Chapter 386: Do you have any public morality!
Ang landed on the Eternal Road, and a thin, skinny insect was startled, crawling slowly into the distance with its six limbs.
Ang tilted his head in confusion, looking at it.
Nage lisi and the others drove over in the Great Sage's spirit carriage and landed beside Ang.
"Eh? An insect? Alive?" Nage lisi was shocked. The Eternal Road hung alone in the void, and its volume was small; it didn't look like it could retain air. Did these insects not need to breathe air?
"There is air." Du Luo Ken waved his Midas touch wand, and the thin air under his feet manifested—a layer of unusually thin air, floating at the highest point at the waist, and almost gone at the neck.
When they landed on the ground, the thin air extended upward along their bodies due to tension, bulging a section higher than elsewhere.
"If it's a living thing, it has to lie on the ground to breathe. But with such thin air, it can't support large creatures, unless it's a species that doesn't need to breathe," Nage lisi said.
Among those present, except for Anthony who needed to breathe, no one else needed to. Looking at the endless Eternal Road, Anthony became conflicted.
It was fine not to breathe for a short time, but for a long time, he needed to change his life form. He doubted he could make it to the end.
"How about I go back first? The church still has a lot of things to deal with," Anthony said.
Ang nodded and took out a teleportation scroll for him.
"No need, I have some here." Anthony took out a teleportation scroll himself, tore it open, and with a flash of light, teleported away.
Only Ang, Nage lisi, the Great Sage, Du Luo Ken, and the little sapling remained. Even the little angel and the little zombie didn't follow.
Ang didn't plan to bring them either. He looked at the little insect that hadn't crawled far for a long time, thought about it, took out an Elf Bean, crushed it into powder, and sprinkled a little in front of it.
The insect was startled by the debris falling from the sky and froze there, motionless.
"What kind of insect is this? Too thin. Look at its abdominal membrane, it's shriveled, as if it hasn't eaten for a long time," Du Luo Ken observed carefully and said.
"Then how did it survive?" Nage lisi asked.
"Maybe it was hibernating just now? Woken up by us. In this kind of food-scarce place, ordinary creatures have the habit of hibernating to minimize energy consumption," Du Luo Ken said.
Just as they were discussing, the frozen insect finally moved. It didn't have such complex thoughts. After freezing for a while and finding that what fell was food, it immediately bit down and crunched away.
The effect of the Elf Bean was very obvious. After a few bites, the insect was full, and its abdominal membrane bulged like it was being inflated. With food, it had strength. The insect spread its six limbs and disappeared in a flash.
"It runs quite fast," Nage lisi was surprised. It turned out that its previous slowness was just because it was hungry.
"Every place has its own ecology. In this kind of harsh environment, the species that can survive must have special skills. Everyone be careful," Du Luo Ken said.
As they walked forward, they occasionally encountered some strange creatures, mostly low-level insects. Clearly, insects were more adapted to the environment here.
"Do you feel the air getting thicker?" the Great Sage suddenly said.
Du Luo Ken hurriedly waved his Midas touch wand and immediately found the air floating above their heads.
"Why would it be like this?" Nage lisi said puzzledly: "Walking all the way here, the thickness and width of the Eternal Road haven't increased. It's impossible to produce this uneven situation, unless there is a source of air ahead."
Hearing this, Ang immediately took big strides and accelerated, running forward for maybe tens of kilometers, finally discovering some faint light ahead, and clearly feeling the resistance of the air. The air here was already thick enough to make people feel resistance.
A wide plane appeared ahead, covered with green crops, and some light projected onto it.
The Eternal Road passed through this plane, and on the roads at both ends, it was densely packed with various creatures, each occupying different sections, orderly.
"This is a farm barrier? The air comes from there," Du Luo Ken exclaimed.
The farm barrier is an independent space barrier. It cuts off other planes, and the ecological environment also belongs to other planes. Because things need to be planted, there must be air, sunlight, and water.
But after the barrier was set up, there was no independent partition. Air would float out from inside, diffusing along the Eternal Road, so the closer to the farm barrier, the thicker the air.
The air in the Palace of Rest also came this way. However, the space in the Palace of Rest was limited, and after diffusing to internal and external balance, it wouldn't change.
But the Eternal Road was in the void, in a thin and long shape, and didn't have enough gravity to attract air, constantly losing it. The further away from the farm barrier, the thinner the air.
Thus, the territory near the farm became a treasure land that all creatures fought for—not just for air, but also for food.
Their arrival triggered a commotion among the creatures at this end of the farm. Everyone didn't care about this commotion but observed carefully instead.
"Most of them are herbivores. Are those Flame Rabbits? Why is the color of their fur so dull? Isn't their fur fire-red?" Nage lisi was surprised.
"Maybe it's because of insufficient light. The number of Flame Rabbits is the largest. What are those next to them? Flea monsters? Why is their body size so much smaller? Aren't they meat-eaters? Why are they together with the Flame Rabbits and living in peace?" Du Luo Ken said.
