The Record of Unusual Creatures Chapter 199: Gnarled Grove
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Gnarled Grove, a place with a strange atmosphere.
There is a completely different ecological environment from the outside world, and entering it will even give people the illusion of accidentally falling into the alien forest. There are no green-leaved plants in the woodland. The leaves of all flowers and trees are glowing with a slight metallic luster. It looks fascinating at first, but it will make people feel strange when they look for a long time. Most of the plants in the forest grow tall and twisted, and there is a bush of one person tall that even grows in a spiral like a flame. Under the bushes and thick humus, we can see strange fungi clustering along the terrain. They look a bit like a combination of mushrooms and moss: a large lilac coat of bacteria covers the surface of rocks or other plants, and The umbrella-like structure grows abruptly on this layer of bacterial coat. These fungi grow vigorously in dark corners and have bright shapes, but it is not known whether this world also follows the rule of "the better-looking fungi are more toxic". The woodland is covered with thick fallen leaves and other plant debris. All plants grow indiscriminately according to the most natural laws, showing a primitive appearance that is rarely disturbed.
Except for those short, forest-associated plants, there is only one type of Gnarled Grove tree: it is a tall and distorted broad-leaved tree with bark iron gray, without any branches in the lower part, along the trunk It grew to a high altitude with a slight spiral arc, and then suddenly burst into a large bifurcation at a very high position. The canopy was covered with a fuchsia oval broad leaf. These broad-leaved trees are distributed throughout the forest and have almost the same shape. Except for the difference in size, they are almost copied and pasted in the twist of the trunk, the shape of the branches, and even the distribution of each branch. Hao Ren found it the first time The abnormalities of these trees, he carefully observed the crowns of two strange trees that were far apart, and finally confirmed that their branches were 100% identical.
A group of people is now walking on the "official road" in Gnarled Grove. This road was developed by the church in the hundreds of years ago with a lot of manpower and material resources. Many generations have maintained this not-so-wide road in the forest. Devoted a lifetime of energy. Now that hundreds of years have passed, the fierce World of Warcraft in Gnarled Grove has gradually become accustomed to the existence of this road, and actively stayed away from the post near the road: this road has become part of the woodland ecosystem. The forest withdrew along the man-made road.
This allows travelers traveling through the woodland to get the most basic security, as long as they do n’t leave the border line drawn by magic lights on both sides of the road too far.
"These trees have no scientific name, because they are just part of the huge creature" Gnarled Grove ", like the hair on the beast. But mercenaries and adventurers gave them a common name of" Spiral Tree ". "Becky noticed that Hao Ren's sight has been placed on those strange trees, and actively introduced," All trees are one. They grow together in the underground, and the surface part is only used to receive sunlight. At that time, there was a group of elf scholars It took a long time to investigate in Gnarled Grove to determine this fact. It is said that Gnarled Grove was the back garden of the goddess before the extinction, and the magical emperor Lorisa of the elven family that year stole the life factor of this woodland, using the roots of Gnarled Grove The tree of life has been copied. But the tree of life has been burned into a large piece of coke in the flame of extinction. I do n’t know how similar they can be. "
"Well, you said before that this whole forest is a plant," Nangong Wuyue said, sniffing his nose. The woodland was filled with water vapor, which made the Siren girl much more comfortable. "But such a large forest ... How big must its underground part be?"
"I do n’t know, it is said that the roots of Gnarled Grove spread westward to the center of Beinz Blood Lake and eastward to the foot of Dragonspine Ridge. This whole piece of land is supported by the roots of Gnarled Grove. There are legends for more than 100 years. There was a group of dwarf miners who wanted to mine the sphalerite in Dragonspine Ridge. They dug the mine too deep. As a result, a huge black root was dug in the mine towards the blood lake side. All the miners went crazy on the spot— —Later, the church explained that the anger of the goddess was still accumulated under this forest, and it would take thousands of years to be digested by the root system of the forest. Anyone was forbidden to dig a mine hole in the west of the mountain range, even if a well was drilled. It needs to be approved by the church. "
Hao Ren looked at the towering trees around him in surprise. From the surface alone, it is difficult to imagine how a huge living body is dormant under this land, and it just emerged from the body for breathing tentacles to form such a vast forest, but he knows Becky said It should be right, because the amazing similarity in appearance of those trees is difficult to explain by other methods. This is not a naturally occurring phenomenon, it can only be attributed to the fact that they are organs of the same organism.
