"This is … a crystallized city."
The mechanical Water Gloom stopped. Its colour slowly changed, fusing with all the crystallized objects in the surroundings. The creatures inside observed the situation outside through images.
Looking out, this was the scene that could be seen. Countless buildings constructed from crystals stood on the ground that also had a crystalline lustre. Many flying objects of various shapes flew in the sky. This was the main appearance of the city.
"I have to say … this is very similar to our city, but there are no surface vehicles," said the scholar as she looked at the strange scene. "There's also something very strange. I don't see any Primordial realm experts here."
There were no Primordial realm experts on the streets of the crystallized city. Instead, there were many … other creatures.
Crystalline creatures of various shapes moved through the city. There were many of them, and there was a great variety of them. However, no matter what they looked like, they all moved in the same way.
"These should be the Primordial realm," said the cryopters. Roar Bug said, "Maybe these things in the city mimic the appearance of all kinds of creatures. Anyway, we have to test if our disguise works here."
As he said that, the Cryopteris poked at the image before him. Immediately, the Water Gloom shook a few times, and a soft mass emerged from the bottom of the Water Gloom.
"This is … a disguise?"
"This is a disguise to the original Primordial realm. Let's see if it works. Let's use it to explore …"
The Cryopteris poked at the image again, and the soft mass began to move like a slime. It began to crawl into the distance.
Right now, the Water Gloom was located beside a building on the edge of the city. The slime made its way around the building and entered the 'streets' of the city.
"So many …"
The 'streets' of the city were extremely crowded. Countless crystalline creatures of various shapes moved about, which made the scholar think of the Voidfolk who constantly worked in the city.
Although he was born on the Wanderer, he had never experienced it. However, he had seen information about his own world countless times, so this world gave him … a sense of déjà vu.
The disguised slime moved about on the edge of the street. None of the crystalline creatures stopped to pay attention to it. This seemed to mean that the disguise … had succeeded?
"It's changing colour right now," said the Cryopteris, "I'll remove the colour later and see how they react."
"Wait! Didn't you notice? " This sentence was … said by Scorpion, "This place and these idiots are all very strange!"
Scorpion, who had been clamoring to kill the Blood Mist's head and return, suddenly became interested in what was happening here. The scholar asked curiously, "What's strange?"
"They look busy, but they're not busy at all." Scorpion poked at the image and said, "Look, this idiot that looks like a frog. It just walked far away and then came back …"
"That seems to be true …"
According to it, the scholar did see a frog-like crystallized creature. It walked for a while in the midst of the busy crystallized creatures, then returned to its original spot and continued walking.
To put it simply, it was just repeating the same path.
"This phenomenon is worth studying." Cryopteris continued to send the soft-bodied creatures deeper into the city. As they moved along the streets, they could see a large number of crystallized creatures walking around.
After looking at it for a while, he could tell that the crystallized creatures here were very different from the Voidpeople's cities … Although they looked very similar at first.
But the creatures here were all very strange.
In the busy Voidpeople's city, the Voidpeople on the streets had almost only two purposes: to take a vehicle or to enter a certain building.
But the creatures here did not do these two things … Although most of them did not repeatedly move within a small distance like before, they did not enter any building, nor did they take a vehicle. They did not even stop to communicate or do anything else.
Although there were many flying creatures in the sky, those things never came down. They did not see which building they were going to land on.
"So. For the time being … don't remove the color change and continue to study. "
Cryopteris continued to let the slime move in the city as time went by. The sky slowly darkened … There were no stars in the night sky of this world. Looking at the sky, one could only see a layer of white mist covering the sky.
And the ground … was shining brightly.
All the crystallized buildings in the city emitted different colors of light, and some were still flashing. This once again reminded Scholar of the colorful advertising boards in the Voidpeople's city. But these buildings were just purely glowing, there was no content in the light … At least they could not see it.
And those crystallized creatures in the city were still walking back and forth, like a river that would never stop.
