Chapter 775 Shaping and Awakening
Just overnight, great changes have taken place around Orthanc Tower.
The soil has turned the ground into a light purple, and the nutrient solution continuously transported from the southern cave is transported in translucent pipes, just like the blood vessels of the earth. The tree man felt very curious, so he dug it open with his hands. The soil with the neural network immediately adjusts the direction of nutrient solution transportation to avoid the breach. The tree man waited quietly, and the excavated soil was slowly replenished. After a while, no traces could be seen.
The gardener dragon jumped over and said to the tree man who was causing damage: "This is not good!" After saying that, he walked away wagging his slender tail, leaving the tree man embarrassed.
The four buildings are clustered in the southern part of Orthanc Tower, near where the goblin workshops used to be. Every building is an incubation room for Z-worms. They are all alive and shaped like a large upside-down bowl. Z-worms can increase their numbers through their own proliferation and mitosis. They can also use the reproduction method of ghost spacecraft organisms to directly produce formed eggs. The incubation room imitates the reproductive and energy supply organs of the ghost ship, centrally storing nutrients and generating energy to continuously create worker insects.
Hundreds of worker insects are busy constantly, collecting various materials everywhere. The biggest source of materials is of course Saruman's workshop. Floods only change the shape and location of materials, unlike fires which burn them. So these hard-working workers just have to do a lot of errands to find wood, belts, gears, and plenty of metals and ores.
These will not be transported to the incubation room, but will be concentrated in the synthesis room. Here is a huge wriggling stomach, shaped like a sea cucumber. When materials enter from one end, they are classified and synthesized. When they come out from the other end, the composition is relatively simple. There are usually dozens of such organs in a ghost ship, which are used to digest various things eaten and to synthesize special organs such as shells and hyperspace generator capsules.
In case Rohan's cavalry reinforcements don't come, Zhao Mai will need enough troops to protect the safety of the tree people. It is most appropriate to leave this matter to Jumping Dog. Although jumping dogs can be synthesized directly from the incubator, jumping dogs can only fight and are basically unable to work. Making a bunch of them during non-war times obviously takes up too much nutrients collected by the soil. So the Z-worms concentrated the materials needed by the jumping dogs into a pool, where the larvae Z-worms could quickly be armed into jumping dogs, and even the worker insects could transform into warriors when they came in.
The tree man looked around, very curious about Z-worms. Treebeard carefully avoided the busy workers, fearing that he would crush a few to death. Zhao Mai smiled at him after seeing it and said, "Don't worry, just walk normally, they will avoid you."
"This is also your creation? Is it the sixth largest race?"
"Yes, this can be said to be the sixth largest race. They have a strong ability to adapt and change. They are already very different from when they were first created. They have learned many abilities and specialties of other creatures and are still growing slowly. .”
"I envy them so much." Treebeard said suddenly: "The world will always change, and the mountains will turn into plains, but we tree people will never change. This also means that our ending will not change either."
"Don't be so pessimistic. Look at humans. They don't have your strength, persistence and patience, nor your longevity. They can still create their own civilization. You are just too closed-minded and have been using ancient wisdom and knowledge. But you didn’t learn anything new. There are many woods in this world, but you just guard the Fagon Forest and seal it here. All the trees and flowers in the world are your responsibility. If you fulfill your responsibility, you will naturally be able to live in this world. It will exist for a long time and develop as it develops.”
Treebeard was stunned. He had never thought of this. When the trees decreased and the forest shrank, he lamented and grieved, but he never stepped out of his circle to increase the area of trees and forests. He had also heard about those emerging woods from the wind, but he just didn't have the courage to take a look. "The tree men fell because of this." Treebeard sighed. He immediately stepped on the soil under his feet, looked at the Z insects and Gardener Dragons who were busy everywhere, and said to Zhao Mai, "No more."
Treebeard staggered away, spending more time, more energy, and more enthusiasm communicating with Gardener Dragon. It takes root in the soil and shares its thoughts with the Z-worm. Z-worms are the creatures most proficient in change, while tree people are least good at it but what they need is the ability to change. Maybe they can have a good interaction with each other.
On the other hand, if someone is building construction in front of your house, I believe no one will be in a good mood. From time to time Saruman went to the window and looked out with a gloomy face. Wearing a white robe, he looks like a ghost, and he is a ghost with powerful magic. No one can guarantee that he is not looking for Zhao Mai's flaws and opportunities to attack. It's just that he has anger and intention to hurt Zhao Mai in his heart, so the eyes he shoots will make Zhao Mai alert. Therefore, every time Saruman saw Zhao Mai waving to him, he knew that his actions had been discovered again. The white-robed wizard then changed his target. He might as well harm the bugs and trees running around here first.
Zhao Mai thought of this after being watched by Saruman for the first time, so he put a worker insect on each tree man. Through the breath soil under his feet and the Insect Heart Ring in his hand, Zhao Mai was able to know all the hostility against Z Insects around him, so every plan of Saruman was discovered. The white-robed wizard believed that Zhao Mai was concentrating on waiting for him to make a mistake. As long as he opened the Orthanc Tower's defense a little, this cunning guy would definitely find it.
The two of them were wary of each other and did not dare to relax for a moment. Zhao Mai always keeps the food reserves with him and never lets him go away. As for the Gardener Dragon, that doesn't matter much. Even if it is destroyed, it will not hurt the little flower, so it is suitable to be placed outside as a bait. "Hey, I always feel like something is missing..."
Zhao Mai scratched his head and thought for a while, and then he was shocked to realize why the "boy" mouse was missing? "Didn't you throw it into the soil and renovate it on the facade?" Xiaohua's words made Zhao Mai break into a cold sweat, and he hurried over to dig up the soil.
"Don't let me bury you alive in the soil!" When I opened it, I saw that the tooth-exploding rat was safe and sound, curled up in the pit and sleeping peacefully. Xirang received an order to digest all the goblins, but he encountered an explosive-toothed rat who drank the Tarrasque potion and gained super life. He encountered an insurmountable obstacle. Relying on its strong recovery power, while the goblin was transformed by the medicine, it was also transformed by the Z-worm, and great changes took place inside its body.
Soil can provide nutrients for all living things, and tooth-exploding rats are no exception. He was buried in the earth, and all the materials he needed to survive and transform his body were there. Countless root tentacles are connected to it, wrapping it like a chrysalis. Now, the chrysalis was opened by Zhao Mai, and it was finally time for the tooth-exploding mouse to wake up.
"I was thinking, it's time to wake up." His first sentence was: "I feel refreshed and definitely become smarter!"