This is a city of crystallization. "
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 a screen.
Looking out, this was the scene that could be seen. Countless buildings constructed from crystallization stood on the ground that also glowed with crystallization. Many flying objects of various shapes flew through the sky. This was the main appearance of the city.
"I must say, this is very similar to our city, except there are no surface transportation methods," 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 city of crystallization. Instead, there were many other creatures.
Crystallized 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."
With that, the Cryopteris prodded the screen 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 for the original Primordial realm. Let's see if it works. We'll use it to explore now."
The Cryopteris prodded the screen again, and the soft mass began to move like an amoeba. It began to crawl into the distance.
The Water Gloom was currently located beside a building on the edge of the city. The amoeba made its way around the building and entered the streets of the city.
"So many."
The streets of the city were extremely crowded. Countless crystallized creatures of various shapes moved about, which made the scholar think of the Voidfolk who constantly worked in the city.
Although it had been born on the Wanderer, it had never experienced it. However, it had seen information about its own world countless times, so it found this world to be very familiar.
The disguised amoeba moved along the streets. None of the crystallized creatures paid any attention to it, which 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 a minute, haven't you noticed?" Scorpion said. "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. This made the Scholar ask curiously, "What's so strange?"
"They look like they're very busy. It's actually not busy at all. " Scorpion poked at the image and said, "Look, this idiot that looks like a frog. It walked far away and then came back."
"Seems like it."
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 move the soft-bodied creatures deeper into the city. As they moved along the streets, they saw a large number of crystallized creatures walking around.
After reading too much. It could be seen that the crystallized creatures here were very different from the Voidpeople's cities, although they looked very similar at first.
However, the creatures here were all very strange.
In the busy Voidpeople's cities, the Voidpeople on the streets only had two purposes. They walked to take transportation or enter a certain building.
The creatures here didn't do either of those things. Although most of them didn't move repeatedly within a small distance like the previous ones, they didn't enter any buildings, nor did they take any vehicles. They didn't 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.
"Then. Let's not remove the color change for the time being and continue to study. "
Cryopteris continued to move the slime around the city. As time passed, 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.
The ground was shining brightly.
All the crystallized buildings in the city emitted different colors of light. Some of them were still flickering. This reminded the scholar of the colorful advertising boards in the Voidpeople's cities. However, these buildings were just purely glowing. There was no content in the light, at least they could not see it.
The crystallized creatures in the city were still moving 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 moving repeatedly. It's just that the range of movement is different."
"Gah, are these things crazy?" Blood Mist's head said, "They keep moving like this. Don't they get tired? "
"Idiot, I said they were pretending," Scorpion said, "These things have a lot of secrets that they are hiding from us."
"They must have some reason," the scholar said. The Scholar said, "Maybe walking around like this will have some special effect. 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's a little difficult to blend in with them now. All the buildings are quite solid and there are no visible entrances. Those flying things never land."
"Let's catch one and investigate," Scorpion shouted. "Kill it and dig it up. We will definitely find something. Hurry up, don't be slow. You won't know anything if you stay here."
"Stop shouting," Blood Mist said, "They will definitely find you and kill you. We are in their world now."
"We should try," Cryopteris said, "Then let's try this first."
The moment he finished speaking, Cryopteris poked the screen 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.
With a bang, the crystallized creature's body broke into half and it fell to the ground.
In an instant, all the crystallized creatures in the surroundings scattered around the crystallized creature that was blown up like a herd of beasts fleeing in fear.
However, they quickly gathered back. One of the crystallized creatures first touched the other half of its body that was blown up. Then, it tore off a small piece 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. They did the same thing and ate the remaining half of the body.
"Eat them. Eat 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. They did not care about the slime that killed them.
Perhaps it was because the slime was still in a state of discoloration.
"They are really like cockroaches," Blood Mist's head said. "Their behavior is almost exactly the same."
"Is that so?" the Scholar asked.
"Yes, because I rarely clean the environment at home, I have seen a lot of them," Blood Mist said. Blood Fog said, "They will immediately eat the bodies of their own kind nearby and will not care about why they were killed."
"Yes, they are quite stupid," Scorpion said. "Just like you."
Blood Mist ignored Scorpion and continued, "But why do the crystallized creatures of this world behave similarly?"
"If that's the case, let's do the next experiment," Cryopteris said. "Remove the disguise and see what happens."
After Cryopteris said that, the slime's discoloration slowly disappeared. It appeared before the crystallized creatures.
In the next second, the crystallized creatures moved. They all lunged at the slime and tore it to pieces.
"Looks like the discoloration disguise works." Cryopteris said. "However, even if the slime removes its discoloration, it can still disguise itself as a creature that is almost the same as a Primordial realm expert. This disguise does not seem to be effective."
"They are not necessarily Primordial realm experts," the Scholar said. "Blood Mist is right. They are like the worms on the pom-poms. 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," the Scholar said. "Is there a powerful weapon in this machine?"
"Not with this machine."
As Cryopteris said that, the Water Gloom moved. It quickly climbed up the wall of the building and reached the top very quickly.
Looking at the crystallized creatures below, Cryopteris continued, "We need to blow up that ship."
Whoosh.
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 among the crystallized creatures. To be continued.
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