Chapter 178: Rite of Passage
There were many cracks that spread from the volcano, and Lu slowly descended along the cracks.
I don't know how long it took, but Lu Ye's eyes suddenly brightened.
It's like coming to the underworld, where magma and rivers are mixed but do not interfere with each other, and there are all kinds of crops on the complex terrain.
From time to time, you can also see some young lizard people playing around, climbing the rock walls, catching small reptiles that are similar to lizards, and feeding them into their mouths.
With the desolate scene on the ground, there must be prosperity underground.
The magma that can be seen everywhere has become a source of light, and Lu has even seen a few lizardmen-bear children using some sticks to stir with lava, or throwing feces or spitting into the lava lake.
The temperature underground was very high, and after Lu also fell to the ground, he found that this place was a little hot.
I don't know how these underground plants survive.
Of course, Lu is not a biologist, and he didn't come to the underground to think about how these plants survive, after all, there are too many mysteries in this world, and the only reason he came here was to gather more intelligence and complete the investigation of the incident.
In fact, Lu also knew very well that this time he was very likely to be left in this world forever, because when Ji Baichao pulled him in, he didn't really want to bring him back to the real world.
He had long thought about a life-and-death battle with Lu Ye, so if Lu also needed to go back this time, he might have to take someone else's car.
"Of course, there's another way. Lu also remembered the experience of rashly contacting Nidhogg before, and then being strangled to death by the aura.
That level of aura may be able to unlock the ultimate strategic terminal for the individual.
That thing has the ability to teleport, and the condition for opening is a large number of pure human aura.
However, Lu didn't dare to try this path rashly, opening the terminal might be able to solve the embarrassment of his body being blown up, but it would take time, and that little time might be enough for Nidhogg to kill Lu Ye dozens of times.
One cannot be too careful with such a mythical creature that is close to a god.
So before he was completely prepared, Lu Ye didn't plan to go back on this road.
Lu also opened a desperate situation, and mental interference was always ready, if there was any abnormal movement, he would prepare an illusion to throw it over.
In fact, Lu Ye is also planning to develop a new type of illusion, that is, an illusion that does not need to act on other people's brains, but on nature, so that other people can observe illusions.
The fake realm in the three realms originally has this ability, but the fake realm is more inclined to change the sense of existence of things.
At present, Lu is also combining his illusion ability with the false realm, trying to create a real illusion, but at present, the combination of two similar abilities is not smooth.
Illusion is the power of will, illusion is mental disturbance fluctuations, and will and spirit are one thing in a way, but they are different.
And illusion is directed at the human brain, while illusion is directed at natural existence.
It's a bit hard to combine these two things.
Lu Ye can only try it when he has time, and if he doesn't have time, he will carry out a certain amount of operation and calculation with multiple thoughts in his mind.
Soon Lu also walked into the city of underground lizardmen, which was not far from the rift.
It can be seen that the city has not been opened for a long time, after all, it will only take about a year for these lizardmen to live.
The city is much cleaner and more orderly than expected.
The house is designed to be low on the outskirts, higher towards the center, and in the center is a tall tower that is directly connected to the ground.
It appears to have been carved directly from the rock wall.
Lizardmen have a lot of jobs, and you can see a lot of lizardmen guards wearing armor on the road, and the city is divided into various areas.
There are many lizardmen in the factory area, driving stone armored vehicles to quickly transport goods.
Hu Weihua manipulated the stone armor to transport the black ash that had been squeezed into squares, and after sending it to the No. 9 factory, he returned to his factory again.
It's just at this time that he can't help but think of his former profession, a business CEO, although now he is just an ordinary delivery worker.
But compared to the others who lost their lives, he was obviously much luckier.
First of all, when the disaster came, he was in the dark room, and he did not go out of the door for the first time, which allowed him to survive the first day.
On that day, the second round of the sun appeared in the sky, and countless polluted radiation spread all over the outside world, and all those who were exposed to the outside died painfully and became dried corpses.
Secondly, after the disaster, he immediately tried to block the various ventilation openings in the office, and did not come into contact with those black ashes, which also had polluted radiation on them, and if he didn't pay attention, he would die.
In the end, he didn't choose to attack the lizardfolk who suddenly appeared, and instead accepted their examination unharmed.
As it turns out, lizardfolk are not very hostile to humans.
They are the "snakes" who follow Niederhogg, and although they are united by Niedhog's side, they worship Niedhoven and fear Him at the same time.
For these humans, who were awakened by Nidhogg, the lizardmen were more in a state of pity.
They treated some of the surviving humans as refugees and gave them help.
Some of the detached humans even reorganized their families with the lizardmen.
Hu Weihua originally thought that with the lizardman's attitude towards humans, he would be able to use his own means to successfully gain a certain status here.
However, he miscalculated, the social structure of the lizardmen is not the same as that of humans, and there is no environment for merchants to live here.
They don't have currency, every lizardman can go to the relevant authorities to get anything they want, and these lizardmen are not human after all, and their need for supplies is not as strong as that of humans.
They are more willing to take credit and then elevate their social status in the lizardfolk society, which is directly highlighted.
Humans are positioned as refugees in the lizardfolk society, they accept humans and give them a certain status, but they do not give them an upward path, of course, not completely absent, provided that they can talk to them.
In just one year, Hu Weihua has become accustomed to his current job, but he still misses his old life when he has a spare time.
Sometimes he wondered if the disaster hadn't happened, or if he had died in that disaster, maybe it wouldn't have been much worse.
However, the fact is that he survived, and as a refugee, although he was used to the work here, Hu Weihua could not get used to the current life.
As he passed a block, he saw a lizardman coming-of-age ceremony.
Grab an underground beast, then cut off its head, hollow it out, and put it on your own head, then start disposing of that beast's corpse.
Deal with the beast, as some villages in northern Colombia do.
Hu Weihua shuddered, drove the stone armor, and walked away quickly, which was also a way he couldn't get used to here.
But what can be done, human society has been destroyed.
And at this time, Hu Weihua saw a man in a neat suit standing on a building in the distance.