Deep Sea Embers

living.

After realizing that what Alice stepped on was not mud at all, but some kind of living biological tissue, most people at the scene suddenly felt a creepy feeling.

Duncan found the squirming substances on the floor rather...disgusting.

And then, he heard Nina's voice coming from not far away: "It's here too!"

"And here!" Shirley also exclaimed, "There's a big area here, and it's still moving!"

In this mysterious and empty space, there is that kind of strange "matter" that is dark, sludge-like, and can slowly squirm everywhere.

"It's everywhere here..." Fanna had already silently held the giant sword behind her in her hand, frowning slightly as she looked around the extremely open "cabin" and said in a particularly serious tone, "Goddess' blessing... what on earth is this?" What is it?"

Morris endured the discomfort in his heart, squatted down next to a piece of slightly squirming "mud", and used the folding knife he carried to flip over the edge of the sticky "mud", frowning tightly.

"I have never seen anything like it, and I have never seen anything like it in any book." The erudite old scholar's tone was full of confusion and uneasiness at this moment, "This thing looks like It's a living thing, but its texture is the same as mud, and... there doesn't seem to be any trace of intelligence."

"It is somewhat close to what was in a certain 'Submersible No. 3' described by Tirian." Duncan said casually, while raising his head and looking deeper into the open cabin.

Nina came to the edge of the crowd. Under the faint firelight emitted by Ai, a group of mud that looked particularly "vibrant" was slowly rising and falling in the depression on the floor. She stood next to the depression. He bent down and looked curiously at the disgusting substance.

She was a little nervous, but compared to this nervousness, she had stronger curiosity.

And in the next second, the mud suddenly moved!

As if responding to Nina's gaze, and as if some kind of blindly moving creature was finally disturbed by the large group of uninvited guests in the cabin, the surging speed of the mud suddenly accelerated, and then a large amount of gas surged inside it. When it came out, foam was rolling on the surface of the mud - Nina was shocked for a moment, and before she could react, the mud suddenly... stood up!

Just like a low-level soft-bodied creature suddenly had bones, the dark, sticky substance stood upright from the pit, and its surface quickly hardened, condensed, and changed color. In just the blink of an eye, it took on an almost human outline. , and in the next moment, something like a head separated from the top of it, and even a human face appeared.

That is a face that is 60% or 70% closer to Nina!

"Wow!" Nina was suddenly frightened and yelled - even though she is not timid, even though she is cheerful and strong, she is actually just a teenage girl. Of course, she was greatly affected by such a terrifying and strange scene. He was so frightened that his mind went blank on the spot. Without thinking, he instinctively raised his hand and waved, trying to push the scary thing away from his eyes.

This is a big bidou with a temperature of up to 6000°C.

The closest one was Shirley. She only heard Nina's exclamation, followed by a deafening explosion, and a dazzling flash of high heat that filled her and Agou's entire field of vision - along with this A flash of light was swept across by a high-heat shock wave as if standing in the crater of an erupting volcano.

Nina actually only slapped her once, a very brief slap.

However, the fireball fired by this slap almost melted and evaporated the entire spherical space with a radius of twelve meters in front of her.

Duncan turned his head and saw the blazing fireball quickly dissipating in the mid-air in front of Nina, and in front of her was covered with bright molten metal flowing down after the molten metal. The girl seemed to be still in a daze. At this time, she was still stunned. Standing motionless in front of that terrible molten pit.

"What happened?" Duncan immediately came to Nina's side and put a hand on her shoulder, while the remaining heat waves rose and stirred around him.

"Just... just now that ball of mud suddenly stood up and turned into me. I... I was shocked..." Nina came back to her senses at this time. She shrank her neck with a look of shock on her face. Pointing in the direction where the weird thing was just now, "Then hit it..."

"Then what?"

"Then it was gone," Nina cried sadly, seeming a little scared, "I didn't stop, the whole place turned into iron juice."

