The maidens cut through the fog and finally saw the inside of the Marks of the Earth. Looking overhead, the sky was covered in fog. But even so, sunlight can still shine through the fog layer into the marks of the earth, as if the fog layer is just a one-way passage. Standing at the last transit station at a height of more than 300 meters, looking down, there is a green world below, more than 600,000 square meters of crypts are covered with trees and grass, there are low shrubs, but more are more than a large number of ferns. Each of these ferns is hundreds of meters tall, and humans are almost like a grain on the beach.

In the vast forest, the occasional roar of animals can be heard, and in the sky above the fern forest, dozens of birds hovering in the air, and the whole trace of the earth is full of life, making it difficult to imagine that this is actually a world covered by a layer of fog hundreds of meters thick, and a world in an underground pit.

"Is that why Pannis said not to be stunned?" Catherine said suspiciously, "Although it does seem strange and unreasonable, it is not enough to make people stunned." ”

"No, that's not what he's talking about. Ike explained, "You can't see it here, but you'll notice it when you get down to the ground, it's an interesting world." ”

Soon, the rest of the people also broke out of the fog and returned to this normal space, Freya frowned at the birds hovering in the distance below, and said to Lina, "If you look closely, they seem to be the same creatures as I told you just now. ”

"Let's go. "Don't let them wait too long down there, it's not a safe place down there, it's full of creatures stranger than these birds, and if you don't pay attention, it's not impossible to put your life in danger." ”

"Okay, okay, I'll leave now, don't rush. Freya said dissatisfiedly: "It's a good thing that Vivien didn't find out, otherwise she would have to find out about this bird even if she tried her best, if she found something, it might cause a sensation." ”

On this last stretch of the road, as there was no obstruction, everyone was very fast, and Catherine even followed the example of Pannis, and after descending a long distance quickly, she used the rappeller to control her speed slightly, so that she reached the ground faster than anyone else. As soon as her feet stepped on the ground, she breathed a heavy sigh of relief. People who have not experienced long-term suspended work cannot understand this feeling, and for the dangerous rappelling that has just ended, or the thick earth can bring people more security. After untying Vivian from her back and putting it on the ground, Catherine suddenly frowned and said, "Why does it feel so strange here? The temperature is too high, and the humidity is quite high, not at all like the climate of the Mountain Country. ”

"Eldest sister, don't forget, this place is more than a thousand meters lower than the height where the Mountain Country should be. Vivien said, "If you want to compare, let's compare it with the Lost Forest, which is about the same height as here. ”

"No, no, no, you probably won't feel it, even if it's the Lost Forest, it's not as humid as here. Catherine touched Vivian's blue work dress: "You see, just a few minutes after coming down, the cloth clothes are already a little damp, and the petticoat under my scales is the same, sticky to my body is very uncomfortable, what is the situation here?"

"That's the way it is in the Traces of the Earth. Ike didn't stay by the rope as he used to, but after Catherine came down, he began to move around, and just came back and replied, "It's hard to stay dry here because it's hot and humid, and it rains a lot." However, it would be good to go underground through those cracks, and the underground environment will become drier and drier the way down, and then you will be much more comfortable. ”

"And the air isn't quite right. Catherine wondered, "Is it my delusion? I think the air here is not quite the same as it is above, there is something special." It felt as if the fog layer above had divided the upper and lower places into two different worlds, and even the air was cut off. ”

"Sister, do you feel it too?" Lina and Freya descended together again, and when they were still in mid-air, Lina heard Catherine's question: "I didn't feel much when I first passed through the fog, but the further down I climbed, the more obvious this feeling became, the air here must be different from above, but I can't think of the difference." ”

"It's really different. Ike nodded, "Be careful with the air here, it's not harmless." If you let an ordinary person live here, I'm afraid that you will fall into madness in a day or two, even if we are professionals, if we stay here for a long time, it will be greatly affected intellectually, so we must think more about it when making a decision. ”

"You mean the air here is poisonous?" Lina was stunned for a moment, casually cast a toxin detection magic spell, shook her head and said: "No, the magic shows that there are no toxins here, and it should be harmless." ”

"It's not that the air is toxic. Ike shook his head and said, "I don't know why, but if you stay here for a long time, ordinary people will go crazy, and if you are a high-level professional, you will feel groggy and weak, and you always want to sleep, and sometimes it will become difficult to control yourself, like, like, just like ......"

