The dry air was mixed with the smell of sand and dust. In addition, there was a little bit of... the smell of decay.
Crack! A small golden statue was split in half in the spy's hand.
Inside the statue was a pile of dry debris. If one smelled it carefully, one could smell the smell of a corpse...
This was because these fragments were made up of dried internal organs, shells, or other biological fragments.
Yes, these statues were alive, or rather, they used to be alive.
The golden statues on the ground here and the statues mounted on the wall here were also alive. Everything here was the "masterpiece" of the statue-making device...
Before setting out to find the "creator", Lin tested the statue-making device a little.
Because there was no similar material around, Lin asked the spy to make a material similar to the shell of the surrounding statues and put it in to see if it could be made...
But after putting it in, Lin found that this thing could not make anything.
After examining the structure inside, Lin found that it was not actually used to "make" statues, but to "change" something into a statue.
This thing was to put something in and then paint it with a golden paint to harden it into a statue.
And it would only paint one thing into a statue, and that was... a living thing.
The material in this device had hardened due to lack of water, but Lin could still test it without paint and it only reacted to the living thing put in. In short, this was a thing that turned living things into statues.
The bee-shaped statues mounted on the wall around her. In fact, they were all real bee-shaped creatures.
Why would the "creator" want to make them into statues and mount them on the wall? And these statues were made a long time ago. However, this device had only been dropped here recently.
In other words. They used to make statues here, and then recently, they planned to come here and continue to make statues here...
All of these questions were actually not that far away.
The spy raised his head and looked at the tunnel leading into the dark cave. The spy picked up some sand from the ground and put it in his mouth for a little analysis.
In the dry sand, there was a small amount of debris. These were some skin debris. Some fungus remains...
Almost every time a multicellular creature moved, the debris and parasite remains on its skin would fall like snow. These debris were traces of its movement and could stay for a long time.
Especially in a quiet place like this, it could stay for more than ten years.
As long as Kieran followed the trail, he would be able to find the creator of this place.
Looking at the dark tunnel ahead, the spy continued to slowly move forward on this dry ground …
The rock walls on both sides were still inlaid with golden bee-shaped statues. They were all a few centimeters apart and arranged neatly, if they were all made from the corpses of bees. That meant that many of these creatures had once lived here.
However, it was also possible that they had captured these creatures and made them into statues …
They moved along the tunnel ahead. The scenery on both sides of the cliff remained the same, but there were many strange piles of sand on the ground …
The spy dug up a pile of sand and found something made of stone inside. It looked like a disc with a diameter of five centimeters, and there were many symbols carved on it.
There was more than one disc. There were many in the sand.
These were all things from a long time ago. It seemed that the 'creators' who came in recently did not touch these things, but they must have created many things before they came.
Continuing to walk past these sand piles, the spy seemed to have reached the end of the tunnel. The environment here became spacious.
The spy turned off the light emitted from his body and switched to using the finer light emitted by his eyes to observe.
In this spacious place, the ground was still covered with sand. On the sand, there were many stones half-buried in the sand.
The spy did not walk directly into this place because there were many moving things near these stones … They had the same color as the sand, but were only one centimeter in size. They seemed to be a kind of beetle-like creature.
When the spy took a step forward, these beetles all burrowed into the sand in an instant.
The spy walked to a half-buried stone. He could see that there were countless small cracks on the stone, as if it had been bitten by the beetles just now.
Why were they biting this stone? The spy reached out and touched the stone. A large amount of powder stuck to the spy's hand.
This stone … seemed to have nutrients.
When the spy looked at the stone, he felt the sand under his feet tremble. The beetles that he had seen before burrowed out of the ground again. There were so many of them that they covered the surrounding sand, and they all looked at the spy with their flashing golden compound eyes.
Lin could feel their animosity …
The next moment, all of these beetles suddenly swarmed up! Almost at the same time, the spy jumped from the ground. When he jumped up, he instantly flipped over and grabbed a rock on the top of the cave.
