This express passage to and from the underground world is truly shocking!
He had thought they were just going to find a way to get back above ground, but now it seemed...
seem…
Is it to open a two-way channel? !
this…
Xu Xin's expression became slightly serious.
This means that after this channel is opened, it will always exist, and they can travel to and from the underground world through this channel.
But this brings up a problem.
Are they, the survivors, the only ones who can travel to and from the underground world through this passage
Or maybe creatures from the underground world... are also acceptable
Is this an open channel or a channel controlled by them
If it was an open passage, they would probably be in big trouble even if they got out.
but…
A hint of helplessness flashed across Xu Xin's eyes.
There is nothing we can do about this.
Even if it's an open passage, they have to open it.
Otherwise, the activity could not be completed, and the six of them would... "leave this beautiful world forever."
Just save your life first.
"So, what did you see?" Wen Guixin asked curiously when she saw Xu Xin's interesting expression.
"… this key…"
Xu Xin told them what he had seen.
"Branches of vines?" The people around immediately thought of the six vines that brought them to this underground world.
"We're talking about those bundles of vines outside. There are six keys in total, and there are also six branch prisons. The number matches exactly." Wen Guixin said immediately.
"That should be it." Xu Xin nodded. "The vines are branching out, so they must be those few."
"Wait a minute," Zhao Xiaochuan looked at the key in Xu Xin's hand, a little confused: "What do you mean, a vine branch prison? The location can't be..."
"It's where the six vine branches connect to the ground!" Lou Feier reacted and exclaimed, then her face turned bitter, "No way!
So should I go back..."
Thinking about her experience on the way here, she felt sick.
"If there are six keys in total, are the other five also in this warehouse?" Wang Lei looked around.
"Let's find the six keys first. By the way, you must have found a lot of good stuff, right?" Wen Guixin tossed a piece of ore in her hand and said with a smile, "Xu Xin, is this one in my hand also gold-grade?"
The piece of metal ore in her hand was indeed emitting golden light.
"Yes, it is indeed gold grade." Xu Xin nodded, not only looked at the two people a little longer, but also suppressed his curiosity and said, "Okay, let's just put all the other things into the backpack and find the other five keys first. This place is not safe, so it's better to find what we really need as soon as possible."
Especially those stone statues, no one knows whether they will suddenly move, so it is best to find the keys they need as soon as possible.
"good."
"Split up!"
Now everyone had found their direction and immediately scattered to look for possible keys on the shelves.
"Bing!"
Before Xu Xin started looking, Ke Ke suddenly emerged from the group of stone statues and grabbed Xu Xin's leg.
Then he turned around and ran two steps, looking back at Xu Xin: "Bing!"
Is this to let yourself catch up
Could it be that Coco also found something
He immediately followed Coco and came to a shelf.
"嘤!" Coco climbed to the top of the shelf in two steps, then with a push of her little paw, a key fell down.
Xu Xin immediately reached out to take it.
Sure enough, this is the second vine bundle key!
"Well done Coco!" Xu Xin immediately rubbed Coco's little head who jumped down from the shelf.
"Hmm!" Coco raised her head and continued to lead the way.
This little guy has been missing for so long, could he have found the keys
He immediately continued to follow Coco and soon arrived at a corner of the warehouse.
There were no shelves in this corner, but the ground was covered with large sacks that were bulging with information. No one knew what was inside them.
The sacks themselves were very ordinary green-level sacks, but from the openings of some sacks that were not tied tightly, as well as from the gaps of some sacks that were damaged, purple light was revealed.
"嘤!" Coco crawled into the pile of sacks and pushed a large bag among them.
Xu Xin immediately stepped in and picked up the big sack that Coco pointed to.
Wow, it’s quite heavy!
Growth Feed (Purple): Feed that can make young organisms grow rapidly into adults, but its relative lifespan will also be shortened. Use with caution on non-mutated organisms.
Good job!
This is…
Feed that can accelerate the growth of mutant organisms!
Everything in this warehouse seems to be related to the breeding and raising of mutant creatures!
This is good stuff, just put it all away!
"嘤!" Coco crawled directly into the gap revealed when the sack was lifted up, and poked out her little head two seconds later.
