Tokyo underground city

Chapter 222 From Changying to Kadchan

It took Lin Huai'en and the others three days to get from the Changying subway station to the 11th underground floor.

The reason why it was so fast was because he and Yuan Ximu burned down the "Forest of Giant Trees". Taking the hospitality coupons issued to them by Minister Hong of the Ministry of Welfare, the two of them flew in a Pegasus carriage for dozens of minutes. , arrived at the 10th floor.

The two rested for a night in the renovated Goddess Sanctuary, and then officially entered the fungus swamp area.

"After [Cicada Monkey] is [Giant Tree], and after [Giant Tree] is [Fungi]..."

Lin Huai'en looked at the Changying dungeon area manual in his hand and sighed: "Behind the [Fungus Swamp] is the [Poison Garden]. Starting from the 11th floor, the natural dungeon becomes more difficult."

Tanya, like Lin Huaien, wore a thick scarf and windproof glasses, nodded and said nothing.

The environment of the fungus swamp is very humid, and the ground is covered with large sections of dead wood. Between the dead wood and dead wood, you can see some hot spring ponds filled with acidic gas from time to time, which are constantly releasing light green water. water vapor.

Based on the advice of other explorers, Lin Huaien and Tanya did not use the gas masks in their backpacks at the first time. Instead, they prepared three scarves and two windproof glasses.

Less than half an hour after walking with a scarf around my face, the scarf became damp and sticky.

And separated by three thick layers of fabric, a thick layer of spores of different colors has accumulated outside the scarf at the mouth and nose.

On both sides of the road, wherever the two of them walked, they could see various giant fungi that were crawling slowly or blooming like flower buds.

Slime mold, pinococcus, dendrobium, mold, devil's umbrella...

In the fungus swamp, no living monsters can be seen, only endless fungi and layers of monster corpses under the fungi.

"The "abnormal bodies" on this level should be fungus-like creatures."

Lin Huai'en looked at the corpse of the monster that looked like a tree spirit on the ground and couldn't help but speculate: "But I didn't expect that this "abnormal body" could even kill the monsters in the dungeon."

This reminded him of the cicada-eating ants that feed on giant cicada monkeys.

However, the fungus swamp is a less aggressive underground city. The various fungi that flourish in it rely heavily on the hot, humid and hot spring terrain with a large number of dead trees in the fungus swamp. Therefore, although the explorers have a headache from fungi, This is a very harsh environment in the swamp, but there is currently no good solution.

The few teams of explorers who tried to challenge the fungus swamp gave up after growing a lot of mushrooms all over their bodies.

"Is this a dungeon that cannot be conquered by explorers? Perhaps the only solution is to completely destroy this hot spring environment, but in this case, this dungeon will be completely destroyed."

Lin Huai'en looked at the information given to him by the Minister of Control, and had a deeper understanding of the work of the Underground City Association: "The fungus swamp is rich in various rare species of bacteria, many of which have practical, industrial and medical functions. Fungus, so rather than destroying it completely, it is better to maintain the status quo and allow explorers, dungeons, and "deviants" to form a balance in the natural confrontation."

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at the tuberose pendant on his body: "Is it just like me and Ziyuan..."

Neither Lin Huai'en nor Tanya were professional fungi experts, so they did not follow the recommendations in the Wilderness House and use local materials to cook a pot of fungus soup using precious ingredients such as gallinobacteria and porcini mushrooms. In the endless fungal swamp, the two people felt only endless heat, humidity, boredom and difficulty breathing.

When the humidity in the fungus swamp is at its highest, the ambient humidity can exceed 95%, making it difficult to breathe even if you take a breath, let alone with a thick scarf covering your face.

When Lin Huai'en escaped from the fungus swamp on the 15th floor, his whole body seemed to be soaked in water. He coughed, and all the water came out of his lungs.

For ordinary people whose internal organs are not tough enough, the last 16 hours of rapid march alone would make them suffocate.

And Tanya was not much better. Her visceral tolerance was even lower than Lin Wynn's, and she had to use a gas mask in the end.

After unscrewing the filter bottle of the gas mask that was completely saturated with water, Lin Huai'en looked at the beautiful garden in front of him and couldn't help but sigh again.

Starting from the 16th to 20th floors, Changying Dungeon enters the even more terrifying [Poison Garden]. Any plant here contains enough toxicity to kill several elephants.

