Chapter 603: A Giant Tree Hidden Underground
Xiaobai has the program of "magic energy factor", coupled with its own natural ability "high-speed adaptation", it has adapted to the environment of the magic energy plane, and can directly absorb the magic energy particles in the environment to supplement its own consumption, and the effects of various skills will not be suppressed by the environment of the magic energy plane.
Although Jiang Yan also has the ability to forcibly refine magic energy particles with his own cultivation, Xiao Bai is more relaxed than him, this has nothing to do with the strength of the strength, it is just the special advantage of the race's talent.
In terms of adaptability to various special environments, Xiaobai is far superior to humans like Jiang Yan, for example, in this underground rock formation area.
After hearing Jiang Yan's command, Xiao Bai, who was lying on his shoulder, jumped directly to the floor, and then the snow-white and soft slime body quickly expanded to a diameter of more than two meters, and in this process, the originally soft slime body turned into a flesh and blood body, but the color of this flesh and blood is completely different from that of normal creatures, and the color of the muscles is actually the same as the gray-brown color of the rock and soil.
But that's not all, Xiaobai continued to deform, his body began to elongate back and forth, from a round spherical shape to a long shape, and a strange head shaped like a sharp cone appeared at the front end, and he couldn't see the eyes, but the end of the pointed head seemed to be a circle of dark iron-colored scale armor that could be opened and closed freely, and a whisker-like tentacle protruded from the scale armor, and these tentacles swept through the air very flexibly and seemed to be able to accept intelligence information from the outside world.
At this time, Xiaobai looks like a long worm made of rock.
The changes continued, and its entire body began to grow dense iron scales, and at the end of its body was a long tail like a steel whip, but no limbs had grown. In addition, there are small iron fins arranged around its body that resemble threads, and the tips of the fins are also accompanied by rows of sharp claws, which can drive the threaded iron fins to poke out or retract freely between the contraction of the claws.
The whole thing looks like a long drill with smooth iron-colored scales and a ring of thread-like spiny scales protruding.
At this point, Xiaobai's mimicry this time is over.
Ground-burrowing snail monch.
This is an insect-like "earth" attribute spirit that has lived underground for a long time, and can freely drill around at will even in hard rock formations, and its ability to move underground is very sensitive, and its mobility in the underground environment is even better than that of earth dragons and sandworms.
With a click, the scale armor on the side of the abdominal cavity in the middle of the body of the ground-drilling giant snail beast, which was nearly two meters tall and about seven or eight meters long, lifted up, and then cracked a big hole directly as if it had been cut open with its belly, which looked like a broken door, and it was pitch black inside.
Jiang Yan directly drilled into it without changing his face, and when he completely entered, the crack was instantly closed so that there was no trace to be seen.
Jiang Yan, who entered the belly cavity of the Ground-Drilling Giant Snail Beast, did not touch anything like slimy flesh and blood, because he entered the oval cockpit that was actually dry and with a hint of comfortable warmth, and after the cockpit was closed, tentacle-like things poked out of the inner wall and lit up with a soft light that was not dazzling at the tip, illuminating the originally dark cabin space.
Jiang Yan sat in a sitting position on a white waterbed-like seat that automatically deformed under him, and a pair of black eyes appeared at the top of the waterbed seat, looking at Jiang Yan and blinking.
"Master, in which direction?"
"Let's try to look straight down for now. Jiang Yan leaned his whole body into the waterbed.
"Okay, please sit tight. Xiaobai answered, and a long strip automatically appeared in the waterbed, wrapping around Jiang Yan's waist to fix it, which seemed to be equivalent to the driver's seat belt.
After Jiang Yan nodded, the entire Ground-Drilling Giant Snail Beast suddenly took action, its cone-shaped head slammed into the ground, and in an instant, the alloy casting floor was very simply broken into a big hole, and the entire head and half of the body of the Ground-Drilling Giant Snail Beast were submerged in the rock and soil. Then its small claws with threaded scales began to dig into the rock and soil at a very regular rhythm along the special link structure on its body.
While digging, every time it touches the rock and soil, a layer of earthy gray light will emerge from the tip of the claw, and the rock and soil that encounters this layer of glimmer will be like melting ice, which will instantly soften greatly, and then be easily dug up by the small thorny claws of the giant snail beast like digging tofu.
The range of excavation of a single thorny claw is very limited, but this thorny claw is everywhere on the body of the burrowing giant snail, almost equal to its entire body with countless small shovels digging through the rock and soil very efficiently.
In less than half a second, the huge body of the seven or eight meters long of the Ground-Drilling Giant Snail Beast disappeared from the ground at the bottom of the ruins, leaving only a small mound of soil that was slightly bulging and very soft in its place. After a few seconds, the mound quickly faded back into softness and began to harden rapidly.
When the Drill Snail Beast sneaks through the rock, it softens all the rock and soil it touches, and then cuts it behind itself very smoothly, filling the newly dug tunnel synchronously, and after it leaves, the special force that acts on the rock and soil to soften it will also be removed, and the rock will naturally return to its original texture.
