Chapter 472 Entering the hole, second floor, shocked
Without encountering any questioning or searching, just like what he had seen before, the little devil transformed by Moriarty slowly walked into the entrance of the wormhole along with the moving team. But when he crossed an invisible line, that
The cyan moonlight originally shining down from the top of the head was suddenly blocked by the "Cocoon Tower", and everything fell into a deep darkness.
Cold, damp, smelly...
Just after entering the wormhole, Moriarty felt an environment completely different from the outside world, which made people feel very uncomfortable. At the same time, there was a strange smell in the air, as if it had some kind of stickiness and humidity.
Once it sticks to your body, it's hard to shake off, like an invisible layer of snot.
Fortunately, the inside of the wormhole is not completely dark.
At least in an area near the entrance of the cave, there is a specially set torch inserted into the cave wall to serve as lighting. However, the flames of all torches are green, not only not very bright, but also swaying constantly, making the wormhole
Everything looked ghostly.
And when you go further inside, there is no torch, everything returns to darkness, and you can no longer see clearly.
Under the command of the beetle warrior, all the little devils will place the materials on their backs at different designated locations in the lighting area. At the same time, they will receive an "Egg of Sandos" and directly turn around and leave the cave.
"Sure enough, the accessible area of the little devil slave is only limited to the outermost part of the first floor."
Moriarty's transformation into a god is already a demigod, and his gifted extraordinary sight naturally possesses dark vision. He can look past the many little demon slaves unloading and see everything behind the illuminated area, but he can't help but frown.
Because in his field of vision, the first layer of the wormhole in front of him only showed the tip of the iceberg. Because in the darkness in the distance, passages leading to nowhere were randomly distributed on the cave wall.
Above, there are countless beetles coming in and out of these passages, making them very busy.
These beetles look like beetle warriors, but have no special fighting power, but are quite powerful. When they come to the lighting area, they will use their thick and powerful methyl forelimbs to grab a piece of ore or squeeze flesh and blood. Then they turn around and return to the channel.
Leave quickly, and so on over and over again.
Therefore, the entire first floor of the wormhole looks like a busy logistics center. Materials from the outside are transported in and payment is made, while internal porters efficiently transport the goods one by one to deeper underground for processing and digestion.
Moreover, in front of the passages leading to the real core area of the wormhole, there are "two pairs" or even "triple pairs" level beetle warriors on guard. Not only do they observe everything through their sharp compound eyes, but they also frequently use their heads to poke out
The silk-like tentacles touch the beetle porters entering the channel to determine their "legal" identity. This detection method using biological hormones and odors is usually extremely effective and difficult to imitate. Because the genes of these bugs are really special
, cannot be completely simulated by ordinary demons.
Of course, for Moriarty, such inspection and precautionary measures are ineffective, because "Baolelei's Feather of Transformation" can simulate the life characteristics of any creature, and this simulation is almost perfect, Lian Ji said
are difficult to identify.
When it was about to be the turn of a certain little demon slave to unload the mineral materials and collect the white insect eggs, suddenly a strong wind blew inexplicably from outside the cave. For a moment, the intense wind blew the green torches on the cave wall.
It was shaking violently and was almost extinguished. Seeing this, the surrounding beetle warriors immediately became alert and turned their gazes towards the entrance of the cave to prevent anything from taking the opportunity to sneak in.
But at this moment, a shadow suddenly appeared behind a certain transport beetle on the other side. Then, a finger silently pierced the body of the beetle. The beetle stood motionless for an instant. Half a second later,
The finger was withdrawn, and at the same time, a trace of black inflammation penetrated into the wound. In the blink of an eye, the body of the transporting beetle turned black inexplicably, and then suddenly collapsed. A small piece of fine black ash was scattered, falling to the ground, and then a powerful blow
It was completely blown away by the wind through the hole.
A few breaths later, the strong wind that suddenly blew into the wormhole finally stopped, and the swing of the torch flame stabilized again. At this time, the compound eyes of the beetle warrior turned back one after another, and what they saw was still the same as before.
Seeing a calm scene, he continued to direct the little devil slave to unload the goods.
But no one noticed that one of the little devils was disappearing in the team.
At the same time, there was an ordinary-looking transporting beetle that was holding a large piece of high-grade iron ore, and followed other beetles into a dark passage. The beetle warriors on guard at the entrance of the passage were just
I tapped its body lightly with my tentacles and let it go.
"Although it does not have direct combat capabilities, the value of the 'Feather of Transformation' is immeasurable."
Moriarty, who instantly transformed into a demon beetle, lowered his head and walked into the passage, thinking to himself at the same time.
