Chapter 2343 Exiles Underground

"Walk!"

Li Yao got up abruptly, and said in a deep voice, "I want to take a closer look, what exactly is her so-called 'Dao'!"

Under the leadership of Li Jialing, Li Yao pushed the door out, only to find himself in a stalagmite as thick as a giant tree.

The diameter of this stalagmite is at least 20 to 30 meters, and many caves and rooms have been hollowed out in the middle, and there are spiral stairs on the outside to shuttle up and down.

Put your head out of the stairs and look down. It is at least tens of meters away from the ground, but it is covered by a layer of hazy fog, so you can't see the depth.

Naturally, there would be no fog in the underground world. Li Jialing told Li Yao that these are all fungus powders from fungi. Fungi of all kinds, strange shapes of mushrooms and large stretches of wriggling moss are the main plants in the underground world.

Looking up, there are dozens of small suns hanging feebly on the top of the rock that is hundreds of meters high. Even the stable output of these "little suns" can't resist the erosion of thousands of years. Now, these "little suns" seem to be devoured by moths and riddled with holes. Pieces of moldy light cake.

Under the dual effects of the dim light and the flying fungus powder, the entire No. 10084 underground town was shrouded in a tumbling mist, which added a bit of mystery.

The construction of the underground town is more three-dimensional and magical than the city on the ground. The mines and stalagmites are intertwined, the tunnels and stalactites are intertwined, and the traces of human civilization are constantly expanding in the cracks of the rock, like vines trying to stretch, occupying the Up and down all the space that can be accommodated.

Just the majestic stone pillar that Li Yao stood on, if you look around, there are at least dozens of similar stone pillars standing beside it, forming the main body of the town.

The stone pillars are connected by thick iron cables.

But I saw many underground people wearing gray cloaks straddling a giant dark red-skinned bipedal lizard, dexterously shuttling between the iron chains The iron chain even hangs upside down under the iron chain, and with the help of the reverberating force of the iron chain, it jumps lightly for tens of meters, often jumping in twos and threes, and can jump from one stone pillar to another.

People shuttled back and forth between the stone pillars, the iron chain was constantly vibrated by the red lizard, the sound of "crawling, clattering" could be heard endlessly, and another kind of "humming and chirping" sound from all directions constituted the main tone of town 10084.

Li Jialing told Li Yao that these red mounts are red lizards, which seem to be the product of genetic modulation, and belong to a kind of spirit beast, so they look ferocious and ferocious, but in fact they are more gentle than cows and horses. They are underground people crawling in the three-dimensional town. Up and down, the best helper for maneuvering.

As for the sound of "humming and chirping" coming from all around, it is that rock worms are eating. This is a town dominated by animal husbandry. Raising rock worms is the source of livelihood for most people. Rock worms are not really like bugs. , but a white and fat creature like a pig, also a genetically modulated spirit beast, with a specially strengthened digestive system, which can eat rocks, moss and various mushrooms for a living, and can absorb the nutrients in the bad feed to the greatest extent. Converted into fat and protein that can be eaten by humans, it is a popular staple food in the underground world.

Near this geological zone, five-digit underground towns like District 10084 often focus on breeding rock worms. Most of the rock worms are not eaten by themselves, but are transported to higher-level four-digit towns in exchange for energy. And all kinds of industrial products, so that these residents who have been forgotten by the ground can keep the last spark of civilization alive.

Li Yao strolled in the courtyard, wandered around the town, carefully observed the details of stalagmites, iron chains, and streets, and felt that this seemingly medieval town was full of contradictions everywhere.

The stone pillar he just stood on is not a purely natural product, but it seems that there was a very developed civilization first, and hollow steel cylinders were erected underground, and then materials such as liquid metal or concrete were gradually laid on the ground. Above, only in this way can we ensure that the "stone pillars" tens of meters thick and hundreds of meters long have sufficient strength.

On the side of the bumpy street and the potholed tunnel, peel off the moss and vines layer by layer, and you can see neatly laid out and delicately routed pipelines that connect all the stone pillars together. It should be some kind of large-scale wired spirit. Net system, but it can be seen that it has not been used for a long time, and Li Yao did not perceive the slightest spiritual response from the fine crystal lines.

In many places, when the moss is torn off layer by layer, you can see the rusty metal walls, and when Li Yao wipes off the rust one by one, you can see the surface as smooth as a mirror, as fine as a hair. Silk seams, and rows of big, square characters.

Some large characters are slogans reminding people, such as "There is a magic circle inside, no idlers should enter", and some are the numbers of the troops, such as "33rd Production and Construction Corps", and more characters have all been eroded They were completely clean, even Li Yao's slightest breath turned them into dust and scattered them in all directions.

