Chapter 548: Rock Mud Crab in the Cave
Rock Mud Crab [Tidal Sequence 7 (Standard Rainbow Level)]: A crab-like creature that lives in muddy dark rivers. Its carapace can switch between rock and mud forms, which allows it to pass through narrow and complex underground caves and withstand the pressure of mountain collapse. Its claws are powerful enough to cut and smash rocks. It feeds on special minerals underground. There must be crystal clusters of minerals near its habitat.
Tilan blinked, and the micro-observation device attached to her ear scanned and projected the information of the giant creature in front of her.
Judging from its magic power and size, this crab has reached the standard of Sequence 7, but its movement and speed are not fast, and its danger is not high.
When Tilan thought so, the front claws of the giant crab covered with moss and mud swung down, and the huge claws made a heart-shaking whistling sound in the air, and it hit where Tilan was.
Mud splashed, rocks on the ground and the mountain wall cracked, and a huge sound echoed in the underground cave. Then some rocks collapsed from the cave roof and fell into the dark river, splashing water.
Well, it's still quite dangerous, especially underground. If it were any other member of Sequence 6, it would be quite terrifying if they were buried deep underground and unable to escape.
Jumping away from the place where the giant crab's claws fell, Tilan jumped back several meters and looked up again at the giant rock crab that almost touched the top of the cave.
This guy looked like an iron turtle with extremely strong defense. If you want to defeat it, you probably have to use powerful moves, and such moves can easily cause the mountain to collapse, which makes the responder in a dilemma.
It is worthy of being a carefully arranged BOSS by the competition. If it were on the surface, this giant crab would not have such a deterrent power.
While dodging the giant crab's smash and crush, the girl thought of a countermeasure.
It was definitely too late to call for reinforcements now, so they could only rely on the guys around them. However, with their Sequence 5 strength, it would not be easy to defeat this thick and durable guy in front of them.
Let's give it a try, and if it doesn't work, we'll leave.
After making the decision, Tilan waved her hand, and the cold-scaled young dragon that had been lurking in the water jumped up and rushed towards the giant rock crab about 40 meters tall in front of her, pounced on the joint of one of its claws, and wrapped its body along the limbs. The sharp and thorny scales passed by, bringing up a burst of fine sparks, many rock fragments fell, and bursts of cold air also penetrated into the limbs.
Faced with such an attack, the giant crab first swung its claws and smashed the rock wall beside it, then kept swimming and swiping, trying to scrape the cold-scaled young dragon off, but the effect was not good.
Then it aimed its other claw at the claw that was entangled and smashed it down. Seeing this, Tilan quickly ordered the young dragon to let go and dodge.
There was another earth-shaking. If the young cold-scaled dragon had not dodged, the giant claw, which was about ten meters wide, would have crushed the spine.
After getting rid of the young cold-scaled dragon, the crab's forelegs were slowly covered with a layer of mud, and the mud solidified again, turning into hard rock, allowing the previously crushed and worn parts to recover.
Tough skin, the girl thought.
Later, Tilan summoned another young dragon. The two guys took turns to fight, using various means, such as cold breath, scorching sun rays, strangulation, tearing, etc. Except for the small wounds caused by the space tearing of "Zhu", the others were useless. Zhu
was only 16 meters long at present. Even if he tried his best to tear the wound open, he could not effectively injure the giant rock crab in front of him. Later, under the cover of mud, the wound slowly healed.
The big spider also came to make a cameo appearance and tried to stop the giant rock crab, but its web was completely useless. It couldn't stop the giant rock crab. Even if it was a supernatural toxin, let alone how to penetrate the seven or eight meters thick rock shell, even if it was injected into the body, it would only cause a little discomfort to the mountain-sized body of the rock crab.
Is this the power of Sequence 7 supernatural creatures? Even the lowest standard rating left several carefully cultivated Sequence 5 pets helpless.
After several rounds of fighting back and forth, Tilan began to consider whether to give up, but then she thought that since the organizers arranged this guy, it shouldn't be unsolvable.
She looked at the giant rock crab that kept chasing the young dragon back and forth in the cave, and her mind flew through her mind.
Really, I'm a singer, why do I always think of using force.
The girl suddenly figured out something, raised one hand, and then a flute made of ice appeared in her hand.
Holding the flute horizontally, Tilan took a deep breath, then closed her eyes and blew it, and a melodious flute sound spread underground.
The soothing flute sound carries a hint of yearning. At first, the tone is very faint, like the thin mist under the moon at night, vague and endless, and then with the graceful flute sound, it is as if a small boat is slowly coming from the distance of the cool night water, bringing memories and yearnings from the depths of memory.
Slowly, the girl's heart becomes more and more quiet, and she gradually immerses herself in the performance of this long flute.