"Wait, I will leave first." Hao Ren suddenly remembered something and ran to the side with the girl's pot, Becky shouted at the back: "Where are you going ?! Dangerous outside!"
Hao Ren waved his hands and shouted: "Go back and go, you won't run too far!"
Becky looked worried. Seeing this, Lily explained to Hao Ren: "Landlord must have gone to the toilet, his kidneys are not good ..."
Vivian was startled: "How do you know he has a bad kidney?"
"Is n’t it diarrhea in the mountain village a few days ago?"
Everyone: "..."
Dare to love this girl ’s thinking circuit has always stayed at that time before turning around!
He said that at this time, Hao Ren had already ran out of the official road and found a place that Becky could not see, but he did not dare to run too far. There were magic lights made by the church in magic crystal on both sides of the official road. Outside the radiation range is still the world of monsters. He opened the girl's pot behind a bush, and Lil Pea immediately poked out his head and happily patted Shui Hua to greet Hao Ren.
Hao Ren poked the head of the little guy to show intimacy, and then greeted ASanbaA: "Come out and scan, high power."
"You can be a bit of a working attitude." ASanbaA hummed out of the kettle, rose into the air in the curious sight of Lil Pea, and then was surrounded by blue light masterpieces.
High-intensity radar signals begin to go deep underground to analyze the underground structure of this forest.
"The discovery of an unprecedentedly large plant root system really made the little girl right, the forest is one." ASanbaA released a holographic projection to show the situation of Gnarled Grove underground with a three-dimensional picture. Hao Ren saw this forest underground The scene is really amazing: there are huge plant roots scattered all over the place, and the root system can be seen from the forest all the way to the outside for many kilometers. They are entangled in the ground to form a whole, the shape is like a flattened, gully-like The ellipsoid is a bit like a crooked walnut.
It looks disgusting.
ASanbaA commented on the side: "If these root systems disappear, Gnarled Grove and a large area of the surrounding area will form a large hole with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers, enough to let everything here fall deep into the ground, you You can imagine how large this thing is. In addition, the little girl also said that the forest root system extends westward beyond the blood lake center. It has already crossed the blood lake and will soon grow to the crystal on the other side of the lake. The plain and the mountains to the west are below, but it may be that the soil of the crystalline plain is problematic. The root system extending past has died a large piece and should not continue to grow. "
"I didn't expect that the underground part is so much larger than the above ground part." Hao Ren was amazed. He didn't marvel at the ancient "miracles", but marvel at the magical nature of nature-like the Raven 12345.
"In addition to the underground root system, this machine also found one thing, which should be more research value," ASanbaA said suddenly. "This forest ... well, it should be the entire ecosystem of Beinz Blood Lake area and the outside is actually not Compatible. "
Hao Ren did not understand for a while: "Incompatible?"
"This is the topography of this area," ASanbaA switched a holographic image from above, "You can see that the entire Beinz Blood Lake area is actually a closed environment, Dragonspine Ridge on the east, mountain people on the west, Holy Mountain, north There is a large rift valley on the side, and the ocean on the south side. The rift valley and the ocean can more or less also separate the ecological zone. Surrounded by this series of terrain, the Beinz area has formed a closed ecosphere , The plants growing here-just those detected by this machine-are not adapted to the external environment, they use nutrients in a very strange way, only Beinz Blood Lake can provide them with this environment. "
"Can't adapt to the outside environment at all? Can't live at all?"
ASanbaA cuts the nail: "Can't live at all."
Hao Ren became more curious about the Beinz Blood Lake.
It maintains an ecological environment of ancient times. What is in the lake? (To be continued.)