Law of the Swarm

Chapter 171 The Underground Floating Island

Arriving near the relic portal hundreds of meters underground, Ying further sensed and found that the location of the giant building that could be activated was still a certain distance away.

Probably in the underground about 1000 meters below the portal.

If he hadn't encountered this snail, it would have been impossible for System to find such a building diagonally below the portal.

And with the excavator swimming in the mud, it wouldn't take much time for System to reach the location of the underground building.

After more than ten hours, System and several bugs successfully arrived at a depth of a thousand meters underground.

With the magic crystal used by Ying activating a blue crystal several meters in size, the earth trembled violently as if it were an earthquake...

The huge blue crystal emitted a faint blue fluorescence, and at the same time, a layer of blue light shield appeared to block the outside world, completely isolating the soil from the building.

System vaguely saw the gray floor tiles exposed on the ground after the soil was isolated, as well as the strange lines on some stone floor tiles.

During the vibration, System felt that the ground was slowly rising, and System gradually realized what the huge building activated by the Shadow Institute was.

"Could it be a building similar to a floating island!?"

System made a hoarse voice, but as soon as he finished speaking, the giant blue crystal suddenly went out as if the energy was unstable, and the blue light shield that protected and isolated several bugs also disappeared, and at the same time The tremor stopped, and System and other insects were buried by the falling soil.

Perhaps it was the lack of remaining energy in the floating island, or perhaps other reasons, the floating building stopped after only a few tens of centimeters up, and did not rise from the ground to the sky.

However, not activating the floating island is in line with System's usual low-key development direction.

If this floating island really flies, System doesn't know how to deal with this floating island-like building.

After all, the floating island is too high-profile, and it is easy to cause unnecessary trouble.

a few hours later.

After the excavator worked hard, System and the other bugs finally returned to the ground.

Because the soil near the swamp is generally wet and loose, the tremors of the floating island a few hours ago did not cause much change on the ground.

Some cracks and irregular uplifts on the ground are not very obvious, and in the large swamp area, no changes can be observed.

By observing the cracks and bulges in the surrounding ground, System learned that the building rising from the ground was probably a circular building with a diameter of about a kilometer.

But this brief "earthquake" did not attract the attention of any abyssal creatures.

Several magical rank creatures in other territories within a thousand meters around are still acting as usual in the territory.

A few giant snakes and large toads, either patrolling the territory or resting, did not change.

In order to prevent the abyssal creatures from vying for territory and causing possible troubles, after discovering that the magical creatures in the abyss have territorial consciousness, System did not drive out all the nearby magical creatures, but let Shadow deal with these magical creatures in the surrounding area from time to time. observe.

However, after hearing the snail's description of the Monad Swamp, System felt that it would be fine to properly clean up these magics.

Of course, all of this is based on the premise that the snail has not deceived him. System will still conduct a period of time to investigate whether the snail's words are true or not.

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Although this building that is buried deep underground and resembles a floating island lacks energy and cannot fly, there must be something hidden in the building of the floating island, and there may be some buildings and other things.

After simple thinking and planning, System suspended the construction of the underground lair by the excavator and let the excavator excavate the underground floating island.

If this underground floating island has many valuable buildings, System doesn't mind turning this underground floating island into his underground city pool in the abyss.

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The excavator started digging the underground floating island immediately after System gave the order.

When System was in his spare time cultivating the Devil's Nest, he also paid close attention to the excavator's underground exploration.

After more than ten days of digging, the excavator did not disappoint System. It found a building corridor buried in gray stone bricks, and also found two strange spherical halls in the corridor.

It's a pity that there is nothing else in these two halls except gray stone bricks.

Apart from System, the one who paid the most attention to the underground buildings was Ola the Butterfly.

In recent days, apart from being in a daze at the large crystal a few meters high underground, Ola is an uncharacteristically lazy butterfly who often urges the excavator when it is digging.

The reason is not that Ola has any ambition to own the floating island, but that Ola feels that there must be a treasure house in this underground building.

In Aura's words, she felt the call from the treasure.

Dragon beings are born with an extraordinary enthusiasm for treasures. Maybe Aura has some sense of treasures in the dark, and System doesn't care about it.

In addition to researching the nest of monsters from time to time, and occasionally receiving calls from the abyss from different planes, System is waiting for the return of the ant people from the half-plane, and listening to the snail Jie while waiting. His flattery.

System really liked listening to the snail's flattery. Although most of the snail's words were exaggerated, System sounded very comfortable.

However, System always brings the snail with him not to let the snail flatter him, but to ask some questions that have been asked to the snail before, and compare with the video data in the [Tools menu] to see if the snail is lying .

Although more than ten days had passed, System still couldn't fully trust the snail.

He really wanted to kill this snail and solve this unstable factor.

But the lizardman tribe controlled by this snail still has a lot of use value. If this snail is killed like this, it will undoubtedly lose control of those lizardman tribes.

After more than ten days, System has come into contact with a lizard man, and from the performance of the lizard man, he has confirmed the authenticity of the snail's words. The snail Jess has indeed used his hallucination ability to brainwash a mentally retarded Lizard tribe.

Except for the remaining two magical rank lizardmen in this lizardman tribe, most of the lizardmen also have the blood of thunder and lightning, and have the ability to generate electricity.

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After some consideration, System finally decided to keep the snail by his side and continue to observe it for a while.

Time passed little by little like this, and another ten days passed, and the many ant people of System finally came to the abyss from the demiplane...

(End of this chapter)