After a while, the battle was over. In order not to cause too many casualties to the werewolves, Qianye also raised his sword and joined the battle, using the most clumsy method to kill the beasts one by one.
After the werewolves finished cleaning the battlefield, Qianye entered the forest again, ignited the fire of the original force at dawn, and once again attracted a wave of strange beasts.
The number of strange beasts in this wave is much smaller, only three or four thousand, and their strength is not very good. This time, Qianye didn't need to do anything at all, and Iska took the werewolf to harvest it.
Qianye went into the forest twice more, seeing that he couldn't attract anything, so he gave up.
This does not mean that the entire area has been cleaned up. There are obviously strange beasts lurking in the forest, but they also know the fear, and they hide and refuse to come out. Knowing that fear is a good thing, a beast that knows fear will not rashly challenge Qianye's army that is armed to the teeth.
Since the alien beasts couldn't come out, Qianye didn't want to try a new method of activating them in order to kill them all. In the new world, the most important thing is to master the rules, not to kill without any benefit. He began to wander in the woods, exploring the forest's secrets. The area where the three sacred trees are located is naturally the first place to go.
A few days later, most of the many alien beast eggs that had been piled up under the sacred tree had disappeared, leaving only a few particularly thin ones still soaked in the pool water. The sap pools under the trees were much lower, and the rocky islands in the pools were correspondingly larger. There is only one base left of the stone chair on the island, and several stalagmites are scattered here and there.
Qianye opened his real vision and saw that the missing scouts were still buried in the trunk of the holy tree.
This time, nothing could stop him. Qianye jumped under a sacred tree, and Dongyue chopped open the trunk of the sacred tree with a wave. The sacred tree trembled and let out a baby-like cry. It squirmed under the cracked fracture, and then "vomited" a human body, and then the sap became viscous, sealing the gap like glue.
It was a human warrior, naked all over, with pale skin, and there were many small holes on his body, all of which were marks left by the branches of the sacred tree. After landing, he seemed dazed, struggling to get up, and wanted to go back to the holy tree, but his limbs were weak, and he could only struggle and wriggle on the spot.
Qianye squatted down, raised his face, and watched carefully. The soldier's eyes were empty, his eyeballs were cloudy, and he lost focus long ago, so his eyes should have lost their function. There was a weird smile on his face, which remained unchanged, and there was no struggle or anxiety shown in his body.
Qianye's heart sank slightly, and he already had the answer.
The body of this warrior is still alive, but his will has died, he is just a walking dead. Then the other warriors in the trunk of the sacred tree must be the same.
Qianye got up, was silent for a while because of the bad news, and then tapped Dongyue on the trunk of the sacred tree. The holy tree trembled again, and the bark opened a gap by itself, spitting out the bodies of the human race and werewolf warriors inside. Not only this one, but also the other two sacred trees are exactly the same, spitting out the warrior in the trunk.
It can be seen that these three sacred trees are all wise and quite advanced.
Qianye moved the corpses of all the soldiers to the open space outside the forest, and waved a flame of origin force. Under the flames of dawn, these warriors who had turned into corpses were all reduced to ashes, ending their fighting life.
After doing this, Qianye returned to the three sacred trees and asked, "Can you understand me?"
A branch of the sacred tree pointed to the small island in the middle of the lake.
Qianye jumped onto the island and observed carefully. The submerged part of the island is all the roots of the sacred tree. It appears that the island was formed from the secretions of the roots of the sacred tree. The lower part of it is stone, but the protruding stalagmites have a metallic luster. It seems that only the stalagmites have both rock and metal properties. This part is what six-armed creatures are accustomed to use as weapons.
It can be seen that the preciousness of stalagmites is beyond imagination, at least the way it is produced determines that the output will be extremely limited. Qianye then decided to retrieve all the throwing spears thrown by the six-armed creature that day.
In the center of the island was the remains of the stone chair. As soon as Qianye touched the foundation of the stone chair, Qianye had a strange feeling, as if he had touched three faint hearts. They are vague and fragile, and can only convey some basic emotions, such as fear, other than that, Qianye can't receive any more information.
These three hearts are obviously the will of the holy tree, but the stone chair used as a communication carrier has been smashed by Qianye's shot, and no further communication is possible. However, if Qianye hadn't smashed the stone chair that day, he would have faced a much stronger army of alien beasts later on, and most likely would not have forced the six-armed creature to use the host to fight. If it had been hiding in the forest, Qianye would have nothing to do with it.
In terms of material, the stone chair is just an ordinary rock, nothing special about it. As for how it becomes the carrier of communication and what the principle is, Qianye has no idea. When he shot the gravel chair that day, it was just an instinct accumulated over many years of fighting, and he just guessed that this thing might be important to six-armed creatures.
Every rock on the island in the center of the lake is the secretion of the roots of the sacred tree, which should have special value. Similarly, the sap lake formed by the three sacred trees is enough for Qianye to send another hundred thousand people to the new world. As for other minerals and materials, they cannot be explored and analyzed for the time being.
