The interior of this wrecked ship is not stuffy, the air is still fresh.
Yan Mo wondered if some functions of the spaceship were still working? Later, he felt that it was impossible, and when he saw some moss and mushrooms growing in the corners of the interior walls of the spaceship, he realized it.
These plants probably have the function of absorbing carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen. In addition, this is not a completely enclosed space, the underground cave must have some exits to connect with the outside, and the underground city also has exits.
Following Xiaosha, he turned two turns in the passage, bent down and entered a doorway, and a space about the size of two football fields appeared inside.
This space is circular, with an open space in the middle, surrounded by high walls that are almost endless. There are densely packed holes like beehives on the walls.
The open space is full of sand, and it is very comfortable to step on. Maybe the sand in the lower layer is very dense, and people will not sink into it when stepping on it.
Unfortunately, the sand here is all polluted.
His shoes are being disintegrated! The polluted sand didn't even spare the cloth and dead furs!
Yan Mo grabbed Xiaosha and stroked it several times.
Xiao Sha was taken aback by his sudden action, "Hiss! What are you doing?"
Yan Mo didn't have time to explain, he had already set up the protective cover, and the energy might be passing very quickly.
After confirming that he had enough understanding of Xiaosha's structure, Yan Mo quickly backed away and left the battlefield.
"Hiss! What's wrong with you?" Xiaosha chased after her.
Yan Mo had to be grateful for the cleanliness of the sand armor wearers. There wasn't a grain of sand on the ground all the way. I don't know if these sand armor wearers also understand the power of these polluting sands, so they don't let them spread everywhere.
"The sand makes me uncomfortable." Yan Mocheng said, and quickly used his wish power and life energy to pray: "May I have the ability to resist these pollutants."
As soon as Yan Mo's voice fell, scales like wearing sand armor suddenly appeared on his face and exposed skin.
Seeing Yan Mo now, Xiaosha feels more and more like he is wearing sand armor, but its wisdom is not enough for it to understand this change. It just urged Yan Mo to move faster.
Yan Mo raised his arm, looked at his scaly palm, then raised his hand to touch his face, removed the protective cover, and stepped into the sand carefully.
His shoes were gone, and his feet were covered in scales and thick horn.
The soles of the feet were slightly sunk in the sand, and there was no discomfort, and the energy did not disappear at all!
It worked!
A little boy wearing sand armor ran over to see him, seeming very curious.
This huge sand field seems to be a place for children to play in sand armors. Some young sand armors drill around in the sand and fight with each other.
In the caves around the walls, sand armor-wearing people can be seen going in and out from time to time.
"Hiss. Don't be dazed, come with me."
Xiaosha quickly crawled towards the left wall, where there was a man-high cave half buried by sand grains.
Yan Mo took one step, another step, and his heart gradually became more stable, as long as there is an effect!
When walking into the caves, Yan Mo took a closer look and touched them with his hands. He guessed that these caves might be the plumbing facilities of the spaceship. He always felt that there was something under the layer of sand, but now is obviously not the time to explore. .
I don't know if the sand armor wearers accidentally found it here, or someone put the sand armor here on purpose from the beginning
The pipe is not too narrow, and the inside is still very clean, but there will be some peculiar smell that is unique to wearing sand armor.
The inside of the pipe is not completely dark, some places are even faintly lit, but Yan Mo has no time to take a closer look.
The most interesting thing is that some of these pipes are roads, some are the residences of sand armors, and there are some larger spaces connected by pipes.
For example, the place Yan Mo was taken to now.
This is a place similar to a wastewater treatment pond, but now there is no water in it, only sand.
There are also many pipes around this waste water pool, and these pipes live... Yan Mo didn't know it at first, but after staying for two hours, he understood that the people living here are all old, weak, sick and disabled wearing sand armor, and it is also more difficult to live here. Those pipes outside are warmer.
"Hiss, you're tall, so I'm staying here temporarily." Xiao Sha stopped at the door of a small room that was half open and had a special purpose.
Yan Mo looked inside, there was no light inside, but his eyes could see clearly, it was a small empty room with nothing, there seemed to be some dotted lines on the wall, but it was impossible to tell what they were, What's the point. Looking at it as a whole, this small room is only about eight square meters, but the height is very high, about five or six meters.
Xiao Sha bit his trousers, and said to him seriously: "Hiss! Everyone who wears a sand armor has to work. Although you saved me, I can't feed you for nothing. I will provide you with housing and food, but You have to work. It's okay to be trash, but if you're lazy, people will drive you away, and then there's nothing I can do to help you."
