Starting as a Wallfacer, his defection to the Three-Body Problem shocked the world.

Chapter 164 Old Liu, come out and see Buddha!

Rewinding the timeline to many years ago, while Lin Xuan was busy dealing with the Trisolarans, Shi Qiang and others were filming a survival movie.

"It tastes awful. It feels like someone roasted my stinky socks over a fire and then added two pieces of raw meat to it. It's disgusting."

Shi Qiang took a bite of the sponge worm in his hand, and his expression instantly turned into one of pain.

"You son of a bitch, eat if you want, or don't!" Principal Liu, who was standing to the side, was disgusted by Shi Qiang's description and cursed angrily.

"Principal Liu, how come you've started swearing too? You're supposed to be a cultured person!"

"It's all because of you that I've been corrupted!"

Liu Chang took a bite of the burnt sponge worm, and the pungent smell instantly filled his mouth.

He could normally tolerate the taste, but when he thought of Shi Qiang's description, he was instantly disgusted and spat out what was in his mouth.

"Don't eat!"

Liu Chang angrily walked back to the base to check on the growth of the new plants he was cultivating.

They have been living on this planet for almost three months. In those three months, Liu Chang used Cheng Xing's control over the nanobots to build a temporary base on this green planet to cultivate things they could eat.

Since the planet is almost entirely covered by the roots of the giant willow tree, their cultivation plan can only be carried out in a temporary base. Otherwise, the giant willow tree might accidentally drain all the nutrients that Liu Chang has painstakingly cultivated.

However, crops also need time to grow. Although Principal Liu's modifications meant that these plants would only need four or five months to grow, until then, the two of them would have to rely on what they could find to eat.

The Navigator originally had a lot of food stored on board, but after drifting in space for so long, the stored food had long since spoiled.

In order to save on the spaceship's energy costs, Cheng Xing did not continue to cultivate the next generation of varieties, but only refrigerated the seeds and other planting products.

According to the original plan, she was to awaken everyone in the 61st year of the Deterrence Era, so Cheng Xing would start cultivating crops again in the 60th year.

The incident happened so suddenly that Cheng Xing didn't have much time to think before Zhang Beihai and the others were awakened from their hibernation.

Actually, the Navigator still had a batch of zombie meat in stock, otherwise Zhang Beihai and Chu Yan would have had nothing to eat.

It's just that this zombie meat has been frozen for a slightly longer time... about sixty years.

In addition, since it is synthetic meat developed by Liu Chang, the taste is naturally not very good. Chu Yan and Lao Zhang can just eat it. It would be more expensive than the meat itself to send the nanorobots down from space and back up.

So Shi Qiang and his companion chose to use whatever was available and eat it.

In Shi Qiang's words, Liu Chang himself wouldn't eat the synthetic meat that Liu Chang made, which angered Liu Chang so much that he cursed the guy for being a complete idiot.

Sponge worms are a type of marine planktonic organism unique to Green Star. They are as big as a finger and are entirely green. When roasted with wooden skewers, they are very soft and chewy, just like rice cakes.

However, it doesn't smell very good; it tastes a bit like a rotten persimmon, with a sour and bitter flavor.

However, this is the only edible thing on this planet. The roots of the giant willow tree have such a terrifying ability to devour that almost all organic matter cannot escape its clutches.

These insects survived only because they live in water.

The willow tree dislikes water, and even dislikes it somewhat, so it will not easily attack creatures that exist in the water.

Regarding this characteristic, Liu Chang also consulted the trigonometric function tree about the specific reasons.

The result, however, surprised everyone.

It turns out that the planet they once lived on had no water, so these three tree people, as children of the great willow tree, naturally inherited its dislike of water.

Of course, this conclusion was drawn by Liu Chang himself.

Because the three tree-people grew from seeds, and those seeds must have originated from another planet.

Either an advanced civilization planted seeds from another planet here, or another civilization was originally composed of trees.

In short, whichever possibility it is, it proves one thing: the planet where the seed originally lived must have been without water.

Later, Liu Chang inquired about the observers, and the trigonometric function tree said they weren't entirely clear on the matter.

They were only born a year ago, which means that a year ago, they were just a part of this big willow tree, and they were not like they are now, able to sing, dance and play basketball.

Therefore, after the observers arrived on Green Star, the three tree people were unable to communicate with each other and could only silently watch each other appear on Green Star.

"In our memory, the observers have come three times, which is about 15 years from your time on Earth."

“I was born earlier, so I witnessed its first arrival. When it arrived, it seemed puzzled and confused by how Green Star had become like this, and casually eliminated some of the willow trees.”

"Then he came the following year, by which time the segmented function tree had already been created. The Observer constellation was under my feet, and he was talking to himself about some kind of experiment."

"Then in the third year, the complex function tree was born, and I was able to control my body slightly. I tried to communicate with the observer, but I couldn't make any sound. When the observer saw me, he only said one sentence."

"A new civilization has been born, but unfortunately the experiment has failed. There is no point in keeping this planet. I might as well give it to you. If you ever encounter human beings like me in the future, please treat them kindly."

Listening to the explanation of the trigonometric function tree, Shi Qiang suddenly realized.

"So, that's why you chose to talk to us after you met us?"

"Yes, how do you say that word... transaction."

"We live on your planet, so naturally we should treat you humans well."

Upon hearing this, Shi Qiang couldn't help but grin.

"Tsk, what a kind race they are. It seems we humans are too evil."

This is the advantage of a new race: its simplicity.

Civilizations like this won't last long; after all, the universe is a dark forest.

Just then, Shi Qiang was suddenly startled.

"Old Liu, come out and see the Buddha!"

Liu Chang and the three tree people looked up at the same time and saw a white line flying rapidly toward them on the horizon. The speed of the flight was so fast that it even ignited a layer of flames in the atmosphere!

"They've arrived; they are the observers!"