40,000 Years of Cultivation

"What is the look in your eyes?"

Li Yao was confused by Li Jialing, and Monk Zhang Er couldn't figure it out, "Why do I read a strong meaning of ‘caring’ in your eyes? What is the situation!"

"It's nothing."

Li Jialing narrowed his gaze and said solemnly, "I just hope Brother Yao knows that no matter what road I choose in the end, and no matter what kind of person I will become, I will never forget that you are mine. ...Family, in my heart, your weight is even heavier than that of your Royal Highness. I sincerely treat you as an elder brother. I hope you will always be safe, er, and healthy."

"is it?"

Li Yao felt Li Jialing's sincerity, and grinned, "I also really treat you as a little brother. Anyway, little brother, don't be bewitched by the devil Long Yangjun, and don't encounter some small darkness and difficulties. Just get into the horns. In short, let’s go step by step. You can save the world and let go. First, learn how to see the injustice and draw the sword to help. It is also good to see the righteous and help the weak. In short, Brother Yao has faith in you and believes. One day you will experience the essence of the cultivation path and become a more powerful cultivator than Brother Yao!"

"maybe."

Li Jialing said, "I have to walk more, see more, think more, before I can choose the final path-only in this way, I can run on my own avenue without looking back!"

The two said, unknowingly they walked to the deepest part of the town.

This is a rock wall hundreds of meters high, but it is full of honeycomb-like caves. The diameter of each hole is about three to five meters. The fence is woven with vines on the outside, and the "humming chirp" comes from inside. sound.

Countless underground people carried large amounts of moss, vines and mushrooms on their shoulders, and even buckets of fine ore. They filed into the cave. It can be seen that the weight on them is extremely heavy, and their bones are violently and green. Vivid, his expression is both hideous and painful.

Suddenly, the people in the depths of the cave emptied the moss and vines, and then came out with buckets of stinking feces. The burden was finally reduced. The original hideous faces appeared numbness that they were accustomed to.

Both Li Yao and Li Jialing were distinguished guests here. The underground people didn't stop them from entering the cave, and they didn't even dare to make eye contact. They lowered their heads and hurried past them.

The two entered a cave at random and saw dozens of rock worms being raised.

The rock worm is not really like a worm, it is more like a white and fat pig. It is just a little slender. It can reach three or four meters in length and two meters in diameter, just like a large oval meat ball.

Instead of calling them "rock worms", it would be more appropriate to call them "rock dolphins".

Li Yao didn't know if the rock worm originally had feet or claws, at least now there are no organs for action, maybe they are all covered by overlapping fats.

This is an extremely slow movement, like a sloth-like spirit beast, curled up in the depths of the cave and motionless like a statue. Li Yao doubted that they even had the ability to find food on their own.

The sound of "humming and chirping" turned out to be not their screams, but the breathing sound from the vents above their heads. These dumb and lazy spirit beasts were too lazy to even scream.

The underground people chopped up a large amount of moss, vines and mushrooms, and mixed them with the finely ground ore, stirred them evenly, and put them into the feed trough. A few rockworms would cluster around slowly, round and round. The "head" that comes out of the eyes splits the cross gap, spews out thousands of white silk threads, and wraps the food into snow-white spheres, which are involved in the cross gap, which is considered to complete a feeding action.

While the rock worms were eating, the underground people circumvented them and went to the depths of the cave to collect their dark green feces, carefully scraping every corner, leaving no trace of them.

There are some underground people, holding long-handled brushes, and scrubbing **** the rock worms. At first, Li Yao thought it was going to be cleaned and slaughtered to eat, but after a closer look, it was wrong. It turned out that the underground people were giving the rock to the rock. Worm massage to relax too!

It can be seen that rock worms are almost the only means of production for all residents in District 10084, and their care and feeding of rock worms are extremely troublesome.

Li Jialing told Li Yao that Rock Worm was in the Xinghai Empire era 10,000 years ago. It was a very good edible spirit beast that had undergone a large number of genetic modulations. The earliest research was even carried out during the period of the Monster Beast Empire, which was good at biochemical technology. .

Rock worms can swallow up to tens of thousands of the roughest food materials, including minerals containing a large amount of trace elements, and convert them into large amounts of fat and protein, which can provide the energy necessary for human survival in the harshest environment.

The rock worm is full of treasures. It incorporates some special spider and silkworm genes. The silk thread used to wrap food is also a good textile material. Moreover, it peels off once a year. The peeled skin can also be made. It becomes a light and warm leather jacket.

In addition, rock worm's excrement hardly needs to be refined, it is a natural fertilizer, suitable for nourishing most plants, even mushrooms and mosses, and can make wild plants domesticated by humans into crops with skyrocketing yields.

