The three of them walked through this dreamlike alien landscape.
The ground under my feet is uneven, perfectly recreating the rock-like structure of the ground.
At the same time, various unknown alien plants are growing everywhere.
Some are very tall, reaching dozens of meters high, while some vegetation is very low, about the same height as grass.
But they all have one thing in common, that is, they are constantly swinging.
These plants all have the ability to move independently.
This did not surprise Xu Xin and the other two, because they had long been accustomed to this.
It would be strange if these alien plants didn't move.
Of course, when the plants in front of them were swaying collectively inside the windless giant ship, the three of them were still very cautious.
Thinking back to the beginning, in the early stages of survival, they had experienced countless times the aggressiveness of the moving vines in those dangerous areas.
Therefore, the danger level of these plants growing in the scarlet world is probably not low.
"Be careful." Xu Xin whispered, "It looks safe here, but who knows what dangers are lurking here."
"But why is it so quiet here?" Li Wenxi whispered.
Inside the entire giant ship, the plants and ground scenery within a two-kilometer area are actually real, while the scenery in the distance and in the sky is made up of projections and screens.
For Xu Xin and the other two, the visual effect of the interior of this giant ship was very shocking, but... it gave people a desolate feeling.
Because there are plants everywhere, but...
But there were no alien invaders.
Coupled with this "endless" scenery, it really gives people a feeling of vastness and desolation.
"Also, where is that monster?" Xu Ying whispered, "Why haven't we seen it since we came in?"
After they came in, they never encountered any other living alien invaders except the initial ones.
Now even the alien invaders have disappeared without a trace.
"Why are those alien invaders who came in with us just now gone?" Li Wenxi looked around in confusion, "Or are they all in those small houses now?"
In this "wilderness", there are also some small metal rooms scattered around.
The scarlet ground, the swaying vegetation, the bright red sky, and the small metal rooms hidden among the plants that reflect red light make up this desolate scenery.
The nearest small room was less than two hundred meters away from them, and was on the way to the black house at the "foot of the mountain" where they were going.
The black room seemed to be at the front of this area.
By calculation, it should be the head of this giant ship.
That's why Xu Ying felt that it was the control room of the giant ship.
"Let's go and take a look."
The three of them quickened their pace and soon arrived at the side of the house.
The door was actually open.
Inside the house…
It's a mess.
The house was covered with scratches and bullet holes, some of which penetrated nearly ten centimeters into the wall.
At the same time, there was a fishy smell coming from the house.
But there were no bodies of alien invaders.
There was nothing inside except some special "furniture".
"A battle took place here." Xu Xin looked around the room and said, "And..."
He looked at the marks on the wall, which looked brand new.
"It should have happened not long ago." Xu Ying took over the conversation.
"Ah..." Li Wenxi suddenly realized, "Could it be that the monster did it?"
It is possible.
Monsters have been here, so it is possible that this kind of thing was done by monsters.
"Let's go, there's nothing to see here."
The three of them left the room and continued walking towards the black house in the distance.
The hatch of the giant ship is located in the middle of the side of the giant ship, so Xu Xin and the other two are actually in the middle of the entire giant ship.
Therefore, they were only a thousand meters away from the black room at the head of the giant ship.
They walked very carefully for the last few hundred meters.
This is because the closer you get to the black house, the denser and taller the surrounding vegetation becomes.
It was as if we had gone from the original grassland to the bushes and then to the forest.
The forest is not scary, what is scary is the moving forest.
For example, right in front of their eyes now.
The vine-like plant stretched its body into the air, and its vine, as thick as the trunk of an old tree, kept swinging in circles.
On the side, a tall plant that was twisted like a pretzel had several twisted and dry branches, which would occasionally stab at the swaying and dodging vines.
On the ground, the low "shrubs" and "lawns" swayed with the twisting movements of the tall vegetation, as if cheering it on.
"How interesting..."
Li Wenxi exclaimed quietly, "It's like these two people are dueling, and there are a bunch of spectators around them watching and cheering!"
“Don’t really think of them as plants.”
Xu Xin reminded in a low voice.
"These alien organisms just grow on the ground and look somewhat similar to the vegetation on our Earth, but in fact they should not be called plants."
"Well, according to the definition, it should be an animal." Xu Ying whispered, "And, maybe it can be considered an alien beast."
"Alien beast..."
Li Wenxi swallowed and said, "I suddenly feel that the danger level of these guys has risen by more than one level."
Xu Xin and the other two bypassed the "duel" between the alien plants and continued moving forward.
“Just go around it.”
Xu Xin looked back and said, "Although these things can be moved, they have a fatal flaw, which is that they are like a prison."
"They all grow on the ground, so as long as we stay away from them, they can't hurt us."
This is the biggest difference between them and truly free-ranging animals.
but…
"The ground here is just a screen, right?"
Xu Ying stepped lightly on the ground twice: "Are these plants still growing on the screen?"
"Ah, I know that." Li Wenxi pointed to the ground. "Under the screen, there seems to be a... um... large petri dish? Those plants are actually growing underneath. The reason they can get out is just because there is a hole in the screen."
