Chapter 143: The Lost World
Hey, you're coming in, master? "I heard the sound before I could get up from the ground, and then I realized that I didn't seem to be picking it right. Although the ruins are large, the interior environment is generally similar, with damp large stone floors and walls, a large number of bryophytes, and in short, it gives the feeling of a damp and dilapidated old building in a tropical rainforest, but now the situation is different. The ground was very dry from the moment I fell in, and the material of the ground changed from a bumpy and cracked rock to a substance that felt like artificial rubber. If the material hadn't been brushed to the ground in liquid form like paint, it would have been made in one piece, and I didn't see any seams anyway.
Sha Yezi saw me on the ground and studied it, so he immediately explained: "The ground here is all made of this material, I just made myself materialize and realized it, and it seems that there is still a good elasticity." β
"Hey, it's really true!" I tried to press down hard with my fingers, but it did sink into the ground a little bit, and while the thing was still hard overall, it did have some elasticity. I got up from the ground and took my attention off the ground, but then I noticed a special exception to the wall. The walls here are all made of metal-like, and the silver-white surface looks very modern, except that ...... "This is what you just left?" β
"It's not." Sha Yezi pointed to the same scars on the wall in front of the passage and said, "There are traces of battle everywhere here, and there are still some bones in the front room, but the souls have already dissipated, and I can't get much information from those bones." β
This mysterious place is simply a mystery of a puzzle. I haven't even finished exploring the huge ruins outside, and there's a slim space here, and the environment here doesn't look like something from the Age of Magic at all, but like the inner workings of a spaceship. But if you want to say that this is the crystallization of scientific and technological civilization, why are the walls all the scars caused by cold weapons fighting? Even if you don't consider the super big mystery of the type of civilization here, the traces of the battle here and the bones that Sha Yazi said are enough to give people a headache.
"Did you explore earlier?"
"Only a small part. It's not much smaller than the ruins on the side, there are forks everywhere, I'm afraid of getting lost, I didn't dare to go too far, but I can't go back to that door. I think we're probably stuck here. β
"No, I have; Now that we know how to get out, we'll explore here first, and I'll take you out when we're done. As for now...... Ling, Xiaochun, Yeyue, King, Bai Lang, and Darts came out to explore the way together. β
As we approached, we soon came to a place full of shocking incisions, and the traces of metal on the surface of the passage were the marks of heavy weapons such as axes, and at the end of the passage we saw a mark that looked like shoe prints on the door to the room. The host's enemies apparently broke down when they entered, for the door we saw when we arrived was actually in the room, and it was lying on the edge of the wall opposite the door frame, and it was very deformed.
"It looks like there's been a big battle here!" Xiao Chun sighed.
The king reached out and touched the crack in the metal. "It's not a new injury. The section is obviously corroded. Time is not too short. β
"You're talking about bones?" Ling reached out and grabbed a skull from above. It's not a humanoid skull, though. Although many humanoids have distinct differences in appearance. However, the difference in appearance between the skulls and the ground is not very obvious. It remains to be seen whether the person in front of him is clearly not a humanoid or even a mammal. Because this skull looks a lot like a reptilian ground skull. The upper and lower jaws are long and narrow, and the teeth are large and sharp. The relatively small size of the brain and the coarse nasal passages suggest that it is a savage creature. At least they are very strong and not very intelligent. But. While this thing's skull doesn't look like a humanoid, its underground limbs are quite similar to those of a human. This guy has an upright body. The structure of the arm bones is similar to that of humans. But there are only four fingers on each hand, and the fingertips have very long claws. This guy's torso structure is very human, and it doesn't make any difference. It's just a little thicker, but this guy's lower limbs are very special. This thing has four legs. The structure resembles that of a large reptile, with short legs and bones. And it's stout.
"It doesn't look like a normal creature." The king said.
"It's not like what we're used to." Night Moon swam to the other skeleton and said, "It seems that the bones here are all this kind of creatures. β
After listening to this, Ling looked at several other skeletons. Then he said, "It seems that the owner of the land here has won the final victory." But they also suffered heavy casualties. β
"Why do you say that?" I'm curious how Ling came up like this
Target.
