The sound was exceptionally deep and deafening, like muffled thunder booming in their ears, making the brother and sister dizzy and causing them to sway and fall back down as soon as they stood up.
It took Wang Lan quite a while to come to her senses.
He squinted at Sun Muchen beside him, then got up, half-knelt on the ground, and shouted loudly, "Who! Who is it?!"
"I'm asking you... what are you?"
The voice, like muffled thunder, rang out again, carrying a hint of accusation. It made Wang Lan's ears ache terribly. He quickly covered Sun Muchen's ears, frowning as he replied, "What?! Who are you?!"
A moment later…
The voice replied, "I..."
Wang Lan frowned and looked ahead. He recognized that the sound was coming from in front of him.
At that moment, the white mist ahead seemed to be blown by the wind, slowly drifting to both sides, and the silhouette of the tree trunk became clear and came into the sight of the brother and sister.
"I am…"
"Tree!"
The brother and sister were immediately taken aback.
The brown curtain wall in front of me is indeed the trunk of a large tree!
As the tree responded, the wrinkles on its enormous trunk began to twist and writhe in a strange way, like flowing water.
The folds continued to converge toward the center, and a black slit appeared in the siblings' sight.
Then, with the flow of folds.
The gap slowly opened.
It was as if an endless abyss had been exposed before our eyes.
Countless vines emerged from the opening, then intertwined with each other, forming a giant vine ball that finally settled at the center of the gap.
It looks like a green eyeball!
The brother and sister were stunned.
Has the tree come to life?!
"What... exactly are you?"
The sound of the trees rang out again, booming loudly.
Sun Muchen frowned upon hearing this. He unleashed two bursts of energy near Wang Lan's and his own ears, then looked at the tree and said, "My name is Sun Muchen, and this is my brother, Wang Lan. We meant no offense."
"These are your names, right..."
The tree's voice rang out, then continued, "I'm not interested in your names. I'm asking, what species are you?"
The brother and sister were taken aback.
Sun Muchen replied, "We are human beings!"
Upon hearing this, the tree fell silent.
The brother and sister exchanged a glance, seemingly puzzled as to why the tree remained silent after answering.
After a long while, the giant leaves in the sky began to sway.
A thick and huge tree emerged from the leaves.
No, this section of tree appears to be just a branch of this tree.
The sound of the trees followed, and it rang out once again.
"No, you are not..."
Wang Lan: "..."
Sun Muchen: "..."
Then the brother and sister said in unison.
You're not human!
But after they finished speaking, the brother and sister regretted it.
The branches extending from the clouds grew longer and longer, but there were no leaves on the branches; instead, each person was connected to a branch with leaves on its stem.
They only realized it when the branches were closer to them.
The people hanging on the tree branches were mummies.
It looks just like dried cured meat.
Skin covered bones, and the skin had turned a waxy yellow color. As the branches extended, these mummies swayed and moved erratically in the wind.
"I am not human... I am a tree..."
The sound of the trees rang out once again.
The brother and sister swallowed hard.
"But you are not human either."
As the tree spoke, its long branch began to circle around the brother and sister.
Only then did they get a closer look at the mummified corpse hanging on the tree branch. Its expression still retained the extreme terror it had felt before death, but its body seemed to be nothing but skin and bones. Its internal organs had been drained, and the skin on its abdomen and back seemed to be tightly stuck together.
The sight of the mummified corpses was horrifying for the brother and sister. The branches continued to extend outwards, and the layers of branches surrounding them grew thicker and thicker. There must have been tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands or millions of these mummified corpses—truly a massive number.
"They are the human beings..."
The sound of the trees rang out.
The brother and sister were both taken aback when they heard this. They looked at each other and carefully examined each other's bodies before turning away.
Wang Lan said, “How are they different from us? They have one head, one torso, two arms, two hands, two legs, and two feet!”
"hehe…"
The tree said, “You are different from them. I have lived for hundreds of years and I have seen real people. They are cowardly, yet they can turn on their own kind. They are brave, brave enough to use their own family members as shields to save their own lives when a crisis occurs. They are clever, yet they scheme against each other and deceive one another.”
The tree's voice was very calm, but it stirred up waves of emotion in the hearts of the brother and sister.
And the tree keeps saying that what should be a beautiful quality is manifested negatively in "humans".
"And in the process of 'great evolution,' these characteristics have been amplified and intensified, which is what I see in people."
“But you are different…” the tree said. “I noticed you after you entered this forest. You did not back down when facing my children, you did not betray each other when facing wild beasts, you helped each other in the face of danger, and just now, when I used these vines to create the illusion of destroying you, you risked your lives to save each other. You are not human…”
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