Chapter 878 Tombstone Express

Luca came to his senses and found himself still sliding on the ground.

This kind of sliding was very strange, as if someone pushed it while walking on ice, but the silver ground under its feet was so smooth that it felt a little scared.

At this moment, it prostrated itself on the ground and could only barely raise its head and look into the distance.

The ground rose and fell a bit, and the rising waves pushed it all the way away from the entrance of the whirlpool.

It slid all the way from the passage, and it didn't stop even though it felt its chest and knees were getting hot.

Like lard sliding on an iron plate.

This is a slippery silver world.

Luca desperately grabbed the ground with both hands and finally stopped sliding.

It looked back and found that it was very far away from where it came from, so far that it could only see the long horizon and could not find the space tunnel perpendicular to the ground at all.

Fortunately, the direction can still be calibrated.

There were scratches on the ground, which were very shallow but still visible.

Luca struggled to stand up and walked back to where he came from.

As it walked, it felt its body heavier than ever before, as if it was carrying a block of iron all over its body.

As a Talos, it has a strong physique and strength, but it can't walk here for long before its bones start to become weak, its hands and feet become uncontrollable, and it has to stop to rest.

This is a smooth and heavy world.

The weight of the body alone is overwhelming.

When Luca was resting, he saw that the sky here was cloudless and completely white, like some kind of empty curtain.

The sun here does not rise in the east and set in the west like in the Yao clan's world.

They suddenly appeared in the sky, just like they were off and then suddenly turned on. So every time Luca looked up, he saw the sun in a different position.

It gives people a feeling that there are many suns in this world.

That may be true.

In order to confirm this, Luca began to observe carefully. He saw that sometimes there were two suns in the sky, sometimes ten, sometimes six, and sometimes dozens, like glowing eyes.

The weirdest thing is that every time it looks up, the sun appears in a different place. It's like if it just stares at the sun, the previous one will disappear.

This is a smooth, heavy, sun-filled world.

Luca embarked on the long journey home.

During this process, it clearly felt that its movements were becoming slower and slower. Here, its own characteristics and abilities were completely unusable, and it was only relying on the strength of its body to hold on.

The body became increasingly stiff, and silver spots began to appear on its surface. Those tiny silver dots looked like some kind of moldy metal—but could metal mold? It didn't know.

Luca could only pray in his heart.

"Lord Yaoshen, please protect me and let me reunite with everyone safely!"

Although the waves on the ground did not reappear, returning to the starting point seemed a long way off.

Luca didn't know how long he had been walking, and there seemed to be no change ahead. What was even more terrifying was that the traces on the ground began to dim, and the path back and the coordinates were gradually disappearing.

It was panicking and couldn't help but try to speed up its pace.

But the body won't obey.

It sat on the ground to recover a little - the heat in its body was getting worse and worse, as if it was roasting on fire. This was a hot world, and it could feel it now.

The sun above my head appeared and left, as if it was watching me, a stranger.

In a daze, Luca saw a hole in the ground not far away. The edge of the hole was very smooth, a perfect circle in the geometric sense.

Luca had never seen such a round hole in his life.

It immediately thought that there must be something in the hole, which must have been dug out by someone.

Now it is exhausted and in urgent need of a place to rest. Even a little water or oil to cool down the body would be great.

Luca crawled to the edge of the cave and knocked on the wall.

"Anyone there?"

Bang, bang, bang——

The sound travels deep into the ground.

The edge of the hole is lined with black paint or rammed earth, and the hole slopes downward, apparently to facilitate entry and exit. There are also stairs or handholds on the wall.

"Hello, hey, hey?" it shouted with difficulty.

No one answered.

Luka walked in carefully, and there was something like a metal rope below. Once it grabbed that thing, the rope brought it down, making Luka a little nervous.

The metal rope sank slowly and evenly into the ground.

The walls along the way were all covered with black powder paint, like some kind of fine coal ash. Strangely, after entering here, the burning sensation in the body suddenly dissipated by half.

It looks like there's something wrong with the sun outside.

While Luca was thinking, he had already arrived underground.

The underground space is very small, with only a black stone tablet. The stone tablet is half a person's height and the surface is painted the same black powder.

There were many star symbols carved on the stele, and many lines connecting the stars. This made Luca wonder if the number and trajectory of the stars in the sky were engraved on the stele? In front of the stele was a gray metal block, only the size of a palm.

Before Luca did anything, a strange shadow appeared on the monument, just like the Yao clan's wonder [Red Coral Mirage].

Luca watched carefully.

A strange face appeared on the black monument. Its head was square with two cylindrical horns on it. The neck of this strange creature was soft and slender, and its body was not visible.

There are three round holes on its face, which act like eyes and a mouth.

“%￥￥……*@#……”

After a burst of noise and strange sounds came from the stone tablet, they gradually turned into understandable sounds.

"I am [Yaoyuan Shou]. Are you from Yaoyuan? Or are you from somewhere else?"