At some point, some tiny spots of light appear in the underground cave
. These faint spots of light disappear as soon as they are touched, and then slowly reappear in other places. The giant crab that was originally chasing with its claws no longer runs at this moment, and its body lies quietly in the dark river. The two young dragons that were fighting before also stop at this moment, swaying gently in the water.
The flute sound continues, along with the girl's memories, across time, making people feel like they are on the night of the full moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival. Lanterns float over the small river flowing through the ancient town, and each lantern carries yearnings, swaying slightly with the river water, and drifting away.
The bright moon in the sky, the golden cups in the water, the tiny lights, slowly tell the sad and nostalgic past.
After a long time, the song was over, the girl put down the flute in her hand, looked up again, and looked at the giant crab in the river in the distance.
She walked over slowly, stepped on the water with her toes, climbed up the giant crab's tall body step by step along the claws, and finally walked slowly to the top of her head.
The wet mudstone under her feet changed for a while, and then a dark round bead larger than the girl emerged.
This should be its eyes, and I don't know if it can see it. Tilan gently pressed her hand on the rock shell next to the round bead and closed her eyes to sense it.
Thoughts and perceptions slowly approached the giant crab under her, just like diving into deep water and touching a huge light ball with a faint fluorescence. At the moment of contact, a strange and slightly cold consciousness was touched by Tilan, and waves of strange feelings came along.
There were many emotions, such as curiosity, nervousness, doubt, etc. As the girl communicated with it, it quickly became happy, as if it had met a companion to communicate with after living alone for many years.
What? This guy felt like a child. As Tilan communicated with the crab under her, she gradually found that this guy's mind was simple and cute.
After that, Tilan opened her eyes, jumped down from the back shell, and was caught by the claws of the rock crab, like a tray, letting her stand on it.
For the 40-50 meter tall rock crab, this girl was like a harmless little animal. It held Tilan, turned around, and swam towards the depths of the dark river.
There... home... delicious... comfortable... together...
vague thoughts came from the crab's consciousness. Although it couldn't speak, as an extraordinary creature, it could barely express its ideas.
So, Tilan held the stone on the claws with one hand and was taken to the bottom of the dark river by the rock crab.
First, a stream of water flooded her head, and then she passed through the complex underwater caves. In order to see the surrounding situation clearly, Tilan raised several fluorescent spheres to illuminate the surrounding environment.
In addition, her whole body was wrapped in a bubble to prevent the river water from getting her body wet.
In this way, after being carried by the rock crab to shuttle under the water for about half an hour, Tilan finally saw a glittering place.
It was like an underwater valley. After turning around, there were all kinds of crystal clusters emitting white light. These crystal clusters dotted the bottom of the water, which were particularly quiet and beautiful.
[Light-gathering Quartz Crystal Cluster]: A crystal ore where light-gathering quartz gathers. This crystal ore is a special ore with extraordinary properties. It can gather and distort light. It is often used as interference equipment or shields on mechas. It can absorb a large amount of energy rays and convert them into reserve energy.
"Did you grow up eating these ores?" Tilan was quite curious and conveyed this question in her consciousness.
After getting a positive answer, Tilan slowly descended with bubbles, and gently pressed her hand on one of the half-human-high crystal clusters. As a subtle light flashed at the bottom of the crystal cluster, the hexagonal crystal column on it fell into the girl's hand, slightly heavy, emitting a light that fluctuated in light and dark.
The natural extraordinary crystal cluster contained precipitated magic power. When the girl input the magic power in her body and stimulated it after interaction, the crystal cluster began to emerge with a faint brilliance, and it became much brighter, but the other crystal clusters around it suddenly dimmed a lot.
Probably because it absorbed and twisted the light in the surrounding space, making the environment a little darker, the girl slowly sensed the changes.
This kind of crystal cluster seems to be quite expensive, but I didn't expect to find it here.
After that, the girl circled around this underwater crystal cluster mine and found no other traces of artificial chiseling.
It seems that she guessed wrong. This giant crab should not be placed by the competition party, but a creature that originally grew in the underground river.
Come to think of it, who would have thought that someone would deliberately go so deep underground and shuttle through the dark and complex dark river without any clues during the competition.
Although it was a little disappointing that I didn't find the base, I was also slightly surprised to find a treasure that the contestants had not found.
In this case, the girl loosened the crystal cluster in her hand and let it fall while opening her fingers to hold it.
The crystal clusters that originally grew on the rock wall in the water shook slightly, and then fell one by one, converging towards the central crystal cluster.
They spliced each other to form a large crystal cluster, and then ripples continued to spread, colorless fragments fell one after another, and the huge crystal cluster was constantly purified, and the special extraordinary characteristics in it became more refined and powerful.
