Over the past year, although the main task was to build the city, Roy would occasionally send men to explore underground.
Just as everyone had estimated, due to the existence of demonic worms, the underground world here has been dug up to the point where it can be described as riddled with holes. Countless caves and tunnels deep underground are intertwined to form an ant nest.
It also requires a complex traffic network.
In Roy's words, this is a huge underground maze.
Previously, Roy used the devil's eye he created to go underground to explore at first, but what he didn't expect was that even he himself got lost. There was no light at all in the dim underground world. Explore more places.
, Roy himself lost his sense of direction and didn't know where he was. As a last resort, he could only send out men to explore.
A total of four waves of teams composed of lower-level demons were sent out one after another, but unfortunately, these lower-level demons were either eaten by demon worms or other underground creatures, or they were completely lost in the maze and could not be found.
On the way back, Roy had to summon him back in the end. The entire exploration plan was surprisingly inefficient. So far, it has only been explored to about one kilometer underground.
After a series of setbacks in underground exploration, Roy could only put this matter on hold for the time being. However, after Frostfire City was basically completed some time ago, this matter was put on the agenda again.
There is no way. After this year of exploration, Roy found that the surface of this fragmented world is too barren. The extremely cold climate means that no living things can survive on the surface. Even some frost-based monsters cannot be seen. Occasionally, he found
There are some mineral veins, but these mineral veins are without exception poor ores, and traces of long-term excavations can still be seen.
This also made Roy wonder whether there had been other owners in this fragmented world before...
If you want to dig these veins, you need to dig through thick layers of ice, and these dug-out ice layers will freeze again soon, which is extremely troublesome, and the collection efficiency is very low. In the end, Roy simply
I gave up and turned my attention underground.
The good news is that Roy has the giant demon worm Dahei in his hand. Although this mutated demon worm cannot speak, it has high intelligence and can communicate with it through some simple communication.
During this period of time, Bainiya has been communicating with Dahei and training it to a certain extent. The goal is to at least make Dahei understand her requirements and be able to navigate the underground world for her. Now since Bainiya
Ya asked Julie to inform her, which means there has been progress.
So Roy and Julie left the Devil's Hall and flew towards the crater.
On the ground at the foot of the volcanic mountain, a very huge cave was dug out. On the edge of the cave, Bainiya was already waiting here. Not far behind her, there was a coiled...
Big black like poop.
As for Fat Tiger, this idiot was lying next to Dahei. From time to time, he would straighten up and stretch out his paws to touch Dahei, as if he wanted Dahei to play with him. As a result, Bainiya
After scolding him twice, he lay down again gloomily.
This scene made Roy a little bit unbearable to look at. After falling, he tried his best not to look at Fat Tiger's aggrieved eyes and asked Bainiya: "Are you planning to go there in person?"
"Well!" Bainiya raised her wings and floated, came over and hugged Roy's arm and said, "Now Dahei can basically understand my instructions, so I think I can go down and take a look."
"Okay, let's go there!" Roy nodded and said: "Julie, you stay up there, I'll leave the devil's eyes to you, and I'll contact you if I have anything, and you can look at the fat one by the way.
Tiger guy."
Julie nodded and said: "Okay."
Bainiya put her right hand in her mouth and whistled at Dahei. Dahei's huge body slowly bent down. Roy and Bainiya jumped lightly on its head and waited until
After sitting down, Bainiya patted Dahei's hard skin, and Dahei dived into the huge cave.
Roy felt his vision suddenly darken, and he followed Dahei into the underground. This cave was originally dug by Dahei, so it looked very huge, even if he was sitting on Dahei's head, far away from the cave.
There were still dozens of centimeters left at the top. Dahei carried Roy and Bainiya all the way down. At this time, Roy's dark vision began to work. In the lightless underground, it gradually became possible.
Seeing things.
Along the way, Roy saw a large number of forks passing by. Needless to say, they were all underground passages dug by demon worms. It was unclear where they led, and some passages were still flowing with lava. It seemed that
It was the demon worms that dug through the volcano wall and caused the lava to flow out.
"The passage we are taking should be one of the passages dug by Dahei before!" Bainiya said to Roy from the side: "These demon worms have a keen sense of smell, and they will leave their own traces in the passages they have dug.
