“This is it.”
Li Wenxi raised his head and looked up into the sky.
"Right above here is the location of the metal mine I mentioned."
Beside her, Xu Ying and Wei Shishi looked up together.
Old man Wei Bai just received a call, and he didn’t know what it was about. His expression became a little serious and he hurried back.
Before leaving, he asked Wei Shishi to stay here and meet with Li Wenxi and the others.
"Here..." Wei Shishi looked around and relaxed a little. "There are few people around here, and there are no residential areas. This saves us a lot of trouble. When mining, we just need to set the area below as a dangerous no-entry zone."
Xu Ying lowered her head and rubbed her neck: "Oh, I'm old, and my neck hurts if I look up for too long. I say, little girl, you have to respect your elders."
She said this to Wei Shishi.
For some reason, Wei Shishi didn't treat her well along the way, and had a stern face, as if Xu Ying owed her money.
"Old?" Wei Shishi glanced at her. "You can only travel through time, right? Your real age is about the same as mine."
Xu Ying spread her hands and made a helpless expression: "So, young people nowadays are really mysteriously confident."
"You...are you already an aunt over 40 years old?" Wei Shishi turned to look at her.
"... Who are you saying is the auntie?" Xu Ying was the first to break her guard and glared.
Although she lived for a long time, she was always like a little sister in the team at that time.
Most of the people in their team also have no offspring. After all, in an environment where everyone is in danger, giving birth to offspring is not a wise choice.
In addition, the life spans of the people in the team at that time were very long, so most of them had no intention of giving birth to offspring to carry on the family line.
So she has never been called auntie!
Of course, this does not mean that there were very few new generation humans at that time. On the contrary, there were quite a few.
At that time, most of the new generation of humans were born from those who had completely surrendered to the alien invaders.
They have a relatively stable life and naturally have the ability to raise their offspring.
Fortunately, the descendants of those people were not as thoroughly brainwashed as they were, and they have a fanatical worship and pursuit of alien invaders.
They have their own ideas. Although most of them have been taught since childhood to fight against alien invaders, young people always have a rebellious spirit.
After learning the truth of that year, quite a number of people still chose to join the resistance team.
The first step of the plan to return to the past was implemented with the help of these people.
"Isn't that what you said?" Wei Shishi rolled her eyes at her. "How can someone who travels through time and pretends to be a ghost be qualified to be called a senior by me?"
In her opinion, when Xu Ying met her grandfather, she should be about the same age as her grandfather at that time.
Then Xu Ying immediately traveled through time and came to the modern era, which means that she should be only in her twenties now.
Even her grandfather, Wei Bo, thinks so.
"I..." Xu Ying was a little speechless.
She didn't want to reveal her identity.
Her identity is a big loophole in this world. The fewer people who know about it, the better. If too many people know about it and the world becomes aware of the abnormality, she will be eliminated from the world like her brother.
But this girl in front of me is really annoying!
What? Why are you so hostile to her
Don't be angry, don't be angry, Xu Ying. You are over 300 years old. Why are you angry with a girl in her twenties
"Well, stop arguing. Can't we just get along well?" Li Wenxi said helplessly.
She herself is a very energetic person. After coming to this world, she has been suppressing her curiosity. Being unfamiliar with the place, she is no longer so willful.
I don't know how many arguments these two had on the way here just now.
In front of these two people, she always felt that she was playing the role of an intimate older sister.
"Hmph, who wants to get along with her?" Wei Shishi snorted.
“You you…” Xu Ying gritted her teeth, getting angrier the more she thought about it.
Wei Shishi turned to look at Li Wenxi, her tone becoming much more normal as she said, "I've noted the location here. Are there any other locations around here?"
"This is the only one I've found so far. I haven't taken a thorough look around it yet." Li Wenxi said.
"Well, this is for you."
Wei Shishi took out a small instrument from her pocket and handed it to Li Wenxi.
"This is… "
Li Wenxi looked at the small device in his hand curiously.
earphone
"Wear it on your ear and click three times to contact me directly. The communication channel is encrypted, so there is no need to worry about being eavesdropped." Wei Shishi explained, "If you find a new place or have any trouble, you can contact me at any time."
"Ah, there is such a good thing!" Li Wenxi said in surprise, somewhat delighted, "Then I'll take it!"
"Hey, where's mine?" Xu Ying glared at Wei Shishi.
"You? Aren't you very powerful? Do you still need our help?" Wei Shishi's tone suddenly turned cold.
