Chapter 381 - Insect Egg (1/2)
Ever since Roy and Benia discovered an object of a suspected underground ruin, they had been paying attention to everything in their surroundings.
Fortunately, Roy found that Big Black seemed to be heading in the direction of the ruin because more and more artificial traces appeared along the way.
The size of this possible demon ruin seemed to be enormous. From the moment they discovered the first artificial trace, Big Black had already gone about twenty kilometers deep, and they had yet to touch the core of the ruin.
The deeper they went, the fewer tunnels dug by the demon worms. In the end, there was only the path that Big Black had dug. Roy guessed that Big Black might have accidentally found this ruin and touched something there to mutate. Ultimately, only it could reach this ruin, and the other demon worms did not have the ability.
Fortunately, when he first saw Big Black, he did not kill it because it was too ugly. Otherwise, he might never have discovered the secrets deep underground.
After an unknown amount of time, the rumbling and movements of Big Black finally stopped. It finally stopped in a large underground cavity. It was not large, and above it was an arc-shaped dome with numerous crystal-shaped fiery red stalactites hanging down. They might be lava crystals that formed due to the high pressure underground. The ground below was uneven, and crystal clusters of various sizes were growing. Not only was the entire cavity not dark, but it was emitting fiery red light, and the source of this light was a flowing underground magma river!
They could only see about two hundred meters of the magma river in this cavity. The source and downstream were in the ground, and they could not tell where it came from or where it went.
After Big Black stopped in the cavity, it slowly crawled to the magma river. Its body sent out a muffled rumble, indicating to Roy and Benia that they had arrived.
Roy jumped down from Big Black’s head and stood beside the magma river. He looked around in confusion. He did not understand why Big Black stopped here. It was clearly not where the ruin was.
But Benia understood. “It seems to mean that it often comes here to eat…”
“Eat?!” Roy looked at the magma river in surprise. “Don’t tell me it’s here to drink magma?”
“I don’t know. Let’s wait and see what it does!” Benia was a little unsure.
Left with no choice, Roy and Benia waited and observed Big Black’s actions, only to find that Big Black was wiggling its body idly. There was still a very long portion of its colossal body outside the cavity, and as it slowly squirmed, its body was shrinking into the cavity bit by bit.
Just as Roy and Benia were wondering what this guy wanted to do, Big Black suddenly seemed to smell something, and its body, which was initially moving slowly, immediately accelerated. It opened its big ring-shaped mouth, straightened its head, and stared intently at the river.
Its actions attracted Roy and Benia, and they turned their attention to the river.
Not long after, they saw a long grayish-white thing in the magma. This thing was slowly floating out from the entrance of where the magma flowed out.
This long grayish-white object was about 1.5 meters long, and it looked like a baguette. When the magma brought it out, it kept rolling in the magma.
Patter patter. Roy looked up and saw a large amount of green saliva flowing out of Big Black’s mouth. This saliva seemed to be strongly acidic. After dripping onto the ground, it immediately made sizzling sounds and corroded large pits on the ground.
“That thing is Big Black’s food?” Roy immediately understood.
When the long object arrived at the center of the magma river, Big Black ignored the magma as it extended its head and grabbed it with its mouth. Then it raised its head and wanted to swallow it.
But at this moment, Roy moved. He spread his wings, flew up, and kicked Big Black’s head, kicking out the thing that it wanted to swallow.
After being kicked by Roy, Big Black let out an aggrieved sound but then cowered in fear.