Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Three hours after the explosion.

Garcia's mind was blank. She knelt on the ground with something in her hand. After venting her emotions with a series of curses, her buzzing head made her unable to think of anything. The information conveyed by the thing in her hand impacted her thinking and even made Garcia's vision blurred.

"Squeak... cluck... click..."

The slow, twisting, wriggling sound of the object in his hand, as well as the touch in his hand, pulled Garcia's blank thoughts back from his buzzing brain. After taking a few deep breaths, Garcia lowered his head again and looked at the thing in his hand.

It was a quarter of the head of the tyrant Han Zu, which was shriveled up to skin and bones. Only the remains from the left cheekbone to the top of the head were left. There were charred marks on the back of the remains. If it were not for the dark and dry blood vessels under the skin near the eye sockets and the shriveled black eyeballs without pupils, Garcia would not have been able to tell what the remains were, let alone recognize that it was Han Zu.

The wreckage was slowly shrinking, and unlike before, there would be no abnormal changes when it changed its shape. Since the previous explosion had scared away the surrounding protozoa, it was very quiet here except for the occasional sound of wind. Garcia could hear the sound of the wreckage twisting and shrinking very clearly.

As the wreckage slowly shrank, after some time, it returned to the size of a normal human, but it was still shriveled, and the movement of flesh and blood gradually stopped.

"Snapped!"

"Calm down... damn calm down Garcia!"

After slapping himself, Garcia forced himself to calm down and shift his attention to thinking. The slap was so powerful that it even broke the corner of his mouth. Blood slid down his chin and dripped onto the ground.

Garcia calmed himself down and looked at the wreckage in his hand carefully again. He found good news. The wreckage's movement did not stop completely, but became extremely slow. In other words, the self-repair behavior was still going on, but it seemed that there was no extra energy to allow the wreckage to repair itself into a complete head, let alone the whole body.

As the speed of the remains' flesh and blood slowed down again, some of the remains had lost their vitality, and the color of the flesh and blood turned gradually pale. If this continued, it would not be long before all the remains would lose their vitality. He had to find a way to increase the vitality of the remains.

"It's okay! Not dead... Not dead..."

However, Garcia was still in shock and could not really calm down and think. Although with Garcia's brain, she could easily find a solution, but as a researcher who rarely left the laboratory, she had never experienced such an emergency. She was stunned for a moment and could not think of anything.

"Bah..."

The blood from the corner of Garcia's mouth dripped onto the wreckage, which instantly absorbed the blood and stopped losing its activity for a short period of time. Even the parts that had turned pale and completely lost their activity were stained with a faint blood color again.

Garcia suddenly put the wreckage against the corner of his mouth, trying to smear more blood on the wreckage, but part of the wreckage fell off and stuck to Garcia's wound, quickly repairing Garcia's wound and stopping the bleeding.

The debris lost nutrients, and its activity began to weaken again and gradually disappeared, and the rate of weakening was faster than before it absorbed the blood. If this continued, all the debris would completely lose its activity in a few minutes.

Garcia didn't know what she was thinking. She picked up a small piece of fallen plant debris from the ground, put it in her mouth, and then picked up some bone fragments that had fallen from the wreckage on the ground.

“Hu…Hu…Hu…”

"Pfft."

“Mmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Garcia stabbed the bone fragment into her left eye and gouged it out. The unbearable pain made Garcia scream in agony, but fortunately she bit a piece of plant fragment in advance to avoid biting off her tongue due to the pain.

“Tsk…tsk…tsk…”

Throwing away his own gouged-out eyeball, Garcia endured the pain, took out the shriveled eyeball from the wreckage intact, and stuffed it into his own eye socket.

“Cluck…Cluck…”

The faint sound of flesh twisting and reforming could be heard, and Garcia could feel that the replaced shriveled eyeball was absorbing energy from his body and would soon become full again.

However, this behavior of absorbing energy is completely unequal. Although Garcia's body can withstand the massive loss of energy in the body in a short period of time and is not sucked dry, the tremendous feeling of fatigue also gives Garcia's brain a heavy blow, just like being hit by a sledgehammer on the back of the head. Garcia lost control of his body and his consciousness became blurred.

"boom."

Garcia's body was overwhelmed and he fell to the ground on his back, unconscious.

