Chapter 8: Primitive Birds, Weird Plants and Farmers
Chapter 740 Primitive Bird Strange Plants and Farmers
A man carrying a backpack and a mask came through the forest wilderness. There were several meter-high dragon beasts peering at him beside the waterhole. They were four to five meters tall, with two hind legs standing on tiptoe. There were two more in front of him.
A sharp claw was hanging in the air, and saliva was dripping from between the sharp knife-like teeth.
But he just turned his head and glanced at the other person. The terrifying dragon beast ran away when he saw the strange patterns on the mask.
The weird horror is not only engraved in the human body, but also in the blood of the beast.
He knocked on the door of a community with only a few dozen people. This place couldn't even be called a tribe, just a big family living in a large natural cave. Outside the cave, there were fruit trees, animal pens, and a fire.
kitchen.
He exchanged dragon animal meat for some cakes made from ginkgo nuts and ate them voraciously. Recently, he almost vomited from eating meat and even started chewing leaves.
He took a wooden tube and took a sip of water, and then expressed that he wanted to exchange for more. He still had some dragon skins, but the other party said it was a pity.
"We don't have any more."
The other party pointed to a place on the top of the mountain and said to Helfas.
"There is a farmer on the mountain over there. He has a lot of food."
"As long as you dare to eat it!"
Helfas didn't know what the other person meant, so he asked.
"What is there to eat? Why don't you dare to eat it?"
The other party said: "The food that man ate was made with weird power."
Helfas: "Weird?"
Now, he became somewhat interested in the farmer.
Compared to some food, he was more curious about how that person used weird power to make food. If he could learn it, would he be able to continuously obtain some food other than meat on the road in the future?
Or there is no need to worry about lack of food without being able to hunt.
When he was going up the mountain, he saw a man standing in front of a wooden house looking at him from a distance.
The withered yellow hair is hanging on the face. The face looks very old, but the hair doesn't seem to have aged that much.
The hair of people in the Land of the Full Moon is almost yellow, but some are more copper-like, some are more gold-colored, and some are slightly whiter, but these are just subtle differences.
The other person looked tall and thin, and looked at Helfas with a surprised expression, as if he was surprised that someone came up the mountain to look for him.
Helfas walked to the wooden house: "I heard that you have a lot of food, and I want to exchange some."
Before the other party spoke, something sounded from the trees nearby.
"Drink uh~"
Helfas looked over and found that it was a primitive bird. At this moment, the bird was spreading its wings, grinning its sharp beak and shouting at Helfas.
But when Helfas looked over, he was so frightened that he closed his mouth, then opened his wings and landed on the farmer's shoulder.
This is not a strange species like Velvet Dragon, which appears to be a result of evolutionary failure or artificial interference. It is a bird that can truly fly for a short period of time.
Helfas had seen it before during his travels, but this was the first time he saw someone keeping such a thing as a pet.
In this era, the poultry raised by people can either produce feathers, eat meat, or produce eggs, or all three. It is really a luxury to keep a pet that cannot eat and does not have much use.
Helfas suddenly believed that the man in front of him could really use his weird power to make food, because he seemed to have no shortage of food.
The other party nodded: "There is food, do you want it?"
Helfas followed the other party into the house and sat down cross-legged on a piece of animal skin. Soon the other party took out a pottery basin from the back and placed it in the center.
The so-called food is actually a kind of fruit.
The other party peeled off the shell in advance, revealing the shiny flesh, which was about the size of a palm.
Helfas picked it up, looked at it, and smelled it: "Something like...bread?"
He blurted out unconsciously.
The other party asked: "What is bread?"
Helfas couldn't explain it, he just felt this way.
The farmer said: "It has no name, and no one else has eaten it before. You should be talking about something else."
Helfas nodded, he put a hand on the mask, and then opened his eyes.
The leaf pattern on the mask suddenly moved, emitting a red light, and his eyes also lit up. Helfas was looking at the food in front of him through a strange perspective.
The farmer in front of him was very surprised. He looked carefully at the patterns on Helfas's mask.
In an instant.
He felt dizzy and could only lower his head.
Helfas took a closer look and found that this thing did have a weird aura, but there was no weird power in it.
He probably confirmed that this kind of thing should be edible, at least it does not contain extraordinary power, and even if there is a problem, it is at most a mortal level problem, such as being poisonous or something like that.
Therefore, he is still a little cautious.
The farmer also noticed Helfas' concern. He didn't say anything more and started eating by himself.