Qianye left the central area and continued to go deeper. Not long after, in the depths of the forest, he found that the ground was full of hollows, and the underground had become a honeycomb. There are large and small passageways, small enough for people to bend over, and large enough for heavy trucks to pass through. There are many branches in the passage, all of which are similar to beehive-like structures. The size of the hives in each area is different, but the same area is exactly the same.
It turns out that this is the lair of alien beasts!
Compared with the valley outside the gate, the beast lair here is three-dimensional and extremely huge, like an underground labyrinth. But even with such a scale, it is still extremely crowded to accommodate hundreds of thousands of strange beasts.
Qianye jumped into the largest passage, ready to go to the depths of the beast's nest to find out.
The passage slopes downward, with steep slopes in some places and relatively gentle slopes in others. Qianye walked along the passage for a while, and branch passages began to appear on both sides. Entering the branch passages, he saw a lair room on the top, bottom, left and right.
Qianye randomly chose a room to enter. The inside was several meters square, and the walls were all made of rock, but after careful identification, it was not the same as ordinary rock.
There are a few roots on the floor of the room, but there is nothing else. There is no bone droppings, nor scales and feathers that are common in dens. These strange beasts don't seem to need to eat and drink.
Qianye casually cut off a section of root. The root was hollow, and a cloud of clear water-like sap immediately spewed out from the cut. The sap turned viscous as soon as it saw the air, sealing the fracture.
Qianye then cut a piece of rock from the wall. There are obvious layers in the cut. The rock is only a few centimeters above the surface, and the inside gradually turns into soil. Qianye cut a few more pieces and found that the rock was also uneven in thickness. He collected a few samples, put them into Anduya's space, returned to the passage, and continued to explore the depths.
It is one thing to explore with your senses outside, but it is another feeling to really enter this labyrinthine underground kingdom.
The space of the lair is designed extremely reasonably, there is almost no waste at all, and the channel distribution is also to maximize efficiency, just like a master's handwriting.
Qianye looked back, and he could faintly see the sky light at the corner of the passage. He went through the path along the way in his mind, but he couldn't find the light-transmitting design. Qianye didn't pay much attention to the construction details of the beast's lair, he just wrote it down and continued to explore the depths.
He still remembers that when the six-armed creature hunted him down that day, an ancient will was awakening deep in the forest. Whatever it is, none of this large and ancient existence is to be trifled with.
Now that the strange beasts are coming out, the lair is empty, and it is the best time to explore. Even if he encounters that ancient existence, Qianye is sure to escape.
The deeper he went, the clearer the judgment in Qianye's heart became.
The design of this lair is so rigorous that it is not like an ordinary gathering place at all, but a specially optimized military camp. When going deeper, a special passage suddenly appeared in front of Qianye. The other passages are all stone, but this passage is made of wood, and the entangled roots make up the passage wall.
Without any hesitation, Qianye strode in. His dawn fire is the bane of all trees.
Inside the passage, there are rooms. The front rooms are mostly empty, but the back rooms are full of alien beast eggs. Every alien beast egg is inlaid on the wall, the ground and even the ceiling. Each egg is connected to a root, and it seems that nutrients are transported through the root.
This floor should be the hatching room. Qianye continued to go deeper, but the room on the floor below made him a little puzzled. Each room has a large space, and there are stone platforms neatly arranged inside. There are rows of pits on the stone platforms. It looks like a place where alien beast eggs are placed, but the size is obviously larger than the normal ones he has seen before. Alien beast eggs should be smaller.
Every room here is empty, there is nothing, and there is no use for it. But there is an entire floor of such rooms in the beast lair, so it cannot be said that they are useless.
Qianye temporarily put aside his doubts and entered the next floor. When he got here, he suddenly raised his vigilance, obviously feeling that a huge will was waking up.
With Qianye Dongyue in hand, he walked forward slowly. When he stepped on the flat ground again, his eyes suddenly opened up, and a huge underground space appeared.
This place is huge and magnificent, and it can be called a giant hall. Below is an underground lake filled with holy tree sap. In the center of the Earth Lake, there is a huge spherical object that sinks and floats.
It is off-white in color, with dark gray lines on the surface, which are undulating regularly. Standing in front of this huge sphere with a diameter of at least fifty meters, Qianye was like an ant.
When Qianye came to the edge of the lake, a consciousness touched Qianye's heart, sending out a message with an obvious feeling of inquiry.
However, Qianye was unable to interpret this message. It obviously did not belong to any language that Qianye already knew, nor did he have the ability to communicate directly with Qianye. Unlike six-armed creatures that can overcome language barriers and directly communicate with Qianye with consciousness.
Perhaps seeing that Qianye did not respond, the giant gray ball interrogated him again. Qianye still didn't answer, and didn't know how to answer. After a while, the giant gray ball interrogated for the third time.
In this way, it will send out an interrogation about every minute, and the content is exactly the same each time.
The vigilance in Qianye's heart gradually relaxed. Various signs showed that although this giant gray ball was huge and ancient, it had no intelligence, let alone the ability to actively attack, and some were just passive response mechanisms, like a machine that required manual operation.