Chapter 351: Pap's appearance × A detour × The fog
To Joey's senses, Pap was like a stone, but he was curious about what it would look like through a high-definition camera.
After all, even during his earlier observation of Pap, he had not seen its actual appearance, only its spreading "branches" and the various shriveled humanoid objects hanging from them.
Those shriveled things should all have been humans. If no human settlements existed on the Dark Continent, then the humans these Paps had acquired warranted some thought.
Because they could only have been left behind by people who had explored the Dark Continent long ago.
And if that really was the case, those shriveled things were rather old.
Joey had a feeling-though feeling was not quite the word. More accurately, everyone who had seen those shriveled things knew that, although they looked dead, they were actually in a subtle state of being alive.
It might even have been possible to revive those shriveled people if they could find the right method.
But Joey had neither the intention nor the ability to save them.
Besides, Joey seriously questioned whether these people hanging from Pap really needed saving.
According to what was known about Pap, although these shriveled people paid with their lives, what they received was happiness...
As these miscellaneous thoughts ran through his mind, Joey also saw the footage the hummingbirds were gradually bringing them on Piyon's computer.
Spiderwebs still filled the Forest Sea. As the hummingbirds flew through them, spiders or other insects would suddenly appear and capture them outright.
But Joey's approach was simple: he let these predators have the ordinary hummingbirds. As long as he could preserve the hummingbirds in camera form, that was enough for him.
Meanwhile, as the flock explored toward Pap's location in