Chapter 13 Chapter Eleven Survival and Life and Death

No matter how humans toss about plants, they have to admit that work is one of the main forms of life and the most important link in the biological chain. Without plants, consumer-grade organisms cannot survive. I listened quietly to Wu Li talking about the past of Xingecheng, and my doubts grew. "Where's the sacred tree?" I asked. "Cut it down, just eleven years ago. Because of the needs of the progress of urbanization, the mayor decided to cut down all the forest to build houses, hotels and golf courses. The old people in the city strongly opposed it, saying that they would be destroyed by the sacred tree." Retaliation. However, under the attraction of attracting investment, the decision-makers obviously don’t pay attention to public opinion.”

Wu Li shrugged her shoulders, feeling a little helpless. "Finally, the logging machine drove into the forest, and it took a few days to cut down the entire elm forest. Speaking of which, the new urban area happened to be the land vacated after the forest was felled." I swallowed the saliva in my mouth, "Do you still remember the original location of the sacred tree?" "Of course I remember, it is now a landmark artificial creation of Pigeon City." Wu Li gestured on the map: "It is Xincheng Plaza, and it is also the most central and most prosperous commercial street in Xincheng."

I was stunned.Xincheng Plaza is exactly where the black tornado circled, and there was also a big hole, and there were countless thick vine-like black roots growing in all directions, and there was also a huge hole of unknown depth. . Is it really the revenge of the so-called sacred tree in Wu Li's mouth, which is causing trouble? "If I guess, maybe, no, there is a 90% possibility that it is the revenge of the sacred tree." Li Yan said it firmly. I shook my head lightly, "Things are not that simple, at least it is still impossible to judge. Which city in the world did not wantonly cut down trees when it expanded, and there are countless old trees that are tens of thousands of years old that fell under the saws of humans. Who said he was retaliated against?"

"Then can there be any other reasonable explanation?" Li Yan excitedly said, "Look around, it must be caused by some kind of plant. Otherwise, why do human beings fall down and turn into plants!" "Hey, what do you think?" Didn't you hear anything?" Sun Xiaoyu, who had been silent all this time, suddenly interrupted our conversation. "No." I listened carefully and shook my head. The rest also expressed that they hadn't noticed. "Rumbling, passed from underground. I have better ears since I was a child, so I should have heard it right."

Sun Xiaoyu was very sure. "I'll listen again." Things were weird at first, and the rest of the people were like frightened birds. Being cautious is indeed the basic element of survival.Li Yan simply lay down on the ground, and listened quietly with his ears pressed against the ground. After a while, he said: "It seems that there are some sounds. It's like a train passing by in the distance. I don't know what it is." "Could it be that the police sent large vehicles to cut down the forest and wanted to rescue us?" Dr. Li suddenly regained his energy.

"Probably not." I denied it.There is no reason for the sound of a large feller to rumble like a train. At this moment, Wu Li suddenly pointed at Li Yan and shouted: "Hey, your face was cut by something, and it's bleeding!" Everyone turned their attention to Li Yan's face and saw that there was indeed blood on Li Yan's face.He wiped it with his hands, and just about to stand up, long, hair-thin black threads suddenly jumped out from the wooden floor of the room, pierced fiercely, and were still lying on the ground. Li Yan's head. Li Yan's eyes widened, and he reflexively wanted to hide, but there were too many black threads, some of which even pierced into his temples.The black silk is like a mosquito's mouth, sucking the nutrients in his body.His body was stabbed with black threads, and he couldn't move in the end, so he could only continue to open his eyes and look at us in despair.

His throat trembled, as if he was calling for help, but the vibration from his lungs could never be expressed.Li Yan's eyes were bloodshot, and many black strands even entered from his ears, pierced the lens, and passed out from the pupil.A few girls not far away retched. The speed of the black threads was very fast, they were like mosquitoes that had sucked up the blood and flesh, and Li Yan dried up at a speed visible to the naked eye, leaving only the skin and bones limp on the ground. Not long after, the black threads that had sucked him out were pulled out from Li Yan's body, and more black threads sprang out from the floor, stretching towards us who were still alive.

"Run away!" Xie Qianwen grabbed Lu Xiaoxiao's hand, turned around and ran away, Lu Xiaoxiao held me fast and refused to let go; while I grabbed Dr. Li's clothes and called the rest of the living to flee for their lives.The chaos at the scene was indescribable! "Ah!" Sun Xiaoyu, who could hear very well, was caught off guard, her ankles were tightly wrapped by black silk, and she screamed and fell to the ground. "Xiaoyu!" Wu Li was overwhelmed with fright. She wanted to save her friend, but she didn't know how to do so. "Run away, you can't save her!" I yelled at her.