"Hu~~"

I don’t know how long it will take.

The fireball and smoke in the sky completely disappeared, the surroundings returned to tranquility, there was a breeze blowing across the ground, and everything looked so peaceful.

"Click."

An animal native to the planet approached a meadow full of alien plants. It accidentally stepped on something and broke it, making a crisp sound.

The animal immediately lowered its body with its belly pressed tightly against the ground. Its sixteen eyes, which were spread all over its body, looked around nervously. Since the color of its body and eyes were similar to the surrounding plants, nothing else noticed it. Although it looked very scary, it was actually a harmless herbivore.

After hiding for a while, the animal slowly stood up, put its six limbs on the ground, and carefully raised the two hollow chitinous horns on its head. The crustacean-like tissues on them, which resembled rice ears, moved a few times, as if detecting the surrounding situation like sonar.

After making sure there were no other creatures around, it slowly moved forward, found an open place where it could easily escape, opened its mouth that could be opened in four directions but had square teeth, and began to eat the plants on the ground, occasionally making some noisy chewing sounds.

After eating, this strange herbivore carefully left this place and came to the side of a river. It stretched its long tail into the water. There is a closable chitinous part above the end of the tail of this herbivore, which protects a single eye. After looking underwater, it found no predators except some rotten tree trunks that sank to the bottom of the water.

After retracting its tail, the herbivore turned around, put its head close to the river, and drank water carefully. The plants it had just eaten were very dry, and in order to digest them, it had to replenish a lot of water.

Fortunately, there were no predators around, and the herbivores drinking water gradually relaxed their vigilance.

However, the rotten tree trunks at the bottom of the water seemed to move slowly, gradually approaching the direction of the herbivores. Those rotten tree trunks were very strange. Although they were of different sizes, the lines and bumps on them were also different, but they all had one thing in common.

No matter how different their appearances are, at the front end of these rotten tree trunks, there are six fan-shaped symmetrical depressions, covered with a thick membrane like bark, but they are much softer than bark.

The thick membrane separates to the left and right, revealing six eyes. Their dark color makes them difficult to be found in the water. These rotten tree trunks are actually amphibious creatures. Judging from their vertical pupils, they are undoubtedly predators.

When these predators were slowly moving near the herbivores at the bottom of the water, they suddenly rushed towards the herbivores from underwater. Before they were about to touch the herbivores, the front third of their bodies suddenly opened neatly to the left and right, revealing their terrifying mouths full of hundreds of large and small inward-curved sharp teeth, biting the herbivores that were drinking water like two nail boards. Those large and small curved sharp teeth in their mouths could move slightly inward, and they easily pierced the skin of the herbivores, tearing their bodies apart like a piece of meat thrown into a meat grinder.

The herbivore was not small, about the size of a buffalo. Although the predators were smaller, they were not much different from it, not to mention that there were many more predators. The herbivore howled in pain and tried to escape from the clutches of the predators. However, although the predators were not large, they were much stronger than it, not to mention that several predators attacked it together.

The herbivore was quickly dragged into the river, where it was quickly surrounded by prey and quickly eaten. The herbivore's blood briefly dyed that part of the river red, but as the river flowed, it soon disappeared.

After the predators finished eating, they soon sank to the bottom of the water again, turning into "rotten tree trunks" again, closing their eyes, waiting for the next unlucky person.

"Pfft."

“Hua La La…”

Not long after, something fell into the water and made a noise. It might be an unlucky creature that accidentally fell into this section of the river where a large number of predators lived.

A smaller predator that seemed not to have eaten enough before and was apparently a young predator moved and swam quietly towards the direction where the sound came from. A wrinkled, snake-like creature was twisting in the river.

In the eyes of the young predator, this thing posed no threat. It looked like he could have a good meal. Without saying a word, he pounced on it and bit the snake-like thing with his terrifying meat grinder-like mouth.

Its teeth got stuck in the folds and were pulling them towards its mouth. Just as the young predator was immersed in the joy of an upcoming meal, something strange suddenly happened.

The wrinkles of the object in its mouth covered all its teeth like gel, and then it felt a few stinging pains. Something pierced its left and right jaws. With the pierced place as the center, the whole body of the young predator was quickly paralyzed, and it had no strength at all. Then a huge force came, pulling the predator out of the water from the bottom of the water and smashing it onto the shore.

