Metaverse Evolution

Chapter 139: Thousand-year Experiment · Underground

[The sequence numbers of the previous chapters are wrong, but the content is correct. I am dizzy from working overtime. ]

There is light ahead!

Although it is very faint, it is particularly precious and eye-catching in this dark world.

As we continue to move forward, the road becomes more and more difficult to walk on. The ground begins to get wet, and a large number of creatures, such as centipedes and crickets, appear.

These things are very large. Centipedes can grow to three or four feet in length, and crickets are the size of roosters. But they are almost not aggressive to humans.

This shows that although these things have changed, they are far from mutation.

It feels like a transition from a mutant world to a normal world.

But the light is becoming more and more obvious.

Chu Fei thought: "The mutation here has obviously decreased. It is more like the increase in size caused by a good living environment and abundant energy."

As he was talking, Chu Fei found a shadow flashing by. After careful identification, he realized that it was a mutant spider hunting.

This mutant spider is no longer using spider webs, but directly killing.

Li Longhua said beside Chu Fei, "This should be the bottom of the food chain.

Yes, with so many mutant animals, even if they hunt each other, they still need an initial source of food and energy.

Where do you think this leads to?"

Chu Fei thought for a moment, and said according to the feedback of the wind of perception, "It feels like the ground, and we are temporarily underground."

Li Longhua nodded, said nothing, and everyone continued to move forward.

The ground continued to rise, and there was a big step every few dozen meters, and it continued to rise like this.

The light became stronger and stronger, and the small animals around became more and more abundant, while the mutant small animals decreased rapidly.

Everything looked like running towards the light.

After about 20 minutes, the crowd had advanced about three kilometers and saw blue sky and white clouds.

Climbing the steps, they saw a bright world, but there was no trace of the sun in this beautiful blue sky.

In front of them was a dense savanna.

However, the "grass" here was probably only a few meters high, and as for the sparse trees, they went straight into the sky, as if to challenge the authority of the gods.

"The light in the dimensional space is all refracted from the sunlight in the main world. There are natural refractions and artificial construction techniques. It involves relatively complex techniques.

But you can simply understand that as long as it is a completed and qualified dimensional space, its sunrise and sunset times are the same as those outside."

Li Longhua saw Chu Fei in a daze and explained lightly.

Chu Fei thought for a while and asked, "What if it is cloudy outside?"

Li Longhua:...

Sorry, this is beyond my knowledge.

General Li looked a little unhappy and walked forward.

Chu Fei grabbed Li Longhua, shook his head slightly, and then pointed to the dense weeds in front of him, "The sound wave characteristics show that the weeds here have a faint feeling of flesh and blood! And it's too quiet here!"

Li Longhua's face changed, and he threw out a bottle of insecticide without hesitation.

Then he saw the "weeds" in front suddenly twisted. The grass leaves and grass stalks instantly turned into twisted joints, twisting and even whipping randomly.

"Hiss..." Li Longhua took a breath.

Chu Fei was also startled, and could not help but take two steps back, and hid behind Li Longhua skillfully.

Li Longhua:...

Chu Fei's skillful posture made Li Longhua speechless.

Why are you so skillful?

Chu Fei smiled awkwardly, and finally explained with an awkward smile: "I feel that it is too quiet here. Think about the many animals in the underground world, and there are no animals on the ground, which makes people suspicious.

Although many insects are scavengers, there are also many that eat grass roots and leaves.

There are no natural enemies of insects such as flying birds, but the vegetation here is so lush, which is worthy of suspicion.

Of course, the biggest suspicion is the sound wave characteristics detected by my perception wind. The sound wave characteristics of the plants here actually have a sense of flesh and blood.

But I didn't expect that these plants have evolved to this extent."

Li Longhua pulled out a sharp saber, gestured, and suddenly the knife flashed, and then a piece of grass flew up and was grabbed by Li Longhua.

The "grass leaves" twisted, with a light green liquid flowing, and a strong grass smell wafting.

Chu Fei sniffed twice and frowned slightly: "It seems to smell like mushrooms?"

"It smells like fungi!" Li Longhua emphasized, "This grassland here should be a unique life mixed with fungi and plant genes, which can directly convert photosynthesis into the favorite food of insects.

The experiments in this world are a bit crazy."