Yan Mo smiled, wearing a sand armor is a semi-intelligent creature, the language is not very rich, and the hissing sounds only contain some basic meanings. For the convenience of understanding, he interpreted the meaning conveyed by the other party in his own language, which made him more accustomed to it. Judging from Xiaosha's expression, the social structure of sand armor wearers is very strict, and they don't like lazy people.
"What am I going to do?" Yan Mo squatted down, stretched out his hand to stroke Xiaosha again, this time to repay his kindness.
Xiaosha didn't want Yan Mo to touch it at first, but when Yan Mo's hand really touched it, its attitude changed completely. Ah, so comfortable, touch it again!
Yan Mo had to ask again.
Xiaosha squinted her eyes and said intoxicatedly: "Hiss, you, you just need to touch me... No! Your job is to help the sand armor wearers get out the old sand in the cave and put new sand in it. "
Xiao Sha suddenly looked at Yan Mo: "Hiss, do you know how to spray nets?"
Yan Mo took out a net bag from the space.
Xiao Sha circled around the net, "Hiss. No way, this kind of hole is too big and not sticky, so it can't catch the sand."
Xiaosha was very sad, "Hiss! Why are you so useless? You can't even spray out a qualified net."
"What about this kind of net?" Yan Mo took out a hemp cloth bag.
"Hiss! You can spit out this kind of net? Well, maybe you are not so useless." Xiaosha rolled some sand with her tongue and put it on the sack, and it turned out...
"Hiss! You are still useless! The net you spray is useless at all, it can't even catch the sand!"
Yan Mo didn't expect that Xiaosha would try it on the spot, so he had to make a sad expression of waste—it's already amazing that he can transform himself into scales wearing sand armor in a short period of time, but he wants to completely assimilate the physiological composition of wearing sand armor It will take a long time to be able to weave silk and weave webs, at least the life energy and wish power he has now are not enough for him to do this.
"Can you give me a sticky net? I'll repay you, brother!" Yan Mo begged.
Xiaosha hesitated, their nets are very important to them, and spraying them consumes a lot of energy. It is said that every time the sand armor-wearing ancestors sprayed their nets, their lifespan would be shortened. The complete sticky net is still very, very important to them.
"Can't you?" Yan Mo's hand touched Xiaosha's back again, and his voice was very soft.
Xiaosha was a little shy, it stared at Yan Mo for a long time, "Hiss, if you touch me from now on..."
Yan Mo withdrew his hand, it's better not to promise what he can't promise, "Can I exchange this with you?"
Xiaosha stared at the green light spot on his fingertips, and shouted: "Hiss! Want it! Give it to me!" It was very greedy for this kind of energy before, and finally this brother took it out again.
Yan Mo exchanged his life energy for a sticky net, and after getting in touch with the sand armor wearers a lot, he realized that an adult sand armor wearer gave the other sand armor wear a sticky net, which meant that he wanted to mate. And if the other party accepts it, it means consent. Similarly, if an adult wears sand armor and asks the other for sticky nets, it also means asking for mating.
Fortunately, Xiaosha thinks that Yan Mo is ugly and doesn't want to mate with him, otherwise... Ha ha!
With this sticky net provided by Xiaosha in friendship, Yan Mo became an honorable member of the sandarm-wearing labor group.
Sand armor seems to be the real killer of this kind of pollution. Their scales are the best protective armor, and their sticky nets can also net up those polluted sand without worrying about being destroyed.
Yan Mo was assigned a very simple task, which was to assist other sand armor wearers to get out the old sand from the pipeline cave where the old, weak, sick and disabled lived, and then bring in new sand.
The new sand can be taken from that seemingly waste water pool, which is now a sand pool. It should be noted that this kind of easy work is generally only given to minors to do this kind of work, and adults who wear sandals to do this kind of thing are generally recognized as weak and useless. Because they don't need to go to the outside to get sand, it is the job of adults to wear sand armor to bring in new sand from the outside.
Chen sand can be poured into a circular pipe next to the sand pool, and it will flow out along the pipe and return to the desert.
Xiaosha probably thinks that it has found a place for Yan Mo, arranged for him a relatively easy job, and rescued Yan Mo from the enemy, and it has almost repaid its kindness. The purpose left after wearing sand armor.
The leader was a very kind middle-aged middle-aged man wearing sand armor. He didn't discriminate against Yan Mo's deformity, and even scolded the cubs when they frolicked around Yan Mo.
The "hurt and inferior" deformed newcomer, Mo Mo, filled a bag of sand into the single room he was assigned.
Yan Mo is not allowed to work today, his first task is to pave his residence with new sand.
