It is difficult to retreat into advance, and all living beings in the vertical and horizontal tributaries are diverse.

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Waterfalls, all water.

Xijie felt like he was in a state of tangle like never before, and his irritability caused the blue-gold hairs all over his body to crackle with the sound of static electricity, this question ...... How to solve it?

Moving along the direction of the river and eventually crossing the Nanyuan Continent is the conclusion that Xinglan has reached from overlooking the sea and land terrain of Lanxing from space, but even Xinglan probably didn't notice that there is still such a difficulty in the basin of this river.

The river, which had been speeding up, finally reached its limit here, cascading down from a cliff with a vertical height of 100 meters, turning into a spectacular waterfall and plunging into a small lake below, and from the top of the cliff, you can clearly see the meandering river that continues to stretch all the way forward at the edge of the lake, which is the river that continues to guide the correct path.

But even though the river ahead was within sight, there was still an impenetrable natural barrier between the two sides.

Jumping into the water and being swept down by the rushing current? As soon as this idea came out, it was quickly cut off by the tide knot, you must know that this is not the kind of small waterfall that once appeared by stepping on the cliff bubble and jumping all the way up, but a large waterfall that is wide and high, with a height difference of nearly 100 meters alone!

In this case, jumping in recklessly, there is basically no other possibility than looking for death, not to mention that the mystery itself is still quite a species that is not good at water, and there is no hope of survival.

After hesitating on the cliff for a while, Xijie finally gave up the adventurous method of going down the waterfall for the time being, and sure enough, it was better to take a detour and stay away from the river for a short time...... There shouldn't be any problems.

"Sister-sama?" Xijie tilted his head and shouted tentatively into the air, still getting no response, "Well, it still doesn't seem to be there." ”

The cliffs are very narrow, and the waterfall is also a steep cliff that is completely impossible to climb or go down to the short distance on either side, and even if you take a detour, you can't start from this side. Having made up her mind, she simply turned around and walked along the bank of the river she had come, because she had been following the river, so she had some vague memories of the terrain she had come all the way over, and she might be able to find a smoother way forward by following the other currents. Thinking so, Shioyu quickly left the rumbling sound of water behind him.

There is still a long way to go.

……

Lanxing, the nuclear continent.

"Huhu...... Here, it should be safe here. ”

Xinglan, who has only half of her body left with only mechanical structures, is running slower and slower, even if the robot does not have muscle fatigue problems, but it is undoubtedly a very bad state for mechanical components to continue to run at high speed after repeated explosion attacks.

Finally, Xinglan slowly stopped running, which was not much faster than walking, and sat down directly on the ground, looking in the direction where she came from with a little fear.

The barren land no longer saw those moving green dots...... After all, the Stygian Fire Ants were still too small to catch up, even if they were agile.

"It's really embarrassing to be like this." After smiling bitterly, Xinglan completely replaced the optical equipment mounted on the mechanical body with a photon capture net composed of signal protons, and roughly checked the state of his body, "It seems that it is the first time that the creatures on Lanxing have been tossed so miserably......

Only a small piece of dusty part of the waist-length sky-blue hair was scattered behind him, and not only the clothes on his body were destroyed to shreds, but even the skin layer was barely intact, and the head down was completely bare mechanical body...... Even the alloy skeleton is partially deformed and distorted, and it is almost miraculous to be able to walk now.

Under the special protection of Xinglan, the head finally basically kept its shape...... As for the strong sense of disobedience with the mechanical body, let's ignore it, but let's not forget what the explosion of the fire ant is, even if it is a miniature version, it does have some of the characteristics of a nuclear explosion...... For example, electromagnetic pulses.

Under the short-duration, but very high-intensity, and continuous close-range electromagnetic pulses, many devices inside the mechanical body that were once able to maintain their operation even in the magnetic ring island have serious malfunctions, such as optical receptors for vision, although they appear to be intact on the outside, but the integrated circuit board inside has become a complete mess.

"Monster, it's really a monster......" Xing Lan shook her head, even under the encirclement and bombardment of the Dark Fire Ants with almost no dead ends, she still subconsciously chose to break through in the direction of going deep into the nuclear continent, "The life forms of the nuclear continent simply subvert the existence of normal concepts, and they are also full of unknown dangers, but this makes it even more impossible to put them aside......

If it is controlled by ordinary means, this robot is already completely wasted, the control circuits are all burned, and a large number of connecting devices are also deformed, and I have to admit that the ability of the signal to directly control the terminal motors is too powerful, so that even in this situation, the basic action can be maintained.

