After some discussion, the team finally did not return to the surface, but directly found a room near the main hall of the underground palace to spend the night.
The reason for this arrangement is the advice given by Leah based on her own experience and professional knowledge: it seems that resting in the underground ruins is quite risky, but in fact, the inside of the Anno ruins is much safer than the outside.
First, as mentioned before, those demon-devouring monsters mutated by the influence of magic power are actually active on the outer layer of the ruins, and they will not encounter any intrusion from monsters inside the ruins; secondly, this buried underground
The ruins were much stronger than expected. After examining its main material and structure, Lia discovered that the palace's frame was made of an insanely tough alloy. Although its ancillary buildings on the surface were all damaged,
Its main building obviously has special performance indicators. Even if it is buried deep underground, there is no need to worry about the risk of collapse: unless a crack in the large tunnel suddenly appears and splits the underground palace into two, which is almost impossible.
Thirdly, Lia felt that it was very exciting to sleep near the big tunnel for a night, and she would be able to chat with others for at least half a year when she went back.
Hao Ren felt that the third reason was the real reason...
To be fair, any group of sane mercenaries at this time would not accept such a bold arrangement from their employer. They even broke up the group when they knew that the underground palace and the large tunnel were so close. However, Hao Ren and his party were specifically for this.
They went there to dig out the truth. They wanted Leah to stay here for a while, so no one expressed any objection after hearing the rest arrangements for tonight.
This actually made Miss Leah even more deeply worried about whether these mercenaries were going to kill her to share her inheritance...
The underground world does not distinguish between day and night. Even if there is a timer to tell the time, the lack of changes in the environment makes people feel at a loss when it comes to work and rest. The most affected by this are Gun and Elizabeth. The former believes that they should sleep at any time, while the latter believes that they should sleep at any time.
There was no time to sleep, but in the end the little devil girl was forced to go to bed by her father on the grounds that "children must go to bed on time or they will not grow taller".
After the last late-night cultivator Vivian also went to bed, the underground palace finally became quiet again.
Everything returns to darkness.
Hao Ren didn't know how long he had been sleeping in a daze. It had been a long time since he had a dreamless and peaceful sleep like he had in recent days. Although dreamless sleep could better restore the spirit, it also made it difficult to judge himself.
How long did he sleep for? When he woke up, he thought it was the next day, but he found that no one had gotten up yet. Even Vivian, who always got up early, was hanging on the roof without waking up.
Hao Ren rubbed his eyes. As his vision recovered, the thick darkness around him gradually receded. He looked helplessly at Vivian, who was hanging upside down above him: This vampire lady usually sleeps on the bed, but
Apparently the ruins of the palace buried deep in the ground stimulated some of her nerves. It probably reminded her of familiar environments such as underground tombs or caves. She decided to hang out tonight to remember the bitterness and sweetness...
"Everyone is unstable sometimes." Hao Ren muttered, feeling that his sleepiness had faded away, and he probably wouldn't be able to fall asleep if he continued to lie down, so he simply got out of the sleeping bag, arranged some wrinkled clothes, got up and left.
room.
Walking alone in an ancient underground palace that has been abandoned for thousands of years is a test of courage, but for Hao Ren, who has no fear of anything, this is an alternative way to relax. He can still vaguely walk along the
Seeing the gorgeously decorated corridors of the past and walking forward, I connected the communication with Nolan in my mind.
"How's the situation up there?"
"Nothing has changed," the ship girl said lazily, "It's so boring, just floating in the sky like this, with no place to wander... I can't even get out of the atmosphere. As a spaceship, I feel like I'm just going to
It’s useless.”
"You must be a bit promising. I have only allowed you to stay for a few days." Hao Ren was a little helpless, "Why don't I see you being so dissatisfied when I usually go to Hong Kong for maintenance?"
"That's different. When I came to Hong Kong for maintenance, I went to the virtual space to have fun as soon as I was on standby. I didn't feel anything after lying there for two months. But here I have to turn on all the sensors just to stare at this.
A world without movement, would you say it is boring?"
"I asked you to send probes abroad. Do you have any news?"
"We've sent it. We've almost scanned the entire planet," Nolan said lazily. "The map has been synchronized to the data terminal. You can check it at any time. Just as you guessed before, this one is called Lahirian.
The world is really suspicious. I found shadows of almost every race in the Dream Plane on the surface of the planet. Not only werewolves, vampires, and humans created by the goddess of creation, but also native races like sirens. But these
Some races seem to have 'changed', as if they only retain the racial characteristics in appearance, but have other names. For example, the Sirens are divided into the terrestrial 'Snake Tribe' and the aquatic race.
The Lahrion people regard them as two species. In addition, I also found a people in a desert in the southern part of the continent that are exactly the same as the Tana people, but they are called the "Jeron people"
.In addition, there are many similar situations."