Yan Mo felt a headache looking at the sand. The sand looks white and greasy, but it is actually polluted sand. If he gets these sand into his residence, it means that he needs to constantly make himself Maintain a suit of sand armor scales to ensure that he will not be swallowed by these polluted sand grains to death.
But to maintain such a body of scales also requires the use of energy, even if he has plenty of energy, it is not a long-term solution.
So he threw the polluted sand brought in into the corner.
The leader was a little worried, and told his companions in a low voice that this new one was a bit weird, although it was big, it was very weak, and asked everyone to take care of it, and told the children not to stimulate it.
When Yan Mo heard it in the room, the corners of his mouth twitched. Unfortunately, the half-open door seemed unable to be opened and closed. He pulled it, but didn't pull it, so he had to let it half open.
He is not used to the darkness here, even though his eyes can see things naturally. He was not afraid of being noticed by the sand armor outside, so he took out four small lamp trees planted in pots from the space and placed them in the four corners of the room.
The room brightened up immediately, and Yan Mo felt much more comfortable psychologically.
There were little sand armors outside the door looking around, and they probably noticed the sudden light in this room, and these little sand armors were frightened.
Yan Mo heard a few cubs hissing to call the leader.
The leader came and circled around, wanted to come in, but hesitated. They are not afraid of light, but they do prefer to be nocturnal. The light from the lamp wood is very soft, but it is still too bright in a completely dark space, no wonder those little sandarm-wearing people panicked.
In the end, the boss left. They wear sand armors to unite and live collectively, but they will not interfere with some special behaviors of other sand armor wearers, unless their actions will hurt other sand armor wearers.
The boss stayed at the door for a while, using his own body to judge that the shiny plants were not harmful, and he was even more curious about where these plants came from.
The leader decided to report this matter to the higher-up leader.
Yan Mo just wanted to startle more high-level people wearing sand armor, and it would be best to attract them to come to see him on their own initiative. And during this period of time, he happened to be researching the energy-destroying pollutants.
In fact, it is not quite correct to say that these polluted sands have the effect of devouring energy. These pollutants are not devouring energy, but destroying and decomposing the stable composition of energy, so that the destroyed and decomposed energy can be transformed into another kind of energy. The substance is then absorbed to maintain its own ability, just like a living creature.
"Living creatures..." Yan Mo raised his head, he was thinking about the composition of the pollutants analyzed by the virtual machines in the sea of souls.
Is it possible that those pollutants are living things? Or some kind of special alien bacteria
In fact, this is not incomprehensible. For example, after a spider captures its prey, it will first inject certain digestive enzymes into it, causing the body of the prey to liquefy, and then the spider will suck the liquid.
If it is assumed that this polluting substance is also a living thing, then its energy to destroy and decompose the substance is not like injecting special digestive enzymes into the energy contained in the substance, allowing the energy to "gasify" and then convert it into something it can absorb kind of substance
By the way, Xingyu once told him that when he was shot by an energy weapon, a small hole was immediately "corroded" in his wing, and the hole was still expanding. Wing bones, he might be swallowed whole.
Yuan Zhan was also injured by the energy weapon at that time, and also dug out a piece of flesh.
Then can it be judged that as long as there is energy, this kind of "living creature"—let's call it X bacteria, will continue to multiply by decomposing and absorbing energy, but once there is no active and abundant energy around them, they Will die soon
If his conjecture is correct, is the desertification of this formerly fertile land also caused by feeding these pollutants
Maybe the original bone refiners didn't know how to refine and use this kind of X bacteria. They just discovered that this kind of thing can destroy energy and turn the fertile soil into a desert in a short period of time.
Therefore, when the bone refiners were forced to leave the Eastern Continent, in order to protect their holy land, they deliberately produced this kind of energy to pollute the land around the dungeon, which not only desertified the surrounding land, forming a suitable environment for wearing sand armor, but also effectively Prevents the possibility of mobs entering dungeons from underground. Even in order to keep this substance in existence for a long time, they probably still stored a large amount of crystals under the soil.
It's just that when the bone refiners released this pollutant, they probably didn't expect that the desert would gradually expand. I just don't know Miao Xiang and the others, do they know the characteristics and power of this pollutant
"Hiss, why don't you use sand? Are you also afraid of these sands?" A very immature hiss sounded.
Yan Mo opened his eyes, there was a clear difference between the cry of an adult wearing sand armor and that of a young cub, the former was either low or high pitched, while the latter was a bit shrill.
A little sand armor, about half the size of Xiaosha, poked half of his body through the open door.
Yan Mo waved to it, smiled, "Come here." Children are always adventurous.
