"Crack …"
It sounded like something was moving, and it echoed on the ground filled with golden statues.
The gravel on the ground was trembling slightly, and the spy could clearly feel that something was moving underground.
And this noise seemed to have affected the 'creator'. As if it was frightened, it flew further away from the spy's current position.
"Rumble …"
The tremor lasted for dozens of seconds before it slowly stopped.
It felt like something was going to come out, but it didn't seem to be the case now … Anyway, it was better to find the "creator" first and not get too far away from it.
Then, the spy walked in the direction of the "creator."
After walking for a while in the aisle between the statues, the spy reached the end of the light. Although the statues here were still arranged, there were no torches on the ground.
This made the surroundings seem dark.
Although darkness wasn't a problem for the spy, it made Lin feel that there might be some kind of trap because there were no creatures here to get nutrients. If the spy was injured, it would be more difficult to recover.
Maybe I should send some "reinforcements" here.
While thinking this, the spy stepped into the darkness.
There were large lobster-like statues lined up on both sides here. It seemed to be the first time Lin saw a statue of a water creature, although it was still an arthropod …
Looking at the traces on these statues, Lin knew that they were very old like the others.
If she saw a new one, it meant that it was made recently. And its appearance was usually very different.
In this darkness. The spy saw a statue of … Mao Yu appear next to him.
This Mao Yu was three meters long. It was very small compared to the statues around it, but its body was covered with golden hair that looked like sharp blades. It looked quite imposing.
This thing was obviously made recently, but there was no creature responsible for controlling the atmosphere inside.
The spy continued to move in the darkness, getting farther and farther away from the place where there was a fire. The spy looked at the light behind him from time to time. Lin felt that the fire was triggered by some kind of mechanism. Maybe it would be extinguished.
Just as this thought flashed through Lin's mind, the flames in the distance suddenly disappeared, and the entire cave was instantly plunged into complete darkness.
However, the spy also reached the place where the creator was before.
Before the spy made the noise, the creator had been staying here. It seemed to be fiddling with something. It only ran away after the noise. Now, it was dozens of meters away from here, and it was still flying further away.
Lin could ignore it and investigate this place first. Because there was something different here.
Between the two statues to the spy's left, there was something that looked like a stone tablet.
The stone tablet was two meters tall and was also two meters tall. It was also two meters wide, and the spy found that there were a lot of things that looked like words carved on it.
Although Lin didn't understand these words, Lin knew which creature did … The immortal said that it knew some words about the "creator".
But now was not the time to ask about it, because the spy could smell the scent left behind by the creator on these engraved words.
Obviously, it had touched these words not too long ago, and … according to the residual scent, Lin discovered that it might have used its finger to trace these words, leaving traces of scent on each word.
Furthermore, the spy could tell which smell was newer and knew that it had touched the words on the stone tablet in a certain order.
Maybe this would trigger something?
The spy also used his finger to slowly stroke each word, and followed the creator's order.
Boom … When the spy reached the tenth word, there was a sound on the ground behind the stone tablet …
Unexpectedly, it worked. It seemed that there was no need for any special signal, just touch was enough.
The spy walked behind the stone tablet and found an opening on the ground. It seemed to be a passage that led to the depths of the ground.
However, the creator's message didn't extend into this cave … In other words, it was just carving those words, and didn't enter this place.
But the spy still wanted to go in and take a look … maybe he could find something interesting.
The spy walked into the passage. The ground here was quite smooth, just like the surrounding rock walls. It was specially built. On the rock walls on both sides of the passage, there were quite a lot of … paintings.
These paintings depicted creatures that looked like fish … No, they should be 'half-fish', the creatures that helped the silver-shelled dragon move things …
And in the paintings here, they were also moving things.
On the rock walls, the half-fish were moving all kinds of things. Most of them were square objects. The paintings extended down the rock walls, and on both sides of the rock walls, they were moving things in one direction.
