"Ah... It's really so confusing..." Xu Ying rubbed her hair in annoyance, "A lot of things have happened in the past fifty years. It's just a jump of fifty years, but why does it feel like everything has changed..."
Fifty years ago, there were no survivors. Fifty years ago, the human base in the underground world was not so passive. Fifty years ago, it was her brother Xu Xin who handled most of the matters.
"Or, I'll jump back..." Xu Ying suddenly had a bold idea in her mind, but then she killed it herself and shook her head violently, "No, no, no, it's too dangerous."
"What are you thinking about? Jumping back?" Li Wenxi was curious about Xu Ying's sudden action. "Have you thought of a way?"
"Ah..." Xu Ying smiled awkwardly, "I've thought of a solution, but the price is the possible destruction of the world."
Her words stunned both Li Wenxi and Wei Shishi.
“… Now is not the time to joke around.” Wei Shishi rolled her eyes slightly. “I have something else to do here, so I’ll leave first. If there’s any news from grandpa, I’ll let you know.”
"Oh, you're just leaving?"
Wei Shishi didn't explain much. She took the people she brought with her into an armored vehicle and left.
"What..." Xu Ying sat down on a big rock beside her, supported her hands behind her back, and looked up at the dome, "What should we do now? We can't get up..."
"You can teleport, right?" Li Wenxi also sat down beside her and looked up at the dome. "Can't we teleport directly up there? We don't need to mine, we just want to go up there and take a look."
"Of course not." Xu Ying sighed, "Let's not talk about whether there is a foothold up there. Just talking about my spatial ability, it's not that easy to use. I must have a very clear positioning. In simple terms, I need a reference. Otherwise, let's not talk about the big picture. Just the rotation and revolution of the earth, the spatial position is changing at a very fast speed."
“… What does reference mean?”
"My spatial ability can only take me to places where I have been and left my mark." Xu Ying looked at the villa on the hill not far away, "For example, that villa. Spatial ability cannot be used casually, otherwise the location will be confused if you are not careful."
Li Wenxi nodded in confusion: "I think I understand. Then... if you make a mark here, if it is transmitted to other places, wouldn't it be fine if you can teleport it back instantly?"
"It's not that easy."
Xu Ying suddenly looked at Li Wenxi with a complicated look, then a hint of sadness flashed in her eyes, and then she shook her head and said:
"If you are teleported directly into space, there is almost no chance of survival. The air pressure will drop to zero in an instant, your internal organs will explode, and the temperature will drop sharply by 100 to 200 degrees...
Without any protective measures, perhaps at that moment, a person would lose consciousness and become space junk floating in the universe."
“Ah… so scary…” Li Wenxi imagined the situation and swallowed hard.
Xu Ying glanced at Li Wenxi and then lowered her eyes.
Li Wenxi in that time and space, her real sister-in-law, might... have died in this way.
"What's wrong?" Li Wenxi asked softly when she saw that Xu Ying was in a low mood for some reason.
"Ah, nothing, nothing." Xu Ying's depression only lasted for a moment. She immediately looked up and smiled, "This is just a more extreme example. After all, it only crosses space, not time. As long as you move faster and have the ground as a reference, you won't be sent directly into outer space."
"Ah, I see." Li Wenxi thought, "What you are talking about should be more careful about time travel, right?"
"That's right." Xu Ying nodded. "When traveling through time and space, you need to pay more attention to the landing point. After all, the time span is too long, and the original position has been completely changed. If you are not sure of the time and space coordinates, you will definitely disappear in the chaos of time and space and become space junk."
As she spoke, her tone became a little low again.
Her sister-in-law, because of this...
"Then... why can't you teleport up? It's just a change in space, right?" Li Wenxi pointed to the top of his head.
"Because, besides being teleported into space, there are other possibilities of failure!" Xu Ying sat on a big rock and kicked the stones under her feet. "It's very scary!"
Li Wenxi was curious: "How scary is it?"
"It takes some time to teleport. Without accurate coordinates, my position won't be very accurate, and there may be deviations." Xu Ying pointed upwards. "It's three thousand meters away from me, and my coordinate-free teleportation error is about one thousandth, which means that as long as there are no major mistakes, there will be an error of about three meters."
