States, showed great interest in water trees and organized a group of authoritative scholars to study this water tree in Ethiopia.By the way, see if there is a chance to bring this tree back.Seeds or some tissue fragments and the like.Victor is a member of this squad.His task is to decipher the secret of the water tree.

What they didn't want to greet them were the unfriendly locals - a group of apathetic villagers blocked their way and forbade them from approaching the oasis, saying it was their sacred place.Victor was very angry about this, these damned natives, don't they know the importance of science?As long as the secrets of these water trees are cracked, scientists may save the whole world from drought.

The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.Stubborn villagers held them back from approaching the oasis.The oasis is guarded 24 hours a day.The scientific research team tried every means to enter the oasis, but no matter how intimidating or intimidating, the other party refused to accept this method. On the contrary, their hostility towards this group of outsiders continued to deepen.

The senior executives of Sainz Company were quite angry when they heard about this incident, and it can be said that they were furious.I heard that other companies and scientific research institutions have also sent investigation teams, but they have also been blocked in the same way. Everyone is angry and helpless about this.

Finally, after more than a month of stalemate.Sainz executives couldn't hold back and bought a local armed force.Forcibly broke through the obstruction of these villagers.

Although the resistance of these oasis guardians is quite tenacious, in the final analysis, they are just farmers with guns, and they have never been a wolf-like army in the end, not to mention that the equipment of these private soldiers is much more advanced than that of the villagers. .

The fighting was over within a few hours, and except for a few who escaped, all the remaining villagers were taken prisoner.The reason why they retreated so quickly was because the mercenaries had kidnapped the old, young, women and children in the village. In order to save the lives of their families, the remaining men had no choice but to give up resistance.

Except for one person...

"Old man, you are the only one left, I advise you not to resist." A local mercenary shouted at the person hiding at the foot of the water tree.

What he answered was a shuttle of bullets, which made him dare not show his head.

"Damn it." The mercenary squad leader cursed, and tried to kill him, but was stopped by his employer.

"Don't shoot! Don't break that tree!" Victor yelled.He looked at the giant tree in front of him, his eyes sparkled, as if he had seen a huge treasure.

He finally saw the water tree at close range - a huge, magical, tall and straight trunk, like a giant broccoli, with countless branches spreading into the sky.The ends of the branches are covered with emerald green leaves, densely packed, covering the sky.The most incredible thing is that there is a strange plastic-like transparent shell outside the entire canopy. The grids on the flies’ eyes are like countless glass connections, connected with the ends of the branches, like a glass cover on the outside of the canopy. .The sun shines in through this transparent cover, and the air under the canopy is humid and hot. If you look carefully, you can find that the bare branches are wet. The same crashed and fell, like a small source.

"I see, it's transpiration!"

Looking at the transparent cover outside the canopy and the dampness under the tree, Victor immediately understood the principle of the water tree making water.The transparent cover outside the canopy is used to retain the water transpired by the giant tree, so that the interior maintains a high humidity to condense the water vapor, and then collects the water through countless tiny branches.These water trees are basically natural water pumps, using light energy and heat energy to continuously lift water up from the ground through the power of transpiration, and store the pumped water vapor through the transparent cover that I don't know how to make.What a clever idea!

It's just that this kind of tree looks unnatural, as if it was designed and manufactured by someone... But how is this possible?Design such a huge tree?

Victor is completely mesmerized by this enigmatic plant.The giant tree covering the sky for hundreds of meters shocked his heart, and the conscience condemnation that the people on his side killed the local residents before had been completely forgotten at this moment.

Victor suddenly hated the stubborn old guy under the water tree, and thought that these unscrupulous people should be damned for wanting to monopolize such a magical plant. Humanity!

"Damn it. Sniper, kill that guy for me." Seeing that he couldn't fire casually, the mercenary captain was annoyed for a while, and called a sniper to order him to kill the enemy.

"No! You can't kill him. He is the servant of the tree god. If you kill him, you will suffer retribution!" Local residents exclaimed.To stop them from killing.

pity.These people are already greedy for profit.In order to get commission, they don't care about killing people.tree god?What it is?Never heard of it.

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There is also a clip.

Anzares counted his ammunition, sighed, and saw that today was the day he returned to the embrace of Mother Earth.

I can't stop those people, and they can only use their lives to repent of their negligence.

The reason why Anzares was able to become the elder of the Tree God Cult was that he was one of the few people who had seen the "Tree God" and his divine powers with his own eyes.

He still clearly remembers the scene at that time, in that extremely dry season, living in the midst of burning fire every day.Anzarez is already in his 50s.No relatives survived, and the only son was killed because of getting involved with gangsters. In the years when food and water were scarce, an old man like him probably couldn't survive.

The village where he lives is also in dire straits. Several nearby water sources have long since dried up. There are no wells in a radius of tens of kilometers. Every time, trucks in the village are sent to fetch water from water sources more than 100 kilometers away— —It is also the only water source for several nearby villages. Each village can get limited water, and water is fetched once every three days.Each family can only get a small amount of water, and they are suffering slowly.Waiting for the rain.

That day, Anzares went to the canyon to the north of the village alone to find some supplementary food such as snakes and insects, but he didn't want to encounter a sandstorm, and he was trapped in the wilderness on the spot because he was old and weak.