"Wait a minute, look at what's coiled on the Eternal Road there? Such a big snake, no way, can such a big snake survive here?" Nage lisi exclaimed.
Just as one of the bulges closest to the farm moved, it actually raised a snake head.
The width of the Eternal Road was about fifty or sixty meters, and the thickness was only four or five meters, which meant the circumference was at most about one hundred and thirty. This snake coiled around the Eternal Road for more than a circle, which meant its body length was almost two hundred meters.
Inconsistent with the body length, its diameter was about three meters. If it weren't for the snake head, it would be more like an earthworm.
The giant snake raised its head, split its big mouth toward Ang's side, revealing a mouth full of sharp teeth. This was even less like a snake. Snakes rely on swallowing to eat and don't need so many teeth.
"Not like a snake, more like an earthworm. It's baring its teeth at us, what do we do?" Nage lisi asked.
Du Luo Ken rolled up his sleeves: "I'll perform a magic trick for everyone." After saying that, he rushed up.
Those flea monsters and Flame Rabbits didn't know why, but they didn't dare to launch an attack on him, letting Du Luo Ken rush in front of the giant snake, beating it up, and after beating the giant snake until it was full of bumps, he dragged it back alive.
Nage lisi was dumbfounded: "You call this a magic trick? Are you that strong? You can even drag a two-hundred-meter-long giant snake?"
Du Luo Ken said as a matter of course: "I'm beating people with my fists, doesn't that count as a magic trick? You can too, there's no gravity here, you can drag it too."
The Alchemy King beating people with his fists could indeed be called a magic trick.
Ang went up and lifted it, directly bringing the giant snake's head in front of him.
Fear surged in the giant snake's eyes. God, a little thing beat it until it was dizzy, and now another little thing lifted it up. The power of the other party's hands made it feel that no matter how it struggled, it was futile. Who did it provoke?
"Can you, speak?" Ang asked.
The giant snake nodded hurriedly, but it forgot that its lower jaw was being held by Ang. When it nodded, its head didn't move, but its body arched up instead.
Ang let go of it and looked at Nage lisi.
At this glance, Nage lisi knew it was his turn to go on stage. He fluttered his book pages and flew in front of the giant snake, asking: "You're an earthworm, right?"
Nage lisi hadn't had time to return after sealing the blank godhood, and at this moment, he was still in the form of a Brass Book. Seeing a book talking, the giant snake was also quite confused: "What is an earthworm?"
"You haven't seen an earthworm? There are no earthworms here? That kind of thin and long creature that arches in the mud." Nage lisi opened a blank page and manifested the creature of an earthworm on it.
"Oh oh, this is called an earthworm? Then there are some inside, Flame Rabbits often dig them up to eat." Only after saying this did the giant snake react: "You're calling me a little bug?!"
The giant snake opened its big mouth in rage. Du Luo Ken immediately jumped up, slapped it on the head, and beat it until it was dizzy again.
The giant snake's head drooped, and it said aggrievedly: "I am a little bug..."
"Who did you learn human common language from?" Nage lisi asked again.
The giant snake said blankly: "Learn? I've known it since I was little."
"No one taught you, you've known it since you were little? Bloodline inheritance or soul infusion? Looking at you, it doesn't look like bloodline inheritance. It's probably someone who infused it into you. How long have you lived?" Nage lisi asked.
The giant snake asked blankly: "What does how long mean?"
After some communication, Nage lisi discovered that the giant snake had no concept of time and lifespan. Finally, it was only after Du Luo Ken infused it with the concept of time that it calculated: "I've lived for one thousand one hundred years."
"Then it's probably His Majesty who infused it into it. Have you seen this kind of creature?" Nage lisi manifested a black crystal skeleton in the book page.
The giant snake shook its head.
"Aiyou, you don't know anything when asked. What's the use of you?" Nage lisi complained disappointedly. All the information he wanted most couldn't be asked.
"Forget it, forget it. Tell me why you stay here and can live in peace. Why don't you eat all those flea monsters and Flame Rabbits?" Nage lisi asked.
The giant snake couldn't help but roll its eyes. Everyone could see a kind of disdain in its eyes. Clearly, Nage lisi was asking a stupid question.
"If I eat them all, there won't be any left, and I'll be starved to death," the giant snake answered this stupid question reluctantly.
"Then aren't you hungry now?" Nage lisi asked.
"Hungry, endure it, sleep," the giant snake replied.
After some conversation, everyone finally figured out the reason for the harmonious coexistence of these meat-eating and vegetarian animals.
Flame Rabbits eat the grass that grows in the farm barrier, and flea monsters eat rabbits, but they eat very sparingly each time, basically choosing the old, weak, sick, and disabled to eat.
Thus, these flea monsters are all malnourished, but because their number is several orders of magnitude less than the rabbits, they barely maintain the stability of the group under the condition of eating sparingly.
"So these flea monsters go to the main plane, eat freely, and thus grow tall and strong? Then what do you eat?" Nage lisi asked.
