Night fell.
Lin's spy was still wandering above the sea of clouds. Although this was a sky closer to the starry sky, there were no stars in sight.
No matter if it was above or below, there was a thick sea of clouds. During the day, the boundless sea of clouds was quite beautiful, but at night, it felt as if two dark walls were sandwiched in between, making it much more oppressive.
At least for the silver-plated dragon, it was not as excited as it was during the day. Instead, it obediently followed behind the spy, occasionally exclaiming at some novel things that popped up.
The spy was now observing a group of small creatures in front of him. They were very small and could jump around on the clouds.
These small creatures in front of the spy were not atmospheric creatures, but … trilobites.
They were similar in shape to ordinary trilobites, about twenty centimeters long, but their tails were flat and long, and could be stretched out instantly after contracting to jump.
Lin thought that they crawled on the sea of clouds, and when they encountered something too far away, they could jump over it.
This ability had obviously evolved here. Their legs had also become adapted to grasping the soft sea of clouds. This group of trilobites might have gotten a chance to come here a long time ago and then reproduced.
In other words, this sea of clouds had been here for a long time …
How long had it been here? Lin did not know, and did not know how to withstand storms or other situations here. However, she could confirm that it had indeed maintained a perfect environment.
This kind of multicellular creature was not common, but it was common here. Basically, they were atmospheric creatures.
The spy looked up. He looked in another direction. More than ten meters away, a large creature with a pair of huge wings was slowly floating.
'Cloud Ray', this was the name Lin gave them. This creature had a wingspan of about eight meters, and looked very much like an atmospheric slime, but much more leisurely. They floated leisurely on the sea of clouds under the night sky, occasionally eating some of the fog produced by the sea of clouds.
Among them. There were also two Sky Whales rolling in the clouds. They were the same. These atmospheric creatures ignored the spies and the Silver Plated Dragon. They were not as ferocious as the Light Dragon, but they were leisurely filtering their prey.
The ecology of the air seemed to be similar to the sea. It was very interesting.
Lin and the Silver Plated Wyrm walked past these creatures. There was a ten-meter-tall mountain next to their feeding ground. The spy climbed up from the foot of the mountain.
This cloud mountain was also made of the same gelatinous material as the sea of clouds. It felt soft to the touch. It was also very interesting to climb up.
Lin had some new research on this sea of clouds. Lin noticed that the clouds that had split apart wouldn't drift away. Instead, they would gather together to form a new large cloud. They wouldn't necessarily gather together right away, but they definitely wouldn't drift away.
Some of the microbes inside worked together to eject gas to achieve this goal, but why they did so was still unknown.
However, because of their behavior, this special 'sea of clouds' would not scatter but gather together. It was still unknown if they would scatter far away in the storm.
Following the soft mountain, the spy climbed to the top. At the top of the mountain, there was a group of spherical transparent creatures. As soon as they saw the spy, they immediately flew away.
It felt pretty good to be surrounded by these creatures.
Meanwhile, the Silver Plated Wyrm stayed at the bottom of the mountain. It wasn't only listless because of the night, it was also very tired. After experiencing so many things, it directly leaned against the bottom of the mountain and fell asleep …
Here, there was indeed a feeling of laziness. The soft clouds would only stimulate the Silver Plated Wyrm's sleepiness.
Although it was nighttime here, they could still see their surroundings clearly. Although the clouds didn't give off any light, the brightness of this place was about the same as a night sky illuminated by starlight.
The spy climbed to the top of the Cloud Mountain and looked around. The first thing Lin saw was a plain made of clouds. There were some creatures wandering on the plain.
Lin didn't climb up just to observe her surroundings, but also to see … where the guides were.
Previously, Lin had thought of using a special method to lure them out, but now she felt that it would be better to just directly observe them.
This way, it would give off a feeling of 'initiative'.
Lin had made the spy maintain the same level of vision as the Silver Plated Wyrm. She didn't use any other sensory abilities, which made observation much more interesting.
However, what would happen if she used it? Perhaps she would be able to find something different.
With that thought, the spy slowly closed its eyes. Through some of the structures in its body, it began to observe its surroundings.