"A three-meter error..." Li Wenxi's eyes widened slightly, "I understand..."
"Right, think about it, if it was three meters down, I would have fallen straight down and died. Bang!" Xu Ying used her hands to make a motion of falling to the ground and exploding, "I can't teleport continuously, so I can only fall to death!"
"Wow... that's really dangerous..."
"What if it's three meters up? Sister-in-law, think about it, what is three meters up?"
"Um... stones?"
"That's right, my whole body will be embedded in the stone and I will be crushed into pulp alive!" Xu Ying shuddered as she thought about it. "It's scary just to think about it!"
"This, this, this..." Li Wenxi was also frightened, "Is space teleportation so dangerous?!"
Thinking that she had also been teleported by Xu Ying before, she felt a little scared.
"No." Xu Ying curled her lips. "That's how my brother scared me at the beginning. I never dared to use my spatial ability. Later I realized that as long as I set the coordinates, it would be foolproof. Even if I don't set the coordinates, as long as it's a place I've been to and I remember it, the error will be greatly reduced. As long as it's not too far away, it can almost be ignored."
"Is that so? That's good." Li Wenxi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's a pity..." Xu Ying looked up at the dome again, "I've never been up there, so I don't know where to land. Teleporting up there is basically like courting death."
"Then there's nothing we can do. We can only wait for news from over there... Wait!"
Li Wenxi's eyes suddenly turned and he clapped his hands: "We can ask the Wei family to take us up there to have a look! We are not mining, we are just going up there to have a look, that should be okay, right? Didn't you say that the teleportation device is buried underground with only a small part exposed? Maybe the teleportation device above is upside down, with a small part exposed on the dome? Wouldn't we be able to see it directly then?"
"Hmm... I think it's unlikely that the teleporter was inserted into the dome upside down."
Xu Ying thought about it and felt that it was unreasonable: "If that's the case, wouldn't those lackeys just fall down after being teleported here..."
"Is that so?" Li Wenxi held his chin in distress.
She couldn't think of any good solution.
"But you're right, sister-in-law. We can indeed go up and take a look. Maybe we can find some entrance up there? After all, those lackeys will teleport here, so they have to come down, right?"
"Right! Then I'll contact Wei Shishi now!"
"Yes, contact her quickly and call her back! She left so quickly!"
…
On the ground, Shi Wanyun took a sip of water.
Her forehead was no longer touching Xu Xin's.
At this time, Xu Xin was frowning and thinking.
Just now, Shi Wanyun had told him everything that happened afterwards.
After that, things were simple.
When she was teleported to the edge of the underground city by the crystal ball, the wall of the stone building had not yet fallen off.
There is still a stone city around it.
She was also shocked by the underground city.
She walked into the stone city, walked along the paths, and marveled at the magnificence of this underground city.
Just as she was about to go to the central palace to take a look, the crystal ball in her hand responded again.
The image of the monster appeared again.
"This place is closely related to Xu Xin. You just need to wait here. With your current physical condition, it won't be a problem for you to not eat or drink for a year or two."
"When he comes, you can start your mission. Kill him and you can leave. If you can't do it for the time being, then leave with him and continue looking for opportunities."
"Also, there should be another place similar to this one nearby. It has nothing to do with Xu Xin, but is related to another troublesome human. After you complete this mission, I will let you deal with it."
"The situation over there is so disgusting that I can't stand it... Let you humans deal with it yourselves."
After saying this, the monster briefly told her about the internal structure of the area, talking in a boastful manner.
It seemed that it had already figured out the structure of this place a long time ago.
"It's best not to let Xu Xin enter the palace in the center. Although I haven't figured out the situation here yet, I can feel that it's very dangerous. Don't enter for the time being. Just wait for me to teleport you to the place, and don't walk around casually."
The monster's voice became more and more casual. Although it still used its somewhat strange language, its tone had obviously become much more easy-going.
It seemed that it was a talkative monster, but it felt uncomfortable facing humans face to face, so it left without saying a few words to Shi Wanyun. Now, relying on images to convey messages, it started to talk a lot again.
