Chapter 148: Alien Island 7
After this worm attack, the team has not encountered a large-scale biological attack, and the scattered visitors are no longer killed. The soldiers had a tacit understanding to try to capture them alive, and then there was a meticulous study.
Although in terms of the total number of attacks, it has not decreased compared to before. But every animal attack, big or small, threatened death for everyone, but now the mentality has changed to a race to discover the wealth of these animals.
In terms of specific results, it is not possible to distinguish which animals can be tamed and which must be killed immediately, but no matter what humans do, they cannot return empty-handed.
It has been found that most of these animals are edible, without a trace of nuclear contamination, and more importantly, delicious...... This is a bit strange, why did anyone come to the conclusion that it was delicious when the procession was always on the march and no one stopped to light a fire...... Qiu Yu desperately tried to control himself from thinking about this obvious answer......
After more than an hour of activity, the team became quiet again.
The surrounding light had become quite dim, not because it was dark, but because as we approached the center of the island, the plants grew taller and taller, and there were not only trees but also weeds overhead.
The sunlight was no longer able to penetrate the dense weeds after passing through the giant trees. The entire team could only march in the shadow of the weeds, which could not see a ray of sunlight.
It was a paradise for gigantic creatures, and warriors who had previously been able to come into contact with all kinds of animals had no intention of domesticating insects larger than themselves, and as far as they knew, it was impossible for the intelligence of insects to know who their owners were, even if they were large.
But animals that seem to be domesticated are so big that they don't take them seriously at all.
Herbivorous animals don't care about the presence of these little creatures as long as they don't show hostility. And those carnivorous animals, because of the large size gap, are rarely interested in humans. Between an antelope and a mouse, a lion can never choose the latter. Especially after a lion that may not have been intelligent enough was bitten to death by a swarm of rats, no giant creature has taken the initiative to trouble humans.
This situation is quite in line with Akiha's inference that there are no creatures that will cause trouble for the rescue team here. But if this inference is correct, it also shows that another inference is correctβthere is one, or several things that are so troublesome that even the Nine-Tails can only hide and wait for rescue.
Although there is no shortage of metamorphosis plants hundreds of meters tall in this jungle, there are more small and medium-sized plants that have not yet won or lost in the territorial competition, so it is not an ideal hunting ground for those strange birds with good eyesight. And those worms seem to exist only in the jungle by the sea.
Excluding these two most dangerous creatures known, it can only be said that what you are about to encounter is something that you have never seen before.
That is, if it meets the two conditions that it will not cause trouble to the rescue team, and it must meet the two conditions that the Nine-Tails will not be able to escape, in the same situation, it is simply a dead loop. The only plausible answer is to dodge the trouble before it causes the rescue team. To put it simply, it's likely that the thing is so big that you can see it at a glance, so you won't find out when you bump into it, and then fight hard.
The largest creature seen now is nearly thirty meters long, but under the cover of these even larger plants, it is very close to be spotted. So how big will the creature that caused trouble for the Nine-Tails and can be seen at a glance from a distance?
Judging from the current situation, although he killed a giant beast looking for trouble, it was already a matter of nearly a thousand people attacking at the same time for a few seconds, plus the support of individual heavy firepower. If it's bigger, it's not something that can be dealt with with by a large number of people.
In addition, before Qiu Yu took action, he said that the analysis for Qian Xiao and a few people was indeed accurate, but Qiu Yu deliberately ignored a condition that could not be determined - why did the Nine-Tails suddenly cut off the signal after being contacted with a communicator? It was absolutely impossible for the Nine-Tails to be damaged in a fight with a creature. Although Qiu Yu's powerful lateral thinking ability has thought of many possibilities, as far as the current situation is concerned, none of them can make him feel reasonable.
"Master, we've been walking for more than ten minutes, and the creatures around us aren't significantly larger than before, and it's likely that this is already the center of the island."
As soon as Qian finished the joke, Odonio also took out a delicate barometer from his bag and looked at it, "According to the previous visual measurements, the maximum height of this island should be around eight to nine hundred meters, and our current altitude is almost this position." β
"Have you arrived...... Qiu Yu bowed his head and muttered for a moment, "I haven't seen any big guys or strange things yet, there is probably a basin here, so let's continue to walk higher." β
Qiu Yu was talking, and the light of several flashlights suddenly shook in front of him. This is an early warning method that Su Hao temporarily formulated to take advantage of the darkness here.
But when everyone raised their guns, and the two mobile teams guarding on both sides also went up for dozens of seconds, there was still no sound of shooting.
