Star Civilization: I loaded the MOD

Chapter 39 Long Tunnel

In the dark tunnel, the rhombus-shaped light source on the wall maintains a faint brightness.

In a trance, the darkness was instantly dispelled by daylight, a group of uninvited lights illuminated the tunnel, and the scene of isolation from the outside came into view.

The semicircular design, smooth cutting and polishing marks, flat ground, dim light on the stone walls, and the astigmatism of the crystal aroused everyone's curiosity.

Elsa threw a look at Bana as a signal.

The latter coughed twice, stepped forward to push his teammate away, and took out it twice, but did not pull it off.

"Do you need me to use a drill to get out the inlay?"

"Then leave it to the people behind to dig." Aisha shook her head and turned away. Upon seeing this, the team members averted their eyes and followed closely.

The crystals are the same no matter who digs them. The harvest of this kind of grass beside the nest is right at the entrance of the tunnel. The extra time they spend is not worth the gain.

The mission of the Exploration Pioneer is to prioritize finding the remnants of unknown ancient civilizations. The goals are divided into three, six or nine levels. Knowledge, technology, unique artifacts, and history are the top priorities.

"Turn on the radar, sync the map, and let's move on."

"Yes!" Upon hearing this, a team member immediately pulled out a bunch of radars from his backpack, poked at them and started scanning.

Soon, traces that were invisible to the naked eye continued to reflect and seep into the wall, and the detectors stared closely at the progress of the process.

More and more distant tunnel structures feed back information, data is automatically imported, and nearby 3D maps are modeled.

After tapping Enter, the detector raised the screen and handed it to the captain.

"Lord Aisha, the entire tunnel has a downward trend. Without any obstruction, the radar can spread to a hundred meters away. In addition, there is another tunnel 45 meters underground ahead. The tunnel itself may have many branches.

"

In the map, they are standing on a 30° inclined tunnel heading straight down, and there is another inclined tunnel below.

The distance is too far and blurry, but the bifurcated shape at the end can be discerned, and the modeling of the ellipsoid reveals the intricacies of the underground tunnel system.

After taking over the map upload and synchronization, Aisha held the newly added map with a faint joy on her face.

"The more complicated the better, if it is a civilization that is like living in a snail's nest, it will disappoint people."

The larger and more complex the tunnel is, it means that the longer the unknown civilization has been active underground, the richer its value will be.

"Keep moving forward, and report any other findings as soon as possible."

"yes."

At her signal, the entire team walked toward the depths of the tunnel without any haste.

Each team member has a different division of labor.

Bana walked at the front of the team, always alert with a gun in hand, forming a 'V' with the other two armed men.

The detector's hand-held radar is located in the center of the team.

Xing Lai and Wood kept taking out bright miner's lamps and placing them on both sides of the tunnel, both as lighting tools and road signs.

Portable mobile signal base stations were also installed to serve as communication relays with the Stone Palace logistics team.

Following the downward sloping tunnel, the team walked straight forward for several hundred meters before a fork in the road appeared.

The detector looked at the road conditions in the distance of the forked road and issued a warning.

"Lord Aisha, there are two roads ahead. Go straight down for more than ten meters on the left side. The radar cannot detect the end. There is still a 30° slope on the right side."

Vertical channel and inclined channel.

"Go left and go as far down as possible." Aisha took the left fork without hesitation.

At present, the overall trend of tunnels is downward, and vertical tunnels may be able to take them across a long distance.

"We have to go down again."

"The temperature of the air is getting higher and higher."

The whole team entered the tunnel on the left, and Wood, who was at the end, drew an arrow at the fork to mark the fork before leaving.

The group of people quickly reached the end of the road section and quickly understood why the tunnel went vertically downward.

A deep shaft-like pit runs through the ground, with a rectangular metal frame inside. Several metal wires fall into the darkness, as if something is hanging.

"This is..." Aisha was a little stunned when she saw this ancient mine elevator structure.

The rocker next to it may be a switch. Judging from the style, its function is similar to that of an elevator.

