How Am I Still Alive?

Working overtime is always unpleasant, especially when the finished product is far from what you need.

"Is this a tree man? Is this his meow tree man?"

When Xiao Mumu finally started to fulfill his responsibilities and completed the first wave of creations as soon as possible, someone who went to inspect it was a little confused.

"It is a tree creature in the form of an animal. Haha, humans are always so arrogant. The robot must be made into a human form. It is too expensive and useless. The spider form is more suitable for the use of mechanical limbs, and for the tree people, there are too many The limbs that come out are actually meaningless.”

In a sense, Mumu is a child who can do what he says.

After Lu Pingan finally forced her to go to the palace, she actually managed to create a family within a few days, which was the "tree man" that Lu Pingan was most looking forward to.

However, after seeing it, it has nothing to do with the tree people.

"Snake-like limbs are the most suitable?"

"The long body becomes new limbs when it falls down. Snakes walk on scales, and tree people also have bark that can change, and the leaves turn into light-sensitive eyes."

Mu Mu yawned and almost fell asleep halfway through the explanation.

At this time, the two of them were surrounded by a "tree snake", and the eyeballs densely covered on the leaves were very eye-catching.

It looks like a giant brown snake, except that it has no head or tail, and there are countless "little tentacles" shaking around it. The root that is trying to absorb nutrients cannot be used as a mobile foot considering its size. use.

Lu Ping'an was a little confused. He understood everything Mu Mu said, at least he could understand it.

Just like monkeys evolving into humans, the cost of evolution of life with little difference is the lowest. If a large number of magic plants want to transform into "tree people", instead of having extra limbs, it is better to directly learn from the "snake" life form.

Lu Pingan himself improved the gardener's skills for summoning tree people, and found that the cost of converting the same tree into a "tree snake" was less than a quarter of that of a "tree man".

And more importantly

"This form can survive by taking root. Even if you expend your strength to transform it into a plant form again, it can last longer. In this process, if more offspring can be reproduced, then it will not matter how you look at it. Lost money."

Don't tell me, after Mu Mu said this, Lu Ping'an really couldn't find the problem.

If the life form can function normally, then there is no need to bother him to grow legs for the shark. It will not increase its deterrence, but will make it easier for it to hunt down its prey and beach it ashore.

More organs, stronger muscles, if not a direct benefit to survival, are additional burdens.

In this regard, "Tree Man" is actually a typical example.

For large and super large melee combat units, their strength is basically at the bottom of the same level. On the one hand, it is because of the fact that "wood" is relatively fragile, and on the other hand, tree people are generally slow and have no explosive power at all.

This is a huge negative blessing for melee units.

And if it is in the shape of a snake, it does not need to use its hands and feet to move, but just twists its body to drive the "scales", which can cause it to explode and hurt people directly.

In terms of "species" design, tree snakes are much easier to use than tree men.

"Then why does everyone use trees?"

"It's simply because we are all humanoid creatures. People can't do things beyond their own understanding, especially in terms of control. The human form is more convenient for using those so-called fighting skills. The tree bark and trunk are used as power organs. In fact, they are completely useless, so they are destined to be slow and extremely slow to react. After all, all actions are mimicry. "

Mu Mu, the "tree man", complained about the tree man's unreasonable structure and design problems with an indifferent expression, and even made violent remarks.

"The result of big humanism, mankind's favorite tree baby doll"

Well, Lu Ping'an doesn't want to worry about it anymore. Mumu couldn't move easily when she was a tree person, so she only looked at her phone when she had nothing to do. As a result, her personality became more and more subtle.

Lu Ping'an can understand everything. He doesn't want to interfere with the form of his own family. What he cares about more is actually other things.

"The problem is, this isn't just a snake, it's a strip-shaped tree. Most of them don't have a bare trunk."

What Lu Ping'an saw in front of him was a "branches" that were intertwined. Each of those branches that were spreading and entangled was in the shape of a snake.

"Looks a bit like Medusa"

Doesn't it look like a snake-haired mythical beast in front of you? Lu Pingan nodded with satisfaction.

"Meow! It's a tentacle meow! What a big tentacle monster!"

But Maomao jumped out at an inappropriate time and told the truth in a childlike manner.

It was placed on the ground with several branches dancing around like snake heads, which was too similar to the legendary parasitic beast.

"Tentacles? Well, I know you miss them."

While summoning the real "life tentacles" and letting them chase and kill cats, Ping An must also think carefully about the packaging issue.

There are no problems with strength and life form. The act of covering the body with "bark" and attacking the opponent with the bark also meets Lu Ping'an's design requirements.

However, this form is too permeable now.

"Anyway, the tree people are your position as war machines. Wouldn't it be a good thing to infiltrate people?"

"I hope tree people can also have ethnic and social forms."

"puff."

Hearing this, Mu Mu laughed out loud and then shook her head.

"We don't need it. We are fundamentally different. Trees are always competing for survival. We are always competing for sunlight, water and nutrients. We don't have brains. Survival and reproduction are our meaning. We don't need the social structure of "people." "

Now, it's Lu Ping'an's turn to learn.

Plants and animals are completely different in some things, and Lu Ping'an is indeed a bit "great humanism" in this regard, directly presupposing the needs of each other.

In other places, this difference will be more obvious and intense, and even become irreconcilable.

"Sure enough, they are fighting again."

Looking at the two "tree snakes" that began to entangle and fight each other, Lu Ping'an sighed. Weak humans need to group to deal with natural disasters, but the "trees" born and raised by nature probably don't need it. Living in groups will only cause them to lack nutrition.

If possible, many plants will kill their "competitors" as much as possible.

But if tree snakes don't group together, the war form is basically useless.

Looking at Mu Mu who was still catalyzing the "tree tentacle monster" and "tree snake", Lu Ping'an sighed and stopped interfering. He admitted that in this regard, Mu Mu, who kept reading books and practicing, was probably more professional than himself.

However, he still had to put forward his own requirements.

"Complete the evolution of the lamp tree as soon as possible. This is very important, very important."