Chapter 611: Inside the Mother Tree
After hesitating for a while, Jiang Yan temporarily dispelled the idea of digging up the crystal tree now.
In fact, the magic puppets guarding around the crystal tree, he is quite sure that he will solve them, and he will not alarm the other magic puppets.
But just solving these magic puppets is not the key, these crystal trees are the sending device of the force field, as long as any one of them has a problem, the force field signal may change, so that the magic energy clan here can detect the abnormality.
If Xiao Bai's side has been completed and all the magic puppets in the warehouse have been dealt with, then Jiang Yan will not care if he does anything with these crystal trees, but for now, let's wait and see for the time being.
No longer looking at the crystal tree, Jiang Yan's consciousness shifted to a phantom slime in the central area of the city.
After glancing at the incomparably large Demonized Mother Tree overhead, with a canopy like a sea of clouds, through the perspective of the Phantom Slime, Jiang Yan manipulated it to slowly move along the path to the bottom of the tree. The Giant Mother Tree is located in the center of the city, and the city is circular in shape, with eight main avenues leading directly from outside the city to the bottom of the Mother Tree located in the center of the central circle.
On every major thoroughfare, there are a large number of centaur golems patrolling the handles, scanning the surroundings with their razor-sharp electronic eyes. Even a vehicle loaded with a half-finished magic golem must slow down when passing through the handle level, and be scanned by the centaur golem from the electronic eye like an X-ray, and only after it is confirmed that it is correct. The closer you get to the main body of the Demon Tree, the tighter it becomes.
Fortunately, the concealment ability of the Phantom Slime controlled by Jiang Yan is strong enough, and after Jiang Yan captured many samples of the magic puppets and analyzed them, he already had a full understanding of the detection methods that these magic puppets would use, so it was not a problem to deal with the level inspection of these guard puppets, and he passed through it smoothly.
Continuing to sneak, the road ahead was still a stone road, but there was something strange on the ground, it was a fluffy mycelium lawn that looked like a Zerg fungus blanket, this strange lawn with a large number of mycelium occupied all the ground area within a radius of kilometers below the base of the giant tree, even the stone pavement for the passage of trucks, and the blades of the strange grass extended directly from the side of the road into the middle of the road and paved without any gaps.
The blades of this strange grass are as thin and thin as pieces of paper, and they are so pressure-resistant that even if they are run over by the tires of a multi-ton carrier truck after being laid on the road, there is no sign of damage.
After seeing that the road ahead was covered with the leaves of these strange grasses with mycelium, Jiang Yan controlled the Phantom Slime and stopped, a little hesitant.
Although he was confident in the stealth ability of the Phantom Slime, he always had a hunch that if he stepped directly on those mycelial monsters, there would be problems.
Jiang Yan's intuition was right, these small grasses with mycelium were actually perceptual and vigilant plants specially cultivated by the Demon Energy Clan, and the mycelium on their leaves were extremely sensitive to touch, even if a grain of dust that could not even be seen by the naked eye fell down, it would be sensed extremely clearly, and they were also very sensitive to energy fluctuations.
If Jiang Yan had let the Phantom Slime step on these lawns just now, although he would not have been directly broken by the Phantom Slime's invisibility state, the strange grass could detect something passing by with the help of the mycelium.
That kind of consequence is not much different from the exposure of whereabouts, this strange grass full of perceptual mycelium is actually specially cultivated to deal with some assassins who are good at stealth and lurking. As long as they don't really make their bodies disappear from normal space, simple invisible methods such as light and shadow are not enough to avoid their perception.
Although he didn't know the information about these mycelial monsters, Jiang Yan still chose to follow his instincts and planned to avoid them.
After approaching within a kilometer of the Demon Mother Tree, the incomparably large size of the Demon Mother Tree gave people an even stronger sense of shock, like a steep giant mountain wall in front of them.
At the bottom of this 'giant wall', as described by the intelligence provided by Zhi Brain, there is a huge tunnel about ten meters high, and the main road under your feet directly extends straight to the depths of the giant wall tunnel.
Jiang Yan calculated the distance from the outer edge of the Mycelium Lawn to the entrance of the Giant Wall Tunnel.
'878m......'
The ground is obstructed by the mycelium lawn, and it is impossible to walk, so Jiang Yan can only choose to try to fly through the air, but ......
