It is said that in the distant golden age of prehistory, shortly after humans colonized the planet Helel, they began to organize exploration teams in the three major planes and established a large number of scientific research bases there. Therefore, many scientific and technological materials were lost in the three major planes.
, luckily escaped the demonic invasion of the main plane.
Most of the scientific information that humans have about the abyss today was recovered from the abyss by archaeological exploration and archeology by the ancient Solomon Empire during the third and fourth centuries.
The universe where the main plane is located has less matter and more space. For example, the radius of the planet Helel is only more than 6,000 kilometers, and the distance from the planet to the sun is 150 million kilometers. There is almost no matter within this 150 million kilometers.
of emptiness.
However, the abyss is the other way around, with more matter and less space. The material that makes up the main body of the abyss is called "dark matter", which is highly stable and does not participate in electromagnetic interactions. Because the interaction with photons is very weak, dark matter itself
It neither emits light nor reflects light.
Therefore, the abyss made of dark matter is always in darkness. Even if you turn on the flashlight and shine it on the dark matter wall, you can only see the dim light beam that stops abruptly on the wall, as if it is cut off at the waist.
—The light pillar itself comes from the scattering of light by the air, but dark matter itself does not reflect light, so it appears to be pitch black to the naked eye.
Such optical properties make it difficult for the naked eye to function in the abyss. Fortunately, sound waves can still be reflected, so the Banshee King used the curse ability to temporarily give everyone the ability to "hear sounds and identify their position":
When a sound is emitted, the sound waves propagate to the surrounding obstacles and then bounce back. After being analyzed and transformed by the curse ability, the corresponding "scenery" will appear in everyone's mind, as if they saw it with the naked eye.
"Asker, who are we next?" Mi'er looked at the outline of the surrounding cave and asked with some worry.
"The Great Karst Cave is located at the bottom of the abyss. The further you go down, the more serious the erosion from the abyss will be." The Banshee King said quietly, "You should go up as soon as possible."
The so-called up means the opposite direction of gravity. There is still gravity in the abyss.
Everyone looked around. On the left and right were narrow cave walls, either facing forward or backward. Which road led to the upper level of the large cave?
"Mi'er." Ask added, "Observe what the consequences will be in the future if you go forward or go backward."
Mia was stunned when she heard this. So this can still be done?
The Banshee King smiled and said nothing.
Mi'er nodded and then began to observe.
Among the countless divergent world lines, 50% of the world lines lead to the front, and 50% of the world lines lead to the back. In other words, in the absence of any clues, everyone can only choose purely at random.
Continuing to observe further in the direction of the time dimension, she saw that in the forward world line, the height of the terrain was getting lower and lower; on the contrary, it was the backward world line. After everyone moved forward for about 4 hours, they suddenly saw a certain person.
Personal man-made architecture.
Mi'er described it to him, and Asik immediately made a decision: "Go backward!"
So everyone turned around and walked forward. The passage of the large cave went in an irregular direction, sometimes going straight forward, sometimes winding and snaking. Fortunately, there were no intersections along the way. After walking for a few hours, little Mia felt
Somewhat hungry.
As an undead, the Banshee King does not need to eat, and Mia and others cannot. Asik asked Mier to pull out food from the past time from other world lines.
Maintaining the material from other world lines requires consuming the spiritual energy in Mier's body at all times. Once the spiritual supply is stopped, the material will disappear immediately - even if it is eaten.
However, if after digestion, the food is broken down into waste and energy is released, then stopping the spiritual supply will only cause the waste residue to disappear, and will not damage the energy that has been absorbed by the body.
Therefore, relying on Mi'er's destiny law ability, everyone can barely survive for a few days without starving to death. What is even more troublesome is thirst. After all, water in the body mainly participates in the transportation of substances, and human skin and breathing lose water all the time.
, so everyone urgently needs to find a clean water source as soon as possible.
Of course, there are places where you can get food and water in the abyss, otherwise no players would come to play on this plane map. After fighting monsters for a long time, the characters can't find water and die of thirst. Isn't that funny?
After walking a long way in this direction for about three and a half hours, everyone saw the man-made building Mi'er described.
To be precise, it is a door embedded in the cave wall - judging from the style, it is obviously a technological creation of human civilization.
Considering that caves are made of dark matter, human technology in prehistoric times can actually mine dark matter and build scientific research bases inside. The level of technology is truly amazing.
The outer door access control of this scientific research institute is not a swipe card, but a password lock is installed. The password screen is still on, obviously the power supply inside has not been interrupted. However, neither the key card nor the password can be solved by everyone at this time.
.
If we consider it from a game perspective, it is impossible to design an inaccessible map, then the access code for this scientific research institute must exist somewhere nearby... or somewhere further away, anyway, it must exist.
But Asker doesn't bother to think about this at all. He now has two plug-ins in his hand, one is called Mi'er and the other is called Mia. Why does he need to solve puzzles according to normal player thinking?
"Mia." Ask said, "use your ripple sword to teleport us in."
"Oh." Mia agreed.
She was a little worried. After all, it was the first time she used the Ripple Sword and she was teleported to such a ghost place by mistake, which made her quite lacking in confidence at this time.
Mia carefully grabbed Ask, Mier and the Banshee King. After confirming the displacement vector several times in her mind, she activated the ability of the Ripple Sword.
Immediately afterwards, the scene around everyone changed instantly, and they came to the other side of the gate.
The interior decoration style of this institute is obviously more retro and advanced than the last "Psychic Technology Research Institute" underground in the town of Runfield. The surface of the wall made of alloy material is full of streamlined circuit wiring.
and pipes, densely packed but distinct, giving people a strong aesthetic feeling of industrial design.
"Welcome." From the corner corridor in front, a synthetic man with a human appearance came out, emitting a mechanical and clear electronic synthesized voice, "Hello guest, welcome to the Abyss Research Institute No. 734, I am a research assistant
Cape."
Mia and Mi'er put on a fearful defensive posture at the same time, but the synthetic man codenamed Cappe on the other side had no intention of attacking them, and just continued:
"It has been 1784, 5 months and 27 days since the last evacuation of the institute personnel. Since the institute's closure procedures have not been implemented, various facilities have been operating to this day. Have you brought any new authority orders?
?”
"No." Asik replied.
If he gets the ID card or password of the researcher here through tasks or exploration, he can also try to deceive the other person and seize control of the entire scientific research institute. Since he doesn't have it, he can only admit it honestly.
"Understood." The synthetic man said expressionlessly, "According to the management regulations, you are now granted the status of visitor."
"Is there anything to eat?" Ask continued to ask.
"According to the management regulations, we will provide visitors with daily necessities until the new management regulations change takes effect." The synthetic man turned around and began to walk forward.
Everyone quickly followed it and walked in the corridors and stairwells for about ten minutes before arriving in front of a certain warehouse.