Buzz … Buzz …
Accompanied by a series of buzzing sounds, a huge machine was moving.
Its body was like a … snake. This appearance allowed it to move quickly even in the underground tunnel.
It was also an excavator that the Scholar and the Mechanical Dust Crocodile had assembled in the assembly factory not long ago.
Although they had discovered the escape route of the elite, they did not pursue it. Instead, they decided to complete the excavator quickly and then dig a path.
That was because … chasing the elite was not easy. Its location was near the factory in a place called the sewer. The environment there was very complicated, and there were many three-legged pillars protecting it.
Therefore, the Scholar and the Mechanical Dust Crocodile decided to ignore it for now. The most important thing was to open up the path. The Mechanical Dust Crocodile also thought that … it had to reach the position of the 'Frozen Bloom' switch before the three-legged pillar and the elite traitor.
Now, they had reached the blocked path.
The huge snake-shaped machine's digging method was very simple. It first opened its mouth and extended a grasping … tongue from its mouth. Then, it pulled a stone out of the pile of rubble and put it in its mouth. With a crunch, it crushed the stone into pieces. Then, it swallowed the pieces and expelled them from the back.
"… This feels a little …"
There was no cockpit, so the Scholar and the Mechanical Dust Crocodile stood beside the 20-meter-long snake and watched the excavation process. The process was very much like … the snake eating the stones one by one.
It looked very strange, and the efficiency of the excavation seemed … not ideal.
The Mechanical Dust Crocodile did not look anything special. It seemed like the excavation method was very normal, so the Scholar did not say anything.
They waited there … The excavator ate the stones one by one. The process took a long time, so the Scholar went to check the elite's room.
The Scholar was more concerned about the canned food in the elite's room. It found that a few of them were indeed … three-legged pillar meat.
However, most of the meat in the canned food was not three-legged pillar. It was the meat of a creature that was completely unrelated to the three-legged pillar. There were even … seasonings in it.
What kind of creatures were these meat creatures? Were they also creatures that lived in this place?
Other than the canned food, there were also balls and weapons that could play images. However, the balls did not record any images, and the weapons could not be used. They were either out of ammunition or damaged.
'Seems like there's nothing special about this room … What's this?'
Just as the Scholar was about to leave, she suddenly heard a very faint "Ka …" sound. The Scholar turned around and saw that a weapon on the ground was acting strangely.
The outer shell of the weapon … cracked.
Puzzled, the scholar walked over and picked up the weapon …
And the moment he picked up the weapon, the weapon … fell apart.
In the Scholar's hands, it shattered into a large number of pieces that scattered on the ground. And in the midst of these pieces … the Scholar saw a small spherical object.
This spherical object was only a few centimeters in size, but the scholar found that its style was exactly the same as the spherical objects used to play videos. In other words, this should be a small … projector.
But why was it in the weapon? Why did the weapon break?
The Scholar had examined the weapon before, but it was still fine at that time. Now, however, it had suddenly shattered …
Perhaps it was just a coincidence? The Scholar examined the weapon and found that it was indeed very fragile. The inside of the metal shell seemed to have been … eaten. There were many small holes inside.
It was because of these holes that the weapon itself became very fragile. The Scholar only touched it twice before it broke.
In any case, let's examine this sphere first.
The Scholar took the sphere and climbed out of the elite's room. Outside, she found the mechanical dust crocodile who was monitoring the excavation process. The mechanical dust crocodile said that this sphere was indeed a small … projector. And there were some videos recorded inside.
So, the Scholar and the mechanical dust crocodile took advantage of the excavation time to watch this … video.
This could be considered a … diary-type video. It recorded some things about the elite.
However, this was different from the diaries of other elites that the Scholar had seen before. The other elites' videos usually recorded their exploration process everywhere in the city.
The only thing shown in this video was the scene of it staying in its own room. In the video, this … … Elite Traitor was huddled in a corner, and it was talking non-stop.
These words … were about the three-legged pillar.
…
It was … similar to what the elite had said before. The three-legged pillar had met the elite at some point, and then used canned meat as a … reward to make the elite work for them.
The elite recorded these work contents in its diary … and described the whole process in detail.
