Chapter 119: The Eighth Layer of the Pyramid
After telling the story, Li Xiaoyu did not go back directly, but sat on the observation deck for a while.
Nothing interesting happened, and she was like this a lot of the time, quietly thinking about some things that she didn't have.
Then, accompanied by Tang Xian, Li Xiaoyu left the third floor.
Tang Xian himself also returned to the bottom. It was nearly midnight.
There was no such ancient rule as a curfew or night check at the pyramids.
Tang Xiaojiu lived in Qiao Shanshan's house, and he didn't have to worry about several girls living together.
After all, the security on the third floor is much better.
After washing up, Tang Xian took out his diary and began to record some information.
After fulfilling Li Xiaoyu's request, Tang Xian was convinced that the time would come when humans and the creatures of the mining area would fight head-on.
He plans to write a record of biological vulnerability in the mining area and how to deal with it in a short period of time.
Based on the fact that he had fought with many creatures in the mining area, Tang Xian was now convinced of one thing, his theoretical knowledge of the creatures in the mining area was not pure theory.
It's like some battle memories are engraved in your genes, and what to do is always the first thing you can think of.
But it is almost impossible for the rest of the people to have such practical skills.
This may have something to do with their own talent.
But now is not the time to study talents, there will not be just one Zutun Tree, but there will also be creatures that have lived longer or know more than the Zutun Tree.
For example, I originally thought it was a myth and legend.
This mysterious prophecy turtle Tang Xian is very interested, and has already included it as his next target after the events after the events on the Plains of Yopella.
Of course, the main reason why turtle broth is very nourishing is that.
The tip of the pen swam rapidly on the diary, and after Tang Xian listed all the natural calamity-level creatures and perfect-level creatures that might appear in the Yopera Plain, the sky was already cloudy.
Not long after closing the pen, Tang Xian fell into a deep sleep.
He didn't experience much today, but he felt a little tired.
Tang Xian slept deeply.
But the consciousness entered a solid dream.
Even if you can't remember a lot of your memory, it doesn't mean it's gone.
It may reveal the tip of the iceberg in strange dreams.
Tang Xian walked with his father somewhere unknowable in the world of the mining area and asked:
"Where are we going?"
"Go to a place that humans haven't named yet." Father's voice was slightly ethereal.
Tang Xian found that no matter how he sped up, he couldn't keep up with his father's footsteps, he could only see his father's back.
He remembered something in a trance.
Half a year before he was sent to the third floor, the news came that his parents were missing in the mining area.
Disappeared and never returned.
Unlike other adventurous disappearances, the disappearance of the mine is equivalent to death, without exception.
Because you can't return to the pyramid in seven days, everything will be over.
Relying on his wisdom and the identity of a child, he has been crawling at the bottom for half a year, and he is used to seeing the evil part of human nature, so Tang Xian finally waited for the opportunity to go to the third layer.
The hue of the dream is silvery-gray.
It seems to have a dead silence.
Tang Xian found that the scene around him was so chaotic.
There are many plants that have been seen and never seen. These plants are enormous, yet nestled next to the remains of many human structures.
The buildings, he recognized, did not belong to the pyramids, but came from the outside of the pyramids.
There are some shadows of humans coming and going in the distance.
Yes, shadows. They look like humans, but they have pitch-black silhouettes.
There are also many strange animals.
Suddenly there was a dragon groan in the sky.
Tang Xian looked up and saw a huge figure shuttling in the sky in the clouds. It was covered with scales like crystals.
The long howl of a fox can be faintly heard in the distance.
"Father, where is this?"
"This is where two worlds meet."
There are other questions that should be asked, but in dreams, the center of gravity of consciousness is the dream itself.
Tang Xian only felt that this place was completely different from the mining area he was familiar with.
He had never dreamed anything like this, and he had dreamed in the past, and everything in his dreams was as logical as possible, and almost everything was familiar.
But this time the dream was too weird.
Shadow-like humans.
Strange and dangerous animals.
Unknown plants and architectural remains.
Fox howls in the distance and dragons in the sky.
And so on and so forth, all of which gave him a very strange feeling.
His thoughts were interrupted by a baby's cry.
Tang Xian didn't know why, as if he sensed the uneasiness and panic in his crying.
He was rarely scared.
Everything in his eyes suddenly vanished, and the father who guided the way, the surrounding landscape, and the powerful creatures were like dust blown away by the wind.
