The long deep-sea pipeline is like a lonely bridge that shuttles through an empty world. There is only one solitary lamp that illuminates the tiny world in the abyss.
After walking for about ten kilometers or more, the slope of the deep sea pipe began to rise.
"Are we reaching the exit?"
This unplanned trip has far exceeded their expectations.
The mermaid disappeared, and it was probably the end. After walking for about half an hour, the pipeline turned into a mountain road without any surprise. From a natural cave, we stumbled upward until the white light shone on everyone's faces.
It feels like waking up after a long sleep.
The air was humid, and the sea breeze was slightly cool, but not cold. They stood halfway up the mountain, with thick fog and pleasant fragrance in front of them.
The mountain was not high, so the nine people jumped down and landed on the gentle green hillside. Although the fog was thick, it was not charming. Looking into the distance, it was a milky white, but up close, a distance of thirty meters in radius could be clearly seen.
A lush dense forest appeared on one side of the gentle slope.
The dense forest is not high, and there are pegasus and unicorns outcropping in the forest. Bai Xue happily runs towards them, approaches them carefully, and touches their faces side by side, as if they know each other.
On the other side of the gentle slope is the beach, which is covered with all kinds of starfish and sea crabs. The ugly marine iguanas that are integrated with the rocks are there motionless, and hermit crabs as big as houses are moving on the shore. And there are billions of them.
Broken shells were mixed in, along with seabirds and rune stones that could be easily picked up.
Similarly, there were swarms of magical elves here, mostly pink and purple near the seaside, and mostly dark blue near the forest. Not long after, they saw mermaids wading from the sea.
The mermaid was extremely happy, holding the colorful seahorse and circling around the nine of them. Only then did they take a closer look at the appearance of the mermaid.
She had black curly hair, skin that was not that white, and a petite figure. She looked young, but her actual age could not be judged. She blew out many bubbles and held herself in the air, but soon swam into the sea again. She took Ruo Ruo with her.
The Lajiu people walked along the coast and soon found a stream flowing deep into the island.
Along the stream, all kinds of rare and strange beasts appeared in an endless stream, ranging from small peas the size of a thumb to giant beasts as big as mountains. Most of the monsters they did not recognize and had never seen before. These monsters seemed to be very docile.
Starting from Fu Qing You Land, they hardly saw any predators or killings among the monsters. At most, they just had fun and fights.
Hurlington silently observed the monster, and if possible, he wanted a satisfactory guardian. Since the completion of the ten-position wheel, he has not found an ideal guardian.
Coming to a quiet place in the forest, Pegasus was grazing peacefully by the stream. The stream flowed from a cave under a rocky mountain. The entrance of the cave was tall. On both sides of the coastal rocks at the entrance, there were many mermaids living and resting here.
, they all looked surprised when they saw outsiders coming, and then the surprise turned into joy. It can be seen that they have had good experiences with humans before.
Lund noticed that there was a natural high platform on the mountain wall on one side of the creek cave, with a cave house on it. On the ground below the cave floor, there were several small stone houses, but they had already collapsed due to age.
Before the nine of them had time to observe carefully, they were immediately surrounded by mermaids. Many more mermaids swam out of the creek cave. These mermaids were both male and female. They seemed to see long-lost relatives and friends, surrounding Ruola.
, Hughington and the others were having a lot of fun, making the originally peaceful forest secluded place become lively, startling many butterflies, demons, flower fairies, birds and beasts.
The nine of them could not communicate verbally with these mermaids, but they could feel their joy and enthusiasm. After a game-like exchange, several mermaids brought fresh fish, clams and fruits to entertain them, and also brought honey.
Dew and spiritual springs let them drink freely.
After eating and drinking, most of the fatigue on the nine people was gone, and the malaise caused by not seeing the light for a long time also dissipated. While Eva, Gulia and the others were playing with the mermaids, Hullington asked the other more mature mermaids.
The situation in the cave house high up. Unfortunately, he couldn't understand the mermaid's 'answer'.
The mermaid who brought them noticed what Hullington was pointing at and took the initiative to lead him up to the high platform cave house.
There is a stone door sealed inside the door of the cave house. It is very heavy, but it can be moved with magic. Inside is a cave room of several hundred square meters. The furnishings in the cave are still there, and they are not crude. Although they are all made of stone and wood, they are
There are all the necessary utensils. However, this cave is not like a living area, but a room like a study room or an office. The furnishings in the room can prove this.
The cave is divided into several areas. Each area has bookcases and bookshelves. There is actually a crystal sliding door installed on the bookshelf. The crystal for the sliding door should be taken from the crystal mine on the island. The workmanship is not fine and can barely be used. Huo
Ers, Lund, Ruola and others also followed, but several mermaids were wrapped in bubbles outside the cave door and refused to go in.
