Chapter 21: Climbing

The new apocalypse is an earthy yellow planet from the universe, with 30% of the seawater, and the rest is composed of lifeless desert Gobi rocks. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is far from the space channel and the star gate leaf, and there are no other habitable stars in the surrounding star fields, and there are no large mineral resources with mining value.

Hundreds of years ago, it was just a meaningless point on the various star charts drawn by humans, like an inconspicuous nameless desert island, marked by numbers, and even the value of the name was unnecessary.

Hundreds of years later, the interstellar voyage migrants were separated from the headquarters in a cosmic storm. Tens of thousands of people were forced to settle here, and in desperation, in order to find survival resources, they conducted in-depth and detailed surveys only to find that this is a planet with multiple crusts, and the living space is all under the surface.

The spacecraft malfunctioned and lost contact with the headquarters, and the hope of returning to space was completely lost. Mankind, who is constantly searching for resources, has discovered mysterious and powerful new energy sources that bring new hope to mankind.

With the help of new energy, which is known as a miracle, human beings have established several major settlements underground, and gradually developed into a city-state with an independent government, creating a unique and magical underground civilization and becoming the new master of the planet.

As for the original indigenous people, the Zerg, they were exterminated and expelled by humans. The activity area of the Zerg to thrive underground has been preempted, and it has become a natural resource for humans to open up strata post roads. The passages left over by the giant Zerg activities were seized by humans to build infrastructure on top of them and put them into use as stratum post roads.

Due to the issue of political ownership, stratum post roads are divided into city-owned post roads and public post roads.

In order to connect the areas of influence of the main city-states attached to the towns, the proportion of artificial development of post roads in the cities gradually increased. More than seventy percent of the area of the public post road was once the territory of the Zerg.

The path that Yuan Xinran is taking now is one of the areas where the Zerg had dense activities in the early years, and it is also the area where the Zerg attacks the underground travelers most frequently.

As a last resort, no underground traveler wants to take this unofficial wild road. However, the huge explosion before shook the surrounding stratum space, and Yuan Xinran had to take a long detour.

So far, Yuan Xinran has not encountered a Zerg attack.

Probably due to the impact of the explosion, all the nearby Zerg were scared away. Yuan Xinran thought bitterly, if it wasn't for the explosion that scared away the Zerg in this area, it would be a bit dangerous to take Yin En to the public post road safely with her current physical condition.

Plants containing fluorescein in the ground emit a soft glow, some of which flow like rivers of light on the flat road, some of which hang on the rock wall like a huge carpet of light, and some of which grow independently into towering plants, like lighthouses that guide passers-by.

Yoon Eun was as curious about everything as someone who entered the stratum space for the first time. Yuan Xinran explained them one by one, and was not impatient. Yin Eun's strangeness and excitement about her surroundings reminded her of her first time entering the stratum space. The familiarity that is close in front of you seems to have passed for a long time.

The speed of the road is not fast, the original natural road conditions are bad, there are many large stones and potholes, the area where you can land is small and incoherent, and the large amount of crushed sand and stones reduces the friction between your feet and the ground, and a careless will make people slide down the slope.

In less than half an hour, Yuan Xinran walked with a sweat. Yin Eun gradually stopped talking.

In between, in order to regain their strength, they took two breaks. Two hours later, Yuan happily stopped in front of a cliff with Yin En on his back.

The steep cliff is more than 300 meters high, and the sounder released shows that there is a hole left by a sandworm on it, which leads directly to the public post road. This is the closest route since the surrounding area was altered by an explosion that changed the terrain.

Yuan happily put down Yin En and crossed his waist to look at the big stone wall.

She felt the power of the spirit ring on her wrist, and it had not yet recovered to a state that could be activated. In other words, if you want to go up, you have to rely on tools to climb.

"Let's rest for a while, it's a bit difficult to go up." Yuan happily found a stone and sat down, took out food and water, and handed it to Yin En.

"Eat something to store your strength, and when this is solved, we will be able to walk the road of good walking."

Yin Eun didn't take it, he shook his head, his expression a little gloomy.

"I don't want to, I didn't do anything at all."

Yuan Xinran didn't persuade again, she nibbled on dry food and drank a few sips of water. She glanced at the child, still with an unhappy expression.

I have relied on her help all the way to get to where I am now, probably hurting my self-esteem.

Yuan Xinran finished eating the dry food in a few bites, thought about it, and asked a question she had been curious about.

"What were you going to do?"

"What?" Yoon didn't understand.

"I mean, if you hadn't met me, what were you going to do next after you were taken to Noah?"

Yoon was silent and did not answer the question.

Yuan Xinran didn't mind, she washed her hands with water,

"I guess you're in a much easier situation now than you originally planned to face, no matter what."

"As luck would have it, I didn't do anything." Yoon Eun's mood is still very low.

Yuan Xinran shook his head, pointed at himself, and smiled.

"Why, you choose to trust me to take you out. Judgment is quite good, and this is not something that can be done by luck. ”

Yin Eun was infected, and his lips curled upward.

Yuan Xinran handed over the dry food again.

"Come, eat something, have the strength to have a good mood, and a good mood to have good luck."

Yin Eun finally took the dry food this time.

"Have you always been so optimistic?"

Yuan Xinran sat in an unladylike position, her legs shoulder-width apart, her hands on her knees, and a standard posture of vigilance.

"No, once things are not handled well, there will be times when you are depressed, but as an adult, you have the obligation to be a good example in front of minors. I think this is the most meaningful face for adults. ”

"To die is to save face and to suffer sin." Yoon Eun pouted.

"Haha, sometimes it's true that you're depressed and need to fall down, and when you grow up, maybe I'll put down my face and complain to you, complain and complain about social problems or something."

Yin Eun muttered, nibbling on the dry food in his hand indistinctly.

Yuan Xinran didn't hear it clearly, she felt that she shouldn't say this to the minor, but she couldn't help it for a while.

"You probably think it's boring, you fight for me, you meet some selfish to the point of blindness, you can't beat him yet, you have to obey orders, it's just boring to the point of numbness." She patted her clothes and stood up, "So I definitely don't want to live like that." ”

She stretched, "Okay, that's it, I'll see how to get up." ”

She stood up and pulled out the space capsule, looking for the tools she needed to climb.

Usually, when encountering a cliff of this height, Yuan Xinran would use the power of the spirit ring to fly up directly, and when it was enough to solve it with his own strength, the tools needed were to cope with the height below fifty meters.

The tools were from her apprentice's handiwork, and were stuffed in a pile before she left the city.

She picked and chose a few items in the toolbox.

After the climbing equipment was put on, Yin Eun's dry food was also eaten.

Yuan happily beckoned Yin En over.

She asked Yoon to be back to back with her, tied together with a harness.

"If you're scared, close your eyes, and if it's going well, you'll probably ...... Twenty minutes. ”

Instead, Yoon's eyes widened.

Yuan Xinran chose the protruding position of the stone wall and shot the grappling hook gun, she tugged the hook hard, and after confirming that it was safe, she recovered the rope, and the rope took her and Yin En to a height of fifty meters.

Further up, the grappling hook gun cannot be used. Yuan Xinran had already changed into climbing gloves and boots on the ground, and she fixed her body's center of gravity on the rock wall, using one end of the rope to fix it at the belt position, and the other end to fix it on the climbing wall suction device.

She looked at the smooth area above the stone wall and threw it up. The wall suction device was sucked forty meters above.

Yuan happily dragged the rope and kicked the stone wall to borrow strength, and climbed up slowly.