Although this place was spacious, the height of the cave was still very low, only about three meters above the ground …
The beetles on the ground did not seem to be able to fly. After losing their target, they swayed around on the sand while the spy continued to crawl slowly into the depths of the cave.
There seemed to be quite a variety of creatures here. While climbing on the top of the cave, Lin noticed many cockroach-like creatures, as well as many spiders and scorpions.
Although they were all arthropods, it was rare to see them in such a dry place.
After crawling for a while, the spy found that the ground below was no longer sand, but rock covered with scattered sand. The beetles also seemed to have disappeared.
The spy looked down, then jumped down from the top of the cave. He picked up some debris from the ground and put it into his mouth …
It seemed that this direction was correct. The 'creator' had been flying in this direction all this time. The debris here was left behind a few days ago.
If he continued to move forward …
The cave ahead seemed to become brighter.
The air here was different from before. It was filled with a moist atmosphere because there was a lake in front of the spy.
This lake was not very big, about ten meters in diameter. A kind of fungus that emitted white light grew on the edge of the water, which made the surrounding environment appear bright white.
Walking to the lake, one could see that the water inside was so clear that one could see the bottom. There were some creatures like shrimps, some shellfish, and some snails at the bottom of the lake.
However, Lin was more concerned about some white things at the bottom of the lake. The spy jumped into the water and swam to these white things …
These were also … the skeleton of the 'creator', but unlike the previous intact ones, this one was scattered but basically undamaged. This skeleton was almost the same as the previous one when it died.
It seemed that more than one 'creator' died here at that time. Perhaps he could find more if he went in.
The spy swam out of the water and continued to move deeper into the cave. Soon, the spy saw another lake.
This lake was very similar to what he saw before. It had clear water and many small creatures moving in it. However, the depth of this lake was different. There was a large cave at the bottom that seemed to lead to a very deep place.
As expected, he should go in and take a look.
Although he thought so, Lin did not go in. The spy left the lake and continued to move forward.
Lin found a lot of lakes here, but they were not deep. There was only one with a cave at the bottom like the previous one.
In these pools, there were more or less skeletons of the 'creators', and they were basically just small pieces of the 'creators'.
It seemed that the bones of a 'creator' were scattered and then thrown into these lakes.
Because it had been a long time, it was difficult to tell what had thrown these bones everywhere.
However, the previous traces did not disappear. When the spy walked out of this area full of lakes, he tasted the sand on the ground again.
He was very close … These were the debris left behind by the 'creator' from the previous day and night.
After leaving the lake with the fluorescent fungus, the spy entered a dark space again. Moreover, there was a rock wall in front of Lin.
Strange, can't I go forward here? However, the debris left behind by the 'creator' proved that it was moving forward.
And the walls here were quite smooth, so … there might be …
When the spy looked around, he found a bee-shaped statue on the rock wall not far away.
The spy walked over and pulled the statue down …
'Boom!'
At this moment, the rock wall in front of the spy made a loud noise. The entire wall in front of the spy was suddenly covered with countless cracks and then collapsed into a large pile of debris.
It seemed … that the situation was different? Lin felt that a door or something should be opened on the wall.
Perhaps this mechanism had been left here for too long, so when it was activated, it caused the collapse here.
In that case, I'll dig here …
This smell …
Just as the spy was about to move, he suddenly smelled a familiar smell.
Looking in the direction of the smell, he saw a creature in the area where there was lake water before. It was floating above a lake.
That was the 'creator'? No, that was not the 'creator' …
If one looked carefully, they would find that the figure of this thing was ethereal, like a phantom floating on the water, and it was emitting a strange light.
When the spy walked over, it instantly disappeared and turned into a large amount of light dust, floating in the air.
The spy caught a handful of light dust and found that it was a small type of light bug. They had just gathered in large numbers and formed the appearance of the 'creator'.
Why was this happening? What was the relationship between this creature and the 'creator'? Floating astronomy.
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