0347 Spooky red coral
Unfortunately, the final result still disappointed Ding Ning.
This war, which lasted for an unknown length of time, ended with the disgraceful retreat of more than 100,000 electric eels, with only 20,000 to 30,000 remaining.
Although jellyfish also suffered heavy losses, they still retain almost half of their numbers, which clearly has a great advantage.
Ding Ning looked helplessly at the jellyfish carcass covering the sky but did not dare to step forward, feeling depressed in his heart.
However, as the blood dissipated, Ding Ning's vision was no longer blocked. When he saw the crystals dropped by the jellyfish when they devoured the electric eel's body, his heart suddenly jumped wildly.
The crystal was exactly the same as the water spirit crystal, but it shone with a faint white light. The jellyfish seemed to be as afraid of this crystal as snakes and scorpions. They corroded the head of the electric eel and waited for the crystal to fall on its own before they dared to swallow it.
It wasn't until the jellyfish devoured all the electric eel carcasses and densely packed crystals scattered all over the floor that the jellyfish used their huge arms and legs to bury the crystals with seabed sediment, making the sea water suddenly turbid.
Ding Ning looked thoughtful. These jellyfish seemed to be afraid of that kind of crystal. Judging from their experience, they must have done this kind of "destroying corpses and eliminating traces" more than once.
What is that kind of crystal? Could it be the Thunder Spirit Crystal? Ding Ning felt faintly excited.
Although the thunder spirit crystal is much less attractive to Ding Ning than the water spirit crystal, it is not a spirit crystal after all. What's more, it is an extremely rare thunder attribute spirit crystal.
You must know that even in the ancient martial arts world, thunder and lightning are extremely rare attributes, and practicing martial arts is unheard of.
As an excellent Chinese medicine doctor, Ding Ning clearly knows that the human body actually contains trace amounts of electrical properties, but it is difficult to tap them out. Deng Jiuzhi's lightning pupil technique is the best proof.
The jellyfish carcasses were not swallowed by the tribesmen, but were dragged far away with their huge arms and legs.
Ding Ning's eyes suddenly lit up, and he didn't know where they were going to take the jellyfish corpses, but as the jellyfish disappeared one after another, there were fewer and fewer jellyfish on the scene, and his opportunity also came.
Like a very patient hunter waiting quietly, when there were only dozens of blue-light jellyfish left on the scene, Ding Ning suddenly moved. The moment these jellyfish discovered him, three-color fire suddenly appeared.
The small three-color fire exerted terrifying power. The jellyfish waved their arms and legs in pain, trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies.
The three-color fire is like a spark that starts a prairie fire. A little spark can turn into a huge flame in an instant, covering the huge body of the jellyfish.
Ding Ning looked at the jellyfish that were burning, struggling and "screaming" in the three-color fire with an unusually cold expression, showing no mercy for them.
These mutated jellyfish have stood at the top of the food chain, seriously destroying the balance of the ecological environment. They only know destruction and killing. If they are allowed to develop and grow, sooner or later this sea area will become a dead place.
As all nearby sea creatures are eaten by them as food, sooner or later they will continue to expand their territories outwards, which will be a disaster for the entire ocean.
After pushing aside the tens of thousands of Thunder Spirit Crystals buried by the jellyfish, Ding Ning was so excited that he couldn't contain himself and pocketed them all.
The Thunder Spirit Crystal is different from the Water Spirit Crystal. According to the strength of the thunder attribute aura it contains, it is divided into four colors: white, blue, red, and purple. White is the weakest and purple is the strongest.
Ding Ning felt regretful that he only had a few top-grade purple thunder crystals, but this windfall still made him smile.
After accepting the water crystal dropped by the burnt jellyfish without hesitation, Ding Ning felt like he was fighting monsters and using equipment.
His dark eyes looked at the retreating army of jellyfish from a distance, and he felt curious in his heart. Where did these jellyfish drag the corpses of the people? Do they have a special burial place for the jellyfish?
Ding Ning's strong curiosity drove her to take a closer look, and she followed closely behind the bubble.
Although releasing the three-color fire also consumes the power of the soul, it is still within the range he can bear.
Compared to electric eels that can release high-voltage electricity, he is much less afraid of jellyfish. With the three-color fire as his trump card, he is confident that as long as he is not surrounded by tens of thousands of jellyfish, he can protect himself.
After walking a thousand meters behind the jellyfish group in the distance, a huge deep canyon appeared in front of me. This canyon was many times larger than the previous trench, and its depth reached six thousand meters.
Even those giant purple jellyfish have a hard time diving to the bottom of the canyon, let alone other jellyfish.
Arriving at a giant cave in the middle of the canyon, a swarm of jellyfish filed in, dragging their carcasses.
Ding Ning frowned and looked at the deep and huge cave entrance. He didn't know which song the jellyfish group was singing. Could it be that there were more powerful jellyfish in this cave? This made him hesitate, should he take the risk and continue to follow?
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After only a moment of hesitation, Ding Ning gritted his teeth and quietly followed the last jellyfish into the cave.
Although he was protected by blisters and was basically immune to changes in surrounding temperature, as soon as he entered the cave, a scorching high temperature still made him feel hot involuntarily.
I followed the jellyfish group fearfully, twisting and turning in the huge underwater tunnel for an unknown length of time, and the temperature was getting higher and higher.
Finally, the corridor came to the end, and Ding Ning's eyes suddenly opened up. A strange and bizarre world made Ding Ning speechless and opened his mouth in shock.