In the vast white world, there are only stone statues with severed heads.
The style of the stone statue is quite similar to that of ancient Greek sculpture. But in terms of luster, it doesn't look like an ordinary plaster sculpture.
A severed head, a complete body, and a baby in his arms.
The baby let out a burst of tears.
Tang Xian only felt that those cries were so familiar.
Step by step, he approached the stone statue.
The cry became weaker and weaker.
By the time he came to the statue and took the baby out of its arms, the baby had fallen silent.
He looked at Tang Xian quietly.
His lips moved slightly, but it was no longer crying, but Tang Xian's familiar language.
The voice was even more ethereal than my father's voice before. It seems to fall on the endings of countless nerves, sounding together.
Tang Xian suddenly let go of his hand, feeling the sharp stinging pain in his mind.
The baby did not fall, but floated in the white space, which seemed to be a sea.
It's like thousands of monks chanting this sentence at the same time as they knock on the wooden fish.
began to bombard Tang Xian's consciousness non-stop.
But Tang Xian still gritted his teeth and asked with difficulty:
"Why? What's on the eighth floor? β
"Tell me! What's on the eighth floor? β
Tang Xian, who had always been sensible, began to go a little crazy, and his eyes were bloodshot.
He looked at the baby viciously.
These voices were still dangling in Tang Xian's mind.
But gradually, it began to form a grand sound from countless scattered fragments.
"Don't go to the eighth floor unless you're ready."
The tingling in my head faded away.
Tang Xian's expression also relaxed slightly.
"Tell me, what's on the eighth floor?"
"Enemies. Don't go to the eighth floor. β
It began to repeat again, and the stone statue began to move slowly, slowly picking up the floating baby.
In the following scene, the stone statue and the baby begin to disappear little by little.
It's the same as before.
But Tang Xian could see the baby's face, as if he was making a final warning:
"Unless you're ready."
Tang Xian suddenly felt that the baby's eyes were very much like himself.
"Otherwise, don't go to the eighth floor!"
Woke up.
The sharp stinging pain just now did not make Tang Xian wake up, but after the baby's face dissipated with the wind, he suddenly woke up.
The close-fitting shirt was soaked with sweat.
Tang Xian shook his head slightly, thought for a while, and the meaning of various dream interpretations flashed in his mind.
But in fact, most of them are fragments of consciousness, and the reference value is not great, and Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" cannot come in handy, after all, almost 70% of the views of the master of psychology are related to sex.
Tang Xian didn't think that that weird dream had any possibility to be related to this aspect.
You can't imply that you want to have a baby, right?
The warning is naturally related to the eighth layer.
But do you have a subconscious fear of the eighth layer or what's going on?
Why is it that in a dream a baby tells him not to go to the eighth floor?
"What a strange dream."
The next day, there was a lot of news from all over the world.
These messages are so important that even the people at the bottom are allowed to take a day off, and many people gather in front of the various visual towers on the bottom floor to watch all kinds of news.
For most people at the bottom, this is the only way to get information from other places.
The news played in the video tower was indeed more shocking than ever.
The first is the change in the map of the mining area.
Although there is not a single creature in the laterite forest, it is divided into red zones and merged into the sea of trees.
It can also be regarded as a natural trench in the sea of trees.
In addition, the road signs on the southern border of the red clay forest have also been changed, urging hunters not to go there to hunt.
Tang Xian swiped the news on his mobile phone, and now all entertainment and current affairs apps are reporting this.
Right now he's preparing food. While busy working, I watched all kinds of news.
"It seems that it is the arrangement of the Li family and the Song family, can this be regarded as indirectly currying favor with me?"
Tang Xian smiled bitterly. His face is really big.
The second piece of news is that in a month's time, when all the hunters have finished their training, this time the hunters and regular armies, as well as the global fortresses, will unite and gather in the southern part of the Yopera Plain to launch a battle against the entire plain.
This has already been reported. But the timing has not been determined.
This time it was officially announced.
At last night's ball, there were actually a lot of people missing, such as Song Gengchao, Li Wanye, and the lords of various fortresses.
The ball was ostensibly a ball, but in fact it was a meeting of cooperation between the leaders of the various fortresses.
And the human commander-in-chief of the war on the Yopera Plain is Song Que.
