Gaia and Tang Shuxing looked at each other without saying a word, and after a long time, Gaia broke the silence and said: "You are here for the basalt, but unfortunately the basalt has long been lost, and my father doesn't know where that thing went, in fact, this is also a good thing from the side." ”

Tang Shuxing immediately asked, "When were you made by your father?" ”

"I can't calculate the exact time because it's been too long." Gaia shook her head, "This was a floating island when my father left, and he escaped from the Basalt Kingdom alone with Basalt. ”

"Escaped? Why? "Tang Shuxing doesn't understand, is this Gaia's father the same as the couple in the bracelet?

"He was a low-level slave, and he was originally a very low-level corpse, but he was eager for knowledge, eager to learn, and kept stealing all kinds of knowledge, and was finally discovered by the upper-level demonizers and thrown into the 'corpse purgatory', leaving him to fend for himself." Gaia said and explained, "My father said that the so-called corpse purgatory is actually a place where many failed corpses gather, and in the eyes of the demonizers, it is a terrible and sinful place, where the corpses feed on their companions. Luckily, my father, after being sent there, used his knowledge to extract protein from other objects and lower species for others to survive, and thus earned the respect of the other people in the corpse purgatory. ”

After gaining the respect of the others, Gaia's father explained to them about the cataclysm and the prospect of extinction for a long time, but no one believed it at first, because these slaves, who were even lower than the low-level corpses, had no knowledge of this at all, and they did not know anything other than the immediate survival.

Gaia's father knew that he couldn't do what he could do without opening their eyes and inspiring them, but fortunately they all lived long, so he spent a full twenty years teaching others in the corpse purgatory, and had his students begin to teach others what they had learned. At the same time, he was also elected as a Corpse Purgatory Scholar, and was respected by the leader and other officials.

Twenty years later, Gaia's father knew it was time to act, so he planned a rebellion from Purgatory. Began to oppose the demonizers in power.

Originally, the corpses had to obey the orders of the demons from their genes, and Gaia's father knew this, and over the course of twenty years, he used his knowledge and equipment stolen from other places to change the genetic sequences of the newborns one by one, so that they were no longer controlled by the minds of the demons, and those who could not be changed remained in purgatory as logistical support.

The battle was extremely fierce, and the slave army suffered heavy losses, but they still pushed their own front lines, and finally rushed to the location where the demonizers stored the basalt, and used the power of the basalt. He annihilated the ruler's army in one fell swoop, but unfortunately, because he underestimated the power of basalt, causing his own army to suffer almost extinction.

Although victorious, the group of corpses who remained in Purgatory as a logistical support began to split. Most people don't think it's worth exchanging basalt for such a terrible price, and that this kind of thing does not guarantee their survival.

Gaia's father knew that he could no longer explain his reasoning because time was running out, so he left his homeland with Basalt and some of his loyal men and drifted into a floating island, now Hashima, in an attempt to avoid the surviving Basaltians. and the other three kingdoms that have been trying to destroy the Xuanwu Kingdom and take away the holy relics.

"However, my father also made a serious mistake, he didn't realize that destroying basalt was not an easy task, but he kept trying, trying. He indirectly killed one loyal person after another, only to find out in the end that the floating island had not left the Xuanwu Kingdom for too long, but only revolved around the former Xuanwu Kingdom, like a satellite. Gaia let out a long sigh. White gas erupted from his nostrils, "When all the people who were loyal to him died, and he returned to the Xuanwu Kingdom again, he found that because of his past actions, it had led to the complete destruction of the Xuanwu Kingdom, and most of the people gradually died because of the basalt, becoming a dead city, a dead country, facing the power of the holy relics, even if they had a strong adaptability, they could not deal with it, so they could only wait for death to come." ”

"Wait-" Tang Shuxing immediately got up and said, "You mean that the Xuanwu Kingdom is around here?" ”

"Yes." Gaia nodded, saw Tang Shuxing's expression and said, "You mean, you want to go?" ”

"Yes, I'm here to find basalt, that's the goal, I have to do it." Tang Shuxing lowered his head, a little afraid to look directly into Gaia's eyes, because he was afraid that the other party would refuse.

Gaia pondered for a long time and asked, "But that thing brings destruction, doesn't it?" ”

"If I don't look for it, others will look for it, it's better for me to find it than for them to find it, and besides, to reforge the Eye of Rulai, I still need the last white tiger eye, I still have the last hope, but now, I must find the basalt, bring it back to Shangdu, and let my people mix in." Tang Shuxing said word for word, hoping to convince Gaia because of this.

