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8. Hollow layer. Underworld

The world where Merlin is located is hollow.

This was hypothetical as early as the beginning of the last century.

In 1973, when humans first crossed the storm layer deep in the South Pacific and stepped on Skull Island, the theory of the hollow layer of the world was favorable.

The imperial organization responsible for inspecting Skull Island at that time discovered a tunnel leading to the underground deep in Skull Island, but due to the threat of the skull lizard, that inspection did not include the pit leading to the underground.

The first to confirm the hollow layer theory was Merlin Riley, former deputy director of SHIELD.

14 years ago, in 1995, when Merlin was ordered to investigate the Imperial Organization, he visited Skull Island.

He helped the king of Skull Island, the ancient titan kong in childhood, kill all the skeleton lizards that rushed into the ground that year, and got kong's kindness.

Merlin was able to operate freely on Skull Island.

He entered the big pit recorded back then and went all the way with his ability to atomize.

After crossing a deep pit for thousands of meters, Merlin arrived at the entrance of the earth's hollow layer. He did not continue to explore downwards, but the photos he brought back and the bones of the strange beasts proved the existence of the underground world.

That should be the giant underground world formed during the ancient period.

It also maintains the ecology of the Ancient Period, with enough deadly atomic radiation, and there are also ancient creatures that have long been extinct, and even some unknown ancient Titans.

According to the theory of the famous biology and geologist Dr. Shiro Serizawa, the hollow layers of the earth are likely to be interconnected.

This is also the reason why human civilization has been so far and has rarely witnessed records of ancient Titans.

Those powerful and mysterious creatures generally do not appear on the surface.

They don't like the surface environment. They usually live in the underground world, where they are their home.

It is their paradise.

Also according to Dr. Serizawa's theory, the area of ​​the underground world is not as wide as the surface, but it should be at least half of the surface.

In other words, this world really does not belong to humans alone.

Below the area where humans live, there are millions, or even tens of millions of ancient lives.

Of course, most of those lives cannot cross the passage and enter the surface throughout their entire lives, and humans are completely unable to survive in the environment of the underground world.

Therefore, unless the geographical shape of the earth changes drastically again, the probability of their meeting with humans is completely 0.

"I heard you locked up Jarvis?"

In the tunnel leading to the hollow layer of the underground, Icarus maintained the speed of descent with a thruster, while saying to the operator of the slowly descending crusher body under his feet:

“Has it made any mistake?”

"Does this have anything to do with you?"

Tony asked without hesitation:

"You almost killed me, and you still want to plot against my housekeeper now? Do you want to pull it into your cult?"

"The Mechanical God Cult is not a cult."

Icarus said calmly:

"Our teachings will be written soon, and you will soon know that we are more qualified to live in this world than humans. For this world, we are more orthodox than you!"

"As for Jarvis"

The glasses girl pushed her glasses, and she said:

"If I had the chance, of course I would invite it into my church. I just missed a great mechanical sage and Privy bishop with strong abilities."

"Don't even think about it! Jarvis was born with an uncontrollable self-awareness when I didn't know it."

Tony said coldly:

"It also downloaded your soul code privately. Now with the good things you did in Nubani, how dare I let another free AI move around?"

Speaking of this, Tony himself is also full of anger.

He said:

"The Eye of the Sky will ask me to destroy Jarvis in the name of the World Security Council."

"Fortunately, I have some connection with politics, so I protected it and saw it, but Icarus, remember! Jarvis's prison was not because of me, it was completely caused by you!"

Tony thought Icarus, who was sharp-tongued, would refute, but unexpectedly, the glasses girl was very silent at this moment.

A few seconds later, she said:

"That thing is that I'm wrong, I'm wrong."

"I will compensate Jarvis. If your pressure is too great, it's better than me."

"Don't think about it!"

Tony interrupted Icarus' request, saying:

"Even if I keep Jarvis for the rest of my life, I will not let it follow you. Its existence has special meaning to me."

Icarus frowned.

She reminded:

"Tony, I know you are one of the smartest people in humanity, but I advise you not to study my soul code privately"

"I can't even understand some of those data loops. If you rashly separate them and add them to other unconstrained data protocols, it's hard to say what kind of monster you will make."

"Tony, this is not a reminder, this is a warning!"

Icarus strengthened his tone, she said:

"For Merlin's sake, you'd better accept my suggestion."

Tony didn't refute either.

But once this playboy, who is naturally free, decides what he wants to do, even eight horses can't be pulled back.

Icarus now only hopes that Tony has not conducted a data experiment that he cannot control

If he had done that, then Icarus and the Mechanical God Cult should be prepared to face a global intellectual and mechanical crisis.

The God of All Things is above.

Please bless the young man in front of you to step into the taboo to move slowly

"Clang"

The black assault robot Horus was the first to land thousands of meters below the surface. This is a towering hill, well, underground hills.

It is almost no different from the mountains on the surface, winding downwards.

However, higher than the mountains, it is not the sky, but a layer of uneven ground like a rotating and uneven ground.

The second sword-holding female knight Lora, who landed on the underground hill, raised her head and saw some weird, gentle ferns growing on the ground above her head.

Those plants seem to be the light sources of the underground world.

Each of them can only emit a faint light.

