Li Wenxi knew that there was a battle going on on the ground, and she wanted to go back to help Xu Xin and the others.
"Go back..." Xu Ying hesitated.
“Since this place has been exposed, we don’t have to be so cautious and afraid of being discovered below, right?” Li Wenxi turned the watch on his wrist.
This watch has completely lost its ability to communicate since it came down.
"Well... Having said that, I always feel that this matter is a little strange." Xu Ying frowned and thought.
"Strange? You mean..."
"I suspect that the human strongholds in the underground world have not been fully discovered."
"...Huh?" Li Wenxi was a little confused. "What do you mean? Not completely discovered? You mean, the other party only discovered part of the human underground base? That's unlikely. Aren't human bases connected together as a whole? Moreover, this is the center of the human base, isn't it? You found those mutant humans here, so doesn't that mean..."
Doesn't that mean that the underground human base has been completely explored
"Ah, that's not what I meant by not being fully discovered." Xu Ying waved her hand and said, "I meant that the fact that there is a base of human survivors in the underground world has not been widely spread among the alien invaders, so that they all know about it."
"... I don't quite understand..." Li Wenxi was a little confused, "Why do you feel that way?"
"Well, it's normal that you don't understand. After all, you don't know the attitude of those alien invaders towards humans." Thinking of this, Xu Ying sighed softly.
"Attitude? What do you mean?"
"Hmm..." Xu Ying pointed her index finger at her lips and gave an example, "Are you afraid of cockroaches?"
"... cockroaches?" Li Wenxi blinked, "... a little bit."
"What if they crawl on you?"
“… That’s even scarier than mutant creatures!” Li Wenxi thought about the scene, shuddered, and shook his head violently.
"That's how the alien invaders see us, too." Xu Ying spread her hands and said, "Some of them even have a fear of us. They scream and call us monsters when they see us."
"…Huh?" Li Wenxi's eyes widened. "Why? We are much weaker than them, and we can't hurt them."
“Can cockroaches hurt you?”
"Ah, this..."
“So that’s what I’m saying.”
Xu Ying walked to the window, leaned on the windowsill and looked out.
"If the entire group knew that we have a base in the underground world, they would not allow hundreds of millions of people to survive. They now regard the earth as their backyard. Would you allow hundreds of millions of cockroaches to reproduce in your backyard?"
"Of course not. I can't stand it. What if I crawl back home..."
"That should be what they think." Xu Ying turned around and leaned against the window sill. "If they knew there was such a huge human base in the underground world with a population of hundreds of millions, would they just leave it alone?"
"So what you mean is that they just...some individuals discovered this place?" Li Wenxi understood Xu Ying's thoughts.
"That's what I mean." Xu Ying nodded. "One of them discovered this place, but perhaps because they were very interested in it, they did not report it to their superiors, but instead sent people down to investigate privately."
"There is such a thing... an entomologist who likes cockroaches?" Li Wenxi said half-jokingly.
"Don't mention it, it's really possible." Xu Ying looked at her seriously and said, "Even this farce of yours as a survivor could be the work of this 'entomologist', or 'anthropologist'."
"You mean the collective survival activities of the survivors were also carried out privately by this 'entomologist'?" Li Wenxi asked in surprise.
"That's not the case." Xu Ying walked to the bed and sat down. "It's impossible for it not to be discovered on the ground, but it may be a research project of it or its team. It is a survivor plan that was implemented after convincing other monsters. However, because they still feel disgusted by humans, the survivor plan is carried out in the other hemisphere that is very far away from them."
"Are these all your guesses, or do you already have evidence?" Li Wenxi asked.
"Well, although there is no evidence, this guess is reasonable, right?" Xu Ying lay on her back on the bed and sighed, "If this is true, perhaps our situation is not that bad."
"Hey, do you think this so-called 'entomologist' can communicate with us?" Li Wenxi suddenly had an idea, "Maybe it does this because it likes humans?"
