"I betrayed my race for myself and some canned food. I shouldn't live."
"But I still want to know why they did it. I need to keep moving. I need to keep moving …"
This was … the last content in the diary. The original version only had a few words, but the Scholar could fill it in with her imagination.
After recording this, it took a weapon apart, stuffed the recording ball into the weapon, and set off.
Because the recording ball was set to turn off automatically after a period of time, the Scholar could see the process of the elite putting the ball into the weapon. Now, she knew why there was a recording ball in the weapon.
The elite … The reason it attacked the Scholar and the mechanical crocodile seemed to be to listen to more information from the three-legged pillar.
If it was only for the canned food, it might have already … committed suicide.
In any case, the three-legged pillar paid a very small price to drive the elite into action. Although other than assassination, the task of placing things was unknown.
The Scholar thought that the three-legged pillar might try to use a similar method to control more elites because there was a lot of raw material to make canned food.
The Scholar … saw it here.
This place was a dark cave about 30 meters wide and 10 meters high. A huge snake-shaped excavator was slowly moving forward in the tunnel.
On both sides of the excavator, there were many creatures. Their bodies looked like shrimp. Each of them was only 30 centimeters long and had many limbs for movement.
It seemed that they were full of … curiosity. They all surrounded the excavator and watched it move forward. At the same time, they kept a distance of about two meters and did not get too close.
These creatures filled the cave in large numbers. Although they did not know what they ate, the Scholar knew that the meat in the elite's canned food was the meat of these shrimp-like creatures.
Although they were full of vigilance, occasionally, a few of them would approach the excavator out of curiosity. Therefore, the Scholar caught one that was relatively close. After a little examination, they knew that these shrimp-like creatures were the creatures that the three-legged pillar used to make canned food.
Perhaps these creatures lived in secrecy, so they were never discovered by the elite. However, the Scholar thought that they might have been specially cultivated by the three-legged pillar.
The mechanical crocodile was also surprised to see them. It felt that it would have been better if it had discovered these creatures earlier.
No matter what … they were the third cellular organism to appear in the Dusty Crocodile Kingdom other than the Elite and the Three-Legged Pillar.
Therefore, the scholars wanted to investigate the details of these creatures … and the Mechanical Dust Crocodile happened to have this information.
The Mechanical Dust Crocodile said that every Mechanical Dust Crocodile had a lot of information, such as historical information, biological information, and all kinds of knowledge.
The Mechanical Dust Crocodiles did not need to learn. After they were … created, they would be inputted with this information. They were born in a state where they understood everything.
Other than this creature, there was a lot of information about the Mechanical Dust Crocodile. Therefore, the Scholar had a lot of things to look at …
The scholar soon discovered that this creature could be … translated as' rock shrimp '. This was a type of cave dwelling creature that often appeared in the crevices of rocks.
At the same time, they were also … strange creatures.
The reproduction method of rock prawns … was very strange. According to the information, they were creatures that would not reproduce unless they were eaten.
After these creatures were eaten, their bodies would be crushed by the crocodile. When they dissolved, many small pieces would be left behind.
These pieces were made up of rather … strong cells. There were many of them and they were not afraid of high temperatures … When the original body of the rock shrimp was dissolved by the crocodile's … stomach juice or something like that, these pieces would begin to rapidly absorb the nutrients in the stomach and change shape.
In the end, the pieces would become … baby rock shrimp.
The baby rock shrimp would swim … in the stomach and would quickly leave the stomach to live outside, slowly growing into adult rock shrimp.
This strange lifestyle made the rock shrimp a creature that had to be eaten in order to have offspring. Normally, the Dusty Crocodile thought that the rock shrimp was a very dangerous creature. The key was that their larvae were very small and had a very strong … piercing ability. They could drill through most metal objects and cause serious damage.
Now, the Scholar knew why … the Elite's weapon had fallen apart and there were very small holes in it. Those were all caused by the baby rock shrimp.
Because the Elite had eaten a lot of rock shrimp meat, many larvae had grown inside its body. After the larvae left its body, they drilled into the weapons that it had piled up.
