Chapter 120: Leader's Achievement

( ) "Put down the crystal!"

Accompanied by a burst of shouting, a group of standing scorpions placed the large crystals they were carrying on the ground. Each of these crystals weighed about a ton, and they were basically square, which was the best material for absorbing light.

Lin's spies also followed the group of transporting crystals as the 'leader'. Lin thought that as long as she followed them, she would be able to leave the cave... Lin originally thought so.

But this place is still inside the cave. This place looks like a spacious circular area. There are no passages on the surrounding cave walls to lead to the outside. Why did they stop to release the crystals? There is not even a ray of sunlight here, only the dim brilliance of the crystals carried by the standing scorpions around...

These crystals are about to go out, if their brilliance disappears, the standing scorpions will be forever in darkness.

Speaking of which, the standing scorpions that Lin saw before can glow because they have a small luminescent creature on their bodies, but the standing scorpions living in the 'Red Village' do not have this kind of biological symbiosis. I don't know why it is like this , so they also need something else to illuminate them.

"Dig!" After the crystals were placed, a standing scorpion climbed onto a piece of crystal and shouted to the surroundings. At this time, some standing scorpions holding crystal spears began to dig some soft places on the ground with their spear points.

After living with them for more than ten days and nights, Lin began to understand their language better. They have a relatively complicated language system, but Lin has not asked where they collect light, after all, as a 'leader', she asked these things It's really strange, Lin thought they would collect crystallized light energy outside. Now it seems that they are going to collect it in another way.

In fact, during the days and nights that Lin stayed in the colony, she hardly communicated with them. But these standing scorpions usually don't need a leader to command them. They do their own thing, and they still have the spy as their leader.

Maybe the leader is more like an 'object of worship' rather than a 'commander' to these standing scorpions.

'Crack. '

Thinking of this, Lin suddenly heard a sound coming from the ground, and saw some small holes cracked on the floor of the cave, and some red caterpillars covered in crystals came out of it.

Caterpillars are very small, each about ten centimeters, but there are quite a lot. Numerous holes were cracked on the ground, and thousands of caterpillars continuously drilled out of the ground. They reflected a bright red luster under the dim light, like a large pile of rubies drilled out of the ground.

...Speaking of which, what is a ruby? Is it the same type as the red crystal?

"Don't step on it! Don't move!" some standing scorpions shouted loudly,

It seems that these caterpillars are the key for them to obtain light energy. It seems... Lin still has to go out by the old way.

The caterpillars on the ground quickly shrank into a ball after they got out. It seemed that something was changing inside them, and they even emitted a faint light.

Lin has already basically guessed what's going on.

"Here we come! Protect!" Suddenly, a standing scorpion shouted, and a huge amount of black shadows appeared around the cave. Countless small creatures rushed out of the cracks in the cave wall, and they grabbed the caterpillars and dragged them back.

These creatures are... Maoyu? Lin looked carefully. These small figures attacking caterpillars are all feathers with bright red fluff. This is probably the largest jade that Lin has ever seen. Each of them is about seven centimeters in length. They can easily move these immobile ones. The caterpillar snapped in two.

Common Mao Yu is very fragile, and this is the first time Lin sees Mao Yu being on the 'attack' side.

The standing scorpions are constantly stepping on the worms running around on the ground, trying to drive them away, but there are too many worms, they have captured many caterpillars, and some of them even opened up on the spot. Eat, tore the caterpillars into pieces, the battle lasted for hundreds of meters, until the Maoyu finally retreated, the number of caterpillars in the field had been reduced by half.

Lin didn't move all the time, just stayed there and watched. These standing scorpions were too stupid to drive away small creatures. Some caterpillars were stepped on by them instead of being eaten by Maoyu.

After finally driving Mao Yu away, the caterpillars on the ground finally began to change, and their backs began to crack slowly, and bursts of light burst out from the cracks...

I see……

From the crack on the back, first a pair of bright wings stretched out, and then the whole body, a new type of creature emerged from the caterpillar.

These worms appeared one after another on the backs of the caterpillars, and the entire cave was illuminated by the light they emitted, as bright as day! All the standing scorpions cheered, and the emitted light energy was slowly being absorbed by the crystals.

