Chapter 72 – Aircraft flee (2/2)

Ka, Ka, Ka!

Among this green kingdom of plants, some building tall circular plants were making ka-ka sounds, like heavy wood planks hitting each other. Sometimes there were creaking sounds, as if a giant wooden boat was swaying in the waves.

Together with these sounds, the ends of the circular plants had their originally wound up leaves unwind. The layers of leaves stretched and opened, like flowers blossoming.

The lowered “heads” of the bean-sprout-like giant plants began to raise, and in the face of the sun, they stretched out their huge leaves, like wings.

The sun was rising, and its light had reached the other side of the mountain. Like an alarm clock, it went from one side of the mountain to the world in the other side, to wake up the sleeping creatures.

Shao Xuan took a deep breath. He stepped forward and looked down.

It was merely a cliff, and whoever jumped down would totally be smashed to pieces.

“How do we go down there?” asked Shao Xuan. If they had to go down eventually, then why did they climb up? The cliff they stood on was basically perpendicular to the ground. It would be very dangerous if they climbed directly down, let alone that no one knew whether they would be attacked by other creatures while climbing down. It was an impossible mission.

“Of course we do not jump!” someone laughed.

“Hey! Look at the lake over there and you’ll know.” Tuo pointed to somewhere in the other direction.

Shao Xuan looked along to where Tuo pointed.

What lake? There was only a lake of darkness.

No!

It was more than that!

Shao Xuan took a closer look, and found that something was moving in the black lake, it was too far for people to notice easily.

Sure enough, the black lake was not as calm as before, and it began to spread out.

Numerous black dots rose up. At first there were only a few of them, but after several breaths, dense black patches began to rise up in the air.

And the lake, which was covered by those black dots, finally revealed itself in Shao Xuan’s sight.

It was an open lake and there seemed to be a lot of plants of different colors inside. Yellow, green, brown, red…many colors mixed in the pool, and together with the shape of the pool, it was like a pair of compound eyes, like those of some insect.

The mountain on the other side was much higher than the one Shao Xuan was standing at, and it poked right into the sky.

Those rising black dots did not fly upwards, but flew in their direction, as if a ball of dancing black cloud.

“Get ready, everyone!!” Ta said to the crew and then to Shao Xuan, “You follow me, Ah-Xuan!”

The black cloud approached and Shao Xuan could basically hear the wings flapping, and he finally saw what those black dots were.

Dragonflies?!

Just before, they were too far away to identify, but now, Shao Xuan’s heart was fluttering like hell, seeing that it was a group of dragonflies.

Shao Xuan had seen dragonflies before, but not in this size and quantity!

It was a huge aircraft fleet!

The small ones had wingspans of at least three meters, while most of them had wingspans of five meters! Some of them were even bigger, while numerous giant dragonflies were flying towards them in large numbers. Obviously Shao Xuan was looking at something he had never seen before.

They were going to take them from one side of the mountain to the other side, where the green kingdom of plants was located.

When the “aircraft fleet” flew above their heads, Shao Xuan could see the reticulate veins in their wings.

They were like gliders!

“Let’s go!”

With the favorable terrain, warriors in the advance group leaped down the cliff and landed on the backs of dragonflies.

Before Shao Xuan had the chance to move, he was lifted by Ta and landed on a big dragonfly’s back.