"I never thought my first trip to another planet would be ."
"It’s not much different from Earth."
Ji Xinghuo stood on the peak of a mountain.
The sky was cloudless, clean and bright, with a warm, bright sun overhead, and three moons of varying sizes and shapes in sight.
Looking ahead, there was an endless forest in the distance, green grass at the foot of the mountain, and colorful flowers blooming, a feast for the eyes. When a breeze blew, the branches and leaves waved like waves, bringing a refreshing scent of flowers, as if in a fairyland.
It was hard to believe that such beautiful scenery concealed deadly dangers.
The air was toxic, and even the sunlight was.
Although the Crystal Elite Clan said that it was only toxic to them, and other races could breathe it, Ji Xinghuo did not dare to take a single breath.
The internal circulation zone remained on.
He looked back, the elevator exit was hidden in the rock face, and after closing, it was covered by a layer of camouflaged slate.
The mountain under his feet was not high, less than a thousand meters, and covered with plenty of vegetation.
The electromagnetic induction scanned the whole mountain, discovering many strange flowers, plants, and trees, but no traces of wild beasts or monsters, all was silent.
However, that was just an appearance.
The biggest illusion of Earth Abyss Star was the plants. All plants harbored dangers, maybe one second they looked safe, and the next they became deadly traps.
"Better move away from the exit to avoid exposure."
Ji Xinghuo lightly jumped, his internal magnetic field rotated, controlling the Magnetic Spirit Star Core to reverse the poles, repelling against the planet’s magnetic field to lift himself up.
He did not fly too high, for magnetic field flying consumed too much star power.
The higher he flew, the greater the consumption.
Landing in a clearing several kilometers away, Ji Xinghuo touched down.
The surrounding area was dense forest, segmented into clear layers from top to bottom due to the differences in light levels, and filled with many strange plants, vines, flowers, ferns, etc., the ecology was rich in color and complex. With his limited knowledge in botany, he could not recognize any of them.
"Alien plants, it’s normal not to recognize them."
"A botanist from Earth would probably be baffled here," Ji Xinghuo thought.
He randomly chose a direction and proceeded.
This here was a First Level area, relatively safe. But Ji Xinghuo had only walked a few hundred meters when he felt something odd, as if he was being covertly watched.
The electromagnetic induction found no enemies.
Ji Xinghuo did not believe it was his imagination, since ever since acquiring the Wanxiang Star Pupil, his intuition had never been wrong.
He became more cautious, constantly enveloping his surroundings with electromagnetic induction.
But after several hours of walking, the sun had set to the western horizon, and it would be dark in no more than half an hour, and Ji Xinghuo had encountered no dangers.
He hadn’t encountered any other Eternal Day Guards either.
He even ate some fruit, which tasted great, feeling as if he was out for a spring outing.
"Need to get inside a shelter before nightfall."
The Eternal Day Badge projected a satellite map, and Ji Xinghuo located the nearest underground shelter to him, over thirty kilometers away, and planned a route.
Night on Earth Abyss Star was even more dangerous.
Because the satellites in the sky could not detect movements of creatures on the surface at night to timely warn the Eternal Day Guards. Regardless of the area’s level, the danger level of the night increased one grade. First Level became Second Level, Third Level became Fourth Level, and so on.
The Crystal Elite Clan had built underground shelters worldwide to keep the Eternal Day Guards safe at night.
When Ji Xinghuo was more than ten kilometers from the shelter, he suddenly felt something was off and turned to look north, where a cloud was moving across the sky. As it grew darker and he hadn’t noticed anything previously, but now on a closer look, he realized they were not clouds.
They resembled birds in form, with gray-white leafy wings about a meter wide, smooth dark green bodies, trailing long, thin tails that glowed like fireflies at the tips, the bat wings needing only a slight flap to glide against the wind in the sky.
Ji Xinghuo recognized them at once, then his scalp tingled.
He had read about these half-plant, half-animal creatures on forums. Alone, they were not much stronger than the common beasts of Star Realm, some even weaker.
But Spore Bats never appeared alone, they always came in swarms, at least hundreds.
However, this cloud of Spore Bats stretched a thousand meters wide and several kilometers long, blending with the actual clouds in the sky.
At least a hundred thousand!
Ji Xinghuo cursed aloud, turned, and sprinted toward the underground shelter through the forest.
He ran at full speed, the Rotating Magnetic Field consuming star power wildly, each step taking him five or six meters, moving through the vegetation like lightning, clearing all the flowers and trees in his path.
The shelter grew nearer, but so did the swarm of Spore Bats in the sky.
"Should make it in time."
Ji Xinghuo gauged the distance between them, he could make it to the underground shelter about half a minute before the birds attacked.
When he was less than three kilometers from the shelter entrance, his gaze stalled.
Ahead, in the forest, the ground churned.
One after another, green figures burst through the soil, rising to their feet. They looked like mantises standing upright, about two meters tall, with a humanoid form, segmented limbs, wearing chitinous armor, and their arms were a pair of huge serrated blades, their heads fearsome.