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Chapter 122: Infinite Growth

At this time, Wen Mo stepped forward and helped me up. I wanted to rub the pain in my body, but when I raised my hand, I found that my whole body was in pain and I didn’t know where to rub it!

I couldn't help but grin, and half of my face that fell to the ground immediately felt like a needle prick. I raised my hand and touched it gently, and it was wet. I was shocked. Will it be disfigured when I finished?

Seeing that I had nothing to do, Wen Mo let me go and looked around. I also noticed that this place should be another palace, but I didn’t know why the ground was built like this, so I dug a huge "swimming pool" here. Did King Shan Huan like to take a bath during his lifetime, so he built a large bath here? This is completely unreasonable! Could it be that I was thinking too much that this place was just formed by natural collapse?

Wenmo and I first walked straight to the edge of the big pit and found that the edge of the big pit was straight and neat, which means that it either collapsed naturally or was built by man. I can't understand this even more! What does it mean to dig a big pit here for no reason?

I asked Wen Mo, "Why is it built like this here?" Wen Mo shook his head, "I don't know."

We continued walking along the edge. There were almost three people here. I roughly estimated that it was about six meters. This height may not trap Wen Mo, but I definitely couldn't climb up. I hope to find a way to go.

We walked forward a while and carved on the stone wall of the big pit, but there was only one, and it was very simple. There were two people on the picture, one with four eyes and the wall was fangs. It was obvious that what Wen Mo said was Alimoke, the patron saint who was believed in all countries in the Western Regions. The person next to him had a human face and a bird's beak and had two wings on his back. It was obvious that he was the leader of the ancient Shanhuan Kingdom. On the carving, these two people broke through the ground and rushed down.

Seeing this, I was puzzled and said to myself: "Does this leader of Shan Huan Kingdom still know Alimokeshu, and the two of them have fought together? Isn't Alimokeshu a god?"

Wen Mo heard it and said, "In fact, this is a kind of praise. The significance of this painting is to compare the king of Shanhuan Kingdom to the patron saint Alimokesai to praise his great achievements. Just like in the tombs of the royal lords in the Central Plains, there are often pictures of fairy music ascending to heaven, in which fairies play music, gods welcome them, and divine beasts dance, which only show the sages of the tomb owner. It is not a fact."

I nodded, "The customs of this place are different from those in the Central Plains. We are all looking forward to ascending to heaven, but this place is painted into the ground. It's really strange!"

Wen Mo pointed to the black pattern of the semicircles at the bottom of the picture, "And here, there must be some special meaning, but we have no way to verify what it represents."

Our eyes left the mural and were about to continue moving forward, but accidentally, I suddenly saw behind us, near the center of the pit, a large black ridge seemed to be a rock bulging out of the ground. But from my distance, I could see that it was very smooth. What is this?

Obviously Wen Mo also noticed that thing, so we walked over carefully together.

We walked to the side of the thing, raised our hands and illuminated it. When we saw the true face of the thing in the flashlight, I was stunned. At the same time, a strong chill appeared in my heart, and I couldn't help but murmur, "Oh my god! There is really such a thing in the world!"

I saw the bulge on the ground, which turned out to be a human-faced beetle the size of a bathtub! The moment I saw it clearly, I felt my feet soft and I immediately had the urge to turn around and run!

But seeing Wen Mo still watching calmly, I forced myself to hold back and lift the flashlight to continue looking over. Only then did I notice that the giant beetle had its tentacles hanging from the ground. When we were so close, it didn't move. It was obvious that the beetle was dead!

This made me breathe a sigh of relief, so I dared to seriously observe this giant beetle like a prehistoric monster. "Damn! This is the ancestor of those beetles! How many years would it take to grow so big? I thought that only the dinosaur era would have this giant insect! If scientists knew that this was a century-old discovery in the scientific community!" After knowing that the beetle was dead, I felt a lot more relaxed, and I dared to vent my feelings and shock in my heart!

Wen Mo looked up and down at this big guy who was like a movie prop. "In fact, some animals have their bodies that grow for life. As long as they have enough food and space, and assuming that they have enough life, they can theoretically grow to infinite size."

