Although the relationship between Swamp Mother and the Twisted Jungle has shifted from war to cooperation, the God of the Deep is still refused by Lu Li to approach the giant tree.
"Why don't you let me... get closer."
"Can you control your instinct and not take the remaining body?" Lu Li asked him.
The God of the Deep Sea did not give an answer, but no longer asked to approach the giant tree.
Also rejected was the giant tree. Lu Li did not accept its offer to stay and returned to the swamp mother's cabin to rest for the night.
Early the next morning, they began building breakwaters for the Northern Shadow Swamp and expanding to the east and west.
Crossing the jungle, the further north you go, the swamps under your feet become muddy and muddy until they are submerged by sea water. The slope of the jungle canopy also becomes more serious, as if the trees are trying to escape from this place.
The escort of the jungle allowed them to quickly pass through the shadows of the jungle, glimpse the endless sea at the end of the air raid, and hear the never-ending sound of the waves.
"Giant tree, can you hear me?"
The tree roots like sea snakes emerged from the water, standing upright and swaying towards Lu Li.
So Lu Li asked the giant tree to lead them for another walk along the north coast.
The condition of the Northern Shadow Swamp is worse than imagined. The 50-mile long coastline is completely bordered by the swamp, and the seawater corrodes the life of the trees day and night.
In comparison, the Southern Shadow Swamp has much better luck. It is also bordered, but the elevated terrain prevents seawater from spreading to the depths. Even if a swamp is formed, it is a freshwater swamp, and there is also a river that traverses the depths.
"What do you want...to do."
Only Ophelia came out this time, including the giant tree. The God of Shadows stayed in the southern swamp, the Mother of the Swamp gathered his servants, and Psius simply did not take him with him.
"Kiss me...in front of...the sea...or...propose?"
Lu Li thought her "how to do it" meant building a breakwater.
Ignoring Ophelia's show of love, Lu Li thought about how to build a breakwater.
Building a 50-mile-long embankment is an almost miraculous project. Even today's early industrial humans would take several years, and obviously, humans in the city cannot come here, and they cannot stay here for that long.
Lu Li asked the giant tree to gather its roots underground to form a natural breakwater. But the giant tree didn't want to do this because it said it would kill the jungle.
"Each tree uses only part of its roots."
Under the instinctive evolution of giant trees for more than 20 years, the root system of the jungle is as lush as the tree crown, so the jungle attacks with tree roots.
In fact, if the branches can move, the effect will be better than the roots. However, it is difficult for giant trees to get rid of the shackles of tree instincts - roots are the only things that trees can actively control.
And the instinct makes the jungle avoid the sea water instead of blocking it.
The sea surface that overflowed into the swamp began to stir up mud. As time went by, the tangled roots were woven out of the water surface, forming the prototype of a breakwater that was 10 meters above the water surface and 20 centimeters wide in accordance with Lu Li's requirements.
Lu Li picked up seawater and poured it on the breakwater at the root of the tree. Most of the seawater slipped off the edge and a small part merged into the tree root.
"More densely."
The entangled tree roots are like countless snakes in the mud, twisting and twisting in a numbing way, accompanied by the sound of clenching the cloth, and finally appear as dense tree roots like rock carvings.
This kind of tree root is enough to become a breakwater. It just needs to be wider and deeper.
It's just that the withered roots of the trees with skinny, twisted and lifeless edges are difficult to piece together the breakwater Lu Li requested.
"Can we make the trees here look like those giant trees in the depths?" Lu Li asked.
It took time for the giant tree to answer Lu Li, and the jungle could not continue to bear the consumption. The power of the residual body was almost eternal, but it had an upper limit.
"The war is over. There is no need for those fighting roots and the crowns of all the trees on the front line." Lu Li deployed the resources controlled by the giant tree.
The development of the Twisted Jungle is obviously abnormal, which is the result of following instinct: lack of water, their roots spread and take root in the ground. Lack of light, then branches grow endlessly.
The former can indeed be supplemented, but the latter is meaningless.
There is no sunlight for them to photosynthesize.
The giant tree believes in its friends and listens to their words.
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On the battlefield full of ravines, a shadow figure flickering behind a banyan tree quietly stopped, and the six-legged monster crawling by also squatted down.
More and more servants of the Swamp Mother appeared on the edge. They stared at the opposite side of the battlefield. The lush and scarred tree crowns gradually withered and fell off, as if winter had arrived.
This scene happened in every corner of the Twisted Jungle. The cobweb-like tree crowns that blocked the sky disappeared, light reappeared on the decaying earth, and the miasma that filled the jungle quietly dissipated.
As Twisted Jungle changes, so does the North Coast.
The bare trees rippled and gradually grew at an unobservable speed. The edge of the sea water boiled with mud like a school of fish, and a low, thin tree root breakwater condensed into an endless sea.
And every once in a while, a new and tender tree root will emerge from the water and merge into the breakwater like a tentacle, thickening layer by layer.
Then comes the sea water in the swamp. It will be the turn of the God of the Deep to take the stage: transport the sea water out of the swamp.
He returned to the territory of the Swamp Mother to look for the God of the Deep Sea, but was rejected by her.
"God... shouldn't do such a thing..." the God of the Deep Sea whispered indifferently.
"To get back your remaining body."
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The turbulent water column poured into the sea on the other side of the breakwater. There were ripples in the depths of the no longer dark swamp.
If you look closely, you can see that the waterline inside the breakwater is slightly lower than the sea surface.
"I... kinda like doing this."
The God of the Deep Sea fell into a strange kind of peace, as if he could continue to repeat it endlessly.
"This is called a sense of accomplishment!" Pusius, who insisted on following, said while standing on the supported tree root.
"I... like the sense of accomplishment."
Ignoring the God of the Deep's mistake, Lu Li looked at the breakwater extending into the distance.
Both the construction of the breakwater and the drainage will take some time, but not too long.
While they wait, they can do another thing: expand to the east.
The west is excluded by Lu Li, after all, it belongs to the Main Continent. The expansion of the territory of Allen Peninsula allies is a good thing for Lu Li.
Regarding how to deal with underground rocks, Lu Li had a more suitable helper.
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In the barren and relatively flat hills, the ground is restless, the gravel is trembling, and the rising dust is like mist.
More than a dozen worms are crushing rocks in the underground rock formations that are so hard that tree roots cannot penetrate.
The giant tree showed affection for them, probably because they regarded the worms as larger earthworms - this was an illusion. They were helping Lu Li by digging and not eating. If they started digesting everything they swallowed, the giant tree would feel it.
As terrifying as a natural enemy.
Regardless, they are getting closer and closer to completing the first two goals.