Chapter 551: Centennial Disaster in Human Base
To actually have such a magical ability..."
The old man exclaimed.
Li Wenxi has just briefly introduced his abilities.
"I heard that your current metal ore reserves have been exhausted, right?" Xu Ying asked.
"...That's true." The old man nodded heavily.
"More than fifty years ago, you also understood the situation here. More than fifty years later, the situation has not alleviated, but has become more severe. However, due to the lack of resources such as ore, we have been unable to attack and defend in terms of attack and defense.
It’s already a bit stretched.”
"Is it getting worse..." Xu Ying frowned, "Didn't you take the initiative in the first place?"
"Of course there are, but..." the old man sighed, "their number is endless. Even if an area is cleared, it can only maintain stability for half a year. After half a year, it will become a dangerous area again. Their reproductive ability,
It’s really too strong.”
"We have put a lot of effort into this aspect, but in the end we did not achieve results. On the contrary... it consumed too much of our resources. Now that we are in this situation, our original decision may have to pay a large part of it.
responsibility."
As he spoke, the old man's turbid and majestic eyes dimmed slightly.
"You can't say that, grandpa." Wei Shishi retorted, "If grandpa hadn't made that decision, perhaps the human base would have been deeply affected fifty years ago."
"What are you talking about?" Li Wenxi was a little confused, "Why can't I understand you?"
"Let me explain." Wei Shishi started to explain, "You are not from our human base, right?"
"...Hmm." Li Wenxi nodded, "No."
"If you live in our city for a few days, you will have a good understanding of what we just said. This matter is the biggest crisis for all mankind in the human base area."
"If only a few people know that our resources are about to be exhausted, then this is a real crisis that everyone knows about."
"Our human base has been attacked by beasts for hundreds of years."
Li Wenxi opened her eyes slightly: "A herd of beasts...attacked? They will also suffer...underground!"
She thought of the experience of exploring the underground world that Xu Xin had communicated with her before.
Under the cultivation of alien invaders, the underground world indeed has a relatively stable ecosystem.
"I don't know how you live, but our group of humans has lived underground for thousands of years. It has always been very peaceful and stable. The area of the base area has gradually expanded, reaching its peak a hundred years ago."
"As for why we stopped expanding our base a hundred years ago, it's because... unusually large beasts appeared around the base, and they were not friendly to us."
"A huge beast?" Li Wenxi asked in surprise, "Is it a giant beast?"
Wei Shishi did not answer, but continued: "Those huge beasts have basically the same characteristics as the beasts above the ground recorded in history books, but they are much larger, and their numbers are also unusually large. Every time
They will all attack the outermost human base areas in groups."
Behemoth's... beast tide?
Li Wenxi was very surprised.
"Human beings a hundred years ago lived too comfortably. During the process of rapid expansion, they did not take any protective measures in advance on the periphery of the base area."
"So, when the beast disaster came from many points on the periphery of the human base area, the humans who encountered the beast disaster had no ability to resist at all. It was really a... loss of life."
Li Wenxi looked at Xu Ying.
As someone who has lived for thousands of years, she should be very familiar with that era, right?
Xu Ying understood what Li Wenxi meant, shook her head and said: "I have not been here a hundred years ago. The last time I came here was fifty-five years ago, that is, with Wei
The last time we had friendship was two hundred years ago."
Weibo is the old man's name.
When he heard Xu Ying mention this name, the old man smiled.
At the age of eighty, hearing his own name from an old friend whom he had not seen for more than fifty years touched him.
Wei Shishi on the side frowned slightly.
Seeing a girl who looked similar to herself calling her grandfather by his first name made her a little uncomfortable, but she couldn't say anything.
"Then...haven't you gone back and looked at it?" Li Wenxi asked, "Go back to that time a hundred years ago and look at it?"
Giant beasts suddenly appeared and besieged the human base in the underground world. This seems a bit abnormal, right?
"No." Xu Ying shook her head, "In order to prevent the future from changing and affecting our layout, we usually do not time travel to the past."
"Otherwise, if we plan the future and go back to the past, we don't know what we did, causing a butterfly effect and changing the future... That would be too stupid."
