Chapter 1223 Following the Power

"This seems to be that place. Following the guidance of power, we came here."

"This seems to be a... special place."

The stars are twinkling in the sky.

But that's not the real starry sky, just the image reflected on the roof.

Under this starry sky, the scholar and the scorpion stopped because a small town appeared in front of them.

To be precise, it is the ruins of the town. It is also a very... pom-pom place. Green plants climb on the cracked buildings. You can see this place from the collapsed doors and broken windows. There are no living things inhabiting it.

Scholars had never seen this kind of scene before, because all the small towns they encountered were inhabited by a group of tranquil creatures. This was the first time they had seen such ruins.

"That's right...the power that makes fools become calm-loving comes from here!" Scorpion pointed at a relatively large building in the ruins and said: "Go and check it out, we are going to reveal the secrets of this world. !”

"But..." The scholar still hesitated: "If there are devices that... cause tranquility, then there must be someone from the Beginning Realm guarding this place..."

"Don't worry so much, we must move forward!" Scorpion jumped off the scholar's head and ran towards the ruined town. The scholar immediately followed after seeing this and said: "Wait a minute!"

"I can't wait any longer, a great mission is calling me!" Scorpion ran to the largest building it pointed to just now. This building looked like a warehouse, with two heavy metal doors slightly opened, revealing There was a gap, and when I looked inside, it was filled with darkness.

"Pathetic mirror, I will expose your secrets!" Scorpion yelled as he squeezed in through the crack in the door.

"This is……"

When the scholar followed the scorpion close to the building, it suddenly felt a very strong feeling. This feeling... gave it a very strange emotion. It felt that it did not want to enter the building at all, but instead wanted to Lying on the ground like this, he fell into a peaceful dreamland.

However, the scholar's reason told it that it must resist this feeling and must not compromise, so its hands were trembling, and two thoughts were constantly fighting in its mind. One of them told it not to care about anything and go calmly. Just live, and the other will let it continue to explore like this, to catch up with the secret of the scorpion's unraveling realm...

"Start...completely closed system..."

As the emotions in my mind tumble,

The scholar said such a sentence... Suddenly, it felt that the 'power' around it that made it peaceful was much smaller.

"Huh..." The scholar breathed a sigh of relief, even though it didn't need to breathe now.

This completely closed system allows scholars to close off all contact with the outside world except vision and hearing. Functions such as smell, touch, and signal reception are all turned off.

This prevents the scholar from receiving any signals from the outside, and it cannot use multiple detection functions. It can only see and listen to sounds through its eyes.

It seems that the force of tranquility becomes much weaker in this situation, allowing the scholar to move on.

"Speaking of which, the scorpion seems to be fine. Why isn't it affected?"

While wondering, the scholar opened the door of the building in front of him and walked into the building...

As soon as it went in and turned on the light, it found the scorpion lying motionless on the ground in front of it. The scholar was immediately shocked and said: "This is..."

It soon saw that the scorpion's body was still moving, and then it breathed a sigh of relief and said: "So he's not dead, but why is he lying here? Could it be that... he's asleep?"

Then the scholar walked up to the scorpion, and it could be seen that the scorpion's eyes were still open, but this compound eye structure did not have a closing function.

The scholar first poked the scorpion, then shook it. The scorpion's body curled up. After confirming that the scorpion was indeed asleep, the scholar tapped its back hard.

"What? We were attacked by a sneak attack!" The scorpion suddenly jumped up. It first looked at the surroundings, then at the scholar, and said quickly as if it suddenly remembered something: "I didn't fall asleep, I was just testing the soil. ingredients!”

"There is no dirt on the ground here," the scholar said.

"..." Scorpion looked at the ground and found that it was made of stone, so he said, "I'm just testing the composition of the stone. Okay, let's move on."

After saying that, Scorpion continued to walk deeper into the building, and the scholar followed him and said, "Why did you fall asleep? Is there any problem now?"

"I said I didn't fall asleep!" Scorpion said: "But the power here was too powerful. I had a fierce confrontation with it. I took a rest because the confrontation was too tiring, but now I have activated my protective ability. , so no problem!”

"Protective capabilities...does your protective clothing also have the function of blocking information?" the scholar asked.

