Chapter Twenty-Seven: Crystallization Underground
Crystals, this special thing that absorbs light is abundant under the glittering woodland, and the deeper you go, the more abundant it becomes.
So, the 'sappers' of the excavation force formed by Lin kept digging deep underground, and in the many forks, a huge main road leading directly to the ground appeared, which was about two meters in diameter and led to the underground abyss hundreds of meters deep.
In the dark underground, Lin will place a lantern every short distance to illuminate, like a street lamp, underground, Lin found many creatures without vision, most of them rely on smell or touch activities, although Lin can do that, but Lin is quite disgusted by the loss of vision, which Lin herself does not know why.
The Sapper is a 30-centimeter-long, beetle-like digging class with a serrated forelimbs that are ideal for digging, and Lynn discovers that the beetle's structure is ideal for using hydraulics, as it is actually the most powerful of the creatures Lynn has ever found.
Lynn usually excavates a section of the road, then transports all the crystals of that section of the road back to excavate the next section.
As Lynn studied the various messages received by the Brain Readers, the sappers dug deeper and deeper, and as they dug in the dark of night, they discovered something peculiar...... Thing.
After a sapper dug through some of the dirt in front of it, it found that in front of it was a layer of crystals, which was like a wall in front of the digging troops.
Lin didn't care at first, because the crystals that appeared at this depth were also getting bigger and bigger, and in order to deal with this kind of large crystals, Lin specially prepared a kind of class - Rock Crusher.
In fact, it is a modified version of the previous smasher, the same beetle shape, a meter-long body, and the cone angle of the head can be instantly popped out under the action of the hydraulic system, which is used to crush various rocks and large crystals encountered in the ground.
But when she shattered the wall-like crystallization in front of her, an incredible scene appeared in front of Lynn's eyes.
An underground cavern that appears behind the shattered crystalline wall......
When several sappers entered the cave with the lantern, Lin found that the cave was huge and spacious, about five meters high, and the width was more than the lantern could illuminate.
But most importantly, the cave walls here are all made of crystals, and there are huge diamond-shaped pillars raised above the ground, which is a world made of crystals!
While the work of the Brain Reader continues, Lynn has completely turned her attention to this crystallized world.
The sapper took the lantern and slowly made his way through the crystallized land, and Lynn didn't know if it was shaped by living things or natural.
Speaking of which, the word 'natural' seems to refer to non-living things, but it seems to have nothing to do with the sky, so why is it called natural? Forget it, no matter how much.
The cave was quite spacious, and the sappers had been walking for a while, dozens of meters away, and the light of the lantern still could not reach the surrounding cave walls.
At this moment, Lynn suddenly heard some small voices......
The sapper immediately turned his light to the target, and in the light, Lynn spotted some small creatures moving there.
These creatures resemble ice monsters, and their bodies are clad in crystalline armor, reminding Lynn of the creatures she used to have in the crystallized lands of the sea.
The creature looked like a scorpion without a tail, and its body was just over ten centimeters long, so Lin was going to call it a 'crystal scorpion', which seemed uncreative......
There were dozens of crystal scorpions here, and as soon as they sensed Lynn's sappers approaching, they immediately threw down the crystals and ran away.
What are they doing? Lynn found that there were many small holes in the ground where the crystals were made, and there were quite a lot of debris near the holes, as if the crystal scorpions were digging up the crystals in the ground, and they probably used pliers to dig up the crystals and then crush them into smaller pieces.
Lin asked a few sappers to catch up with the crystal scorpion, although they were small, but they ran quite fast, but the crystal scorpion didn't seem to know how to hide behind those crystal pillars, and it wouldn't scatter and escape, but would only run in a straight line, so it was still quite easy to chase.
After chasing for a while, Lin noticed that a huge black shadow appeared in front of her, and the crystal scorpions instantly burrowed into this black shadow and disappeared.
