Chapitre 292: Chapter 291
"Ga —"
Along with Tucker's cry, Lin felt the pterosaur sliding down in a dark tunnel.
A lot of salt dust kept hitting the pterosaur's face. The tunnel was quite deep, and after sliding for hundreds of seconds … "Puff!"
Lin felt the pterosaur hit the ground, and at the same time, there was another sound. Tucker seemed to have fallen down too.
The smell of salt filled the space …
It seemed that this was an underground space, and the pterosaur and Tucker had fallen down from the collapsed salt ground. It was simply darkness here, and nothing could be seen clearly.
"Ga —!!"
Tucker shouted up, as if he wanted the other skeleton dragons to hear him, but the moment he shouted, there was a loud rumbling sound around him, and he immediately stopped.
It seemed that the structure here was very fragile, and a slight vibration could cause a strong collapse, but it could also be a sound from somewhere else. Judging from the sound it made just now, this place seemed to be very big.
The pterosaur's wings glowed, illuminating the surroundings.
Tucker was startled when he saw the light next to him, but when he saw that it was Lin, he immediately became excited and said loudly, "Oh, oh!"
The moment he spoke, there was another rumbling sound around him … and he immediately stopped.
The surroundings were white, and the ground was quite rough, covered with all kinds of small protrusions. It felt like sand had been solidified together. The top of the cave was more than ten meters high, covered with cone-shaped salt pillars pointing downward.
The whole cave seemed to be covered by white crystals, and this place was really beautiful. But Lin didn't see any hole. It seemed that after Lin and Tucker fell down. Did the hole close on its own?
This kind of thing shouldn't have happened, but this place should be quite deep. She didn't know how the leader and the other races were doing, but they should be fine.
But it would be difficult for Tucker to see them again.
Tucker stared at the top of the cave for a long time like Lin, and his brain, which was more developed than the average creature, was thinking. He must also know that his race shouldn't be able to come down. When he fell down, Tucker's water bag cracked, and he lost a lot of dried meat. What he needed to do now was to quickly find a way out of here, and then …
"Ga —!!!"
Tucker suddenly shouted again, and the entire ceiling of the cave suddenly trembled with his voice, especially those cone-shaped crystals that were constantly shaking, as if they were about to fall down at any time.
"Stop!" Lin immediately shouted. Did he really want to collapse this place?
Lin had taught them some vocabulary of brain worms, and although they couldn't fully learn it, they understood some of the meanings. Tucker, on the other hand, knew most, and he immediately responded with an "Oh!"
"Crack …"
When he said "Oh". A pillar of salt broke off from the top of the cave and smashed into the ground between Lin and Tucker, shattering into a pile of rubble.
Skeleton Dragons liked to respond to Lin's pterosaur with an "oh". Perhaps it was better not to talk to it …
Lin looked around. This area seemed interesting, but now was the time to send Tucker up.
Tucker finally began to understand that it was unlikely to ask for help from his tribe. He should find his own route. Then, he lay on the ground and took out a stone, scratched a few marks on it, and smelled it. Then, he stood up and raised his forelimbs to point south.
They liked to use their claws to indicate directions and goals. This was also a kind of "language".
Tucker walked in front, and Lin followed behind him. She found it interesting to observe their various skills. Although they were intelligent, they didn't have the help of different kinds of soldiers like the branched creatures. If there were any problems, they could only rely on their individual cells and their own memory to deal with various situations.
Tucker and Lin slowly moved forward in the dark cave. There shouldn't be any creatures here. The "salt walls" on both sides showed all kinds of strange shapes. It was hard to know how this place was formed. Maybe the sea had rushed in here?
Speaking of the sea, in the canyon of the Northern Continent, the ancient squid's life in the canyon began to become difficult. Ika led the largest group of ancient squid there, but faced with the problem of resources and water, Ika tried to lead her group to the end of the canyon, where there was a passage back to the sea!
Would it succeed? She didn't know yet. The brain worm had been watching them, but it was also busy now. It had to teach the young wyverns how to breathe fire, and because of the birth of a new troop, it had to command them to hunt.
"Crack …"
Thinking of this, Lin suddenly heard some small sounds.
Tucker obviously heard it too. He stopped, pulled out a sharp stone from his waist, and made a defensive posture.
Lin scattered the light even further, revealing a large shadow in the middle of the cave.
That was …
Lin walked around Tucker and walked towards the shadow. Tucker saw this and quickly grabbed Lin's pterosaur from behind. Lin pointed the pterosaur's head at the shadow.