I have heard of this theory. Of course, this is just a theoretical statement under hypothesis, but in fact, after hundreds of millions of years of evolution, the laws of nature have ensured the equilibrium of the biosphere on the earth. For example, although the human-faced beetle in front of us can grow for life, their lifespan is ultimately limited. Even if it will be very long, or even hundreds or thousands of years, it must have a limit, which is also a limitation of nature. And there is also a very important point. As the size of this beetle continues to grow, the energy it needs is also increasing in geometric proportions. When it grows to a certain degree, the energy it absorbs daily is no longer enough to support it to continue its needs in its body, and its growth will stagnate, which is also a control method of nature.

The victory of nature is extremely terrifying and cruel, and the extinction of dinosaurs is generally the same. The size of the body and the energy consumption are too large, which leads to extremely poor catastrophe resistance and ultimately dominates the dinosaurs for a while. Dinosaurs were eliminated in the test of nature, while animals with smaller sizes and small consumption have become the dominant part of the earth's biosphere.

I believe that such a huge human-faced beetle is a dead end even if it lives to this day. They can only exist in this specific environment, and they can no longer adapt to the nature of the outside world.

My mind was thinking about it all, and suddenly I saw Wen Mo reaching out and retreating the corpse of the giant beetle.

I looked curious and asked him, "What are you doing?"

Wen Mo didn't say anything, and pointed to the giant beetle under it. I looked closely and found that there was a dark hole under the giant beetle's body. When the flashlight shone in, it was impossible to see its depth.

I looked at the deep hole, "What is the hole used for?"

Wen Mo looked at me, "Maybe it's the nest of that giant beetle?"

I was so cold that my back was said, "Brother, don't scare me! You didn't want to say that this giant beetle will crawl out of here in a while, right?"

Wen Mo was still looking at me without saying a word. He reached out and took out a few glow sticks from his bag. He broke it with his hand, and the green light lit up. Wen Mo reached out and raised his hand and threw the glow sticks into the hole.

This hole is obviously not straight downward, with many turns in the middle, and these glow sticks fell scattered at a corner of the deep hole. I looked at the bottom nervously, but after looking at it for a while, there was basically no change in the hole. It seemed that even though this hole was the cave of a giant beetle, with the death of the beetle, it should have been abandoned.

I was about to turn around and leave, but suddenly I saw the bottom glow stick turned off. Hey, the glow stick didn't go out so quickly! No, it wasn't that the glow stick was extinguished, but that it was blocked by something, something came up below! Gradually all the glow sticks were covered, and it was reappeared one after another. Judging from the time when the glow stick was blocked, the thing climbed up below was not much smaller than the dead giant beetle!

I looked at Wenmo in shock and anger, "What is that? Did your glow stick attract it?"

Wen Mo shook his head with a serious expression, "This has nothing to do with me. What should come will come in the end. I just discovered it in advance."

I jumped up all of a sudden, "Then what are you waiting for! Run!"

Wen Mo stood up straight and looked around, "We may find it difficult to get out for a while. The best way is to hide first."

I looked around anxiously, "But there is no place to hide from this tm!" I took off the magazine of the pistol and looked at it, then installed it, and pulled the bolt "brushed" and pulled it up, "Master! No matter how big it is, it is still a bug! I don't believe it can be harder than the bullet!"

Wen Mo reached out to stop me, "Even if you can easily kill these giant beetles, the gunfire and the liquid in these beetles will attract the huge number of human-faced beetles just now, which is the most threatening."

I nodded. It is true. Is these beetles very conscious of population? If I kill their ancestors, countless insects and grandchildren will definitely tear me to pieces. Thinking of those overwhelming army of beetles, I couldn't help but shivering.

The thing in the hole was getting closer and closer. I stood up and looked around. Wen Mo reached out and took out several glow sticks from his bag, and broke them hard, scattered them around the hole, and then ran into the darkness on the other side with me.

Fortunately, there were some gravels and some broken carvings on the ground here, and there were several giant stones more than half a person tall on the edge. Wenmo and I quickly crossed the gravels and drilled into the middle of the huge rocks.

We held our breath and looked nervously at the location where the green light was lingering in the distance through the cracks of the rocks. The middle of this green light was the location of the entrance of the cave.

Gradually, the corpse of the giant beetle above the entrance of the cave moved, trembling and moving to the side. It was obvious that something was moving under it, and I immediately widened my eyes and felt a chill on the back of my neck.
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