"You guys stand back, I'm going to pull this switch."

He carefully shook the switch on the ground, and the creaking sound of the old equipment touched his heart. The team member who reacted the most exaggeratedly grabbed his heart and retreated to the back.

The harsh sound lasted for a minute before the cage-like elevator swung up precariously. Although it didn't look good, it actually worked.

The team members looked at each other and didn't know what to do.

Taking the elevator, I was afraid that the food would be cut off on the spot.

If you don't want to sit on it, you have to dismantle it and install other lifting equipment for convenience, which is a waste of time.

Rubbing her eyebrows with a headache, Aisha suddenly remembered that today was different from the past. She had a large logistics team.

In the past, there was a problem with digging and shaking equipment, but now you can shake people directly.

Thinking of this, she glanced at Wood.

"Wood, please remember the data of the elevator shaft, go back and tell the logistics team to dismantle this high-risk elevator and build a reliable lifting device."

"clear."

Wood, who was at the rear of the team, was ordered to put down the materials he was carrying and move closer to the detector.

"The elevator shaft is 69 meters deep, 4 meters long, and 4 meters high. The temperature at the bottom of the pit is 31°, and the hardness is 6 degrees..."

After Wood finished recording sentence after sentence of information, he resigned and returned to the way he came.

Not long after, Xinglai laid out the 100-meter zip line, turned around and handed the hook to his good friend, winking and making his meaning clear.

"What are the armed men doing here? Why don't you take the bait yourself and go to the minefield?"

Bana rolled her eyes, ignored her, and quickly moved away from her "caring teammate" by hooking up the zipline.

After waiting for a while, Bana, who had hit bottom, sent back the communication.

"This is Bana. I have reached the bottom of the well. The environment is safe. The space here seems to be quite spacious. There is a side room of hundreds of square meters."

"Received, we will descend in sequence."

Putting down the communication, Aisha gave instructions to the team members to jump into the elevator shaft first.

Others brought their supplies and followed one after another. The continuous sound of ziplines sounded, and it took more than ten minutes to walk through this distance of less than 100 meters.

Elsa walked into the side room under the elevator shaft, the upwardly opened gate, and the square cave.

In the center is a closed iron stove, which is completely dark inside. The light still casts a dark tone, as if it were burning firewood.

Beside the door are tables, stools, chairs, and tools of unknown purpose. The opposite wall is covered with strange crystals, metal products, and glyphs with unknown meanings.

The teammate carefully inserted the tweezers through the gap, pinched a small piece of black substance, and pulled it out twice.

The result comes after a little judgment.

"It's copper sulfide."

Everyone looked at the pill furnace-style ‘refining equipment’ with expressions of surprise on their faces.

"Maybe this cave is their smelting area."

"No matter what, let's keep going down."

Seeing that the atmosphere became silent, Aisha knew that she couldn't get any more information, so she left again with her teammates.

Before leaving, drop an arrow to give instructions to the following team.

The tunnels here go much deeper into the earth's mantle than imagined.

As the team went deeper, the number of parallel passages gradually increased, and the number of tunnels sloping downwards decreased significantly.

Even curved tunnels and upward tunnels began to appear.

In four hours, we traveled more than ten kilometers, mostly on gentle slopes and parallel roads, and the straight-line distance from the ground was already four kilometers deep.

The temperature at this time has reached hundreds of degrees, and the originally close-fitting insulation layer of the life-support suit has bounced up, acting as a buffer between normal temperature and high temperature.

It is inevitable to find various side rooms on the road, but there are still no traces of unknown civilizations.

The winding tunnel system seriously slowed down the progress, and hundreds of miner's lamps were exhausted.

In the end, the team was unable to follow the original path, and staggered back with exhaustion and long tunnel modeling.

Some people say that the book's P corporate flavor is getting weaker and weaker, well... I think so too.

So, I thought of a wonderful plot arrangement that would allow the protagonist to travel to the galaxy in advance to deceive and deceive others, but there were too few updates to write it down. (Funny)

(End of chapter)