"Moreover, you only ask me for water and not others, which shows you know that my water is different from the rest, right? This water is hard to come by, and I don’t even have any left, so you can forget about it."
Rabbit moved his lips and stuttered, "That... I’ll return the water bottle to you later."
"Right... here are six bird eggs for you."
As he spoke, Rabbit took out his last bird eggs from his pocket.
"Eh?" Bai Junjun was somewhat surprised.
"I know the water Doctor Qiu gave was from you, so thank you very much."
Bai Junjun was not expecting this child to be so grateful.
After all, they had a long argument over these bird eggs yesterday; she thought the child would keep them until they hatched.
She never imagined he had such a conscience!
But since it was an act of filial piety from him, there was no reason to refuse.
Bai Junjun smoothly took them.
Seeing Bai Junjun accept the bird eggs, Rabbit breathed a sigh of relief and was about to leave when Bai Junjun grabbed him by the back of his neck.
Although Rabbit was only thirteen years old, he always considered himself an adult, so when someone suddenly grabbed his neck, he couldn’t help but frown.
"Help me with something," Bai Junjun said calmly.
Rabbit couldn’t help but be suspicious, viewing Bai Junjun as a somewhat difficult and stubborn person. And now she was asking him for help?
"That..." Bai Junjun pointed to a smaller tree in the bushes: "Do you know what this is called?"
"?" Rabbit was even more puzzled.
He seriously looked at Bai Junjun for a while to make sure she wasn’t joking before speaking, "You don’t recognize a Dawn Cedar?"
"Dawn Cedar?" Bai Junjun swallowed, "You mean Metasequoia?"
"Metasequoia? That name fits quite well since it can grow in water too."
Rabbit pointed to a tree sapling half submerged in water: "This is a type of cedar, but it’s pretty useless. What’s the matter?"
However, Rabbit’s words deeply affected Bai Junjun. Before The Apocalypse arrived, human civilization had developed relatively well, mastering knowledge in astronomy and geography, with detailed records about Metasequoia.
The Metasequoia existed as far back as the mid-Jurassic period of the Mesozoic era, more than a hundred million years ago, and has resiliently survived to be called the living fossil of the plant world.
It survived until the middle stages of The Apocalypse before gradually becoming extinct.
Although the Metasequoia was gone by the later stages of The Apocalypse, it was still considered the Divine Tree by every Wood-series Ability User.
During the early and middle stages of The Apocalypse, many Wood-series Ability Users had breakthroughs to various levels of Great Perfection because of the Metasequoia.
However, as the Metasequoia went extinct, those reaching Great Perfection became rarer.
In the more than three hundred years of the later stages of The Apocalypse, she was the only person who had reached the Twelfth-rank Great Perfection, but that was as far as she could go.
Thus, she had always been suppressed by the leaders from three other bases.
Now, to think she had encountered this Divine Tree here!
Initially, Bai Junjun was merely thinking of digging up this small tree, but now she was entirely determined—she had to keep such a Divine Tree by her side all the time!
"Thanks!" Bai Junjun patted Rabbit’s shoulder and ran off as if flying.
"???" Rabbit watched Bai Junjun running away quickly, completely baffled.
What mysterious thing is she up to now?