Chapter 393: The Well of the Abyss (3)

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What made Zero feel strange was that in the face of such a [sexual] snake girl, the men in the caravan all lowered their heads, but no one was willing to look at the bewitching body. The snake girl seemed to notice Zero's gaze, and suddenly, a cross appeared on her beautiful face, and one face opened in different directions. When the face was opened, it was a terrible mouthpiece, from which a "snort" hiss, as if it was roaring at the air.

Zero finally knew the reason, anyone who looked at the [Hao] breasts beauty one moment ago, and suddenly turned into an alien the next moment, I'm afraid they would be scared, and it's no wonder that the men in those caravans turned a blind eye to the snake girl, these guys' concentration is far from excellent.

Old Rob hurriedly pulled zero and said: "They don't like to be watched, that's tantamount to provocation, don't look at it." ”

After speaking, the old man stepped forward again and gestured. The snake girl withdrew her mouth and changed back to those sweet and quiet faces. This strange life that concentrates beauty and ugliness makes way for caravans to pass by it and drive into the ground.

Zero had learned to behave, and he no longer looked at the snake girl. With his head bowed and his hood covering his face, Zero and the other hunters drove the Overlord Snail deeper into the hollow. After entering the tree hole, a straight passage is xiangxia. When I first walked in, I felt that it was pitch black all around. If you walk up a short section, you can see that the stone walls on both sides have glowing crystals, or photoalgae and other things. It not only provides lighting, but also embellishes the shijie under the ground like a sea of stars.

The passage is constantly inclined to Xiangxia, and after about 500 meters or so, zero sees an arch. The arch is coiled with canes of many plants, but the center of the arch is cleared with bizarre symbols cobbled together using luminescent mica. These symbols resemble human hieroglyphs, but each symbol seems to contain more information.

Zero thought that these symbols should be the words of the city of Pydes. And the alien race that has already created writing can be imagined to have a high civilization, but it is far from being comparable to the alien race like the El tribe whose language has just been formed.

Walking through the archway, a spectacular underground shijie appeared in Zero's eyes. For a moment, Zero doubted that what he was seeing was an illusion. Underground City Zero has seen one or two of them, like a Titan City in the wilderness near the coastline. When Zero first entered Titan City, he thought that the dungeon was very magnificent, but compared to the current Beatis City, it was nothing in comparison.

The strange life race of the underground tribe has almost hollowed out the underground space of about 5 kilometers, and there are thick stone pillars with a diameter of about 10 meters, which act as load-bearing pillars to ensure that the ground above does not collapse. Each stone pillar has a variety of glowing mica, light moss, etc. These things flickered and shimmered, emitting a hazy glow that enveloped the stone pillars and exuded a strange beauty.

And underneath it, there is a majestic dungeon. The structure of the city of Beates is a complex three-dimensional composition, and it is not built on a single plane, but according to the undulation of the terrain and the course of the rock formations. The structure of the entire dungeon is complicated, and the embellishment of mica moss makes the dungeon suffocating.

The architecture of the Underworld is also completely different from that of humans, and their houses are more like giant eggs, distributed in all corners of the city. There are more complex but well-connected passages between houses, and the passages are intertwined up and down, weaving a dazzling transportation network. In Zero's eyes, he was almost certain that the city of Beatis would be the most unfavorable environment for street fighting.

If the enemy rushes into the city of Bides, the number of troops is several times that of the alien race, and it will be completely cut off by such a complex transportation network, and then the underground tribes who are familiar with the environment will be harvested.

But I don't know whether such a transportation network is unintentional or intentional, if it is the latter, then this alien wisdom cannot be ignored.

In the middle of the city all night, another huge statue stands. The statue resembles the serpent woman who leads the way, except that it has six arms and three faces facing the center and left and right sides. The statue is about three hundred feet tall and almost runs through the three-dimensional city, and Zero can only see the upper half of the body, while the lower body is located below the darkness of the city, almost dissolving with the darkness.

The statue has distinctly feminine features, so the Underworld is supposed to be the mother clan. Zero guessed, and as the caravan progressed deeper into the city of Bides, Zero saw more and more Underworldrs. Among these alien beings, the most common is the snake girl who is nearly three meters tall. These snake women come in groups of four or five, roaming the complex passages, like patrolling soldiers.

The patrolling snake woman is armed with a spear made of metal, but the tip of the spear is a glow of energy. Judging from the fact that the tip of the energy spear did not shake, the energy spout of this spear maintained a relatively stable state. The snake woman held an energy spear, and as she passed, the tip of the spear would send a faint stream of light through the air.

In addition to the spear-wielding snake woman, a moment later, Zero saw the men of the Underworld again. Men are shorter than women, less than two meters, but they are as strong as a hill. They are also naked, but instead of snakes, they have scorpion-like arthropods. These scorpion men carry a strange weapon in their hands, with a sharp front end and a rounded back end. The circular part is embedded with a glowing hedron that occasionally spills out several streamers, which quickly flow over the object and eventually disappear into the sharp edge at the front.

