"Boom!"
As the ground cracked, Lin and Norm returned to the Nautilus. With Norm's quick movements, the Nautilus quickly rose into the air.
At the same time, something huge could be seen trying to crawl out from the cracks in the ground.
"Could this be the creature that's driving Antarctica?" Lin asked Norm.
"… It's possible." Norm said, "In fact, there are many possibilities. Many creatures have this ability …"
With that, Norm piloted the Nautilus to fly to the other side. It didn't seem to want to pay attention to the creature.
Lin noticed that the creature that crawled out from the ground … was very similar to the one they encountered outside.
It was the creature that crawled out from under the rock bus. After it was bombarded by the birds, it … disappeared. Lin felt that there was a small chance that it had come here.
However, Norm didn't really want to observe the creature. It quickly piloted the aircraft to fly away … and soon left the place where the creature crawled out from.
The Nautilus quickly flew across the Antarctic continent. Along the way, Lin found many 'tadpoles' wrapped in bubbles.
They seemed to be the most common solidified creatures here. As for other solidified creatures … so far, she hadn't seen any.
As for the one that crawled out from the ground, Lin felt that it might not be a solidified creature.
"You can see it if you go in here."
The Nautilus flew to a location and stopped. It looked like a huge ice field, and in the center of the ice field was … a big hole.
The hole was more than 30 meters in diameter. It wasn't the Antarctic cave Lin had seen before. There were no buildings nearby either.
Just like that, the hole was all alone in this position.
Since the Nautilus was too big to enter, Norm parked it next to the hole. At the same time, Norm also changed into a new set of equipment. It was said that this set of equipment was very suitable for moving in a solidified environment.
Then, together with Lin's velvet ball … they entered the hole.
They slowly floated down the wall of the hole … Lin found that there were many furnace fires floating around the hole.
This was the third type of furnace fire Lin had seen. It was smaller than the previous two. They were only a few centimeters long and burned with green flames. Each of them could only illuminate a radius of half a meter.
In their light, Lin and Norm went down to the deepest part of the hole. The ground here felt like ice … flat and smooth.
"… … it is not damaged." Norm used his hand to touch the smooth surface of the ground and said, "It can be activated again."
The moment Norm finished speaking, the ground began to shake. The smooth surface of the ground began to crack open. Lin noticed … many moving structures underneath. They appeared to be … the internal organs of living creatures.
In fact, they were indeed organs. They were part of the bus's organs. It felt like Ershi had used some of these organs to create the anti-coagulation generator.
However, Lin also noticed that the vibrations here were not entirely caused by the activation of the organs underground.
There were also some that came from above.
Lin looked at Norm, who was still activating the anti-coagulation generator. It didn't seem to be able to move freely, so Lin let the pom-poms float outside the cave and observe the situation outside.
Lin quickly discovered the source of the tremors. A very large … creature was crawling on the ground.
It looked like … a monster that Lin had randomly pieced together in the past. Its overall appearance was a large mass of … meat. Coupled with a large number of waving tentacles, it looked very deformed.
Furthermore, it was very large. The mass of meat occupied over 100 meters of the ground, making it impossible for it to crawl into the hole that Norm was in.
Thus, Norm was safe for now. However, Lin felt that this creature should not be aggressive.
Lin let the pom-poms float over and checked the surface of one of its waving tentacles.
As expected … this was the creature that crawled out from the rock bus earlier.
It was a type of bus creature, but it was somewhat different from when it was outside. Lin believed that it had suffered serious damage.
Originally … it had a different appearance. After it was injured, it turned into a large mass of meat.
Lin believed that this injury was not caused by the birds. Rather, it was caused when it entered this place … as for why it entered this place, that was not clear. As for how it got injured, Lin believed that Norm would know.
After checking all that, Lin flew back into the hole. Norm's entire body was now lying on the ground … through the cracked surface of the ice, Lin could see that the organs underneath were very active.
It was like an organism that was undergoing vigorous exercise. Every part of it was very active … but not fully activated.
As for the meaty bus creature outside, it had crawled to the entrance of the hole. Lin found that it was trying to squeeze in.
Due to its size, it was unable to get in. However, it had completely blocked the entrance of the hole.
At that moment, Norm suddenly said, "It … seems to have separated from there."
"Separated?" Lin asked curiously, "Is it the one that separated from the one outside?"
"… yes."
Noel briefly explained that the bus creature, which looked like a piece of meat, was a part of the rock bus outside that had been separated.
Back then, Norm had called the rock bus over. However, their communication was cut off.
At that time, the rock bus must have suffered some kind of interference and was forced to cut off its communication with Norm. Thus, it separated out a part of its organs and had it crawl to the surface to communicate with Norm.
However, the process of crawling out from the surface was also obstructed. Thus, it took a while for it to crawl out from the surface.
When it crawled out from the rock bus, it was bombarded by the birds' warship.
After being bombarded, the part that separated out from its body was brought into the frozen void. As for the process … it was not clear.
Truth be told, it had been in a frozen state for a long time after it came in.
It was only recently … after Lin and Norm came here that it found that it could move again … and so, it decided to come after them.
"That's more or less what happened …" Norm said, "But now, there is no need to communicate with it."
Lin could not sense that it was sending out any signal. However, Norm could tell what the bus creature was saying.
However, Norm did not appear to be too concerned about it. Lin noticed that after it was done talking, it focused on activating the organs underneath.
… Lin felt that there was something strange about this.
Meanwhile, the bus creature that was squeezing at the entrance of the hole was still trying to squeeze in.
"Does it have anything important to say?" Lin asked Norm.
"Nothing important …" Norm said, "It will be … done soon!"
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
