Chapter 187: City in the Heart of the Earth
Takenaka's questions were quickly answered.
After the illusion was solved, not only the appearance of the island changed, but everyone's footsteps also returned to normal, the small mound was not high, naturally could not stand everyone walking, less than 5 minutes, they were led by the Dragone team to the top of the small mound, here, what greeted the eye was a bottomless black hole, the swishing cold wind rolled up from the bottom of the hole, no matter how bold people would choose to choose as far away from the edge of this deep hole as possible.
It is said that when you stare at the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you, this dark hole gives people the feeling that this is the case, it is like a huge pupil, while people are looking at it timidly, they are also unceremoniously falling their eyes on the people who dare to observe it, this gaze contains the meaning of coldness and death, and people can instantly understand the meaning of shuddering.
"Lady Jassunis, may I ask what is?" Lao Wang asked, he was the default human leader of the Dragons, and when he encountered a problem, he naturally asked in front, this black deep hole didn't know what the path was, it was better to figure it out.
"Outsider, you can call me the abbreviation of my name, Suka, I think that because of your pronunciation, I don't think this name is good anymore. Jace Sunis, who named himself Suka, glanced at Lao Wang and said: "What I said just now, your speculation is generally no problem, but it is only a framework, and there is still a gap between it and the real situation, don't be careful, this is not my question of your reasoning ability, but a statement of the implementation situation." ”
"And the question I just asked?" followed Wang.
"Look at this deep hole, don't you think it's spectacular and terrifying?" Sukka asked as if intended.
"It was spectacular and, of course, terrifying. Lao Wang replied truthfully, knowing that the other party was deliberately showing off when he asked this, and of course he would not be stupid to dismantle the stage.
"Yes, it's normal for you to think so, but it's just a matter of looking at things from different angles, think about it, if you were at the bottom of this deep cave, and you looked up at this time, and at that time, you saw the blue sky overhead, would you feel that life was full of hope and longing, and you wanted to do whatever it took to move towards the light above your head?" asked Sukka again, his words full of philosophy.
"That's true, you're talking about dialectics, and in our human world, there are great people who have put forward this kind of philosophical speculation. Lao Wang thought about Suka's words and agreed.
"However, we Dragone people still prefer to explain this problem from a scientific point of view, our ancestors were only omnivorous dinosaurs with very weak appearance and physical strength in the age of dinosaurs, so in order to survive, their development of brain power has reached the extreme, so this worship of intelligence and spiritual power is almost imprinted in our genes. Suka said with some pride in his words: "So, we began to seek various ways to change our state of existence through science, and created many great wonders, for example, the deep cave you see now is called 'Giant Fortress', which translates into your human language, it should mean Tongtian Cave, it was completed and dug by our ancestors through unparalleled wisdom, and it took a full 300 years to succeed. ”
After Suka finished speaking, he stretched out his finger and pointed to the edge of the huge deep hole, and Lao Wang found that he was only interested in marveling at the horror of this deep hole just now, and did not see its appearance clearly.
Now I looked at the hand of the Dragone woman, and saw a circle of square hanging baskets neatly hanging on the walls of the deep cave, each the size of an elevator car, which, combined with the terrifying environment, made people doubt their carrying capacity.
However, the Dragons of Degon, who were the builders, did not think so.
Suka took a few Degon people and Lao Wang, Mary and Takenaka on a hanging basket, and the rest of the Degon people painted gourds in the same way, divided the remaining human beings into several parts, and divided them into several hanging baskets next to Suka, in the arrangement of the personnel, they deliberately ensured that the people in each hanging basket were in a state where there were more Degong people than humans, which was also the meaning of preventing Lao Wang from breaking out.
Everything was ready to stop, and the hanging basket began to move downward in the signal sound sent by Suka, slowly and steadily, and the noise was very small, Lao Wang They may still think it was nothing, but people like Takenaka and Hines who know how to understand it can understand that the mechanical level of this race is very high, and such a complex hoisting machine actually does not produce much noise when it travels, this level is almost close to the elevator in the real world, perhaps, their degree of evolution is more than that of humans in this trial world.
