Chapter 13: The Depths of the Pit
This passage may not be straight, and Rick is not so sure. The cat totem appears on the wall, and then the action of opening and closing is repeated several times. Between the fourth and fifth doors, he and Xiao Zhen got out of the car and put on protective suits. The protective clothing here is completely different from the one in the decomposition room, and it will obviously be much more expensive. The protective equipment in the decomposition chamber is mainly to protect against knock and puncture damage, and the protective clothing here is even insulated from the air. Xiao Zhen instructed Xi Ke to put on protective clothing. The protective clothing is white and made of a special artificial cloth. Very thick and tough, yet very soft. Like plastic sheeting, there are no air vents, and when you open the sandwich, you can see a reinforced mesh structure similar to a fabric. The protective suit was a jumpsuit, including shoes, hats, gloves, and a large and heavy piece that took a lot of effort for Rick to put on. Wear a transparent mask shaped like a long bird's beak and curved at the tip, this thing only has a little red at the very end, probably to let people know where the tip is, so as not to bump into it. Then put on the oxygen cylinder on your back and connect it. After all the parts are dressed and the seams of the parts are all sealed, not only can they not tell the gender from their appearance, they don't even look like people. Then the two of them squeezed into the connection car and continued on their way.
Zuihou They passed through a total of seven cat doors before entering a large room. He estimated that the room had opened up the entire pit building, which was about eight stories high, and that it was digging down. Treat the location of Xike as the first floor, and look down at the darkness and see the bottom.
The room is cylindrical in shape, with an empty middle. The walls are full of dense compartments, layered like a mille-feuille, with garbage waiting to decompose. The amount of garbage is too large, and the garbage is often piled on top of each other, and the outline is not clear. Rick struggles to identify trash in the glimmer of light. He recognized some of the garbage he'd dismantled, that wouldn't bite or run away, like the Magic Automatic Roaster. The rest of the garbage doesn't look like it's going to attack the decomposer either.
In the middle of the cylindrical room, a huge metal claw hangs from the ceiling, and with the natural slight bending of the skeleton, it is already three stories long, and it should be more than four stories when it is straightened. Rick couldn't see where the claws met the ceiling, and there might have been folded upper arms and forearms.
The large claws are the shape of metal palm bones, with a lot of exposed red pipes on the outside. This reminded him that he had read about acid-etched mummies in books that left only the circulatory system. There is no flesh and skin, but a network of blood vessels formed on the outside of the skeleton. The way the lines outside of this metal claw are distributed like blood vessels. The claw hung motionless over their heads now, and Rick always felt that the proportions of the hand were not human, and the hooked claws of the fingertips were not human.
The connecting car continued to drive forward, seeing that it was about to fall into the hole in the middle, Xike was so frightened that he stuck to the back of the seat, but Xiao Ballast still operated the controller steadily, and there was no intention of escaping.
The car drove smoothly to the top of the hollow and did not fall down. Rick stuck his head out of the window and looked down, and saw a large blue fluorescent float under the car, just the size to fill the void and support the car. The coupling vehicle makes a circle on the float, drags all the containers onto the board, and then the float carries them down slowly.
The lights below turn on from top to bottom, as they get closer. The walls below were cubicles, too, but Rick began to hear throbbing, roaring, and crashing. He saw the garbage rioting behind the barbed fences and bars, and the more he looked down, the more excited he became. Nick saw a magic parrot banging its head against the iron bar while constantly playing swear words in different languages, one that seemed to be a baby polar bear that trampled on the baby magic seal in the same compartment and bit it under its feet, and a self-cleaning magic puppet was in a dusty cubicle, blocked by the energy field of the iron bar and not blown outside...... Fortunately, the place is designed to absorb sound, there is no echo, and the garbage is noisy but bearable.
They continued. The further down the hill, each compartment gets bigger and bigger, and the volume of garbage that is held is larger. Rick hopes that when the "claws" grab these large riot artifacts and take them to the decomposition chamber, they will distribute them to the ballast.
After about ten minutes, they finally reached the bottom. The float plate sank under the silver floor engraved with matte spell symbols. There's a large foggy circle in the middle of the floor here, and the connection cart is parked in the middle.
The lowest compartment is one and a half floors tall. There are no bars, but there are circles around the inner walls and near the entrance, which can be used to form a blockade when activated. Now these large compartments are empty.
Xike and Xiao Ballast get off the bus. Xiao Ji took Xike's hand, dragged him out of the circle, and then turned the controller. A circle of beam fences rises around the perimeter of the circle, locking the coupling cart inside, and another float appears above it, descending until it touches the top of the beam fence, blocking the opening above.
The ballast turned the controller again, and two metal claws, similar in appearance to the giant hand above but much smaller, protruded from the wall, passed through the beam fence, and touched the outside of the first container a few times.
The steel plate of the first container, except for the bottom, was broken into several pieces and fell to the ground, and the incision was flat.
The beast-mimic magic weapon appeared in front of Xi Ke's eyes, and only one occupied a container. This creature is modeled after a griffon, and in order to enhance the performance, it is made more exaggerated than the real griffon. The hooked eagle's beak, which is bent to the point of almost poking the neck, is paired with eyes that glow red with lights inside. Each feather is made of shiny metal, not fitting the body like a real griffin feather, but deliberately stabbing out one by one to create a ferocious feeling. The muscles of the lion are exaggerated, and in reality such muscles are not very practical. Both the front feet of the eagle and the hind feet of the lion make huge claws, and tattoos of imaginary spells with no magical effect are added to the joints. Subtly, the wing-to-body proportions are smaller than those of a real griffon, presumably modified to take into account the space on display.
