This is a colorful world, this is a scene that can only appear in dreams, this is a fairy tale country that is free from reality. The location where a few people appeared was a vast lake. Through the clear lake water, you can see the smooth stones at the bottom of the lake. Standing next to the lake, looking around, here is an underground cave with an area of ​​one or two square kilometers. Every distance in the cave, there are several natural stone pillars running through the upper and lower parts, playing a supporting role, and maintaining the entire cave from collapse. The biggest feature of this cave is light. A large number of crystals of different sizes are distributed on the four walls and tops of the cave, and on the stone pillars that run through the cave, there are many crystals of different sizes growing. These crystals have different colors and are flashing with colorful light. A large number of crystals flash alternately. Every object in the cave is constantly changing color, making the entire underground cave full of dreamy and gorgeous.

Outside the lake is a soft lawn, and the space outside the lawn is a lot of shrubs. Since there is no sunlight, both the grass and the shrubs are pale in color, and they will emit various lusters only under the reflection of colorful crystals. For some reason, these plants can grow so luxuriantly in a world without sunlight. There are even many wild bees the size of fists and even forearms flying among the shrubs in the distance, picking nectar from the huge flowers grown from the shrubs. The entire cave world is peaceful and peaceful, making it difficult to believe that this is in the same underground world as the previous dangerous tunnels.

Just as the girls opened their mouths in surprise and looked at the colorful scenery around them, the grass swayed, and a few strange worms about half a meter crawled out of the grass. These insects had huge heads. They could almost reach half of their bodies, and their bodies were arching forward one after another. After climbing to the water, they didn't look at a few people. They stretched out their heads and soaked in the water. After soaking for a while, their bodies swelled up a circle. Several worms seemed to have replenished enough water, turned their heads with satisfaction, and squirmed into the grass. After a burst of rippling sounds, they could no longer find them. The girls looked at the group of leisurely worms in a daze. This was the first time that the girls had encountered such leisurely creatures after they came to the underground world of Earth Shines. They had no aggression and did not take any precautions. They were even more leisurely than wild animals in the ground world.

"Look at the rock wall carefully." Panis's eyes suddenly trembled and he whispered to the girls: "This place is not as quiet and lonely as you think. Look, there are still many friends accompanying us."

At the prompt of Panis, the girls looked around and were startled. Indeed, because the flashing beautiful crystals were too eye-catching, all the girls ignored them. On the rock wall where the crystals grew, special beetles kept crawling around quickly, and sometimes even climbing onto the crystals, as if they were to make a living by eating the crystals. Each of these beetles is about the size of a palm. They are quite small bugs in the underground world, but their image is quite special, so special that the girls recognize their identities at a glance.

"It's actually a cockroach." Freya curled her lips with disgust: "Why are there even them here?"

"Don't underestimate cockroaches, their vitality is stronger than most creatures." Although Catherine also looked very disgusted, she persuaded: "Since the first century, countless creatures have become extinct one after another. But it is said that cockroaches still have achieved good results. Now it seems that there is almost no change in size except for their body shape. If they count their vitality, they are much stronger than us."

"It's not unchanged." Ike finally came out of the water two minutes ago and interrupted, "If you look closely, you will find that their changes are still very big. At least I have never seen a translucent cockroach that changes color."

"Are they aggressive?" Catherine asked cautiously: "Will they attack the creatures around them for no reason?"

"If you don't release your hostility, you won't." Ike shook his head and said, "But even so, it's best to be too close. Some people think that these cockroaches are the most unprovoked among all the bugs in the underground world. Once they get involved, among us, except for Pannis who can survive with the physical fitness of a demigod, everyone else will die here."

"So amazing?" Catherine muttered in disbelief, but she still walked out of the water rationally and observed these cockroach-like creatures from a safe distance. It seems that they should be a variant of cockroaches. In addition to their color, they are exactly the same as cockroaches. However, they are indeed translucent. They mistakenly thought that they were black because the color of the rocks came out of the translucent body. Now after careful observation, you can find that from the body of cockroaches, various colors will be emitted like crystals, just like crystals, as if they were also a small crystal.

