Chapter 630: The Underground World
Flying snow like goose feathers fell into a palm wearing a black leather sheath. As the palm was retracted and released, the snowflakes turned into sheets of spotless fine powder, which drifted away with the wind. Belmode clapped his hands and glanced at the dense forest behind him. The wind blowing there was scorching hot, and it seemed incompatible with the cold wind that was covering the forest at the moment. That was Reina's breath, and a faint smile overflowed on Belmode's face: "Reina and Master Allen are completely two kinds of people."
Regis, who was sitting on the tactical speeder, nodded and said: "That guy is a Tyrannosaurus rex. Rude and proud, he will only use force to solve everything. To get along with him, you have to carry a sword at all times."
The two were talking, when the light in the forest behind them suddenly dimmed. Then a fireball rose from the forest. The surface of the fireball was dark red, like a vast ocean at midnight. In the meantime, there are vortexes glowing with fire, which are actually a few groups of energy storms. The fireball exploded suddenly, rushing into several black and red pillars of fire, and the foehn and heat wave rushed towards it from that direction.
The ice and snow melted and turned into a mist that washed over countless old trees and shrubs, and instantly painted a corner of the forest into a grayish white color.
For about a few seconds, Regis heard only rumbling noises in his ears. This made him have to cover his ears, and the two eyebrows were almost twisted together. He seemed to be saying something, but the loud explosion made Belmode unable to hear what he said.
After the hot smoke and fog passed, a sheet of snow water flowed down from a high place, covered the chassis of the speeding car, and came to Belmode's feet. Regis had already gotten into the speeding car, he opened the car door and said, "Are you coming in?"
"hold on."
"The tyrannosaurus is fine, but I think those mice will be blown up." Regis spread his palms.
At the end of Belmode's answer, a voice replaced him: "I have to admit, sometimes your little dog is quite to the point."
It was Rainer, striding forward in a heat wave. That straight waist is like a king patrolling his territory. Wherever he passed, the snow naturally melted, opening a road for him to reach the vicinity of the speeding car.
Regis curled his lips and said: "I swear, if you call me a puppy again, I will greet you well with a knife and a sword."
"But you call me Tyrannosaurus." Reina smiled and gave a childish answer.
Regis exhaled: "Well, I won't call you Tyrannosaurus anymore."
"That's it, Regis."
Reina got into another flying car: "Let's go, let's see how lucky we are.
If we can run into an army of Jotun aliens, then our military exploits will come to an end. "
"I hope to meet Alan." Regis closed the car door hard: "Is he going to be okay?"
"He'll be all right."
He said so to himself, and started the flying car. The two tactical flying vehicles restarted, and after rising a little off the ground, they flew forward in the wind and snow. The wind and snow were still blowing, and they began to drift through the trees and fall to the blackened and messy ground. Here the old trees fell and the bushes turned to ashes. The snow was burned into a huge round pit, and as for the ground, there were crystal-like black crystals all over it.
That was the trace that was blasted out by Reina's lava bomb.
But most of the places that have something to do with words like underground and caves are damp and dark places. Allen thought so before, but now he doesn't think so. The more you explore the depths of the underground cave, you will find that the temperature does not drop but rises. From the depths of the tunnel, the warm light that came from nowhere radiated slowly from the gaps in the mountain walls. Thus formed such a bright, warm, dry underground world.
Due to the emergence of warm light, the plants growing on the mountain wall or on the ground here are no longer dark or gray. They began to have bright colors, but still not the common green of the ground, but vibrant reds and oranges. The mountain wall is a transition from blue to green, and with the embellishment of these bright plants, the scene in the depths of the cave is as beautiful as a mural.
A few fine grains of gravel rolled away from Alan's feet. The terrain of this passage was flat, but the trend was still downward. There are countless underground passages like this. This huge labyrinth is like the roots of a giant stone tree. The branches are twisted and intertwined, forming an extremely complicated structure. Allen always suspected that they could lead to Linshuang's center of the earth, directly to the heart chamber of the planet.
This is not impossible.
And the underground caves he has explored now are more and deeper than those shown in the federal data. During the period, Allen dissected several underground creatures that were not in the data, and this information could also be exchanged for military exploits of varying value for him. Whether it is the Federation or Idahua Star, they did not deliberately go deep into the ground to explore. For them, those snow crystal associated mines on the surface are the greatest value of the planet Linshuang.
