Coming down from the mountain, Miao Pu and his party quickly discovered new problems.
In this huge basin, there is a low-altitude energy layer similar to mist. At this level, the air is poisonous and the oxygen content is extremely low.
Although Miao Pu had just obtained a plant element factor that could improve air quality, the most it could do was make a simple device that could filter poisonous gas. If he wanted to provide everyone with sufficient oxygen, it would not be possible for a while, especially for exercise.
When the time comes, people consume more oxygen.
This problem suddenly troubled everyone. After some discussion, everyone decided that Luo Zhiqing should conduct efficient exploration, while the remaining people did what they could, such as collecting samples and collecting available materials to prepare for the return trip.
Luo Zhiqing cannot stay in a poisonous and hypoxic environment for too long, but as a strong person among awakened people, she can quickly escape from the low-altitude energy layer. In fact, when she moves in space, she also involves hypoxia and other conditions, so
She has a special set of equipment.
Even so, Miao Pu still suggested that she take the southwest route, that is, explore along the southwest cliff. In this way, she could easily escape from the low-altitude energy layer by climbing the cliff and breathe oxygen. Moreover,
Since she has the ability to move the void, the cliff path is not particularly difficult.
The simple material collection work was lackluster. In Zhou Shuai's words: "The world is full of plants, but I can't even find any decent wood."
Indeed, looking at the plants in this basin from a normal perspective, they can all be called crooked melons and split jujubes. It feels like they are all terrestrial plants. It seems that the only difference is that some are huge and some are short.
Of course, this is just an intuitive and rough impression. If you pay attention, you can still find many interesting places.
All vegetation is no higher than the low-altitude energy layer. This interesting phenomenon was first discovered by Li Xuesong.
At the same time, Jiang Shangqing led some people to collect samples. Kang Danian organized people to clean up the route from the foot of the mountain to the beach to make the road easier to walk. Miao Pu started exploring nearby. With the help of the weapon spirit, he could do what he wanted
There are many things.
It took more than 2 hours for Qi Ling to conduct multiple sampling and analysis of the soil, air and nearly a hundred species of plants in the basin. However, the final result of the analysis will not be obtained until about 6Rj hours.
After all, analysis is not just a simple operation, but also involves operations such as chemical reactions.
In fact, in essence, the analysis method of Qi Ling is not much different from the laboratory analysis of modern science. It even has practical problems such as insufficient level and simplification. In terms of efficiency, it may not be as good as that of high-end scientific laboratories. It is just that it
It’s just that I have the advantage of having a professional counterpart.
Miao Pu was playing with strange-looking bottles and jars there, and it felt like a legendary alchemist playing with evil potions. There was smoke and fire from time to time, and the sound and light effects were very full.
[Mara] is by far the smartest and most autonomous derivative of the ancient world. Although they are dedicated to combat, they can do some cumbersome tasks. With their efforts, they can replace crude rock stairs.
The original slope was removed, and a large amount of gravel was swept down from the slope and scattered everywhere.
About 6 hours later, Miao Pu got the analysis report from Qi Ling. Simply put, based on what he saw and heard along the way, this should be a man-made, huge ecological circle. There are all kinds of strange and strange things growing in it.
Plants, animals, microorganisms...the connections between these organisms may be difficult for humans on earth to understand, but they are indeed a complete system.
There is also good news. The overall environment here has micro-energy particles similar to those in the Yanggu Mine. The effect is of course similar to the hyperspace evolution, and it is not accompanied by the terrifying consequences like the Yanggu Mine.
sourced viruses. However, the micro-energy particles here are relatively thin, and the effect is relatively mild and difficult to detect.
When Miao Pu heard this, his heart moved, and he thought of hitting a pole with some jujubes but no jujubes, spawning some plants, and started his operation.
The batch of plants that Miao Pu spawned seemed to be quite low-end, very similar to the vines used earlier. However, these plants did not look lethal. The roots of each plant looked like a big jar.
