The box is a characteristic of the Underground Kingdom. In the continuous underground space excavated by hand, there are boxes everywhere. Single-layer, double-layer, multi-layer; big and small; Where there are people, there are boxes, and where there are roads, there are boxes.

Let's explore the strange question, why the box?

The problem is complicated because its causes can be traced back to the first day of our ancestors coming underground and even earlier. However, it is very simple to summarize in one sentence, where there is a box, there is a road, and where there is a box, there are people.

It may be better to add a word to each sentence, where there is a box, there can be a road, and where there is a box, there can be people.

Because, the box, represents security.

After the apocalypse, even in the safer underground, dangerous mutated creatures still filled people's lives. Blood, panic, and every day in the underworld are staged, and there is nothing to be done about finding weapons for yourself

When it brings a big advantage, everyone turns their attention to the topography - the role of the box is excavated little by little in this background.

In the beginning, the box was built only as a fortress against counterattacks, and people burned thick bricks from excavated earth, and built boxes with tight seams but with shooting holes, and soldiers hid inside the boxes against the outside of the boxes

The mob fights back, but this doesn't work very well because it only protects against a small percentage of weak creatures, and most of the underground creatures, especially the mutated ones, are unfortunately destroyed

The capabilities are far greater than the human defenses. A fully grown and mature mutant earthworm can drill through and even eat a hard subsoil wall that humans can't chisel through for days in five minutes, and an adult big-toothed ant can cut through ten points

Inside the clock to tear down an entire wall of the box, a completely perverted underground cockroach can even step through a town's defenses and all the buildings in a matter of minutes, eating up all the people...... As a result, there is the theory of box arrays and box piles

Law.

Legend has it that the soldiers who were originally part of General Box, who were only on the border of the army, began to build several boxes and dozens of boxes together, turning the boxes themselves into labyrinths through different directions, in order to delay the progress of mutated creatures

Attack and give your side better attack conditions. Gradually, the general discovered that this form of architecture could reduce the casualty rate of combatants to new lows, and the Underground Kingdom began to spread to everyone—after all, you don't know when

It is possible to emerge from the ground and appear in your room, where the excellent box array allows familiar residents to engage in a maze chase with invasive creatures for hours. And successfully survived this period and waited until the armed forces came out

Now you are saved.

"Lock them up, trap them, and kill them!" The words of the founding general Boxy completely set off a wave of the underground national box array, and people in order to show respect for the great general who proposed the idea of the box array

Fadi named this kind of building "box", and because box is similar to "box" in the ancient language of some places, and this boxy building does resemble a box, so the name "box" is reversed

Eventually, it became the official unified name.

"The story of General Box, I heard Hyde tell it when I was in the first grade of basic school, but it was told as a joke." Garcia, who was running on top of the maze of basic school boxes, couldn't help but chuckle when he remembered something funny.

"After this incident, the great General Box has a new name of General Box in the Emperor's ** Department, and even the Box family has become the 'Box Family' in the mouths of the residents of the Imperial Capital Night God Province, which is the most important

Yes, because General Boxes himself is on the fat side, his colleagues in the military department prefer to call him 'General Tube' rather than 'General Box' as the residents call him, oh, poor General Box......"

In my memory, Mr. Hyde, who wore glasses and had black and white hair, told some interesting stories in history in front of the classroom podium, which caused the dolls in the audience to laugh.

"I really don't know where Mr. Hyde is now......" Garcia smiled at the corner of his mouth, but his eyes couldn't help but be melancholy. But the melancholy lasted less than a second, because he still remembered his mission—he was carrying the last batch of bombs he had made with Dan to reach the H2 target point and complete all the arrangements before Blair.

"Blair! Where have you been? Garcia asked into the intercom.

“C3！” Blair's voice was very excited, "Your bombs are such a good thing, I lured this big guy here, and it was immediately blown up and shrunk into a ball, and now it rolls even harder than the big one!" ”

"Don't let up! Speed up! Mr. Hyde said that the regenerative ability of mutant earthworms is so strong that we can't imagine it, and I estimate that after a while, the earthworm that was pricked by flying nails has been relieved and is looking for the murderer! ”

"How can it be so fast, I'll pack this one up first and then go to the one just now." On the other side of the intercom was the disapproving voice of the big man, and then Garcia heard the sound of the knife drawn, thinking that Blair had pulled out his captain's saber. "You go to H2 and wait for me first, I'll be there in ten minutes."

"I can't persuade you, okay, be careful."

……

The other end of the walkie-talkie. Spice Basic School, C3.

