"Wu …"
Standing Scorpion's sorrowful cries echoed in the cave …
Many of the Standing Scorpion's corpses floated on the surface of the lake, and even more were lying on the shore. They were very quiet, not making a single sound.
These creatures, after letting out their last sorrowful cries, had lost their consciousness.
They no longer belonged to 'themselves', but belonged to the group. The culprit behind this was the group of creatures standing on the shore …
The Inca Swarm.
In fact, the 'unification' of the Standing Scorpion had nothing to do with the Creator in the Sea of Clouds, it was the work of the Inca Swarm.
Lin had only just found out about this …
The Inca Swarm looked very different from before. Not only did they have new creatures, even the shadow creatures had been refurbished, and they looked a lot bigger.
Because the shadow creatures were the only creatures with developed vocal cords, they were kept.
As for why the Inca Swarm was here, Lin didn't know, but she could guess the reason why they unified the Standing Scorpion. It was probably for a very simple reason.
Perhaps they had met the Standing Scorpion in the past, and felt that it was a good group, so they wanted to integrate it into their group.
But this time, they used a new method of integration.
In the past, the Inca Swarm used a type of fat insect that could extract information, then pass this information to the Empress, and let them hatch it.
This process was very troublesome, and the most important thing was that the failure rate was very high, and there was a possibility of abnormalities.
But now, if they could directly 'assimilate' the Standing Scorpion. Then they would be able to directly integrate into another group of creatures. If they could do this. Then they would be much stronger than before.
Standing Scorpion also felt the danger of being unified, so they came here.
They didn't know how the Standing Scorpion found out, but they knew that the Creator had this kind of magical sphere, and the creatures inside could cure their unification, so they came here.
At the same time, the Standing Scorpion also met some sea creatures here, so they wanted to use these creatures to attack.
Sure enough, the Standing Scorpion's goal wasn't to attack the Sea of Clouds, or rather, the sea creatures wanted to attack the Sea of Clouds. The Standing Scorpion didn't have this idea, but their goal was somewhat similar …
In the end, when they were about to be unified, Standing Scorpion even joined forces with the Emerald Dragon to defeat the Silver Armored Dragon faster and let them come to this mountain.
Unfortunately, even though they were about to succeed, they didn't expect the Inca bugs to be waiting for them here.
The sphere created by the creator, and the creature inside … Lin could call it a 'Tile Disintegrator'. It was a type of controller, and a threat to the branching species.
This kind of 'tile disintegrator' was unlikely to affect the Inca insect swarm, and one of the reasons was that it was incomplete. However, as long as it appeared, the Inca bugs would definitely feel that it was a threat. That was why they broke it.
Now, these standing scorpions no longer had any thoughts of their own. They lay motionless around the shadowy monsters and the giant beetles.
Lin couldn't confirm whether they had joined the Incas or not, but there was no doubt that they had been unified. These scorpions were no longer able to move on their own.
That should be the overall situation, there were still a lot of problems to be solved, but Lin was certain that this was caused by the Inca insects. During this period of time, they didn't stop developing at all, instead, they became stronger and stronger.
Their previous method of extracting information had also become a rather advanced method of directly absorbing information from other species …
Lin wasn't completely sure how much they had improved, but the Inca insects were indeed a species that needed to be taken seriously, or rather, a species that was' dangerous' …
However, not all of the standing scorpions were affected.
Outside the cave, Lin left some eyeballs to observe the situation outside. The standing scorpion leader at the entrance was anxiously looking into the cave.
It was obvious that it wasn't under the 'unified' control. Was it because its form was too unique? Or was it just too far away?
Lin felt the need to investigate it.
An eyeball slowly floated to the back of the standing scorpion leader and stuck to its shell. Then, the eyeball slowly changed its form …
At the same time, Lin also stuck a few pompom balls to the unified scorpions and investigated them.
Was it because of that?
After the investigation, Lin felt that the Inca insects were using a type of parasite to affect the standing scorpions. In fact, Lin hadn't seen it before, but now she finally knew the reason.
