The Red Dead Lolita

The most intuitive thing is that the duration of sunshine is shortened. After noon, the sun disappears into the cloud-shrouded sky. Before nightfall, the moon rises ahead of schedule. It is round and big, and it is close at hand. The profit and loss of the moon phase, only the transparent and distorted texture is so clear that it is frightening.

In the western wilderness, there are very few human settlements, and the only city joined by the United City is the city of philosophers, a ring city built around the cliffs of Diana's sinkhole.

Although the terrain is steep and the environment is harsh, the nearby agriculture is only jujube, tea, Gorgon fruit, fish and shrimp, etc. produced by mountains and lakes, but the Tiankeng is a comprehensive mining pool for gems, precious metals and extraordinary materials. Naturally, there is no shortage of people and funds. Every week, there are trains to transport food and vegetables from the agricultural base of Yuanquan City to Philosopher City.

Diana Tiankeng is the largest natural pit in the Pandana Forest, but the karst landform is based on underground rivers. There is not only one Tiankeng, and there are seven or eight small and medium-sized Tiankengs scattered around it.

And the interconnected underground rivers will also wash gems and gold there, and even extraordinary materials, attracting gold diggers to gather.

After entering the forest, Ashley and his party slowed down.

It is very close to the Rock Mountain Kingdom, and the Philosopher's City is also nearby, but they don't go to either.

"Although we are wearing moss, it is impossible to cross the Yanshan Customs. We need to follow an underground river directly into the twilight city of Palast under the rock cap." Morazar said.

The four of them walked through the forest. As they approached their destination, traces of human activities began to appear in front of them. The ruts destroyed the shrubs and vegetation, forming a muddy path. The trees beside the road were cut down and only stumps remained. Bear trap.

In front is a small tiankeng called 'Cashew Bay', where about one or two hundred gold diggers gathered.

At the end of the road, there is a clearing in the forest. Tents and stone tables are placed everywhere. There are bags of sand and gravel beside the tents. They are not used for waterproofing, but for the first rough sieving. Out of the grit, keep a fine sieve out of gems and gold.

It is difficult to live in the wilderness for a long time. The tent camps are all strong men with beards and long hair, or they are all shaved, round and round like a marinated egg.

The air is filled with the smell of fresh fish and snake meat boiled in a big pot, as well as the smell of moxibustion for treating rheumatism.

The gold diggers were not surprised to see a few 'germ men' approaching. They obviously knew about this smuggling channel, and they gathered around one after another to sell their harvest.

"Gold! I have gold!" An old man with deep-set eyes said in a mysterious tone. His soy sauce-colored, chapped hands tremblingly opened the heavy suede bag at his waist, and the luster of gold dust flashed past.

"Bring some tobacco, man! Rolling cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, snuff... and better stuff! Toadskin and numbing cream!" A turbaned businessman with his beard turned up at the sides pushed forward, reeking of tobacco. odor.

"Chocolate, candy, stockings! I have them here!"

……

After finally getting rid of these enthusiastic 'carrying anchors', under the leadership of the connector, the four came to the entrance of the Tiankeng.

This is a cashew nut-shaped corrosion pit, which contains a pool of spring water. The color is delicate and turbid pink blue. It is poisonous at first glance, and beautiful crystals have also precipitated on the shore.

However, after going down to the bottom of the cave and taking the road to the depths, the water in the underground river became clear and the flow was very fast.

The river overflows the artificial dikes, heavy materials are blocked, and the water flows through the drop, driving the generator to provide electricity for lighting and centrifugal concentrators.

In the wide waterway of Japan, a small submersible has been prepared for a long time.

Although it is a two-seater, there is still room, and there is no problem in cramming a total of five people together with a support person.

The vehicle compartment of the submersible is a transparent dome cover, the rear is the propulsion device, and two mechanical pincers protrude from the front.

Drilling in through the opening above, two men with wider builds sat on the seats, and the girl and loli sat on the storage table behind.

hum-

As the submersible sank, cold and suffocating groundwater surged in all directions.