Upon hearing this, Xu Xin and Xu Ying looked at the roots of these "plants".
Sure enough, at their roots, there is actually a hole that is slightly larger than their body, allowing them to move easily.
In some holes, there were even dozens of different plants growing out of them.
These plants are crowded together and even fighting with each other, but they can't do anything to each other.
Some of the plants seemed to be tired of fighting, and even...
It shrank directly back into the hole.
Good job!
Can they actually shrink back
It's just like an animal's nest.
Of course, those tall "plants" are unlikely to retract because the holes at their roots are much smaller than those above ground.
Xu Xin looked behind him.
Behind him, the two huge plants that were "dueling" had stopped fighting each other.
The thick vine actually shrank back downwards, and after a few seconds, all the branches that were exposed outside and were dozens of meters long were retracted into the ground, leaving no branches outside.
The tree trunk, which was as twisted as a dough twist and extremely dry, bent down easily like plasticine, and the whole tree lay on the ground!
It looks extremely dry on the outside, and gives people the feeling that it will break if bent, but it can actually bend and lie down directly!
However, Xu Xin just took a glance and stopped paying attention.
Li Wenxi and Xu Ying also saw it, but they didn't care either.
Because, such scenes happen all the time in this giant ship, and those who have experienced it all the way here are no longer surprised.
Of course, you still need to be careful.
The three of them almost walked around the giant plants.
Because around those giant plants, there are always some small plants that are densely packed and almost completely cover the ground.
If they don't take a detour, they will have to step on these small vegetation.
Xu Xin tried to throw a stone in, but the fist-sized stone was instantly swallowed up by the soft-looking vegetation on the ground under the gaze of the three people.
It makes a "crunching" sound.
Even spurted out a mouthful of lime after a few seconds.
"Tsk, is it so dangerous?"
"Why would these alien invaders plant such dangerous things inside the giant ship..."
"Maybe these alien plants won't hurt them."
In short, the three of them chose to take a detour.
At the same time, they passed by nearly ten metal houses.
The doors of those houses were open, and the interiors were completely destroyed and in a mess.
It was obvious that a fight had taken place in each of the rooms not long ago.
"There's no way to take a detour ahead." Xu Ying said softly.
"The vegetation ahead... is so dense." Li Wenxi looked ahead and whispered.
The closer you get to the black building, the denser the vegetation becomes.
Of course, these large vegetation are not naturally adjacent to each other, and most of them are surrounded by low vegetation.
They were now only about a hundred meters away from the black building.
This area is almost entirely covered with these low vegetation.
This allowed Xu Xin and the other two to see the black building, but they had no way of passing it without stepping on the moving and swaying vegetation.
“… Yingying, you should be able to see the surroundings of the building clearly now, right? Teleport.” Xu Xin turned and looked at Xu Ying.
"Hmm... Let me take a look." Xu Ying looked ahead, "If we teleport... we can only teleport to the door of that black building, and in front of that door... there are also these plants growing on the ground."
The black building is almost completely surrounded by vegetation, and even the windows are covered with various vines.
And the vegetation was even crawling around like bugs.
The entire black building looks like a living ghost house.
"Hey... what should I do now?" Li Wenxi leaned forward and looked. "Is the front door completely overgrown? This alien invader is too sloppy. Doesn't he know how to clean it up?"
"Maybe this is their way of preventing unnecessary people from approaching?" Xu Ying said.
"There is also a possibility that..."
Xu Xin looked at the desolate and disordered "world" behind him: "This area was not originally so chaotic. It's just that this giant ship has been drifting in the turbulence of time and space for a long time, which caused them to grow into their current appearance."
"Ah, it's really possible." Li Wenxi said with his eyes wide open, "But if that's the case, now that they're back, shouldn't they clean it up?"
"I don't have time."
Xu Ying was tilting her head to observe the possible places ahead that were not surrounded.
"As soon as they came back, they left all their soldiers in that town and fled away from the teleportation formation."
"Their leader left and returned to the World Tree. There are still those destroyed factories outside, and a monster has entered the inside and is causing trouble everywhere."
"Under the current circumstances, it's hard to say whether there are still living alien invaders here."
Both Xu Xin and Li Wenxi nodded in agreement.
"How is it, can you find the entrance?"
“… follow me.”
Xu Ying grabbed the two men’s arms, and then the three of them disappeared on the spot.
"Stand firm!"
Xu Ying's words brought the two back to their senses.
When I opened my eyes, I was shocked!
Now, they are on the roof of this black building!
Although this black building has only four floors, each floor is very high, and the fourth floor is nearly thirty meters high.
The highest point of the large plants surrounding the building is about this height.
The view is even pretty good, and you can see the entire interior of the giant ship.
Looking down, thirty meters is still very high. The vines on the wall climb to about twenty meters and then stop climbing up.
Therefore, there is almost no vegetation on the entire top floor, with only some tiny plants growing in the cracks, swaying slightly and moving without wind.
