Chapter 253 Ribs Deep Underground

"Is this the ancient ruins of the scorpion...?"

Somewhere deep in the ground, a creature called a scholar was looking at a building in front of it. Using the fluorescence emitted from its body, it could clearly see the style of the building.

This is a pyramid-shaped building, but only over three meters high, it feels very 'mini'.

After passing through a tunnel with crystalline trees in front, the scholar reached the depths of the ground, where there was a vast cave, and this was the first building the scholar saw. Obviously, this building belonged to a scorpion.

However, it has been abandoned for a long time, the surface of the building is covered with cracks, and the inside is empty and no living creatures live.

But……

"What's up with this graffiti?"

Scholars can see the words painted on the walls of the building with colored pigments, and it is actually the language of a skeleton dragon, the white skeleton dragon.

Because they have learned the language of these corpse dragons, scholars know what is written on it: "I put the treasure here, if you want, dig it, and keep digging deep."

Is there a white dragon here?

In the information seen by scholars, many white skeleton dragons live in the sea of ​​clouds, and some live on islands. Although they were born on this continent, there should be no white skeleton dragons here.

The traces of paint on it are still very new, and they should have been painted with plant sap, which means that the graffitier is not far away...

"..." The scholar glanced at the surrounding dark cave environment. Couldn't help but feel a little scared.

At the same time, it also felt a little hungry.

In fact, it was already starving when it escaped from the gnome in the flying machine. Because the dwarf doesn't give it anything other than excrement at all.

However, after being 'rescued' by the master, it found that it was no longer hungry. It may be that the master gave it supplements when it was in a coma.

And now these nutrients are running out, it needs to add new nutrients.

Where are the nutrients? The scholar immediately saw that there was a mushroom growing on the ground in front of it.

The place is humid,

So it's not surprising to have mushrooms. But general fungi are absolutely inedible, and they are almost impossible to be non-toxic.

but. The scholar looked at this mushroom, but felt that he wanted to eat it... In his mind, he thought that this thing was edible.

Why is this happening? Is it related to parasitic fungi? Have they spread to the brain, affecting their own thoughts?

No, even if it is parasitic under the skin. As long as they emit some special pheromones, they will also affect the mind...

What then? Do you want to eat it?

"..." After hesitating for a while, under the influence of hunger and the emotion of 'that's delicious', the scholar picked up the mushroom and stuffed it into his mouth.

"This is it!" A strong sense of 'deliciousness' spread into the scholar's mouth, and the scholar felt that this was the best food in his life!

However, this feeling soon disappeared when the scholar swallowed the mushroom, and there seemed to be no "aftertaste" feeling.

"I don't know if there will be a problem."

After the delicious food passed, scholars began to worry about whether they would eat poisonous things.

"Ah...that's..."

Just when scholars think so. It suddenly saw a little light appearing in the darkness ahead, and the light was getting bigger and bigger, and it looked like a flame. But it's blue...

"Is there really a problem..." The scholar touched his head and said, "Now I actually see an illusion..."

The flame floated slowly and flew to the front of the scholar.

"This illusion... it seems to be quite real..."

Looking at the flames in front of him, the scholar could not help but reach out and touch it.

"Ah!" A burning pain caused the scholar to quickly withdraw his hand, "This is not an illusion! By the way! This is..."

The scholar who thought of something immediately turned and ran, and at the same time, there were footsteps behind it.

The scholar took out the video installation. Lighting up the large dark area behind it, it also saw the creature with the sound of footsteps. It looked like... the rib of some kind of creature, but it was quite large, estimated to be five meters long, and it was chasing the scholar...

"...It's a rib centipede!"

Scholars know of this creature, which not only produces floating flames, but also looks like a bone because it likes to hide in the remains of living creatures.

What's amazing is that this strange looking creature actually has a 'close relative' relationship with the flying dragon. According to the data, it has more than 97% of the same 'nuclear information' as the flying dragon.

Although they are different in appearance, they can also create flames, and they are also six-legged creatures. Scholars thought it was quite strange when they read the information. If arthropods are not counted, there are many four-legged creatures in this world, but six-legged creatures are very less, and...

"Ah!" The scholar screamed suddenly, and a long 'rib' was stuck on its back. Although the stab was not deep, it was enough to prevent the scholar from continuing to escape.

This is the claws of the rib centipede. The pointed barbs made the scholar feel severe pain and at the same time it was difficult to run forward. The scholar was pulled back by a powerful force.

But the scholar didn't panic, he quickly picked up the video device, aimed at the rib centipede behind him, and pressed the 'flash mode'.

"Goo!"

This is a pattern of continuous flashing with strong light. Under the flashing of strong light, the rib centipede let out a scream, it released the scholar, and the scholar also hurried forward.

This dark cave-dwelling creature, with or without eyes, is quite sensitive to bright light.

The ribbed centipede is a creature with eyes, so it can't stand strong light even more. While thinking, the scholar jumped suddenly and jumped into a lake in front.

Scholars came to this place with scorpion buildings from this lake before. Scholars believed that the rib centipede was not good at swimming and could not run on the road, but it could definitely escape in the water.

"It seems... there is no need to escape?" The scholar showed his head, and it found that the rib centipede did not catch up, and it was relieved and climbed out of the water.

"Then we have to deal with the wound... Strange, why doesn't it seem to hurt?"

Usually jumping into the water will make the wound very painful, but the scholar can't feel any pain in the back. The touch is completely different.

The scholar quickly took out the video device, and took a photo of the back to take a look in front of...

"What the hell is this?" (To be continued)

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