40,000 Years of Cultivation

"go!"

Li Yao suddenly stood up and said in a deep voice, "I want to take a good look at what she called the "Broadway", what the **** is it!"

Under the leadership of Li Jialing, Li Yao pushed the door out, only to find himself in a stalagmite that was as strong as a giant tree.

The diameter of this stalagmite is at least 20 to 30 meters, and many caves and rooms are hollowed out in the middle, and there are spiral staircases for traveling up and down.

Poke his head out of the stairs and looked down. It was at least several tens of meters from the ground, but it was blocked by a hazy mist, making it difficult to see the depth.

Naturally, there will be no fog in the underground world. Li Jialing told Li Yao that these are all mushroom powders-weird mushrooms, weird mushrooms and large squirming moss. They are the main plants in the underground world.

Looking up, the top of the rock about a few hundred meters high was weakly hung with dozens of small suns. Li Yao estimated that it was some kind of artificially refined, long-term stable output illuminating talisman array, but then Long-term stable output cannot withstand the erosion of thousands of years. Now, these "little suns" seem to have been eaten by moths and riddled with holes, not only the light is so dim that it is better than nothing, but mottled black spots appear on the surface. It's like a piece of moldy light cake.

Under the dual effect of the dim light and the flying mushroom powder, the entire underground town of No. 10084 is shrouded in a layer of mist that is constantly rolling, adding a bit of mystery.

The construction of underground towns is more three-dimensional and magical than the cities on the ground. Mines and stalagmites are entangled, tunnels and stalactites are intertwined, and the traces of human civilization are constantly expanding in the cracks, like vines struggling to stretch, occupying Up and down all the space that can be accommodated.

Looking at the towering stone pillar on which Li Yao stood alone, there are at least dozens of the same kind poked aside, forming the main body of the town.

The stone pillars are connected by thick iron cables.

However, there are many underground people wearing gray cloaks, riding on a giant bipedal lizard with dark red skin, and dexterously shuttled between the iron cables. The claws of this bipedal lizard are similar to the claws of a bird and can be easily carried out. Hold the iron rope tightly, even hang upside down under the iron rope, and with the help of the reverberating force of the iron rope, lightly jump tens of meters away, often jumping in threes or twos, and you can jump from one stone pillar to another.

People shuttled back and forth between the stone pillars, the iron cable was constantly shaken by the red lizards, the sound of "clap crap", and another kind of "humming chirping" from all directions, together constituted the main tone of town 10084.

Li Jialing told Li Yao that these red mounts are red lizards. They seem to be genetically modulated products. They are a kind of spirit beasts. They look ferocious and ferocious. In fact, their personality is more gentle than cows and horses. They are underground people crawling in three-dimensional towns. High and low, the best helper to move around.

As for the sound of "humming and chirping" all around, it is that rock worms are eating-this is a town dominated by animal husbandry. Farming rock worms is the source of most people's livelihoods. Rock worms are actually not like them. It is a worm, but a white and fat creature that looks like a pig. It is also a genetically modulated beast. The digestive system has been specially strengthened to eat rocks, moss and various mushrooms for a living, and can absorb the harshest feed to the greatest extent. Nutrients, which are converted into fat and protein for human consumption, are a very popular staple food in the underground world.

Near this geological zone, the five-digit underground cities and towns such as the 10084 district often focus on farming rock worms. Most rock worms are not eaten by themselves, but are transported to higher-level four-digit towns in exchange for energy. And various industrial products, so that these forgotten residents on the ground can retain the last spark of civilization.

Li Yao strolled in the courtyard, wandering in the town, carefully observing the details of the stalagmites, chains and streets, and felt that this seemingly medieval town was full of contradictions everywhere.

The stone pillar he just set foot on is not a purely natural product. It seems that there was a very developed civilization first. Hollow steel cylinders were erected under the ground, and then materials such as liquid metal or concrete were gradually laid down. Above, only in this way can it be ensured that the "stone pillars" with a thickness of tens of meters and a length of hundreds of meters have sufficient strength.

On the rugged streets and bumpy tunnels, peeling off layers of moss and vines, you can see neatly laid out, delicately routed pipelines that connect all the stone pillars together. It should be some kind of large wired cable. The net system, but it can be seen that it has not been used for a long time, and Li Yao did not perceive the slightest psionic reaction from the fine crystal line.

In many places, tearing the moss layer by layer, you can see the rusty metal walls, and when Li Yao wipes out all the rust with force, you can see the smooth mirror-like surface, as thin as hair. There are rows of square characters in the seams of the silk.

Some big characters are slogans that remind people, such as "There is a magic circle inside, no idlers should enter", and some are the numbers of the troops, such as the "Thirty-third Production and Construction Corps", and more characters are eroded. After all, Li Yao's slightest breath turned them into dust and scattered.

