Wandering Meteor
Chapter 51: The Giant Wuba Tree Braid

Chapter 51: Chapter 51: The Giant Wuba Tree Braid

Having discarded unnecessary biological attachments and his self-righteous mission, Lu Chen felt a significant sense of relief.

He looked at Wandering with gratitude but sternly warned, "Wandering, let me remind you of something. No matter how foolish I am, I’m your big brother. You must never show me any disrespect!"

"Alright, I got it, Silly Big Brother!" Wandering said with a giggle.

Lu Chen: "..."

He felt his dignity as an elder brother diminishing bit by bit, but there was nothing he could do about it.

Next, Lu Chen and Wandering continued their journey deep into the Yin Yang Star System.

Since Lu Chen had decided to follow the evolutionary path of a Super Planet, he would no longer absorb planets, only hydrogen, which meant they could travel much faster. In no time, they saw Yin Yang Star, situated in the second orbit of the Constant Star System.

"Big Brother, that planet looks like Yin Yang Star, right? It’s pretty unique!" Wandering remarked in amazement.

Lu Chen, whose vision reached further than Wandering’s, had naturally seen it already.

Moreover, he had learned all about Yin Yang Star from the memories of Feather Robe Star.

He knew that Yin Yang Star was initially a planet without rotation, and even after gaining initial angular momentum to start rotating, its rotation speed was very slow. It took the planet one and a half orbits around the Constant Star to complete a single rotation, which means one day on Yin Yang Star is equal to 1.5 years—a rare occurrence in the Constant Star System.

Because of Yin Yang Star’s unusual ecological environment, the life forms that evolved there all resided near the Yin Yang Line. However, once Yin Yang Star began to rotate, the Yin Yang Star People fell into endless suffering.

Especially when the Yin Yang Star’s rotation brought the Yin Yang Line facing towards the Constant Star, their habitable area on Yin Yang Star would be exposed to the starlight for extended periods, leading to a significant reduction in activity in that region.

To escape the intense light of the Constant Star, many Yin Yang Star People had to migrate to the opposite hemisphere.

Lu Chen was not concerned with the well-being of the Yin Yang Star People; what he cared more about was the life community.

However, according to the memories from Feather Robe Star, the attempt at creating a life community seemed to have failed. From the moment Feather Robe Star broke away from its orbit, the grand dreams of billions of Yin Yang Star People shattered.

He believed that even if Feather Robe Star had survived, there would definitely be a rift between the two.

Partners who could not trust each other could not form a true life community.

After some more time flying.

Lu Chen and Wandering finally neared Yin Yang Star.

But before they could take any action, they were shocked by the scene before them.

The once bustling and prosperous Yin Yang Star now seemed like a dead planet, desolate everywhere, devoid of life, with an atmosphere of a terrifying doomsday. A giant tree that pierced through the atmosphere loomed over the skies, resembling the World Tree often described in novels.GIF

"Oh my god, what happened to Yin Yang Star? Was that giant tree always there?"

Wandering gazed intently at the distant Yin Yang Star.

Lu Chen slowly said, "It shouldn’t be. According to the intelligence I’ve gathered, there aren’t such large trees on Yin Yang Star at all. It’s clear there’s something strange, and moreover, why don’t we see any Yin Yang Star People?"

Of course, they didn’t know that the Yin Yang Civilization had long been doomed by their own ignorance and folly years before their arrival.

Originally, the chairman of Eternal Day Group specifically had a research team modify the Cannibal Tree into a bio-engineered weapon targeting planets, but didn’t expect that upon success, they, along with all research personnel, would be killed by the Cannibal Tree with new genes.

At that time, the Cannibal Tree accidentally injected a Tree Needle into the brain of a Yin Yang Star Person, then found that apart from absorbing flesh and nutrients, it could actually also draw memory information from the brain!

The Cannibal Tree suddenly realized, it seemed that these Yin Yang Star People had given it an incredibly powerful genetic ability!

The Cannibal Tree immediately used its powerful genes to draw nutrients from deep underground, crazily enlarging its own trunk.

As a result, within a short time, the rapid growth of the genes enabled the Cannibal Tree to grow from several meters to hundreds of meters tall, with roots penetrating hundreds of meters into the ground, its Tree Needles reaping the lives of Yin Yang Star People like poison snakes.

Because it was so sudden, the entire city’s population was slaughtered overnight by the Cannibal Tree, and with more nutrients absorbed, the Cannibal Tree grew wildly again, reaching thousands of meters in height, with its dense and interlocking branches suspending the millions of city residents.

Sadly, these Yin Yang Star People had been drained dry by the Cannibal Tree, turning into withered corpses.

The growth speed of the Cannibal Tree was shocking; even the aircraft and cannons sent by Yin Yang Star People could not damage it, but instead, were impaled by the Cannibal Tree’s thick and hard Tree Needles, along with the aircraft and cannons.

It was only then that the Yin Yang Star People truly realized the severity of the situation, so they decided to use nuclear bombs to destroy the Cannibal Tree, which was finally wiped out in the terrifying explosion of a nuclear bomb, with its thousands of meters tall trunk vanishing.

However, what the Yin Yang Star People didn’t expect was that the roots of the Cannibal Tree survived the nuclear explosion, and its complex network of roots had already extended tens of thousands of miles, sprouting new growths in many places.

These new Cannibal Trees, like the original, had abnormal growth rates, crazily slaughtering the nearby Yin Yang Star People.

When the Yin Yang Star People discovered that they couldn’t exterminate them no matter how hard they tried, the root system of the Cannibal Tree had spread across half of the Yin Yang Star, with roots penetrating more than ten thousand meters into the earth’s crust, becoming truly ineradicable.

It could be said that the Cannibal Tree was now invincible.

Ultimately, in this battle for survival, the Yin Yang Star People were defeated.

The grand First-level Civilization withdrew from the universe’s stage with a tragic epilogue.

They probably never imagined that karma would come so swiftly; they had previously destroyed the Cannibal Tree’s habitat, but now their homes were overtaken by the Cannibal Tree.

The Cannibal Tree usurped the nests of others, mercilessly hunting the global Yin Yang Star People. With the abundant nutrients plundered, several Cannibal Trees grew to tens of thousands of meters in height.

Later, the Cannibal Trees from all over the world grew in the direction of the original tree, presenting a growth state akin to multitudes worshiping in awe. After several years of growth, these millions of Cannibal Trees, like strands of hair, entwined and covered the surface of Yin Yang Star, eventually forming a gigantic Wuba Tree Braid tens of thousands of meters thick and millions of meters tall at the location of the original.

This was the sight that Lu Chen and Wandering were looking at now.

The towering tree braid breaking through the clouds truly resembled a girl’s braid, with the top being spread out branches and leaves like the frayed end of a braid, while the bottom consisted of millions of intertwined main trunks forming the tree braid, with its diameter growing thicker the further down it went, and given the planet’s spherical shape, it truly looked like the head of a giant floating in space.