"It's like getting drunk. The last one to fall down the rope was Pannis, and as he took the rope, he said, "I can't figure out why, but at first I felt more and more excited, but soon I felt drowsy and weak, and it was completely a symptom of drunkenness." But don't worry, for high-level professionals, it is difficult to have a follow-up situation if you don't stay here for more than a month, at most, you feel that you are extremely excited, and the problem will not be too big. It was the same when I came down last time, and I can get used to it. ”

"Alright, now we've officially entered the world of Earthmarks. Ike clapped his hands and drew everyone's attention back: "Here you will see a lot of things that you have never seen in your life, but these things are often dangerous, if you don't have to, try not to get close if you can, so as not to get hurt unexpectedly." ”

"Oh my gosh, what is that. As Ike spoke, Catherine suddenly covered her mouth and exclaimed, "Why is this thing so big?" ”

"Oh, that's what I'm talking about. Ike glanced back and said nonchalantly, "You'll see a lot of similar creatures along the way, and there will be a lot of strange animals, so just get used to it." ”

What made Catherine exclaim was a dragonfly, hovering near a small puddle nearby. This scene is so normal that there is nothing surprising about it, of course, if the size of the dragonfly is reduced by a factor of hundreds. The dragonfly that Catherine saw was nearly three meters long, with two dark eyes as big as a baby's head, transparent wings spread out for two meters, and its wings made an annoying buzzing sound when they flapped at high speed, bringing gusts of breeze.

Catherine looked at the dragonfly, as if she suddenly remembered something, raised her head and looked up at the giant plant that was more than a hundred meters high and could not see the top of the tree, and then looked at some scratches and tooth marks left on the trunk, and asked with a twitch at the corner of her mouth: "Mr. Ike, all this is not quite normal, how do I feel, our size has suddenly shrunk?"

"So I said at the beginning, don't be stunned. Pannis said with a smile, "You're luckier than me, the first time I came down, I saw a dragonfly. ”

"We're not shrinking. Ike understood Catherine's amazement, as he felt the same way when he first saw them: "These creatures here are so huge, no wonder you're startled." ”

"But that's not right. Lina lowered her head and flipped through the book in her hand: "These creatures shouldn't be so big, the space here may be very large for the Marks of the Earth, but compared to the outside world, there is no comparison at all." It stands to reason that there should be no such large creatures in such a confined space. ”

"Yes, I've seen a study on the linear relationship between the size of an organism and the openness of the growing environment. Vivien turned to Freya and asked, "You should have seen it, it was argued that the size of a creature is bound to be limited by the openness of the environment in which it is located, and even if it is an alien creature, it will be affected by the openness of the environment in a few generations." ”

"But it's not small. Ike shook his head and said, "You only see this one, you can't help but feel small, but there are more than thirty traces of the earth here, all of them are connected, and there is a very, very wide space underground, with plants, air, and even light, enough for these giant creatures to live." ”

"Why don't these creatures go up? Ordinary animals can't climb up, but these flying creatures can go up, but I've never seen them before. Freya looked up at the fog layer in the sky: "Could it be that those above are just insurance measures to prevent them from going to the outside world?"

"They're going to die. Pannis shook his head, "We've tried a few times before, caught a smaller animal and brought it up, but within a few minutes of leaving the fog, it died. A variety of different creatures, without exception. ”

"Why is that?" asked Lina, her eyes wide with curiosity.

"No one can figure out why. Pannis shrugged: "Maybe it has something to do with the environment here, who knows?" wait, the ground is shaking, shh......h

Pannis raised his finger to stop everyone from making a sound, and soon, everyone felt the shaking of the ground, and the amplitude of the vibration became stronger and stronger, and even the giant profession more than 100 meters high in front of him was swaying gently, and there was a sound of clattering leaves colliding.

In the next moment, the eyes of several girls were full of surprise. (To be continued.) )