"Worm, come here, hand me that thing. ”

A black worker looked at the gardener's dragon, took the translated instructions from her, and followed them. A pair of slender tentacles picked up a shiny stone from the ground, raised it above his head, and placed it on the table in front of Zhao's father.

Since the beginning of the afternoon project, Z bug has maintained a very high work efficiency. By dusk, the old mine has been cleared, and all that remains is sorting. Zhao Mai pinched a stone table for his father, equipped with chairs, lanterns and other tools, so that he had a place to check those miscellaneous things. The rest of the time, Zhao Mai sat beside his father and watched him concentrate on his work without saying a word.

Reading glasses hang loosely on the bridge of the nose, wobbly but just won't fall off; a pair of gloves that are always carried with you, even if you forget to bring your keys, wallet, and mobile phone, you never forget it; a magnifying glass, although it is not very useful in the work in front of you, as long as it is within sight, it will put Zhao Mai's father into a working state. He didn't care about his son's gaze at all, and the movements of his hands were quick and accurate, and he could see at a glance what everything was doing before.

Most of it is mine equipment that has been reduced to debris in earthquakes, landslides and burials. Of the five people who disappeared that year, four of them were found in the stone ball, but the stone ball was far away from the mine, and there was no passage in between, which was already very strange. But even more bizarre is the missing fifth man, whose remains have been dug all over the mine.

How did the stone ball come to be put down, and how the last person ended up was more affected by Zhao's father's mood, and the current result obviously made him unsatisfied. "Keep digging down until you take out the location of the stone ball. Can your bugs do that job?"

"Of course you can, but once we dig there, whatever we find, we're leaving. Zhao Mai said.

"Hmm...... Odd. The father did not agree to Zhao Mai's words, but said: "Do you remember the crystal you took from the cabinet? I remember when I went down the mine, I saw more than that, it should be at least dozens of catties, I just picked a very small one, just enough to put in my pocket." That kind of thing doesn't go away, it's just crushed, but what about the pieces? Your bugs......"

"They don't miss anything, the original mine has been cleaned, and there are topographic tomography scans on the car, and possible cracks have been searched. Now it's digging in the direction of the stone ball, and there are no crystals along the way. ”

Dad Zhao shook his head slightly, lost in thought. He wanted to go down the well, but Zhao Mai resolutely stopped him. "I can provide as many stone samples as I want. As for going down the well, let the people from the relevant ministries and commissions strengthen this place, and they will go down, and you can just read the report. If you don't agree, I'd rather destroy this place completely and cut off your thoughts. ”

"Destroy this and destroy that, are you a cannonball?" Although Zhao Mai's head was slapped slightly, he felt that it was worth it.

As the excavation continued to go deeper, some strange things were sent up by the Z bug. First of all, there are some thin and long bones, which are supposed to be human bones in terms of composition, but who can have a three-meter-long calf bone? Zhao Mai puzzled in the open space of the mine, roughly piecing together an ultra-long human skeleton that was more than fifteen meters tall and still less than one meter wide at the shoulders.

"Look at the old wound on his ulna, it must have been a broken bone. The wound was also stretched. "The analysis of the stone father is a master, and the analysis of biological remains is Zhao Mai's world. "It was a scab two fingers wide, and if there had been such a large crack at that time, his arm would have been cut in two. The only explanation for this phenomenon is that the power of space is at work, pulling his body like a ragon. ”

Dad Zhao shook his head and said helplessly: "The current situation is no longer inexplicable according to my knowledge, let's listen to what you say first." ”

"Actually, there is nothing to say, this is the fifth person who is missing. Zhao Mai said: "The five people are ordinary miners, and their range of activities can only be mines. The stone ball is deeper underground, and it must have some way to suck people inside, and spatial teleportation is the best. Five people, four were sucked in, and one was lost on the way, which is the skeleton we saw. All his stuff is elongated vertically, that's how it came about. ”

"It sounds impeccable at the moment, but where did all the crystals go?" Zhao's father still worried about this doubt. Zhao Mai is also very helpless about this, his father who has entered this state will always be uncomfortable if he doesn't find out the answer, he will always think and think, and he doesn't want to do anything else. My own meditation of going into a state of daze (if it is not for the immortal constitution, it will sit and die) is inherited from here.

The Z worm dug deeper and deeper, gradually digging out more strange things. All sorts of bone fragments quickly piled up on the table, too far away and too badly damaged for Zhao Mai to sort and repair. In this way, the stone ball still needs to eat to replenish itself, and at this time, it uses some kind of spatial ability to suck the target in - but this ability is not always successful.

But the act of eating is clearly very important to it, even more so than its main purpose of hiding itself. In this way, the matter of "eating" should be in a fairly high position in the demand ranking of Nakus. From the plasticine inside the stone shell to the incredible existence that surpasses the galaxy, Naykoth is "eating".

Zhao Mai eats to replenish the body's material and energy consumption. But if you think about it, Nakus has been in a low-energy state, and all the free energy around it is converging towards it and being swallowed by it, so why does it still eat? Moreover, it eats all living things, and does not eat dirt, rocks, and other things that are full. At this point, Zhao Mai's Z worm and Nai Kusi are completely different. Z worms do not need to swallow other organisms into their stomachs, they only need a basic physical environment, and then they can reproduce on their own and build a suitable ecological environment. If the Z worm is the builder, the Naykos is the destroyer.

"But in this way, isn't it Nakusi preying on Z worms?" Zhao Mai looked at the corpse and pondered, "It's not right, Nakusi eats all creatures, and it's not just Z worms." Creature...... Abiotic ...... Could it be that Naykoth eats souls, or life force?Remember that in Granion, Naykoth's Sanctuary also tried to kidnap the mangrove druids, Wadsworth!

The answer to this question is unknown, but another answer has emerged. Towards the end of the excavation, the Z-worm finally found the remains of the crystal, and the amount unearthed was quite staggering, weighing seven tons. Along with the crystal, there are also a large number of eggshell-like fragments, all kinds of colors, almost the entire color spectrum. Zhao Mai picked up a piece, looked at the texture, and then with an incredible expression, carefully took a bite on it, and ate it with a crunch.

"This thing...... Is it a dragon egg?"