Duncan glanced blankly at the molten pit on the ground and the molten metal flowing down the wall next to him, and then at the "Sun Shard" who still had a nervous expression on his face.

No matter what the thing that popped up just now and startled Nina was, there is no doubt that it was the one that suffered the most serious injuries - a slap with a temperature of 6000°C, this is probably the evil god of subspace. It will leave a psychological shadow that will be remembered for a lifetime...

But he still pressed Nina's hair and comforted the frightened girl: "Don't be afraid, it's okay, you've knocked that thing out..."

As he spoke, he turned back and glanced at the others who were in shock.

Shirley was shaking into a ball holding the dog, Maurice was beating his chest silently, Alice had just picked up her head, only Vanna was the calmest - she looked at Duncan and shrugged.

"I will never suddenly speak to Nina behind her in the future." The judge who had killed an entire city-state said solemnly.

"It's just a small accident," Duncan rubbed Nina's hair helplessly, and then his eyes fell back on the nearby mud that was not affected by Nina's "Sun Fist", and the next second, His expression changed slightly, "Wait a minute, something doesn't seem right about these things."

Following Duncan's reminder, others finally noticed the changes in the "mud" that spread throughout the cabin -

All the mud stopped crawling.

These things that were constantly writhing and deforming like soft-bodied creatures not long ago suddenly stopped and turned into dry clumps as if the mud was dehydrated, and small, branch-like branches extended out from the edges of all the clumps. These raised structures are as if something had tried to escape from the mud, and in the process of escaping, it left a trace indicating the direction of its escape.

Vanna's eyes quickly swept around, and in just a few seconds, she discovered that all the traces extending from the edges of the mud seemed to be pointing in the same direction.

In the deepest part of this dark and vast "cabin".

"There is something in that direction." Fanna said immediately, while holding the giant sword in her hand tightly.

At the same time, Duncan also set his sights on the deepest part of the darkness.

A thin line of green fire quietly extended under his feet. When this line of fire touched the dry and solidified "mud" on the floor, it burned brightly in an instant, turning into piles of "bonfires" like this The bonfire spread quickly throughout the cabin, lighting up many originally dark areas instantly!

Duncan looked at the scene of the "bonfire" spreading and confirmed his initial suspicion - these mud-like things were the condensation of extraordinary power.

And in the gradually spreading spiritual flames, the cabin, which was too wide to be illuminated by Ai's fire, finally revealed more secrets to everyone.

They saw the horrifying bulkhead with pits in the distance, as if it had been gnawed by some acidic substance or corrosive organism. They saw the ropes, pipes and suspicious dark red fiber bundles hanging overhead. They saw the number of More "mud masses" that had lost their vitality were also seen in the deepest part of the cabin——

A huge, vague mass loomed there in an unsettling manner, its edges seeming to be slowly squirming.

Duncan pondered for a moment, then walked towards the huge and weird "accumulation".

He did not let the flames of his spirit corrode or burn the pile of things - even though he knew that it should also be "extraordinary firewood" that could be burned, he did not intend to rashly destroy any clues before he figured out what it was.

The others obviously hesitated for a moment, but seeing that Duncan was already striding forward, they quickly followed him.

"Plop——"

Just when Duncan was halfway there, a sudden voice made everyone stop subconsciously.

Morris looked up in the direction of the sound and realized that the thumping sound like a heartbeat was the movement coming from deep within the dark pile several meters high.

Duncan also stopped. He observed the pile of strange things attentively and felt the aura floating around the things.

It didn't give me any sense of danger.

So he took a few steps forward.

"Plop...Plop..."

A more obvious and powerful heartbeat was heard from the depths of the pile. Its edges seemed to be squirming more obviously than before, and even the entire surface began to slowly rise and fall.

Duncan frowned, and at this moment, he heard Shirley's voice suddenly ringing behind him:

"Agou, Agou, what's wrong with you?!"

(Thanks to Charlie’s non-vegetarian Bai Yinmeng, I finally suppressed this chapter~)