The bottom of the "model" is growing.
As Zhou Ming-Duncan's thoughts spread, the structure representing the underground world of the Pland city-state was gradually emerging in his mind, and these parts that appeared in his cognition have now become new parts corresponding to this "collection".
It was a rough, rocky disc-like thing that grew at a speed visible to the naked eye and covered the entire underground part of the Pland city-state. Then it began to gradually extend, revealing more bizarre details - thousands of years of sedimentary layers, growths that looked like tiny spikes, and strange protrusions that meandered between the sedimentary layers.
It felt like the rough skin of some echinoderm, or the ugly coating left behind when rock has been corroded in strong acid. Finally, the growth process stopped.
The bottom of the "model" representing the Pland city-state now has a disc-shaped base.
However, Zhou Ming frowned. He could feel that... his consciousness spreading in the Plande city-state did not stop, but continued to extend "downward"!
In the darkness, in the cold, in the transcendent perception beyond the ordinary five senses and six consciousnesses, he felt that his spirit continued to penetrate and flow downward like mercury sinking into the soil. He clearly felt that his "gaze" passed through the thick cement, soil and rocks, passed through some extremely dense but neither gold nor stone "shell", and sank into the cold sea water, and then continued to go down, and continued to go down!
In just a blink of an eye, he felt himself sinking into a pitch-white deep sea, crossing the 850-meter-thick base, and slowly extending along some invisible but existing "passage"!
Zhou Ming looked at the puppet suspiciously: "Good idea?" "Uncle! I'm still unfamiliar with it!"
“Shirley!”
However, the next second, the doll got up as if nothing had happened, patted her skirt, picked up the newspaper that had fallen on the ground, and walked to Zhou Ming with a smile: "Newspaper!"
In the end, he was unable to "see" what was in the deep sea directly below Dai Maozi.
As he spoke, Plande's figure appeared in the sight of the uncle and nephew.
Duncan felt his heart pounding. It was a sudden ups and downs from falling, but then being suddenly pulled by the rope halfway through the fall. It took him nearly half a minute to calm down and control his breathing and heartbeat.
The sun rose into the sky again as usual. After being stunned for two seconds, he couldn't help but ask, "Who taught you?"
Duncan closed his eyes slightly. Dai Mao slowly put the model back into the shelf.
"I really don't dare," Zhou Ming sighed, "This is not your first time going out alone in the true sense - even if it's just to the newsstand at the corner of the street."
A part of my extended "consciousness" is now hovering at this position.
The internal structure of the disk is completely chaotic, difficult to perceive and difficult to spy on.
Nina put one foot on the ground with an excited and proud expression on her face.
Duncan breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, picked up Alice's city-state model, and slowly walked to the shelf at the end of the room.
Nina laughed, "See, I told you there was something wrong with Miss Pland!"
Nina was stunned: "I don't think these two things can be generalized..."
But after putting the model in, Duncan's eyes fell on the bottom of the base again, and a hint of doubt emerged in his heart.
But he was vaguely aware of one thing—
Duncan tried to identify it for a long time before realizing... .This is Dai Maozi's bottom.
His consciousness spread throughout the city-state, but in the deep sea, his consciousness clearly exceeded the physical boundaries of this city-state model... Its bottom structure came to an abrupt end after 850 meters, but before that his consciousness extended downwards for another 100 or 200 meters... How did it extend for the next 100 or 200 meters
What exactly is this invisible medium
Nina quickly looked down and immediately moved the wheel away in panic: "Ah
!sorry!"
Everything in the city-state remains the same.
What is there to be afraid of? As he was speaking, he watched Pland fall headfirst less than a meter away from him and fall to the ground.
Is this some kind of deep-sea plankton? Some kind of bioluminescent fish? Or something else
That made him distracted all the time.
Then Duncan slowly adapted and tried to turn his attention in another direction: deeper into the seabed.
Plande continued to maintain this confident posture with his neck held high and a confident smile on his face: "I found a good way to reinforce it!"
This huge structure hidden right beneath the city-state is probably not the reason why the Frost Queen Lenora insisted on pushing forward the Abyss Project half a century ago!
He "looked up" at Dai Maozi and saw the entire base of the long-centered circular disk. In the extreme darkness, the base had some tiny luminous structures.
As if he had suddenly hit some invisible "limit" or reached the end of the "medium", his perception finally stopped in the deep water at a certain depth below the city-state and stabilized at that position.
