Chapter 24: The Strange Bird
The clanging sound echoed through the stalactite-filled space, and Wang Lung seemed to be tirelessly slashing the crystal nucleus over and over again.
I don't know how long it has been, the strange snake has not returned, Wang Lung threw the war knife in his hand to the ground weakly, and there are two crystal nuclei in front of him that have been smashed into the soil, the war knife has no gap, it is still black and sharp as usual, and the crystal nucleus does not have any debris splashed out, it seems that Wang Lung's efforts are in vain.
Looking down at the two intact crystal nuclei, Wang Lung was really speechless, he didn't expect the crystal nucleus to be so hard, it took most of his physical strength to cut it off, not even a trace of white marks.
There is nothing without flaws, and the fact that he keeps cutting it does not mean that the crystal nucleus is indestructible, but that his ability is not enough, Wang Lung can only comfort himself with such thoughts, thinking that he has tested the spar at the beginning, and the lower grade spar is already strong enough, and it contains a very pure aura.
Wang Lung sat weakly on the ground, as for the whereabouts of the strange snake, he didn't have time to think about it now, it wasn't that Wang Lung wasn't careful enough, but that the strange snake had never confronted him head-on, even if Wang Lung threatened the strange snake, the other party just glanced at him and turned away, as if he was not interested in Wang Lung's invasion, or that it didn't take Wang Lung in his eyes at all.
If that strange snake really wanted to confront Wang Lung head-on, I am afraid that it would have launched an attack a long time ago, and it would not leave first at the moment when Wang Lung made a move, but just threw out four fire spirit beasts to fight with Wang Long, even if Wang Lung killed the fire spirit beast, it would have no effect on the strange snake, and the two crystal nuclei on the ground were the best witness, they had been chopped by Wang Lung for a long time, and the strange snake had not been recalled by them. Because of this, Wang Lung believed that the strange snake would not sneak up on him, in other words, the other party might be waiting for him somewhere.
After thinking about it, Wang Lung put the two crystal nuclei on the ground into the storage spirit vessel. He has no choice but to wait until he returns to Earth to ask Arlinn, after all, Arlinn had warned him that there is danger beyond the Pure Land, and that there are fire-attribute monsters, and since Arlinn knows about the fire spirit beasts, then the matter of the crystal nucleus must also be known.
After putting away the crystal nucleus, Wang Lung picked up the war knife and put it between his legs, and sat cross-legged on the ground to meditate to recover his strength. Since leaving the Pure Land, although he has not done a lot of exercise, but just now it took more than ten percent of his strength to chop the crystal nucleus, and the time is not short, and most of his physical strength has been consumed, and now the strange snake does not know where to run, and before the other party makes a promise not to make trouble for him, Wang Lung will continue to fight against it.
Confrontation is fighting. You have to have enough physical support to get back to your best time to deal with what is to come.
Half a day later. Wang Lung slowly opened his eyes, his physical strength had been exhausted, and his condition could not be better, during the time of his meditation, the strange snake did not come to harass him, as if it had forgotten all about him.
Stand up. According to the direction in which the strange snake disappeared in his memory, there was the upper left corner of this space, this place was not big, only fifty zhang square, and there was a faint yellow light emitted by stalactites. You can see the whole picture at a glance, but when you look in the direction where the strange snake disappeared, Wang Lung finds that the place seems to be distorted, and you can clearly see that something is next to it, but if you look closely, there is nothing, Wang Lung is more surprised.
This discovery was not made when he first entered this place, could it be that the strange snake hid and sealed the only passage, Wang Lung thought to himself, but there was no pause under his feet, and he walked towards that place step by step.
It was only when he walked to the distorted passage that he saw from afar that Wang Lung found that there was a faint light curtain in front of him, and if he didn't walk in and take a closer look, there would indeed be that distorted feeling in the distance, just like the distortion caused by the burning of the air when the temperature reached a certain height.
Wang Lung didn't know what danger this light curtain had, so he didn't dare to risk himself, so he leaned over and picked up the stone on the ground, and then threw it at the light curtain, and soon, the stone passed through the light curtain without any obstacles, but the moment it passed through the light curtain, the trace of the stone was no longer visible.