Could this be...a coral bush?
I saw fiery red coral bushes all over the cave. The jellyfish seemed to be extremely afraid of the coral bushes, stretching out their arms and legs from a distance and throwing jellyfish corpses on the coral bushes.
A strange scene appeared. As soon as the jellyfish body touched the red coral, it ignited like a three-color fire, but the flame was a coquettish bright red and looked as terrifying as blood.
In an instant, the entire cave was filled with blood-red flames. The terrifying high temperature made the sea water gurgling as if it had been boiled. The jellyfish seemed unable to withstand the terrifying temperature and hurriedly retreated outside.
Ding Ning was startled. He endured the terrible heat and dove into the coral bush to avoid the jellyfish.
Compared to the huge size of the giant jellyfish, the coral bush is insignificant, but to Ding Ning, it is like a forest, hiding in it is not conspicuous at all. Coupled with the terrifying high temperature here, the jellyfish's induction of spiritual power is also ineffective.
This allowed him to escape the notice of the jellyfish group.
It only takes twenty years to grow one inch, and three hundred years to grow one kilogram. Red coral, which is countless times more precious than gold in the outside world, has formed a coral forest as tall as a forest. Each coral has two or three corals.
meters high, allowing Ding Ning to hide in it easily.
As the saying goes, a thousand-year-old coral will be red for ten thousand years. It takes ten thousand years to form this fiery red coral. This shows how precious it is. I didn't expect that a red coral forest would form here.
Ding Ning's first thought was to make a fortune. Any piece of red coral dug up could be sold for a sky-high price. You must know that red corals are measured in grams in the outside world. They are big, dense, and fiery red like the one in front of them.
It is not impossible to sell the best red coral with worm eyes and white core for five figures per gram.
It was just the weird bright red flame that made him realize that this was definitely not an ordinary red coral.
According to his understanding of coral, red coral is an organic gemstone with a pleasant color and a shiny texture. It grows in the deep sea one hundred to two thousand meters away from humans. Natural red coral is made of coral polyps and grows very slowly.
It is non-renewable, and red coral only grows in a few straits and is restricted by sea areas, so red coral is extremely precious.
This is the East China Sea, which does not produce red corals, or the deep sea area about 6,000 meters below the sea. How could such a strong and tall red coral appear?
In particular, the jellyfish swarm is obviously "cremating" the tribe members. The red coral does not seem to have the "cremation" function, right? What about the bright red flames?
As far as he knew, coral polyps make a living by preying on small plankton in the ocean. During their growth, they can absorb calcium and carbon dioxide in the seawater, and then secrete limestone to become the shell for their own survival. Coral is the secretion of coral polyps.
, forming the supporting structure of coral polyps.
Could it be the flames formed by coral polyps? Impossible. Coral polyps are sea creatures and cannot withstand high temperatures. How could they emit such terrifying high temperatures?
This incredible phenomenon aroused Ding Ning's strong curiosity. He quietly opened his eyes and looked at the bright red flames. He suddenly trembled all over and was so frightened that he felt like he was dead.
The bright red flame turned out to be composed of endless insects that were invisible to the naked eye. The insects were blood red and had a cylindrical body with eight translucent tentacles, and a small mouth in the palm of each tentacle.
If Ding Ning remembered correctly, this was indeed a coral polyp, but what was very different from his impression was that the small mouth in the middle of the coral polyp's tentacles was originally used to swallow plankton, but at this moment, bright red flames were sprayed out of the small mouth.
The invulnerable jellyfish shell is constantly dissolving and corroding under the bright red flames.
In just the blink of an eye, each giant jellyfish was burned up, and the hard skin turned into drops of transparent resin-like substance that were swallowed by the coral polyps.
With a "pop" sound, as the body of the first jellyfish completely disappeared, a water crystal fell on the ground, followed by the second, and the third...
Slightly different from the jellyfish who are extremely afraid of thunder crystals, although this terrifying coral polyp does not like the water crystals, it is not afraid of them. It ignores the existence of the water crystals and lets them fall to the ground, only focusing on swallowing them.
The transparent substance made of jellyfish skin seems to be the most delicious food in the world.
The corpses of the jellyfish were gradually swallowed up, and the coral polyps returned to the coral forest and remained motionless, secreting a substance similar to jellyfish colloid. However, after being transformed by their bodies, this translucent substance has turned fiery red.
The red coral is also growing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Although it is only minimal, it is still invisible to Ding Ning's eyes.
Ding Ning suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the red coral grew so tall. It turned out to be caused by the red translucent substance secreted by the coral polyps after eating the jellyfish corpses.
As the coral polyps hibernated, Ding Ning looked at the tens of thousands of water crystals on the ground, and his heart felt hot.
He now has a rough guess in his mind. He doesn't know whether the coral polyps and the jellyfish group have reached some kind of agreement, or the jellyfish know that the coral polyps will not covet the water spirit crystal, so they come here to dispose of the body at all costs, and give the body to the coral polyps.
After melting and swallowing, it is transformed into red coral, forming an equivalent exchange.
I just don't know whether it is the former or the latter. If it is the latter, Ding Ning will be able to pick up water spirit crystals unscrupulously.
If it's the former, I'm afraid Coral Polyps will never allow Ding Ning to take away the Water Spirit Crystal.
But Ding Ning is definitely not a person who is willing to enter the treasure mountain and return empty-handed. Now that he is here, he has to give it a try no matter what.
Chapter completed!