"Don't worry, I'm not an illegal person or a fugitive, I'm just a person who chases stars because of interest."

"I don't carry any disease, nor do I have anyone to connect with or be connected to. My profession is a traveler. Do you know what this profession is? It's about traveling everywhere and enjoying the unknown journey. It's not a suspicious profession at all, it's just a relatively niche and poor one."

"Aren't you going to introduce yourself? Oh, it doesn't matter. I guess you are not from Yaoyuan."

Luca realized that the Yaoyuan leader was dead. This was its tomb and epitaph.

It's just that it has some kind of technology and power that left its sound and appearance on the tombstone.

"I entered here by mistake through a special channel. I thought it was some undeveloped space gap or a lost primitive world, but I didn't expect to come to this closed space. My signal cannot be transmitted here at all, and it will be changed and assimilated by the vibration here."

"I've drilled a lot of tunnels, but this time I drilled in the wrong place."

"That's probably how life is. You can't get it right every time."

Luca was ready to listen to the other party's last words.

This is a kind of respect.

The Yaoyuan head on the tombstone slowly dimmed: "There is not much energy left. Remember what I said, be careful of the vibrations here, each vibration will bring a different interval, the last one is strong, the next one will be weak."

"This is periodic vibration. You can only go out during weak periods. During strong periods, you need to find a place to hide. Use the black substance here... I call it [Black Fence]. It is a protective substance I extracted from deep underground here."

"Otherwise, you will be changed and assimilated by the vibrations, becoming more and more synchronized with this world, and eventually melt into the constant vibrations of the world and become a part of this place, just like that silver metal..."

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Luca remembered silently.

Cycle changes.

Was it strong or weak last time?

Will it stabilize or become more intense next time? But Luca didn't have time to observe.

It must start immediately.

The traces on the ground are becoming fainter and fainter. If it vibrates again, there may be no trace left.

At that time, I would be lost in this world forever and eventually die alone, just like this Yao Yuanshou in the grave.

Luca stopped lingering.

It patted the tombstone: "Rest in peace."

Then it turned and went upwards.

A voice suddenly came from behind.

"Wait, wait, I'm not dead!"

Luka snapped to alert, raising his fists.

"If you're not dead, why would there be a tombstone here?"

"No, I saw you were silent the whole time, so I thought your race couldn't talk." The other party also said confidently: "I just buried my body here to reduce consumption."

As it spoke, its tombstone swayed slightly, and the black paint on it fell off, revealing the lead-gray surface underneath. Eight gray legs stood up from under the base, like a spider.

The tombstone moved left and right on the ground, as if demonstrating its flexibility.

There are three holes on its stele, and the two horns on its head are also exposed.

Although I really want to ask the other party about the situation again.

But time is running out.

Luca clasped his fists and said, "See you again if we are lucky."

Then it climbed up.

A voice came from behind: "Use the grappling hook to get up."

Luca grabbed the hook and pulled it up immediately.

It returned to the mirror-smooth ground, identified the scratches on the ground, and hurried back in the direction it came from.

The sound of metal knocking came from behind again.

"Wait, wait, I'm with you."

A walking tombstone, Yao Yuanshou moved forward flexibly on his eight legs.

"You have a camp nearby, right? Take me there. If we gather together, we'll have a better chance of survival."

“…”

Luca didn't answer it, it continued, "I'll take you there. You're struggling without a vehicle right now, I can speed you up. The friction resistance here is very low, you can move long distances at high speed with just a little acceleration, come on up, I'll take you there."

After saying that, its eight legs huddled together in groups of two, and the bottom turned into four wheels.

Luca also hesitated, then jumped up and stood in front of the base of the tombstone, directing the direction.

The speed of Yaoyuanshou was amazing. It was running at a buzzing speed, and the strong wind blew Luca so hard that he couldn't stand steadily.

"My speed is pretty good, right? Was the vehicle broken when you came out? In a place like this, it's better not to go too far."

"It will be safer when the next vibration cycle starts again. The assimilation will be more serious now, but it seems that you should have countermeasures, right?"

"Yaoyuan, don't you know? We are quite famous, but probably no one has heard of us here... I know a lot of things, and I can help you in your camp. You just need to help me repair my body and provide me with energy. That should be okay, right? I will also share everything I know about this place."

As they were talking, the Tombstone Express sped along, and the vortex-shaped space passage was already visible on the horizon.

Yao Yuanshou's voice was somewhat surprised: "You... can actually open a passage here? That's amazing."

"I'm saved this time!"

It was happy but also asked cautiously: "Um, brother, you will help me, right?"

Although Luca was exhausted, he promised: "I will help you."

The other party finally felt relieved.

Yao Yuanshou started braking from a distance, leaving two shallow black marks on the ground.

Luca saw that the players next to him disappeared without a trace.

Are they all back?

That should be the case.

"Let's go."

Luca smiled tiredly: "Come visit us. We Yao people are always hospitable. You don't have to worry about supplies."

Then it entered the vortex with Yaoyuanshou.

(End of this chapter)