Next to these 'movers,' there was a painting of a huge fish. Their form was somewhat like a fish called 'stonefish.' They were fat and had sharp teeth. They seemed to be monitoring the half-fish's moving work …
And on these 'stonefish,' there was also a small creature drawn — ancient squid. They seemed to be lying on the fish's body, doing nothing.
Could they be …
In the next painting, Lin saw the end of their transportation. The painting here showed that these half-fish were piecing things together and making a large … scorpion.
Could it be … that the statues outside were made by them?
However, the painting didn't show the detailed piecing process. It just showed them putting things together and then turning them into a scorpion.
Seeing this, the spy reached the end of the passage. Now, in front of the spy was a stone wall. Based on her previous experience, Lin believed that she could definitely continue moving forward.
The spy knocked on the wall slightly. There was an echoing sound. Lin could indeed hear that there was a spacious space inside. But if she listened carefully …
The mechanism should be in this position …
'Bang!' The spy kicked the wall hard. A lot of gravel was shaken off the wall. At the same time, the place where the spy kicked sank. Then, the entire wall made a sound and slowly moved to one side.
Sure enough, the mechanism was in this position.
'Boom …' After the wall was completely moved. The spy stepped into the room inside. The first thing he saw was a large number of … golden beetles.
They seemed to be embedded in the ground. Each beetle had two pairs of sharp jaws, and their numbers were quite dense. However, there was still enough space between them for the spy to walk through.
The spy slowly walked through these beetles. In this room, in addition to the beetles all over the ground, there were some tall golden ammonite statues …
These statues should be real statues, not something that could move.
And on the rock wall here. There were also many paintings. The main characters in these paintings were still half-fish. Creatures like ancient squids were moving the large statues in the paintings. Some atmospheric creatures flew down from the sky in the paintings. They seemed to be receiving these statues and moving them into the air.
Although Lin felt that atmospheric creatures could not move these statues, they must have some way.
However, this also seemed to prove that the statues here were all made by half-fish and then given to the atmospheric creatures in the sky.
In all the paintings, there was no 'creator'.
It seemed that it was difficult to figure out the relationship between them … but it was certain that a large number of marine creatures once lived here …
In addition to the statues made by half-fish, the paintings also painted their lives. They built their nests with rocks and lived with ancient squids.
Ancient squids usually did nothing, at least that was how they looked in the paintings.
This place was full of water, but for some reason, it became so dry.
'Crack …'
The spy suddenly heard a sound behind him.
He saw that the surface of a golden beetle statue on the ground cracked open.
Strange. Could it be that this small statue could move? The spy squatted down and looked at it carefully. The golden shell of the statue was slowly cracking open, and under the golden shell was a pitch-black carapace …
Could it be that this was … a living thing?
The golden shell on the beetle had almost completely fallen off, and a beetle with a black carapace appeared in front of the spy. It kept shaking the antennae on its head and moving around on the ground …
This beetle … was not an alloy device under control, but a living creature.
Moreover, the nearby beetles were in the same situation. They began to slowly shed their shells and swayed around on the ground.
Suddenly, a beetle touched the spy's foot.
Almost in an instant, all the beetles surrounded him. They climbed onto the spy's body at an extremely fast speed. The swarm of beetles completely surrounded the spy. The spy felt that every part of his body was constantly being bitten by the beetles.
More beetles surrounded him. They surrounded the spy in groups, but the spy did not move …
Just like this, the swarm of beetles that surrounded the spy was piled up under the stone wall, motionless. This state lasted for a very long time …
Until a certain time.
'Pa!' A hand stretched out from the swarm of beetles, followed by a whole body.
The spy walked out from the swarm of beetles and patted the beetles hanging on his body.
Looking at the swarm of beetles from before, they were no longer moving. In fact, most of them had entered a dormant state, but a portion of them had been 'eaten' by the spy.
Many interesting phenomena were discovered on their bodies, especially … their memories. Floating astronomy.
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