"There are already 14572 levels......"

Chen Shi was really defeated by this seemingly endless ladder, in other words, on the earth, more than 14,000 steps, he should be able to rank first, right?

And here, the number of steps is obviously more than enough, and when you look up, you can't see where the end of the stairs is.

But......

To the surprise of Chen Shi and his party, when they walked through the 15,600th steps, they found a corpse.

The corpse was leaning against the cliff, and after some time, only the skeleton was left that had rotted, and most of the clothes it was wearing outside had also rotted, and it was difficult to identify its original appearance.

"Don't go there."

Chen Shi grabbed the girl, stopped her behind him, walked over alone, and lowered his body to check.

"A human skeleton?"

Chen Shihu shook his head suspiciously, he couldn't be so arbitrary, after the death of Xingdian and other "new people", their skeletons may not be much different from human beings, if the "future humans" are the "behind-the-scenes", then this group of behind-the-scenes people like to design the form of intelligent life according to their own appearance, which is also quite normal.

"Huh?"

Chen Shi was surprised, why is there a deep hole in the skull of this skeleton between the eyebrows of his eyes? He touched it with his left hand, and it didn't feel like it was chiseled out of a foreign object, the edges were smooth, but rather like it was born.

After pondering for a moment, Chen Shi did not have the ability to delve deeply, so he gave up and began to grope in other places of the corpse, the material of the corpse's clothes was like hemp and cotton, because the body shape was very similar to that of humans, so its style also conformed to the activity law of human skeletons, and there were similar pockets on the corpse's clothes.

Unfortunately, there was nothing in the pockets of the clothes, and on the waist of the corpse were scattered many iron tools, including sharp hammers, iron nails, hook claws, etc., and a large section of rotten rope.

In addition, what made Chen Shi's breathing tighten was that he found a book.

"Is it a book?"

Chen Shi pulled out a book from under the corpse's buttocks, which felt like the product of cardboard shells and parchment rolls.

In the deep cave, because of the existence of those unidentified objects with droplets, it is not so dark that you can't see your fingers, but it is still too difficult to say that you can read and write normally. However, Chen Shi turned on the night vision mode of the gamma suit, and with such a little light, he was enough to see the words.

"It's the word for 'New People'...... A second language? ”

Chen Shi held the book, and was first shocked by the text on the cover, how can there be a second language here? Could it be that there are "new people" who have been here? Wait, he seems to have overlooked the fact that 1214-B01 also speaks a second language, but it is not a "new people", and 1214-B01's experience is that it speaks a second language, so how can it be determined that the second language is the exclusive language of the "new people"?

The doubts about language are on the other side, since it is a second language, then there is one of the biggest advantages, that Chen Shi does not have to worry that he can't understand it.

"The Relic City Passbook?"

It's easy to translate a few big words on the cover, but it's not so easy to understand.

Chen Shi carefully read through these words, and the pass manual was easy to understand, but what did the word "ruined city" mean?

Ruins mean ruins and relics in the second language, but in translation, is it "the city of ruins"?

"The ...... of the ruins of the city"

Chen Shi slowly opened the first page in contemplation, and what made his eyes light up was that there were no empty words on the first page, but a map.

The first line on the map is marked in large letters, that is, "the capital of ruins", then this map should refer to the "capital of ruins". The foundation of map drawing is very good and clear, carefully sketched on parchment with a fine pen of carbon ink, and a two-dimensional map is slowly unfolded.

A good map must be in accordance with a certain proportion, the use of lines, symbols, text annotations, etc. to depict physical geography, so to speak, the map is the carrier of spatial information, but also the transmission channel of spatial information.

The map in front of Chen Shi has reached the standard of an excellent map, and from top to bottom, the text has been marked in turn, so that users can easily consult it for the first time.

"Huh......"

Chen Shi browsed it, although there was no problem with the map itself, but this map was very strange, it was not an ordinary two-dimensional map, but a three-dimensional map depicted by the technique of a two-dimensional map.

So he was stunned for a long time before he reacted and found the right way to look at the map.

This map is supposed to be viewed from top to bottom, the whole map depicts a strange cave, when Chen Shi saw this, he didn't understand where the map said, this map said that this is the place, and the "ruined capital" refers to the strange building built by the "behind-the-scenes" at his feet.

"So, did you really reach the upper realm through this cave? So ......"

He looked down at the corpse, was this corpse also from the Upper Realm?

Sliding his finger over the map, Chen Shi quickly moved his finger to the bottom of the map, and the text was marked "Ninth Layer: Endless Abyssal Sea".

Where are they on the ninth floor? There are still eight floors above to reach the upper realm?

Chen Shi couldn't help but have a headache, it was indeed fortunate that he had found the map, but the information brought by the map made him completely unhappy in some ways.

Just a ninth layer is so huge, how long does it take time and energy to get through the entire level?

"Chen, did you find anything?"

Perhaps Chen Shi had been delayed here for too long, which caused Xingdian and the others to worry.

"Well, something was found."

Chen Shi put away the "City of Relics", stood up and said, "Come here." ”

When a few people came over cautiously, Chen Shi asked them to be careful not to step on the corpse, in fact, there was no need for him to remind them, no one would deliberately step on a corpse.

"Let's go up a little bit and find another place to rest."

Chen Shi didn't explain what Xingdian and the others meant, and Xingdian and Bingyu naturally didn't dare to ask, they glanced at each other, and they all followed with their heads bored.

After walking for a few minutes, Chen Shi saw that it was almost over, and immediately used his right hand to dig a platform on the cliff wall that could accommodate people.

"Daddy."

The girl had long been aggrieved and couldn't do it, and when she saw that Chen Shi was going to sit down again, she wanted to drill into his arms.

This time, Chen Shi didn't stop her, let her get into his arms, he still had more important things to be answered, and he didn't have time to educate the girl how to behave.

"Hoo ......"

Chen Shi asked 1214-B01 to distribute a bottle of canned food for everyone to solve, but he didn't eat it, but took out the "Ruined City Access Manual" and read it.