In addition to the "flame flower", Li Yao and Li Jialing also discovered various strange underground life. Biodiversity reminds Li Yao of his past experience in exploring the Silver Lake under the Dragon Star.
However, almost all life in the depths of the earth is like colorful variants of life on the ground, rather than naturally generated. It seems that only by accepting the genetic modulation and artificial intervention of generations of intelligent life since the Pangu and Nuwa civilizations can we survive in such a harsh environment.
The habitat of most underground life is the shelter that has been collapsing, buried and abandoned for hundreds of thousands of years.
In just half a day, Li Yao and Li Jialing passed three abandoned shelters, or ancient relics.
Ancient relics sound quite mysterious and contain endless treasures, which attract strong people from all sides, such as the Kunlun secret place once discovered by Xingyao Federation, and the Nuwa warship and Pangu underground palace in the depths of Yongye ice field near the north pole of the ancient holy world.
However, there are few relics with special maintenance system or frozen deep in the Arctic, so they can be intact.
Most of the relics have been eroded from 10000 to hundreds of thousands of years, and the valuable magic weapons and corpses have long been annihilated. They either disappeared or mixed with lava, and lost any possibility of excavation and restoration.
This is the case with the three sites near 10084.
The once powerful crystal brain system has long been a rusty and distorted shell; The runes used to purify the air and cool the temperature are also covered with moss and vines; Most of the passageways are blocked by falling rocks and gushing magma, and the traces of the last victims' struggling before death can be seen faintly - all of them become fossils, clearly imprinted on the uneven rock wall.
Whether the owners of these relics are Pangu or Nuwa who controlled Xinghai hundreds of thousands of years ago, or the ancient cultivation which inherited a large number of Honghuang secret treasures despite ignorance tens of thousands of years ago, or the demon nobles in the great dark age of 30000 years, or even the first group of modern practitioners in the era of Xinghai Empire, their glory and civilization have disappeared, Their bodies are not the original shape, and the dim light of "flameflower" sweeps over their moss covered traces. Even the lizards and snakes who are in a hurry ignore their ashes - there is nothing to suck and swallow in them.
However, if we find the remains, it means that we are not far away from the savages.
Because most of the savages are the descendants of the people in these relics.
Both Li Yao and Li Jialing wrapped up their thoughts with their psionic powers, rippling around like waves. Sure enough, not long later, they found traces of several savages in the dark.
The two enjoyed a wonderful ambush.
At first, it was a red ringer hunting a black beetle.
Honghuan people are thinner and smaller than ordinary people. They are about 1.5 meters tall, but they have bundles of long and powerful muscles, which are like tying the cables together. They have amazing explosive power.
They are as light and elegant as the cheetahs in the ground. They are extremely ferocious. The two rows of canine teeth protruding from the top and bottom are just like daggers. They can bite a human's head from the back, plunge into the eye socket, and instantly destroy the brain tissue. Deep underground, there are no other large mammals except human beings. Such tooth structure only shows that they are used to eating the same kind.
Li Yao paid special attention to the eyes of the red ringer, and found that, as Li Jialing described, the pupils are scarlet rings, spreading out in circles, shining in the dark. If they are illuminated by the "flame flower", they are even more shining, full of heart and soul power.
It seems that in addition to "night vision", there is also a natural mental attack, which is similar to "deterrence" and "shock". Although extremely weak, it is more than enough to deal with ordinary prey.
Their ears are also big and flat, crisscrossed with folds. It is said that deep in the folds are full of extremely sensitive sensing organs, which can sense the surrounding topography, as well as the breathing and heartbeat of prey through the feedback of sound waves.
With such sharp search and attack tools, the red ringer has become the leading hunter in the dark death zone and the existence at the top of the food chain.
When Li Yao sensed the red ringer, he was hanging upside down above a cave and crept toward another black beetle who was eating lizards.
Li Yao originally thought that the black beetle was wide and flat, like a turtle. When he saw it with his own eyes, he found that the black beetle was also very thin and small. The black beetle was not a piece of iron, but a structure as thin as a fish scale beetle, more like an armadillo.
In addition to a black armour, they did not evolve more offensive weapons. In the fight with the red ring, they naturally fell behind.
Seeing that this single and ignorant black armor man is about to die in the hands of the red ring man, Li Yao is thinking about whether to stop the fighting between the two savages.