The shout woke Wu Li up. Weeping reluctantly, she followed us and ran away under the despairing and resentful eyes of her friend. Sun Xiaoyu became exactly like Li Yan, she was pierced by black silk, sucked, and withered.All of this is only a few tens of seconds.Black silk spider webs were densely covered on the floor, and began to spread and grow in all directions.I have no idea where they come from. It's not realistic to go down, and the whole corridor is full of those horrible things at some point.Regardless of waiting for the elevator, our group could only run up the stairs, and finally escaped to the ninth floor.

"Hoo, hoo, I can't run anymore." Wu Li bent over and covered the position of the kidney, "Leave me here." A typical girl who feels more tired than dead. I carefully looked around, "Did those things come with you?" Lu Xiaoxiao raised her nose and sniffed around, then shook her head, "No." "What are those dark things!" Dr. Li was still in shock. "It should be the root of the plant." I thought about it, and the more I thought about it, the more likely it was. "The root of a plant is like the distribution of blood vessels in the human body. There are main roots and a network similar to capillaries, which generally become thinner as they go down. But now it seems that , maybe those roots grow backwards, ignoring common sense and growing from the ground to the sky."

"I think it's root too." Doctor Li nodded. Xie Qianwen breathed heavily, "Then what should we do now, stay here and chat?" "It's impossible to take the elevator, who knows if those followers have used the elevator shaft as their main base. First find a room and go in to see if there is any." Ability to use things." I looked at the layout of the corridor. This building is almost the tallest building in Pigeon City, and the first to sixth floors below are used to rent to merchants.Residential residences are above the sixth floor. The apartment has three elevators and seven households. There are three households on the left of the elevator and four households on the right.We were just standing in front of the room number 902. "How to get in? These anti-theft doors are very strong, and we don't have tools." Xie Qianwen knocked on the thick iron door with her hand. "I have my own way." I took out the master key, and it took more than ten seconds to open the door. In everyone's surprised eyes, I took the lead to enter the door.The ground was messy, and some letters were randomly placed on the shoe cabinet at the entrance.On the envelope was written "Accepted by Ms. Xie Ting". It turned out that the hostess of this house was called Xie Ting!The location of the house is very good, separated from Xijing Middle School by a wall, overlooking the playground and teaching buildings of the middle school.Although those locations are now covered by shady green trees and turned into forests, most of the school buildings are hidden in the bushes, only the roofs of buildings up to the sixth floor are still looming. The growth of these elm forests is also terrible, where do they absorb energy from?Does the human body as the foundation of potted plants really have so much nutrition?It simply ignores the law of energy conservation!I withdrew my gaze to the distance, and began to look around for items defined as "useful". "Look, there are signs of human activity in the woods." Doctor Li exclaimed in surprise. The sun was gradually westward, and it was almost five o'clock in the afternoon. There was no wind, as if the flow of air was completely sucked away by the black tornado one kilometer away.Speaking of which, how big is the hole under Xinge City? Up to now, the air convection between the inside and the outside world has not been completed. It is an unbelievable sight!There are some gaps in the tall human flesh jungle, and there are indeed people moving under the suspended white particles.New Pigeon City is a tourist city, even if all the old residents have turned into plants, the tourist base is still very large.After being frightened, the number of people who walked out of the building to escape to survive naturally increased a few hours later. It’s just that they who don’t have gas masks are likely to die from hay fever allergies and lung congestion. The hostess of this house obviously has a voyeuristic desire, and a high-definition telescope is concealed by the window facing the middle school.Dr. Li is using this sinister telescope to observe the people moving for survival below. "Those people are smart enough to cover their noses with a wet cloth." She observes and evaluates. Wu Li fell limply on the sofa, panting comfortably.This girl was overwhelmed with exhaustion after only climbing the sixth floor, and her bones must be not ordinary. I took Lu Xiaoxiao to filter the things in the house over and over again, but in this small suite with one bedroom and one living room, there are not many things that can be used except basic furniture.The life of the hostess is very lazy, and the arrangement of things is also scattered. I really wonder what she is doing in her daily life, is she sleeping besides sleeping?Sighing, he finally returned to the living room empty-handed.Dr. Li was still looking down with the binoculars, and I took out my own binoculars to observe. The ninth floor, as far as the city is concerned, this height is not too high.But human beings will never be able to climb down, not to mention that apart from me, the remaining four are all girls.In movies and