Chapter 2826 Insects Underground
The shocked Shade almost immediately extinguished the light ball floating around him, and looked at the cave that suddenly appeared in the darkness:
“A hollow in the ground? How is this possible? With my powerful space perception, why didn’t I notice that there is such a large underground space here?”
As a special metal, mithril may indeed cause supernatural phenomena near mineral veins, but this definitely does not include the ability to shield space.
So standing at the melted cave entrance, Shade looked hesitantly at the darkness below. Of course he would not jump down recklessly, and in the field of vision provided by “dark vision”, the bottom was more like a naturally formed underground cave, with nothing in it.
This place is not completely closed. There are underground cracks around the cave that connect to other locations. It is just because the “strong spatial perception” fails here for some reason, so Shade doesn’t know what this cave is.
However, he suddenly remembered what he had just talked with Professor Uke Wood, so he found a green leaf that had been turned into a toy from his pocket, but nothing happened after he put it in front of his eyes, which meant that Xia Xia De was not affected by so-called “psychedelic gases”.
But then he replaced the ordinary green leaf with the “Eternal Youth Leaf”. This time, after putting the leaf in front of his eyes and waiting for a moment to take it off, the world he saw with his right eye was indeed different.
It’s not that the illusion is broken, but that what was originally hidden is revealed.
The huge tree trunk root system broke out from the bottom of the underground cave, then spread to the entire cave, and then extended to invisible places along the cracks.
On those dark tree roots, white vesicles, or things like insect eggs, adhered to them. Those eggs were translucent to be more precise, and it was only because of the white mist that was slowly billowing inside that they appeared to be white. The vesicles emit a faint light in the darkness. The light is not strong, but the brightness slowly changes with the surge of white mist in the vesicles.
It is precisely because of the transparent vesicles and white mist that Shade can clearly see the sleeping insects inside the eggs.
Those bugs are probably about the same size as normal adults, but judging from their appearance, they are all “paradox bugs” no matter how you look at them.
“Tree roots that grow upward from the ground instead of downward, and these paradoxical insects.”
The mithril mine that Shade wanted to find was indeed here. Although he did not dare to call out the light ball illumination, he could still see patches of silver phosphorescence on the side walls of the cave. This is the color of mithril ore.
The silver phosphorescence intersected with the light of insect eggs on the roots of the thick ancient trees. The scene deep underground actually looked so shocking that Shade even held his breath without realizing it. Gradually, as the [Eternal Youth Leaf] left the eyes for a longer time, the roots and insect eggs became hidden again.
Just when Shade wanted to cover his eyes with leaves again, white mist suddenly appeared in the originally empty underground cave.
The thick fog that symbolizes the concept of “time chaos” has already filled the bottom of the entire underground cave in just one breath. At the same time, the buzzing sound of insects clearly appeared in the depths of the cave, and it was getting closer and closer to Shade’s position.
Shad decisively took off the key from his chest with his left hand, and the ritual matrix emerged under his feet. The moment the [Staff of Yggdrasil] was grasped in his hand, he suddenly pulled out the long staff. The bottom hit the ground beneath your feet:
“The stability principle of ancient elves!”
The emerald green light spurted out from the top of the long staff, like a big tree growing a crown, and it seemed to provide Shade with a shield from the wind and rain. The sound below was not the collective awakening of insect eggs, but an invisible thing making a buzzing sound, which suddenly hit the emerald green light under the cover of the white mist that had surged up.
With a click, Shade’s thaumaturgy was forcibly interrupted, and he even bounced back like a cannonball.
And the thing hidden in the fog also showed its appearance due to the power of thaumaturgy. The “paradox insect” about three meters in size has a dark carapace and wings that seem to be able to forcibly distort time when they flap.
It was obviously seriously injured when it collided with the thaumaturgy that specifically restrained them, but immediately after the blow, it hit the hole again.
Its body shape would have never allowed it to enter such a small hole, but during the flight it actually shrank to the size of an adult, and then successfully entered the hole. Shade, who had fallen down, was about to stand up when he saw the insect rushing towards him.
Without any thought, he raised his free right hand and the huge rotating flame was immediately thrown out:
“Remnants of Chaos!”
This is not a forest, so there is no need to worry about forest fires. And because the Paradox Bugs were burned by the First Fire, the flames have a harmful effect on the bugs. Coupled with the small fighting area, Shade was not worried about the opponent being able to hide away.
