Chapter 82: Underground Civilization
In the underground world, a huge sandworm is "rustling" crawlers, and the underground people sit on the head of the sandworm, like a coachman, pulling the reins and controlling the sandworm's progress. Mary's face was like a vegetable, her cheeks were pale, her eyes were misty, and her spirit was a little sluggish, and instead of making Mary full of nutrition, the nutritious and delicious porridge made Mary vomit out this morning's breakfast, and even more so last night's dinner. Along the way, wilting, like a handful of frosted eggplants, wilting and raking, the only thing that can cheer Mary up a little is the different scenery of the underground world.
"Buzz ......"
A fellow staff member on the back of the sandworm pointed to the bright spot flying in the sky, covered his mouth and exclaimed, "That...... What is that!? Is it an insect!? We were attacked!! ”
Mary looked up and saw more than a dozen gray insects with hideous faces like praying mantis flying from a distance, their huge bodies like a giant dragon. The wings were buzzing and flapping, and bursts of yellowish light were glowing through the membranes of the abdominal cavity. A pair of large compound eyes, shining a little red under the reflection of the abdominal light. A pair of huge forearms stretched forward slightly, hooked as sharp as a team of machetes.
Mary's heart tightened, and she encountered a dangerous creature underground? At this time, the biologist bus driver who was traveling with him said with a relaxed face: "Don't worry, this is an underground creature, called an underground mantis." The function is roughly like our ancient war horses, if you look closely, there are patrolling guards on them, which are here to protect us. ”
Mary looked over and saw that the mantis was indeed riding an underground man on its back, and Mary was surprised: "This is the mantis knight?" "Dragon Knight, Horse Knight, she knows, but this is the first time I've seen a mantis knight. I saw that the mantis knight was holding a small creature like a pet in his hand, like an enlarged version of the silkworm chrysalis, but it looked a little disgusting. It was soft, milky white, and the skin was somewhat transparent, and you could still see the bloodshot and white insect flesh inside, as well as the yellow organs that were beating gently.
The bus driver looked at Mary, who was frowning, smiled lightly, and then said scientifically: "The things in the hands of these guards are called sprayworms, and they are similar in function to our rifles. When the spraying insect encounters a crisis, or when someone pinches its tail vigorously, there will be a lot of pressure in the body, and the liquid stored in the body will be quickly sprayed out, and a strong liquid with a range of more than 100 meters will attack the enemy, and the power will be about the same as a flintlock pistol, and the accuracy will be slightly higher than it. ”
Mary was stunned, it was unheard of for this creature to be used as a rifle. However, thinking that this was an alien planet, aliens and alien creatures, Mary was quickly relieved and accepted this objective fact that appeared in front of her eyes.
Escorted by a team of praying mantis knights, soon the sandworms appeared in front of a huge city. This is one of the largest cities in the Underworld, Majaro. Instead of building walls like walls, the city was more like a modern city. It is probably also the stage where the underground civilization has developed to the stage where there is no need to use the city wall, and I think that after the human beings lit the artillery, the city wall was as weak as paper paste in front of the artillery. Perhaps the people of the underworld could use artillery-like creatures as weapons, and the walls were useless in front of them.
The architectural style of Majaro is different from that of the earthlings, not the Western architectural style, nor the Eastern architectural style. It is a style that combines with living things, and the building is a house made of bricks from the clay underground, and then slowly built up, so the overall color of the house is dark red. Some of the houses are also stacked with huge snail shells and screws as decorations, which look like humans have become smaller and appeared in the insect world. In addition, there are vines and other plants everywhere climbing along the walls of the house, glowing with light, and it looks very ecological.
The sandworm walked quickly across the main road and saw a red and blue light at the fork in the road in front of the road. The red and blue lights are composed of three huge fireflies, and when the red fireflies are lit up, the sandworms stop attacking, and pedestrians on both sides of the street stop and look curiously at the earthlings on the sandworms. And next to the sandworm, snail-like creatures are gliding rapidly, and on each snail there are one or two underground people, holding the reins in their hands, as if driving horses, according to the red and blue lights, quickly turn into the next intersection. As the red and blue lights turned blue, the worm driver on the sandworm pulled the reins, and the sandworm moved again.
In the heart of Majaro, there is something like a castle, which is the parliament of the country. After the mantis knight in the sky escorted the sandworm to the Congress, he slowly flew down, standing on the left and right of the sandworm with a solemn face, standing in two columns, very solemn. The soldiers at the gate of the Congress also held the jetworm in their hands at this time, and saluted Mary and her group with a respectful face.
The bus driver, the biologist, then said, "Guys, here we are. ”
After entering the Congress, everyone found that the Congress here was similar to the Congress on Earth, and the seats around it were filled with dignitaries and members of the Congress. The president of the parliament was a gray-blue skinned underground man, and after watching everyone come in, he hurriedly greeted him and hugged the captain of the team: "Gauls, I didn't expect you to come again so soon, welcome, welcome, has there been any progress in the matter?" ”
Captain Gaul smiled: "This time I have brought a large scientific research team, all the puzzles will be solved, don't worry, no difficulty can stop us Gauls." ”
The proud Gallic rooster said this, and the speaker of the underground people looked quite satisfied. Later, Mary learned from the biologist bus driver that the underground people entrusted everyone to solve the mystery of the ten temples of the underground people. Once the temple is unlocked, the vegetation underneath will grow back to the surface, replacing the desert with a continental planet full of vegetation, and the underworld will return to life on the surface. In exchange, in return, the Underworld gave up the entire world of the Underground to the Gauls, and of course the Gauls allowed the Underworlds to live freely on the ground, and the Gauls were free to live underground.
You don't have to fight to occupy this planet, although it is superficial, but the soldiers are not bloody, so why not do it, this is the best strategy in the soldiers' homes. Jeanne, the Gallic female general, readily agreed to such a request, and arranged a large number of scientific research teams and exploration teams to rush to Thal, preparing to solve the troubles encountered by Thal.
Underground people did not live entirely underground in the first place, and there were other figures on and below the ground. Until 10,000 years ago, the surface of Taal suddenly deteriorated, and the underground people had to be forced to retreat into the underground to take refuge, and they did not dare to set foot on the ground for thousands of years. Only now, the underworld has dared to try to get to the surface, but the harshness of the surface has made it impossible for them to live on it. And unfortunately, the previously highly developed civilization only left the outline of the ruined city, and the so-called ruins could not find any technology that could be used. As a result, the underworld people have experienced a technological reversal, because of the anomaly on the surface, according to the history of the earth, the entire civilization has gone back by at least 400 years.
However, the Underground people quickly built ten temples after the deterioration of the surface, and calculated that after thousands of years, when the surface sandstorm weakened, the temples could be activated, allowing the energy in the temples to stimulate the underground plants and re-cover the surface. Because of the time span of thousands of years, in order not to be destroyed, the scientists of the Underground people have set up different mechanisms on each temple. Only by cracking these traps can you enter the temple to activate the temple and complete the feat of returning to the surface.
However, the science of the Underworldns has long been inadequate, and it has been impossible to crack these mechanisms for more than a thousand years, and finally the Underworlders have to choose to give up. It wasn't until the arrival of the Gauls that the Underground people remembered the ten temples buried in the ground that were about to be abandoned, hoping that the Gauls, who claimed to be a friendly person of high civilization, could help them solve their problems. Read the latest chapters, stay tuned