Chapter 81: Shauns Summoner
The bottom of the huge crater at the end of the Lost Trench was finally revealed in its entirety after the foul and viscous liquid had drained up.
The swamp where Lowe and the little one were located was a huge flat sphere shaped like a human brain, and the surface of the sphere was covered with deep, narrow and complex furrows, like the winding and pitted furrows on the surface of the brain.
If this building-tall oblate sphere was the brain of some kind of creature, how huge would that creature be?
The largest creature Luo had ever seen, except for the mutant spider mother in the abandoned nuclear power plant that covered the entire floor, was the amoeba mutant worm body that occupied almost half of the swamp in the wilderness swamp.
Compared to the sheer size of this inexplicable creature, they may barely be a small baby.
In the wilderness, the size of the body is not absolutely proportional to the strength, but if the size exceeds a certain limit, then the larger the size, the stronger the absolute strength.
Like the former Cretaceous overlord Rexron, this creature was strong enough, but it was still completely wiped out after the burning unidentified object hit the planet.
Lowe looked at the little creature beside him, who seemed to have been frightened by himself, and his whole head was buried in the large orb, like an ostrich with its head buried in the sand and its hips cocked.
The timid character is where Luo has a slight complaint about his sacrificial beast.
It is even more timid than Yi, perhaps because it is still young, it has been born for less than three months.
Luo thought of Yi, and he felt that what he should be most concerned about now was not the age and character of the little one, but how to get out of this trench, how to return to the wilderness again, and how to return to Yi and his companions.
"I see you, we need to find a way out, lad."
Although it might be more appropriate to describe it as male and female, Lowe still puts the little one in the same gender as himself. If it's a girl, one girl is enough.
Lowe patted the little one's slippery back, and stood up and walked to the edge of the massive oblate orb, which was closer to the pit wall and had a better chance of an exit.
But this time, the little one didn't follow Luo away as closely as he had done before, and it still lay there motionless, half of its body almost burrowing into the orb beneath it.
Luo couldn't and didn't want to leave behind this sacrificial beast that had guarded him with his life, so he had to walk back again.
He grabbed the little fork at the tip of the little one's tail and pulled it out little by little.
The little one whimpered as if protesting, like a child who had been robbed of his beloved toy and was so aggrieved that he wanted to cry.
It was finally pulled out of the ground, but Lowe crouched down next to the shallow pit that had been arched by the little one's head.
He saw what seemed to be a faint, yellowish light coming from the shallow pit. This kind of light Luo is not unfamiliar, and those Shaynnes who are like garbage heaps will also emit this kind of yellow light that flickers regularly.
Lo dug a hole large enough in his Nepalese saber from the Kadivan family on top of the oblate sphere, which resembled a human brain, and burrowed into the sphere with his sacrificial beast.
The scenery inside the sphere is not beautiful, even disgusting.
Piles of rotten flesh that grew like mutated tissues, miserable white broken skeletons everywhere, pale yellow halos that flickered and flickered from time to time, and orange fireballs that were as thick as the twilight sun.
The little guy's big eyes kept staring at the orange fireball that was constantly flickering and extinguishing, and the tentacles on both sides of his head swayed rapidly, revealing undisguised excitement.
"You want to eat it?"
Luo could see from his sacrificial beast's expression that it longed for the fireball, and asked softly.
"Yes, it wants to swallow me so that it can become a complete Shauns, a Shauns with its own consciousness that can be infinitely divided."
The old and decaying voice sounded, lingering in Luo's ears for a long time. The voice was exactly the same as the half-cut tree-man vat that had spoken to, the Shauns summoner who wanted to go home, and the voice that Hayman had called the Ancient.
Luo stared at the eerie fireball not far away, a pair of black eyes shining brightly in the darkness, a sign that he was thinking quickly. His body curved slightly into an elastic arc again, ready to fight or flee at any moment.
