"… This is …"
When he looked up at the sky, he could see a dark red fog floating in the air. The dim sunlight shone through the thick fog on the ground, dyeing everything with a similar color.
The ground was piled up with countless … things.
There were many different kinds of things. There were stones, metals, crystals, flesh, and jelly. These strange substances piled up into small hills all over the ground.
The ground was covered with crystals, full of cracks and potholes. Some potholes were filled with colorful liquid, while others were dry.
In short, this was not the original crystal plain, nor was it the Pompom World. It was an unknown … place.
"We've arrived at an abnormal place." Cryopteris looked at the dark red fog in the sky and looked around. It wanted to find the ship.
In Cryopteris' memory, it remembered clearly that it took the ship to the teleportation point of the Inca swarm to return to the Pompom World.
However, something strange happened during the teleportation. The ship shook violently before the teleportation, and Cryopteris felt it was strange.
When the teleportation was successful, what appeared in front of Cryopteris was a world like this. What was this place? Was it another place in the crystal world?
It was not sure … but it should be so. The gravity was almost the same, but the air was a little different. Compared to the plain of the swamp, the air here was more complex, and there were many things that were not crystals.
For example, there was a … small hill in front of Cryopteris.
The small mountain was more than ten meters tall and was made up of a large number of fragments. Some of these fragments were crystals, but most of them were not. They were some other metals and stones. The Explosive Roar Worm also saw some cell-like creatures' bones mixed in with them.
Simply put, it was like a … garbage dump. Everything that was piled up here seemed to have been discarded. While thinking, the Explosive Roar Worm pulled out a white substance from the small mountain in front of it.
"Skeleton …" In the process of inspection, Cryopteris found that it was indeed the skeleton of a cell-like creature. It was a species that had never been seen before, and it had died recently.
This meant that there were cell-like creatures nearby … In reality, this was not strange. The crystal world was caused by crystal bacteria, and some cell-like creatures could adapt to the environment of this world.
However, after coming to the crystal world, Cryopteris had not seen any cell-like creatures. Including the primordial realm, all the creatures in the crystal world he had encountered so far were non-cell-like creatures.
At the same time, the Roaring Beetle was also moving forward.
The ship was gone … The scorpion and the head on the ship were obviously gone too. Cryopteris thought that he should find the ship first. If the ship was intact, he might be able to teleport again.
As they ran through the piles of debris, the Roaring Beetles emitted a unique sound to detect their surroundings.
Through the sound, it could see if there were any boat-shaped objects nearby..
"There's something.
When it made the sound for the first time, it felt something. However, it was not a ship, but something else … something that was over a meter long and could move quickly.
There were ten of them. They were scattered in the surrounding hills and quickly gathered here.
They seemed to be coming for Cryopteris, so Cryopteris stopped and turned to look at the top of a hill on the left.
At the top of the hill, the thing had already appeared. It looked … like a … It was hard to say what it was. It was more like a machine.
It looked like it was made of the debris here. It had a jelly-like substance as the core, and it was surrounded by thin and long 'limbs' made of metal, rock, crystal, and even bone.
However, it was more like these things were stuck on a piece of jelly.
However, it was able to use these limbs to move, just like how crabs move. Swinging its limbs, the creature quickly ran down the hill and rushed towards the Roaring Beetle.
The moment it ran to the foot of the hill, it suddenly stretched out a cylindrical object from its jelly-like body and aimed at Cryopteris. Then …
"Bang!" A white gas gushed out of the cylinder. Cryopteris quickly retreated, but when it wanted to move, it found that its legs could no longer move because a layer of frost had condensed there.
"It's using cold air to attack …" Cryopteris looked at the strange creature and then opened its mouth wide. It roared.
Suddenly, the creature seemed to have suffered a heavy blow. All of its limbs bent at the same time and its whole body fell to the ground.
But after a moment, it stood up again, but it did not continue to attack. Instead, it rubbed its two metal limbs together and made a very irritating sound.