Tang Xian was not surprised, Song Que's popularity in the hunting event, as well as his own status, were more suitable than Li Zheng and Qi Xun.
But some things are not just enough.
He could predict that even if it was Song Que, there would be many people who would not buy it.
Shaking his head, Tang Xian continued to flip through the next one.
This piece of news finally surprised Tang Xian.
Thirty-nine Fortresses enter the eighth floor to explore the countdown!
The huge headline also indicates the importance of this message.
This is the finale of several major news.
Regarding the method of exploiting the fortress level, in fact, most of the inhabitants in the pyramid did not know the same as Tang Xian at the beginning.
Even if this news is published, there is no exact method of developing the eighth layer.
"This should be the news released by the Li family themselves, it seems to be a declaration of victory."
Tang Xian was sure that he had given the Li family a catastrophe-level boss creature soul crystal, and coincidentally, in the blade forbidden land in the great western part of the mining area, the three-tailed dragon's spine crocodile that had been consumed by the Li family for forty years was also killed at this time.
Although there was no mention of the creature species on the news, the Li family gave the exact location, indicating that it had been successful, and even if Fort Lincoln intended to fight for it, it was too late to catch up.
That's the advantage of the mine.
Humans are unable to set up networks and communication equipment in mining areas. In the era when transportation is basically by walking, and communication is basically by roaring.
If a weak Scourge boss creature is found somewhere in a sparsely populated place, it's not uncommon to be able to hold it for decades.
Twenty calamity-level boss creature soul crystals had been gathered, and this change made Tang Xian not expect.
I thought that after the battle on the Yopera Plains, I would be able to witness the opening of the eighth layer, but it seemed that in just two or three days, the thirty-nine fortresses would become the first fortress in the world.
All the previous messages are insignificant compared to this one.
The last news was that the Song family announced that their marriage with the Li family had been postponed, mainly to prepare for this war.
This incident did not surprise the public, because the explanation was reasonable.
The war was officially described as extremely sacred and brutal.
There is a general who died in a hundred battles and a strong man who returned in ten years.
No one can say whether they will die in this war.
In addition, the news that the Li family is about to open up the eighth layer is too shocking, what the eighth layer has, and what kind of technology the eighth layer will bring to the human race, these are the things that people are most concerned about.
If the topic is big, the other topics will naturally be small.
No one would have thought that it was an old Tang next door who hid from Miss Li's heart?
Everything is moving towards perfection.
Tang Xian thought about it, as long as he made some meritorious contributions for the Li family in the war on the Yopera Plain, then the things on the human camp's side and the things promised to Li Xiaoyu would be completed.
The rest of your life should be very peaceful, go to the mining area to accumulate the resistance of various creatures, and live a life of contemplating and eating meat.
The phone vibrated suddenly.
Tang Xian saw that the number was Li Xiaoyu, so he answered.
"What's wrong?"
"The last soul crystal is here."
"I saw the news, I must have gotten it a few days ago, right?"
"Yes, I'll arrange for someone to pick you up?"
"What are you picking me up for?"
"Go to the eighth floor, the eighth floor will be opened soon, I think you might be interested."
"What am I doing on the eighth floor?"
"Don't you want historical documents? A lot of the creature information we know now, including technology, comes from the literature that is unlocked by the level, and maybe the thing you're curious about is on the eighth layer. β
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"Judging from the past rewards, the things given by the eighth layer should be some black technology, not things like humanities and history."
"So you're going to do it or not?"
Tang Xian was actually still very curious.
But to go or not to go, that's really a question.
If it weren't for that weird dream, he would have agreed right now.
As for some achievements such as first-time witnesses, in Tang Xian's opinion, they are all meaningless things.
"If you don't speak, I'll say yes. I'll send someone to pick you up. Li Xiaoyu said.
Tang Xian was silent and recalled the contents of the dream.
Unless you're ready.
How do you get ready?
Is it a talent awakening?
Tang Xian was a little uncertain, but the dream itself seemed ridiculous as a basis.
Eventually, his mind fell on the word enemy.
When asked what was on the eighth floor, the baby told himself that he was the enemy.
Tang Xian thought about it carefully, if it was really an enemy, then whether he could go to the eighth layer or not, as the level was unlocked, they would all find themselves.
It's better to take the initiative to take a look.
After thinking about it again and again, Tang Xian said lightly:
"Okay."