This strength trait greatly reduces the likelihood that the Giant Snail Crawling Beast's enemies will use the tunnels it has dug to pursue it. Because it can directly soften the rock and soil and sneak underground, there is very little movement. This less dynamic stealth method reduces the possibility of vibration causing damage to the original rock and soil structure underground, and unless deliberate, even if you run to an area with loose geological structure, such as a mine cave that has been in disrepair for a long time, it will not cause a disaster such as a collapse.
The most important thing is that because of the small movement caused by such a burrowing giant snail beast, it can greatly increase the secrecy of the underground, so as not to alarm some dangerous creatures that may inhabit the underground, and the safety is greater than the rough way of action of the desert ground worm.
Jiang Yan couldn't figure out if there would be any strange and dangerous creatures hidden in the depths of this magical energy plane planet, so to be on the safe side, he deliberately chose to let Xiao Bai mimic the underground action of a highly secretive and not slow earth-burrowing giant snail beast to explore the deep underground.
After all, as he went deeper and deeper into the planet's rock formations, the concentration of the surrounding magical particles seemed to increase simultaneously, so the effective range of his perception was constantly decreasing.
When perception is limited, it will be a headache if something dangerous is attracted underground, Jiang Yan is not afraid of fighting, but it is too troublesome, and unnecessary time will be wasted.
After continuing to dive for more than ten minutes, Jiang Yan, who had closed his eyes for a while, suddenly opened his eyes, and his eyes were still the unchanged scene in the cockpit.
Sneaking underground, there is no light, and there is no visual space that can be observed by the normal naked eye, because all around is enclosed rock and soil, and normal vision sees only pitch black here.
In addition, they have to endure the lack of air and the squeezing of the rock and soil in all directions.
Thanks to Xiaobai's ability to mimic this form that is convenient for stealth, Jiang Yan would not have been able to explore so leisurely as if he was traveling. Staying in the cockpit provided by Xiaobai, he can completely ignore all kinds of negative factors when sneaking underground, whether it is the pressure of rock and soil or the demand for air, Xiaobai can solve it perfectly.
Of course, this kind of comfortable cockpit that can be ridden in the body of an ordinary earth-burrowing giant snail beast does not exist, and this thing is an additional imitation of Xiaobai himself. Fortunately, it is not a real burrowing giant snail beast, it is essentially a slime body, even if its abdominal cavity is completely hollowed out, it can still be alive, and it will not affect its movement at all.
"How deep did you dive?" Jiang Yan asked softly.
"Hmm...... In terms of vertical depth, it's probably seven or eight thousand meters underground, right?" Xiaobai gave an approximate figure.
It doesn't always dive vertically, the rock and soil structures deep below the ground are so intricate that sometimes you just dive a few tens of meters and the next moment you will crash into a layer of ore doped with a lot of metal, or it could be an area where an underground water layer flows, or even a tributary of a magma field that melts steel.
If it encounters these obstacles, the white mimic burrowing giant snail will choose whether to take a detour or not, so in fact, the route it dives down is not a straight line.
During this period, there were several brushes with other underground creatures, and the breath of some underground creatures made Xiao Bai feel uncomfortable, and even once again his own traces had been discovered by the other party, thanks to Jiang Yan's "soul explosion" that stunned the other party neatly, which allowed him to quickly get out.
The demonic creatures in the demonic energy plane are generally much more difficult than the normal creatures in the main material realm, even in the underground ecosystem, although Xiaobai's strength is enough, but there are not many who can exert their full combat effectiveness in the mimic mode of the underground environment, and if there is a battle, it will definitely delay a lot of time, so it can be avoided.
"Seven or eight thousand meters...... Jiang Yan muttered, closed his eyes and once again released the perception of the ability through Xiaobai's mimic body.
He could actually enter Xiaobai's dimensional stomach without staying in this small cockpit space, but Jiang Yan insisted on being there in person, because this would make his perception more acute, so that it would be easier to capture the signal source of the invisible interfering force field in the environment.
After probing for more than ten seconds, Jiang Yan opened his eyes with joy.
Sure enough, the signal was clearer than it had been in the original ruined ruins!
Of course, while the force field signal is clearer, the strength of suppressing perception is also further improved, and Jiang Yan's current effective range of ability perception has been further compressed from the original distance of five thousand meters in the abandoned ruins to less than three kilometers.
But with a detection distance of 3,000 meters, he still didn't find the true face of the force field signal, and he could only confirm that the other party was still directly below Jiang Yan's current position. This shows that the source of that force field is actually at least ten kilometers below the underground ultra-deep depth.
You must know that the thickness of the earth's crust is only 17 kilometers on average! If Jiang Yan's current position is converted to the earth, it is already more than half the depth of the earth's crust.
Ma Dan, if someone really hid at the source of the force field signal, would the other party be too good at hiding and actually run so deep underground?
