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Chapter 361 Since things have come to this, let's plant trees first.

The roots of the insect-eating tree continued to extend downwards from Xue Lude's hand, and Xue Lude began to control the divine tree within the consciousness space.

Two divine trees are currently sealed within his body. One is naturally a subspecies of the insect-eating tree, which is the original form of his daughter. The other is a divine tree that was born after absorbing hundreds of billions of insect swarms within the super iron curtain and combining with bacteriophages.

The other one is a divine tree sealed on the home planet of the Ninth Apostle. Actually, the divine tree underground in Boston on Earth should also be included, but Xue was too busy and did not have time to go to the underground in Boston.

Perhaps, after returning home last time, my mindset and behavior became abnormal.

He had planned to go to the Boston underground to complete the sealing, but in the end he only lived at home for a few days, and during those days he seemed to be in a state of some kind of problem.

As for what went wrong?

Xue's Law was forgotten, but it didn't matter; things you forget can't be important anyway.

Since things have come to this, let's plant trees first.

The roots of the insect-eating tree kept extending into the ground and began to discover a lot of information there.

The reason why the Divine Tree of the Ninth Apostle's home planet was not used is that Xue's Law cannot completely control the Divine Tree. For planets that still have a biosphere, the insect-eating tree that can be controlled is better.

For him, the Divine Tree is now more of a tool, and his control over it relies entirely on the seal of the World Authority.

Ordinary divine trees might not necessarily obey Xue's commands, so after careful consideration, Xue ultimately chose his youngest daughter's true form.

However, Xue felt as if he had become a god-king, dividing his daughter into several parts.

One part is planted in their own flowerpot, and the other part is to serve as a part-time world consciousness in this world. Once the true world consciousness is formed, the little daughter can pull out the tree roots, dust herself off, and leave.

Let's ask our younger daughter then. If she's unwilling, then we'll consider other solutions.

Let's ask first.

The entire underground of Green Star is like a network of caves, with groundwater and cave resources that are incredibly abundant. The Insect-Eating Tree can easily spread its roots all over the world through these caves.

If this were on Earth, such abundant underground cave resources would be a paradise for cave diving enthusiasts. Unlike on Earth, where cave diving can basically reach the bottom, the underground caves here are interconnected and have many narrow pockets. Even the narrowest places are hundreds of meters wide.

It's as if a divine tree was originally meant to grow in this world, but for some reason it disappeared, leaving behind only these enormous underground caves.

"dad?"

The insect-eating tree made a slightly puzzled sound.

Meanwhile, far away on Earth, the youngest daughter, rooted in a flowerpot with her face buried in the mud, was being watered by the little dragon mother. She was momentarily stunned, realizing that her true form seemed to be rooted in a strange place, and asked a question.

“I’ll help temporarily fill in for this world until a new world consciousness is born. But it might take quite a while, since the world consciousness here has just completely disappeared. I hope it won’t affect your life. Can you help your dad?” Xue Luding gave the Insect-Eating Tree a general overview of the situation.

"Okay, smida..." The little girl continued to lie sprawled in the flowerpot, opening her mouth to receive the water that Little Dragon Girl poured from the spray bottle.

"Sister, why does this water taste bland today?" the younger daughter asked, puzzled.

"Let me see... tap water? Don't you drink this stuff? I even boiled it and let it cool down," Little Dragon Girl asked in confusion.

Little Flower Fairy: "..."

……

On Xue's side.

This is unlike the Ninth Apostle's home planet, where there was already a collection of world authority—the Judgment Agency. Margaret of this planet was just tricked by Xue's Law and killed in a sneak attack.

The power over the entire planet can be said to be scattered and flying everywhere. If the divine tree is not planted quickly, Xue Lude even suspects that the scattered power will turn into more strange and bizarre demons.

After all, this was originally a world where any concept could become a demon, and even history could become a demon.

However, Xue's Law still has many unanswered questions. How did Margaret capture Hell? Why is there no world consciousness in Hell, and why can all those authorities transform into demons? And what exactly happened in Hell, and why do those demons need humans to survive?