All of a sudden, when the red ring man jumped towards the black one, a lump of stalagmite like things next to him suddenly moved, smashed a lump of black shadow at the red ring man, and all of a sudden, the red ring man fell to the ground.
He is a night winger disguised as a rock!
Lee was surprised at the subtlety of the "Mimicry" of the night winger. Although he was still seriously injured, and only one tenth of his mind was inspired to detect, the night winger was able to escape his scanning. The racial talent evolved from deep underground is quite sharp.
Moreover, it is obviously a pre-set trap, with the black beetle as the bait and the night winger as the main attack. Let's hunt this careless red ring man together. They can set such a careful trap, and it can be seen that the light of wisdom has not completely disappeared. It is still a category of "human", not just a beast in human skin.
The dark shadow of the night winger seems to be a super alloy component on some magic weapon, with sharp edges and corners. It swings like a mace. After all, the red ringer is flesh and blood,. He didn't practice his psionic power. After taking this heavy blow, he fell to the ground and was bleeding.
Seeing that the black armour and the night winger were "howling" to come forward and bite the throat of the prey, Li Yao stood up from the dark and slightly increased the agitation of his whole body's powers.
The underground residents were extremely alert to the danger. Without hesitation for half a second, the black armour and the night winger threw away their prey, retreated into the dark and fled.
Lee did not stop them, but went forward to check the condition of the red ringer.
The skull is deeply sunken from the left temple. It can only breathe in but can't breathe out. It's impossible to live.
Li Yao carefully observed the body of honghuan man and found that although he didn't wear an inch, there were beetles gnawing out of his chest, uneven tattoos, and a rubber band tied on his right arm with two sharp bone blades on it. Li Jialing told Li Yao that honghuan man used his dead relatives' teeth to polish the bone blades, They believe that the soul of the dead is attached to the sharp canine teeth like a dagger. Such a bone blade will bring good luck to the living and protect the safety of the living.
It seems that today's red ring man's close relatives did not bring him good luck.
However, the intricate tattoos and unique customs also prove that the red ring people are not ignorant beasts in human skin stigmatized by the immortals, but a member of the human family.
Li Yao can even accept the monstrous and grotesque demons. Naturally, there is no reason to exclude these underground ethnic groups who still retain most of the human features.
The strange eyes of the red ring man gradually faded their dim light and turned into a dead ash like a rock. His chest stopped undulating completely. His tight muscles relaxed, but his muscles contracted and stiff, which made him put on a very distorted posture.
Li Yao sighed, crossed the red Ringer's hands to his chest, put him in the corner of the cave, and then blasted down the rock to bury the body - for the time being, there is only so much he can do.
Li Jialing has been looking at it silently, several times, and finally did not throw out his doubts.
After burying the red ringer, they moved on.
The caves and crevices in front of them are more rugged and secret. If it wasn't for the guidance of maps and coordinates, and long Yangjun sprayed huge arrows with special fluorescent agents when he went deep into the earth, Li Yao and Li Jialing really didn't expect that there would be a road with dark willows and bright flowers in such a bottomless place.
Then he went down and climbed. After climbing for half a day, it suddenly opened up in front of him. Unexpectedly, a tunnel with a diameter of 30-40 meters appeared without any reason. The spiral lines on the wall of the tunnel must have been developed by some super giant drilling magic weapon.
"I'm afraid it wasn't developed by Pangu or Nuwa people hundreds of thousands of years ago!"
Li Yao observed the surrounding environment and said, "should it have led to... The ground? But later, with the vicissitudes of life and geological upheaval, the first half of the tunnel leading to the ground collapsed and buried completely, leaving only the rear half of the tunnel in the shape of no head and no tail. "
There was a faint light at the end of the tunnel.
And the oxygen content and pressure of the air in front of it are different from here, so that the air flow is similar to that of the hall wind.
The positioning chip shows that long Yangjun's coordinates are right in front of him, at the end of the huge tunnel.
Li Yao and Li Jialing look at each other. Since they have all come here, naturally there is no hesitation. If long Yangjun really has ulterior motives, there is no need to rescue them from Wu Yingqi, the black star emperor. If they really want to do harm to Li Yao, there are plenty of opportunities in the past ten days, so there is no need to cheat them here.
"Go and see what the hell this girl is up to!" With a wave of his hand, Li Yao strode to the end of the tunnel.