Another damn cargo delivery.
At the same location, Zero watched with some disappointment as the strong scorpion men moved barrels of oil from somewhere in Bedes City to the small square in front of the warehouse, and old Rob personally signed them. The oil will be temporarily parked in the warehouse and will be taken away by the caravan tomorrow. Zero originally thought that he could see the well of the abyss, but now it seems that he was delusional.
But this is also normal, the well of the abyss must be a secret place for the city of Bedes, how can outsiders be allowed to visit it casually.
After the old Rob signed for the receipt, he seemed to see someone, but he bowed with his hands on his chest towards the south direction above. Zero followed his line of sight and landed on a strange being.
It also has female features, but this underground tribesman appears to be slender than the snake girl. Its upper body was not completely exposed to the eyes of other beings, even though it wasn't wearing anything similar to clothes, a layer of brown carapace covered its moving body. The carapace seems to be born naturally, so when it spreads to the lower body, it naturally transforms into a limb of some kind of insect.
It has a spider-like abdomen with three pairs of legs supporting the body. This made the creature in front of him look like a hybrid of a woman and a spider, with a kind of almost weird beauty.
Beside the beauty spider, there are five snakes, five men and five women, and five men each. These ten underground warriors are different from ordinary soldiers. They all have tattoos with strange patterns on their bodies, but they don't know what their meanings are.
When old Rob bowed, the beauty spider also nodded to the old man. When it looked at Zero, its eyes became sharp, with a sense of blame. Zero remembered their weird likes and dislikes, and quickly lowered his head. At this time, the old Rob came over, muttering: "I didn't expect the head priest to come. What a monster. It hasn't changed a bit in the past twenty years."
Zero turned around and walked with him, asking in a low voice, "Is that their leader?"
"You can say that." Old Rob scratched his head and replied, "These monsters worship the abyss, believing that their king, Naga, sleeps in the abyss, and one day he will wake up and lead them back to the abyss. Every spring, they will Hold a sacrificial event. The thing that looks like a woman and a spider is their chief priest, presiding over the entire city of Bidis, and is regarded by these monsters as the first person of Naga on the ground."
By this time, Zero had roughly understood the strange form of this underground alien race. Judging from weapons and city buildings, they have advanced technology and craftsmanship. However, their culture remained at the stage of primitive feudal god worship. From a human point of view, this is a very contradictory phenomenon. The reason for this deformed civilization may be related to the environment in which they live.
Even Ling didn't know that when he was observing the underground people, the chief priest was also observing them.
In the eyes of this beauty spider, it doesn't matter if it's zero, old Rob and other caravan members. They present multiple color spectrums in the eyes of this strange life, and when these spectrums overlap, each three-dimensional image is formed. Looking at these images, the chief priest said in their unique language: "How are the preparations for the ceremony in the abyss?"
Standing on the right side of the beauty spider, a strong scorpion male warrior crossed his chest with one hand, bowed his head and said, "Dear chief priest, my King Naga's genetic complement has reached 94%. If there is no accident, it will soon It can reach 100 percent."
"Very well, I have to thank these human beings for speaking." The head priest showed a cold smile: "This occupies the life of the earth, and the gene fragments in the body are so diverse and complicated. Otherwise, even if I get the revelation from my mother , and cannot complete the genes of my king Naga. As long as my king wakes up, it will be the time when the king of the abyss will come to the earth. At that time, the humans of Pavalich will be my king's first good meal after waking up."
"A greedy creature like this that peeps at the blood of our abyss should have disappeared from the earth long ago!" After leaving these words, the chief priest turned around and left slowly with the support of his clansmen.
Late at night.
In the rest area of the caravan, Zero opened his eyes. He sat up, moving softly and silently. Everyone has already fallen asleep, even the two underground warriors on duty outside are leaning against the wall and taking a nap. Ye Liu came to Ling's side, she had already taken off the hooded cloak on her body, and put on a black leather armor with stickers on her bandaged body.
