"We're here! We've found this place! We're the fastest! "
This was an underground world. Looking up, they could see countless sharp stone pillars hanging upside down from the ceiling of a cave about three meters high. The tips of the stone pillars were covered with tiny glowing objects, which illuminated the dark underground environment.
Looking ahead, they could see a vast plain that stretched as far as the eye could see. Light blue 'grass' half a millimeter high covered the plains of this underground world.
On this light blue grassland, there were also colorful miniature creatures flying around. This wonderful landscape extended to the farthest reaches of one's field of vision.
This place was called the Border Land, the edge of the territory of the soft-bodied creatures.
After passing through the cave that turned into a stomach and defeating the soft-bodied creatures blocking the entrance, Lin's spies and the exploration team of the Earth Mirror arrived at this place.
Looking back, Lin found that the cave they came from was located on a huge rock wall behind them. Other than the one that Lin came from, there were countless small holes on the rock wall, like a beehive.
Lin felt that these holes led to somewhere in the distance, bringing other creatures of the underground world to this vast Border Land.
The Border Land was three meters high, but she didn't know how wide it was. It seemed to be a rather large underground square, and it was covered with light blue 'grass'.
These grass were the same kind of creatures as the white ones they saw before, but the color was different.
The Earth Mirrors began to cheer when they saw the scenery of this place. This was because the scenery here was exactly the same as the description of the Boundary Land in the king's information. It was a blue underground plain. Through the strong light it emitted, the Earth Mirrors confirmed the general environment here.
However, the cave ceiling here was more dazzling than the plain on the ground. Countless glowing threads hung from the sharp stone pillars. This made the entire cave ceiling look like a starry night sky.
The exploration team didn't have time to admire the beautiful cave ceiling. They needed to quickly report to the king.
… … …
"They're already here? They're here! They found it! "
In the hall where the king was waiting for the news, the news that surprised the Earth Mirror spread instantly. The Earth Mirror was shocked.
In fact, Lin also felt that it was quite strange because she had seen their description before. The underground maze was quite vast. She thought that they would get lost in it for a few days and nights, but she didn't expect to find this place so quickly.
"Hurry up! Activate! "
Thus, King once again issued orders to his troops like before. After a large number of orders were passed down, more troops began to prepare to head to the border.
However, King did not call back the exploration teams. It seemed that he intended to let them continue their exploration.
… Anyway. Lin's exploration team only needed to continue to wait here …
After reporting to the king, the exploration team quickly uprooted the blue grass on the ground.
There didn't seem to be any problems with doing this. They wouldn't provoke any creatures. When they cleared out an empty space about 30 centimeters in diameter, a few Earth Mirrors opened up the sharp part of the head and took something out.
This thing was not their weapon, but a construction tool.
It was a semi-automatic construction tool.
These tools looked like discs, and there were many limbs under them. There were a lot of these limbs, which made them look like beetles.
Of course. These tools also acted like beetles.
The Earth Mirror that took out the tools now shone a light from its head. This light shone on the beetle-like tool, and the tool suddenly moved.
It crawled on the ground like a beetle, and began to collect sand and clay from the surrounding ground and piled them up.
They used this tool to build all kinds of things. The tool was a very complicated machine. The Earth Mirror used light to input instructions to the tool, and then the tool would move and build all kinds of things.
According to King's orders, after arriving at the border, they first had to build a camp as a contact point. The Earth Mirrors here were specifically responsible for building. So they brought along construction tools.
However, with only a few of them, the construction speed was quite slow.
So, while they were building, Lin decided to walk around here to see if she could find anything interesting.
"Don't move around!"
When Lin's spy was about to walk into the blue grass, the Earth Mirrors suddenly shone light on the spy's body.
"Now that we've entered the stage where we can't move around, we have to stay here and not move around. At the same time, the most important thing is to build a camp!"
It seems that the Earth Mirrors have a problem with Lin wanting to run around. If that's the case, I'll just stay here.
However, as long as the spy stayed here, Lin could still use many other methods to explore.
With that in mind, Lin looked at the far side of the cave. On the blue grass far away, Lin found a suspicious looking rock.
The rock was huge, about 10 centimeters tall, and its surface was very smooth, as if it had been ….. cut.