These are all pieces of information that Xue Dinglu hasn't collected yet, but now he can slowly deal with the matters on Green Star and then return to Hell to gather information about demons.

Xue's Law slowly transmitted the story of this planet into the body of the Insect-Eating Tree. As if it understood Xue's Law's story, the little daughter did not reply.

It seemed to be asleep, or perhaps it was just the main body coming to help.

Then, the divine tree rose from the ground and gradually grew into a towering tree, several kilometers high, blocking out the sun.

Just like the World Tree in mythology, although the Insectivorous Tree is a subspecies of the Divine Tree and has undergone unknown mutations due to its combination with bacteriophages, it still inherited some of the original functions of the Divine Tree.

The insect-eating tree slowly reclaimed its power, gathering the planet's energy and water, and regulating the planet's ecology and other functions.

Although the insect-eating tree cannot become the true world consciousness, it should be able to fill this position for a period of time, maintaining the planet's basic ecology until a new world consciousness is born.

Just like those interstellar column predecessors who planted the divine tree on the Death Star.

Meanwhile, the hundreds of thousands of people who had been brought back from hell had begun to build new homes in full swing. Even though it was already night, they were still building simple houses on the ground and began to divide the work among themselves to build their new homes.

All the human-built structures in the original world became unusable. After all, the entire world had almost collided with hell, and the atmospheres began to come into contact and rub against each other, causing the original buildings on the ground and even the entire surface of the earth to be overturned again and again.

The entire land is now riddled with potholes, resembling an apocalyptic scene. The buildings that were originally built on this land look as if they have experienced a magnitude 10 earthquake.

Even the trees on the ground were overturned again and again, and now most of them are broken into pieces or uprooted. The original rivers were sucked into the sky, and now that they have returned to the ground, they can only flow as they please, seemingly going wherever they end up. Therefore, if there is no divine tree to regulate the ecology, Xue's Law feels that it would take tens of millions of years for this world to slowly recover on its own.

After finishing all of this, Xue finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He looked into the distance, where in the darkness, the humans were still building their new homes by the faint light of torches. These people, who had been tormented by demons from hell for more than a year, had not completely forgotten their basic knowledge.

It might be difficult for them to restore their former civilization, but they could only restore it to its basic form, recreating ancient waterwheels and farmland, and then slowly developing blacksmith furnaces, until finally the steam engine... and the internal combustion engine...

Even without a complete industrial heritage, it might only take a few hundred years to restore the civilization it once was.

After all, the original state of civilization on this planet seemed to be similar to that of Earth. If it weren't for the interference of demons and evil spirits, they might have been much more advanced in technology than Earth.

Unfortunately, due to the attacks of demons and evil spirits, their civilization chose the wrong technological path and began to run wildly in the direction of demonization.

Xue Lu thought to himself, and soon stopped getting involved in these people's construction of their new home.

He began his return to Hell, which was now even more devastating. The entire planet looked as if a giant husky had carried out a destructive campaign, with the earth churning, the atmosphere distorted, and storms and frequent earthquakes making the planet seem like it was about to crack apart at any moment.

This is actually because when it almost came into contact with the Green Star, the mutual gravitational pull caused the mantle layer of Hell to shift. Now that it is free from gravity, the shifted mantle layer needs to slowly recover under its own gravity.

After all, Hell is only one-tenth the size of Green Star. The gravitational pull between them would be a minor earthquake for Green Star, but for Hell it would be a cataclysmic earthquake.

In such circumstances, there would be massive earthquakes and storms that would make it impossible for any living thing in the world to survive.

Xue Law had no choice but to release the divine tree again, but this time it was not the insect-eating tree, but the tree sealed in the mother planet of the Ninth Apostle.

After all, there are no other macroscopic life forms in the current hell. Perhaps only some microorganisms can survive in such an environment. For this planet, it may take hundreds of millions of years for civilization to be reborn.

