After some discussion, the team did not return to the surface, but directly found a room near the main hall of the underground palace for the night.
The reason for this arrangement is Liya’s suggestion based on her own experience and professional knowledge: It seems that resting in the underground ruins is a very risky thing, but in fact the interior of the Anno ruins is much safer than the outside . First, as I said before, those demon-eating monsters that mutate due to the influence of magic power are actually active on the outer layer of the ruins, and there will be no infestation by any monsters inside the ruins; second, this ruin buried underground It was much stronger than expected. After inspecting its main material and structure, Leah found that the frame of the palace used a kind of tough alloy. Although its auxiliary buildings on the surface were damaged, it The main building obviously has special performance indicators. Even if it is buried deep underground, there is no need to worry about the risk of collapse: unless a large tunnel crack suddenly appears and splits the underground palace in two, which is almost impossible. Thirdly, Liya felt that it was very exciting to sleep for a night near the big tunnel, and she could play with people for at least half a year when she went back.
Hao Ren felt that the third reason was the real reason...
In all fairness, at this time, any group of sane mercenaries would not accept such a bold arrangement from their employer, and even broke up when they knew that the underground palace was so close to the big tunnel, but Hao Ren and his party were specifically aimed at The target of digging deep into the truth, they hoped that Leah could stay here for a while, so after hearing the rest arrangement tonight, no one expressed any objection at all.
This made Ms. Leah even more worried about whether these mercenaries were going to kill her to share her inheritance...
The underground world does not distinguish between day and night. Even if there is a timer to tell the time, the lack of changes in the environment will make people feel at a loss in terms of work and rest. The most affected are Gun and Elizabeth. The former thinks that they should sleep at any time, while the latter thinks She shouldn't go to bed at any time, but in the end, the little demon girl was forced to go to bed by her father with the reason that "children must go to bed on time or they won't grow up".
After Vivian, the immortal cultivator who stayed up all night, went to bed, the underground palace finally became quiet again.
Everything returns to darkness.
Hao Ren didn't know how long he had been in a drowsy sleep. It had been a long time since he had such a peaceful and deep sleep without dreams like in the past few days. Although dreamless sleep can restore the spirit better, it also makes it difficult for people to judge themselves How long did you sleep for? When he woke up, he thought it was the next day, but he found that everyone hadn't woken up—even Vivian, who always got up early, was hanging on the roof.
Hao Ren rubbed his eyes. As his vision recovered, the surrounding darkness gradually receded. He looked helplessly at Vivian who was hanging upside down directly above him: This vampire lady usually sleeps on a bed, but Apparently, the ruins of this deeply buried palace stimulated a certain nerve in her. She probably remembered familiar environments such as catacombs or caves. She decided to hang it up tonight to remember bitterness and sweetness...
"Everyone has their moments of insecurity." Hao Ren muttered, feeling that the drowsiness had faded, and he would not be able to fall asleep if he continued to lie down, so he simply got out of the sleeping bag, tidied some wrinkled clothes, got up and left room.
Walking alone in the ancient underground palace that has been abandoned for thousands of years is a test of courage, but for Hao Ren, who is already fearless, it is an alternative way to relax. As he walked along the corridors where he could vaguely see the gorgeous decorations of the past, he connected the communication with Nolan in his mind.
"How's the situation up there?"
"Nothing has changed," Miss Jianniang said lazily, "It's so boring, just floating in the sky like this, with no place to stroll... I can't even get out of the atmosphere. As a spaceship, I feel like I'm going to be useless." gone."
"You've got something to offer, you've only been here for a few days now," Hao Ren said helplessly, "Why didn't I see you have such a big opinion when I was in Hong Kong for maintenance?"
"That's different. When I was in Hong Kong for maintenance, I went to the virtual space to have fun as soon as I was on standby. I didn't feel anything for two months, but here I have to turn on the sensors all the time, just to stare at this thing. In a world with no movement, you say it's boring or not."
"Tch—I asked you to send probes outside, is there any news?"
"Sent, I almost scanned the entire planet," Nolan said lazily, "The map has been synchronized to the data terminal, and you can check it at any time. Just as you guessed before, this man named Laherien The world is really suspicious. I found the shadows of almost every race in the Dream Plane on the surface of the planet—not only werewolves, vampires, and humans created by the goddess of creation, but also native races like sirens. Some of these races seem to have some 'changes', as if they only retain the racial characteristics of the appearance, but they have other names. For example, sea monsters are divided into land-born 'snake people' and Aquatic 'mermaids', the Laherian people regard them as two species. In addition, I also found a nation exactly like the Tana people in a desert in the southern part of the mainland, but they are called 'Jeron people' ’. There are many other similar situations.”
