Recall that when I passed through the cave channel before, there were not few fish eggs on both sides of the rock wall. By rough estimation, I'm afraid there are thousands. So many numbers, even zero can't help frowning. For him who has stepped into the eleventh level, no matter how many such creatures are cannon fodder. But it's not like that for others. These little mermaids are too many and ferocious by nature. Like the hunter before, they were eaten as soon as they were caught.
Coupled with the extremely fast speed of mermaids in the water, the situation is still unfavorable to them on the whole. But there are such dangerous fish eggs on both sides of the channel. Why didn't the black owl remind them before?
The underwater sound intensifies, and zero has no further research effort. He used a light to signal the others to retreat in the water. And the fate break he put before was enough to arouse Kim's vigilance. Zero punched out towards the depths of the cave, and the front of the fist immediately pulled out a conical column of water and rushed in towards the attacking fish. The constantly rotating water column twisted the fish into chaos, and zero took the opportunity to trample on the water and swim far away.
Several punches were fired, each with the power of a heavy warhead. Every time a water ball like a shell is thrown out, the fish can't catch up. By this time, Kim and they had swam out of the exit. Everyone couldn't help taking a big breath when floating on the water. Jin swept around with the lamp post in his hand. There was still a lake here, but the area was far less than that at the entrance.
At least, within the reach of the beam of light, Kim had seen land. He immediately pointed in which direction: "go ashore first."
"What the hell is behind?" Alice looked back, and the body of the mermaid had already floated up. Looking at these monsters the size of kittens and with baby faces, she looked disgusted.
After a quick swim, the party landed one after another. Zero followed them up and immediately pointed to the lake on the bank and said, "Alice, is there any way to freeze here?"
Alice nodded, squatted down on the bank, and pressed her palm on the lake to release the frozen air. At this time, the mermaid had chased out of the cave, and countless bubbles appeared on one side of the lake like boiling water. Jin several people hit the light and saw strange faces on the lake. The faces of those evil babies, with four sharp eyes and teeth, are strange and unspeakable.
Attracted by the light, the little mermaids immediately swam towards the shore. Their speed on the water was surprisingly fast, almost more than a galloping horse, and they actually pulled up waves on the lake. Several mermaids even jumped out of the lake and waved their teeth and claws in the direction of the crowd. Suddenly, the black light flashed and became fragments in the air.
Yelu moved his hand and said, "these things are disgusting."
It's rare for a natural girl to show her likes and dislikes, but now everyone is watching the lake, and even the nervous Haiwei clenches her fist nervously. Alice kept releasing frozen air. A large lake on the bank had frozen. Then the frost still spread to the outside, and the lake water was frozen into solid ice. The forward of the fish swam too fast. Many of them hit Alice's artificial ice, either stun or bounce on the ice.
But once out of the water, these mermaids kept opening their mouths and struggling like ordinary fish. Fortunately, he slipped into the water again, but unfortunately, he lost his breath on the ice. Mermaids that can slide into the water soon find that their luck is used up. The frost is still spreading and quickly freezes them directly into the ice.
After releasing for more than ten minutes, Alice stood up with a trace of fatigue on her face. However, looking at the whole lake, at least one third of it has become solid ice. The ice on the lake shore is the thickest, with an exaggerated thickness of three meters. Even if the mermaid bites with her teeth, it is not easy to drill up from such a place.
Besides, they can't get ashore yet, which is different from the similar corpses they saw in front of the ground crack. So it seems that these mermaids are only juveniles and have not evolved organs that can survive on land. Blocked by the ice rock, the fish swam nearby, but they couldn't find a way to get close. Before long, they killed each other in the water, which shows how fierce these things are.
Looking at the boiling lake, zero shook his head and motioned for everyone to rest on the bank first. He took out the sketch given by the black owl and put it on the ground. Through the light, you can see that the route originally pointed out by the black owl can continue to swim forward after entering this area. On the other side of the lake, there is a place called the devil's throat, which is a natural cave.
After passing through the devil's throat, you will see the wall of the abyss indicated on the map. That is another huge ground fissure, which is more than ten kilometers long, but only about 100 meters wide. As for the depth, since it can be called the abyss, it will not climb up if it falls. On both sides of the abyss wall, the shadow people set up cable bridges to travel. Through the abyss wall, they almost touched the edge of the Titan hall.
Unfortunately, now the whole lake is full of mermaids. The black owl's route should continue as long as it is not so easy.
"What should I do?" Jin also looked at the topographic map and compared it with the current situation. As long as you are not blind, you know that the original route has been difficult to go on.
Zero looked around and said, "take a rest first, and then look for other channels. There are many underground caves, and maybe there are other channels leading to the wall of the abyss."
"That's the only way."
