Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 609 Filter Pore

"So, where is the entrance?" Sun Hang asked.

Nur untied the sled from his feet and began to walk aimlessly across the dunes. With each step, his legs sank deeper into the sand, and soon the sand was above his knees, making walking extremely difficult.

But in the next second, Nur's body was instantly swallowed by the sand dunes and disappeared from Sun Hang's sight.

"This is the entrance?"

Without much hesitation, Sun Hang immediately followed.

At the spot where Nur disappeared, the buoyancy provided by the sand beneath his feet was negligible. Sun Hang only felt a sudden emptiness beneath his feet as he fell into a very smooth pipe, sliding rapidly into the depths of the earth.

After gliding for nearly 500 meters, Sun Hang felt as if he had touched an extremely tough membrane. However, this membrane did not bounce Sun Hang back. Instead, it began to liquefy the moment Sun Hang touched it. It was like a combination of a speed bump and a filter, allowing Sun Hang to pass through it while filtering out the sand that was being carried down, and at the same time greatly slowing down his falling speed.

At the original descent speed, an ordinary person would likely suffer high-level paraplegia even if they didn't die from the fall. But with this membrane, the safety of this fast passage has been improved by several levels.

"Based on the information we have, this passage is most likely the filter pore of the giant sand worm." The main brain's voice rang in Sun Hang's ears. "What you just passed through was the filter membrane inside the filter pore. This organ can identify sand and food and allows the food to pass through by liquefying it. Under normal circumstances, this organ should also die along with the giant sand worm, but I don't know why it still retains its original power supply."

"Could it be that the giant sand worm isn't completely dead?" Sun Hang wondered to himself, but he quickly dismissed the idea. After entering the filter hole, he didn't sense any memetic aura, which meant that the monster memetic inside the giant sand worm had completely collapsed. By monster standards, it was indeed dead beyond any doubt.

"So what's below is the digestive organ of the giant sand worm?"

Before the mainframe could answer, Sun Hang found himself on the ground, and Nur, who had entered the filter hole a step ahead of him, was standing not far away, holding a stone that emitted a faint glow.

Sun Hang looked around and found himself in an irregularly shaped hall. Judging from the patterns on the inner walls, it looked like a withered, giant stomach.

At the top of this hall, there are many filter holes that connect to the outside world.

"Thank goodness... we didn't bump into anyone else." Nur saw Sun Hang come out and immediately gestured for him to lie down. "I'll take you somewhere to hide later. Don't come out, in case someone else bumps into you..." "What will happen?"

"They'll definitely report this to the High Priest!" Nur said nervously. "The High Priest will kill us all!"

"Then why don't we strike first and kill the priest?" Sun Hang pulled out a pistol, pulled the slide, and the bolt made a crisp mechanical sound.

"No...no way!"

“Nur, there’s something I need to tell you. The moment you decided to bring me here, you were already a traitor to your community,” Sun Hang said. “You now only have two choices. One is to completely sever ties with your original identity and life. After I’ve dealt with all of this, I will fulfill all my promises. The second choice is to remain an observer. As for whether my contact with that high priest will result in a life-or-death struggle or peaceful communication, it all depends on that high priest’s attitude… Of course, I won’t tell him that you brought me here. If you’re lucky, you might be able to continue your original life…”

"I...I..." Nur stammered for a long time, but finally gritted his teeth and asked, "What do you want me to do?"

“Take me to your priest.”

Nur took a deep breath, reached into the package and touched the remaining compressed biscuits, then nodded vigorously: "Okay!"

……

The space inside the giant sand worm was much larger than Sun Hang had imagined. Its corpse did not shrink due to death; on the contrary, it was much larger than the giant sand worms that had appeared in the video footage and those that Sun Hang had seen with his own eyes before.

The mastermind explained that the remains of the giant sand worms that were used as shelters by the desert survivors were often the longest-lived individuals. The size of the giant sand worms increases with age, and these giant sand worms that had exhausted their lifespans had basically reached their individual size limits.

Nur led Sun Hang through a maze of tunnels and interconnected cavities for nearly half an hour before the fluorescent stones embedded in the ground and walls gradually appeared—Sun Hang knew they were approaching the living area of ​​the desert remnants without Nur's explanation.

(End of this chapter)