Chapter 81 The Depths of the Beast's Nest
After a few moments, the battle ended. In order not to let the werewolves suffer too many casualties, Qianye also joined the battle with his sword, and used the most clumsy method to kill the strange beasts one by one.
After the werewolves finished cleaning the battlefield, Thousand Nights entered the forest again, lit the fire of the Force that dawned on the dawn, and once again led a wave of strange beasts.
The number of this wave of alien beasts is much smaller, only three or four thousand, and their strength is not very good. This time, there was no need for a thousand nights to do anything, and Eskar took the werewolf to harvest it clean.
Qianye entered the forest twice more, but when she saw that she couldn't attract anything, she gave up.
This does not mean that the entire area has been cleared, and there are obviously strange beasts lurking in the forest, but they also know the fear and are lurking and refuse to come out. Knowing that fear is a good thing, the beast that knows how to be afraid will not rashly challenge the army of Thousand Nights armed to the teeth.
Since the alien beasts don't come out, Qianye doesn't want to bother trying new ways to activate them in order to kill them all. In the new world, the most important thing is to master the rules, not to kill without any benefit. He began to walk in the forest and discover the secrets of the forest. The area where the three sacred trees are located is naturally the first place to go.
After a few days, most of the eggs of the many alien beasts that had been piled up under the sacred tree had disappeared, and only a few of them were still soaked in the pool water. The sap pond under the tree is much lower, and the rocky islands in the pond are correspondingly larger. There is only one base left on the stone chair on the island, and there are several stalagmites erected here and there.
Thousand Nights opens her true vision and sees that the missing scouts are still buried in the trunk of the sacred tree.
This time, nothing could hinder him, and Qianye jumped under a sacred tree, and with a swing of Dongyue, he cut open the trunk of the sacred tree. The sacred tree shuddered and let out a baby's cry, wriggling under the cracked slat, and then 'spitting' out a human body, and then the sap turned viscous and sealed the crack like glue.
It was a Terran warrior, naked, with pale skin and many small holes on his body, all of which were imprints left by the insertion of the branches of the sacred tree. After landing, he looked dazed, struggled to get up, and tried to return to the sacred tree, but his limbs were weak, and he could only struggle and squirm in place.
Chiya crouched down, lifted his face, and looked closely. The warrior's eyes were hollow and cloudy, and they had long since lost focus, and their eyes should have lost their function. He had an eerie smile on his face, unchanging, without any physical struggle or anxiety.
Qianye's heart sank slightly, and he already had an answer.
The warrior's body is still alive, but his will is dead, and he is nothing more than a walking corpse. Then the other warriors in the trunk of the sacred tree must be the same.
Qianye got up and was silent for a moment because of the bad news, and then tapped Dongyue on the trunk of the sacred tree. The sacred tree shuddered again, and the bark opened a crack on its own, spitting out the Terran and werewolf warrior bodies inside. Not only this one, but the other two sacred trees were exactly the same, spitting out the warriors in the trunks.
It can be seen that these three sacred trees are all wise and quite advanced.
Thousand Nights carried the corpses of all the warriors to the clearing outside the forest and unleashed a burst of Force flame. Under the flames of the dawn of dawn, these warriors who had become walking corpses were reduced to ashes, ending their lives of fighting.
After doing this, Qianye returned to the three sacred trees and asked, "Can you understand me?"
The sacred tree sticks out a branch and points to the island in the middle of the lake.
Thousand Nights jumped onto the island and took a closer look. The submerged part of the island is made up of the coiled roots of the sacred tree. It appears that the islet was formed by the exudates of the roots of the sacred tree. The lower part of it is stony, but the stalagmites that protrude have a metal-like luster, and it seems that only in the stalagmite part is it that it has both rocky properties and metallic characteristics. This is what six-armed creatures are used to using as weapons.
It can be seen that the preciousness of stalagmites is beyond imagination, at least the way it is produced determines that the production will be extremely limited. Qianye decided that he must retrieve all the throwing spears thrown by the six-armed creature that day.
In the center of the island is the remains of a stone chair, and as soon as it touches the foundation of the stone chair, Chiya has a wonderful feeling, as if it has touched three faint hearts. They are vague and fragile, and can only convey some basic emotions, such as fear, and beyond that, Chiya can't receive any more information.
These three minds are obviously the will of the sacred tree, but the stone chair as a communication carrier has been shattered by a shot from Qianye, and it is impossible to communicate further. However, if Qianye hadn't smashed the stone chair that day, he would have faced a much more powerful alien beast army in the future, and most of them would not have forced the six-armed creatures to fight with the help of the host. If it had been hiding in the forest, there would be nothing a good thing to do about it.
Judging from the material, the stone chair is an ordinary rock, and there is nothing special about it. As for how it became a carrier of communication, and what the principle was, Chiya didn't know anything. The fact that he had shot the stone chair that day was just an instinct that had been precipitated by years of fighting, and it was just a guess that this thing might be important to the six-armed creature.
Each rock on the island is the secretion of the roots of the sacred tree and should be of special value. Similarly, the lake of sap formed by the convergence of the three sacred trees is enough to send another 100,000 people into the New World in a thousand nights. As for other minerals and materials, they cannot be explored and analyzed at the moment.