, and squirm from time to time.
In about half an hour, these strange plants began to bloom. It was a strange flower with only three petals and a huge stamen. It was pure white and lavender.
After a while, the flowers withered and the plants began to bear fruit. Seeing this, Miao Pu knew that he had succeeded.
By the way, since he couldn't get the micro-energy particles here, Miao Pu thought of Xuanling's ability to condense essence, so he thought about making a plant that would work in the soil like it attracts monsters. Let's see.
Can we get some essence of fruit? The result is still somewhat rewarding.
Unfortunately, the efficiency of this method is obviously not high, but it is rare to win.
While Miao Pu was tinkering with the essence fruit, Qi Ling came to another conclusion, that is, the source of the plants on the forests and grasslands on the other side of the Earth Sea is these ugly and weird plants here.
This situation confused Miao Pu. The information given by Qi Ling allowed him to outline such a situation:
Man-made strange species were released from the source, and in special cultivation grounds, they were spawned and evolved into various branches. However, the plants at this time still seemed incompatible with this world. Because they did not belong to today's world, but
It has long since disappeared from the world due to changes in the environment.
Now, they are back, but they can only survive in a special small environment.
However, as long as there is a good start and enough time, life can always find a suitable way out for itself. Therefore, after countless generations of reproduction, they have the qualifications to move from the special environment to the vast world.
They borrowed some strange creatures to enter the Earth Sea, cross the Earth Sea, and then after obtaining enough materials, they established a new biological form on the other side of the Earth Sea, a form that is more suitable for the current earth environment.
But how to explain the original mother trees in the bead-chain-like passage?
According to the previous logic, the evolutionary pattern of the original mother tree should be that the closer it is to the underground space, the more primitive it is, and the closer it is to the entrance and exit of the underground area, the more mature it is. Only in this way can it be consistent with the general trend of species migrating northward and evolving as they go.
However, the actual situation is exactly the opposite. The closer the original mother tree is to the underground space, the higher the degree of evolution. Two bead-chain spaces are almost two times.
Also, how to explain the Brood Battalion? Now that I think about it, they are like a metal wall outside the cave where primitive humans live, making them seem out of place.
Before this, he had always felt that the existence of the Brood Company was to protect the rear of the underground space from intrusion.
But now he doesn't think so. He feels that maybe the speculation he told Luo Zhiqing before is the truth, that is, the source civilization as a third party is not monolithic, but has at least two camps, and one camp can be
It is called the program faction], which represents the force that operates according to the program after the source program is activated. This force includes program self-protection, evolution, defense, etc.
The other camp is the [Resurrecting Sect] who appeared for unknown reasons, that is, he guessed that they are capable people who borrow corpses to resurrect their souls. These people may not be his opponents in terms of combat effectiveness, but they have a strong grasp of the knowledge and skills of the original civilization.
The mastery and understanding of this underground ruins is something that no one can catch up with.
The [Returning Soul Sect] is taking advantage of their own advantages to stir up trouble and try to achieve their goals. This purpose may be in conflict with the Programming Sect]. On the human side, including the Aragami, the various factions of the organization and even him
, because of their respective purposes, they intervened in the conflict between the Programming Faction and the Soul-Returning Faction, thus making the whole situation more complicated.
Of course, such an inference still lacks enough information to confirm it. It is more of Miao Pu's guess and what he considers to be the most consistent and reasonable explanation based on the available information.
To say such an inference, the practical significance is to prepare him mentally so that he will not be caught off guard and suffer a big loss.
What can really solve problems is strength. The higher the strength, the easier it is to solve problems. On the contrary, it will be all kinds of hard work.
Therefore, the fundamental purpose is still the same: mastering sufficient strength as much as possible within a relatively short period of time is the key to solving the problem.
With this understanding, Miao Pu naturally regards maintaining or even improving the combat effectiveness of his team as his first priority.