"You could say the same thing."

Scorpion and the scholar talked and came to the end of the building. They saw a wall and a big hole under the wall, which seemed to lead to a very deep place.

"The secret lies here!" said Scorpion: "The skeleton of this little dinosaur can prove it!"

There was a skeleton lying next to the entrance of the cave...the skeleton of an emerald dragon. The scholar squatted down, picked up a piece of bone, put it into a small slot on his gauntlet, and examined it a little: "This bone is still relatively new, it may be several It died between day and night...and there are a lot of fungi on it."

"It definitely wants to get in here." Scorpion said, "But it lies here forever. We will witness what it wants to see!"

With that said, the scorpion ran into the cave, and the scholar followed after looking at the skeleton for a while...

Scholars find it a bit strange, how did this emerald dragon get here? Are you new here and not so peaceful, so you wandered around and ended up here? Or……

Walking into the cave and moving all the way into the dark depths, the first ten meters of the cave were still rock structures, but when they reached the 20-meter mark, the scholar found that the surrounding cave walls were suddenly replaced by crystals that reflected light, and he saw it again ……skeleton.

This time the skeleton was not as complete as the previous one, with only some small bone fragments left. After examination by scholars, it was found that it belonged to another multicellular organism, which was also one of the residents here.

However, the creature died after reaching this location...and its body was almost devoured.

There is a kind of fungus here. Usually there are many scavenging fungi on corpses, but there is only one kind on the remains found here, and the decomposition ability of this fungus is quite powerful. Scholars believe that it can eat up a corpse. Most previously known fungi, including bones, cannot do this.

"Don't worry about these things." The scorpion was not very interested in the fungi discovered by the scholar. It kept walking deeper into the cave.

Soon they discovered that the place was becoming more and more spacious, and there were more and more bones on the ground. Most of the bones were... incomplete, as if they had been half eaten by fungi.

There are so many of them that they can be described as 'covering the ground', and the scholar will crush some of them with every step he takes.

However, there is something...alive among these bones.

"this……"

The scholar's steps stopped and he looked at an... emerald dragon lying on the ground. This emerald dragon had a smile on its face and its eyes were closed. It seemed to be sleeping very comfortably, but its body was thin and it looked like it was sleeping very comfortably. It looked like he hadn't eaten for a long time.

And it wasn't the only one. The scholar looked around and soon discovered that there were some creatures lying in the pile of bones. They were all sleeping like this.

"Why are there so many creatures here..." the scholar said, "Could they be..."

"It's really weird here." Scorpion crawled to the emerald dragon lying on the ground and pinched it, and it immediately woke up with a loud scream.

"Gaaaah!" The moment it opened its eyes, it saw the scholar and the scorpion, so it screamed louder and continued to retreat.

"It doesn't look peaceful at all." Scorpion shouted to the Emerald Dragon: "Hey! Who are you? Why are you lying here sleeping?"

The emerald dragon was startled. It looked at the scorpion and said, "You... can talk?"

"Initially I didn't want to learn your stupid language." Scorpion said: "Hurry up and tell us why you are lying here, or I will let you continue to lie here!"

"I..." The Emerald Dragon was stunned for a few seconds, and then shouted: "This is a crazy place! Everything here is a trap, I..."

Although it was incoherent, it still said a lot of useful words. After it finished speaking, the scholar said: "...In other words, you were originally a resident of a small town, and suddenly one day you felt that it was strange here, and then you I started running around... and finally found the ruins, discovered the cave in the building, and finally came here, and then I have been sleeping here."

"Yes...yes!" The Emerald Dragon said: "I...I discovered it! There is a weird power here. This power will occasionally...'explode'. The moment it explodes, I will fall asleep, and It will take a long time to wake up!"

"But I didn't run away after I woke up... I want to go to the deepest point and unlock the secrets here!" The Emerald Dragon said: "But when I got here, it exploded again and made me fall asleep. If you hadn't woken me up, I might have slept until I died...Thank you so much, but I will continue..."

With that said, the Emerald Dragon stood up, shook his thin body, and continued walking deeper.

"...Let's go too." The scholar and Scorpion looked at each other, and then walked deep into the cave with the emerald dragon. (To be continued.)