"Did the experts invited by the pirates give the strain in the strange snake a name?"

Chen Yan asked this question because if the pirates invited "real" experts, they should have named the strains in the strange snake. Such naming usually follows the rules of biological classification.

Under normal circumstances, the program attributes of the creature itself can be judged through its name, and thus part of its living habits can be known.

"Yes, they call it [Snake-snout Strain] - because there are a large number of such strains in the veins rich in Snake-snout Rock. They were still discussing at the time why the Snake-snout Rock changed from an ordinary rock to a

Could the minerals that can radiate electricity be due to the existence of this strain?"

"This is what they think: the Omega sector where Snake-kissed Rock is abundant has a large number of corpses of strange snakes, and the [Snake-kissed Strain] feeds on the corpses of strange snakes, so inside the Omega sector,

Wherever there are snake-kissed rocks, [Snake-kissed Plants] are almost everywhere.

So, what turns the rock into the electrified ore [Snake-nose Rock], is it the secretion of the strange snake group, or is it the [Snake-snout Strain] that feeds on the strange snakes?"

Chen Yan followed up and asked:

"Have they found the results?"

Spherical Tunguska responded:

"No... they have been studying this for a long time, but they still don't know this clearly. The main reason is that the experimental subjects are too ferocious. Whether it is a strange snake or a [Snake Snout Strain], they are very aggressive and will kill people if they are not careful.

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"The company originally wanted to spend money to buy human lives to continue research, but later there were so many deaths that money could not buy human lives, so the experiment had to be abandoned."

I see……

Chen Yan thought to himself that perhaps the transformation of rocks by [Snake Kiss Strain] is not a natural process, but a supernatural process - an extraordinary process.

The experts invited by the pirates did not have knowledge of extraordinary biology...or "Abnormal Biology", so they could not explain the effect of [Snake-snout Strain] on the rocks.

Thinking of this, Chen Yan suddenly thought that Miskatonic University's abnormal biology has a history of several decades. Perhaps they have investigated this situation?

Well... there is a low chance that this guess is correct, because everything that happened underground only lasted a few years. According to the descriptions of Bald Parrett and Spherical Tunguska, in comparison, the application of Snake Rock only lasted three to five years.

, the Department of Abnormal Biology at U of M may not necessarily have a complete understanding of the situation underground.

Chen Yan pondered for a moment and sorted out the thoughts in his mind.

He now knows of four strains:

The first strain came from the "Underground Cave" and was named "Snake Kiss Strain" by the experts invited by the pirates. Chen Yan guessed that it might be a variant of the "Brain Ball Strain", a parasitic type of strain that is currently only found in "Underground Monsters"

"Snake" has been found to feed on the host's body. When gathered together, it will produce a strange effect - reviving the long-dead will.

The second strain comes from "City of Mountains" and is named [Brain Ball Strain] by the Northern Bureau. It is a malignant infection strain that will produce strong hallucinations and gradually devour the host regardless of whether there is sufficient food or not.

The third strain comes from the "Spring God Secret Order" and is tentatively named [Haemophilus] by Chen Yan. It is a parasitic strain that can enhance the vitality of the host and cure some difficult diseases when there is sufficient food.

; Will devour the host and replace it when there is not enough food.

The fourth strain is from...Messiah.

The fourth strain confuses Chen Yan the most. What is the crimson power that repaired his body in the first place? It is also a strain that can repair fatal injuries. Is there any difference between the crimson power and the [Hemophilic Bacteria] of Spring God?

relation?

The four strains have different characteristics, and the first two strains that come from the ground and the last two strains that appear on the surface are completely different.

What Chen Yan can now determine is that there may be some connection between the two strains underground, and the two strains on the surface are also related.

Now, the underground [brain ball strain] has come to the ground through the spherical Tunguska, and the surface [haemophilus] has also come to the underground through Weber.

Chen Yan vaguely felt that something was wrong. The four bacterial strains intersected due to the expedition team. Is this intersection really just a coincidence?

Chen Yan recalled the description of the "Brass Pipe Space" he once wished for, and remembered that extraordinary things would have unexpected encounters, and he gradually became wary.

The depressing atmosphere did not last long.

Amid a low cheer from the shrimp man, everyone in the expedition team looked to the front of the ship and saw that their vision suddenly opened up——

When the waterway reaches the end, a huge cave space floats in the field of vision. The dark, damp, dangerous and cramped mine tunnel that was originally expected did not appear, but the first thing that appeared in front of everyone's eyes was actually a variety of flashing colors.

Neon lights!

"What the hell is this……"

There is a "city" that is as dilapidated as a garbage dump "floating" above the huge cave. The buildings in the city are connected to each other through large iron plates that "float on the water". Countless iron plates are composed of chains interlocking with each other.