Jiang Yan originally thought that it might be the source of the force field of the artificial creation, and it should be the technological product left over from some kind of magic civilization, but if it seems to be ...... now
Could it be that the inhabitants of the Wizard Civilization still have the habits of the Cryptmen?
Well, it's just a joke. If there really was a hidden stronghold of the Demon Guiding Civilization down there, Jiang Yan could understand why they hid so deep underground.
After all, in the war of the year, this plane was invaded by the enemy, and what happened to the remnants of the magic civilization who dared to stay in the surface area at that time, the previous abandoned ruins that had long been empty are the best example.
At that time, the dragon clan and other top forces would never let go of the remnants of the magic civilization, and the two sides had already formed a blood feud between the destruction of the country and the clan, and no one would ignore the principle of cutting grass to eradicate the roots, so there was no trace of the survival of the magic civilization on the surface of the planet in the magic energy plane.
Jiang Yan estimated that even if there were really remnants of the Demon Guiding Civilization who were very lucky enough to be missed, they would definitely not dare to show their faces.
At least they didn't dare to show their faces on the surface of the planet of the magic energy plane, because the coordinates of the magic energy plane had been exposed to the eyes of all forces, and all forces could send people in to check the information at any time.
Even if the remnants of the Demonic Civilization had the ability to prevent the explorers of the various forces from entering the Magical Energy Plane, they would never dare to use it—because doing so would most likely send a signal to the various forces: We are still alive!
The question is, did there really be a remnant of the Demon Guiding Civilization that escaped the liquidation of that war back then?
Jiang Yan faintly felt that this possibility was not small, after all, no matter what you said, it was a high-level civilization with a very developed level of technology.
It's just that......
"After thousands of years, he has not shown up, even if there are remnants of the party back then, what is happening now?"
While Jiang Yan was thinking, Xiaobai's mimicked Ground-Drilling Giant Snail Beast continued to dive, because the captured force field signal was clearer, and the direction of its dive was clearer.
It's just that the speed of the dive has become slower than before.
Because with the increase of depth, the surrounding geological density has reached a very high level, and the concentration of magic energy particles in the rock layer is also getting higher and higher.
The rock and soil become denser, and the difficulty of digging increases dramatically, and sometimes you can feel a kind of adhesion as if you are being bitten by the mouth of some kind of creature.
Seems...... The land in this area is spontaneously hindering its dive movements!
And the interference amplitude of some kind of chaotic force field around it is getting bigger and bigger, and it seems to have some kind of strange confusion that is difficult to detect, Xiaobai's own perception has begun to be greatly limited, if it weren't for Jiang Yan who can also provide the sharing of perception information, it may not be able to find its direction.
Just when Xiao Bai was surprised by this, it suddenly received Jiang Yan's urgent warning: "Be careful!
Without waiting for Xiaobai to react, a vibration suddenly rumbled from the surrounding rock formations, and the source of the vibration was below!
Something is approaching it fast!
"Damn, the other party is coming directly at us!" Xiao Bai scolded unhappily when he heard Jiang Yan.
The next moment, Xiao Bai felt that Jiang Yan had taken over control of its body through his ability, and then the mimic Ground-Drilling Giant Snail Beast reversed its direction and moved upwards with all its might.
But at this time, the surrounding rock and soil instantly seemed to come to life, and began to squeeze out the body of the giant snail beast in all directions with an extremely obvious amplitude, and for a moment it was like an animal stuck in the quagmire.
"Get out of ——!!" Jiang Yan in the Ground-Drilling Giant Snail Beast shouted angrily, and a stream of silver ripples erupted from his body, sweeping over the surrounding rocks and soil.
Twitter...... A strange sound emanated from the rock and soil of the area, resembling the screams of a creature.
Then, the rock and soil that had squeezed the Drilling Giant Snail suddenly loosened, allowing it to return to normal.
Unfortunately, because of this delay, the attackers below have already caught up.
After a muffled boom, the rock and soil under the Ground-Drilling Giant Snail Beast was forcibly broken by some kind of huge force, and a long strip of black tentacles with a thickness of more than three meters suddenly came out of the soil, and quickly rolled up the Ground-Drilling Giant Snail Beast, directly tying it up and dragging it down quickly in the direction it was coming and going.
"Mi?!" exclaimed Bai in the cockpit.
"This ...... It seems to be, the root of the demonic plant?!" Jiang Yan, who sensed the situation of the outside world through his ability, had a hint of discoloration flashing in his eyes.
The sensing distance of thousands of meters was enough for him to roughly see the true face of the thing that attacked him.
It was a huge root that was more than a kilometer long, extending beyond the range of his ability's perception, with a large number of branching roots that binded Xiaobai only one of the longer branches.
Originally, Jiang Yan planned to resist immediately, but he found that the direction in which this tendrel was trying to drag them down was exactly where the signal source of the interfering force field was, so he simply stopped his intention to fight back and waited to see what happened.
And secretly, he is ready to let Xiaobai use the convenience of the "dimensional stomach" teleportation to take him to escape instantly.