At this moment, it was holding a large key emitting golden light in its mouth.
Wow, it found it again!
Xu Xin immediately put the key away and asked, "Keke, have you found any other keys?"
"嘤!" Coco nodded her little head, then jumped out of the pile of sacks, wanting to take Xu Xin with her to look for it.
"Wait." Xu Xin stopped Coco.
"Hmm?" Coco turned around and tilted her little head.
Xu Xin turned the bracelet and released the treasure chest monster.
Since there is a treasure chest monster here, he doesn't need to go through the trouble of collecting these things.
"Please swallow all these things and keep them in your stomach. Be careful."
The lid of the treasure chest monster clicked twice, then it opened its bloody mouth and countless vines sprang out.
Xu Xin followed Keke and continued walking, while shouting to the others, "Keke, can you find the key? We have found the third one. Give us the key. Everyone, please try to collect the things on the shelf!"
"Oh, that's great!"
"Fuck, is that Brother Xin's treasure chest monster? It looks so cool!"
"Hurry up and collect your things. Who knows if these statues will suddenly wake up?"
No one else was surprised by the magical little panda raised by Xu Xin.
Soon, Coco took Xu Xin through the group of stone statues, coming to one location after another, and from various nooks and crannies, they dug out a golden key.
I have to say, these locations are really hard to find. Basically, unless you put away all the resources, you can't find them at all.
The treasure chest monster was also very efficient. After quickly eating the pile of feed and keeping it, it kept following Xu Xin. Basically, all the resources wherever he passed were sucked into its stomach.
Along the way, he also saw a lot of resources.
In addition to the mutant biological agents, growth feeds, and metal bombs he had seen before, he also saw a kind of metal ore.
These metal ores come in blue, purple and gold grades.
The ore that Wen Guixin just threw in his hand, is this it
He picked up a piece of gold-grade ore.
Meteorite Ore (Gold): A type of extraterrestrial iron that came into this world fifty years ago along with dozens of meteorites. It is extremely difficult to smelt.
There was no excessive introduction, but Xu Xin was already slightly surprised.
Was it the mineral brought to this planet by a meteorite that fell fifty years ago
Fifty years ago, this timing was a bit tricky.
It must be related to the catastrophe that destroyed this world!
and…
This golden-grade meteorite is most likely the metal that makes up this prison and the previous iron rooms!
Is smelting extremely difficult
It seems that the furnace of an ordinary survivor is definitely not able to smelt this kind of ore.
I don’t know if Li Wenxi’s special furnace can smelt it.
Xu Xin immediately asked the treasure chest monster to collect all the ores, and then continued to follow Coco to find the key.
"Bing!"
When Coco took out a golden key from behind the shelf that Xu Xin had moved away, Xu Xin finally found all six keys.
So he gathered everyone at the entrance of the warehouse.
"I have found all six keys, and I also have a clear idea of which branch of the vine each key corresponds to."
During his introduction, the locations of the vine branch prisons that these keys could open became clear.
The first key is used to open the northern vine branch prison.
The remaining five correspond to the south, southeast, northeast, southwest and northwest.
Combined with his map skills, he can easily identify directions even in the underground world.
All the keys and vine bundles also corresponded one by one.
"In other words, do we really have to go back to the starting point?" Zhao Xiaochuan asked.
"That should be it." Wen Guixin nodded. "After all, only there are six branch vines touching the ground, which is very similar to this side. Moreover, only at the starting point can we touch the branch vines."
"So that means that everyone of us needs to take the key and act separately?" Wang Lei asked somewhat depressedly.
"It's not impossible for us to act together, but... if that's the case, we may not be able to guarantee that we can complete the activity within the time limit." Xu Xin raised his hand and glanced at the time on his watch.
At this point, nearly twelve hours had passed since the event began, halfway through the time.
They have wasted too much time in this underground prison.
and…
Ji Chaoyang hasn't shown up yet. I really don't know where he has gone.
If he doesn't show up, someone will need to go over to his side.
Besides him, Lou Fei'er is also a problem.
At this time, Lou Feier spoke up: "But, I really looked carefully at that room, and there was no place to insert the key. I stayed in that room for nearly two hours and basically felt around. I can basically guarantee that there is no mechanism in it."
