Chapter 20: The Underground City
Saying that Xiaobao and they got out of the gourd and found that they had come to an underground cave, several people were standing in the stone cave, the gourd baby floated on the waterhole at the entrance of the cave, Xiaobao hurriedly collected the gourd, and Sunny and Mira found a smooth stone platform to sit and rest, took out the original gourd baby gave a net bottle containing Xuanqi Dan, and grabbed a handful of Xuanqi Dan to Mira.
"Xuanshen Pill?" Mira took it excitedly, and ate it like eating jelly beans, and felt that it was not enough to ask Xiaobao for a handful, Xiaobao simply gave him a bottle, and kept a handful for himself to eat slowly, and Sunny was the same, taking out the Xuanshen Pill to supplement Xuanqi, during this time he was either on the road or on the run, it was rare to have such a quiet moment, it was time to practice well.
The two of them were busy resting and meditating, and I don't know how long it took, Xiaobao woke up to a sighing sound, and when he opened his eyes, he was taken aback, and many unclothed people surrounded them, holding stones and clubs in their hands, looking at them vigilantly.
"Sanny, Mira, wake up!" Xiaobao shouted loudly, Sunny and Mira turned around from their cultivation state, and also saw the scene in front of them, and hurriedly got up and stood with Xiaobao, the two of them stood back to back, in a defensive state.
"Who are you?, or we'll do it!" exclaimed Sonny.
"Don't do it! Don't do it! We have no ill intentions!" an old voice came, and the men hurriedly moved out of the way, and a gray-haired old man walked slowly to the front with a cane.
Seeing this, Xiaobao and Sunny knew that the other party couldn't hurt themselves, so they relaxed.
"What kind of place is this old man, and why do you live here?" said to the old man.
"Alas, this is an underground city, the old man is called Longbo, he is the elder of these people, little brother, you are from outside, right? Come, sit down first, and I will tell you slowly!" After saying that, Longbo carefully helped the person up to the stone platform, and then sat on the ground, and the other people also sat down on the periphery, and Xiaobao and Sunny Mira also sat on the ground when they saw that they had no ill will.
"Uncle Long, you are here in the underground city, what does the city in the sky have to do with you?" asked Xiaobao.
"A hundred miles above you is the city in the sky, and we are below it!" said Lombard.
"Ah, too, are you inhabitants of the City in the Sky?" said Mira, taken aback.
"Don't be nervous, we don't belong to Sky City, it's a hell, not a place for us to stay!" Lombard said, shaking his head.
"Hell, I see that it is very prosperous and advanced! The inhabitants live happily, so they all call it the capital of the future!" Xiaobao asked strangely.
"Fake! This was the territory of the Seven Xuanmen Seven Xuanzong at the earliest, in the early years, I don't know where the eight young people occupied here, they originally built a strange spherical machine, buried in the middle of the city, this machine has huge energy, the original cover here Xuanmen light curtain pushed thousands of miles, formed the current territory, and they turned the children of the sect into slave laborers, working for them, as long as the slightest disobedience will be changed to the soul of the body, the ancestors of our gang are a group of people who escaped by luck, but we couldn't escape, so we had to drill into a hole, I didn't expect this underground thousands of ravines, like a labyrinth, so I survived"Lombard said.
"I'll just say that Soul Shifter isn't a good bird!" Sunny said, pouting.
"Yes, they are indeed not good people, they have built countless machines to transform this place, resulting in the current appearance, the most important thing is that they have a giant machine, which can create people, and countless people have created them and then captured the inhabitants of the mainland and merged with them, and finally there are so many inhabitants now!" Lombard said.
"That's not a bad thing, maybe it's a way to solve the problem that the inhabitants of the entire continent are ghosts!" said Mira.
"Originally, the captured residents thought that this was the case, and happily went to merge, but who knew that they were synthesized into slaves, and each resident can only live like a machine here, and cannot have his own thoughts, and the things you have to do every day and the life machine have been arranged for you, and every resident is like an actor, performing a script written by a machine!" Lombard sighed.
"Oh, no wonder it's weird to look at, a normal city can't be all laughter, there will always be people who are sad, there are people who sigh, these are also part of life!" said Sunny with emotion.
"Who's to say no! When a person lives according to a written script, is he still a human being? So in the end, some people wake up, and some of the awakened people are replaced, some are killed by the men in black, and some of the people who are not killed are lucky enough to escape here!" said Lombard.
"And what did they build this city for?" asked Mira.
"Find a body that meets the requirements of the Xuanshi and build their own army!" Lombard said.
