Chapter Eighty-Three: The ...... Who Struggled to Find a Refuge
The wooden passage is nowhere to go, and the behemoth shuddered against the wind wall and advanced.
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At the equator of Arashi, a huge storm over the ocean made a strong landfall with tremendous kinetic energy after raging through the rocky terrain of the cliffs. The massive tornado on land swept deep into the rainforest dozens of kilometers from the coastline, tearing even the sturdy tower tree in the middle.
In the face of such an earth-shattering storm, the power of a white puffin is undoubtedly incomparably small, even a small cyclone is enough to completely destroy a small body.
"Damn...... As the storm approaches, the canopy's ability to weaken the storm is weakening. Xinglan looked up at the leaves on the trees that were constantly being blown away by the wind, "Here, it's dangerous. ”
"But what the hell is this......" Xinglan tilted her head to look at the round object on the ground in front of her, "is it a stump?" ”
But it is also not appropriate to say that the stump is a hollow round wooden object. It grows like a tree stump on the rainforest floor, but without a single leaf, it stretches like a hollow pipe beneath the earth, plunging into the darkness.
Xinglan cautiously jumped to the edge of the stump and looked inside the pipe, but saw nothing, it was too dark inside.
"Could it be the same trap as the trap?" Looking down at the inside of the wooden passage, Xinglan hesitated a little, "Anyway, it's too evil to suddenly see something like this sewer pipe in the rainforest......
Suddenly, Xinglan heard a few squeaks, and before she could fully see clearly, several vague small figures swiped in front of her, rushing directly into the wooden passage leading to the underground.
"Mouse?"
Because the other party's movements were very flexible, Xinglan didn't see too many details clearly, but the gray figure did look similar to a mouse, and it should be a similar creature.
"Since these little animals have entered without hesitation, it shouldn't be a trap......" Even so, Xinglan still hesitated a little, "But if there are really no animals entering, then it can't be called a trap, so the possibility of panicking into the trap due to the storm cannot be ruled out......"
Tear and pull!
In the funnel-shaped gray clouds, a large number of free electric charges have a strong sense of the ground, and bright lightning flashes in and out of the sky, illuminating this rainforest as bright as day!
In an instant, a white lightning bolt fell from the sky, and a tower tree not far away in the middle burned the hard trunk of this tree to charcoal almost instantly......
"No, it's too dangerous out there!" Xinglan finally made up her mind and ran towards the wooden pipe that led to the underground, "No matter what's inside, it's definitely not going to be harder to deal with than the storm outside!" ”
There was a creaking and screeching sound in my ears, which was the sound of the wood rubbing against each other. Xinglan knew that after being struck by lightning, the charred trunk could no longer bear its own weight, and it could no longer continue to stand again, but would gradually collapse under the gravity of the planet......
Xinglan didn't look back, but ran towards the wooden pipe in front of her with all her might. The wall of the pipe is not high, only about ten centimeters high, and Xinglan can still easily jump over.
However, when she reached the pipe wall, she was horrified to see a shadow move rapidly on the ground, gradually magnifying, and soon enveloping her in complete darkness......
In an instant, the high-speed calculation of the sub-signal in the white puffin's nervous system made Xinglan immediately understand what this was, and before she had time to think about it, she rolled backwards without hesitation, narrowly escaping out of the shadow area......
Crunch crunch...... Rumble!
The tower tree that had been struck by lightning could have held out a little longer, but the lateral force on the trunk caused by the great storm hastened its demise in a sense. Eventually, the tower tree began to fall over as soon as it was scorched, and it slowly leaned over, the charred trunk severed from the center, and then, the top half of the trunk and the bare canopy crashed out of the air!
Xinglan stepped back with all her might, watching the messy branches quickly pass in front of her, and the wooden pipe mouth she wanted to enter just now had been completely buried under the thick trunk.
"Sure enough, can't you hesitate......" Xinglan, who had come back to her senses, shook her feathers, looked at the scene in front of her, and smiled bitterly, "I can't get in if I want to......"
On a thunderstorm like this, hiding under a tree is a death!
"The small size of the white puffin in this kind of storm is really terrible......" Xinglan ran through the forest, trying to find a place to hide temporarily, but even the strongest tower tree was broken by the tornado, how could the other trees be spared?
The small pond at the top of the canopy tree was completely dried, and the golden zenith fish were swept into the huge pillar of wind, constantly swirling in the sky, and then even the trunk of the tree was uprooted and fell to the ground fiercely.
Suddenly, in the roar of the wind, Xinglan faintly heard a familiar cry, and she suddenly came to her senses: "Could it be ......"
The strongest area of the tornado had not yet reached this place, and Xinglan circled the two thick giant trees and found a familiar figure among the countless stacked branches.
A leaf-coated dragon.
