She heard it too.
In the silent and dark cave, the continuous creaking sound cut through the air bit by bit. It became louder and louder as it overlapped with each other. Eventually, it became deafening.
Lin Sanjiu stood stiffly on the ground with her back facing the gigantic thing. Both she and Silvan could not turn back, but she knew he was right. The gigantic thing was sucking up the minced meat and mud on the ground.
The minced meat, mixed with mucus and human juices, seeped into the ground like puddles, glowing dimly. Accompanied by the loud and strange sound behind him, the reflection of the sticky puddles would be pulled into a line from time to time, suddenly flowing backwards along with the floating soil on the ground, and then being sucked away by the huge thing behind him.
As the air flow grew sharper and sharper, Lin Sanjiu's calves were hit by a torrent of minced flesh and mud. It was getting harder and harder for her to stand still. It was as if a vacuum had opened up behind her. The two of them were unable to turn around, and they were being pushed back by the strong air flow.
Just when Lin Sanjiu was racking her brains for an item that she could use, Silvan suddenly shouted, "Caster!"
Lin Sanjiu looked up and saw a shadow sliding down from Silvan's shoulder. The moment the shadow landed on the ground, it straightened its body and let out a squeak.
"How rare," a hoarse and low voice of an elderly woman rang out, "You haven't called me that for quite a while."
As she spoke, the Special Item named "Caster" adjusted the scarf on her shoulder. If Silvan had not called out to her just now, Lin Sanjiu would never have guessed that the old lady with a pointy nose and dark skin was actually a Special Item. Just as she finished her sentence, another gust of air that was even stronger than the previous one struck her. The old lady stumbled a few steps and fell into the pile of meat.
"What … What is that?" She seemed to have finally understood the situation. She stared at the gigantic thing behind the two of them. Even her pointy nose had turned white, "What is that thing?"
"Tell us, what did you see?" Silvan asked in a low voice. He had always been kind to women, no matter how old they were, whether they were human or not. However, this witch was clearly an exception.
Witch did not make a sound for a few seconds. Her thin eyebrows were knitted tighter and tighter, and her expression became uglier and uglier.
"Don't you know what's behind us?" She lowered her voice as if she was afraid of startling the huge thing, "… I've never seen such a big brain."
What?
For a moment, Lin Sanjiu thought that she had misunderstood her.
"Brain?" Silvan repeated with a cold tone, "I'm not asking you to perform a divination, so you can make it clearer."
"It is impossible to understand," murmured the Witch. "Behind you is a brain of unparalleled size. Brains, you've all seen them before, right? Brains! "
Lin Sanjiu almost turned her head to take a look, but she forced herself not to. She listened to the sharp intake of breath, the sound of crushed flesh and broken shells colliding with each other, and the strange creaking sound. She could not understand it no matter how hard she tried. "Behind us is a … brain?"
"Yes, it's about the size of a mountain." Witch squinted her drooping eyes, and her long face sank. "It's too dark here, but … it should be pink in color. The grooves on the cerebral cortex are curved and deep …"
Lin Sanjiu suddenly thought of the curved grooves all over the hollow ground.
"Could it be that when the brain moved back and forth, the wrinkles on the cerebral cortex caused them?"
"It's not just big." Witch looked at the direction behind them and said in a low voice, "There seems to be a layer of transparent hard shell outside its body."
Lin Sanjiu was stunned. She immediately asked, "Doesn't it look like a shrimp shell?"
"More or less. It's a piece of meat wrapped in a shell." Witch grabbed Silvan's arm with her long, sharp hand, and finally steadied herself in the rapid air flow. Then, she continued, "But a part of its shell is open. Now, it looks like there's a small, dark hole in its brain."
"To suck these things on the ground?"
"Yes, these are the things," Witch looked at the minced flesh on the ground that was being sucked away. She scrunched up her long, thin face in disgust. "They were all sucked into that small hole."
'Why does that thing suck flesh?'
"Okay," Silvan seemed to have been waiting for her to finish speaking. He immediately ordered, "Tell us the direction, we'll attack."
"Then you'd better bring out some powerful methods," Witch muttered. She suddenly raised her voice and shouted shrilly, "Your seven o 'clock!"
Silvan was already prepared. Without turning his head, he swung the crescent-shaped silver light in his hand. The light pierced through the air and shot backward. However, as soon as the arc of light leaped into the air, it gradually dissipated. Before it even got close to the brain, it disappeared like a snowflake melting into water.