Qianye left the central area and continued to go deeper, and soon found that the ground was full of hollows deep in the forest, and the underground had become a honeycomb. The passages range from large to small, small enough for people to bend over and large enough to pass heavy trucks. Inside the tunnel, there are many branches, all of which are similar to beehive-like structures. The size of the hive is different in each area, but the same area is exactly the same.
It turns out that this is the lair of alien beasts!
Compared with the valley outside the gate, the beast's nest here is three-dimensional, extremely huge, like an underground labyrinth. But even on this scale, trying to accommodate 100,000 alien beasts is still extremely crowded.
Thousand Nights leapt into one of the largest passages, ready to go to the depths of the beast's lair.
The passage slopes downward, with steep slopes in some places and relatively gentle in others. Qianye walked along the passage for a while, and branch passages began to appear on both sides, and when he entered the branch passage, he saw a nest room on the left and right.
Qianye chose a room at random to enter, it was several meters square, and the walls were all made of rock, but if you carefully distinguish it, it was not the same as ordinary rock.
There were a few tendrils on the floor of the room, but other than that, there was nothing. There is no bone feces common in animal dens, and there are no scale feathers. It was as if these beasts did not need to eat or drink.
Qianye casually cut off a section of roots, the roots were hollow, and a cloud of water-like sap suddenly erupted from the fracture. As soon as the sap saw the air, it turned viscous and sealed the breach.
Qianye cut a rock from the wall again, and there were obvious layers at the incision, and the stone was only a few centimeters on the surface, and the inside gradually turned into dirt. Qianye cut a few more pieces and found that the rock was also unevenly thick. He collected a few samples, put them in Adua's space, and returned to the passage, continuing to explore the depths.
It's one thing to explore with your senses outside, it's another thing to really enter this labyrinthine underground kingdom.
The space of the nest is designed to be very reasonable, there is almost no waste, and the distribution of passages is also maximized, as if it is a master's hand.
Qianye looked back, and the sky light could be faintly seen at the corner of the passage, and he went through the path he had traveled all the way in his heart, but he did not find the design of the light. Qianye didn't care much about the details of the construction of the beast's nest, so she just wrote it down and continued to explore the depths.
He remembered that when the six-armed creature pursued him, an ancient will was awakening in the depths of the forest. Whatever it is, none of this vast and ancient existence is to be messed with.
Now that the beast is pouring out of the nest, the nest is empty, it is the best time to explore, even if it really encounters that ancient existence, Qianye is sure to escape.
The deeper he went, the clearer the judgment in Chiya's heart became.
The lair is so rigorously designed that it doesn't look like an ordinary gathering place at all, but a specially optimized military camp. As he continued to go deeper, a special passage suddenly appeared in front of Qianye. The other passages are stone, but this one is wooden, with twisted roots forming the walls.
Qianye didn't hesitate and strode in. His morning light is the nemesis of all trees.
Inside the passage, there are rooms, the front rooms are mostly empty, but the back rooms are full of alien beast eggs. Each alien egg is embedded in the walls, floors, and even ceilings. Each egg has a root attached to it, which appears to be transporting/nutrients through the roots.
This floor should be the hatchery. Qianye continued to go deeper, but the room on the lower floor made him a little puzzled. The space in each room was large, and there were rows of stone platforms with rows of pits, which looked like the places where the eggs of the alien beasts were placed, but the size was significantly smaller than the normal alien eggs he had ever seen.
Every room here was empty, there was nothing, and there was no use for it. But there is an entire floor of such a room in the beast's nest, and it cannot be said to be useless.
Qianye put her doubts aside for a moment and moved on to the next floor. When he arrived, he suddenly raised his alertness, and clearly felt that a huge will was awakening.
With Qianye Dongyue in hand, he walked forward slowly, and when he stepped on the flat ground again, his eyes suddenly opened up, and a huge underground space appeared.
It's huge and magnificent, and it can be called a giant hall. Below is an underground lake, fed by the sap of sacred trees. In the middle of the lake, there is a huge spherical object that floats on a heavy load.
It is grayish-white in color and has dark gray lines on the surface, which is undulating regularly. Standing in front of this huge sphere with a diameter of at least fifty meters, Qianye looked like an ant.
When Chiya came to the edge of the Earth Lake, a consciousness touched Chiya's mind and sent out a message with a clear sense of inquiry.
However, Thousand Nights is unable to decipher this message, it obviously does not belong to any of the languages that Thousand Nights already know, and it does not have the ability to communicate directly with Thousand Nights. It's not like a six-armed creature that can overcome the language barrier and use consciousness to communicate directly with Qianye.
Perhaps seeing that Qianye did not respond, the gray giant ball sent out another interrogation. Qianye still didn't answer, and she didn't know how to answer. After a few moments, the gray ball interrogated for the third time.
As such, it sends out interrogations about every minute, and the content is exactly the same every time.
Qianye's vigilance gradually relaxed, and all signs showed that although this gray giant ball was large and ancient, it had little intelligence, let alone the ability to actively attack, and only some passive response mechanisms, like a machine that needed to be operated manually.