It seems that this kind of thing should be a long-range attack gun, but I don't know how it works.

But judging from the energy spear and this strange gun, the Underworld has a technological civilization that far surpasses that of the El. Weapons like energy, even in Asgardri, are relatively high-end new-age weapons. However, in the city of Bides, it seems to be the regular equipment of ordinary soldiers, but it is not known how powerful these weapons are.

In addition to snake women and scorpion men, there are other underground tribesmen, both male and female, who are small and ugly, but do not have the body of a snake or a scorpion. They are no different from humans, but they all carry a meat bag on their backs, like people on their backs. These subterranean people are supposed to be ordinary residents, who are not armed with weapons, but carry various tools. They were about climbing, banging with tools on the dome-like houses and between the steep rock walls, perfecting the construction of the city of Beatis like workers.

In Zero's eyes, whether it is a sexy snake woman or a majestic scorpion man, it is far less suitable than these little guys who are only more than one meter tall and like dwarves are more suitable for being slaves. After all, Zero needs workers who are good at their jobs, not soldiers who fight. What's more, no matter how brave a foreign soldier is, he is still not as flexible as a human soldier in command.

Different races and different civilizations naturally make communication difficult. And on the ever-changing battlefield, no matter how inconspicuous the communication barrier is, it may lead to the defeat of the entire war.

Zero was already able to yujian, and when the city of Pydess was captured, the soldiers would be executed if they were not in the war. After all, the victor doesn't want this race to have any remaining combat power left, but those sexy snake girls should have some left behind to sell to people who have special collections.

As for Zero, as long as he can be obedient, he can be a worker.

As he was walking, there was a sudden burst of screams. From the sound of the sound, it is the sound of a human being. Zero's face changed, but he realized that it was not sent by his caravan. He immediately tracked down the source of the sound, eventually landing on a square building in the distance. This quadrangular building is an outlier of the city of Bides, and it looks like a cube in appearance.

Facing Zero was carved a huge symbol, and at this moment, the symbol cracked through it, but opened a door. Several snake women walked out with several human corpses and threw them down the dungeon. And the whispers still came from the inside of the building.

"Don't look at it. Old Rob walked over to Zero and whispered.

"What's that?" Zero asked.

"It could be a lab, or maybe a slaughterhouse. Who knows, I only know that the warriors of the city of Pydes go out into the wilderness every year to catch some outcasts and come back, and I don't know or want to know whether they are used for research or eaten as food. Anyway, if only they didn't beat us up to Pavarich's idea. Old Rob replied.

Zero silence.

In turbulent times, human beings are no longer the only intelligent beings. And with the emergence of more and more intelligent races, human beings, as the intelligent race with the largest base, are not known to be captured and studied by beings like the underground race, who have developed a higher civilization. It's all about survival, from the standpoint of humanity, and what the city of Pydess is doing is undoubtedly evil, but from the standpoint of a foreign race, it is no different from humans studying them.

In these chaotic times, morality and justice have become blurred. Perhaps in this evolutionary competition, the winner of Zuihou can forge the crown of justice for himself.

It no longer matters who is right and who is wrong, what matters is who lives to zuihou.

Zero wants to live, so it is even more imperative for the city of Beates. What's more, after seeing this strange race, from the standpoint of human beings, it is even more necessary to erase the life of the underground race, which already has its own civilization. Only when there are fewer lives like this will there be more room for human beings to survive.

In the cruel era, natural selection.

Eventually, the caravan stopped at a loading dock, one of several squares in the city of Pydes, which housed warehouses to stock up on supplies. Zero and the others unloaded the goods, and the dwarf Underlanders carried them into the warehouse. At the entrance of the warehouse, there are also a few dwarves making records of entering the warehouse, indicating that the underground people have their own perfect system.

After all the goods were in the warehouse, the dwarven supervisor took what resembled a list of goods and handed it to Old Rob. After Old Rob signed it, the dwarf uttered a quick and urgent syllable, and Zuihou said a word in human language: "Welcome." ”

Taking back the list, the dwarf called the snake girl who had guided the caravan before, and after uttering a strange string of syllables, the snake girl nodded and made a gesture to the caravan to follow. So Old Rob asked the various xenobiological beasts to be left behind, and the underworld people would take care of them temporarily, while the caravan people followed the snake girl to the temporary rest place prepared for them in the city of Bides.

It is also an oval-shaped building, built on the side of the mountain wall, and unloaded in the direction of the crowd. From a distance, it looks like a huge stone is ready to tumble down at any moment.

After leading everyone to the common room, the snake woman said to old Rob in a stiff human language, "At night, the well of the abyss. ”

Two simple words, but old Rob knew what they meant. He bowed to the Serpent, who nodded, turned and swam away. Zero came to old Rob and said, "What did she say?"