It is wrapped around a special enchanted chain and tied to a pedestal. The whole body is immobilized, even the mouth is tied tightly, only the head and tail of the snake are flicked around. The snake's head had no teeth in its mouth, probably because it was not harmful, so it was not fixed.
"Deal with this one first, and the rest will be talked about tomorrow." Xiao Zhu said.
Although the griffin beast couldn't move, its eyes were still fixed on Xike. Rick noticed a small red dot on his body, and those eyes emitted a laser light. It seems better not to look at it.
"How do you dismantle something this big?" asked Ricke.
"Tear it down slowly. Xiao Xuan's answer was similar to not answering. He stomped his feet on the ground so hard that in front of him, about the height of the lower edge of the sternum, a floating panel appeared. The panel itself is completely flat, with lines drawing the position of the buttons on it, and there is a concentric circle pattern in the middle that is very similar to the controller, and he puts the controller on it, and it automatically gets stuck there. He propped his fingers out on the panel and said, "I'll control the claws, and you take care of the details. 」
"Mean I'm going to climb on top of that thing?" said Rick, pointing to the griffon. From the position of the red dot, it seems that the griffon is looking to see if his heart is tasty.
Xiao Zhen nodded silently.
"Don't you think this kind of work should be performed by experienced seniors?" said Rick.
"Do you think you'll be able to do this?" asked, pointing to the float, "What if you unload me in eight pieces?"
Considering the fate of the container just now, the metal claws that deal with steel plates are like hot knives cutting cream, he thinks that Xiao Ballast has a point. Those claws are far more likely to kill than a beast-like weapon that can't move and can only shoot a laser at a human's chest. It is better to let the experienced seniors control the claws, so that both of them can survive safely.
"Next time, I'll teach you how to operate the control panel, so let's get to work. This weapon with the highest degree of risk cannot be stored for too long, and it is not known what effect it will cause. He said, "And it won't really attack you, it's just a show." It's a display after all, and it's all set up to dismember live chickens for performance, but not to harm humans. 」
So Rick took the toolbox in one hand and pulled out the sacrificial knife in the other, and tiptoed close to the griffon. He tried to move left and right, but the red point of light was still fixed on his heart. It is said that the movements of the beast-mimic monster will be more precise than that of creatures, and it seems to be true.
Xiao Ji said that the beast-mimic magic weapon would not hurt him, but Xi Ke didn't believe it at all. From the example of the mini vicious mushroom essence, no matter how safe and thoughtful the original factory settings, there is a possibility of deterioration over time. Newly manufactured griffons may not harm humans, and it is difficult to say after years of wear and tear. Like a miniature vicious mushroom essence, after being ravaged by a playmate, it becomes an outright murder weapon.
The magic circles in this place are all set to only block magic weapons, not people, so as to facilitate operations. Following Xiao Ballast's instructions, Xi Ke went directly through the beam fence to the side of the container. The constant staring of his heart made him nervous, so he took a step in the direction of his tail, trying to stay away from his eyes. The griffon's head and tail immediately rushed towards Syke. Xi Ke raised his knife to prepare for battle, but Xiao Ji was one step ahead of him, manipulated his claws to grab the snake's head, and pinched his jaw precisely to force it to open its mouth. Xi Ke calmly inserted the sacrificial knife into it, removed his jaw, and then dismantled it all the way down.
It's nice to have a little ballast here. Xi Ke thought to himself, it didn't matter if Xiao Gu was a ghost or an immortal, he couldn't know how he could do this job without Xiao Ji. So he will never reveal the true identity of Xiao Xuan, he will pretend that he did not notice anything strange until he leaves.
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By four o'clock in the afternoon, in another hour the daily garbage truck will be at the door.
By this time, the limbs and head of the griffon had been separated from the torso. The structure inside is exposed, and the fibers are spread out on the ground, twitching at a frequency of ten seconds. Xi Ke was busy beside him, constantly pulling out the pipes, pulling out the power core, poking the spell markers, and dismantling the resonance Dao, and he couldn't finish it. Often, only one line is torn off, and seven or eight run out with it. The protective clothing is not breathable, it is not easy to put on and take off, and there is no toilet in the pit. Despite the strong air conditioning, the two of them went through five hours of dismantling work, and they still entered a state of impatience that was hot, wanted to go to the toilet, and desperately wanted to take a shower.
Xiao Ballast cut open the other four containers, threw the beast artifact into the compartment along with the base of the container, activated the circle to appear a protective net, and announced, "That's it for today, let's go up!"
"Oh!" cheered Rick, who immediately stood next to the front of the connection car and waited.
"Just throw the car here, it's going to be dismantled. Xiao Zhu said. He unplugged the disc controller from the panel, and the panel was gone. He adjusts the controller, and a smaller float appears, sending the two of them up.
There were conveyor belts on both sides of the passage to stand on, and they stood on them through seven gates, taking off their protective clothing and putting them in the sterilizers.
Finally seeing the outermost steel door, Cy Ke desperately wanted some fresh air, and rushed to the bathroom.
Ballast stuffed the controller into the box next to the door, and it seemed that this would automatically return it to the toolbox outside. He buttoned the button to open the steel door, and the door slowly went up.