Bab 263: Chapter 262
"Woo …"
What was that sound? An unfamiliar sound came from the small creature in front of Leviathan. It sounded at the same time, but it didn't come from the same place.
It came from … above!
The Leviathan immediately raised its glowing tentacles. In the light, a large creature suddenly pounced down. This creature landed on the Leviathan's back and used its mouth and claws to scratch and bite, but it couldn't open the Leviathan's carapace.
Leviathan extended another tentacle and hit the creature, knocking it off its back. The creature rolled a few times on the ground before standing up again. It quickly rushed in front of Leviathan and stood between Leviathan and the small creature.
They seemed to be of the same species?
Leviathan shone the light on the creature. It looked almost identical to the small creature. It had forelimbs connected to wing membranes and stood on its thick hind legs. Its head was round, and its mouth was full of sharp teeth. It looked like a lizard from head to tail, but Lin had never seen such a large lizard. Including its tail, it was about six meters long, although it was still considered small compared to Leviathan's ten-meter long body.
She had already used the name 'flying lizard' before. What should she call it? In Lin's mind, large reptiles like this were no longer suitable to be called 'lizards'. Then, she should call it … 'dragon'. Yes, calling this creature a 'flying dragon' sounded pretty good.
Dragons referred to large and powerful creatures, just like tornadoes also referred to dragons.
The 'flying dragon' in front of Leviathan roared non-stop in front of the young creature, as if it wanted to protect the young creature.
It seemed that the young flying dragon was produced by it? Could their nest be in this dark canyon?
The flying dragon roared at Leviathan as it retreated. It seemed like it didn't want to fight with Leviathan's huge body. But it didn't want to leave its young creature either. When it was close enough to the young creature, it suddenly turned around and grabbed its young creature. Suddenly, it turned around and picked up the cub with its mouth. Then, it spread its wings and flew into the sky.
Seeing this, Leviathan immediately followed behind the wyvern. When the wyvern saw that Leviathan was following, it immediately flapped its wings faster. Lin didn't know if it was trying to fly towards its nest. Some creatures would lure their enemies away from their nest.
In the depths of the dark canyon, the flying dragon seemed to be unimpeded. Lin heard a very soft tapping sound. The wyvern seemed to be using its echoes to explore the surrounding space.
The Leviathan relied on its jet system to easily keep up with this flying creature. The Wyvern's wingspan was much larger than its body, but its flying speed was slower than the Giant Vein Dragonfly. This was related to many aspects, but the main reason was … its body structure.
The Wyvern kept turning as it flew, trying to get rid of Leviathan. Leviathan chased after the Wyvern while using Echolocation to detect the surrounding environment. This was a place it had never been before. Within the echoes, Lin could 'see' many white objects. White objects meant that they were 'uncolored', which meant that they had never been seen before. The shapes of these objects were very strange. Some of them were egg-shaped objects that were covered with spikes, while others were pillar-shaped objects that were covered with branch-like branches.
Lin also noticed that the canyon was quite large. Based on her current speculations, it could be an area of several kilometers or even tens of kilometers wide. It was not smaller than the canyon formed by the Twisted Jungle's underground world. It might even be larger.
At this time, Leviathan saw an area with small rocky mountains in front of it. The Wyvern immediately dove into these mountains and circled around them, trying to avoid Leviathan's pursuit.
Leviathan's body was too large for it to shuttle between the mountains. Lin had Leviathan open its main cannon and fired a bomb into the air.
Boom!
When the bomb exploded, an extremely bright light illuminated the entire canyon. Frightened by the sudden flash, the Wyvern rushed out of the area and fled into the distance.
The flash only lasted for a few seconds, and the surroundings quickly returned to darkness. Leviathan continued to chase after the Wyvern to see where it was going.
During these few seconds, Lin also noticed many strange things. The strange structure on the ground just now seemed to be a type of plant, while more and more creatures were slowly appearing in this place. The plague fungus didn't seem to affect this place at all, perhaps there was something special in the canyon that prevented them from drifting in.
At this time, the Wyvern flew over a large black area with Leviathan following closely behind. This black area was actually a swamp filled with mud. Lin noticed that the mud seemed to be flowing, and various bubbles kept emerging from it. These bubbles kept expanding on the surface of the swamp and then exploded with a bang. The smell that wafted out from the swamp stimulated Leviathan's sense of smell.
