Chapter 50 [Two in One]
The ice layer is solid, and the pores are tiny, which is completely different from the soil layer that the vines had entered before. If the soil can also be drilled into the ground by the characteristics of the vine itself, then the ice layer is almost inaccessible to the vine, unless it is violently broken, but the speed is too slow, wait until those people enter the underground city , I am afraid that the ice layer has not been able to break through 100 meters.
"Unless I find a hole that I can drill into, even if I can break it violently, the time will be infinitely stretched." It can be
seen that the vines are really not resistant to freezing. After only a while, the voice began to tremble.
Zhuang Jiu quickly took it back into his body.
Because it is in the extreme north, the daytime here is very long, so there is no concept of time just by looking around. But in fact, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon, and Zhuang Jiu hadn't even eaten lunch, and his stomach started to growl, but it was just covered up by the cold wind.
The bread in his pocket was also frozen hard by the cold wind. Zhuang Jiu squeezed it, and after feeling the hardness, he gave up the idea of eating. Looking at the raging cold wind around him, he asked: "Is there any place to block the wind nearby?" Werther shook his head: [When I was flying over the sky just now, I had already briefly searched the extreme north, and the nearby even slightly convex There is no place to start, and if you fly north, you will find the sea. 】 "It is possible that the entrance is not in the extreme north." Zhuang Jiu pondered for a moment, "Is it possible that the entrance is there? Is there a height difference between the sea level and the ice layer? " , until it connects to sea level. But because of the blizzard, there are often huge winds and waves there, and it is not very recommended for my sister to go there. ] [And considering that citizens also have to enter, the entrance should not be located in such a dangerous place. 】 "It makes sense, then the most likely place now is the direction we came from, that is, the south of the extreme north." Zhuang Jiu nodded in agreement with his words.
When she came, she was thinking about things in her heart, and she always felt that the entrance should be in the extreme north, so Zhuang Jiu really didn't pay much attention to the place she passed by before. Now that I think about it, that place is not an ice layer, but a frozen place. Dirt, the entrance does have a certain chance of being there.
Zhuangjiu returned to Werther's back: "Then let's go back and see, Werther, fly slower and lower your height."
[Okay sister. 】
Leaving the extreme north in the direction of Xiaohancheng again, I don't know if it was Zhuangjiu's illusion, she felt that during the flight, the blizzard around her seemed to stagnate for a moment, and then instantly became normal.
I don't know if she felt something was wrong.
Away from the extreme north, the ground is permafrost, and the dry and cracked soil is mixed with ice cubes, making the soil extremely hard.
The snow here is much less. According to the winery's request, Werther flew close to the ground, observing possible unusual structures along the way.
As long as it is a solitary building, it is most likely the entrance.
Although there was still snow and wind, the ground was wide-open, and it didn't look like there were stones or leeward places that could be used to block it. Werther flew with Zhuang Wine for a long time, except for the frozen ground, all he could see was the frozen ground.
"That won't work." Zhuangjiu shook his head and Werther stopped. The temperature here is slightly better. In the heat of the fire ore, Zhuang Jiu took off his gloves and let the vines come out.
"Try to see if you can drill into the frozen soil?" The
vine heard the words and spread out almost like a dense net against the frozen soil, trying to find possible gaps. However, even though the surface looks like mud, it still encounters the same conditions as the previous ice layer, with no gaps to drill into.
For a while, things seemed to be at an impasse.
"It's not too early, forget it, go back to Xiaohan City first and then think about countermeasures." The cold wind almost completely took away the heat from the fire ore. Standing here, Zhuang Jiu felt that the wind was blowing his mind. .
Anyway, there are still more than ten days, go back and take a good rest and rectify, and then think about the next countermeasures.
The speed of going back was faster than when he came, and it only took more than two hours to return to the place where Xiaohan City stayed. There was no accident in the house, and it is estimated that the police star did not expect that there would be people here, so they did not come to check.
