Chapter 218: Genealogy is all about counting tree rings

If he died once, he would have to start over as a novice, which meant that Yao Mao had to be extremely cautious when playing.

Look three steps ahead before you take one step!

For fear of stepping into a trap or being attacked by a monster, the main thing is to be cautious and not die.

But even so, he died no less than four or five times in the second level of the random map, and finally reached the third level...

The third level map is also random.

Perhaps it was a coincidence, this time he was in the swamp map again. The monsters and traps had been strengthened, but Yao Mao was not unfamiliar with the sapling next to the ground spike trap.

nonsense!

That was the ancestral tree he left behind when he died the second time! Hanging on it was his first heavyweight trophy, an excellent dagger.

Unfortunately, the difficulty of the swamp map has increased this time, so it would be useless even if he got the dagger back. This dagger could not be more useful than the knife in his hand.

Death, grows the ancestral tree!

Resurrect and continue the adventure...

Because he had not died enough times and the map was random, Yao Mao had actually only encountered a few ancestral trees left behind by his previous deaths.

There is no other way! There are more than a dozen maps. You have to die at least once in each map before you can say that you can inherit the "legacy" every time you explore, right?

Moreover, inheritance also depends on the situation.

The fruits of the ancestral tree are limited, and it is impossible to inherit 100%. You can only inherit one prop or one skill from your lifetime.

Maybe at advanced levels, the ancestral tree will grow taller and bigger, and the number of fruits it produces will gradually increase...

As we were playing, it was already dark before we knew it.

At the urging of his mother, Yao Mao reluctantly left the room and went downstairs to have dinner.

While eating, he suddenly thought of something.

The ancestral tree grows after death. The tree grows where the character dies. So the question is, if you die in the same place multiple times in a row, will the ancestral tree grow "overlappingly"?

This question aroused Yao Mao's great interest.

So he quickly finished his meal and returned to his room to continue the game he had just paused.

There was an ancestral tree in front of him.

Yao Mao controlled the character, carefully crossed the traps, avoided the patrolling monsters, and walked to the ancestral tree.

He did not pick the fruits of the ancestral tree as he had done before, but instead planned to lure a monster here to kill him, to see if dying in the same place would cause the two ancestral trees to grow overlappingly.

It turns out that it won't! The ancestral tree layer seems to override the background texture, and when developing this game, Brother Ba seemed to have thought about this possibility, so he prepared a contingency plan.

When a player dies more than once in the same place, a second ancestor tree will not grow, but the quality and item production of the first ancestor tree will be improved.

For example.

The ancestral tree that Yao Mao used for testing originally had only one fruit on it, but now it has two, and the tree has also grown taller.

“It’s boring!”

After seeing this change, Yao Mao couldn't help but sigh, feeling ridiculous for his own thoughts.

The game map is so small, the game development team must have considered the problem of players dying too many times on the same map, resulting in an excessive number of ancestral trees.

In other words, not every death will give rise to a new ancestral tree.

If you die in a place where there is already an ancestral tree, your body will become new nutrients for the growth of the ancestral tree, instead of growing a new tree.

Yao Mao is resurrected.

After the test results came out, he was no longer interested in doing such boring things. After all, the maps appeared randomly, and he didn’t know which map he would get... Eh!

Yao Mao, who was about to quickly pass through the first novice forest map, suddenly realized something when he walked next to the ancestral tree that grew after the first death.

Other maps do appear randomly, and even if you want to send fertilizer, it's impossible, but the first map, which is the novice level map, is fixed.

In other words, every time you revive, you start your adventure from this map! So here comes the question...

He died once in this picture, and an ancestral tree grew out of it, but unfortunately it was a small sapling and did not bear any fruit.

If he committed suicide by poisoning himself endlessly in the same position, what would this ancestral tree look like? Would it bear fruit?

If it works, it's definitely a good thing! You know, every time you revive, you have to get your equipment and skills all over again, which is a very torturous process.

If you can get a guaranteed bonus from the ancestral tree next to you after resurrection, wouldn’t that be great? Just do it!

Yao Mao was a man of action. Since he thought this idea was feasible, he implemented the plan and died more than a dozen times in a row under the ancestral tree in the initial map level.

"Why hasn't it borne fruit yet?"

