Strange colors spread the erosion of life, and life and death are in danger in the air.

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Woo...... Woo......

Trickling raindrops poured from the gloomy sky to the earth, and the sky that was supposed to be daytime was completely obscured by a layer of dark clouds, but it was not only the howl of the wind mixed with a biting chill that resounded in the ears, but also the distant roar of the giant beast for thousands of miles.

There was no chirping of birds, no roar of wild beasts, almost only the sounds of nature could be heard on the whole island, and there were hardly any animals to be seen as far as the eye could see, not even flying creatures would not want to go out in this wet and cold time, everything looked blank and desolate.

The soil layer on the back of the dwelling ship beast is very thin...... Of course, this is not so much the soil created by years of sedimentation as it is the skin debris accumulated after the metabolism on the back of the perched shipmon, for most shrubs this layer of material is enough to grow and provide the mineral nutrients they need, but for those really tall trees, this layer of soil is not too thick to meet the depth of their roots, and the short half year that the perching ship beast floats on the surface of the sea cannot meet the growth cycle of most trees.

However, that doesn't mean you can't see any trees here.

These trees have been abandoned here for a long time, and you can see from the ground where a thick layer of dust has accumulated nearby, but there is no sign of activity, and although the rain is washing away all traces at this time, it is still certain that it has not been raining for long...... Of course, this may also be due to the fact that the ground in the vicinity is covered with protruding thick roots. The coiled roots are intertwined, but instead of showing the vigor of a normal tree, they are covered in an eerie color.

In fact, not only the roots, but also the trunks, branches and even leaves of these trees are dyed the same color. It's not the beautiful colourful veins of the leaf tree, but a jumble, morbidly eerie hue, like a palette that has been knocked over and splashed all over the floor. In fact, this sick color is not without analogues on the Arashi Star, and the skin of the dead Moon Prayer will also become a messy color due to the cracking of the cell pigment.

The shape of the trees themselves is also strange...... Unlike most trees, which only occasionally show a little bit of root system on the ground, their root system on the ground is extremely complex, and the shape of the leaves is not the form of a leaf in the usual sense, but a kind of antenna that splits into countless sharp spikes, like some kind of spikes.

"At least no animal has been near this place for a few days......" As the words rang out, a hand suddenly reached out and gently patted the branch of one of the trees, but this tree did not show the strength of a tree, in fact, the branch broke almost instantaneously, and fell directly to the intertwined roots of the ground after making a crisp sound.

With a drizzle of rain and water falling from the sky, the dust on the ground has begun to gradually turn into a dirty layer of silt. The owner of this hand looked at the fallen branches on the ground with some surprise, and then withdrew his hand and gently stroked the drops of water dripping from his forehead.

Xing Lan sighed softly, she was standing on the ground wearing only a thin underwear at this time, while Mu Xue behind her was wrapping herself tightly in her coat...... Although the clothes after being stained with rain are also very damp and cold, they are not the same grade as the original vine clothes that cannot be used to keep warm at all.

"The trees are dead." Mu Xue tightened her clothes, stepped forward to look at the broken sections of the branches, and came to the conclusion with certainty, those wooden sections were not simply broken, from the gaps, it can be clearly seen that the inside of these branches is full of corroded holes, it is they that destroy the original stable wooden structure of the branches, making them so fragile, even breaking at the slightest touch.

"But these trees look strange......" Xinglan looked up at the still overcast and rainy sky, in this case, even if they found the wooden boat immediately, they couldn't set off immediately, when they tried to search the interior of the crater, they only found this place where trees grew, "I've never seen any plants of similar appearance." ”

Even conifers usually grow in arid areas such as deserts, not in places with abundant water, and the leaves of these trees do not exactly look like coniferous leaves that gradually degenerate into thorny leaves in order to reduce water. The tips of their leaves almost always fork into several spikes that extend in different directions, and even if they have been dyed with that strange seven-colored hue, it seems that they can still feel the sharp aura of the tips of these spikes. When Xinglan carefully tried to touch the spikes with her hands, their connection to the original branches broke almost instantly, but the spikes themselves did not break, but fell directly to the ground, and the layer of dyed color shimmered faintly under the metallic luster.

