Chapter 298: Underground World

Although it was very dark in the cave, it did not affect Gu Ming and his team's vision at all. He and Wangcai's eyes could see at night, and the female robots had no problem at all, as their eyes had infrared night vision.

The inner wall of the cave was not smooth. Gu Ming found that there were various mosses and some small mutants, but these mutants did not pose any threat to them. It was not known whether they were herbivorous mutants.

Gu Ming found that the cave was extending downwards, not in a straight horizontal plane. In this way, they were equivalent to walking towards the center of the earth, and the further down they went, the higher the temperature. He felt that he had walked almost one kilometer, and the temperature had risen to about minus thirty or forty degrees. Such a place is really suitable for building a base for human life.

However, after they walked down for more than ten minutes, three forks appeared in front of them. Looking at the three holes of similar size, Gu Ming fell into deep thought. He didn't know which of the three forks could find the mutant wolves, and he didn't know if there was any danger ahead. He and Wangcai were not too worried. He was more worried about these female robots. Their strength was at most about the second-level mutant beast. If they met the mutant wolf king, they might be wiped out.

After thinking for a while, Gu Ming finally decided to divide the troops into three teams. The fifty female robots were divided into two teams, each with twenty-five people. He and Wangcai were in one team. He also gave each captain of the two teams a quantum communicator so that they could contact him when they found something or there was any danger.

In this way, the whole team was divided into three teams. Each team entered one of the forks. Gu Ming and Wangcai entered the middle hole. After he and Wangcai were no longer dragged down by the female robots, they moved very fast and quickly advanced more than ten kilometers, but still did not reach the underground.

"Woof!"

Wangcai's figure, running at full speed, suddenly stopped and shouted at Guming. Guming also stopped when Wangcai stopped. He saw Wangcai's eyes looking at a pile of feces on the ground, and he suddenly thought of why it stopped.

"Is this from the mutant wolves?" Guming squatted down and touched Wangcai's head. He suspected that the smell Wangcai smelled outside the cave should be from the feces of these mutant wolves. The excrement of these mutant wolves was a bit disgusting, and the smell was very pungent. It felt like there was wind blowing from inside to outside. No wonder Wangcai could smell this smell more than ten kilometers outside the cave.

They continued to move forward. There were more and more feces from the mutant wolves on the ground, and there were also excrements from other mutant beasts. The whole passage left Guming with nowhere to step. If he didn't pay attention to the ground, he suspected that he would be out of luck.

Was it the toilet of those mutant beasts? It's not Guming's fault for guessing this. As he moved forward, more and more excrement made him think in that direction.

Gu Ming originally thought that they could reach the underground after walking a short distance, but they still couldn't reach it after walking a few kilometers. Even if the cave was diagonally downward, they had walked more than 20 kilometers. If they were calculated based on the distance of a straight line downward, they should have been more than 10,000 meters away from the ground. Gu Ming felt a little uneasy. He didn't know how far he had to go to reach the underground.

Gu Ming thought of the other two teams. After thinking about it, he took out the quantum communicator and gave their captains an order, asking them to lead the team back out and return to the cave entrance. This was because he didn't want to lose these robots. Although they were all robots, Gu Ming couldn't treat them as robots. Even a dog would have feelings after getting along for a long time, not to mention these robots that looked no different from humans. Han Mei was very sad when she lost some robots last time. After getting along with them for a long time, she would naturally treat them as the female soldiers she brought with her when she was in the army.

"Wangcai, we have to speed up."

"Woof woof!"

After running for more than ten kilometers again, Gu Ming felt that the wind blowing on his face became stronger, and the temperature rose to more than ten degrees. After turning a corner along the tunnel, Gu Ming saw a light that he had not seen on the ground for a long time, coming from the cave entrance in the distance. Could it be that the light shining there was sunlight? Isn't this nonsense? Gu Ming secretly complained in his heart. Now he is more than ten kilometers away from the ground.

Gu Ming and Wang Cai came to the cave entrance, and what appeared in front of him was an incredible picture. In front of him was an extremely vast underground space. There were countless plants emitting sunlight on the top of the space, floating in the breeze. The entire underground space had countless unknown tall trees, and pterosaurs that flew by from time to time seemed to be magnified more than ten times, and huge mutant beasts' heads that appeared from time to time in the bushes. Gu Ming and Wang Cai were standing at the entrance of a cliff cave. Everything he saw made him feel excited. Isn't this underground world the geocentric family that many scientists speculated before the end of the world?

"Wangcai, can you smell the mutant wolf king?"

Although he found the place that countless scientists dreamed of before the end of the world, Gu Ming did not forget his most important goal this time, which was to find the mutant wolf and take revenge.

