Chapter 3 Archaeopteryx
The deeper he went into the city, the stronger this feeling became in Xing Tianyu's heart. They hadn't gone far before a traffic node-like room appeared in front of them. In this hall, like the hall at the entrance, there is also a statue of the Sakadum people, which can't help but make Xing Tianyu feel strange, these Sakadum people's taste is really peculiar, they always put the statue in front of the gate, he faintly feels that something is not right. The statues looked exactly the same, not very pretty, they looked completely standard products, not at all like some kind of work of art, and at least when he read the memories of the ancient Sakadum, he didn't feel that the Sakadum had artistic talent and needs, and that the statue must have served some other purpose.
With this in mind, he couldn't help but look at the statue for a while, which had a round base, and replied with a spherical body and obsidian eyes, which looked very realistic.
In front of the statue, there is also a stone platform that looks like a map, and there are also some sakadum characters on it, but this time it is written - "The land of protection is not a place to live: I will make this place your home".
It seems that the Sakadum people did not intend to build the city as a place of permanent residence.
Xing Tianyu injected spiritual energy into the psionic crystal on the stone slab again. They found that their location didn't seem to be much different from what they had just done before, and that they had only moved a short distance around the sprawling city, and that they still had a long way to go.
"Alright, let's move on."
"Wait a minute, there's something up ahead." Sylvia said. "The magical hound I sent out has been attacked, everyone be careful."
Several people agreed, bypassing the statue and continuing to walk forward. However, in the passage behind the door, there seemed to be nothing but the strange slime, but a few people were still vigilant to move forward. Suddenly, just as they were halfway through, just above their heads, in what had been like a ceiling, a strange thing poked down, a large mouth full of barbed teeth, like a snake, and bit down towards Sylvia in the center of the line.
The red light flashed, and the snake-like thing was cut off in an instant, but it was Xing Tianyu who rescued Sylvia with a lightsaber. The advantage of psionic energy is that it is not only a powerful magic, but also can make the reaction speed of people's bodies unimaginably fast, and the perception is even stronger.
This sword was cut out in this way, and with a click, a strange object that had been cut off fell to the ground, and a fishy liquid spilled down from the fracture, and the thing quickly retracted, and everyone looked towards their heads, only to find that there was a basin-sized patio-like pipe above everyone's heads, which had been sealed by that slime-like thing before, so that everyone could not find it.
"Hell." Sylvia was obviously frightened, although she had the magic of protecting her body, even if she bit her just now, it would not be a big deal, but the fright made her angry, a cloud of arcane energy condensed in her hand, and with a wave of her hand, the raging flames poured into the hole, and the scorching smell of the burning was overflowing, and then looking at the ground, the thing that was cut off just now was part of a strange creature with flesh.
It was a strange looking thing, with a dark skin and retractable flesh-red limbs inside, covered with barbed teeth at the tips of the limbs.
"What the hell is this? Leeches? Why is it so big! The Blood Duke looked at the monster on the ground with a look of disgust.
Franconian didn't dislike it, grabbed the monster that was still writhing, and looked at the strange creature in front of him with a scientific researcher's gaze, his face was a little surprised, "This looks like an Archaeopteryx, at least it looks like it, but the problem is that Archaeopteryx is a creature that has been extinct a long time ago, and Archaeopteryx is supposed to only live in swampy areas, and there is no reason for it to grow so big." He said eloquently.
"How do you know this?" Xing Tianyu asked in surprise.
"I used to be a paleontologist." Franconian said indifferently, "We'd better be careful, if even the branches grow so big, then its body size must be extremely amazing." ”
Soon Xing Tianyu understood what this extremely amazing meant, and along the way, everyone was constantly attacked by these strange creatures, and they continued to launch surprise attacks from the side of the wall, under the floor, and overhead. It didn't work, but it was annoying, and when they reached the next hall, the Ancestor Coelocarpus was finally in front of everyone.
The floor of this hall was covered with such slime that it looked like a huge swamp pool, and a large mass of flesh sat on top of that slime area, and it was hard to describe what it looked like in words. It didn't have a concrete shape, it looked like a haphazard pile of mud, there were holes in the mud, it emitted a violent stench and yellow-green gas, and there were many fleshy limbs growing out of the mud, and at the tip of each limb was a retractable, barbed tooth mouth, which was the same one that had attacked them before. As if sensing the entry of everyone, the pile of mud-like things slowly squirmed.
Xing Tianyu didn't take the monster in front of him too seriously, although it was very large, it looked disgusting and scary. But compared to the monsters he had faced before, the deterrent power of this thing was obviously not so exaggerated.
"Come on, guys, let's get rid of it." As he spoke, he held the Sith lightsaber in one hand and began to condense spiritual energy in the other.
"Psionic Lightning." As soon as he raised his hand, it was his signature move, such a large enemy, there was no possibility of missing at all, the psionic lightning hit the body of the monster, but the ancestor cavity insect twitched, but it didn't seem to be harmed.
"Look at me." Sylvia said, and with a wave of his hand, the basin-sized fireball beckoned towards the monster, and with a loud bang, the condensed hot air flow in the fireball exploded, and for a while, flesh and blood flew sideways. A large hole two meters long was blown out of the muddy body.
However, the vanished flesh wriggled and slowly grew out, and the slime and mud-like substance on the ground around it quickly replenished the part of the monster that had disappeared.
