After a long journey, they were about to reach their destination.
The captain had been looking forward to meeting a local creature. Even if the possibility was small, he wanted to meet one. In short, he felt very lonely.
That was all …
Generally speaking, a lonely creature would slowly go crazy. It would be fine if there were creatures around, but this place was almost devoid of creatures. It was a great torture for him.
However, Lin's pompoms and the captain had been living in this place for a long time. Lin was slowly growing and the captain was building his own base.
That creature did not appear much anymore. Of course, the captain did not receive any signal.
Under the constant loneliness, the captain looked calm on the surface. However, he would often show some strange actions, such as communicating with the remote-controlled machines or talking to himself.
He watched the movie over and over again. Because he could not receive any new information, he only watched old movies.
As Lin watched the captain's madness, plants began to grow far away from the base, slowly taking over the mountain called the Demarcation Line.
The captain also built his own food supply system and built more equipment. However, he did not seem to want to stay in that place anymore.
Under the loneliness, he decided to leave this place … to explore.
Lin agreed with its decision, although Lin had never communicated with it.
The captain once again built a dune buggy on the gunship and prepared food and tools for the exploration. However, he hesitated at this moment.
Which side should he explore? The side of the night. Or the side of the day? The other side was bone-chilling cold. The other side was the scorching sun.
Generally speaking. As a creature living under the sun, the Voidfolk would yearn for the side of the light. However, after some hesitation, the captain decided to go to the side of the cold.
He built something called a lift on both sides of the almost vertical cliff. This thing was electrically powered. When the dune buggy was placed on the lift, it could move freely. There was no need to activate the gunship.
Lin also let the three pompoms follow behind the captain. They slowly floated down from the lift.
"There must be something unknown here."
The captain looked at the endless dark plain and muttered to himself. Then, he twisted the handle of the dune buggy and the dune buggy rushed out into the dark and cold world …
The three pompoms followed closely behind it.
The mountain behind them was getting farther and farther away, and the surrounding environment was getting darker and darker, but the captain accelerated. Finally. It fell into complete darkness ….
The temperature here was extremely low, but it did not affect the captain who was wearing armor. The night vision function in the armor helped it to see its surroundings.
It was now in an environment filled with strange rocks.
Strange rocks in the shape of withered trees were everywhere. The captain looked at these things with a surprised expression. He seemed to have forgotten his loneliness, but there was a sense of fear in his heart.
The shape of these rocks was too strange, even Lin thought so.
However, they were just ordinary stones. There was nothing special about them. It was a mystery as to how they came to be in such a shape.
With the sound of the dune buggy's belt turning, the captain drove out of the strange stone forest.
In front of it was an endless plain. Usually, there was nothing more than thirty centimeters tall here.
However, Lin called this place the Meteor Jelly Field.
Lin had been here before, but she only collected water and did not go too deep.
The so-called Meteor Jelly was something found on pompoms. Occasionally, this strange substance would be found in the area where the meteorites fell. It was like a sticky paste that would usually melt after being touched. Even if it was not touched, it would generally only last for a few hundred seconds before disappearing.
Because it was similar to a food of the Voidfolk, 'jelly', it was also called Meteor Jelly.
But here, this kind of jelly would not melt and was everywhere … This soft substance covered the entire ground, making this place look like it was covered in snow.
Although Lin was not sure if the 'jelly' here was the same substance found in the meteorites on the pompoms.
However, the jelly here contained the component of a transporter. This was the second component found, but there were many more. Lin Sanjiu was not sure if she could find all of them here.
The dune buggy left two long trails on the jelly field as it moved forward. When it came in, the captain was very surprised by the jelly here. The fear from before disappeared and was replaced by a sense of joy and excitement.
After driving for a while, it stopped and reached out to dig up the jelly on the ground. It held the jelly in front of its eyes, then rolled it into a ball and threw it out.
Then, it piled the jelly together and made it into various shapes.
It seemed fun. The Voidfolk liked to play this game when they were young. Lin had seen similar entertainment on the Wanderer.