Li Yao squinted his eyes, found the longest seam, stretched out his index finger, and gently wiped it from top to bottom, only to feel that the hand feels as delicate as silk, without any jerky or stagnation. Such a seam.

This seam is a joint of two steel plates of at least tens of square meters. After years of thermal expansion and contraction, stress changes and crustal movement, the seam is still tight to this extent. It can be seen that the people who first built this town, What a developed civilization it has.

"This should have been a very advanced underground shelter originally, right?"

Li Yao patted off the moss and mud on his palms, and continued to look at the structure up and down. Town 10084 was full of contradictions like a time tunnel. The completely different feelings are abruptly pieced together.

Perhaps the seemingly disorganized "vines" are the most advanced psionic pipelines in the past; the things that look like stalactites are the long-lost defensive runes; The years have been eroded to the point where there is only an empty shell left, and it is kicked as a ball by children who have long forgotten the glory of the past.

"should be."

Li Jialing said, "Sister Long's statement is similar to Brother Yao's. A long time ago, this place was indeed a very advanced refuge or underground base, magic weapon warehouse and so on."

Li Yao folded his fingers, flicked the steel plate, held his breath to listen to the detailed echo, and said, "Then how did it become like this?"

Li Jialing said: "Sister Long gave me two examples. The first one is geological faults. With the vicissitudes of life and the changes of time, the more ancient creatures or civilizations, the more they will be covered by mud and rocks, and gradually fall into the earth. to the depths of the earth.

"If the earth is cut open to reveal a fault like a thousand-layer cake, and then we study the fossils embedded in the fault, we will find that the fossils found in the upper layer are younger, and the fossils buried deep in the ground are more ancient. Fossils represent older organisms and even civilizations."

Li Yao nodded: "It's easy to understand, what else?"

"Also, it's the ocean."

Li Jialing said, "The unfathomable ocean is a top-down three-dimensional ecological circle. With the changes of sunlight, temperature, seawater salinity, density and pressure, it is actually a layer-by-layer ecosystem that does not interfere with each other. Fishes living in shallow seawater may never dive into the seabed at a depth of thousands of meters or even tens of thousands of meters in their lifetime, and giant squids living at a depth of tens of thousands of meters will never look forward to the warmth of the sun, although They are also marine creatures, but the upper layer and the lower layer have long formed two worlds that never communicate with each other.”

Li Yaodao: "What can these two examples illustrate?"

"Sister Long said that human civilization has developed for a full 100,000 years, from the ancient cultivation world 40,000 years ago to today's modern cultivation civilization, in fact, it has gradually differentiated into different classes. Like fossils formed in different ages, or marine organisms inhabiting at different depths, they have long been people from different worlds. Even if we don't use 'real people' or 'original people' to distinguish them, this difference is bound to exist. , turning a blind eye will not solve the problem.”

Li Jialing said, "As early as 40,000 years ago in the Guxiu era, the erosion of the weak by the strong has never stopped for a day or even a second. The weak who cannot resist the strong can only choose to flee.

"Some of the weak fled from the plains to the rugged and barren mountains, and some of the weak continued to wander deep into the ground, and followed the claws of the strong to the ground, fleeing to deeper places step by step.

"Initially, this flight was only sporadic, spontaneous and unsystematic.

"Forty thousand years ago, at the beginning of the Great Dark Age, when the monster race replaced the human race to rule the Xinghai, those humans who were unwilling to be ruled by the monster race were the main force of the first large-scale "march into the ground".

"Ten thousand years ago, when the cruel rule of the Yaozu was overthrown, the human race launched an extremely bloody retaliatory killing against the Yaozu. The human race, full of hatred and anger for 30,000 years, vowed to kill the last of the Yaozu. So, There was another large-scale escape to the ground for the second time, but this time the escapees turned into monsters.

"The good times don't last long. The Star Sea Empire established by the human race has just crossed the threshold of rule for a thousand years, and it is facing the most brutal civil war. The flames of war have swept almost every great world. Countless human races who used to fight side by side against the monster race have broken up and become life-and-death enemies. , So, the third large-scale underground escape followed one after another.

"The next 10,000 years will be the years of endless bloody battles in the star sea. The places where military strategists must fight, such as the extreme heaven world and the heavenly pole star, are naturally the center of the flames of war. Countless people who lost their homes fled underground wave after wave. No wonder.

"Generation after generation of fugitives constitute the main body of the underground residents, and they regard the refuges, military bases, and magic weapon warehouses built by various races and forces in the past dynasties as their new homes. This is the origin of most underground towns.

"Naturally, the later the residents who fled underground, they tend to live on the shallower surface, and the earlier the residents who fled underground, the living space is constantly squeezed by the latecomers, so they have to continue to flee downwards, and slowly settle down. To the depths of the earth, such as here."