In the distance, a hermit crab is crawling forward dragging a thick conch shell.
On the pier farther away, wooden boats are rippling with the waves, and fishermen are collecting fishing nets on the boats...
Lin Zhiming turned sideways and looked at the man beside him.
This man is probably around 50 or 60 years old. He is of yellow race and has dark skin, similar to that of a native of Napa Island.
Just looking at this man's appearance, it was difficult for Lin Zhiming to connect him with the leader of the Tree of Life, because this man looked so ordinary, so ordinary that you wouldn't even notice him if you threw him away from the group of fishermen in the distance.
I can find him again.
Such an ordinary person actually created the Tree of Life, which was really surprising to Lin Zhiming.
"What's your name?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"My name is Wu Xing." The other party replied.
Wu Xing?
This name looks like the name of a person from the Dragon Kingdom!
"People from the Dragon Kingdom?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"My mother is from the Dragon Kingdom, and my father is from the Tairen Kingdom." Wu Xing explained.
"No wonder the skin is darker than that of ordinary Dragon Country people!" Lin Zhiming said. The so-called Tairen Country is the country to which Napa Island belongs. It is located in the south of Southeast Asia. It is an economically underdeveloped country, and its main industries are fishing and tourism.
s country.
"Are you interested in taking a shot?" Wu Xing pointed to the fishing rod in his hand.
"Come." Lin Zhiming directly took the fishing rod from the opponent's hand.
Wu Xing smiled, put his hands on the chair, looked at the fish float in the distance and said, "I heard that you also like fishing."
"Well, I liked it for a while, but then I thought it was too much of a waste of time, so I stopped liking it," Lin Zhiming said.
"Fishing is a very interesting sport." Wu Xing said.
"It's not bad." Lin Zhiming nodded, looking directly at the fish float in front of him, without even looking at Wu Xing.
Time passed little by little.
More than ten minutes passed in the blink of an eye.
The fish float finally started to move.
"The big fish has taken the bait." Lin Zhiming said with a smile.
"The fish is under the water, how do you know whether it is big or small?" Wu Xing asked.
"You can tell by the movement of the fish float. The small fish won't make such a big movement." Lin Zhiming said.
"This is not necessarily true. People cannot be deceived by superficial phenomena." Wu Xing said.
Lin Zhiming smiled and said, "I have a pair of eyes that can see the essence through phenomena."
"I've also heard that your eyes have always been very good," Wu Xing said.
Lin Zhiming smiled and pressed the fishing rod in his hand slightly.
The fishing line stretched straight for an instant, and then began to move uneasily.
Obviously, the hook just now penetrated the fish's mouth.
"It's time to close the line." Wu Xing said.
"The fish is too big. If you reel in the line now, it will easily break. You should let him go for a while and wait until he is exhausted before reeling in. Only in this way can you be foolproof." Lin Zhiming said.
Wu Xing raised the corners of his mouth slightly and said, "You are really an experienced fisherman."
"Although I don't fish anymore, I have been fishing for a long time and have gained experience," Lin Zhiming said.
"Can you teach me?" Wu Xing asked.
"We have different paths and we don't want to work together." Lin Zhiming shook his head.
"It's really unkind." Wu Xing laughed.
Lin Zhiming didn't speak, just looked at the moving fishing line in front of him.
At this moment, Lin Zhiming suddenly lifted the fishing rod in his hand.
The next moment, the fish in the water flew up from the water and flew towards Lin Zhiming.
This is a sea fish that Lin Zhiming cannot name. It looks a bit like a grouper.
Just when the fish came to Lin Zhiming, Wu Xing grabbed a small dagger next to him.
A cold light flashed past, and the fish was cut open in the air.
With a snap, Wu Xing grabbed a piece of fish.
This piece of fish meat belongs to the abdomen, is bright red in color, and looks a bit like tuna meat.
Wu Xing picked up the knife, cut the fish meat into two parts, and handed one of the pieces to Lin Zhiming.
Lin Zhiming took the fish meat in his hand.
Because the knife was fast enough, the fish meat was still twitching slightly.
Lin Zhiming glanced at Wu Xing.
Wu Xing grabbed the fish and stuffed it into his mouth, then took a hard bite.
"Do you like eating raw food?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"Raw meat is the original taste." Wu Xing said.
Lin Zhiming smiled and put the fish aside.
"I don't like eating raw food." Lin Zhiming said.
Wu Xing also laughed and said, "Eating raw meat is a primitive instinct of human beings."
"So we are not primitive humans." Lin Zhiming said.