After more than ten waves of fertilizer were delivered, this ancestral tree has grown very tall, even taller and bigger than all the ancestral trees.

But Yao Mao was speechless to find that even though this ancestral tree had grown into this state, there was still not a single fruit on the tree.

Just eat and don’t poop, you’re a big Pi Xiu, right?

Hey! He just didn't believe it! Yao Mao was also a stubborn person. He just didn't believe that this ancestral tree really didn't bear fruit.

Continue to die...

Twenty times, thirty times, fifty times! The ancestral tree grew taller and thicker, its crown almost covering half of the screen, but there was still no fruit on the tree.

“Is it poisonous?”

Yao Mao really couldn't bear to do it anymore. After all, this was a completely hopeless task and he lacked motivation to do it.

What he didn't know was that in the underlying code of the "Ancestral Tree", if the Ancestral Tree wanted to bear fruit, it must possess a skill or a prop during its lifetime.

You must have something first before the ancestral tree can bear fruit. You can’t create something out of nothing!

But Yao Mao didn't know this. He was just curious about why the ancestral tree had grown so tall and should have bloomed and borne fruit. [Help! Why did the ancestral tree grow so tall but still not bear fruit or bloom? ]

After posting his confusion to the Tianba community, Yao Mao soon received a long string of reply messages.

"Fuck! An ancestral tree this tall?"

"What did you do, buddy? Why is your ancestral tree so tall?"

"This person must have been the Jade Emperor in his previous life, for the ancestral tree to grow so tall, right?"

"Not only that, this must be an ancestral tree of the Three Pure Ones level!"

Almost everyone was surprised by the "huge" ancestral tree that Yao Mao posted a photo of, but few people cared about the fact that it did not bloom or bear fruit.

When Yao Mao replied in the post and told everyone that the reason this ancestral tree could grow so tall was because he had been selflessly providing nutrients for its growth, everyone was speechless.

"My goodness, I thought that only a great man of the Three Pure Ones level had died, so that such a tall ancestral tree could grow, but it turned out to be the courage of a hundred generations!"

"The nourishment for a hundred generations. The growth rings of this tree are your family tree, right?"

"The family tree rings make me laugh to death, but there's nothing wrong with it. A tree carries the lives of a hundred generations!"

"Can this tree still be cultivated?"

"What do you want to do?!"

As expected, the post quickly went off topic. Yao Mao, who was originally asking for help, contributed a game meme about "family tree is determined by counting tree rings" to everyone.

He did not get the answer he wanted, but was instead asked by many netizens whether the tree could still be maintained.

"I don't know!"

Yao Mao was speechless, he just wanted to take a shortcut to make each resurrection easier so that he could receive the guaranteed inheritance from his ancestor Shufa at the beginning.

Who knew that the tree would not bear fruit? As for whether the tree can still be maintained... it should be possible, right?

"Then just keep raising it. Who knows, the quantitative change may lead to a qualitative change. After another hundred generations, the tree will bloom and bear fruit!"

The netizen's suggestion was a bad idea no matter how you looked at it, but Yao Mao listened to it.

He thought it made sense!

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Quantitative change leads to qualitative change. Although this tree has not yet blossomed and borne fruit, it is of no use at all. But he has provided enough nutrients. If he continues to feed this tree, what if it bears fruit?

Mainly...

It has become like this, and if nothing bears fruit, Yao Mao is really unwilling to give up. He feels that all his previous efforts have been in vain.

Fork off the community and continue to grow trees! The barbaric era, the tribal era, the feudal era, the interstellar era...

As time went by, the tree treasure put on exoskeleton armor and turned into an astronaut. The ancestral tree also became so tall that its trunk alone covered two-thirds of the computer screen.

In the end, there was still no gain!

"I really believed your lies. What kind of a lousy tree is this? After a thousand generations, the single-celled tree has evolved into a cosmic superman, and you still don't lay eggs?"

Yao Mao was badly fooled.

This ancestral tree can't lay eggs at all, so he can't rely on it at all. If he has that much time to keep messing around, he might as well play the game seriously, maybe he would have already finished it.

Yao Mao, who was extremely disappointed, stopped dreaming and decided to honestly pass the levels to obtain props and skill rewards, and no longer dream of achieving success overnight.

This time, he was very successful.