The leather armor is smooth and has almost no seams. Wearing it on Ye Liu's body is like her second skin. This is the latest stealth combat leather armor developed by Asgard. The thickness of the leather armor is less than 1 cm, and the weight is almost negligible. And the surface has a slightly arc-shaped design, which allows the wearer to minimize wind resistance when moving. It's just that this set of leather armor called "Latent Shadow" is different from Ye Shen's full-cover design. It only focuses on protecting important parts and joints such as the chest, arms, and knees, and its defense is not satisfactory.
This is the combat armor that Zero specially bought for Yeliu before departure. Although the latent image lacks defense, it is very suitable for a killer-type ability user like Yeliu. Compared with Ye Zhiliu's hand-stitched leather armor, Lark Shadow is much better in every aspect. When she got this set of battle armor that day, although Yeliu didn't express much, it was not difficult for Ling to know from the sparkle in her eyes that the girl loved this gift very much.
At this moment, Ye Liu, who was wearing a latent image, tied her long hair tightly to avoid unnecessary interference. Two blackened composite material daggers are separated from the outside of a pair of thighs, so that they can be drawn at any time to deal with the enemy. Other than that, Yeliu had no other equipment.
For the Nightbringer, her body itself is a deadly weapon.
Zero took off the cover-up clothes on his body, revealing the close-fitting Night God tactical uniform, and then took out a carrying tool from the backpack containing dry food. From the carrying case, Zero took out a watch for Yeliu to put on. This inconspicuous watch hides pocket tools such as laser scanning, which can be used by users for terrain scanning. Zero himself took out one and put it on. These two watches have been modulated, and the built-in scanning system is connected to the terminal in Pavalici. When the scanning work is over, Beyoncé and the others will be able to get a detailed three-dimensional topographic map of Bydes City.
"Listen, we are not here to fight this time, so try to avoid unnecessary conflicts." Zero said simply, and gestured with his fingers: "We are divided into two directions, you go up and down, and meet in the middle. Know the scan How do you use it?"
Yeliu shook her head honestly, and Ling explained the usage to her again. It's not complicated to use this thing, Yeliu knows it once he learns it. After the confession, Zero made a gesture to signal the start of the action. Yeliu nodded, her figure flickered, and she had disappeared from Zero's sight. Even Ling couldn't notice how Yeliu was moving. She didn't make any noise, and her energy didn't overflow, so she must have used some special skills.
Zero smiled, filtered his thoughts, and activated the ability of shadow jumping. Using the shadow in the corner of the room as the medium for the ability to activate, Zero's figure also quietly disappeared into the room. In the room, everyone was sleeping deeply, but no one noticed that Ling and Yeliu had left.
Yeliu's movements are light and fast, and she can always make herself appear in the hidden places of various buildings or in the blind spots of patrolling soldiers by borrowing certain specific footwork. She is like a nocturnal cat, walking softly in this huge dungeon. She is like the wind, elusive in her actions, she is at the bottom of the bridge at one moment, and clings to the vertical cliff the next moment.
Compared with Yeliu's varied and complicated special movements, Zero's actions are much simpler, but the efficiency is not worse than Yeliu's. The environment of Bides City is almost ideal for Zero. The three-dimensional city structure makes it inevitable that shadow areas will appear in many places. With the support of the rogue's shadow jumping ability, Zero keeps flashing in various shadow areas.
The distance of each flash is about 100 meters. After dozens of flashes, Zero has come to the bottom of Bides City. This underground city has very clear class characteristics.
While moving, Zero does not forget to observe the surrounding environment. He found that he and the caravan were located in the upper middle of Bydes City. Most of the people living in this area are those ugly dwarves. According to the division of human cities, the area from the middle to the upper part should be a slum or something like that, and it is also the area where the bottom class of Bidis City lives.
And the further down, the higher the class. Warriors like Snake Woman and Scorpion Man mostly live in the lower part of the city, occupying one-third of the entire city. As for the lower area of Bydes City, the buildings are becoming more and more complex and exquisite, and decoration techniques like reliefs have been seen here, which shows that the nobles among the underground races live in this area.
From the words of old Rob, it is not difficult to understand that the underground race is a foreign race that worships the abyss, so in terms of class status, naturally the closer to the abyss, the more noble the area. As for the well of the abyss, the forbidden area of Bides City, it is located at the bottom of the city.
