Chapter 1: The Absorbed Life Energy (Part I)
In a cottage-like building, the air smells rancid and smelly, but other features such as temperature, humidity, and the "antique pill" automatic spray used to eliminate skeletal muscle fatigue are also very comfortable for humans.
"Is there anyone?" Lin Shu carefully took the entire "circle" to the point where it was as big as this room, and soon found the location of the dying life, and continued to walk towards it, "Excuse me, come in and disturb the ......"
He walked through the first-floor living room and living room, followed the automatic air lift mat to the second floor, and finally stopped in front of a closed bedroom.
The guy in the room with extremely low signs of life is the source of the rancid smell in the entire villa!
Lin Shu stretched out his hand and nudged the door, and found that the heavy guy of the original wood material had been locked from the inside, and the palm of his hand attached to the door panel gently "vibrate" tens of thousands of times, and the silent powder soon fell along the edge of Lin Shu's palm.
After about half a second, the thick wooden door had completely disappeared into the air - the powder that had fallen had been automatically sucked into the recycling layer as garbage by the housekeeper system in the house. And the situation in this "bedroom" finally fell into the eyes of Lin Shu.
A ...... No, or rather, in a coffin-shaped crystal chamber, a human male with his hair peeling off and rotting skin lying motionless with his eyes closed. About 100 slender and flexible catheters "drilled" out of the ground and directly passed through the crystal cabin and connected to the man's body. Occasionally, some shiny substance was slowly pulled out of his body by the catheter and submerged into the ground.
"My ...... God, what are these things!" Lin Shu's eyes widened, and he looked at the man's gray, rotten body with some horror, "Why is this happen......ing?" Are you sick? What are these extracted things?"
Brain, Bupa swallowed softly, and the horror in his voice was no less than that of Lin Shu, "I don't know very well, but this seems to be a ...... An instrument that can draw life energy. Pamirs are genetically selected for the most sophisticated time before birth, and it is impossible for them to get sick!"
Lin Shu touched the conduit made of unknown material with his fingers, only to feel that the "little things" in it that emitted a strange light, as if they had life, could occasionally intersect with the "circle" he spread in the room.
He was emanating into wisps of non-core consciousness, and he could even feel the wails and struggles coming from above......
"That's right, these should be his vibrations, and...... There is still a little bit of faint consciousness reflection!" Lin Shu quickly retracted his scattered consciousness, a little reluctant to come into contact with these painful little beings again, "But why does this device extract his life energy? Where do these tubes end?"
Before Bupa could give an answer, Lin Shu had already used Xiaoxing's electric eye, and with enough eyesight, the perspective light extended all the way down these conduits.
"Oh my God......! That's a lot of catheters!"
After looking down for less than a few tens of meters, he was horrified to find that these "conduits" did not only exist in this building, but also in this man - in every house in the entire 30 districts, there were more than 100 conduits sticking out, and at a depth of about 30 meters, they were connected to a crystal pipe with a diameter of 10 meters. And those life energy that glowed with mystical light continued to flow down from the conduit. The armpits are gathered into furs, and the stream flows into the sea...... When you get here, there are countless amounts of energy entering the crystal tube almost every second!
In other words, all the residents of the entire 30th District are being sucked into life energy by these strange crystal cabins and catheters!
No wonder every sign of life here looks so weak!
"What the hell is going on?!" Bupabi saw this a little later, but his reaction was several times stronger than that of the latter, "where are there so many conduits? Who did these things! They want to ...... the life energy of these Pamir citizens Where?"
"Don't be impatient!" Lin Shu snorted, and said with some annoyance, "What are you anxious about!
When Bupa was stunned in embarrassment, Lin Shu had already adjusted the function of the electric eye again, and continued to see through the crystal pipe.
Thirty meters...... Fifty meters...... One hundred meters.
Up to a depth of one hundred and fifty meters, this crystal pipeline only carried the life energy of all the residents of the 30th District, and continued to extend downward. At this time, the crystal pipe has entered the second part of the planet's underground layer, which is a "leisure layer" dedicated to the entertainment of the residents of the first ten floors.
According to the records of Xiaoxing's database, this layer is not like the underground floor where he is now, divided into cities, family territories, and even chaotic things such as wilderness, snow-capped mountains and heavenly pools. This dedicated "leisure floor" is just a whole very large city!
