Doctor of Science's Journey into Another World

Chapter 231 The Heartbeat of the Abyss

Bai Hao's words were not without basis, because from the animal corpses in these ghost vines, it can be seen that most of the underground animals have undergone mutations to varying degrees, and the radius of the most common ground pythons here is two or three times that of ordinary ground pythons.

"It's hard to imagine that mutated animals can't defeat mutated plants..." a scholar couldn't help but mutter.

Bai Hao looked at the densely packed ghost vines in the distance and whispered, "Maybe it's because the number of plants is far greater than that of animals."

The stems of ghost vines are extremely hard, and they don't contain much water, so apart from the tree elves who use them to build houses, almost no other animals are interested in ghost vines.

Therefore, except for southern Xinjiang, the ghost vines living deep underground can almost be said to have no natural enemies, which is also the fundamental reason why their numbers are so huge.

Bai Hao then turned his gaze to Anan who was still frowning at the side, but this wild god who could communicate with animals and plants just shook his head slightly.

"It's impossible to communicate. The words conveyed by these ghost vines are fragmented and meaningless. It's not an exaggeration to say that they are nonsense..."

Bai Hao remained silent when he heard this. He didn't expect these crazy ghost vines to remain sane, but it seemed that the furious energy of the abyss was far more terrifying than the lust on land.

The exploration team simply collected some ghost vines and animal samples before continuing to go deeper. In order to prevent sudden attacks from the animals and plants in the abyss, some barrier mages directly launched an exploration barrier.

Although the path chosen by the exploration team was the center of the abyss where there were the least ghost vines, the ghost vines spreading from the rock walls still caused considerable trouble to the exploration team.

Not long after, everyone finally reached the bottom of the abyss under the interference of the ghost vine. The air here was extremely cold, and the uneven gravel ground was littered with the remains of the library and various books.

Everyone got off the Fire Sculpture and came to the ground. Bai Hao casually picked up a book on the ground, gently brushed away the dust on the surface of the book with his hand, and then he saw the eight big words "Complete Guide to Cooking Alien Insects".

Then Bai Hao looked at the ground around him again, and suddenly found that there were all some cooking books scattered here. It seems that this area is the ruins of the library in the cooking area. I wonder where the remains of the magic stone research area are...

A fire elemental wizard cast a high-level magic for large-scale lighting, and everyone could see the full picture of the bottom of the abyss. This was a relatively flat area. Apart from the ruins of the library building, there were no other prominent terrain.

What surprised everyone in the exploration team was that there was no animal or plant life at the bottom of the abyss. The number of the violent ghost vines began to decrease sharply when they were about one thousand meters away from the abyss.

"Crash-"

Just west of the bottom of the abyss there is a broad underground river with extremely fast-flowing water. The surrounding stone walls have long been polished smooth by the river water.

The underground river is surrounded by hundreds of cave entrances of various sizes. From a distance, these densely packed black holes give people a creepy feeling that makes their scalp tingle.

Bai Hao believed that this place must be hell for people with trypophobia, the kind that would make one faint after seeing it.

As a great magician of wind element, Michelle immediately reminded Bai Hao softly: "Young Master, there is wind here, and there are many winds of different strengths and directions. There seems to be another world deep in these caves..."

Bai Hao nodded upon hearing this. Generally, rivers deep underground crisscross the bottom of the entire continent, and these accompanying underground caves are naturally interconnected as well.

Perhaps some of these caves have other underground rivers at the other end, or even connect to some low-lying land or abyss, but this is not the point.

Bai Hao had put forward a hypothesis long before entering the abyss that these so-called caves were not formed naturally, but were artificially dug. They were villages of sirens or night demons.

Soon, after a brief observation and discussion, the two geologists and another siren scholar came to a unanimous conclusion that most of these caves were artificially dug.

Through some high-level surveying barrier magic and sensing magic, scholars do not need to go into the cave in person to observe and touch. They can clearly sense everything thousands of meters deep in the cave just at the cave entrance.

Scholars have discovered that the cave contains rich and diverse cave deposits, such as stalagmites, stalactites, stone curtains, etc. However, most of the cave has been transformed into a place suitable for the temporary residence of sirens.

However, it is difficult for scholars to determine whether it was a sirens or night demons that once lived in the cave. After all, the two are of the same origin. Although there are big differences in their appearance, most of their living habits are almost the same.

There was no life at the bottom of the empty abyss, and there was no vegetation on the surrounding damp and cold stone walls. There was not even a single living creature here except the ruins of the library.

The underground river is still flowing, and the sound of its rushing water seems to be the only sound whose source can be found at the bottom of this ten thousand meter deep abyss, while the mysterious heartbeat that can be heard on land cannot be found at this moment.

"Dong dong, dong dong, dong dong..."

The gentle heartbeat was still beating rhythmically, but no matter how high-level or even super-high-level the perception magic was, it was impossible to find the source of the sound, as if the heartbeat appeared out of thin air.

"Could it be beneath this abyss soil?" Bai Hao couldn't help but begin to doubt this flat abyss land.

But after carefully sensing the heartbeat, Bai Hao quickly dispelled his doubts, because the heartbeat seemed to be right next to everyone's ears.

This 360-degree surround sound without blind spots... is just like listening to music with in-ear headphones in the previous life.

Bai Hao noticed that Anan's expression was a little solemn, and the tree trunk was stretched taut as if ready for a fight. Just as Bai Hao was about to ask Anan, the heartbeats surrounding everyone's ears suddenly intensified!

"Dong dong dong, dong dong dong, dong dong dong..."

For some reason, Bai Hao actually felt the excitement of the owner of the voice, which was the joy of a hunter when he found delicious prey.