This was a tunnel made of crystals, and the spy and Susumi were slowly moving through it ….
Lin looked around. The walls of the cave were made of crystals of various colors. The standing scorpions had built such tunnels in the underground caverns as passageways to other caverns.
Lin found it strange that they should have just dug a tunnel. There was no need to build these crystal passageways, but they liked it. The tunnel was very spacious, about six meters wide. It could accommodate many standing scorpions walking through at the same time.
"Lutewa!" The spy raised his hand and 'greeted' the standing scorpions that occasionally passed by. Some standing scorpions walked by from time to time, and they would respond positively.
Lin now felt that they were creatures with higher intelligence but independent personalities, similar to Humerus Dragons. Lin felt that these creatures liked to stand. The main reason for standing was to free up their forelimbs to grab things. Although they often greeted each other and formed crystals together, the standing scorpions did not always have a good relationship. In front of Lin, two standing scorpions were arguing.
The two standing scorpions kept saying words that Lin did not understand. From their tone and emotions, she could tell that they were quite angry.
What surprised Lin was that the standing scorpions passing by did not care about them. They just let them be. At that moment, one of the standing scorpions suddenly picked up a crystal on the ground and threw it at the other scorpions. The other scorpions also raised their forelimbs to defend themselves. The two were fighting just like that …
Although she did not know why they were fighting, it was incredible that the standing scorpions around them did not care at all. They just walked past them.
These scorpions were not normal …
Lin's spy stood aside and watched. Lin saw that the two standing scorpions were almost beating each other to death. They used large pieces of crystals to hit each other's heads. They used their hooked tails to stab each other, almost killing each other. However, both sides' shells were quite thick. It seemed that the fight would not end anytime soon.
After watching for a while, Lin continued to walk deeper into the tunnel, ignoring them. If Humerus Dragons were to fight like this, other than the leader's duel, the entire tribe would stop it.
Speaking of which, Lin had only seen Emerald Dragons fight like this occasionally. Moreover, they would not fight to the death. In fact, it was unlikely that they would even hurt each other. However, these standing scorpions were fighting so fiercely, and the other standing scorpions around them ignored them? This was too strange. This could not be considered a racial habit. Perhaps these creatures had encountered some kind of situation.
Right, Lin thought of a possibility …
"Lutewa!"
The spy quickly greeted them as he ran deeper into the crystal tunnel. Susumi was lying on the spy's back, observing everything around them. However, it didn't make a single sound along the way. It understood the situation very well.
After passing through the tunnel. Lin once again arrived at an open space, but this place was different from the previous one. This place was filled with gigantic … crystal houses.
The construction method of the standing scorpions was somewhat similar to the stone houses of the Emerald Dragons. They combined the crystals together into a cone shape with a pointed top and multiple triangles on the sides. Then, they opened some holes near the bottom for the standing scorpions to enter.
There were many large and small cone-shaped houses here. The largest one was more than ten meters tall and could accommodate quite a number of standing scorpions. The smallest one was only two to three meters tall and could probably accommodate only one scorpion.
Why would they build a house like this? It didn't make good use of the space. Why did it create a conical shape? Generally speaking, a square or hexagonal shape could make full use of the space. These standing scorpions were really strange.
Some of the standing scorpions went in and out of these houses. When the spy approached a house slightly, they would instantly become angry and glare at him. Lin had no choice but to avoid these houses and walk through them.
Some of the houses were close to each other, but most of them were separated by a certain distance from each other. This allowed the standing scorpions to walk around. After Lin walked in, she found the scene to be very strange …
Some of the standing scorpions were listlessly leaning against the houses, moaning incoherently. Lin could feel that they were extremely sad. Some of the standing scorpions were constantly banging their heads against the walls of the houses. Then, two more standing scorpions ran out from the houses, grabbed them, pressed them to the ground, and beat them violently.
Had these creatures gone mad? Are they under the influence of some kind of illusion? Looks like I'll have to catch one and dissect its brain … Thud! Suddenly, Lin felt that she had kicked something. She looked down and saw that it was the corpse of a standing scorpion.
And there was more than one. The place Lin was walking on was a relatively spacious path between the houses. There were corpses everywhere, emitting a rotting smell. Some of the standing scorpions were still alive but very weak, lying among the corpses. Some normal standing scorpions hurriedly walked past without even looking at them.
