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Such an attack obviously caught Gaia off guard.
Who would have thought that the eyeballs, which are supposed to be the most vulnerable part of a living thing, could actually turn into missiles?
I thought it was a rabbit, could it be a horned lizard? (When a horned lizard encounters danger, it will spray blood from its eyes to attack and scare off predators)
However, although it was a bit hasty, Gaia still condensed a light shield in time.
With the endless energy as a backing, the thin light shield blocked the monster's attacks one after another, and was not broken because it was condensed too hastily.
Lunaticus began to show signs of fatigue and had to stop the attack.
Gaia stepped forward and kicked the monster hard at the base of its ear, sending its body flying into the air.
This blow was enough to cause serious damage.
The ear is the weak point of any living creature. Not only is it located near the temple, but it also affects the balance of the body.
In mild cases, the patient may suffer dizziness or coma, while in severe cases, the patient may die.
Rabbits' ears are even more sensitive. This blow made Lunaticus dizzy and unable to get up.
It struggled to crawl towards the lava lake, as if wanting to drink another sip of lava.
Gaia gathered the energy in her hands and placed them on top of her head, and the "Photon Ice Blade" was ready to be launched.
At the moment when the energy gathered to its highest point, Gaia's hand suddenly loosened.
"What's wrong Gaia? If this monster is not destroyed soon, the earth will be destroyed."
If Ace wasn't worried that the monsters would cause irreparable damage to the earth, he wouldn't have risked going underground.
He certainly knew that using this place as a battlefield would be a huge disadvantage for him, but Beidou and Nan Xizi could not bear to see the Earth become a dead star like the Moon.
"You said destroy the earth? But this monster has been here for hundreds of years."
"Ah? You know?"
"Well, I know."
The interior of the planet can be said to be the core of Gaia, like the kingdom of God. Unless it is like the pyramid of the Orion star before, it has not moved for tens of thousands of years and has not attracted attention. As long as there is a big movement, Gaia can detect it.
Gaia had already discovered Lunaticus from the beginning. However, it usually didn't run around, just stayed here, drank some magma and slept. So Gaia didn't care.
Just think of it as having a pet.
She did have a little white rabbit in the past. It was cute, but she didn't know how to take care of it, and it disappeared from her garden and never appeared again.
I asked the aunt, the gardener, and the fat chef, and they all said they had never seen it.
Fortunately, I have a little white rabbit. I don't have a deep affection for it. After all, rabbits are not as human as cats and dogs, so I let it go.
"But this monster drinks magma! Isn't magma the life of the planet?"
It was Ace who spoke, but Ling was a little confused whether it was Ace himself, Beidou or Minami Yuko who had such meaning.
After all, it's a bit too outrageous.
"How big is this monster? How much magma can it drink in a day? Do you know how much magma is erupted by submarine volcanoes around the world every day?"
"what?"
“Even if it drinks for ten or a hundred years, it still can’t drink up the natural consumption in one day.”
That's why she felt like she had a pet.
I thought Lunaticus had done something bad, so I beat it up, and that turned out to be this.
Lunaticus has been underground for hundreds of years and has been drinking magma for hundreds of years. Not to mention threatening the earth, the Kinu River above is still a hot spring resort with rich geothermal resources.
"But the moon became a dead star because it sucked away all the magma!"
This cannot be wrong, because Nan Xizi herself is a moon person who came to Earth for this purpose.
She was born on the moon which has become a dead planet, but her ancestors told her that their planet was a planet with life hundreds of years ago.
Gaia walked up to Lunaticus, and the monster had no intention of fighting at all.
She rubbed the monster's belly, and Lunaticus simply pretended to be dead, turning his white belly to the sky and allowing people to touch it.
"Look, its belly is only this big. If the moon is still a living planet, do you know what the total amount of magma on a celestial body is?"
Taking the Earth as an example, if all the magma underground overflowed, it would be enough to fill all the oceans on Earth 650 times.
Drink up the four oceans, and drink up the four oceans 650 times. Is it possible for this little monster to do that?
"Besides, the moon's magma was extinguished 19 billion years ago, right?"
Ling also remembered this because the samples brought back by Chang'e 19.6 in the previous life discovered that the last geological activity on the moon was billion years ago.
She was once given some inexplicable scientific knowledge by a boy in her high school class.
The results of scientific measurements are never wrong.
Even though there are differences between the two worlds, humans in this world have already landed on the moon, and their analysis of lunar soil will only be more comprehensive.
Even if there is an error in this time, the error of 19 billion years and a few hundred years is too exaggerated.
Nan Xizi was silent for a moment. Her existence itself proved the existence of the Moon People, and what she said was not a lie.
But why is there such a huge difference with reality?
"Come to think of it, the behavior of this monster is indeed a bit strange." Seeing that Nan Xizi stopped talking, Beidou took over the words from Ace's body.
"This monster would only appear on the ground during the Mid-Autumn Festival every year. Perhaps it missed the moon, which is its home after all. But today, for some reason, it also appeared on the ground."
Today is not Mid-Autumn Festival, or even a full moon.