Werther came to Xiaohan City before, and brought a small generator with blue ore as energy. When the two came back, Tang Panpan was just boiling water to prepare dumplings. If Zhuang Jiu hadn't made a sound, she would probably have run away with the pot in her hand. "Scared me to death, sister. I thought the star police over there was patrolling over there." Tang Panpan breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked, "How is it, sister? Did you find the entrance to the underground city?" Zhuang Jiu shook his head. : "We originally guessed that the entrance should be in the extreme north, but we didn't find any place after walking around, and the vines couldn't get into the ground to check. We can only come back and think of a way to do it tomorrow." Tang Panpan doesn't understand this . , can't help, can't talk to, can only look at the water in the pot. She is just a small oil bottle who came here because Zhuang Jiu said she would bring her here. According to her own positioning in her heart, she should be regarded as a logistics staff now, and she only needs to ensure the food and drink of Zhuang Jiu. Even if the task is successfully completed. It was freezing cold outside, and it was much better when I got home. Zhuang Jiu hurriedly held a fire ore in one hand to warm his body, and it took a long time to relax a lot. Werther didn't need to eat or rest. After returning from Zhuangjiu, he told her and returned to the far north, ready to conduct a carpet search. Zhuang Jiu moved a small bench and looked at the dumplings up and down in the pot absentmindedly.
Finally found the pot lid scattered inside the bag, Tang Panpan quickly closed the lid, and the rising white steam was also covered.
Seeing Zhuang Jiu's dejected appearance, she stretched out her hand and shook it in front of Zhuang Jiu with some doubts, "Sister, what are you thinking about?" I have made dumplings. Speaking of which, most of the dishes I still cook now, I watch her make them first, and then I slowly learn." What happened at Zhuangjiu's house won her the title of "Genius Mechanical Girl ". When she was 1999, it was widely reported on Xingwang. Although Tang Panpan didn't pay attention to these, she also heard about it and knew that she lost her parents when she was young. Hearing what Zhuang Jiu said, she naturally knew that the person in Zhuang Jiu's mouth should not be her parents, so there was only one possibility left. She said with some envy: "It seems that my sister and that friend have a good relationship, right? I used to want to have such a friend, who could make dinner together at home and go out for shopping occasionally, but I didn't expect that I would be caught I have been assigned to work in a city where I have no acquaintance, and I agreed with my sisters to rent a house together, and there will be no follow-up." Zhuang Jiu shook his head: "No, that person and I are no longer friends." Tang Panpan She looked up at Zhuang Jiu in astonishment, "A person as good as my sister can say such a thing, it seems like that person should have done something that is hurtful or difficult to be forgiven." She paused, then suddenly revealed With a smile: "But it's okay, sister, don't you still have me by your side now?" She held Zhuang Jiu's hand affectionately, and unknowingly leaned over her head and rubbed her head: "Sister, look at the two of us now, like Doesn't it look like two good friends are camping outside together?" "The past is over, sister, you don't care about me around you, but you miss the people in the past, who can't even be called friends now, Then I'm going to be jealous!" She pretended to be angry and snorted, "In that case, I'll ignore you for three seconds!"
After she finished speaking, she didn't hold back, she suddenly laughed, and the whole room was filled with her cheerful laughter.
Infected by Tang Panpan's laughter, Zhuang Jiu couldn't help but have a smile on his face. Gently rubbing her head, she suddenly asked, "How did you get along with your former friends?"
This was indeed a difficult question for Zhuang Jiu.
She had almost no friends before, and more of them were business partners, so sometimes she would seem a little overwhelmed by Tang Panpan's sudden intimacy, and she didn't know whether to refuse.
And she doesn't know whether such behavior is normal among friends.
She had secretly discussed this issue with Werther before. However, an AI and an AI-like person could never find an answer to such a question.
Tang Panpan tilted his head and thought for a while: "That's too much... I'll just pick what I remember and tell you?"
Zhuang Jiu nodded.