This made Shi Wanyun feel a little weird.
A monster whose appearance made her feel very physically uncomfortable, a monster that could terrify her to the point of falling to her knees, was now talking to her like a friend
Although it was just a video, it still made people feel very uncomfortable.
It makes the image of this monster feel a little more... approachable
"Okay, that's all I need to say. Just wait here. I don't know when Xu Xin will come. If it's fast, maybe tomorrow. If it's slow... I don't know either. Anyway, just wait here."
"Hmm... How about I help him find this place down there?" The monster began to talk to itself, its torn mouth full of teeth opening and closing slightly. "I'm a little curious about what's down there, but if I do this, it won't help him, will it? Tsk, it's troublesome. If I don't attack directly on the ground, it will..."
"… Never mind. What can he do now? He's just a disgusting piece of trash. I'll just help him and make him die faster."
The monster's tone was filled with a hint of disdain, and he continued to say to Shi Wanyun: "I will take action. He should come down in the next few days. Be prepared. Remember, if the mission fails, all of you survivors will be buried with you."
"Hmm... That big bug is pretty good. If I let it drill a hole in the ground..."
"Then let's call it a bug swarm. Hmm... bugs are more pleasing to the eye than humans on Earth..."
The image ends here with the monster mumbling to itself.
Shi Wanyun followed the monster's instructions and waited there until Xu Xin and others appeared.
Xu Xin knew everything that happened after that.
After he came down through the passage, the moment he pushed open the door, the Crystal City was activated, and when he walked out of the door, Shi Wanyun happened to be at the door.
"So that's how it is..."
Xu Xin sorted out everything and had a basic understanding of the situation.
First of all, the monster itself doesn’t know the function of this crystal city. It only knows that this crystal city has a certain relationship with Xu Xin.
Xu Xin was able to discover this crystal city thanks to its help.
It turns out that the bug's location is not exactly at the entrance to Crystal City, but...
Being directed by it, in that position
The purpose was to let Xu Xin find the Crystal City as soon as possible, then let him go down, and let Shi Wanyun below kill him as soon as possible.
As for why he had to go down instead of letting Shi Wanyun act directly on the ground, he didn't quite understand.
In addition, the monster also knew that there was another place similar to this one near the Crystal City.
This should be the place that Lou Feier and Coco discovered. There is also a human statue at the entrance, but it is a female.
Xu Xin touched Coco's little head which was lying on the armrest of the sofa.
Coco was sleeping at this time. She hummed softly, turned over, and hugged Xu Xin's hand with her paws.
Xu Xin was stroking Coco's belly while thinking about the monster's mumbling.
Although it doesn't know the function of Crystal City, it seems to know the situation of a place similar to this one over there, and describes it as... "disgusting".
For a monster like this, what could possibly disgust it
Apparently, it has said something is disgusting more than once.
…human beings.
Earth humans.
In its view, humans on Earth are extremely disgusting.
That's disgusting, which means... there are a lot of humans over there.
If we follow this conjecture...
Could it be that over there is... the entrance to the human base? !
Very...possible!
According to his guess, the human female statue at the entrance should be Yingying!
Related to Yingying, many humans...
The more I think about it, the more likely it seems!
Thinking this in his mind, he wanted to go and take a look now!
but…
If this is true... then this monster has already discovered the human base in the underground world
Will there really be no problems down the line
Xu Xin suddenly became worried about the situation of Wen Xi and Ying Ying.
"Xu Xin, I'm a little sleepy." Shi Wanyun rubbed her eyes and said softly, "I want to sleep."
"Go to that room." Xu Xin thought and pointed to the second bedroom.
"Is that your room?"
"…No." Xu Xin glanced at her, "My room is another one. Don't think too much. I'm grateful to you today. Go and have a rest."
"Well, okay." Shi Wanyun nodded slightly, then turned and walked into the second bedroom.
Xu Xin looked out the window.
It's not daybreak yet.
It seems that there will be no invasion today.
He wanted to go and see the place where Lou Feier had discovered it.