"Are those luminous bacteria poisonous?" Leah whispered.

Ling shook his head and said, "Look carefully, not all moles are dead."

Sure enough, only a part of the moles died, but some moles were contaminated with luminescent bacteria, but they did not die, and they still ate the full mycorrhiza. After a full meal, they walked around slowly, but turned a blind eye to the corpses of the same kind. After being eaten by the giant rat, the stems of those giant mushrooms began to produce a thin fibrous membrane, sealing the "wound".

Look at the dead moles, their bodies are decomposing. The rate of decay is very fast, and the changes that can be completed within a few days are completed in just a few tens of seconds. However, on the decomposing corpse, the luminescent bacteria gradually disappeared. Instead, there are some small fungal buds, which further decompose the corpses of moles, turning these animals into fertilizer for the land.

"Symbiosis system." Moni said suddenly: "I have seen some plants use this method to continue the lives of themselves and their offspring in two years in the dark earth. They will attract nearby animals with fragrance or color. , And then sprinkle seeds on these animals. Some animals die for no reason, and their carcasses become fertilizer for plants. But others survive, and they can be gifted by plants."

"The animals that survived will leave soon and take the seeds of the plants to other places to reproduce their offspring. The Amanda people call this kind of plant a symbiosis system." Moni finally said. .

"We didn't want to eat these giant mushrooms. I hope it doesn't treat us as animals." Jin looked at the glowing mushrooms on the giant mushroom caps with worry, for fear that they would fall.

Everyone laughed at it, and Moni said: "Don't worry, plants can tell whether you are their eater by smell. If not, they won't waste seeds on you."

"Plants can also distinguish smells. The world is crazy." Jin was a little crazy.

Zero shrugged and said: "Why has this world ever been normal?"

Suddenly, some giant mushrooms a hundred steps away, the color of the luminous bacteria on their caps changed. No matter what color they were before, they are now gradually dimming, followed by a bright red color. No matter how you look at it, it looks like a plant is calling the police. Seeing the change in the color of the light bacteria, some moles raised their heads alertly, then squeaked and ran away.

Something is coming!

This thought started, and from the darkness sounded like a blue whale chirping. Following the sound of breaking through the air, it seemed like something was flying through the space at high speed. It's a pity that the things in the darkness are so far away that even Zero can't see each other.

A mole seemed to be frightened, and it even ran towards the zero and the others in a dazed manner. Zero gaze, ready to kill the fat rat, otherwise it will attract unknown creatures. But before he could make a move, an octopus-like tentacle suddenly threw out from the darkness, it passed through many giant mushrooms, and it was as smart as a snake, and it swooped on the mole with incomparable accuracy.

The ground shook slightly. According to the tremor on the ground, everyone present was high-end, and it was not difficult to say that the tentacles had nearly a ton of power in one shot. Not to mention the mole, even a piece of iron plate has to be deformed in such a shot. Sure enough, when the tentacles were slightly raised, the mole had become a mass of flesh. The tentacles rolled up the corpse of the rat, then retracted back with a cry, and disappeared into the distant darkness in a flash.

Mole's screams continued to be heard nearby, and it was only a moment later that the sound gradually stopped, and the light bacteria on the giant mushroom also changed color. The red light gradually retracted, and then emitted other soft colors.

The hunter has left.

"Let's go." Zero said.

"What was that just now?" Hai Wei couldn't help asking, of course she knew that there was no answer to this question.

"Some kind of large predator, as long as it doesn't block our way, we don't care about it." Zero Road, then identified the direction of the sound of water, and led the team on the journey.

The sound of water is approaching, and the mushroom forest is farther away.

I was far away, but with the faint light emitted by the entire mushroom forest, I could see a small mountain-like figure slowly moving in the giant mushroom forest. It is not clear what it looks like, but from the outline, it is reminiscent of a snail. The obviously round body and the high head in front of it are indeed similar to the appearance of a snail.

The biggest snail that Zero has ever seen is the Bawang snail, but compared with the giant in the mushroom forest, the Bawang snail is nothing short of it. But that thing is not necessarily a snail. Has anyone ever seen a snail with tentacles, so in the end, Zero can only attribute the giant in the mushroom forest to a giant alien species.

After leaving the mushroom forest, it was obvious that the soil on the ground gradually became damp, and then rubble began to appear, and finally they came to a rocky beach. Not far from the rocky beach, there was an uproar from a stream. The water came from behind them, and flowed forward along the terrain. It seems that this river should be an underground branch of a certain section of the entrance lake, and then pass through the surface to form such a river.

There are creatures in the river, and some strange fish with a few glowing tentacles are residents in the water. They are small and slender. The speed of swimming in the water is very fast, if you swim along the water, it is estimated that it can reach the level of 30 kilometers per hour. This is already fast, although it can't swim like this for a long time, but when necessary, it can avoid some predators' attacks.

