Beneath the frozen world, a furry ball was slowly floating.
The furry ball was using its fur to tie the Recording Orb to it as it flew towards the Northern Continent. However, it was still quite far away and would take a long time to reach.
However, Lin wasn't in a hurry to return. Instead, she observed the scenery while floating leisurely.
That was because there was a rare sight below.
The ocean below was no longer filled with waves or seawater, only a layer of frozen ice. And above the layer of ice, there was a large group of … … corpses.
These corpses belonged to a type of fish called Bladefish. These fish had sharp horns on their heads and large fins on both sides of their bodies. They were capable of flying out of the water for short periods of time. Their bodies were over 2 meters long. Lin believed that this group of fish had broken through the layer of ice to escape, but were unable to return to the water and were trapped here.
Or perhaps, they were swept here by the storm?
There were several hundred of them. The furry ball flew towards one of the corpses. Due to the cold, the corpse hadn't rotted yet, so it could be used as nutrients for the furry ball. The furry ball used its tentacles to remove the fish meat from the corpse and sent it into its furry mouth.
What is this?
After pulling off a scale, Lin discovered a group of tiny red creatures inside the fish. They were about three centimeters long and looked like shrimps. That's right, they were the kind of creatures called krill.
However, they were different from the commonly seen krill. Not only could they move on land, their limbs were like blades that could cut through fish meat. They probably smelled the scent of fish and came out from under the ice.
A group of sea creatures living on the ice. How rare. If that's the case, I won't eat this for now. The furry ball turned to another fish corpse nearby and used its tentacles to remove the scale.
This … … what is this? Right … …
The furry ball saw a purple object inside the corpse. Suddenly, the fish corpse exploded as a Standing Scorpion charged out from the fish corpse!
It swiftly used its forelimbs to clamp down on the Recording Orb that the furry ball was hugging. After snatching the orb, it immediately spread out its limbs. The membrane between its limbs formed a pair of wings. It flapped its wings and quickly flew into the sky.
Perhaps, the Brain-Creation Monster from before was being chased by the Standing Scorpion? Speaking of which, Lin wasn't too sure where Li Scorpion lived, so meeting him here might not be a coincidence.
Looking at Li Xie who was flying further and further away in the air, the pompom suddenly accelerated and rushed up like a bullet. In the blink of an eye, it was close to its target.
Li Xie was shocked when he saw the pompom catching up to him. He immediately sped up, but the pompom was even faster. The pompom's fur stretched out like an explosion. A large number of hairs wrapped around the scorpion's body, and some of the hairs with sharp tips pierced into the scorpion's joints. Standing Scorpion seemed to have lost its strength. It could no longer flap its wings and fell from the sky.
Bang! Accompanied by a loud noise, the standing scorpion smashed a large hole in the ice that wasn't too thick. The pompom and the standing scorpion fell into the cold sea below.
The pompom retracted its fur and took the Recording Orb that was clamped by the scorpion. At this moment, another pompom floated into the water from the ice hole above and flew out with the Recording Orb.
Lin still had many pompom nearby. They were originally used to look for Moketu, but because they couldn't find him, they wandered around. Since they were very close to each other, they could meet up at any time.
This pompom hugged Li Xie's head. A large number of hairs reached into the scorpion's shell through the gaps in its shell. They gently pierced into its body and quickly spread to its brain...
Recently, Lin had been using a method called 'memory reconstruction' to read the memories of living creatures. That was to see what kind of brain waves flowed in the memory area of the creature's brain, and then change the same brain waves in the brain.
With the synchronized flow of brain waves, Lin could 'see' things very clearly. However, it was only limited to recent memories. If she wanted to see older memories, she would have to use the 'matter reconstruction' method. That was more complicated.
So that was how it was. This standing scorpion lived on an island not far away with its kind. They seemed to be building the pyramid according to the original method, but this time, they were building it with ice.
However, they also seemed to be doing something strange. Lin found that in its memory, it was digging in a mountain with other standing scorpions.
They seemed to be digging for something very big, but this part was older, so it was a little blurry.
The brain of a standing scorpion was similar to the brain of many living creatures. Recent memories were recorded using brain waves, but some more important memories from a long time ago were recorded in another way. Using only brain waves, only a little bit could be seen.
The most recent memory was of it and a group of its kind chasing after the brain-creation monster. They seemed to want to get the brain-creation monster's ball of record, but when they found out that the pompom had taken the ball, they tried to ambush the pompom...
Lin felt that it was necessary to take a look. She had been looking for something interesting, otherwise, it would be too boring before the month came.
Lin let the standing scorpion sink into the sea, while the pompom flew out and headed towards the island where the standing scorpion lived. It was about 100 kilometers away, not very far...
... Here we are.
This is Li Xie's island? It was a small island that was about 10 kilometers long and a few kilometers wide.
There were no plants or other things on the island, as if it was originally a wasteland. There were a few pyramids made of ice on the island, and a mountain that was about 200 meters tall.
Rather than a mountain, it was more like a large rock. Because it was square in shape, the standing scorpions gathered at the foot of the rock and seemed to be digging for something. Some of the standing scorpions were dragging some marine fish over for the other standing scorpions to eat, while some of the standing scorpions were transporting the snow and sand they dug out. Most of them were in the form of flying scorpions, but some of them were in a different form.
The standing scorpions were becoming more and more like a worker species, but they still maintained the obvious characteristics of individual creatures. Lin could see many of the standing scorpions sitting there and chatting when they were tired of digging.
The pompom floated down and changed its color to become invisible. After getting closer, Lin could see what the standing scorpions were digging at the foot of the mountain.
They had dug many holes at the foot of the mountain, and basically, each hole contained something. The first hole seemed to be the leg of some large arthropod, while the second hole contained the carapace of some unknown creature.
And the third hole... Lin saw something familiar...
It was the Incan swarm of … Shadow monsters. Floating astronomy.
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