However, the rock shrimp usually only ate through metal and other solid objects to make their nests. They would not bite through the Dusty Crocodile, which was quite strange … In short, they were not a threat to the Dusty Crocodile itself, only their equipment.
After understanding these creatures, the Scholar continued to read the information. It found that although there were relatively few wild creatures in the city where the Dusty Crocodile lived, in the underground of the city … there were many wild creatures inside the walls of the pipes.
The rock shrimp was one of them. They relied on creatures that ate them to reproduce. Normally, after one rock shrimp was eaten, it could 'produce' hundreds of rock shrimp.
They did not seem to have a gender. Their offspring were all split from their predecessors … In caves like these, there were quite a lot of creatures that ate rock shrimp. They relied on their special living skills to survive.
But now, there were only rock shrimp here. There were no creatures that ate them … It seemed that the pause of the frozen bloom had affected the wild creatures here. They had all disappeared, and only the rock shrimp had appeared here.
"We're here, the place."
As the Scholar was reading the information, the mechanical crocodile's voice rang out. The excavator they were riding on also paused.
The Scholar looked up and found that there was a … huge, very thick door in front of them.
This was very similar to the underground fortresses that kept important objects in the virtual world. This giant door completely blocked the entire passage. There were words like 'important area, do not approach' on it.
The area in front of the door was an active area for wild creatures, but it seemed to have suddenly become serious.
"We, the problem …" The mechanical crocodile looked at the door and said to the Scholar, "Entering, is difficult."
"That's right … We can't enter." The Scholar suddenly remembered that this place should be very important. The mechanical crocodile was … a civilian, so it could not casually open the door here.
If that was the case, there was no way to see the frozen bloom inside. In that case … they could only use some other method to open the door.
Boom boom boom.
However, just as the Scholar was thinking about this, there was a sound in front of them. The thick door suddenly slowly rose from the ground, revealing a gap at the bottom.
"This is …" The Scholar and the mechanical crocodile looked at each other. They were very confused about what was going on. From the gap, they could see that the inside of the door was … completely dark.
If the Scholar and the mechanical crocodile crouched down, they could crawl through the gap. But was it really okay to go in like this? Would there be any danger inside?
The answer was almost certain.
If the three-legged creatures could catch rock shrimp and make canned food here, they should have been here and found a way to enter. Now, the three-legged creatures inside might have deliberately opened the door to let the Scholar and the mechanical crocodile in.
To confirm whether or not this was a trap, the Scholar decided to use something it had wanted to use before — the mini Scholar.
The Scholar took out the mini Scholar from the tool bag at its waist and threw it on the ground. The mini Scholar started to jump around.
Just as he was about to reach the door, the mini Scholar … was suddenly grabbed by a Rock Shrimp that rushed over, tore into several pieces, and swallowed.
"…"
Then, the Scholar threw another mini Scholar.
This time, the mini Scholar had the 'camouflage' function, so it was not discovered. It walked under the rising door and slowly walked in.
The Scholar and the mechanical crocodile sat on the excavator and watched the video sent by the mini Scholar.
These mini Scholars did not have to be controlled directly by the Scholar's brain. They could also be moved by … remote control.
After entering the door, the mini Scholar switched to the 'night vision' function and could see the surrounding environment clearly.
This place was a little different from what the Scholar had imagined. It was like … a warehouse. There were piles of things like boxes everywhere, and there were also carts and machines used to move boxes.
However, if one looked up, they could see a lot of … cannons on the roof.
They still could not see where the person who opened the door was. In fact, they did not know where the door was, so they could only walk around.
Because there were huge boxes everywhere, this place was like a maze. The mini Scholar shuttled through the gaps in the maze until it saw … something that was not a box.
This thing looked like a stone with many holes on it. It was about one meter tall. Just as the Scholar was wondering what it was, the mechanical crocodile suddenly told it … This was the door's switch.
The door's switch … Why did it look like this?
The Scholar was puzzled. The mechanical crocodile said that this was something similar to a video ball. The holes on it were the switches, and this porous stone was a large remote control that should be able to control many doors in this place.
Since the mechanical crocodile said so, the Scholar tried to investigate. It let the mini Scholar circle around the porous stone and look around. It did not find anything suspicious. It seemed that the person who opened the door had left.
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