032 Crystal Cave
Ling Qi picked up two dropped trophies, one of the light clusters was a thruster with a damage degree of 45%, and the other was a number of special glass materials, which were thrown into the shipboard space by Ling Qi, and by the way, the damaged thrusters were repaired, and how much could be earned by selling them back to nearly 10,000 credits.
On the grizzly bear's speedboat, Ling Qi found six more standard energy pistols and more than a dozen magazines, and now his weapons became very sufficient.
This was no longer a suitable place to rest, so Ling Qi had no choice but to ride the Tomahawk and leave, continuing to explore. As for the murder scene here, Ling Qi didn't do much to deal with it, anyway, the conflict between the two sides was public, as long as he went back safely this time and Grizzly Bear was missing, needless to say, the Agni Adventure Group would definitely find him.
"It's better to keep it for the monsters, it's better to hurry up and drive a third-class yacht!" Ling Qi was looking forward to it.
The Tomahawk is now only one Level 3 anti-gravity energy matrix away, and it will be able to meet the basic conditions for upgrading, and it will have a house and a car......
Exploring a few kilometers back along this main passage, deeper into the ground, through the trajectory outlined by the radar, Ling Qi estimated that he should have broken away from the scope of the island and reached the bottom of the sea. The oxygen here has become extremely thin, and the moss on the walls of the cave has almost disappeared, and it is all gray-brown rock and stone. This indicates that there is no ventilation in the front.
The Tomahawk did not yet have the ability to lack oxygen, so Ling Qi decisively turned around and returned to the air circulation channel to continue exploring.
Another two hours passed, and Ling Qi found a crack, stopped on it to rest, and decided to find another day tomorrow, and if there was still no gain, he would retreat. This kind of exploration is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and the process is too boring.
The next morning, several more forks were explored, and two of them found small openings in the ground along the direction of the wind. When Ling Qi crawled out full of hope, he found that there were only some unknown plants, and he was almost attacked by a large snake.
"Look again in the afternoon, if there is no catch, it is time to go out. Communication doesn't work here, maybe the other teams have already found it. Ling Qi took out several cooked foods for lunch.
Shortly after lunch, Ling Qi found a hidden independent space.
Judging from the radar scan image, it is a huge space with a radius of several hundred meters, and there is no other entrance and exit except for a narrow crack between it and this passage.
The fissure is more than 30 meters long but less than one meter wide, and the radar signal propagates through the fissure, barely detecting the space on the opposite side.
"In the future, it will be upgraded, not only will it be equipped with space radio radar, but it will also be equipped with advanced radar that can perform tomography underground." Ling Qi thought to himself.
He told Catwoman to stay on the Tomahawk and walked through the chasm by herself.
"There's a faint light ahead?"
The cracks were bumpy, and there were places that needed to be climbed, and Ling Qi also spent a lot of effort to reach the end with his all-round 2.1 physical fitness.
He was shocked by the dazzling sight in front of him.
It's a world of crystals! At his feet was a cave wall suspended in mid-air, at least fifty meters above the ground below. The vast cave space is lined with clusters of crystals in a variety of colors, some fiery red, some dark blue, some yellow, pink, black, and colorless......
Some crystals contain energy, rich in radioactive elements, and emit soft light on their own, which is refracted by various colored crystals, reflecting the cave magnificently. Moreover, the temperature in the cave was very high, and Ling Qi felt as if he was in a furnace, burning all over.
"The captain was damaged by intense radiation and his vitality was reduced......"
Ling Qi was startled and hurriedly retreated into the crack. In front of his eyes, a blood bar representing his own life force appeared, and in the few seconds that he had just been reflected by the light in the cave, it had dropped by ten percent. And it's still slowly declining, until it's 82% left, and then the bleeding stops.
Looking at the four-dimensional attributes, the physique has dropped from the original 2.1 to 1.8, and the other three values have also dropped to 1.9, which is equivalent to downgrading him by one level.
"It's terrifying!" Ling Qi felt a trace of tiredness welling up on his body, and quickly returned to the volcanic passage through the crack. The Tomahawk's anti-radar paint has radiation protection, and it will be explored in a speedboat.
The little cat woman was curiously looking at the crack, and when she saw him returning, she asked, "Is there a gourd over there, brother?" ”
"There's a ghost, there's no blood for killing people over there!" Ling Qi briefly introduced the situation on the other side to her, told her to come down, waved her hand to put away the speedboat, and then helped her climb into the crack and come to the range where the radiation on the opposite side could not reach.
He came to the crack mouth again and immediately released the speedboat out to block him. After entering the speedboat, he really didn't feel that burning pain anymore, and Ling Qi beckoned the little cat girl over.
As soon as she entered the speedboat, Catwoman was fully absorbed by the beauty of the cave, and her eyes were misty and her mouth was stammering.
Ling Qi drove the speedboat down slowly, wandering in the crystal group, dizzying. He first took a wide circle, and found that the more central it was, the more intense the radiant light became, and the more dazzling the crystal clusters became.
But he didn't dare to get too close to the center, the speedboat couldn't withstand the high temperature there, so he could only wander a few dozen meters in the outermost area, and if he leaned slightly to the center, the captain's system would prompt him to exceed the physical protection value of the car.