The dragon-coated dragon seemed to have been left alone in the rainforest, and although the wind was not enough to roll up the beast, it also made it lose its way, unable to move an inch, and could only lie on the ground and try to survive the disaster.
The leaves on the robe-like body of the dragon had been almost completely swept away by the wind, leaving only the criss-crossing branches and the hard crust of brown earth covering the layers of skin. Even though this is no longer incompatible with the usual rainforest, the wonderful thing is that the surrounding trees are in the same miserable condition, and Ye Yilong can still be perfectly compatible with the environment.
"If I had known, I would have stayed a little longer...... Xinglan spread her wings, and it took almost half a day of hard work to squeeze out the little bit of swamp gas left, and then she didn't even take off, but directly stood on the ground and spread her wings......
Rumble!
Compared to the current terrifying environment, the sound of starting a jet flight seemed insignificant, but Xinglan managed to use a huge impetus to make herself rub the ground and fly forward, forcibly breaking through the turbulent air flow that had seeped into the forest, and crashing headlong into the branch on Ye Yilong's back.
Without bothering about the bloody claws, Xinglan raced against the clock and jumped outward, rolling directly from the scattered branches on Ye Yilong's back to the ground beside it.
Only then was she able to take a closer look at the beast, which trembled with fear and trembling like a small animal in the wind.
Ye Yilong didn't dare to let out its drum-like roar, the head in front of its slender neck shrunk below the canopy, its eyes tightly closed, if it weren't for the constant trembling of its huge body with fear, Xinglan would almost have thought it was just a huge corpse.
"It's not safe to hide even in the branches on its back......" Xinglan slowly approached the giant beast in front of her, in this environment, the other party didn't feel her presence at all, "Then, it's only ......"
Ye Yilong is not close to the ground when lying on the ground, otherwise the pressure in the abdomen will cause huge pressure on the internal organs of this giant beast and may even cause life-threatening, so when it lies down on four legs, it will leave a certain gap between the abdomen and the ground instead of completely fitting together, which also becomes Xinglan's opportunity.
She cautiously came to Ye Yilong's side, visually measured the size of the gap at the bottom, and then spread her wings to the sides, lowered the height of her body, and squeezed under Ye Yilong's body.
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"Sure enough, it's still so comfortable." Xing Lan curled up in this small space, silently watching the wind howling outside but only a little bit of wind could leak in, although the huge body trembling slightly above always felt like it would be pressed down at any time, but Xing Lan had completely ignored this danger, "Although the storm is very strong, it should still be no problem for this huge animal weighing dozens of tons......
What's more, judging from the skeletal structure of Ye Yilong, even if it is dead, its abdomen will not be directly pressed to the ground, so although it is thrilling, there is no danger of being flattened at all.
From the claws to the wings, the tingling sensation from all over her body and the red blood stains on the ground reminded Xinglan how serious her injury was now, and after thinking about it slightly, Xinglan still decisively cut off the nerve current of pain and tingling.
Well, people don't want to know this bad feeling!
Even though the thick clouds had made it impossible for the sunlight to penetrate outside, the continuous flashes of lightning in the sky still illuminated the outside world, and in the splashing raindrops, the trees could be clearly seen in the white.
Suddenly, there was silence all around, and although it was still full of chaotic sounds, it was unusually silent compared to before, as if the crazy world had gone away and the deadly storm had subsided.
However, it doesn't end there.
When Xing Lan writhed her body on the wet mud, she carefully poked her head out against the constantly trembling Ye Yilong's abdomen, and what came into view was a fantastic scene......
The huge wind wall rotated at high speed in front of you, and countless debris could be seen flying in the rock chip pan. The vast wall of wind completely dominates the field of vision, but above you is a cloudless blue sky.
Xinglan didn't feel a hint of wind, and even the rain stopped, but she knew exactly why.
This is the heart of the tornado, the eye of the storm, a windless area.
Looking out from the eye of the wind, there is an incomparably turbid world on all sides. Those dark clouds really took on an inverted cone shape, drooping like a funnel, and in a blur, the lightning that flickered inside the dark clouds seemed to be distorted by the power of the storm, and were swept into this huge vortex, forming a very peculiar ring of lightning.
Xinglan was not attracted by this scene for long, because the gradually louder wind in the air and the approaching wind wall in front of her told her that the disaster was not over.
Ye Yilong didn't know whether he instinctively realized the danger or was just stunned, he didn't move in the eye of the wind, but maintained a lying position, so Xinglan quickly crawled back under its belly.
Soon, the sound of the wind came again, silently feeling the fear of the giant beast above in front of the natural heavenly power, Xing Lan squinted her eyes slightly, looked at the sand particles flying in the wind on the ground, and fell asleep unconsciously......
This seemingly crazy thing is actually nothing in the face of the terrifying world-destroying disaster of the Starfire Age.