Chapter 115 Distant Relatives
"Susumi...mi...mi...mi..."
The cries of the spies echoed in the empty cave. This is the depth of the red crystal cave. There are rocks and crystals everywhere, but no living things can be seen...
The standing scorpions seen at the exit of the passage just hit the spies with crystals and did nothing else, so Lin easily entered the depths of the cave.
The spy held the red sè crystal that the scorpion used to throw. There was a strange smell coming from the crystal. Lin discovered that there was a special ingredient in the crystal. The brain produces a phantom effect.
This is also the reason why Susumi escaped just now, and those standing scorpions before were also listless because of this, and would use crystals to smash spies.
Lin could know through the hood that Susumi was wearing that Susumi was hiding behind a crystal, but it didn't respond to the spy's voice. It seemed that the crystal had a deep influence on it.
The spy walked towards the crystal where Susumi was hiding, and when the spy got close to a distance of about one meter, Susumi suddenly rushed out from behind the crystal, screaming, and ran to the depths of the cave.
The spy swung his jointed limbs in an instant to catch up, and pressed Susumi to the ground at once. At the same time, the spy lightly pierced Susumi's scales with his fingertips, and began to inject a detoxifying liquid into its blood.
Although this kind of magical ingredient is not common, its effect is very similar to some poisonous plants in the jungle, so Lin has a way to remove it.
"Gah! Ga!" Susumi struggled continuously, looking quite painful, the crystallized ingredients had too rapid an impact on the brain. The spy put his other hand on Susumi's head. and pierce its eyes. Then some liquid was dripped into it, and Susumi became much quieter...
There are so many illusory crystals here, but not many Liscorpions are affected. Lin thinks that when they dug here, they found that many Liscorpions had been hallucinated, and then gave up continuing to develop here. Only the hallucinated standing scorpions were left here waiting to die... I don't know when the excavation was done here, but since there are no corpses, it should be a newly dug place. In other words, there is no way to confirm whether there is an exit here.
……What is this?
Suddenly, Lin found a red thing appeared in Susumi's pupils, this... is not something in Susumi's eyes, but... on the ceiling of the cave!
The spy raised his head and saw a huge rib that was completely red lying on the roof of the cave. Suddenly, the huge rib jumped,
Jumped down from the top of the cave!
The spy immediately grabbed Susumi and ran away. After a loud noise, a huge beast landed on the spy's original position.
This is... a rib centipede? It's also too big.
The creature looks exactly like the Rib Centipede, but is rather massive. Its rib-like limbs are about six meters wide, and its whole body is covered with red carapace. This huge ribbed centipede was staring at it, as if it would pounce on it at any moment.
The spy did not act, but waited quietly for the opportunity. The rib centipede did not expect to grow so big, but it may be another species. They should have nothing to do with subspecies. They are wild creatures, and Lin thinks that the rib centipede may Has some 'kinship' with flying dragons.
The ribbed centipede and the flying dragon are the only vertebrates that Lin has seen that have three pairs of limbs. The first pair of limbs of the flying dragon elongated the knuckles like the pterosaurs, and then covered the knuckles with a wing membrane. Wings, and the rib centipede also extended the knuckles of the first pair of limbs, turning them into limbs that can be used to move, and can also make it disguise more like ribs...
Moreover, this kind of creature grows bones outside like a turtle, but it is very flexible. This is also because their bodies have many empty sacs that store light gas like a dragon, and they can breathe fire. Seemingly disparate species are actually related.
So it wouldn't be very strange if the ribbed centipede could grow that big... and there is such a big dinosaur skeleton for it to camouflage, but why is it red? I don't know if it has anything to do with the crystallization here.
"Huh!" The huge ribbed centipede suddenly stood up half of its body, and Lin felt a scent being released from its first pair and second pair of 'ribs'.
The spy immediately grabbed Susumi and turned around and ran away. When the spy ran for about two seconds, a strong heat wave suddenly came from behind him. It disappeared in an instant.
This centipede's fire technique feels stronger than that of the flying dragon, and it is a bit like the flame storm of the Inca swarm, although the coverage is not very large.
But if it is too big, it will burn out the oxygen, which is quite dangerous in a cave.
The rib centipede seemed to understand this too, so instead of breathing fire, it rushed directly towards the spy!
The spy immediately fled to the depths of the cave, and the rib centipede followed closely. Its huge body smashed through all the obstacles such as crystals and rocks on the road, and ran with its thick rib-shaped limbs, making it faster than the spy. The centipede was getting closer, and the spy lifted Susumi forcefully and threw it out.
After Susumi unlocked the hallucination effect, it has been in a deep sleep state. This time it was thrown on a crystal and woke up. The moment it opened its eyes, it saw the scene of the spy being caught by the centipede.
"Ga——!!" Susumi yelled in horror, the centipede pinned down the spy with its limbs, and pulled off its limbs one by one with its mouth...
The spy seems to have escaped, but...
'Boom! ’ Accompanied by a sound, the spy’s head suddenly broke away from his body and flew out at a high speed. After flying tens of meters away, he hit a crystal and stopped.
The centipede ignored the flying head, still eating the spy's body.
Fortunately, the standing scorpion has a head-like structure, instead of a head and body like other scorpions, so Lin made the ability to shoot out the hair by the way, and the crystallization is also in the head.
At the same time, the spies also wrapped up some miniature units in the body to see if they could survive inside the centipede, so that they could detect the internal structure of the red centipede.
"Susumi!" At this moment, the hair made a small voice, and Susumi was taken aback when she heard it, and immediately ran towards the head.
Now, Tou and Susumi will continue to move forward. This red sè crystal cave seems to be quite big, and I don't know where it leads...