Another shadow jumped, and Zero appeared on the periphery of a square building. He had already seen several buildings like this when he came here, and he knew that the underground race used the shape of the building to distinguish its function. A square building like this should have a function similar to a human laboratory. It's just that the building located below the city not only has their ethnic-specific symbols on the outer wall, but also has a circle of reliefs on the top of the building. The content of the relief is a picture of various tribesmen bowing their heads to the Naga King. Contents like this appear in many places throughout the city. It is not difficult to see the status of the Naga King in the hearts of the underground tribesmen.
Zero originally wanted to use the shadow to continue piercing through the edge, but heard a low cry from the other side of the wall. The voice doesn't sound like a human being, but it seems to be made by the underground people. Although he did not understand the language of this alien race, it was not difficult for Zero to hear the slightest hint of pain in his voice. His heart moved, his figure flickered, and when he appeared, he had already entered the interior of the building.
Zero appeared behind a load-bearing column, looked out from behind the column, and found that it was a hall of several hundred meters square. There are stone beds placed in the hall, and the stone beds are arranged 10 by 10, so there are as many as a hundred. There is an underground tribe lying on each stone bed, including a snake girl, a scorpion boy, and even a few dwarf slaves. These underground tribesmen groaned from time to time, with pain in their voices.
The underground tribesmen lying on the stone bed looked tired, and their bodies were festered in different areas, as if they were the harbingers of the genetic collapse of human beings. But in the corner of the hall, there were rows of medicine racks. Zero's figure flickered and appeared behind one of the medicine racks. Most of the medicine racks were filled with antibiotics, and there were also some common medicines commonly used by humans, such as aspirin.
There are quite a few medicines in the goods transported by zero memory caravans, among which aspirin and antibiotics are the most. In Asgard's related materials about alien races, there is almost no mention of alien races using human medicines. This is because different races have huge differences in their physical and genetic structures. This makes medicines that are useful to humans, potentially poisonous to aliens.
But the subterraneans use human medicines in large quantities, which seems strange. While Zero was thinking, a loud cry was heard in his ear. But it was a stone hole in the distance, and a scorpion male warrior suddenly grabbed his body forcefully. It was so forceful that when his hands rose and fell, he lifted a large piece of his own flesh. As soon as the cry came out, footsteps sounded outside the house. Zero knew he couldn't stay, and disappeared into the hall in a flash.
That hall should be a building like a ward, and those lying on the stone bed are undoubtedly patients. I just don't know what kind of disease they are suffering from. It seems to be a serious disease, but they are using human medicine, which is really strange.
Zero did not go far, but hid outside the ward. After a while, a few dwarf slaves pulled out a dead body from the hall, it was the scorpion man who was screaming madly just now. They didn't see how to deal with it, but directly threw the corpse into the abyss. Zero leaned forward slightly and disappeared into the shadows. When it reappeared, it was under an overhead bridge.
There was the vibration of a heavy object falling in the air, and Ling poked out half of his body from under the overpass, stretched out his hand, and caught the corpse left by the dwarf. Zero immediately flashed again, appearing in the shadows of nearby buildings. He quietly put down the corpse, and took out a vessel from the carrying case. This is a container used to preserve genetic samples, and with a shake of Ling's hand, a scalpel appears with an energy tool. He swiftly cut off a piece of flesh from the corpse, put it in a container, and carefully packed it into the carrying case. He wants to bring this specimen back, maybe someone under Beyonce can test out what kind of disease the underground tribe has.
This may be a major breakthrough for the study of the underground people.
After doing all this, Zero threw the body into the abyss. And he himself continued to probe below the city of Bedes. When Zero flashed for the second time, he heard a "plop", which should mean that the corpse had fallen to the bottom. Judging from the sound, there seems to be an environment similar to a lake at the bottom of Bides City, otherwise the corpse would not have heard the sound of falling into the water.
Zero suddenly felt a jump in his heart, maybe it wasn't an underground lake, but an oil mine.
Well of the Abyss!