Her face looked a little bad at this moment.
The thought of going back the same way overwhelmed her.
"But judging from the direction of the key, we should be back to the starting point." Wen Guixin thought there was no problem. "Maybe it's not in that room, but near the vine bundle? You haven't explored the area."
"Then... indeed not." Lou Feier said helplessly.
She couldn't find out either, because as soon as she came out, she ran away like the wind.
But when she thought about going back to her original starting point and her previous experiences, she simply didn't have the courage to go back.
So she looked at Xu Xin pitifully.
Xu Xin understood what she meant. She wanted him to put her into the bracelet and just be a bystander.
However, in order for the activity to be completed, perhaps she should not be left alone.
It was indeed too dangerous for her outside.
Moreover, according to the introduction of the key, all six vine bundle branch prisons must be opened before the mechanism of the main vine bundle can be activated and the mission can be completed.
If something really happened to her while holding the key, I'm afraid no one would be able to complete the activity.
But if she can't act on her own, someone else will be needed to open the two vine branch prisons.
No wonder…
No wonder when this activity started, the mysterious voice said that refusing to participate in the activity would have a certain negative impact on partners.
Xu Xin glanced at the warehouse.
In the entire warehouse, all the resources on the shelves were looted by this group of people.
The treasure chest monster must have started burping in the bracelet.
Fortunately, the group of stone statues in the warehouse did not move because of anger...
"There is nothing left in this underground warehouse. What have you found?" Xu Xin asked.
"Ha, there are so many things here!"
"Let me show you!"
Soon, Xu Xin discovered that the things he found were already all kinds of resources in this warehouse.
After all, Coco took him around the warehouse, so naturally he looked at everything in the warehouse.
However, in terms of quantity, these resources are astonishing.
The mutant potion he first discovered was obtained by several people, totaling hundreds of bottles!
A large bag of purple-grade growth feed weighs about 100 kilograms, and there are thousands of bags in total, which adds up to hundreds of tons!
If it weren’t for the treasure chest monster, I’m afraid even his bracelet and purple-level backpack wouldn’t be able to hold so much!
There are also metal bombs with petrifying effects, more than 800 small ones and nearly 100 large ones!
However, the amount of meteorite iron ore is the largest!
There are hundreds of gold-grade meteorite iron ores alone!
This is too outrageous!
Although he didn't know what the meteorite blocks smelted from these meteorite ores were used for, so many gold-grade metal ores still made them very excited.
"I don't know if Wen Xi can smelt this meteorite iron ore." Wen Guixin said, holding a piece of meteorite iron ore in her hand.
"Gold-grade ones should be enough," Wang Lei speculated, "blue-grade ones shouldn't be a problem, right? With blue-grade meteorite blocks, at least Brother Xin and Brother Chaoyang will know what this metal can do!"
"Indeed. But why hasn't Brother Chaoyang shown up yet? Where did he go?" Zhao Xiaochuan asked puzzledly.
"Who knows? That guy disappears all the time when he's on the ground." Wen Guixin shook her head helplessly, "There are six keys in total. If he doesn't come, why don't I open his side. His vine bundle is right next to me."
Everyone planned to return to the starting point where they came down.
Although it should not be necessary, after all, they have walked this road once, so it is safer to return by the original route.
"Let's think about this later. Since there's nothing else in the warehouse, let's leave it first and go up first." Xu Xin rubbed his temples and said in distress, "Didn't you notice? We haven't found a way out of this underground prison yet..."
"That's right!" Wang Lei clapped his hands, "Let's go up quickly and find a way out!"
"There's really no other way. We can only try to press the buttons in the control room." Wen Guixin said, "I hope nothing will happen. Let's go quickly."
All of them returned to the passage.
When we reached the end of the passage, everyone was dumbfounded.
"Eh... that gravity mechanism went up by itself?" Lou Fei'er immediately felt around at the end of the passage, then her eyes widened, "No way? Are we trapped in a prison?"
The five people looked at each other.
I thought Xu Xin, Lou Fei'er, and Zhao Xiaochuan came down in the normal way by riding the gravity mechanism, so they could return the same way, but I didn't expect...
They can't go back?!