The first task was to make it do a very strange thing … tear down a few pieces of advertising paper in a building and then take it to another building to paste them.
This task … was very strange. However, the elite did it for the sake of the canned food. After it finished, it did receive the three-legged pillar's canned food.
Then, from then on, it continued to do tasks … Every time, the three-legged pillar would give it some canned food. The quantity was related to the difficulty, but in fact, it was not difficult. It was just that the weight of the things carried was different.
From weapons to vehicles and some wreckage, it had carried them all. It had always wanted to find out why the three-legged pillar gave it these tasks, but it had been unable to find out.
It could only follow the three-legged pillar's orders and keep repeating the task until … a certain time.
The three-legged pillar gave it a special task, which was … to kill other elites. At first, it was unwilling to do this task. However, if it did not do this task, there would be no canned food. In the end, driven by hunger, it completed this task.
In fact, the elite that it killed had not woken up yet. It was an elite that was scheduled to wake up soon, so it was quite easy to kill it.
After completing the task, the three-legged pillar did not only give the elite canned food, but also told it some … things … about why they invaded them.
The reason for this group of invaders had always been a mystery. According to what the scholars knew, they suddenly appeared and started to madly attack the Dust Crocodiles and the nearby creatures.
The three-legged pillar mentioned that the reason for their invasion was to end the Dust Crocodiles and the creatures here …
The development of the Dust Crocodiles and their history, they were all clear. However, the Dust Crocodiles were no longer useful, so they were thrown away like … garbage.
However, this place still had to be preserved. Therefore, they did not choose to use weapons of mass destruction. Instead, they killed the Dust Crocodiles one by one with single-target or small-area weapons to preserve the appearance of this place.
That was what the three-legged pillar told the elite.
At that time, the elite was extremely puzzled by these words. It did not understand what the three-legged pillar meant. It wanted to ask the three-legged pillar more, but the three-legged pillar did not continue to explain. Instead, it gave it the next task.
The next task was to move … some historical information from a place similar to a 'library' and move it to another place.
In the process of this task, the elite remembered what the three-legged pillar said before, so it paid attention to the history of the Dust Crocodiles.
In fact, it did not learn much before, so it did not know much about the history of its own species.
Now … it understood.
The history of the Dust Crocodiles … was quite interesting.
The scholars thought so when they saw the description in the diary.
Unlike the other creatures that lived on the normal rollers, when the Dust Crocodiles had the idea of recording history, they lived in this huge engineering pipeline.
In their sky, there was never starlight or sunlight. There was no distinction between day and night, but there was a stable temperature and air. In the beginning, the Dust Crocodiles lived in the huge, strangely shaped ruins of buildings. They moved through these ruins and captured the small creatures that were also moving through here.
Many life forms that were similar to plants and fungi emitted light in the dark place, illuminating the path in front of the Dust Crocodiles.
This life lasted for a very long time. In that era, the Dust Crocodiles used various methods to pass on the history and knowledge of their species. The more common method was … oral communication.
That era could be called a 'primitive era'. Like many creatures with personalities, the Dust Crocodiles showed faith and fear towards the unknown.
However, they also slowly grew. There were wars and various other things during this period of time. In the end, they grew stronger and stronger …
In the beginning, they relied on the light from the creatures in the wild to make their own light sources. They hunted everywhere and raised food. But most importantly …
They began to explore the surrounding area.
During their exploration, they encountered many other species. Some of them were very warlike, and some of them could communicate peacefully.
Some of these species also grew up with the Dust Crocodiles and became their … neighbors.
Some species constantly used force to rob other creatures during their development. In the end, they were defeated by the other creatures.
In the end, a group of relatively stronger species lived in this world. They formed many kingdoms and developed until now. The time used for this whole process was similar to the situation in the Mirror World. There were many civilizations and creatures that developed together, but there were no abnormalities during this period of time, such as the emergence of a Primordial Realm organization.
In the beginning, there were many wars, but they slowly balanced out. Several powerful species, including the Dust Crocodiles, formed their own kingdoms and did not invade each other. They maintained a long period of peace.
It was as if this period of history … had nothing to do with the invaders of the three-legged pillar.
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