Taste, to help them identify the direction. I originally wanted Dahei to take us to find the mineral vein that caused the mutation, but this expression was too complicated and Dahei couldn't understand it, so I asked him to take us there.
Where it goes most often!”
"Well, if Dahei mutates by swallowing ore, then the location of the ore vein must be the place it frequents most!" Roy nodded.
Dahei's traveling speed is not too fast. Roy can feel that it does not go all the way down, but often bends around. It seems that the tunnels it dug before were basically dug at will. Now
If you want to go back again, you can only go along these passages, otherwise, the passages dug by other demon worms will be too small for it.
But even so, Roy and the others descended about two kilometers in a short period of time. Roy didn't know exactly how much. He only roughly estimated it based on temperature changes.
Since there are volcanoes, it means that the veins of the volcano are connected to the magma layer underground. Generally speaking, magma is usually formed deep in the earth's crust or in the upper mantle. This distance is about 30 to 50 kilometers from the surface.
There is a lot of high-temperature liquid here, which is magma
, if the magma in the magma layer is connected to the volcanic channel, it will be transported bit by bit to the upper part of the volcano under the squeeze of the geological plate. If the extrusion pressure of the geological plate is too great, a volcanic eruption will occur.
, which is why volcanic activity is often accompanied by seismic activity.
Now Roy and the others are walking down, so instead of getting lower, the temperature they feel is getting hotter and hotter. This heat comes from the heat emitted by the magma layer. In a tunnel with little ventilation at all,
It's extremely hot.
As Dahei continued to go deeper, the temperature in the air had risen to about a hundred degrees. This temperature had exceeded the temperature of the abyss world. Even Bainiya felt a little uncomfortable, so Roy applied it to her.
She wore a layer of ice armor to help her resist the heat.
"How far does this guy want to go?" Bainiya said a little surprised: "The veins it feeds on are not in the magma layer, right? In that case, even if there is a mine, it will be difficult for us to mine it!"
Before Roy could say anything, he suddenly saw an object passing by in a nearby passage. He was startled and said quickly: "Stop! Stop! Bainiya, stop Dahei!"
Bainia didn't know what happened, so she quickly kicked Dahei a few times. After receiving the signal, Dahei stopped running and slowly stopped in the tunnel.
Roy didn't wait for it to stop, then spread his wings and flew back along the tunnel. Bainiya followed behind him. Then she saw Roy suddenly stop at a fork in the road, with a look of surprise on his face.
Looking at the fork in the road.
"What's wrong?" Bainiya chased after him and asked Roy. Roy didn't answer and pointed to the fork in the road for her to see.
At this glance, Bainiya was also extremely surprised, because she saw obvious traces of man-made artifacts in this fork in the road!
It was a piece of broken wall, or it should be a part of a building. This thing was embedded in the rock wall of the tunnel, and part of it was exposed. If Roy hadn't been sharp-eyed just now, he would probably have
Just missed it.
Flying over, Roy pulled the thing out of the rock wall and looked at the fragment carefully.
"It's a creation of the devil!" Bainiya said with certainty: "The style is very familiar, it should be... a part of some kind of statue!"
"So, there really was a demon in this fragmented world before!" Roy said: "It should be a certain demon lord, but he is different from us. He placed his lair underground!"
In fact, Roy had doubts from the beginning. This fragmented world is a very suitable environment for frost demons to settle. It makes no sense that no other frost demon has found this fragmented world for so many years, but Roy and he have come here.
I have been here for more than a year, and I have never seen a demon come forward to say that Roy has invaded his territory.
Recalling what Demon Lord Anivia had said before that someone was hunting frost demons, Roy thought that even if this fragmented world had been occupied by other frost demon lords before, they had probably been hunted to death.
But when he saw the fragment of the demon's creation, Roy discovered that he had guessed completely wrong. The person who occupied this fragmented world before was not a frost demon. On the contrary, the former owner placed his nest in a very special place.
The hot underground world is here!
"Could it be the demon lord of a certain insect-shaped demon?" Bainiya had obviously thought of this and guessed: "In my impression, it seems that only insect-shaped demons like to place their lairs underground."
"Can't you tell if you look for it?" Roy raised the statue fragment in his hand and said: "However, even if it is really an insect-shaped demon lord, I think there is a high probability that it is gone.
, this thing looks very old, I don’t know how many years ago it was..."
