When you hear these voices that gradually start to become noisy,
Su Wen looked around:
He saw in front of him a group of ragged people with tired faces busily shuttling between the narrow steam pipes.
These pipes are like the blood of the city, intricately intertwined and supporting the survival of the entire underground shelter.
Above the pipes, the rusty iron sheet is occasionally washed by steam and makes a "chichi" sound, as if telling the vicissitudes of time.
People gather together in small or small groups, whispering about the gains and dangers of their exploration of the surface;
Or alone, silently sorting out the supplies brought back from the surface, with desire and fear for the unknown world shining in their eyes.
Although life is difficult,
But they have already adapted to this way of surviving in darkness and danger. So everyone's face is full of optimism and unyielding.
Among the crowd, Su Wen even noticed some special existences. Those people were completely different from the little girl who hated Lorenzril.
Instead, they are a group of people who have longing for a bright future after the academy is completely integrated here.
They sat around a corner, their eyes shining with yearning for freedom and light, whispering about the fact that Laurenzril could lead them to escape from this abandoned border.
However,
These fantasies seem so pale and feeble in the face of cruel reality.
But at this moment,
A sudden loud noise broke the noise and bustle.
A steam pipe suddenly burst, and scalding steam instantly filled the entire space! It even frightened the group of people who had just gathered in the corner and fled in panic.
The person in charge shouted anxiously:
"quick!
Hurry up and find a crystal craftsman for me to repair!
If the pipeline continues to be broken like this, without crystal mining, everyone will starve to death here."
After hearing the news, many people immediately took action.
"Forget it, a bunch of useless things, I'll find them myself."
The person in charge ran in a certain direction.
As for Su Wen, the fragment of the conversation he just had with Phyllis flashed quickly in his mind.
Phyllis mentioned in the communication just now:
Laurenz Riel's assessment task for the new students is extremely arduous, and he needs to go to the space station that is set to self-destruct after [72 GMT].
Go deep into the interior of the projection ruins and obtain mineral crystals called 'Void Energy Crystals' as points.
so,
A bold conjecture emerged in his mind:
Are these two - the urgently needed crystal in the shelter and the null energy crystal in the mission - the same crystal material?
No,
This possibility is almost certain, otherwise such a distorted misaligned time effect would not be possible.
"The corresponding crystal crystallization or crystal energy will definitely become the corresponding space-time anchor point."
"There's also the possibility of a runaway anchor point."
The girl added softly,
She also thought of what Su Wen was currently thinking about,
"But if this is indeed the case, it must be an extremely important clue."
The handsome scholar likes the feeling that others can understand him without saying too much.
"Follow them.
If this group of people really found the so-called crystal craftsman, maybe we can get more information from there."
that's all,
The two of them blended into the crowd,
But because of the distortion of the girl's [Psychic Characteristics: Void Light Blocking], it didn't attract much attention.
As Su Wen and Iceberg Girl go deeper, the environment of the underground tunnel becomes increasingly dark and depressing.
The dim lights at the top of the tunnel are sparsely distributed, cutting the space into irregular light and shadow areas, as if it is a reappearance of the underground shelter in the wandering earth.
The air is filled with damp and musty smell,
Occasionally, you can hear the roar of steam engines in the distance and the low voices of people talking.
They walked along the tunnel and soon came to a spacious material distribution area.
People are busily shuttling here, and some are receiving daily quota supplies.
Some brought the mechanical parts, scrap metal and other items they obtained during their surface exploration to a huge exchange counter, ready to exchange them for some food or other necessities.
Su Wen's eyes scanned the crowd.
Sudden,
He noticed the little girl who had been hiding in the shadow corner.
She looked to be no more than ten years old, and her thin body was vigorously dragging a huge backpack that was almost the same height as her, and the backpack was filled with various sundries that she had collected during her surface exploration.
She trudged to the exchange counter, her eyes flashing with a desire for food.
But it seems that because of his somewhat cowardly character,
She just asked in a very small voice:
"this,
these things,
Can I exchange two loaves of bread?"
However, the man behind the counter just glanced lazily at the backpack in her hand.
Then he waved with the hand he was picking his nose at and said impatiently:
"These things?
Humph, what a piece of junk, it’s worthless.
You'd better take it back and don't waste my time."
When the little girl heard this, the light in her eyes dimmed instantly.
She lowered her head,
He seemed to want to say something, but in the end he just turned around silently and prepared to leave.
At this moment, the rough man who said he was looking for a crystal repairman also squeezed in front of the counter.
He looked anxious. He was even ready to push the little girl away and knock over the sundries she had collected so hard to get what he needed more quickly:
"I'm anxious,
You can't afford the compensation for delaying things."
However, just as he was about to make his violent move, a strong hand suddenly held his arm.
Su Wen was standing beside him at some point, his eyes were calm and deep, as if he could see everything.
But then,
The handsome scholar just smiled softly and said to the acquirer at the counter:
"I want these things."
The rough mining man who was about to find a maintenance man was stunned for a moment, and he was just about to curse.
But after feeling the majestic power coming from Su Wen's hand, his preparation for provocation was instantly extinguished, and even a trace of awe and fear flashed in his eyes.
really,
Anyone who can live comfortably underground is definitely not a fool.
He swallowed and finally nodded helplessly and moved away.
The little girl raised her head in surprise and looked at Su Wen, with gratitude and confusion in her eyes.
She felt that she was wrong to be wary of this big brother at the beginning.
But Su Wen just smiled at her and told her not to worry. Instead, he pretended to take out some bread from the backpack but actually took out some bread from the storage box and handed it to her.
now,
He finally found a formal way to get in here.
on the other side.
As Phyllis and Laurenz Riel and their party stepped into the space station with a worrying fate mentioned by the director of [Permanent Magnet-Lana Bodu].
Everyone was a little uneasy.
But the next second, the emergency scene preset in Miss Watcher's mind did not happen as planned:
There are no dazzling red warning lights flashing in front of your eyes, or even rapid beeps echoing in your ears.
on the contrary,
Instead, what caught her eyes was an unimaginably magnificent starry scene outside the porthole of the space system:
The distant silver ring seems to be the edge of the universe.
And from that endless depth,
The huge rescue starships were slowly sailing towards their location with an indescribable majesty.