Cassia asked Cassie Hei in the simplest words, and received a very vague answer. Cassia Hei had almost no knowledge reserves and had no idea what it was. It just felt that the thing was important and had strange power. Cassia Hei
He vaguely described that his nest was built on top of that thing, and he felt warm and comfortable when resting.
Listening to Cassie's excited description, Cassia followed it into the underground cave network. The sound wave pulses simultaneously increased the frequency, and the darkness immediately seemed to be dispelled, allowing Cassia to "see" the surrounding scene.
The constant feedback of sound waves caused interference, and Cassia had already been able to handle this situation proficiently. After shielding some of the sound waves, the picture of the underground cave network became more concrete. The entrance was a slope, going down to a depth of nearly sixty or seventy meters.
It becomes gentle. From the overall structure, the network of underground caves is almost a hundred meters below the ground.
The roots of the ancient trees took root here a long time ago and are very strong. These roots are twisted and entangled with each other. In the high-frequency sound wave pulses, Cassia found that many tree roots will continue to extend downward, but in the end they will merge.
In one body. This is like an upside-down pyramid structure. The closer you get to the ground, the more roots there are and spread everywhere. But the further down you go, as some small roots are eliminated and the number decreases, those thick roots
He is also aware that taking an area as a unit, the ancient trees in this unit will actively move their roots closer to a certain position, and eventually merge into a huge twisted bulbous stem.
The "heart" of the plant, Cassia describes the bulbous stem mass after the roots of the tree are fused. The ancient tree rhizomes emanating from the stem mass are like arteries connected to it.
Each bulbous stem will grow a rhizome from its bottom, about the thickness of an adult's thigh, and continue to grow downward. The depth has broken through the rock layer, and Cassia used high-frequency sound waves to detect downwards, but its extreme position could not be reached.
Capture the end of this rhizome. The density of this rhizome is very high, and when high-frequency sound waves penetrate it, it feels like relatively high-grade steel.
As Cassie Hei moved rapidly through the burrow network, the sound wave pulses also captured several spherical stems that were almost evenly spaced. Compared to the burrow network Cassie Hei dug out by himself, the roots of ancient trees under the ground
The network is much simpler than the underground network.
In Cassia's observation, each ancient tree is like a mass-produced item coming off the assembly line. Each ancient tree above the ground is different, but below the ground, its root and stem systems have a lot of similarities.
This similarity is not as simple as "they are both tree roots", but the direction range of the rhizome distribution, the number and size of the main rhizomes, and other data are almost the same, which can be said to be the same within the normal range of error.
, is also completely feasible.
"It seems that it is not that the main rhizomes of the ancient trees will gather together within a general range and merge into one. Rather, it should be said that the extremely deep steel-like rhizomes first spread out from under the rock layer, and then grew a'
"Unit Heart', and then split off roughly the same number of rhizomes from the 'Unit Heart' to break through the ground, becoming a new tree that continues to grow, thereby replenishing the energy of the 'Unit Heart'."
"Isn't this a strong basis for the southern forest to be a whole?" Cassia thought, "But what is the significance of such differentiation? Or, the 'unit heart' is actually more like a transit station, just like the major families in different regions of the empire.
The stronghold established. In addition to gathering energy, it also has other functions, such as giving the necessary energy to the weak sight you feel, and keeping the weak consciousness away from the consumption of instinct that is too far? Is it a transfer station? "
Cassia thought a lot, and during the subsequent march, the surrounding scenery began to gradually modularize. Every ancient tree can be said to have the same pattern. Within a given range, there is no huge difference in the "unit heart" and tree roots.
On the contrary, Cassie Hei has a diverse network of burrows. It seems that when Cassie Hei is bored, he spends a lot of time digging holes.
When he really looked at Cassia's underground cave network carefully, Cassia had a strangely familiar feeling. It was only after most of the context and direction of the entire underground cave network formed an incomplete image in his head that Cassia discovered it.
So there is a sense of familiarity because the image of the burrow network is actually an irregular hexagram pattern.
I can't say that I have seen exactly the same image, but Cassia has indeed seen many different forms of hexagrams. Thinking of the illusion he saw when he invaded Cassia's body, Cassia was a little serious.
Most places where hexagram images appear are very important. Cassia has not yet come into contact with any information about hexagram images, but he knows that the meaning of hexagrams must be above the strange words. The hexagram pattern is a more advanced ancient form.
Historical information can represent more things.
As for why the cave network looks like a six-pointed star, this kind of information must have been engraved into Cassie Hei’s head since it was a dragon egg. This is just like Cassie Hei’s ability to print on his favorite items.
The act of carving strange words and symbols is normal. Cassie Hei subconsciously knows the importance of these things, but time has passed so far away that many inheritances and memories have disappeared, so that it only knows that it is important and will use it subconsciously, but
I don't know its true meaning and its true function.
When her thinking was interrupted, it was Cassia who felt Cassie leading him into a downward cave. According to the cave network map, this should be the center location.
The depth soon reached two hundred meters underground, but the cave has no end yet. The darkness here seems extremely deep and quiet, and the animals imprisoned here by the earth also have an old feeling of history.
Nearly five hundred meters deep, Cassia and Cassia were completely immersed in the cold water at this moment. High-frequency sound waves showed that there were still those tough tree roots around, with no end in sight. The end of the cave had appeared in Cassia's head.
It is connected to a small cavity filled with water. There are many tree roots in the cavity. They are like dozens of spider webs intertwined from different angles, and they form a ball in the center of the cavity, like what a spider does after catching its prey.
action - wrapping prey in spider silk.
The roots of the tree were indeed wrapped in something, and its size was roughly the same as Cassia's. When Cassia was thinking about what it could be, the sight of Cassia when she entered the depths of the southern forest reappeared, and its source was the knot.
The tangled tree roots. This time, the vision is no longer weak, but more real, as if the tangled tree roots are a surgeon, and at this moment, he is looking directly at himself, who is approaching it with Cassie Hei.