Hao Ren's footsteps slowed down: "It sounds... like a species sample vault, and some of the races stored in this 'vault' have been renamed..."
"Maybe it's really a vault?" Nolan speculated, "As for the name change, it should be the cultural discontinuity caused by the passage of ten thousand years?"
Hao Ren frowned slightly: "Actually, Muru and the others once mentioned that the Goddess of Creation has a 'dream plane species database', and Sif also served as a guard in this database. This database is said to be used to save dream planes. All life samples, but they did not elaborate on the form of this database, maybe it is just a virtual database, or it may be a planet that stores physical samples... If it is the latter, and Laherien is this database If so, then a lot of things can be explained clearly.”
"To verify this matter, we need to conduct a lot of statistics." Nolan said leisurely.
"That's right," Hao Ren's thinking became active, "Life forms are not limited to various intelligent races, ranging from birds and beasts to small bacteria and viruses. There are countless ecosystems, and each ecosystem may be composed of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of species. If Laherien is really a database, then the number of species living on this planet It will definitely reach an extremely exaggerated number—even if your sensor performance and computing speed are increased by ten times, it is estimated that it will not be easy to complete the statistical work.”
"And there are so many species crowded on one planet... It's incredible no matter how I think about it," Nolan said, "Let's not talk about how such a huge number is 'squeezed' in, it's just that they come from different ecological circles. It is already a headache to death, the living environment is different, and even the basic life structure is different, and they can coexist on such a planet... Is the species database built by the Goddess of Creation so simple and rude?"
"So I didn't directly confirm that this planet is the so-called 'vault'," Hao Ren laughed. "If I want to say the most impressive impression here, I can describe it in four words: specious. There are indeed various All kinds of races, all intelligent creatures in the dream plane seem to be able to find corresponding samples here, but the sea monsters have become two completely different branches of snake people and mermaids here, and the Tana people have become Zerro Benefactor, the elves have also become seven or eight different races such as forest elves, sea elves, and demon elves. Many races have not only changed their names, but even their physical structures have changed, and these changes are hard to believe. It was all completed in just 10,000 years. Did you know? There is an ancient legend in this world. In the legend, Laherien is actually a 'new world'. Before it, there was an old Laherien Destroyed—although there are many mistakes in this legend, it gave me an inspiration...”
"inspiration?"
"This planet is still full of vitality after the Great Explosion of the Kingdom of God. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look real." Hao Ren smiled slightly. "I'm afraid it's not a fake."
Miss Jianniang thought for a while, and gave a pertinent evaluation: "Whenever you talk nonsense, it seems to be true."
"Every time I make nonsense, there is a reason."
Hao Ren stopped in his tracks. Before he knew it, he had already left the courtyard of the underground palace, where the long corridor was cut off in the middle, and a large rift valley filled with endless darkness lay before his eyes.
I walked to the entrance of the big tunnel after a short stroll—is this the entanglement of fate!
After finishing the communication with Miss Jianniang, Hao Ren squatted down next to the entrance of the big tunnel by himself. In fact, he didn't wander here by accident: he really cared about this weird big tunnel, although The latter was extremely dangerous, but it aroused Hao Ren's interest because of its weird nature. Hao Ren planned to find an opportunity to study it from the very beginning.
A slight sound of flapping wings came from behind, followed by Vivian's voice: "I knew you were here."
Hao Ren didn't turn his head back: "Are you awake?"
"My head hurts," Vivian rubbed her forehead and muttered, "I really don't know how I got used to sleeping like this back then... the big bed is comfortable."
"When people recall the second generation, they often ask themselves what was stuffed in their minds." Hao Ren smiled, and then pointed to the chasm. "Tell me, what does it look like underneath this thing?" ?”
Vivienne stared at Hao Ren: "You don't mean you're going to jump right off to have a look?"
Hao Ren quickly shook his head: "Don't make trouble, although the inspector is a reckless profession, it's not so reckless. I just have a bold idea, throw the data terminal down and see..."
Before he could finish his sentence, the data terminal came out of his pocket all of a sudden: "Stop! For your bold idea, this machine has an immature suggestion - you better jump off!"
"Let's go, this is just a preliminary plan." Hao Ren pulled the data terminal aside, and then took out a probe from the portable space. "Now I'm going to try it out with the probe."
Data terminal: "... MD scared this machine."
Hao Ren squinted at the PDA, then activated the probe and threw it into the black chasm in front of him.
According to Leah, the Great Tunnel will unconditionally devour everything with life or magic energy, so is the probe on its devour list