It was as if this place … had dissolved into something like this?
This place was … a soft lake. Lin's mechanical spider was at the bottom of the lake, inspecting what it had just discovered … it was an organ from a Star Bus. Tssss.
Just like the organ in the Lightchaser's cave, the organ found here was a small part of a teleportation organ.
And that small part was slowly … disappearing.
To be more precise, it was being converted into the soft substance around it. The organ had once been a large whole, but now only a small part was left.
It was not cut off, but slowly converted into the substance around it … it turned out that this soft lake was the result of the organ's conversion.
Moreover, it was not caused by any living creature. Rather, it was the organ's own conversion.
After a preliminary examination, Lin found that the organ itself was still alive. It was just that it was slowly converting into the soft substance around it.
Due to the huge difference between before and after the conversion, Lin did not notice that the soft lake was actually an organ. Now that she was inspecting it, she found it very strange.
It was as if the organ had abandoned most of its former structure, causing it to transform into something completely different. Even now, Lin had no way of understanding how it had transformed into such a soft substance.
Lin did not have much time to examine it since the organ was becoming smaller and smaller. She simply watched as it slowly converted into the same substance as its surroundings before disappearing without a trace.
The process was slow at first, but it became faster and faster. Lin did not detect any other microorganisms here, so she was almost certain that the organ had converted into a soft substance on its own.
However, it was not just a conversion process. Lin also noticed that a portion of the substance had disappeared during the conversion process.
Lin believed that a lot of 'impurities' would be produced during the conversion process … simply put, since the organ itself was heavier than the soft substance, it was the equivalent of converting something heavy into something light.
That was why a lot of excess substances would be expelled during the conversion process. And yet, Lin did not see any of those excess substances. It was as if they had simply disappeared during the conversion process.
The entire process was very strange … as such, Lin decided to have the mechanical spider continue to explore the soft lake while the other mechanical spiders outside continued to move forward.
The nine mechanical spiders were now running across the wreckage of the ground. They were following the traces left behind by the Lightchaser to where the organ had been dragged here.
And now, they had discovered where the Lightchaser had found the organ.
The mechanical spiders stopped. There was a crater in front of them. This crater should have been caused by the explosion. It was more than three meters in diameter. There was more than one such crater. There were craters everywhere in the vicinity, and their sizes were not uniform. It was obvious that the explosive power produced by these craters was not uniform.
She felt as if this place had been hit by a rain of bombs. A large number of bombs had blasted out many craters here. Lin noticed that some of the craters … contained a lot of white debris.
These fragments were also the organs of the Star Bus … or rather, the organs that had been blown up.
Many of the craters were filled with these organ fragments, which made Lin feel that these organs were still intact before the explosion, but the explosion had shattered them.
The mechanical spiders ran back and forth between the craters, observing the situation inside the craters. Lin felt that there used to be a lot of explosives here, as well as a lot of Star Bus parts.
Not whole organs, but pieces of organs. They might have been placed together with the explosives and then exploded together.
Very soon, this thought was confirmed.
One of Lin's mechanical spiders found … a piece of organ that had not been blown up in the middle of the craters.
It looked … very strange.
The organ was only a little over a meter in size and looked like a white stone. And it was now embedded in … a five-meter-tall … mushroom.
This' mushroom 'was the same kind Lin had seen when she first entered this underground world. They were formed from the' soil 'on the ground, but Lin had only examined the outer layer. She had not examined the insides.
Now, she saw them again. And a piece of Star Bus organ was embedded in the center of the mushroom's stalk …
Lin had one of the mechanical spiders step forward and try to touch the Star Bus organ embedded in the mushroom.
Boom! After a series of explosions, the entire mushroom exploded. The explosion swept both the mechanical spiders and the organ embedded in the center into it. When the explosion was over, all that was left was a crater in the ground.
So that was how it was. This' mushroom '… was an explosive.
Lin's other mechanical spiders hurried over and probed the newly created crater. Although the explosion just now was quite powerful, it was still not enough. Although the explosion was quite powerful, it did not produce any glowing liquid substance. That was why the Lightchasers were not attracted to it.