The last crystal cluster with a diameter of three meters floated quietly in the water, emitting a rainbow-like brilliance.
'I'll give this to you. It's much better to absorb it than to eat ore.' Tilan conveyed the words with the help of the connection between consciousness.
The purified crystal cluster not only absorbs faster, but also contains stronger extraordinary characteristics, which is beneficial to Cancer's innate ability.
The black eyeballs turned slightly, and the crab stared at the crystal cluster in the air that was purified and emitted a halo. It swallowed it in one gulp, and then it was filled with joy and happiness.
This guy is really easy to understand. Tilan touched its claws, and then the crab took the girl to float above the dark river.
Half an hour later, returning to the cave where the girl met, the crab put down the little friend on its claws, expressed its happy and friendly thoughts, and then dived into the water again and slowly disappeared.
Although it did not find the desired base, Tilan was in a particularly good mood.
Riding on the dragon's back, she turned back in the direction she came from. Occasionally, she stroked the pale young dragon under her and checked the physical condition of the two guys.
"You guys, you have met your opponent this time, you are always lazy."
Then Tilan took the time to help the two young dragons analyze the shortcomings in the battle just now, and there are areas that can be improved. As the voice faded away, the girl slowly disappeared at the end of the dark cave.
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In the next three days, the star groups led by the singers continued to occupy unowned strongholds, obtained various materials and a large number of points, and gradually contacted the neutral forces in this area.
As time passed, there were fewer and fewer empty strongholds, and the distribution map of the strongholds of each star group became clearer.
In the conference room hidden in the cave, the member responsible for intelligence detection inserted the chip card into the projection base, and then a huge holographic map emerged, with small dots marked on it at this moment, and then these small dots of different colors gathered into different maps.
"The current situation is beginning to become clear. According to the drone detection we are operating, the entire competition area can be roughly divided into the following forces."
"First is the Aoles-affiliated star cluster occupying the snow-capped mountains in the north. They have about 17 strongholds and are powerful. It is said that there is also a giant dragon." "
Next is the Red Flame Star Cluster led by Lady Pulin on the western plateau. They have 15 strongholds, slightly inferior to Lady Aoles."
"Next is Lady Shui Yanqing, centered in the jungle in the southwest. The star cluster she belongs to currently has 10 strongholds and is fairly powerful."
"Then there is Lady Blanche's forces, which are chaotically distributed in the east. They occupy about 11 strongholds and are quite powerful."
"The weakest should be the star cluster led by Lady Odney. Currently, there are only 7 strongholds, and they are still in the central area, facing enemies on all sides."
"As for us, we currently have 9 strongholds. The main base is located in the deep mountain canyons in the south, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack."
"According to the information from the units detected in the sky, Pulin has already started fighting with the star cluster led by Shui Yanqing, but both sides have not put their full strength into the battle, but are testing each other."
"Who has the upper hand at the moment?" Tilan, who was sitting in the conference room, asked curiously.
"Although the members led by Lord Pulin have stronger individual combat power and are assisted by many affiliated forces, from the battlefield situation, they have not taken too many advantages. Lord Shui Yanqing seems to have given special protection to the members of his star cluster, making them very efficient in cooperating with each other, and they also have special abilities to avoid being burned by the magic flames of the Red Flame Star Cluster."
"Is that so..." Tilan thought quietly.
It seems that every singer has her own trump card, but it is not used at ordinary times, and they will not be easily displayed to each other.
In this competition, some real abilities and trump cards gradually emerged.
"Lord Tilan, what do you think we should do now?" The other members in the conference room looked expectantly at the black-haired girl sitting at the top.
"We will wait and see what happens, but if we encounter some special situations, we can provide intelligence assistance to Odni and Shui Yanqing."
"The opponents they are facing are relatively strong and will accept our goodwill. In addition, we also need them to persist for a while to complete the preparations."
"Sarant, is the engineering team you lead ready?" The girl looked at a member in the conference room.
"President Tilan, we have initially improved the design drawings. It will take 2-3 days to optimize them, and then we can finalize the final template."
"Well, as soon as possible. After completion, we will exchange the points we have for the corresponding accessories and then assemble them."
The star clusters led by each singer have different characteristics. If the mermaids under Shui Yanqing are her trump cards, then the geniuses from many military-industrial enterprises on Tilan's side have the advantage of being able to use the materials found in various bases to reassemble new large-scale war machines.
But this process undoubtedly requires time to prepare, so in the early stage, Tilan decided to wait and see.
She has never been the kind of person who likes adventure. Instead of spending time on various conspiracies and tricks, it is better to accumulate strength and then push forward.
Although it does not look exciting enough, it also has a kind of simple beauty.
(End of this chapter)
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