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Time passed little by little, and winter began here.
I don't know why, but this year's rainy season seems to have ended early, and after winter, there has never been a drop of rain. In the past, it would rain lightly every few days, but now there is not even a drop of rain, which makes Aoki feel uneasy.
What Aoki didn't know was that in the Pacific Ocean outside the range of Nian Sen, the El Niño phenomenon was gradually intensifying, and the amount of tropical water reaching Southeast Asia was drastically decreasing.
Under the influence of various climatic factors, the Tibetan Plateau has less snow and good thermal conditions on the plateau, resulting in a weak Indo-Myanmar trough and a weak South Asian monsoon. The water vapor transported to Yunnan is not sufficient, making it difficult for rain to fall.
A winter has passed without a drop of rain falling in the entire valley.
The water levels of the two lakes began to decrease, the trees on the mountains began to wilt, and the various creatures that were originally active in the forest began to appear alone.
"Could it be that a drought is coming?"
Various trees seemed to feel the drought crisis and began to work hard to reserve water.
As winter turned to spring, Aoki found that the drought situation had not improved, but had become worse. The drought continued, and the temperature here was extremely high, and huge amounts of water vapor evaporated into the sky every day and disappeared.
The water volume of the lake has dropped to more than half, and the lake area has been reduced to only 1 kilometer wide.
The big anaconda doesn't bask in the sun much anymore and spends most of its time in the water.
The rapid reduction of lake area has caused many animals to start crowding together to drink water.
Anacondas, leopards, and golden eagles are the well-deserved overlords of land, water, and air. They can still enjoy those water resources, and most of the animals gather together to make it easier for them to catch prey. Other disadvantaged groups are engaged in a cruel competition for survival.
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Although the lakeside is dangerous, in order to maintain sufficient water in the body, animals must go to the lakeside or stream to replenish water.
The natural environment is really cruel. The cruel law of survival of the strong and elimination of the weak is vividly demonstrated here.
For the first time, Aoki felt the power of nature and the fragility of life. For the first time, Aoki had the idea that if he didn't work hard, he would be eliminated by nature.
In addition to his own sense of crisis, Aoki felt a mourning in the spiritual world. Although these voices were very weak and weak, Aoki could clearly feel their pain. This was the wailing of all the creatures under his control.
"Why do I feel sad when I hear their wailing?"
"Perhaps, they have regarded me as the most important and precious 'priest' in their lives, and I must do something for them."
For the first time, Aoki came up with the idea of trying to protect them.
"Maybe I can do better, I am a great world tree." Aoki lamented in his heart.
"I still lack an opportunity, and the opportunity should be coming soon." Aoki insisted on himself.
Aoki thought about it a lot, but finally stopped thinking too much and started thinking about how to overcome this difficulty.
"Perhaps, I can try to see if I can find the underground river with my roots, and I can solve it a little bit."
Last year, the five tentacles that penetrated deep into the ground to absorb inexplicable things were already 100 meters deep into the ground. After more than a year of development, they have now grown to 120 meters deep.
When Aoki studied it before, he never understood what it was. He only knew that it absorbed a cool air from the ground when Aoki evolved for the second time, and finally successfully helped Aoki complete his second evolution. However,
Later, Aoki discovered that it did not display any functions, and even the cool air was gone. It only kept growing downwards.
Aoki spent some time not understanding its usefulness, so he gave up researching it. Now that there is a drought crisis, Aoki can only seek medical treatment urgently, hoping that they can help.
Aoki's idea is to use the tentacles to grow directly downward, quickly, and then add Aoki's telepathy, hoping to find the underground river.
Aoki's telepathy is very strange. It can extend hundreds of kilometers in the air, but when it reaches the soil, it is greatly reduced and can only detect 30 meters away. Therefore, if he wants to find the underground river, Aoki can only reach it through the tentacles.
120 meters deep, and then put it outside to detect whether there are underground rivers below or around 30 meters.
