Chapter 275: The First Exploration of the Secret Place......
Ten thousand days are covered by the stars, and the wind is whistling and the rain is coming.
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A strange whistling echoed through the vast expanse of the world, a sharp sound of the wind as it passed through the complex and varied terrain, and it was constantly reflected on both sides of the canyon, bringing with it a series of deeper and deeper echoes, and finally converging into a solemn and sacred sound.
Standing at the entrance of this cave, Shioyu could feel the wind blowing from the outside world...... Yes, it wasn't a breeze, it was a raging wind, and they even rushed all the way down the rock wall into the cavern, her long blue-gold hair fluttering and shaking, while the gloomy vulture in the deepest part of the cavern remained silent, as if it didn't exist at all.
Where the hell is this? Walking to the entrance of the cave, Xijie was even more dazed, she had never seen this place in front of her in her memory, if she had really seen such a unique landform before, then she would definitely not forget it, she really had no impression of this Grand Canyon.
A large number of naturally formed mineral crystals are scattered throughout the canyon, they are like countless mirrors embedded in the rock wall to refract the sun's brilliance, so at a glance it seems that there are countless suns twinkling on the opposite side, and the brilliance of those starry sky pictures is not only dim but more conspicuous under the strong sunlight, they seem to have both natural reflection and active luminescence dual characteristics, whether in the shade or in the bright light place has always maintained the clarity of the picture.
"What is this place?" Xijie looked at the strange canyon in front of her with some surprise, she didn't know what was going on with Xin Yuren's body, so she wasn't sure how long she had been in a coma, but considering that her body was not overly prostration, this time shouldn't be too long, but she didn't know where she was at all, even if she could sense the general flow direction of the planet's magnetic field, she couldn't locate it intuitively like Xinglan, "It's impossible to climb up this place at all, you can only fly......
It is obvious that the Xin Yu people are able to use the geomagnetic field to levitate and fly, but Xijie is not sure that he can grasp the flying skills well...... Unless it's something like Xinglan or Wind Fleet, which has no fixed form from the beginning and can adapt to the existence of the body with extremely fast reaction speed, it is difficult for ordinary creatures to control an ability that they have never possessed. If it weren't for the fact that these abilities were very similar to those of Mi Xin, Xi Jie would not have mastered the changes in the electromagnetic field and the perception of surrounding radio signals so quickly, but Mi Xin couldn't fly after all.
That's right, this is the biggest problem that Xijie is facing now, even if she wants to get out of here, she can't jump off a cliff more than a hundred meters high. If you can't control this maglev flight well, you can put it in other places, and Shioyu doesn't plan to use this kind of cliff that will fall into a meatloaf if you are not careful. For her, falling straight from a height off a cliff or something, this extremely bad experience was enough for once!
Xijie cautiously took a few steps forward, just walking was not a big problem for her, it was much easier than learning to use the wings of the Taiji bird to fly, but the flight of the Xin Yu people and the flight of birds could not be regarded as a system at all.
Gently grasping the edge of the rock wall with his hand, Shiokie pulled out a yellow-green crystal fragment from the cliff wall next to him. The material was a little rough, and the surface was covered with a lot of sand crystals, which were obviously naturally occurring mineral deposits, and she could clearly feel how sharp its edges were when she held it in her hand, which was not what she wanted to face.
However, instead of immediately throwing away the fragment of the crystal, which was even more useful than a stone knife, Shiokyu took a few cautious steps back, as the electromagnetic fluctuations from the special senses alerted her that some animal was moving close to her, but there was no anomaly in her sight.
She wasn't sure if it was a harmless creature like the Glow-Eyed Vulture, and after the previous incident of almost being killed by the Strange Spirit, Xiyu was not careless about the creatures on the Arashi Star now, even if the size of the signal feedback was not large, but it didn't affect her to step back and use the crystal fragment in her hand as a weapon...... That purple branch wasn't meant for a hard-fought fight, it wasn't a sharp weapon.
The sound of grinding came from the rock wall next to it, and it was not a good idea to rush into the probe in this situation, so Xijie decided to retreat into the cave first to see the situation, but not to retreat too deep at once, otherwise it would be even more unfavorable for her in the dark environment.
But the strange grinding sound didn't keep her waiting long, in fact it was terrible in itself, it was as sharp and unbearable as the terrible noise made when you scratch a blackboard with your fingernails. When the moving signal gathered at the entrance of the cave, a dazzling reflection was finally refracted into the inside of the cave, so that Xijie, who was completely unprepared, couldn't help but block her eyes with her hand, but she quickly realized that it was a mistake.
A cold wind blew in his face, and what really worked at this time was not the sharp crystal, but the purple branches that were subconsciously waved by the tide. It hit the attacking enemy in the air like a stick, but the opponent was not directly knocked out, but firmly entangled in the branch, and the strong muscle strength even made Xijie unable to hold the branch, and was directly taken out of his hand and flew out.