"What happened?" Lin Sanjiu asked immediately. Witch was also stunned. She quickly yelled at her again, "Your four o 'clock!"
This time, before Lin Sanjiu could call out her card, she already understood why Silvan's attack had dissipated halfway.
"Protect me."
A voice that she had never heard before echoed in the depths of her soul. It was not a human voice, and it did not even use a language. It was more like a tremor that rose from beneath her feet and spread to the entire planet. "Protect me. Protect this world."
Lin Sanjiu's raised hand slowly lowered.
"Yes, that's right." The voice that shook her bones, brain, and organs was like a sudden clap of thunder. "… I need nutrients. More nutrients."
She had heard that voice a few times and was very familiar with it. Once again, it rustled in the air. However, under that loud voice, the sound was not as clear as the sound of blood flowing in her eardrums.
"You … Are you the queen?" Silvan asked in a hoarse, trembling voice. It was as if he was in a faraway place.
"Yes."
The sound grew faster and closer, like a swarm of locusts approaching from the horizon.
"What do you want?" This time, it was Lin Sanjiu who struggled to ask.
"I want to grow up."
Before the two of them could use their consciousness to ask again, the queen spoke again.
"Give me nutrients. I want to grow up. Give me nutrients."
Caster did not seem to hear the queen's voice. She clutched the scarf on her shoulder and stared at the two of them in a daze. However, when the queen finished speaking, she suddenly tilted her head and looked into the distance. The Special Item that looked like an old woman shuddered and screamed, "Behind you! A swarm of worm-like things crawled out of that big brain. They are already behind you. Hurry up! Silvan, let me go back! "
"What are they?" Lin Sanjiu asked. "You can't go. We can't turn back!"
"They look like long worms. They're black, and they seem to have shells on their bodies …" Witch craned her neck to take a few more glances. She quickly retreated a dozen steps in the opposite direction. "Girl, there's a bunch of worms that are about to touch your heels … Ah, they can even spit out needles!"
Lin Sanjiu knew without looking that behind her were those purplish-black worms that she and Silvan had killed countless times.
However, she couldn't panic. There was only peace in her mind, even though she knew that she would not end well if she continued like this. "Counterattack!" Following Silvan's sudden roar, a ray of silver light streaked past Lin Sanjiu's feet and disappeared into the darkness behind her. She bit the tip of her tongue hard, and as the stench of blood rose in her mouth, she turned her arm behind her back.
She had to muster her willpower to counterattack, and she was too close to those things. She didn't have the time to fight with herself. In the blink of an eye, Lin Sanjiu came up with an idea that didn't require too much willpower.
A heavy "boom" sound rang out, shaking the ground a few times and splashing up a cloud of mud. A long and heavy container fell to the ground right behind her. She looked down and saw purplish-black debris splattered all over the ground beside her. The things that were near her had been squashed into meat paste by the container filled with red crystals.
However, she had only dealt with a part of them. There were more purplish-black worms swimming toward her from afar. Silvan's hand glowed in the shape of a crescent moon. Sticking close to the ground, he lifted the dismembered bodies of the purplish-black worms up into the air.
Before the pieces of black shadow could land on the ground, they were pushed back by a sudden gust of air. Then, the Queen started to "eat" them again with a crunching sound.
"She's retrieving them!" Lin Sanjiu suddenly understood. She shouted, "After the queen eats the dismembered bodies, she can create them whole again. If she continues to fight like this, there will never be an end!"
Silvan froze for a moment and stopped what he was doing. The muscles on his bare back glistened smoothly under the dim light, and there was a thin layer of sweat on his body. After thinking for a few seconds, he shouted, "Queen, we will give you nutrients! What do you want? Tell us! "
"I want human brains."
"Why do you need human brains?" Lin Sanjiu quickly added, "What's the use?"
The nutrients from human brains can make me grow faster. I can't wait. "
"Can't wait what?"
I want to connect to my body as soon as possible.
Lin Sanjiu didn't know how long the queen could keep this question-and-answer mode, so she seized the opportunity to ask when it was willing to answer, "Where is your body? Maybe we can help you connect! "
The queen was silent for a moment.
Silvan, Lin Sanjiu, and even Caster, who couldn't hear, held their breath. After some time, the queen's voice reverberated in their minds again.
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