Hao Ren slowed down: "It sounds...like a species sample vault, and some of the various races stored in this 'vault' have had their names changed..."
"Perhaps it really is a safe depository?" Nolan guessed, "As for the change of name, should it be the cultural chronology caused by the passage of time of ten thousand years?"
Hao Ren frowned slightly: "Actually, Muru and the others once mentioned that the Creation Goddess has a 'dream plane species database'. Sif once served as a guard in this database. This database is said to be used to preserve the dream plane."
It contains all life samples, but they did not say in detail the form of this database. It may be just a virtual database, or it may be a planet storing physical samples... If it is the latter, and Lahryan is this database
If you use the library, then many things can be explained clearly."
"To verify this, we need to conduct a lot of statistics." Nolan said leisurely.
"Yes," Hao Ren's thinking became more active, "living forms include more than just various intelligent races, ranging from birds and animals to as small as bacteria and viruses. These things are all living things. The species of origin evolves differently according to the environment of the planet where it takes root.
Countless ecosystems have emerged, each of which may be composed of tens or even hundreds of millions of species. If Lahirian is really a database, then the number of species living on this planet
It will definitely reach an extremely exaggerated number. Even if your sensor performance and computing speed increase tenfold, it will probably not be easy to complete the statistical work."
"And so many species are crowded on one planet...it's incredible no matter how I think about it," Nolan said. "Let alone how such a huge number of species are 'squeezed' in, just that they come from different ecosystems."
It can already give people a headache. The living environments are different, and even the basic life structures are different. How can they coexist on such a planet... Is the species database built by the Goddess of Creation such a simple and crude thing?
?”
"So I'm not directly sure that this planet is the so-called 'vault'," Hao Ren laughed. "To say the deepest impression on me here, I can describe it in four words: specious. There are indeed various kinds of things here.
All kinds of races, all intelligent creatures in the Dream Plane seem to be able to find corresponding samples here, but the Kraken has become two completely different branches of snakes and mermaids here, and the Tana people have become Zerro.
The benefactor, the elves have also become seven or eight different races, such as forest elves, sea elves, and demon elves. Many races have not only changed their names, but in fact even their physical structures have changed, and these changes are hard to believe.
All were completed in just ten thousand years. Did you know? There is an ancient legend in this world. According to the legend, Lahirien is actually a 'new world'. Before it, there was the old Lahirien.
Destroyed Although this legend has many errors and omissions, it gave me an inspiration..."
"inspiration?"
"This planet has experienced the great explosion of the Kingdom of God but is still full of vitality. It doesn't look real at all," Hao Ren smiled slightly, "I'm afraid it's not a fake."
Miss Kan Niang thought for a moment and gave a pertinent comment: "Whenever you make nonsense, it always sounds like the truth."
"Every time I make nonsense, it is well-founded."
Hao Ren stopped. Unknowingly, he had left the atrium of the underground palace. The long corridor was cut off in the middle, and a great rift valley filled with endless darkness lay in front of him.
After wandering around for a long time, we actually reached the entrance of Dakeng Road. Isn’t this the entanglement of fate?
After finishing his communication with Miss Ship Niang, Hao Ren squatted down by the entrance of the big tunnel alone. In fact, he didn't just wander around and accidentally ended up here: he did care about this weird big tunnel, although
The latter was extremely dangerous, but its weird properties aroused Hao Ren's interest. Hao Ren planned to find an opportunity to study it from the beginning.
A slight flapping sound came from behind, followed by Vivian's voice: "I knew you were here."
Hao Ren didn't look back: "Are you awake?"
"My head hurts from hanging up," Vivian muttered, rubbing her forehead. "I don't know how I adapted to sleeping like this back then... It's still so comfortable on a big bed."
"When people recall the 20s in middle school, they often ask themselves what kind of stuff was in their heads at the time," Hao Ren smiled, then raised his hand and pointed at the rift, "Tell me, what does this thing look like underneath?"
?”
Vivian stared at Hao Ren: "Are you going to jump down and take a look?"
Hao Ren quickly shook his head: "Don't make trouble. Although the prosecutor is a reckless profession, he is not that reckless. I just have a bold idea, throw down the data terminal and have a look..."
Before he could finish speaking, the data terminal popped out of his pocket: "Stop it! In response to your bold idea, this machine has an immature suggestion that you better jump on it!"
"Let's go, this is just a preliminary plan," Hao Ren smoothly pulled the data terminal aside, and then took out a probe from the portable space, "Now I am going to try it with the probe first."
Data terminal: "...md scared this machine."
Hao Ren glanced sideways at the PDA, then activated the probe and dropped it into the black rift in front of him.
According to Leah, the Great Tunnel will unconditionally devour anything with life or magical energy, so is the probe on its devouring list? 8)