Chapter 297: A ...... That Has Been a Mystery for a Hundred Years
The remains of the dead rot tissues, shattering the nest and crashing into terror.
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Of course, Xijie will not be frightened by the humanoid head bones, not to mention that this era is originally an era of seeing too many corpses and killings, just psychologically, it is better to scare her than to take a mysterious skull. In her eyes, the skull of this humanoid creature was similar to the reaction of the Moon Prayer Man to the skull of the Rising Sun Beast, at most it was just a sigh which unlucky guy died in this kind of place again, but this skull ...... Something is wrong.
She placed the stone cover she had just picked up on the ground next to it, and something was clearly wrong with the humanoid skull peeking out of the container beneath the stone slab. This is a skeleton the size of an adult moon prayer person's head, in terms of size, it is obviously impossible to leave it by the Xin Yu people, and it is not complete, it is obvious that the skull on the right rear piece is missing as if it was cut off by something, and even the parts that are still intact are densely covered with cracks, and the whole is like being built together by countless pieces like building blocks, these cracks make it look even more weird.
However, this could not be the skull of the Moon Praying Man...... Xijie quickly noticed that the skull's teeth were very strange, neither carnivore nor herbivore, and unlike the fangs of the Xinyu people used to pierce the thunderman's tree, the skull's teeth actually took on an upside-down spike shape. This is puzzling, because this shape does not look like it should have been in the course of normal biological evolution, and it is not even easy to attack, but rather to defend against enemy attacks on the face.
[Cangqing, what's wrong with you?] ]
The companion looked a little confused, and Shioyu seemed to have completely returned to normal except that he still didn't speak, but it was this last lack of communication that made him feel a little inexplicably uneasy, and at this time, Shioyuki's contemplative gaze on the skull was even more strange.
Shigetsu shook his head, blue eyes fixed on the strange skull. It wasn't placed directly inside, but on top of a pile of bones, and it looked like it was probably the bones of its body...... The reason why it's very likely is that the bones are not like the skull that was full of cracks but still clearly outlined, they had been completely shattered into fragments of bone no larger than the size of a finger, and it was impossible to tell what part of the skeleton they were, except that they were bones.
Xijie hadn't studied the detailed structure of the bones, so it was impossible to discern anything from the debris of similar size and shape, but there was no doubt that the skeleton placed in the slate looked like it had been crushed by something, and the bones all over its body had been reduced to small pieces. It's not hard to break bones, but what does it take to make all the bones completely become such splinters? Xijie had only seen something like that once, and that was a long time ago, when she and Xinglan arrived at the ice field of the Northern Yuan Continent, the wave blade worm that used high-frequency oscillation to cut objects, and even cut off shuttles, shattered into pieces in front of them.
However, the Wave Blade Worm is a giant monster that lives on the ice field in the northern part of the Northern Yuan Continent, and it should not run to the nuclear continent, and the most critical question is not the current state of this skeleton, but what kind of existence it was during its lifetime? And why is it here?
However, after seeing this strangely shaped skeleton, Xijie's first reaction was of course not the emergence of a new intelligent race on Lanxing or the invasion of alien life, but a more likely option: could this be the kind of demon that the Moon Prayer Man refers to?
But even so, it still can't be answered what exactly it was and why it appeared here, and from the almost completely lost flesh and blood of this skeleton, it can be seen that the time it has been here is definitely not a small number, maybe hundreds of years.
An unknown existence that died in the nuclear continent hundreds of years ago, and there is even a cemetery dedicated to the corpses...... Xijie felt more and more that he had the right feeling at the beginning, this was a special tomb and not a fortress, but judging from the size of the container containing the bones, it was obviously impossible to stuff the person alive according to the size of the Moon Prayer Man, so does it mean that there was a second person to bury him?
Things were getting stranger and stranger, and just as Shioyu felt that there was no more to be found here, and was about to cover the stone slab again, a loud bang from afar exploded like thunder, and the earth trembled. The completely unexpected shaking and the already exhausted body made her hand shake and slam the slab against the rock wall next to her, splashing dust.
The loud noise was coming from the direction where the Whisker Butterflies were fighting the Eclipse Bees, and while it was not yet known what the hell was going on there, Xiyu at least knew that he seemed to have made a big discovery......
The moment the stone slab collided with the wall, the cracks that spread on the seemingly hard stone wall told them that the stones did not seem to be as hard as they appeared on the surface, and the dark red liquid oozing from the cracks slowly flowed down the surface of the stone blocks, bringing an increasingly unsettling atmosphere, which looked extremely strange.