It would be more realistic to fly here by spaceship after the people on Green Star have restored their civilization.

After all, Hell is now a satellite of Green Star, and the two are only 42 kilometers apart.

However, Xue Law did not completely indulge this divine tree. After all, it was the divine tree of the apostles, and Xue Law was not confident that he could completely control it. Therefore, the world-class seal still applied to it, leaving only a one percent gap so that it could simply adjust the ecology of hell.

At the same time, they made a difficult attempt to use the roots of the divine tree to explore some of the information left behind in this world.

Soon, after the roots of the divine tree spread throughout Hell, Xue's Law finally discovered some information left behind there.

This appears to be a structure created by a demon, which is why even after such a massive transformation occurred on the planet, and this claustrophobic room was buried several kilometers underground, it was still able to remain intact.

Containing the demon? Or imprisoning the demon?
In Xue Dinglu's hand, the Eight-Point Light Wheel slowly sliced ​​through the confined space like a chainsaw. Once it opened, all that remained was the skeleton of an astronaut, cut in half at the waist.

astronaut?
Xue looked over and found that the astronaut seemed to have been dead for a long time. His upper and lower body were separated, and his entire body seemed to have been cut in half at the waist. Even the spacesuit was cut in half. The body had long since turned into a dried skeleton inside the spacesuit. He had been dead for at least a year.

It seems he died not long after the demonic outbreak, and was even imprisoned here before his death, where he endured a period of inhuman torture.

Was it the claustrophobic demon? Or the bisected demon? Or perhaps it was the 2.5 demon?

Xue's law is now lost to history, but he began collecting information on whether the astronauts had left any traces on them, and then he discovered the watch on the astronaut's wrist.

It was a watch that Xue's Law had never seen before, like a high-tech product specially designed for astronauts.

When Xue picked up the watch, it seemed to automatically trigger some kind of program.

"Hello, whoever found this watch, if you are a demon, I beg you to give it to the remaining humans. They can use the knowledge within to reproduce and multiply the human race. If you are human, listen carefully..."

"I am the station commander of space station Caris III. We have been attacked by demons, by cosmic demons. The space station has been swallowed up, and we have all been taken over by the demons..."

"Perhaps all the cities on the ground have also been attacked by demons, but the demons will not kill us all. They have to rely on the human population to maintain their existence. So, everyone, we must survive. Survival is victory!"

The sound coming from the watch seemed to be a man's heavy breathing, even mixed with pain and fear.

"The devil can never defeat us..."

"Please, everyone, you must live on. Even if you live in hell, persevere. We will surely win..."

"Leave a message from Station Master Carlis III in the year 8754 of the World Calendar."

The information on the watch disappeared, and Xue Dinglu silently looked at the astronaut who had been cut in half.

Although this enclosed space had been churning and silent in the depths of hell for who knows how long, the strange posture of the skeleton showed that he was killed by a demon, and even made a particularly contorted movement before his death, as if the demon wanted to instill fear in the astronaut.

But even in his final moments, the astronaut was still thinking about recording his words and leaving behind the most precious legacy for those who came after him.

Its name is civilization.

Xue Dinglu silently put away his watch. Perhaps it didn't represent an entire civilization, but for those people on Green Star who were preparing to rebuild their home, the many documents and knowledge accumulated over the years could save them from many detours and shorten the time to restore industrialization by at least several times.

As for the humans on the ground... the insect-eating tree will provide them with the most basic food and fresh water until they have finished planting and completed their first harvest.

Xue Luding closed his eyes. The next moment, Xue Luding continued to explore more things in Hell through his roots. He wanted to find not only the information left behind by the civilization on Green Star, but also the information left behind by the original native civilization and humans in Hell.

Xue's Law believes that civilization exists in Hell, and that their civilization is even quite advanced. After all, there are "human demons" and "mechanical demons" in Hell, which at least proves that when they connected with Green Star, the pre-civilization had already developed to the industrial age.

(End of this chapter)