The light of the setting sun shines through the gaps between the towering ancient trees, and you can clearly see the floating dust.
Xiao Ningyu covered her mouth, widened her eyes, and stared at the huge creature in front of her, with unconcealable surprise on her face.
The others were also gathered around, all with similar expressions.
Even Cheng Lin, although he was not surprised in his heart, pretended to have a similar expression in order to "fit in with the group".
That's a skeleton.
He collapsed in an inconspicuous open space in the jungle.
There are messy grasses and vines on the ground, and there are clumps of thorns next to it. This huge skeleton is piled on the ground, covered with ivy.
The skeleton is obviously very old, badly dilapidated, and mostly rotten.
Every bone is covered with cracks.
It seems as if it can be shattered into powder with just a light touch.
But Cheng Lin knew that this was just an appearance. Because the forest is close to the sea, the water vapor is very heavy, and the special material makes it extremely fragile, but it will not fail at the first touch.
It was the skeleton of a giant dragon, but it was almost gone.
"This should be the body of some kind of strange beast. Judging from the signs of the bones, I'm afraid it has been dead for a long time..."
Xie Qingke frowned and spoke first.
"Well... but its frame is too big. Look, from the edge, the rest is obviously its trunk. The rest of the parts may have been completely broken by wind and rain, or blown away.
It went to other places, and judging from the trunk part... Isn't this the skeleton of an elephant? Isn't it bigger than an elephant?"
Zhu Sha measured it curiously, and even stretched out his hand to gently touch the bones.
The "Fire Mage" in the team is focused on another thing:
"What has kept it from falling apart for so long?"
"Plant," Fu Zhongting came over from the other side of the skeleton and said, "its skeleton had a piece of fungus and shrubs growing inside it, so it didn't fall over. By the way, look what I found?"
As he spoke, he showed an object about ten centimeters long that he was holding in his hand.
It has the texture of white jade, with many yellowish-brown patches on the surface.
It looks more like the teeth of some kind of creature.
"Where did you find it?"
"It's nearby. It should be the teeth of this kind of creature, but I can't analyze the more specific information. I'll take it out to the researchers and maybe they can get more information." Fu Zhongting explained.
"Such a big tooth... seems to rule out the possibility of an elephant. It is probably some kind of weird beast. I hope we don't encounter it."
Xiao Ningyu held the tooth with her white, soft hands, her pretty face turned pale, and she said nervously.
She thought that such a huge beast must be very powerful.
"I don't think so," Xie Qingke frowned and thought for a while, then said, "Judging from this skeleton, it must have been dead for a long, long time, but it has still maintained its basic appearance for such a long time. If this kind of creature is here
If we live in the surrounding area, even if we don't encounter living ones, we can always encounter other bones. But we walked for several hours before encountering this one, which is obviously not normal."
After a pause, she reached out and brushed the hair that spread to her forehead, and said:
"Furthermore, based on everything we have seen so far, the other world where this projection is located is also highly similar to the Earth's environment.
This is similar to the previous projection situations and follows similar rules.
So from this point of view, it is difficult to raise such a huge carnivore in this environment.
Food supply is a problem.
Dense forests are not suitable for such a large body to walk.
Correspondingly, if they still exist, they will definitely leave traces of their walking..."
"But look at these teeth... they clearly look like the teeth of a carnivore, or at least an omnivore...
So, to sum up the above.
I have to guess that the owner of this skeleton probably did not originally live here.
It's more like... I migrated through here a long time ago, so this can explain it.
Of course, this is just a guess I think is reasonable.
The projected world is different from reality after all.
It cannot be completely analyzed by analogy.”
Xie Qingke was talking eloquently. When she finished speaking, she suddenly found that the surrounding area had become quiet, and everyone looked at her with strange eyes.
"What are you looking at me for?"
She subconsciously took two steps back, then reached out and touched her face.
Fu Zhongting smiled and said: "It's nothing, I just think your analysis makes sense."
"Yes, I didn't even expect so much..."
Xiao Ningyu's eyes were full of admiration and joy.
Even Cheng Lin, who had been standing nearby and had not participated in the discussion, looked at her in surprise.
I feel that she is a girl after all and is careful.
In addition, she was the top student in the class and she actually gave her a rough guess.
As early as the first time he saw the skeleton, Cheng Lin realized that it was the Dragon Lord who died on the way when the dragon clan migrated.
"To be able to persist until not far from the Endless Sea before dying is a powerful dragon knight second only to the three dragon kings. If converted to a human being, he is definitely a high-level monk.
It's different from Aldington self-destructing, or Allen burning himself.
The bones of these 'normal' dead dragons will slowly decay, and the flesh and blood will disappear quickly, but the bones have survived to this day because of their solid texture, like rocks."
With emotion in his heart, Cheng Lin raised his right hand and gently touched the bones, his thoughts far away for a moment.
When he came to his senses again, he realized that several people in the team had already begun to dismantle the skeleton.
"Compared to those living alien beasts, these dead bones may be more valuable. If we pick some that are as well preserved as possible and take them back, we may be able to exchange for a lot of contribution points."
As he spoke, Fu Zhongting took the lead and put the teeth in his hand into a small plastic bag to seal it, and then put it into the backpack behind him.
"Cheng Lin, don't you take some?"
"You guys take it, I'll... go ahead and explore the way."
Cheng Lin suddenly turned his head, glanced at the sky and the fading sunlight in the forest, and said.
"That's it..."
"Well, everyone has been fighting for several hours, so we are all tired. I think this area is safer, so we will rest here first.
Sort out these bones and have dinner on the way... The sun will set just before the sun sets. When it gets dark, the risk of encountering strange beasts will increase significantly.
Everyone is full and ready to go out at night."
Cheng Lin looked around at everyone and said.
"Okay, then be careful."
"Go and come back quickly."
When everyone heard that this was also true, they nodded one after another.
Cheng Lin held the dagger behind his back, stepped forward, activated "body control", quickly crossed numerous obstacles, and headed towards the forest ahead.
His steps were a little hasty.
The sun is about to set and dark night is coming, which means the "holographic image" function will be turned on again.
Cheng Lin was not sure what the image would be this time, and was worried that the image of himself would look strange when the function was turned on, so he planned to avoid other people.
Just when the figure behind him completely disappeared, the whole person climbed up a low hillside.
The sun in the sky finally slowly set.
Infinite golden light gathers.
The huge floating continent quickly dimmed.
It took almost only a few minutes for darkness to descend on the earth.
At the same time, Cheng Lin felt an inexplicable palpitation in his heart.
He suddenly turned his head and looked to the west.
As the last ray of afterglow on the horizon dissipated, a heavy roar came back from a very far away place.
Within the huge projection, there were nearly six hundred monks from Xia and Su countries.
Looking around the world, there are tens of thousands of practitioners in dozens of projections all over the world.
Regardless of whether he was resting or fighting at the moment, he felt the roar almost at the same time.
It was as if a sledgehammer hit my heart hard.
"Boom!!"
In an instant, these tens of thousands of monks realized what was about to happen.
They had experienced similar experiences during the last "Sand Sea" projection.