The translucent light curtain, the image behind the light curtain is not real when seen by the naked eye, and even if the stone breaks through the light curtain, it is said that you can see the shadow or the afterimage that slides through the space, but now there is nothing, it seems that behind the light curtain is another layer of space.
Since the stone can pass through the light curtain and no attack falls, then this light curtain is just an entrance to the space, and the strange snake disappears here, and if you want to find the other party, you must pass through the light curtain.
Wang Lung stared at the light curtain and groaned slightly, as if he had made up his mind, he tapped his jaw and walked towards the light curtain.
The moment Wang Lung's body passed through the light curtain, he saw another place, completely different from the stalactite space behind him, dark yellow rocks, blood-red grass and trees, gray sky, thousands of huge mountains with magma spewing out from time to time in the distance, and occasionally a few unknown strange birds flying in the sky, everything here made Wang Lung unable to understand.
There was no trace of the strange snake, and the space in front of him seemed to be boundless, and there were at least dozens of mountains in his eyes, and the distance was far away, and the shadows could only see the general outline, and the huge mountain that erupted magma could be seen clearly, but the visual distance, at least hundreds of miles away from his current position.
This place is somewhat familiar, Wang Lung was shocked before he could see a little, the style and color of the rocks and trees are basically similar to those outside the Pure Land, but this place is richer than the outside of the Pure Land, at least there are mountains, grass and trees and unknown birds, as for whether there are other creatures, Wang Lung does not know for the time being, because he can only see these, and he has not moved half a step after entering this place.
After carefully looking at this space, Wang Lung had an illusion that he had come to a place far away from the Pure Land, this illusion seemed to be nonsense, Wang Lung himself felt that he couldn't say it, but in his heart, there was always such an idea lingering, which made him very incomprehensible.
Soon, Wang Lung was relieved, in the eyes of ordinary people, the sun is a balloon that exudes high heat, all composed of various gases, and there should be nothing other than gas. But Wang Lung knew that the Pure Land was in the center of the sun, and there were rocks and fire trees away from the Pure Land, and that hot spring was the only way to enter this place. Wang Lung can also guess roughly.
However, there is one thing that Wang Lung doesn't understand, the space he is standing in now, the terrain and all the things he sees show one point, that is, the fire element accounts for a large proportion of this place, and it is not an exaggeration to say that only the fire element exists here, but the temperature is not high.
After leaving the Pure Land, Wang Lung felt the high temperature very clearly. Even if he takes one more step, it is easy for his whole body to vaporize, if this is really what he thinks in his heart, why is the temperature not as good as the temperature of the hot spring, although it does not reach the suitable temperature for the spring flowers, but in his opinion, ordinary people standing here, at most they are sweating. That is, the feeling of thirty or forty degrees.
It's weird here, as weird as the snake. Wang Lung didn't know how to explain this place, so he could only bury his doubts in his heart, he had many questions that he couldn't understand, and it seemed that he could only return to Earth to find answers.
Wang Lung didn't know where the strange snake had gone, so he could only choose a direction to look for it. This space is really too big for him, as far as the eye can see, that strange snake can find a place to hide, I am afraid that I may not be able to find it for a year, but I can't find it if I don't look for it. There is only one seed left in Baiyue Shy, and the unstable factor of the Fire Spirit Beast will emerge at any time, and if it is not killed, there is no possibility of success.
Although the space is large, Wang Lung also has to look for it, he knew that this space is like this, and he said nothing to let the strange snake escape, but unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in the world.
Wang Lung looked back at the light curtain that flashed with faint fluorescence, and only after confirming that it would not dissipate before he dared to move forward, after all, this was the passage to enter, and after solving the strange snake, he had to return to the Pure Land to plant flowers, without the passage, he didn't know how to return to the Pure Land.
But to Wang Lung's surprise, he just walked a few steps, a yellow rabbit jumped out of the grass, the rabbit came too suddenly, really scared Wang Lung, Wang Lung stared at the rabbit for a while, found that the other party did not have a trace of miscellaneous hair, the ears are not sharp and long, but semicircular, the two blood-red eyeballs look a little cautious, what makes Wang Lung feel even more incredible is the rabbit's tail, it is slender, like a rat's tail.
