Civilization of the Stars: I loaded the mod

Chapter 149
After chasing into the hole, the darkness came, and at the same time, the sun was less poisonous. The squirrel suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and the temperature around it suddenly dropped. Although it was still in the hot category, at least it would not sweat when standing.

The cave goes all the way down, the road is very long, and there is a faint light 50 meters away, like a faint candle in the wind.

Silently feeling the coldness of the rock mass, the squirrel narrowed its eyes, and tentatively said after adapting to the darkness in the cave.

"Liyou?"

The sound echoed on the road ahead, and the petite figure crouched silently in the light, neither responding nor making any other movements, and the deeper part of the cave was completely hidden in the darkness, with no sight to be seen.

There is no trace of the hustle and bustle of the outside world in this narrow and long passage.

In the depths of the tunnel, Li You is holding the light tube and staring intently at the depths of the cave, there is a universe in the dark.

At the end of the [-]-meter-long tunnel, there is an underground cavity in Nuoda. The space in the cave is surprisingly large. This location has already reached the bottom of the mountain. The light is too dark to see the whole picture, but there are sporadic dots in the distance. The glowing fireflies showed signs of the nearby jungle, reminding her that there was something hidden in the cave.

Just as she was immersed in observing the world in the darkness, a warm and slippery object suddenly slapped Liyou's shoulder.

The coolness crawled up the body along the back of the neck, and Li You's mind was completely blank after being stimulated, and he almost jumped up in fright.

"Ahhh!"

The high-pitched screams hit the wall of the cave, rushing all the way to the world deep in the cave.

The things behind her were obviously taken aback by her reaction, and the hands on their shoulders let go.

"Liyou?"

Although I don't know what happened, the squirrel who just arrived also wanted to scream, but when I turned my mind, I realized that something was wrong. "it's me."

Hearing the squirrel's voice, the high-pitched voice in Liyou's mouth stopped abruptly. He almost thought it was an unknown underground creature, but he realized that he let go of the weapon on his waist, covered his chest and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Almost, dying!" Li You stood up and stomped her feet fiercely, her timidity covered up with a loud voice. "Are you trying to scare me to death!?"

"Eh..." Squirrel was a little embarrassed.

Blame me, how brave you were when you entered the cave just now, but now you can't be cowardly at the slightest sign of trouble?

"What were you doing just now, didn't you hear me coming when you were so focused?"

Along the way, she called Liyou's name several times, but there was no response.It's too far away to hear it normally, and the back is almost close to the face and still hasn't replied, obviously in a daze.

"Of course to observe the situation inside."

Li You dug out the spare lighting equipment left and right, raised the light stick in his hand, and threw it away with all his strength. "Hey! Check it out!"

The light stick was thrown with a whoosh, and it flew over a certain distance powerlessly, and fell a few meters away with a bang, taking a lonely look.

squirrel:……

"See it clearly?" Li You pinched his waist and looked sideways at his little friend, not feeling at all how failed the throw just now was.

"Then how could Hei see clearly?"

"I've turned on the lights for you, why can't you see clearly?"

"The dim light sticks are not as bright as the light bulbs on my personal terminals."

"..."

Covering his face, Li You pointed to a corner in the depths of the darkness. "Look carefully, is there a jungle over there?"

jungle?Is there a jungle in this cave?
The squirrel opened its eyes wide, trying to see the signs of the jungle in Liyou's mouth, but nothing but black was black.

After staring until his eyes were dry and confirming that he couldn't see clearly, the squirrel gave up struggling.Not everyone is as 'innately gifted' like Li You, a pair of cat eyes like a fish in water in the dark.

At this time, you need to use tools.

"Normal people don't have night vision ability, Miss Liyou, who is a cat." Looking away from Liyou's innocent and calm face, Squirrel Wuyu picked up the personal terminal, opened the blue panel to debug twice, and the stretched virtual The panels retracted, and bright white light shone straight out.