Helfas looked at the primitive bird aside. He tore off a small piece and fed it to some of the opponent's pets. As a result, the primitive bird swallowed it in one bite. It seemed that he was very accustomed to eating this kind of food.
Only then did he try to take a bite.
It has a bit of sweetness and is covered with a layer of natural oil. For Helfas, who has been accustomed to eating various dark dishes during this period and even ate blood-eating raw meat in the tribe, it can be said to be a delicacy on earth.
.
"Um?"
Herfas's eyes lit up.
When enjoying delicious food, life seems to have light, and the fatigue of the long journey is swept away.
After eating a large piece, Herfas said: "I want some more."
Farmer: "No problem, I have more."
But the other party continued: "However, I need you to help me with something."
Helfas: "What's the deal?"
The other person seemed a little embarrassed. He lowered his head and did not dare to look at the other person's mask, and just pointed with his finger.
"Is the mask on your face weird?"
"Can you control it?"
Helfas was a little wary: "What do you want me to do?"
The other person said: "I want you to help me deal with a weirdo."
Helfas asked: "Why deal with a weirdo?"
The other party said: "Because it may bring danger and destroy some things I want to protect."
Helfas thought for a moment and considered it for a long time before telling the other party.
"I need to take a look in advance to see what's weird about it."
"If you know about this weird characteristic, you must tell me everything, so that I can tell you the answer."
Farmer: "Okay."
In fact, Helfas has been looking for weird things that can be sealed by him during this period. He did encounter some weird things on the way, but they were either too weird to understand their characteristics, or they disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.
Search everywhere.
It is difficult for him to stay stuck on a certain weirdness and spend a few months or a year to slowly understand and recognize the other person.
Therefore, the request made by the other party at this moment is actually one of the purposes of Helfas's trip.
After finishing speaking, Helfas stretched out his hand and picked up a piece of "bread".
Stuffed it into his mouth.
It was so delicious that it was hard for him to maintain his appearance and remain polite.
The farmer breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that Helfas did not reject it intuitively.
Then, joy filled his face.
"I had already given up. I didn't expect to meet someone like you."
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Before anything was done, Herfas had been eating and drinking for free for several days, and had received his reward in advance.
A big bag of "breadfruit", even if you don't eat anything else, it's enough to last for more than half a month.
Helfas called it this way. Since the other party didn't give it a name, he would give it a name that he thought was pleasant to him.
The farmer led Helfas along the rugged mountain road toward his farmland. The farmland was really far away and it took a full day to reach it.
Under the sun.
What comes into view is a large and uniform plant farmland, covering the outside of the valley. There is only one kind of plant in the farmland and no other.
In front of a small tree with breadfruit trees, Herfas and the farmer squatted down and looked at them quietly.
These small trees are only as high as a person's waist and seem to only be able to grow so high. There are plump fruits on the small branches, and the shells are dyed with color under the sun. This picture itself looks very beautiful, but in He
There is a meaning beyond beauty in the eyes of Elfas and the farmer.
Harvest, peace of mind, civilization and the future, all kinds of meanings beyond beauty suddenly emerged in my mind.
Helfas looked at the farmer: "Did you cultivate such a large piece of farmland?"
The farmer shook his head: "No."
The farmer took Helfas and walked deeper along the gaps between the breadfruit fields. Helfas also observed the farmland from another perspective, and he suddenly discovered that these breadfruit trees were weird.
However, this monster is very strange and weak. It does not seem to be dangerous and its power is unknown.
The farmer had studied them and told Helfas straightforwardly.
"In fact, this kind of tree does not need any soil, it only needs sunlight and water to bear fruit."
"As long as they have one, they can continue to reproduce. The longer the time, the larger the farmland they will reproduce."
Helfas: "Is this considered a supernatural power?"
He didn't expect that there were such weak monsters in the world.
The farmer said, "Isn't this extraordinary enough?"
"As long as water and sunlight are needed, food can be made and it can reproduce itself continuously."
Helfas thought for a while and felt that what the other party said made sense.
While walking in the breadbass field, Herfas also discovered other things. Among them, he could see various collapsed stone buildings. Between the submerged roots and branches, one could see protruding wall stacks.
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This is a tribal site where many people once lived.
Helfas looked at the farmer aside.
I don't know if this has anything to do with him, but the other party didn't say anything, and just led him forward, as if he didn't see any trace of the dragon people's past.
at last.
