When he saw the first-generation mining machine again, Chen Yan was still very shocked.

The first-generation mining machine plunged diagonally into the basement of 33 Walker Street. The huge auger bit looked slightly ferocious at this moment, and the ferociousness itself gave people a strange "aesthetic" feeling, as if they were watching a machine that had been tempered by the jungle.

The deformed fangs of a vicious beast.

When he was at the bottom of the waste abyss, although Chen Yan saw the first-generation mining machine through the searchlight, he did not take a closer look due to the tense situation.

The lights in the basement were modified by shrimp man George Lebster and are now quite bright. In addition, almost half of the mining machine has entered the basement, and Chen Yan can see the structure of the entire mining machine.

This mining machine as a whole is not a symmetrical three-dimensional structure, but a "spiral structure" with a large arc. The entire mining machine body, like the drill bit, presents a slight spiral shape, which looks like...

Hmm...a kind of nautilus in the family Nautiloididae and the genus Allonautiloides.

‘Why does the mining machine have the appearance elements of Nautilus...’

Chen Yan thought about the origin of the mining machine - this mining machine was "manufactured" by James Parrett through Outer God Technology. So, this nautilus-shaped body structure should be from the hometown of Outer God.

Characteristics of civilization?

Chen Yan looked at the "snail shell" wrapping the mining machine.

The material of the "snail shell" is not a steel plate, but a material that Chen Yan has never seen before.

To be able to carry out mining operations underground, the hardness of this material must be very high.

Chen Yan came to the mining machine and reached out to touch it. It was not cold to the touch. It had a texture like "bark", but it was not as rough as bark, but very smooth.

I dug my nails hard into it and made a mark. The mark was completely restored in just half a second, and the entire surface became flat and smooth again.

‘It seems to be some kind of wood fiber.’ Chen Yan thought to himself, this kind of toughness can only be possessed by wood fiber or processed high-density ductile plastic.

‘Maybe it’s some kind of woody plant that doesn’t exist in this world.’ Chen Yan recalled the information about the woody plants in his memory, but didn’t find any that had properties consistent with the material that made up the shell of the mining machine in front of him.

While Chen Yan was observing the material of the "snail shell", he also discovered a large number of strange patterns on it.

The patterns seemed to be some kind of stick figures, depicting some kind of arthropod that looked like an otter.

It obviously looks like an otter, but it is much thinner than an otter. The connection between the limbs and the torso looks like an arthropod insect, which looks extremely weird.

'Arthropod otter...'

The specific pattern was too abstract for Chen Yan to describe. It was "feeling" that made him understand the content of the pattern.

Chen Yan "feels" that this "arthropod otter" is obviously an intelligent creature, and the "snail shell" pattern depicts their daily life.

'How could there be such a thing...'

Chen Yan suddenly felt enlightened.

‘Is it something similar to a mural...Then those who painted this kind of mural should be these “arthropod otters”.'

'Did the first-generation mining machine... come from the civilization established by this "arthropod otter"? Was it made by "arthropod otter"?'

‘The bald man seems to have said that James Parrett obtained the first-generation mining machine through prayer... So, this mining machine was obtained by James Parrett by praying to these “arthropod otters”?’

'These arthropod otters... actually carved murals on mining machines...'

This is really strange.

These "arthropod otters" are clearly not creatures of this world - they may belong to this world, but they are definitely not from the surface.

Chen Yan continued to look down, and the content on the mural emerged in the "feeling":

These "arthropod otters" don't produce, they live off what they dig out of the ground - their daily routine consists of digging underground.

The items they excavate include some edible ores, some large meat insects that occasionally appear and are quickly hunted by them, and the remains of various aquatic creatures found underground.

‘Huh? There is water everywhere under the ground where they live... This was once a body of water?'

Chen Yan felt a little incredible, but found that this was actually reasonable.

'By the way, they have a biological form similar to otters, most of them are amphibians, and their home should have been in the water.'

'But for some reason, their homeland was filled up and became a piece of land. By coincidence, they began to dig downward... Do they think there is a sea underground that has not been filled up by land? Is this IQ?

Intelligent creatures?'

Chen Yan felt that his thinking was a little confused and immediately gathered his thoughts.

'My 'feeling' may not be accurate... Moreover, I cannot use my own worldview to measure the behavior of another intelligent civilization.'

After calming down, he continued to look down.

In the patterns on the "snail shell", Chen Yan "felt" that these "arthropod otter" intelligent creatures had obtained something similar to "technology" from the "strange things" found underground.

They developed their own civilization through the "technology" obtained from the "strange things", established a huge underground "Arthropod Otter Empire", and after completing the development of civilization, they continued to dig downwards.

‘This social form is not like a city-state civilization, it’s hard to explain, I can’t understand...’

Chen Yan was a little confused, because there were quite a few things on the "snail shell" that he had never seen before, and it was not easy to understand them from the world view of an alien civilization. It was already very difficult to get a rough understanding.

What he could clearly see was that the prototype of the first-generation mining machine appeared at that time.

The underground land was filled with the remains of a large number of aquatic creatures. Some of them looked familiar to Chen Yan, but most of them were strange creatures that he had never seen before. The remains of some creatures looked bizarre and looked like deep-sea creatures from the world where Chen Yan lived.

'Huh? Are these the remains of marine creatures?'

'How could the ocean be filled up with land...'

Chen Yan is now 80% sure that the "Otter Civilization" he saw should be a civilization in another corner of the universe.

The "Otter Civilization" became powerful due to the technology excavated underground, and gradually grew in the technology excavated underground.

They discovered that the deeper they went underground, the higher the technological content contained in the "strange things" they found.

Thus, the worship of the center of the earth was born.

In the next mural on the "snail shell", large numbers of "arthropod otters" begin to perform worship rituals toward the center of the earth.

The worship rituals in different areas underground are different. The "arthropod otters" with different worship rituals have inexplicably developed into an antagonistic relationship. Due to the different technologies they obtained from the underground, they gradually evolved differently and became different species.

One group of these "arthropod otters" has the purest worship of the center of the earth. They do not even regard a fixed area underground as their home, but live on mining machines. Wherever the mining machines go, it is their home.

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Chapter completed!