Chu Fei suddenly realized and said faintly, "If it is not crazy, how can we study the liquid process of pupae. I even suspect that this grassland may not be synthetic, but alien life.

Maybe the grassland here is for cultivating alien life, those with pupal transformation state."

Li Longhua looked into the distance, suddenly pointed to a towering tree, and said leisurely, "Maybe you are right!"

Chu Fei looked at nothing and took out a small telescope at the first time, and immediately saw something on the towering tree in the distance.

There were "hanged ghost" insect bags hanging there.

The hanged ghost, scientifically known as Geometridae, is the larva of the moth... Well, this is normal.

At least the insect bag of the geometrid is not too big.

As for the current bug bags, Chu Fei did a simple calculation and came up with the data: 3 to 5 meters!

I don’t know if it’s a mutated inchworm or an alien life or something. All in all, it doesn't look very friendly.

At this time, Li Longhua had jumped to the top of the passage, looked around, and said: "There is a wilderness around, there is nothing."

Chu Fei looked around and wanted to look back for any signs in the passage, but found a "Research Base Structural Diagram" on the side wall. There is also a permanent responsibility sign next to it.

This is a set of structural drawings, which have become rather mottled due to their age. But you can still tell the difference.

The first is an overall structural diagram, which is an inverted pyramid structure. The top is marked "0 meter level".

Above the 0-meter layer is the ground.

Then there are the "-20m layer", "-40m layer", "-70m layer" and "-100m layer".

As the depth increases, the area decreases. The last fifth layer is the "-150 meter layer", with a depth gap of 50 meters from the fourth layer.

And on the "-150-meter floor", three words are written: Main control room!

Looking at this structural diagram, Chu Fei became silent - it seemed that I no longer needed to lead the way.

Chu Fei saw it, and so did more people.

Li Longhua jumped down from above and made a decision immediately after seeing the structure diagram: "There is nothing on the ground, so we still need to explore the underground. It seems that the downward stairs we saw when we first came here are correct."

But at this time Qian Shaohua spoke, "General Li, everyone is a little tired after the crazy battle before. How about we take a rest first? Right here."

As soon as these words were spoken, many members of the Flying Tigers nodded and even voiced their agreement.

The previous battles were actually not very long. The total time from entering this space to now was less than eight hours - not even enough for an eight-hour working day.

But the previous battle in the darkness really made everyone feel tired.

Human beings are creatures that sleep in the dark.

Just now, I was in total darkness. Not only did I not sleep, I also had to fight those mutated creatures that were adapted to the darkness. It’s impossible to say I’m not tired.

Li Longhua looked around and finally had to nod, "Okay, just take a rest here and don't leave this exit.

Although this exit looks ordinary at the moment, no outside animals and plants come in. There may be some insect repellent technology. "

Everyone quickly responded and rested on the spot.

Chu Fei was in good spirits. The super potion he drank earlier still had some effects, but he took the opportunity to observe the ground world in front of him.

Especially observe the hanging ghost on the towering tree in the distance.

But I found a withered yellow branch moving.

Wait, that's not a branch, that's a mimicking mantis, and of course a mutated mantis. Chu Fei simply observed and calculated the size: 2.2 meters in length!

Compared to the 2.2-meter mantis, which is 3 to 5 meters long, and the inchworm, which is more than 3 meters long, it seems to be looking for death.

At least the inchworms on the towering trees were still happily nibbling on the leaves.

However, the next moment, the mantis jumped out, and Chu Fei didn't even see it clearly; he only saw the mantis disappear and reappear instantly, and an inchworm was chopped off by the mantis, leaving only half of its belly twisted.

The mantis dragged the inchworm's upper body away quickly, then spread its wings, jumped down from the towering tree, and headed straight for...himself!

Chu Fei was watching the fun at first.

However, seeing the mantis getting bigger and bigger, and then calculating the flight curve of the mantis, Chu Fei's expression changed, "Get up, get up! A mutated mantis is coming! The combat power of the mutated mantis may exceed that of ordinary alien beasts! "

Everyone stood up with cheers, and Li Longhua immediately followed the direction of Chu Fei's telescope and saw the praying mantis coming towards them.

But after seeing the mantis, Li Longhua breathed a sigh of relief, "It's a mantis. These things usually don't live in groups. Maybe they can eat some game."

