"I send mayflies to the sky and the earth, a drop in the vast sea. I mourn for the brief moment of my life, and envy the infinity of the Yangtze River. I carry the flying immortals to fly around, and hold the bright moon until the end. I don't know how unexpected it is, but it comes suddenly, and the legacy echoes in the sad wind."

Death is an inevitable problem for everyone, and eternal life has been the goal that people have longed for since ancient times.

Human beings are afraid of death because "seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages" is born before all thoughts, all consciousness, and all divine organizations.

Life is not a conscious desire to "survive", it is just because those who "cannot survive" have been eliminated and disappeared in the long river of time, while those who remain are those who are eager to "survive".

Intelligence is a derivative of the desire to survive and a tool that serves for survival.

In other words, human beings' fear of death is an instinct, not out of human thinking. It is a basic ability engraved in DNA and inherited for 3.8 billion years.

A caught beetle will struggle desperately, and an earthworm that is stepped on will twist wildly. These human feelings and reactions are from the same origin as them.

If we don't observe everything carefully, we often forget that we are just an ordinary animal.

Compared with people or animals, plants are much happier.

They can possess it for hundreds of years. If they work hard for thousands of years, God will give them some face, and they will have no problem living for more than ten thousand years.

Among other animals, the longest-lived one is said to be the lighthouse jellyfish, which can live forever. But this kind of thing doesn't look like it has a brain.

Living without a brain will always lead to a sense of ignorance and sadness, which makes people feel very uncomfortable.

In the past, Ouyang responded with the same emotions towards trees.

He was unconscious and like a dead thing, even if he had seen a "mushroom man" who could speak before, because although the "mushroom man" could speak, he could not communicate at all.

It can only express itself according to the language it has set, and it cannot even perform basic active stress responses. Calling it a robot is a bit too high-end. It may be more appropriate to describe it as a repeater.

Can a tree become a person? Can a big banyan tree become a spirit like the grandma in "A Chinese Ghost Story"?

After living for so many years, why haven't there evolved any living beings that can think, feel pain, and have consciousness like humans?

Ouyang once thought about it, but didn't know the answer.

Until he came to the center of Pengcheng and saw such an extremely spectacular "Plant Brain".

According to the instructions on the map, this place was originally the location of Pengcheng's government office, which is also where Jingyang's government office is located, but now it is completely destroyed by an extremely huge thing that looks like a "forest pillar" standing between heaven and earth.

occupied.

This "forest pillar" is a columnar plant formed by long vine-like branches rising from the ground, and then entangled with each other, tightly and twisted together.

It looks like a cylindrical ball of wool that has been tightened by someone. The chaotic arrangement has its own order, which has an indescribable visual impact.

But overall, it's not disorganized.

These long branches are translucent, and you can clearly see the fiber texture inside and the rapid flow of juice inside, as if they are on a highway with cars speeding along.

In this way, occasionally you will see electric sparks flashing.

"It's really... spectacular."

Ouyang looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but murmur to himself.

With his "realm of heaven and man", he can naturally see what such an obvious thing is.

This is a brain grown from plants. On those translucent branches, there are a large number of protrusions, which seem to be nerve nodes. Do you see electric sparks in the translucent branches?

to convey signals.

"I made you laugh." A young male with a huge plant root attached to his back came out, stiffly gave Ouyang an ancient aristocratic salute, and then said, "It's not spectacular, but it's just barely possible.

It’s just complicated thinking.”

This man's face was extremely mechanical, expressionless, and lifeless, and his speaking tone was halting and sounded very slow.

Although the words are emotionally loaded, the tone sounds like speaking through an artificial intelligence translator, which sounds particularly awkward and has the same purpose as the previous "Mushroom Man".

No, artificial intelligence is a bit "gentler" than it. It feels like a piece of wood, too stiff.

The rhizome at the back looks like some kind of wire connecting the energy source, just like the tube behind Unit 1 in "EVA".

Facing such a weird existence, Ouyang did not dare to neglect and immediately gave him a noble salute:

"I wonder who you are?"