Since obtaining this treasure, Moriarty has successfully played the role of a minotaur, a dark elf, a devil, an imp, and now he has transformed into a humanoid beetle, easily passing the inspection of the beetle warrior. It can be said that "Lolelei's transformation"
"Feather" is the most efficient and cost-effective treasure to use, especially when in enemy territory. If he had to choose, Moriarty would rather give up the super powerful treasure "Mrak's Silver Emblem Cross Blade" than keep "
Feather of Transformation".
Next, following the transport beetle in front of him, Moriarty continued to move forward in the dark passage. Because the passage was not wide, it could only be one-way, and there were no forks along the way, so there was no risk of getting lost.
But it was obvious that this passage was continuously going downwards, and the slope was not small. After walking out for a few minutes, Moriarty estimated that his horizontal position had dropped by at least tens of meters. And for some reason, the structural shape of this passage made it difficult for him to
He couldn't help but think of the underground world of Negon. Although the wormhole passages were far from comparable to the natural tunnels of Negon in terms of scale, in terms of appearance and senses, they were somewhat familiar.
After walking for another minute, the long and slender passage finally came to the end, and what appeared in front of Moriarty was another huge and wide underground cave.
This cave covers an area of nearly 10,000 square meters, just like another Ptolemaic Square under the sun. At the same time, the cave is more than ten meters high, and there is no sense of oppression.
It is conceivable that the amount of work required to excavate such an astonishing underground space will be huge. Even if a large number of beetles are used as laborers and are proficient in earth and stone work, it is by no means an easy task. Especially especially
The entire second floor of the wormhole does not have a single pillar to support it, and is completely "naturally suspended". It can be seen that it must have been set up by some special technology or even magic. Otherwise, the dead weight of hundreds of millions of tons of earth and stone alone would be enough to crush everything.
After entering the second floor of the wormhole, the transport beetles began to "part ways".
All the beetles carrying mineral materials are all to the left, which is divided into hundreds of sub-spaces by short rock walls. In each space is a long, black beetle with a huge and bloated body.
Following the other carrying beetles, Moriarty also walked into a cubicle and placed a large piece of iron ore in front of the long beetle.
Immediately, as if smelling a deadly delicious food, the long beetle that had been sleeping to death suddenly woke up, then struggled to move its heavy body, pounced in front of the newly arrived mineral materials, and then opened it directly like a hungry tiger pouncing on food.
The four pieces are staggered up and down, like the sharp mouthparts of a guillotine. It picks up a piece of ore the size of a millstone in one fell swoop, and then twists it hard.
Immediately, the entire piece of mineral material was completely chopped into pieces like cheese. Then the strip beetle opened its mouth directly, sucked the chopped mineral material into its mouth, and then chewed it hard for a while, and finally swallowed it directly.
In just half a minute, a whole piece of iron ore disappeared into the mouthparts of the striped beetle.
After eating a large portion of the ore, the striped beetle did not immediately pounce on the next piece. Instead, it inexplicably began to twist its body violently, as if digesting after a meal.
Just a few minutes later, at the excretion port under the body of the striped beetle, high-purity steel particles were "pulled out" and scattered. Immediately, a beetle warrior stepped forward to "excret" these particles.
"The excrement" was collected and sent out to the small cubicle.
After the striped beetle rested for a while, it energetically pounced on another piece of ore and repeated the process just now.
"Beetles are actually used to refine metal! This is already in the category of 'biological smelting'!"
In the corner, Moriarty watched the striped beetle eat the ore delivered piece by piece, and then "pull out" various complete metal products, including steel, zinc, lead, manganese crystals, etc., and even
There was a small amount of rare metal. Moriarty felt horrified.
In the past, in some magic books, alchemists of the past generations have proposed the idea of using biological characteristics to refine substances or perform alchemical processing, but no one has really succeeded. This is because this requires extremely high technical support and even involves biological transformation and even innovation.
The realm has almost entered the forbidden area of the gods. Therefore, this illusion of biological alchemy was only popular for a while, and few people mentioned it after that.
But now, in the hundreds of subspaces that appeared in front of Moriarty, special long beetles were actually devouring mineral materials and excreting metal products.
With such a glance, Moriarty even vaguely felt that what he was seeing was a busy and efficient alchemy workshop. Every moment, a large amount of raw materials were converted into semi-finished products, and the cost was almost zero.
"Who the hell is Sandos!?"
Even without any evidence, Moriarty was certain that the demonic scarab must be an alchemist, and most likely the long-lost "Great Alchemist". Otherwise, who else could achieve this almost miraculous feat?
What about scale bioalchemy?
"Forget it, let me see what shocking and strange objects are hidden on the other side of this 'second floor'."
After stopping for a moment, Moriarty turned into a shadow, left the previous small cubicle, and walked to the other side. But at this moment, a pair of gold and one silver humanoid beetles suddenly emerged from a passage, and they were walking towards the other side.
Looking across from him.
Moriarty couldn't help but be stunned. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
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