The aircraft hovered in the sky like an island.
Due to the delay of more time than expected, several people in the aircraft had missed the dusk moment and had to wait for the next opportunity. They closely monitored the ground behind the protection of the aircraft, watching the shuddering eyeball grass swaying in the autumn wind. It was not a pleasant experience, but they neither dared to let the "eyes of the earth" leave their sight easily, nor did they dare to descend to a height where they might be attacked.
They waited in fear for more than ten minutes before Luo Binhan finally looked at Wan Bozi with confidence. The previous situation was too hasty, and it was only now that he could really see the details of the other party's appearance, and noticed that her clothes were unusual: at first glance, it was a dress made of light gauze, but there was a subtle layer of it flowing through it. In the light, even though the owner of the dress sat still, the long silk-like belt was still fluttering like light smoke.
Wan Bozi rested his face on his palms and quietly immersed himself in his own thoughts. Poppa was placed on her lap, looking back and forth contentedly. In this strange situation, this little robot was so happy that he felt like he was in heaven.
After a long time, Wan Bozi finally showed his face and said softly: "Let me sort it out... Are you here alone? No backup?"
"That's almost it." Luo Binhan said. He estimated that Wan Bozi's backup must be at least the regular army.
"How many of you don't know the reason for this?"
Luo Binhan simply shook his head. Joel Farman added: "We know that the inhabitants here have been replaced by bugs. There is a creature here that is similar to the Tavoa arthropod consciousness group."
Wanbozi paused and said: "No, what's outside is just a layer of painting, and its true body is underground... Sooner or later, Paduma, my disciple, will come to me. He is from Central City. We will know the truth at a glance. Who is it? I knew it was you who got it. Now that the foundation of the Qinglong Gold-Eating Armor has been destroyed, it won’t last long, so how can this be a good thing?”
Luo Binhan looked at her with his mouth wide open.
"Why are you looking at me like this?" Wan Bozi asked.
"It's okay, it's okay." Luo Binhan said, "I just suddenly felt that your way of speaking seemed to have changed."
"Oh," Wan Bozi immediately patted his face, "I'm sorry, I can't help but speak with my hometown accent when I'm upset. Are you feeling better now?"
Luo Binhan nodded repeatedly.
"Then let's continue talking about this... That day I came here to find some materials that needed to be aged. Unexpectedly, the residents here seemed ordinary, but they couldn't stand the insect repellent on me at all. I knew there was something wrong with this place. Later. I also heard strange noises coming out of the mountain from time to time, so I came to investigate and followed the sound into a mountain. The mountain was empty, with pillars reaching straight to the center of the earth. The strange thing was that it was not hot inside, and it had been cooling for a long time. The mountain of death. I explored deeper and deeper inside, descending past the olive surface, until behind the mantle of the earth, I saw all the mysteries. It turned out that the slurry pool there had extinguished, and all that was left were ashes and embers. The first fire in the earth I was eaten clean by a giant insect, and its body was all inside. I knew that this was not a trivial matter, and wanted to come out first to send a message, but I didn't want to disturb the monster, and I was trapped halfway away. I knew it would be difficult to escape. , he planted the Green Dragon Gold-Eating Armor on the rock, and then took Xuanbing Dan to immobilize himself until someone came to rescue him. The Gold-Eating Armor is violent in nature and specializes in swallowing gold, so it happens to be in conflict with the giant insect snatching food. This way, We have to hold on to it. It’s a pity that once today is over, we won’t be able to use it anymore.”
Wan Bozi sighed sadly. Luo Binhan peeked at the other two audience members and found that they were listening very attentively, as if they had no objection to the words, which made Luo Binhan feel a little out of place.
He quietly leaned over and asked in Joel Farman's ear: "What is she talking about?"
"Big bugs." Joel Farman explained with conviction, "There are big bugs that eat people underground. We are in danger now."
This is a practical understanding. But Luo Binhan felt that he might need a more realistic and detailed explanation.
"You said there was a bug underground," he repeated. "What did it eat? Earthly fire?"
Wan Bozi began to worry. After thinking hard, she said: "Well, I think another explanation is more suitable for you - some kind of collective organisms have invaded this planet. They are different from the Votaya Arthropod Consciousness Group. They are more like native organisms in form, and Not eating the conventional food of carbon-based organisms. The planet's surface biosphere is simply not enough to provide the energy they need, they need energy and mass on a much larger scale - more mass."
