I am God Chapter 8: : Primitive birds, weird plants and farmers
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A man with a mask and a basket on his back came across the forest wilderness. There were a few huge dragon beasts peeping at him by the pool, about four or five meters high, with two hind legs standing on tiptoe vigorously. There are two sharp claws hanging in the air, and saliva drips between the sharp knife-like teeth.
But he just turned his head and glanced at the other party, and the terrifying dragon beast ran away when he saw the strange lines on the mask.
Strange horror is not only engraved in the human body, but also engraved in the blood of beasts.
He knocked on the door of a group of dozens of people, not even a tribe here, just a big family living in a large natural cave with fruit trees and beasts planted outside the cave Bar, fire stove.
He exchanged the dragon beast meat for some cakes made of ginkgo nuts and ate them hungrily. Recently, he almost vomited after eating meat, and even started chewing the leaves.
He took a sip of water from a wooden tube and swallowed it down, and then expressed that he wanted to change some more. He still had some dragon skins, but the other party said it was a pity.
"We don't have any more."
The other party pointed to a place on the top of the mountain and said to Helfas.
"There is a farmer on the mountain over there. He has a lot of food."
"As long as you dare to eat!"
Helfas didn't know what the other party meant, so he asked.
"What to eat, why don't you dare to eat it?"
The other party said: "The food that man ate was made with weird power."
Helfas: "Weird?"
Now, he became a little interested in the farmer.
Compared with some food, he is more curious about how that person uses weird power to make food. If he can learn it, can he also get some food other than meat continuously on the road in the future? food, or the inability to hunt and the sorrow of lack of food.
When going up the mountain, he saw a person standing in front of a wooden house looking at him from a distance.
The withered yellow hair hangs over the face, which looks very old, but the hair doesn't seem to be that old.
The hair of the people in the Land of the Full Moon is all close to yellow, but some are more copper, some are more gold, and some are slightly whitish, but there are only these subtle differences.
The other party looked tall and thin, and looked at Helfas with a surprised expression, as if surprised that someone came up the mountain to look for him.
Helfas walked to the wooden house: "I heard that you have a lot of food, I want to exchange some."
The other party hadn't spoken yet, and there was a sound from something in the trees on the side.
"Drink uh~"
Helfas looked over and found that it was a primitive bird. At this moment, the other party was spreading its wings and screaming at Helfas with its sharp mouth.
But when Helfas looked over, he closed his mouth in fright, and then spread his wings and landed on the farmer's shoulder.
This is not a strange species of velvet dragon like a failure of evolution or artificial interference, but a bird that can really soar for a short time.
Helfas has seen it before on his travels, but this is the first time he has seen someone keep this kind of thing as a pet.
The poultry raised by people in this era can either produce fur, eat meat, lay eggs, or all three. It is really a bit of a luxury to keep a pet that can't eat and doesn't have much use.
Helfas suddenly believed that the man in front of him could really use his weird powers to make food, because he really didn't seem to be short of food.
The other party nodded: "There is food, do you want it?"
Helfas followed the other party into the room, sat cross-legged on a piece of animal skin, and soon the other party took out a clay basin from the back and placed it in the center.
The so-called food is actually a kind of fruit.
The other party peeled off the shell in advance, revealing the shiny flesh, about the size of a palm.
Helfas picked it up, looked at it, and smelled it again: "It looks like... bread?"
He blurted out involuntarily.
The other party asked: "What is bread?"
Helfas couldn't say it, he just thought so.
The farmer said: "It has no name, and no one else has eaten it before. You should be talking about something else."
Helfas nodded, and he pressed one hand to the mask, then opened his eyes.
The leaf pattern on the mask suddenly moved, emitting a red light, and his eyes lit up, and Helfas was looking at the food in front of him through a strange perspective.
The farmer in front of him was very surprised. He carefully looked at the patterns on Helfas's mask.
In an instant.
He felt dizzy and could only lower his head.
Helfas took a closer look. This thing does have a weird aura, but there is no weird power in it.
He probably confirmed that this kind of thing should be edible, at least there is no supernatural power contained in it, and even if there is a problem, it is only a problem at the mortal level, such as poisonous or something.
So, he is still a little cautious.
The farmer also noticed Helfas's worry, he didn't say much, but ate it by himself first.
Helfas looked at the primitive bird aside, he tore off a small piece and fed it to some of the other's pets, but the primitive bird swallowed it in one gulp, as if he was used to eating this kind of food.
At this time, he tried to take a bite.