So he actively prepared for war and accumulated supernatural energy. The energy here was abundant. After his efforts, when Luo Zhiqing returned, not only the energy deficit had been replenished, but there was also some additional reserves of life energy.
In addition, Miao Pu's little plan also paid off, a sack of essence fruit. Don't underestimate this sack. In terms of energy synthesis, it is enough to restore his energy 4 times. Of course, the essence fruit is not as good as the energy triple.
, to turn it into part of your own energy requires special digestion time.
The news brought back by Luo Zhiqing is generally good. Although she can be said to have escaped from being hunted, Miao Pu and others are not afraid of enemies now, but are afraid of losing clues. If they can't find it here,
If they find enough important clues, they can only return to the underground ruins and search for the core of the ruins. The so-called exploration into the sea, or searching the underground space, is simply impossible. They don't have the time, nor the ability.
"The person who attacked me was a weirdo with blue skin and blue blood."
Miao Pu frowned and confirmed: "You said it's a human?"
She took off her helmet, scattered her messy hair, straightened it, and tied it up again. Luo Zhiqing affirmed while tying it up: "Yes, they are human beings. Except for the color of their skin and blood, they are no different from us humans. Oh,
By the way, their eyes are rather strange. The pupils have no pupils. Apart from the whites of the eyes, they are just a ball of bright red light. Also, their bodies are relatively tall and strong, just like the characters in ancient Greek mythology, with well-proportioned and perfect bodies.
, about 2 meters tall.”
"Where are your clothes? Do you have any weapons?" Miao Pu continued to ask.
"Well, this is a bit like Sparta. There are more parts of the skin directly exposed to the air, but it is equipped, much like your wooden armor." As she said that, Luo Zhiqing took out a sharpened knife from the space gap backpack.
Spear-mounted weapons with broken poles. "They use this type of weapon. There are more spears, but also swords, knives, axes, and hammers."
Miao Pu took the spear-like weapon and used it carefully. The handle was about the thickness of an egg, made of wood, but the front end was crystallized. The entire spearhead was actually an energy crystal, and the transition was extremely natural, as if it was born this way.
. But as an expert, he certainly knows that this is impossible. After all, the spearhead is too professional, with three edges, an edge, a blood groove, and a stab. In terms of craftsmanship, it can only be found after the end of the feudal era of mankind.
Similar design and forging levels.
In other words, this is basically an artificial gun head, and the reason why the wooden handle can be perfectly connected can only be said to be a relatively outstanding manifestation of source technology.
In addition, the weight of this broken spear is much heavier than it looks. According to Luo Zhiqing's description, the total length of this spear is about 26 meters. If it is easier to use such a spear against the enemy, it means that in terms of strength, he
There is not much advantage to be had against this kind of weirdo.
Naturally, Miao Pu's focus is not on the enemy, but on clues.
Luo Zhiqing told him that as you go south, the environment becomes more desolate. After about a hundred kilometers, there are basically only hardened sand and scattered gravels left in the basin. The degree of desolation is comparable to that of the land where they rested before.
It's just that the terrain in this basin is relatively flat, and the blue-blooded people gather deep in the Gobi.
There, there were buildings or jungles with crystals, just like Superman's polar home in the movie "Superman". She couldn't find out more about it, and the flat terrain couldn't hide people at all. Not long after she approached the crystal jungle,
Then blue-blooded people emerged, and she tried to fight them, but the blue-blooded people were very powerful. According to the current combat power evaluation system, they were at least around *, not to mention there were so many of them.
After understanding the situation, Miao Pu came to Kang Danian and others to discuss, and the final plan was: "We have come to this point, and we have to explore the Crystal Jungle. But starting from where they are now, they are really at a disadvantage, so we have to
Take another route."
Quickly packing their bags, the group immediately left the basin, returned the same way they came, then boarded the ship and set sail, heading southwest, leaving the area with more offshore reefs, and the large ship turned south and headed straight down.
The green cliffs and mountains are on the left side of the ship. The sea ship can be said to be heading south along the western edge of the basin.