The water in the pot was boiling, and when the dumpling skins were bulging and almost opened, Tang Panpan hurriedly scooped it up with a colander: "Come on, sister, try it first."
Knowing that the temperature here is very low, so In Zhuangjiu, they keep things simple, and they don't pay much attention to what they eat.
Even without the dipping sauce, the two still enjoyed their meal.
Xiaohancheng is only dark for less than 4 hours this season. After eating, Tang Panpan is still a little excited. Until she is ready to go to bed, she is still sharing with Zhuang Jiu some interesting things that happened to her and friends before.
The next morning, Zhuang Jiu woke up early.
On the other bed, Tang Panpan's sleep quality was still as good as in Xianjiu. When Zhuangjiu got up, she saw her hugging the quilt and turning over on the bed without any image, and a slight snoring sounded from her bed. Come.
Looking at her thighs that were almost completely exposed outside the quilt, Zhuang Jiu shook his head in a good mood. After covering her with the quilt, he closed the somewhat light-transmitting curtains and then walked out the door lightly.
Werther was in the living room, just packing up and getting ready to make breakfast.
【Good morning! My sister got up early today! 】 "I have something on my mind, I haven't slept
for too long." Zhuang Jiu nodded, "How is your investigation?"
. But because of this, there is no way to know what the scene is underground. 】
Zhuang Jiu nodded and looked at him seriously: "Fortunately, you didn't go in completely. That place will collapse at some point, even if your body is as strong as an iron block, I'm afraid you can't resist it. The weight of the soil layer with a thickness of 3,000 meters was pressed down in an instant."
[Thanks to my sister for the reminder, Werther will definitely be more careful next time and won't rush in. 】
"It doesn't matter. Now that the orientation is determined, it will be much easier to handle. We will think of other ways when we get to the neighborhood."
Looking at the time, it was only 5:30 in the morning. Because of the excitement last night, Tang Panpan's sleep time did not reach six hours at this moment. Zhuang Jiu thought about it, although he wanted her to sleep for a while, but in order to ensure her own safety, she had to wake her up when she was going out. .
In the chat with Tang Panpan yesterday, Zhuang Jiu learned a lot. Especially between her and her friends, between Zhuang Jiu and Qian Shiyi, the completely different ways of getting along with each other made Zhuang Jiu understand a lot.
The purest friendship between friends is not connected by money or material at all.
Sometimes just a simple chat is enough to maintain a relationship.
How to get along with friends, it seems that Zhuangjiu will have to learn from Tang Panpan in the future.
But now, she needs to get the job done first.
When she was about to go out, she woke up the sleepy Tang Panpan, couldn't help laughing and stared blankly at the ceiling for a few minutes before she finally came back to her senses, holding the quilt like a wandering soul to Tang Pan, who was about to float to the bathroom. Hope, Zhuang Jiu quickly rescued the quilt in her hands unconsciously and threw it back to the bed.
Now you can leave.
Today, she added an extra sweater than yesterday, Zhuang Jiu took another cloth bag and put it on her chest, filled it with fire ore, and finally put on the coat, scarf, mask, goggles, etc. Let Werther take her to the sky.
At this point, Xiaohan City was quiet, and even the star police who patrolled daily hadn't gotten up yet.
While flying, Werther reported the situation of Xianjiu to Zhuangjiu.
[When I got up in the morning and watered crops such as rice, I found that the rice was growing very well today, and the average height increased by 0.1cm in one night. And the seedlings seem to have changed a bit. According to the book, if this change continues, the rice should be fully mature in about a month or so. 】
"Then I can get a wave when I go back." Zhuang Jiu nodded, "Are the hens okay? Before, Tang Panpan was instructing her on how to get food every day. When she left, she didn't know that the hens would still be able to get food. I can't get used to it ."
[It seems that he has indeed encountered some troubles, and the hen has not returned yet. If you really need help, Werther should be able to help guide. 】
"Thank you for your hard work. After all, we are our neighbors, and occasionally we need to help." Zhuang Jiu nodded.
