Chapter 864

"Are those luminous bacteria poisonous?". Leah whispered.

Zero shook his head and said, "look carefully, not all moles are dead."

Sure enough, only a part of the moles died, but some of them were infected with luminescent bacteria, but they did not die, still gnawing on the full mycorrhiza. After a big meal, they walk around slowly, but they don't see the bodies of the same kind. After being gnawed by giant rats, the dried mushrooms begin to produce a thin fibrous membrane to seal the "wound".

Look at the dead moles. Their bodies are rotting. The speed of decay is very fast, the change that can be completed in a few days can be completed in just a few tens of seconds. However, on the decaying corpse, the luminescent bacteria gradually disappeared. Instead, there are tiny germ buds, which further decompose the mole's corpse, turning the animals into fertilizer for the land.

"Symbiotic system." Moni said suddenly, "I've seen some plants in the dark land for two years. They can continue their lives and their descendants' lives in this way. They will use fragrance or color to attract nearby animals, and then sprinkle seeds on these animals. Some animals die for no reason, and their bodies become fertilizer for plants. But others survive, and they get a gift from the plants. "

"The surviving animals leave soon and take the seeds of the plants to other places to reproduce themselves. Amanda calls this symbiotic system for plants Finally, Moni said.

"We don't want to eat these giant mushrooms. I hope it doesn't treat us as animals." Jin looked anxiously at the luminous bacteria in the giant mushroom cap on his head for fear that they would fall down.

People laughed at it, Moni said: "don't worry, plants can tell whether you are their diner by smell. If not, they won't waste the seeds on you. "

"Plants can also distinguish smell. The world is crazy." Kim's a little crazy.

Zero shrugged and said, "has the world ever been normal?"

All of a sudden, the color of luminous bacteria on the caps of some giant mushrooms a hundred paces away changed. No matter what color they used to be, they are now gradually dim, followed by bright red color. No matter how it looks, it's like plants are calling the police. Seeing the change in the color of the fungus, some mole warily raised their heads, then "squeaked" and turned around and ran.

Something's coming!

The idea started, and from the darkness there was a song like a blue whale. With the sound of breaking the air, it seems that something is passing through the space at high speed. It's a pity that things in the dark are so far away that even zero can't see each other.

A mole seemed so frightened that he ran to them in a daze. Zero vision a Lin, ready to kill this fat rat, otherwise it will bring unknown creatures. But before he had time to do it, an octopus like tentacle suddenly came out of the darkness. It went through many giant mushrooms and hit the mole with agility and accuracy like a snake.

There was a slight tremor on the ground. According to the tremor of the ground, all the people present were high-level. It was not difficult to push the tentacle against the ground. The force of the tentacle was nearly tons. Don't mention mole, even a piece of iron plate would be deformed if it was patted like this. Sure enough, when the tentacles were slightly raised, the mole had turned into a paste of meat. The tentacle rolled up the corpse of the rat, and with a cry, it fell back and disappeared into the darkness in the distance.

The scream of the mole kept coming from nearby. It was not until a moment later that the sound stopped, and the light fungus on the giant mushroom changed its color. The red light gradually fades away and then emits other soft colors.

The hunter has left.

"Let's go." Zero said.

"What was that?" Haiwei can't help but ask. Of course, she knows that there is no answer to this question.

"Some kind of big predator, as long as it's not in our way, we don't care about it." Zero Road, and then identify the direction of the sound of the water, then with the team set out.

The sound of the water is approaching, and the mushroom forest is far away.

Far away, but through the whole mushroom forest of light, you can see the giant mushroom forest, a hill like figure is slowly moving. I can't see what it looks like, but from the outline, it reminds people of snails. The apparently round body and the high head in front of it are indeed similar to the appearance of a snail.

The biggest snail that zero has ever seen is the overlord snail, but compared with the giant in the mushroom forest, the overlord snail is nothing but a small one. But that thing is not necessarily a snail, who has seen a snail with tentacles, so in the end, zero can only attribute the giant in the mushroom forest to a giant alien.

After leaving the mushroom forest, it was obvious that the soil on the ground was getting wet, then gravel began to appear, and finally they came to a stone beach. Not far from the stone beach, a stream was in an uproar. The water came from behind them and flowed along the terrain. It seems that this river should be an underground branch of the entrance lake, and then pass through the surface to form such a river.There are creatures in the river. Some strange fish with several glowing tentacles are the residents in the water. They are small and slender. The speed of swimming in the water is very fast. If you swim along the water, it is estimated that it can reach 30 kilometers per hour. It's fast enough to avoid predators when it's necessary.

