Steel steam and flame

"A higher-level transfer station under the 'unit heart'? Or is it actually the wrapped thing that provides energy for the weak consciousness and sight, not the 'unit heart'?"

Cassia was trying to get Cassia to slow down, because the sight gave Cassia a bad premonition. This is the southern forest, and many things have proven that the true face of this extreme area is a forest where the World Tree has expanded over a long period of time. But after just a moment of hesitation, when he saw his destination not far away, the excited Cassihei accelerated directly, and the cave that was originally on a slope also became vertical. In the turbulent water, the next moment, Cassia and Cassie came to the wrapped tree roots. Cassie Hei slid his four sharp claws, but did not slow down at all. He only relied on the cold water as a buffer and landed on this object that was not much different in size.

These roots, which are as thick as an adult's thigh, are more flexible than Cassia expected. He can hear the pulling sound reaching his ears through the water, but dozens of roots can fully withstand Cassia's pressure. Impact force. This lump of tree roots swayed slightly for a few times before returning to peace in the water.

Cassia came down here more than once. Seeing it skillfully touching with its front paws in front of it to find the weak spot wrapped in tree roots, Cassia knew that it should come here more often. The weakest point is that the wrapped tree roots do have to have a few fewer layers compared to other places. At this moment, Cassie Hei was grabbing the tree roots with his sharp claws and cutting them off bit by bit.

Cassia patted Cassia black and signaled it to stop. He also fell off its back and walked towards the weak spot.

"It is indeed conscious." The moment his feet fell, his vision suddenly became sharper, full of warning. But it was just a warning. Among the high-frequency sound wave pulses, these dozens of them did not suddenly dance like octopus tentacles to attack herself, as Cassia imagined.

That scene is indeed a bit scary, Cassia thought in her heart, standing next to the weak spot, taking the second-generation holy sword from behind, like cutting a more flexible vegetable stalk, breaking a hole with a diameter of The hole comes about meters. Then he used the holy sword to reach into the hole and stab the wrapped object. It felt like he was stabbing hard steel with a very high density.

What is wrapped is a solid material with uniform texture, which Cassia has already known using high-frequency sound waves. But what is the substance? Deep underground without any light, even if I open my eyes, I can see nothing except a deep black.

"We should bring some fluorescent lamps and the like." Cassia made a dull sound in her throat, asking Cassia if this was the important thing he said. Cassie Hei imitated Cassia's example, not opening his mouth and only using his throat to make sounds. Cassia carefully identified the meaning expressed by Cassia and got not much information.

"If you destroy it a little, will the water heat up? Will it warm the nest you rest in?" These two pieces of information were provided by Cassie Hei.

"Is energy released? This place is at least close to three hundred meters away from Cassie Hei's resting place above. Judging from Cassie Hei's temperature definition, its body temperature is 80 or 90 degrees Celsius. The so-called warm The temperature should be over one hundred degrees Celsius. The temperature at the core... considering the attenuation three hundred meters away, it should not exceed two hundred degrees Celsius." For Cassia, it is not high temperature, the heat resistance of her hands There is definitely no problem, but other parts need to be in a cross-pupillary state. If the calculation is wrong later and it enters the scaly state directly, it can still resist for a period of time, Cassia thought. In the scaly state, he can probably swim in the magma, although he won't last long, no more than a minute.

Falling into the dug hole, Cassia squatted down and touched the huge object wrapped in tree roots with his hands. Even though both are soaked in water, Cassia's touch, under the rough texture of the surface, still has a feeling like touching dry ashes. It seems that for such a long time, a film-like thing has been wrapping this object, and the groundwater has never been able to come into contact with it.

The rough texture was like some kind of texture. Cassia concentrated the sound wave pulses in one place for detection, and finally determined that these textures were more like extremely small ablation cracks. The item being wrapped has at some time been subjected to prolonged burning at high temperatures.

In addition, Cassia discovered at this time that dozens of tree roots not only wrapped the object, but several of them took root on it, as if absorbing necessary nutrients from the object. Those rhizomes are slightly different, a little more slender and harder in texture.

"Fossils of some kind of ancient historical creature?" Cassia thought, "The ablation can correspond to the fire burning the World Tree on the stone painting. At that time, not only the World Tree, but also all kinds of creatures around it probably could not escape that fire. A fire like a disaster, right?"