With this sound, Cryopteris saw another creature appear on the top of the hill.
Not only this one, but almost every hill around Cryopteris had one of these creatures. A total of ten creatures appeared, and they had completely surrounded Cryopteris.
The first creature that was attacked by Cryopteris made an even sharper sound at this time. The remaining nine creatures immediately ran down the hill and rushed towards Cryopteris.
"Ahhhhhhh!"
A violent roar erupted from Cryopteris' mouth.
It was unknown whether these creatures had hearing, but it seemed to be very effective. All of the creatures fell to the ground at this moment. Cryopteris broke free from the frost that froze its legs and walked to the nearest creature on the ground. It opened its mouth wide and roared at it.
"Ahhhh!!!" Accompanied by the roar of Cryopteris, this creature's jelly-like body was constantly trembling, and its various limbs fell off.
However, when Cryopteris roared, the surrounding nine creatures stood up. They all extended a cylinder from their body and sprayed extremely cold gas at Cryopteris.
"Boom!" At this time, the body of a creature exploded. The jelly-like body parts flew in all directions, and the creature instantly turned into a pile of debris.
The surrounding creatures seemed to be frightened by this. They stopped shooting cold gas and scattered in all directions. After a few seconds, they all ran into the surrounding piles of debris and disappeared.
"Seems like I'm not that late."
Cryopteris looked up and saw a familiar figure and voice on top of a hill. That was … the mechanical Hydrogloom. The Hydrogloom raised its forelimbs and aimed at this place. Obviously, it was the one that blew up the … jelly-like creature.
"I'm really happy that you survived." Cryopteris quickly climbed up the hill and looked into the Hydrogloom's cockpit. It could see a head inside.
"After teleporting, I realized that I was in a strange place." Blood Fog's head looked at Cryopteris who climbed in and said, "Then I was attacked by some strange creatures. If I didn't realize that I could control this machine, I would've died …"
"Yes, you have the control authority." Cryopteris said, "I just didn't tell you before. As long as your head stays inside, you can control it."
"Ga … Luckily, I found out." Blood Fog said, "Then I controlled the machine to run around and found that you were surrounded by those strange creatures. What are they?"
"Probably some local species," Cryopteris said, "Let's go find a ship and see if we can teleport back."
Then, it controlled the Hydrogloom to run in a direction.
"Do you know where the ship is?" Blood Fog said, "This machine can show the ship's location or something, but I don't know how to activate that function …"
"I don't know." Cryopteris said, "Indeed, it can know the ship's location, but it's not showing it now. This means that there are two possibilities. One, the signal has been blocked, and two … the ship has been destroyed."
"Ga?" Blood Fog said in shock, "It can't be destroyed, right? We're all still alive!"
"It'll be good if that's the case." Cryopteris said, "Where's that scorpion?"
Blood Fog said immediately, "It should be dead."
"…"
Neither of them said anything after that. The Hydrogloom quickly ran through the hills.
The hills of trash piled up one after another. As Cryopteris looked at these hills that were the same in general but had different details, he was also scanning the surroundings.
"They … have been following us."
Through the scanning, Cryopteris found that there were many 'local jelly species' in the hills.
They seemed to be very interested in the Hydrogloom, but they did not attack recklessly. Instead, they kept a distance and followed them.
"Those things are quite annoying," Blood Fog said, "but they shouldn't be able to hurt us."
"It's hard to say." Cryopteris said, "We might have to face something troublesome because this machine is running out of energy. It needs to stop and replenish its energy."
"Ga?" Blood Fog was confused. "How do we replenish it?"
"We can replenish it through light. There's not enough light here, so it'll take a long time. However, there are many things here, and we might be able to find … things that can be used as energy."
When the Roaring Beetle's voice fell, the Watergloom also stopped, and all the jelly creatures around it did the same.
They stopped in the surroundings and did not approach, as if waiting for an opportunity. Cryopteris ignored them and had the Hydrogloom search quickly at the foot of a hill.
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