Chapter 952: Tacit Ceasefire
Lin Shen noticed the abnormal behavior of the two large tigers and looked in the direction they were repeatedly fixated on, but he could not discern anything unusual.
However, the increasingly irritable display from the two large tigers made Lin Shen realize that something was about to happen; he just hadn't discovered what it was yet.
As Lin Shen was observing to see what might happen, the two large tigers suddenly turned and ran back in the direction they came from. After running a few steps, they stopped to turn their heads and roar at Lin Shen.
Although the sound was still deep, it seemed somewhat different than before, lacking any intent to kill but subtly conveying a hint of urgency.
"Are they trying to signal me to follow them?" Lin Shen speculated hesitantly, then ordered Death Powder to release the grasp on Little White Tiger's limbs, but still wrapped around their bodies, allowing them to move again yet linked together like prisoners.
Sure enough, the four Little White Tigers did not attack Lin Shen and headed in the direction of the two large tigers; Lin Shen followed them in the same direction while keeping Death Powder alert.
The two large tigers seemed to understand Lin Shen's thoughts and did not approach the Little White Tiger. Instead, they led the way, maintaining a certain distance from Lin Shen and the Little White Tigers, constantly turning their heads to roar as if urging them to hurry.
Lin Shen found it extremely exhausting to walk. Although he was blessed with various skills such as Evolution Theory and Super Base Form, his speed was only slightly faster than the Little Tiger Cubs' and could not compare with the two adult tigers.
Having finally climbed the small slope, which could hardly be called a slope, he saw the two large tigers running down to hide behind a large rock. There, they stuck out their heads and urgently roared at Lin Shen and the others again.
The four Little White Tigers tried hard to run in that direction, but due to Death Powder binding their bodies, their strengths pulled against each other, easily leading to falls.
Lin Shen had been observing the direction that the two large tigers frequently looked towards. At this moment, he saw a shade of purple glow appearing there, like smoke and mist, incredibly beautiful yet raising an ominous feeling in Lin Shen's heart.
The purple glow grew brighter, staining half of the already shining sky purple, as if something was churning and cascading within.
Lin Shen judged quietly that, at their current pace, they probably wouldn't reach the two large tigers before the purple miasma engulfed the entire sky.
Gritting his teeth, Lin Shen let Death Powder completely release the four Little White Tigers, only keeping it attached to the neck of one of them, allowing them to joyfully sprint toward the large tigers, and he ran with them.
The movement of the purple twilight in the sky accelerated, dyeing half of the sky purple. Lin Shen saw that within that purple haze, it seemed like something was morphing.
At the same time, Lin Shen also witnessed an eerie scene: the original ink-purple planet, wherever touched by the purple light, turned into a dazzling glow like Luminous Pearls, seemingly like crystal-clear fluorescent crystals.
The so-called twilight was originally just pure purple light. It was the illusion-like light and shadow shifting within it that made the purple light appear smoke-like and misty.
Those light and shadows twisted and changed, making it hard to discern what they were, resembling monsters or perhaps some sort of buildings, but they were so severely distorted that they couldn't be seen clearly.
Before the purple light reached this area, Lin Shen and the Little White Tigers finally made it to the side of the large rock.
Lin Shen found that besides the large rock, there seemed to be nothing else here. While puzzled, he saw the larger White Tiger use its head to push against the rock, forcefully moving it aside to reveal a hole underneath.
The large tiger, disregarding the ever-vigilant Lin Shen, simply urged the Little White Tigers to climb down.
Without hesitation, Lin Shen kept his eyes on the large tiger and followed the Little White Tigers into the cave.
The big tiger looked at him, merely baring its teeth, but did not attack him.
After the four little white tigers all climbed down, the big tiger also leaped down, its head shoving the huge rock, ferociously putting more strength to lift the rock again, and then it too drilled into the burrow.
The rock fell heavily, immediately sealing the entrance tightly.
Lin Shen originally thought that it would be pitch black inside the cave, but he found that the rocks of the mountain cave emitted faint purple bioluminescence.
Especially near the ground, the rocks there were as bright as purple fluorescent lights. Right when the big tiger had just come down, the rock covering the entrance also turned into a purple fluorescent light, and the rocks on the other side gradually became just as luminously bright.
Lin Shen stood beside Xiaobai who was entwined with Death Powder, his gaze towards the big tiger, seeing the big tiger and Second Tiger both staring at the glowing stone ceiling above, not paying attention to him, and only then did he start to look around the cave.
The entrance they came in was four to five meters deep. Fortunately, he had the ability to brace with one foot and step with the other, otherwise, directly falling down would definitely have been very uncomfortable.
The entrance was just about large enough for the big tiger to squeeze through, but there was a much larger space below.
Lin Shen looked around and discovered that there were passages leading deeper inside the cave. It seemed to be a natural cave; there were no signs of man-made excavation, but he did see many claw marks, presumably the White Tiger had once expanded the cave.
In one corner of the cave, Lin Shen saw a patch of plants resembling foxtail grass, only the color was not green but a kind of blue, and they did not look like they were made of plant fibers, but rather a crystalline structure.
They exuded blue bioluminescence, looking very beautiful.
The big tiger withdrew its gaze, looking towards Lin Shen, who immediately became alert, with Death Powder also raising its sharp tail.
The two big tigers stared at Lin Shen, their bodies slowly moving, walking past on both sides of him, yet they did not launch an attack.
Lin Shen noticed they were just heading towards the foxtail-like plants, then bit off a few stems and tossed them in front of the little tiger cubs.
The little tiger cubs immediately lowered their heads to bite the foxtail grass, one tiger holding a stem in its mouth, crunching as it chewed.
The two big tigers also each bit some foxtail grass, lying there and watching Lin Shen slowly chew.
Lin Shen saw two stems of foxtail grass still on the ground, wondering in his mind, "Could it be that these two stems are for us?"
While Lin Shen was pondering, Death Powder had already extended its feeding tube, swallowing one of the stems, and then coiled around the other, flinging it towards Lin Shen.
Lin Shen caught the foxtail grass, somewhat puzzled, thinking, "I'm not a Base Mutation Creature, eating this stuff directly I don't even know if I can digest it."
Thinking as such, Lin Shen still tried stuffing the foxtail grass into his mouth. He knew that these white tigers would definitely not do anything meaningless. Perhaps this foxtail grass had some special purpose. He guessed it might be related to the purple light but did not know what exactly the relationship was.
Lin Shen tried biting it, and the foxtail grass was not as hard as he had imagined. It was a bit like slightly harder rock sugar, actually a little sweet – just not that sweet.
Lin Shen endured it and chewed the foxtail grass till it was crushed and swallowed it down, then he felt a strange coolness spreading in his stomach, and then he was surprised to find, his Attribute had actually improved.