Today's blizzard in the extreme north seems to be smaller, and the sun has also broken through the thick clouds and sprinkled on the ground. However, the temperature is too low, and the heat has not improved much, so neither the permafrost nor the ice shows any signs of melting.
But when the weather is okay, Werther can fly a lot faster.
The two quickly arrived at the place where Witte discovered the problem yesterday and was trying to get in.
This is a place that is nearly 10 kilometers away from the edge of the extreme north. The ground is still so hard that only an ice axe or a hammer can be used to knock down a little bit of permafrost. On the permafrost, there is an endless space without any plants or Traces of the presence of other things.
"Is it right here?" Zhuang Jiu looked around in confusion.
The surrounding scene was far from what she had imagined. She originally thought that there must be at least a few people guarding it closely, or at least a few low-rise buildings, but she didn't expect that there was nothing.
Werther took her into the sky at a very high speed, and the color of the outer armor began to change, becoming a color similar to the sky and the blizzard.
After the distance was widened to a certain extent, he continued to fly a little further north before stopping: [Sister, they are under here, but we can't get close for the time being, someone is coming out. 】
While Werther was speaking, something began to change underneath.
The originally cracked soil suddenly split into a black gap in the middle, and then the gap widened, and the dark brown corridor was exposed in front of the two of them.
Two people dressed in star police clothes sneaked out and looked like they were the two star police officers in Xiaohan City who were protecting the citizens of Lead City.
They were far away, and with the wind howling next to them, Zhuang Jiu couldn't hear what they were saying. But fortunately, there is Werther next to him, who can accept their sound waves and automatically convert them into their timbres and speak to Zhuangjiu, as if the two people were really talking on the side.
"Do you really want to receive so many people? It's fine if the survivors can't be released directly to other cities, but they can't afford to support them? Why bother to receive them here?" The voice sounded relatively young, and it seemed that this People may have just entered the Star Police Department. An older voice said: "You stupid! This is a place that has not been fully used! In other words, this underground city has not obtained a residence permit at all, and those people are here to test the water. If there is no problem , then naturally everyone is happy, if there is a problem after moving in, it will be even better."
"However, in order to let them have problems, I have already done my best. As long as there is a little earthquake, the underground city will collapse, and all these people will die here!" The
young star police was shocked to hear this. I can hardly contain my surprise: "Why do you do this! How can you murder the lives of millions of people so cruelly!
" ?" He slapped the young star policeman on the head, "How much did you get to eat yesterday?"
"One, a bag of instant noodles."
"Well then, the more people who survive, the more we can eat. There will be fewer things, and in the end, things will become less and less. Isn’t it you or me who died? But if all these people die, won’t the rest of the supplies be shared equally by us? Wait until the ammunition is exhausted When the food runs out, the Alliance will definitely be able to come up with a solution to the food. Will you use your brains?" The
older Star Police scolded and led the other away, and was soon covered up by the blizzard.
"Are they all recorded?"
[All recordings completed. 】
Zhuang Jiu nodded: "Very good, when we go back, send this paragraph to all the citizens of the Alliance to see." Before the
corridor was completely closed, Werther directly descended with Zhuang Ji.
The entrance of the corridor is the pattern of the permafrost, so the problem was not found before. Looking inside, there is a relatively flat downhill, next to it is a blue or purple light strip, and the light reflects the whole passage a bit strangely dazzling.
After the light strip winds its way to the corner, the road after it can't be seen.
Werther cracked the password of the entrance switch at a very fast speed, and soon opened the closed switch again, and the corridor was exposed again in front of the two of them.
No matter who the two go, I am afraid there will be some danger. But the vine is different. According to Zhuang Jiu's thoughts, it can even be completely retracted into Zhuang Jiu's body within 0.5 seconds.
Using it to explore the way is the best choice now.
"Vine." Just as Zhuang Jiu called it in his heart, the vine rushed out consciously, and a straight green cane extended inward at a very fast speed, and after a while, it bypassed the bend and continued to crawl forward.