"Shauns? Is that the Devouring Sacrificial Beast that should have stayed on it to devour my sacrificial beast and bestowed my gifts? ”
Luo asked in a low voice, and he felt that no matter how low his voice was, the other party could hear it.
He was going to talk to the existence of this fireball first, because the little guy who had begun to pounce on him didn't seem to have any intention of escaping, and it didn't show a timid look, which was very rare for a timid one.
"Yes and no. You can also understand him as the maker of Shauns, or the great master of Shauns. In fact, he deserves this title because he is the only Eternal, the only being who can create and drive Shaynes. ”
Luo pondered the other man's words, and then glanced at the almost ubiquitous wriggling rotten flesh, and finally at the huge white skeletons half-hidden on the ground.
"What's that rotten flesh monster up there? Is that what you call Shauns? ”
Luo seemed to have vaguely grasped something, but he was not sure, he was still hesitating.
"Those are just some of the inferior Shaunes controlled by complete instinct, who have no consciousness of their own, and can only be driven by the Eternals, turning into rotten flesh again and again, regathering again and again, repeating their immortal and pathetic fate forever."
The rotten sound came out again, accompanied by the yellow light that kept flickering on and off, dyeing the whole world of rotten flesh into a faint yellow, as if it had been brushed with a layer of greasy yellow paint.
Lowe pulled out his Nepalese saber and slashed it lightly at the whiskers above his head that looked like a sea snake being lifted and hung upside down.
As before, the sharp blade could only leave a shallow white line, and the sharp saber could not cut through the surface skin of this rotten flesh.
This huge oblate spherical brain was all formed by the irregularly shaped Shauns with a flexible epidermis and the ability to gather and regenerate in terror! This entire oblate spherical brain body is completely an extremely large army of immortals!
"What are you? What is it? ”
Luo put the saber back away and looked at the flame again. The light flickering in his pupils had not faded, and Luo had rarely thought about it for as long as he did now.
"Your companion and I are of the same kind, both Shauns. Unlike those of the lower kind, both me and it revived Shauns's will. According to Shauns's rules of reproduction, it should never be possible for two Shayns' wills to exist at the same time! I don't know what went wrong, but I saw another self-aware kind, and although it still didn't have the ability to communicate like I did, it was only a matter of time. ”
Luo looked at his sacrificial beast, this unknown little guy, it was actually a self-aware Shauns? Belong to the same race as those disgusting monsters?
Before noticing the hostility of the other party, Luo wanted to know as much as he could about his opponent.
"What's the matter with the sacrificial beast? Does Shaunes need to eat, or does you need to eat? ”
Law thought of the sacrificial beast, of the sacrifice of the summoner of Shauns.
"Sacrificial beasts? That's just food for the Shauns Summoner. Shayns's former keepers were an uncivilized race known as the Naya, who, unlike Shauns, who were slaves and cheap laborers, were servants of the summoners, who were given the ability to make delicious food for their masters. ”
Naya, an uncivilized race, servants of the summoners, the ability to make food.
Luo thought of the unbeaten savage, and its timid companion, who was distinctly independent of itself, and quite different from humans.
"I don't think I'm capable of anything you can do, and I probably won't allow you to hurt my partner."
Lowe's voice was calm, but his body began to warm up before the battle.
"You're thinking wrong, I have no intention of hurting you and your partner, the outsider. I'm just so tired! I can't even remember how long I've been here, living day after day by sucking on the filthy nutrient solution outside, and then growing clumps of incorruptible flesh just for the summoner to drive. I feel sad. ”
The decaying voice was full of exhaustion and helplessness, as well as deep sadness.
Lowe was silent, he didn't want to interrupt the other at this time.
"But my doom is coming to an end, someone has taken the summoner, and the nutrient solution I used to keep myself alive has dried up. I've been here for so long that I've lost the ability and the right to leave! I've bred too much of Shauns, which is what you see right now. I can't leave, but your partner is not like me, it can! ”
The liquid outside the sphere that made Lo extremely irritable did dry up, which also meant that Shauns, who had become a behemoth and had an independent consciousness, would eventually die.
