The South China Sea relics group is indeed worthy of the name of 'South China Sea', although the underground karst caves extend in all directions, but as long as you explore downward, you will definitely encounter the turbulent underground dark river and even the vast saltwater lake, among which there are many strange primitive sea monsters swimming, but also there are fluorescent algae groups, fog thunderclouds, floating jellyfish and other strange scenes, the weather is thousands.

However, except for the scouts and the monks of the Church of Spiritual Machines who specialize in documenting the ruins, none of them have any intention of appreciating the beauty of these landscapes, they are just bent on finding the main body of the ruins of the pre-era civilization that may exist, and they want to hunt down the imperial mongrels who killed their comrades.

However, even though he was filled with anger, the captain still keenly observed many things that were wrong as he pursued along the way.

- Why are some of those huge underground lakes, seas, and rivers so hot that they are almost boiling, and evaporate countless hot gases? Some lakes are as cold as ice, and the creatures that wander in them are not very active, and they don't even know why they are alive.

On top of that, the hot springs and the cold pools are not even 100 meters apart, so why are they so different?

With the keen intuition of the former reconnaissance ace, the captain can determine that the reason for the difference is inextricably linked to the current situation of the large ruins group.

But soon, he kept these thoughts to the bottom of his heart.

Because after a few hours of tracking, they finally caught up with Ian and Ethan.

The Ice Lake Cave located deep underground was damp and cold, which was really difficult for the soldiers from the Flying Flame Land, especially when they turned on the searchlight and noticed that the source of the fluorescence in front of them was all huge maroon mushrooms.

Click, click, I saw that among the giant mushrooms, many monsters with giant golden mushrooms on their backs raised their heads, they were very sensitive to light, and the largest of them was a scaleless iron snake, it was extremely huge, more than twenty meters long, and the parasitic metal mushrooms on the body were not huge, but they were all shining silver, like the sharp spines on the back of a giant dragon, which was obviously a special species.

Or according to the custom of the Terra continent, it's the 'Labyrinth Species'!

The black-bodyed, silver-fined scaleless iron snake hovered its head at the group of outsiders, and although it was slow to move due to the low temperature, it also sensed that the group of visitors was not good, so it spat out snake letters and hissed warning sounds.

"This mushroom also seems to be a parasitic species...... Don't come closer, burn with fire! ”

The captain's judgment was not wrong, in the face of this fungal parasite, it was indeed best to use fire - plus they had seen the horror of the parasite here, of course, they did not dare to take it lightly.

However, when the flamethrowers of the Flamelands begin to prepare to use their flamethrowers to deal with the giant mushrooms and symbiotes, the unexpected happens.

When the blue-white pillar of fire that was enough to melt all the metal rolled towards the scaleless iron snake led by it, the silver metal mushroom of the giant snake's entire body released a large number of fine dust spores with a 'bang', blocking the flame tongue from the surface of the body, and at the same time, it also instantly diffused the heat of the pillar of fire, heating the surrounding temperature.

"Hiss-"

Sensing the transfer of heat, the black serpent shook its head as if it was comfortable, and then, its lazy golden vertical pupils instantly transformed into the ferocity of a predator, and its movements became several times faster than before in an instant.

Syllable! With a flick of its tail, the giant snake suddenly blew up a silvery mist, and quickly pounced on the team of the Flying Flame Land, the huge and smooth, silver mushroom-covered body was so hard that it scraped the ground into large patches of rock powder just by acting.

The serpent carried the waves of the land and struck with a fierce momentum.

However, a watchman stepped forward with his shield raised, and he collided head-on with the serpent so violently that it even knocked the serpent's head crooked—but the serpent's tail was wrapped around the knight's leg in an instant, dragging the knight with great speed into the waterhole beside him.

"Don't worry about him, a labyrinth-like iron snake can't help a watch knight."

The friar was not worried, and even had the leisure to look around the cave.

She didn't know exactly what was going on here, but tracking showed that Ian and the others had indeed arrived here, and the captain immediately ordered the attack: "Burn a way!" ”。

At this moment, the soldiers of the Flying Flame Land had already begun an all-out battle against these giant mushrooms and demonic beasts.

For a while, the cave was full of gunshots, bullets swept and bounced in all directions, and several bladed soldiers of the vanguard also formed a formation, stepped forward to slash and slash, killing and smashing many demonic beasts and giant mushrooms that were still slowly recovering their activities, making the air filled with a glowing light, which was the result of the volatilization of the fluorescent liquid.

