Chapter 224
In the hut, Mu Bao leaned on his father's arms and fell asleep peacefully.
The plain outside the house was particularly quiet. As the night darkened, the chirping of insects gradually disappeared, and even the sound of the gurgling water became much smaller.
In the darkness, Mu Yuncheng opened his eyes. He looked at the ceiling, but his ears were focused on the movements outside the house.
He awakened the blood power of the plants. Although his combat ability was not good, his perception was good. He could sense that something seemed to be wandering outside the hut. This discovery made him lose all sleepiness in an instant.
At this time, he finally remembered that the Star Alliance liaison officer had repeatedly reminded him that in addition to the red fog that would endanger plant life on the Hell Star, there were countless monsters.
He was too careless.
This planet is their home planet, but it is also a very dangerous place. He shouldn't have taken his son to the wild at night.
Mu Yuncheng felt his scalp tingling. He held his breath and thought quickly about how to deal with the current crisis.
However, he didn't know whether they were not discovered or for some other reason, the things outside the house did not break in until Mu Yuncheng's tense nerves relaxed due to fatigue, and he didn't know when he fell asleep...
The next day, when the first ray of sunlight outside shone in and fell on Mu Yuncheng's eyes, he suddenly woke up from his sleep.
Realizing that he had fallen asleep, Mu Yuncheng quickly turned over and sat up, but found that the house was peaceful, no different from before he went to bed last night, and his son Mu Bao was sleeping obediently beside him.
Mu Yuncheng breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, nothing dangerous happened...
He looked at the hazy scenery outside the glass window, and no longer had the creepy feeling he had last night. He couldn't help but wonder if his feeling last night was wrong? Or was it just a dream?
Mu Yuncheng shook his head and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
Seeing that it was getting late, he asked Mu Bao to get up and help him change clothes.
Mu Bao was very obedient. He raised his hand and wanted to put it into his sleeve, but found that - his arm could not bend!
He was slightly stunned and looked up at his father.
Mu Yuncheng also noticed this. He didn't expect that just one night had passed and his son's body had become vegetative again... He was about to comfort his son, but Mu Bao spoke first.
The little boy slightly curled up his lips, and his cute smile was clear and lively in the sunlight. He said, "It's okay. Su Su is here. He will heal me. Don't worry, Dad."
Mu Yuncheng couldn't help but feel a lump in his throat when he heard this.
He actually asked his son to comfort him. It was really wrong... But Mu Bao was right. With the God of their Wood Clan here, he will definitely be fine!
"Well, we will go find him later."
He touched his son's head, and then continued to help him put on his clothes. As a result, just when he was halfway through, there was a knock on the door outside.
"Uncle Mu, Mu Bao, are you up?"
The lively and cheerful voice made Mu Bao's eyes light up. He shouted, "Langze, I'm up!"
He climbed down from the bed and was about to run to the door when he was picked up by Mu Yuncheng and held in his arms. He brought his son to the door, opened the door and looked out, and found that in addition to the child named Langze, there was also a child with silver-white hair.
"Uncle Mu, Mu Bao, good morning." Lu Jiao greeted them politely.
"Meow——"
Mu Yuncheng was about to respond when he heard a milky cat meow. He looked in the direction of the sound and found that there was a little black cat hiding in the hood behind the little wolf cub.
Its light blue eyes were very special. At a glance, Mu Yuncheng thought of the little boy named "Zhengxing".
When he looked over, the little black cat shrunk its head and hid back in its hat.
Since he had already greeted them, it was not considered impolite, Zheng Xing thought.
Mu Yuncheng said with a smile, "Hello."
Then he looked up, but did not find any keepers following them. Instead, there was a strange blue ball following them, jumping back and forth on the grass. He
could not help but frown, and then he heard Langze say, "We are here to call you to have dinner."
"Are you the only ones here?" Mu Yuncheng asked.
"Of course not." Langze said, "There is also Pulu!"
When Mu Yuncheng heard him say there were other people, his eyebrows just relaxed, and he heard a strange name. He asked in confusion: "Pulu?"
Hearing his confusion, the little white deer turned around and pointed at the water ball jumping in the distance and said: "That's it, it's called Pulu, it's our good friend."