They walked along the breadfruit field until they reached the end, where they saw the shadow of a tree four or five meters high.
The farmer pointed to the tree: "The weird thing I want you to deal with is actually that."
Realizing that Helfas was a little serious and nervous, the farmer continued.
"Don't worry, it hasn't woken up yet, so there's no danger as long as you don't get too close."
He seemed to be very familiar with that tree.
Helfas took a few steps closer to take a closer look, and then he saw the true appearance of the tree.
The tree was covered with a large number of human faces, and the faces were even moving and blinking.
For a moment, Helfas felt extremely sick.
Helfas: "What the hell is this?"
The other party said: "The weird human-faced tree is what this farmland used to look like!"
"When the small trees multiply enough, they will want to return to their former appearance and become that huge human-faced tree again, a powerful man-eating monster."
"Now that it has grown so tall, it won't be long before it truly comes to life."
This was the first time Helfas had heard of strange changes.
From one form to another.
"Can you tell me more about it?"
Helfas wanted to understand better, he wanted to know all the weird secrets.
The farmer raised his head and looked at the tree quietly.
"long, long ago."
"The tribe here controls the human-faced tree and uses its power and fruits to survive."
"One day there was an accident, and the human-faced tree lost control and swallowed everyone. But after swallowing everyone, it also paid the price."
"Because although weirdos will not die, they will degenerate."
Helfas: "Degeneration?"
He asked: "Why, because it ate people?"
The farmer confirmed Helfas's words: "Yes, because they eat people."
Helfas was very surprised because he just said it casually.
The farmer continued: "Weirdos want to eat people, but after eating too many people, they will pay a heavy price."
"They will distort their form and then collapse completely."
"After the collapse, it turned into some weaker monsters."
The farmer told Helfas as if he had witnessed such a scene before. He was still looking at the human-faced tree and said to Helfas.
"look!"
"It's doing everything it can to come back to life and turn this farmland back into its original state."
The farmer turned to look at Helfas and bent down to plead with him.
"And what I want you to do."
"The idea is not to let it come back to life, but to destroy it so that it can maintain its form as a small tree and preserve this piece of farmland."
Before dark, the two of them walked around the farmland here.
Helfas observed the terrain and inspected the oil bread tree and human face tree many times before finally leaving.
They came here today and did nothing. Their main purpose was to visit sites and make plans.
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In the wooden house.
The farmer told Helfas all the information about the human-faced tree and the oil-bread tree, and he began the real sealing plan for this weird thing.
While we were talking, the noisy calls of primitive birds came from outside from time to time.
Helfas did not elaborate on what he would do, nor did he reveal any information about his power.
He just expressed to the other party that he would help him solve the problem of the tree.
After knowing enough, Helfas asked the farmer a question.
"After preventing the disaster caused by the Human Face Tree, what do you want to do?"
The farmer said: "I used to have a tribe."
Helfas: "What now?"
Farmer: "No more."
Helfas: "You were kicked out?"
Farmer: "No, the tribe is gone."
Helfas suddenly understood that the tribal ruins he saw were his former tribe.
He had vaguely guessed it before, but only confirmed it now.
The farmer told Herfas that the expression on his face, which had always seemed dull, finally had some emotion and looked very delicate and soft.
It seems that his heart is not as dull as he shows.
"My mother is the leader of the tribe. My mother told me a long time ago that we are just weird food, and we are trapped by the weirdness."
"We have eaten of its fruit, and this is the price we have to pay."
After a pause, the farmer looked sideways at the ground, seemingly lost in memories.
"After hearing this, I was very unwilling. I was very, very unwilling."
"I hate that tree."
"I curse that tree."
"But one day, the tree really went crazy and ate everyone."
"The tree withered when it was about to eat me."
"I watched that tree collapse and wither, and I watched it turn into farmland."
Speaking of such a scene, the farmer should have been very sad, but Helfas saw only indifference.
Maybe it's because it's been too long, or maybe life and death have been taken lightly for people of this age.
He said.
"Always."
"I don't understand why weird people want to eat people?"
"Obviously they don't need humans as food, what do they want?"
"And what makes me even more confused is, why does it still eat people even though it knows that there is a price to pay for eating people?"
The farmer cannot understand the world, but he has his own understanding of the world.
"Later, I probably figured it out."
"This should be the law and order of this world!"
"We are just a part of this world, flowing under different forms. We are all eating each other, changing and surviving in this world."