The predator in the water is a water snake-like animal, which comes out of the cracks in the rocks on both sides of the river. These animals have snake-like bodies, but the skin is transparent and the surface emits fluorescent light. There are three pairs of pairs of feet, which have a toe structure like a frog, with webs between the toes. When the strange snake stretches its feet flat, it can use the web between its toes to float on the water, like a luminous tree branch.

It uses its speciality to attract some fishes to approach. When the prey approaches, the strange snake will suddenly curl into a ball, hang the prey, and then drag it into the cracks of the stone to enjoy it.

When they were resting by the river, they happened to witness the whole hunting process. From the giant mushroom forest to this river, they have already seen that this underground world has its own set of independent ecosystems. In this ecosystem, predators and prey are in struggle all the time. As long as one party relaxes, it may be the catastrophe.

Competition is everywhere.

This is the most comfortable portrayal of the new world. From Prosius and Agradis, to humans and aliens, and even in the independent space under the ground, there is no competition between creatures everywhere. .

Everything is just for survival!

After a 10-minute break, the team set off again. Walking along the river, the terrain changes from high to low, but the **** is gentle. If you don't discern carefully, it is difficult to notice that you are going underground. Walking in the dark is lackluster, and after losing an obvious reference, the perception of time gradually becomes blurred. The road ahead is always in darkness, and there seems to be no end in the beam of light.

The endless darkness eats away everything.

Just when they thought the road would never end, Zero suddenly stopped. The **** in front of the terrain suddenly intensified, and the river flowing below turned into a waterfall, turning into the sound of rumbling water.

"Flare!"

There is nothing in the dark in front of me. For the sake of safety, I obviously can't be stingy with a flare. When the flares lifted off, everyone held their breath. Where they are now is a cliff about 20 meters above the ground. The river melts into a waterfall here, and falls like a stream of mercury into the lake below.

The lake is not large, it is estimated that it is only a few tens of meters. The water of the lake churned up the waves all the time. Under the lake, there must be an underground waterway connected to other places, otherwise the lake water would not be able to maintain its normal state. Behind the lake is a mountainous area, with rugged rocks on the ground and some luminous moss. Where the flares are out of light, there is a faint halo in the dark.

And behind this mountain, through the light of the flares, we can faintly see some strange outlines.

Like the ribs of giant beasts, on both sides emerge from the ground an inwardly curved structure, which is recorded in the murals of the Shadow Clan, and it is also the second forward node of the giant beast canyon after the giant mushroom forest. Through this gorge, you can reach the plain area where the lizard dragon lair is located. After the lizard dragon plain, the Titan Hall is not far away.

The light of the flares was gradually weakening, and they were not idle, jumping directly from the cliff to the lake below. When swimming out of the lake again, when it reaches the shore, this underground world is shrouded in darkness again. After a while, the light of the luminous moss clothing appeared in the darkness, they were like a luminous carpet, marking the direction of the zero line.

With these luminous moss clothes, Ling simply turned off the light source to save energy, and others followed suit. The crowd walked on the carpet of light, and the blade hunters were scattered on both sides of the team to act as guards. The team advanced towards the Canyon of Giant Beasts, unimpeded all the way.

When approaching the Giant Beast Canyon, the number of glowing moss is decreasing, and it seems that the soil of the canyon is not suitable for this kind of plant growth. The soil on the ground is also soft and hard, and when you come to the entrance of the canyon, you can pick up a piece of stone and you can find that it is as hard as steel. With such a molecular structure, it is no wonder that Luminous Moss is unable to expand its territory into the canyon.

The entire gorge was filled with the smell of emptiness and death.

"Be careful." Zero whispered, turning on the light source again, and walked towards the canyon first.

The canyon is very spacious, and the rocks on both sides are curved like the bones of giant beasts. From time to time, there will be very strong wind blowing from the other side of the valley. The temperature of the squally wind is hot and contains some hard gravel. Zero and Jin had to go ahead and open the force field to keep away the wind and the two sides of the gravel self-force field. But I don't know where the wind comes from under this earth.

What can be known is that it is precisely because of these hot winds and metal-like sand that have created such a special landform as the Giant Beast Canyon. As you can imagine, at the beginning, perhaps this was just an ordinary underground canyon. It doesn't look like this special now, but I don't know when it started. With the foehn wind and iron sand, they gradually eroded the landform of the canyon and formed the mountain wall that is now like the rib of a giant beast.

Fortunately, Foehn wind is not constantly blowing, and occasionally it will come for one or two bursts, with a long interval. The longest one was almost 40 minutes long. Zero and they walked in the gorge for nearly two hours, but they encountered only two or two such Foehn winds. But the journey of the canyon seems to be very long, at least they still can't see the end, and they walk for a while and let the team stop and rest.

Eat some food to replenish water and restore energy. Exploring under the ground without light, they consume much more energy than the ground. The most consumption of this comes from the vigilance of the unknown darkness. Therefore, not long marching and necessary rest are the important guarantees for reaching the destination safely.

Hai Wei is a girl who can't rest, while eating, her feet sitting on a rock are shaking from time to time. Suddenly hit something with her toes, she looked down and let out a short scream.

