Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“Go!”

Li Yao Run got up and shouted, “I'd like to see what she calls the ‘avenue’! ”

Under Li Jialing's leadership, Li Yao pushed out the door, which found himself in a stone stalk like a giant tree.

At least twenty or thirty meters in diameter, the shoots have been dug into many stone holes and rooms, and there are spirally encircled staircases outside for travel up and down.

Looking down the stairs with his head protruding, at least a few dozen meters from the ground, he was obscured by a hazy mist that could not be seen clearly and shallow.

Naturally there will be no fog in the underground world, Li Jialing told Li Yao that these are mushroom powder - a thousand strange mushrooms, strange shaped mushrooms and a lot of peristaltic moss, which is the main plant in the underground world.

And looking up, about hundreds of meters high, the rock top hung dozens of tiny suns powerlessly - Li Yao estimated that it was some kind of artificially manufactured long stable output illuminator array, but the long stable output could not resist hundreds of years of erosion. Now, these “tiny suns” seem to have been eaten by carcasses to a hundred pores, not only did the light fade so much that the conversation was better than nothing, but there was also a black spot on the surface that was spotted and refuted, like a moldy light cake.

Under the dual effect of the glowing glow and the flying mushroom powder, the entire underground town of 10084 is covered by a layer of mist that, if left unattended, continues to roll, adding a few mysterious flavors.

The construction of the underground towns, more three-dimensional and magical than the cities on the ground, the caves and asparagus entangled, the tunnels and the teeth of the bell nipples intertwined, the traces of human civilization saw the stitched needles expanding in the rock seams, like the sprawling vines, occupying all the space above and below.

This Emerald Stone column, on which Li Yao stands alone, looks at it, at least dozens of its kind stabbed next to it, constituting the main body of the town.

Between the columns, they are connected by a thick wire.

Yet many underground men in grey cloaks, riding across a giant, dark-skinned, red-footed lizard, skilfully traveling between the wires - similar to a bird's claw, this bi-footed lizard can easily grip the wire and even hang it upside down, lightly jumping dozens of meters away, often three or two jumps, from one pillar to the other.

People traveled between stone columns, the wire was constantly shaken by red lizards, the sound of "boom boom” kept ringing in my ears, and another kind of "hum boom" coming from all sides, collectively constituting the main tone of town 10084.

Li Jialing told Li Yao that these red rides were red lizards, as if they were genetically formulated products, belonging to a kind of spiritual beast, so they seemed fierce. In fact, their character was more gentle and tame than that of a cow horse. They were the best help for underground people to climb up and down in 3D towns and turn around and move.

As for the constant sound of "humming” around, it is the rock worm eating - a predominantly livestock town where farmed rock worms are the source of livelihood for the vast majority of people. Rather than being insects, rock worms are not really like white and fat creatures like pigs. They are also genetically regulated spiritual animals. The digestive system has been specially strengthened to devour rock, moss and all sorts of mushrooms for a living and are able to absorb the most nutrients from bad feed and transform them into fats and proteins for human consumption. In the underground world, it is a popular staple food.

Near this geological zone, five-digit underground towns like District 10084 tend to be dominated by farmed rock worms, most of which are not eaten by themselves, but transported to the higher four-digit towns in exchange for energy and various industrial products, so that the forgotten inhabitants of the ground can preserve the sparks of the last civilization.

Li Yaoting walked in, wandering around the town, carefully watching the stone shoots, iron cord and street details, and feeling that this seemingly ancient town was full of contradictory flavors.

The stone column on which he had just built was not a purely natural product, but rather a very developed civilization in which a hollow steel cylinder was erected underneath the ground, and then materials such as liquid metal or concrete were gradually laid on top, so as to ensure that dozens of metres thick and hundreds of metres long “stone columns” were strong enough.

By the rugged streets and pit depressed tunnels, layers of moss and vines peel apart, you can see a neat layout, well-wired pipeline connecting all the stone columns together, it should be some kind of large wired spiritual network system, but it can be seen that it has not been used for a long time, Li Yao did not perceive a half-point spiritual reaction from the fine crystalline.

In many places, you can tear off a layer of moss and see rusty metal walls. When Li Yao scrapes away all the rust again, you can see a smooth surface like a mirror, a fine seam of hair, and a straight line of large letters.

Some of the big words are slogans that prompt people, such as "There is a law formation inside, no idle people allowed in”, others are the number of troops, such as "33rd Production and Construction Corps”, more words are eroded clean, Li Yao's lightest breath makes them dust and spread out.

