Chapter 438: Past Events in the Center of the Earth (4): Strange and fleeting years

"Unlike the group of fools before, what I encountered this time is a group of fucking lunatics!"

"They call themselves the Pirates of Smokey Lake, and their leader is James Parrett, a pervert with only one eye! They actually collect the saliva of big snakes underground! They say that the saliva of big snakes can turn rocks into valuable ore

!”

Chen Yan subconsciously touched his chest pocket, and then turned on his spiritual vision.

The moment his spiritual vision opened, the voice of Bald Parrett appeared in Chen Yan's ears.

'That person has nothing to do with me!'

He didn't even have any extra explanation.

Of course, even if he had an explanation, Chen Yan wouldn't believe it until he saw the facts.

Spherical Tunguska continued:

"They caught me, put on a gas mask on me, and asked me to help them detect where underground tunnels are suitable for mining. Damn it, I have become a tool of you humans again. When will this day end?"

Chen Yan looked thoughtfully at the deep scratches on the spherical Tunguska's scales.

"I followed them underground for a long time, and slowly I discovered that something was wrong with them."

Spherical Tunguska has a deep voice:

"They are always able to come up with some weird-looking things, such as mining ships that can carry out surface operations, and palm-sized oxygen bottles that can allow people to dive underwater to detect mineral veins. That thing is enough to provide a normal adult

It’s crazy if a person breathes oxygen for an hour…”

It’s a mysterious technology mastered by pirates!

Chen Yan felt something was wrong when he was underground. The technology mastered by the pirates was too advanced and was not from this world at all.

"Where did these weird things come from? How do you know that the snake's saliva can turn rocks into ore?"

"I don't know anything! I'm just a pangolin! I can only dig the ground!"

"That's it, I stayed underground for a few more fucking years."

"I have lived a good life in the past few years. The pirates are more conscientious than the people in the Northern Bureau's Crime Investigation Division. At least they have not treated me badly when it comes to food. I am allowed to eat whatever they eat."

The bald Parrett in Chen Yan's breast pocket said at this time:

'The way pirates raise pets is like this. Their pets will eat whatever they eat. When there is nothing left to eat, they can eat the fattened pets... After all, no one can have enough to eat every day.'

Spherical Tunguska continued:

"I helped them discover several large mineral veins, and they made a fortune from those veins. Later, they hired many people and updated their equipment several times. Until detectors and large mining machines appeared, they no longer needed me.

"

Chen Yan has seen two types of large mining machines underground, but he has not seen a mineral vein detector.

Here he interrupts the spherical Tunguska.

"How did they make a fortune? Who did they sell their Snake Rock to?"

Spherical Tunguska said:

"Ah? You don't even know this? Their buyers are everywhere! Those big companies and big forces, whoever uses electricity, buy the ore that can generate electricity from them!"

There was a "boom" in Chen Yan's head, his past guesses were verified, and a clear train of thought unfolded in his mind -

Why is it that there are only two thermal power plants in Yanan City, but the lights in such a large urban area can stay on all night?

Why is the director qualified to build a "power-eating" monster like a large server that can accommodate tens of millions of people in Yanan City?

Why does Yanan City have the capital to erect "lighthouses" throughout the city, and why does it have the confidence to carry out wireless charging for all people?

…

Because there is Snake Kiss Rock in Yanan City!

Once the Snake-kissed Rocks are linked to the lighthouses scattered throughout the city, tax revenue will be used to purchase the Snake-kissed Rocks.

The tax money went from the citizens to the House of Representatives, and the House of Representatives used the money to build "lighthouses", purchase more Snake Rocks, and extract electricity for the construction of civil facilities——

Enterprises controlled by the municipal government such as the Steam Bus Operating Company also received municipal support under this background and were able to use tax revenue to build new automated tracks similar to light rail...

Technology like wireless charging is not available in this era.

Could it be that the technical basis of the lighthouses that are now almost all over Yharnam City also comes from the pirates of Smokey Lake?

Chen Yan couldn't be sure, because in addition to the pirates of Smokey Lake, the Byron Weiss Group, the director's Red Moon Starry Sky Technology Co., Ltd., the Mechanical Ascension Secret Order, the Chorus, the William Adams Group... Yanan City

The powerful forces have more or less demonstrated technologies that are beyond this era.

The times are changing so fast that it’s really hard to grasp.

In Chen Yan's random thoughts, Spherical Tungus continued:

"They originally wanted to keep me. I've been digging for them for so long and made such great achievements, and I've never dug up dangerous gas or monsters. They regard me as a mascot!"

Bald Parrett said in Chen Yan’s ear:

'Indeed, pirates believe in luck as a god. If a person or animal can do dangerous things for a long time without dying, they will regard him or it as a mascot.'

