Chapter 1897 Satoran
In the universe, after various studies, those cosmic civilizations have discovered that on every non-transformed natural ecological planet, there are some special plants that cannot be transplanted off-planet by any means. These plants are called root plants, and the abyss vines that appear in this world are root plants that belong exclusively to the abyss.
This plant is called red tide vine, a plant that grows on the surface of the abyss. This plant is like weeds on the grassland, growing everywhere, almost covering all the surfaces of the abyss, even some places called the abyss restricted areas grow this kind of abyss plants.
If the abyss creatures are arranged into a power list, then the abyss superior race is definitely the top area on the list. It is impossible to list the most powerful abyss race or abyss creature from the abyss superior race, because once the abyss superiors reach old age and their bodies have fully evolved, then the difference in their strength is minimal, and it is impossible to distinguish the strong from the weak.
However, if you want to choose the weakest and lowest-level abyss creature among all the abyss creatures, then the red tide vine must be the undisputed lowest-level one.
Because although the red tide vine is an abyss creature, it does not have the aggression that an abyss creature should have. It just keeps growing and will not attack any abyss creature that approaches. Moreover, it is also a kind of food. Almost all abyss creatures can eat it. In addition, it is also a very effective abyss environment regulating plant. You only need to plant some red tide vines in certain places according to the proportion, and then the environment of that place will become very suitable for the planter to live.
It is precisely because of the red tide vine's ability to change the environment that many abyss superior races initially wore a large number of red tide vines when invading other worlds, intending to transplant them to the invaded world, so as to quickly corrupt the invaded world.
However, these attempts all failed without exception. All the red tide vines that left the abyss withered and rotted without exception. No matter what method was used to care for and cultivate them, they could not reverse the withering trend. These attempts also made those abyss superiors determine that the red tide vines could not go all the way out of the abyss, and then gave up such ideas.
In Leo's information about the abyss, the reason why there is no memory of any content about the red tide vine is that for the abyss snake and the abyss dragon, the red tide vine is too low-level. It is so low-level that even if you see it, you will not think about it, just like ordinary people will not think about studying the dust that can be seen everywhere.
It is precisely because Leo figured out that these abyss vines are red tide vines that the doubts in his heart have not decreased but increased. First of all, why can the red tide vine grow in this world? You must know that in the past, countless powerful abyss superiors have used any method, but they have not been able to transplant the red tide vine to other worlds. Now the red tide vine has appeared in this world, which is obviously contrary to common sense. The only explanation for this question is that this world is in the abyss.
This explanation that this world is in the abyss coincides with the inference Leo made from other fragmentary information, but there are still many questions to be answered, such as why this world looks so normal. Even if the power of the law that disguises this world is stripped away, this world is still very different from the world that falls into the abyss. These are questions that cannot be answered for the time being.
Secondly, there is a huge difference between the red tide vines growing here and the red tide vines in the abyss. The most obvious difference is the body shape. The red tide vines in the abyss are very small and similar to ordinary vines, while the red tide vines growing in this world are very huge, and the biggest ability of the red tide vine is to change the environment. However, the red tide vines in this world have been growing for decades, but the impact on the surrounding environment is minimal, which obviously does not conform to the characteristics of the red tide vine.
However, at this moment, Leo can be completely sure that these are all red tide vines, because the abyss knowledge he obtained through the demigod vines shows that the origin of this vine is beyond doubt.
Finally, there is the evolution of the red tide vine. In Leo's memory, there has never been a red tide vine in the abyss that can evolve to the level of demigods, let alone demigods. Even the red tide vine that has evolved to the level of ordinary abyss creatures has not evolved. However, the red tide vine that has been recovered by Leo is a real demigod life form, and it only took a few decades to evolve from ordinary abyss vines to the level of demigods. This evolution speed is completely inconsistent with the evolution law of abyss creatures.
Now the only thing Leo can be sure of is that the red tide vine will appear in this world and grow so unusually. There must be an unknown force behind it, and this unknown force must be very powerful, not even an ordinary abyss superior, which also reminds Leo of the nine demons mentioned in the creation theory.
Because of the origin of the abyss vines, there are a lot of questions in his heart, but he can't find the answer. Leo can only temporarily put these questions in his heart and wait for more clues to answer them in the future. Obviously, what he has to do is to go to the city of knowledge, Satoran.
The huge abyss pit created by the abyss vines when they were young might be an insurmountable chasm for ordinary people, but it was not a big problem for Leo. He vibrated his psychic wings twice and flew to the other side, and then hurriedly flew towards Satoran in the center.
Although according to the information obtained from the Holy Priestess of Civilization, before the disaster, a large number of people had already lived in the City of Knowledge, and there were also self-sufficient farms and water storage lakes and other necessary equipment for life. As long as they were used in a planned way, the various complete facilities in the city were enough for the people living here to live normally for a long time.
But even so, Leo is still not optimistic about the situation in Satoran, because the Earth Federation has also conducted a large number of similar experiments, sending a large number of experimenters to a completely isolated, but utopian city with abundant supplies and perfect physique by various accidents, to see if this city can complete the evolution of civilization. In the end, without exception, the city was destroyed by civil strife. It seems that a factor called chaos is written in human genes. No matter how peaceful the environment is, it cannot prevent humans from going to chaos.
In addition to the reasons of human beings themselves, there are also external reasons that will destroy this city. After the abyss vines surrounding the entire city evolved into the life form of demigods, their weak instinctive consciousness could not control the abyss power in their bodies at all, so that the abyss power continued to radiate outward, forming an abyss energy field.