However, it may not be useful to find underground rivers, because except for high-pressure underground rivers, it is impossible for a river without pressure to spray water out of the ground more than 150 meters high. How high is more than 150 meters high? Use the metaphor of a floor
If it were, it would be as high as 60 stories. Imagine how much water pressure the water company would use to transport water from the ground to the roof of a 60-story building.
But even if there is only a little hope, you can't give up, right?
From this moment on, Aoki found himself gradually maturing.
Aoki no longer delayed, activated all the functions of his body with all his strength, and sent all the generated resources to the tentacle that reached the straightest and deepest among the five. Under Aoki's induction, the lowest part of the tentacle was supported by resources.
It began to divide cells continuously and continued to grow. However, this speed was too slow. After a day of full growth, it only grew one meter.
Hope is slim, but we still need to persevere, Aoki firmly believes.
Time passed day by day, and not a drop of rain fell. The water level in the lake was getting lower and lower. Many plants had begun to wither and gradually lost their vitality, and the number of animals also began to decrease sharply due to drought.
The living situation is getting more and more serious.
And even though Aoki is using full power to promote the growth of tentacles, he still has no hope.
With the arrival of February, large-scale droughts began to occur in most areas of Yunbien Province. The scorching sun hung high in the sky, baking the earth. The land was cracked and covered with white soil. Reservoirs began to dry up and rivers began to dry up. A large number of animals began to dehydrate and die.
The fish were even more miserable, lying naked on the river bed, drying up and dying.
Humanity is gloomy and begins to pay the price for the blind deforestation in the past. Long-distance water trucks, artificial rainfall, mineral water, and various disaster relief materials are constantly transported from neighboring provinces to solve the human survival crisis.
This drought is really rare in a century. Various factors came together to cause Yunbien Province to encounter a major disaster that is rarely seen in history.
Time passes day by day, and gradually it is March. It seems that God is against Yunbian Province, and still not a drop of rain has fallen.
The water level in the lake dropped again, leaving only a 300-meter-wide lake.
The trees on the ridges around the valley began to die, and many animals also died due to lack of water.
Soon after, the elephants and monkeys that originally lived in the jungle outside the valley also came here collectively and occupied a drinking area.
Just when Aoki was about to be disappointed, after the tentacles reached down to more than 170 meters, Aoki Niangen followed the tentacles to the bottom, probed down 30 meters, and finally found an underground river.
It's cold, as if it has the illusion of being full of life.
An unprecedented sense of satisfaction, achievement, and joy rose in his heart, and Aoki had the urge to cry.
"No, I can't be happy yet. I don't know if this underground river has such high water pressure."
Fortunately, the water in this underground river fills the entire river channel, indicating that there is a certain probability that it is a river channel with high water pressure.
Aoki had already thought about what he should do. He used his mind to scan the water, determined its upstream and downstream positions, then compared the direction on the ground, and directly decided to dig a hole in the jungle.
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Knock out all nearby cameras.
Then, he drove two giant pangolins as big as barrels. These were found by Aoki outside the valley a few days ago, just to deal with the current situation. If Aoki had to dig a hole by himself, there was really nothing he could do.
The two evolved pangolins were indeed very powerful and dug holes very quickly. Although the hole Aoki requested was countless times deeper than the hole they lived in, it still did not trouble them.
I saw them going around and digging holes all the way, and then Aoki kept using his mind to wrap up the soil and move it to the ground. The hole was 1 meter wide, and a large amount of soil was moved to the ground and piled up around it.
After digging for a whole day, the two pangolins finally dug almost to the underground river.
Aoki quickly asked them to stop and evacuate the hole. Aoki used his telepathy to go through the soil to reach the underground river, and then dug up from the underground river using his telepathy. Aoki quickly dug through the hole.
The water pressure of the underground river really surprised Aoki. After the hole was dug through, a stream of water quickly rushed upward along the winding hole, and finally broke through the ground and sprayed half a meter into the air.
There was no need for Qingmu to dig too much in the following time. Under the continuous erosion of the water, the hole continued to expand. In less than an hour, the hole was washed away by the water into a large hole with a diameter of 2 meters, and continued to expand as time went by.