stories, someone once connected the curtains one by one and used it to escape from a tall building. In real life, the degree of difficulty of the operation is too high to be considered. The rest of the way...damn, I can't think of any other way.The roots are spreading upwards. Although I can't see it, I can guess it.Even if we escape to the roof, where can we go in the end?Jump to commit suicide?What a most desperate situation!I never thought that I would be cornered by immobile plants. "Ah, there seems to be something wrong with those people." Doctor Li exclaimed suddenly. Her sudden voice startled everyone, and everyone gathered around to listen to her live broadcast. "I saw thirty-three people in the woods just now, but five were missing in a blink of an eye. Those who walked in front seemed to be completely unaware that someone behind the team was missing." I also looked through the binoculars. In the elm forest two streets away from the opposite middle school, a team of dozens of people was struggling to walk forward.In an instant, a black shadow swept past, and the last few people disappeared immediately. "There is something in the woods!" My heart was cold to the soles of my feet.Do you want people to live!Even if he escaped from this building, the forest below might be the real place of death. "Someone in the middle of the team noticed that the players between them were disappearing." Dr. Li saw with sharp eyes that among the group of people, a man stopped and looked around hesitantly, and then said something.The team with only about 20 people left immediately became panicked and confused. The men seemed to be trying hard to get everyone together, but everyone ran away in all directions in fear. A black shadow appeared here, like a spider hunting in the middle of the night, with astonishing length and quantity, it quickly rolled up the fleeing people and dragged them into the depths of the woods, no one was spared. We who saw the result with our own eyes fell into a deep silence. "Dead." Wu Li's face was full of despair. She couldn't count how many times she had been in despair today. Only this time, the feeling of death was so deep. "We are not dead yet, think of ways." I try to keep calm. "Those things on the ground are also the roots of plants, right?" Dr. Li tilted his head back with a complicated expression, "I still remember the biology class in high school. The teacher also said that the main function of the roots of plants is to hold the plant body, absorb water and Minerals dissolved in water, conduct water and minerals to the stem, and store water. Damn, it's just farting. If I knew it, I would grab the little old man by the neck and throw him here. He will definitely change Belief." This young professional woman's nerves are probably on the verge of collapse. Lu Xiaoxiao still followed behind me ignorantly, without much tension.It's good to be ignorant of the world and have a simple personality. At least there is no fear and trouble. Xie Qianwen pricked up her ears and hissed lightly: "Listen carefully, there seems to be a sound." "The roots of the plant are coming up?" I suddenly became nervous. "It doesn't sound like it, but it appears to be a serious situation." Xie Qianwen's face turned pale. We listened carefully, and suddenly heard "creaking" sounds from under the floor, like ten thousand snakes sliding and crawling under the floor. "Well, have we entered a place we shouldn't be in? For example, the nest of a certain plant root?" My smile was extremely bitter. As soon as the words fell, the entire floor collapsed, as if the end of the world was coming, and life seemed extremely fragile at this moment. Numerous finger-thin branches pried open the floor and sprang out from the ground. Only then did I realize that the floor I was standing on had already been riddled with holes and could no longer bear the weight. I don't know how long these roots have been lurking under the floor of this family. In short, the time will definitely not be too short.Perhaps even its mistress has long been eaten up and turned into the main body that nourishes the roots. The floor collapsed layer by layer, and the five of us fell freely from a height of 27 meters above the ground without hindrance, and it only took three seconds to turn into a pulp. But when I fell vertically, Lu Xiaoxiao hugged my arm tightly.Her long hair was flying in the air, and her beautiful face was leaning against my shoulder.If you put aside life and death, being photographed is enough to spread the eternal love comparable to the Titanic. The speed of the fall became faster and faster. Amidst the screams of the surrounding girls, there was no bottom after more than ten seconds.His sight had been plunged into darkness four seconds ago. Some people say that life is short, then he must have never been in free fall.The length of life will be like a crooked circle before dying. Obviously the total length remains the same, but it looks very long. We must have fallen from the ninth floor to the ground, where does this lead, hell?My consciousness is blurring and I can't think anymore.Does free fall also cause brain congestion and coma?probably not.Lu Xiaoxiao's body leaning against me is very soft, and with her, it seems that the speed of falling has also slowed down. No, no, it's actually slowing down.At least Wu Li's cry, which was still above my head just now, has fallen far below my feet. As soon as I realized this, my brain stopped functioning like an electric shock.