Star Civilization: I loaded the MOD

Chapter 149 Underground Demolition

After chasing into the hole, darkness hit, and at the same time, the sun was less harmful. The squirrel suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and the surrounding temperature suddenly dropped. Although it was still in the hot category, at least it didn't sweat even while standing.

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

Silently feeling the coldness of the rock mass, the squirrel squinted his eyes and tried to adapt to the darkness in the cave.

"Liyou?"

The sound echoed in the road ahead, and the petite figure squatted in the light and remained silent, neither responding nor making any other movements. The deeper parts of the cave were completely hidden in darkness, and no sight could be seen.

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

Deep in the tunnel, Li You was holding a lamp and staring attentively into the depths of the cave. There was something dark inside.

After walking through the 100-meter-long tunnel, at the end is an underground cave in Noda. The space in the cave is surprisingly large. This position has reached directly below the interior of the mountain. The light is too dark to see the whole picture, but there are scattered dots in the distance.

The fireflies showed signs of the nearby jungle, reminding her that there was a different world inside the cave.

Just as she was immersed in observing the world in the darkness, a warm and slippery object suddenly slapped Li You on the shoulder.

A chill crawled up the back of his neck, stimulating Liyou's mind to go completely blank, and he almost jumped up in fright.

"Ahhh!"

The high-pitched scream hit the wall of the cave and rushed all the way to the world deep in the cave.

The thing behind her was obviously startled by her reaction, and the hand on her shoulder loosened.

"Liyou?"

Although he didn't know what was going on, the squirrel that had just arrived wanted to scream too, but his mind turned and he realized something was wrong. "It's me."

Hearing the squirrel's voice, the high pitch in Liyou's mouth suddenly stopped. He almost thought it was some unknown underground creature. In response, he loosened his hand on the weapon on his waist, covered his chest and breathed a sigh of relief.

"I almost died!" Liyou stood up and stamped his feet, his loud voice masking his timidity. "Are you trying to scare me to death!?"

"Uh..." Squirrel was a little embarrassed.

Blame it on me, how brave you were when you entered the cave just now, but now you are so timid at the slightest sign of trouble?

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

She called Li You's name several times along the way, but there was no response. She was too far away to hear Li You's name, and she almost got close to her face and still didn't reply. It was obvious that she was in a daze.

"Of course we're observing what's going on inside."

Liyou dug out the spare lighting equipment, raised the light stick in his hand, and threw it away. "Hey! Watch it!"

The light stick was thrown out with a whoosh, unable to fly for a certain distance, and then crashed a few meters away, illuminating a lonely person.

squirrel:……

"Did you see it clearly?" Li You pinched his waist and looked sideways at his friends, not feeling at all how failed the throw just now was.

"How can Hei see clearly?"

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

"The brightness of such a dark fluorescent stick is not as bright as the light bulb of my personal terminal."

"..."

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

Jungle? There is a jungle inside this cave?

The squirrel opened his eyes wide, trying hard to see the signs of the jungle mentioned in Li You's mouth, but all he could see was black.

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

At this time, you need to use tools.

"Normal people don't have night vision, Ms. Liyou, who is a cat." Moving his eyes away from Liyou's innocent and calm face, Squirrel picked up the personal terminal wordlessly, opened the blue panel and debugged it twice, and stretched out the virtual

The panel retracted, and bright white light shined straight out.

Without night vision goggles, you wouldn’t bring anything with you during normal camping, but basic lighting is enough.

"Now, I can see it."

The underground world in front of you is unveiled into darkness as the light moves.

The brown, cypress, poplar, pine, fir and shrub types are the same as those in the outside world, but their appearance is completely different. They are low and regular, with a white color. The tall and straight trunks of the jungle trees are not bent at all, as if they have been measured with a ruler.

The plants do not invade each other's territory and grow in the same place. The shrubs also grow in the same way.

From time to time, you can see crystal-like vegetation interspersed together, sparkling with rainbow-colored white light scattering under the crystal clear sky.

The crystal, a dim shadow in the darkness, blooms when exposed to light, creating a beautiful colorful halo.

"Aba, aba, aba, crystal forest?" The squirrel almost petrified on the spot.

No wonder Liyou was in a daze just now. Even with all the ecological miracles on the planet Gaia, the scenery in the cave in front of him was ranked among the top ten miraculous creations that a squirrel has ever 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 a crystal forest. It's just an underground forest with a tendency to albino, equipped with a few crystal flowers with silicon crystal cells."

Li You glanced at her and brushed the traces of lines on the rock wall on the side, which were long and diagonally downward. "Look at these again."

"It looks like... it's a channel formed by fault displacement after an earthquake?" the squirrel said in surprise.

"Yeah." Li You nodded and confirmed her guess.

The structure and composition of the wall are clearly layered. Even if the two of them guessed based on common sense, their first impression would be that of earthquakes and mountain shifting.

Before coming, the two of them had checked the information on this forest. Coincidentally, it mentioned that an earthquake occurred 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.

The passage was probably formed by chance during the earthquake.