"The Wind Passes That Guy...... The contact is interrupted, and I don't know where it is hiding, and every continent on the entire Lan Star is distributed with the clones of that guy, but Xiao Xijie is really a little worried, after all, she is still young, and her survivability is not so strong. After browsing through the data from the signal subnet, Xinglan breathed a sigh of relief, "Well, that guy...... Since she decided to take a detour on her own, then I better not interfere without permission. ”

With a chuckle, Xinglan didn't take the initiative to contact Xijie, but moved the joints of her whole body again, and after confirming that there was no major problem, she supported the ground with one hand and stood up from the ground with a little difficulty.

"Well, then, it's time for me to continue...... Since we haven't fallen yet, we have to move on. Raising her head, Xinglan looked at a column of smoke in the sky in front of her that stretched straight into the clouds, and bit her lip slightly, "Thick dust mixed with the updraft, there is...... Volcano? ”

The piercing friction sound of the collision between the mechanical joints sounded again, one foot deeper, one foot shallow, Xinglan slowly walked towards the unknown front.

……

There are often obvious differences between rivers formed by nature and canals dug out by man, such as complex bends formed by perennial erosion, or small tributaries that can be seen by walking for about 100 meters.

Yes, tributaries, when the tide knot walked back along the river for some distance, I saw a tributary that was more impressive in my previous memory, and it was also the closest tributary to the mouth of the waterfall.

The tributaries are not wide, even about one-tenth the width of the main channel, but it is not very thin, after all, the width of this river at the moment is not the Juanjuan thin stream when the tide knot saw it at the edge of the saline-alkali land, considering the trend of it crossing the Nanyuan continent, it is definitely not strange that it eventually becomes a wide river that flows into the boundless ocean.

At the fork of the river, the tide knot turned around again, and the loud noise from the waterfall was almost inaudible, and only the crisp music on both sides was still playing in the wind, but it did not make people feel noisy at all, but reflected a quiet and wonderful natural atmosphere.

Burst! Burst! Burst......

A small sound kept ringing on the surface of the water, sounding like a large bubble bursting, but it wasn't actually a bubble on the surface.

Shioyu cautiously took a few steps forward, always staying at a distance from the water, looking at the calm river.

Burst!

The surface of the water suddenly fluctuated, and several fish with black stripes on their earthy yellow skin suddenly poked out of the water, and used the short time they came out of the water to turn their bodies, and spewed out clumps of slimy things towards the shore......

Syllable!

Shiokyu hurriedly removed his claws, and a cloud of slimy liquid spurted out of the fish's mouth and stuck firmly to the stones on the riverbank...... It happened to be where her paws had been placed, and then slowly drooped in long strings.

These fish ...... Well, because their color is cloudy like mud, let's call them muddy fish, why do they spray things so much at the shore? Is it a simple spit? Or is it used as a weapon to catch small insects, like a fish that shoots water?

Apparently neither, Shiokyu looked at the string of slime hanging from the rock, as if the small round balls like sugar gourds were joined together by the slime, neatly arranged on the surface of the rock, and even some of the tiny nuclei could be seen if you looked closely...... These are fish eggs.

Burst! Burst! Burst......

Another group of turbid fish floated up, and a few even jumped directly out of the water to spray their own eggs...... It may not be difficult to understand why they hang their eggs on the edge of the rocks on the shore, after all, there are too many dangers for the eggs floating in the current, and if they can withstand the dry environment out of the water, then it is a good idea to hang on the rocks on the shore and wait for hatching.

Ha? You ask how the little fish hatch and get back into the river? It is difficult to tell if the fry will break free from the mucus and fall into the river below as they grow up, or it may be that the water level rises with the seasons and the eggs that were originally hanging on the rocks on the shore are submerged in the water again...... However, Shiokyu is not interested in waiting here for a few months to see how the fry return to the river.

The real surprise that the muddy fish bring to Shiokok is their swimming route, standing on the shore and looking down condescendingly, Shio Knot can clearly see where they come from...... It was from that tributary that it was all the way upstream, which was good news, because if the tributary ended in a large waterfall similar to the main channel, Shiokyu didn't think there were many creatures capable of going upstream.

In this way, this tributary should lead to a relatively gentle terrain, Xijie thought so, and was just about to continue moving, but suddenly stopped the steps he was about to take, raised his head to look ahead, and the crystal array on his forehead trembled slightly.

Even hanging the eggs on the rocks on the banks of the river does not attract the attention of land predators, but the uninvited guests seem to be more concerned about other prey than the eggs of turbid fish hanging on the rocks......

(I saw the request for a change a day in the book review area, well, so I tried to rush out, as for whether it can continue tomorrow...... Let's do our best. ）