Chapter 280: An avalanche caused by a medicinal herb
"Oh my God!"
Tang Jiu looked at the huge dark hole in the distance, and his mouth couldn't close: "Such a big hole was drilled out by a monster?
The senior brother on the side frowned: "The inner courtyard has lived under the ice dome for hundreds of years, and I have never found such a behemoth on the peak. β
Tang Lu grinned: "My legs were crushed by it, don't you still believe ......?"
The senior brother shook his head: "I don't believe it, it's just that this matter is too weird and bizarre." β
"I see!"
Tang Jiu suddenly slapped his face: "This thing is round, and it likes to drill around in the ground, it must be - earthworm!"
Tang Wu sighed: "There is such a big earthworm there, it's not a sperm!"
Lin Yu stood up and looked at the hole in the distance again: "There is no point in speculating here, let's send Tang Lu back to the ground first, there is a medicine box on it, which can treat his legs." β
Senior Brother nodded: "That's right, save people first, and then think about this monster." β
Boom - Boom - Boom - Boom
Suddenly there was a series of loud thunderous noises from the depths of the earth, and the entire underground world began to shake violently again, and large pieces of broken ice fell from above, as if the whole world was beginning to collapse.
Tang Wu's face suddenly changed: "That thing started to move again!"
Lin Yu squatted down: "I'll carry Tang Lu, let's leave immediately." β
Tang Lu leaned on Lin Yu's back with Tang Wu's support, and looked apologetic: "I'm really sorry that I blocked you from entering the inner courtyard before......"
Tang Wu turned off the flashlight, and then shushed: "Don't make a soundβ"
Rumbleββ!
In a continuous loud noise, the ruins of the ruined cave in the distance burst to both sides, and a huge shadow could be vaguely seen rising from the ground, smashing the surrounding stone and ice walls into pieces, with a loud roar, crawling towards the depths of the darkness.
The loud rumbling sound lasted for more than a minute, and the huge body of the giant beast finally passed through completely, and with a thunderous roar, it faded away and finally disappeared.
Tang Jiu's mouth opened wider than before, his jaw was about to be dislocated, and everyone else was silent in the dark.
After being silent for a long time, Lin Yu took the lead in speaking: "Go up first, and then talk about it." β
Only then did everyone come back to their senses, and hurriedly helped each other to leave this dangerous place, and returned to the ground along the way they came, Tang Er was waiting anxiously above, and seeing Tang Wu and Tang Lu being successfully rescued, Tang Er showed a simple smile.
"Just ~ just ~, and ~ ground ~ earthquake ~ ~ "
Tang Jiu sighed: "It's not an earthquake, it's caused by an earthworm drilling underground." β
Tang Er's face was inexplicable, earthworms can cause earthquakes?
"That thing doesn't look like an earthworm. β
Lin Yu shook his head and turned to look at Tang Wu and Tang Lu: "Why was Tang Lu caught up in the crawling trajectory of the giant beast?"
Tang Lu's face flushed slightly: "That...... At that time, I saw a white wall, and I thought it was ice cordyceps and used an ice axe to plane, but I didn't expect it to be the body of a monster, but it angered the monster and suddenly moved, and I couldn't dodge before I was suppressed. β
"It's you!"
Tang Jiu raised his hand, and a flying locust stone hit Tang Lu's head, making him grin.
Senior Brother also sighed: "The abnormal movement of this giant beast in the ground caused an avalanche on the north slope, if it weren't for Lin Yu's three consecutive snow tides, the inner courtyard would no longer exist at this moment!"
Tang Wu and Tang Lu sighed at the same time, only then did they realize that in half a day, such a big thing had happened in the outside world!
Rumble - Boom β Boom β
A dull thud rang out from the depths of the earth again, and it seemed that the beast had not regained its composure, but was still moving through.
Senior Brother frowned: "This giant beast is constantly moving underground, sooner or later it will cause the next avalanche, or even a landslide is possible!
Everyone looked at each other, and they were all speechless.
In the darkness just now, although I didn't see the whole picture of that giant beast, there was no doubt that it was a super huge monster, and it was lurking deep underground, how could it compete with human strength?
In the end, it was Lin Yu who took the lead in speaking: "You must first find out the true body of this giant beast, Tang Wu, you have been in close contact with it, is there anything special?"
Tang Wu pondered for a moment: "That monster's body is completely pure white, and the texture is similar to Ice Cordyceps, but it is extremely hard, and even the ice axe is difficult to crack. β
"That's right!"
Tang Wu suddenly remembered something, and reached out and took out a white fragment the size of a walnut from his clothes: "This is a piece of skin knocked off the giant beast, you can take a look." β
Lin Yu stretched out his hand to take the white fragment, his hand was light, and he pinched it with his hand, it was indeed very hard.
Tang Wu continued: "I have checked before, this is indeed Ice Cordyceps, but it is very dense, it is much harder than rock!"
Lin Yu looked at the fragment in his hand and fell into deep thought.
"Insects in winter, grass in summer...... Sixty years of earth movement caused avalanche ......"
"I see!"
Looking at the dazed people around him, Lin Yu raised the white fragment in his hand.
"If I'm right, the giant beast that walks through the ground is an ice cordyceps. β
Everyone was speechless, and the scene was a little embarrassing.
After a while, Tang Jiu smacked his lips: "You said that there is a medicinal herb dozens of meters long underground?
Lin Yu shook his head: "I'm not kidding, Cordyceps is a kind of fungus that gathers into a creature, usually most of the time is a plant, but occasionally it will show the characteristics of animals, so there is a saying that it is an insect in winter and a grass in summer." β
"The giant beast below this glacier is an xenomorph with a dormant period of sixty years, lurking in the depths of the ice peaks during its dormancy, and when it wakes up, it will return to the surface and travel through it, absorbing ice cordyceps from everywhere to strengthen its body. β
Lin Yu looked down at the glacier below: "This giant beast can grow to such a huge body, I'm afraid it will be at least ten thousand years old." β
Senior Brother and Tang Jiu and the others were all dumbfounded, although Lin Yu said it was like a fantasy, but referring to the avalanche disaster in the inner courtyard once every sixty years, it was very reasonable and reasonable.
And it is in line with the habits of Cordyceps, which makes it impossible not to believe it.
The senior brother rubbed his hands: "But anyway, this is still too unbelievable, how could Cordyceps become such a monster?"
Lin Yu shook his head: "This is not Cordyceps, but a different species formed by condensing the vitality of a large number of Cordyceps in the mountain, it has a special name - Earth Dragon." β
Everyone still had expressions of disbelief.
Lin Yu suddenly changed his words: "Where did the name of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain come from?"
The senior brother was stunned: "The name of the jade dragon is to describe the continuous snow-capped mountains, like a white jade dragon. β
Lin Yu shook his head: "I think there is another possibility, maybe someone has seen a white giant insect crawling on the snow field, like a giant dragon, so it is named this mountain - Jade Dragon." β