After a short rest, the team set off. The shore where they live is very broad. Because of the darkness under the ground, they didn't notice it at first. When they walked forward with a searchlight, they found that the lake bank was constantly extending, with undulating terrain, but the area was too large. If it weren't underground, I would think it was on a plain.
If you stay in the dark for too long, you will have no sense of direction. The team seems to be moving in one direction, but it's hard to guarantee whether it will go wrong after a long time. At this time, I couldn't hear the sound of fish people tearing up by the lake. It was estimated that I should leave for a distance. It was dark all around. It was dangerous to walk around like this, so Jin fired a flare.
Flares swayed into the sky, shining brightly over the ranks. By the light, zero saw something from a distance.
"Look over there." I used my finger.
People looked in the direction of his fingers, and there were some unusual shadow contours just more than 200 meters away. It looks like some buildings because their outlines are very regular and don't look like natural things. In addition, under the light of the flare, there were some strange figures and the reflection of the pupils of some creatures.
This shows that the underground world is not dead.
The light of the flare was weakening. After setting the direction, they rushed to the place where the outline of the building appeared at full speed. Finally, they reached their destination before the flare disappeared completely. Obviously, this is a group of man-made buildings. Around this area, there are stone cones extending obliquely. Each stone cone is sharp at the front and thick at the back. It is so densely stacked that it looks like a sea urchin.
The stone cone is also not formed naturally. It can be seen that it is shaped with sand and stone mixed with some shells. On some sharp stone vertebrae, I also saw the bodies of adult fish people hanging. Looking at these things, Jin frowned and said, "these are fortifications?"
Nodding at zero point, it is obvious that these stone cones are fortifications to defend against the attack of adult fishmen. But who built the fortifications is a question. Suddenly, Haiwei shouted, "I found the entrance."
The entrance is on the left side of the fortification, which is a bunker from under the fortification. The outer wall of the bunker has collapsed, the mud and stones have fallen off, and there are several human bodies inside. The body is only skeleton, which is no different from human in appearance and structure. But when I flicked the bones with my fingers, I found that these bones made a sound of empty inside. A leg bone scattered on the ground is cut off by something. It is not difficult to see from the cross section of the broken bone that the interior of the bone is a honeycomb like structure. This is a kind of lightweight skeleton. It can be imagined that these corpses were good at speed before they died.
"I'm afraid these are the shadow people." zero stood up and said, "I didn't leave the shadow people in front of the earth."
The team moved on. There was a tunnel at the end of the bunker. The tunnel was very narrow and only one person could pass through. From time to time, we can see the bones of the shadow people and adult fish people in the tunnel. Coupled with countless knife marks and sword prints on both sides, we can imagine that there was a fierce offensive and defensive war here at that time. It should be the fishman who broke through the bunker and tried to enter the inner area of the shadow clan through the tunnel.
Coming out of the tunnel is a place similar to an arsenal. When I climbed out, I saw many simple harpoons scattered on the ground and many rough stone knives. There are many bones here, which can be described as a mountain. Most of the bones are the remains of fish people. There are many of them, but I don't know how they were blocked near the exit by the shadow people, so they piled up hill like bones here.
Zero, they almost climbed out of the bones of these fish people and fell to the ground. Under the light, the ground nearby has been attacked by high heat, and the whole land has been crystallized like a piece of black glass. That is to say, at that time, the shadow people used some kind of ability or weapon that could produce high temperature to cut off the incoming army of fish people here.
However, many fish man's bodies appear far away from the corpse mountain. Similarly, the bodies of the shadow people can be seen at the exit of the warehouse. Although the attack was effective at that time, I'm afraid many fishermen succeeded in breaking out of the siege.
When they came out of the warehouse and the lights went on, they saw some compact and low artificial buildings. The building is very rough and crude. However, the material is solid, the passages between buildings are narrow and changeable, and its complexity is no less than that of human base.
Jin scratched his head and said, "what place is this, the village of the shadow clan?"
Looking around, you can see the bodies of fish people or shadow people in almost any corner. He shook his head and said, "it's not like a village. Don't you think it's more like a forward base?"
"Forward base?"
"Didn't the black owl say that there are many different species under the influence of the dark god. I'm afraid those fish people are one of them, and they are of a large race. Here is the front line for the shadow clan to fight with them."
In the dark, he pressed a fat mutant mole to the ground with strong forelimbs. These moles living underground are the size of dogs and the end of the underground biological chain. But these guys are very cunning. They usually hide deep in caves that are difficult to find. But it's not difficult. In decades of evolution, its group has evolved into one of the top hunters in the underground biological chain.