What's even more terrifying is that you don't need to touch or eat these plants. There are many plants in them that can be poisonous just by breathing in the aroma.

But like the fungus swamp, the poisonous garden is also a rare material dungeon where the camp often cooperates. Various high concentrations of biological toxicity in it can be used to make medicines.

However, unlike the fungus swamp, if the explorers can still destroy the fungus swamp if they think of ways, then most of the poisonous forest dare not even move——

Once a fire is lit in the Poison Garden, the entire space from the 20th underground floor to the 1st underground floor will be shrouded in a large amount of toxic smoke. From large monsters to ordinary explorers, everyone will die.

But like the Forest of Giant Trees and the Fungus Swamp, it is not easy to light a fire in the Poison Garden.

Not to mention the various poisonous dungeon monsters, it also rains from time to time in the Poison Garden.

The poisonous garden when it rains is the only time when explorers can pass through relatively safely - whether it is the venom of the plants or the permeating fragrance, they will be suppressed by the heavy rain that falls from nowhere.

But when it rains, the number of monsters in the poisonous garden will also increase. Various cannibals and lizardmen who are usually afraid of the poisonous plants will rush out of the garden and attack the explorers brandishing weapons made of thorny roses. Launch an attack.

Each heavy rain will only last for an hour and a half. If you can't reach the next shelter in time before the rain stops, you will be entangled by the man-eating monsters and die of toxins.

At this time, the cannibals living in the poisonous garden, whose poison resistance is slightly stronger than ordinary explorers, will drag the explorer's body and disappear deep into the garden.

Fortunately, they only eat corpses and do not take equipment, so passing explorers can often pick up passes for certain group-killing explorers in the Poison Garden, and hand them over to the [Border Guard] on the 20th floor, [Border Guard] The guards will investigate the team's destruction based on the pass. If it is confirmed that someone's pass has been lost or taken away by a man-eating monster, the dungeon rescue team will be dispatched to rescue them.

Along the way, Lin Huai'en and Tanya encountered three such team-killing teams. They collected almost 16 Explorer Passes and handed them over to the [Border Guard] at the dungeon customs, receiving 48,000 contribution points.

One person’s contribution value is almost 3,000 points, which is quite good.

In the Poison Garden, there is a dedicated team of explorers, equipped with poison resistance equipment, who pick up corpses everywhere, and occasionally others pick up corpses.

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"Thank you for your hard work."

The explorer, who was wearing the yellow identity badge of the Control Department, nodded to Lin Huaien and the others. Looking at the purple pass around his neck, Lin Huaien judged that he should be the same as Minister Shi of the Corrections Department, who had no hope of entering the deep underground. Zika explorer of the city.

And there are many such explorers in the underground city.

Like the corpse collectors in the Poison Garden, they found their new identities and new positions in the underground city.

They didn't target deep dungeons, maybe because they couldn't do it, or maybe they didn't think it was necessary.

They are essentially no different from the corporate hyenas.

Whether they are in the surface society or the underground city, whether they are explorers or ordinary people, what they choose is only "lifestyle".

The customs director of the Shangcheng Underground City Association is sitting behind a wooden desk that has a dungeon-like atmosphere. The wild mushroom soup with a rich aroma was boiling in the firepit next to it. I was looking through the association information that Lin Huai'en had brought over for Minister Xiao.

Lin Huai'en didn't know how the Commissioner felt about such a life, but he could feel a sense of detachment that was both transcendent from the world and yet integrated into the world.

"You should also drink some of the freshly cooked wild mushroom soup."

At this moment, the wife of the customs director also walked in. She had a big belly and a blue dungeon pass hanging on her thick cotton-padded jacket-like clothes.

"Thanks."

Lin Huai'en felt the suddenly strong atmosphere of the dungeon, took the soup bowl handed over by Mrs. Guan, and took a sip.

The flavor was so fragrant that it made his taste buds explode, mixed with the light aroma of meat and the mellow taste of fat, which suddenly spread in his mouth.

He was a little dazed for a moment, but when he came back to his senses, he suddenly realized why the Fat Knight was willing to become an explorer just because he just wanted to eat fresh ingredients from the dungeon.

"This... is indeed a delicacy that cannot be eaten on the ground."

Lin Huai'en looked at the "not many" mushrooms and meat slices in the soup bowl, and suddenly regretted why he didn't take the risk of poisoning and cook more wild mushroom soup in the fungus forest.

