Chapter 1297: The Story of the Niki (5)
This is a huge amount of work, and it takes a lot of time just to open the metal balls in each cave and pour out the powdery substance inside, excluding the time and physical strength required to climb the mountain wall.
At least...... One night is definitely not enough.
Another important point is that the number and structure of the caves here are very complicated, and I am really not confident that I can remove all the energy sources without falling.
At this time, Dawn had already begun to climb towards the entrance of the next cave, and he had cleaned these caves very efficiently, and he had already cleared seven or eight caves in ten minutes or so.
Just as I was thinking about how to make it more efficient, I realized that Dawn hadn't come out for a long time after entering a cave.
Could it be that he has found something strange or is in danger? But in either case, Dawn should have come out and report to me first, and now that he has not shown up for so long, the only possibility is that he has encountered something that he cannot get out of!
That...... Definitely not a good thing!
I immediately calmed down and concentrated on the general energy situation of the cave's location, but nothing special was found, and I didn't even hear anything suspicious.
"Dawn!" I shouted, but Dawn still didn't respond.
Grandma's, although I regret letting Chenxi go up alone, it's too late, but I'm not helpless. Since I had been resting for a long time at this time, and my energy reserves were quite sufficient, I immediately generated more than a dozen energy creatures around me, that is, those big-headed dolls, and in the process of generation, my mind was also thinking about the caves on the mountain wall in front of me.
Because from the experience of summoning these big-headed dolls in the previous times, I have roughly concluded a way to manipulate their behavior on a macro scale, that is, in the process of generation, I should try to think about what I want to achieve next.
This approach doesn't quite get them to execute my subtle plans, but at least it doesn't get clueless.
These big-headed dolls were very fast, and immediately crawled towards the cave where Dawn had just disappeared, but when they were halfway up, they disappeared one by one! I even wondered if there was something wrong with my eyes.
Although the first few big-headed dolls did not last long, they had to take at least ten minutes, and now this batch of big-headed dolls did not even take five minutes from appearance to disappearance, I am sure that this time they are not normal after the energy is exhausted, but are disturbed by other energy!
And this energy is undoubtedly the deadly energy spreading in the southern foothills of the mountain at this time.
It seems that I still underestimate the power source here, so I have to go out myself.
To be honest, I'm still a little bit drumming in my heart now, because the disappearance of this batch of big-headed dolls just now for no reason shows that the energy here can form an overwhelming advantage over me on a certain level, and I have a lot of energy in my body, will it mean that it will also pose a great threat to me?
But when I think about it, it doesn't seem to be true, because if this energy could really be extremely lethal to me, I wouldn't be unscathed by now.
Never mind......
It's better to put it into practice than to think about it so much!
I quickly ran to the spot where the morning sun had just come up from the sea, and I could even see the seawater marks left by the morning sun just now.
Following these traces I soon went up to the cave where Dawn had first entered, and he had just poured the powder into the cave, and I looked towards the cave and found that the powder had disappeared without a trace.
Looking inside, I saw a cracked metal ball lying in the corner, empty of it.
It seems that the caves on the walls of these mountains are filled with metal balls that only contain powder.
After confirming this, I stopped going to check the caves that Dawn had passed through before, but climbed straight to the cave where Dawn didn't come out.
My speed was still quite slower than Dawn's, and it took him less than ten minutes to climb even breaking the metal ball belt, but it took me about a quarter of an hour just to climb.
When I finally got to the entrance of the cave where Dawn had just disappeared, I realized that I was already a little out of breath.
Damn it...... Even if my climbing skills are not good, there is no reason for me to be out of breath like this, it feels like my fitness has been greatly reduced during this time.
I had a sense of foreboding, so I hurriedly hit the side of the mountain wall with my empty fist, and sure enough, I found that my strength was much weaker than before!
And...... This strength is still obviously decreasing! It seems that there is really a big problem with the energy in this mountain, and this energy can completely suppress my energy!
I hurriedly looked into the cave while I hadn't lost any more of my strength, and found that this cave was not much different from the other places just now, that is, the area was a little different.
Dawn was lying in the middle of the cavern, and there was a half-opened metal ball in his hand, and the powder in it seemed to have disappeared due to the cracking of the metal ball, but I didn't see anything suspicious.
I didn't dare to delay, and immediately stepped forward and grabbed Chenxi's arm, intending to drag him away, but at this time, there was actually some buzzing sound in my ears.
It didn't seem like the result of a lucid dream, but more like a brief moment of deafness after hearing loud noises, and I vaguely felt like my physical strength had dropped further.
I forcibly dragged Dawn to the edge of the cave with all my might, and looked at the water below the cliff.
This height is not an exaggeration, and I don't have the strength to go down with the morning light now, to put it bluntly, I feel that it is actually a problem for me to climb down, and now I can only jump directly into the sea from here. And...... Even if I fall into the sea, I can't guarantee that I'll be 100% okay, because if my stamina decreases further, I'm afraid I'll lose even the strength to swim.
I couldn't hesitate any longer, so I dragged Chenxi's body up, and then found a safe angle and threw him directly into the sea, and then I jumped down myself......
Thump...... Thump!
