Volume 2: The Stairway to Heaven (42)
The little dwarf first pulled Liu Yuxin into a spacious workshop, and found him a set of work clothes with a helmet to put on:
"Put this on first, fortunately, you're not very tall, and you can barely play the role of one of us who has a tendency to change."
Liu Yuxin felt sad when she heard this.
Isn't that despised? Belch......
But for the sake of safety, she could only disguise herself first, and Liu Yuxin could only obediently put her work clothes on herself first.
When Liu Yuxin was ready, the little dwarf put a few parts on the protruding interface of his workclothes. After a slight abnormal sound, Liu Yuxin followed behind a half-body robot floating in the air.
"From now on, you will be the maintenance worker 'Jane', and try to let me deal with anything on the road!"
Liu Yuxin could only nod.
The little dwarf first took a breath out to probe the wind, and then came back to greet Liu Yuxin
"Now that they're partying, I'll take you to the portal. Follow me! ”
Liu Yuxin followed the little dwarf to the corridor outside, and sure enough, no one found them.
"Why are you helping me?"
The little dwarf's sudden help made Liu Yuxin very puzzled, looking at the little dwarf's behavior, there is a high probability that he is one of the members of this base, so why should he help an outsider?
"Once upon a time, this place was called West Kunlun, and dozens of creatures of different races lived together in this military base, providing services for the warships of the Giants. Everyone did their job according to their own strengths and skills, and did their job religiously, but one day, the giants of the base left the place in a hurry with all their combatants and never returned. ”
"For the first 10,000 years, the creatures in the base lived on the supplies left here by the Giants, but after that day, the Giants seemed to have evaporated in this world, and no matter how much we contacted them, there was no response. Problems gradually appeared in the base that had lost supplies, and many supplies that could not be regenerated were declared urgent. ”
"In this situation, the troglodytes, who are the backbone of the base guards, have launched a riot, and as natives who have lived in this area for hundreds of millions of years, their power has the absolute right to speak in the base that has lost the control of the giants."
"Cavemen?"
Hearing such a term, Liu Yuxin couldn't help but interrupt the little dwarf's words, does the so-called caveman refer to the primitive ancestors of human beings like the cave people on the top of the mountain?
"Yes, cavemen. An indigenous person who has been active in this area for hundreds of millions of years, one of the dependents of the Giant Clan. Originally, they were aquatic creatures, guarding and exploring the waters for the giants, but the change in terrain turned the sea into mulberry fields, and the cavemen slowly became accustomed to the land and became amphibians who preferred to inhabit damp caves. ”
The little dwarf's words reminded Liu Yuxin of the white xenomorphs he had encountered, which, in terms of their characteristics, resembled the cavemen in the little dwarf's mouth.
According to the brutal personalities of those creatures, it is certainly not very comfortable to be under their rule.
"We have lived for tens of thousands of years under the oppression of those cavemen, and our ancestors have lived in silent humiliation for generations. I brought you to the portal in the hope that you could connect with the heavenly palace for us and have them send a new management team. ”
As for whether she can contact the Heavenly Palace that the little dwarf said, Liu Yuxin is indeed not very sure in her heart. According to what the little dwarf said, the Heavenly Palace has lost contact with them for tens of thousands of years, if it wasn't for an accident, how could it be left alone with such a large base as West Kunlun and countless families? Liu Yuxin, who knew that it was actually difficult for her to complete the other party's entrustment, couldn't help but feel guilty.
"I just heard you mention that the reason for the caveman rebellion was because of a lack of some kind of supplies? Can you tell me? ”
Liu Yuxin wants to save the country from other aspects and repay the little dwarf in front of her who helped her.
"It's a pheromone that stabilizes the mood of the caveman. Because of the retreat of the sea, the caveman genetically yearning for the sea prompted them to be irritable, and they provided these items until they had not lost contact with the Heavenly Palace. ”
"Then why don't they just migrate to the sea? That's good for everyone, isn't it? ”
"Originally, it was because the Heavenly Palace didn't have the idea of building large bases elsewhere, only a few small transit stations were built elsewhere, and those temporary bases could not accommodate the huge number of cavemen in West Kunlun, nor could they provide adequate maintenance and supplies for their equipment. Now, due to the lack of transportation, those cavemen who have strict requirements for the environment are likely to expose their corpses to the wilderness on the way to migration. ”
It turns out that those cavemen are not born to be vicious! But whether it is the refining of pheromones or helping those cavemen to migrate, it is not something that Liu Yuxin can do now.
The thoughts in Liu Yuxin's heart turned to other breakthrough directions:
"Are you the cavemen who oppress you and withhold your supplies?"
As soon as the little dwarf heard Liu Yuxin talk about this, she was very excited, and her little face turned red.