"For example, my brother and I went back fifty years ago and told Weibo a lot of things. If we went back a hundred years ago, we unconsciously caused some changes, causing changes fifty years later.
Wei Bai is no longer the head of the family, or there is no such person as Wei Bai at all... Then isn't our efforts in vain?"
Xu Ying's words made the three people present look a little strange.
Old man Wei Bai suddenly felt a chill running down his spine and said with a wry smile: "Then do I want to thank you for your kindness in not killing?"
He had long known that Xu Ying could travel through time, but this was the first time he had heard of such a thing.
On the side, Wei Shishi, who had always been expressionless, looked at Xu Ying with deep caution and a hint of fear in her eyes.
If this kind of thing can be realized, it will simply kill people invisible!
"I definitely won't do such a thing, and aren't we talking about the beast tide? Wei Shishi, please continue talking, I don't understand this either." Xu Ying leaned on the back of her chair and said.
Although he was dissatisfied with Xu Ying's lazy sitting posture at this time, Wei Shishi did not stop talking nonsense and continued: "A hundred years ago, the human base area was devastated by the incoming tide of giant beasts. Most of the people in the periphery were devastated.
Fleeing inside."
"The tide of behemoths is almost endless!"
"At that time, almost all the soldiers went to the front line. The accumulated resources accumulated over hundreds of years were exhausted in a year. The military resources were also depleted very much, which was more than the total of the previous nine hundred years."
"And we, as the Wei family in charge of military power, suffered the greatest losses in that disaster. Since then, we have also lost control of this underground human base, and the three families have begun to fight against each other."
"That's true." Xu Ying nodded, "Our original plan was to support one family to be stronger than the other two. Although the three families are competing against each other on the surface, the Wei family secretly has the ability to rectify the three families. As long as they are given a
With a little help, you can have the ability to centralize power. As a result... the sudden disaster a hundred years ago turned the apparent pattern into a real pattern."
"That's it." The old man Wei Bai sighed again, "Fifty years ago, when Xu Ying and Xu Xin came, they wanted to help us become stronger again and take back control."
"But unfortunately, our strategic resources had been exhausted at that time. We had no technology but no resources. There were wild beasts invading the surrounding areas. Under internal and external troubles, the Wei family at that time was really out of breath. So at that time
……well……"
Wei Shishi nodded and continued: "In the past fifty years, the beast tide has continued, and not only the external beast tide, but also the sparsely populated areas in the base have been occupied by them. They have become real beasts."
The size of the current human base is almost equivalent to the area of a large country on Earth thousands of years ago. In such a large area, it is understandable that there are wild beasts roaming around within it.
With such a long border and so many herds of animals, there is no way to defend against it...
"Fortunately, the recent twenty-something
Over the years, these wild beasts have stabilized, especially the wild beasts within the territory. They almost no longer attack human bases, but have integrated into the ecology of this area."
"But even so, in order to prevent problems before they occur, necessary resource consumption is indispensable. Over the past fifty years, our foundation has still been slowly decreasing."
"So..." Wei Shishi looked at Li Wenxi, "If you really have that ability, please save us."
"If this continues, this human base will lose its ability to protect itself."
Li Wenxi basically understood the current situation in the human base area. She nodded hurriedly: "Of course, of course I will help you. That's why I came here. Moreover, during my time here, I have discovered
We’ve found a mineral point.”
"Already discovered?" Wei Bai and Wei Shishi were both surprised.
Xu Ying chuckled: "Sister-in-law's ability is definitely a real life-saving straw for you now."
Her most important purpose in bringing Li Wenxi here was not to save this underground world that would be depleted of resources in a few decades.
After all, the most important resource, crystal stone, has been almost exhausted.
Although the crystal stone contains huge energy, humans underground cannot mine and use it at all. They can almost only be used to release light and passively release energy.
Similar to the function of the sun.
But the crystal stone that maintains the basic energy source of the underground world, a necessity for the maintenance and expansion of human base areas, has been almost exhausted in a thousand years.
Surviving in the underground world is not a long-term solution after all.
