Chapter 138: Asthenosphere Danger
Hai Ge stared out the window, his spirit highly tense.
Variable-One slowed down as well, and from the navigation screen, it retracted all the outstretched parts and became as smooth as a loach.
Through the porthole, you can see fiery red magma tumbling, like viscous blood surrounding the ship, so that it seems to stop moving, because no matter how far it goes, there is no way out.
The momentum was so majestic that it was reasonable to say that it was difficult for Hai Ge to see the rocks from the crazy rushing magma, but he really could vaguely see "scratches", glittering in the boiling crimson. The ship was as far away from the flash as possible, and he could only look at the cracks from a distance. The high density of magma softens the visual effect, and the cracks wriggle like mollusks. Sea Song thinks they are like blood-soaked locusts, snoozing on the rocks. The locusts on the ground only suck blood, and the "locusts" here may swallow people!
The asthenosphere is not thick, so despite the constant danger, the spacecraft is still slowing down at low speed, and it passes quickly. Haige is still unfinished, but it has entered the lithosphere of the upper mantle layer and the earth's crust.
"When I went down from the old garage on the outskirts of Xijin to the underground plant kingdom, I went through such a long and difficult journey! But I woke up with no impression at all...... It seems that Mr. Weedel put a lot of thought into saving my life, but I still misunderstood him at that time, damn it! ”
Thinking of that experience, Hai Ge's eyes moistened again.
Passing through the Moho Interface, the contents of the Inner Voyage were richer, and he was able to see all kinds of glittering crystal rocks again. The rocks create a starry visual effect, and the earth-based spaceship seems to have flown into the boundless universe, but the looming rocks hidden in the shadows prove that the ship is indeed sailing underground.
Geologists theorized that for every 100 meters of elevation, the temperature dropped by 1 degree Celsius, and after passing through the basalt and granite layers, the temperature outside the ship displayed by the navigator dropped dramatically, and Haige could already see the sunlight shining directly from the top of the ship.
"The ground, the ground after a long absence, I'm back. But I was no longer a down-and-out beggar, but a different form and a member of the Light of Redemption organization. I'm on a mission to save the planet, and I'm about to embark on a long voyage! ”
Haige muttered wearily. For several hours, he had been in a state of extreme euphoria, reluctant to close his eyes, no matter how monotonous the scenery outside the porthole. But as the sun poured down like a white waterfall, a sense of sleepiness caught him, and he fell asleep reluctantly......
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"Hey, what's the wind in the spaceship? Something was hitting my face and my cheeks hurt......"
Hazy, Hai Ge wanted to open his eyes, but the two eyelids seemed to be sealed by a force, and the "woo" cry kept ringing in his ears, that force should have come from the wind, and what hit his face should be grains of sand.
He rubbed his eyes and sat up, quickly remembering the destination of the ground-type spacecraft marked on the navigator, and he was shocked to know where he was.
He squinted and looked around with great difficulty, and saw that it was indeed a vast desert, but a few low houses stood in the distance, indicating that at least it was not deserted. He looked for Buddha statues eroded by the wind and sand, and Li Zhengsong told him that from the place where he got off the spaceship, he walked all the way to the east, and he could see a large-scale grotto carved into the cliff wall. Each cave has a different form of Buddha statue, find the largest one, bypass the side, and you will reach the train station.
"Hey~ another irreparable regret!" Haige sighed in annoyance.
The ground-based spaceship didn't alarm him when it arrived, he only used his mechanical arm to send him off the ship, and quietly returned along the same route, and he couldn't even find the exit of the spaceship out of the ground passage, so he couldn't see that he had climbed up from the deepest part of the earth!
He patted his head vigorously, angry that he was so unlucky, that he didn't go to bed late and didn't go to bed early, and that he wanted to fall asleep at the last and most critical time. But then again, the trip to the center of the earth ended without danger, and he should be content.
The wind in the desert was so fierce that it blew like a whip on a man. Tiny grains of sand swirled in the air like a mist of sand, obscuring the vista in the distance. The grains of sand kept burrowing into people's mouths and noses, and after a while, Hai Ge's mouth rattled.
He cocked his collar over his face, staggered to his feet, and pulled out the ticket Wedel had left him from his pocket. Looking at the time on the communicator, there were still three hours left before the train departed, and he had to hurry to the train station.
He believed that this seemingly barren desert must have hidden secret passages underneath, and it was through them that Wedel contacted people from all over the world, and through them collected all kinds of materials necessary to build the earth's engine.
He wondered if he could get to Australia with the help of those secret passages? Wedel arranged for him to walk off the ground, probably out of safety considerations, right? This must be the best option that Wedel has weighed up repeatedly. If it were possible, Haige would really like to see the Laharians and the ironworks they care for, where the underground plant kingdom originated!
After Li Zhongyuan leaked the secret, the passages in the underground area that earthlings could penetrate into should have been deactivated, and the row of dilapidated houses that Hai Ge saw was the best proof of this.
When passing in front of the house, he deliberately looked inside, and found that most of the doors and windows had been blown down by the strong wind, but no one had repaired them, indicating that Wedel had withdrawn the people who were here to receive supplies after discovering Li Zhongyuan's misdeeds.
However, in the open field in front of the house, there were still two rusty pickup trucks, not to mention the old body, and the wheels were deliberately deflated, collapsing softly, like a few dry and hard black mud. This can be regarded as a kind of disguise, since it is inaccessible, the earthlings will naturally not find out here.
The only back-up exit is located in the desert, and it is clear that Wedell has a soft spot for the desert, and has always regarded this place as the most secluded and safe outpost of the underworld. As it turned out, he was right.
After only standing in the desert for a while, Haige became thirsty. Not to mention the fierce wind and sand here, the sunshine is so strong that it is comparable to the city of Xijin, which has been reduced to a brown soil wasteland in the fantasy. He took out the water that Aunt Lucy had put in his backpack and poured a few large sips, lamenting that he would have to endure hunger and thirst again this time without the robot cook.
After walking a short distance, he left the desert area and came to the grotto area mentioned by Li Zhengsong.
Looking up, there are mountains here, but it is difficult to see the emerald color, and most of the peaks are exposed with charred rocks, which are as desolate as deserts no matter how you look at them.
There are thousands of large and small grottoes carved on the cliff wall, and the Buddha statues placed in the grottoes are seriously weathered, and they are bald from head to face, but most of the faces are still lifelike, and they make people impetuous and dissipate from a distance, and their hearts are calm.