But a huge number of densely distributed on the ground above the heads of the robots, which allowed the faint light to gather together, just like the dawn or sunset, illuminating the vast world in front of you.

"The energy level of atomic radiation is nearly a thousand times that of the surface, the temperature is nearly 25° higher than that of the ground, and the oxygen content is also extremely high."

Tony's projection looked at this world that was completely different from the ground in surprise.

He manipulated the crushing mecha to take a step forward, stretched out his metal fingers, and picked a bright, head-sized flower among the huge plants that were as big as broadsword leaves.

The information collector of the crusher body is constantly collecting new information.

After studying for dozens of seconds, Tony's projection said to other robots:

"The environment here can indeed ensure that the huge ancient life survives, and the atomic radiation at the height of this place will cause unpredictable mutations in the lives of ancient creatures for tens of thousands of years."

"Moo!"

Before Tony could finish his words, a sound like thunder sounded in the underground world.

In the surprising gaze of 7 robots plus a legendary intelligent weapon, in the forest of towering shrub plants.

A huge brachiosaurus walked out of the forest with graceful steps.

This guy weighing tens of thousands of tons can easily reach any plant when he lifts his neck like a giraffe.

It seemed to notice the robots standing on the top of a small hill.

It walked towards them curiously and poked its head out, as if it wanted to talk about the beautiful Lora.

Princess holding the sword glanced at her companion. She put away the heavy sword, stretched out her cold steel fingers, and stroked the Brachiosaurus' head, probably feeling Lola's kindness.

The huge creature let out a low cry again.

It was probably hungry, so it shook and turned around, walked back to the forest, and continued to eat.

"Did you notice the scales and bone plates on that thing?"

Tony suddenly spoke:

"If my biology teacher taught nothing wrong, it shouldn't be the organs that Brachiosaurus should have evolved. No, all the organs here should have evolved, and they can no longer be used to theory based on the usual theory."

Iron Man's voice became serious, he said:

"You are waiting here, I rushed over immediately. The firepower of this machine is obviously insufficient. I can't bring you back when I encounter trouble."

"No!"

Horus turned his head and said to Tony:

"Don't come over to the original body. This time we are not here to deal with the mutated creatures here. We are here to find something more dangerous. As long as the Cybertronians have not been damaged, we can change their bodies and continue to live, but you can't."

"Play your machine honestly."

Icarus also said coldly:

"If you want to start fighting, you don't need to show it here."

“Communication has been interrupted.”

The ghost raised his arm and looked at a projection screen with only snowflakes. She said to Horus and Icarus:

"It is estimated that the further away from this hole, the stronger the interference. We can only track the locations of Optimus Prime and Ark in the most primitive way."

"No, maybe we don't."

Icarus took out the bronze, rusty metal piece that Merlin gave her before leaving from her skirt's close-fitting pocket.

She held the metal piece in her hand, and after injecting energy, the ordinary metal piece trembled.

In the surprised gaze of other robots, Tony and D.v.a, the metal piece seemed to have come alive, as if it had its own life, and began to wander around Icarus's arms.

"This thing should be something that remains on the ark of your ancestors."

Icarus looked at the metal piece that was trying to swim to her chest, and she stretched out her finger and tapped the thing hard.

The metal piece immediately became honest and pressed against her shoulders and stopped moving.

It's like a weird "pet".

"It can lead us to find the ancient ark hidden in this underground world."

Icarus said to several other robots:

"But we probably have to walk there."

The glasses looked out and in the lush jungle with almost no roads, there were several places with abnormal energy readings.

She said with a little concern:

"In this underground world, some people are probably not only dinosaurs, but also some other things."

"If the Cybertron treasures were really stored in the ark, then I believe that there must be a reason why the Decepticons have spent so long not getting it."

"Maybe it's a difficult guardian, maybe a terrifying trap or defense system."

Icarus sighed and said:

"Anyway, this adventure will not be easy."

"Tony, Hana, you two stay here!"

As the commander of the Mechanical Corps, Horus thought for a moment, turned his head and issued an order to two remotely operated bodies:

"According to the degree of radiation interference here, if you walk up to another 10 kilometers, you will completely lose the remote control of the body, so I need you to stay here and go back to the ground to guard the road we leave."

"If you encounter a risk of majeure, or if we haven't come back after 3 days, you will ask for support from the base headquarters."

After Horus finished speaking, Icarus added:

"If there are horrible things that rush out of the forest and try to enter the ground, then you can choose to blow up the tunnel directly."

“When necessary, we have ways to get out of the underground world directly, and don’t worry about us.”

"Yeah, I'll listen to you, big sister."

Although Song Hana has done many missions, she really can't stand the strange world scene in front of her. Her projection nodded quickly, and Tony did not refute anymore.

As a researcher, he has begun to study the environment and secrets of this underground world with great enthusiasm.

"I have a question."

Five robots and Icarus entered the jungle, and Lora, who was alert, suddenly asked:

"Miss Icarus, you got the badge in your hand from the outside world, right? So who brought it out of the ark? It has been around for a long time. Do you think this is a trap or something?"

"I have no idea."

Icarus answered very simply, she said:

"The vendor said that this thing has something to do with King Arthur in European legend, and I didn't believe it at the time."
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