"Like fire?"
"For example, radiation elements, magma, and the material in the center of mass of the planet - it has emptied the core of the planet, leaving only some too inactive residue. At that time, it was swallowing the mantle upward, so I swallowed the Qinglong The golden armor is planted underneath, allowing them to check and balance each other and compete for reaction materials. Its ability to capture elements is low when it is localized, so it has never been close to the coverage area of the golden armor in the past. But it is different now. Transporting me out of the ground will Let the roots of the gold-devouring armor break and it will be absorbed quickly. And when the collective creature no longer needs to disguise itself, it may tear the entire earth's crust in half!"
After saying these words, Wan Bozi immediately hugged Popa, put his chin on its head and kept breathing.
"I'm still not used to speaking in the alliance's common grammar," she explained weakly, "I have to slow down. And I haven't moved my body for too long. Do you have water or food?"
There were only a few berries left in the craft that Joel Farman had brought. Popa caught them in front of Wan Bozi and patted her face lovingly.
She swallowed the berries and announced somewhat ruefully: "We can no longer stay here. We must leave as soon as possible."
This is sensible advice, but very unlikely to be feasible. Luo Binhan looked down at the ground again, and saw that the eyeball grasses were still looking up at them, swaying gently as if to draw people closer. Just over half an hour later, they had spread and covered the entire valley with lush greenery. The dark grass blades and the turbid white eyeballs mixed together, like many dead fish floating in the black waves.
He didn't dare to look at those plant-like organs, not because they were scary, but because he was afraid of seeing a familiar eye in the black tide. For the same reason he didn't want to take the craft elsewhere. Yuan Shitai Town, Gulan City, every human settlement in the world... What are those places like now?
An idea suddenly struck him. He asked Wan Bozi: "What will happen to that lake? If something underground crawls out, does it mean that the passage will also be destroyed, and the two worlds will be separated forever?"
That was the result he sincerely expected at this moment, but Wan Bozi's expression was hesitant.
"I don't know about this either... When I measure what this insect has done, it seems to be a strange thing that is rumored in the folk, and is called the 'Insect of Ten Thousand Insects'. Once it breaks through the pupa, it can turn one into ten thousand, and ten thousand into one, killing The consequences are endless and the harm is endless. But no one alive in Yunzhong City has witnessed the details."
Wan Bozi hugged Popa in frustration and never mentioned anything about "Wan Chong" again. Luo Binhan was almost convinced that she knew about the thousand-year prophecy of the savages, but neither party wanted to take the initiative to talk about it.
They gradually stopped discussing and waited quietly for the next dusk. This period of time was both anxious and quite boring, so much so that Popa began to insert the hairpins one by one into her hair, while Joel Farman leaned on his chair and yawned.
Luo Binhan was still monitoring the eyeball grass below. At this time, the fear had gradually faded from his mind, and it was more of a hazy realization. He secretly pondered many fragmentary facts: Yaleriga asked him to collect information, Li Li reminded him that the volcano had stopped moving, and the savages had predicted that it would last for thousands of years... all of this seemed to point to some unchangeable trend, but There were some things that he couldn't figure out. The intense confusion and irritability made him subconsciously rub his eyes.
"What's wrong with you?" Joel Farman asked.
"I'm thinking about who should be held accountable."
Luo Binhan said: "Have you ever thought about why the insect didn't wake up earlier or later, but it crawled out at this time?"
Wan Bozi said sadly: "That's because the green dragon armor is about to wither..."
"Yes, because the Azure Dragon Armor is gone." Luo Binhan interrupted her, "But why is the Azure Dragon Armor gone? Because we woke her up, so it was our doing."
"We didn't know there were big bugs in the ground," protested Joel Farman. And Popa hugged Wan Bozi's arm tightly, as if announcing that it would wake up its friend no matter what.
Wan Bozi touched its head and said, "It's God's will. I have no complaints against anyone."
Luo Binhan was not a devout supporter of libertarianism, but this time he felt strongly that the whole matter had nothing to do with mysterious fate, but actually hid a pair of tangible black hands. He asked calmly: "It is true that we woke up people, but how did we know to come here to wake people up in the first place?"
"You discovered it." Joel Farman pointed out.
"Yes," Luo Binhan said, "Then please listen to the next question - who the hell instigated me?"
