It was obvious that she really wanted to facilitate this meeting.

Ye Shi thought for a moment and then said.

"It's better for me to go alone. It's safer this way."

Dora was slightly disappointed but nodded anyway.

"Okay...but you can rest assured, it said it will not hurt you."

She seemed to see the concerns in her heart.

Ye Shi smiled and said.

"I believe it, otherwise I wouldn't agree to meet it."

…

At ten o'clock in the evening, a transport plane flew over the forest on the outskirts of Port Fries and dropped a parachute.

The lizard lying next to the sacred tree raised its crested head, stared at the parachute for a while, and wanted to stretch out its paws to touch it, but soon it seemed to have heard some order, and stretched out its front paws.

He shrank back and crawled beside the sacred tree with a grunt.

From the moment he approached the edge of the forest, Ye Shi tensed up all his nerves.

It wasn't until the lizard calmed down that he breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed his nervousness.

With his feet touching the ground, he deftly put away his parachute.

The vegetation in the nearby area has been cleared away, leaving only a towering sacred tree standing in the center of the open space.

Clearing out those trees seems to be an order given by it, and the purpose is probably to allow the fertility of the soil to gather near its root system.

According to the situation on Gaia, when it is fully developed, it will form a huge tree canopy, and the area under the canopy and the area outside the canopy will form a new forest kingdom.

Staring at the entangled tree trunks, Ye Shi said hello cautiously.

"Hello... uh, can you hear me?"

His psychic powers have just awakened, and he is not very skilled in using them, making it difficult for him to communicate completely silently.

The atmosphere was quiet for a while, leaving only the gentle breeze and the rustling of leaves.

Just when Ye Shi was wondering whether his spiritual power was malfunctioning or his posture was wrong, the mysterious voice finally floated into his ears.

"Hello...is this your language? I guess it means greeting. We rarely say hello like this."

"That's right, it means greetings," Ye Shi had an expression of surprise in his eyes. He took two steps forward, looked up at the new crown of the tree and continued, "What should I call you?"

The slow voice continued to float from the darkness, directly into his mind.

"I don't have a name, and I haven't really needed that thing for a long time... You are the first one to use it, and you can call me whatever you like."

I don't know if it was an illusion, but Ye Shi always felt that there was a bit of expectation in the voice.

He hesitated for a moment and said in an uncertain tone.

"Tree of Life...what do you think of this name?"

Although the name sounded a bit rustic, he couldn't think of another name for a while.

However, even though it was a name he came up with on the spur of the moment, the huge holy tree seemed very satisfied, with its uneven crown swaying back and forth.

"Tree of life...sounds good, I thought you were going to call me slime mold or something."

Ye Shi said truthfully.

"I did think so."

"But I'm not that kind of thing at all," Tree of Life said with a hint of disdain in his voice, as if he was slurping his lips, "Slime mold... that kind of thing is too superficial, I

It should be some kind of higher existence above this."

When he said this, he paused for a moment, stared at Ye Shi standing in front of him and said.

"Thank you, young human, for bringing my compatriots from a star five light years away. I believe and am convinced that those are my compatriots. Through her narration, I finally understood my true appearance.

What is..."

Ye Shi asked blankly.

"What is it?"

"It is life itself, or in your language, it is nature...I am nature."

It seemed to let out a hearty laugh, but only Ye Shi standing here could hear it.

After a long pause, it continued.

"Thanks to your help, I finally understood my mission. I will probably sleep for a while, and during this time I will redefine my life form. I will no longer be the me before... the one who grew up in

A strain at the root of a tree, I will be the origin of everything, all living things in this forest.”

Ye Shi looked at it in surprise and stared at it for a long time.

Good guy.

This mutant slime mold has become a spirit?!

He tried to understand what it said, which probably meant that its consciousness would no longer be limited to the weak and shrinking body of the original Nago strain, but would become completely integrated with the earth.

Just like the indestructible Tree of Insof.

"Then this tree..." Ye Shi swallowed his saliva and asked.

"It's the projection I left in the world you can see, one of my countless branches." The Tree of Life said in a very soft voice, "We will probably stay with each other for a long time, of course.

…If you reject me, I will remain silent as before, and you can just pretend I don’t exist.”

Ye Shi said immediately.

"Of course we will not exclude you...In fact, I happen to bring the goodwill of our leader, and he hopes that we can coexist peacefully."

"Haha... That's the best. Please say hello to him for me." The Tree of Life said with a smile, "I like you guys too. Although it's a bit noisy, it's also quite interesting... And those things taste good.

really not bad."

Are you talking about those chemical fertilizers?

Ye Shi said with a smile.

"If you like it, I can have some sent over... Ah, but please don't do what you did before. It will be very troublesome for us."

The Tree of Life smiled kindly and said.

"Don't worry, unless you have that need, I won't do that kind of thing without permission. However, it's not good to take your things for free. Is there anything I can do that can help you?"

Ye Shi wanted to say that it would be fine as before, but when he saw the big lizard, he suddenly felt something in his heart and said.

"Can you keep dangerous alien species away from the Baiyue Strait?"

Tree of Life asked curiously.

"How far away...how far do you mean? There must be a limit."

Ye Shi wanted to take out the map and draw, but thought that the other party might not be able to understand it, so he said.

"Start from your position and go all the way to the beach!"

The distance from here to the seaside is about 100 kilometers, including several settlements in the Baiyue Strait.

It is enough to use this area as an activity area for alliance residents.

As for the remaining vast forest, it is left to the players to fight monsters, hunt and gather.

Relatively speaking, this is a good compromise.

The Tree of Life nodded and said.

"It's easy. Just let my child stay here. Other beasts will naturally avoid it if they smell its scent. If there is a herd of beasts migrating to your settlement, I will let it drive it away for you. Of course, if

If you encounter any danger when you go deep into the forest, then it's none of my business. That's part of natural selection."

"I understand that what we are praying for is just a relatively peaceful place to live. In the future, our settlements will also be concentrated on the coastlines on both sides of the strait, and will not continue to go deeper into the forests."

Looking at the huge lizard, Ye Shi hesitated for a moment and said.

"But are you sure this guy won't hurt anyone? I feel... it doesn't look like a vegetarian."

"Haha, it is indeed not completely vegetarian. It mainly eats a kind of ants that are about as high as its toes. But don't worry, I have told it not to attack you. As long as you don't take the initiative to hurt it, most of them will

It is still very docile... I can assure you."

Is it docile?

Looking at the big guy snoring at the base of the sacred tree, Ye Shi couldn't imagine how docile it looked.

After all, it had just gone berserk just over an hour ago, knocking over a forest with a single blow of its tail.

However, since the Tree of Life has already guaranteed it, Ye Shi still believes its words.

"I will pass your message on to others."

"Thank you," the Tree of Life shook its crown slightly, and suddenly seemed to remember something, then continued, "By the way, there is one more thing."
To be continued...