Chapter 162 Life Under the Sand

The dry air smells of grit and dust, and on top of that, there's a little... rotten smell.

'Crack. ' A small golden statue, split in two at the hands of the spy.

Inside the statue is a pile of dry debris. If you smell it carefully, you can smell the corpse...

Because these debris are cracked guts, shells, or some other biological debris.

Yes, these statues are alive, or were alive.

The golden statues on the ground here, as well as the statues mounted on the walls, everything here is the "masterpiece" of the statue-making device...

Before setting off to find the 'creator', Lin tried a little bit of the statue-making device.

Because there is no similar material around, Lin asked the spy to make a substance similar to the surrounding statue shell and put it in to make it...

But after putting it in, Lin found that this thing couldn't make anything.

After examining the structure inside, Lin found that it was not actually used to 'make' the statue, but to 'change' something into a statue.

This thing is put into an object, and then a golden paint is applied to the object to harden the object into a statue.

And it only paints one object to make a statue, and that is... a living thing.

The raw material in this device has hardened due to lack of water, but Lin was still able to test it without the paint to see that it only responds to the creatures put in it. All in all, this is a thing that makes creatures into statues.

Around the bee-shaped statues inlaid on the walls. In fact, they are all true bee-like creatures.

Why did the 'creator' make them into statues and put them on the walls? And these statues were made a long time ago. But this device was dropped here recently.

That is to say. They have made statues here before, and recently they plan to come here to continue to build statues...

All these questions are actually not far away.

The spy raised his head and looked at the tunnel leading to the depths of the dark cave. The spy picked up some gravel from the ground and put it into his mouth for a little analysis.

In this dry gravel, there is a small amount of debris, which is some skin debris. The remains of some fungi...

As almost every multicellular organism moves, the debris and parasite remains from its skin are scattered like snow, and these debris can remain as a trace of its movement for a long time.

Especially in such a quiet place, it may last for more than ten years.

As long as you follow this trace, you can find the 'creator' here.

Looking at the dark tunnel ahead, the spy continued to move slowly on this dry ground...

The rock walls on both sides are still inlaid with golden bee-shaped statues, each of which is a few centimeters apart and arranged neatly, if these are made from the carcass of bees. That means that many of these creatures once lived here.

However, it is also possible that they caught these creatures and made statues...

Move along the passage ahead. The scenery of the rock walls on both sides of the spy remained unchanged, but in the gravel on the ground, there were many strange sand piles...

The spy dug up a sand pile and found that there was something made of stone, which looked like a disk with a diameter of five centimeters, and there were many symbols carved on it.

There is more than one disc, there are many in the sand here.

These are things from a long time ago, and it seems that the recent 'creators' have not touched these things, but they must have made a lot of various things when they came.

Continuing to walk through these sand piles, the spy seemed to have reached the end of the tunnel, and the environment here became more spacious.

The spy turned off the light radiating from his body, and instead used his eyes to emit a more subtle light to observe.

In this spacious place, the ground is still covered with gravel, and on the gravel, there are many stones half buried in the sand.

The spy didn't go directly into this place, because there were a lot of moving things near these stones... They were the same color as gravel, but only one centimeter in size, and they seemed to be a beetle-like creature.

When the spy took a slight step, the beetles all burrowed into the sand in an instant.

Before the spy walked to a half-buried stone, he could see that there were countless small cracks on the stone, and it felt as if he had been bitten by those beetles just now.

What are they doing with this stone? The spy reached out and touched the stone, and a lot of powder stuck to the spy's hand.

This stone... seems to have nutrients.

'Wow...' When the spy looked at the stone, he felt the gravel under his feet tremble, and the beetles he had seen before emerged from the ground again, and they covered the surrounding sand in large numbers, and they all used The compound eyes, shining with gold, looked at the spy.

Lin felt a kind of thought called hostility from them...

In the next moment, all these bugs suddenly came up! The spy also jumped from the ground with force at almost the same time, and when he jumped up, he rolled over instantly and grabbed a rock on the top of the cave.

