Chapter 139 Thousand Years of Experiment·Underground Underground
Author: Trial Sword Tianya
Chapter 139 Thousand Years of Experiment·Underground Underground
[The serial numbers of the previous chapters are wrong, but the content is correct. I worked overtime and felt dizzy. 】
There is light ahead!
Although it is very weak, it seems particularly precious and eye-catching in this dark world.
Continuing forward, the road becomes increasingly difficult, the ground becomes wet, and a large number of creatures appear, such as centipedes, crickets, etc.
These things are very big, centipedes can grow to three or four feet in length, and crickets are as big as roosters. But they are almost not aggressive to humans.
This shows that although these things have changed somewhat, they are far from mutated.
It feels like a transition from a mutated world to a normal world.
But the light is becoming more and more obvious.
Chu Fei thought thoughtfully: "The variation here has begun to decrease significantly. It is more like the increase in body size caused by a good living environment and abundant energy."
While he was talking, Chu Fei noticed a shadow flashing across his face. After careful examination, he realized that it was a mutated spider hunting.
This mutated spider no longer uses the spider web, but directly ends up.
Li Longhua said next to Chu Fei, "This should be the bottom of the food chain.
Also, with so many mutated animals, even if they hunt each other, they still have to have an initial source of food and energy.
Where do you think this leads?"
Chu Fei thought for a moment and said based on the feedback from the wind of perception, "It feels like the ground, but we are temporarily underground."
Li Longhua nodded, said nothing, and everyone moved on.
The ground keeps rising, and every few dozen meters there is a big step, and it just keeps rising.
The light is getting stronger and stronger, and the surrounding small animals are becoming more and more abundant, while the mutated small animals are rapidly decreasing.
Everything seems to be heading towards the light.
Twenty minutes later, everyone had advanced almost three kilometers and saw blue sky and white clouds.
Climbing the steps, I saw a bright world, but there was no trace of the sun in the beautiful blue sky.
In front of us is a dense savanna.
However, the "grass" here is only a few meters high, and the sparse trees reach straight into the sky, as if they want to challenge the authority of God.
"The light in the dimensional space is refracted from the sunlight in the main world. There are natural refraction and artificial construction technology. It involves relatively complex technology.
But you can simply understand that as long as it is a completed and qualified dimensional space, its sunrise and sunset times, etc., will be the same as outside."
Li Longhua saw that Chu Fei was in a daze and explained calmly.
Chu Fei thought for a while and asked, "What if it's cloudy outside?"
Li Longhua:......
Sorry, this is beyond the scope of my knowledge.
General Li looked a little unhappy and walked forward.
Chu Fei grabbed Li Longhua, shook his head slightly, and then pointed at the dense grass in front, "The sound wave characteristics show that the grass here has a faint feeling of flesh and blood! And it is too quiet here!"
Li Longhua's expression changed, and he threw out a bottle of insecticide without hesitation.
Then I saw the "weed" in front of me suddenly twisting. The grass blades and grass stalks instantly turned into twisted joints, twisting and even whipping randomly.
"Hiss..." Li Longhua took a breath of air.
Chu Fei was also startled, couldn't help but take two steps back, and skillfully hid behind Li Longhua.
Li Longhua:......
Chu Fei's skillful posture made Li Longhua speechless.
Why are you so skilled?
Chu Fei sneered, and finally explained with an awkward smile: "I feel like it's too quiet here. It's suspicious to think that there are so many animals in the underground world, and that the ground is so prosperous but there are no animals.
Although many bugs are scavengers, there are also many that eat grass roots and leaves.
There are no natural enemies of birds and other insects here, but the vegetation here is so lush that it is questionable.
Of course, the biggest suspicion is the sonic characteristics detected by my wind of perception. The sonic characteristics of the plants here actually have a sense of flesh and blood.
But I didn’t expect that these plants would evolve to this extent.”
Li Longhua pulled out a sharp saber and made a gesture. Suddenly the sword flashed, and then a blade of grass flew up and was caught by Li Longhua.
The "grass blades" were twisted, with light blue liquid flowing, and a strong grassy smell wafting from it.
Chu Fei smelled it twice and frowned slightly: "It seems to smell like mushrooms?"
"It smells of fungi!" Li Longhua emphasized, "This grassland here should be a unique life mixed with fungi and plant genes, which can directly convert photosynthesis into the favorite food of insects.
