The diameter of the crown of the strange tree is astonishing, at least as thick as two people hugging each other. The top is smooth and round as if it were bald, and it is surrounded by soft tentacles like weeping willows. There are no leaves on the tentacles, but they are covered with dense velvet.
The white trunk is smooth and straight, without the rough bark of ordinary tree trunks. It gives people a soft, moist and elastic feeling, just like a girl's skin.
Ye Han really didn't want to describe it like this, but when he saw the smooth appearance of the tree trunk, he instinctively thought of Bai Xiaoting's soft skin... It wasn't that he had a strong imagination, but it was really similar.
Ye Han stared blankly for three seconds before coming back to his senses: "What is this?"
"I don't know." The soldier shook his head, "This thing looks very slanderous, can you eat it?"
"Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat!" Ye Han scolded angrily, "Just watch here. No one is allowed to touch this thing without my permission."
"Yes!" Jian Bing agreed.
"Anzi!" Ye Han shouted on the radio.
"Captain!" Antongli's voice appeared on the radio.
"The microphone is for...your sister-in-law." Ye Han almost let it slip.
A fuel-efficient lamp cannot enter the thunder. These guys are better than monkeys at sticking to hair. If you are not careful, your secrets may be exposed... Maybe someone has noticed that something is wrong, but they are just too embarrassed to expose it.
"Ye Han!" Bai Xiaoting's excited voice appeared on the radio.
"Xiaoting, our top soldiers found a strange tree, which may be related to aliens."
Bai Xiaoting immediately stopped her casual attitude and said nonchalantly: "Brother Xi is the person in charge of the investigation team."
Ye Han took a photo and sent it to Car No. 1: "You take a look at the photo first to see if there is any need to alert Team Leader Xi."
"Okay." Bai Xiaoting agreed, "Where is the photo?"
"Where is Anzi? Ask him for it."
"Okay." Bai Xiaoting agreed, and the radio went quiet. Then Bai Xiaoting's surprised voice suddenly came out, "Oh my God, it's not that I don't recognize this thing at all, and it can't be classified using the classification methods I know!"
"It's right in front of me. I can tell you with certainty that this thing is real." Ye Han said.
"I know it's real." Bai Xiaoting said, "From the photo, this thing doesn't look like a plant, but a bit like a fungus!"
"What? You said it's a big mushroom?" Ye Han asked in surprise.
"It's just a possibility." Bai Xiaoting recalled carefully and searched her memory, but couldn't find anything similar.
"Is this thing the target of your investigation? This place is not far from the target. This thing is probably brought by an asteroid." Ye Han guessed.
"Inform Brother Xi. If it's convenient, it's best for us to go over and have a look." Bai Xiaoting said.
"No problem." Ye Han agreed happily, "Everyone, pay attention, move closer to the vanguard, and be vigilant!"
"Understood!" Xiao Yuan agreed, and the armored vehicle that stopped moving restarted and soon drove to Ye Han's side.
Ye Han quickly stopped: "Stop the car farther away, what if this thing is poisonous?"
Although the armored vehicle has three-defense equipment, the equipment on the vehicle can only detect chemical or biological poisons produced by humans, and 80% of them cannot pay for poisons from aliens.
The two drivers quickly complied and parked the car more than 20 meters away. The three members of the investigation team met again and walked to Ye Han under the escort of soldiers.
Ye Han pointed to the strange tree and said, "Team Leader Xi, this is that tree."
"Let me take a look." Xi Fu cautiously took a few steps closer, first looked up and down at the strange tree several times, and then opened the tool box he carried with him, revealing the neatly arranged test tubes and various shiny gadgets in the box.
Ye Han frowned: "Double the warning circle and execute it!"
Reflection of metal is not a normal phenomenon in the forest, so it is necessary to expand the warning range just in case.
Xi Fu took out a glass rod about ten centimeters long and about the thickness of chopsticks from the box, and said without looking back: "Xiao Bai, help me, Xiao Wu, record it!"
Bai Xiaoting protested on the spot: "Xiaoting Xiaoting, call me Xiaoting!"
Ye Han seemed to hear the resentment in Bai Xiaoting's heart: You are the novice, and your whole family is novice!
"Okay, Xiaoting, is Xiaoting okay?" Xi Fu quickly corrected, "Come here and help!"
"Humph!" Bai Xiaoting rolled her eyes at Xi Fu dissatisfied, but walked to Xi Fu's side obediently.
Ye Han took a step forward calmly. Wu Rui glared at Ye Han dissatisfied, pursed his lips and said nothing.
Wu Rui is indeed spoiled by his family, but being spoiled does not mean that he is stupid. If he can't even see the situation clearly, he might as well go home as soon as possible and let the old man grow old.
Ye Han was secretly vigilant. This kid was not too stupid, but such a rational opponent was far more difficult to deal with than the second-generation idiot. He might cause big problems that were difficult to deal with at some point.
Xi Fu carefully avoided the filamentous aerial roots, walked slowly to the strange tree, very carefully took out the glass rod, and gently tapped the outer bark of the strange tree: "It's soft, like jelly!"
After saying that and adding a little more strength, the skin of the strange tree immediately became concave, almost as if it were pressed against its belly.
"The elasticity is very good, this thing is definitely not a plant!" Xi Fu judged with certainty.
Ye Han blurted out: "Fungi?"
"It's possible, but the possibility is very small. Do you know the difference between animal cells and plant cells?" Xi Fu asked.
"You know, animals don't have cell walls." Ye Han suddenly said, "If it grows in the soil, it's not a plant?"
"Alien things cannot be distinguished using the concepts of earth creatures." Xi Fu squatted down with difficulty and gently plucked the wire-like aerial roots: "It is very strong, no worse than steel wire."
After speaking, he carefully pushed away some soil with a glass rod: "The roots are well developed and the skin of the roots is hard, very similar to plants."
Then he poked the crown of the strange tree. Unexpectedly, the originally soft tentacles suddenly stood up as if frightened, and wrapped the crown of the tree, looking like an oversized coconut.
Xi Fu knocked on the glass in astonishment: "The crown is hard and the tentacles are mobile. It looks like an animal but not a plant." After speaking, he turned back and handed the glass rod to Bai Xiaoting, "Give me a knife and a test tube."
Bai Xiaoting immediately handed a scalpel to Xi Fu's hand, and took two empty test tubes from the box and handed them over.
Xi Fu took the knife and the test tube, and used the knife to lightly cut the tree crown, cutting a few centimeters long and half a centimeter deep. However, the knife edge did not drip out some kind of liquid as he thought, but spread to both sides.
The sides are slightly opened, revealing an internal structure that is almost fleshy.
"The outside of the trunk has a structure similar to the epidermis, and the inside is like muscles, with slight life reactions...I am becoming more and more interested in this thing." As he spoke, Xi Fu cut a few times on the trunk and cut a few strips of "tree meat."
", put it into the test tube, and returned the test tube to Bai Xiaoting, "Put this away and give me two more ones with culture medium."