"Brother, that crystal moves." Catwoman suddenly pointed outside.
"Huh?" Ling Qi turned her head and looked away from the exterior imaging projection to look at the side she was pointing. Through the glass of the cabin, he saw a red crystal lying horizontally next to a cluster of colorful crystals, about the thickness of an adult's thigh and more than a meter long.
"It's moving again!" Catwoman exclaimed.
Ling Qi also saw it, and hurriedly adjusted the angle, using the high-definition imaging of the photoelectric camera to zoom in on the observation.
"No, it's some kind of animal, it just has a crystalline body." Ling Qi saw it arch its body like a caterpillar and move a small step.
"It's eating crystals!" Catwoman covered her mouth in shock.
"To be precise, it's biting the crystal, eating something inside!" Ling Qi added.
This animal, known as the "crystal worm", has a tail at the pointed end and a head on the thick side, and no other organs such as eyes can be seen except for the mouthparts.
Ling Qi adjusted the angle of the speedboat again, and from its open mouthparts, he could see several rings of teeth in a ring inside, like a circled saw.
Ling Qi turned on the sound collector on the speedboat again, it was actually a hidden microphone, and he immediately heard the clicking sound from time to time. This shows that the "crystal worm" in the cave is not only gnawing at the crystal.
"Click"
The crystal worm opened its opener again, gnawed a gap in the root of a crystal, and picked two pieces from the broken crystal block and swallowed it inside.
Ling Qi could see that what it was devouring was the radioactive substance in the crystal that was constantly releasing energy.
"Awesome, there are animals that feed on radioactive materials, it can defy the sky!" Ling Qi was shocked. He explored carefully, and soon found more than a dozen of these crystal worms eating on the periphery.
In the end, Ling Qi returned to the crystal worm that he had first discovered, wanting to continue observing, but found that it was lying motionless in place, as if it was resting and digesting. Strangely, when it doesn't move, it's no different from any other crystal.
"It's incredible, is this its disguise, or is it a living crystal in the first place?" Thinking about its hideous mouthparts, although he didn't have a blood bar on his head, Ling Qi still gave up his intention to get close to it. Who knows if it will suddenly turn back.
But if he didn't do something, Ling Qi was very unwilling. He returned to the rift, found a few cobblestones the size of a human head and put them into the ship's space, then flew back above the crystal worm, and with a thought, threw one and smashed it on the crystal worm's head.
"Phew"
The cobblestone rolled away, and the crystal worm shook its head as if nothing had happened.
Ling Qi threw another piece, this time smashing into the middle of its body. After the stone rolled away, the crystal worm remained unscathed. However, after being smashed twice in a row, it arched its body high, and suddenly flicked, and it flew out with a thud, falling heavily more than 20 meters away.
"Try it and see if it eats meat?" Catwoman proposes with great interest.
This proposal is good!
Ling Qi transferred a piece of barbecue from the captain's space to the ship's space, walked over to the other crystal worm that was eating, and threw the barbecue meat into its mouth.
The crystal worm went its own way, continuing to bite the crystal and devour a few of the pieces, completely unresponsive to the roast.
At this time, there was some stuffiness in the speedboat, because there was no air circulation in this space, and there was too little oxygen coming in through the cracks, and they could only rely on the air in the speedboat cabin to support them, and they began to lack oxygen.
"In the future, you have to always have oxygen cylinders. No matter, try to see if you can collect some crystals, you can't go back empty-handed! ”
Ling Qi drove the speedboat to a cluster of colorful crystals that were more than two meters long, and after touching it, his heart moved, wanting to put the crystals into the ship's space.
"The vehicle is not equipped with a gripping facility and cannot collect items......"
Ling Qi suddenly felt that the alpaca was galloping, and he didn't dare to reach out directly to collect it.
Remove!
The Tomahawk is raised. At this moment, under a cluster of crystals next to him, a crystal worm bounced up, and happened to land on the foredeck of the Tomahawk, motionless.
"Capture the living body of rare biological crystal worms, which can be integrated into the main body of the car to improve the high temperature and radiation resistance of the car......"
Ling Qi's eyes were straight, and there was someone who took the initiative to send it to the door?
He immediately gave the command to fuse, and saw that the crystal worms on the foredeck melted like ice and snow, and without the slightest struggle, they turned into the tiniest material unit and immersed themselves in the deck, and then spread throughout the hull, causing some kind of strange reaction with the hull material.
At the same time, the captain's system prompted that his car was 10% more resistant to high temperatures and 10% more resistant to radiation because of the fusion of special materials.
"Ah, how did it melt? Is the temperature of the food too high? The kitten-woman asked in surprise.
"Hehe, Xiaorou is so smart!"
They quickly returned to the crevasse, burrowed through the crevasse and returned to the volcanic passage.
Next, Ling Qi let the little cat woman stay in the crack, and did not let her follow up again, she could stay for a long time by herself with the full cabin air.
The system prompts a 10% increase in resistance, but he has no idea what the specific effect is, and the system does not give data information. Since it is fused with a bug, it will increase by 10%, and I don't know if the resistance will be reduced if it is upgraded to an air yacht in the future, so Ling Qi hopes to fuse a few more.