This type of parasite was very small, about the size of a slime, but they gathered in large numbers on the central nervous system of the standing scorpions, slowly affecting their behavior. They would change the mental structure of the standing scorpions and slowly erode the central nervous system of the standing scorpions, allowing them to return to their original unified mental state …
At the same time, these parasitized standing scorpions would release a large amount of pheromones, affecting the surrounding standing scorpions. Even if the other standing scorpions weren't infected, they would still be affected …
Standing scorpions were originally unified creatures, so they had this type of pheromone.
The pompom, the disintegrator, released brainwaves that could interfere with the parasite. If it interfered with the parasite for a long time, it might kill the parasite and use it to heal the standing scorpions.
The disintegrator would also affect the Inca insects, but this couldn't be confirmed because the only one was blown up by them.
On the other hand, the standing scorpion's body structure was almost completely different from the original design of the Atl brain, so it wasn't affected. Its internal structure also couldn't allow the parasite to infect it.
Looking at these parasites, Lin felt that the Inca insects might have used some kind of … special method.
The Inca insects used to be a type of parasite, and their form was very similar to this one. Lin felt that they might have used a special method to extract information about their 'ancestors', then used them as new units to attack.
However, this was only a guess, because they didn't know how they found information about their ancestors. Lin remembered that the Inca insects used to excavate fossils of fish and other creatures, then turned them into living creatures.
They might have used a similar method to find information about their 'ancestors'.
If they had ancient parasites, they could indeed perfectly absorb creatures of other races. They could slowly transform the creatures they absorbed, which was indeed much better than the original method of extracting information.
Now, these units might have been obtained through this new method, but they had always been very secretive. They didn't do anything big, nor did they attack any continent.
That was why Lin hadn't encountered them until now.
While Lin was investigating these things, the creatures in the depths of the cave began to move. The standing scorpions spread their wings and flew towards the top of the cave, gathering at a cave at the top.
This cave seemed to lead to a deeper place. This was the underground of a huge mountain, and they didn't expect there to be so many caves.
Moreover, the mountain didn't show any signs of collapsing.
While the standing scorpions gathered at the entrance of the cave, there was also movement on the surface of the fluorescent water.
A large number of bubbles suddenly appeared on the surface of the water, and as the number of bubbles increased, a huge creature rushed out from the water.
This creature's entire body had a metallic luster, it was the same creature that fought alongside the standing scorpions and Dust Demon earlier, an alloy monster.
Sure enough, they weren't normal creatures, but rather a unit of the Inca insects. But where did they get these units? Lin was very interested in this …
From the looks of it, these units had already infiltrated the 'Abyss Alliance' a long time ago, but the standing scorpions didn't notice them.
A large number of alloy monsters swam in the water. Although they looked like metal, their buoyancy was quite good, and they quickly swam to the shore of the lake.
They seemed to have been hiding in the water all this time? When Lin entered the water, she didn't notice them, and it wasn't just the alloy monsters that appeared in the water, there were also rock monsters and some small arthropods.
It seemed that the Inca insects had already gathered here in large numbers, and these units were completely new, Lin had never seen them before.
What were they trying to do by gathering so many troops?
Lin recalled something from the past, the Inca insects had once fought against the atmospheric creatures on an island.
Could they also be related to the creatures in the Cloud Sea? Or did they just happen to discover that this place was suitable as a base and gathered here?
Lin noticed that the standing scorpions had entered the cave at the top of the cave. She immediately had the pompoms fly over and follow them into the cave.
The moment they entered, countless creatures filled the pompoms' field of vision.
The inside of the cave was over 100 meters wide, and both the ground and the walls were crawling with creatures.
These creatures were of different shapes, but most of them were beetle-type, and there were also some creatures that Lin had seen before, the Exploding Armor.
But just like the shadowy creatures, the Exploding Armor was much larger than before, and Lin had never seen other creatures like them before.
It turned out that the Inca insects had already gathered such a large number of troops here, and all the creatures in this army were looking in this direction.
Suddenly, they moved, and all the creatures crawled at the same speed on the walls. They were all rushing towards the cave!
They rushed out of the cave and continued to crawl along the walls of the lake. The standing scorpion followed them into the air and flew with the entire swarm.
They seemed to be planning to leave this place … and their target might be in the sky. (To be continued …)
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