They didn't even clean up the corpses? But it wasn't normal to have so many corpses. What was going on with them? Why were the same species fighting each other and producing so many corpses?
"Grrr … it stinks." Susumi let out a low growl as the spy walked past the corpse-strewn path. Emerald Dragons loved to eat roasted meat, so they couldn't stand the rotting smell the most. As soon as they got close, their sense of smell would constantly send a 'stinky' signal to their brain, warning the Susumi to stay away from these extremely dangerous things. Of course, to scavengers, these corpses were very fragrant. In the end, whether they smelled stinky or not depended on whether their immune cells could fight against the bacteria inside.
Since roasted food didn't contain any bacteria, the Emerald Dragons' immune cells were weakened.
Thinking of this, Lin adjusted the filter cover that the Emerald Dragons were wearing. Not only could it filter the oxygen in the water, it could also easily deal with the stench and even poisonous gas.
"Oh …" Suddenly, Lin felt someone grabbing the spy's leg. A standing scorpion that was on the verge of death grabbed the spy's leg.
Lin couldn't sense any special emotions from the scorpion. It seemed like it was simply using the last of its strength to grab something that was passing by.
There were quite a few standing scorpions around Lin, but they didn't even look at her, let alone help her. Why were they acting like this?
Since they didn't care about fighting each other or the life and death of these standing scorpions, it shouldn't be a problem for them to act like this.
The spy crouched down and gently placed its forelimbs on the standing scorpion's head. It injected miniature troops into the scorpion's body to check its condition.
At first, Lin was suspected of doing something strange, but now it seemed that she was fine. The standing scorpions around her were still ignoring her.
The reason this standing scorpion was weak was mainly due to hunger, and there were too many corpses here. It was also infected by the fungus. In short, there were all kinds of reasons. Lin guessed that the corpses around her had died for the same reason.
They were a complete species, but they didn't know how to take care of their own kind? They even fought each other. This was a huge problem. The strangest thing was that Lin noticed that this standing scorpion's brain was normal. It wasn't affected at all.
Could it be that they were the ones who caused the current situation? But it was also possible that some of these scorpions were abnormal, while others were normal. Of course, there was another possibility.
Lin put down the weak standing scorpion and continued walking. She walked past the 'path of corpses.' In fact, there were corpses and weak standing scorpions everywhere. It was just that there were more corpses on the path she had just taken.
Then, Lin heard a commotion coming from a house nearby. There were openings in the walls of these houses, so she could see what was going on inside.
The spy looked inside the house through the opening and saw two standing scorpions. One of them was yelling at the other, while the other was smaller. It was curled up in a corner of the house. The yelling got angrier and angrier. It picked up a ball-shaped object on the ground and smashed it at the smaller standing scorpion.
Crack! The ball-shaped object was smashed, and a small, unformed scorpion fell out of it.
Was that their … egg? They were using their own egg to smash it? This species had really gone mad.
It seemed that the deeper Lin went, the more scenes she saw. Many of the corpses on the side of the road had been beaten to death. When she reached a fork in the road, Lin saw a group of standing scorpions facing each other.
There were five of them on each side. They were glaring at each other, ready to fight at any moment. Lin noticed that the path behind them led to a rather large house. It was completely different from the others. Lin felt that she might be able to find something there.
Lin tried to go around the group of standing scorpions that were about to fight, but halfway through, one of the standing scorpions suddenly grabbed Lin's spy. One of the standing scorpions said to the spy, "Gurugagawa wa!"
What was it saying?
While Lin was puzzled, another standing scorpion said, "Gurugagawa wa!"
There was an extra 'ga' in this one.
Then, the two sides suddenly pulled the spy hard. Both sides were trying to pull the spy to their side. Lin suddenly felt that they weren't trying to get the spy to join them, right?
"Coo." The spy made a sound that meant 'no.' This was something Lin had learned while observing them.
"Coo? Wah wah wah wah! " The moment Lin said that, the two standing scorpions swung their forelimbs at the spy's face at the same time. The other standing scorpions behind them also rushed up at the same time and fought with each other …
Because the two standing scorpions only hit the spy in the beginning and then started fighting with each other, Lin easily broke away from the melee and continued forward …
Now, Lin had arrived in front of the large house. She felt that there seemed to be … a strange wave inside.
It was like brain waves. It was like floating astronomy.
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