Without night vision goggles, normal camping will not bring anything at all, but the basic lights are enough.

"Now, I can see it."

The underground world in front of you unveils the veil of darkness with the movement of light.

The brown, cypress, poplar, pine, fir, and shrub species that are generally the same as the outside world have completely different appearances, low and regular, and white in color.The tall and straight trunks of the jungle trees are not bent at all, as if they have been measured by a ruler.The territories of the plants are not invaded at all, and they grow neatly in place, and the shrubs also grow in the same posture.

From time to time, you can see the crystal-like vegetation interspersed together, and the iridescent white light scatters under the crystal clearness.

In the dark, a dim cloud of phantom crystals blooms in brilliance when encountering light, deriving a beautiful and colorful aura.

"Abaa, Baba, Crystal Forest?" The squirrel almost petrified in place.

No wonder Liyou was in a daze just now, even though all kinds of ecological miracles gathered on Gaia planet, the scenery in the cave before him can be ranked in the top ten among the ghostly craftsmen that squirrels have seen.

A corner of the forest is illuminated, and the exquisite and dreamy underground world is not big, like an exquisite work of art.

The most shocking thing is the strangeness of the vegetation here, especially the crystal plants below?
"This is far from being a crystal forest. It's just an underground forest with a tendency to become albino, with a few crystal flowers of silicon crystal cells."

Li You glanced at her, and brushed over the traces of the lines on the side rock wall, slanting downwards in long strips. "Look at these again."

"Like... a channel formed by fault dislocation after the earthquake?" The squirrel asked in surprise.

"En." Li You nodded to confirm her guess.

The wall structure and composition have a clear sense of hierarchy. Even if the two of them only rely on common sense in life to guess, they can still think of earthquakes and mountain movement at first impression.

Before coming here, the two had checked the information of this forest. Coincidentally, it was mentioned that there was an earthquake in the Knum area decades ago. These traces on the rock wall all indicate that this place connects the underground forest with the outside world. It is estimated that the channel was formed by coincidence during the earthquake.

He wanted to move forward with his short legs, but just after taking two steps, he stopped in place and looked at the squirrel behind him.

"Wait! Did you hear anything?"

"Sound?" Squirrel frowned and listened carefully, then shook his head after a while.

In addition to the whistling hot wind gushing out of the entire passage, there was only the breathing and talking of the two of them, which was too quiet.

"You take my place."

"it is good."

Under Liyou's greeting, the squirrel walked to a position parallel to Liyou.

The auditory senses of the whole person are suddenly accessible.

It is just at the intersection of the passage and the underground world, with the rustling of leaves, gurgling water, chirping insects, and resonating crystals. The strange symphony of nature seems to form a band, and the wonderful rhythm of the underground world shows a unique charm.

If there is no danger inside, she would like to move out of a small camp to the underground world as the site for this camping.

Unfortunately, there is a slight dissonance in the distance.

"Wow wow..."

The squirrel listened with bated breath.

A trace of something bad came to my heart, and the abnormal sound became clearer.

The two looked at each other, and the lights in their hands shone together.

Perhaps the audience was watching, the discordant sound became more intense, and the gravel fell one by one.

The agitation of dust obscured the line of sight, making it difficult to see clearly, but it was enough.

Li You and Squirrel fell to the ground in the shock, their eyes widened, staring at the half-hanging rocky cliff.

boom! !

The support of the gravel reached the critical point, and the semi-suspended structure collapsed. The deafening sound made people uneasy, and it collapsed in the chaos.

The wall fell off like a flood!

"I****!"

……

The collapse lasted for nearly half an hour, the ground was shaking, and the low-pitched shock waves spread and roared wantonly along the mountain, sending out danger signals that caused the birds and animals in the jungle above to startle and flee. The ground was like dead leaves falling in the rain. Let the two people in the accident center feel uneasy.

As soon as the dust had settled, the dust fell to the ground, and the squirrel swallowed while half crawling on the ground, slightly raising the flashlight to let the beam of light sweep over it.

