Mystery Journey (20)
Shi Jianxia left his words unsaid just to test the attitudes of Lei Xin and the other two, wanting to see if they knew about Shi Ting's affairs. However, apart from asking Shi Ting at the beginning, they did not have any other extra reactions.
Unable to find out anything in a short period of time, Shi Jianxia considered whether to tell Zhou about his suspicions and ask him to help set a trap to lure him into it.
After careful consideration, Shi Jianxia rejected this idea and prepared to wait for his mother to wake up and ask her directly what happened that year.
She revealed the news that her mother would wake up soon to Lei Xin and the other two. If they really had problems, they would definitely be more anxious than her and would definitely look for an opportunity to take action.
Shi Jianxia waited patiently for their response and devoted some of his attention to searching for the missing cadets.
Zhou probably felt it was humiliating to be threatened by Gongye Jiwang in front of her, so he never showed up after that. No matter what threats she made, he pretended to be dead and ignored her.
Shi Jianxia was afraid that if he really angered him, he would resort to evil and robbing tactics, so he simply didn't bother him with the matter of looking for people. Instead, he let the cubs go out and let them look for the traces of Baili Xuanyao and others.
She first found the location where she notified her friends to evacuate when the accident happened, and then followed the marks they left and found a beach.
The mark was broken on the beach. According to the previous agreement, the cadets should have dived into the sea, so she asked the boy with water talent to go into the sea to look for it.
But after searching back and forth for several times, even going to deeper sea areas, the boys still couldn't find any trace of Baili Xuanyao and the others.
This gave Shi Jianxia a bad feeling.
They had agreed beforehand that if they were forced to separate due to danger and had no time to leave a mark, they would look for people along the coastline, or use water-repellent beads to hide in shallow sea areas and look for an opportunity to reunite.
Baili Xuanyao and his men retreated only after receiving her warning. They were not in danger at that time, so they had time to leave marks and wait for her and Gongye Jiwang to find them. They should be hiding in the nearby sea at this moment.
Could it be that they encountered danger in the sea? But with so many of them, it was impossible for them to be wiped out in one fell swoop unless they encountered a powerful Saint-level warrior.
Before, in order to ensure the safety of the retreat route, Shi Jianxia asked the boys to patrol the shallow sea. The fish living here had low combat levels, and the cadets could easily handle it.
Maybe it's daytime?
Shi Jianxia quickly denied this speculation. She asked Zhou if he knew that people had come to the Zerg universe in recent years. He sneered at the time, obviously knowing it.
Based on the skeletons and clues she found, it can be clearly inferred that none of the people who came to the Zerg universe died at the hands of Dayu. They were basically attacked by ordinary Zerg and giant creatures and died from their injuries.
Maybe Zhou knew early on that she and the cadets had landed on this land, but he was too lazy to pay attention to these "little ants", so he didn't take any action.
He took action at the riverside probably because he was provoked by Lu and sensed the breath of the star core in "Classic of Mountains and Seas", so he brought her back and tried to wake up her mother.
Given his personality, even if he knew the location of Baili Xuanyao and others, he probably wouldn't even look at them.
So, they either left on their own or were taken away by others.
The possibility of the former is not high. If she and Gongye Jiwang are missing, even if Baili Xuanyao and others want to go looking for them, they will leave some people to guard the place to prevent the two sides from missing each other and going around in circles.
That's the latter.
Shi Jianxia suppressed his bad guesses and ordered his boys to continue searching. He then told Gongye Jiwang about the situation at the beach and asked Little Bee if he could help find someone.
The little bee agreed immediately and contacted the bee insect tribe that were out hunting giant creatures, asking them to help keep an eye out for any traces of humans.
After discussing with Gongye Jiwang, Shi Jianxia decided to split the troops into two groups. Gongye Jiwang, Lei Xin and the other two would take some of the cubs to search the forest ruled by Zhou, while she would try to find out the situation on the other side.
Of course, Shi Jianxia was not planning to cross the river to seek death himself, but instead sent out Buzhoushan and other cubs who were fast and good at hiding to sneak across the river.
Shi Jianxia still remembered that before she fell into the river, Lu asked Zhou to hand over his prey. She didn't know whether this prey referred to Lei Xin and the other two, or her who exposed her star core power after swallowing the butterfly-faced man's insect vortex.
Under Shi Jianxia's instructions, Buzhou Mountain carefully came ashore from the reeds.
The scene on the other side of the river was not drastically changed, but it was also very different from the forest ruled by day.
The most obvious difference is the black insect vortexes floating in the air, one in the east and one in the west. Perhaps this place is closer to the area ruled by the day, so there are not many insect vortexes, and the Zerg active here are all low-level Zerg.
They lined up outside the vortex, waiting for the Zerg in front to enter the vortex, and then slowly moved forward.
Shi Jianxia observed that after these low-level T vortexes accepted a part of the Zerg, they would enter a dormant state. The Zerg queued outside the vortex would also look for other vortexes to continue queuing, and a large area would be left empty near the dormant vortex.
So many low-level Zergs stayed together without devouring each other. This was something that was absolutely impossible to happen in the Federation.
Shi Jianxia did not intend to engage in a head-on conflict with these Zergs. She asked Buzhou Mountain to quietly approach a dormant insect vortex floating in front of the bushes that was not noticed by the Zergs, and swallow it in one gulp.