Dawn and I fell into the water one after another, and since Dawn was in a complete coma, he would have drowned if he hadn't been picked up in time. Fortunately, I was still in the water, and I grabbed the morning light from the bottom of the sea as soon as possible, and then began to swim up with all my might.
At this time, I was surprised to find that my physical strength began to gradually recover again.
Could it be ...... The suppression of my physical strength only exists on the mountain wall, and as long as I stay away from this mountain wall, it will not be affected, at least as it stands.
Therefore, I didn't dare to swim close to the mountain wall where the sea meets, but I tried to swim as fast as possible in the Qianhai area, but away from the mountain wall.
Soon after returning to the shore, Dawn woke up, and I hurriedly asked him what was going on, and Dawn said that he had just heard a woman's voice when he was in the cave, and then he felt that he had no strength in his body, and then he didn't know what happened.
I frowned, feeling that the dawn was still very different from what happened to me. First of all, he mentioned a woman's voice, and Dawn assured that he had never heard such a voice, that is, the person who spoke was a stranger to him, and I thought to myself that this must be the voice of the "female ghost" before, but why did she refuse to say a word in front of me before? But listening to Chenxi's meaning, he didn't have any abnormal feeling before, whether it was the woman's voice or the subsequent loss of strength, it was all sudden and without any warning.
"What did the woman tell you?" I asked, frowning.
Chenxi also frowned and thought for a moment, then scratched her head and said, "I actually didn't hear clearly...... But I could hear that she was speaking our Niki language. ”
"Didn't that woman go to your place of residence when she was alive, and did she speak Chinese or Niki at that time?" I continued.
"Hmm...... is our language. Dawn nodded and said.
"That's right. I said, "This sound must have come from that shadow just now!"
"But she hadn't made a sound before. "Dawn and I have the same concerns.
"Maybe it's because she's the only one who can speak on the mountain. Then I told Chenxi in detail about what I had just happened, but Chenxi didn't seem to be listening carefully, as if he was thinking about something.
"What do you want?" I asked, "Did you hear me?" and we couldn't go any further up the mountain. ”
Dawn raised her head to look at me, and said thoughtfully, "Do you remember what I told you about this foreign woman who once came to us?"
"You mean she ran to the Southfoot Mountains to try to convince you to leave?" I asked.
Dawn nodded.
"Of course I do. "I said in my heart that the most important part of the story that Dawn had just told was this, and this woman must have had some urgent reason for looking for Nikki at that time, so she ventured deeper into the southern foothills after being refused.
"I didn't know her language at the time, but nicotine did. Dawn said slowly, "Nicotine mentioned a problem at that time...... He said that the woman had warned us that our people were suffering from a deadly disease, and that if we did not follow her this time, we would all die sooner or later. ”
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This is somewhat different from the story that Dawn told me before, in the story that Dawn told, it seems that as long as they Niki move to other places, as long as they leave the southern foothills of the mountain, disaster can be avoided, but now it seems that since they have contracted the disease, no matter where they go, things will happen sooner or later.
And I believe that this "disease" will not be really an ordinary disease, but must be something related to energy!
With this precondition as a reminder, I quickly recalled more mysteries about the Nikites! For example, some of them had been on our Taoyuan Island, but they were intercepted and killed by the Salvation Army there, and the Salvation Army's only purpose in going to Taoyuan Island at that time was to kill all the people infected with the Gu worm virus, so it seems...... They knew about the Nicky people at that time, too.
Also, when I attacked the headquarters of the Blue Bird Company after I first returned to land, the Niki people also participated in the battle at that time, and later we were ambushed by the living Gu people, and a large number of Gu worms that broke out of the living Gu people's bodies basically burrowed into the body of the Niki people, which also shows the special nature of the Niki people's physique.
And in the end, there is a more powerful evidence, you must know that after the outbreak of the Gu worm virus, all human races are roughly divided into completely infected, semi-infected and immune people, among these people, the completely infected people either die directly, or become resurrected corpses, and semi-infected and normal people can be temporarily spared.
However, there is no such classification among the Nikites, as if all Niki are immune to the Gu worm virus.
And from the current point of view, I am afraid that the opposite is true, it is precisely because all the Niki people have already been infected with special energy, so that none of them have died at the hands of the Gu worm virus in the first place.
But Dawn's self-memories didn't seem to be over yet, his brows were now even more exaggerated, and he rubbed his temples fiercely.
I was afraid that he would fall into some unstoppable memory, so I tried to wake him up.
But at this moment, Chenxi suddenly raised her head and said to me with a look of daunting, "Did you hear any sound?"
"Voice?" I looked around, but found nothing, and I said suspiciously, "Did you hear the woman's voice again?"
"No......" Dawn shook her head, "I heard the voice of my people!"
I rub ...... I wondered if this could be Dawn Sickness! Could it be that the energy on the mountain wall had burned out his brain?
However, I still didn't take any action, because although what Dawn said was a little crazy, his current behavior was very normal.
I saw Dawn slowly sit down on the ground, and then took a deep breath, like the preparation I did before feeling the energy nearby.
"Dawn...... Did you find anything?" I asked cautiously.
The corners of Chenxi's mouth actually rose slightly at this time, and he smiled!
If I'm not mistaken, this is probably the first time Dawn has laughed!