The experiments in this world are a little crazy."
Chu Fei suddenly understood and said quietly, "If you don't go crazy, how can you study the liquid process of pupae? I even suspect that this grassland may not be synthetic, but alien life.
Maybe the grasslands here are meant to cultivate alien life, life that has a pupal state."
Li Longhua looked into the distance, suddenly pointed at a towering tree, and said leisurely, "Maybe you were right!"
Chu Fei took a look and saw nothing. He immediately took out a small telescope and immediately saw something on the giant tree in the distance.
There were hanging bug bags hanging there.
The hanged ghost, whose scientific name is the inchworm, is the larvae of the coir...well, this is normal.
At least the inchworm's bag isn't too big.
As for the current bug bags, Chu Fei did a simple calculation and got the data: 3 to 5 meters!
I don’t know if it’s a mutated inchworm or an alien life or something. Anyway, it doesn’t look very friendly.
At this time, Li Longhua had jumped to the top of the passage, looked around, and said: "There is a wilderness around, there is nothing."
Chu Fei looked around and wanted to look back for any signs in the passage, but found a "Research Base Structure Diagram" on the side wall. There was also a permanent responsibility sign next to it.
This is a set of structural diagrams, which have become rather mottled due to their age. But they can still be distinguished.
The first is an overall structural diagram, which is an inverted pyramid structure. The top is marked with "0 meter layer".
Above the 0-meter layer is the ground.
Then there are the "-20m layer", "-40m layer", "-70m layer", and "-100m layer".
As the depth increases, the area continues to shrink. The final fifth layer is the "-150 meter layer", and there is a depth gap of 50 meters between the fourth layer and the "-150 meter layer".
And here at the "-150 meter level", there are three words written: Main control room!
Looking at this structural diagram, Chu Fei became silent - it seemed that I no longer needed to lead the way.
Chu Fei saw it, and so did more people.
Li Longhua jumped down from above and made a decision immediately after seeing the structure diagram: "There is nothing on the ground, so we still need to explore the underground. It seems that the downward stairs we saw when we just came in are correct."
But at this time Qian Shaohua spoke, "General Li, everyone is a little tired after the crazy battle before. How about we take a rest first? Right here."
As soon as these words were spoken, many members of the Flying Tigers nodded and even voiced their agreement.
The previous battles were actually not very long. The total time from entering this space to now is less than eight hours - not even enough for an eight-hour working day.
But the previous battle in the darkness really made everyone feel tired.
Human beings are creatures that sleep in the dark.
We were in total darkness just now. Not only did we not sleep, we also had to fight those mutated creatures that had adapted to the darkness. It was impossible to say that we were not tired.
Li Longhua looked around and finally had to nod, "Okay, just take a rest here and don't leave this exit.
Although this exit looks ordinary right now, no outside animals and plants are coming in, so there may be some insect repellent technology."
Everyone quickly responded and rested on the spot.
Chu Fei was in good spirits. The super potion he drank earlier still had some effects, but he took the opportunity to observe the world on the ground in front of him.
Especially the hanging ghost on the giant tree in the distance.
But I found a withered yellow branch moving.
Wait, that's not a branch, that's a mimicking mantis, and of course a mutated mantis. Chu Fei simply observed and calculated the size: 2.2 meters in length!
Compared to the 2.2-meter mantis, which is 3 to 5 meters long, and the inchworm, which is more than 3 meters long, it seems to be looking for death.
At least the inchworms on the towering trees are still happily nibbling on the leaves.
However, the next moment, the mantis jumped out, and Chu Fei didn't even see it clearly; he only saw the mantis disappear and reappear instantly, and an inchworm was chopped off by the mantis, leaving only half of its belly twisted.
The mantis dragged the inchworm's upper body away quickly, then spread its wings, jumped down from the towering tree, and headed straight for...himself!
Chu Fei was watching the fun at first.
However, seeing the praying mantis getting bigger and bigger, and then calculating the flight curve of the praying mantis, Chu Fei's expression changed, "Get up, get up! A mutated mantis is coming! The combat power of the mutated mantis may exceed that of ordinary alien beasts!
"
Everyone stood up with cheers, and Li Longhua immediately followed the direction of Chu Fei's telescope and saw the praying mantis coming towards them.
But after seeing the mantis, Li Longhua breathed a sigh of relief, "It's a mantis. These things usually don't live in groups. Maybe they can also eat some game."
