Fire falls from heaven.
The earth fell.
Destruction spreads with fire.
Buildings collapsed and people were displaced.
The warriors fell with their armors, the knights and dragons shed blood, and the kingdom fell apart.
Wails and screams echoed in every corner of the city.
The huge sky warship blocked the clouds and sun, cut through the atmosphere, and descended on the planet unstoppably.
The extraterrestrial visitors were extremely powerful and slaughtered them wantonly.
The race declined, and the blood dyed the earth red.
"That's all the history I know."
Crystal answered truthfully.
"Are you sure this is not the plot of Avatar?" Lu Wen's expression was a little strange.
In this story, even armored dinosaurs and dragon knights appear.
With this oxygen concentration, could there really be dinosaurs
"No, this is real."
Christo's little face was full of seriousness.
She said this was passed down from generation to generation.
In the underground world, if you ask anyone at random, no matter what race, even if they are robots, they can clearly tell about this cruel historical period.
These bloody stories have been passed down orally for hundreds of years and are known to everyone.
Hundreds of years ago, they were the masters of the surface world.
All races have friendly exchanges and harmonious exchanges. There are very few wars. Even small-scale disputes are mostly settled through the mediation of the principals of both parties.
At that time, technology was prosperous, the number of creatures was huge, and the whole world was full of peace and vitality.
There are no polluted areas or uninhabited areas on the ground.
Verdant vegetation covers the earth.
The green water is full of green water, and the vines are wrapped around each other.
If nothing else happens, the world should still be like this until now.
But just over 400 years ago.
Countless huge star warships spanned millions of galaxies, floating on the surface of the planet with the intention of invading, and huge shadows covered the sky above the kingdom.
Those extraterrestrial visitors are heavily armed and have powerful firepower.
It was a one-sided massacre.
Their technology at the time was simply unable to resist this race that could cross the galaxy.
When those powerful enemies in the sky took off their masks, they discovered that the so-called extraterrestrial visitors were also humans, pure humans, one of the races on this planet.
Then all races began to fight tenaciously.
That's a long history.
They held high the broken royal flag and let their blood and tears become the accelerant of the flames.
Countless people died generously for the survival of their race.
The unyielding song resounded throughout the world.
But they were ultimately defeated and had to hide in the underground world, which was not yet fully developed at the time, and blocked all entrances and exits until today.
"Isn't this... the failed version of Avatar Rebellion?"
Lu Wen found it a bit funny.
But looking at the seriousness written all over Christo's little face, he didn't find it easy to laugh out loud.
Fake.
This is obviously fabricated history.
If humans on the ground really had such powerful power and could travel through the universe, they wouldn't be reduced to what they are now, where even androids can't handle it.
How powerful a civilization must be to cross the starry sky and possess a mothership
Although many novels and film and television works have described it with great fanfare, in reality, this kind of civilization is almost impossible to exist.
If it were such a powerful civilization, there would be no suspense at all in fighting the race war that Christo talks about, let alone the so-called resistance and generous death. It would only take a very short time to sweep everything away.
Not to mention escaping underground, even if you escape to another planet, there is no way to survive.
"The extraterrestrial kingdom comes to this planet."
This is called Kingdom Come.
A word that represents destruction and despair.
So later, the underground races who were striving for strength took these four words as a plan to counterattack the surface.
"Eighty years ago, right after the war, there were only over 200 million scattered humans left on the ground. Why didn't you counterattack at that time?"
"Because at that time humans on the ground still had weapons of mass destruction."
"So for all these years, you have been waiting for the humans on the ground to become weak instead of actively seeking ways to become stronger?"
"this… "
Crystal couldn't explain why for a moment.
That seems to be the case.
She is just a little girl living in a mixed zone. She has no influence on the overall situation and cannot understand how the underground has developed over the years. Everything she knows is what she heard from others.
"Do you know the history of the ground?"
"have no idea."
"No one taught you?"
"This is a mixed zone, there are no schools here."
Lu Wen nodded slightly.
He tapped the table lightly, pondered for a while and then said: "The history of the surface world is very clear, from primitive to farming, from slaves to feudalism... mixed with the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, and then world wars, each war will cause countless casualties. , then prosperity again, and war again.”
"These are fake. They were made up by the intruders to deceive you." Christo said anxiously.
"You think so?"
"They are worried that their children and grandchildren will not be able to live peacefully in this bloody soil, so they fabricate false histories so that future generations can feel at ease."
