Chapter 168: The Underground of the Underground

'Click......'

The sound of something in motion rang out on the ground covered with golden statues.

The sand on the ground was trembling slightly, and the Spy could clearly feel as if something was moving underground.

The noise seemed to have an effect on the 'creator', who, as if frightened, flew farther away from its current spy position.

'Boom ......'

The tremor lasted for tens of seconds before slowly stopping.

It used to feel like something was going to come out, but now it doesn't look like it...... In short, let's go find the 'creator' first, and don't get too far away from it.

The spy then walked in the direction of the 'creator'.

After a short walk down the aisle in the middle of the statue, the Spy reached the end of the firelight, and although the statues continued to line up, there were no more torches on the ground.

This makes the surroundings appear pitch black.

While pitch black wasn't a problem for Spies, it would give Lynn the impression that there might be some traps in there, as there weren't many creatures to get nutrients from, and it would be difficult to recover if she was injured.

Maybe we should get some 'reinforcements' to come here.

As he thought so, the spy stepped into the darkness.

Flanked here are a large lobster statue, which seems to be the first time Lynn has seen a statue of an aquatic creature, though it is still arthropod......

Looking at the marks on these statues, Lynn knew that they were very old like the others.

If you see a new one, it means that it has been made recently. And it usually looks different, too.

It's in the midst of this darkness. The Spy sees a ...... appear next to him Statue of Mao Yu.

This Mao Yu is three meters long. It's small compared to the statues around it, but it looks quite imposing with golden hair that looks like a sharp blade.

This thing was apparently recently created as well, but none of the atmospheric creatures in it were responsible for controlling zhì.

The Spy continued to move forward in the dark, getting farther and farther away from the place where there was a fire before, and the Spy looked at the light behind him from time to time, and Lynn felt that the flames were triggered by some kind of mechanism, so after the Spy left. Maybe it will be extinguished.

At the moment when Lin thought this, all the firelight in the distance suddenly disappeared, and the entire cave fell into complete darkness in an instant......

However, at this time, the spy also arrived at the position where the previous creator was staying.

The creator had been here until the spy made the noise, and it seemed to be fiddling with something, and it didn't run away until it appeared, and now it was dozens of meters away, and it was still flying farther away.

Lynn can ignore it for now and investigate the place first. Because there's something different here.

Between the two statues to the left of the spy stands what appears to be a stone tablet.

This stele is two meters high. It was also two meters wide, and the Spy found that it was carved with a lot of what looked like text.

Although Lynn didn't understand the words yet, Lynn knew which creature did...... The imam, it said that it knew some of the words about the 'creators'.

But don't ask about it for now, because, on these engravings, the spy can smell the scent left by the creator.

Apparently, it touched the text not so long ago, and ...... Based on the residual scent information, Lynn discovered that it may have swiped her finger across the engraving text, with traces of smell in every word on it.

Moreover, the Spy was able to tell which scent was newer, and could tell that it had touched the words on the stele in a certain order.

Maybe this will trigger something?

The Spy also slowly ran his fingers across each text, exactly in the order of the creator.

'......Boom' was heard on the ground behind the stele as the spy reached the tenth word......

I didn't expect it to be really effective, it seems that there is no need for any special signal, just touch.

The Spy walks behind the stele and finds an opening in the ground, which appears to be a passage into the depths of the ground.

However, the message of the creator does not extend to this cave...... In other words, it was just scratching those words and didn't enter the place.

However, the spy still wanted to go in and have a look...... Maybe you'll find something interesting.

The Spy walked into the passage, where the ground was fairly smooth, just like the surrounding rock walls, specially constructed, and on either side of the passage, there were quite a few ...... Draw.

The stone paintings depict a creature that looks like a fish...... No, this is supposed to be a 'half-fish', the creatures that were raised to help the silverknuckle carry things......

And in the paintings here, they're also carrying things.

The half-fish on the rock wall carry all kinds of shapes, most of them are square objects, and the paintings stretch along the rock wall, and the paintings on both sides of the rock wall show them carrying things in one direction.