The little guy wasn't afraid of him, so he crawled over and sniffed him, "Hiss, you're so weird, I've never seen you wearing sand armor like this."
"Really?" Yan Mo reached out and picked up the little guy.
The little guy struggled for a while, but soon became quiet. It felt very comfortable in the arms of this strange partner. It used to only crawl over the backs of adults wearing sand armor when it was very young, but it was the first time it was hugged like this, and the little guy was very strange.
Yan Mo followed the little guy's body and touched it thoroughly, "You just said that I am also afraid of these sands. Are there other sand armors that are also afraid of sands?"
"Hiss, yes. They are relatively weak. If they touch the sand for too long, they will die, and some will get sick." The little guy bit the clothes on his body, seeming strange about the material of this thing.
"Is it true that some sand armor wearers can't spray sticky nets when they are sick?"
"Hiss, are you the same? You are so pitiful. If you can't spray out a complete and useful sticky net, you won't be able to find a spouse!" The little guy was very worried about the strange little partner.
No wonder Xiaosha only called him trash, but it was not surprising that he was afraid of sand, and even his inability to make a qualified sticky net was just ridiculed, not vigilant.
"Hiss, what are these in your hole, and why are they glowing?"
"Have you ever seen some plants that glow? Like those, except they're bigger and brighter."
"Hiss! I've seen it, a glowing mushroom!" The little guy seemed to accept this explanation.
The little guy's thinking was jumping, and he asked quickly: "We have many strange-looking partners. Some of them can survive, and some will die soon. Will you die soon?"
"Oh?"
One was interested in inquiring, and the other was full of curiosity. The two asked and answered, and they talked happily.
Yan Mo also named the little guy, because there is a small scar at the corner of his eye, he called it Xiaohen.
Wearing sand armor has not yet developed the concept of a name. They distinguish their companions by smell, and sometimes add some prefixes to some special ones, such as "the poor worm who was born without scales", "defeated ten sand armor siege the one that didn't find a mate", "the one that couldn't find a mate", etc.
Time passed quickly, Xiaohen crawled out of Yan Mo's arms and reminded him: "Hiss, come with me, it's time for dinner."
From Xiaohen, Yan Mo learned that the sand-piercing people living here don't need to hunt by themselves, the clan will provide them with food, but very little, especially in winter, and now it is winter.
The place to eat is in the open space beside the sand pool outside, and the sand armorers who live here line up to get food in an orderly manner.
The one who distributed the food was the leader just now. The leader looked at Yan Mo and didn't say much. It reported the matter just now, but it didn't seem to attract the attention of the above. What they are more worried about now is the food supplement in winter.
But the owner is back, maybe they don't have to worry about food sources this winter
Yan Mo queued up with Xiaohen. The order of receiving food here ranges from young to old, from healthy to sick, and the food portions are about the same.
Yan Mo found that there were a lot of sick people wearing sand armor, and some of them obviously lost their scales very badly. Xiao Hen also told him that some of them were even more seriously ill, and they couldn't come out to get food by themselves, so they could only let them deliver it.
Then, Yan Mo also saw the deformed sand armor in Xiao Hen's mouth—several sand armor wearers who already had human appearances!
Not only did their facial features look more like humans, but their heads were also deformed, with another piece bulging out behind the sharp brain. In addition, their upper limbs are more flexible and developed, and there are no webs between the fingers. The scales on their bodies became smaller, thinner and denser, and the color became very light. Their hind paws grow larger, while their tails are thinner, longer, softer and more flexible than other pangolins, like another lower limb.
But these sand armors are weak without exception, and they are all juveniles, not an adult.
"Hiss, did you see it? Are they similar to you? But those who grow up like them don't live long. You must be the longest-lived one among them."
Yan Mo stared at those mutated sand armor men without blinking, only he himself knew how excited he was!
He actually saw an important node in the process of biological evolution with his own eyes!
While the food collection team was slowly moving forward, one of the sand armor men suddenly went limp and fell to the ground.
The companions around it panicked and hissed frequently.
Xiaohen: "Hiss, did you see, another one died, and one died just two days ago! There will be less food in the future, maybe they won't survive this winter."
Yan Mo gave up queuing, ran over in three steps and two steps, and said loudly, "Can I have a look?"
The author has something to say:
The writing of this chapter is quite tangled. I wanted to finish it quickly, but I was reluctant to give up the storylines that I had planned at the beginning. Although I will not write about the war with aliens, these foreshadowings are very important, which is equivalent to an explanation. : We are well prepared. No one knows what the future will hold, but we have the determination to protect our homeland and the confidence to win.
After tangling and tangling, I decided to follow the original plan and write out all the storylines I wanted to write, haha~~