GBP Chapter 220 The Clever Pine Tree
Chapter 220 The Clever Pine Tree
This fire, which was deliberately started, burned until nightfall before naturally extinguishing itself.
The fire was located in an open area by the river, and with the Black King Serpent controlling it, it couldn't spread anywhere else and was firmly fixed in place.
After it burned, only ashes and some blackened bones remained.
Under the sustained high temperatures, the bodies of the weaker evolved creatures were completely burned to ashes.
The more powerful second-tier evolved creatures, however, retained their hardest bones.
However, none of this is a big deal.
When the ashes were only warm enough to be touched, Cangnian saw that there were many tiny roots probing towards the pile of ashes.
However, these did not belong to the pine trees, but to some small, evolved plants in the surrounding grassland.
They were closest to this place and could already sense the benefits within the ashes!
"Ow~!"
Seeing this, Cangnian had the little sable open the spatial gate again.
The next second, a portal appeared in front of the pile of ashes, and another portal appeared a few meters above the ground near the trunk of the pine tree.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh~!
Then, the black king cobra swept its tail back and forth, and ashes fell gently near the pine tree.
Sha sha...
Within seconds, the ground cracked open, and countless tender white roots rose from the ground, all plunging into the ashes as if drawing energy.
Since it was for pine trees, Cangnian was too lazy to have the little sable steep and settle the ash to separate the evolution factors.
Evolutionary animals only need to extract nutrients from food.
Why not just let evolved plants eat them, especially such massive plants as pine trees?
Apart from a very few special abilities that fall into this category, other evolved plants cannot directly consume the corpses of evolved animals to obtain the evolutionary factors within them.
But it's fine once it's burned to ashes.
When burned to ash, it becomes inorganic matter that can be directly "eaten" by plants.
Moreover, the ashes of those evolved animals, even without evolutionary factors, might be highly nutritious food for evolved plants.
The pine tree's actions somewhat confirmed some of Cang Nian's conjectures.
At the very least, the ashes of evolved animals can be "eaten" by evolved plants.
……
The next morning, on the sixty-first day after birth.
As soon as he got up, Cang Nian felt that the pine tree seemed to have grown a bit.
However, it seems that it hasn't reached the point of evolutionary transformation yet.
But that's understandable.
Five days ago, he discovered the first naturally evolved creature that had reached the second tier in his own territory.
Therefore, even those evolved creatures that fled from the west, chased by the insect swarm, may have been the result of a large area of evolved creatures gathering together.
However, there are actually not many second-order evolved creatures among them.
Those that attack the pine trees are only the herbivorous evolved animals, and there are even fewer second-tier ones.
Therefore, such a size is not enough for the pine tree to evolve to the third stage, which is not surprising to Cang Nian.
However, after glancing at the spot where the ashes had fallen yesterday, Cang Nian couldn't help but look up at the pine tree.
"This guy is pretty smart!"
Cang Nian couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
There was no other reason than that on the ashes, clusters of small, evolved plants of various shapes were taking root and growing lushly.
If Cangnian remembers correctly, yesterday when the ashes were still warm, many small evolved plants used their roots to take root and try to evolve with the help of the ashes.
However, the pine tree at that time cherished the ashes very much, to the point of being extremely meticulous.
If any foolish evolved plant dares to steal its ashes, it will attack the opponent with the pine cones that grow after a short rest, smashing the opponent's leaves and stems.
But now, it seems to have become indifferent, letting anyone come and settle down here. It's like an ordinary pine tree that can't be moved, completely unconcerned.
But Cangnian knew very well that this guy was raising pigs!
This is similar to how one's own family used to capture large first-order evolutionary creatures, feed them the evolutionary factors, and promote them to second order before eating them.
To put it bluntly, the second-order evolution factors in these ashes have been completely absorbed by the pine tree.
But that's not enough for it to evolve to the third stage.
And in the ashes, there are mostly first-order evolution factors.
However, these first-order evolution factors are useless to it and cannot promote its evolution.
Therefore, it generously shared all these first-order evolution factors with other evolving plants.
Those first-order evolved plants, after absorbing the first-order evolution factors from the ashes, undergo a qualitative change due to quantitative change, and can then evolve to the second order.
Once you reach the second level, you'll be on the same level as the pine tree.
If that's the case, then burning their "corpses" will yield second-order evolution factors!
In this way, when the pine trees eat, it promotes evolution.
Regardless of whether there are any problems with this calculation, pine trees cannot perform calculations, but at least it is theoretically feasible.
crunch...
Then, Cangnian saw right under his nose an evolved plant of unknown species taking root in the ashes. Suddenly, it grew taller and larger!
However, just as it started to grow, it suddenly grew even taller!
This isn't because it continued to evolve, but rather because a thick clump of roots beneath it lifted it up!
The roots below forked, tearing the roots of this evolved plant into pieces!
Swish swish~!
The next second, a burst of pine cone bullets flew straight at the newly evolved plant, riddling it with holes.
The whole process went smoothly.
For the pine tree, which is almost at the third tier of evolutionary plants, the other evolutionary plants are basically weaklings.
Even if they are of the same order.
But whether in terms of size, level of evolution, or special abilities, other evolved plants are completely outclassed by pine trees.
The pine tree fattened up the evolved plant, killed it, and then tossed it aside.
There, the remains of several evolved plants already lay.
Sha sha...
Sensing that Cangnian was observing it, the pine tree shook its needles and pointed with its roots at the corpses of the evolved plants. Then, tender white roots grew from the thick roots, and a simple line drawing of a flame was drawn on the thick roots.
Although it was somewhat abstract, Cangnian still understood it.
The pine tree is asking itself to burn the evolved plant it killed to ashes and then scatter them around it.
"Ow~!"
Cangnian simply nodded in response.
He had no reason to refuse.
Because the pine tree was unable to move, it did not participate in the previous battle against the queen insect. For whatever reason, it was not appropriate for me to use Tier 3 evolution meat to upgrade its evolution level.
But it is something that Cangnian is willing to see: that Cangnian finds a way to improve itself.
As for pine trees randomly killing evolved plants, wouldn't the ancients find it creepy?
That's just worrying unnecessarily.
For pine trees, viewing those evolved plants is no different than how an old person views a rabbit or a groundhog.
Even if the pine tree killed its own kind, Cang Nian would not look at it with any strange eyes.
My own family has even killed a tiger!
Powerful evolved beings are forged by stepping on the bones of countless living beings!