It has a sweet taste and is covered with a layer of natural oil. For Helfas, who has been accustomed to eating all kinds of dark cuisines and even eaten blood and raw meat in the tribe, it is okay. Said it was delicious on earth.
"Huh?"
Helfas's eyes lit up.
When enjoying the delicious food, life seems to have light, and the fatigue of the long journey is swept away.
After eating a large piece, Helfas said, "I want some more."
Farmer: "No problem, I still have a lot."
But the other party continued: "However, I need you to help me."
Helfas: "What's the matter?"
The other party seemed a little embarrassed, he lowered his head, not daring to look at the other party's mask, and just pointed with his fingers.
"Is the mask on your face weird?"
"Can you control it?"
Helfas was a little wary: "What do you want me to do?"
The other said: "I want you to help me deal with a weirdness."
Helfas asked: "Why deal with a weirdo?"
The other party said: "Because it may bring danger and destroy some things I want to protect."
Helfas thought for a while, and after a long thought, he told the other party.
"I need to take a look ahead, what the **** is weird."
"If you know this weird feature, you must tell me all about it, so that I can tell you the answer."
Farmer: "Yes."
Actually, Helfas has been looking for weirdness that can be sealed by him during this period of time. He did encounter some weirdness on the way, but they were either too strange to understand their characteristics, or they disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye. Nowhere to find.
It is difficult for him to squat on a certain weirdness all the time, and spend a few months or a year to slowly understand and recognize the other party.
So the request made by the other party at this moment is actually one of the purposes of Helfas's trip.
After speaking, Helfas reached out and picked up a piece of "bread".
Stuffed in mouth.
It's really delicious, making it difficult for him to maintain his image and be polite.
Hearing that Helfas did not intuitively refuse, the farmer was relieved.
Then, a look of joy welled up on his face.
"Originally, I had already given up. I never expected to meet someone like you."
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Before the matter was done, Helfas ate and drank for nothing for several days, and even received his reward in advance.
A large bag of "Breadfruit with Oil", even if you eat nothing else, it will be enough for half a month.
Helfas called it like this, since the other party didn't choose a name, then I will give it a name that I think is pleasing to my ear.
The farmer took Helfas along the mountain road in the rugged area, heading towards his farmland. The field was really far away, and it took a full day to get there.
Under the sun.
What came into view was a large uniform plant farmland, covering the valley, and there was only one kind of plant in the farmland, nothing else.
Helfas and the farmer knelt down and watched them silently in front of a sapling of oily breadfruit trees.
These small trees are only as tall as a human's waist, and it seems that they can only grow so high. The branches are full of plump fruits, and the shells are dyed in the sun. This picture itself looks very beautiful. But there was something beyond beauty in the eyes of Helfas and the farmer.
Harvest, peace of mind, civilization and the future, all kinds of meanings beyond beauty suddenly emerged in my mind.
Helfas looked at the farmer: "Did you reclaim such a large farmland?"
The farmer shook his head: "No."
The farmer took Helfas and walked along the gap between the oil breadfruit fields. Helfas also observed the farmland from another perspective. He suddenly found these oil breadfruit trees Just weird.
But this weirdness is very strange and weak. It doesn't seem to be dangerous, and its power is unknown.
The farmer had studied them and told Helfas bluntly.
"In fact, this kind of tree does not need any soil, it only needs sunlight and water to bear fruit."
"They only need one and they can reproduce forever. The longer the time, the bigger the farmland will be."
Helfas: "Is this considered extraordinary power?"
He did not expect that there are such weak and weird things in the world.
The farmer said: "Isn't that extraordinary enough?"
"As long as water and sunlight are needed, food can be produced, and it can continuously reproduce itself."
Helfas thought about it and felt that what the other party said made sense.
Walking in the oil bread tree field, Helfas also found some other things. Among them, various collapsed stone buildings can be seen. wall stacks.
This is a tribal site where many people once lived.
Helfas looked at the farmer beside him.
I don't know if this has something to do with him, but the other party didn't say anything, just led him forward, as if he didn't see any traces of those dragon people who had lived.
Finally.
They walked along the oil bread field to the end, where they saw the shadow of a tree four or five meters high.
The farmer pointed to the tree: "The weirdness I want you to deal with is actually that."
Finding that Helfas was a little serious and nervous, the farmer continued.
"Don't worry, it hasn't woken up yet, so it's not dangerous as long as it doesn't get too close."
He seems to be very familiar with that tree.