However, seeing Lin Huai'en finish the soup bowl in one go, Mrs. Guan Chang was not too surprised and helped Lin Huai'en fill another bowl: "Don't worry, these things are not rare here - if you If necessary, you can exchange dried meat and other ground foods with the [Border Guard]. As experienced explorers, the edible wild mushrooms we find are much safer than what you find yourself."

"Thanks for reminding."

Lin Huai'en finished his second bowl and was too embarrassed to have another one. Just at this moment, the customs commissioner also looked up after reading the information Lin Huai'en gave him.

"So, you two are planning to head to Siberia at this time?"

In order to avoid misremembering, he also looked at the calendar on the wall - in the underground city customs where water and electricity were scarce, any electrical appliance could be considered a luxury.

"Yes, the specific circumstances should be mentioned on the 'Pass Certificate'."

Lin Huaien nodded and replied.

"Okay, I don't know what Director Xiao is thinking, but she is my immediate boss, and your internal evaluation is fine. I'll give you both a signature, and you can leave at any time."

As the customs director spoke, he lowered his head and signed his name on the two pass certificates.

It seemed that he didn't have much interaction with the Moscow Association, so he waved his hand and asked Lin Huaien and the others to leave.

There is a related explorer guest house at the customs headquarters, but in addition to sleeping, you have to prepare your own meals and meals.

"After all, this is a dungeon where supplies are scarce..."

Lin Huaien looked at the guest house that was almost full and shook his head.

There are not many high-level explorers in the Changying dungeon, but there are at least a few hundred people who pass through the customs headquarters every day.

With so many people coming and going every day, material consumption is indeed a problem.

But fortunately, Minister Hong reminded him that before coming down, prepare a good Jinhua ham and give it to the chef in the customs canteen (who is also a blue card explorer), and he can eat for free at least ten times.

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Although the underground city customs in Shangdu and Moscow are both on the 20th floor, their locations are not close.

Strictly speaking, the 20th floor of Changying Underground City and the 20th floor of Kadechang Underground City are connected together, and this is why the wife of the Customs Commissioner just came out of the warm poisonous garden on the 19th floor. Already put on a thick cotton-padded jacket.

Even across such a long distance, the cold air of Kadchan Underground City still affected Changying Customs. One can imagine the cold air of the real Kadchan Underground City.

But in order to prevent illegal immigration, even though it is known that the closer you get to Kadchan Underground City, the colder it will be, Moscow’s underground city customs is still built at the exit of the 19th floor of Kadchan Underground City.

"Only stone and ice..."

Leaving the noisy but warm Changying Customs, Lin Huai'en immediately felt a different kind of coldness.

The Moscow Customs House, built with huge stones and ice sculptures, is like a giant standing on the ice sheet, silent but still majestic.

"No entry without permission."

Two explorers over 2.5 meters tall stopped in front of Lin Huaien and Tanya.

They held steel forks made of cold iron in their hands. Their hands were rough, thick, and exposed, but they were not afraid of the biting cold of the ice forks.

[Icefield Half-Giant Transformation]...

Looking at the two tall men in front of him, Lin Huaien nodded secretly, took a step back, and gave up the front position to Tanya.

Watching Tanya talking to the two ice giants, he suddenly realized a problem——

"My phone may not have enough battery."

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In the ice cave-like dormitory of Kadchan Customs, Lin Huaien found Tanya, who lived next door, and told her a very serious problem with a serious face: "The entire Siberian winter is likely to last more than three months. Months, the charger I carry won’t last that long.”

The mobile power station he prepared before was prepared according to regular dungeon exploration, and was enough to last him four months.

But now, in order to communicate with Tanya, he turns on the translation function of his mobile phone almost every day. If he continues to consume like this, all the power will be consumed in less than half a month.

What’s even more frightening is that he can’t find a good way to charge the battery on the Siberian tundra.

"...I can only speak as little as possible."

Tanya listened to Lin Huaien's explanation with a calm expression.

The communication between her and Lin Huai'en was very few.

The fighting styles of the two are that one is extremely forward and the other is extremely long-range. When they work together, they can do their own thing.

In her opinion, there is nothing wrong with them not communicating at all.

Even on the cold ice field, this kind of silence will make the atmosphere between the two people seem even more lonely.