The predator in the water is a kind of water snake like animal. They come out of the cracks in the rocks on both sides of the river. These animals have snake like bodies, but the skin is transparent and the surface emits fluorescence. It has three pairs of feet, with frog like toe structure and webbed toes. When a strange snake extends its feet horizontally, it can float on the water surface with the web between its toes, which is like a luminous branch.

It uses its own expertise to attract more bearded fish to approach. At the moment when the prey approaches, the strange snake will suddenly roll into a ball, hang the prey, and then drag it into the crevice to enjoy.

When they were resting by the river, they just witnessed the whole hunting process. From the giant mushroom forest to the river, they have seen that the underground world has its own ecosystem. In this ecosystem, predators and prey are fighting all the time. As long as either side is lax, it may be doomed.

Competition is everywhere.

This is the most comfortable portrayal of the new world. From prosius and agradis, to humans and other races, and even the underground space, there is competition among creatures everywhere.

All for survival!

After a 10 minute break, the team set off again. Walking along the river, the terrain is from high to low, but the slope is gentle. If you don't distinguish carefully, it's hard to detect that you are going underground. Walking in the dark is not good enough. After losing the obvious reference, the perception of time gradually becomes blurred. The road ahead is always in the dark, and there seems to be no end in the light column.

Endless darkness devours everything.

Just when they thought the road would never end, zero suddenly stopped. In front of the terrain, the slope suddenly increased, and the river flowing down into the waterfall, into a roaring water.

"Flare!"

In front of the dark can not see anything, for the sake of safety, obviously can not be stingy with a flare. When the flare took off, the crowd held their breath. Where they are now is a cliff about 20 meters above the ground. Here the river falls like a waterfall, pouring into a lake below like mercury.

The lake is not big. It is estimated that it is only about tens of meters. The water of the lake is always in waves. Under the lake, there must be an underground channel connecting with other places, otherwise the water of the lake can't keep its normal shape. After the lake is a mountainous area, the ground is rocky, with some luminous moss light. In places where the light of the flare is not enough, there is a faint halo in the dark.

At the back of the mountain, by the light of the flare, you can see some strange outlines.

Like the ribs of a giant beast, things appear on both sides from the ground in an inward bending structure. This is recorded in the murals of the shadow clan, and is also the second forward node of the giant beast Canyon after the giant mushroom forest. Through this canyon, you can reach the plain area where the dragon's nest is located. After the dragon's plain, Titan hall is not far away.

The flare's light was fading, and they didn't have time to jump directly from the cliff into the lake below. When you swim out of the lake and reach the shore, the underground world is shrouded in darkness. A moment later, the light of the luminous lichen appeared in the dark. They were like a luminous carpet, indicating the direction of the zero one line.

With these luminous lichens, zero simply turned off the light source to save energy, and others followed suit. The crowd walked on the carpet of light, and the sharp edged hunters were scattered on both sides of the line as guards. The team advanced to the giant Canyon without any obstacles.

As we approach the giant Canyon, the number of luminous lichens is decreasing. It seems that the soil in the canyon is not suitable for the growth of this plant. The soil on the ground is soft and hard. When you come to the entrance of the canyon, you can pick up any stone and find that it is as hard as steel. With such a molecular structure, it's no wonder that the luminous lichen can't expand its territory into the canyon.

The whole Canyon is full of emptiness and death.

"Be careful." Zero channel, turn on the light again, and walk into the canyon first.

The canyon is spacious, and the rocks on both sides bend like the bones of a giant beast. From time to time, there will be very strong wind blowing from the other end of the valley. The wind is hot and contains some hard gravel. Zero sum gold had to go ahead and open the force field to keep the wind and gravel away from both sides of the force field. But I don't know where the wind comes from under the ground.

What we can know is that it is the hot wind and the metal like gravel that create the special landform of giant canyon. As you can imagine, at the beginning, maybe it was just an ordinary underground canyon. It's not as special as it is now, but I don't know when it started. With the foehn and iron sand, they gradually eroded the landform of the canyon and formed the mountain walls that are now like the ribs of a giant beast.Fortunately, the foehn's wind does not blow incessantly. Occasionally, it comes for one or two bursts, and the interval is very long. The longest one, almost 40 minutes. Zero they walked in the canyon for more than two hours, but also encountered three or two such foehn winds. But the distance of the canyon seems to be very long. At least they can't see the end. They can walk for a while and stop the team to have a rest.

Eat some food, replenish water and refresh yourself. To explore underground without light, they expend more energy than they do on the ground. The most consumption comes from the vigilance to the unknown darkness. Therefore, not a long march, the necessary rest, is an important guarantee to arrive at the destination safely.

Haiwei is a restless girl, while eating, sitting on a stone, her feet are shaking from time to time. Suddenly, something happened on her toes. She looked down and let out a short scream.

