Chapter 130: The Growing Ground

"Here... I can feel it..."

This place... is a hole that appeared on the crystalline surface.

As she drilled down through the hole, Lin could feel the sense of terror becoming more and more intense.

Abu also went from not feeling the terror at the beginning to being able to feel it now, but it is not so strong yet so he can continue.

It also felt that the leader did provide them with some protection, allowing them to approach this place without being affected too much.

It’s just that this place should have existed before the team leader met them, so Abu thought that the team leader might have come back here later and made some adjustments here.

But this cannot be confirmed, and Abu's biggest puzzle is that he doesn't know why he was attracted and controlled in the beginning.

In any case, it can continue to move forward with Lin, but if the sense of terror continues to increase, it may not be able to hold on.

“It’s them!”

As Lin and Abu slowly moved down the wall of the cave, they suddenly discovered that there were many creatures floating upwards.

They are all... ghost swords.

However, these ghost swords were not as aggressive as those encountered before. They simply flew up from the center of the hole and ignored Veronica and Abu and continued to fly upwards.

"What exactly are they used for..." Abu looked at these ghost swords and expressed similar doubts as Lin.

Lin had asked Yanyun about these ghost swords before, but Yanyun just said he didn't know.

Of course, Abu couldn't feel any connection between them and the Abyss of Abandonment.

They are a group of very strange creatures... Of course, there are not only the Ghost Swords. The large transparent creature with many weapons that had fought with Abu before also appeared here.

This creature can't fly, so it crawls along the wall and has no weapons.

But it did not rush over like other ghost swords. Instead, after discovering Lin and Abu... it directly launched an attack.

Since it was relatively close to Abu, it rushed directly towards Abu.

Abu was also climbing down the cave wall at this time. Because his hands and legs were supporting his body, he couldn't fight back well... So Abu simply let go of his hands and jumped down from the sky.

Seeing this, Lin also flew down with Abu.

While falling down the cave, Lin could see a lot of ghost swords and large transparent creatures running upwards. Some of these creatures ignored Lin and Abu, while others attacked as soon as they met.

But they were all pretty much pierced by...Veronica.

After falling for a while, Lin and Abu came to a vast place, or it could be said that they reached the next level.

The situation is similar on each floor here, which is a vast space that looks like a huge basement.

The ground here is different from that on the upper levels. The ground here is... soft.

"Is this... an augmented creature?"

Abu touched the soft ground with some surprise.

The surface of this layer...is completely made up of augmented organisms.

And it is the kind of augmented creature that makes ghost swords.

When Lin fell to the ground, she could feel as if there were countless tiny blades moving under her feet, trying to cut and devour everything that fell on its surface.

But in fact it cannot eat living...or moving creatures, because its cutting speed is quite slow.

What’s more interesting is that you can see ghost swords occasionally emerging from the ground around here, and as soon as they appear, they quickly fly towards the hole leading to the crystal layer.

It seems that these creatures are in a hurry to do something, and... as soon as they are born.

That is, something sends them a signal to act immediately.

And that thing… is right here.

"I can't sense any information from the leader here." Abu said, "That kind of information seems to only be available on the upper level, but I can sense some other information on this level..."

"What information?" Lin asked.

"I don't know, but it's a feeling other than terror." Abu said, "Do you want to go over and take a look?"

"certainly."

After saying that, Lin and Abu quickly moved towards the target, and the act of running quickly on this soft, augmented surface seemed to arouse the anger of the Ghost Sword.

After running for a while, Lin found that the ghost swords that appeared around were attacking this side.

Although they were unarmed and posed no particular threat, they attacked more and more frantically.

At first, they just floated over slowly, looking for things on the ground to use as weapons. Sometimes they would find things like stones as weapons, but as Lin and Abu ran deeper and deeper, they stopped looking for weapons and just crashed into them.

Although they are easy to deal with, they become more and more troublesome as their numbers increase.

"There are... so many of them?"

Now, there are hundreds of ghost swords surrounding Lin and Abu. They are not all newly born around them... some of them floated in from far away.

When they came in large numbers, Lin and Abu were ready to fight...but Lin suddenly found something different floating over from a distance.

'boom--!'

These things were like balls, more than 30 centimeters in size, and they flew around Lin and Abu and exploded.

Their explosion shattered a large number of ghost swords, and only a few of the original siege ghost swords were left in an instant.

The remaining few did not give up the attack and they still rushed directly in front of Lin.

But it seemed that Lin didn't need to take any action on the remaining few, because they were pierced by several flying spears.

“This is…”

When Abu and Lin looked in the direction where the weapons were coming from, they could see something that looked like a honeycomb.

This "honeycomb" is more than ten meters long and wide, and more than one meter thick. Its surface is covered with densely packed small holes, and in each hole there is something that looks like text.

"You...you are the recording body?" Abu asked the 'beehive' in surprise.

"What is a record body?" Lin asked.

"It was one of the former... team members." Abu said, "It was mainly responsible for recording redundant information."

This hive called the 'recording body' did not respond to Abu or Lin at all. It just kept floating slowly towards here.

After floating for a while, it suddenly fell down and landed on the ground motionless.

"What's wrong with you?" Abu wanted to go over when he saw this, and at this moment, the ground where the recorder fell suddenly bulged up, and then exploded violently.

As a result, the recording body was blown away and hit the top of the cave heavily... and shattered.