After about 5 minutes, a slight impact came, it should be the hanging basket to the bottom of the cave, the environment here was originally very dark, but at the same time as Lao Wang and the others arrived, a few flaming torches pinched the time to light up.
By the light of the fire, Lao Wang saw a group of about 4 or 50 Degonians coming out of the darkness, and the torches were lit by them, and I saw that the leader of them talked to Suka for a few words, and then divided into more than 20 people, and walked with Lao Wang, and the rest continued to stay here, and everything was carried out in an orderly manner.
Seeing that the other party still had the intention of moving forward, Lao Wang was a little uncertain, this pit was three or four hundred meters long, right? Do you want to continue to go down?
Suka seemed to know what Lao Wang was thinking, and explained without waiting for anyone to ask: "The vertical basket can only carry a limited distance for us to move, because when the Tongtian Cave was first built, we did not have the engineering technology of vertically digging upward holes, so we used a spring-like structure to dig a spiral upward channel, the project was huge and time-consuming, and when the nearest few hundred meters from the surface, our technical standards met the requirements, so we changed to dig a completely vertical patio to the ground." ”
The size of the team has been expanded by the security personnel to reach the scale of nearly 100 people, but despite this, they are still loose in formation when they march underground, and they do not feel crowded, and it seems that the space here should be not small.
The spring-shaped spiral passage in Suka's mouth was not seen by the king, and when they reached a rock wall that looked like an entrance, the Dragons loaded all the personnel with a huge minecart-like vehicle, which was activated, and after the vehicle was activated, it circled like a roller coaster at a constant speed, slowly continuing deeper into the ground.
"This project is really huge!" although the visibility was not high, Mary couldn't help but sigh.
Sukka chuckled, enjoying the admiration of the outsiders for the great work of her people, and she turned to Mary and said, "The spiral passage and the vertical patio are the main structure of the cave to the sky, and of course, it is also the passage for us to go to the surface. ”
"On the surface?" said to Lao Wang, and said with some understanding: "Could it be that your living space is all on the ground...?"
The dazzling white light in front of him suddenly shook Lao Wang and the others a little unable to open their eyes, and also interrupted the question in his mouth.
Because they had been moving in a low-light environment just now, and now they suddenly saw enough light, which stimulated them to raise their hands to cover their eyes, so that they could quickly adapt to the light.
And the performance of the Dragone people is much better, they look like they have long been used to, their huge pupils suddenly constricted, and instantly became as narrow as snake eyes, effectively blocking the light, needless to say, this is also an evolutionary choice.
Human beings do not have such an innate advantage, so they can only adapt to the environment as soon as possible, but when they open their eyes again, they begin to wonder if their eyes have been damaged by the light just now, because what they have seen is enough reason for them to doubt their eyes.
The most surprising thing is that there is a huge city that is larger than London or Amsterdam located here, and the reason why they can see the whole picture of this magnificent city is because the minecart they are riding is still descending along the spiral track, and they are at the top of this wrong city, with the advantage of the aerial perspective, they have the opportunity to have a bird's-eye view of the city.
Located in the very center of this mega-city, the spring-shaped passage of the Tsutendong Cave is the origin of various buildings, spreading in a radial shape, and the city circle is one ring after another, showing a high level of planning and rational layout skills.
In the outermost part of the city, the pale green city wall around the main body of the city protects all the inner city, and expands four satellite cities in the four directions of the main city, each of which is about one-eighth the size of the main city.
As the minecart descended, the visible scenery became clearer and clearer, and Wang found that the city had a beautiful environment with green grass, and unlike the arid savannah environment on the surface, most of the plants growing here were giant ferns, but it could be seen that the location of these plants had been carefully arranged so that they could thrive without affecting the normal operation of the city.
Needless to say, this is the reason for the high oxygen content of the air here, which also explains why the people of Degong are tall and big, and in an oxygen-rich environment, creatures tend to be larger.
This kind of bull height and horse size brings to the people of Degon, in addition to the tall height, there is also a preference for the aesthetic grandeur and grandeur of the style.