Li Yao squinted his eyes, found the longest seam, stretched out his index finger, and gently tapped it from top to bottom, only to feel that the hand feels as fine as silk, without any jerky or obstruction. If it is not for careful perception, it is almost impossible to find it. Such a seam.

This seam is a piece of two steel plates of at least tens of square meters. After years of thermal expansion and contraction, stress changes and crustal movement, it is still tightly seamed to this extent. It can be seen that the people who originally built this town, What a developed civilization.

"It was supposed to be a very advanced underground shelter at first, right?"

Li Yao patted the moss and sludge on his palms, and continued to look at the structure up and down—the town of No. 10084 was full of time tunnel-like contradictions, as if it was a combination of advanced and backward, civilized and wild, artificial and natural. All kinds of completely different feelings are put together abruptly.

Perhaps the seemingly chaotic "vines" are the most advanced psionic pipelines in the past; what looks like stalactites are the long-dust defensive arrays; the super crystal brain that was once used to control the entire underground refuge has been used by millions of people. The years have eroded to the point where there is only one empty shell left, and the children who have long forgotten the glory of the past "joy and hop" as the ball.

"should be."

Li Jialing said, "Sister Long's statement is similar to Brother Yao. Long, long ago, this place was indeed a very advanced refuge or underground base, magic treasure warehouse and the like."

Li Yao folded his fingers, flicked the steel plate, held his breath to listen to the fine echo, and said, "How could it be like this?"

Li Jialing said: "Sister Long gave me two examples. The first one is geological faults. With the vicissitudes of life and the vicissitudes of time, the more ancient creatures or civilizations are, the more they will be covered by soil and rocks, and gradually fall into them. To the depths of the earth.

"If you cut the earth open to reveal faults like a thousand-layer cake, and then study the fossils embedded in the faults, you will find that the more fossils found in the upper layer, the newer the age, and the more buried deep underground. Fossils represent the older creatures and even civilizations."

Li Yao nodded: "This is easy to understand, what else?"

"Also, it is the ocean."

Li Jialing said, "The unfathomable ocean is a top-down three-dimensional ecosystem. With changes in sunlight, temperature, seawater salinity, density and pressure, it is actually an ecosystem that does not interfere with each other. The fishes living in shallow seawater may never dive into the seafloor of several kilometers or even tens of thousands of meters in their entire lives, and the giant squid living in the depths of tens of thousands of meters will never look forward to the warmth of the sun, although The same are marine creatures, but the upper layer and the lower layer have long formed two worlds that do not communicate with each other."

Li Yaodao: "What can these two examples illustrate?"

"Sister Long said that human civilization has developed for a full 100,000 years. From the ancient world of cultivation 40,000 years ago to the modern cultivation civilization today, in fact, different classes have gradually differentiated, human beings living on different levels, Like fossils formed in different ages, or marine creatures inhabiting different depths, they are people in different worlds. Even if you don’t distinguish between “real people” or “primitives,” this distinction is destined to exist. , Turning a blind eye, does not solve the problem."

Li Jialing said, "As early as 40,000 years ago, the erosion of the weak by the strong never stopped for a day or even a second. The weak who could not resist the strong had no choice but to flee.

"Some of the weak have fled from the plains to the rugged and barren mountainous areas, and some of the weak have continued to wander deep underground, and as the strong's claws extend to the ground, they flee step by step to deeper places.

"In the beginning, this kind of escape was sporadic, spontaneous, and unsystematic.

"At the beginning of the Great Dark Age 40,000 years ago, when the Monster Race replaced the Human Race to rule the Xinghai, those humans who were unwilling to be ruled by the Monster Race were the main force for the first large-scale'advancement to the underground'.

"When the cruel rule of the monster race was overthrown ten thousand years ago, the human race launched an extremely **** retaliatory killing against the monster race. The human race, full of 30,000 years of hatred and anger, vowed to kill the last monster race, so, There was another large-scale escape to the ground, but this time the fugitive became a monster.

"The good times are not long. The Xinghai Empire established by the human race has just crossed the checkpoint of a thousand-year rule and faced the cruelest civil war. The flames of war have swept through almost every large world. Countless human races who have joined hands against the monster race in the past have broken up and become deadly enemies. , So, the third large-scale underground flight followed one after another.

"The next ten thousand years will be the endless **** battles of the Stars and Seas. The battlefields of warriors such as the extreme heavens and the celestial stars are naturally the center of the war. Countless people who have lost their homes have fled to the ground one after another. It's not surprising.

"Generations of fugitives constitute the main body of the underground residents. They regard the refuges, military bases, and magic warehouses built by various races and forces in the past dynasties as new homes. This is the origin of most underground towns.

"Naturally, the residents who escaped into the ground later tended to live on the shallower the surface, while the earlier the residents who escaped into the ground, their living space was constantly squeezed by the latecomers, and they had to continue to flee downwards and slowly settle down. Go deep underground, like here."