Although the place is spacious, the height of the top of the cave is still very short, only more than three meters from the ground...

The beetles on the ground seemed to be flightless. After losing their target, they dangled on the sand, while the spy continued to crawling slowly into the depths of the cave against the ceiling.

The creatures here seem to be quite rich. When climbing on the top of the cave, Lin noticed that there are many cockroach-like creatures, as well as many spiders and scorpion-like creatures.

Although they are all arthropods, it is really rare in such a dry place.

After crawling for a while, the spy found that the ground below was no longer sand, but a rocky ground covered with scattered gravel, and the beetles seemed to be gone.

The spy looked down, then jumped off the top of the cave, picked up some debris from the ground and put it in his mouth...

It seems that this direction is correct, the 'creator' has always been flying in this direction, and the debris here is left by it several days and nights ago.

If you keep going...

The cave ahead seemed to light up.

The air here is different from before, filled with a moist breath, because there is a lake in front of the spy.

The lake is not very big, with a diameter of about ten meters, and a fungus that emits white light grows on the water's edge, which makes the surrounding environment appear bright white.

If you go to the lake, you can see that the water inside is crystal clear, and some creatures like shrimp, as well as some shellfish and snails are still active at the bottom of the lake.

However, Lin was more concerned about some white objects at the bottom of the lake. The spy jumped into the water and swam before these white objects...

These are also... the skeleton of the 'creator', but different from the previous ones that were relatively complete, this one is all scattered, but basically not damaged, this skeleton is almost the same as the previous one when he died.

It seems that more than one 'creator' died here at that time, maybe go in and find more.

The spy swam out of the water and continued into the depths of the cave. The spy soon saw another lake.

The water of this lake is very similar to what I saw before. It has clear water and many small creatures moving in it, but the depth of this lake is different. There is a large cave at the bottom of it, which seems to lead to a deep place. .

Surely you should go in and see.

Although she thought so, Lin didn't go in. The spy left the lake and continued to walk forward.

Here Lin found a lot of lakes, but they were not deep, like there was only one hole in the bottom.

And there are more or less the skeletons of some "creators" in these pools, which are basically just small pieces section by section.

It appears that the bones of one of the creators were broken and thrown into these lakes.

Because a long time has passed, it is more difficult to tell what is throwing these bones everywhere.

However, the previous traces did not disappear. When the spy walked out of the area full of lakes, he tasted the gravel on the ground again.

The distance is very close... This is the debris left by it from the previous day and night.

After leaving the lake with fluorescent fungi, the spy entered a dark space again, and there was a rock wall blocking Lin's face.

Strange, can't we move forward here? However, the debris left behind by the 'creator' proves that it is moving forward.

And the walls here are pretty smooth, so... there might be...

When the spy looked around, he found a bee-shaped statue on the rock wall not far away.

The spy walked over and pulled the statue down...

'boom! ’.

At this moment, there was a loud noise from the rock wall in front, and the entire wall in front of the spy was suddenly covered with countless cracks, and then collapsed and scattered, turning into a large pile of fragments.

It seems... this situation is different? Lin thought that there should be a door on the wall or something.

Maybe this mechanism has been left for too long, so it collapsed when it was activated.

If that's the case, then let's dig here...

This taste...

Just as the spy was preparing to act, he suddenly smelled a familiar smell.

Looking in the direction of the smell, I saw a creature appeared in the area where there was lake water before, and it was floating above the lake.

Is that the 'creator'? No, that's not the creator...

If you look closely, you will find that the figure of this thing is ethereal, like a phantom floating on the water, and it also emits a strange light.

When the spy walked over, it disappeared instantly, turning into a large amount of light dust, floating in the air.

The spy grabbed a handful of light dust and found that it was a small type of light-emitting insects, which had just gathered in large numbers to form the appearance of 'creators'.

Why is this happening? Does this creature have anything to do with the 'creator'? (To be continued..)

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