Chapter VI
"Alas, big guys have big troubles!" said a huge beast in the shallow waters near the shore. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
After leaving the icy trench, Sui Xiong set off towards the land of the giant whale's memory, and it didn't take long to reach this shore.
The scenery here is not good, the seaside is all black tidal flats, and you can smell a rotten stench from a long distance, which is simply a huge mud pond.
Sui Xiong didn't like this environment, but he didn't have a choice. According to the memory of the giant whale, all the known areas in this vicinity are such black tidal flats, and they are the same everywhere.
The giant whale has little curiosity, it just habitually cruises the sea, but even then, it once cruised along the coastline for two or three days in a row. Everywhere you go, there is no difference.
So Sui Xiong had no choice but to sigh, manipulate the body of the deformed giant jellyfish, and try to walk towards the shore.
He wasn't worried about the lack of oxygen or drying up, anyway, the jellyfish was already dead, so it didn't matter what happened. What's more, the thick skin that has been repeatedly strengthened by him is covered with a tough skin from the giant whale, which is completely enough to stop the loss of water from the body.
However, he overlooked one big thing.
Once on land, without the buoyancy of the seawater, the weight of the huge body of the giant beast is a big trouble.
He had already tried it just now, and even if it was not completely out of the water, the huge weight of the upper body alone had already made the tentacles carrying the weight sink deep into the beach mud, and every step forward was very troublesome. If you leave the water completely, you will not be able to move an inch.
Maybe he could force the way with his great strength, even if he had to leave a big hole in the ground with every step, he could move forward step by step, but that would not only be a waste of power, but also stupid.
Walk or dig in the ground......
Sui Xiong really didn't want to do that kind of foolish thing, so he had to use his brain and try to think of a solution to the problem.
After thinking about it, he finally came up with a solution that was not the way.
Since the body is large and heavy, and it is difficult to move, it is not enough to make the body smaller and lighter.
He can re-break down the musculoskeletal muscles that make up the body into nutrients, and then condense these nutrients to reduce volume and weight.
This kind of thing that is absolutely opposed to the common sense of biology and the conservation of mass is absolutely impossible on earth, but it is not impossible in this world.
It's just troublesome, and the process of transformation wastes a lot of nutrients.
Sui Xiong didn't want to waste it, but he had no choice in order to get on land, find people, and learn the details of the world.
The huge sea monster's body trembled and shrunk rapidly. After a while, it had shrunk from a mountain-like behemoth to less than one percent of what it had been.
According to the information in the memory of the giant whale, his current size is probably about the same as the small fishing boat used by ordinary fishermen.
Sui Xiong had the intention of shrinking a little more, but his body at the moment had been reduced to the extreme, except for the necessary skin, flesh and bone structure, the remaining part was almost entirely composed of highly concentrated nutrients, and there was no room for further compression.
"It's still a bit big, but it's just like that......"
With a sigh, the giant jellyfish, which was still called the giant beast of the sea, took a step, supported its body with dozens of tentacles, and crossed the muddy beach and landed on land.
The muddy beach was not an obstacle for Sui Xiong, and with a brisk stroke of tentacles, he walked across the beach and stepped into the woods by the sea in a short time.
The woods here are quite strange, whether it is the ground or the vegetation, they are all gray and black, but the black is different. Walking in the woods, I could feel an eerie force in the air, turbid and chaotic, which made Sui Xiong a little uncomfortable.
"Strange magic, the whale has never been in such a place in his memory, it seems to be unique to land. Sui Xiong sensed the situation around him as he moved forward, "Strange, why are there so few creatures in this forest? What the hell is going on?"
The strength of his soul is beyond the reach of the giant whale who has lived for an unknown number of years, even if he does not deliberately strengthen his senses, he knows the wind and grass in the surrounding area for several miles. In his senses, he was a little surprised to find that although the forest was lush with plants, it lacked animals and insects.
In the vast natural world, wherever there are plants, there should be herbivores that feed on plants, and then there should be carnivores that feed on herbivores, thus forming a food chain. Even if there are no animals, at least there should be adaptable insects. But the situation in the woods was completely contrary to the common sense of biology he knew, and it was indescribably strange.
You must know that he has been in this world for a long time, he has traveled many places in the vast sea, and by devouring his soul, he has obtained part of the memory of the narwhal, but he has never seen this strange phenomenon in his own eyes or in the memory of the giant whale.
