Dark, gloomy, quiet, eerie … It was as if everything had fallen into the eternity of death. The darkness was bottomless, and no one could predict when the soul that had fallen into the abyss would wake up again.
All the people on the icy Magnetic Drum Island had been turned into soldiers of the army, and were carried on the ferocious warships to Alabasta. Now, the island was desolate and silent.
On the snowy peak, Choba stood on the roof of the attic and looked down at the lifeless island. Other than looking through the medical information every day, he spent the rest of his time looking at the empty island through the window. The mountain forest was covered in silver, and it was beautiful. In the center was a crystal clear ice lake, so beautiful that there was no trace of human life.
Birds flew away in fright, and thunder exploded on the ground!
"What's happening?" Choba suddenly leaned on the window and looked down the mountain. A hole had appeared in the ice lake, and the surrounding trees seemed to have been wiped away by some eerie force. The falling snow fell on the ground, and he could vaguely see some ice lines hidden in the snow twitching, retracting back to the hole in the lake from all directions.
It was as if a faceless face had opened its mouth, and countless tentacles that had returned from hunting for food were pouring back into its mouth. It was as if some terrifying monster was hiding under the dark lake, greedily eating, wanting to devour and disintegrate the entire Magnetic Drum Island.
"I have to go take a look!"
Choba extended its short legs and jumped down from the window. It ran all the way downstairs. There was a small doorway under the door that was fixed with wooden planks. It crawled out from the doorway and left a series of plum blossom-like footprints on the snow.
He could only see the silhouette from the attic, and when he got close to the edge of the mountain forest, the instinctive fear made Choba stop in his tracks. An animal's instinct for danger made him feel the danger hidden in the air every time he breathed, as if there was a huge monster that was slowly waking up under the snow.
Hunger, greed, brutality, sinisterness … A terrifying aura that could not be concealed spread out from the center of the frozen lake. Choba swallowed hard. The forest near the lake was collapsing silently, as though all the water and life had been sucked out by the lake. The radius of the devouring was still spreading outwards, and all life along the way was dispelled. Only the snowflakes in the sky became even more beautiful and white.
Whoosh!
As if it had smelled blood and flesh, an ice line fell from the treetops and shot towards Choba silently like a venomous snake baring its fangs.
Choba's fur stood on end, and his face showed an extremely human-like fear. He rolled on the ground to dodge the attack, and ran back to the top of the mountain with all his might.
Fortunately, he was standing at the edge of the mountain forest, and the ice line fell back into the snow without finding its target. Choba's teeth chattered, and he immediately gave up on the idea of investigating. Instead, he ran back to the castle on the snowy peak.
"That ice lake is alive, Choba can't be eaten by it!" He slowly calmed his rapidly beating heart, and then put on his binoculars and looked at the ice lake from the attic. Through the high-magnification binoculars, he saw a huge shadow under the ice lake, and it looked like a kaleidoscope-shaped ice crystal palace.
The kaleidoscope was slowly turning inward, and in the deepest part of the depression, there seemed to be a wriggling shadow roaring with its mouth wide open.
Part of the scene above was what Choba observed, and part of it was what he imagined. In reality, there was no shadow roaring in the ice palace, and it was unusually quiet without any sound.
In the space filled with ice lines, it was a vast expanse of whiteness, and there was only a strangely pulsating sarcoma in the center. It was four meters tall and two meters wide, and it was oval-shaped like the embryo of an egg. The outside of the egg was filled with ice lines, and they were like infusion tubes that delivered nutrients. They vibrated along with the egg's pulsation.
The surface of the egg was filled with complicated patterns, and it gave off an eerie and evil feeling. Through the thick membrane of the egg, one could vaguely see a curled up figure inside. It looked like a wriggling snake, or a hunched human figure, or maybe it was a combination of the two, and it was slowly stretching its body and breathing.
Thump!
Thump … Thump …
Thump … Thump … Thump … Thump …
The heartbeat became louder and faster, as if there was a consciousness that could not wait to wake up and look at the world that killed it!
"Heh … I'm dead!" A solid eye in the egg suddenly opened. What entered the eye was a pitch-black abyss. It was as if only the white of the eye had not condensed into a solid body that could see things.
There was no echo or sound, but his consciousness woke up one step earlier in a strange way. A feeling of emptiness and deathly stillness invaded his consciousness, and Yarlin understood that it was because his body had not completely awakened.
"I don't like this feeling!" The white eye closed again, and the scene of death appeared in his consciousness. He gritted his non-existent teeth and whispered, "I hate death more!"
"Death is an end that cannot be described with human language, but to the army, death does not mean the end. As long as there is a seed of the mother nest in the world, we can make a comeback!" Astu's consciousness woke up at the same time, and responded in Yarlin's consciousness, "This time, I can feel that you have chosen death!"
"Heh … Who would choose death? After all, it was forced by the situation … I needed a chance to get out of sight, so I could hide in the dark again. Fortunately, I woke up again."
There was a short silence, and only the sound of heartbeat could be heard. Yarlin opened his white eyes again, stared into the deep darkness, and suddenly laughed, "How long will it take to get out?"
"… All the pheromones and consciousness fragments of the army's host (mother) will be shared in every mother nest. When it dies unexpectedly, it will be reborn in any mother nest. After a month of absorption and growth, the mother nest will absorb all the nutrients in a mother nest and complete its rebirth, and the mother nest will wither."
A line of words appeared directly in Yarlin's consciousness, and at the same time, Astu's voice echoed faintly, "A month will pass soon. For the army, death and time are meaningless. You will get used to this feeling one day …"
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