Lin caught one of these worms, quickly ate it in one bite without the other standing scorpions noticing, and then quickly decomposed it. Just as Lin thought, this should be their breeding season. The seed insects are called "Red Stone Butterfly" at present. They do not have a structure such as a feeding mouth. Now it seems that many insects have developed into this form. They mainly live in the larval stage and finally grow into adults. They do not eat and fly only for reproduction.

Mao Yu also knew their breeding season, so they rushed out to hunt on a large scale at this time.

Speaking of which, most of these insects have the stage of 'chrysalis', but this red stone butterfly does not have it. It is a larva that directly becomes an adult.

The red stone butterflies that were born on the back of the larva stayed on the ground, waiting for their wings to slowly swell with blood. They spread their wings and flew up one after another. At this moment, the sky above the entire cave was like countless twinkling stars flying.

Under their flying, all the crystals slowly lit up. These red stone butterflies exude bright brilliance. Their energy is stored in the larval stage. Now they will bloom here to their heart's content. In order to create more There will be more offspring, and the light energy they emit will also be supplemented by the crystallization of the standing scorpion.

I don't know how long this breeding activity lasts. Although there are many red stone butterflies, the light they emit is far less than sunlight.

All the standing scorpions were cheering, seeing such a beautiful scenery, Lin quietly led Susumi out from here.

It's time to leave... Take the original route and go back. Although I saw a lot of interesting things, I have stayed here for too long.

These standing scorpions don't need any leaders to develop, let's see what they will grow into when the time comes.

"Boss?" Just as Lin was about to walk out of this place, a standing scorpion noticed Lin's spy.

The standing scorpion chased after him suspiciously, and asked the spy, "Boss, where are you going?"

"..." Lin was a little hesitant to say it, because Lin didn't know what would happen to them if they lost their leader. At present, their lives are completely fine, but...

'boom! '

Just when Lin was about to say something, the whole cave suddenly shook violently, and a large number of red stone butterflies that had gathered and flew scattered away.

All the standing scorpions looked around nervously, the cave was still trembling slightly, as if some huge creature was moving underground.

"Run!" I don't know which standing scorpion yelled, all the standing scorpions panicked, and they rushed to the entrance of the cave...

When escaping, they lost their previous cooperation. The standing scorpions all pushed each other back and forth, and many standing scorpions fell to the ground. Fortunately, Lin moved faster. Before they panicked, the spies had already Get out of this cave.

Accompanied by the sound of vibrations, the rock formation on the roof of the cave began to crack, and countless sand and stones fell from the roof of the cave, causing the entire cave to collapse together. Together with those luminous crystals, they were buried together...

Those standing scorpions who managed to escape stared blankly at the place buried by the stones. They didn't seem to know what to do for a moment. During the collapse process just now, the red stone butterflies also flew out of the cave. The top of the cave flew back and forth, continuing the previous breeding activities.

The standing scorpions around Lin were still stunned, as if this kind of thing happened for the first time, they didn't know what to do, their current emotions were only fear and confusion...

'boom……'

The vibration of the cave was still going on. Suddenly, a big hole exploded on the ground, and a huge worm rushed out from the ground. It opened its mouth full of jagged teeth, looking around at all the standing scorpions around.

All the surrounding standing scorpions fled in fright, and the red stone butterfly on the top of the cave was also scared away by the rushing out of the worm, and the whole cave was instantly plunged into darkness.

The standing scorpions were so frightened that they could not move. Suddenly, in the dark space, a scream rang out, and then quickly faded away...

The standing scorpions were a little puzzled, the screams they heard were not from the standing scorpions, but from... worms.

At this time, a ray of light suddenly lit up in the cave, and the darkness receded. I saw that their 'leader' was emitting the same light as crystals, and there was a large pool of blood under him that extended to The hole drilled by the worm seems to have been beaten away by the 'leader' just now.

The standing scorpions looked at the leader, and Lin felt that the fear in their hearts was slowly dissipating...

"Boss!" "Boss!" The standing scorpions gathered around the spies, cheering unceasingly.

The spy lifted all his forelimbs and shouted like a true chief: "Get out of here and chase the sun!"

"Oh oh oh oh!" Under the words of the spy, all the standing scorpions around began to cheer!

Speaking of it, Lin didn't know why they didn't live outside, maybe it was because they had to pass through the territory of the group of 'crazy standing scorpions', but now it happened to take them out together.

Under Lin's command, the standing scorpions walked back to the village. They took crystallized spears and lined up neatly in front of Lin.

"Let's go!" (to be continued...)

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