Chapter 137: The ...... at Sunset
The drifting navigation beacon is green and bright, and the boiling sea water is a new island.
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Most of the sun had completely sunk below the distant horizon, and even the brilliant sunset had begun to dim, turning a large area of blood red. At this moment, the stars finally began to light up one after another, dotting the sky in the thick darkness like ink.
The faint green light flickered again on the distant sea, and from the time the bone squid began to increase its speed until now, it could be seen that the intensity of the green light coming from it had increased significantly, and the distance between the two had been getting closer. The bone-crushing squid is no longer just moving forward with its tentacles, its body is constantly stretching and contracting, sucking in water from the front and compressing and spraying it from the rear, propelling itself to move faster.
"It's not a point light source that's constantly flickering!" Soon, Xinglan noticed this, and the light source in the distance gradually elongated, and it looked like it was some kind of erected long object, not an imaginary clump, "called a buoy...... What is it? ”
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And a few minutes later, when the thing called the buoy was already as dazzling as a searchlight in sight, the bone-crushing squid finally came to its vicinity, and the sight that greeted it not only shocked Xinglan, but even Xiyu forgot his fear of the sea for a while, and looked at the bright light source floating on the surface of the sea with fascination.
It looks like a huge monument floating in the sea, and a slender structure several meters high stands on the surface of the sea. It is not a smooth and immaculate geometric form, but like an inverted stalactite, the overall outline is clear and obvious, but the details of the surface are as rough as natural rocks, and like a huge anthill exposed to the ground, the surface is full of loose tiny holes, but it can withstand the wind and rain, and the structure is extremely strong.
Whether it is a round spherical shape, or a sharp polyhedron, or even a completely indescribable irregular shape, a large number of transparent and strange crystals are embedded in the surface of this huge object one by one, like countless brilliant emeralds, gorgeous, wonderful, emitting bright light intertwined, and this brilliance is not dynamic, but like a stream of water from top to bottom wave is constantly surging, making the whole light flicker on and off.
Every few seconds, this light wave will flicker violently, and the brightness of the light emitted in the flickering will suddenly increase by a hundredfold, and at this moment it will be like a lighthouse on the sea, illuminating a large area of the nearby sea.
Indeed, as the wind has said, this beacon is not a creature, in fact it is just like the anthill, a huge nest made of countless tiny creatures, a glowing nest that can float in the ocean, magnificent and spectacular.
Xinglan stood on the head of the broken bone squid for a long time before she sighed sincerely: "Miracle of nature, I have to admit that this scene looks so beautiful......
"En'......" Xijie just nodded vigorously.
"Based on what I have observed, it seems that the ancestors of the creatures that make up the buoys are related to the microorganisms that make up the reef, and it can even be said that this kind of buoys are a kind of close relatives of the reef." The Bone Crushing Squid raised a small tentacle from below and crossed the height of Xinglan's waist, and it seemed that the fairy sound bird, which was too tired of talking loudly below, flapped its wings and flew above this tentacle, and then directly grabbed the tentacle with its powerful claws and stood on it, "They are like icebergs, and the part that emerges from the water is just a small area in the whole." There is a large closed hollow base under the water to provide buoyancy for the whole to stay on the surface of the sea, and at the same time, there are also some organs with openings on the outside of the base, which can draw seawater from the outside into the interior, and discharge it from the vent after filtering out nutrients as a means of movement. ”
"Well, I seem to see it." At this time, the sun had completely set below the horizon, leaving only a trace of afterglow, and Xinglan struggled to make out the underwater object in the faint light, and it was vaguely visible that there seemed to be a dark shadow under the navigation beacon several meters high...... It's about twenty meters in diameter, and it looks like there are some dancing tentacles around the edges, but it's not really visible in the dark, and the infrared observation is obviously no match for what is below the icy water, "It's getting closer, we're going to hit it like this!" ”
"So it's time to bypass it." The wind passed and controlled the bone-crushing squid to narrowly bypass the buoy ahead of it at a distance of only a few tens of meters, and turned a 60-degree bend in the sea, "The bone-crushing squid's night blindness has begun to make it difficult to see, but the island is nearby, we should still be able to get there before we can't see at all." ”
Under the starlight, not only the slowly distant navigation beacon is shining with bright green light, but even the sea itself seems to gradually begin to light up with a faint and beautiful halo, and unconsciously, this halo is separated from the sea surface, from the plane into a three-dimensional pattern, like a thin layer of luminous mist lingering around, looking very mysterious.
If you zoom in on the picture thousands of times, you can clearly see that this so-called luminous mist is actually countless tiny fluorescent flying insects. There are many of them, very many, and they are dense and dense like clouds rising on the surface of the sea. The small sound of flapping wings converged as if there were many people whispering to each other, telling some ulterior secret.