"boom!"

“Tsk…tsk…”

The predator was smashed onto the shore and had no power to resist. It could only be dragged along the ground. It saw clearly that the thing that pulled it out of the water was not a snake at all, but a thick vine that was flashing with fluorescence.

The vines pulled the predator, moving little by little in one direction. Not long after, it came to a thick alien plant. The vines continued to shrink, sticking the predator tightly to the tree trunk. Some branches pierced the predator's body. At the same time, the thick vine that caught the predator also tightly wrapped around the predator's body.

A sticky liquid was secreted from the vines and tree trunks, which decomposed the flesh and bones of the predator and converted them into nutrients, which were absorbed into the trunk. Before dying, the predator looked at other parts of the trunk for the last time and found many other creatures that had the same experience as itself.

The young predator lost his life in fear, 90% of his body was decomposed and absorbed, and the remaining debris was probably not enough for the terrifying alien tree to absorb, so it was untied and fell to the ground. However, waste should not exist on this planet, and the remaining debris with little nutrition was quickly decomposed and swallowed by parasitic plants on the ground that looked like lichens and mosses, turning into nutrients.

After eating, the sturdy alien plant retracted its vines, and some spots that could emit fluorescence began to appear on the branches.

The brightness changes of this planet are still very obvious, and it is easy to distinguish the time. However, its rotation period may be longer than that of the earth, about thirty hours, and about 20 hours of them are night.

However, due to the presence of a large number of luminous plants, the night on this planet is not that dark. In some places with more plants, it is even very bright.

What's strange is that whether it's herbivores or predators, they rarely appear at night, and the activities of plants are also much less. However, on the surface of the planet, you can occasionally hear rustling sounds, and something is moving around. The night is their home turf.

"Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..."

Not far from where Garcia fainted, in a cave that was only one or two meters deep but as big as a football field, some unique creatures were moving around. They looked different, but the only similarity was that they all had stripes on their bodies, similar to the skin of herbivores and predators. They should be camouflage to avoid predators, or protective colors to lure them.

These creatures have multiple pairs of compound feet covered with hair-like barbs that allow them to move on any plane. Some also have hardened membranes or chitinous shells, which make them appear to have the ability to fly.

Judging from their appearance, these creatures should be insects on this planet, but for some reason, a large number of insects that are obviously not of the same species are gathered together, and they do not fight with each other. Instead, they get along very harmoniously.

Deep in the cave, you can see a lot of spider web-like things, and occasionally a few of them move. They must be the unlucky ones who were eaten by these insects. There are also some human weapons and equipment scattered on the ground around, as well as some bloodstains and the remains of alien insects. It seems that some of the survivors of the spacecraft died in the hands of these insects and fought hard for their lives before becoming food.

If it weren't for these insects, the smallest of which was as big as a motorcycle, the survivors might have actually been able to escape.

"Kick-kick-kick!"

"Crack...Squeak!"

The two alien insects touched their antennae together, and their chitinous shells rubbed against each other, making sounds, as if they were communicating something. The tail of one of the alien insects was connected to some spider web-like silk threads, and something was wrapped around the end of the silk threads.

After the conversation, another alien insect also sprayed out some spider web-like threads from other parts of its body, which helped it drag the things it found into the depths of the cave, threw them in a corner, and used those silk threads to wrap the things it found into a cocoon.

"Kakaka!"

However, something seemed to have happened outside the cave. Some other insects passed by and called away the two companions, and the unfinished cocoons were temporarily left here.

There are some luminous minerals in the cave, which illuminate the depths of the cave. There are a large number of cocoons of various sizes piled up here, which should be the food reserves of these insects. Some cocoons are still twisting slowly, and it seems that the guys inside have not completely lost consciousness.

At the outermost edge of this group of food reserves was an unfinished cocoon, which was the one that the two alien insects had temporarily put aside.

Through the light emitted by the minerals on the wall, Garcia's face was revealed outside the unfinished cocoon. Her eyes were closed and her breathing was steady and slow. It seemed that she was mistaken for prey by the insects and dragged back to the nest.

“Kala…”

The blood vessels under the skin around Garcia's replaced left eye slowly expanded and turned darker.

However, his eyes did not open and the strange feeling quickly disappeared. Garcia was still in a coma and had not woken up.