Just when he thought he was about to be swallowed up by wilderness and wind and sand, a figure stepped through the storm and walked towards him calmly—he was wearing a strange green suit that was close-fitting, as if it was cut from a whole huge green leaf The tights covered his whole body.

Anzares immediately fell into a coma, and when he woke up, he found himself under a big tree, next to a young man with black hair, black eyes and yellow skin, happily roasting a strange-shaped fruit beside the flame .

"Are you awake? Come, drink some water, and eat a sweet potato." The young man turned his head and smiled at him, and ran over with a wooden bottle and a strange fruit called sweet potato that he roasted.

The bottle contained sweet water, sweeter than any water Anzalez had ever drunk in his life.The fruit called sweet potato was sweeter and more delicious than any food he had eaten in his life.Later, with the arrival of the Green Tree Group, this food called sweet potato quickly spread among the people of Ethiopia.Delicious, easy to grow, and fast-growing, Anceres believes that this is the food given by the tree god to the people of Ethiopia who are in dire straits.

After realizing that the young man had saved him, Anceres was very grateful. When asked why he went to such a desolate place alone, he told the young man what happened.Learning of the difficult situation Anceres and his village are in, the young man is lost in thought.

"Oh, it's not easy for the African brothers...Maybe I can help them...Well, it's decided, let's treat it as a good deed." The young man talked to himself for a while in a language that Anceres couldn't understand , stood up, and then performed a miracle.

The ground suddenly vibrated, accompanied by the roar of something breaking through the ground, I saw the big tree beside the young man began to grow rapidly, thicker and larger, covering the sky and the sun, and in a blink of an eye it grew into a tree that covered the sky. A super large tree with a diameter of hundreds of meters.

Immediately afterwards, under Anzares' stunned eyes, surrounding the giant tree, trees broke through the ground and grew rapidly.The trees radiated and spread around, and in a blink of an eye they grew into a dense forest.

The whole process only took a few minutes, and a tall forest appeared out of nowhere in the wilderness. Anzares felt as if he had gone through time and space transformation and came to the tropical rainforest of South Africa.

The shaking of the ground slowly stopped.During the whole process, the light on the young man with a faint green glow disappeared.He turned his head and smiled at Anzares, "Okay, old man, it will be fine for you and your villagers to come here to fetch water in the future."

"I'm leaving, remember to protect this tree well, it's your source of life." After finishing speaking, the young man left leisurely like a traveler after resting, disappearing into the depths of the forest.

Only when a drop of cool water fell on Anzalez's face did he recover from the shock, and when he looked up, he saw that the water droplets began to drip from the branches of the giant tree, pattering down...

It's raining, it's raining in the desert, it's raining under the trees!

Xun Mi, the figure of the young man has long since disappeared, only this piece of towering forest proves that what he experienced just now was not a dream.

From that moment on, Anzares was convinced that he had met a god, the young man, and he was a god—but he was not a god in any of the legends that Anzares knew, so he called him the tree god.

Later, when Anzalez brought the villagers to the forest, everyone was shocked.

And when Anzares told his experience vividly, everyone believed it half to eighty percent, and an image of a god was instantly established in their hearts.

Under the auspices of the fanatical Anzares, the villagers formed a guard team and decided to guard this miracle, to guard the gift of the tree god—to guard their own source of life and their homeland.Afterwards, the villagers moved to live around the forest one after another, guarding the forest all the time.

In the next few days, the villagers heard that similar strange forests had appeared in other places, and they believed in the legend of the tree god even more.Refugees flocked to the forest and relied on it to survive the difficult dry season.

The giant tree in the middle of the forest is also treated with awe by the residents, praying and praying to it like a god.Gradually, a loose religious organization called Tree God Sect was formed. They took the guardian tree as their duty and pride, and gradually formed a fixed sacrificial ceremony to thank the tree god for their gifts.

And when the rainy season comes, the giant trees produce more and more water, and the forest grows slowly, accumulating more rainwater.Later, as outsiders named Green Tree Group brought crop seeds, local residents built a large area of ​​arable land around the forest and planted sweet potatoes and other high-yielding and high-resistant crops. After half a year of hard work, finally ushered in had a bumper harvest.

Seeing that they can bid farewell to the miserable life from now on, even though they know that these foreigners with malicious intentions have come, they actually want to covet the sacred tree that everyone depends on for a living!

We regard it as the tree of life and the sacred tree as our parents. How can you study and destroy it casually? Absolutely not!

In Anzares' heart, no one could harm or even touch the sacred giant tree that had saved him and his people except the tree god himself.No matter how noble and beautiful the purpose is, he only knows that this tree cannot be defiled.

Therefore, even if he was alone at this moment, surrounded by a group of murderous mercenaries, he was fearless and vowed to defend the sacred tree to the last moment.

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Anzalez changed the magazine, summoned up his courage, and poked his head out to look around—hey, why did these guys retreat?Did you give up?

Anzalez's doubts lasted only half a second, and suddenly, a strong force hit his forehead, causing his body to fall backwards.

"God, forgive me, but in the end I still didn't protect the hope you gave us..."

Anzares' last ray of thought, accompanied by the blood of death, dissipated in the wind.The bright red blood was sprinkled on the giant tree behind him, and the water silently carried the once scorching liquid back to the land.

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