Next to these 'porters' are a large fish that resembles a species called a 'stonefish', with a fat body and sharp teeth, as if monitoring the carrying of the half-fish......

And on the bodies of these 'stonefish', there are also small creatures - ancient squid, which seem to lie on the body of the fish and do nothing.

Are they ......

In the next painting, Lynn sees the end of their carrying, and in this painting here, the half-fish are piecing things together and making them into a large ...... Scorpion.

Could it be ...... They made those statues out there?

However, the painting does not draw a detailed patchwork process, just drawing them to put things together, and then they become scorpions.

Seeing this, the spy had also come to an end in the passage, and now there was a stone wall in front of the spy, and according to her previous experience, Lin thought that she would definitely be able to move forward here.

The Spy knocked on the wall slightly. From the resounding sound. Lynn could indeed tell that there was an open space inside. But listen carefully......

The trap should be in this position......

'Bang! The Spy kicked the wall so hard that a lot of sand fell from the wall, and the place where the Spy had kicked it sank in, and then the whole wall made a noise and slowly moved to one side.

Sure enough, the mechanism was in this position.

'......Boom' after the wall has been completely removed. The Spy stepped into the room, and the first thing he saw was a large number of ...... Little golden beetle.

They seemed to be embedded in the ground, each beetle had two pairs of sharp jaws, and they were quite densely packed, but there was still enough space between them for a spy to walk through.

The spy walked slowly between the beetles, and in this room, in addition to the beetles all over the floor, there were some tall golden ammonite statues......

These statues are supposed to be real statues, not something that moves.

And here on the rock face. You can also see a number of paintings, and the main character in these paintings is still half-fish. Creatures like ancient squid, they carry those large statues in the painting, and in the painting there are atmospheric creatures flying down from the sky, and they seem to be receiving these statues and carrying them into the air.

Although Lynn felt that atmospheric creatures couldn't move the statues, they certainly had some way.

However, this also seems to prove that the statues here were all made by half-fish and then handed over to the atmospheric creatures in the sky?

In all the paintings, there is no appearance of the 'creator'.

It seems difficult to figure out the relationship between them at the moment...... However, it is confirmed that it was once inhabited by a large number of marine life......

In addition to the half-fish statues, the paintings also depict their lives, building their nests out of rocks and living with ancient squid.

Ancient squid usually don't do anything, at least that's how they look in the paintings.

The place is full of water, but I don't know why it has become so dry now.

'Click......'

The Spy suddenly heard a voice behind him.

I saw that the surface of a golden beetle statue on the ground was cracked.

Strange, could this figurine move? The Spy crouched down and looked at it carefully, the statue's golden shell slowly cracking, and beneath the gold, the pitch-black carapace......

Could it be that this is...... Living things?

The beetle's golden shell was almost completely peeled off, and a beetle with a black shell appeared in front of the Spy's eyes, constantly shaking its tentacles and moving around on the ground......

This beetle ...... Not an alloy device that is controlled, but a living creature.

The same was true for nearby beetles, which began to slowly shed their shells and sway around on the ground.

Suddenly, a beetle touches the Spy's foot.

Almost instantly, all the beetles surrounded him, and they crawled onto the Spy's body at such speed that the swarm of beetles completely enveloped the Spy, and the Spy felt every part of his body being torn at by them.

More beetles surrounded them, and they surrounded the spy one by one, and the spy didn't move......

In this way, the beetle group that surrounded the spy was piled up under the stone wall, not moving, and this state lasted for a long time...... For a long time.

Until at some point.

'Smack! A hand came out of the beetle pile, and then the whole body.

The Spy stepped out of the swarm and patted the hanging beetle.

Looking at the beetle pile before, they are no longer moving, in fact most of them have gone into a dormant state, but some of them have been 'eaten' by the Spy.

A lot of interesting phenomena have been found in them, especially ...... their memory. (To be continued......)

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