Although Linshuang is small, it is also relative. But the ground is extremely deep and vast, and it would take a lot of manpower and material resources to find out. Ultimately, the price/performance ratio is too low. The scope of the exploration missions at Casterly Rock Base also includes the discovery of the underground world. It's just that no one would waste energy underground. Even though Alan is forced by the situation, the places he has explored, compared to the entire underground world, are like a drop of sea water to the entire ocean, but a drop in the ocean.
Allen tore off the sleeve of the tactical suit, then tore it into several strips and tied it to the wound on his left arm. Now his whole body is almost covered with cloth strips, and the blade armor is also full of cracks, those are real cracks. There are two gaps that almost penetrate the armor. Fortunately, there is no magic energy sequence that hits the armor. Otherwise, this armor will only have pure defensive performance.
These cracks and gaps are naturally given by Catherine, those horizontal cracks are the credit of the snake sickle, and the few gaps are the achievements of the scorpion spear. During the two days of battle, Catherine appeared more frequently than before, and her attacks continued to increase, which caused Allen to suffer more and more injuries. During this period, Allen had already used up a stimulant before he escaped from Catherine's stormy offensive.
Catherine seemed to be losing patience, or gradually making up some kind of determination. In short, Allen could clearly feel that the god of death was accompanying him. The scythe hanging above his head could be cut off at any time, thus taking his life. Under such pressure, Allen showed amazing resilience, and at the same time his skills were growing rapidly.
All of this was forced out.
Open the rucksack, the nutrients have been used up. With only a few stimulants left, Allen smiled wryly. Without nutrients, physical energy consumption is not a small problem. Food is easy to solve, but fresh water is difficult. So far, he only knows that the leaves of some ferns are rich in water, but if he wants to learn from the underground organisms to absorb water through these leaves, the efficiency is far less than that of nutrients.
But now, he can only accept this fact. Allen leaned on a warm rock, picked off a nearby clump of fern leaves with a dagger, then picked up three or five leaves and threw them into his mouth to chew. Biting the leaves, a burst of bitter leaf juice flowed into his mouth, making him almost want to spit it out. But in the end, he swallowed even the leaves. The water and fiber in the leaf veins are enough to maintain the needs of survival.
As for the taste, it can be completely ignored at this time.
Like a herbivore, Allen ate up the clump of fern leaves, leaving only the bare dead leaves. When he reached out to pick it again, a red shadow suddenly appeared from the fern cluster. Allen didn't react too slowly, turning the dagger in his hand upwards. Immediately, the tip of the knife felt like stabbing something. The thing stabbed by the dagger twisted violently, and the force was not small. Allen thrust his backhand down and nailed him to the ground. Only then did I see clearly that it was a snake-like creature.
The body of this thing was as thick as an arm, and its head was triangular. Eyeless, with a row of pores for breathing. The mouth was covered with fangs, and a nearly transparent tongue with viscous liquid spit out from the mouth. There is a meat sac on the top of the head, and there are many folds on the surface. The texture is translucent, so a small, human-like thalamus-like organ can be seen inside.
The body is covered with a knotted, dark red shell. There are thorns that are unevenly distributed and of different lengths protruding from the back. Strips of black lines are distributed on the shell, making this underground creature look more like some kind of poisonous snake.
Another brand new creature, Alan hadn't seen anything like it before. And as they go deeper into the ground, these unknown lives are becoming more and more.
Allen recorded it faithfully, dissected the creature casually, and found a meat sac storing clear water in its body. After cutting it with a dagger, clear water with a bit of a fishy smell flowed into Allen's mouth. This thing is much more efficient at replenishing water than fern leaves.
The amount stored in a water bag is also very limited, only about a hundred milliliters, but it is already a rare nectar for Allen. If he encounters this kind of creature again on the way, Allen will not be afraid of running out of water. They are simply mobile water storage containers.
There was a sudden messy sound from behind the cave, and Allen immediately drew his dagger and raised Xueyin. Turning his head and looking, several strange beasts that were the size of dogs but with disproportionately large heads and mouths wide open were galloping towards him. Among these strange beasts, there were two more lurking monsters. They galloped through the cave passages and rushed towards them with a bloody wind.
Allen's eyes froze, and another figure flashed out from behind a lurking monster in his sight.
Catherine!
She not only drove these underground creatures, but also hid among them. Eye contact with Allen, the major general's scorpion spear has already been thrown out, and the scorpion spear takes a whirlwind, draws a natural arc, and nails towards Allen's chest. What the gun pointed at made Allen feel a needle-like sense of danger.
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