Under the light, the shadow's true body was revealed. It was the shell of a giant tortoise, and next to it were the bones of its limbs and head.
Seeing that it was empty, Tucker was relieved. Lin and Tucker walked to the giant tortoise's shell. This thing was really big, it could fit many Humerus Wyrms. This tortoise might have fallen here from the top.
Tucker knocked on the shell with a stone, and suddenly there was a loud noise. Under the tortoise shell, a large group of white jades ran out.
There were white jades here? Did that mean there was water here?
Because the ground was hard, the white jades, which were good at burrowing, could not burrow. They could only run around. Lin used the pterosaur's long mouth to catch a few and ate them … Then she spat them out immediately.
This thing … was very salty.
There was a lot of salt in the white jades' hair. They might have done this on purpose so that other creatures could not eat them.
However, Tucker had a special method. He picked up a white jade and used the tip of his claws to make a small wound on it. Then, he took out a small hollow plant root from his leather pouch and inserted it into the wound.
Just like a mosquito, this way Tucker could drink its blood …
When the Skeleton Dragons were ready to set off, they brought two pouches, one to hold water, and the other to hold all kinds of small things. Tucker did not lose the pouch.
A five centimeter long creature couldn't absorb it for long, and Tucker seemed to want to give some to the pterosaur. So, he grabbed more white jade and poured out the little things in the pouch. Then, he stuffed all the jade into the pouch and was ready to throw it to the ground.
"Stop."
Before he could do that, Lin stopped him.
Lin knew what he was going to do. He wanted to break these jades and use them to make more jerky … However, these creatures could not be full no matter how many of them there were, and killing so many of them was a waste. The most important thing now was to find water.
Lin could now smell … water. It was not far from here.
"Let, find, water."
Tucker could understand what Lin was saying. He then let the group of Mao Yu go, but he caught the last one. He stuck a pile of salt on the salt wall with the tip of his claw and put it into the Mao Yu's mouth.
Tucker let the jades eat a lot of salt before letting it go. Then Tucker immediately chased after the jades that were running away.
So this was how they found water? Although the jades lived in a place like this where salt was everywhere, it was inevitable that they would eat too much salt, so they must have a way to find water.
It seemed that the Skeleton Dragons' sense of smell was not very strong, but they used this method to make up for their shortcomings.
The jades ran into the depths of the cave, and Lin and Tucker followed closely behind. At this time, their field of vision gradually widened …
Suddenly, a spacious lake appeared in front of Lin and Tucker's eyes.
The lake in this cave was so clear that they could see the bottom. Under the light of the pterosaur, it reflected bits of fluorescent light. Around the lake, there were a few pieces of tortoise shells and skulls.
The jades that escaped earlier jumped into the lake and swam into the depths. Seeing this, Tucker excitedly rushed over and jumped into the water.
Why was there such a lake here? Lin felt that it was a little strange, and there were also the remains of giant tortoises around it …
"Pfft!" A few seconds after Tucker jumped into the water, it ran out again and spat out a lot of water from its mouth.
Seeing this, Lin walked to the lake and let the pterosaur drink some water.
Sure enough … the water was salty, and the salt content was much higher than seawater. However, Lin could see many jades swimming in the lake.
Lin immediately stretched out the pterosaur's long mouth and bit one of the jades swimming in the water, swallowing it into her body to decompose it.
Speaking of which, Lin had never decomposed this kind of white jades …
So that's how it is. This kind of white jades had a special organ in their body that could filter this kind of water with a high salt content. Their filtration ability even surpassed that of sea creatures.
It seemed that they had lived here for a very long time, and had actually produced this kind of structure.
However, if they could filter, Lin could also do it.
Lin slowly changed some of the structures in her body, creating a similar filtration structure. This kind of structure was relatively easy to create, and she had used this ability to filter the water in salt lakes before.
Tucker looked at Lin curiously, not knowing what she was doing. Suddenly, Lin's pterosaur spread its wings and jumped into the water.
In the water, the pterosaur gulped down the salt water. Its body was constantly filtering the high salt content water, creating fresh water to store.
Wait … What was that?
The pterosaur swam to the bottom of the lake, and Lin saw a strange-shaped thing … It was about one meter long, and its whole body seemed to have hardened like a stone. It looked like … a mushroom.
Could it be … a fossil of a fungus? Amazing astronomy.
État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
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Power Stone 
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