"I… "
Wei Shishi turned to look at Li Wenxi, and her voice became calm again: "If you are not satisfied with the accommodation this woman provides for you, or if you encounter any danger here, please feel free to contact me. We in the Wei family welcome you at any time."
“Oh oh…” Li Wenxi nodded, but felt something was wrong and secretly glanced at Xu Ying.
"Then I'll go back first." Wei Shishi turned around and wanted to leave.
"Stop right there!" Xu Ying reached out and grabbed Wei Shishi's arm, saying angrily, "What's wrong with you? Why are you so hostile to me? Explain it to me clearly!"
“… Don’t you know what you did more than fifty years ago?” Wei Shishi waved her hand vigorously, shook off Xu Ying’s hand, and turned away.
"What did I do? I did..." Xu Ying was stunned, "What did I do? Wait a minute, you..."
By the time she reacted, Wei Shishi had disappeared.
"What the hell..."
"… You didn't cheat on her grandfather, did you?" Li Wenxi snickered, nudging Xu Ying's waist with his elbow. "I always feel that she has an opinion about this because of what her grandfather said. You didn't do anything to cheat on her, did you?"
"What?" Xu Ying cried out, "I, I, I, that guy Wei Bo and I are just normal friends!"
"Then why is she so unhappy with you? Everything she knows about you should have been heard from her grandfather, right?" Li Wenxi looked in the direction where Wei Shishi was leaving.
"What the hell is going on! Not to mention that this is impossible, even if it is true, does her grandfather's feelings and experiences need her to stand up for him?"
Xu Ying couldn't sit still any longer: "No, I have to go ask that old guy! What bad things did he say about me to his granddaughter? He wouldn't really say anything nonsense, would he?"
“Hey!” Li Wenxi quickly pulled her back. “Is the old man still busy? He seemed very serious when he left. Let’s not disturb him for now. Could those giant beasts be attacking again?”
"... Humph, it shouldn't be. If it was, wouldn't he have told us?" Xu Ying didn't rush over. She curled her lips and said, "It seems that the three families have gathered together to discuss something important. It may be related to me, so they didn't tell me, right?"
"Is that so..." Li Wenxi rubbed his eyes slightly, "Then let's go back. I'm a little sleepy. It's getting late... Wow! It's almost twelve o'clock!"
She looked at her watch and exclaimed, "It's so late! It's almost the next day!"
"Alas, this is the bad thing about this place." Xu Ying looked up at the sky. Two or three thousand meters above, the crystal stones were still emitting light. "Day and night are the same. There is no four seasons. Living here, I always feel like time has stopped."
"Ah... What's the daily routine of the people here?" Li Wenxi looked towards the living area.
On the street over there, there were originally a large number of pedestrians and vehicles, but now there are much fewer of them.
Although it was not dark yet, everyone seemed to have rested.
"Because everyone's schedule is similar to that on the ground. After all, the time for study and work is still the same."
Xu Ying explained: "From 9 to 6, from 8 to 5, the working and school hours are fixed, and everyone's schedule is still similar to that of humans on the ground. Of course, there is no shortage of people who stay up late. However, it shouldn't be considered 'staying up late' here, right? After all, there is no night."
"I see, this is truly a magical world..." Li Wenxi felt that he still didn't know this place well enough and had an urge to walk around.
She took out the blue-level oranges she had brought from her backpack and began to peel them. "That's perfect. There aren't many people at the event right now, so we won't attract too much attention. Let's go around!"
"Ah, isn't that the Orange (Blue) artifact for staying up late?" Xu Ying's eyes lit up, "You brought such a good thing down with you."
"You must have used this before, right?" Li Wenxi took out another one and handed it to Xu Ying.
"I miss it so much!" Xu Ying took the orange in her hand, turned it over and over, and sighed, "There are many orange trees like this planted in our team's science and technology park. At that time, we wanted to break it into two parts in one minute. This thing is simply a magical tool, but..."
"But what?" Li Wenxi put the orange into his mouth and asked unclearly.
"But... you'd better eat less of this stuff now. Although it can make people's brains clear and not need to sleep, it relies on overdrawing the lifespan of brain cells." Xu Ying also began to peel the orange in her hand, and said, "If you eat too much, you will get Alzheimer's disease early!"
"Huh?" Li Wenxi had just swallowed the orange slice in his mouth. When he heard her say that, his hand that was holding the orange slice and about to put it into his mouth stopped.
She looked down at the orange slices in her hand, then looked up at Xu Ying, blinked, and was in a dilemma whether to eat or not. She was surprised and said, "There is... there is such a side effect!"