Lin had seen some swamps before, and they usually hid dangerous gases such as poisonous gas. It seemed to be related to the sediment in the swamp, but this smell was not poisonous gas, but … the smell of rotting corpses …
The Wyvern was very close to the surface of the swamp, and it kept slapping the surface with its tail. At the same time, it turned to look at Leviathan as if it wanted to do something.
Boom!
Suddenly, the surface of the mud under the Wyvern exploded, and a large mouth full of sharp teeth rushed out of the mud like a pincer and bit the Wyvern's body.
The Wyvern screamed and struggled violently, but its movements only lasted for about two seconds before it was pulled into the mud by the large mouth. Its entire body slowly began to sink into the mud.
There was actually such a large creature in the mud. No wonder there was the smell of corpses.
Leviathan flew closer to observe the Wyvern. It kept flapping its wings in the mud, but it was useless. The mud covered its tail, body, wings, and neck …
"Ugh …"
After letting out a final scream, its head sank into the mud. It had now been dragged into the abyss of the swamp by the monster in the mud.
Lin guessed that the Wyvern knew there were monsters here, so it kept slapping the surface of the mud to lure them out to attack Leviathan, but the monster ate it instead.
This was to be expected. Generally, predators would choose the Wyvern, which looked easier to deal with, instead of the larger and more difficult Leviathan. The Wyvern was probably in a panic and had lost its basic judgment. No, the Wyvern was also quite large. Its mouth was half the length of the Wyvern's body.
The mouth felt strange. It was a creature Lin had never seen before, but if there was such a large predator here, it meant that there should be many other large creatures nearby. The plague fungus did not affect this area.
"Squawk …"
Suddenly, a young voice came from nearby.
Lin realized that the young Wyvern was still in the mud. It seemed that the Wyvern had spat it out when it screamed, and it was too light to sink.
Leviathan used its tentacles to pull the young Wyvern out of the mud. Almost at the same time, the large mouth that swallowed the Wyvern suddenly rushed out of the swamp and bit Leviathan's body.
Then, almost at the same time, it let go and retreated back into the swamp.
This creature seemed to have a strong sense of judgment. It probably knew that it couldn't eat Leviathan the moment it bit, so it let go.
Many creatures had this kind of quick judgment, including some with small brains. It didn't seem to have anything to do with intelligence.
Leviathan used its tentacles to wrap around the Wyvern's young Wyvern and carefully observed it. Lin was considering whether or not to dissect it. With only this young Wyvern, they might not be able to find its group or nest, but it might also attract other adult Wyverns, so it was better to keep it for now.
Lin then took the young Wyvern around the canyon to observe for a while. This area was full of large mud swamps. Occasionally, they would see some plants and small arthropods in the swamps. For example, flies were especially common here, but they were all very small species. Lin also saw some large creatures.
Perhaps large creatures would occasionally fly down here, just like the wyvern earlier. But in this dark space, these plants didn't even have a single leaf. Lin guessed that they relied on their roots to absorb nutrients from the swamp or underground, turning them into fungus-like creatures.
As long as it wasn't a plague fungus, there shouldn't be a problem.
Lin kept flying south, towards the opposite side of the canyon. After passing the swamp, the ground was still made of rocks, but there were more creatures here. Many plants with sharp thorns grew here, and Lin also saw a very strange reptilian creature.
This creature's body was round and thick, with a length of only one meter and a height of about thirty centimeters. This small creature had a long, plate-shaped bone structure behind its head, which made it completely different from the common reptiles.
Leviathan flew over the plains below the canyon and found that there were many of these creatures in the canyon, but their eyes were intact. This meant that they hadn't stayed here for long, and their eyes hadn't degenerated yet.
They should have come from a … very bright place, but where was it?
Leviathan sped up and flew over the plains in the canyon. The deeper she flew, the more creatures Lin saw. There were even some reptilian creatures similar to the ones she saw in the Twisted Jungle, but most of them were new to Lin.
The creatures here were like the Twisted Jungle. The arthropods were very small, while the reptiles were relatively large, but they gave Lin a special feeling … It was as if these arthropods didn't suddenly become small, but had been this small for a long time, so small that they evolved into many special species, and allowed the larger reptiles to fill this environment.
Suddenly, Leviathan flew to the end.
In front of Leviathan, a huge rock wall appeared. This was the opposite side of the canyon. The canyon was about ten kilometers wide, which was quite large, but what could be on top of it?
"Gah!" The young Wyvern let out a cry. It kept flapping its wings and looked up at the cliff.
Then … let's go up and take a look! Floating astronomy.
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