Civilization of the Stars: I loaded the mod

Chapter 33 Whispers in the Stone
17 meters underground, at the entrance of the laneway.

Bana leaned against the wall and closed her eyes, listening to the small sounds in the environment, her mind moved by the beating in her chest.

This is not the first time she has explored the dark and silent underground space.

As early as Guduxing, I have been to underground caves more than once, and the environment of mine tunnels and caves is similar.

Similar condensed emptiness.

Walking in a huge cave will make people feel small and powerless, and everything will be silent within a few meters.

Like a deep starry sky.

The scale of the mines is far less than that of the caves, and the tunnels dug by the Mojie people are also smaller. The dull tunnels seem to have no air circulation, which makes people feel sensitive.

In this narrow and intricate network of underground mine tunnels, any slight movement will be magnified countless times by the crisp echoes.

"Step...step...step...click"

A faint sound vibrated along the wall, and Bana leaned her ear against the mountain, holding her breath to listen.

Always remember your responsibility to monitor the safety of the roadway.

"chi~zi"

All of a sudden, the terminal hanging on the back of the waist also made a noise of mixed signals.

Bana frowned and pulled out her personal terminal.

In order to facilitate receiving communication signals from teammates, the signal reception was kept open.

But the sudden noise disturbed the quiet environment.

[Searching for signals. . . ]
On the personal terminal, there are a few large characters as usual, and no communication has been connected.

"Zi~Knock..."

There was another irritating murmur.

Bana took two steps back in the direction of the anchor network channel, and the personal terminal was instantly muted.

"Is it radio frequency noise from ground working equipment?"

Thinking of this possibility, Bana stood back at the intersection of the mine shaft and the roadway, and the buzzing sound followed, but this time the volume was much weaker.

"It's strange. It wasn't there when I first came in. What exactly is interfering with the communication?"

Doubt came to mind, Bana thought about it carefully, first looked back at the laneway, then poked her head out into the vertical mine shaft, and looked around.

The lights in the roadway are brightly lit, and the part of the mine leading to the ground is equally bright, full of miner's lamps.

Only the direction under the mine belongs to the unexplored area, which is as dark as an abyss.

Could it be some natural noise?
Then what was it that I heard on the wall just now?

Thoughts flashed, Bana observed the stone pile obstacles in the roadway with some vigilance.

"step...step...step"

This time the sound is more obvious, even if you don't have your ear against the wall, you can hear it.

Clenching the mechanical arm of her right arm, Bana held her breath and continued to listen attentively, distinguishing the source of the sound, hesitating whether to report it in time.

"beep."

The communicator at the waist beeped, and the communication was connected!

"Hahaha! Bana Watchman, we're back!"

The familiar silly voice came from the communicator and the alleyway together, which made her breathe a sigh of relief.

"It turned out to be the sound of footsteps, is it distorted because it is too far away?"

Bana wiped off the cold sweat from the false alarm.

She almost thought it was the sound of soil and stones loosening and smashing into the dust, but fortunately nothing caused an oolong.

Not long after, two figures came to the end of the alley.

Xing Lai walked ahead in a hurry, holding something in his hand, while Captain Aisha strolled leisurely after breaking up.

"Is the operation going well?" Bana relaxed her posture and asked with a calm expression again.

"Of course!" Xing Lai chuckled and rushed to answer first.

"If possible, I want to get an answer from the captain's mouth, not from the idiot who was scared to cry,"

Bana sneered, squinting, condemning someone's shameful behavior.

"Hey! I didn't cry! I was just taken aback."

Xing Lai angrily opened his mouth to explain, and seeing Bana's expression of "I don't listen to your explanation", she looked at Aisha as if asking for help.

Kazilan's big eyes had complex expressions, revealing the charm of grievance, with a little anger in the grievance, and a trace of sadness hidden in the anger.

Aisha could only shrug her shoulders helplessly and change her name for her. "She didn't cry."

When Xing Lai heard the captain's clarification, he glared at Bana arrogantly.

But the next sentence is directly typed back to its original shape.

"It's just a little too scary."

Xing Lai wanted to cry immediately, but the captain's explanation might as well not be explained.

"I was just taken aback, not scared!"

Bana gave her a strange look, perfunctory.

"Ah yes yes yes."

"Just like we would be startled by other people who popped out without a sound, just startled, not scared!"

"Ah yes yes yes."

"..."

Aisha, who was covering her mouth and giggling, saw that Xinglai had a tendency to say goodbye to the world, so she quickly changed the subject.

