"This is ... the taste of meat ..."

This is a dark cave.

Although the time should have reached the day, this place has continued to be dark. Only the light of the video installation in the hand can barely illuminate the surrounding environment.

Scholars have experienced two days and nights in this dark environment.

It found water and food here. In front of the scholar, there was a small pit, which looked like a dry pool, and it was covered with a peculiar plant.

Scholars chased Yanyu to this place before. Although they lost Yanyu, they found that the plant was edible and tasted like meat.

Therefore, the scholar has satisfied his hunger, but it soon encountered new problems ... energy problems.

Its video installation is almost out of power, and scholars rely almost entirely on this thing. Whether it is to scare away predators, find water, or find food and lighting, etc., the installation must be completed by the installation ...

Without it, scholars feel that they can't support it for a whole day and night.

Therefore, it has to find a way to leave here. Only by touching the light can it supplement its energy.

Thinking, the scholar stood up. Although it felt a little tired, it was not time to sleep.

It has to find a way out faster ...

... One step, two steps, the scholar walked in the cave tunnel covered with soft white sand. It remembered that he had encountered many cave openings leading to the ground before, but now, he could not get there.

Because he lost his way when chasing Yanyu, he no longer knows where he is now. Although the image has the function of recording maps, because of the energy relationship, scholars have not turned on this function.

So, it doesn't know how to go now ...

"here is...."

When thinking about it, scholars found that they had come to a wonderful place. The ground here was covered with sharp stalagmites. These stalagmites are generally as high as one meter, and some stalagmites still hang something like meat.

"Good fragrance ..."

At the same time, the scholar smelled the scent. It approached a stalagmite. A piece of meat was inserted at the tip of the stalagmite. This piece of meat was already dried, but it had a light fragrance on it.

It makes scholars want to ... try a bite.

However, it does not eat such strange things casually. It is still unclear how this kind of thing came. It may be that some creatures are not necessarily trapped. In this non-random world, everything appears Not surprisingly.

Scholars continue to go deep into the cave, and there are more and more stalagmites here, one in every ten stalagmites is filled with meat.

The taste of these pieces of meat tempted the scholar, but the scholar refrained from thinking about what he wanted to eat. These stalagmites looked too suspicious. Although they looked like stones, the scholar thought they were like creatures waiting for hunting.

Scholars think that the race of the Xumin people has not eaten real meat for a long time. Now the 'meat' that is eaten is basically synthesized by algae, so the temptation of meat to it is not so great ...

"what!"

While thinking about it, the scholar found that he accidentally kicked a stalagmite, and the stalagmite instantly spread like a flower into three petals, each of which was covered with serrations, and bit the scholar's leg in one stroke.

The scholar slammed the leg-staffing stalagmite hard. It suddenly made a strange noise, loosened the scholar's leg and then retracted to the ground.

"Sure enough ..."

The scholar quickly stepped back a few steps while checking the wound on his leg.

These things are quite dangerous ... but their hunting style seems to be aimed at small creatures, so it has not been able to swallow the scholar in one bite, just bite the leg.

After looking at the injury on the lower leg, I confirmed that there is no major problem. This is one of the benefits of the dense bone creatures. The general attack is not easy to hurt them.

The scholar immediately speeded up and walked forward. It carefully avoided those stalagmites. The scholar found that as long as they were close, the stalagmites would react. They would vibrate slightly, as if they were preparing to attack ...

Finally, after walking for a while, the scholar left the stalagmite area, in front of which was a downward slope.

"After walking for so long, did you go deeper and deeper ..."

Looking at the slope in front, the scholar hesitated to go down. If he went back, he would have to pass the place full of stalagmites ...

No way ... thinking, the scholar walked over the slope.

"Ah!" At the moment of stepping on the slope, the scholar suddenly felt his foot slip, and its entire body rolled down with it!

During the rapid scrolling, the scholar tried to grab the ground to stop his body, but it found that all the sand underneath was very slippery, and there was no way to stop his body.

'Boom!'

