"This is quite a little killing move."
Quietly delighted, Yu Ziyu was already planning to keep it as his trump card.
He could not walk and could only hold his ground.
If a powerful enemy came to provoke him nearby, he could use the length of his branches to mislead them.
Then, when necessary, he could use the air's residual force to kill them in an instant.
This was what the legendary air cannon amounted to.
Of course, there were other ways to strike at distant targets.
For example, he could wrap a branch around a rock and simply hurl it.
But how could that be anywhere near as exciting? This was an air cannon, after all.
If he grew a little stronger and could sweep up more air, that power would probably be truly supernatural.
By then, Yu Ziyu would have nothing to fear even from modern weapons.
As for modern weapons... where would those come from?
Uh... over the past half month, Yu Ziyu had seen planes fly overhead more than once.
In other words, he could tentatively conclude that this was a modern world. Coupled with the fact that his body was a willow tree, Yu Ziyu felt that this world should not be too unfamiliar.
It might even be the world of his previous life.
However, considering that he had grown over twenty meters in half a month, and the trees around him had also grown several meters to varying degrees, Yu Ziyu still had to remain skeptical about this "world of his previous life."
Hmm...
In his previous life, trees had never grown at such an outrageous rate.
And that was true even of the other trees, which were not deliberately absorbing energy the way Yu Ziyu was.
If they deliberately absorbed the unknown energy in the air, their growth would probably accelerate even further. Blotting out the sky might not be just a figure of speech.
Not only that, Yu Ziyu had also noticed that some animals seemed to have undergone small changes.
However, the animals did not seem to absorb this unknown energy as quickly as the trees, and their changes were not as obvious.
They merely ran faster and had keener senses of smell.
Just as now, not a single animal had dared enter his territory for several days.
That had left him with virtually no evolution points.
The evolution points he had worked so hard to obtain had all gone into strengthening his branches.
Now, he had only three evolution points left.
Of course, Yu Ziyu was not a butcher through and through.
He still had compassion.
"Chirp, chirp, chirp..."
A series of shrill, incessant cries suddenly rang out from somewhere on Yu Ziyu's body.
Looking up, he saw that a nest had appeared at some point in a triangular fork formed by his treetop.
A bird's nest.
It was very crude. This-
Inside the nest were eight chicks, each roughly the size of a fist, crying frantically with their beaks stretched wide, like a mother-in-law opening her mouth to demand a bride price.
"Are these little fellows hungry?"
Puzzled, Yu Ziyu muttered to himself.
Still, as he looked at this nestful of chicks, Yu Ziyu could hardly hide his delight.
Because these were peregrine falcons.
A medium-sized bird of prey, an adult peregrine falcon could reach 41-50 cm in body length, with a wingspan of 95-115 cm. When hunting, peregrine falcons would soar swiftly into the sky, then dive at speeds of up to 270-360 kilometers per hour!
A diving speed of 300 kilometers per hour-what did that mean?
Even a cheetah's top speed was only 120 kilometers per hour.
Yet a peregrine falcon was as much as three times faster than a cheetah.
When hunting at that speed, the sheer pressure it brought would be enough to leave someone breathless.
And the nestful of chicks before him were precisely those peregrine falcons, swift as arrows loosed from a bow.
Their underparts were white, with fine black spots on their upper breasts and dense black barring from their lower breasts to their undertail coverts.
Though they were only chicks, their white-jade claws were pointed and sharp, and their round, bean-sized eyes shone brightly.
As for why this nestful of chicks had made their home on Yu Ziyu, he had only himself to blame.
Not long ago, he had disliked how the trees around him were too tall and blocked the sky, so he had used his branches to lash them apart halfway up their trunks.
Then this nestful of chicks had fallen from one of the large trees.
Yu Ziyu had originally intended to use them to replenish his evolution points, but after recognizing them as peregrine falcons, a medium-sized bird of prey, he had begun making other plans.
If he could tame them, this nestful of peregrine falcons would probably prove very useful.
Besides, the plants and animals were all mutating now...
If-
Just if-
These peregrine falcons developed sharper beaks and tougher bodies,
Might they one day shoot through enemies at bullet-like speeds, killing them within a single breath?
Tsk, tsk.
Just imagining that scene thrilled him.
With a little luck, these little fellows might become his capable helpers.
And so, Yu Ziyu naturally took on the role of nanny.
Besides, he did not need food.
By occasionally farming evolution points, he could quickly obtain some animal carcasses.
Because of this, these little fellows had no shortage of food.
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