"I am Peng Keng, the founder of Pengcheng, Peng Zu." He said, pointing to the "Plant Brain" at the back and said, "Of course, I am referring to the... translucent big one at the back.

The head, not the mutilated body that is talking to you now."

"Uh...Eh?!" Ouyang showed a surprised expression, "Peng Zu? You are actually Peng Zu? You have lived for more than a thousand years?!"

He stared blankly at the young man in front of him, and then looked at the brain, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Maybe we should really bring Mr. Li Er here to take a look at this "old birthday boy". The two of them must have a lot in common.

"Although I do live longer than ordinary people and age more slowly, I haven't lived for a thousand years. To be precise, I didn't live for so many years, but I came back to life again after so many years."

Peng Zu controlled the young man's body and explained: "I was originally the wizard Peng in the Huangdi era. In today's terms, I was a medical officer. From that time on, my life has become like this."

"Has it been like this since the time of the Yellow Emperor?!" Ouyang was stunned for a moment by the other party's antiquity, and then immediately reacted,

"No, haven't supernatural anomalies only appeared in the past few years? How could you have such exaggerated supernatural powers before this?!"

"Supernatural power? This is not supernatural power. Everything is the product of natural selection."

"Peng Zu" shook his head, rejected Ouyang's idea, and then said: "But this is more troublesome to explain, shouldn't you introduce yourself first?

Where are you from? Why are you here? You and your companions don’t seem to be products of this world. You look a little bit like it, but your companions

…With all due respect, the colors are too bright to be the product of natural selection. In fact, you are like a supernatural force.”

"Uh...ahem." Ouyang cleared his throat and said, "I am Ouyang. If nothing else happened, it would have been more than two years before I appeared in this world."

"So you are from the future?" "Peng Zu" asked.

"Well... I guess..." Ouyang gestured at everything around him with his hand, and then said in a weird tone, "But these things here, as well as the monsters I encountered, what will I do in future generations?"

I have never seen it in the history books."

"A world that is highly similar to this world, but different at the same time. You are a future person in that world. Can you understand it this way?"

"Peng Zu" said as he spoke, the translucent "plant brain" was rapidly flowing electrons at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it seemed that it was thinking along with it.

"To put it simply, it's roughly like this..." Ouyang spread his hands and shrugged, "Actually, I'm not sure if this is the past of my world, because the history books may have been tampered with, or erased by some force.

.”

"That's impossible..." "Peng Zu" shook his head and said, "What happened must have existed, and no matter how hard you bury it, you can't hide the truth.

Even a few words will become a piece of rumor, and then continue to be circulated with a touch of unbelievable mythical attributes. They will become a nursery rhyme, or a legend, or a story to coax children, and continue to spread.

to the disappearance of civilization.”

With that said, "Peng Zu" looked at his super brain and continued: "Not to mention that such an exaggerated thing existed. Even if there are no fossils, the remains should leave some traces."

"So this is a parallel world?" Ouyang asked.

"Peng Zu" shook his head: "I don't know. I have never been to your world. Naturally, it is impossible to know how your world has developed, nor can I know the difference between the two worlds."

Ouyang thought for a moment, not wanting to dwell on such meaningless things, so he changed the topic and asked: "Then how did you become like this? Your body is a huge 'plant brain', but you control such a

The body communicates with the outside world. Is it not a supernatural force? Is it really the result of natural evolution?"

"It is not the result of completely natural evolution." "Peng Zu" explained, "Natural evolution will not evolve such a deformed species. What I became like this is actually the result of human intervention in evolution."

"Is it possible that the Yellow Emperor's era was already able to influence genes?!"

This news is far more unacceptable than supernatural interference.

Transform a person into a "tree man"?

It is something that is difficult to accomplish with modern technology. Not even Deoxys can change the genes of a race. Was there such advanced technology in ancient times?

This is a bit too exaggerated.

Could it be that super-ancient civilization really exists, and humans are not the only intelligent creatures in the long history of the earth?
Chapter completed!