There was a faint sound of running water coming from the crack at the entrance of the cave, and Orlan walked through the narrow gap, and the sound of running water became louder and louder. Until you completely go out, the whole space has changed, and this is no longer a dimly enclosed, well-connected ant nest.

This is a real underworld.

In front of me was an extremely wide river that spread out, covering almost half of the ground. The most amazing thing was the countless thick roots of the giant trees, which stretched from nearly a hundred feet above their heads to the ground. It's like a twisted pillar that holds up the entire underground space. It is possible that this entire underground world was formed by the roots of giant trees.

The most important thing is the light source, and at the top there is also the root system parasitic fluorescent animals and plants that are difficult to estimate. Let this originally dark space be filled with a kind of blue and quiet light.

It seems that these glowing things are more than just providing a light source, and the water sometimes makes a splash, and faintly shiny scales are faintly visible, which are river creatures jumping out of the water to prey on fluorescent creatures.

Oran also found a large number of worker ants "hunting" or "hunting" in the river, and the worker ants jumped into the water one by one, even though the river was deep enough to submerge them. The surface velocity of the river is not too fast, and the undercurrent may not be too turbulent.

It was the first time he had met ants that could fish in the water. And those fish don't seem to be easy to mess with, they are big and small. The small ones can be solved by a single worker ant, and the large ones can even eat the worker ants, and in turn, the worker ants can win by numbers.

It seems that these fish in this river are the food source of the entire ant colony, and the ant colony depends on the products of this river to sustain the entire population. In this way, it seems that the fishy smell in the ant nest can be explained by the fish bones found.

And where does this river come from? Oran could smell a fishy smell from the vapor that was different from that of ordinary rivers, and the whitish clay on the banks seemed to be salt formed by the erosion of the river. Oran, though he had never been to the beach, had seen similar descriptions in books. It is quite possible that the source of this underground river is a distant ocean.

While it cannot be ruled out that some underground mineral deposits have an impact on the river, this is not Oran's focus. What he had to do now was to go down the river to the end of the river. There, Orlan was able to find the "oracle" that the old hunter had told him was at the end of the tree's roots.

But now the question is, how does Orland go down the river? There weren't many banks to settle on, and there was a vast stretch of river with countless thick roots. If the spacing between these roots had been smaller, Orlan might have been able to climb and jump.

Now Oran only expects to be able to chop down a suitable rhizome to make a canoe.

But now, Oran needs to recuperate on the banks of this temporarily safe river. All the way from the ground to the ground, without sunlight, there is almost no concept of time. The package he was carrying had been lost somewhere during the battle with the ant colony. It seems that he can only learn from these worker ants to catch a few fish to satisfy his stomach, although he hates raw fish only to other raw meats, such as the legs and feet of arthropods and the pulp of mollusks......

The water was bitterly cold, like a glacier in the Oran Mountains, and Oran used his dagger to stick a few normal-looking fish in the shallows, but with a few fangs on their lips. Orlan couldn't find anything to start a fire for, though he was tempted to eat the cooked fish.

After eating the fish, I rested for a while, and my physical strength became more abundant. Oran decided to start making his canoe.

As for the making of the canoe, Orlan is not too sure, after all, it is not to find a tree trunk, hollow it out and flatten it and then go into the water. More and more complex processes and processes are needed to make a canoe that can be driven normally. Sometimes flame is even required for firing processes, such as reducing the moisture and weight of the wood, waterproofing the wood, and anti-corrosion treatments.

But Orlan didn't have that much time, and the only thing he could do now was to flatten and hollow out the rhizomes of the right shape and size. Just make sure you step on it and don't capsize and fall overboard.

The only tool for processing the canoe was the short sword in his hand, which was fortunately extremely sharp and his strength was large enough. It is too inefficient when hollowing out a part of the rhizome, and the high water content in the rhizome is also a problem. So we can only try to make it bigger and longer.

Orlan deliberately found a long, straight rhizome to use as an oar, so that the fresh canoe that had already been launched would not spin sideways. Then I kept driving against the shore, because the big fish in the deep water were so fierce. Orlan can't guarantee that he will be able to defeat these monsters in the water, they are the overlords of the river.

Luckily, there were ants hunting in the river along the way, and the big fish were also attracted, and Oran drove unhurriedly with the current in his canoe. This went on for a long time, maybe one night, or maybe one day.

As the number of ants hunting in the river gradually decreases, the width of the river seems to be shrinking, and the speed of the water is becoming faster, even to the extent of a raging rapid.

Oran drove the canoe like a leaf in a wave, and now he was completely unable to control the direction, and the canoe was undulating and horizontal on the water, and it was already considered Orlan's power if he didn't capsize and fall into the water. Luckily, there are no more dense roots in the way of this fast-flowing river.

Gradually, something seemed to start ringing, until it had turned into a roar. It is supposed to be the sound of the violent impact of the water, which fills the entire underground space. Orlan had already guessed what he was going to face next. It turns out that there are also waterfalls in underground rivers.

The roar is getting closer and closer, and you can even see the "end" of the entire river. Oran tightened his canoe and waited quietly for the moment to come. Suddenly, I felt the hull of the ship fall, and then the whole body also tilted. In mid-air, Orlan and the canoe broke away.

Keep your legs together and straight, your heels down, and your arms on your thighs. That's all he can do, and the rest is left to his fate, hoping that the water below is deep enough not to touch the stones. After taking a deep breath, Oran plunged into the water like a fish float overboard.

With a pop, Orlan disappeared at the bottom of the misty waterfall. However, it was too strange that five minutes later, Orlan was still not seen to surface. Could it be that this "fish float" is made of solid iron, or has it been swallowed by the creatures in the water as "bait"?