Coupled with the strange magic that filled the air that even a giant whale had never seen, he had some unpleasant conjectures.
"This is the place of the ...... Could it be that the so-called 'forbidden land' was born because of the chaos of magical power?"
In this world, there are "forbidden places". Those places are either inhabited by terrifying monsters that are so powerful that they are perverted, or the magic is so strong and chaotic that they are so unbearable that they become forbidden areas of life that are intimidated by the vast majority of living beings.
For example, the Ice Trench that Sui Xiong cultivated not long ago was a "forbidden place".
Looking at the strange appearance of this forest, it does have a bit of a "forbidden land" meaning, but Sui Xiong never thought that there would be such a strange "forbidden land" in the world - it has little impact on plants, but it is extremely unfriendly to animals.
What's worse is that the body he uses at this moment is also a member of the animal.
After realizing this, he immediately became cautious, strengthened his sense of his surroundings, and did not dare to relax in the slightest.
Although his body is actually a soul, he may not be afraid of the dangers in this "forbidden land", but who knows if it will be worse?
Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years!
I walked cautiously for a while, but I didn't encounter any danger, but there were more insects around. Only then did Sui Xiong realize that he was probably overcareful and mistaken.
The scarcity of animals and insects in this forest may not be due to any danger, but simply because they don't like the seaside environment.
Sui Xiong mistook Feng Jing for Ma Liang, but it was a little joke.
Fortunately, he is alone here, and no one will really laugh at him.
Smiling self-deprecatingly, Sui Xiong finally put his mind at ease and moved on.
The black woods were so large that he had landed ashore in the afternoon until it was dark, and he had not been able to get out of the woods. Seeing the sunset and moonrise, although the night did not affect Sui Xiong's actions, he also habitually found a glade and rested for the time being.
Staying day and night is a habit he deliberately maintains, not for safety, but just to retain some traces of "people".
Over this time, Sui Xiong has found himself becoming more and more accustomed to the monster lifestyle, and has gradually forgotten the old way of life as a human. This made him a little uneasy, so he deliberately kept some human routines. Not for anything else, just to remind yourself that you are not really a big monster, but a "person".
The glade in the forest was devoid of vegetation, the soil was exceptionally black, and the chaotic magic in the air was much thicker. Sui Xiong's choice to rest here actually means a bit of temptation.
If there's anything weird in this wood, it's probably in this clearing or something.
He paused under a large tree at the edge of the clearing, waiting patiently.
Sure enough, it wasn't long before the last rays of the setting sun disappeared into the sky, and the woods suddenly changed.
Wisps of black gas emerged from the ground, like haze, gradually covering the earth.
Sui Xiong clearly saw that the black gas coming out of the clearing was thick and thick, and it was no longer a wisp, but a stream, like a small fountain.
He was vigilant and ready for battle.
As the black gas increased, the turbid and chaotic magic in the air gradually thickened, especially above the clearing, the magic power even gradually condensed to the naked eye, mixing with the black mist, turning into a flowing whirlpool.
After a while, the ground slowly cracked, and black skeletons emerged.
"What is this?Undead Disaster?" Sui Xiong was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect to see such a fantasy thing, he immediately looked at those skeletons carefully, but found that they didn't bring much danger to himself, and they didn't seem to be powerful.
He waited for a while, only to see more and more skeletons emerging from the ground, gradually squeezing into a pile, densely packed. But he stood there motionless, as if he was just in a daze.
"These skeletons...... What the hell is going on?"
Sui Xiong did not act rashly and continued to wait patiently.
When the number of skeletons reached a certain level, there were no more skeletons in the ground, but the turbid and chaotic magic in the air began to gradually condense and converge towards those skeletons.
Sui Xiong keenly felt that although the speed was not fast, these magic powers were being absorbed by these skeletons little by little.
This continued all night, until the moon was about to set and the sky was about to dawn, when the ground cracked again, and the skeletons all returned to the ground, and the thick magic quickly dissipated along with the black gas.
By the time the sun shone on the earth again, the woods had reverted to what he had seen at first.
Sui Xiong did not leave, but stayed next to this clearing, waiting for the next night.
The next night, what he had seen the previous night repeated.
When the sun shone on the earth again, and the skeletons returned to the bottom of the clearing, Sui Xiong couldn't help but smile.
It's a weird situation, but it's a lot of fun!