Including the spies, the 16 Earth Mirrors formed a circle and looked at the soft-bodied creature that crawled out of the hookwheel.
None of the Earth Mirrors did anything, nor did they say anything. They just stared.
But Lin felt that they might attack at any time. Before that, Lin carefully observed the soft-bodied creature.
Just as described, it looked like a ball of liquid metal that could move. Its surface reflected a metallic luster, and it was as soft as water. It moved like an amoeba.
If this thing was rolled into a ball, it would have a diameter of about three centimeters, but it was already considered a relatively large species.
Like the creatures of the small civilization, the soft-bodied creature was not too large. At least, that was what the King described.
It was also very cautious. After the soft-bodied creature crawled out of the hookwheel, it stopped moving. It extended a very slender tentacle-like structure from its body, as if it was using it to observe its surroundings.
At first, the tentacle only probed back and forth on the soft-bodied creature, but it slowly extended out of its body.
"Kill it."
Suddenly, one of the Earth Mirrors lit up.
Whoosh! Sharp objects shot out from all the Earth Mirrors around it. They instantly pierced the soft-bodied creature's body.
But the soft-bodied creature shook slightly, and the spikes fell to the ground. Then, the soft-bodied creature immediately changed its form. It suddenly spread out a pair of … wings.
Its wings looked very thin, but they seemed to have a skeleton. It flapped its wings quickly, dragging its soft body off the ground and flying high into the air.
"Hit it! Kill it! "
The Earth Mirrors continued to emit light while shooting at the soft-bodied creatures in the air. Sharp spikes flew out one after another.
The soft-bodied creature kept shaking its body in the air, which caused most of the spikes to pierce its body. At the same time, it successfully protected its wings. It also flew further and further away.
But …
Whoosh! A spike pierced through the soft-bodied creature's body and directly punched a hole in its wing. Suddenly, the soft-bodied creature tilted and fell from the air. It landed on the white grass in the distance.
"Go and harvest it!"
Seeing this, the Earth Mirrors immediately ran over. The soft-bodied creatures that had fallen to the ground quickly crawled away.
The soft-bodied creature crawled faster than the Earth Mirror. It soon crawled across the white grass and reached the opposite side of the cave.
Then it climbed up the wall and climbed higher. At this point, the Earth Mirrors finally reached the white grassland. As if they knew that they couldn't keep up with their speed, the Earth Mirrors gave up.
The Earth Mirror used its tiny 'legs' to move. It was similar to snail creatures, but its speed was much faster. Sometimes, it could retract part of its legs and use a small number of its legs to propel itself across the ground.
This was very effective in their slippery city, but not so slippery outside, so they … had a hard time catching up to the soft-bodied creatures.
However, the Earth Mirrors were not too concerned about whether they could catch up or not. They quickly sent the news back to the city.
…
"They found out! They found out! "
Within the city. The Earth Mirror King, who had been waiting for news, was excited when it received the news. This was the first time it had received news about a soft-bodied creature.
"They must be nearby! They must be nearby. Hurry up and follow up! "
"Follow up! Follow up! "
When the Earth Mirror King gave the order, the soldiers around it also lit up. One by one, as if they were passing on a message, the light emitted from the hall to the entrance. Then, the guards at the entrance transmitted the light to the Earth Mirrors in the corridor outside. The Earth Mirrors in the corridor outside lit up one by one, transmitting the order to the outside of the building.
Finally, a large group of Earth Mirrors in the square outside the royal building lit up one by one. They also lit up one by one, and the light they emitted together was even more dazzling than the original illumination.
However, it only lasted for a few seconds before it disappeared. Then, a group of troops in the square began to move. They quickly moved in the direction of the entrance of the underground maze.
This was decided before. If any exploration team found a soft-bodied creature, they would immediately send more troops to that location to follow up the exploration team.
As for the exploration team … their mission would not change.
…
"Continue moving."
The soft-bodied creatures had already crawled to a place where they couldn't see them. They had completely lost track of them, but the Earth Mirrors didn't mind. They simply moved forward on the white grassland.
Lin's spies also moved forward with them. At the same time, Lin examined the grassland like creatures around her.