The vortex disappeared, and the energy gathered nearby stagnated and then dissipated smoothly into the air.
After swallowing the insect vortex, Buzhou Mountain hid in the bushes. Shi Jianxia observed the nearby Zerg from the perspective of Zhaoyao Mountain. They were still queuing diligently and did not notice that a insect vortex here suddenly disappeared.
Shi Jianxia did the same thing and let Changliu Mountain on the other side swallow up the second dormant insect vortex, and it was still not discovered by the Zerg.
She was greatly encouraged and gave orders to the cubs hiding in the bushes, asking them to find an opportunity to swallow the dormant insect vortex without alerting the snake.
She never had to worry about the kids' eating and drinking, so Shi Jianxia turned her attention to Meng Ji who was exploring deeper into the forest.
Meng Ji is good at hiding, and the vegetation in the Zerg universe is tall and lush, which makes it very convenient for him to hide his whereabouts.
Shi Jianxia wanted to find the place where the higher-level Zerg gathered as recorded in the diary of an unknown officer, or the residence of the Zerg King who advocated invading the human universe and seizing resources to feed back to the higher-level Zerg.
Meng Ji continued forward, and saw more and more insect vortices along the way. However, they were scattered in the east and west, without forming a large gathering. The ones queuing outside the insect vortex were all low-level insects.
Occasionally, there would be giant creatures that couldn't stand the large gatherings of lower-level Zerg, and would deliberately rush out to disrupt their formation, fight with them, and then quickly slip away before being besieged by the lower-level Zerg.
Shi Jianxia observed that when a giant creature provoked a lower-level insect race, it pounced on the insect vortex, but did not enter the insect vortex. Instead, it seemed to encounter a wall.
This situation made her feel very interesting, and she wondered why the Zerg and humans could enter and pass through the vortex, but the giant creatures could not.
She recorded the incident and planned to study it later.
Not long after, Meng Ji discovered a group of higher-level Zerg. They seemed to be on patrol. When they encountered giant creatures that treated lower-level Zerg as food, they would intervene and hunt the giant creatures.
Meng Ji hid in the bushes, restrained his breath to the extreme, and watched the battle quietly.
The forest was so big that Shi Jianxia was afraid of being noticed by Lu, so he didn't dare to send too many cubs across the river. When he asked the cubs to devour the insect vortexes, they would look for dormant insect vortexes that were not noticed by the insect vortexes. The levels of these insect vortexes were mostly between C and A, and there was not a single S-level one.
Therefore, after several days, she found neither any trace of Lu nor any place where there were a large number of insect vortexes.
When she felt a little discouraged, a large golden hand suddenly grabbed her from the air, pinched her waist like kneading dough, and took her directly towards the giant tree.
The little bee sleeping on top of her head was startled and quickly flapped its wings to fly up. Only when it found that the sudden force belonged to Zhou did it breathe a sigh of relief and fall back onto Shi Jianxia's head.
Shi Jianxia was suddenly caught in the air and almost dropped Cheng Huang who was lying in her arms. She gritted her teeth and said, "What are you crazy about?"
These words were undoubtedly spoken to Zhou, and he must have heard them.
If you need to find her, can you please say hello first? If she had a heart disease, she would have gone to hell by now.
By the way, is there an underworld in the Zerg universe?
Shi Jianxia was secretly complaining about Zhou's unpredictable temper when his voice suddenly rang in his ears, "If you don't want to see Shi Ting, I can throw you back."
This short sentence made Shi Jianxia open her eyes wide. She quickly grasped the invisible but substantial hand on her waist and raised her voice involuntarily, "Mom is awake!"
In the past few days, Shi Jianxia went to see Shi Ting every day, but she was always in a deep sleep. When he went there in the morning, he saw no signs of her waking up.
If Zhou hadn't said that he didn't need the power of the star core, Shi Jianxia would have wanted to treat her again.
Zhou didn't say anything else, but Shi Jianxia's heart started beating uncontrollably and his blood flow accelerated. In just a few seconds, sweat broke out on his forehead due to nervousness.
The little bee sensed her drastic change in mood and flew to her with a worried and puzzled look.
Shi Jianxia swallowed hard and said impatiently, "Mom is about to wake up! I want to see her!"
Cheng Huang felt her fingers trembling slightly, so he kicked off his hind legs and jumped onto her shoulders, rubbing his little head gently against her cheek to comfort her.
Seeing this, the little bee quickly moved over to Shi Jianxia's other cheek and rubbed it in the same way.
Shi Jianxia had no time to pay attention to the cubs vying for her favor. Seeing the tree hole right in front of her, she couldn't wait to jump in.
She rushed in in a hurry, kicking the scattered energy crystals several times and almost falling down.
When she lifted the beaded curtain made of energy crystals and saw the woman smiling at Zhou with her head slightly tilted, she suddenly felt helpless and didn't know whether she should go in.
She saw her mother, and the vague shadows in her memory became clearer and clearer, and the dreams that she once thought were just illusions gradually became real.
Shi Ting heard the sound of the bead curtains colliding, turned around, and met Shi Jianxia's nervous eyes.
She paused, her obsidian pupils dilating slightly.
Shi Jianxia clutched the bead curtain uncontrollably, a little afraid that she would ask who she was, but she heard a soft and somewhat hoarse "Xia Xia".
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