"It's quite resistant to beating." Sylvia sneered, the arcane energy swirled around her body, and one fireball after another was thrown over as if it didn't need money, and for a while, flesh and blood flew sideways, and the monster's body was blown flat in one go, but the monster didn't care. Its mud-like body does not seem to be made of ordinary flesh and blood, but can assimilate the surrounding organic matter at will, constantly being shattered and reassembled. At the same time, its leech clones reached out towards the crowd. Xing Tianyu wielded his lightsaber and slashed everything that came in half. Lucifer also ignited the demonic fire.
"It's useless." Franconia suddenly said, "The Archaeopteryx is a special creature that survives in the form of nerve bundles, and even if its body is completely destroyed, it is impossible to actually kill it, although this was only a theory in the past, but now it seems to be true, and I suspect that this thing in front of me is not its body, its body should be deeper underground, and there is no way to kill it just by blowing it up like this." ”
Xing Tianyu said helplessly, "Then what do you say?" Don't you leave it alone? We're going to have to go this way when we come back, but we can't leave a threat on the road. ”
"I have a solution, you wait for me." Franconian said, a layer of slime quickly grew on his body, and through the slime formed a cocoon-like thing, and it could be seen that Franconian inside was rapidly undergoing some kind of transformation.
With a click, the cocoon suddenly cracked, and everyone was startled at the sight of Franconian inside. His body became a cylindrical one, knotted by section, like a giant worm.
"Holy, what the hell! You, you, you ... Several people were speechless in surprise, although Franconia had also demonstrated his ability to mutate before, but such a strange thing in front of him was still beyond everyone's three views.
If it weren't for seeing the process of his mutation with his own eyes, he would definitely be regarded as a monster in this underground ancient city.
Franken, who had transformed into a worm, said in a strange voice and in an indifferent tone, "There are many forms of life, and this is just one of my forms, so don't be so surprised, wait for my good news." As he spoke, his slender body flicked hard, and he jumped more than ten meters high in the air, like a ground-penetrating bomb, and landed on the pile of mud, and the spiral-shaped external organ on his head easily tore the monster's body, and then quickly drilled down, and the body more than two meters long disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The monster that was suspected to be an Ancestral Coelocarp seemed to be very unhappy with the addition of something in its body, and its mud-like body continued to surge, and began to spew poisonous gas, and yellow-green gas filled everywhere. Sylvia hurriedly opened a protective shield to protect everyone, but then she had no way to attack, and those leeches with the thickness of the bowl mouth kept slamming against the protective shield, and the hideous barb-like mouthparts were clearly visible.
"Hey, how long will it last?" Xing Tianyu asked with concern.
"It's okay to last a day." Sylvia said confidently as she pulled out a diluted magic potion and poured it into her mouth.
But it didn't seem to last a day, and before five minutes, the monster twitched violently, and all the tentacle clones shrank back, writhing like snakes with their tails clamped, and even biting each other, but soon they stopped moving, and its huge body, as if it had lost its support, slowly collapsed, and with a poof, Franconian came out of the thing again. He quickly climbed to the ground and quickly changed back to the appearance of the lizard man, Xing Tianyu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, he thought that the appearance of the lizard man was very hideous and terrifying, but now he felt much more pleasing to the eye.
"That thing is dead? How do you do it? Destroyed its heart? ”
Franconia shook his head, "It's the nerve center, the progenitor coelix has no heart, no brain, but its neural network has a center, I cut it off and connected it to my body at the same time, so now I can control it." ”
This made several people's eyelids jump, "Wait a minute, why didn't I see anything attached to you?" Xing Tianyu looked around Franken's body, feeling that his three views had been challenged.
Franken smiled, "Because it's a wireless connection, I've left a part of my body underground, and at the same time, I've evolved a neural transmission system on that part of my body that I can control from a distance. Of course, it can't be too far, no more than 3,000 meters at most. ”
"This has cost me some of my body, but the good thing is that I can use this monster's clone to ensure the safety of the rest of the journey."
Xing Tianyu said in his heart, this is really fucking amazing, among the summoners, there are really many people, and they can't be underestimated.
"Then let's move on." As he spoke, the team marched again, and Sylvia used the levitation technique to lead the group through the huge mire left behind by the monster, and then moved on.
The rest of the journey was very safe, and under Franken's guidance, everyone made their way unimpeded, and soon entered the interior of the ancient city. As the slime gradually disappeared, everyone gradually got out of the area controlled by the ancestor leech, found a node hall, and opened the map, but everyone found that they had entered a fifth of the way.
"If my guess is correct, there should not be more than one progenitor coelope like this, it is likely that they grew around this ancient city, at least ten or eight, it should be some kind of peripheral defense system."
Xing Tianyu nodded, "It's really possible." ”
However, he frowned, "Do you think it's strange, if there is any defense system in this city of the Sakadum, it should be based on psionic energy, after all, this is their old job, and don't you think it's strange, this kind of biological defense system is theoretically impossible to remain intact after millions of years." ”
As soon as he said this, everyone suddenly felt a little strange.
At this moment, a voice that had not been heard for a long time suddenly sounded.
[The Shadows can detect all kinds of strange signs revealed by this ancient city of the Sakadum people, and from the information they have seen so far, it seems that something has happened in this city, but the matter is much more serious than they can imagine, and what awaits them ahead is an unprecedented terrifying existence]