"It's very simple, just reason about it. Obviously, it would not be this kind of brainless creature that built such a large ruin, because the intelligence of this kind of thing would not be as high as that Cheng dΓΉ, so this kind of skeleton belonged to the attacking side. The loser on the battlefield has no time to dispose of the corpse, so it is always the winning side that disposes of the corpse, and usually we choose to prioritize the corpse of our own comrades. There are only the corpses of the attackers, which means that the owner here has disposed of the corpses of his own people. But this is their territory, if they don't suffer heavy losses after victory, they should also dispose of the enemy's corpses after disposing of their own people's corpses, the reason why they leave so many bones only means that they don't have time to dispose of the enemy's corpses. That's why I say that the masters here won the final victory, but they themselves suffered heavy casualties. β
"I don't think your reasoning is necessarily correct." Xiao Chun suddenly said, "What if it's a multi-racial mixed formation attacking here?" Just as forces like the Dark Temple and the Temple of Light don't have a single species, the builders and destroyers here don't have to be single-race forces. However, I agree with your reasoning that these bones should belong to the attacker, because if the defender loses the attacker will have plenty of time to dispose of all the corpses, and will not leave the corpses of this race alone, and if the attacker fails, then the inference will be the same as you said before. β
"I'll talk about these things later, I just want to know if there are any traces of life in this place, and besides, if this thing is a mobile fortress."
"I think your wish will soon come true." The king threw his sword out of his hand suddenly, only to hear a squeak, and the sword pierced directly through the ceiling overhead, and then we heard a small scream, accompanied by the sound of something leaving quickly.
Nightmoon quickly swam directly below where the king's sword pierced, and then used her tail to send her body to the roof. A few sword lights flashed, and the ceiling above his head immediately had a large hole. Nightmoon poked her head in to look at it, then grabbed the king's sword and stepped back again. "At least now we know that there's still life here, and that thing obviously has some intelligence, and he should have been spying on us just now."
The king took his own from the night moon, then dipped his finger in the blood from the blade of the sword and reached into his mouth to taste it. "This is a high-level intelligent creature, his soul strength surpasses that of ordinary angels and demons, and he should have no weak intelligence."
Generally speaking, the lower the intelligence, the weaker the soul of the creature, and if this thing has a soul that is stronger than that of angels and demons, then at least it means that the intelligence level of this thing is not low. However, there is one exception to the above, and that is humans. Humans are a poor species with a surprisingly high intelligence but a weak soul, and this is a special case at present, and no creatures similar to humans have been found so far.
"Do you think it's going to be the builder here?" Yue asked. "The passage above looks like a ventilation duct, and the creatures here can't use it to escape if you are not very familiar with such a complex environment."
The king then said: "The fact that the thing can dodge my sudden attack shows that the strength is not very inferior, but he did not dare to fight us, but chose to run away, which shows that their overall strength is not as good as ours, or not much higher, so they dare not confront it head-on." I think since they're afraid of us, we don't need to be too careful, we should be able to find that guy by rushing straight over. β
"Veto." I said directly, "You have to be careful no matter what." Darts, you go in through the vent to track down that enemy, the other party is bleeding, you shouldn't lose your nose, right? β
The answer was to disappear into a stream of light in the vent, and we made our way down the passage below. Because the darts track the opponent's blood in the ventilation duct, we can know which direction the opponent is running in, and if we encounter a fork in the road, we will not lose it as long as we turn in the corresponding direction. Soon the darts signaled that the target had been found, and I quickly activated telepathic contact. Through the guΓ² dart narrative, we learn that there is more than one target, and that the one who overheard our conversation is not seriously injured and is now being treated by his companion.
Based on the coordinates provided by the darts, we quickly chased them to where they were hiding, but we ran into trouble just after we rushed into them. The target is a group of creatures in black cloaks floating in mid-air, looking like a bunch of great lichs, and of course we don't think these guys are really big lichs, because if these guys are really big lichs, then it's us who should be running. But the problem now is not the appearance of the other party, but the fact that they are each holding a one-to-one ratio puppet in their hands, but the appearance of these puppets is strange, because those puppets are actually the appearance of me and Yeyue.
"Are these guys going to use witchcraft?"