Relying on the strategies he had read in the community and the ancestral tree he had left behind, he reached the twelfth level this time.

Unfortunately, there was a particularly fierce monster in the twelfth level. One strike could reduce his health to a mere slash, and his props and medicines had long been used up.

Regretful defeat!

As an ancestral tree grew, Yao Mao's resurrection countdown ended. Without thinking much, he clicked to resurrect immediately.

A flash of white light...

"Uh? Where am I?"

After clicking on revival, the black and white screen returned to color, but Yao Mao found that he was still on this map and had not returned to the starting point.

Not only that, his character is gone! That's right...

The character of Shubao is completely invisible on the entire screen.

"I'm stuck with a bug?"

Suspecting that this was a game bug, Yao Mao anxiously clicked his mouse everywhere and typed frantically on the keyboard, trying to find a way to save himself.

By accident, he actually clicked on the ancestral tree that had just grown after his death. Then he found that his main perspective had become the ancestral tree.

"What's going on?"

Yao Mao was puzzled. What state was he in? Was he stuck in the perspective of the ancestral tree? Or was he resurrected inside the ancestral tree? At the same time, while randomly typing on the keyboard, trying to get out of this state, he didn't know what key he pressed, and Yao Mao's perspective actually switched again, this time to the ancestral tree of another map.

"Y?"

Yao Mao looked down at the key he had just pressed, tried pressing it again, and sure enough, the perspective switched again.

As the view was switching, the camera soon switched to the volcano map. Yao Mao, who was about to switch again, glanced at the map inadvertently and was instantly stunned by a jumping figure.

Isn't that tree treasure?

Hey, hey, hey! He didn't do anything, where did this tree treasure come from? And from the look of him, it seems like he is jumping over the lava river?

Out of curiosity, Yao Mao looked at it carefully for a while.

It really is a tree treasure! I don’t know what logic this tree treasure has in its actions. In short, it seems very clumsy, and its jumping and rolling are very slow.

However, from his actions, it can be seen that he seems to be clearing the level by himself? Clearing the level by himself without any player's control!

Is it fake?

Yao Mao was frightened by his own guess. How could Shubao go through the level by himself?

But the facts were right in front of him, and he had to believe it whether he wanted to or not. This Shubao, who was mostly played by a computer, was trying to pass the levels in an extremely clumsy way.

So here comes the question…

The real tree treasure is breaking through the levels, but what is he, trapped in the ancestral tree due to the perspective bug? Is he an event OB or a war reporter? Who am I, where am I, and what am I doing?

After asking these three soul-searching questions, Yao Mao shook his head and decided to send this strange phenomenon to Tianba Studio and Brother Ba through the game’s built-in channels.

This is definitely a bug!

He is stuck in perspective, if this is not a bug, then what is it? However, since it is a bug, it will probably take a long time for Naba to solve it, or it may not even be solved.

In this case, let’s not rush to give feedback, but record the process of this tree treasure’s level-breaking to see how he plays and whether there are any players with 50% of his level? “Oh, why don’t you jump!”

"Don't... step on this trap as soon as I said it. Don't you look where you're going? Now you've made yourself into a dead end..."

While watching, Yao Mao was also worried about the operation of this tree treasure.

Too stupid, really too stupid! Not to mention that the players are only 50% of the level, just look at this old cold leg, even if Grandma Yao Mao came, she would play better than him.

Such a weak tree treasure naturally couldn't escape its bad luck, so not long after, this tree treasure died because of falling lava.

An ancestral tree grew in the same spot!

Yao Mao tried clicking with the mouse and found that he could indeed switch to the perspective of the ancestral tree.

Cut, cut, cut. This time Yao Mao cut to the initial map, which was the "giant" ancestral tree that he had spent countless experiences to cultivate.

As a result, when he arrived here, he found Shubao who had just been resurrected. After clicking the mouse, a magical scene appeared...

He broke away from the magical perspective of the ancestral tree and regained control of the tree treasure. The operating buttons that had originally failed were now restored.

"Hey! If that's the case..."

Yao Mao didn't expect that by clicking on the tree treasure with the mouse, he could switch back to the original perspective and regain control of the character.

If that's the case, then the person who controlled the tree treasure to pass the level before was the ancestor tree behind him, right? (End of this chapter)