It turns out that under the sole of the foot, there's a skull. It's just a little strange in shape. I don't know what kind of animal skeleton it is. But people soon found that in this section of the canyon, under the gravel, like the skull of some animal, or other bones of the body can be seen almost everywhere. This is almost a graveyard of animals, with countless bones.

Zero sink voice way: "everybody is careful, we seem to have entered some kind of predator's territory."

As soon as he finished, Leah stood up and said, "something is approaching us."

"Position!"

"Two o'clock, no... it's moving fast. It's very close... "

At the moment of Leia's exclamation, the top of the heads of the people burst out, and the smell came from the top down. Zero raised the lamp and looked up. Under the light, a dark shadow came down from the side of the mountain wall where they were resting, flying with debris. Jin reacted very quickly. He immediately put his hand on the wall of the mountain. Suddenly, a piece of rock in the middle of the wall burst into pieces, which blew it away and left a little blood.

The shadow fell to the ground and swept towards them. Four feet like flying, actually stepped on the gravel of the canyon to fly up. Zero comes first, but it's very flexible. The sudden braking and turning left a surging wave in the air, which had bypassed zero and crashed into the rear ranks.

It went straight to Leah, killing like a smart species. It seems to know that Leah sensed it in advance, so she was listed on the must kill list. That speed is amazing, zero dull hum, just about to space jump past. Suddenly, there was a scream in the team, and a cold light flashed like autumn water, straight into the body of the shadow.

It's Moni!

She combined the death assault into the shape of a spear blade, followed the spear tip to accurately pierce the shadow. But the strong impact still made her slide back on the ground until fenbei hit the mountain wall. The limbs of the thing were still twitching from time to time, and the nerve endings were still working. Moni put down the blade of the gun, stepped on it, pulled out the death assault, and immediately filled the ground with blood.

This is a rat headed man with short dark brown hair. The eyes degenerate, but the nose is especially large. From the top of the head to the tail, there is a row of dark red short spines on the whole back. The body is a little thin, you can clearly see the physical characteristics of humanoid, especially the shape of the ribs, is no different from people. It's just that both hands and feet have sharp claws like a saber, and a tail is thin and long, with a needle like substance of bone at the end.

Looking at the special product of this giant Canyon, the zero Pro automatic hand dismembers it with the dagger on the hand, so as to understand the body structure of this thing. Where the blade comes, the skin and the flesh stand apart. Under the knife of zero, the rat head soon became pieces of parts. It's easy to see from its body structure that this thing has evolved to a fairly high level. Its brain is very developed, and the brain groove inside is deep and dense, which is the characteristic of intelligent life.

The skeleton is as light as the previously discovered Fishman skeleton, which greatly reduces the weight of the rat. But the most developed is its muscles, especially the thigh muscles of the hind legs, with a lot of fibers and delicate and tight muscle bundles. This allows the rat to make a quick turn when needed. It is a rare skill to avoid danger or kill prey.

Finally, its four foot knife like claws, zero found a muscle on its claws. The effective killing distance is about 10 meters. In addition, the tail needle is also a very powerful weapon. There is a poison sac at the end of the needle. It seems that after it is inserted into the hunting object, it can produce a hydraulically compressed poison sac through the flow of blood in the blood vessels, so as to inject some toxins.

Zero will be careful to break the poison bag, from the inside out of the green, and with fluorescent solution. As soon as I met the gravel in the canyon, I found that the stones were burning and making a sound. A moment later, it was dark. This is a very powerful biological toxin, but the poison sac is very small, so it can squeeze out a little bit. But this toxin is enough to bring down many creatures.

In general, this is a higher level predator than sauroposaurus. And intelligence has evolved, making them even more dangerous. Giant Canyon may be the territory of this kind of rat man. If we continue to go deep, we will inevitably encounter it. After explaining the characteristics and structure of the rat man to the public, the team set out on the road. They walked close to the side of the mountain wall to avoid sudden attack to the greatest extent. However, zero is very clear that the movement of his team can not hide from the residents in the canyon.Because he had found something on the other side of the mountain wall, in the darkness beyond the reach of light, watching their team. Although the eyes of mice and humans have degenerated, underground creatures naturally have a perception system. Or shock, or sense of smell or something, those perception systems that are not affected by the sight must let them evolve to a higher level.

The trip to the canyon was never peaceful, and zero had expected that. But when Leah projected a mental scan into the minds of zero and others, they were still deeply shocked. On both sides of the canyon, dense light spots appeared within 300 square meters. Each light spot represents a creature, and there are thousands of such creatures.

If all of them are rats and men who act like the wind, even the zero team will have a headache.

As for the short thorn on the back, its use is unknown.