Lund said: "The people who were here before should have taught them a lesson and not allowed them to enter here."
"But they brought us in," Hughington said.
Lund pointed indoors and said: "From the furniture, tables and chairs, we can confirm that there was more than one person staying here. Humans can come in and out freely, but mermaids cannot. They probably put us in the same category as the previous people."
"So that's it. Ha, it's interesting." Hughington looked through the books on the bookshelf. The cover of the book is made of cardboard made of wood pulp, and the outside is covered with the leather of an unknown animal. The pages of the book are made of paper.
It is judged that it should be a kind of fish skin paper. It feels smooth and soft to the touch, and it should have anti-corrosion and moisture-proof effects. The contents of the book are all handwritten notes, which are biological research materials. Hullington wondered: "The people who live here are researchers.
A scholar of biological species?”
This is the case after reading several books. Although other aspects are also recorded, it is generally related to biological research.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Since I wrote so much information, why didn't I take it with me?" Du Jinna flipped through it and handed it to Ruola: "Do you see anything worth noting?"
Hullington said: "Perhaps these are not very important information, so they left them behind. Or maybe they have taken away some summary information. The content of these is very scattered notes. Because there are too many, there is no
Take it away. Judging from the condition of this stone chamber and the behavior of the mermaid, the people who stayed here before did not happen a long, long time ago. It may have happened in the past few decades."
Ruola flipped through the pages of the book and said, "This page records the time, April 9414..."
"New preface? What era is this? Why does it sound older than the Holy Garden Calendar?" Hughington asked.
Ruola pinched her fingers and said: "The New Order Calendar is a very unpopular calendar. It is only used in some places on the mainland. The time now should be 7343 or April of 7344 in the Holy Garden Calendar. It should be
Year 7344 of the Holy Garden Calendar.”
Hurlington scratched his head: "Strange, why do they use such an unpopular calendar? Is it for the sake of mystery?"
Ruola frowned and thought.
"See if the notes reveal who these people are? They must have lived here for a long time." Lund said: "In 7344, when they finally left, it was probably only a few years or more than ten years ago."
Several people looked through the notebooks, and Lund frowned and said: "This notebook contains very detailed research records on the Death Desire Frog, the Ghost Frog and the Ancient Mud Pot Toad, and even has detailed drawings of anatomy. Eh...
"
"What's wrong?" Hullington leaned over.
Lund opened the book and said, "Look, isn't this picture the monster we met at the end of the first spiral cave?"
"It's true." Hullington looked at the text next to the picture: "Naphitma... This thing is called Naphitma."
"Naphitama?" Ruola flipped through the notes in her hand: "There are many pages in my book that record the Heavenly Mother of the Ring."
Hullington said: "I know the Heavenly Mother of the Ring. She was a monster I met on the shallow beach across the island before. What's strange is this Nephew Mother. You see what's written here is that the Nephew Mother was not inactivated after being parasitized.
Death desire frog." He pointed at the note in Lund's hand and said: "Look, here are the cross-sections. The ones in the front are the death desire frogs after they are inactivated. They are the kind of mud frogs we see whose bodies are like rotten mud.
, they are controlled by implants in the rhizomes of trees. Alas, look at the following pictures, which are cross-sectional diagrams of the different stages when it is parasitized by the network virus strain before and after, and then the process diagram of being controlled by Sophora japonica. The following pictures
A few pages are about the process of the undeactivated death-desire frog being controlled by parasitism. It is concluded later that only the undeactivated one can be called the Nephew Mother."
Du Jinna shook her head when she heard this: "What the hell is this? It makes me have a headache. Are they hiding here just to study this? Is there any use?"
Hullington said disdainfully: "Academic research is like this, it requires concentration. Just like when I study materials and refining methods, it also requires hard work and thought to find the optimal refining method for various materials, so that we can produce results."
"I'm too lazy to pay attention to you." She walked aside and found a thick notebook to read through. After reading for a while, she found that it was a large book with thousands of words in it, covering multiple subjects.
To compile all the books in this book into one book, people from different disciplines and majors must join forces to do it. She casually turned to the middle, looked at a line of bold characters, and started reading: "About 'The Holy Mother·
A Comprehensive Review on the Discovery, Research, and Breeding of the "Xingse Devil"..."
Hearing this term, Ruola, Hullington and even Du Jinna were shocked.
"What did you say?" Hullington stared at her.
Du Jinna's eyes also widened, and she pointed to the book in her hand and said: "It says, "Sounding Seer Devil..."
Ruola murmured: "One of the nine demons, a super powerful monster classified as the eleventh level in the "Warcraft Encyclopedia"! Are they studying this here?"