Helfas took a few steps closer to look hard, and only then did he see the true appearance of the tree.
The tree was covered with a large number of human faces, even the faces were still moving and blinking.
In an instant, Helfas felt extremely sick.
Helfas: "What the **** is this?"
The other party said: "Weird human-faced tree is also what this farmland used to look like!"
"When the small trees multiply enough, they will want to return to their former appearance and become that huge human-faced tree again, a powerful man-eating monster."
"Now that it has grown to such a height, it may not be long before it will really come alive."
Helfas became interested immediately after hearing it.
From one form to another, it seems to be somewhat similar to the biphasic monster insect, but the essence and power of the biphasic monster insect have not changed in fact, only the appearance has changed, and this weirdness seems to be from One weirdness becomes another weirdness.
"Can you explain in detail?"
Helfas hopes to understand further, he wants to know all about those weird secrets.
The farmer looked up at the tree quietly.
"A long time ago."
"The tribes here have controlled the Human Face Tree, using its power and fruits to survive."
"One day there was an accident, and the human face tree went out of control and swallowed everyone, but after swallowing everyone, it also paid the price."
"Because weirdos don't die, but they degenerate."
Helfas: "Degenerate?"
He asked: "Why, because it ate people?"
The farmer affirmed what Helfas said: "Yes, because they ate people."
Helfas was very surprised, because he just said it casually.
The farmer continued: "Weirds want to eat people, but when they eat too many people, they will pay a terrible price for it."
"They will collapse completely after the shape is distorted."
"After the collapse, it turned into some weaker monsters."
The farmer told Helfas as if he had witnessed such a scene before, he was still looking at the human face tree while talking to Helfas.
"Look!"
"It is doing everything it can to bring it back to life, to bring this farmland back to what it used to be."
The farmer turned his head to look at Helfas, and bent down to ask him.
"And I want what you do."
"Just don't let it come back to life, but destroy it, let it maintain the shape of a small tree, and keep this farmland."
Before dark, the two walked around the farmland here.
Helfas observed the terrain and inspected the oil bread tree and the human face tree several times before finally leaving.
They came here today and didn't do anything, the purpose was mainly for scouting and planning.
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In the cabin.
The farmer told Helfas all about the face tree and the oil bread tree, and he started the real sealing project for that monstrosity.
During the conversation, some noisy calls of primitive birds came from outside from time to time.
Helfas did not elaborate on what he would do, let alone reveal any information about his strength.
He just told the other party that he would help him solve the problem of the tree.
Having known enough, Helfas asked the farmer a question.
"After stopping the human face tree from causing disaster, what do you want to do?"
The farmer said: "I used to have a tribe."
Helfas: "What now?"
Farmer: "No more."
Helfas: "You were kicked out?"
Farmer: "No, the tribe is gone."
Helfas suddenly understood that the tribe site he saw was his former tribe.
He had vaguely guessed it before, but he just confirmed it now.
The farmer told Helfas that the expression on his face that always seemed a little dull finally had some emotion, and it looked very delicate and soft.
It seems that his heart is not as dull as he shows.
"My mother is the leader of the tribe. My mother told me a long time ago that we are just weird food, and we are trapped by weirdness."
"We have eaten its fruit, and this is the price we have to pay."
After a pause, the farmer looked sideways at the ground, as if lost in memory.
"After listening to it, I am very unwilling, I am very, very unwilling."
"I hate that tree."
"I curse that tree."
"But one day, that tree got really crazy, and it ate all the people."
"When it was time to eat me, the tree withered."
"I watched the tree crumble and wither, and watch it turn into a field."
Speaking of such a scene, the farmer should have been very sad, but what Helfas saw was indifference.
Maybe it's because it's been too long, or life and death have been looked down upon by people of this age.
he said.
"All the time."
"I really don't understand, why does Weird want to eat people?"
"Obviously they don't need people as food, what exactly do they want?"
"What makes me even more confused is why does it still eat people when it knows that there is a price to pay for eating people?"
The farmer can't understand the world, but he has his own understanding of the world.
"Later, I probably figured it out."
"This should be the law and law of this world!"
"We are just a part of this world, circulating in different forms, we are all eating each other, changing and living in this world."
Put down the quill and stuff it into the animal blood bottle beside it.
He came across a wooden basket beside him, which was full of oiled breadfruit.
He couldn't help but took out one and put it in his hand, as if the farmer's words sounded in his ears again.
"Maybe it's because people with wisdom are unwilling to follow the rules!"