What is this? A big monster? In the process of chasing, the sapper did not bring a lantern, but relied entirely on hearing and smell to chase, so he could only see the faint black shadow of this thing through the sparse light from the lantern placed in the distance.
Wait, as if this is not an object......
Lynn asked a sapper to bring the lantern, and in the clearer and clearer light, Lynn saw this thing, no, should I say this pile...... It's a whole bunch of branches!
These branches were piled up in the crystalline cavern in front of Lynn's eyes, and I didn't know how many there were, could this be the reason why the ground of the glittering woodland was full of moss, and there were no branches?
There were a lot of scattered piles of branches on the surface of the Dark Plains, but the glittering land was full of moss, and Lynn had been wondering where the branches had gone, so they had all been transported deep underground.
In other words, is there a passage to the surface in this crystallized cavern, and there are creatures that carry these branches down?
Sure enough, this cave must have been dug by some kind of creature......
Lynn then noticed that all the piles of branches seemed to have been cut, and the bark had been shaved off, and all of them had been cut into cylindrical shapes, which looked very neat.
Well, there should be creatures underground that can digest the wood......
As soon as she thought of this, a huge creature suddenly rushed out of the pile of wood in front of Lin's eyes, it looked like a reptilian creature, but the scales on its body were shiny like crystals, this creature was more than three meters long, it instantly rushed to the nearest sapper with a lantern, opened its jaw and swallowed it and bit it into pieces.
Lynn decided to call the reptile 'Crystal Scale Lizard', and then she now decided to kill it.
Every time she sees a new species, Lynn usually takes a wait-and-see attitude, but if the other party attacks, Lynn will definitely fight back.
After eating one of the sappers, the Crystal Lizard immediately turned its attention to the other sappers, and Lynn caused all the sappers to rush forward, and they pounced on the lizard and attacked its body with their digging forelimbs.
But the carapace of the Crystal Lizard seemed to be very hard, and unlike normal crystals, it must have been reinforced, and it shook off all the sappers with a flick of its body, and then it opened its jaws and bit the nearest sapper.
But before it could merge its jaws, a sharp cone slammed into the lizard's flank, and it let out a scream from its mouth, and its entire body tilted to the side, retreating several meters away.
A huge wound appeared on the right side of the abdomen of the Crystal Scale Lizard, and the scales on the wound shattered as if it had been hit hard, and blood flowed out uncontrollably from it.
The Crystal Lizard turned its gaze to the beetle-like creature that had caused damage to it, the Rock Crusher.
The Rock Breaker has a super armor shattering ability, and although it was not created for combat, its cone horns are designed to shatter rocks with ease.
Before Lynn could make a move from the wounded lizard, the Rock Breaker rushed forward again.
The Crystal Lizard let out a roar and rushed forward with its jaws open in great rage.
Lynn told the Rock Breaker to lower his head and retract the cone angle to face the oncoming lizard, which was also pressed against the lizard's roof as the lizard bit the rock breaker's head.
'Smack'!
The constricted cone angle popped out in an instant under the action of the hydraulic system, and a bloody hole was punched in the upper jaw of the crystal scale lizard, and the sound from inside seemed to shatter the bones in the upper jaw.
The lizard spat out the Rock Breaker and let out a miserable cry as it stepped back, and though it was more than three times the size of the Rock Breaker, it was now a weak prey.
Lynn didn't stop attacking, and all the sappers and srushers rushed forward again, and the sappers used their pincers to dig open and widen the wounds of the crystal-scaled lizard, while the srushers were responsible for smashing the lizard's limbs and breaking its carapace.
The slain lizards soon became the nourishment of Lynn's digging team.
During the process of dismantling the lizard, Lynn found no special organs, except that the lizard's carapace was crystalline, and its structure was very similar to that of ordinary reptiles.
But there's something strange about it......
In the lizard's food sac, Lynn found many small insects with crystalline carapaces.
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