A gleam of light appeared at the bottom of this deep, almost endless cave, and after so long descending, they finally reached the end.
Hao Ren looked up at the direction he came from, and the entrance to the cave was completely invisible. There was only a misty darkness above: the cave was so deep that it even formed a cloud-like dust belt in the middle. He was slightly taken aback by the depth of the cave: "Hey, it's so deep... Is there really a way for that Baptiste to get down to this kind of place alive?"
Vivienne nodded: "The wizard has many means, maybe he can fly spells: as long as he is not torn apart by the monster group before then."
The car continued to descend, and Hao Ren noticed that the light outside did not diffuse directly from below, but irradiated from the dark cave walls in all directions: after falling to a certain level, many huge cracks appeared on the cave walls in the distance , those cracks seem to go straight to the outside world.
After continuing to descend for hundreds of meters, they finally touched the ground.
"The surroundings are safe," Duncan observed the outside environment, "just find a direction to drive forward, the cracks around should lead to the outside world."
The bottom of the cave is a place of light and shadow. It is still dark in general, but there are some triangular cracks in the distance that reveal light. Originally, Hao Ren thought that he would reach an open place directly after coming down from the cave, but now it seems that this passage directly reaches the ground like some kind of pipe, and after reaching the end, he needs to drill through the gap in the "pipe". Only when you come out can you see the real landscape of the second floor of Purgatory. He started the car and headed towards the largest light source, all the people subconsciously held their breath along the way: this weird place made everyone very nervous.
The ground at the bottom of the cave is uneven, and there are many strange stones scattered on the ground, and some other things can occasionally be seen among them.
Hao Ren saw a pool of debris that was completely invisible in the front, and a large area around it was bursting dark red, and clear impact cracks could be seen on the ground. There is no doubt that this is a monster that accidentally fell from the surface above.
It is not known how many other creatures had fallen from that horrific cavern in the past ten thousand years, but it is conceivable that there must be a lot of debris piled up on the ground under the wheels. These hapless creatures who have stumbled and fallen from the surface world are reduced to dust here, far from where they live.
The wheels ran over the residue. The team continued to explore, and the light in the distance was getting closer and closer. In the interlacing of light and shadow, Hao Ren saw some thick stone pillar-like things hanging down from above, and the crack from which the light came from showed an obvious angle that sloped inward as it went up. This strange structure made him stunned for a moment. Because everything in this place was too huge, his common sense spatial imagination was challenged. It took him a long time to realize what kind of shape this place is: the bottom of the cave is gradually expanding outward. The lower you go, the wider it gets.
He picked up speed and drove the car into the light outside.
An incomparably vast vast world is presented in front of everyone.
The sudden widening of the field of vision even made people unable to react in time. The scene on the second floor of Purgatory made everyone fall into a state of aphasia. I saw the vast expanse of land spread out outside the car window. The rolling high hills and low slopes were covered with shocking verdant green. The whole land was full of green grass and lush flowers and trees. This vast land stretches all the way to the end of the line of sight, where there is only a clear horizon, and no imaginary edge of the cave can be seen.
Hao Ren opened the car door in a state of almost daze and went outside. He felt that he was stepping on a piece of soft grass, and what came from his nostrils was the pure aroma of earth and plants. He looked up to the "sky", which should have been a thick, dark dome of rock. However, he saw a large expanse of white clouds: this underground world is too vast, and its dome is even higher than the limit of cumulus clouds. As a result, water vapor and dust formed clouds in the mid-air of this "cave" to block the rocks above. The cloud layer emits the same soft white light as the outermost cloud top of purgatory, and its light is brighter, so that it reflects the entire underground world as if it were daytime.
Hao Ren's eyes wandered between the clouds. The clouds here were not as impenetrable as the top of the clouds above, so he finally saw what he should have seen in the gap between the two clouds: a deep darkness, extremely In the distance, with his eyesight, he could only see some rough gully patterns, which were the earth's crust.
Or something like a crust.
The others got out of the car one after another at this time, and Hessiana kept her head up for a few minutes in a daze. It took a long time to finally take a deep breath: "Hiss—this...is a cave?"
"I said earlier that although the second floor of Purgatory is underground, the scale is indescribable," Vivienne said, but the expression on her face was no less indifferent than others, "I didn't expect it to be like this... I I thought it was a worse place.”
"After all, the surface of the earth is already the same as hell." Lily frowned, looking at this vibrant world in disbelief. "Is this 'purgatory'? Purgatory has grown so long that it doesn't deserve its name."
Nangong Wuyue felt that the surrounding water element environment had finally regained its affinity, and the inexplicable atmosphere of crisis and hostility seemed to only stay on the surface above, so she transformed into an ordinary sea snake form, with a satisfied expression on her face: "The water here is very peaceful, it's almost a different world from the one on the surface."
Hao Ren didn't say anything more, because there was only one question on his mind: how big is this place
Thinking of this question, he couldn't help turning his head to glance at the "passage" where everyone came.
A mountain piercing through the sky appeared in front of his eyes, as expected, its shape could not be seen at all from this distance.
He only saw some huge black mountain ridges pouring down from above, extending towards the distance, and melting into one with the verdant land. The upper part of the mountain peak gradually converged, turning into a huge line almost perpendicular to the earth. The wall has been disappearing into the endless depths of clouds. The entire mountain was dark in color and had a rock-like texture, but after careful identification, he found that the rock had a strange shape.
A lightning idea popped up all of a sudden, and he immediately called everyone to get in the car: "Come on, let's go to a place far away!"
When the group returned to the car, Hao Ren immediately drove the car all the way to the distance. The "mountain" that reached the sky when everyone came was quickly left behind. Lily sat in the last row and looked out the car window. His eyes widened and he finally couldn't help shouting: "A tree! It's a trunk!"
Hao Ren stopped on a high ground with green grass. He and the others looked in the direction of the "mountain". Finally, he could see the whole picture of the huge monster here. As Lily said, it is a huge tree, and it is a kind of tree with well-developed roots and bulging aerial roots. The trunk of the giant tree penetrates the clouds and connects to the bottom of the upper crust, as if supporting the above. It is like the whole earth, while its lower part is clinging to the earth. Those sloping ridges and cone-shaped mountains that Hao Ren saw before are nothing but the swollen roots of this giant tree.
And the place where they came down before is self-evident: the hollow tube inside the trunk.
At this time, the data terminal suddenly said: "Other probes have sent new images, and some probes have found other entrances to purgatory, and their situation is the same as ours."
While talking, the terminal transferred the pictures of several probes, and all the pictures described roughly the same scene: the giant tree supporting the whole earth (or the sky), and the vast and boundless green land around the giant tree .
"Some other high-speed probes have arrived at the other end of the planet, where they also found the entrance to the second floor of Purgatory."
"The second floor of Purgatory is not a cave or a series of caves, but another layer of the earth's crust," Hao Ren said slowly. "This planet is layered—not an exaggeration, but a real description."
The world's guesses about the structure of purgatory are outrageous. The aliens once thought that there were a series of deep giant caves in the underground of this world, and that giant cave was another sinister hell. However, in fact, all the caves are connected together. They are basically a piece of space, and this space is not dangerous, but like a paradise.
This planet has a double crust, and purgatory is just its skin.
Or maybe there's a third crust, who can tell? (to be continued~^~)