Its sense of smell is very sensitive. It can smell the body smell of mole within a kilometer. After finding the nest of these things, it will step on the ground with its strong anti joint hind limbs, making all kinds of sounds. Moles are timid creatures. They live in crypts and are very alert. When you hear a strange noise, you will put your head out of the cave to look around, and this is the time for hunters to hunt.
That's how the mole came under its claw. It opened its mouth. It was a mouthpiece with two layers of sharp teeth inside and outside. The jaw structure like a crocodile makes it have nearly a ton of biting force. So the mole was like a mouthful of soft bread. Three or two times he ate the mole. He became a little lazy and wanted to go back to his nest and sleep again.
That's where it was born, wet and warm. But when he was going back, he seemed to smell something. Sniff hard. It's the smell of blood. The taste is so sweet that it is even more delicious than its favorite mole. It can't refuse the attraction of this taste. Two powerful hind legs begin to run. Even though the terrain here is complex, it can cross any obstacle.
When he rushed out of a roadway, he suddenly felt a cold feeling in several parts of his body. It's like the cold outside air suddenly enters its hot body, and then all its feelings disappear. After several black silk threads were connected to it for several times, its body was instantly dismembered into several sections. When the fragments of the body fell to the ground, the blood and internal organs slipped out and flowed all over the ground.
Looking at the beast being dismembered into pieces, he said in pain, "Yelu, can't you just confuse it? Or let it leave a whole body."
Night Liu tilted his head and looked at zero. He didn't seem to understand that he killed these guys anyway. What's the difference between leaving a whole body and dismembering?
Looking at the pile of fragments on the ground, it is difficult to put the beast together again. When they left the warehouse and lowered the base, they found that the base had been occupied by another creature. Leah scanned the advancing base and found a hall with bioenergy response. Zero leads the team to the hall. Since the shadow people can come to this place close to the underground exit to establish a forward base, it shows that there are other channels to the Titan hall. It is reasonable to say that since wisdom has been carried out, the shadow people should leave records.
This is the instinct of intelligent life to inherit knowledge. Zero hope to find relevant records and find other channels leading to Titan hall. Just as he went deep into the base, he was attacked by strange animals. In these attacks, these things were dismembered into pieces by Yelu before they rushed to the front, so that zero could not understand what these things were.
You know, on their way to Titan hall, they don't know how many strange and dangerous creatures they have to meet. It's always good to know more about the structure of some underground creatures, but the night Ryu is fierce, and there is basically no possibility of survival, which makes zero a little distressed. He decided to come by himself next time. At this time, there was a dull noise. He followed Haiwei and said with a smile, "head, look what I found?"
As soon as she shook her hand, she threw over an alien beast about the size of the wolf gale placed in Hakala. The beast's head is deeply sunk. It seems that it was killed by Haiwei with blunt force. But at least, it retains the whole body.
Kim and Alice beat the light away, so an underground creature like a giant lizard appeared in people's eyes. It's a giant lizard, but it looks like it. But many major parts of the body have changed, such as the hind limbs have evolved into Anti joint structures, which enable them to run upright like Velociraptors.
The head is long and large. Because it lives at the bottom of the ground, the eyes have degenerated and can hardly be seen. The animal's whole body is covered with hard bone armour and stomach. The bone armour and stomach replaces the original scales, which can effectively control the leakage of body temperature and have more defense. Regardless of the forelimb or hind limb, its claw is like a sharp military knife, which can tear a lot of things.
This guy's tail is even more terrible. It wraps the nail and stomach of the tail, with sharp bone knives distributed in the outer layer, and a conical sharp bone spur at the tail end. If this thing is inserted into the body, it will leave a big gap in the mouth of the bowl, which will cause massive bleeding and great trauma to the prey.
Zero accidentally pressed a tendon in the jaw when checking its head. Suddenly the beast's mouth opened and a long tongue ejected from it. The tongue hit the wall of the nearby building, leaving a gap like a bullet hole. From the mouth of the beast to the wall of the building, there is a difference of more than one meter, which shows how long the tongue is suddenly. There is a cross shaped opening at the end of the tongue. When it is separated by the gravel on the nearby ground, it can be seen that it is full of meat teeth, and the tongue is hollow.
If this thing is allowed to strike into the organism, it will cause great impact damage. At the same time, the tongue can stay in the organism to suck blood and flesh, causing greater damage. In short, this is a hunter standing at the top of the biological chain. It is a perfect killing machine.
"It smells like biological weapons," Kim said.
Zero head agrees.
He stood up, looked in the direction of the hall and said, "there's a nest of such things waiting for us. Everybody, get ready for battle."
"I like cleaning up pests best," Jin said with a smile. People with the ability of soil elements get a great bonus when they are underground. If he fights in such an environment, he can even beat Alice, who has always been stronger than him.
"These are big pests," zero said, looking at the corpse on the ground, which was about the size of a calf.