Jiang Yan glanced at the empty sky above his head, the lowest of the Falcon-type magic puppets in charge of air patrol, and its flight altitude was also more than 100 meters.
In this way, the low-altitude area below 100 meters near the Demon Mother Tree does not seem to be fortified?
But Jiang Yan didn't act rashly, because he knew very well that it was just an illusion.
In places that ordinary people can't see with the naked eye, countless shapes like mushroom umbrellas, Invisible little machines the size of Shashuo, which are less than two millimeters in size, are floating around in this space like planktonic microorganisms, and these small things slightly fan the umbrella bag on top of themselves in a way that looks like jellyfish swimming, so that they can swim back and forth in the air lightly, and the movement looks like the bacteria scurrying around in a fungal petri dish from the perspective of a microscope, and the movement trajectory is very chaotic and random, making it extremely difficult to predict.
Although these miniature mechanical umbrellas were invisible, not only were they invisible to the naked eye, but they did not leak any breath themselves, they were still exposed under Jiang Yan's ability scanning.
Jiang Yan didn't use conventional means of detection to perceive them, because doing so was likely to expose himself, and most of these miniature mechanical umbrellas had the function of sensing energy fluctuations. The scanning of the ability made Jiang Yan find that the lower half of the mechanical umbrella was like a long-handled and upside-down antenna, and the tip would release a detection wave like a radar wave from time to time, and this detection fluctuation would only diffuse more than ten centimeters around the mechanical umbrella and then disappear on its own, so the traces were very weak, if it weren't for Jiang Yan's scanning ability, it would not have been found by normal means.
It's really vigilant. After observing it with his ability and confirming that there was really no vacancy in the sky above, and that it was completely occupied by these miniature mechanical umbrellas, Jiang Yan sighed.
The passable area between each of the miniature mechanical umbrellas on the top is only three or four centimeters at most, such a small gap, and it is always changing randomly, plus the detection wave that blocks all the gaps without leaving dead ends, it is really impossible for normal creatures to pass through.
Fortunately, it's just that at this level, it's still difficult for Jiang Yan.
As his mind moved, the size of the pebble-sized Phantom Slime that he possessed began to shrink rapidly, and after seven or eight seconds, the Phantom Slime became an ultra-small size of only two millimeters in diameter, and then stopped shrinking.
"Shrink Lv.2" is a special ability that can shrink one's body size by a factor of more than 100.
"Shrink Lv.2" is a special ability that is very interesting, it only reduces the size of the body, but its strength does not decrease when it is reduced, and its mass does not decrease with the size of the body, and it still maintains its original weight. In other words, if a human uses this ability, the power of his fist, which is only the size of a soybean, can still hurt or even kill others.
This magical ability was not obtained by Xiao Bai himself, but from the data shared by Hongyu Mansion several times before, and it seemed to be a program obtained by a certain reincarnation person from a reincarnation mission he experienced, using his brain to scan a strange local species.
It's a pity that the special ability of "shrinking" has special requirements for physique, and ordinary creatures can't withstand the contraction changes caused by this ability, and only the slime Xiaobai, who has an extraordinary physique, and the original owner of this ability, can accept and use this skill program smoothly.
This kind of ability is somewhat similar to the Taoist "Law Aspect Heaven and Earth", but the effect is reversed. However, unlike Taoist magic, "shrinking" is an instinctive ability of creatures, and it does not produce traces of energy fluctuations when casting, and it is extremely hidden.
Therefore, it is suitable for this kind of situation where stealth is required.
After shrinking the size of the Phantom Slime to a suitable size, Jiang Yan controlled it to activate another skill called "Gravity Manipulation", which greatly reduced its weight to the point where it was lighter than a feather.
Then, the round Phantom Slime began to mimic and transform into a form exactly like those miniature mechanical umbrellas in mid-air, and after a few flicks of the umbrella bag, it floated up like a dandelion flying in the wind, and slowly approached the airspace shrouded by the dense invisible miniature mechanical umbrellas.
While flying, Jiang Yan also used the "Data Ability" to carefully sense the detection wave released by the miniature mechanical umbrella, and then simulated the same wave, so that the Phantom Slime also released this faint detection wave to the surroundings from time to time according to the other party's frequency.