Helfas: "What does it mean?"
Farmer: "Actually, I heard someone say a long time ago that humans, like weirdos, will never die."
Helfas: "Why can't people die?"
Farmer: "After a person dies, he is buried in the ground and rots. Then he becomes a source of nutrients for plants or is eaten by wild beasts."
"The things that make us up have not disappeared, they have just become part of this world."
"The same goes for weirdness, they don't disappear, they just change."
"From one kind of weirdness to another kind of weirdness, from one form to another form."
"The people of the tribe eat the fruits of the human-faced tree, and are eventually eaten by the human-faced tree. Life is constantly cycling through this change, and the same is true for weirdness."
"This is law and order."
Helfas: "Since you said this is the world order, why do you want to break it by force and prevent the rebirth of the human-faced tree?"
Helfas looked at the farmer quietly, and at this moment he also thought of the Golden Tribe.
He also asked this question to the leader of the other party at that time: "Why are weird things so scary? Mortals don't have any special powers, but there are still people who want to touch these scary and dangerous existences and try to master their power?"
At this time, the farmer told Helfas about his answer.
"Maybe it's because people with wisdom are not willing to follow the rules!"
"We ate the fruits of the human-faced tree, and were eventually eaten by the human-faced tree. This is the order and law of nature."
"But in the end, the people of the tribe destroyed the human face tree with their own deaths, thus creating food that can truly be eaten by people without paying a price."
The farmer looked directly at Helfas' mask and the black eyes behind the mask.
"I think this should be the power of wise people to break the rules!"
He stared directly at the weird mask, but refused to step back, as if a mortal with wisdom was challenging the weirdness and the world, saying no to the rules of this world.
The look in his eyes was so determined that Helfas lost his mind.
"That day, when I saw the birth of that farmland."
"I seemed to see everyone in the tribe shouting."
"They are telling the world that we need to change the rules and change the world."
"I think the farmland they created must have its own meaning and must be able to change something."
"I'm going to keep them."
This was the first time Helfas heard such a statement, and he suddenly became a little respectful of the farmer in front of him. He may be an ordinary person in terms of strength, but he is definitely not an ordinary person in another level.
Returned to his room.
Helfas took out a scroll. He had recently begun to use pictures to record, mainly to record weird secrets. He felt that he should use a special symbol to record, but he couldn't figure it out.
stand up.
In the end, he could only use simple drawings to replace what he wanted to record.
He draws various patterns on a piece of cloth. As for what the content is, only he himself can probably tell clearly. For example, a crying face and a few branches drawn on a vertical bar mean the tree with a human face.
【Weird·Human Face Tree】
[Characteristic 1: The power of the human-faced tree is to extract temperature and water. It can sense the surrounding living creatures, drain away all the temperature and water in the body in an instant, and finally use the roots to entangle its corpse and integrate it into the body little by little.
.]
[Characteristic 2: When the human-faced tree swallows a person, a powerful charm force will be born, which can cause hallucinations and lure living people forward. 】
[Characteristic 3: The Human Face Tree will bear fruit. When its fruit is eaten, it will be trapped near it forever and cannot leave, unless its shape and power collapse. 】
Helfas looked at what he had written quietly, and suddenly he said something.
"never mind!"
he said suddenly.
According to Helfas' point of view, the greater benefits can be gained by sealing the Human Face Tree. It is a very powerful weirdness. After sealing it, you will definitely gain more power and get a powerful sealed object.
He had been hesitating before, but in the end he gave up this plan and chose another one.
He even felt that compared to a sealed object, it had a weird power.
Some things are greater, and some powers are more unshakable.
That is expectation.
That is belief.
That is also the future.
Helfas rolled up part of the scroll, revealing a blank space, and continued to describe what he wanted to record with a twisted painting.
【Weird Bread Tree】
[Characteristic 1: No soil is needed, only sunlight and water are needed to grow a fruit called breadfruit. 】
[Characteristic 2: Replicate and propagate through the root system. As long as you plant one, you can reproduce a very large farmland. 】
[Characteristic 3: When it reproduces and gathers in large numbers, it may transform into a more advanced weird human-faced tree. 】
He put down the quill and stuffed it into the animal blood bottle nearby.
He came across a wooden basket nearby, which was filled with breadfruit.
He couldn't help but take one out and put it in his hand. The farmer's words seemed to ring in his ears again.
"Maybe it's because people with wisdom are not willing to follow the rules!"