They are not the same kind of creatures, but are a mixture of many different flying insects, so they do not have a fixed luminescence color or change pattern, but completely random sprinkles of fluorescence in the air, and Xinglan did not intend to name them one by one...... That would be too cumbersome, and it wouldn't be necessary.
Xijie watched as a large swarm of tiny glowing flying insects kept flying back and forth in the air, and even lingered around at close range, waving their claws in a tangled manner, and finally simply buried his face in Xinglan's arms to avoid these flying insects.
Xinglan watched these insects flying around her body with complete indifference, anyway, even if there might be some blood-sucking insects such as mosquitoes, it was impossible to have any effect on the robot's body...... They don't even want to puncture the top layer of skin.
"I mean, naughty little one, why don't you just go to bed from now on?" Xinglan touched Xijie's head, looking at her lethargic appearance, she couldn't help but be a little funny, "Anyway, there is probably no other interesting place on the island later, maybe when you wake up, we will already be the next day's departure time?" ”
"Don't sleep, don't sleep......" Xijie shrugged his head, still stubbornly keeping his eyes open, "I'm going to stick to the island......"
"Spotted an anomalous movement you've never seen before, that's your thing?" Wind Passing suddenly spoke, interrupting the communication between Xinglan and Xijie, "As far as I know, it's definitely not something on Lanxing. ”
"What are you talking about?" Xinglan turned her head to look at the fairy sound bird, blinking with a smile and an innocent face, "What abnormal movement?" ”
"You're obviously knowingly asking." Although Feng Death did not control the fairy bird to raise his head, it may be that at this moment, there are countless pairs of eyes belonging to him staring at the night sky all over Lan Xing, among which there are many eyesight leaders such as knots, "That's obviously not a normal star, the movement speed is too fast, and the trajectory also violates the normal orbit." ”
"Don't worry, they won't do anything to Lanxing." Xinglan raised her head and looked at the boundless sea of bright stars, "I'm just going to do some necessary maintenance work on the man-made wonder. ”
In the endless starry sky at night, if you look closely, even with the naked eye, you can clearly observe the anomaly that is happening at this moment: there are several bright points of light...... Apparently they weren't stars, as they were constantly moving in a way that defied the rules of gravity, gradually moving closer to the golden-red planet in the sky, as if they were encircling Gangli.
It was a number of planet-makers that looked exactly like the little sun up close, and they were getting closer and closer in the outer orbit of the planet, and these specially crafted planet-makers were on a new mission.
"It really won't affect Lan Xing, for the flawless of the tricolor moon~" Xing Lan smiled and snapped her fingers in the face of Feng Shu's suspicious gaze, "The Fire Moon Gangli maintenance operation has begun!" ”
In the next moment, even on the Lan Star, you can clearly see that a shining point of light suddenly lit up in the golden-red sky above Gangli, and the sound cannot be transmitted in the vacuum of the universe, so this scene is destined to be just a silent movie.
"This, this, this...... What did you do! The sound of the wind becoming sharper, and he stared blankly as a huge pillar of fire rose from the surface...... That's right, it was indeed soaring into the sky, and the impact pillar that erupted from the violent impact was even so clear that it could be clearly seen on the Arashi star, "This moon...... Why? Are you crazy? ”
"Ann, a, a, just a little heat." Xinglan still had an indifferent smile on her face, as if she was completely ignoring the sudden increase in the brightness of the Fire Moon in the sky, "Then again, are you sure you still want to move on?" Stop being in a daze, you're going to die if you keep going straight......"
Feng Shui was startled, and then he noticed the increase in the temperature of the environment around the bone crushing squid, and subconsciously waved his tentacles, and an extremely intense pain signal came from the pain nerves!
Pain! At the moment when he felt the pain, the tentacle had already had severe necrosis, and the bone squid quickly braked sharply, turning the direction ninety degrees, and after fleeing the danger area, Feng Death looked at the area he had just passed by with some fear......
In the darkness of the night, the outline of the island looked hazy, but the night blindness of the bone squid was obviously quite severe, as it did not even notice the faint red glow on the edge of the island for a moment......
The faint red light mixed with black impurities flowed viscously on the ground like jelly, and the moment it flowed from the edge of the island into the sea, bubbles in the boiling sea water continued to tumble and emit bursts of white smoke, invisibly expanding the edge of the land.
"The place to stay overnight, this is it." Xinglan narrowed her eyes and smiled, a faint red light flashing in her pupils, "Bypass this dangerous area, let's land on the island from the safety of the side." ”
That's right, this small island, located in the middle of the straits of the Northern Yuan Continent and the Southern Yuan Continent, is an active volcanic island that has not been born for a long time and is still growing.
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