"It's unlikely that he likes me... But I have the idea of communicating with him. Since he can tolerate the existence of hundreds of millions of humans, he should be able to tolerate communication with humans."
As she spoke, she sat up again: "So, don't even think about going up now, sister-in-law. If this is the case, and you go up and get discovered by other intruders, you'll be in real trouble."
"Well, okay, okay." Li Wenxi was a little disappointed.
Xu Ying held up her chin, looked out the window and muttered to herself: "What should I do? Should I go over there to investigate? No... Let's look around here first. If we can catch those mutant humans who came down to investigate, maybe we can find out something."
Li Wenxi thought for a moment and asked again, "Well, how many alien invaders are there?"
"Number? Hmm..." Xu Ying thought for a moment and said, "I don't really know how many alien invaders there are in this world now, but in our time, the number of alien invaders living on Earth was probably... nearly a thousand."
"Nearly a thousand? Hmm... How should I put it? A little less than expected?" Li Wenxi tilted his head. "Didn't you say that they regarded the Earth as a very important colony? How come there are only... nearly a thousand? Are they huge?"
"Huge? No, no, actually, it's about the same size as us humans on Earth."
"That… "
Nearly a thousand individuals of similar human size could colonize this huge planet...
"Nearly a thousand. That was the number when the world collapsed. In fact, there were only a few hundred that invaded the Earth in the beginning."
Xu Ying explained: "When they first came to this planet, they actually just wanted to plunder resources in the short term. When the resources that were useful to them were exhausted, they left."
"So when we were first captured, we were told that these invaders would only stay on Earth for a maximum of ten years before leaving. So at that time, our group of captives was divided into three factions."
"One group believes that after they leave, we the survivors can stay and rebuild our homes.
Another school of thought believes that they will take us away and conquer the entire universe with them.
The last group believes that, having used us to their advantage, they will slaughter us on their way out.”
"But you know, they didn't know why, but they stayed."
"Brother believes that they want to obtain the unique bloodline of the giant beasts on this planet to strengthen their interstellar plundering army. Their subsequent actions were indeed centered around the bloodline of the giant beasts. But I always feel that... it's not that simple."
Xu Ying looked out the window again with doubt in her eyes: "Is the blood of giant beasts really that important in the face of high-tech weapons? What about the huge changes in the earth? The volume of the earth has expanded a thousand times. Can the blood of giant beasts extracted from fossils be compared to this?"
"Perhaps..." Li Wenxi guessed, "The blood of the giant beast is indeed their goal, but it is only one of their goals."
"Yeah, I think so too." Xu Ying looked up at the crystal stones scattered above the dome. "The energy contained in these crystal stones is extremely huge. These things may be one of their purposes."
She immediately shook her head. "Forget it. Who can guess their purpose? What were we talking about? Ah, the number of these alien invaders."
"At that time, we were three hundred years after the disaster, and the number of alien invaders increased from less than a hundred to more than a thousand. And now it is a thousand years later..."
Li Wenxi took over the conversation: "Their number may be even greater. For example, tens of thousands?"
"Yes, it's very likely." Xu Ying nodded, "Tens of thousands. Tens of thousands..."
After repeating it, she suddenly smiled bitterly.
"That's not a lot."
"... If you saw what they look like, you wouldn't think so." Xu Ying said with a look of extreme disgust on her face, "Their appearance is really too random. If they were placed in the Cambrian period, they would all be monsters..."
Cambrian period, an era of life on Earth 500 million years ago.
Because all things are still in the initial exploration stage of life, unlike modern organisms that have undergone a long period of natural selection, the appearance of Cambrian organisms is very casual.
If we put the life of the Cambrian period into the present day and enlarge the individuals to human size, their magical appearance would be comparable to that of Cthulhu monsters.
It would be a monster even in the Cambrian period, so what exactly did it look like...
To be honest, Li Wenxi was a little curious: "So what does it look like?"
"This... you should go and see it yourself, sister-in-law. You will come into contact with it in the future." Xu Ying said helplessly, "They are quite different from each other. Each one looks a little different. I can't describe it even if you ask me to."
