The shadow of the sun swirls lightly, and the sound of the cave of despair is the sound of calamity.

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"Darkness spreads, despair that spreads like a plague."

"The sky is gradually eroded and destroyed, and the sun, moon and stars are dim."

"The messenger of calamity is like a dark cloud, and no one can stop it."

"Even the gods have completely lost their power in all this."

Excerpt from the ancient epic poem "Records of Xenomorph Observations" by the Moon Prayer People.

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At this point, the tide knot feels terrible.

It seems that all these years of leisurely life have exhausted her life's luck, and since she had to abandon her aging body, she feels that those troublesome things have appeared one after another, and most of them are no longer like the small troubles she encountered on Lanxing before, and they are beyond the scope of what she can handle.

The huge thing obscured the sun with a strange humming sound, leaving a large shadow on the earth, and the howling of the wind caused by the change in temperature caused by the change in light suddenly increased the whistling sound of the canyon through the complex landscape countless times at once, from the original flute-like pleasant sound to an extremely sharp tone.

Shioyu covered her mouth, because if she didn't do so, she couldn't even guarantee that she wouldn't scream, it was a behemoth hundreds of meters long, and it was moving slowly in the sky...... From the outside, it can be seen that this is not some kind of technological product, but this conclusion only makes people more frightening. Regardless of the continent, Xijie has never seen anything like it.

An incredible floating island? Or some kind of super-giant flying creature?

No matter which guess is not a trivial matter, the volume of the object itself alone is already shocking, Xijie is not Xinglan, and she doesn't plan to test everything in person like Xinglan, after all, she doesn't like to make herself in a state of missing arms and legs, so it's better to choose a proper plan at this time.

Carefully hiding most of his body behind the rock wall, the tidal probe looked up at the massive object in the sky...... Its shape is somewhat indescribable, but the overall shape barely looks like an upright shuttle. Yes, it didn't look like a mechanical creature or like the skin of a living being, the body covered in layers of intricate spirals was encased in this hard shell, and the outline did look like a shuttle standing up in the sky, floating forward while slowly rotating like a planet.

And that's not all, four large membranous sacs can be clearly seen extending around the shuttle-shaped body. These four huge dark green membranous sacs are like a myriad of vesicles...... The structure even resembles the form of a planet-maker, and the four swollen membrane sacs make it look like a swirling four-leaf clover from the bottom up, spreading its huge blades across the sky. At this time, Xijie finally saw the source of those strange humming sounds, which were some kind of black smoke-like substance around the subject, constantly dancing around the subject, like a dark cloud.

Although the object is slowly rotating, it is clear that it does not fly by rotor and must have been floated by filling with a less dense gas, otherwise the energy required to keep such a tonnage object suspended would be terrible.

Of course, at this time, the most terrifying thing for Xijie was no longer the giant object like the floating island, after all, the gap between the two was too great, and even if that thing was smashed down directly, it might not be able to kill her. The real danger should be those black smoke-like objects that constantly surround the shuttle-like body...... With a loud buzz, I'm afraid there is no need to think much about what this is.

This is not a fickle creature, but a swarm of tiny flying creatures, similar to which it is easy to think of an overwhelming swarm of bees, and one should never assert that a creature is harmless until you are completely sure, preferring to regard it as dangerous.

Even the lure whale can only flee in the face of countless swarms of hydrophores, and the Stygian ant colony of the nuclear continent is able to repel almost any existence that dares to invade the territory, these examples have fully demonstrated what a terrible advantage a huge number of people can be when the power gap is not too high...... Of course, if the two are not at the same level at all, then there is nothing to say, such as facing an astral creature such as the Lock Star Capsule or the completely ungraspable illusory form of Xinglan itself, naturally there is no way.

Of course, if the other party was just passing by, but after the sun was obscured, the cloud-like swarm no longer just stayed in the sky and flew over, but gradually lowered its altitude and descended towards the area at a speed visible to the naked eye, while the huge flying object remained at its original altitude and did not fall.

Well, the good news is that Xiyu doesn't have to worry about being stoned to death by a giant falling object from the sky for now, and the bad news is that she may have to face a worse situation. Even hiding inside the cave may not be detected by the swarm of bees approaching the bottom of the canyon, and as for the question of whether the swarm is aggressive...... A stratopterosaur in the sky who happened to pass by helped Shiokie explain the problem well, and she couldn't even determine how many pieces the free-falling body of the pterosaur had broken into at the bottom of the canyon.

Xijie carefully restrained the electromagnetic fluctuations radiated by herself, she didn't want to attract the attention of the swarm because of these carelessness, as for whether it might be exposed because of her own smell, there was no solution to this now I can only hope that the other party is not so sensitive, she didn't even continue to peep at the mouth of the cave, but cautiously retreated into the dark depths, listening to the noisy humming outside.