Perhaps it heard its own name, the water ball in the distance jumped over here.
After a few months, the red color on its body has faded to the point that it can hardly be seen, showing a light and crystal blue.
Mu Yuncheng stared at the water ball, and Mu Bao also looked at Pulu curiously. When the water ball approached, he stretched out his finger to touch it, but...
"Pulu——"
A water arrow shot at Mu Bao's face - obviously, although the red color on his body faded, Pulu's temper did not get much better.
"Pulu!" Lu Jiao protected Mu Bao. Under his glare, the water ball reluctantly put away the next water arrow and continued to jump away. "
Mu Bao, are you okay? Pulu is just playing with you, don't mind it." Lu Jiao wiped Mu Bao's face with a handkerchief.
Mu Bao shook his head and smiled, "It's okay, I like water."
Lu Jiao remembered that Mu Bao was a plant, and there was probably no plant that didn't like water.
"What kind of creature is that?"
At this time, Lu Jiao heard Mu Yuncheng ask in a daze.
He followed Mu Yuncheng's line of sight and saw that after the water ball ran away, it led water from the river to sprinkle on the plain, forming a light drizzle. In the sunlight, a beautiful rainbow could be seen.
"Su Su said that Pulu was a water spirit." Lu Jiao replied.
Mu Yuncheng's eyes lit up. Water spirit!
Isn't that a water demon?
Are there other demons on the mother planet? Or... just born? Judging from the intelligence shown by the water spirit, it should have been born not long ago.
Realizing this, Mu Yuncheng couldn't help but cheer up.
He thought of his tribesmen who had turned into trees, and looked at the jumping water spirits, and he became more determined to transfer all the reverted wood-type tribesmen to the mother planet.
No matter what difficulties he encountered, he could not change his mind!
Afterwards, Mu Bao was ready to follow Langze and the others to the nursery. Before leaving, Mu Yuncheng thought of something and ran to the window behind the house to take a look. Sure enough, he saw several footprints of unknown creatures.
His face looked a little ugly. Sure enough, something approached the cabin last night! If he had lived on the plains at the time, he would probably have met that thing.
Although the ancestor was there, he was in hibernation and probably couldn't protect them. Realizing this, Mu Yuncheng couldn't help but feel lucky.
Fortunately, they listened to the keeper Zhou last night and stayed in the hut...
Wait, if keeper Su is the spirit of the earth, what about keeper Zhou? Is he really an ordinary human? The time when he sent a message to him yesterday seemed too coincidental.
Mu Yuncheng kept this doubt in mind and decided to observe it later.
He then packed up all his things and prepared to stay in the residence arranged by the 24th Base at night and not run around.
However, he thought the children came on a flying ship, but found that he was wrong again. He followed them to an open space next to the river bank and stepped on a pattern called a teleportation array.
He watched the water spirit jump over, and in a burst of bright light, they disappeared from the spot. When he opened his eyes again, he found that he had arrived at the rooftop of the nursery.
Is it so convenient? !
Mu Yuncheng looked at the pattern under his feet with some curiosity, but he couldn't make any sense of it, so he could only scratch his head and carry Mu Bao and the children to the restaurant for dinner.
After dinner, it was past nine o'clock before he finally saw the figure of the breeder Su.
Although he had seen him yesterday, Mu Yuncheng couldn't help staring when he saw him again. Then he realized that this was an offense to the gods, and quickly looked away.
As a result, when he saw the breeder Zhou next to him, he was stunned again.
This keeper named Zhou Yan was just as good as the Earth Spirit in appearance and temperament. More importantly,
Mu Yuncheng could sense the intimate atmosphere between the two. In the interstellar era, people were open-minded and same-sex marriage had long been legal. But...
could Zhou Yan be so intimate with the Earth Spirit? Could it be that he was also a god?
Because of this suspicion, Mu Yuncheng became more respectful to Su Ci and the others. Since he had many things to discuss with Su Ci, he finally took Mu Bao to Su Ci's dormitory.
Mu Yuncheng sat on the sofa cautiously, watching Ah Yan pour juice for them, and couldn't help being flattered.
