The South China Sea ruins are indeed worthy of the name "South China Sea". Although underground caves extend in all directions, as long as you explore downward, you will definitely encounter raging underground rivers and even vast saltwater lakes, where there are also many weird primitive marine monsters swimming around.
, there are also fluorescent algae groups, foggy thunderclouds, floating jellyfish and other strange sights and species, and the weather is diverse.
But except for the scouts and spiritual weapon church monks who professionally recorded the situation of the ruins, everyone in Feiyandi had no intention of appreciating the beauty of these scenery. They were just focused on looking for the possible main body of pre-era civilization ruins, and wanted to hunt them down.
The Imperial bastards who killed their comrades.
However, even though he was filled with anger, the captain still keenly observed many things that were wrong while pursuing along the way.
——Why are some of those huge underground lakes, seas, and rivers so hot that they are almost boiling, emitting countless amounts of heat? But some lakes are as cold as ice, and the creatures wandering in them are not very active. It is not even clear why they can.
alive?
The most important thing is that hot springs and cold pools are even less than 100 meters apart. Why are they so different?
Relying on the keen intuition of his former reconnaissance ace, the captain can determine that the reason for the difference is inextricably linked to the current situation of the large ruins group.
But soon, he suppressed these thoughts in his heart.
Because after several hours of tracking, they finally caught up with Yin En and Ethan.
The Ice Lake Cave located deep underground is damp and cold, which is really difficult for the soldiers from the Flying Flame Land, especially when they turn on the searchlights and realize that the sources of fluorescence in front of them are all huge brown-red strange mushrooms.
, a creepy feeling suddenly arose spontaneously.
Kacha, Kacha, among the giant mushrooms, many monsters and beasts with giant golden mushrooms growing on their backs raised their heads. They are very sensitive to light, and the largest monster among them is a scaleless iron snake. It is unusual
It is huge, more than twenty meters long, and the metal mushrooms that live on its body are not huge, but they are all shiny silver, like the sharp spines on the back of a giant dragon. It is obviously a special species.
Or according to the custom of Terra Continent, it is a ‘maze species’!
The scaleless iron snake with a black body and silver fins looked up and around at the group of outsiders. Although it moved slowly due to the low temperature, it also felt that these visitors were not friendly, so it spat out a snake message and hissed a warning sound.
"This strange mushroom seems to be a parasitic species... Don't get close, burn it with fire!"
The captain's judgment was not wrong. When facing this kind of fungal parasite, it was indeed best to use fire - plus they had seen the horror of the parasite here with their own eyes, so of course they did not dare to take it lightly.
However, when the fire-breathing soldiers of the Flying Flame Land began to prepare to use their flame-breathing guns to deal with these giant golden mushrooms and symbiotic beasts, something unexpected happened.
When the bluish-white fire pillar that was enough to melt metal rolled towards the scaleless iron snake at the head, the silver metal mushrooms all over the giant snake released a large number of dust spores with a 'Peng' sound, blocking the tongue of fire from outside the body. , it also instantly diffuses the heat of the fire pillar and heats up the surrounding temperature.
"Hiss——"
Feeling the transfer of heat, the big black snake shook its head as if in comfort. Then, the lazy golden vertical boy suddenly transformed into the ferocity of a predator, and its movements became several times faster than before in an instant.
Bang! With a flick of its tail, the giant snake suddenly blew up a cloud of silver spores and rushed towards Feiyan's team. The huge and smooth body covered by silver mushrooms was so hard that just moving would cause it to pass through. The ground was scraped into large swaths of rock powder.
The giant snake carried the waves on the land and pounced with ferocious momentum.
However, a watch knight stepped forward with his shield raised, and he collided fiercely with the big snake head-on. The force was so strong that the snake's head was tilted - but the tail of the giant snake was also wrapped around the knight's body in an instant. On his legs, he dragged the knight into the pool at the side at an extremely fast speed.
"Don't worry about him, a labyrinth iron snake can't help but a watch knight."
The female monk was not worried, and even looked around the entire cave leisurely.
She wasn't sure what was going on here, but tracking showed that Yin En and others had indeed arrived here, and the captain immediately ordered the attack: "Burn a way out!".
At this moment, Feiyan soldiers have begun an all-out battle with these giant mushrooms and monsters.
For a moment, the cave was filled with gunshots, bullets ricocheting in all directions, and several blade-wielding soldiers from the vanguard also formed a formation and stepped forward to slash, killing and smashing many of the monsters that were still slowly recovering, along with the giant mushrooms. , filling the air with a shimmering light, which is the result of the evaporation of the fluorescent liquid.
