The biggest impression given to Shen Cong in the apocalypse is that the sky is very blue, the earth is very gray, and the blood of monsters is very bright red.
Green almost never appears.
But at this moment, Shen Cong saw a flash of emerald green.
"What is that?"
Shen Cong took out his telescope and looked ahead.
It was a tree, a big tree with lush branches and bright red fruits, much like a peach tree. The peach tree grew on the slope of a low mountain. The solitary one looked a little shabby.
"peach?"
"Tree?"
"There are actually trees?" Shen Cong asked three times in a row, very surprised.
It is obviously incredible that the doomsday storm did not destroy the vegetation on the earth.
Putting down the telescope, Shen Cong stopped talking and drove the King Kong directly towards the short mountain. Ten minutes later, it stopped at the bottom of the slope of the short mountain. After stopping, the King Kong was less than a hundred meters away from the peach tree on the slope. .Shen Cong was not in a hurry to get out of the car. There must be something fishy about a peach tree growing alone here.
Looking through the telescope carefully, Shen Cong couldn't help but frown.
This peach tree doesn't have many fruits. It has about twenty or thirty fruits, which are bright red. Each one is bigger than an ordinary fairy peach and is as big as a baby's head. What makes Shen Cong frown is that under the peach tree, there are In the open space, there were several animal carcasses lying across the ground. They had become rotten and the bones of the chest and abdomen were exposed.
Judging from the shapes, there are monkeys, wild boars, and snakes, and the scene is a bit strange.
Shen Cong continued to observe with the telescope, while guessing why the animal carcasses appeared under the peach tree and why the peach tree could survive.
Why the peach trees survived is quite difficult to guess.
The animal carcasses may have been attracted to the peach tree and then fought with each other to death, or the peach tree was simply a killer. A tree killed a group of animals. Before the end of the world, Shen Cong would not have thought about it, but in the end of the world, The changes brought about by activity are so great that nothing is impossible.
I waited for ten minutes.
There was no movement, only the leaves of the peach trees swaying gently in the breeze.
Shen Cong thought he could try to get close to the peach tree and observe it up close... He first picked up a slingshot and shot the animal carcasses and branches of the peach tree to test his reaction.
There was no movement.
So I put on the Optimus Prime 1.0 active armor, put on my weapons, and jumped off the King Kong.
I am not in a hurry to get closer, but I am planning to climb over this small hillside, climb to the top of the short mountain, stand high and see far, and carefully observe my surroundings.
Five minutes later, we reached the top of the mountain.
The surrounding area is unobstructed, with bare rocks, and further away are undulating rocky mountains. It seems that this peach tree exudes vitality in this area.
There is no movement on the ground and the surface is hard rock, so the risk is reduced.
With doubts and caution, Shen Cong carefully leaned into the peach tree. From a long distance away, the smell of animal carcasses hit his nostrils. Shen Cong frowned, didn't care, and walked slowly under the peach tree. He was afraid The peach tree is a "man-eating tree" that can move, so I first stabbed the trunk with a fang javelin.
Keng, Keng, Keng!
The sound was very strange, like the collision between stones or the collision between metals.
Seeing that the peach tree showed no signs of the "man-eating tree" rising, Shen Cong avoided the animal carcasses and touched the trunk. The trunk was very cold and emitted bursts of active radiation - this peach tree had indeed mutated. This Not surprisingly, there is basically no chance of survival without mutation.
"The bark is very hard, and it feels like touching metal... It seems that the bark has a metallic gradient, like the active core of an animal?"
Immediately, Shen Cong discovered that the leaves also had a slight metallic gradient quality. He shook the branches, and suddenly a large number of leaves made a crisp sound.
"Could the mutated peach tree grow into a metallic peach tree?" Shen Cong guessed that activity was closely related to metals, and his first reaction was to have such an association.
The tree trunks and leaves all showed signs of metal gradient, but Shen Cong did not find this gradient on the mutant peach the size of a baby's head. There was only strong active radiation, and the intensity of the magnetic field radiated far exceeded the activity of Shen Cong's mutant animals. Perception at the core.
This is a good thing, and anything rich in activity is good, but I don’t know if it can be eaten or if it is toxic.
Looking at the mutated peach in his hand and the rotting corpse lying on the ground, Shen Cong felt that this peach was definitely not serious. It was very likely that these animals were poisoned to death after eating the peach.
Thinking.
Shen Cong bent down and came to a monkey corpse. He endured the smell and fiddled with it a few times with his fang dagger.
This looks like a mutated monkey, because the body shape has changed, and the four canine teeth on the mouth are huge, which seem to be active cores. However, there is no trace of activity on this corpse, maybe because it has been dead for a long time. Inadvertently In the meantime, Shen Cong turned the monkey corpse over with a dagger.
Turning over, he immediately discovered something that made his scalp numb.
I saw dense white threads growing out of the place where the monkey corpse had been lying, and they were inserted into the monkey's rotting fur.
This is the root of a plant.
Shen Cong directly focused on the mutated peach tree. There was only one plant here. He used an engineering shovel to shovel the rocky powdery soil. Sure enough, the white filamentous roots passed through the shallow soil and bypassed the rock. The gap extends all the way to the roots of the peach tree.
The mutated peach tree uses this method to absorb the activity of animals!
"peach."
"animal."
"root."
"peach."
Shen Cong instantly came up with an inference: peach trees use active peaches to attract mutated animals to eat the peaches, and then the peaches poison the mutated animals to death, thus becoming fertilizer for the peach trees.
He turned over the carcasses of several other mutated animals one by one. Underneath were the white filamentous roots of the peach tree sticking out.
"If this is the case, the peach cannot be eaten. After the mutated animals ate it, they all died within three meters of the peach tree. It is obviously very poisonous."
Shen Cong looked at the huge heart peach in his hand with some pity. The extremely rich active radiation was so addictive.
He is currently lacking in activity. King Kong's activity has dropped several times, but he has never been able to rush up. The activity enhancements given to him in exchange are not that much. As a result, his current physical fitness is still at the strength of two oxen, and his progress is not obvious. .
"If it can be stored for a long time, it can be used as a disguised poison..." Shen Cong's thinking was rather unconventional, and he quickly thought of the suspected prehistoric giant crocodile monster that bullied him.
If we encounter him again and throw a few poisonous peaches over, I'm afraid all that's left is to collect the corpses.
Regrettably, Shen Cong decided to pick off all the poisonous peaches. The poisonous peaches were just his speculation, and they could not be confirmed without research. Even if they were classified as highly poisonous, they would still have a role to play, and they could be considered a thing. nice one.
However, Shen Cong did not pick it immediately. He planned to study the mutated peach trees for a period of time. It was rare to encounter a surviving plant. This was a rare opportunity to obtain more knowledge related to activity.
Click, Shen Cong used the fang dagger to directly cut off a branch of the mutated peach tree; then he used an engineer shovel to dig out a section of filamentous tree roots; holding the poisonous peach, branches, and roots, he returned to the King Kong carriage. inside.
Research begins.
First, I cut a small piece of poisonous peach flesh and put it in a glass bottle. Then I lured a blowfly out of the gauze and shut it in the glass bottle.
Are the blow flies waiting to devour the fruit pulp die?
The poisonous peach toxicity experiment, the first test started.