#636 - Chapter 634: Detailed Explanation of the Walking Dragon
#636 - Chapter 634: Detailed Explanation of the Walking Dragon
Since the appearance of the Earth Dragon, people have conducted detailed investigations into it.
Earth Dragon, a long, strip-shaped creature.
Its entire body is covered with a hard shell composed of minerals and soil, which is very thick and has strong defensive capabilities.
Its appearance is very similar to an extremely long earthworm, without eyes or ears, only eight worm-like mouths covering its face.
Logically speaking, with such a large size and its mouths not rotating like a tunnel boring machine, it would encounter great resistance moving underground, making it impossible to advance quickly.
However, this is another world.
As a type of [Source], it possesses the power to manipulate the earth.
Whenever it wants to move forward, the soil in front of it rapidly shrinks and crumbles, dispersing and flowing into its eight scattered mouths.
After this soil enters its body, it goes into eight different channels, which can also be called esophagi, to digest and decompose the substances inside.
However, it does not digest on its own, but through parasites within its body.
These unique worms within the Earth Dragon are like probiotics in the human body, extracting beneficial substances from the food (soil) and supplying them for the Earth Dragon's growth.
At the same time, they are also influenced by the Earth Dragon's subjective will, living their own lives normally, but in case of a situation, they will obey the Earth Dragon's orders to fly out of the body and perform some labor, and can also accurately locate foreign objects (life, etc.) that have been eaten inside to eliminate them.
And then be digested together.
The remaining substances in the soil are then discharged together through its anus.
It is worth mentioning that the Earth Dragon is constantly moving forward and constantly eating, but it can absorb very few substances, with little difference between the volume of what is eaten and what is excreted.
Therefore, even though it is extremely large, its underground movement does not cause earthquakes.
Only when it leaps out of the ground and compresses the earth's space can surface creatures sense its existence.
Of course, sensing it is useless, as they are usually directly crushed to death.
In summary.
The Earth Dragon does not crush people to death.
It only unintentionally chews them up with the compressive force generated when eating soil.
If they don't die, they are eaten and countless parasites in the tens of thousands of kilometers long esophagus kill them, or they starve to death inside because they can only eat soil.
That's right, parasites are not flesh and blood creatures, but elemental life forms, and cannot be eaten.
As for escaping?
The Earth Dragon's skin has three layers inside and three layers outside, making it too difficult to break through.
Even [Carefree Immortal] Xiao Shiwu used his strongest attack to chop for an entire day and only broke through one layer of its skin, and also provoked a large number of parasites to attack him.
It is conceivable that if it swept through the Giant Beast Mountain Range, not many of the alien races would survive.
Even if they survive, they will definitely be taken away from the Giant Beast Mountain Range and discharged to who knows where, unable to pose a threat to Qingyun City in recent years.
Of course, this method also has its drawbacks.
That is the existence of space ability beasts.
If there are space ability users among the alien races, they must be at least five hundred years old and possess a very large teleportation range, perhaps able to teleport out of the Earth Dragon's body with a few teleports.
Therefore, the second step of their Earth Dragon plan is to pinpoint and snipe these space ability beasts.
For this, they need an item and a person.
Fortunately, these are all on this Sky City.
"Zhu Qing'an, a good name, every time I say your name, it feels like I'm blessing you."
When Hong Xiaole led the entire Dawn Squad up, Kong Que had already arrived at the Sky City's temporary camp and was discussing with Zhu Qing'an.
She looked at the sophomore girl in front of the ice house and earnestly held out two fingers:
"Next, we need to find the ability beasts that can break through the Earth Dragon's body. According to the information from the spies, there should be no more than two, very soon."
Zhu Qing'an asked:
"Sister Kong, if there are only two of them, why do we have to kill them? They can't save too many alien races, can they?"
"I misspoke, it's not the ability beasts that can break through the Earth Dragon's body, but the high-level space ability beasts that can take a large number of alien races out of the Earth Dragon."
Some space ability users can teleport very far, but they can only carry one person.
For example, some people's "Return to City" ability can ignore distance and return to the original location no matter how far away or where they are.
But some abilities can allow a large number of creatures to pass through.
For example, Kong Que's space door, as long as it is maintained, no matter how many can enter.
Or Kong Que's space storage, which can also carry a large number of creatures.
Therefore, their target is such ability beasts. As long as they are eliminated, they can safely hand them over to the Earth Dragon.
Hong Xiaole walked over and said:
"Sister Kong, I have another question, why not find them in advance, but have to assassinate them at this time node?"
Her Dawn Squad has been in the Giant Beast Mountain Range for more than just a day or two. If they had found them earlier, they might have already killed those space ability beasts.
Why rush at this time?
Kong Que turned the jade pendant in her hand and said:
"Some abilities can be detected and targeted. Have you heard of the observation effect?
Just like when you go to investigate shopping behavior in a store, observing from the side may affect the behavior of the shoppers. Your observation behavior has an impact on the things themselves.
Some alien races will sense that someone is looking for them.
In order to prevent them from escaping or hiding in advance, we will only take action against them now."
Xiao Xin widened her eyes, looking like she suddenly understood:
"I get it, once I think of my nose, my nose will start to breathe actively. If I don't think about it, it will breathe passively, all because of my thoughts. So, in order to catch it off guard, I can't think about it in advance!"
"Uh, you could say that."
Kong Que looked at Zhu Qing'an and asked again:
"How about it, dare you?"
"I dare!"
Zhu Qing'an looked at the compass in her hand.
From the day she saw this thing, she had thought about this situation, that many people would come to ask her to use the compass to find things, but she didn't expect it to be so soon.
She asked again:
"Sister Kong, do we have any ways to kill space ability beasts? Their escape speed should be very fast, right?"
"You don't have to worry about this. If we didn't have a way to deal with space ability beasts, they would have broken through Qingyun City's defenses long ago. As long as we find them, they will definitely not be able to escape."
Space ability users are heaven-defying.
But wisdom is even more heaven-defying.
Since people discovered that space-distorting stones would affect the surrounding space, they have conducted years of research on them.
Combined with certain specific abilities, it can be completely used to create tools to seal space.
For example, the array jade in Kong Que's hand.
If ability isn't enough, technology makes up for it!
"Departure, assassination."
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