"Oh! That's how the puppet army of the Soul Shifter came about!" Xiao Bao said with a sudden realization.
"Yes! At first, they were to catch people who came back from the human world or buy the Yaksha and the city lords to spend money to let them catch prey, and then collect the flesh and blood of these people as samples to create a suitable human body, but it was not successful, and a small part of it was made, and then I didn't know how to do it, they built a very powerful spaceship, which can jump in space, so it can go directly to the earth without going through the human channel, but the time is longer, and there are fewer things that can be brought each time, and they will bring a lot of human beings in the human world every time, and I don't know how many experiments have passed, and now they can make a lot of qualified shells, but they are always a little bit worse, you can only reach the level of a low-level mystic!" explained Lombard.
"Isn't it true that one day they'll be able to achieve the manufacture of a high-level mystic?" asked Sunny asked.
"Not yet, without the laws of this world and the power of the Nine Stars, what is created is also a walking corpse, and there is always something missing!, so the Soul Shifter has spent countless years to find the Nine Stars, and then he can create a real army of Xuanshi and rule this world!"
"With his current manpower and material resources, plus those strange weapons, no one can resist it?" asked Xiaobao.
"No, technology is very powerful, but unfortunately the end of science and technology is metaphysics, this is the law that the world has set at the beginning, it can't be changed, no matter how powerful the army of science and technology is, it is not the opponent of a god-level master, so they must create a real army of mystics to realize their ambitions!"
"Oh! No wonder the Soul Shifter wants to do so many things, the turmoil in the world is all ambition and abuse, for the sake of one person, ruined tens of millions of people!" said Old Mila with emotion.
"What is the city in the sky like now?" Sunny asked Lombard.
"Alas! It's a strange city, the machine in the center of the city is constantly making people, the people in the city are instructed by the machine to send signals every day to live, maybe you are a doctor today, tomorrow you may be a lawyer, they test whether this person is qualified by constantly changing everyone's life, and the qualified people will be recycled for secondary processing, enter their secret base for training, and the training is basically disposed of, so everyone's life here is fake, and the life memories in your head are all given to you by the machine, including your relatives, your career, and even haven't remembered another life, in my opinion, these people are not as good as animals, I am doing things that hurt heaven and reason and go against heaven and human ethics!" said Lombard in an air.
"Then don't you resist?" said Sonny.
"Resist, where did we get the strength to resist! It's a blessing to be able to survive underground, and if you catch it, that's the end, at least everyone here is living a real life, and I might as well die like the people above!" Lombard said excitedly.
"And how are we going to destroy this evil city?" asked Mira.
"Destroy, unless you have the strength of the Great Gods, don't think about it!" said Lombard.
"Is it possible that there is none?" said Sunny unconvinced.
"Yes! Destroying that machine in the center can destroy the entire city, but there is a very powerful gem in that machine, and it is its energy that can make humans!" Lombard said.
"Star of Life! It must be the Star of Life among the Nine Stars!" Xiaobao said excitedly.
"I guess it's a Star of Life, otherwise how could they have so much energy, but how could they have the ability to get a Star of Life?" Lombard said suspiciously.
"There is nothing impossible, the laws of the Heavenly Dao work naturally, and it is possible for people to hit the luck and happen to get it, now it's okay, I finally found the whereabouts of a star!" Mira said happily.
"Well, although the instructions are speculative, but the feasibility is very high, what we have to do now is to infiltrate the cities above to find out the news, does Lombard have any good ideas?" Xiaobao asked Lombard.
"It's hard to get into the city! Everyone on it has an identity mark, and that hateful machine can identify everyone, and if it's not someone inside, they'll find out right away, and then someone from the Black Squad will show up and take you!" Lombard said in fear.
"Well, can you make a false identifier?" asked Sonny.
"It's more difficult! Our people have been up a few times, and each time the whole army was wiped out, and all of them were captured and reformed, but there is one person who can enter and leave the Sky City freely, and I think you should be able to ask him for help!" said Lombard after pondering.
"Who, hurry up, Lombard!" asked Poop eagerly.
"That person's name is Xie Ba, he was originally a person from above, I don't know what method he has, he can make identity marks without being discovered by the people above, so he can bring all kinds of food and supplies from above, and exchange ores and jewels with us below, and the material supplies below us are all dependent on him, I will take you to find him, you should be able to enter smoothly!" Lombard said happily.
"Then thank you Lombard, let's hurry up!" said to Lombard.
Lombard got up and let his subordinates support him, and walked first, Xiaobao, Sunny, and Mira followed, and everyone went to find Xie Ba!