And as the captain of the sublimated knight, he is holding a long-handled broad sword. The broad sword is engraved with inscriptions to increase strength and sharpness. When he swings it, there is a vague earth-yellow trace, and the force is extremely heavy. , every sword strike can cut off the head of a symbiotic beast, or even cut it in half!
After the captain ordered the troops to line up, he also drew his sword.
"Follow me!" He said, and he swung his sword forward and slashed at the giant mushroom crocodile dragon in front of him that had been activated and had a fierce look on his face.
The captain deliberately did not attack the crocodile dragon's seemingly extremely hard metalized scales, but instead attacked the giant golden mushroom that looked more like the 'main body'.
After sensing the rise in temperature, the giant golden mushroom's brown-red skin began to gradually stretch and become smooth, and the sunken fluorescent liquid emitted a strange sweet fragrance, which made those who smelled it feel intoxicated.
when!
The captain slashed the giant mushroom with his sword, but it didn't feel as smooth as the hot knife cutting through butter as expected. Instead, it felt like cutting wood with a dull knife. Most of the time, it was not cutting with sharpness, but forcibly cutting it. Smashed and dented.
After the giant mushroom was dented, translucent mushroom liquid flowed out from the broken hard shell. This mushroom liquid did not have any fishy smell, but the sweet fragrance in the air suddenly became much richer.
As the flamethrowers on both sides burned many giant golden mushrooms and those small monsters, the fragrance in the air had become so strong that it was uncomfortable. The excessive stimulation of the fragrance had begun to make many soldiers with less tight gas masks start to feel dizzy.
.
"Wait, cease fire!"
At this moment, the captain also felt something was wrong. As they fought and used firearms and flamethrowers, the temperature of the cave rose, and the originally cold and dark cave suddenly became brighter - all the giant golden mushrooms around them began to emit fluorescence.
, and the air is also filled with the choking scent of spores and secretions.
Although I don't understand biology and don't know what this scene means, any normal person will feel the danger: "Retreat! This place is very dangerous!"
This was another correct decision, but it was too late.
Yin En, who originally wanted to use a pressurized water gun to sneak into the mushrooms, also noticed something. He put away his weapon, and then quietly retreated with Isengard and Master Gosei.
And just after the three people left.
boom!
A mound occupied by a large number of giant golden mushrooms shook violently. The huge shock wave even caused the entire cave to shake. No matter how well-trained Feiyan's soldiers were, the formation could not help but disperse.
Several soldiers stood firm and wanted to raise their heads to see what was shaking the earth, but they all stumbled back in shock, and even subconsciously turned around and ran away.
During the shock, a mound suddenly rose up, bringing up a series of densely packed corpses of wild beasts and monsters buried in the soil. Some of them even contained human corpses. It turned out that they had been symbiotically absorbed by the giant golden mushrooms for countless years in the past and had absorbed all the nutrients.
The corpse of the symbiote.
Their whole bodies were wrapped in mycelium, and their bodies were stiff and corroded, but now they were all moving, silently rushing towards the soldiers of Feiyan.
At the same time, there was another violent shock, and the mound completely collapsed, revealing the true form of the underground giant.
It was an extremely huge fortress giant tortoise. The ten-meter-long tortoise shell was covered with giant golden mushrooms of all sizes!
This giant turtle was not a corpse. It was still alive, but it had been dormant before and was awakened by the heat of the open fire.
A large amount of mycelium flows from the gaps in its carapace and wraps around the surrounding corpses. It can be vaguely seen that the eyes of this giant turtle are actually blind, and there is a pile of fungus-shaped mushrooms growing around its eyes.
Facing the Feiyan Land team that was constantly attacking it, the giant turtle let out an angry roar, and the cold water in the pool immediately made waves, rolling towards the team of soldiers - if the female monk hadn't taken action, she would have used invisible spirits out of thin air.
Being able to defeat those waves that rolled in like seaweed, I am afraid that many soldiers would be swept into the pool by the waves controlled by this giant turtle.
"Yin, Yin En...is there really nothing wrong with the mushroom juice we drank before?"
Isengard, who had followed Yin En to an exit a long time ago, watched the battle between the monsters and corpses controlled by the giant golden mushroom and the team from the Flying Flame.
While he was relieving his anger and gloating about his misfortune, he suddenly thought that he and others had also drank these fungal secretions that also had parasitic characteristics, and he couldn't help but feel a little frightened: "Fortunately for me, the blood of the Eclipse Lianlong can digest almost all parasites and toxins.
, but you and Teacher Gesai..."
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