It wasn't until the scholar hit a thing that its body stopped.

"This is ..." The scholar touched the rolling dizzy head. After standing up, he found that there were a lot of white stones in front of him.

The scholar grabbed a stone and when it squeezed a little harder, the stone was squeezed into a powder.

"That's the case ... there should have been a large, but very brittle stone, I broke it after I hit it?"

The scholar patted the dust on his body and stood up. It looked at the surrounding area. Here is another white cave, but this time it seems that it does not need to be illuminated by the video installation.

In front of the scholar, countless fluorescent objects filled its field of vision, and on the walls of the cave, a large number of fungi grew, these fungi had various shapes, and also radiated a brilliant light.

Looking at the radiance they radiated, the scholar slowly walked over, and under the illumination of the fungus, it took out the video installation.

The fluorescence of the fungus should not be able to charge the device, but the scholar still wanted to experiment, so he came under the biggest 'bacterial wall'.

There are huge amounts of fungi overgrown here. They have different shapes and different types, covering the walls of the cave with various colors.

Under this wonderful scene, the scholar took out the image device to charge the fungus. Generally speaking, most of the light can be charged, but it needs to be strong enough.

While charging, the scholar is also observing these creatures, and it suddenly found a very wonderful scene.

"This mycelium ... is it moving?"

The walls are covered with tiny mycelium, and scholars have discovered that they are wriggling bit by bit, entwined, and it feels like a bunch of tiny worms.

"Is it ... impossible ..."

The scholar has read the information of the plague fungus, and some of the things in the data are very similar to the situation here ... The scholar couldn't help but step back a few moments at the thought of this, but it quickly calmed down.

Because, scholars thought of information about another kind of organism, which is also a fungus. Although it can also creep, it is not so dangerous. However, this kind of creeping fungus cannot grow on its own. Just ...

"Guru?"

There was a sound behind the scholar. The scholar quickly looked back and saw a small creature.

This creature is ten centimeters long and looks like a beetle, but strangely, they have only four limbs, and may be the arthropod with the fewest limbs.

Moreover, the outer shell of its body radiates star-like fluorescence, which looks almost exactly like the light of fungus.

Just like the scholar saw this creature, this creature also noticed the scholar, and under its strange cry, more beetles appeared around it.

"This is ... Chibucha!" Scholars have read the information of these creatures.

These creatures were originally discovered in the northern continent, but there are similar subspecies in other islands, and one subspecies has reached a symbiotic relationship with the plague fungus.

But after the plague fungus disappeared, they still did not completely get rid of the fungus, they planted another fungus, and reached a new symbiotic relationship with that fungus, and then lived somewhere.

Scholars did not see relevant information about where they lived, but as far as they are concerned, they obviously live in this place, and their body shape has also changed compared to what scholars read in the information.

However, only one arthropod has so few limbs, so scholars can be sure of their identity.

Chibucha insects have gathered more and more now. They seem to be curious about scholars gathered in this place, and scholars also know that they should be intelligent creatures and should be able to communicate.

But how should we communicate?

"Tikka ..."

Suddenly, a Chibucha worm made a strange sound. This sound seemed to be produced by rubbing the elytra behind them. When the first worm made a sound, other worms also made a similar sound.

"Tikka ..."

Strange sounds echoed throughout the cave, making scholars feel uncomfortable listening.

"This is!" The scholar suddenly felt something behind it. Turning his head, he found that the fungus wall behind him was also covered with a large number of Chibucha.

While they made a sound, they slowly surrounded the scholars ...

............

"Where is this?"

When he opened his eyes again, the scholar found himself in a strange place.

Its surroundings are still dark, obviously still in the cave environment, but a faint light illuminates the surroundings so that it can see clearly.

"I remember that...."

The scholar remembered that it was surrounded by a large number of Chibucha insects before, and then did not know how to faint, and then ...

"What is this?"

The scholar suddenly noticed that the surrounding light seemed to be coming from his body. The scholar quickly raised his hand and found that his hand was like the Chibucha insect, exuding a star-like light ...