"What if the history here is fake?"
This argument is obviously useless.
Lu Wen already got the answer he needed.
The residents of this world hate the humans on the surface.
They look forward to the day when the underground world can fight back and take back their home, just like the Kingdom of Heaven came back then.
Lu Wen slowly put away the short knife on the table and said calmly: "From what I have observed so far, it will probably take hundreds of years for you to counterattack the ground."
"Where I live is just a mixed zone, with the poorest soil. The real rich and capable people are outside the mixed zone."
"The mixed area is called this because all races are mixed together?"
"Yes."
Through the conversation with Christo, Lu Wen gradually understood the divisions of this world.
There are nine races in this world, and blue people are one of them.
Others are the dwarves, giants, modified people, etc. that Lu Wen saw on the street.
The pure human race is the smallest in number, but the most respected, and controls the lifeblood of technology and economy.
[Terrace World]
This is the whole world in a nutshell.
The mixed zone is at the bottom, a mixture of all races. It is barren and backward, chaotic and without law and order.
Maintaining order depends entirely on consciousness.
For example, Lu Wen had learned before that fighting would not hurt passers-by and would not affect other people's business.
The middle world consists of eight other races except the pure human race.
At the top are the three companies and the pure human race.
There is no parliament in this world.
Three companies control everything.
The controllers of two of these three companies are purely human, while the other one is unknown.
Lu Wen asked again: "Blue people are born with defects?"
"Except for pure humans, all other races have flaws."
"I see a lot of blue people coughing, and so does your mother."
"Yes, we need genetic drugs to maintain life. Without genetic drugs, our lungs will first begin to fail, followed by other body organs, and finally die slowly."
This is a very painful death process.
But genetic drugs are expensive.
Mixed areas are like slums on the ground. Many blue people here cannot afford the high fees and can only die slowly in pain.
Death can be as quick as a few months, or may take several years.
Some people can't bear it and will find ways to end their lives early.
“How often do I need to inject genetic medicine?”
"A month."
"How much does it cost each time?"
"one thousand."
"One thousand per person?"
"Um."
Lu Wen learned.
In addition to blue people, other races, such as dwarves, deformed people, giants, etc., also require certain individuals to be injected with genetic drugs to survive.
But blue people are needed by the entire race.
You don't need it when you are young, but as you grow older, around the age of seventeen or eighteen, when you are approaching adulthood, this disease will begin to show up slowly.
Whenever a blue person starts to feel like he or she is having trouble breathing or coughing, he or she knows that he, too, needs a shot.
"How much can you make in a month by setting up a stall?"
"not much."
Christo said that he could barely make ends meet, but he didn’t have enough money for genetic medicine.
She hadn't begun to need the medicine herself.
But her mother hasn't had a shot in two months.
The business of selling fruit depends on the location. Lu Wen remembers the fruit seller who set up a stall at the entrance of Xia Chuluo Community. He earned a house in the city in five years, much more than many young people who work early and work late.
Of course, doing business is not suitable for everyone. Some people will gain, while others will lose.
"Where's your father?"
"died."
Life is fragile everywhere.
If blue people want to survive, money is a problem that must be solved.
If there is a family of three and the children are adults, the cost of genetic medicine will be as high as 3,000 per month.
In a place like the mixed zone.
A few hundred yuan is enough for a month's living.
It is not easy to earn three thousand a month through normal means.
But the underground world is full of variables.
There are many unusual methods here.
Such as drug experiments.
[Yao Ling]
[Bright Moon]
[Stars]
This is the name of those three companies.
It is these three companies that are printed on banknotes.
They regularly recruit experimenters to conduct drug experiments, and most of the people who sign up are residents of the mixed zone.
These residents are short of money and willing to risk their lives.
Normally there is no danger.
The probability of something happening is only one in ten, and many people firmly believe that they are one of those nine out of ten.
In most cases, you will only feel uncomfortable for a few days, or have some side effects, such as fever, rash, nausea, etc., which will get better soon.
The money given for these experiments can range from a few thousand to more than 100,000.
Generally speaking.
The more you give, the higher the risk.
Crystal's father made several fortunes through Star's drug experiments.
Christophe was still very young at that time.
In her memory, her father went out as usual that day, saying that he would be back with money in a few days.
But the middle-aged man didn't come back.
a week later.
What came back was only a box of ashes and 20,000 yuan.
(End of chapter)