The operation was very smooth, after the Phantom Slime mixed into the interior of those miniature mechanical umbrellas, Jiang Yan could feel that there were many mechanical umbrellas around it that were constantly releasing detection waves to sweep it, but nothing unusual was found.
Even some mechanical umbrellas occasionally collide with each other when they float and move, and the camouflage mechanical umbrella transformed by the Phantom Slime has also collided with many miniature mechanical umbrellas around it many times, but with the data provided by Jiang Yan after scanning with his ability, its mimic is almost the same as the original, but it does not expose flaws.
Jiang Yan was very patient, controlling the Phantom Slime to imitate the movements of other mechanical umbrellas and gently patting his umbrella bag, after turning several corners, in order not to exceed the movement speed of other mechanical umbrellas too much, it took a full ten minutes before finally crossing a distance of nearly a thousand meters and breaking through the dense perception circle of mechanical umbrellas.
Manipulating the Phantom Slime to float to the entrance of the tunnel at the bottom of the giant demonic mother tree, Jiang Yan first cautiously scanned it to confirm that there were no hidden alarm measures such as perception enchantments inside, and then controlled the Phantom Slime to fly in.
The interior of the tunnel was a little dimly lit, and thin branches hung from the ceiling at the top, and the branches hung with the kind of glowing crystal balls that Jiang Yan had seen in the abandoned ruins on the upper floor, and the soft light was sprinkling to illuminate the interior of the tunnel.
Looking at these rays of light, Jiang Yan found that the tunnel was very spacious, with a circular cross-section, and the color of the inner wall was black and red, giving people the impression that it was like some kind of biological tissue and would gently squirm from time to time, and the epidermis also had a fine fleshy texture like blood, except for some folds, it didn't look like the epidermis of a tree-like plant in other aspects.
Continuing to go deeper along the tunnel, although the road is wide, it is not in a straight line, but somewhat winding, and at the corner of the road, Jiang Yan can still bump into a carrier car from time to time.
Instead of reverting the Phantom Slime to its original state, Jiang Yan transformed into an invisible miniature planktonic jellyfish with a gravel size, pushing the air to float and move by shrinking and expanding the umbrella bag.
This is a very inconspicuous way of moving, which does not release the slightest fluctuation of energy breath, and does not touch the inner wall of the tunnel, including the floor underfoot.
Jiang Yan hadn't forgotten that he had now entered the inner area of the Demonized Mother Tree, and the inner walls of the tunnels that seemed to be biological tissues were actually the inner cavity skin of the Demonized Mother Tree, and if you looked at it from another angle, it might be the existence of its digestive tract mucosa, if you touch it rashly, although the probability should not be large, it should also have a little possibility that it will detect abnormalities in its body.
Because the current ability to link abilities is ineffective against plants, Jiang Yan really doesn't know much about this giant demonic mother tree that may have survived for thousands of years, so it would be wise to be as cautious as possible in infiltrating operations.
The phantom little jellyfish that controlled the mimicry kept floating forward, and after winding around a path of more than three or four hundred meters, Jiang Yan's vision suddenly widened.
A spherical dome space with a diameter of more than 100 meters appeared in front of Jiang Yan's eyes, and the tunnel was located on the side inner wall of this spherical space, and the exit position was a platform wide enough to accommodate four or five carrier vehicles parked together, and the platform was twenty or thirty meters high from the bottom of the spherical space.
The phantom little jellyfish flew out of the platform, looked down, and saw a small lake full of dark red liquid at the bottom of the dome space, and thick black roots poked out from the inner walls around the dome space and poked into the dark red small lake, these roots gurgled and slowly squirmed, listening to the sound, it seemed to be injecting or absorbing some kind of liquid into the small lake.
In the center of the dome ceiling hangs a huge blooming flower, with a huge dark red eye and gray pupils the size of a water tank, looking down from the petals.
A carrier truck drove in from the tunnel, and after coming to a stop on the platform, the cargo box unfolded to reveal several puppets loaded with them. At this time, the giant eyeball on the top rolled and looked at the delivery vehicle.
Then Jiang Yan saw a black root on the inner wall next to him squirm, and by pulling it out of the lake below, it rolled towards the magic puppet on the carrier car, and after rolling up a magic puppet, he threw it directly into the small lake below.
Plop Plop Plop ...... The sound of falling water sounded one after another. I want to talk about "The Almighty Supreme of All Worlds" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~