The sound gradually approached the canyon from the distant sky, almost clinging to the cliff wall and surging downward, Xijie didn't know what attracted these strange bee colonies in this canyon full of spar pillars and strange star maps, but it was clear that the other party was not just passing by here, otherwise it would not be possible to appear with such fanfare everywhere, all she could do was hide silently in the cave.

However, just when the buzzing sound was still not far away from the entrance of the cave, there was a sudden slight noise from the depths of the cave, and it was the voice of the glow-eyed vulture, which seemed to sense the strangeness of the outside world and flew from the depths of the cave with some confusion, and didn't even pay attention to the tide knot clinging to the wall, so it stepped on the veins of plants on the ground and walked to the entrance of the cave, and then collided head-on with the bee swarm......

Shigetsu felt that she would never forget that scene for the rest of her life, even though she didn't even know the name of the terrifying creature at the time...... Eclipse bees, a fearsome species listed by the Lunar Prayers as one of the most dangerous creatures on the planet, have even been described in early myths and legends as the cause of solar and lunar eclipses, and are believed to be monsters capable of eroding the sky.

The glow-eyed vulture overwhelmed by the Eclipse swarm let out what was probably the worst scream of its life, though it only lasted for two or three seconds before it came to an abrupt end. Instead of flashy attacks, these Eclipse Bees simply resort to the simplest tactic: swarm and tear enemies to shreds with overwhelming numbers.

Simple, brutal, but very effective tactics.

The fate of the vulture didn't have much to do with the tide knot, but the other party's reckless actions made this originally inconspicuous cave enter the sight of the eclipse bee swarm, and the group of terrible killers quickly gathered at the entrance of this cave, they may not have good dark vision, but it is better than the tide knot who can't reach out at this time. The electromagnetic field perception, which was originally quite useful in such a dark environment, has long been seriously disturbed by countless tiny signals.

In this regard, Xin Yu and the Mystery Xin, they were able to accurately locate creatures the size of laser worms, but they could not lock on to thousands of objects, because this was beyond the limit of the brain's processing power, and Xi Jie was also a little panicked at this time, she could only retreat to the interior of the cave in a hurry, not knowing what to do.

The buzz gradually crept from the outside of the cave to the entrance of the cave, and even though it was impossible to see the light of the innermost star map from here, there was still something strange about the tide junction, as if the light there would attract swarms from the outside world...... However, she waited for several minutes, and instead of continuing to grow, the noise gradually became quieter.

She was a little overwhelmed, not knowing if she should go a little further to see what was going on, but before she could make a move, there was a slight commotion in the dark world ahead, and then suddenly a hand reached out and grabbed her arm that was clinging to the surface of the cave, firmly gripping her trembling fingers.

This time the fright was not light, Xi Yu thought that she would scream out in fright, but in fact she only subconsciously opened her mouth, and her throat could not make any sound because of excessive fear, and when she finally came back to her senses, she had been pulled outside by the owner of the hand to a bright place outside, and at the same time realized that it was not an enemy.

It was a boy who looked even more scared than she was...... At least judging from her appearance, which was only a little taller than she was now, the other party looked at her carefully before finally breathing a sigh of relief and smiling. His eyes were not the silver crescent pupils of the Moon Prayer that changed with the intensity of the light, but were as clear and bright as sapphires, and his blue-gold hair seemed to shimmer faintly in the light. When Shiyuki noticed a faint numbness when his fingers touched, the answer was already obvious.

This is a member of the Lanxing Third Civilization race, not a Moon Prayer.

A faint spherical electrostatic field quietly enveloped the two of them, a static field that is barely felt by large animals, but works well for small insects...... Not to mention being able to scorch them all, at least it's okay to get them to stay away from it because they feel disgusted here, and that's enough.

The other party smiled and spoke, but what he said was not a language that Xijie was familiar with, but a language that changed pitch very quickly, and even accompanied by some electromagnetic pulses, she had heard the original owner of this body say that this strange language that could drive the Moon Prayer people crazy just by speaking at the speed of speech, but unfortunately, she couldn't read the memory, so even if she could hear every change, she didn't understand the meaning at all.

It is true that Shioyu knows that these members of the third race probably understand the language of the Moon Prayers, but what can she do? Do you still want to use the strange accent Chinese of the Moon Prayer Man to say to the boy in front of you, I'm sorry, I don't know my native language, please communicate with me like this?

…… Please don't treat the other party as a brain-dead supporting role with no lower IQ, if you tell him so, it's strange that people don't feel that there is a problem!

So, let's just pretend to be crazy and stupid for a while. Thinking a little helplessly, Xijie simply looked at the other party's gaze head-on, looking at him blankly, without hiding his incomprehension at all.

(Thanks to the 588 starting point coins of "もふもふ" and "I'm hungry for the journey~)