The secrets of Beinz Blood Lake seemed to be even more numerous than Hao Ren had initially imagined.
The strange, closed-off ecosystem here, the enormous biological system beneath the Twisted Woods that was enough to make one's heart tremble, the mysterious power contained in that expanse of crimson water, and the countless legends surrounding it all—Hao Ren firmly believed that most of those stories had definite origins—filled people with curiosity about this mysterious region.
"What exactly would you classify the Twisted Woods as? Are you sure it's a plant?" Hao Ren switched between holographic projections, but eventually stopped on the scan of the Twisted Woods. The enormous underground root system gave him a shudder. Just looking at the images was enough to leave him stunned: he was standing atop such an ancient and bizarre life-form, and compared to this gigantic thing, he was no more than a speck of dust.
"It is indeed a plant." The Data Terminal continued strengthening its scanning signal to fill in the blurred or blank areas of the image. "Hmm... Although there are relatively few examples of organisms evolving into this form, they aren't entirely unheard of. You have to understand that the void is vast, and anything can appear in it. The mother trees of the tree elves can even take root across and cover an entire planet. What you're looking at is merely one form of a 'gigantic plant.' The only thing that's difficult to understand is how it appeared here. This unit performed a reverse deduction of this planet's ecological evolution and discovered that even tens of thousands of years ago, this place was unsuitable for such a giant colonial plant. It... shouldn't have appeared on this planet. This doesn't conform to the laws of evolution."
Hao Ren was a layman when