"Your people?" Gaia looked a little disbelieving, "I don't know the person you are talking about, and I don't want to know him, I just want to ask you, do you really believe him?" ”

"I question everything, I've been betrayed many times, but I have to choose to believe him, even if he turns over countless mistakes, but I believe that he is full of true justice in his bones." Tang Shuxing shook his head, "However, when I faced him, I couldn't say these words, I was worried that this would make him retreat from progressing, because in order for justice to completely defeat evil, the relative must be more evil than evil, and war is always unscrupulous." ”

Gaia lowered her head: "Your words remind me of my father, my father also said something similar, when I was born into this world, he told me that if you insist on dividing the world into two, then you can only divide it into good and bad, and good must be worse to overcome evil. ”

"Yes, I agree." Tang Shuxing nodded slightly.

"I'll take you there, but unfortunately, I can't talk to you anymore when I leave this device, so there are a lot of things that I need to say, and I will tell you with a nod and a shake." After Gaia finished speaking, she put her head on the edge of the waterhole, and asked Tang Shuxing to take out her equipment from the hole over there, and then found a rope to tie it to her back, and then supported Tang Shuxing to get out from under the waterhole.

Before leaving, Gaia once again admonished: "There is a distance from here to the Xuanwu Kingdom, although I can reach it quickly at my speed, along the way, I will encounter many monsters created by a certain group of your new human beings, and I used to feed on those monsters. ”

"Artificial monsters?" Tang Shu sat on Gaia's back and asked, "Is that the same one that attacked me before?" ”

"Of course, it was originally a kind of shark, called the Wrinkled Gill Shark, but the ones that attacked you were all artificially modified, and they were indiscriminately modified, so the reproductive ability is much stronger than before, and it is also many times more intelligent than ordinary aquatic creatures." Gaia said as she dived, "So, no matter what happens to you along the way, don't mess around, just follow me." ”

Tang Shuxing nodded, and only grasped the rope tied to Gaia's body: "Understood!" ”

"Gone!" Gaia turned around and dived into the pool, and Tang Shuxing immediately bit the breathing apparatus and shuttled out of the sea hole at the bottom of the pool below with Gaia.

After passing out of the sea cave, a black mist came to him, Gaia shouted, which was regarded as a warning to Tang Shuxing to be careful, not to move, and then rotated his body, forming a whirlpool under the water, dispersing all the black mist.

After Tang Shu, who was dizzy from turning, found that there were many strange octopuses hidden in the black mist, the octopus was not big, but it was pitch black, and there were hard objects like knives on the tentacles - several black octopuses had shaved a huge frilled shark into a skeleton, and the small octopuses around were swimming around, devouring the pieces of flesh that had been shaved out and floating around.

It's one thing down one thing. Tang Shuxing thought, and then Gaia bypassed the octopus and continued to move towards the deep sea, the speed was so fast that it felt like a rocket moving forward in the bottom of the sea.

Soon, Gaia dived into the mud and sand at the bottom of the sea again, shaking her body to hide herself from the dust and mist of the mud and sand, and then slowly turned her head to look to the side, Tang Shuxing also immediately fixed her eyes on it, and found that there was a group of silvery-white things in the distance, which seemed to be a school of fish, but those fish seemed to have large wings.

Flying Fish? Tang Shuxing was thinking about it, the group of fish began to disperse, surrounding those octopuses, and their bodies began to flicker violently, and at the moment of flickering, Gaia subconsciously closed her eyes, and Tang Shuxing immediately closed when she saw this, and then Gaia began to slowly squirm towards the front of the sea.

After a long time, when Tang Shuxing felt that the flash was weakening, he looked back and found that the group of black octopuses were floating in the sea as if they were dead, and those silver light fish began to sprint quickly, biting the tentacles of those octopuses, leaving only their bodies, and then quickly gathered into a ball, and continued to emit silver light and flew into the distance.

The octopus, which had lost its tentacles, soon "came back to life" and disappeared with the help of its own child, squirming with difficulty and falling into the sand below.

Tang Shuxing knew that Gaita was letting her see clearly that even around this island, there was its own food chain, and if something went wrong with one link, then none of the creatures here would survive, and eventually Gaia herself would die because of the loss of food.

"Squeak—" After a long walk, Gaia finally stopped at a hole in the bottom of the sea and let out a long scream.

Tang Shuxing looked at the dark sea cave below, knowing that this must be the entrance of the basalt cave, so he patted Gaia lightly, signaling that he could move forward, while Gaia just spread her body and coiled on the outside of the hole, and after coiling around, she bit her tail and squinted at Tang Shuxing, signaling him to wait, as if something was about to happen.