Li Yao closed his eyes and found the longest seam, stretching out his index finger, gently flashing from top to bottom. He only felt that his hands were fine as silk, with no slight astringency or obstruction. If he did not perceive it carefully, he would not have found such a seam.

This seam is a combination of two pieces of steel of at least a few dozen square sheets that, after years of thermal expansion and cooling, stress changes and crustal motion, are still stiffened to such an extent that it can be seen how developed civilization the people who originally built the town are.

“This is supposed to be a very advanced underground shelter at first, right? ”

Li Yao patted the moss and sludge on the palm of his hand and continued to measure up and down the structure - Town 10084 was full of contradictions like a time tunnel, like putting together advanced and backward, civilized and barbaric, artificial and natural, all sorts of very different feelings.

Perhaps the cluttered “vines", the most advanced spiritual energy pipeline of the past; the seemingly milkstone, is a long-enclosed defensive charm array; the supercrystal brain that was used to control the entire underground shelter, eroded by millions of years into only one empty shell, and kicked by the glorious children of the past "hip-hop".

“Should be.”

Li Jialing said, "Sister Long's story is similar to that of Brother Yao. A long time ago, this was really a very advanced refuge or underground base, such as Fabao warehouse. ”

Li Yao stacked his fingers, bounced off the steel plate and listened to a fine echo with a breath. "How did that happen? ”

Li Jialing said: “Sister Long gave me two examples. The first is the geological fault. As the years change in the canghai mulberry fields, the more ancient creatures or civilizations will be covered with dirt and rocks, gradually falling into the depths of the ground.

“If we cut the earth open, expose faults like a thousand layers of cake, and then study the fossils embedded in the faults, the more fossils found in the upper layers, the newer the age, and the more fossils buried deep beneath the ground, the more ancient creatures, even civilizations, represent. ”

Li Yao nodded. “That's very understandable. What else? ”

“And there's the ocean. ”

Li Jialing Dao, “The deeply unpredictable ocean is a top-down three-dimensional ecosphere. As the sun, temperature, salinity, density and pressure change, it is actually a layer of uninterrupted ecosystem. Fish living in shallow waters may never dive into the bottom of thousands of meters or even tens of thousands of meters in their lifetime, and giant squid living tens of thousands of meters deep will never yearn for the warmth of the sun. Although it is also a marine life, the upper and lower layers have long formed two worlds where old and dead do not interact. ”

"" What are the two examples that illustrate the problem? ”

“Sister Long said that human civilization has been developing for 100,000 years, from the ancient cultivation of the world 40,000 years ago to the modern cultivation of civilization today. In fact, it has slowly differentiated between different classes. Humans living at different levels, like fossils formed in different ages or marine creatures living at different depths, have long been people of different worlds. Even without the distinction of ‘real people' or ‘original people', this distinction is doomed to exist, hiding ear bandits, blindness and cannot solve the problem. ”

Li Jialing said, "As early as 40,000 years ago in the ancient period, the erosion of the weak by the strong has never stopped for a day or even a second. The weak who cannot resist the strong can only choose to flee.

“Some of the weak fled from the plains to the rough and barren mountains, while others continued to wander deep into the ground and fled step by step as the claws of the strong reached the ground.

“Initially, such flight was only sporadic, spontaneous and fragmented.

“Forty thousand years ago, at the beginning of the Great Dark Age, when demons replaced people to rule the star sea, those who were unwilling to be ruled by demons were the first major force to ‘march underground’ on a massive scale.

“Until 10,000 years ago, when the brutal rule of the demons was overthrown, the demons were subjected to bloody retaliatory killings, and 30,000 years of hatred and anger were sworn to kill the last demon, and then, for the second time, fleeing to the ground on a large scale, this time the fugitives became demons.

“The scenery is not long, the people's founded Star Sea Empire just crossed the threshold of the ruling millennium, faced the most brutal civil war, the war swept almost every great thousand worlds, countless days ago together against the demonic people split apart, become your dead enemies, and then the third massive underground flight followed.

“Ten thousand years later, the years of the Star and Sea wars, such as the extreme heavens and celestial stars, the must-have place for soldiers, nature is the center of the war sweep, countless people who have lost their homes, waves of escape underground, not surprisingly.

“Generations of fugitives form the mainstay of the underground population, making shelters, military bases and pharmacopoeia warehouses built by various races and forces of the dynasties their new homes, the origins of most underground towns.

“Naturally, the later the inhabitants fleeing underground tend to live on the shallower surface, and the earlier the inhabitants fleeing underground, the more the living space is constantly squeezed by the latter, and they have to continue to flee downward, slowly settling into the depths of the underground, for example here. ”