Volume 2: The Undersea City Chapter 72 Egg Shell
Hatchery?
Could it be a hatchery for flesh-eating worms?
But don't flesh-eating worms hatch inside the host? This is a hatchery... is it used to raise meat animals as hosts?
However, this metal net used to seal the abyss is full of holes, and it is hard to say what is underneath.
However, after being abandoned for such a long time, there were still living flesh-eating worms in the hatchery, which really made Ke Lan feel strange.
He had killed a flesh-eating worm with his own hands. Compared to the Corrosive Seed, the flesh of this fat, large worm was extremely fragile and it was absolutely impossible for it to survive in such an extreme environment...
"If only I could know where the worm in this guy's stomach went..." Ke Lan glanced at the corpse on his back, feeling a little regretful.
"I hope we can find something in this hatchery." Ke Lan swam just above the metal net and fired the last flare into the abyss.
The flare fell rapidly, and after a few seconds it suddenly burst out with a strong light, dragging a long trail in the abyss like a meteor.
"...This is too deep." Ke Lan looked around slightly. The flare had been falling for more than ten seconds, but it still hadn't touched the bottom. The depth of the part that could be observed now alone was more than two hundred meters.
The rock walls on both sides of the abyss are very smooth, and the surface seems to have been specially treated, with a unique reflection of metal material. The further down you go, the farther the distance between the rock walls becomes. The overall shape of this abyss is like a purse with a constricted top. Although the crack above is very narrow, the space underneath is unimaginably large.
Just when Ke Lan decided to pass through the metal net and enter the abyss, the incendiary bomb that was fired suddenly went out.
This immediately made him alert - this kind of underwater flare can burn for three to five minutes in an oxygen-free environment, and will not go out even if it is hit by a violent collision or a strong water flow. But now it suddenly went out in less than a minute, which is definitely not normal.
Rather than saying it was extinguished, it would be more appropriate to describe it as disappearing.
It was as if something hidden in the darkness suddenly swallowed the entire flare in one gulp.
If I choose to dive rashly, I will probably disappear suddenly like this flare...
That was the last flare on Ke Lan. Apart from the flares, the only remaining lighting equipment were the two searchlights installed on both sides of the helmet.
No...he has more than two searchlights in his hand!
Ke Lan looked at the body of the security agent. Although the style of the diving suit he was wearing was different from his own, it still had standard equipment such as a searchlight.
After putting the body down, Ke Lan turned on the searchlight, and two snow-white beams of light shot out from the lamp tube - although the remaining battery power could not be seen, judging from the light intensity, it should be able to be used for a while.
"I'm sorry, I originally wanted to bring you back to the boat, but given the current situation, I can only borrow your body..." Ke Lan apologized to the corpse and then pushed it into the abyss.
The torn diving suit wrapped around the mummy slowly sank, and Ke Lan stared at the bottom of the abyss - the flare disappeared in just a moment, and the body was much larger than the flare. Something that could swallow a flare might not be able to swallow a body in a diving suit.
In addition, he also hung several special incendiary bombs and a piece of plastic explosive on the corpse. The explosives used a trigger fuse. When squeezed or collided by external forces other than water pressure, they would explode directly and detonate the incendiary bombs together.
No matter what is at the bottom of the abyss, this amount is enough for it to drink a pot.
After checking his equipment one last time, Ke Lan also jumped into the abyss, keeping a relatively safe distance of about fifty meters between him and the corpse. This way, even if the corpse below encountered something, he would have enough time to get off and float up.
The body was still sinking, and this time it had reached a depth that exceeded that of the incendiary bomb. It was because of this that Ke Lan was able to see something that he had not seen before:
At a depth of about three hundred meters, the rock walls on both sides are no longer as smooth as the upper part. With the help of the highly penetrating light, one can vaguely see a layer of pale flesh membrane covering the rock. This layer looks like rotten meat that has been soaked in water for a long time, with large pieces of cotton-like objects growing on the swollen surface.
These flocs seemed to be extremely sensitive to light. When the searchlight swept over them, they all shrank into a ball. This scene reminded Ke Lan of the mimosa she saw in the Ark Botanical Museum when she was a child. The leaves of that strange plant would immediately shrink and close when touched by external force, which was very similar to the current situation.
"This thing should be a living creature, right?" As for these deep-sea creatures of Alpha, humans have very little information about them. The deep-sea giant eel is already a relatively common deep-sea species, but even so, this creature is still full of mysteries, not to mention these things that have never been seen before.
"I just don't know if these things are individuals... or a group... huh?!"
Just as Ke Lan was thinking, that long-lost strange feeling unexpectedly appeared again - a large amount of information fragments emerged from the depths of his memory, gradually becoming clear from blurry, flashing !
"This thing is actually... the egg shell of a flesh-eating worm?!"
So, this hatchery is indeed a hatchery for flesh-eating worms. I just don't know what the Alphas are using these big flesh-eating worms for. Is it for food or medicine? Or is there another purpose?
There was a lot of new knowledge in his head, all of which were related to the egg shells of flesh-eating worms. But what made Ke Lan speechless was that there was not a single word about this abyss at the bottom of the sea, and even the word hatchery did not appear.
In stark contrast, one piece of information actually mentioned that "flesh-eating worms are difficult to breed in a centralized manner, and the larvae will devour each other. For them, the flesh and blood of their own kind is far more attractive than that of a different species."
It is difficult to cultivate them in a centralized manner... No wonder there is no mention of the hatchery. However, if centralized cultivation is not possible, then what is going on with this abyss?
Isn't this contradictory?
Wait, something seems wrong...
"The young ones devour each other..."
Ke Lan repeated this sentence and was suddenly shocked. A somewhat bold hypothesis appeared in his mind.
Could this hatchery be used to “raise poisonous insects”?
Let hundreds of larvae fight and devour each other, and finally get the most powerful "Gu King"... Just thinking about it is enough to make one's scalp numb...
The body had sunk to a depth of five hundred meters. Wherever the light reached, there were layers of white egg shells... but apart from the egg shells, there was nothing else.
