"Is this----withdrawing money?"
According to Lincon's perspective of appreciating many abilities, Heart of the Sun's abilities are definitely top-notch for plant abilities.
Just bathing in Sunlight can accelerate growth and stimulate life potential. It is equivalent to loading a thrust engine on plants, and the future is promising.
Lincon Seeing this bud, which is only the size of a fingernail and has thin, almost transparent leaves, stretching out on the dry and cracked ground, I felt relieved.
In the beginning, this level was passed.
But I don't know how many difficulties will come next, and now everything has just begun.
[Weeping Willow is struggling to grow under Sunlight.]
[Its growth rate is much faster than other plants, which not only helps it, but also brings unknown dangers.
[A Long-Eared Desert Rabbit began to appear in the growing area where Weeping Willow is located. Long-Eared Desert Rabbit mainly feeds on small insects, but if you see fresh and tender leaves, you don't mind taking a bite.]
[Option 1: Hide]
[You choose to hide yourself, hiding under the protection of the coniferous plants nearby, and let Sandwood Cactus block foreign enemies.]
[Reward Talent: Stealth]
[Option 2: I am fearless]
[If you choose to show it openly in front of Long-Eared Desert Rabbit, bet it won't dare to eat you.]
[Reward talent: Living towards death]
Staring at the two options, Lincon opened his mouth, not knowing what to complain about.
He chose to hide.
I finally got the talent of Heart of the Sun. If I don't make good use of it, no one in their right mind would do this to fight with a rabbit at this time.
[Your choice caused the Weeping Willow seedling to change its growth trajectory and hide behind Sandwood Cactus. After a while, Long-Eared Desert Rabbit did not find you. Your choice successfully allowed you to escape Long-Eared Desert Rabbit's attack and continue to grow.]
[You gain talent: Stealth]
[Again, avoiding danger is not shameful, but a sign of wisdom. This experience has made you better understand how to hide yourself. When you encounter danger, your sense of existence to the outside world will be reduced.]
Long-Eared Desert Rabbit was just a small episode, Lincon didn't pay too much attention to it.
Time began to pass quickly, and it turned out that his choice was not wrong.
Weeping Willow, who has the talent of stealth, then encountered many creatures that could feed on it. However, with the talent of stealth, he successfully evaded the opponent's search every time.
At the same time, the Weeping Willow seedling also grew rapidly under Sunlight. Its stem grew from the thickness of a toothpick to the thickness of a chopstick, and reached a height of one foot.
The growth bonus brought by Heart of the Sun is more powerful than expected by Lincon. When Sunlight falls on the leaves, it will be quickly absorbed and converted into materials that provide for its own growth.
The leaves expanded outward one by one, and the color of the top leaves changed from green to emerald green. The roots skillfully passed between Sandwood Cactus and the roots of other plants, absorbing trace amounts of water from the soil and successfully avoiding competition with plants that were stronger than itself.
During this period, Lincon helped Weeping Willow seedlings make several innocuous selections.
However, just when he thought that the Weeping Willow seedlings would grow up quietly during this long period of time, a rare insect pest swept across from the east.
Tens of thousands of small beetles hatched from the egg sacs underneath, flapping their wings and covering the sky. Their number and scale were no less than those of the locusts Lincon had seen in previous lives.
"How could something like this exist in the desert?"
Lincon immediately looked towards the ground. Wherever these small beetles passed, no animals on the surface could escape, and they all turned into a pile of white bones.
Even Long-Eared Desert Rabbit, which had previously brought danger to the Weeping Willow seedlings, was not spared, and its flesh and blood was sucked dry by the beetles in the blink of an eye.
Sandwood Cactus has resisted the gnawing of most beetles with its thick skin and toxic sap inside, but other desert plants are not so lucky.
Originally growing in an environment with extreme water shortage, it was now faced with insect pests.
Weeping Willow's hidden talent once again played a key role at this time.
The surface of its leaves secretes an odor similar to Sandwood Cactus. After smelling this smell, most beetles took the initiative to avoid its branches and attack other plants. However, some of them still climbed onto Weeping Willow and tried to test their mouths.
[Many times, danger never comes only from around you.]
Sandworm is one of the most common creatures in this desert. Every time after the rainy season, Sandworm's egg sacs will hatch, forming a tide of insects that covers the sky. During this period, they mate with each other, reproduce, eat everything they can eat around them, and then gradually die in the heat wave.]
[But before dying, they will lay eggs underground again, waiting for the next rainy season.]
[Option 1: Insect-eating]
[Amidst the threat of the insect tide, you chose to actively devour, adding all your life potential to hunting at once, and becoming a butcher in this desert.]
[Reward talent: Sandworm Slayer]
[Option 2: Take root and dive deeply]
[You realize that the danger on the ground is far greater than underground, guide the Weeping Willow seedlings to shed all their leaves, concentrate all their energy on the root system, and turn to underground life.]
[Reward talent: Darkness Perception]
[Option three: Way of Symbiosis]
[You convert the energy absorbed by Sunlight into your body and secrete it into a special juice that attracts Sandworm. When Sandworm swallows the juice, it will regard you as the same kind and lose its desire to attack you.]