"I eat them. Flea monsters? What are fleas?" The giant snake looked back at those flea monsters. Clearly, they had no names here.
Du Luo Ken was shocked: "Such a few flea monsters, are they enough to fill the gaps in your teeth? Can you be full eating this?"
The giant snake shook its head pitifully: "No, I eat two and go to sleep, hungry."
It turned out to be relying on hibernation to delay hunger. If it ate a few and went to sleep, lowering its life metabolism to the lowest, by the time it woke up next time, the number of flea monsters would have recovered.
But living like this is too suffocating, isn't it? It's like only being able to eat one meal a day, and only being able to scrape a mouthful per meal. Many people would go crazy with hunger and find it hard to control themselves from eating all the flea monsters and Flame Rabbits in one breath.
But the giant snake controlled it, and the flea monsters also controlled it, because those who couldn't control it had already disappeared. In an environment of extreme food scarcity, there must have been an extremely tragic elimination before reaching the current balance.
Ang flipped his hand and took out a handful of Elf Beans, handing them to the giant snake. He didn't have much other food, but he had the most Elf Beans.
"For me?" the giant snake asked in surprise.
Ang nodded. He was a skeleton accustomed to equivalent exchange.
He casually threw the beans into the giant snake's still half-open mouth. The half-open mouth was already bigger than a basin, and Ang could throw it in with his eyes closed.
The giant snake closed its mouth, not feeling like it had bitten anything. It didn't understand any politeness, smacked its lips, and said: "Either don't give, if you give, give more. It's not enough to fill the gaps in my teeth, teeth, teeth, teeth..."
Before it could finish speaking, the giant snake felt a warm current surging continuously in its body. A sense of fullness that it had never had before filled its whole body, and the hunger it had been enduring all the time disappeared without a trace under the surging of this warm current.
Very quickly, the giant snake let out a burp, full.
Ang had calculated its body size when throwing it. If he threw a few more, it would have to burst.
"This... I... burp, so full, what kind of treasure is this?" The giant snake was incoherent with excitement.
Is it hard to imagine the mood of a giant snake that has been hungry for more than a thousand years when it is full for the first time? It's unimaginable, because no one here needs to eat.
"Elf Beans," Nage lisi said.
"Are there any more? Can you give me some more? I've never been full before. I feel like I'm full of power now," the giant snake said excitedly.
"No, you just answer a few questions. Giving you a handful is already enough. Alright, continue to sleep, we're leaving," Nage lisi said.
How can this be? It was hard to have a chance to be full. The giant snake was anxious in its heart. It almost couldn't help but want to do something, but the strength of these people in front of it was too terrifying. In the end, the giant snake endured this impulse, rolled its eyes, and asked: "Where are you going?"
"To the end of this road," Nage lisi said.
"Ride me, ride me, I'll send you there. As long as you guarantee I can be full, I'll carry you to the end of the void," the giant snake said hurriedly.
"No need, we'll walk over," Nage lisi didn't want to carry a guy with such a huge appetite. That handful of Elf Beans just now was enough for Big Cat to eat for a long time.
"Walk over? Do you know how long this road is? Once a yellow lizard man came here, and he said it would take three thousand years to walk to the end of this road," the giant snake used the time unit it had just learned.
Three thousand years?! If you walk twenty kilometers a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, you can walk more than twenty million kilometers in three thousand years.
This number is too outrageous. Even if you give a 10% discount, there are still more than two million kilometers. Even 1% is more than two hundred thousand kilometers. When will you finish walking?
"How is that possible? Are you kidding me? You're talking nonsense too outrageously." Nage lisi shouted, then remembered something and asked: "Is the lizard man you mentioned like this?"
Nage lisi opened the book pages and manifested the appearance of the O-Dragon Mage Ga Li Gu.
"Yes, that's him," the giant snake said.
Nage lisi was a bit uncertain. If it was an O-Dragon Space Mage, then his statement might be true. Is this road really millions of kilometers long?
Everyone looked at each other for a few times, and the Great Sage summoned the spirit carriage and sped up.
"Come, big snake, chase after us, if you chase after us, we'll ride you," Nage lisi shouted to the giant snake behind.
The giant snake chased until it almost vomited bile, but still watched the spirit carriage disappear in despair. In the end, it had to stop and curse as it went back.
On the tenth day, the Great Sage couldn't hold on anymore, and Ang took over the driving of the spirit carriage. The spirit carriage sped like this for two months and finally arrived at the end of the Eternal Road.
From afar, everyone clearly saw a black crystal skeleton standing at the end. It presented a posture of stepping forward, frozen there, and no soul fluctuation could be felt on its body.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"
"King! King! What's wrong with you? Wake up, don't die! King!"
Du Luo Ken and the Great Sage rushed to the black crystal skeleton, crying and howling excitedly.
"Who is crying and howling there! It's so noisy! Do you have any public morality!" An angry voice suddenly sounded. ===== CHAPTER 387 =====
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