What the hell is this thing?
Before Xijie could make the next move, his companion had already reacted, he quickly snatched the stone slab from Xijie's hand, and then hit the crack where the crack had just appeared with the hard corner. With a crisp cracking sound, the debris on the surface of the stone peeled down in large chunks, like aging concrete walls.
A foul smell came to their faces almost as soon as the walls cracked, and when the thin layer of stone shell shattered under the impact, the dark red liquid inside almost splattered out, and then they saw the real scene under the shell, which was disgusting.
That's rotting biological tissue...... Unlike the corpse, which had been completely reduced to bones, the tissues looked like pieces of flesh that had rotted for years and had turned into a dark black. Although it can be vaguely seen from the surface that some of it should be skin lines, but more places can only make people feel extremely nauseous. The dark red, viscous liquid that flowed out of it might have been blood...... Sealed in an environment without air, blood that has not fully clotted even for hundreds of years.
Xijie pulled his companion back a few steps, and looked vigilantly at the rotten tissue exposed in the gap, even if this thing no longer had any threat, it was obviously not a good idea to get close to the flesh that had rotted for so many years, who knew how many germs would be present in it?
However, since this stone is full of this kind of thing, then the other stones are probably also ...... The more she thought about it, the more uneasy she became, she grabbed her companion's hand and hesitated, and then ran directly towards the outside of this building, and her companion also sensed that something was wrong here, and did not raise any objections, but followed her directly.
It is true that Xin Yu people can sense the existence of life, but that is because there are small electrical signal changes in the nerves inside living organisms, so if it is a completely dead corpse, it cannot be detected by magnetic sense. It would be terrible if the entire tomb was molded from the corpses of such creatures covered with stone shells.
It is impossible to speculate on what created all this.
They hurried out of the shabby-looking building, which seemed to be crumbling, and with an earth-shattering bang, there was soon another violent shock on the ground...... It didn't look like the movement of a normal battle, and when Shioyu looked up and looked in the same direction again, she finally realized what it was.
The nest of the eclipse bee was torn apart.
The huge lair, which was almost like a floating island, had obviously been badly damaged at this point, and even from this distance, about a fifth of the part could be seen being cut open, revealing the intricate tunnels inside. It was incredible, not even a giant monster like the Polar Bird could tear the island apart, but the Whiskered Butterfly had clearly done it, and the jagged edge of the fracture still spoke of the horrific attack it had been on. Xijie couldn't help but think of the previous scenes of the whiskered butterflies burrowing through the ground and gushing out of the ground, and it seemed that this creature had a knack for how to drill through solid structures...... It can be regarded as the bad luck of these eclipse bees themselves.
The corner of the missing nest was now diagonally planted on the ground in the distance, and a large pit seemed to form around it. If this kind of giant object of dozens of tons fell from the air to the ground, it seems understandable that it would produce the same loud noise and ground shock as before, and this is undoubtedly a behemoth in terms of quality.
At this moment, countless Whiskered Butterflies formed a huge butterfly shape near the nest of the Eclipse Bee, as if the huge wings that were about to cover the sky and the sun flapped and brought a strong wind. I know that some creatures use the power of the pack to make themselves look bigger, but this size is a bit surprisingly large anyway.
[As we go deeper into this area, the possibility of getting lost here becomes more and more likely, so I think it's better to find a way around this area and continue walking along the coastline to find a way back.] The companion took out a purple branch and bit it in his mouth, there seemed to be a faint flash of electric light on the sharp little fangs, even if he didn't speak, Xin Yu people still had a set of pure electromagnetic wave communication methods to express their thoughts, and what he said was also very reasonable. Shioyu looked at the Eclipse Hive in the distant sky, which was already planning to move away from here, and she didn't want to continue to go deeper into this dangerous continent, so she nodded slightly.
The dark wind gently blows through this depressed land, they haven't seen the demon on the other side, they haven't really crossed the dividing line between life and death, if they leave at this time, maybe there is still a little life?
Although Shioyu doesn't know how to leave this continent......
"Sister, what the hell are you thinking, you must know."
(Thanks to the 588 starting point coin reward of "Purple Cloud Half Covering the Light Moon Traces" and the 1888 starting point coin reward of "Passing Years and Loneliness"~ A flirtatious newcomer finally appeared in the group for a long time, scattering flowers!) By the way, to clarify, the small cells in the introduction are not complaining about "The Evolution of the 4.6 Billion Repiece", but the real complaint is actually "Spore Story"~)