Although the spy didn't have a brain, it could receive and sense some of the brain waves of the creatures around it, including the radio waves emitted by inanimate objects and the pheromones produced by the activities of atmospheric creatures.
… There didn't seem to be any reaction.
The spy discovered many creatures within a few hundred meters, but there were no suspicious signals mixed in.
Could it be that the guides were observing from a farther place? This possibility was very small because there were too many obstacles here … there were too many huge cloud mountains, so it was very difficult to observe them from afar. The only reliable way was to use radio waves to detect them. Only then could they obtain detailed information.
Next, it was time to see if there were any subtle methods of detection.
Subtle detection meant that the guides might use something small to observe within the clouds or somewhere else. This kind of thing could be easily found by using sound detection.
… What is this?
The spy discovered that in the thick fog not far from here, there was something with a metallic luster stuck in it.
The spy jumped down from the mountain and ran in front of this thing.
This is … a metal rod?
The spy pulled this thing out of the clouds. It was more than a meter long and thirty centimeters in diameter. Although it was silver on the outside, it was hollow inside.
Lin found that inside the hollow rod were small crystals arranged neatly.
This kind of crystal … was a relatively rare type, but perhaps there were many of them here. She didn't know what it meant to be embedded in it …
This metal rod was part of something. Lin found that there were interfaces on both sides of it, and the alloy composition inside was more complicated. It was obviously not something made by the Silver Shelled Dragon.
If she could find all of them, she should be able to find out what this thing was used for … There was another one here.
The spy saw another similar metal rod nearby. He walked over and picked it up, then pieced the two metal rods together.
It was a perfect match. They were indeed together.
And … there seemed to be a lot of them here.
Here, the spy found many metal rods one after another. Most of them were hidden in the thick fog of the sea of clouds, and they were all pieced together.
Lin already knew what this thing was. This rod could actually be connected to … the metal plate from before.
Click! Lin ran to the place where they came from, and saw that the metal plate had two interfaces facing the sea of clouds, which fit perfectly with the metal rod.
… This couldn't be … the track, right?
It seemed so, but this track was completely different from the previous one. This one was thinner, and the distance between the two rods was too far. The ship's wheels couldn't move on it, but it could allow the ship to be in the middle of the two rods.
So that was it. If they came in the normal way, after the Silver Shelled Dragon's ship rose to this position, it could continue to follow the track to another place.
But how did they move?
Because the Silver Shelled Dragon's ship was too heavy, it couldn't move on the sea of clouds. It would probably only sink into the sea and then fall from the sky.
Normal tracks couldn't be laid on the sea of clouds because of the weight, and there were many other problems.
In this way, they needed another way to move on the sea of clouds, and that was to use a lighter track, and then … let the ship float …
There were many ways to float a ship, but if it was a metal ship, that method was the best.
In other words, it was magnetism.
This track could release magnetism to float the ship, and then move it through magnetism, because the crystals inside were very suitable for this.
But this could have a more complicated structure, and there could be other devices in the hollow rods. In short, it was confirmed that it was the ship's track structure.
But what made Lin feel strange was, why were they scattered everywhere? Was the track attacked by some creature?
Or did they deliberately destroy the track to prevent spies from coming in? But if that was the case, they couldn't have thrown these metal rods everywhere, and there was no stopping them.
Something unexpected had happened … This was more likely than not.
Maybe there was no surveillance from the beginning? Maybe the track just happened to be destroyed?
Indeed, this was more likely, because the spies didn't find anything nearby.
Although the track could be stably combined, it would still be scattered when it was hit by a large creature.
Lin didn't know if this happened often, or if it happened occasionally, but from the track and some places on the way, Lin could see that the guide didn't seem to care that much about the Silver Shelled Dragon.
They probably didn't treat the Silver Shelled Dragon as something important, so the possibility of them monitoring it was even smaller, and they probably didn't care much about the track.
Although the track in the cave seemed to be very stable, it was only the upper half, and the part behind it that led to the house was broken.
In short, they had to find the destination and see what it looked like. Now, Lin could calculate the direction of the track, and then follow it. Floating astronomy.
PS: Thanks ~ Liuyan ~ for the tip ~
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