It's like the scene of the doomsday sweeping past.

The falling rocks covered half of the crystal forest in the distance, and at the same time laid layers of rock footings under the semi-suspended rocky cliffs. The mountain body that was originally covered by rock mass collapsed and there was another black hole with purple light.

A road just formed in front of them, its significance is self-evident.

"This... this..." Squirrel opened his mouth, but couldn't hold back the second word.

The big change came too suddenly. I was thinking about exploring the crystal forest before, but when my head went black, half of the forest was buried in the next second.

Li You had lingering fears, his trembling calves were a little weak, he managed to get up after crawling twice, and patted the dust, with a hint of crying in his tone. "It should be my scream before..."

No cry is innocent in an avalanche, and perhaps the same is true underground?

It cannot be said that the stone wall in front will collapse only after the two of them arrive. This underground space can form an ecosystem like the Crystal Forest. It must have existed and experienced evolution long ago. Maybe it has belonged to the ecology of the planet Gaia since ancient times. part.

So there must have been some external influence on the collapse of the stone wall.

All she could think of was the scream she had been terrified of earlier.

coincide?Maybe.

But at least it's not an earthquake, it's not an earthquake...

Li You plucked up the courage to keep talking, forced his brain to be calm, and showed a rare smile.

"It's not bad, our limbs are sound, and we don't have to worry about aftershocks. Maybe tomorrow we will reach the pinnacle of life because of this, enjoy the protection of the bars, and hold the country's iron rice bowl? The reason is to destroy the precious ecological environment of Gaia planet."

"It was just an accident. We won't be convicted, Xiao Liyou." Squirrel also looked embarrassed, looking at the road paved with fallen stones in front of him and fell into deep thought.

They might even make a fortune for discovering new subterranean ecosystems.

As for this half of the crystal forest... Gaia's ecology will automatically restore it in a short time, and the tone is worried about this. It's better to think about whether their experience along the way is a bit too coincidental.

Ran from the urban area to this corner, and plunged into the virgin forest.

I chose a place to camp here at random, and after playing around outside Liyou, I discovered the hidden entrance of the cave. Later, Liyou screamed in the cave and caused a collapse. The rubble falling from the mountain seemed to have eyes. Like building blocks, there is an extra road in the middle of the pile of rocks out of thin air...

"Strange……"

"Is it weird, let's go! I'm too sorry for my curiosity if I don't go and have a look."

Li You interrupted her by dragging the squirrel, hooked his shoulders and dragged his friend towards the purple hole at the end.

"Hey, slow down, be careful not to stir your feet!!" The squirrel exclaimed.

The difference in height made Li You look more like hanging on a squirrel.

The squirrel walked forward with a heavy load, and Li You jumped and jumped. Her unique night vision ability made her walk on flat ground, and she couldn't get over some bumps of gravel.Holding the lamp stick half-handed, he firmly moved towards the entrance of the purple-glowed hole.

The passing gravel is not solid, but a honeycomb-like structure.

The long-term hot gas erosion has turned the fragile rock mass into a channel for heat dissipation, and large areas of small holes are still warm, and they were still gushing hot gas half an hour ago.

The two stumbled in the devastated Crystal Forest...

…………

In the outside world, a secret agent who was hidden by two grasses above his head was still in shock.

With a face full of disbelief, he looked at the ground under his feet dumbfounded, then stared at the radar screen, and picked up the communicator to initiate a report.

"Response on 01, 01, and 18, an unknown collapse occurred underground, and the shock moved around the target two people for a full circle, requesting action guidance."

"01 Received, what are the target's vital signs?"

"...It's alive and kicking, it doesn't look like the skin is broken at all."

"Oh, just keep watching."

"...Don't you go to the rescue? Maybe they won't be so lucky if there is another accident."

"No direct interference of any kind, trust them."

"..."

(End of this chapter)