"You're welcome."
The gentle smile on A Yan's face eased Mu Yuncheng's nervousness. He took a deep breath, looked at Su Ci, and said, "I have some arrangements that require your consent."
He sat upright, feeling his palms sweating.
"Oh? Tell me?" Su Ci looked at him, already having a guess in his mind.
Mu Yuncheng looked at A Yan hesitantly.
A Yan curled his lips slightly, as if he didn't see his hidden words, but sat down next to Su Ci.
Mu Yuncheng gritted his teeth, he looked at Su Ci, and tentatively said, "Spirit of the Earth?"
He felt that since the Lord God was pretending to be a human, he didn't want others to know. If what he wanted to say was unbearable for this young man named Zhou Yan, then the Lord God should let him leave, right?
However, seeing how intimate the two were, he felt that his previous guess might be right.
Sure enough, he heard the lazy voice of the God: "Go on."
Mu Yuncheng continued: "Our ancestors said that this planet is our home planet, and you... are the spirit of this land, right?"
Su Ci nodded.
Mu Yuncheng could no longer sit still. He stood up, saluted to Su Ci according to the rules of the Wood Clan, and said, "I am the chief of the Wood Clan, Mu Yuncheng."
"I am very happy to be back on the mother planet and have the honor of meeting you!"
"You have seen the situation of Mu Bao. In fact, there are many other members of the Wood Clan whose situations are worse than Mu Bao's!"
"They have completely reverted to their ancestors and turned into trees for many years... Now that they have found their mother planet and met you, I hope you can accept them and let them return to the mother planet!"
Mu Yuncheng said this very sincerely, for fear that the spirit of the earth would not agree.
"As long as you can accept us again, no matter what you ask us to do, your will is the will of the Wood Clan, and we will follow your instructions to do anything."
"Please allow us to return to our home planet!"
Because of the existence of the ancestors, Mu Yuncheng knew why humans fled from their home planet. The situation on the home planet became so bad, wasn't it because of humans that it was ruined?
If the gods have a grudge against humans, Mu Yuncheng feels that he can understand it... So he is very uneasy now, and even Mu Bao, who was listening, is uneasy.
After a moment of silence, Mu Yuncheng heard the calm voice of the young man: "How many tree monsters like Mu Qing are there in the interstellar space?" "There are
still eight elders in the Wood Clan. They all contacted me yesterday and expressed their eagerness to return to the home planet." Mu Yuncheng said respectfully.
Su Ci pondered for a moment and asked, "How many of the wood-type trees that have returned to their ancestral home are there?"
Mu Yuncheng became a little nervous.
He lowered his head and said, "Because the wood-type trees are distributed in various countries in the interstellar space, and some of them are hundreds or thousands of years old, the specific number needs to be further confirmed, but..."
He paused, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "At least more than 10,000!"
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Su Ci was immediately interested when he heard Mu Yuncheng's words.
He sat up straight, looked at Mu Yuncheng and asked, "More than 10,000 trees?"
Mu Yuncheng clenched his hands nervously, and when he heard Su Ci's question, he nodded hurriedly, "Yes."
"Tell me in detail." Su Ci said.
Seeing that Su Ci was not disgusted and looked very interested, Mu Yuncheng was shocked and began to explain to Su Ci.
"The Wood Clan has three asteroids, of which Mupapa has about 5,000 members. The ancestor Mu Qing settled on this planet before, and the other two asteroids have more than 3,000 members."
These asteroids were originally abandoned resource planets. After the resources on the planets were exhausted, they could only be treated as garbage planets. In the end, they were bought by the Wood Clan at a very low price.
They transformed the planets and eventually became the prosperous agricultural planets they are today. The S-level fruits and vegetables produced on the planets are famous in the interstellar world, creating huge wealth for the Wood Clan.
However, the main purpose of the Wood Clan buying these planets is to settle their regressive members.
When the plant bloodline awakens, the young of the Wood Clan and their families will be taken to these planets in advance. Once they completely revert to their ancestral form and become plants, they will stay on the planet forever.
This ensures the safety of these people, and they can also be well taken care of, making it more convenient for their relatives to look after them.