He took up his short legs and wanted to walk forward. As soon as he took two steps, he stopped and looked at the squirrel behind him.

"Wait! Did you hear anything?"

"Sound?" The squirrel frowned and listened carefully, then shook his head after a moment.

In addition to the whistling hot wind gushing out, the only sound in the entire passage was the breathing and talking of the two of them. It was extremely quiet.

"You stand in my position."

"good."

At Liyou's greeting, Squirrel walked to a position parallel to Liyou.

The whole person's auditory senses are suddenly accessible.

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

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

Unfortunately, there is a subtle disharmony in the distance.

"Wow..."

The squirrel listened with bated breath.

A hint of something bad came to mind, and the abnormal sounds became clearer.

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

Perhaps because the audience was watching, the discordant sounds became more violent, and gravel fell one by one.

The swirling dust obscured the view, making it difficult to see clearly, but it was enough.

Liyou and Squirrel fell to the ground in the shock, their eyes widened as they stared 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 was unsettling, and it collapsed amid chaos.

The wall fell off like a flood!

"I****!"

…

The collapse lasted for nearly half an hour. The ground was shaking. The low shock waves spread wildly along the mountain. They roared and sent out danger signals, causing the birds and animals in the jungle above to panic and flee. The ground was like dead leaves falling in the rain. The deafening sound of destruction poured into the ears numbly.

It made the two people at the center of the accident uneasy.

The dust was about to settle, and the dust fell to the ground. The squirrel half-crawled on the ground and took a breath, slightly raising the flashlight to let the beam of light sweep across it.

It's like the scene of doom sweeping past.

The falling rocks covered a small half of the crystal forest in the distance, and at the same time laid layers of rock footings under the semi-suspended rock cliff. After the collapse of the mountain that was originally covered by rock mass, there was another black hole glowing with purple light.

A road formed exactly in front of them, and its significance was self-evident.

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

The big change happened so suddenly. I was thinking about exploring the Crystal Forest before, but my mind went dark, and in the next second, half of the forest was buried.

Li You's heart was still frightened, and her trembling calves were a little weak. After crawling twice, she finally got up, patted the dust, and said with a hint of crying in her voice. "It should be the scream I made before..."

No scream during an avalanche is innocent, and the same is probably true underground?

You can't say that the stone wall in front will collapse just waiting for the arrival of the two. This underground space can form an ecosystem like a crystal forest. It must have existed and experienced evolution for a long time. Maybe it has been part of the Gaia planet's ecology since ancient times.

part.

So the collapse of the stone wall must have had some external influence.

All she could think of was the scream she had been frightened from before.

Coincidence? Maybe.

But at least this is not an earthquake, this is not an earthquake...

Li You mustered up the courage to keep chanting, forcing his brain to calm down and showing a rare smile.

"It's not bad. Our limbs are intact 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 iron window, and win the country's iron rice bowl? The reason is to destroy the treasure-level ecological environment of the Gaia planet."

"This is just an accident. We will not be convicted, Xiao Liyou." Squirrel also looked embarrassed, looking at the road paved with fallen rocks in front of him and deep in thought.

They might even be able to make a fortune by discovering new underground ecosystems.

As for this half of the crystal forest... It won't be long before Gaia's ecology will automatically restore this place. If you are worried about this, you might as well think about whether their experience along the way is a bit too coincidental.

I ran from the city to this nook and cranny and plunged into the primeval forest.

He randomly chose a place to camp here, and after playing around outside, Liyou discovered the secret entrance to the cave. Later, Liyou screamed in the cave, causing it to collapse, and the gravel falling from the mountain seemed to fall at a fixed point with eyes.

Just like building blocks, a road appears out of thin air in the middle of the pile of rocks...

"Strange……"

"What's weird? Let's go! If you don't go and take a look, you'd be really sorry for your own curiosity."

Li You interrupted her by dragging the squirrel, and dragged her friend shoulder to shoulder towards the hole with purple light at the end.

"Oh, slow down, be careful!" the squirrel exclaimed.

The height difference makes Li You look more like she is hanging on a squirrel.

The squirrel walked forward with a heavy load, and Liyou jumped up and down. Her unique night vision ability allowed her to walk on flat ground, and some bumps in the gravel could not be disturbed at all. She held up the light stick in half her hand and moved firmly towards the purple-lit cave entrance.

The gravel you pass by is not solid, but has a honeycomb-like structure.

Due to long-term heat erosion, the fragile rock mass has turned into a heat dissipation channel. Large areas of small holes are still warm, and half an hour ago they were still spewing hot air.

The two stumbled through the destroyed crystal forest...

…………

Outside, a certain agent, invisible to nature with two grasses above his head, was in shock.

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

"Reply No. 01, 01, 18. An unknown collapse occurred underground. The vibrations caused a complete circle around the target two people. Requesting for action guidance."

"01 Received, how are the target's vital signs."

"...He's jumping around so much, his skin doesn't look broken at all."

"Oh, just keep monitoring."

"...Aren't you going to rescue them? Maybe if another accident happens, they won't be so lucky."

"Any form of direct interference is prohibited, trust them."

"..."

(End of chapter)