And the insect did not hide. A colorful light suddenly rose in front of the flame, and then the violent fire ball that rotated and flew gradually slowed down. After stopping, it accelerated and flew towards Shade.
“Reverse time?”
Xia De said a rare curse word in his heart. This time he went out to look for minerals without the [Night Watch]. He could only open his arms to embrace the flame, and completely absorbed it and transformed it into a spirit before the explosion occurred. .
Just after the flames, another beam of white light sprayed out from the insect’s mouth was covered by the fire and sprayed directly on Shade’s body. Then there was only a click, a clear sound of the clock hands turning, and then large fragments of white light appeared on Shade’s body.
[Time is paused, but it has no effect on you. 】
The Paradox Bug was immune to almost all attacks, so Shade did not try to attack again. At the same time that the worm bumped into him again, he stepped back and appeared directly at a higher point in the passage. Then he took out the [Disaster Card and Gravel Worm] and used the power of “Earth Movement” to jump. It sank into the soil, and then jumped all the way up to the ground.
So soon, in the forest sea of the afternoon illuminated by the late autumn sun, Shade jumped out of the soil, then jumped lightly, stepping on the trunk of the tree and jumped onto the branch.
He held the long staff in his right hand and held up the fireball that had not yet grown in size with his left hand, waiting for the insect to come out. But he waited for twenty minutes, and even ran to the entrance of the mine, but did not wait for the bug to chase him out, so he could only admit that the bug did not follow.
Professor Uke Wood is no longer here at this time, and Shade did not try to go deep underground again. Instead, he turned around and left here, and then used the pendant of “Chocobo Friends” to summon people who were willing to help. The chocobo rode on it and ran towards Xiao MiG Village.
After successfully meeting the hermits of the [Forest Hermits Group] in the village, Shade was taken to the hermit group’s residence.
Unfortunately today, the great elder of the hermit group, Mr. Steve Davis, is not here for the time being because he is cooperating with the church to deal with the fire-burning trees in the forest, but fortunately, the secret keeper of the hermit group Mr. Meloni is here.
Now the forest near the station has lost all its leaves. The people living deep in the dense forest have harvested the crops planted this year and are preparing other winter supplies to prepare for the cold winter ahead.
Mr. Meloni was still talking to Shade beside the largest bonfire in the camp. When he heard Shade talk about what he had just seen, he didn’t show much surprise on his face, but nodded slightly:
“I remember you knew that there are countless paradox insects sleeping in the local jungle.”
“Yes, this was created by those time travelers over countless years.”
Mr. Meloni nodded again, turning slightly sideways and looking at the forest sea in the distance:
“Part of those bugs were sealed, and the other part seemed to be suppressed by the power of the forest itself and fell asleep. Although I don’t know about the large hole in the ground you mentioned, the Hermits discovered Weiss a long time ago. There are underground caves extending in all directions under the Tallin Land, and most of the sleeping bugs are inside.”
However, the hermits did not observe the hidden insects through the [Eternal Leaves of Youth]. They had their own unique magic.
Xia De asked in surprise by the fire:
“So, this has always been like this? I mean, nothing has been done?”
“So what can be done?”
Mr. Meloni asked:
“In addition to the secret skills of the elves, the powerful time power of the thirteen-ring warlock is just like a month ago.”
This refers to the two Adeles above Vista City, dealing with the bug that emerged from Flora’s soul.
“Except for the few difficult rituals we have mastered, there is no way to harm those bugs. If there are only one or two, the power of the United Church can indeed kill them, but guess what? How many insects are sleeping in it? ”
Shad cannot answer this question, but he also understands what Mr. Meloni means:
“What you say makes sense, but this is like a bomb. The longer it is not resolved, the more powerful the final explosion will be. Are you really just delaying? This should be the worst thing to do. ”
Mr. Meloni smiled:
“I know what you mean, but we are not just delaying. Our previous view was that when this woodland can no longer seal so many paradox insects, we will notify the church. As long as the righteous **** If God descends, all problems will be solved. It’s just a few insects. The Zhengshen Church probably won’t ask for God’s power, but what if there are thousands of insects?”
“This is really a good idea. But now that the local bugs are asleep, what did I just encounter?”
Shade asked again, and Mr. Meloni could also answer this question.
He stood up and left temporarily, and quickly took back a thin booklet. The booklet was called “Vestal Woodland Species Survey,” but it didn’t have a single letter except for the cover. It was filled with pencil illustrations.