When Luo Zhiqing first explored in depth, she brought a spatial coordinate locator with her and finally anchored it closer to the Crystal Jungle.
In this way, there is one more coordinate point on the flat sea map composed of energy outlined by Qi Ling. The large-scale ship will use this point as a reference to go around from the north to the west.
When the ship enters the sea area due west of the coordinate point, looking to the east, the land is still a group of blue mountains rising straight from the sea, like the fangs of a giant beast, forming a row in the void at an altitude of more than 20 meters.
The peaks are towering. On the west side of these mountains, there are rocks all over the place. The rolling waves are constantly breaking on these rocks, covering them up, exposing them, covering them up again...
In this sea area made up of chaotic reefs, there are still some whirlpools, large and small, hidden or visible, which look very turbulent, as if there is a huge hole below, constantly swallowing everything above.
Everyone set up a pergola on the deck to watch. Qian Lihang couldn't help baring his teeth: "This terrain is really dangerous."
This is not because Qian Lihang is being pretentious, but because everyone in the group has suffered losses from this before.
Ever since they had the help of plant monsters, the mentality of these veterans has become somewhat inflated unconsciously. Before, they had been suffering from the lack of the awakened person's physique and were constrained in everything, and their mood was also depressed. Now that this problem has been solved, they naturally have to show their mind.
But with the transformation of Miao Pu, the situation of risking one's life to break through and continuous fierce battles has become less and less. Although they have participated in several large-scale and fierce battles, with the assistance of ancient monsters, their
The strength has been greatly improved, so that the feeling of life and death, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds can no longer be found. This makes these fighting madmen who are definitely not inferior to Miao Pu in terms of fighting will always feel uncomfortable.
It's enjoyable, but the fighting isn't exciting enough.
So subconsciously, they participated in various difficult things more actively than before. For example, when they faced the sea monster at sea, they rushed to get on the deck. Later, Miao Pu came forward and selected the three people with the best shooting abilities.
.
With this bold mentality, when they first arrived on the other side, they directly tried to climb the cliff and conduct reconnaissance on the other side of the cliff mountains. As a result, they felt the terrifying power of the earth and sea water.
To put it simply, the waves of the sea water are directly proportional to the activation degree of energy in the sea water. The rougher the waves, the more highly activated they are.
On the outskirts of the cliffs and mountains, the battle between the sea water and the reefs is actually a battle between two superpowers. The turbid waves that seem to be the same as those on the earth's surface are actually extremely powerful, while the whirlpools are
It is even more terrifying, because it does not represent a simple collision between rocks and seawater, but a larger-scale interaction between forces. A third party is rashly caught in the middle, and even the awakened ones cannot stand it.
So Kang Danian and the others suffered a big disaster when they tried to pass through an area that didn't look dangerous. Even though they were protected by plant monsters and Yuanhua armor, many people suffered internal injuries. Xue Ming was almost killed by a hidden man.
was taken away by the whirlpool. Thanks to Luo Zhiqing's space movement and timely rescue, all that was lost was a lifeboat.
The sea area we see now feels obviously different, and Qian Lihang also felt this.
However, for Miao Pu, passing through such an area is not too difficult. The key is whether it is worth it.
After spending an hour carefully exploring the terrain, the ship finally anchored in the gap between two rocks. The two rocks formed a "concave" under the sea water. The ship sailed into it and stabilized just right, especially
After lowering the anchor, Luo Fan locked the hull of the ship firmly.
Miao Pu raised his head and looked to the north. At the end of his sight, dark clouds were rolling in, covering the sky, and sweeping towards this side. Under the dark clouds and above the sea, there were completely gray patches, which were dense.
The heavy rain, coupled with the thick lightning that connects the sea and the sky from time to time, and the tornado water column that appears and disappears, there is no doubt that this is the moving natural disaster they have experienced.
Facing such a natural disaster, staying on the ship is not a good choice.