After losing their children, most of the Wood Clan chose to stay with the seedlings that their children turned into. Although there are planting masters of their own tribe on the planet, it is still not as reassuring as taking care of them themselves.
In this way, the three asteroids that were purchased successively became more and more prosperous.
Perennial plants generally have a longer lifespan than humans, so although the probability of awakening plant bloodlines is lower, many still survive over the years.
In addition to
the people on these three asteroids, there are also members of the Wood Clan who have stayed in various countries across the stars for various reasons. Just a rough count shows that the total number must be more than 10,000. "Please allow the members of the Wood Clan to return to their home planet! We will do our best to make up for the damage that humans have done to you and our home planet in the past, and make this planet rich again!"
After explaining these situations, Mu Yuncheng wanted to kneel down to Su Ci as Mu Qing had done before. Seeing this, Mu Bao also hurriedly followed him and made the same move.
However, Su Ci did not let them kneel down.
He did not like the red tape of the human race. If he agreed to something, he would agree without kneeling. If he disagreed, could kneeling make him change his mind?
Seeing that Su Ci was unhappy, Mu Yuncheng quickly pulled his son up and stood aside a little stiffly, waiting for Su Ci's judgment.
Under his anxious gaze, Su Ci nodded gently and said something that sounded like the sound of nature to Mu Yuncheng: "Okay, take them over, I will arrange a place for the Wood Clan."
Hearing this, Mu Yuncheng was so happy that he almost jumped up.
Of course, when he met Su Ci's calm gaze, he still forced himself to calm down and behave more steadily in order to gain the trust of the Earth Spirit.
"Thank you very much for your generosity! We will keep our promise and never let anyone harm our home planet again!" "
Next, I will gradually transfer these people to our home planet. Due to the distance, the first batch may not arrive until four months later at the earliest."
Mu Yuncheng felt a little melancholy when he said this.
Transportation between planets has always been a headache. A round trip can take several months or even one or two years. If you spend time on interstellar travel frequently, you will definitely find that your life is greatly shortened.
This is also one of the reasons why the Wood Clan chooses to buy planets and then settle down.
Although the interstellar world is beautiful and mysterious, making people want to explore it, for ordinary people, the living range is actually not that large.
It may take a person's entire life to travel completely around the planet where he lives, not to mention the vast starry sky.
When Mu Yuncheng recalled and saw the lifeless landscape, a sense of responsibility surged in his heart. They still have a lot of things to do on the mother planet, and this will be the cause he will fight for all his life!
But...
at present, it may take several years just to transfer the tribe members to the mother planet.
There are tens of thousands of trees, and a large number of them are old trees. How to keep them alive during the interstellar travel that lasts for several months is a huge problem.
After all, every tree is one of their tribesmen. If there is a loss during the transfer process, Mu Yuncheng will never forgive himself.
Also, how many such living trees can a spaceship carry at one time? To move so many trees, you have to run several times.
The time cost on the road is really immeasurable.
At the end, Mu Yuncheng couldn't help but sigh: "Hey, it would be great if we could teleport directly between planets."
But the teleportation technology currently developed can only be used for very short distances, such as from the plain to the nursery in the morning. This distance is already beyond the equipment Mu Yuncheng has used before.
However, if it is applied between planets, this distance is still far from enough.
Of course, Mu Yuncheng only sighed a little. This kind of science and technology is difficult to break through in a short time. He does not expect to make great progress in just a few years.
However, what he didn't expect was that after he finished speaking, the young man sitting on the sofa actually frowned and thought about it, and then said, "You can give it a try."
Mu Yuncheng was stunned, "Huh?"
"Although I don't know if it will succeed, there is no loss in trying." Su Ci said.
Su Ci really didn't know whether the teleportation array could be used between stars. After all, he had never left Earth since he recovered his memory, and he had never used it in the stars before.
If the test can be successful, it would not be bad to think about it.
There are still too few resources on Earth, so it is necessary to introduce them from outer space. If it takes too much time on the road, it is really not worth it.
For example, Li Sinian mentioned to him that a close friend of his also had a cub troubled by the problem of frenzy at home, and he had already set off after obtaining his consent.