"Now we have a lot of results." Cryopteris said, "After a day of observation, I found that almost all of these creatures are … repeatedly moving. It's just that the range of movement is different. "
"Gah … Are these things crazy?" Blood Mist's head said, "They keep walking like that, don't they get tired?"
"Idiot! I said they are pretending! "Scorpion said," These things have a lot of secrets that they are hiding from us! "
"They must have some reason." Scholar said, "Maybe there is some special effect of walking like this. In short, these crystallized creatures are not residents of the city. They are like … machines in a factory. They are always running, but we don't know what they are doing. "
"In other words, this is not a city, but a factory …" Cryopteris said, "It is slightly difficult to blend in with them now. All the buildings are quite sturdy and there are no visible entrances. And those that can fly never land …"
"Just catch one and investigate," Scorpion yelled, "Kill it and dig it up. We will definitely find something! Hurry up and move, don't be slow! You won't know anything if you stay here! "
"Stop yelling!" Blood Mist said, "If you do that, they will definitely find you and kill you! Now we are in their world! "
"We should try," Cryopteris said, "Then let's try this first."
The moment he finished speaking, Cryopteris poked the image again. The slime at the edge of the street suddenly extended a cylindrical object from its body and aimed at a crystallized creature that was walking over …
Bang! With a sound, more than half of the crystallized creature's body shattered and it fell to the ground.
In an instant, all the surrounding crystallized creatures scattered around the exploded crystallized creature like a herd of beasts fleeing in fright.
However, they quickly gathered back. A crystallized creature first touched the remaining half of its kind. Then it tore off a piece of this half of the body and … put it into its mouth.
A series of noises came from its mouth, as if it was chewing.
The surrounding creatures also gathered and did the same thing … They ate the remaining half of the body.
"Eat … they ate it?"
All the creatures present did not expect this outcome.
The slime had casually blown up a crystallized creature. As a result, the surrounding crystallized creatures were first scared away and then gathered back to eat the corpse. This strange behavior was completely unexpected. Moreover … they did not care about the slime that killed them.
Perhaps it was because the slime was still in the state of changing colors.
"They are really like … cockroaches," Blood Mist said, "Their behavior is almost exactly the same."
"Is that so?" Scholar asked.
"Yes, because I rarely … clean up the environment at home, I've seen a lot." Blood Mist said, "They will immediately eat the corpses of their kind nearby and will not care about why they were killed."
"That's right, they are very stupid," Scorpion said, "Just like you."
Blood Mist ignored Scorpion and continued, "But … why do the crystallized creatures of this world behave similarly?"
"In that case, let's do the next experiment," Cryopteris said, "Remove the disguise and see what happens …"
As soon as Cryopteris finished speaking, the slime's change of color slowly disappeared. Its figure appeared before the dense group of crystallized creatures.
In the next second, the group of crystallized creatures moved. They all lunged at the slime and tore it apart instantly.
"… It seems that the change of color disguise works," Cryopteris said. Cryopteris said, "However, even if the slime disappears, it can still disguise itself as a creature that is almost the same as a Primordial realm expert. The disguise doesn't seem to be effective."
"They might not be Primordial realm experts …" Scholar said, "Blood Mist is right. They are like the worms on the pompom. They eat whatever they see. No matter what, this … is not a city of Primordial realm experts."
"Maybe we should take a look inside the building," Cryopteris said, "We need to do something bigger."
"Don't tell me you want to blow this place up?" Scholar said, "Is there some powerful weapon in this machine?"
"Don't use this machine to blow up …"
As Cryopteris said that, the Water Gloom moved as well. It quickly climbed up the wall of the building and reached the top very soon.
Looking at the dense group of crystallized creatures below, Cryopteris continued, "We need to blow up that ship …"
Swish.
With Cryopteris' words, the creatures in the cockpit saw a … crossbow arrow appear in the sky.
The crossbow arrow shot into the street at high speed … and landed in the dense group of crystallized creatures. (To be continued.)
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