Sword and Magic and Taxi

"Bug, come here and pass me that thing."

A black worker looked at the gardener dragon, received the translated instructions from her, and followed them. A pair of slender feet picked up a shiny stone from the ground, raised it above his head, and placed it on the table in front of Zhao's father.

Since the project in the afternoon, Z-worm has maintained a very high work efficiency. By about dusk, the old mine tunnel has been cleaned up, and the remaining work is sorting. Zhao Mai squeezed a stone table for his father, equipped with a chair, a lantern and other tools, so that he had a place to check the miscellaneous things. For the rest of the time, Zhao Mai sat with his father, watching him concentrate on his work without saying a word.

Reading glasses hang loosely on the bridge of the nose, shaking but they won’t fall off; a pair of gloves that you always carry with you, even if you forget your key, wallet and mobile phone, you never forget it; a magnifying glass, although It is not very useful in the immediate work, but as long as it is within sight, Zhao Mai's father will enter the working state. He didn't care about his son's gaze, his hand movements were quick and accurate, and he could see at a glance what everything was doing before.

Most of the mine equipment has been turned into fragments in earthquakes, landslides and burials. Of the five people who disappeared that year, four were found in the stone ball, but the stone ball is far below the mine shaft and there is no passage in the middle. This is already very strange. But what was even more weird was the missing fifth person. The entire mine was dug up, but his wreck could not be found.

How did the stone ball come, you can put it aside, and the ending of the last person affects Dad Zhao's mood even more, and the current result obviously makes him unsatisfied. "Keep digging down until you take out the position of the stone ball. Can your bugs do this kind of work?"

"Of course, but after digging there, no matter what we find, we will leave." Zhao Mai said.

"Um... weird." Father did not agree to Zhao Mai's words, but said: "Do you remember the crystal that you took from the cabinet? I remember seeing more than that when I went down the mine. There should be at least dozens of them. It looks like a catty, I just picked a very small piece of it, just enough to fit in my pocket. That kind of thing will not disappear, but it will be crushed to pieces? Your bug..."

"They will not miss anything. The original mine has been cleaned up, and there are topographic tomographic scans on the car, and possible cracks have been searched for. Now they are digging in the direction of the stone ball, and there is no crystal on the road. ."

Father Zhao shook his head slightly, lost in thought. He wanted to go down the well, but Zhao Mai firmly stopped him. "I can provide as many stone samples as I want. For the purpose of going down the well, let the relevant ministries and commissions reinforce this place. If they go down, you can read the report. If you do not agree, I would rather destroy this place completely and break you. Thought of it."

"Destroying this and destroying that, are you a firecracker?" Although Zhao Mai slapped his head a little, he felt it was worth it.

As the digging deepened, some strange things were sent up by the Z bug. The first is some thin and long bones, which should be human bones in terms of composition, but who can have a three-meter-long calf bone? Along the way, Z insects cleared out about sixty bones in various parts, all of which were longitudinally elongated. Zhao Mai jigsaw puzzles in the open area of ​​the mine, and roughly spelled out an ultra-long human skeleton with a height exceeding 15 meters, but still less than one meter wide.

"Look at the old scar on his ulna. It must have been caused by a fracture. This wound has also been elongated." The analysis of the stone father is a master, and the analysis of biological remains belongs to Zhao Mai. "There is a callus **** wide. If there was such a big crack at the time, his arm would have been split in two. The only explanation for this phenomenon is that the power of space is working, turning his body like a ramen. The same lengthened."

Dad Zhao shook his head, and said helplessly: "The current situation is no longer explained according to my knowledge. Let me listen to you first."

"Actually, there is nothing to say, this is the fifth person who is missing." Zhao Mai said: "The five people are ordinary miners, and their range of activities can only be mines. The stone ball is deeper underground, it must use something This method **** people into the interior, and the spatial transmission is the best. Five people, **** in four, and lose one on the road, which is the skeleton we see. All of his things are elongated vertically, that's how it comes. of."

"It sounds impeccable at the moment, but where did the crystal go?" Dad Zhao still wondered about this doubt. Zhao Mai is also very helpless about this. Father who enters this state will always feel uncomfortable unless he finds out the answer. He will always think and think about it, and don't want to do anything else. The kind of meditation that I entered into a daze (if it wasn't for immortality, I would sit down and die) was inherited from here.

The Z bug digs deeper and deeper, gradually digging out more strange things. All kinds of bone fragments quickly piled up on the table, too long and too badly damaged, Zhao Mai was unable to classify and repair. In this way, the Nexus in the stone ball still needs to eat to supplement itself, and at this time it uses a certain spatial ability to inhale the target, but this ability is not always successful.

But this action of eating is obviously very important to it, even higher than its main purpose of hiding itself. From this point of view, "eating" should be in a very high position in the demand rankings of Naquus. From the plasticine in the stone shell to the incredible existence larger than the galaxy, Nexus is "eating".

Zhao Mai eats to replenish the material and energy consumption of the body~www.NovelMTL.com~ But think about it carefully, Nexus has been in a low-energy state, and all the free energy around is converging towards it and being swallowed by it, why Still want to eat? What's more, it eats all living things, and it doesn't eat much stuff like dirt and rocks. At this point, Zhao Mai's Z Worm is completely different from Naquus. Z insects don't need to swallow other creatures into their stomachs. All they need is a basic physical environment, and then they can multiply by themselves and build a suitable ecological environment. If the Z Worm is the builder, Nexus is the destroyer.

‘But in this way, isn’t Nexus preying on Zworm? "Zhao Mai looked at the corpse and wondered, "It's not right, Nexus eats all creatures, not just Z insects. Biological...non-biological... Does Nexus eat soul or vitality? I remember that in Glarion, the temple of Nequus tried to kidnap Druid Wozworth from the mangrove! Is it because he has taken a fancy to his ability to split souls? ’

The answer to this question is now unknown, but another answer has surfaced. Towards the end of the excavation, Z Worm finally found the remains of the crystal, the amount dug out was quite astonishing, a full seven tons. Along with the crystal, there are a large number of fragments similar to eggshells, with various colors, almost making up the entire color spectrum. Zhao Mai picked up a piece, looked at the texture, then with an unbelievable expression, carefully took a bite on it, quack quack quack ate it.

"This thing... is the dragon egg?"