At the same time, Zhuang Jiu also closed his eyes.
The first perspective of the vines appears in the form of a picture in front of the closed eyes of the château. Going forward along the passage shrouded in light, surrounded by repetitive and monotonous blue-purple images, but the further you go in, the temperature gradually starts to rise.
"What are you going to do? If the dungeon is big, I don't think I can help you."
It paused and said suddenly, "Are you going to give me that rice machine gun? I've been greedy for it for a long time. , this thing is so handsome!"
"I did have this plan, but I heard the chat between the two people just now, and the collapse of the underground city is estimated to have other hidden reasons, so I have to trouble you to explore the way first and see the general situation. After that, let's think about the next thing."
"It doesn't matter, it's all on me!" The vine cheered happily and rushed in more quickly.
The limit length of its body can be extended to about five kilometers, but if branches are added, or the thickness of the body is reduced, it can be extended longer.
Just as the vines can hear what Zhuangjiu thinks, Zhuangjiu can also perceive some of the data of the vines. Sure enough, just when it extended to about ten kilometers or so, it finally became clear.
Although it was a very dark place, the vines had always had good eyesight, so there was no problem with Zhuang Jiu's view.
This is a city that looks full of life. Although the artificial sun has not been turned on yet, the electronic screen next to it is so large that it covers the outer walls of the entire underground city and the sky.
In addition, false flowers and grasses can be seen everywhere, and houses are painted green or pink, and built to look like grass, flowers, tree houses, rivers, and even as far as the eye can see, the winery Also saw a colorful house marked Candy House. Seeing these scenes of the underground city, Zhuang Jiu immediately understood that the alliance's construction of the underground city was fake, and their initial purpose should be to create a "greenhouse"! A greenhouse that exists only in the beautiful and the unreal, as well as the dream and the imaginary. I just don't know whose idea this underground city is. The entire underground space is very large. At first glance, you can't see the boundary. Just looking at this size, it may really be able to accommodate millions of people. If it weren't for that person's actions, it might be the best choice for those people in Lead City to live in. He directed the vines to infiltrate along the gaps in the electronic screen on the wall. According to the detection after the vines hit the wall, the outer wall of this underground city is made of iron and crystal ore, with a thickness of at least 20 meters. It can resist 9 Earthquakes of magnitude and above will not collapse. Therefore, the underground city in the previous life would have problems, and it really was because that person did a little trick in it! After sharing what he saw with Werther, Werther immediately finished the analysis. [If a second-degree earthquake is detected on the ground, the shock that can be felt three kilometers underground will be relatively much larger, but if such a thick crystal ore is used for pouring, it can be tolerated logically. . 】 【If it is true as those two people said, then this underground city can only have a problem. There should be one or more places on the outer wall of its crystal ore that are over-shocked, but now because of his hands and feet, those places have become weak points. Just find this place and hit it, and the underground city should collapse. 】 Zhuang Jiu suddenly fell into silence. Shocked, causing the underground city to collapse. What to do after that?
After seeing the collapse of the underground city, the citizens of the lead city who migrated had to live in the small cold city. However, the weather there was extremely harsh, and there was no way to grow crops outside the city to become self-reliant like 700 years ago. Over time, as long as the alliance Even if the food supply is cut off, their lives are still in danger!
But the dungeon I just watched was different, and the Alliance was right at least one thing.
The ground of this dungeon is indeed what they call red soil, and even the vines continue to extend underground, and it is found that the soil further down is still suitable for planting crops.
After a long while, she seemed to make up her mind and slowly said: "If those weak points are filled and the crystal ore is re-cast, will the underground city continue to exist and not collapse?"
The author has something to say:
Vine: Tsk, Another missed opportunity to use the rice machine gun to be handsome.
Sorry for the late update! ! The two-in-one apology chapter is here! Thanks for your understanding baby! ! ! Love you guys! ! !
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