[Reward talent: Insect Affinity]
Lincon stared at the three options and once again fell into a dilemma.
Sandworm's attack was undoubtedly fatal, but he also knew that this might just be the most common part of growing up in this world.
Now Weeping Willow seedlings, any animal or insect can bring danger to it.
Of course, option two will definitely not be considered.
If you choose this option, then the talent of Heart of the Sun will be in vain.
So you can only choose between one and three.
After hesitating for a moment, Lincon chose to become Sandworm Slayer!
The moment he made his decision, the Weeping Willow seedling seemed to have gained infinite strength, and barbs sprouted out of its originally tender stems.
Its stems and leaves became very developed and powerful, and with a sudden roll, Sandworm was tightly wrapped.
A layer of acidic mucus secreted from the leaves will digest and dissolve Sandworm on the spot, decomposing it into the purest biological nutrients and transporting them to the roots of the seedlings, making them stronger.
Lincon was delighted when he saw this, if the Weeping Willow seedlings could bathe Sunlight to grow Photosynthesis, and at the same time, they could hunt creatures for nutrients.
By taking a two-pronged approach, not only will you have a weapon for self-protection in the future, but your growth will also be faster.
"It seems you made the right choice."
However, not long after this idea came up, as time went by, Lincon found that more and more Sandworm jumped on the seedling, eating its stems and leaves.
At first, the seedlings were able to resist and hunt, but the number of Sandworm was so great that they soon submerged the seedlings, which were only half a meter high.
[Your wrong choice caused the seedlings to be drowned by the insect tide while they were still growing. This is the helplessness of life and its sorrow.]
[Do you want to consume a Life Reload opportunity to load the file?]
Lincon saw a strong sense of ridicule in this text.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, and after observing Sandworm carefully for a while, he chose yes.
"It seems that becoming Sandworm Slayer is not feasible. There are too many enemies and the Weeping Willow seedlings will not survive the end of the insect wave."
So when he chose again, he chose to let Weeping Willow and Sandworm coexist.
[After the last failure, you learned the experience and lessons, and guided the Weeping Willow seedlings to absorb the energy stored in Sunlight in the body and convert it into a special juice that can attract Sandworm.]
[These juices exuded a special smell, and Sandworm all rushed over after smelling it.]
[However, this time they did not harm the seedling, but regarded it as the same kind. The female Sandworm was particularly obsessed with the seedling. After mating with the male Sandworm, she laid insect eggs around the seedling.]
[You get talent: Insect Affinity]
[After encountering you, all insects will develop a favorable impression of you and will not actively attack you.]
The insect wave lasted for nearly half a month. After the last batch of Sandworm died, the entire area that Lincon could perceive had changed beyond recognition.
Although Sandwood Cactus survived the insect tide, its surface was covered with dense gnawing marks.
Sandworm became particularly crazy as he approached death. Even Sandwood Cactus, whose body was covered in weapons, was not immune to these wounds cracking and healing repeatedly in the dry air, consuming a lot of its vitality.
On the other hand, the Weeping Willow seedling under its feet was unscathed by this disaster.
The branches and leaves of the seedling continued to grow during the insect tide. No Sandworm attacked it, and even laid a thick layer of insect eggs in the surrounding soil.
These insect eggs are wrapped in a viscous protective fluid and sleep densely next to the underground roots of the Weeping Willow seedlings. If someone uses a hoe to open it up, they will find that these things are like a circle of gray-white gravel gathered around the seedlings.
"Is this a blessing in disguise?" Lincon couldn't help but sigh.
He swept across large areas of Sandworm corpses around him. These Sandworm brought disaster to this land during their lives, and at the same time, they turned into biological nutrients and returned them to the land after death.
Time began to pass again.
The Weeping Willow seedling will grow taller every once in a while. The growth bonus of Heart of the Sun makes its main stem grow longer and thicker at a speed visible to the naked eye. The branches are pulled out from the main trunk in sequence, and each branch is covered with long and narrow willow leaves.
The root system is thick and firmly rooted in the sand, and it will not be shaken even if it encounters a sandstorm.
At the same time, it has adapted to the drought and water shortage environment as it continues to grow.
Its leaves are very hard and have many fine pores invisible to the naked eye. They obtain moisture from the air to support their growth through changes in day and night temperatures.
It's a pity that Sandwood Cactus exhausted his last vitality in the first dry season after the insect tide, and fell silently at noon under the scorching sun.
This giant, who sheltered the Weeping Willow seedlings for a period of time, seemed to have turned into an old man in a trance, watching Weeping Willow grow up with his own eyes, and then turned into a puddle of gray-brown debris at the end of his life, blending into the long wasteland just like the original Sandworm.
Lincon looked at this scene, feeling somewhat uncomfortable in his heart.
But when he checked the growth status of Weeping Willow one day, he found that in the shadow of the outstretched branches of Weeping Willow, there was a Sandwood Cactus that was only the size of a thumb, growing quietly away from the eyes of all living things.