Searching his memory bank, Wang Lung didn't find out what the name of this thing that looked like a rabbit was called, but Wang Lung only looked at the other party a few times and then ignored it, because the so-called rabbit didn't pay attention to him at all after it popped out, but just gnawed on the weeds on the ground casually, and didn't mean to avoid Wang Lung at all.
Wang Lung shook his head with a wry smile when he saw this, he thought at first that there should not be many creatures here except for those strange birds, but now it seems that this place is really weird, the rabbit actually looks like this, he sighed lightly in his heart, Wang Lung continued to walk forward, as for the rabbit, he had no intention of catching it for research.
However, Wang Lung didn't take two steps, he stopped, looked back at the rabbit again, and there was no trace, how did the other party leave, and he left silently, Wang Lung didn't know, looked around, and there was no trace.
Wang Lung stood in place and groaned for a moment, he didn't think much about it, turned around and continued to move forward, but there was a guess in his heart, the rabbit was probably not simple, it was estimated that it was the eyeliner left by the strange snake here, after all, he was not far from the position where the rabbit appeared through the light curtain, and the strange snake must have eyeliner if he wants to master his actions.
In fact, Wang Lung didn't know, his conjecture did guess a lot, this space is the nest of the strange snake, all the creatures and everything Wang Lung saw was the eyeliner of the strange snake, and it had been many days since Wang Lung knew this.
Time passed little by little, when Wang Lung walked to the foot of the mountain, looked up at the towering volcano, Wang Lung did not plan to climb the mountain, but in his eyes, this mountain is a bit illusory, it seems that it is really in front of him, but in Wang Lung's opinion, it seems to be a fantasy, even if it can be touched, but in his heart it is like this, just like he feels that this place is almost a thousand feet away from the pure land.
Wang Lung sighed, his mind was a little muddy now, it was just a simple experience to come to the Pure Land to plant Baiyue, but now it's good, planting flowers has changed to slaughter, and slaughter has become a search again, he doesn't know what incredible things he can experience after coming to the sun for half a year.
Retracting his gaze, Wang Lung wanted to go around the giant mountain and continue to search for the whereabouts of the strange snake, but as soon as his footsteps were raised, a breathtaking chirp came into his ears, and following the sound, a black shadow was rushing from above his head.
Wang Lung was shocked when he saw this, he had already seen what was attacking him, it was the unknown bird he had just seen, fortunately it was only one, and the speed of its downward rush was not too fast, enough for Wang Lung to react.
With a force under his feet, his body retreated obliquely back ten zhang away, and when his body was just standing, the strange bird had already rushed to the position where he had just stood, and the strange bird saw Wang Lung dodging away, and swooped over as soon as his body turned, and at the same time opened his big mouth, and a fiery red tongue shot at Wang Lung at an incredible speed.
The distance of ten zhang is not long, but it is not short, the speed of the red tongue is extremely fast, Wang Lung only had time to raise the war knife to block the opponent's attack line, but something unexpected happened to Wang Lung, the red tongue actually wrapped around the war knife, Wang Lung wanted to use the sharpness of the war knife to cut off the opponent's tongue, but the force in his hand had just been released, but he felt a huge force pulling it towards the strange bird, and the tongue of the strange bird did not seem to be afraid of being cut off.
The strange bird was very powerful, and threw Wang Lung out with a pull, and at the same time as he was thrown away, Wang Lung found that his war knife had been separated from the strange bird's tongue, but he only glanced at it, and found that he had fallen to the ground.
The strange bird struck a blow, and a long roar resounded through the sky, as if showing off something, Wang Lung quickly turned over and stood up, staring at the other party tightly, and he saw what the other party looked like.
Dark gray feathers, wingspans of three feet, crimson eyes, a handful of hairs on the top of the head twisted and curved upwards, golden fluff like horns on the head, a foot-long pointed beak, sharp claws like black ink, exuding a cold cold light, and there are four sharp claws at the upper and lower ends of its wings.
No, it looks like a three-point look, but it's definitely not an Archaeopteryx, Wang Lung glanced at it and made sure he hadn't seen this strange bird, but he soon realized that this strange bird was a big problem. (To be continued......)