"I have lived here since I was a child. It is very hot here and it is difficult to preserve raw food, so after we catch the fish, we just disembowel it and eat the raw meat," Wu Xing said.
"Is this why you can accept the fruit?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"Yes." Wu Xing nodded and said, "In my eyes, there is no essential difference between human flesh, fish meat, or meat from pigs, cattle and sheep."
"When did you learn to make fruits?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"Many years ago." Wu Xing said with a look of reminiscence. "That year I was just a young man. Before that year, I had never left this island. I was full of imagination and longing for the outside world, but my
But my father never let me leave here, so I stole a boat with one of my friends and sailed to the sea at night."
"Then what?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"Not long after we set sail, we encountered a storm. The ship's engine broke down, and the ship was blown to an unknown world by the storm. We have been drifting on the ship for two months," Wu Xing said.
"Two months? What do you do for a living?" Lin Zhiming asked with a strange expression.
"You should know." Wu Xing said.
"Human flesh?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"Once people go crazy from hunger, they are no different from animals." Wu Xing said calmly.
Lin Zhiming's face tightened.
Obviously, Wu Xing ate his companions during those two months of drifting with the crowd.
Perhaps this is why Wu Xing was able to create the Tree of Life without any mental barriers.
"Many people always find fruit disgusting, but no matter how disgusting it is, there is no corpse that has been left in the tropical sea for more than a month. So we can only say that people today have poor tolerance." Wu Xing said with a smile.
"What happened next?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"Later I drifted to the battlefield outside the territory." Wu Xing said.
Lin Zhiming's pupils shrank slightly.
"I set foot on the battlefield outside the territory. I thought it was the colorful world outside. I came to the battlefield full of excitement, and I was quickly taught a lesson by the people above. If I hadn't been smart, my body would have been destroyed long ago.
Hollowed out, you know, there are people who specialize in organ harvesting in foreign battlefields." Wu Xing said.
"Indeed!" Lin Zhiming nodded.
"After I narrowly escaped, in order to avoid encountering similar dangers again, I could only walk deep into the outer battlefield. During this period, I saw too many predators of the weak and the strong. I always thought that the outer battlefield was the outside world, so
When I saw all that, I was completely disappointed with the outside world. It was completely different from the colorful world I imagined. It was a world of cannibalism, in which the weak only had their lives divided among themselves. I once saw a person with my own eyes.
He was dismembered and sold," Wu Xing said.
Lin Zhiming's face was solemn.
For a young man who is full of expectations for the outside world, the foreign battlefield is enough to destroy all his expectations for the outside world and leave an indelible mark on the other party's heart.
Obviously, Wu Xing's trip to foreign battlefields laid the foundation for many of his future actions.
In fact, if Wu Xing hadn't drifted to the battlefield outside the territory, there might not have been a Tree of Life in this world.
"I was relatively lucky. I encountered some opportunities when I went deep into the foreign battlefields, and these opportunities also gave me the capital to survive on the foreign battlefields. I spent several years, almost all of the foreign battlefields.
I walked through dangerous areas," Wu Xing said.
"Did the technology for making fruits also be obtained during this period?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"Yes!" Wu Xing nodded and said, "I found a book on it. It was a book that recorded many scientific and technological achievements of the Duke people. When I found the book, I realized
This may be the opportunity for me to become the master of this world, so I took him away from the extraterrestrial battlefield and came to the real outside world."
"Then what?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"Then I found some like-minded people, and we worked hard to apply the technology in the book to reality, and finally developed a machine that can make fruits. When the first machine appeared, the Tree of Life
The predecessor has also been officially established. As for what happened next, you should be familiar with it." Wu Xing said.
"So the reason why you created the Tree of Life is because you want to become the master of this world?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"Yes, is this reason enough?" Wu Xing said with a smile.
"Why?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"Is there any need to ask why? Then let me ask you, why do you keep climbing up like this?" Wu Xing asked.
"I want to be free from the rules one day, and I want to be carefree for the people I love," Lin Zhiming said.
"The same is true for me, but we use different methods." Wu Xing said.
"We are different. I climb up, but I will not step down on others, nor will I make myself stronger by enslaving and devouring others!" Lin Zhiming shook his head.
"It's just that the methods are different, but the end result is the same, that is, we all have to transcend the rules of this world. Those years on the battlefield outside the territory made me understand a truth, this world should be one of the weak and the strong.
You should be devoured by the strong. If you don't want to be devoured, you can only become the master of this world!" Wu Xing said seriously.