The buildings of the Dragone people are mostly large buildings with a variety of weather, and they like to use Gothic-like spires as the tops of their buildings, but the sharp angles of the tips of their buildings are more exaggerated and sharp, reflecting their yearning for the surface world.
In addition to the characteristic sharp corners, the buildings here are also much larger than human buildings in proportion, taking the two-story residential buildings as an example, the height of the Dragone buildings can be close to 10 meters, and the two-story buildings in the human world are about 6 meters or so, some of the compact structures may not be this number, in comparison, the whole city of the Dragone people does have an amazing charm.
"Welcome to the heart of the earth, the home of our Dragone people. Sukka said duly, she had just given the outsiders some time to observe before proudly introducing the name of her homeland.
"Ms. Suka, I have to say that you have all the capital to be proud of, and any race that has built such a city is enough to be proud of. "Lao Wang's words are half-truths and half-truths, although there is shock, but the relationship with the other party is also necessary, as a selector, what mountain to sing what song, Lao Wang is already very proficient.
Suka, who is so proud that his eyes grow on the top of his head, loves to eat this set the most, and when he heard Lao Wang's praise, his smiling eyes narrowed, but the eyelids of the Degong people were vertical, and this squinting eye brought some spiritual impact to Lao Wang.
The minecart went straight to the center of the city along the spring channel, and there were already heavily armed Dragone soldiers guarding here, looking at the number of people, at least around five hundred, the Dragons on the island turned out to be only a small detachment of reconnaissance and preliminary defense, and it is no wonder that there are only this number of people, and there are still a huge number of Dragons living underground.
The leader of the group of soldiers was a well-styled general-looking Dragone man, but he was not at the front of the line.
In that position, there is a Dragone man in a wide robe, he looks like a man, the degree of rickets is much more powerful than the normal Dragon, his eyes are cloudy, a little twilight, but the momentum on his body is not angry and arrogant, similar to the fat leader, there is the dignity and oppression of the superior, and people dare not underestimate it, if you guess correctly, this should be a high-ranking old man among the Dragons.
Lao Wang looked at this battle, his heart moved, and he suddenly had an idea, and communicated with the team members in the team channel: "I said, I suddenly remembered a thing, maybe we were caught by these rat dragons and forced to do coolies on the island this time, and it was a blessing in disguise." ”
"Uncle said that we are in such a deep place underground, once the task is completed, we can immediately activate the challenge book in our hands, even if other selectors get information and want to snatch it, there is no way to find us, the Degong people asked us to help, if it works, then it can also help us and provide us with a safe place, isn't it?" Takenaka explained instead of Lao Wang.
"How do I think you can express myself more clearly than myself?" Lao Wang scratched his head, pretending to look around at the scenery, wanting to relieve his embarrassment of being completely denied by Takenaka.
"This is the best way right now, uncle, it's normal to think about it. Takenaka said: "But I'm still not at ease, we found a game bug.,Underground activation,It's too simple!It's obviously a vulnerability.,But let's know,The speed of random space updates and bug fixes,But it's much faster than the real-world game manufacturer.,I can only say,For the time being,For the time being, this plan is a good alternative.,But then the space will use what way to balance the advantage we take.,It's hard to say.。 ”
"What Zhuzi said is right, I'm also thinking about this, I can only see it then, now we are doing the Degong people a favor, and then get Boss Tan's challenge tag as soon as possible to activate the blood. Lao Wang replied.
"Okay, you two don't talk about it, Lao Wang, there is movement in Suka next to you, don't be distracted now. Mary interrupted the conversation between the father and son, and reminded Wang to pay attention to Suka Dao.
Wang Mancang looked at it as he said, only to feel that there was a flower in front of him, and before the minecart could stop, Suka jumped out of the car with two toned green long legs, and threw himself at the old man in the wide robe.
Oh, Lao Wang immediately understood.
No wonder this Suka is a small cadre who leads the team outside, and the emotional family is the son of a high-ranking cadre among the Degong people, this seems to be a powerful old guy about her father, and it is normal for the child to go out on a mission and return safely, and come back to hug his father.
As expected, Sukka rushed into the old man's arms, gave him a big hug, and then, she kissed the elder...