Ling was also stunned for a moment, and then she seemed to understand.
"I think I know. Nan Xizi, are you Kaguya-hime?"
Not the real moon man, but the mythical moon man!
Chapter 198: Farewell to Nan Xizi
Ace's existence on Earth was limited, so he left the underground and returned to the surface.
Lunaticus was still lying on his back, lying there motionless, obviously determined to pretend to be dead to the end.
Nan Xizi said that it was the culprit that destroyed the moon, but Ling didn't quite believe it. It's not that she didn't believe Nan Xizi, but from a scientific point of view, there is no such possibility.
Just as Nan Xizi swore, there was civilization on the moon hundreds of years ago, when the moon's heart was still burning, and she was a remnant of the former moon people. This is also very different from the results of human exploration of the moon today.
More than a billion years and a few hundred years can definitely not be explained by errors.
Now, Ling probably has an idea.
Nan Xizi and Lunaticus, is their hometown really the real moon that is three or four hundred thousand kilometers away from the earth?
"Lunaticus, get up, I won't hit you anymore."
Gaia said this, but Lunaticus still looked like he was dead.
"I know you can understand what I'm saying." Even if the monsters don't understand human language, Gaia's voice is not human language, but spiritual communication.
"Just now Ace said that you only went to the surface on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the past. You went again today because you felt something, right? Let me guess, you felt like you were back home."
Lunaticus opened his eyes and stared at Gaia blankly.
Ling didn't know whether her guess was correct or not, maybe it was just her imagination, but she still wanted to give it a try.
She unfolded the secret realm, the secret realm that she had created as the 'Haogongshu'.
The underground magma environment was replaced in an instant. Under the sky without the sun, moon, or stars, there was a sea of jasmine flowers.
Compared to what Mr. Ueki originally planted, the area of the sea of flowers has been expanded several times under the intentional or unintentional influence of Gaia's power, and the white dream flowers seem to stretch to the end of the sky.
The original Kappa River is still there, just like the Moonlight River, dividing the edge of reality and illusion. The clear river water flows endlessly, no one knows where it comes from and where it flows to.
Lunaticus was a little confused at first, not knowing why the surroundings had suddenly changed. But soon, he saw the tree. More than a thousand meters high, reaching into the sky, the holy laurel tree.
It made two "ah" and "ah" sounds. Rabbits cannot make sounds, so its voice was a little strange, as if it was trying to speak in human language.
But it can't speak after all, so it can't express its emotions.
The tree remembered, how could it not remember, the Moon Palace with eaves reaching into the sky, the holy laurel tree, that was the place it had been looking for for hundreds of years!
It walked towards the laurel tree. The sea of flowers along the way was not trampled, because it was no longer in the shape of a huge monster, but gradually became smaller and smaller, returning to the shape of a small white rabbit.
It jumped to the ancient laurel tree, stared at it, and then lay quietly under the tree. It was quiet and motionless.
Inaba White Rabbit, or Jade Rabbit, does not come from the real moon, but from the mythical Moon Palace born from the beliefs of our ancestors.
Ling also walked over to the white rabbit and picked it up. The white rabbit did not resist. Its hair was soft and shiny, like flowing moonlight. It had no color or odor.
The moon's magma died out more than a billion years ago, but the moon palace, built by oral myths and people's faith, disappeared within a few hundred years because people's faith collapsed.
So Nan Xizi said that her civilization disappeared hundreds of years ago.
Because she was a princess who was stranded on Earth from the Moon Palace, Princess Kaguya. This is a well-known story that everyone knows, but who would have thought that Princess Kaguya is really around?
Of course, Ling did not intend to bring Nan Xizi here, and there was no point. This was not the Moon Palace, but only the remnant of a secret realm that had long lost its foundation. Now it was maintained by Gaia's power, which ultimately maintained its existence.
She can keep a jade rabbit as a pet here. After all, it is a home-bred rabbit that can stay underground for hundreds of years, but she cannot confine Nan Xizi here.
Nan Xizi, who knew the truth, would not be willing to indulge in the beautiful dream of a false hometown. What she needs is to rebuild her real home.
But wait a minute——
Ling also suddenly thought of the Guanghan Palace, the laurel tree, and the jade rabbit. If it was the "Miracle Nikki" she played before, the set would be complete. Could she COS Chang'e now?
She is the most beautiful fairy in the legend.
Holding the Jade Rabbit, Ling felt a little conceited.
But it's just a thought. With her Japanese-European mixed appearance, she has no connection with Chang'e. It would be better for Zhishi to give it a try.
On the ground, the TAC team waited for a long time, but received no follow-up news. Neither Ace nor Gaia appeared again, and of course the monsters did not appear either.
"Did you win?"
"probably?"
Yamanaka and Yoshimura speculated to each other uncertainly. After all, Ace and Gaia had appeared, so there was no reason why they couldn't win.
"Captain, it's been twenty minutes. How long do we have to wait here?"
Captain Long couldn't say for sure, he was actually waiting for Nan Xizi and Beidou, but they hadn't come back yet, which made Captain Long a little worried.