As he spoke, a look of yearning appeared on Li Longhua's face, "I wonder if you have ever eaten the scythe of a mutated mantis. It tastes really good, not to mention full of elasticity. It has a pleasant fragrance and contains powerful life energy. .I don’t know how much better than crab claws.

I ate it during the beast tide more than ten years ago. Nowadays, some discerning high-end hotels only charge this.

Calculated based on quality, weight, size, etc., the lowest price is several thousand yuan per catty, and the high-end ones can even reach tens of thousands of yuan per catty. "

Chu Fei couldn't help but ask, "Don't this praying mantis eat people?"

Li Longhua snorted, "If a wolf eats a human, does the wolf's meat change its flavor?"

"..."

Li Longhua pointed to the mantis flying over and said, "This mantis definitely doesn't eat humans."

Chu Fei breathed a sigh of relief. Also, right now, even if this mantis wants to eat people, it needs someone to eat it.

Seeing the praying mantis approaching, Li Longhua bared his teeth and smiled, "The meat flew here by itself. Everyone lie down, I will prepare some game for everyone."

The mantis quickly approached, and its ferocious triangular head became clearer and clearer, and its two huge eyeballs were like citrine balls.

But just as it approached the entrance of the passage, the mantis paused, then raised its figure and flew away.

Chu Fei said leisurely, "The meat flew away."

Li Longhua:......

Everyone laughed, took a rest, and then took pictures of the structural diagrams and basic floor plans on the wall before returning underground.

The light gradually faded away, and everyone was quickly swallowed by darkness.

After walking for a while, someone suddenly asked, "Should we go back the same way we came, or take a new path?"

Everyone immediately started discussing. Some said to return by the original route, and some said to explore new routes.

In the end, the question was thrown to Li Longhua.

Li Longhua thought about it and asked Chu Fei, "I think it's better to return by the original route. What do you think?"

Chu Fei said, "I also agree to return by the original route. There are three reasons.

First, we are already familiar with it, and we know what dangers are here.

Our biggest disadvantage here is not only the darkness, but also the unfamiliarity with the terrain. And returning by the original route is the best.

Second, there are arrows indicating the emergency passage when returning by the original route, so it is not easy to get lost.

Although there is a route map now, if you really enter a dark world, you may not know the true face of Mount Lu, just because you are in this mountain.

Third, although the way here is dangerous, the brain beast that poses the greatest threat has been killed and scared. If we just pass by and do not actively attack, there should be no big problem."

Li Longhua nodded slightly, "Okay, return by the original route."

This time, returning by the original route was indeed safe.

When passing by the mutant brain beast's nest, many mutant brain beasts blocked the front of the nest and roared in a low voice.

But when they saw that everyone was just passing by, these smart mutant brain beasts did not move, and everyone lived in peace.

The team returned to the location where the underground entrance was found. Someone turned on the bracelet to release the picture comparison and adjusted the light to the lowest.

Li Longhua made a decision, "Let's go from here. Chu Fei, explore the situation inside."

Because they had suffered losses before, everyone dared not turn on the lights for no reason.

Chu Fei did not say anything, and the wind of perception was fully launched, scanning the more than 300 meters around the entrance through ultrasonic, infrasound, and ordinary sound waves.

As for turning, it was no problem for the wind of perception, just add a few change data when calculating.

Chu Fei found that there was a spider nest inside!

This spider nest was about 170 meters from the entrance. Because the distance was a bit far, the investigation was not very clear.

And Chu Fei told Li Longhua and others that the limit of his perception range was only 40 to 50 meters.

Chu Fei's eyes rolled around and he had a solution.

Sorry, I was originally captured by you. I will pay for what I have done sooner or later!

Of course, Chu Fei did not expect to kill people. If everyone died, he would not be able to survive. So, just make everyone tired.

At this moment, Chu Fei has gradually developed a mature idea of ​​​​deceiving people.

No, it is not to deceive people, but just to collect some deserved interest and obtain the benefits that I deserve, that's all.

This is the end of the world, if people don't work for themselves, they will be punished by heaven and earth!

Why did Li Longhua forcibly recruit me? It was for their own sake, and they didn't care about my thoughts!

These thoughts flashed through his mind, and Chu Fei spoke slowly.