"There should be other exits, right?" Lou Feier stood up and said.
"Is it in the warehouse?" Wang Lei turned around and looked inside the warehouse.
"Indeed, let's go back and look for it again. Maybe we can get out directly?" Zhao Xiaochuan said.
Although they couldn't get out, the people present didn't worry about anything.
After all, this warehouse can't just be a place where people can only go in but not out.
"Keke." Xu Xin patted Coco, who was drooping on his shoulder and seemed lost in the lake, to wake him up. "Have you found the exit of this warehouse?"
"…嘤?" Coco's ears moved twice before she slowly opened her eyes. She thought for a moment in confusion, "嘤!"
It jumped directly off Xu Xin's shoulder and ran towards the warehouse.
"Come on, let's follow Coco."
"Haha, Brother Xin's red panda is really strong!"
Everyone followed Coco and soon arrived in front of a shelf.
"嘤!" Coco pointed at the shelf and called out, then climbed onto the shelf and patted the back of the shelf with her little paws.
Xu Xin immediately understood what Coco meant and raised his eyebrows: "Move the shelf away!"
"I'll do it!"
Wang Lei immediately walked forward, grabbed the shelf and pulled it to the side, tearing it open.
And behind the shelf, sure enough, a new passage appeared!
"Found it! This is so easy! Coco is so strong!" Zhao Xiaochuan praised Coco.
"嘤!" Coco immediately raised her little head with a little pride, then climbed onto Xu Xin's shoulders in two moves.
Xu Xin took one last look inside the warehouse.
Those stone statues, giant insects and beasts have not reacted at all so far.
Apart from them, the only things left in the entire warehouse were empty shelves.
Although the shelves are gold-grade, they have no special functions. Moreover, they are made of special metals and are too heavy. The treasure chest monsters cannot swallow them and cannot take them away at all.
Although it's a bit of a pity, let's just leave them in this warehouse.
"Then let's go."
"Okay!"
"We are finally making progress!"
Several people walked into the passage.
Xu Xin was the last one to step in.
"Bang!"
The moment he stepped in, the entrance behind him suddenly closed!
"Oh shit!" Zhao Xiaochuan exclaimed immediately.
"What's going on? Are we locked up?" Wen Guixin was also a little alert.
“… Coco, did you take the wrong road?” Xu Xin asked Coco on his shoulder.
"Hmm!" Coco whined somewhat dissatisfiedly.
"Let's go. We can only keep moving forward. It shouldn't be a big problem." Xu Xin still believed in Coco.
Moreover, this is the only way to go.
After walking about ten meters in this passage, there are steps leading upwards.
"Start walking upwards! This is definitely the exit!" Zhao Xiaochuan, who was walking in front, said in surprise, and then quickened his pace.
"Be careful, there might be a trap!" Wen Guixin reminded from behind.
Several people walked up the stairs.
Soon, after turning a corner, they saw a bright light.
"Exit! It's the exit on the ground!"
Several people's eyes lit up and they were very happy.
Unexpectedly, this passage can actually lead directly to the ground!
They quickened their pace, and soon, five people came out of the passage.
"Ah! This is... the area around the vines! We really got up!" Zhao Xiaochuan, who was the first to come out, said in surprise.
The exit is just the area around the vine bundle that is not affected by the giant beast.
"Huh, luckily it's not somewhere else..." Lou Feier breathed a sigh of relief with some fear. She had been worried about this before coming up.
"Now that we're out, let's assign tasks." Xu Xin turned to look at the others, "Ji Chaoyang isn't here right now, so we can only..."
His words stopped abruptly.
Because he saw a person walking out from the gap in the vines.
“Fuck!”
"Brother Chaoyang?!"
"You guys finally came out..." Seeing them, Ji Chaoyang breathed a sigh of relief.
Xu Xin was also very surprised: "You are actually outside..."
His words came to an abrupt halt again.
Then his eyes suddenly widened.
Because, another person walked out from the gap behind Ji Chaoyang.
To be precise, it is a stone statue.
There was still a tired yet relieved smile on the face of the stone statue.
"Brother Xu Xin, it's been a long time since we last met."
Um?!
Long print!
Ji Chaoyang is actually with Chang Yin? !