When a once-splendid civilization dies, all that is left to future generations are those huge buildings, rotten bones, and countless flies and dung beetles on the corpses.
Ender felt like a gravedigger, trying his best to find the escaped holy bones. At this moment, he saw the maggots clinging to the holy bones.
In front of us, the hot spring river heated to more than 80 degrees by geothermal heat was churning. The ghost-toothed vipers with yellow eyes jumped out of the river. Their mouths with sharp teeth could hardly be closed. If there is nothing, the sharp teeth would grind their teeth.
It will continue to grow and eventually gouge through their fragile skulls.
This was a creation of the Dragon Clan, the cockroaches and maggots in Dragon Clan society, and their appearance also means that the Dragon Clan once appeared here.
"This kind of quantity is really terrifying." Angers frowned and took a step back calmly, walking around him, not wanting to get too close to this creature.
"It seems that our White King is not very tidy, and there are a lot of cockroaches in the house." Ander joked.
Uesugoshi obviously didn't agree with his words. He quickly took two steps back and explained: "I have read in the family's ancient books that after the Black Emperor defeated the White Emperor, he tied her to the Qingtong pillar in the ice sea and used it as a ghost.
The dragon-toothed viper bit the White Emperor's body..."
Ender picked it casually, and under his control, a ghost-toothed dragon viper flew up and came to a few people. The ghost-toothed dragon viper twisted its body the size of an index finger and struggled continuously in the air.
"It's very small in size, similar to the ones in Gaotian Plains." Ender looked at the ghost-toothed dragon viper in front of him, comparing it to what he saw before: "But the skin is much thicker and the eyes are smaller."
Lu Li squeezed over and touched the ghost-toothed dragon viper floating in the air: "Why doesn't it glow?"
"Perhaps there is no need for functions such as fluorescence?" Ender turned off the head of the Viper and poked its tail: "The whole body is white, with no color difference between the upper and lower parts. It is very similar to the blind fish in the cave, but the eyes
The department has not deteriorated yet.”
The color of the back and abdomen of many fishes are different. This is mainly because under the sun, looking up from the bottom of the water, the light-colored abdomen is difficult for natural enemies to detect, while the dark back makes it difficult for predators on the shore to detect fish in the water.
fish, forming an excellent protective color.
In a cave where no light is visible, such protective coloring is useless. The fish in the cave will gradually degenerate, making the color of the abdomen and back uniform.
"But what do they eat?" Lu Li asked puzzledly: "These things eat meat, right?"
The sound of breaking wind sounded, and Ange's figure flashed, and suddenly reappeared on the same spot, but the folding knife in his hand already had a ghost-toothed dragon viper with its head penetrated.
Ange's hand squeezed the abdomen of the Viper, and black and red fishy flesh mixed with the Viper's organs spurted out from the bloody mouth, trembling slightly in Angers' palm, and there was still smoke.
heat.
"Oh... Angers, this is too disgusting. This thing smells very strong." Ander waved his hand in front of his nose in disgust: "What did you find?"
Angers frowned and rummaged through the pile of flesh and blood, opened the stomach of the Ghost-toothed Dragon Viper, which took up half of its body, and picked up something from the tattered stomach pouch.
Ender leaned over and saw that it was a piece of cloth only the size of Angers' fingertips. It was so corroded by the gastric juice of the Viper that the original color could not be seen, but it was obvious that the fibers of this thing were carefully arranged and had an obvious modern industrial look.
shadow.
"Well, at least we know what these things eat," Ander shrugged, took out a bottle of mineral water from the space bag, handed it to Ange to wash his hands: "This thing eats people, and it's fresh people."
"How do you say it?" Uesugoshi asked.
Ander shrugged and replied: "Because the digestive system of the Viper is very powerful, even if this chemical fiber cannot be digested, it will be excreted quickly."
"You mean someone fed this thing humans," Uesugoshi said with an unsightly look on his face, "and they were living humans."
"Yes, I said it once. Now we just need to go over there and we can find the guys who are raising fish here." Ender pointed to the right side of a few people: "On our left is the lower reaches of the river. Now we have to
Let’s go upstream to check the situation.”
"Well, the island nation has changed so fast these days." Uesugoshi sighed: "I never dreamed that the holy bones would escape from Takamagahara."
"You've said this before." Ender threw the ghost-toothed dragon viper back into the river, and they walked upstream of the river: "And dozens of those things came out.
years."
The situation of this river is different from ordinary rivers. The space upstream of the river is larger, and the river water flows into the deep and narrow cave with a gurgling sound.
"This section of the road seems to have been dug by someone." Angers touched the earthen wall next to it: "The technique was very rough, using a shovel and a pickaxe."
"Those people must be crazy to dig tunnels in a place like this." Uesugoshi shook his head: "Ordinary people would be miserable just living here."
Angers shook his head: "The rock wall above here is very strong, but the surrounding soil is relatively fragile. Maybe this was originally a relatively narrow underground river channel that was later artificially expanded."
"The temperature is dropping, it's not that hot anymore." Ander continued: "The area in front may be cooler because we are now moving away from Mount Fuji."
As the group of people moved forward, traces of human activity gradually appeared on the surrounding ground, ranging from scratches on the nearby walls to drink bottles stuffed in the cracks of the rocks.
With the help of Ender's lighting technique, several people saw a tent appearing in the distance on the dark road. It was pitched on an dug-out river beach. The canvas on it was in tatters. It seemed that no one had been there for a long time.
.
Ender walked over and opened the door of the tent. A stench spread out. A corpse bound by iron chains lay in the middle of the tent. The face was blurred, and most of the flesh and blood had turned into black corpse water.
It flows freely in the tent.
Ender's expression changed, and he put a shield around himself, purifying the dirty air around him: "Oh, it's disgusting, but we have found the real owner. There is a corpse here."
The last words were spoken to a few people behind him. Angers came forward and frowned at the faceless corpse in the tent: "This thing has been there for at least more than a month, but there are no flies here, so there is no
Maggots."
Ender moved his fingers lightly, and a mage's hand with a light blue luster appeared, walking up and down around the corpse. Then the iron chain on the corpse and the flesh underneath appeared in front of everyone.
"More than that, this was a hybrid, and there were signs of Deadpool before his death." Ender looked at the exposed arms of the corpse, and could clearly see the abnormal growth on the man's arms.