Reborn as a tiger cub, I'm too weak, so I can only rely on self-discipline.

Chapter 137 Pine Tree Evolution!

Whoosh whoosh whoosh~!

After the evolved pine tree showed its submission, the fisherman glanced at Cang Nian, and seeing him nod, he began to evenly sprinkle evolution factors around the evolved pine tree.

The pine tree had already been quite friendly before its evolution, and now it has shown its submission. There is no reason for Cangnian to disagree.

After all, unlike the previous male wild boar, it didn't have a grudge against its own family.

Moreover, relatively speaking, the improvement of intelligence in evolved plants seems to be much slower than that in evolved animals.

Many animals naturally possess intelligence comparable to that of human children, and after evolution, most of them can approach the intelligence level of ordinary humans.

Whether evolved plants originally possessed intelligence is still uncertain, but even those that have evolved mostly act on instinct.

For example, during the previous wildfires, larger evolved plants would squeeze out sap to try to extinguish the fire and protect themselves, while smaller evolved plants would "run away as fast as they could".

The ash left by the mycelium attracted many small, evolved plants to take root there.

Even though Cangnian and his group were entrenched near the mycelium ash, cleaning up the small evolved plants from time to time, quite a few of them still managed to take root, as if they had no brains.

After repeated trials and tribulations, some, driven by instinctual fear, retreated to take root in other ashes as a second choice.

Evolved pine trees, capable of understanding speech and thinking, are actually an anomaly among evolving plants.

After the fisherman scattered the evolution factor on the ground, tender white roots sprouted from the ground again, gradually "eating" the evolution factor.

Soon, the fisherman poured all the evolution factors from his snakeskin bag into it, but the evolving pine tree showed no signs of evolutionary change.

At this moment, without Cangnian's prompting, the little sable opened a small portal and sprinkled evolution factors onto the ground.

crunch...

Just then, the soil around the trunk of the Evolution Pine Tree began to rise and crack, revealing lines that stretched outwards!

Immediately afterwards, the trunk of the evolved pine tree also became visibly thicker!

Its branches, layer upon layer, grow longer and longer, making the area it shades from the sun even wider.

Seeing this, Cang Nian and his family quickly retreated.

Although everyone knew that the evolving pine tree wouldn't just evolve and destroy itself, such an astonishing change still caused an instinctive sense of unease.

After retreating several hundred meters, Cang Nian was able to take in the entirety of the evolving pine tree.

Under the bright moonlight, its very top spire visibly rises, gradually unfurling more tender buds.

And those tender buds, just as they sprouted, gradually grew longer and stretched into branches, with more slender branches extending from them, sprouting dense needle-like leaves, looking lush and green.

This growth process took much longer than the evolution of animals like Cang Nian, and it finally stopped after an unknown period of time.

Because it is an evolved plant, it obtains nutrients directly from the soil, so it does not need to prepare food in advance like the Cang Nian family.

The pine tree's food is right next to its roots, or rather, it is itself in the food.

It's hard to judge how tall it is now just by looking at it, but compared to before, its height has probably increased by about half.

The increase in size is far more than 1.5 times.

Now, at its largest point, the diameter of its canopy is estimated to be over thirty meters. It is straight, long, and symmetrical, just like a pagoda!

Just then, Cang Nian suddenly smelled a faint fragrance that was clearly attractive to him.

Looking at the tiger dad and his companions, they were also twitching their noses, as if they had found something delicious.

"Tiger! There seems to be a smell, but I can't quite put my finger on it."

It smells so nice, just smelling it makes my mouth water!

What is this thing?

At this moment, even the fisherman with the worst sense of smell realized what was happening and said in confusion.

Zhizhi~!

Meanwhile, the little sable was jumping up and down, pointing at the evolutionary pine tree, looking extremely excited.

"Could it be... that the pine cone has ripened?"

At this moment, Cang Nian made a suspicious guess.

When the little sable first arrived at this new habitat, it noticed the anomaly of the evolved pine tree and said that eating the pine cone would definitely be very beneficial, but it was far from mature.

Now, the evolved pine tree has undergone tremendous changes and has reached the second level. Could this promote the maturation of pine cones?

Thinking this, Cangnian quickly arrived at the Evolution Pine Tree and began climbing up it.

Although the evolution of the pine tree has changed dramatically, there was no need to search. Cang Nian found the huge pine cone simply by following the direction of the fragrant aroma.

When I first arrived at this habitat, this pine cone was about the same size as me, probably weighing around ten kilograms.

After the spiritual energy revival tide, Cangnian did not forget it. At the beginning, this thing grew to about 20 to 30 kilograms.

The last time I observed it, it had grown to about fifty kilograms.

Now, with the evolution of pine trees, it is over a meter tall, over half a meter in diameter, and weighs over a hundred kilograms!

Smelling the incredibly enticing aroma, Cang Nian couldn't resist reaching out his paws, wanting to pry out the pine nuts inside and taste them.

Previously, only small animals like sables, whose diets included pine nuts, could sense its extraordinary nature.

Now, it has such an amazing attraction for all living things!

Obviously, eating it will have considerable benefits!

Sha sha...

But just then, the branches around the pine cone surrounded it, protecting it in the middle.

"Hmm? Could it be that after it evolved, its intelligence increased, and it developed a protective mindset towards its offspring?"

No, it's the pine trees that grow from its pine nuts that are considered its offspring.

For it, pine nuts should be considered fertilized eggs?

It produces hundreds or even thousands of pine cones, if not thousands. With so many pine cones, would it still protect the pine nuts like this?

Didn't it previously use pine cones to shoot wild boars? Or does this large pine cone hold special significance for it?

Upon seeing this, Cang Nian frowned.

When he tried to test the evolved pine tree before, he tried to threaten it with pine cones, but the evolved pine tree did not react at the time.

Therefore, when he was taming the evolved pine tree, he never thought of adding this condition.

But now that the Evolved Pine Tree has evolved to the second stage, if it doesn't want to give it up, does that mean we have to fight?

hiss~!

Zhizhi~!

Ouch~!

Meanwhile, the other animals followed, crowding around the pine cone with longing in their eyes.

Woof!

Cang Nian looked down and saw that Tiger Dad, Tiger Mom, Tiger Brother, Little Sable, and Black King Snake had all arrived. The fisherman must have put a discipline on himself, as he climbed up the mountain with great speed.

Only Pipi, with its front paws resting on the tree trunk, stuck out its tongue and stomped its feet.

Based on birth days, Pipi isn't much older than Cangnian.

But it had never learned to climb trees before, so even though it was physically fit, it just couldn't get up.