Pointing to the sparkling crystal in Xinglai's hand, he began to talk about the experience just now.

"There are still many collapsed road sections in the entire roadway. The place that is suspected to connect the roadway and the coal mining layer is blocked by gravel. We searched the entire passable roadway and only found this thing."

"Here, crystal palm."

Xinglai presented this 'Crystal Handicraft' in cooperation.

The whole body is crystal clear, as colorful as being splashed with paint. The whole body is composed of five fingers and the palm, and the details of the palm prints and fingerprints are completely visible.

The wrist seemed to be broken roughly, the crystals on the fracture were uneven, and crystal meridians of different colors could be seen.

It's more like exaggerated line art.

The blood vessels of the Mojahukgan would never be like this, at least not in the hands of humanoids.

"This handicraft was found on a Mojie skeleton. Judging from the fracture, the crystal palm was knocked out of a more complete handicraft."

"The internal meridian lines of the translucent crystal are very fine, and the Mojie people will never be able to make crystal sculptures of this level."

"This may be the biggest harvest we have found in all the lanes - the incomplete artwork of an unknown civilization"

Bana clenched the crystal palm and stroked it lightly, her fingers frosted the fractured area.

Even if she has never been an artist, she can still feel the exquisite craftsmanship of the craftsmen and carvers, which is simply a masterpiece after combining reality and art.

Facing the lights, it exudes colorful and fantastic colors.

"It's so beautiful, Bana, do you know what material it is made of?"

Xinglai beside him suddenly felt a little interest in his heart and asked, Bana had been to the underground world of Guduxing before, so he should know a lot about minerals.

Ask for the name, I want to play with this kind of handicraft when I have time, the light and shadow are gorgeous and shiny.

Next to the firearms exhibition wall, add a display cabinet to put beautiful crystals, and add a light below to illuminate it.

It just looks cool!
Thinking storms filled his mind with the picture of the left pistol and the right crystal, Xinglai's eyes glowed faintly.

"I need an instrument to detect it. The color is too mixed, but the outside is probably quartz."

Bana shook her head and said regretfully.

The colorful appearance in the crystal makes her unpredictable the material. Compared with natural formation, she prefers 3D printing technology of alien artists.

"Captain, shall we go deep underground next?"

"Go back first, send this artwork back, and replenish Xinglai's backpack by the way."

Aisha patted the deflated backpack on Xinglai's back. Dozens of small and delicate miner's lamps were hung as street lamps in the alleyway. If they want to go down, they must be filled first.

"Let's go! Go back to eat."

Xing Lai was the first to fasten the safety rope and jump out of the mine with a heavy load to reduce his body weight, and continued to rise.

"Master Aisha."

Bana intentionally or unintentionally stopped the captain, wanting to suggest a problem with the communication module.

"Why, is there anything else?" Aisha stopped where she was and asked back.

"It's like this. There was a lot of noise in my communication just now."

"Does the communication function of our personal terminal need to be optimized upwards? The electromagnetic wave interference of the ground machine work will delay and affect the work."

Bana explained the situation succinctly, but the captain's reaction was completely beyond her expectations.

"What are you talking about? Our personal terminals are all specially made, and the radio frequency noise of industrial machines will not affect the communication channel at all."

Aisha looked puzzled. There was no interference. The personal terminals of the crew members of their scientific research ship were not for civilian or even military use, but experimental ones.

It is a high-end special product in the system, which is expensive and powerful, and can isolate at least [-]% of industrial noise and natural noise.

Isn't it the machine noise coming from the ground?what is that.

Bana instinctively felt bad, as if something had been forgotten.

"Ka...Ka...Ka"

Suddenly, the familiar voice sounded again, very close and loud!
This time, Bana heard very clearly, it wasn't the sound of footsteps, but the sound of falling stones!
The sense of crisis of death pierced my heart, stabbed my back, and the adrenaline soared.

"run!"

With a roar, Bana Aisha and the two quickly jumped into the mine.

The tunnel that was originally opened behind was quickly buried again amidst the rumbling sound, leaving only a small platform on the outermost edge to escape the burial.

The environment fell silent again, and the two looked at each other for a long time.

Until... There was another loud noise from his waist.

"Zi~beep..."

It seems that whispers from the depths of the ground...

　I spent all day dealing with relatives during the day, spent 5 hours from afternoon to night, and finally finished a chapter.

　　In a sense, I can also be considered a master of time management, um... the passive kind.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)