The empty box was a mess, littered with crumbs of ceramics and nails of varying lengths, and the smell of sulfur smoke in the air, all the products of the explosion. Garcia asked the vigilantes to circle out the boxes in each of them

There were at least six splash bombs in the box, and where the box entered, the mutant earthworms were tumbling and twisting, and the various shards on their bodies were cut open by splinters, and the combined power of these bombs was obvious

Spot.

Blair, the captain of the first team of the security team, held the captain's saber at his waist with a serious expression. The mutated creatures in front of him are not weak, even though he had only heard of them in books and old people's mouths before, but his years of experience in charge of the affairs of the security force told him that every creature that still existed after the destruction of the underground was not simple.

What's more, the one in front of me is a little smaller than the other one, but it is just that the bucket is thick and becomes a small basin - it's still a big guy.

"Ahh With a low roar, he stepped on a shallow indentation on the mud-brick floor, and Blair drew his waist knife and rushed not far away. His arms were as tense as a pile of angular stones, his brows were locked like sharp spears, and then, with a flash of light, his hand rose and fell.

"Brake—"

The spurting of scarlet sweet juice splashed on Blair's hair and body, and looking in the direction of his swing of the knife, the tumbling and twisting earthworm was slashed in two by the knife!

Yes, two, Blair's knife directly cut off the tumbling earthworm from the middle, and the two broken pieces rolled along the sides of the knife to their respective sides.

"This thing looks ferocious, but it's much easier to cut than a big-toothed ant."

Blair couldn't help laughing, he did his best, but even a big-toothed ant had to cut a second and third slash to break through the defense of its hard shell, and this earthworm only cost himself one knife?

He frowned at the two earthworm carcasses that were split in two pieces and staggering on the ground in front of him, which was a bit strange...... Still, die, definitely. This earthworm has the ability to regenerate, and it will not be split into two pieces and not die, that is really the strangest thing that my Blair has seen this year......

"it!"

Blair was only halfway through his thoughts, and his hair stood on end with the fright of what was happening in front of him, only to see that the section of the earthworm he had just chopped was no longer squirting sap outward, as if it was a healed wound, and slowly stopped

Blood, and what is even more terrifying is that the two severed pieces seem to have their own autonomous consciousness, rolling and twisting on the ground at different frequencies, and the agitation is getting bigger and bigger, not at all like the unintentional of the dead creature

Consciousness twitches, but it is like a new life has just arrived in the world and is becoming more and more lively.

"This thing...... Not dead? The big man shivered fiercely, and then his pupils shrank, and as far as his eyes could see, two earthworms were rolling at the same time and catapulting towards him!

"Captain! Run, those two pieces of ghost in front of you have vital signs! ”

Andrei's anxious but afterthought voice came over the intercom.

"His grandmother's, I don't want you to say that I know!" Blair no longer had his hand to hold the walkie-talkie, he used a knife with one hand to hold half of the earthworm away, and with the other hand he held the front end of the other earthworm that flew - the earthworm

The mouthparts were pressed against the palm of his hand, and Blair even felt the suction coming from the mouthparts, and the layers of wriggling muscles tried to squeeze everything they encountered into the earthworm's intestines. For some reason, I think this thing is disgusting

At the same time, the big man was glad that the thing had no teeth.

"Ahh Blair suppressed the nausea and discomfort of clasping his hand on the earthworm's slippery skin, and turned around and threw the half of the ghost, which weighed about twenty or thirty pounds, back to its source, and hit the other half back with the saber holder before.

"Garcia! What the hell is going on!? Blair finally found an opportunity to pick up the walkie-talkie that had just been dropped and yelled inside.

"How did I know you split this thing in two with a single sword! I thought you just wanted to add two more cuts to it! The voice on the other end of the intercom was straightforward, but it was very wronged, "Besides, I reminded you that the earthworm has a strong regeneration ability, so you should be careful......"

"You didn't remind me that not only did he not die, but he also became two after reading it!!" Blair roared directly to cut off Garcia's weak defense.

"Don't yell, hurry up, the plan remains the same, and bring the two oh no now three earthworms to H2 together!" Seeing that it was too hard to tell, Garcia simply ended the topic and directly replayed the previous order. "I'm almost there, so hurry up!"

"I can't kill you, and that bomb is still useful?!" The two earthworms that had turned into two pieces pounced again, and Blair, who was afraid of cutting them into four pieces, had to use the back of his knife to fly the two pieces of ghost things again, and ran into the adjacent C4.

"Trust me!" Across the intercom was Garcia's calm voice.

"Captain! The big one in the back seems to have recovered and started to chase after it! ”

"Hell, report the location!"

"It's ...... now"

"No need to report it! I see that! ”

Pictured: Map of Spices School and location in the book

(However, the starting point mother did not let it be passed on...... ）