The abyssal energy field outside the abyssal vines is relatively good. It will be greatly weakened by the world law until it disappears completely. However, Satoran, who is wrapped in the middle, is always immersed in the abyssal energy field that is comparable to the abyssal environment. No matter what creatures exist here, they will eventually become completely abyssal under the effect of the energy field.
During the flight, Leo had already thought of what Satoran might look like, so when he passed a high mountain and saw Satoran surrounded by high mountains, he was not surprised or had any questions. The only thing that interested him was whether the books in the city were well preserved.
Just like most cities in this world, Satoran is based on a mountain and then built layer by layer along the mountain. However, in order to show its image as a city of knowledge, Satoran built the city and the buildings in the city in the shape of books, layer by layer from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. From a distance, it looks like a huge conical bookcase. On the top of the mountain stands a lighthouse, with a flame that is said to never go out, but now the fire has long been extinguished, and even the lighthouse has collapsed.
Although most of the city and buildings in Satoran are still intact, there is no life at all. All buildings and streets are covered with a layer of objects that look like moss. But if you look closely, you will find that these moss-like objects are actually made of biological muscles, and these muscle mosses are still very alive, constantly wriggling and contracting. Leo can clearly feel the breath of the abyss emanating from these muscle mosses, and when he flew near Satoran, he could also feel a consciousness emanating from the muscle mosses in the city and falling on him.
"Degenerate, violent, greedy, chaotic!" Leo felt the emotions contained in this consciousness, and he was completely sure in his heart that the muscle moss covering the entire Satoran in front of him was the Abyss Family that was mutated by the Satoran residents under the influence of the power of the Abyss. This muscle moss is also called meat blanket. Almost every world invaded by the Abyss will have this kind of Abyss Family, which can also be regarded as one of the important characteristics of the Abyss invading the world.
The reason for the formation of this kind of flesh blanket is very simple. After the death of the creatures infected by the abyss, the remains of them mutated and became flesh and blood creatures that devoured all life. This kind of flesh and blood creature can also produce a kind of spiritual energy, assimilate all creatures within its range of action, and let those creatures automatically merge into the flesh blanket and eventually grow up. In addition to polluting the earth, this kind of flesh blanket is used as food for low-level or some medium-level abyss creatures.
Although this flesh blanket covering the entire city looks very scary, Leo does not feel it is difficult. Not to mention that he can do it himself, even if he uses the demigod abyss vines that have just been recovered, he can easily get rid of this flesh blanket.
However, Leo did not do so, because judging from the current situation of Satoran, if the flesh blanket is removed, the entire city of Satoran may collapse completely, and the books stored in Satoran may also be destroyed.
Satoran was built to preserve the fire of human civilization. The books sent here have been triple-protected. The first protection is the protection of the original books. All the books sent here have been specially treated with anti-corrosion and stored in special bookcases in different categories, and then collected in the outermost library of the city.
However, these outermost libraries have collapsed, both on the ground and underground. Judging from the destruction, it should be caused by some kind of explosives, and the explosives exploded in almost every library, so it should be some kind of self-destruction device that existed when it was built. Although Leo does not understand why a place that preserves the fire of civilization should be equipped with a self-destruction system, which is a contradictory device, it is certain that most of the books in this area must have been destroyed. Even if there are books that survived, after so many years of natural corrosion, the books should have been tattered and there is no value in searching.
The second level of protection is what Leo is paying attention to now, because this level of protection is to collect books into some kind of storage equipment. These storage equipment are placed in the middle of the city. Judging from the current situation of those buildings, except for the surface covered with a layer of meat blanket, there is no damaged place, and the equipment inside may be preserved relatively intact.
Leo has recorded the usage and working principles of various scientific and technological equipment in this world from the library of the Holy City of Redemption. By analogy, he can quickly master the technology, and also through the existing equipment in the Holy City of Redemption, he can determine that the port of the universal recorder can be connected to the equipment here, so as long as the equipment here is intact, he can extract all the data stored there from the equipment.
As for the third level of protection, it is not mentioned in the books about Satoran that Leo has read. It only mentions that the third level of protection is the ultimate protection of the fire of civilization. Even if there are problems with the first and second levels of protection, the later ones can regain the fire of civilization through the third level of protection and let the civilization continue. However, from the beginning to the end, those materials have not described what the third level of protection is, and the Holy Priestess of Civilization does not know either.
However, the Civilization Goddess found several families in the Holy City whose grandfathers or grandmothers had lived and worked in Satoran. From them, she learned some information about the third level of protection. For example, the third level of protection is not a device made by the technology of this world, but comes from the outer space. For example, storing the fire of civilization is only one function of the third level of protection. Satoran has the top scientists studying the principle of the third level of protection. In addition, the third level of protection is strictly protected by the army. Ordinary people have almost no way to understand the mystery. Only the heads of governments of various countries who participated in Satoran at that time knew some relevant information.
But Melina did mention some things about Satoran's third level of protection, because she participated in the rescue of the Redemption Expeditionary Force. At that time, she learned from the survivors that the reason why the Redemption Expeditionary Force failed was that it encountered an attack from the lighthouse at the top of Satoran, and the third level of protection was under the lighthouse, so she suspected that the third level of protection might also be some kind of weapon.
The mystery of the third level of protection also aroused Leo's interest in exploration, but he was still able to distinguish the priorities of things. Before recording all of Satoran's collection of books, he was not prepared to be distracted to explore the third level of protection.