Moving a little out of position, Cassia held the second-generation holy sword and thrust it downward, slowly increasing the strength. There is a slight sense of obstruction, which is comparable to the feeling of stabbing high-grade alloy. The tip of the sword quickly sank ten centimeters, and the feeling of obstruction suddenly multiplied at this moment. It should have pierced the ablated surface, Cassia thought, and then strengthened her arm a little, but suddenly there was an extremely weak light around her.

Cassia immediately felt something was wrong. When he was about to pull out the Holy Sword, he realized that not only the second-generation Holy Sword was at this moment, but also Cassia Hei who was supposed to be next to him, as well as the surrounding tree roots, and the people under his feet. That huge object completely disappeared at this moment. Together with himself, he seemed to have disappeared, and all that existed at the moment was a consciousness-like spiritual body.

"The same illusion as when it invaded Cassia's body?" Having had a similar experience, Cassia immediately knew what happened. At the same time, the surrounding light began to get stronger. Cassia subconsciously wanted to raise his head, and his eyes followed his thoughts upwards - a sky completely covered by gray and black smoke stretched across the sky without any boundaries. Countless lightning and thunder fires flickered in the gray smoke, irregularly like falling stars, briefly illuminating a small area.

Cassia looked around at this time, and all around was a desolate area that had been burned by flames. There were only slight undulations in the terrain and not a single plant. The ground is coke-like, mixed with numerous condensed glass-like particles. The charred and broken skeletons of huge creatures were sparsely scattered everywhere, and some were even emitting black smoke.

Although there was thunder, the surroundings were quiet in a different way. After a fire that didn't last long, life had long since disappeared from here. Occasionally, the wind would blow through and make an oozing sound from the huge broken skeletons.

Cassia tried her best to capture everything she could see around her, but the scenery that caught her eye was almost the same, all of which were the same black color, and the gray smoke in the sky that looked like the sea rolling in on a stormy night.

Suddenly, Cassia felt a palpitation in her heart. A huge pressure came from the sky, and the billowing gray smoke seemed to have weight in an instant, as if it was suddenly pressing down. The moment the wind was generated, a huge cracking sound shook the entire space.

Before I could figure out what was going on, the sky made of gray smoke was already boiling in my sight. The gray-black color was deepening very quickly, but then it became flickering again.

"Dong..." The dull sound coming from the distance has infinite power, and Cassia can see the distorted sound waves formed by the sound in the air. The sound wave spread slowly in a very far distance, and soon came into contact with the gray smoke, directly shattering it. The gray smoke there became thinner, and the dark red light was able to penetrate a little and fell into Cassia's eyes.

In just a few breaths, the sky cover formed by gray smoke was opened from a very far distance, and a black and red object forcefully pushed open the sky cover of gray smoke and fell down.

"The trunk of the World Tree!" As the black and red object continued to fall down, Cassia finally knew when and what the scene in this illusion was. The fire has been extinguished, but the flames on the main trunk of the World Tree have eroded its interior, like red-hot charcoal, burning away everything in the World Tree bit by bit.

The gray smoke canopy now completely turned into the main branch of the world tree that could not find the edge. At the same time, a huge crack spread from the distance on the ground, instantly pulling it away from Cassia's sight, and then rushed into the distance. The entire land is also shattering, and this crack can expand beyond the field of vision in a few breaths.

In the crack, Cassia saw that the World Tree still had fresh roots. The tree roots are alive, and they are squirming around the cracks after being broken, and they are growing at a visible speed, trying hard to catch up with the other side of the cracks, as if they are forcibly repairing the cracks with their own strength. But as the tree trunks fell, their strength seemed to be slowly losing. The rate of peristalsis becomes slower and slower, and growth tends to stagnate.

Not long after, his sight was completely occupied by the black and red branches of the world. For a moment, it represented the sky in this time, turning the sky into an entity on another level.

Maybe it was those red lights that made the light brighter. Only then did Cassia discover that there were countless light spots with extremely weak light around the main trunk that continued to fall. They were like companions following the World Tree, trying to get closer to the main branch of the World Tree that was collapsing.

These light spots are like fireflies trying to fly on the eve of dawn, and their light may be swallowed up by the rising sun at any time. It's just that at this moment, the light spots are more like sparks around the flame. Every point of light is trying its best to burn the last material and energy, trying to keep its own light eternal. But in the end, most of them were just sparks leaving the flame and were extinguished. Only a handful of light spots could get close to the main branch before their own light disappeared, and then they disappeared with a "pop" sound like sparks falling into the water.