Spherical Tunguska sneered disdainfully:

"But it's so boring to live underground all the time! You have to face those half-human monsters like shrimps and crabs all day long. It's not as fun as when I was picking up garbage and fucking rats on the high street."

"So, I found an opportunity and ran out of the underground."

"Later, I was caught and brought to you."

After listening to this, Chen Yan felt his head was buzzing.

What Spherical Tunguska said clarified some things for Chen Yan, but at the same time created more mysteries.

It now seems that all the abnormalities originated from the experiment conducted in the MIT Research Institute laboratory twenty years ago on the cracks leading to the brass pipe space.

Chen Yan sorted out the rough sequence of what happened:

1 That year, by chance, Chen Changsheng and Xiangu, who were graduates of the University of Michigan, discovered a "crack" leading to a brass pipe space in the attic of the apartment at No. 33 Walker Street.

2 They tried every means to move [the rift] from the attic back to MCU and placed it in the laboratory of the institute.

3 They regarded the knowledge related to [The Crack] as their graduation topic and studied it. During this period, Joseph Lagrange, one of the graduates of that class, was also Chen Yan’s colleague Turin Lagrange.

Grange's uncle calculated [Lagrangian time] and was of great help to subsequent experiments.

4 They began to prepare for [the next stage of research] (This was one of Chen Yan’s most curious doubts. What kind of experiment were they preparing for at that time? What did they want to get from the rift? Just an understanding of the world of brass pipes

Exploration? Chen Yan thinks not).

The dean at the time heard the news and forcibly intervened in the experiment (this was the second doubt that Chen Yan was most curious about, what did the dean do back then?). Under the dean's forcible intervention, the experiment failed and the experiment failed.

It had terrible consequences, and except for Chen Changsheng, almost everyone else was killed or injured.

5 After the experiment failed, the laboratory was brutally dealt with by the MiDa Research Institute - they pushed the entire laboratory into the "Waste Abyss" an unknown number of meters below the surface of MiDa.

The mutated rift in the laboratory destroyed the "City of Dies" that originally existed underground (at least that's what it seems now, but how the "City of Dies" appeared and how many years it existed underground is still unknown.

puzzle), turning it into ruins.

6 A few years later, the Wilke Young incident occurred, and the spherical Tunguska dug up the rock formation where the laboratory was abandoned. An unknown strain [brain ball strain] invaded the University of Michigan, spreading sleepwalking on a large scale, and the closure of the University of Michigan began, and

Under the intervention of Mida's powerful extraordinary power, it was calmed down in a short time.

In the same year, Spherical Tunguska mutated, gained human intelligence, and took away Wilke Young's throat as his own vocal organ.

Since then, the spherical Tunguska has escaped from Meda and entered the black pine forest in the northwest of Meda, eking out an elusive existence.

7 Some time later, the spherical Tunguska heard the call of the gramophone in "City of Mountains" (it didn't know it was a gramophone at the time) and returned underground.

At the same time, "Master Quinn" and "Big Dog" of the newly established Northern Bureau Crime Investigation Division entered the waste abyss, and for some bizarre purpose, threw the laboratory into the depths of the [waste abyss] - an incredible thing

It happened - there was an unexplainable "resurrection" in [The City of Mountains].

At the same time, the falling laboratory produced a strong shock wave in the waste abyss, causing violent vibrations in the ground of Yanan City. Underground caves and waterways were penetrated, and the smoke lake water poured back, allowing pirates to enter the underground space.

7 A few years later, Yanan City was preparing to build a subway, and accidentally dug up the "resurrected" [City of Peaks]. As a result, a haunting incident occurred on the construction site, and many people died tragically. The construction team had to stop work and gave up the underground.

Iron construction.

Also in the past few years, the Northern Bureau has never given up its exploration of the "City of Mountains", investing a large number of manpower and losing a lot of manpower due to the "resurrected" [Brain Ball Strain].

In order to prevent the continued spread of the [Brain Ball Strain], the Northern Bureau diverted the smoke lake water underground from another angle, submerging the city of mountains.

At the same time, the [Big Snake] that can turn ordinary rocks into snake-kissed rocks appeared underground, causing heavy casualties in the North Bureau.

It was also at this time that due to the vortex that appeared underground, the North Bureau discovered that the lowest point currently recognized in the world was not the [Bottom of the Abyss], so they continued to explore and lost more people.

After many unsuccessful investigations, the Northern Bureau gave up exploring the bottom of the waste abyss.

8 After a period of time, the pirates headed by James Parrett went underground with advanced technology that surpassed this era, mined a large amount of snake-nose rock transformed by the [Orochi], and sold the snake-nose rock to people on the surface.

As a result, the major forces made a fortune and established [Sparrow Industries].
Chapter completed!