Now several months have passed, and these people are still on the road. This efficiency is indeed a bit low.
Besides...
the children in the nursery will grow up one day. Although they all promised to stay and farm for him, but... he was once trapped here and couldn't leave. Can he really bear to let them spend their whole lives on Earth?
If there is a transmission device that allows them to travel freely between planets, there is no need to worry that they will never come back after leaving.
And he himself can also go out for a walk when the time is right.
Perhaps because the most rational part of the soul was separated and suppressed and sealed, Su Ci can feel that he is obviously more emotional than before.
He couldn't control it, so he just let it go.
"I'll go get ready and let you know when it's done." Su Ci said.
Although Mu Yuncheng still didn't understand, since Su Ci said so, he agreed.
When he said goodbye and left the room, he remembered that he actually had something else to discuss with Su Ci - whether the news about the mother planet should be made public? Before going
into hibernation, Elder Mu Qing solemnly told him that he wanted to clear the name of the mother planet, but the attitude of those people in the 24th base after hearing the news made Mu Yuncheng hesitate.
He couldn't guarantee that all humans cared about the mother planet as much as their Mu tribe, nor could he produce evidence that could be put on the table.
It was so hard to convince the soldiers of the 24th Base. Mu Yuncheng felt overwhelmed when he thought about convincing the historians who liked to quote classics.
So, let's wait until the ancestors arrive to talk about this matter!
Anyway, what Patriarch Mu Qing said was to rectify the name of the mother planet - it was indeed too much for humans to treat the mother planet as a prison planet to imprison criminals. He could make a fuss about this.
To rectify the name, let's start by changing the mother planet to a name recognized by the interstellar!
Mu Yuncheng made a decision, and then, according to Su Ci's request, he took his son to the green land to find the two cultivators Zhuang Shisong and Wei Ming.
Because Mu Bao's arm did not affect his normal activities after it turned into a plant, Su Ci did not suppress his bloodline power for the time being, but asked him to find two cultivators to learn the spiritual plant master's inheritance.
Who could be more suitable to be a spiritual plant master than a cub with plant blood?
After the fall, the number of plants along the river bank has decreased a lot, but there is a greenhouse here in the nursery, so the plants on the green land have not been greatly affected.
When Mu Yuncheng arrived, Wei Ming was not there, only Zhuang Shisong was watering the plants and recording their growth conditions.
When he saw Mu Yuncheng and his son, he remembered the news he heard from Cen Liang yesterday, and his eyes suddenly lit up-it was the wood clan with plant blood!
While Zhuang Shisong was talking to Mu Yuncheng, Mu Bao, who was standing next to his father, was attracted by the plants on the green land.
After the fall, the growth of ordinary plants was affected to some extent, but not a few spiritual plants.
The two star chain fruits, which are characterized by growth, still have flowers blooming on the branches, and the vines are lush and growing well, which makes people feel good at a glance.
Mu Bao squinted his eyes and smiled, then he looked at the corner of the green land. Since he came here, he has been hearing sounds coming from there.
While Zhuang Shisong and Wei Ming were not paying attention, he walked towards the corner step by step with his short legs.
"Come on! Come on!"
Mu Bao looked at the two small trees in front of him curiously, and soon recognized that they were two pear trees, which were about the same height as him, only a little shorter.
He could feel the joyful laughter coming from one of the small trees.
"Come on! Let's grow together!"
The small pear tree swayed its branches and leaves, as if to cheer him up, "Let's grow together."
Then, Mu Bao felt something, raised his eyes, and found that... his hair had turned into green vines again! Moreover, the small leaves that usually grew slowly were growing at a rapid speed.
"Hehehe - grow! grow! grow!"
"Grow! grow! grow!"
With the continuous shouting of this voice, his head was soon covered with green leaves, and from a distance it looked like a tree crown.
Just when Mu Bao was about to cry in anxiety, another small pear tree that had been sleeping soundly next to it seemed to be awakened, and Mu Bao heard a lazy voice.
"Not growing...sleep...sleep..."
Then, the leaves on his head that were growing rapidly suddenly stopped.