Here, the designers have included almost all the popular entertainment projects in the entire universe, and there are tens of millions of unique and interesting entertainment methods, as well as psychotropic drugs for people to experience the feeling of indulgence...... Of course, it is harmless and non-addictive. People can socialize with each other here, go to orgy parties, get drunk, promiscuous, have group sex. You can also experience compassionate artworks here, and talk to people about the political landscape and technological development trends of the entire universe. Of course, if you want to find the right person to fight and vent your anger, you can definitely be satisfied.
But what is terrible is that when the "leisure layer" with a space of 300 meters reaches the bottom, this huge crystal pipe has not yet reached the bottom limit. Countless life energy from the Pamir human body also filled the pipe, flowing down unhurriedly.
After these 450 meters of long-distance perspective, although Lin Shu's vision is not exhausted, the degree of diffraction and scattering of perspective light has reached the level where it is not enough to image - in other words, his perspective ability has reached the limit at this time!
"Damn it...... Don't stop, don't stop...... Or maybe the pipeline ends right here......"
Half a second later, a chaotic spectrum of variegated colors appeared in front of Lin Shu's eyes, and the image transmitted by the perspective light finally became blurry.
"Fuck you!" he scolded angrily, almost not breaking the transparent crystal pod at hand!
Brain, Bupa, who had always maintained the same nervousness as Lin Shu, took a long breath and said helplessly, "No way, compared with the potential of human beings, science and technology have an insurmountable gap after all-the principle of optics cannot be violated." ”
Lin Shu stabilized his mind slightly, and looked at the man in the crystal cabin hesitantly, "What should I do now?" this guy ...... Do you want to save it?"
"Do you have the ability to save him? Are you sure that after saving him, you won't attract the attention of the main messenger behind the scenes? Even if you save him, what will happen to the tens of thousands of residents left in the entire thirty districts...... Rescued one by one?"
Lin Shu didn't say anything more, just silently exited the rancid room and left the entire small building.
When he returned to the outside of the building, where the air was fresh, and the humidity and temperature were the most suitable for human feelings, his body was very relaxed, but his heart was indescribably nauseous.
Who is the person who is manipulating all this? Except for the Thirty Districts, has the non-martial cultivators in the entire Floating Light City suffered such a "poisonous hand"? And why is this mastermind behind the scenes, who is hidden underground, so many layers underground, who has grabbed such a huge amount of life energy?
There were so many questions in Lin Shu's heart, which made the smile he showed when he looked at Xiaojun and Xixi a little bitter.
"What's going on inside?" Walking into the selected idle small building, Gu Mingjun seemed to be aware of it, and asked with a slightly raised face.
"Nothing. Lin Shu shook his head lightly, swept the verification hole of Xiaoxing on the door lock slightly, and soon walked into this small building with the same layout as the rest of the buildings, "You all stay inside for the past few days, don't go out if you have anything to do - it doesn't seem to be safe on the Pamir planet." There's a resource supply terminal over there, everything is free, and no one will find out we're using it. ”
Xiao Jun and Xi Xi nodded half-incomprehensibly, and when the ecological wooden door was closed, they quickly cheered, jumping up and down in this extremely pleasant and comfortable building, and visiting everywhere. The living environment of the real Pamir residents brought them a lot of pleasure.
Lin Shu just lay down on the ground a little tiredly, trapping the whole person in the air cushion formed by himself, and while pretending to sleep, he discussed the strange situation he had just encountered with Bupa and Xiaoxing.
Xiaoxing, who has super authority for the government to manage the network, was naturally quickly assigned by him to collect some information that may be related to this matter, and Bupa, who was in a very solemn mood, in addition to strong doubts, also had an irrepressible anger: "No matter who the beast who implements this plan is, sooner or later I will find him out and cut it into 1.7 billion pieces with a blunt knife!"
Lin Shu comforted him a little, and then asked, "According to your understanding, these extracted life energy...... What's the use?"
"I don't know, but I seem to have heard rumors about the extraction of life energy when I was a cosmic wanderer on the Pamir before. Bupa's voice smacked of memory, and his speech slowed down...... It started out from a scientist in a cutting-edge laboratory. The gist of it should be how to use the life energy scattered by human beings to improve the efficiency of cultivation...... God, isn't it !??"