"Those uncivilized creatures! It has not broken the bad habit of eating raw food for hundreds of millions of years. Not only that, but he also forced us vegetarians to drink blood with them, which is an unforgivable sin! ”
That's it? That's it! That's it?!
Liu Yuxin said that the belief in these little dwarfs cannot be understood! In Liu Yuxin's impression, human beings also specialize in the art of studying food raw, what kind of cold vegetables, what kind of sashimi, what kind of sashimi......
It seems that this direction is also a dead knot. Cavemen have evolved in a deformed direction because of the intervention of the Heavenly Palace, and have lived for hundreds of millions of years, and they have not yet broken free from some of the basic instincts of living beings, and these little gnomes are a different degree of stubbornness.
This is really difficult for a clean official to decide family affairs, and Liu Yuxin didn't know where to start to help this little dwarf for a while.
It seems that they are happy as long as they are separated, but in fact, the Giants have taken into account the coordinated operation of this base at the beginning of the creation of this base, and each race that is placed here has its role, and the lack of any member of the base may make the operation of the base stuck, and a single race cannot survive in the base at all.
For example, the dwarf in front of him seems to be playing the role of a technician, and the maintenance and operation of the base should also rely on their efforts. But as far as his physical qualities are concerned, they can only be summed up in the words "weak", and if this is the characteristic of their race, then they have little power to resist in the face of predators; And those cavemen, on the other hand, are just the opposite of them, looking obviously not intellectually enough, and they are completely powerless to operate the base and maintain the equipment.
I believe that there are many species in the base that I have not encountered, and they also play their own specific roles in the base. It was precisely because the Giants had scientifically blended them together that Xi Kunlun was able to operate unharmed for so long after losing supplies.
So this is where Liu Yuxin is in a dilemma, even if he has the ability to take away this little dwarf and their kind, but the corresponding ecological chain of this base has completely collapsed. In that case, how many lives will be indirectly lost in her own hands in the future, and Liu Yuxin herself does not know.
After a period of apocalyptic tempering, Liu Yuxin could kill other creatures for his own survival without any mental burden, but killing like that kind of genocide still exceeded the bottom line in his heart.
As the little dwarf said, it was party time at the base, and the two people walking in the corridor had not encountered anything that made them very embarrassed, and after sending Liu Yuxin to a wall engraved with circular patterns, the little dwarf stopped his steps:
"With the equipment in front of you, you will be able to reach the location of the portal as quickly as possible, and I hope you will not forget your promise!"
Liu Yuxin stepped in, feeling that her body was instantly wrapped in layers by something, and after a period of disgusting and violent dizziness, Liu Yuxin suddenly found that she was standing on a round jade plate, and there were countless such plates around her.
Liu Yuxin carefully avoided these magical devices, for fear that she would be accidentally transmitted to some unknown place.
"Papda"
A fish covered in knife-saw-like scales magically fell from the sky into the jade plate, not knowing which ocean or lake it came from.
Liu Yuxin didn't dare to stay in this place for too long, only God knew what kind of gifts those teleportation arrays would give him later, maybe it was a delicious sashimi, or it could make him a snack for other creatures.
Liu Yuxin, who had quickened her pace, crossed countless jade platforms and crystals glittering with stars, and walked to the end along the only passage.
At the end of the road, an altar made of metal blocks carved with patterns lay quietly on a huge piece of jade, and the quaint atmosphere came to the face, as if it had been waiting for Liu Yuxin here for thousands of years? Tens of thousands of years?
Liu Yuxin stepped forward and put the jade slip she got from Gong Liang into the groove of the metal altar, and the jade slip slowly slid in.
"Click"
The jade slip stopped, and the piece of jade beneath the altar began to glow faintly.
After a dazzling burst of light, a face with a white beard appeared above Yu Jian, and he glanced down at Liu Yuxin and said:
"Human, please say what you want!"
Ahh Wishing machine? What about the portal?
The reality was too different from her expectations, and Liu Yuxin was stunned on the spot for a while.
"Please say what you want!!"
The old man began to emphasize a second time, and seemed to be a little impatient.
"Is it okay to wish for anything?"
This is a legendary episode! The subsequent development of the matter aroused Liu Yuxin's curiosity.
"Not every wish can be granted, but I will use the equipment here to try to accommodate your request and thank you for retrieving the jade disk."
"I'm going to the Heavenly Palace!"
"Sorry, the Heavenly Palace is only open during certain hours, and now is not the opening period."
"Okay, then you can answer me a few questions, right?"
"No problem! There's nothing in the world that I can't answer, you're really asking the right person! ”
"Question: What happened to the Heavenly Palace?"
“……”
“……”
"You'd better change the question!"
"Then tell me what is going on with my body."
"It's easy!"
A scanning beam of light swept across Liu Yuxin's body, and the old man's face immediately changed color.
"Let's see how to get to the Heavenly Palace, shall we? There are always more solutions than difficulties......"