And with the squad leader knight who is the sublimator, he holds a long-handled broad sword, the broad sword is engraved with an inscription that increases strength and sharpness, and when it is wielded, there is a faint earthy yellow track, and the force is even heavier, and every sword cut off, can cut off the head of a symbiotic beast, and even cut off the waist!

The captain also drew his sword after ordering the team to line up.

"Follow me!" With that, he swung his sword forward and slashed at a venoligant mushroom crocodile dragon that had been activated and was shining fiercely.

The captain deliberately did not slash the crocodile's metalized scale armor, which looked incomparably hard, but slashed at the giant golden mushroom that looked more like a 'main body'.

After sensing the temperature rise, the brown skin of this giant mushroom began to gradually stretch and become smooth, and the sunken fluorescent liquid emitted a strange sweet fragrance, which made people who smelled it a little smoky.

While!

The captain slashed at the giant mushroom with a sword, but it didn't feel as smooth as the hot knife cutting butter as expected, but instead it was like cutting wood with a blunt knife, and many times it was not cut off with a sharp edge, but smashed into a dent.

After the giant mushroom was dented, translucent mushroom juice flowed out of the broken hard shell, and the mushroom did not have any fishy smell, but the sweet fragrance in the air suddenly became much stronger.

As the flamethrowers on both sides burned down a lot of giant golden mushrooms and those small magical beasts, the fragrance in the air was already unpleasantly strong, and the excessive scent stimulation had begun to make many soldiers with less strict gas masks begin to feel dizzy.

"Wait, ceasefire!"

At this moment, the captain also felt that something was wrong, as they fought, guns and flamethrowers were used, the temperature of the cave rose, and the originally cold and gloomy cave suddenly became brighter - all the giant mushrooms around them began to fluoresce all over their bodies, and the air was filled with the smell of spores and secretions that choked people.

Although I don't know biology and don't know what this scene means, as long as I am a normal person, I will feel the danger: "Retreat!" It's dangerous! ”

Again, this was the right decision, but unfortunately it was too late.

Ian, who had intended to use a pressurized water gun to sneak up on the mushrooms, sensed something, put away his weapon, and quietly retreated with Isengard and Master Gosai.

And just after the three of them separated.

Rumble!

A mound of earth entrenched by a large amount of giant golden mushrooms shook violently, and the huge shock wave even shook the entire cavern, and even the soldiers of the Flying Flame Land could not help but disperse their formation.

When several soldiers stood firm, trying to look up to see what was shaking the earth, they all retreated in shock, and even subconsciously turned around and fled.

I saw that in the shock, a mound of earth suddenly bulged, bringing up a series of corpses of beasts and monsters buried in the soil, including even human corpses, which were the corpses of symbiotic beasts that had absorbed all the nutrients after the symbiosis of the giant mushrooms for many years.

They were covered in mycelium, their bodies stiff and corroded, but now they were all active, silently lunging towards the soldiers of the Flying Flame Lands.

At the same time, there was another violent shock, and the mound completely collapsed, revealing the true body of the beneath behemoth.

It was an extremely huge fortress giant tortoise, and its ten-meter-long tortoise shell was covered with giant golden mushrooms, large and small!

The giant tortoise was not a corpse, it was still alive, but it had been dormant before, awakened by the heat of the open flame.

A large amount of hyphae flowed from the cracks in its carapace and wrapped around the corpses, and it was vaguely visible that the giant tortoise's eyes were actually blind, and a stack of fungus-shaped mushrooms had proliferated at its pupils.

The giant tortoise let out an angry roar in the face of the flameland team that was constantly attacking it, and the icy water in the waterhole suddenly rose and swept towards the ranks of soldiers—if it weren't for the friar's action and the invisible psionic energy that broke the waves that rolled like seaweed, I am afraid that many soldiers would have been swept into the waterhole by the waves controlled by the giant tortoise.

"Ian...... Is there really nothing wrong with the mushroom liquid we drank before? ”

Isengard, who had followed Ian to an exit, watched the monsters and corpses controlled by the giant mushroom fight against the Flameland team.

While he was relieving his anger and gloating, he suddenly thought that he and the others had also drunk these fungal secretions that also had parasitic characteristics, and he couldn't help but be a little frightened: "I'm okay, the blood of the Eclipse Light Refining Dragon can digest almost all parasites and toxins, but you and Teacher Gesai ......"

He didn't want to eat the relics indiscriminately, causing his stomach to be covered with that kind of giant golden mushroom inside and outside his body!