At the end of the first round of confrontation, Xiyu saw the true face of the unknown creature: as if the scenery was intertwined and flowing, and the mirror-like texture of mercury reflected the sunlight, it was a mirror snake.
It was not the first time that Xijie had encountered the Mirror Snake, as early as when she first came to the Nanyuan Continent, she had a brief confrontation with a Mirror Snake on that saline-alkali land, and finally ended in the other party's clever escape. This creature is one of the more difficult types, and its strangely wrinkled tail is like a folding fan that unfolds to form a mirror-like structure...... It was this structure that allowed the mirror snake to finally escape from Shiojie's hands after facing an invincible situation last time, and it was also the source of the glaring reflection at the entrance of the cave just now.
This creature is very cunning, and even though it already has a pretty good camouflage appearance, it will still be careful to use bright light to distract opponents from the line of sight before going into action. That's right, with the experience of the saline-alkali land, Xijie didn't think that the thing that flashed his eyes by that dazzling light just now was just a simple coincidence.
However, after a short period of stunned, Xijie's expression looked a little weird. She noticed that the purple branch she had flown out of her hand had fallen to the ground, but it was firmly entangled in the mirror snake's body...... Although the surface of its body is very smooth, it is not a problem to get firmly entangled in a branch in this way.
Xijie did feel a little stunned, and a sense of irony followed. The mirror snake is indeed an extremely flexible and difficult creature to grasp, due to the speed of the opponent's actions and the fact that the target is too small, it is difficult to focus on the opponent's brain even by disturbing the cranial nerves, but at this moment the opponent is firmly entangled in the purple branch. Well, how do you say that? If you don't die, you won't die, since you've already put on a posture of death......
As mentioned before, the current release method used by the Xinyu people is a very energy-consuming behavior, and it is completely worth the loss when used for hunting, so theoretically ordinary creatures should not have this ability. However, if we look at it in another direction, what if this current does not consume the energy of the organism itself, but reduces its own consumption through the use of external tools? Naturally, there is no such contradictory relationship.
I don't know what kind of material is made of this purple branch, but from the current situation, there is no doubt that this branch can store electricity...... She didn't know where the energy came from in the first place, but it was like a battery with a lot of storage capacity, and it was able to react to changes in the magnetic field of the outside world. When she creates a small change in the magnetic field near a branch in a special way, this electromagnetic change is amplified by the branch's own stored electrical energy, creating a high-voltage current that can even break through the air. Xijie had a faint premonition that perhaps the feeling of something pouring into her body when she bit the branch was a way to recharge the power inside the branch.
At this point, she didn't even need to do any positioning, just created a small pulse of magnetic field...... That is, the key that drew out the electricity in the purple branch, and the next moment, the originally calm purple branch suddenly burst out with a dazzling white electric light, and the mirror snake tightly wrapped around it was the first to be electrocuted. This is not a current that has been weakened many times after breaking through the air, the consequence of direct contact is that the air is suddenly filled with a faint smell of burning, and the smooth and flawless surface of the mirror snake has even appeared a large number of cracks after the current has passed, and it twists its slender body a few times, although it is still twitching slightly, but it is more of an instinctive reaction of the body, and the brain is completely scorched.
"So if you don't die, you won't die......" Feeling that there were only some faint nerve convulsions left in the other party's body, Xijie simply threw away the shard fragment that had never been useful at all, and gently stepped forward to look at the mirror snake, she just lifted a little purple branch, and the mirror snake had already fallen to the ground weakly, at least Xijie had no interest in its corpse, the shape of this thing was too weird, no matter how you look at it, it makes people wonder if it will be poisonous inside.
However, she didn't intend to let this corpse sit here so casually, but just as she was about to lower her body and pick it up, a figure moved faster than hers, rushing from the inside of the cave at a speed no less than that of the mirror snake, grabbing the body of the mirror snake and turning around without hesitation, directly into the darkness deep in the cave.
Xijie could see very clearly that it was the glow-eyed vulture that snatched the corpse of the mirror snake, perhaps this was also a member of its recipe. She smiled helplessly, she didn't plan to bother with this little guy about this problem, but she thought that this mirror snake actually dared to break into a cave where natural enemies were waiting...... Well, this spirit of death is really persistent.
Just when Xijie thought that everything was over, there was a strange sound from outside the cave, at first she thought that it was a mirror snake crawling along the cliff wall again, but she soon found that the sound was getting louder, far louder than the sound made by the mirror snake, and the tone did not seem to be made by friction, and it seemed to be accompanied by the noise formed after repeated reverberation, constantly echoing in the canyon.
She didn't feel the signal of strange biological activity within a hundred meters, so she walked to the cave in some surprise, only to find that the canyon on the other side didn't seem to reflect as strongly as before.
The next moment, it was as if the world had darkened for a moment, the howling wind roared outside with an annoying noise, and the moment she raised her head, a huge shadow was like a dark cloud covering the sky above.