High Above

"Kind of like a pudding?"

Stopping the bleeding from the wound on his wrist, Ian held up the ball of golden blood jelly with great interest, feeling the Q-elastic texture close to a decompression ball: "No, it's much stronger than pudding, and it's mostly made of soil-derived matter." It is composed of high toughness material."

Averting his gaze, Ian looked at the amber crystal nucleus on the other side.

The amber crystal is the essence of the marsh crocodile essence, and it is also a 'solid structure' that cannot be completely transformed by blood refining.

At the same time, it is also the raw material needed for the self-repair of the 'Gulong Core'.

Of course, it is impossible to completely repair, but at least part of the structure can be repaired.

And the golden blood jelly, which contains most of the essence of potion materials of the swamp crocodile, is a group of 'alchemy matrix' that has been processed.

Although the amber crystals are not integrated into it, it cannot be used as a 'main material', but as a secondary material, it has been refined and is very good.

Ian can distinguish the importance, the restoration of the core of the ancient dragon is far more important than a second-level main material, what's more, if he really wants to advance to the rock-forged knight, he must also use the sand armor apprentice's The fourth sublimation organ' must be completed.

Coincidentally, the 'golden blood jelly', as the hardened body of the swamp crocodile and the essence of the main source material structure that controls the sand shield, seems to be just as good as the fourth organ and half potion material of the sand armor apprentice.

Opening his mouth, Ian directly swallowed the amber crystal nucleus and golden blood jelly into his stomach and stored them in the 'second stomach'.

It feels a bit like swallowing a piece of iron, but overall it's not uncomfortable.

Gu Long's core will slowly absorb the amber crystal core structure in the second stomach to repair itself without Ian's trouble.

And the golden blood jelly can be preserved for a long time without Ian mobilizing his muscular stomach... In other words, as a sublimator of the same attribute, Ian's body is originally the best fresh-keeping cabinet for preserving earth attribute source materials.

Coupled with the large amount of earth-attributed source quality that was absorbed just now and refined through the method of blood refinement...

After closing his eyes and digesting for a while, when he opened his eyes again, Ian was already full of energy.

"Although I need to add some water and salt later, at least for a day, I don't need to eat any food, and I can guarantee full energy."

Ian has already disposed of one of the most valuable trophies on his body and converted it into his own strength by absorbing and storing the key value of the brain crystal nucleus of the swamp crocodile.

He raised his long sword and stood up.

Then, activate the predictive horizon and the silver chip to search for the 'breath of life'.

In fact, there is no breath of life, just various subtle features related to life activities judged from the surrounding air flow by virtue of the source quality reaction and the silver chip.

Soon, Ian noticed something: "There is a slight sound fluctuation on the right. It may be the water flow, or it may be the echo produced by someone communicating in the distance."

"Look closer."

Concealing his breath, Ian quietly walked towards the direction of the sound.

The corridor is deep and long, with many branches and rooms. Ian followed the guidance of the silver chip and headed straight for the origin of the sound without being misled.

After a while, he spotted a group of figures in the distance.

"oh?"

Slightly adjusting the focus of his eyes, Ian stared intently.

Dozens of people in various clothes, who looked like ordinary sailors and merchants, were exploring along the wide karst cave passage in a very orderly manner.

A few people took the lead, a few people supervised the two sides, and a few people paid attention to the rear, while a group of armored trainees in the middle holding alchemy firearms and shields protected the researchers and sublimators in the middle of the team tightly, and the firepower was even higher. It is to always target a few areas of great risk.

Although they are well-trained at first glance, and even look better equipped than the guards in Harrison Port, their clothes are indeed just ordinary merchants and fishermen.

If they hadn't taken out their arms, put on their armor, and picked up their shields and muskets, they would have looked like ordinary people indeed.

Even, most people would only see them as armed businessmen from Whale Song Cliff—although it was a bit suspicious, it was not inexplicable.

However, Ian could see through their identities at a glance from the style of the firearm in each other's hands.

"People from Flame Land?"

Huge doubts arose in his heart, Ian frowned and looked serious: "Why are they here?"

"Even the exploration team and rescue team organized by the Viscount Grant didn't come in, why did they start exploring?"

Could it be that...their team has been hiding in the surrounding waters, watching the battle between Patrick and Viscount Grant and the natives, and then they were involved in the sudden opening of the ruins door?

But it's not like either. The opponent is so well equipped, but there are not many people - if it is to assist the aborigines to steal Harrison Port, then double the number will be the same, and if it is to sneak in to assist the aborigines in training, this number is a bit redundant, and the equipment is not right , appearing too professional.

"It looks... as if they knew the existence of the ruins from the very beginning."

"If the great shaman told them that they came for the indigenous holy land, it can be explained."

With great doubts, Ian thought about it and opened the ring of silence.

Although the structure of the inscription on the Ring of Silence is not stable now, and it may not be used a few times, but this is the moment when it is needed to function.

After completely eliminating all his voices, Ian quietly followed the team.

Also, use the silver chip to eavesdrop on the conversations in the opposing team.

...

In the eyes of the captain of the special warfare team on the southeast front of Feiyandi, this deep underground cave is eerily quiet.

As a former elite scout accustomed to lurking in the dark and in the forest, he didn't like this kind of eerie silence. The bloody killing field experienced by Ye Mo when he was alienated.

The group of aliens that can be disguised as trees can take off the head of a well-trained sergeant by simply sliding the leaf blade when the soldiers pass by, and the blood is poured between the trees and bushes.

In order to wipe out the lair of that alien monster, the Second King's Legion and several comrade-in-arms legions lost nearly half of their manpower, not to mention the servant army.

Since then, the soldiers of the entire Absalom kingdom have turned pale when they talked about the forest, and some retired veterans even suffered from mental illness. The knives slashed at the children who were playing and having fun by the trees.

The captain survived that battle without illness.

But he still didn't like this eerie silence, because the deadliest danger was lurking in the silent shadows, like a sharp knife hidden in the forest leaves, which could take off his head at any time.

Just like now.

An illusion of being spied on all the time stimulated his nerves.