"I'll take a look."
Qian Xiao quickly walked towards the front of the team. A minute later, he jumped back and stuttered excitedly for a long time before he spoke, "I saw something amazing......
Qian Xiao's expression of always delaying time is not liked by Odonio at all, "What is the big thing?" β
Qian Xiao opened his mouth, then pinched his chin in a thoughtful manner, and said after a long time, "You'd better go and see for yourself...... Perhaps, our game can end early. β
Odonio didn't wait for Qian Xiao to finish speaking, and ran forward quickly, Qiu Yu and Su Hao were a little slower.
When the two of them ran to the front of the team, hundreds of warriors had already formed an arc and looked down at the front, as if there was something in front of them that was as Qian Xiao said, so that they couldn't say it, making them all enter a petrified state.
When Qiu Yu turned his head sideways, he also happened to see Su Hao looking at him, so he smiled at Su Hao and said, "Guess what?" β
Su Hao slowed down in front of the answer, "Isn't the answer obvious?" The only thing that will end the game early is our expedition objective, and that landing bay is right in front of it...... However, I always feel that something is wrong......"
"Same as I thought."
Qiu Yu and Su Hao took a big step at the same time and stood beside Odonio.
In front of it, as Akiwa estimated, was a basin connected by a large gentle slope on all sidesβa basin that seemed to have not been born for a long time.
In the center of this basin is an oval metal object nearly 100 meters long that reflects sunlight. It is located at the lowest point of the basin or deep pit, and is also a forbidden area for all life, and there are no animals and plants within a few hundred meters of it, and even a few hundred meters away, there are only some low weeds of normal standards. Apart from the tenacious life that could be found everywhere in the wilderness, there was nothing other than dirt until the edge of the pit, let alone a behemoth that threatened man.
Odonio touched the gun in his hand and grinned, "Did you bring enough explosives?" β
Qian Xiao looked at Qiu Yu, "Why didn't you see the Nine-Tails?" Did you go wrong in your analysis? However, I have been misled by the goddess's pet, and it is normal to have no idea that the landing warehouse will be on this island. β
"Normal? Where is normal. Qiu Yu grabbed a handful of dirt and put it in front of his eyes to observe it carefully, "To be sure that this is a landing chamber, two conditions need to be met at the same time, first, we have seen it with our own eyes, this has been satisfied." But the second condition, it is in the City of Ashes. Do you think this island is like the city of ashes that we've been in before? β
Su Hao cautiously stopped a few soldiers who wanted to enter the pit, and said to Qiu Yu, "But the so-called landing warehouse in the City of Ashes is also an analysis made by ourselves, and there is nothing to prove that this analysis is correct, so it is too arbitrary to use this as a condition, right?" β
Qiu Yu shook his head, "In the 30 years after the nuclear bomb exploded, if you want to find a place on Earth where the sea and land intersect and there are a large number of creatures, apart from the City of Ashes, what other place do you think meets this condition?" β
"What do you mean?"
Qiu Yu simply made the meaning clearer, "The other party's landing on the earth is to improve the earth's environment to what they need, so it is not enough to change the sea or land." Although they have the method of bringing the genes of land animals through sea creatures, or vice versa, it is not as convenient as letting these creatures develop on their own in a place where there is both sea and land. And not only does this place have to have plenty of food to make a living susceptible to it, as Belgondo does. It also has to be a relatively isolated environment to prevent being discovered by curious humans and teaming up to destroy the creatures that are just beginning to develop. So, in the whole of the earth, only the city of ashes is the place where all the conditions are met at the same time. β
Qian Xiao patted his head and exclaimed, "Yes, it is a suspicious point that the goddess's pet is taking us in other directions." There are no terrestrial creatures or alien creatures around the thing in front of you, which is another suspicious point. Many of the creatures that have been seen in Belgondo have not been seen here, which is also a suspicious point. β
Odonio pointed his gun in front of him, "It's useless to guess the riddle, let's just say it, what should I do next?" β
"What should I do?" Qiu Yu paused for a moment before slowly saying to Odonio, "If it were you, what would the current situation be?" β
"Me? Of course, the team was sent over to investigate first, and after determining that there was no danger, the team followed up to find the entrance to that thing. β
"What about you?" Qiu Yu turned to Su Hao.
"I'm going to be more secure, keep the big force here, and then hand over all the investigation tasks to a small number of people."
Qiu Yu nodded, "In that case...... Everyone except the members of the mobile team returned to the ship. β