These creatures were quite interesting. They were not white and did not emit light. The main thing was that there was a layer of fungus-like substance attached to their bodies.
It was the layer of fungus that was emitting light.
The reason they emitted light seemed to be to capture the small creatures around them. There were many small flying creatures in the grassland. These creatures were only less than a millimeter in size. They were very small, but they were complex. When walking through the grassland, many small flying creatures could be seen.
And these creatures were also quite interesting … They did not move alone.
Every flying object was basically made up of a larger flying creature carrying many smaller 'passengers'. When these flying creatures flew over a certain white grass, they would throw the 'passengers' down, and the fungi on the grass would devour the 'passengers' that were thrown down.
They might have some kind of strange relationship, but Lin did not think too much about it. Lin's main purpose of observing the grassland was to find …
There it was.
Lin noticed a piece of soft substance in the grass not too far away. It was something that fell off the soft-bodied creature earlier.
Earlier, when the Earth Mirror fired at it, the soft-bodied creature used its body to block most of the attacks. However, its body was not indestructible, so a small piece of 'meat' was knocked off by the Earth Mirror and fell into the grass.
No creature seemed to be interested in this piece of 'meat', which meant it was probably not cellular. Generally speaking, if a piece of a multicellular creature's meat fell on the ground of a connected world, it would disappear in a very short period of time.
Lin's spy walked over, extended a tentacle from her head, picked up the piece of meat, and put it into her body to examine it.
Although Lin performed this strange action within the perception range of the ground mirrors, she didn't arouse any suspicion. Although a ground mirror equipped with some special tools could also perform this action, the ground mirrors of the exploration team weren't equipped with such tools.
This was mainly due to their personality. They were not suspicious of their companions, but if they did something too strange, they would still be suspected.
While thinking, Lin examined the soft-bodied creature's meat.
So that's how it was. Its outer layer was poisonous to cellular creatures, but its internal structure …
It had a cellular structure.
Furthermore, it was similar to the 'pseudo-stone' that Lin recently created. It was mainly a mixture of non-cellular and cellular structures. This structure was able to operate in perfect harmony and had many new characteristics.
And Lin's pseudo-stone was mainly based on the internal structure of several other Boss-type creatures, as well as gel creatures.
Therefore, this soft-bodied creature's meat was also very similar … especially the gel creatures.
This gave Lin the idea that the soft-bodied creatures here might be related to the gel creatures in some way.
Indeed … if there was an ecological connection, the soft-bodied creatures lived on the Star Bus that was about to collapse, while the gel creatures lived on the floating rocks after the collapse.
However, she couldn't be completely sure yet.
Because their structures weren't exactly the same, Lin found many differences, but there were also many similarities, so there was a possibility …
The soft-bodied creatures and the gel creatures were related by ancestry.
What they had in common was that they didn't use the usual cell nucleus to store life information. Instead, they used a different structure to store life information. This structure wouldn't be attacked by the usual cellular viruses, and it wouldn't easily mutate due to various influences.
Lin had yet to encounter a virus that could affect this kind of storage structure. Of course, this kind of organism was rare to begin with, so not many of them had been discovered. If she could catch an entire live one, she would be able to better understand them.
Although it was possible to calculate how they were as a whole by looking at the meat, it was more interesting to directly study a live one, because that was' discovery ', not' speculation '.
However, was the current path … the correct one?
The Terra Mirror had already walked out of the white grassland and arrived at the rock wall that the soft-bodied creatures climbed up. However, they didn't climb up the rock wall. Instead, they walked along the rock wall.
"Why aren't you following the target?" Lin asked them with a flash of light.
"If you follow the target, you will be attacked. You will be attacked. It's safer to walk around. "
In short, it seemed that they were afraid of being attacked if they followed the target, so they walked around.
However, walking around wasn't safe either, and they would deviate from the target. After Lin told them this idea, the Terra Mirror considered for a few dozen seconds instead of immediately responding, and then they made a decision.
"Then we'll follow the target. Crawl towards the target, and do it quietly. "
The Terra Mirror weren't stubborn. They quickly accepted this idea and began to climb up the rock wall.
The soft-bodied creatures had crawled into a small hole in the rock wall. Lin felt that the hole might lead to their kingdom. (To be continued.)
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