"Is that so?" Li Wenxi became even more curious.
"Moreover, those alien invaders are not only extremely powerful individually and almost impossible to kill, but most importantly, they have such strong means of controlling other lives that each individual is an endless army. I don't need to explain what mutant creatures are like."
"Indeed..." Li Wenxi nodded.
Xu Ying was a little annoyed: "So, there doesn't need to be too many monsters. Hundreds of them are enough to rule this planet. If there are tens of thousands, then... Brother, he really left me a mess..."
“Hmm…” Li Wenxi now increasingly felt that it was really powerless to take back this planet.
"Okay, okay, you should take a rest. I... I'll go outside and see if I can run into those running dogs again." Xu Ying stood up.
"You've been tired all day, haven't you? Don't you want to rest?"
"I'm not tired, I'm just starting to feel sleepy again. Sister-in-law, do you have any oranges left? Give me some."
"Okay."
After getting the orange, Xu Ying's body immediately sank and she fell into the purple-black vortex and disappeared.
Li Wenxi lay down on the bed, thinking about what he had just talked about with Xu Ying, and finally fatigue came over him.
"I wonder how Xu Xin and the others are doing up there..."
Thinking of this, she closed her eyes.
…
On the ground, Shi Wanyun had already told Xu Xin everything that happened afterwards.
After the monster left, Shi Wanyun calmed down in the hall for a few minutes. Before she walked out of the hall, mature woman No. 5 came up again.
In order to prevent No. 5 from seeing her loss of composure, Shi Wanyun quickly used her sleeve to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes due to fear.
The result was that a piece of skin on her face was directly peeled off.
Although Shi Wanyun did not explain in detail, Xu Xin always felt that Shi Wanyun at that time might be even more out of control than when she saw the monster.
Maybe he even screamed.
No. 5 was familiar with this scene. He comforted her immediately and took her to the bathroom.
In the bathroom, she told No. 5 the monster's, or "master's" request.
And No. 5 had received the message through some channel a long time ago, and immediately asked her to go to her room after taking a shower.
At Xu Xin's request, Shi Wanyun showed him the situation after taking a bath by transferring her memory.
After that, things were simple.
No. 5 tells Shi Wanyun that she will be teleported to an underground space where she will meet her target Xu Xin.
"Once your target reaches that place, it will begin to recover. Your mission is to complete your mission before it fully recovers. If you can't do that, stay with the target and look for another opportunity. If you can't complete it, don't come back."
No. 5's voice was a little cold, and then it softened again: "These are the original words of the master. I didn't expect that you would be sent out on a mission just after you arrived. Be careful outside."
Her instructions made Shi Wanyun feel a little warm in her heart.
But when she thought of the appearance of that monster, her face turned pale again.
"What's wrong? Are you still not feeling well?"
"Well... the drug is too strong, I need to recover." Shi Wanyun forced a smile.
Now, she almost had no intention of staying here.
“… Although I don’t think you will do that, I still want to remind you.” The mature woman No. 5’s voice became colder. “Although the master’s appearance is indeed terrifying, you must not attempt to betray the master. You must know that the Survivor Plan was initiated by the master.”
"What?" Shi Wanyun immediately looked up in surprise.
"Yes, it was the master who sent us to this world, so it can also decide our life and death."
… Is that weird thing really the owner of that mysterious voice? !
No... it shouldn't be. The mysterious voice spoke very fluently, completely different from that monster.
"The master just told me that if you choose to betray me, he will not only turn you into an ugly monster, but will also kill all the fifth batch of survivors."
The mature woman looked at her and said, "But you won't betray me, will you? There's no benefit in betrayal."
"Yes, of course." Shi Wanyun smiled softly, "A city with humans is where I belong."
They are all brainwashed.
That kind of horrible monster probably just treats humans as props for experiments.
In its densely packed eyes, humans are probably just livestock.
She...what should she do