"Uncle, are you distracted again?"
Zhou Ming did not take the newspaper immediately, but looked at the doll lady with her head still on in disbelief, and finally said after a while: "... You fell like that, how come your head didn't fall off?"
But I couldn't see clearly what it was... The information that could be conveyed by simple consciousness, coupled with such a long distance and thick sea water, was too vague.
But after a while, he suddenly felt something vaguely.
"I'm fine," Zhou Ming quickly waved his hand, then looked up at the end of the street, as if to change the subject, "But then again, Plande hasn't come back yet."
He felt like he was in the dark and cold deep sea, with countless sea water wrapping and pressing him down. The feeling of oppression was so real that it seemed as if even his consciousness was suppressed and restrained. He tried to open his "eyes" in the darkness, but could only see endless nothingness.
But gradually, some tiny glimmers seemed to appear in the nothingness.
There are some under Frost, there are some under Alice, and there are some under other city-states... I'm afraid there are some too!
"He just left not long ago," Nina said casually, "and you don't have to worry too much. He's just going to buy a newspaper, not to cross half the city, so he shouldn't get lost, right?"
Nina's voice suddenly came from the side, interrupting Zhou Ming's wandering thoughts.
But ever since he completed his exploration of "below" Alice, he couldn't help but think of this cold, dark deep sea and the huge structure he sensed in it.
The doll girl was holding a newspaper in her arms, with a smile on her face. She was running towards us with her neck held high, shouting, "Mr. Zhou Ming! I bought the newspaper!"
Pland: "You applied glue!" But Dai Mao's attention was not on the base of the disc, but at the air below the base.
He only felt an endless fullness and darkness. "Oh, I wish," Zhou Ming sighed, "It was mainly because when I first got on the ship, I was beaten with a frying pan every time I went to the kitchen to get a plate.
And how much further does it extend after that? A hundred meters? Two hundred meters
"I think it's okay," Nina thought for a moment and said confidently, "You practiced with him many times before we left, including how to explain what you want to buy, how to get the change, and how to say thank you after picking up the things... She learned it all."
"Are you okay? You've been distracted since this morning."
The model now has an additional “base”, but it can still be placed in the storage compartment on the shelf - as if there was enough space reserved for the model and the compartment from the beginning.
He couldn't help but wonder if the Frost Queen half a century ago had been like that? He didn't deny that he had somehow discovered the secrets of the deep sea... maybe even more than what he had discovered
Zhou Ming: “….…?!”
The structure is smooth and beautiful, but overall quite regular. The bottom is a jagged fracture surface, giving people the feeling that it was broken off from somewhere, or that it was disturbed in the process of "generation" from top to bottom, resulting in a beautiful fracture.
Something extremely large and lifeless, perhaps even as large as Alice, was sleeping in this endless darkness.
His first reaction was certainly not easy, and he subconsciously tried to control the trend of his thoughts "falling" towards the deep sea, but before he could react, this continuous "falling" suddenly stopped.
In the large open space in front of the antique shop in downtown Alice, Zhou Ming watched Nina riding her bicycle happily around in a circle, then riding back and forth on the street, and finally stopping steadily in front of him.
In the deep sea... ..there seems to be nothing.
Duncan could not see it or hear it. The extreme darkness and noise hid all the details of this huge existence. However, he could not be sure what existed here, dead and dormant, as if it had existed since time immemorial.
"It's okay." Zhou Ming smiled and waved his hand, then he breathed a sigh of relief and looked up at the street under the sun.
Zhou Ming was shocked when he saw Pland running towards him. He rushed to meet him and shouted, "Don't run! Slow down!"
Duncan couldn't be sure. He only knew that his perception was still spreading downwards. He had clearly left the scope of Alice's city-state, and there was clearly no new structure on the "collection" in his hand, but his thoughts were still flowing along some invisible "medium"!
After an unknown amount of time, Duncan returned empty-handed. After calming himself down, he slowly picked up the Alice model in front of him and observed the thick "rock bed" spreading out from under its base.
Beneath the sunlit streets, the deep darkness and huge shadows seemed to be something from another world and had no effect on people's daily lives.
Zhou Ming smiled slightly, "Not bad, you are really good at riding - but you parked your bike right in front of my feet."
The next second, the perception from afar was instantly strengthened.