Technological practice: leading the human race to the stars

Chapter 88 Nanyang Menglian

Yuanze slept until the evening of the next day, then slowly opened his eyes. He slept particularly soundly that time.

Seeing Yuanze waking up, Huihua also walked over. The originally rebellious light in his eyes had been covered by fatigue, and thick dark circles surrounded his eyes, as if the haze of the night had not yet retreated.

"Huihua, you don't seem to have had enough rest."

He yawned, no longer showing off his airs, and waved his hand: "It's normal. It's normal to not sleep for several days while doing a mission."

"This is probably a mosquito bite. The mosquitoes here are quite poisonous. I was tossing and turning for a long time in the middle of the night."

"Let's not talk about this anymore. What are your plans for today?"

Yuanze changed his plan and said that he had made an instrument that could communicate with the insects' vision, and all they had to do was find pools of water where insects were densely populated.

"It shouldn't be dangerous. Just make sure you defend yourself in secret."

After saying that, Yuanze controlled a dragonfly and asked Astra to manipulate it to find a water source.

Under Astra's guidance, Yuan Ze shuttled through the dense jungle. However, a sudden situation made Yuan Ze stop - a group of unidentified Yuan warriors appeared in front of him.

He didn't brake completely on his last step, and stepped on the soft ground, accidentally breaking a dead branch.

"Crack!"

The crisp sound of the breaking echoed in the silent night sky, sounding particularly harsh. The group of people immediately put on their thermal imaging equipment and cast a vigilant look in the direction of Yuanze.

"Who is it? Come out!" The leader leaned forward, speaking in an awkward universal language.

Yuanze signaled Huihua to hide and not act rashly, and he prepared to negotiate.

"I am from China, and I came here to look for a source beast."

"Hmph, you lowly race!" Someone snorted softly in Neon language.

Yuanze also heard that the person next to the team leader was a Japanese. His attitude was very unfriendly and his tone was full of contempt, and the team leader also acquiesced to this ridicule.

Judging from the picture taken by Dragonfly, many of them even squatted on the ground holding their stomachs and laughed. This was obviously a Japanese team.

"Yuan Ze, these damn Japanese are cursing at us Chinese, and they are not very strong. Should we deal with them first?"

"There's no need to get into conflict with them. You don't know if there are any experts hiding behind them. It's important to complete our plan first. Other things are not important."

Yuanze told Astra not to make any radical decisions, but he already had some plans in mind. He continued to follow the dragonfly to a pond that was not small. It was quiet all around, and it seemed that no source beast dared to approach the water source.

When Yuan Ze's eyes moved to the other side of the pond, his eyes lit up. At the other end of the pond where the water met the ocean, there grew a plant that looked like a mutated lotus.

It stayed there quietly, as if absorbing the light of the moon. The leaves were a warm blue-green color, like emeralds on the seabed, and each leaf was carved with complex patterns, as if containing the ancient secrets of the ocean. The stems were soft and tough, swaying with the flow of the sea water, emitting a faint blue light.

This is the plant that Li Haisheng asked him to find, the "Nanyang Dream Lotus" that has the effect of restoring memory. But it is not that simple, it is just a projection of its body hidden underwater. This projection is its inherent hunting mechanism, which can release weak biophotons and attractive chemical signals to attract potential prey to come closer.

The creatures that come into contact with the projection will be affected by its unique bio-electric waves, and become their most beautiful memories. Then they will be attracted to it, and then slowly wrap up the submerged prey in the water and turn it into its own nutrients.

Any creature with a nervous system may be affected. For certain species, Yimenglian can even manipulate their memories and turn them into servants who protect it.

The information that Li Haisheng gave to Yuan Ze required him to wait until it bloomed and pick its petals. After the flower bloomed, it would leap to a super-class source beast. Plant-type source beasts would also gain the awakening of self-awareness and the burst of spiritual wisdom when they reached the super-class, but they would not be able to speak.

And it was now only one step away from blooming, so Yuanze asked Astra to control the huge Rongtong-class dragonfly to fly above the projection, hover there, and then released the control over it.

It seemed to lose control, like a crashed plane, and plunged directly into the water. Then Yi Menglian's tentacles stretched out from the bottom of the water at an astonishing speed, tightly wrapped around the prey, and then secreted a powerful digestive enzyme, and instantly there was no trace of the corpse left.

Yuanze personally hunted a few Rongtong-level source beasts and threw them into the pond, and they all turned into nutrients.

Its leaves became more translucent, and the patterns became clearer. The source of energy was constantly rising from the underwater roots, dragging the flower buds directly to the surface of the water.

The stems swayed gracefully in the gentle sea breeze, emitting a faint blue light that contrasted with the moonlight. Yuanze held his breath and waited quietly for the flower buds to bloom.

The petals moved slightly, sliding down from the outside a little by a little. They appeared a light and elegant white, like the skirt of a fairy dancing gently in the moonlight.

As the petals unfold, a faint fragrance spreads, making people feel relaxed and happy. The stamens emit a faint golden light, as if the soul inside the flower is quietly awakening.

"what's your name?"

Vague words suddenly rang in Yuanze's mind, but he did not sense any people or source beasts.

"I am the lotus you see."

Yuanze was a little surprised and didn't know what to say.

"If it weren't for the nutrients you gave me just now, I don't know how long it would take for me to truly mature, so you can take the petals." The lotus swayed in the pond, communicating with Yuanze in the form of electromagnetic waves.

Yuan Ze's "Flow" also felt that its intelligence was like a blank sheet of paper, still in the stage of an ignorant child, and did not seem to understand the blood feud between humans and source beasts.

"I don't care about your grudges against other source beasts. You deserve this."

Yuanze knew that the creature in front of him had the ability to read minds, and his thoughts were completely exposed in front of it, just like Zhang Zhisheng's ability of "Mind Net", but he could not control this ability well.

The tentacles of the lotus stretched out from the water, tearing off the petals from its own receptacle, and then used the water flow to send them to Yuanze.

"There are nearly two hundred petals here, which should be enough for you. Let me remind you, someone should have discovered that I have blossomed and is heading here. I will give you these, and I will have to fall asleep again for a while, so I can't help you."

After saying this, the lotus pointed in a direction with its tentacles and sank back to the bottom of the water.

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