"Weird thing...... "Xinglan muttered quietly, picking up a few spikes and wrapping them around her waist to put them in the pouch, she also tried to scan the genetic sequence of these trees that had apparently been dead for a long time, but found nothing...... It is impossible for these trees to be simply destroyed so that they can't even retain a string of DNA gene strands, this situation is more like the cells of these trees destroyed everything according to the program in the genes after the main body died, "The destruction is really complete, and now there are almost no clues here." ”

In fact, after searching the same place for several minutes, they found nothing more valuable. In this circular mountain range on the back of the ship-dwelling beast, there is neither a nesting ground for seabirds to breed in a large area, nor a forest that can be used to make sea-crossing tools, not even a single Xinyu person has been found...... Everything in the past is like a phantom, directly turned into foam and burst in the faint sunlight of the early morning, leaving no trace of reminiscence.

The ground under its feet trembled slightly, and in this dripping rain, it seemed that even this almost invincible beast felt depressed and irritated because of the low pressure in the air, it let out a hum, and the countless giant tentacles hidden below the sea level began to move, slowly pushing the huge body forward, constantly advancing.

It doesn't take Star's reminder for Twilight to know what that means. As they kept swimming, they would get farther and farther away from where they had landed in the first place, and if they continued like this, even if they found the wooden boat and reached the northern continent...... will also be lost forever in the uninhabited and desolate land.

And at this moment, if they can't find a suitable tree or a Xinyu person, then the only way out of their life is actually obvious: return to the coastal area outside the perched ship beast, look for possible wooden boats, and the speed of action must be accelerated, otherwise, it will be almost too late.

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In the distance, thousands of meters in the sky, the nest of the Eclipse Peak.

Xijie has experienced ultra-high-altitude flight, as an existence that once took a shuttle plane to overlook the contours of the sea and land in space, she can fully say that she is a native creature of Lanxing who has overlooked the planet from the highest point so far, and she has also experienced the feeling of crossing the sky at supersonic speed after breaking through the sound barrier, but I have to admit that everything is completely different from sitting on the top of a giant flying object at this time, sighing at the oncoming wind blowing on her face, and listening to the noise of the Eclipse Peaks all the time.

She didn't know what Xin Yuren's body structure looked like, but with the help of biting the purple branch to replenish her energy, she did not eat or drink for several days without affecting her condition. Of course, this will not be an eternal maintenance in the true sense of the word, and there seem to be several more data tables in her nervous system, accurately calculating for her how long the various organic matter components and water in her body can maintain a closed cycle without replenishment, and the energy contained in the purple branch is gradually decreasing...... Although the speed of change of this voltage is not large, but with Xin Yu people, who can accurately analyze the changes in each band of electromagnetic waves, the brain can still easily detect the difference, its stock power is being lost due to continuous absorption, but it can't get any replenishment, of course, Xijie doesn't know how to charge it, and the current Lanxing doesn't have ...... No, even the Dead don't have a charging socket for charging the branches.

I have to say that life is really a terrible thing to be adaptable. Even Xijie herself could not have imagined that she would be completely accustomed to the daily scene of a group of Heavenly Eclipse Peaks swaying in front of her in just a few days, and she even dared to leave the Xinyu people and rely on her own strength to spread a circle of barriers and wander around other places on the hive. Of course, this practice seemed to make the Xin Yu man, who looked like a boy, very uneasy...... Ever since he found himself unable to communicate, and Xijie had acted at a loss for everything, he had been staring at Xijie in the same way he was taking care of babies and toddlers, and had been whispering something in her ear in the language of Xin Yuren, whose frequency changed very quickly. Well, Xijie didn't have a problem with that, she happened to learn this strange foreign language.

"Ahh......h

Lying lazily on a branch in the nest of the Eclipse Peak, Xijie took the purple branch in his mouth, not caring if it was stained with dust. As she became more familiar with her new body, she found that she seemed to have become somewhat addicted to the wonderful, comfortable feeling of drawing electricity from it. The fangs of Xinyu people are like charging sockets, which can easily puncture the epidermis on the surface of a tree branch and insert into the electrolyte layer inside, thus forming a complete electrical communication circuit, and at the same time will show a kind of euphoric and pleasant ...... In short, it's hard to describe the feeling.

However, the sudden vibration of the hive suddenly interrupted the lazy state of the tide knot, and the load brought by the sudden deceleration made her wake up instantly, and she stood on the branches of the trees in some surprise and looked at the dark clouds of eclipse peaks.

Strangely, they don't look the same as ever, and seem to be ...... Feeling uneasy?

(Thanks to the 10 starting coins of "Purple Cloud Half Covering the Light Moon Traces" for reward~)