Suddenly, Li Wenxi's somewhat surprised voice came from behind him.
“This mountain… is real!”
He looked back and saw Li Wenxi touching the mountain.
Xu Ying was also beside her.
Because this black building is at the front of the entire giant ship, it is at the "foot of the mountain".
In fact, those distant mountains are just the images projected on the front screen of the giant ship.
But Li Wenxi said it was true.
"Is it true?"
Xu Xin walked up to the two women.
At this time, the mountain was emitting a scarlet glow and was very rugged and uneven. At first glance, it was no different from the ground screen that imitated scarlet crystal.
"It's real, this is really scarlet crystal." Xu Ying touched the "mountain" twice, then said softly.
"… ha?"
Is this mountain really scarlet crystal?!
wrong…
Xu Xin stepped back and gradually saw the entire mountain clearly.
He observed carefully for a long time and finally found the dividing line between true and false.
Only the part close to the building and only the foot of the mountain are real.
It is equivalent to pasting a forty or fifty-meter-high mountain foot on this huge screen.
“This is… so real.”
After observing for a while, the two women understood the principle.
"How can I put it... This guy actually put a piece of scarlet crystal in the hill just to make the hill more realistic?"
Xu Ying was really speechless.
This leader... is he too extravagant
This scarlet crystal is so huge, it’s forty or fifty meters high, and its average thickness is nearly ten meters!
Of course, not concentrated, but scarlet crystal in normal form.
But even so, it’s a lot!
The amount of scarlet crystals consumed was basically the same as that of the passage and room they had seen before.
"Um, so, are we going to blow this place up as well?"
Li Wenxi asked.
"Of course, this is also scarlet crystal, so it must be blown up too!" Xu Ying nodded.
Don't leave any space for alien invaders!
Everything they see will be completely destroyed!
"Let's put this aside for now and find a way to get in first." Xu Xin said.
"It seems there is no way in..." Li Wenxi looked around.
The entire top floor is perfectly flat.
Nothing at all.
"Find a place to jump down?" Xu Ying walked to the edge of the building and looked down. "Hmm... There's no structure like an open-air balcony, so I can't jump in."
The entire dark building had no entrance except for doors and windows.
But there was that kind of vegetation in front of the door, and I had no idea how to open the window or get in.
"Hmm..." Li Wenxi was using his ability to sense the building, and then he said in a disappointed tone, "This building is not made of metal. I can't sense anything."
The material of the completely black building is very special, somewhat similar to rubber. It is not completely hard, but has considerable toughness and elasticity.
But it's obviously not rubber because it's smooth and has no marks.
Xu Ying even took out a dagger and scratched it tentatively, but it didn't leave any marks.
"Otherwise, just leave a few nuclear bombs here and we can teleport out to detonate them." Xu Ying said a little disappointed.
"No, don't give up."
Here is the control room of the giant ship.
The control room of the giant ship, in addition to controlling the launch of the giant ship, can also control the giant ship's guns, ship-borne missiles, etc.
Of course, the alien invaders' giant ships may not be loaded with these weapons.
Only strong, not weak.
Isn’t this exactly what Xu Ying is looking for, the weapon that can completely destroy the scarlet crystal
Xu Xin rubbed Coco, who was already beginning to feel drowsy in his arms, to wake her up.
Coco is the best at leading the way, so it’s the right thing to do.
"Coco, lead us into this building."
"Hmm...?"
The little guy took a few seconds to figure out the current situation, and then jumped out of Xu Xin's arms.
It lay down against the scarlet crystal wall and yawned slightly.
The three of them looked at each other, and then followed Coco.
The little guy approached the scarlet crystal mountain, tilted his head, and then walked about ten meters to the left along the mountain.
Then the little paw slapped on the mountain.
Then, a scene that surprised the three of them happened.
An area of scarlet crystal mountain immediately cracked into the shape of a door frame, and then slowly expanded outward!
On the mountain of scarlet crystal, there is a scarlet crystal gate that is at least thirty centimeters thick.
When it is closed, it looks like a complete part of the mountain, without even the slightest trace.
Behind the door, there was a...
An elevator made of scarlet crystal!
"Bing!"
Coco grabbed Xu Xin's legs and climbed into his arms. She opened her little mouth, yawned, and then continued to sleep.
"Don't sleep, tell me first, is there any danger inside?"
Although the answer was obvious from Coco's appearance, Xu Xin still asked.
"Hmm..."
Coco shook her little head slightly.
Then he quickly began to snore.
Fall asleep quickly.
The little guy is indeed tired.
Fortunately, it seemed to have retracted its magical powers this time, and at least it did not affect the mental state of Xu Xin and the others.
"It looks like there's no danger anymore." Li Wenxi reached out and pinched Coco's ear.
"What on earth is this little guy..." Xu Ying muttered in a low voice, "How come he knows everything?"
"… let's go."
Xu Xin took the two girls and walked into the elevator.
The mountain gate slowly closed and turned into the flawless scarlet crystal mountain wall again.