Lin's spy aimed at the rock, and a small sharp object was shot towards it, and it quickly hit the target.
However, before Lin could inspect it, the rock shook and began to change. In an instant, it became very soft, and the color of its surface turned into a metallic color.
At the same time, its entire body slowly stretched out on the blue grass, and its original 10 centimeters tall body slowly disappeared, becoming a soft mass lying on the grass.
So this is ….. a soft-bodied creature?
Lin wasn't surprised that it could transform. When she inspected it before, Lin believed that soft-bodied creatures had some kind of transformation ability. The structure of soft-bodied creatures' bodies could rapidly change their shape and harden.
Previously, when Lin saw the soft-bodied creature spread its wings, it was in a similar situation. It only needed to form the shape of a wing and harden it to maintain that shape.
However, it still hardened in a very ingenious way, because the entire wing couldn't be hardened. It needed to be perfectly coordinated to fly.
In comparison, this disguise as a rock was much simpler.
It was now slowly wriggling on the grass, but it didn't remove the spikes that Lin stuck on its body. It slowly crawled towards the Earth Mirror camp, and the Earth Mirrors didn't notice it yet. They were busy building.
In fact, there were only three Earth Mirrors being built there, and the others were ….. in a daze.
The soft-bodied creature slowly crawled until it was only 50 centimeters away from the camp. Its entire body lay on the grass, but its color didn't change. However, Lin felt that if the Earth Mirrors' looked 'at it, it would be noticed no matter what color it was.
Lin still wanted to observe it for a while, so she didn't let the spy remind the Earth Mirrors. The soft-bodied creature didn't do anything to the Earth Mirrors either. It stopped moving at this distance and stayed where it was, as if it was also observing the situation …..
Lin kept an eye on it while paying attention to the surroundings.
Lin now felt that it was very likely that there were soft-bodied creatures in disguise in many places here. Lin had the spy observe everywhere …..
As expected, Lin soon discovered more soft-bodied creatures. Although their disguises were very similar to real objects, there were still some differences.
Around the Earth Mirror camp, there were more than a dozen soft-bodied creatures within a one-meter radius. They were all disguised as rocks, blue grass on the ground, and so on.
They looked like they were monitoring the Earth Mirrors, but Lin felt that they were more likely ….. in a state of deep sleep and didn't pay much attention to their surroundings.
The soft-bodied creature that was initially disguised as a rock was woken up by Lin's attack. It noticed the Earth Mirrors and crawled over to observe.
Lin saw in the king's information that soft-bodied creatures should be a group of civilized creatures, but she didn't know if this was their kingdom or if there was a city somewhere else.
Also, they didn't seem to be building anything …..
However, Lin was more concerned about how far this place was from the Star Bus's organs. Logically speaking, this place shouldn't be too deep because it didn't take long to reach this place in the labyrinth, so there should be some distance to the organs.
Just as Lin was thinking about this, the soft-bodied creature that Lin was poking began to move.
It slowly crawled over to the nearest soft-bodied creature that was disguised as a lawn and gently touched it. The moment it was touched, the 'lawn' on the ground instantly shrank back into the ground. At the same time, the ground began to change color and shrink into a ball, turning into another soft-bodied creature.
Then, the two soft-bodied creatures spread out and crawled in different directions. Lin noticed that they crawled towards the surrounding soft-bodied creatures that were in a state of camouflage.
They ….. Were they waking up their companions?
Lin's guess was right. The two soft-bodied creatures woke up two of their companions, then they spread out and contacted more of their companions.
Once they made contact, they would recover from their state of camouflage and move again.
However, with so many soft-bodied creatures moving around, the Earth Mirrors could no longer ignore them. Some soft-bodied creatures were closer to the camp, so a Earth Mirror that was in a daze immediately noticed them.
"That thing is approaching!"
After a small burst of light, all the Earth Mirrors immediately reacted. They began to rapidly increase their senses to pay attention to the location their companions mentioned.
Soon, they discovered a shocking fact ….. There were soft-bodied creatures everywhere, and there were quite a lot of them.
Therefore, they didn't decide to attack recklessly. Instead, they all emitted a light that indicated 'retreat'. (To be continued.)
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