As he spoke, a look of yearning appeared on Li Longhua's face, "I wonder if you have ever tasted the scythe of a mutated mantis. It tastes really good, not to mention full of elasticity. It has a pleasant fragrance and contains powerful life energy.
.I don’t know how much stronger than crab claws.
I had it during the animal epidemic more than ten years ago. Nowadays, some discerning high-end restaurants only accept this.
Calculated based on quality, weight, size, etc., the lowest price is several thousand yuan per catty, and the high-end ones can even reach tens of thousands of yuan per catty.”
Chu Fei couldn't help but ask, "Don't this praying mantis eat people?"
Li Longhua snorted, "If a wolf eats a human, does the wolf's meat change its flavor?"
"..."
Li Longhua pointed to the mantis flying over and said, "This mantis definitely doesn't eat humans."
Chu Fei breathed a sigh of relief. Yes, even if this mantis wants to eat people, it needs someone to eat it.
Seeing the praying mantis approaching, Li Longhua bared his teeth and smiled, "The meat flew here by itself. Everyone lie down, I will prepare some game for everyone."
The mantis quickly approached, its ferocious triangular head became clearer and clearer, and its two huge eyeballs were like citrine balls.
But just as it approached the entrance of the passage, the mantis paused, then raised its figure and flew away.
Chu Fei said leisurely, "The meat flew away."
Li Longhua:......
Everyone laughed, rested for a while, and then took pictures of the structural diagrams and basic floor plans on the wall before returning underground.
The light gradually faded away, and everyone was quickly swallowed by darkness.
After walking for a while, someone suddenly asked, "Should we go back the same way we came, or take a new path?"
Everyone immediately started discussing. Some said returning to the original route, while others talked about exploring new roads.
In the end, the problem was thrown to Li Longhua.
Li Longhua thought for a while and asked Chu Fei, "I think it's better to go back the same way. What do you think?"
Chu Fei said: "I also agree to return the same way. There are three reasons.
First, we are already familiar with it, and we are all aware of the dangers here.
Our biggest disadvantage here is not only the darkness, but also the unfamiliarity with the terrain. It is best to go back the way we came.
Second, there are arrows indicating emergency passages when returning to the original route, so it is not easy to get lost.
Although we now have a road map, if we really enter a dark world, we may not know the true face of Mount Lu, just because we are in this mountain.
Third, although there is danger along the way, the brain beast that threatens the most has already been killed. If we just pass by and don't take the initiative to attack, it shouldn't be a big problem."
Li Longhua nodded slightly, "Okay, let's go back the way we came."
This time we returned the same way, and it turned out to be no accident.
When passing by the mutant brain beast's nest, there were many mutant brain beasts blocking the front of the nest, roaring in low voices.
But when everyone was just passing by, these smart mutant brain beasts didn't make any move, and everyone just lived in peace.
The team returned to the location where the underground entrance was discovered. Someone turned on the bracelet to release the picture for comparison, and turned the light to the lowest level.
Li Longhua decided, "Let's go from here. Chu Fei, check out the situation inside."
Because we have suffered a loss, we don’t dare to turn on the lights when we have nothing to do now.
Chu Fei didn't say anything, and the wind of perception was launched at full strength, scanning the area of more than 300 meters around the entrance through ultrasonic waves, infrasound waves, and ordinary sound waves.
As for turning and other things, there is no problem for Sensing Wind. All you need to do is add a few change data when calculating.
Chu Fei discovered that there was a spider nest inside!
This spider nest is about 170 meters from the entrance. Because it is a bit far away, the detection is not very clear.
As Chu Fei told Li Longhua and others, the limit of his perception range was only forty or fifty meters.
Chu Fei rolled his eyes and found a solution.
I'm sorry, I was originally a strong man who was captured by you, just out to fool around, sooner or later I have to pay back!
Of course, Chu Fei didn't expect to trap people to death. If everyone died, he wouldn't be able to survive. So, he just wanted to make everyone tired.
At this moment, Chu Fei has gradually developed a mature way of deceiving people.
No, I'm not trying to trick anyone, I just want to collect some deserved interest and get the benefits I deserve, that's all.
This is the end of the world, and people who don’t do it for themselves will be punished by heaven and earth!
Why did Li Longhua forcefully recruit me? It was for their own sake and they didn't care about what I thought!
With these thoughts flashing through his mind, Chu Fei slowly spoke.