"Yes, otherwise if I keep eating this orange, won't I never need to sleep? How can it be so good? Everything has a price." Xu Ying said as she threw away the orange peel.
"But..." Li Wenxi swallowed, "I think I've eaten a lot before... I don't know how to..."
"It won't be a problem so soon." Xu Ying explained, "If ordinary people eat too much, they might suffer from Alzheimer's disease in their 40s or 50s. For people like us who have a long life span, it doesn't matter, but you still have ordinary genes now, right? It's best to rely on your own body to recover."
She threw a petal into her mouth, chewed it with a nostalgic expression, and said, "Hmm... Eat less, eat less, sister-in-law. I don't want you to become stupid when I return you to my brother."
"Silly..." Li Wenxi almost threw away the half orange in her hand, "This thing is a chronic poison!"
"Chronic poison? That's a very apt way to put it." Xu Ying was still putting the chronic poison into her mouth one petal at a time. "But you don't have to worry too much. There are a lot of genetic medicines in Crystal City. My brother will definitely leave one for you. Even if you are already stupid by then, you can just inject the genetic medicine and you will be fine. Well, take it with confidence."
"I see..."
Li Wenxi had heard about Crystal City's genetic potion from Xu Ying before, and he breathed a sigh of relief. Looking at the half orange in his hand, he immediately stuffed the remaining half into his mouth and chewed it vengefully!
This is actually a chronic poison!
Xu Ying had already eaten the whole orange and licked her fingers with satisfaction: "It's really good! I haven't eaten this kind of orange since the time travel began."
"Well... If I really become stupid, don't forget to take me back..." Li Wenxi swallowed the whole orange, feeling a little panicked.
"Then you must be at least 40 or 50 years old, right? How can you stay here for so long? I'm afraid my brother will come looking for you in a while. If not, we can go out and look for him after we finish dealing with things here."
"Wow... We are fine, but those other survivors..." Li Wenxi suddenly remembered that blue-level fruits are very common among the survivors, and most of them should be eating them.
"There's no other way. If you want to gain certain abilities, you have to pay something. And those people..."
Xu Ying had no interest in the other survivors: "Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore. I'll show you around. There should be some mining sites nearby, right?"
"Let's go over there. I think there might be something there."
"Okay, now, what on earth did you do here fifty years ago? Tell me about it!"
"Well, nothing special. My brother does all the work. I just..."
…
On the ground.
"You found another statue in another place?" Zeng Tao asked in surprise.
"It wasn't me who discovered it, it was this little guy who discovered it." Lou Feier rubbed Coco's big tail.
“Hmm…” Coco moved her tail and continued to lie in her arms in a daze.
"Whose statue is this? Could it be Xu Xin's again?" Zeng Tao thought of something and became excited. "Could it be that there is another crystal city down there?"
"It's not Xu Xin, it's a... statue of a woman."
Lou Feier sat on the sofa, stretched and said, "It's very secret, in a crack in the mountain that is almost impossible to find. After going deeper, there is a large space inside, and there is a statue inside. If Ke Ke hadn't crawled in from there, I would never have found it."
"It's so mysterious, there must be something good! Haven't you explored it?" Zeng Tao also came over and sat next to her. "Who is that withered woman? Have you seen her?"
Now both of them are in Lou Feier's tree house.
"No." Lou Feier shook her head. "I didn't explore there either. I always felt a strange sense of anxiety there. I felt that something might go wrong if I explored alone. And now is a special period, so I picked up Coco who was lying on the statue and rushed back. Let's discuss this matter together. At least I want to bring back the information."
"Indeed, if you act on your own, it would be bad if you get lost or something happens." Zeng Tao's eyes moved slightly, "Hey, hey, hey, how about the two of us go and take a look? There should be nothing wrong with the two of us, right?"
"What are you thinking!" Lou Feier said unhappily, "We are still protecting the World Tree now, what's the point of the two of us running away?"
"Well, okay..." Zeng Tao lay down on the sofa, "It's really boring."
"Where's Jin Yue?"
"She helped Ma Hongwei and the others upgrade the tree house heavy crossbows for the survivors, so that they can also become a fighting force in the protection battle."
"With Wen Xi not here, will the resources be enough?" Lou Feier was a little worried.
"It is said that the iron ore points discovered by Wen Xi have not been mined out yet. Is it enough for the time being? I don't understand either. Let them do those things." Zeng Tao turned over on the sofa and then muttered, "Xu Xin is so slow. How long will he occupy my tree house..."