"Woof!"

Wangcai nodded and looked in one direction. Gu Ming knew what it meant, which meant that the mutant wolf king was over there.

Gu Ming was standing several hundred meters above the ground. He had tools such as ropes in his system space, but he did not take them out. This was because there were many tall trees not far from the cliff. These trees were several hundred meters high and had lush branches. Gu Ming and Wang Cai easily jumped onto the trunk of a big tree.

Maybe other mutant beasts came to this underground world and came down from the trees like Gu Ming. Gu Ming and Wang Cai easily got down from the hundreds of meters high trees to the ground, and stepped on the ground with their feet. The ground in this place was not full of thick snow like outside. There were thick leaves that fell from the trees on the ground here. The thick layer of leaves could submerge Gu Ming's calves. Moreover, the smell of soil mixed with some rotten leaves made Wang Cai very uncomfortable. The main reason was that his sense of smell was too developed. Although most of his sense of smell was blocked, it still made him very uncomfortable. Gu Ming had to touch his head to comfort him.

Recognizing the direction pointed by Wangcai just now, Gu Ming took Wangcai through the jungle. It had been a long time since he saw the light like sunlight. Gu Ming felt very comfortable. After all, it has been more than two years since the outbreak of the doomsday. Although he has the ability of night vision, the unchanging environment outside that is always in darkness is not friendly to other humans.

"Swish——"

Wangcai bit the head of the mutant snake and swallowed it in one bite. In a few bites, he ate the mutant snake weighing hundreds of kilograms that attacked them. Wangcai was able to eat this mutant snake in a few bites because it can make its mouth bigger, so it is not surprising to swallow it in one bite.

However, since they have been advancing in the forest, they have encountered many mutant beasts that attacked them. They don’t know how the mutant beasts here have evolved into all kinds of strange abilities. When they did not attack, even with the strength of Gu Ming and Wangcai, they could not find these mutant beasts. The abilities of these mutant beasts are much stronger than those of the mutant beasts outside. At least those mutant beasts outside can be easily discovered by Gu Ming and Wangcai even if they do not attack.

Because there were many mutant beasts attacking them on the road, Gu Ming and Wang Cai could not move fast. These mutant beasts had a fearless attitude and continuously launched sneak attacks on them. Although it was very troublesome, Gu Ming did not feel impatient. First, except for some mutant beast corpses that Wang Cai ate at the beginning, most of the corpses were stored in the system space as food.

Moreover, Gu Ming felt that the mutant beasts in this underground world had much better meat quality than those on the ground. I don’t know if it was because they lived in this independent underground world. Why did Gu Ming know that the mutant beasts here had better meat quality than those on the ground? This was because he saw Wang Cai’s expression when he ate the mutant beast corpses. It was an intoxicated expression, a bit like the expression of those men in the Bear Country when they drank vodka.

After passing through dozens of kilometers of forest, Gu Ming's system space also added tens of thousands of pounds of mutant beasts. Coming out of the forest, what appeared in the eyes of Gu Ming and Wang Cai was an endless grassland full of various mutant beasts. With Gu Ming's current eyes, he could only see the scene more than ten kilometers away. He could not see farther away. His eyes had not yet evolved into the function of a super telescope.

Gu Ming also found that most of the mutant beasts on the grassland were in groups, and these mutant beasts gave people a feeling of harmonious coexistence. They were eating grass, which Gu Ming could not understand. After all, even if the mutant beasts on the ground were herbivores before the doomsday, most of the herbivores would become carnivores in the era of the doomsday, except for the mutant cows and mutant chickens that were captured by humans and raised as poultry in the base. Even if these mutant beasts experienced a period of eating meat, they would return to the stage of eating grass after being raised by humans for a period of time. However, this eating grass is not eating other plants. The most common thing in the base is mushrooms. The base generally uses mushrooms to raise those mutant poultry, and Gu Ming's base farm is no exception.

However, Gu Ming thought that this underground world was an independent family with a complete food chain. Except for the evolution caused by the zombie virus and meteorites, other doomsday scenes caused by meteorites have not been affected at all. They still maintain their pre-doomsday living habits, and they do not live in a state of competition in a cruel environment like the mutant beasts outside. Thinking of this, Gu Ming no longer thinks there is anything strange about these herbivorous mutant beasts. Of course, the most important thing is that he is not a scientist, so why think about so many useless things? If it was Mr. Zhao who came here, he might be excited to the point of going crazy. Gu Ming wondered in his heart whether he could build a branch base here, which would be great, but there is no rush. His most important thing now is to find the mutant wolf king with Wangcai and kill it.