Chapter 418 Origin
Everyone, under the influence of this towering tree, saw... scenes one after another.

Zhou Tian is no exception.

What he saw was...

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Zhou Tian's family was not wealthy.

However, he is very smart. He was the top student in the school when he was in elementary school, and he was still the top student in middle school.

Everything should have gone smoothly, a noble son should be born from a poor family, and a golden phoenix should fly out of the chicken coop.

But God seemed to like to play tricks on people, and Zhou Tian fell ill.

It was not a serious illness, just a high fever which was very common in any era.

So Zhou Tian took a leave and went back to the village to see a local doctor. The doctor gave him an injection in the butt without saying a word, then poured out a bunch of pills like pouring beans, folded them into small medicine packets with paper, and handed them to Zhou Tian's grandmother, telling him to take them on time, and the fever would go down soon.

Under the care of his grandmother, Zhou Tian took the medicine with peace of mind, went home, lay on the bed, and fell asleep in a daze.

After waking up, the high fever had indeed subsided, but he could no longer hear anything with his left ear and see with his left eye.

He became disabled.

For an individual, the most significant change in life is just an ordinary day in someone else's life.

My grandmother was so angry that she went to the village doctor to argue. The process was not important as there would be no result anyway.

However, from that day on, Zhou Tian seemed to have become a different person. He lay in bed all day long, looking at the bacon hanging from the beam. No matter how his family members and teachers at school tried to persuade him, it was of no use.

Suddenly one day, Zhou Tian said that he wanted to study medicine. Although his family was not rich, they still tried their best to get him some medical books.

It should be said that Zhou Tian’s learning talent was extremely amazing. The textbooks of that era were not obscure. Through self-study, he quickly determined that there was no hope for his ears and eyes.

It’s no one’s fault. It’s common for doctors in rural villages to over-prescribe medicine.

In most cases, ordinary people will feel that the doctor is capable and that the treatment will get better faster than the medicine prescribed by city doctors.

But there are also some cases where people are like Zhou Tian, ​​who couldn't resist the "effect of the drug" and became disabled or even died.

After being sure that his ears and eyes could not be saved, Zhou Tian stopped reading medical books.

Fortunately, he no longer collapsed on the bed.

From then on, Zhou Tian stopped studying and helped his family with farm work.

Although there are problems with one ear and one eye, it won’t cause too much trouble.

Half a year later, a young man came to the countryside and said he was an expert from the city, an expert in agriculture. He wanted to rent a piece of land for experiments for two years.

Zhou Tian's family rented a piece of land to the young expert.

It was Zhou Tian who went to handle the formalities with the expert. After all, he was the only educated person in the family.

When Zhou Tian saw the expert for the first time, he was dressed like a toad, while the expert from the city had fair and moist skin and black and bright eyes.

Zhou Tian really couldn't figure it out, how could such a young lady be an expert? And she was also engaged in agriculture?

However, it is true.

This expert seemed to know something about the Zhou Tian, ​​and asked him if he could record data and if he understood control experiments.

Zhou Tian was disdainful to answer this question as long as he had hands, but after hearing that he could get a good salary by helping this expert do experiments, Zhou Tian compromised.

He is not the kind of person who complains about his fate. He is already disabled and doesn't want to go to school anymore. He can't let his family take care of him for the rest of his life.

This job is indeed his best choice at the moment.

From then on, Zhou Tian dressed a little neater. If he looked like a toad before, he was now at least a frog. Soon, Zhou Tian knew what kind of "crops" this young lady from the city was studying.

It was a strange grayish-white plant, only the length of an adult's palm, and not densely packed, but clustered like a fist.

What surprised Zhou Tian was that no matter how he planted this plant, it didn't change at all.

Neither grows nor fades, neither is born, neither dies.

This completely goes against Zhou Tian’s understanding.

Of course, this also greatly puzzled the expert from the city.

It was also at that time that Zhou Tian learned the expert’s full name - Meng Zhen.

One day, Meng Zhen came to the experimental field with a pale face. Zhou Tian glanced at her and asked, "Are you sick?"

"Well, my period has arrived and I still have a little fever. I'll go to the village to get some medicine later. It's nothing serious." Meng Zhen's face was calm.

Zhou Tian looked at the gray plants in the experimental field and whispered, "Let's go back to the city and take a look."

Meng Zhen seemed to realize something, glanced at Zhou Tian, ​​and nodded slightly: "Okay, but this thing..."

She also looked at the plants in the experimental field.

This was exactly why she came to this small country village. There were not many of these things, and she only found these few, and she didn't dare let anyone else know.

"While you're gone, I'll conduct the experiment."

"Can you?" Meng was really puzzled. This was not a contempt.

Zhou Tian nodded: "I'll watch it."

Meng Zhen was speechless.

After spending some time together, she had already realized that Zhou Tian was a true genius.

Sharp, intelligent, and has a strong learning ability.

But, these plants... are the only clue to my parents' disappearance. Should I just give them to him like this...

He had already realized the strangeness of these plants; they shouldn't exist in the material world at all.

But when the words came to his lips, they turned into the word "OK".

Meng Zhen temporarily handed over the most precious thing in his second half of life to Zhou Tian's care.

It is not easy to go back and forth to the city, and since he is back in the city, Meng Zhen still has some things to deal with, so this trip will take a week.

During this week, Zhou Tian carried out his research and recording step by step.

This strange gray plant, although it looks like it is planted in the ground, actually does not absorb nutrients from the ground at all.

Zhou Tian even boldly took one of the few plants and conducted a fully enclosed test, isolating it from air, light, water, and soil for three days.

However, three days later, the plant still looked the same!
That makes no sense... unless the thing is plastic.

After picking it up and observing it carefully again and again, Zhou Tian still didn't find anything unusual.

Because he lost the sight of one eye, Zhou Tian had a poor sense of spatial distance, which caused him to accidentally touch his blind left eye socket when he was observing the suspicious plant up close.

However, at this moment, something strange happened!

The roots of the originally dead gray plant suddenly grew rapidly!

It drilled into Zhou Tian's left eye socket like a living creature, and its roots quickly covered his entire left eyeball!
Zhou Tian's brain buzzed, and the last thought in his mind before he fainted was -

How should I explain this to Meng Zhen...