"My partner seems to be very eager for you, can you tell me what it is craving?"
Lowe saw the longing in the little one's eyes, the eagerness with which it wanted to get close to the flame, but it still endured it, for its owner had not allowed it to pass.
"It wants to devour me, to be precise, it wants to devour my memories, to find its way home from my memories."
The way home?
"Shauns was brought here by the summoner, and the summoner's home is not here, and Shaunes's home is naturally not here. Summoners want to go back to their own home, and Shauns never gives up on going home, especially Shauns like me, who has a sense of independence. ”
The rotten and deep voice trembled slightly, as if recalling the warmth of home.
Lowe felt as if she understood.
"Then, ignorant little one, let your master bring you to me, remember the way home, and take away my longing for home."
The flame flickered, and the pale yellow halo actually penetrated the thick carrion, igniting the countless complex grooves on the flat brain one by one.
The little guy looked at Lo with blank eyes, waiting for Lo's instructions.
It wants to go over, it wants to swallow that fire, it swallows completely, it's an impulse from the depths of its soul, it's a kind of fate.
Luo hesitated, staring at the flames that were always flickering and flickering, the corners of his mouth curled slightly.
He leaned down and hugged his companion's short kiss, rubbing the roots of the tentacles on either side of its head for a long time before standing up and leading it towards the pale yellow flame.
The flames, which seemed to have existed for an infinite number of years, began to tremble slightly, as if they were lamenting their eventual passing, and as if they were excited to end their fate of being imprisoned here for eternity.
The violent tremor caused its body to begin to twist, and it began to appear with human-like limbs and heads, and finally turned into a humanoid body with a pale yellow flame.
Shaynes has the ability to change the shape of his body, and with his self-awareness, he can change into a human form, and it is also a matter of course.
The hand shrouded in flames slowly reached out to the prey that was close enough, as if to caress his own people, caress the Luo who raised his own people.
Its hand was close enough to the man in front of it, so close that it only needed to squeeze it so hard that it could grasp the fragile neck, and it seemed to have heard the "crackling" of the other's throat being scratched.
It has finally waited for the day to get out of trouble!
Its target is not Lo's sacrificial beast, but Lo!
The sacrificial beast that had devoured Shauns was only qualified to tremble with extreme fear before it. Compared to delicious food, it needs to find a skin bag for itself first!
Lo is the skin it chooses for itself.
Unfortunately, it didn't catch its prey, neither Luo nor the sacrificial beast.
And it felt the sharp pain coming from its body.
That's impossible!
The sacrificial beast that grew up by eating Shayns had no room for resistance in front of it, but this still young Seans would just swipe away from it.
It's like it knew it was going to do something to it.
And the outsider had already stabbed the saber long enough into his body.
The Nepalese saber could not pierce Seans' supple skin, but it could easily pierce his body wrapped in flames.
"You're not a self-aware Shauns, and you're not even Shayns at all."
Luo calmly looked at the violently struggling fire man and whispered, his voice low and magnetic.
"You should be the Shauns Summoner, the one who needs to give me a gift."
Luo didn't know if his guess was correct, and he didn't plan to give the other party any more chance to speak, the little guy's fangy wings had already crossed the other party's body. When Lowe had embraced it earlier, he told it to allow it to eat the fire on the other side, which was the unjust party.
From the moment Luo saw this flame, he felt the kind of covetousness in the other party's gaze staring at him, as if he was a delicious sacrificial beast.
Shauns' consciousness may not be unique, but there is definitely only one Eternal on this planet. Lowe thinks that the flame devoured by his partner is the summoner of Shauns, so what is the tentacle-covered being that was taken away by Heyman of House Caddivon?
is also convinced that what he has taken away is the only Shauns summoner, the Eternal!