Lin was puzzled. Why would it wrap around the Star Bus' organ and then explode when touched? What was the point of all this? What kind of creature could have done this?
Lin felt that she might need to find the creature that created this' mushroom '. It was clearly created, so why would it want to blow up the Star Bus' organ?
Something was coming.
Just as Lin was thinking about that, she noticed a huge object appearing in the sky in the distance. Lin immediately had the mechanical spiders spread out on the ground, and they began to observe the huge object from different angles.
The huge object reminded Lin of a creature that lived on a pom-poms … a hollow jellyfish.
It had an olive-shaped body and was over a hundred meters long. There were many tentacles around its body, and from the ends of the tentacles, it could be seen that each tentacle was hollow.
It hovered above the cratered area, then stopped. Lin noticed that it was making some strange movements. This … I'll just assume it's a living creature for now. It reached out with its tentacles and placed them on the craters on the ground.
Lin noticed that the tentacles placed on the craters were wriggling about. After a while, the tentacles rose up again.
As for the crater beneath the tentacles … after the tentacles rose up, they disappeared. In their place was a 'mushroom'.
The same thing happened to the other tentacles. When the tentacles rose up, a mushroom would appear there … it would appear that the creature was using its tentacles to flatten the crater while creating a mushroom there. The mushrooms were of different sizes, but all of them looked exactly the same as the one that had exploded earlier.
It would appear that this creature … was the culprit. Lin wanted to know why it was doing this. And so, Lin had one of the mechanical spiders take flight and fly toward the creature.
In that instant, the creature reacted. A huge tentacle swept toward the mechanical spider, sending it flying and crashing heavily into the ground.
It would appear that they could not casually approach it. Normally, large creatures would not pay much attention to small creatures wandering around. However, this creature was different.
Lin felt that they should think of something else.
The mechanical spiders continued to observe. They saw that the hollow jellyfish-like creature had created a lot of mushrooms on the ground. However, it did not fill up all the craters. After filling up a part of the crater, it left. It flew toward the sky, the core of this underground world. Slowly, its huge body disappeared into the darkness.
Lin had one of the mechanical spiders fly up and follow behind it … it would appear that the creature would not attack as long as there was enough distance between them.
However, the mechanical spiders might be attacked by other creatures while following it. Regardless, they would follow it for as long as they could.
Next, Lin's remaining mechanical spiders looked at the … mushrooms all over the ground.
They seemed to have been planted here. Each and every one of them was arranged neatly. However, these mushrooms were explosive.
It was as if the slightest touch could cause an explosion.
One of the mechanical spiders picked up a piece of debris from the ground and threw it at the nearest mushroom.
Boom!
The moment the debris hit the mushroom, the sound of an explosion rang out in Lin's mind.
This time, it was not just one mushroom that exploded. Instead, all the mushrooms exploded. It felt as if a chain of explosions had occurred. When the mushroom that Lin threw at exploded, all the other mushrooms around it exploded as well … In the end, all the mushrooms in the area were blown up.
Fortunately, the mechanical spiders were far enough away that they did not suffer too much damage.
Because of that, they created a huge crater in the ground. And in this crater, Lin found a liquid substance that was emitting a high temperature and light.
After a while, Lin noticed that something had happened around her. Many spherical creatures were running over from the darkness. They were Lightchasers … chasing after the light of the explosion. They had appeared.
They quickly ran into the crater caused by the explosion and collected the glowing, high-temperature substance. They did not care how the explosion had occurred. As long as there was an explosion, they would come out.
However, Lin noticed that several of the Lightchasers were not collecting the glowing substance. Instead, they were digging around the edge of the crater. Lin then had one of the mechanical spiders approach them for a closer look. She found that they were digging up some … fungi at the edge of the crater.
Originally, there were no fungi growing in this area. But now, Lin noticed that they had appeared in large numbers at the edge of the crater. It was as if … the explosion had caused them to appear.
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