It can be said that as long as humans explore the colonization of unknown areas, as long as they bring rock worms, the two key problems of "clothing" and "food" will be solved, and by the way, a solid foundation has been laid for the development of agriculture.

It's just that too many genetic modifications have been made in terms of "omnivorous" and "availability." The consequence of rockworms desperately growing fat and protein is that their mobility and predation ability are greatly weakened, weakened to almost zero.

This is a kind of life born in a laboratory. It is extremely difficult to adapt to the harsh life in the wild under the premise of maintaining the existing traits, and can only stay honestly in the breeding room and be fed and grown by humans.

In the Xinghai Empire 10,000 years ago, when designing these underground refuges, naturally there was a complete set of extremely advanced and sophisticated automated breeding equipment to ensure that this "meat factory" continuously output energy products, from the very beginning rock worms mating. In the end, it becomes a box of ready-to-eat meat packaged in cans, and the entire process does not require many workers and breeders to manipulate.

But with the erosion of the years, the old automated breeding equipment has long ran out of energy, is fragmented, and no longer exists, and the original knowledge of raising rock worms has long been lost. Today's underground people can only raise them in the most primitive ways. they.

Since rock worms can grow so much meat, their food intake is naturally huge. They cannot go out for food by themselves. They all rely on underground people to gather moss, tear off vines, chop down mushrooms, dig ore, mince and mix them with great effort, and put them into the feed trough. Medium-This is a very heavy manual labor. Three or five strong men work all day long to barely satisfy the appetite of a rock worm.

In order to ensure that so many moss, vines and mushrooms can grow in the underground world, it is necessary to continuously throw rock worm excrement into the crevices of the rock, and then carefully serve various crops. The underground world was originally not suitable for crop growth, even if The smallest cluster of moss was watered by people underground with blood and sweat.

Because the real fully automatic feeding trough has long been destroyed, the rock worms are not adapted to the environment deep in the cave, so people continue to massage their bodies and force them to get up and exercise, otherwise the rock worms will soon grow black. Madara, the flesh and blood in it are all necrotic, so you can't eat it.

These tasks accounted for 99% of the underground people, 99% of the time, it can be said that the entire 10084 district is surrounded by "rock worms".

Based on the number of stalagmites, stalactites, and caves on the rock wall, Li Yao quickly calculated the ratio of the number of rock worms to the number of underground residents, and found that the number of rock worms seemed too high compared to the population in District 10084. A little more, even if you kill all the meat, you can't eat so much. If you can raise a few less, wouldn't people be much easier?

Li Jialing shook his head and said that he only knows one thing and does not know the other. As I said earlier, although the underground people have worked so hard to raise so many rock worms, they are usually reluctant to eat large pieces of meat. A small piece of meat can be cut every few days. It's good to mix it into the meat porridge.

The vast majority of rock worms have shed their skins three times, and after they are fully mature, they must be carried to the town above, which is the "four-digit area" numbered between 1000 and 9999, in exchange for precious energy, civilian treasures and weapons .

The underground residents of the 10084 area are not completely ignorant barbarians after all. They still retain the basic language and culture, and a small part of the magic weapon and the big formation are still in operation, and they are eager to know what the world above looks like. A large number of materials and fuels have to be replaced by rock worms. However, various synthetic foods are popular in the world above. Rock worms cannot sell for a high price, and three or five rock worms may not be able to exchange for a standard crystal box.

Even if they gritted their teeth, they don't need any magic weapon or energy, at least one essential material must be purchased in the town above, that is, fresh compressed air, as well as components for maintaining the air circulation and filtration system.

Towns tens of thousands of meters underground, even if they have the most massive and efficient ventilation system, and the continuous introduction of fresh air on the ground, it is also a very depressive and dull world, full of all kinds of deadly poisonous gases.

Once the exhaust gas exhaled by humans accumulates too much, it will also cause everyone to suffocate.

Therefore, the underground residents can abandon all magic weapons, even without the lighting talisman above their heads, and become ghosts in the dark, but it is absolutely impossible to abandon the air circulation and filtration system.

Once the air circulation and filtration system fails, the ultra-highly compressed fresh air must be released in time to gain valuable maintenance time.

The absence of air is more terrifying than the absence of sunlight, and it is a real catastrophe.

Residents in four-figure towns will suffer from the fatal weakness of the underground people in five-figure towns. The lion opens its mouth wide and sets the price of related magic components and compressed air to extremely high prices. Only dozens of rock worms can be exchanged for one. A small can of compressed air.

Therefore, the residents of the 10084 area work hard every day to grow and raise, not only what they wear and what they eat, but also the vitality. They rely on the air that they can't live without even a second!