Chapter 549 Giant Eucalyptus Tree
The roots of plants grow in the ground and absorb nutrients from the soil to survive. But since the end of the world, viruses have appeared, and everything in the world has received the key to evolution. After realizing the opportunity for evolution, not even one plant has become weak before the end. The unbearable grass will also grow into a bloodthirsty plant mutant.
As for this strange plant growing in a small town, before the end came, it was a small eucalyptus tree that had only grown for less than three years.
Eucalyptus trees grow extremely fast, and their roots absorb water and nutrients from the soil at a rate that ordinary plants cannot beat. It is this kind of plant that grows quickly and is also harmful to the environment. Farmers in cities and towns wait until their growth reaches a certain level. When the time came, he cut it off and sold it.
Although the money earned from planting and selling trees in this way is not much, the growth time of eucalyptus trees is short, and they can grow taller than other trees in just a few years. This makes local farmers interested in the miraculous power of eucalyptus trees. Plants are profitable.
Local residents who understood this interest relationship soon planted eucalyptus trees in large areas. However, as the area expanded, the water content of the land gradually decreased, even affecting the level of groundwater.
A few months before the apocalypse, a house in the town even suffered a ground subsidence, causing one death and three injuries. It was this accident that made the town government understand the dangers of overplanting eucalyptus trees, and drastically reduced the risk of planting eucalyptus trees. Cut down eucalyptus forests.
The eucalyptus forest that originally occupied 30% of the town's territory was cut down to only 2% in just one week.
After the arrival of the virus, the eucalyptus tree has evolved, but this evolution is only limited to the eucalyptus tree gaining the wisdom of a normal three-year-old human, but this is enough for it.
Looking at the 'similar' people who were cut down and only tree stumps were left around, the hatred of an alien species towards the slaughter of the same species appeared in the heart of the mutated eucalyptus tree. This small town does not have much armed force, only one police station. The total number of people working from the director to the odd jobs was only twenty. When the virus broke out, most of them were still asleep and turned into bloodthirsty zombies.
Six of the twenty police officers turned into the first generation of original zombies. Before the remaining police officers could rush back to the police station to fight with weapons, the entire small town fell in just one night.
The zombies walking on the streets and the mutated beasts wandering in the fields are roaring all the time, while the remaining survivors are shivering and hiding in the houses, afraid to come out. The human beings in the town have lost their temper in one night. The traces were completely lost, except for the appearance of large swaths of monsters.
Such a mutated eucalyptus tree with only the wisdom of a child suddenly lost its target. However, this did not reduce its desire for revenge. It wanted to take revenge on humans for planting and cutting down the same kind at will for their own benefit.
The mutated eucalyptus tree has no ability to move, nor the ability to transform into a human form. It is still a plant, just a eucalyptus tree with intelligence and enhanced ability to absorb water.
In the following time, the eucalyptus tree continues to absorb the surrounding water. It took two weeks to absorb the nutrients and water before evolution. Now it only takes one day to absorb the nutrients and water. The extremely fast absorption allows the trunk and branches of the eucalyptus tree to get Due to rapid expansion, it was originally just a small eucalyptus tree that had grown for several years. In just two months, it occupied a small area of a small town, and even spread at a faster rate, like cancer cells. Growing and mutating like crazy.
At this time, the mutated eucalyptus trees, which were no longer satisfied with the thin nutrients and water in the ground, turned their absorption targets to the walking monsters on the ground.
Zombies can still be dealt with. They are sensitive to sound but lack intelligence, so Eucalyptus can also use some simple methods to 'hook' the zombies into its absorption range.
But those mutant beasts with powerful abilities cannot absorb them. In terms of number, zombies are obviously redundant mutant beasts, but the nutrients and energy in the body of a mutant beast are five times that of a human, which means that it takes five zombies to absorb it. It's worth absorbing a mutated beast.
Mutated beasts have also been favored by viruses in the apocalypse, and have the same intelligence as mutated eucalyptus trees. There are only two ways to absorb them, or to directly extend the roots of the tree and fight the mutant beasts, and finally defeat them. After absorbing it, it is obvious that this is almost impossible. Even the simplest mutant beast has evolved to the flying quality on the claw blade. It can cut off the roots of the tree with just one scratch. If you are not lucky, It may even attract more mutant beasts to attack you, which is an unwise choice.
All mutated eucalyptus trees chose the second method, planting their own mutated seeds into zombie bodies that had been sucked by themselves, allowing the zombies to become attackers on their behalf.
One zombie may not be a match for the mutant beast, but five, ten, twenty, this is another concept. The numerical suppression soon allowed the mutant eucalyptus to obtain the nutrients and nutrients from the first mutant beast. water, and also obtained an unexpected result - a gene core.
There is a huge amount of energy hidden in this core. Just absorbing a gene core immediately enhances the wisdom of the mutated eucalyptus tree, no longer remaining at the level of a three-year-old child.
Design traps, direct zombie attacks, and cultivate plant zombies and plant mutant beasts.
In three years, Eucalyptus took over the entire town, controlled all the zombies and mutant beasts, and took it as its own. At this time, there were no other 'foreign objects' and everything was controlled by itself. , everything is a part of him, which makes the mutated eucalyptus tree's desire for revenge gradually calm down.
But at the same time, we must also consider that the eucalyptus tree needs to maintain its own survival. During the day, the plant zombies and plant mutants can go outside for photosynthesis, and at night, they return to the house to be absorbed by the roots that protrude from the ground.
The small town is surrounded by mountains, with only a railway and road connecting it to the outside. Except for a few unexplained zombies and mutant beasts running in from time to time, the entire small town is still very peaceful.
This strange peace was completely broken until Duan Fei's arrival.
I wanted to design a trap to lure Duan Fei out, but what I didn't expect was that a hellfire phoenix attacked directly. The appearance of the extremely high-temperature hellfire directly burned to death a thick and thick root that he had hidden under the street. Only then did the mutated eucalyptus realize that Duan Fei was no ordinary prey and quickly changed his 'battle strategy'.
It changes from a sneak attack to a collective attack of the zombie swarm, but it will soon be discovered that this zombie swarm attack is actually increasing the ashes.