Overall, under normal conditions, the spiritual energy fields across the whole Earth are very thin, much less concentrated than in the Jiuzhou World in the ga, and relatively evenly distributed, like a thin, calm mist gently enveloping the Earth’s surface, maintaining a fragile balance.
However, at this mont, the spiritual energy distribution map on the screen presents a chaos! The spiritual energy fields around the Earth seem to have been wantonly stirred by an invisible giant hand, forming countless chaotic spiritual energy voids, turbulent energy streams, and conflicting spiritual energy vortices. The originally balanced and stable "spiritual energy mist" has been torn apart.
Clearly, right now, an anomalous event far beyond human scientific understanding is occurring.
Furthermore, the command center quickly overlays the anomalous spiritual energy areas displayed on the screen with the locations reported from various places, especially those reports of large-scale plant (particularly ginkgo trees) deaths that are going viral on social dia. Scientists can easily find that the occurrence places and ranges of the two highly overlap and readily link these two bizarre events together.
However, a critical question leaves the scientists present puzzled and in heated debate—why during this incident did ginkgo trees rapidly and massively wither, while other common trees like poplar, willow, parasol tree, etc., seem completely unaffected?
They urgently consulted the center’s specially appointed "expert advisory group," hoping to get answers from another perspective. However, what they received was not a clear and effective answer but rather a more unsettling hypothesis.
In the expert eting room next to the command center, several "experts" urgently summoned were arguing heatedly:
"I’m telling you, this situation is exactly the sa as the sign of the ’Root of Calamity’ appearing in the ga! Surely there’s sothing similar to the ’Root of Calamity’ appearing in reality, madly extracting Earth Vein Spirit Qi! We must act imdiately, chop down and burn all the abnormal ginkgo trees, not just those showing anomalies! To eliminate future troubles, lest the little bit of poor spiritual energy left on Earth is completely drained!"
"Nonsense! How many ginkgo trees are there worldwide? Urban greenery, nature reserves, botanical gardens... countless! Besides, it’s not only the ginkgo trees showing anomalies, aren’t there many other plants too, can you chop and burn them all?
Also, what evidence do you have to prove it’s a problem with the ginkgo trees themselves? If you get it wrong and cause an ecological disaster and public panic, who will be responsible?"
"I don’t think it’s necessarily the ’Root of Calamity.’ In the ga, the Root of Calamity is a Tree Demon, ancient trees with divine stature, but how can Earth’s plants have those conditions? I think it might be so kind of global environntal change we don’t yet understand, or... so sort of external energy radiation, and ginkgo trees happen to be particularly sensitive to this energy."
"The problem is how do we determine which is the ’Root of Calamity’? In the ga, there are system markings, blood bars, where in reality do we find these things? Do we really have to perceive them one by one? We can’t do that."
The experts argued fiercely, saliva flying, none able to convince the other.
And the core scientists sitting and listening beside them one by one had tight facial expressions and listened to the conversation sternly, pens rapidly jotting in notebooks, afraid of missing any potentially critical snippet of information.
Director Wang, responsible for coordinating expert opinions, was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, internally lanting madly: "These so-called ’experts,’ each of them claims in their reports to be like worldly experts, superheroes, supposedly either ’True n’ or ’Heavenly Masters.’ But when an actual event occurs, they just argue and argue, none can provide a clear, feasible, well-founded judgnt and plan! It’s ridiculous!"
What he didn’t know was that these ’True n,’ ’Heavenly Masters,’ ninety percent were leveled and skilled through the ga system, with their understanding of Taoist classics and the essence of spiritual energy mostly stuck at the level of ga skill descriptions and forum guides, having never undergone systematic Daoist skill learning and practice, naturally clueless when facing a reality crisis beyond the ga frawork.
"Director Wang, what do we do now? Public opinion outside is beginning to fernt, the top is constantly asking about our situation, we must quickly have a basic judgnt and response plan." the secretary urged softly beside him.
"You ask , whom should I ask?!" Director Wang lowered his voice, irritably rubbing his temples, "The urgent task is to first determine the nature and severity level of the situation! We cannot act blindly, otherwise once a decision is wrong, leading to social panic or ecological destruction, who can bear that responsibility?"
He glanced at the still quarreling experts, helplessly said: "Are these experts... reliable? After such a long ti, they haven’t even figured out why it’s specifically ginkgo trees."
"Because ginkgo trees are one of the oldest living tree species, to so extent, they can be called ’Innate Spiritual Wood,’ their life structure is exceptionally sensitive to fluctuations in spiritual energy fields in the environnt. Thus, when the external environnt undergoes violent changes, especially when ’Withered Spirit’ effects occur, aning spiritual energy is massively and rapidly withdrawn, they react like the most precise alarm, showing wilting and decay first."
A calm and indifferent voice suddenly sounded distinctly in the noisy command hall, seemingly possessing a peculiar penetrating power, instantly suppressing all disputes and noise.
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