"They eat crystals, right?" Vivian stood beside Catherine, looked for a while and asked, "Through some fine powder was ground from the crystals as food, so the same light as the surrounding crystals would be produced in the body."

"I'm not very clear about this." Ike spread his hands and replied, "After all, I'm not a scholar. Your guess is very likely, but few people are willing to verify it. They are really too difficult to deal with."

"I can't tell." Lina looked at the mutant cockroaches crawling around curiously: "Do they have any strange abilities?"

"Let me say that, these mutated cockroaches only appear on the fifth floor. In the entire fifth floor, there are more than forty of their ethnic groups as territory, and their territory is all safe zones." Ike explained: "Seldom offensive monsters dare to enter their territory. Even if they enter, they dare not hunt easily, and they dare not provoke them. When they go down to the eighth floor, no monster dares to do this, which shows their deterrence."

The girls couldn't help but take a few steps back and distanced themselves from the cockroaches. Catherine stared at the crawling cockroaches with caution and asked, "Why should they maintain this deterrent power? I just looked at them. Their limbs are not strong, their mouthparts are not well developed, and there are no poisonous needles and stings. They can't just rely on their tenacious vitality to intimidate others."

"Sister, you are talking more and more like Panis." Lina curled her lips and joked: "But I'm also very curious. Is it because they absorbed the energy of the crystals? But it's wrong. It can be seen that they eat crystals whose energy has completely disappeared, and it is impossible to absorb any energy."

"Because their only characteristic is self-destruction." Ike explained: "If you are not hostile, it doesn't matter if you step on them to death. But once someone penetrates their territory with hostility, it's over. All cockroaches within ten meters of your radius will self-destruct at the same time, and then when they self-destruct, they will also send a special signal that will allow the surrounding companions to explode as well."

"Isn't the whole cave going to collapse?" Catherine couldn't help but exclaim, "This is too dangerous."

"No, no, no, their self-destruction is actually very small, but it will release all the toxins accumulated in the body at once. These toxins are very strong. Even if you hold your breath, they will seep into the body from the skin." Ike sighed: "A demigod once calculated before that the poisonous mist released by a cockroach can poison a forest bull in three seconds. Moreover, the higher the concentration of the poisonous mist, the toxicity will be superimposed. So, once we get into these beetles, except that Panis can use the powerful energy in the body to fight the toxins and prevent the toxin from invading, no one else will be spared. Even if Miss Lina, you can remove the toxins, the effective speed of the toxin will make you have no time to cast magic tricks."

"The more I hear, the more I feel worried." Catherine said with a wry smile: "I really didn't expect that a little thing that looked like a threat was actually so powerful."

"Without any special ability, why do you become a dominant creature in a certain level of the underground world?" Panis said: "Ike, that is, as long as we keep a distance of ten meters from these cockroaches at any time, we won't have any trouble, right?"

"That's right, and the poisonous fog generated by their self-destruction is very weak. As long as it is not a self-destruction targeted by us, half will not involve us." Ike explained: "So everyone regards the location of these cockroaches on this floor as a safe area. As long as they are in an open place, they can be trimmed as much as possible, and there is no need to worry about disturbing the rest of the predators."

"This is the best news I heard today." Catherine exclaimed: "There is no need to repair it. We have to continue rushing. How far is it from the nearest lower entrance? Is the entrance also included in the safe area?"

"It's not too far, but you have to leave this safe area." Ike replied: "From here, you can see the entrance after walking for more than an hour. By the way, there is a better news to tell you, and I believe you will like this news very much."

"Actually, I probably guessed it." Panis grinned and pointed at Ike's shoulder.

Catherine also nodded and said, "I guessed from the action of putting away your shoulder light just now. It should be a long time, and there will be no need for lighting tools."
Chapter completed!