Xu Ying brought Li Wenxi underground because she wanted Li Wenxi to provide the place with the resources to manufacture a large number of weapons, turning this underground human base into a crazy underground arsenal.
Not only to resist the herds of beasts underground, but also to prepare for future battles above ground.
This was their original purpose, to make this underground force one of the backbone forces to resist alien invaders in the future.
This beast invasion that has lasted for hundreds of years has consumed too much power in the underground world. There is no other way but to replenish it now.
Fortunately, the current progress on the ground has not yet reached the point where a large weapons army is needed.
However, you have to hurry up!
Wei Bai looked happy and stood up. He did not question, but asked directly: "Where are the resources?"
"Well, it's just near where I live, but it's..." Li Wenxi pointed to the top of her head.
"Is it up there..."
"Well, do you have the ability to mine upward?"
Wei Shishi pondered for a while: "This involves some problems. There is no problem in terms of technology, but in terms of safety risks... If there are residential areas below, it may be necessary to relocate people first. If it is a densely populated area, then
I’m afraid it will be more troublesome…”
"It's on the outskirts of the city, but not many people live there." Li Wenxi recalled.
"These are not problems." Wei Bai waved his hand, "Just tell us where the location is, and we will solve other things."
It seems that Wei Bai has really been coveting resources for a long time. His obviously anxious attitude now shows how little resources the Wei family currently has.
"Is the villa nearby?" Xu Ying asked.
"Yeah." Li Wenxi nodded.
"Then come with me, let's go there and take a look!"
…
On Shi Wanyun's side, the story continues.
"When that woman looked around at me, I really felt like I was in cardiopulmonary arrest." Shi Wanyun said softly.
"She is also a person who has undergone genetic modification, but she has no special characteristics?" Xu Xin thought, "could it be..."
"Well, they are definitely genetically modified people, but... I really can't tell." Shi Wanyun recalled, "You are right, the stronger the people there are, the more they look like normal humans.
There is no difference, but the weaker the person, the more strange physical signs they have."
"You keep talking."
"good."
After being targeted by the adulterer, Shi Wanyun felt like she had fallen into an ice cave.
Even though her whole body was enveloped by the influx of heat, she still felt a chill running down her spine.
She had a feeling that the adult in front of her could subdue her with just one finger!
The scarlet eyes staring at her made her body a little stiff, and she did not dare to move easily.
"My lord in charge, it's like this..."
No. 228, who brought her over, hurriedly explained: "She is a Sanwu personnel who traveled from below..."
In a few words, No. 228 said everything he knew: "That's it, sir, I planned to tell you after the baptism. After all, you can't interrupt the baptism..."
"...You are only telling me such an important thing now!"
The adult suddenly slapped him in the face!
There was a "pop" sound, accompanied by screams, and No. 228 was immediately slapped away.
Her head spun several times in response, her neck was instantly twisted into a twist, and her body tumbled several times in the air before falling to the ground with a thud, her body twitching slightly.
However, she did not die. Instead, after twitching for a few times, she quickly stood up. After her neck and head rotated rapidly, she returned to her original position, lowered her head and said with fear and fear: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Mr. Supervisor..."
"...Forget it, I don't blame you." The adult shook his head, "No matter who you are, they must be baptized first. This is what I have always taught you. What you did is not wrong."
As she said that, she looked at Shi Wanyun who was already beginning to feel sleepy in the pool.
Seeing the scene just now, it would be a lie to say that she wasn't afraid, so when the attacker stretched out his hand towards her, Shi Wanyun subconsciously wanted to hide back even though her head was dizzy.
Naturally, she had no ability to escape. In an instant, the adult grabbed her arm and lifted her out easily like a chicken, and then...
She was lying head and feet down, and the adult was holding her around her waist and under her armpits. He was holding her as if he was carrying an object.
She was put in this position without even a single strand of hair on her body, which really made her feel ashamed and insecure.
But after she soaked in the pool for more than a minute, all her strength disappeared and she couldn't make any movements. Even when she opened her mouth, she didn't make any sound.
She felt hot all over her body.
"She is quite special. I will take her away for a while, and you can continue with the baptism." An adult voice sounded, with a hint of... joy in her tone?
"yes!"
Chapter completed!