It turned out that there was a skull under the feet. It's just that the shape is a little strange, and I don't know what kind of animal bones it is. But everyone soon discovered that on the ground of this section of the gorge, under the gravel, the skull of a certain animal or other bones of the body can be seen almost everywhere. This is almost an animal cemetery, with countless bones.

Zero Shen said: "Everyone, be careful, we seem to have walked into the territory of some kind of predator."

When he finished speaking, Leah stood up and said, "Something is approaching us."

"Location!"

"At two o'clock, no... it moves very fast. It's very close..."

As Leah exclaimed, everyone's heads pierced through the air, and the smell was pressed from top to bottom. Ling raised his head, and under the light, only a dark shadow rushed down from the side of the mountain where they were resting, flying with debris. Jin reacted swiftly, and immediately pressed one hand on the mountain wall, and suddenly a piece of rock in the middle of the mountain wall burst into pieces, blasting the thing away, and dropping a little blood.

The black shadow fell to the ground, and quickly swept towards them. All four feet were flying, and the gravel of the canyon flew up. Zero first came first, but unexpectedly this thing was extremely flexible. Suddenly brakes and turns to kill, leaving a surging wave of air in the air, already bypassing Zero and crashing into the team behind.

It rushed directly at Leah, murderous, as if it were a wise species. He seemed to know that Leah had sensed it in advance, so he was included in the kill list. The speed was astonishingly fast, and there was zero grunting, and it was about to flash past with a space jump. A scream suddenly sounded from the team, and a cold light flashed like autumn water, plunged straight into the dark shadow.

It's Moni!

She combined the death assault into the shape of a spear blade, and followed the tip of the spear to accurately penetrate the dark shadow. But the strong impact still slammed her back on the ground, and stopped until the pink back hit the mountain wall. The limbs of the thing were still twitching from time to time, and the nerve endings were still working. Moni put down the spear blade, stepped on it and pulled out the death assault, and blood immediately filled the ground.

This is a rat-headed man with dark brown short hair all over his body. The eyes are degraded, but the nose is particularly large. From the top of the head to the tail, a row of short dark red spines grows across the back. The body looks a little thin, and human-like physical characteristics can be clearly seen, especially the shape of the ribs, which is no different from a human. It's just that the hands and feet have saber-like claws, and a tail is thin and long, but there are bone needles at the end.

Looking at the specialty of this giant beast canyon, Zero personally dismembered it with a dagger in his hand in order to understand the body structure of this thing. Wherever the blade hits, the flesh and the flesh stand apart. Under Zero's knife, the rathead soon became a piece of parts. It is not difficult to see from its body structure that this thing has evolved to a very high degree. Its brain is very developed, with deep and dense brain grooves, which is a characteristic of intelligent life.

The bones are as light as the murloc bones previously found, which greatly reduces the weight of the rat. But the most developed muscles, especially the femoral muscles of the hind legs, are very numerous and the muscle bundles are delicate and compact. This allows the Ratman to make a difficult maneuver like a quick turn when needed. Whether it is avoiding danger or hunting prey, it is an extremely rare skill.

The last is the knife-like claws of its four legs, and zero found a sphincter on its claws. Squeeze hard to eject the knife claws and injure the enemy, and the effective killing distance is about ten meters. The tail needle is also a very powerful weapon. There is a poison sac at the end of the needle, which seems to be able to squeeze the poison sac by hydraulic pressure and inject certain toxins through the blood flow of the blood vessel after it is plunged into the prey.

Zero Jiang's poison sac was carefully broken, and a green, fluorescent solution came out from it. When I hit the gravel in the canyon, the stone sizzled, and after a while it was completely black. This is a very powerful biological toxin, but the venom sac is so small that it can be squeezed out a little. But just this little toxin is enough to bring down many creatures.

In general ~lightnovelpub.net~ this is a higher-level predator than the lizard. And wisdom has evolved, making them more dangerous. The Giant Beast Canyon may be the territory of this kind of rat people, if you continue to deepen, encounters are inevitable. After explaining the characteristics and structure of the rat people to everyone, the team went on the road. They walked close to the side of the mountain wall, avoiding sudden attacks as much as possible. However, Zero knew very well that the movement of his team could not be hidden from the residents in the canyon.

Because he had found that on the other side of the mountain wall, in the darkness that the light could not reach, something was watching their team. Although the scavenger’s eyes have been degraded, the underground creatures naturally have a perception system. Or the sense of shock, or the sense of smell, those perception systems that are not affected by the line of sight must evolve them to a higher level.

The trip to the gorge was never peaceful, and Zero had anticipated this. But when Leah projected a mentally scanned image into the minds of the Zero class people, they still had a deep shock. On both sides of the canyon, dense spots of light appeared within an area of ​​300 meters square. Each light spot represents a creature, and there are thousands of such creatures.

If all were the kind of rat people who acted like wind, even the zero team would feel quite a headache.

As for the short spines on the back, the purpose is unknown.