Chapter 28: Loneliness
At the center of the lake, the water temperature has exceeded 70 degrees Celsius.
The rocks at the bottom of the lake are warmer, and the bottom of the lake is constantly bubbling with bubbles.
A lot of steam fills the air.
Chen Jing felt his changes in this lake.
He doesn't feel uncomfortable because of the temperature, but the low-oxygen environment here makes him even more uncomfortable.
Dive into the lake, and the salamander lies on the bottom.
He seemed to enjoy the temperature.
He didn't look so lonely.
Chen Jing couldn't go on anymore.
This underground hot spring lake seems to be the final end of the journey.
There is only one water inlet around the hot spring, and the rest are air intakes.
It was all white vapour.
These gases are heated and boiled by geothermal heat when they are still water, and the air pressure brings them here due to the temperature difference.
And because of the temperature difference, the water vapor condenses.
I don't know how many years later, a hot spring lake was born.
Above.
It's all Chen Jing's guess.
Who knows if the lake came first, or if the Gaoqi volcano came first?
What if the two were born at the same time?
There is an incomparably wonderful process in the birth of all amazing things.
Coincidences are also a very wonderful thing.
The outlet of the hot spring lake is not large, and it is not known what the situation is inside.
Such a geographical structure doomed Chen Jing not to choose to take risks, so he had to return.
Look for an exit from other caves.
"Blood relatives?"
"Eat?"
Just as Chen Jing was thinking, the salamander came running again and wanted to spit out pieces of meat for him.
Closing the salamander's mouth again, Chen Jing swam backwards and returned to the shore.
"Blood relatives?"
"It's time for me to go."
Chen Jing silently responded to the salamander, even if he couldn't hear it at all.
"I don't know if I'll ever see you again, but I hope I don't. You and I are like this, this is the best meeting. ”
Chen Jing knew that as time passed, with the digestion and absorption of the piece of meat in the salamander's body.
Axolotls will gradually become the same as other blood relatives, desperately craving the flesh and blood of blood relatives.
If they met again at that time, Chen Jing knew that he would eat him without hesitation.
"Blood relatives?"
The salamander looked at Chen Jing, who was retreating farther and farther away, and slowly followed.
Chen Jing walked all the way, and the salamander blood relatives also followed all the way, and the two individual lives got along so wonderfully.
Waterfall.
The water rushed down without hesitation.
Chen Jing also jumped down without hesitation.
Emerging from the water, Chen Jing turned to look at the guy who poked his head out from the top of the waterfall.
"Blood relatives?"
"Farewell, live well underground. It's better for you to live carefree. ”
"Eat."
"Thank you for your hospitality."
"Blood relatives?"
"Farewell."
Chen Jing stepped on the rocks at the bottom of the water and walked into the road where he came.
Salamander blood relatives are lonely.
He had spent the long course of his life in this vast underground space.
He had never seen the outside world, and this was the only one for him.
Chen Jing was the only living intelligent life he had ever encountered.
Perhaps one day, wisdom will make him feel lonely, and he will choose to jump down the waterfall like Chen Jing and follow the path Chen Jing once walked to the ground.
But now, after not being able to see Chen Jing, he silently turned around and returned to the hot spring lake.
"Blood relatives?"
"Blood relatives?"
The degree of his evolution is not even integrated into the information network.
It wasn't until Chen Jing's arrival that he had the concept of "blood relative".
Today's call is destined to be answered by no one.
He was alone.
And Chen Jing's abnormal attitude towards the salamander didn't mean that he didn't think of his loneliness.
Compared to the salamander blood relatives, he can hear the voices in the information network, but he cannot communicate with the blood relatives.
In fact, Chen Jing had already collected the evolutionary equation of the vocal cords in the hunt, but he was unwilling to evolve.
Even if you can speak.
Who can really understand his language?
The communication of blood relatives is more because of the existence of the information network and can understand each other, if it is separated from the information network, no one knows who is talking about what.
At the same time, no one knew that the soul of this body actually came from a galaxy very far away.
So far away that you may never see it again in your lifetime.
But Chen Jing is not confused.
For him, it is very fortunate to be able to live again. It is a novel feeling to become another life form and live in this universe, to meet more lives, even if it is a life-and-death attitude.
Wonderful encounters are a valuable experience in the process of life growth.
Is there any difference between the fighting between individual beings in the universe in the early stage of growth and the competition between people in the civilization of the earth?
Both are intelligent beings, and fighting and competing are all for a better life.
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After returning the same way, Chen Jing encountered a very embarrassing situation.
As a result of evolution, his body shape has changed.
He can't get back into the rift that was dug according to the original size!
Since a lot of oxygen was consumed in the process of trying to pass, and he didn't know how long he would have to travel ahead, Chen Jing had to return to the cave space to replenish oxygen.
On the deep water, Chen Jing breathed slowly until the oxygen in his lungs was full again.
Offal.
This time the speed of the journey increased, and it was less than half an hour when I passed the rift.
After feeling the oxygen in his lungs carefully, Chen Jing thought that there were about forty minutes of diving left.
It should be enough to find an exit.
Maybe he felt that Chen Jing was already an acquaintance, but this time the underground river didn't let him explore it for too long.
In just twenty minutes, an exit appeared.
When he was under the water, Chen Jing had already seen a glimmer of light.
A faint light shone down from the narrow roof of the cave, and several tiny jets of water splashed down from above.
If Chen Jing still wants to move forward, there is a way forward in the underground dark river, but he doesn't know where it leads at all.
If you climb up, you will find your way forward.
After all, the sun is already shining in.
The fissure was supposed to have not existed, or it wasn't so wide, because it had been opened by geological activity, and it happened to be on top of the underground river.
Grabbing the gap between the rock walls, Chen Jing quickly climbed up.
I have to say that the strength of this body is really powerful, Chen Jing estimated that he should have three or four hundred pounds, but there was no pressure at all when he climbed up.
After easily climbing to the top, Chen Jing was dumbfounded.
It was as if he had found a gathering place.
A gathering place for the Enlightened Stars!
"Hold the grass?!"
In fact, the bioradar had already discovered this group of Qixing people, but Chen Jing didn't pay attention to it, thinking that it was some strange ape, after all, he had found monkeys around Gaoqi Volcano, and by the way, he singled out a group.
Who knew that a group of Enlightened Stars had been discovered this time!
"Didn't this group go to the gathering place?" Chen Jing hid in the corner and popped out half of his head.
Due to the black scale armor on his body and the dark environment he was in, the Qixing people did not immediately notice him.
It's noon, and the Dawners are busy preparing their lunch.
In this natural cave, the Qixing people built wooden houses, and thanks to the existence of underground rivers, there is no shortage of water here.
"Why do they live here?"
Chen Jing couldn't figure it out.
In fact, there are many houses in the town under the Gaoqi volcano, and they can live in the town.
Why stay in this remote cave?