"Nothing, as is customary in previous transactions, after we handed over the goods to them. Rest and eat here, and in the evening they will take us to the oil wells below the city of Pydes. They will give us a corresponding amount of black gold according to the value of the goods, and when we receive them, we will rest here for the night, and we will be able to return to Pavarich tomorrow morning. Old Robb whispered, "My lord, though I don't know what you're going to do with you. I would like to remind you, though, that at night it is best to stay in the rest area they have arranged. These things aren't friendly, they're just asking us, but if you leave the rest area, you'll run into their guards somewhere else, I'm afraid."

Old Rob looked at the caravan again, and said with a bitter face: "Even if you don't think about yourself, have pity on us, we still want to go back to Pavarich." ”

Zero promised: "Don't worry, we won't cause you trouble." Just now, the well of the abyss that the snake girl talked about is the mine of black gold?"

Old Rob walked into the cobblestone house with a dozen men commanding the caravan, and said, "The Well of the Abyss is their name, and you will know that place when you go." Because the mine is located at the bottom of the city of Pydes, which is already deep into the earth, it is not an exaggeration to call it the well of the abyss. ”

"I see. ”

As he spoke, Zero stepped into the cobblestone house. This stone house is hundreds of square meters, but the space is spacious, and the dozens of people in the caravan do not look cramped. The stone house is tens of meters high, and the roof is embedded with luminous mica. These scattered mica hedrons emit a soft glow that makes the roof look like a sea of stars. The light of the mica was reflected, making the stone house bright.

With no additional lighting, you can see it clearly. What is rare is that the light of mica is bright but not strong, and even sleeping under it will not feel dazzling. The stone houses were already covered with soft animal fur, and it seemed that the Underlanders took good care of the Pavarić people, at least so that the caravanserai would not sleep directly on the cold stone slabs. Looking around the stone house, there are some simple paintings.

On the wall facing the gate is a tall throne with a creature identical to the statue in the center of the dungeon. And under the throne, there are dense eggs. Oval eggs line up the other walls, and judging by the ratio of the height of the eggshells to the creatures on the throne, these strange eggs are also several meters high, if the painting is a one-to-one ratio.

Obviously, the creature on the throne, the statue in the center of the city, must be some kind of idol worshipped by the Underworld. I don't know if it's their king, or if it's an imaginary god?

"Naga. Looking at the mural, Old Rob spoke.

"What?"

"I mean, the creature on the throne is called Naga, the spiritual king of the city of Pydes. Old Rob said, "There is no king in the city of Pydes, they only have a role like a sacrifice." I've been dealing with them for so many years, and I know a little bit about them. It seems that to these monsters, they believe that they come from the abyss, and that Naga is the king of the abyss. They were born of the eggs of Naga, the children of Naga. But as far as I know, their descendants hatched entirely on their own, and they are a bunch of inexplicable monsters. ”

Zero also found it inconceivable that this higher life form should take oviparous, a relatively low-level form of fertility. He originally thought that, judging from the humanoid form of the Underworld, these beings should adopt the same viviparous birth method as humans.

At this moment, the short, low cries of the underground people rang out outside. But I saw a dwarf instructing two scorpion men to carry a stone pot. The stone cauldron was filled with green liquid, and the scorpion man placed the stone cauldron at the entrance, and before he could get closer, he smelled a sour smell.

Old Rob's face became very ugly, and he muttered, "Here you go again, every time you come, you treat us with such a terrible thing." I've told them how many times we don't eat this kind of thing, it's really stubborn. ”

Saying this, old Rob still walked over to negotiate with the dwarf. Zero took the time to glance at the pot of liquid, and from time to time some fat insect corpses appeared on the green stuff. Although Zero had eaten insects, it was also out of desperation, but in the city of Pydes, such things were not only food for the Underworld, but also a delicacy for entertaining guests.

However, the two races not only have different values, but also have a huge difference in the definition of deliciousness.

Finally let the underground people carry away the cauldron containing the terrible liquid, and old Rob came back and said, "Take out the dry food you have brought, and give me some food, so that I will not have the strength to carry the black gold for me." ”

As he spoke, Old Rob took out dried meat and wine from the backpack he was carrying, and said to Zero, "My lord, come over and eat some too." ”

After seeing the terrible pot of liquid, the contents of old Rob's hands were already delicious. Zero was not polite, so he sat in a corner with the old man and ate and chatted. While the caravan was resting and eating, there was a small tremor at the entrance to the tree hole where they had entered.

The tremors came from the mountain wall to the left of the passage, which was as solid as steel and constantly appeared in circles of earthy yellow halos. The hard stones on the mountain wall that were swept by the halo turned from hard to soft, and then turned into mud and sand, and the zuihou flowed to the ground in a loud stream. Then a circular hole appeared between the mountain walls, and the hole was dark, and after a while, two figures came out of it, but it was Alice and Kim.

After falling to the ground, Alice flicked the mud and sand off her body and said, "I don't see that you still have the potential to be a pangolin." ”

"You don't talk nonsense, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't have wanted to sneak in so quietly. As he spoke, Jin manipulated the earth elemental Liliang to fill in the round hole that the two of them walked through.

So when the two of them left, there was not a single gravel on the ground, and the mountain wall had changed back to its original shape, but two outsiders had infiltrated the city of Bides.