The captain played for a while, piling up one strange shape after another. But when it reached the peak of its excitement, it suddenly felt disappointed, as if it suddenly remembered that it was very lonely now.
Then, it climbed back into the dune buggy and continued to drive forward.
The Jelly Plains seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see, but its shape was constantly changing.
Before, it was basically a flat plain, but here, there were many more hills. Piles of jelly gathered together, piling up into small hills three to five meters high.
The captain drove the dune buggy to the front of a small hill. It looked at the small hill, and the playful mood from before appeared again.
"Wah!" Suddenly, it screamed, opened its arms and threw itself on the hill made of jelly. The soft feeling seemed to be extremely comfortable.
"Ahhh!" But in the next second, the captain suddenly screamed. It pushed itself up from the jelly, and Lin saw that there was a strange thing biting on its head.
It was … a creature!
The creature's body was blue and white like ice, and it was about one meter long. It looked like a worm. It bit on the captain's helmet, and the captain pulled it down forcefully.
It pulled the creature down and threw it on the ground. The moment the creature landed, it immediately burrowed into the jelly on the ground. But just as it burrowed a little, it found that its body was pulled back.
It was a pompom, and it used its fur to catch it.
The creature did not hesitate. It burrowed out and turned around to bite, but it did not bite the pompom this time. Instead, it was entangled by more of the pompom's fur.
The captain did not see this at all. After it pulled the worm away, it immediately jumped on the dune buggy and drove in another direction without looking back.
Lin's other pompom chased after the captain, while the other two stayed here to examine the worm.
This worm … Lin felt like she had seen this creature before.
Right, it was over there …
Boom! Just as Lin was thinking, a loud noise came from afar, followed by the captain's scream.
The ground in front of it suddenly cracked, and a crack several meters wide appeared. A large amount of jelly was caught in the sudden crack.
The captain immediately sped up, and the dune buggy rushed through the crack, then rushed in the direction it came from.
Boom! Near the crack, more cracks spread. Lin grabbed the worm and flew in the captain's direction.
The captain accelerated the dune buggy to its top speed, which happened to be faster than the speed of the cracks spreading.
When it rushed out of the cracked area, it kept looking back. It saw that in the huge crack behind it, the jelly was gushing out like a fountain, and the cracked ground was also lifted up …
A huge creature crawled out of the cracked ground. This creature was covered in an icy shell, and its shape was somewhat like a starfish. However, it had a body more than ten meters in diameter. It used the thick 'tentacles' around its body to support its body and rushed in their direction!
Although it was huge, it was quite fast. This creature's running speed was almost comparable to a dune buggy at full speed. Its shocking footsteps caused the jelly on the plain to tremble. The captain was so scared that he raised his weapon and fired wildly behind him. The metal bullets hit the creature's body and ignited countless sparks.
However, it did not slow down the creature's pace.
However, it did not continue chasing. After the dune buggy drove out of the jelly plain and entered the strange stone forest, the creature suddenly stopped.
It seemed unwilling to enter the stone forest and stayed at the edge of the stone forest. Although it did not have eyes, it seemed to be staring at the captain who was moving further and further away …
Lin felt that this might be due to the temperature.
The temperature of the stone forest was obviously much higher than that of the jelly plain. This creature might not be able to tolerate it.
It was not until the dune buggy was several kilometers away that the creature walked back from the edge of the stone forest.
It did not seem to notice that there was a ball of fluff floating above its body …
The ball of fluff followed the creature back to its original place. The creature went back into the crack it came out from, and the ball of fluff followed behind it …
This place … seemed to be a cave.
The moment she entered, Lin saw a wonderful underground environment. Just like the surface, there was white jelly everywhere, but not only on the surface, but also on the walls, the ceiling, and everywhere else was filled with these soft things.
The huge creature walked to a pile of jelly and slowly lay down with its' abdomen 'facing the pile of jelly. A large amount of jelly was squeezed out from under its body.
It seemed … it was going to rest.
This was a good opportunity to study its body structure. However, first, she should return the worm to it because it might be its symbiotic species. (To be continued …)
PS: Thank you ~ for daring to make the saints lower their heads ~ for the reward
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