Streets in the city.

Chen Yan felt that something was not right about the street. When he raised his head, he saw that the upper part of the city was actually embedded in the rock cracks at the top.

Only then did Chen Yan realize that the buildings he saw in front of him were not "floating on the water", but were hung in the rock wall above!

The vision went deeper, and the part outside the city was still not dark. Chen Yan saw densely packed telephone poles on the rock wall. The wires wrapped around the poles were called "thick". The large-scale heating equipment in Bianaan City

The brass pipe is twice as thick.

Most of the telephone poles are equipped with lights for lighting. The view bypasses the city from the water and looks deep into the mine. Those lights are like underground stars, starting from the city and spreading to the end of the field of vision. The stars in the mines around the stars are

Darkness is like a night sky without moonlight.

For the underground world, electricity is obviously not a scarce resource.

Chen Yan suddenly looked away and saw the same chaotic arrangement of telephone poles on both sides of the city streets, with broken neon tubes forming various billboards:

"Underwater Bully's House", "Happy Miner's Bar", "Big Ace Medicinal Bath", "High Pressure Scuba Wholesale Supermarket", "Snake Barbecue Bar", "Electric Suction Place", "Leziren Chess and Card Room"

…

The light pollution emitted by various neon billboards covered a large area of ​​the city. At first glance, it looked very intimidating. When the ship was about to dock, Chen Yan saw that in this floating city, apart from these,

In addition to the billboards that can be seen, many other billboards - the neon billboards that account for more than 80% of the entire city - have become dim.

In other words, the mining areas here are obviously in recession, and the entertainment industry is almost the only thing left in the surviving city.

"Welcome to the Home of Wandering Souls!"

Home of Wandering Souls, this is the name of this city.

Chen Yan was extremely wary of places like this. Before he figured out what exactly this place was, even if he turned back to the waterway, he would not enter the city rashly.

Before Chen Yan could speak, the voice of Bald Parrett in his breast pocket reached his ears:

'You'd better make sure what kind of place this is. I've never heard of any [House of Wandering Souls] underground... The name doesn't sound like a good place.'

When Chen Yan heard such words, he became even more vigilant.

"What is this place? Where are we now?"

The shrimp man answered truthfully:

"This is the home of wandering souls, a gathering place for desperate miners. Due to various reasons, they either unilaterally tore up the contract with the company, or violated certain provisions in the contract...

In short, it is a breach of contract, so I am bound by the extraordinary contract and cannot return to the surface for the rest of my life, becoming a [Wandering Soul] that can only wander in the underground space."

The slightly excited voice of the spherical Tunguska came from the backpack in Chen Yan's hand. After entering the underground, this little thing was so happy for the first time:

"Ha! Does this garbage dump really exist? I thought it was a joke by the miners! They really created this place! Spyro Industries is going to be finished!"

Listening to the gloating voice of the spherical Tunguska and feeling the silence of the bald Parrett in his breast pocket, Chen Yan seemed to understand something and let go of some of his wariness towards the city.

Everyone went ashore at the "Iron Plate Pier" that was hung on a building in the city and suspended more than 1 meter above the water. The shrimp man tied the ship's wires to a rusty system welded on an iron plate.

On the ship's pillar, he said:

"I will send you to a safe place, and then tell you the route to Omega Sector. I will introduce you to a reliable bartender, who is a cousin of mine. If you have any questions, just ask her directly.

This place is like her home."

The brothers and sisters of shrimp man George Lebster are everywhere, and Chen Yan is sometimes particularly envious of them.

Entering the city streets along the pier, you can faintly see a huge mining machine composed of various neon tubes located in the center of the city. The majesty of the mining machine proves the former glory of this place, while the dense and dense surroundings surrounding the mining machine are completely dim.

The broken neon tubes prove the current desolation of this place.

George Lebster walked beside Chen Yan and kept saying:

"The location we are in now is a bit strange. It is probably at the bottom of the beta sector and the top of the gamma sector - at this location, the two sectors overlap."

"Because the Beta sector is full of winding mine tunnels, and the Gamma sector is almost covered by groundwater, the junction of the two sectors is actually not very obvious, so places like the House of Wandering Souls appeared."

"Such a large Wandering Soul House was all built by miners. It has taken about five years since the construction was completed. During this period, it was destroyed many times by pirates. The reason why it still exists today is because

The top is the fault layer of the Beta sector. If heavy fire blasting is used, it may cause the collapse of the entire Beta sector and have a chain reaction on other sectors."

"The wandering souls who have nowhere to go stick to this place with their lives - this is another reason why the wandering soul's home still exists."
Chapter completed!