Although the underground waterways are intricate and sometimes need to travel against the current and fall into the deep pool from a high place, this is not an exploration, but advancing along a known route, coupled with Moraca's already inhuman memory storage ability, there is no possibility of getting lost possibility.

……

"right here."

Moraca pulled the joystick to float up, before reaching the surface of the water, the dots of white light had passed through the glass hatch and reflected brightly on the instrument panel.

After the submersible came to a complete stop, Ashley opened the hatch cover, poked his head out, and saw black hair protruding from the cave roof dotted with white 'light bulbs', which seemed to be a kind of hairnet fungus growing on brown on the fleece blanket.

The light is bright, and from the growth stage and position, it seems to be directional breeding.

Ashley was a little nervous, the time on the road was too tight, and she hadn't mastered the special accent of the germ people yet.

In case of being found out, even if you escape the pursuit for a while, this is 30-100 meters deep underground. If you want to return to the surface, there is no map of the smuggling waterway. It is impossible to break through the customs and dig the soil with two hands.

Although she tried to memorize on the way, her brain hadn't strengthened enough to remember the three-dimensional route for several hours.

Obviously, this is not the first time Moraca has come, and the purpose is clear, first he took the three of them to Neying's house to recuperate.

The submersible was driven back by the responder.

Chapter 160 Two: The Revelation of Mosquitoes

Ashley walked a little stiffly, and the thick and velvety moss was like a doll costume for attracting customers.

Intricate corridors connect large and small caves. It is difficult for tall people to straighten their waists, but it is just right for Lori.

Everywhere there are hairnet mushrooms with fruiting bodies as large as grapes.

After repeated observations, Ashley saw some tricks. The black mycelium of the hairnet fungus is transparent inside, just like an optical fiber.

Therefore, the light it emits is not the fluorescence of the plant itself, but is delivered by the central light source.

Since it is similar to optical fiber, it may have the function of transmitting information, Ashley thought.

Leaving the remote area where the smuggling channel is located, traces of civilization began to appear ahead.

It can be seen that the mycelium is artificially woven into a symmetrical pattern of straight and curved lines, painted in woad or green.

Similar patterns appear on wooden panels, steles, enameled door plates and painted glass windows.

Not only for aesthetics, but also for abstract symbolic meaning.

Most of these patterns use abstract trees, vines, and ferns as the background, symbolizing vigorous upward momentum, and the ends are often curled and scrolled, symbolizing compromise, protection, and savings.

Ashley's heart was touched. Abstraction is the simplification of emotion. From the pattern point of view, is it because the culture of "involution" is formed because it cannot break through the stratum?Instead of smashing through the south wall, it is better to retreat and roll inward.

Of course, this is just her guess, maybe it's just for aesthetics.

"Be careful."

Morazar, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, stretched out his hand to stop the three of them, and pointed his other finger towards an intersection connecting the six corridors ahead.

Following the direction of his fingers, Ashley saw dense black hyphae rushing towards the clover embedded in the center of the ceiling.

This crystalline shamrock is just as radiant as the fruiting body of the hairnet fungus.

"Is there something wrong with it?" Ashley asked softly.

"The pure white priest has a thousand eyes and a thousand ears. She can see what you see and hear what you hear. This sentence is what the fungus described the ruler of Palast." Morazar replied.

"Pure White Priests rule the Rock Mountain Kingdom?"

"On the surface, it is true. There are twelve of them in total, and they live in the central sanctuary of Palast. They are girls with the purest hearts selected from the moss people. They abandon the past, abandon their private thoughts, and serve the public for life Career... But you must know that Yanshan is the first floor, and Shimmer City is the second floor. What's going on below, even the bacteria people on the first and second floors don't know much about it." Mo Laza said with a skeptical attitude.

"So, do you think things are not as simple as they appear? Maybe the pure white priest is a puppet being manipulated?"

"That's right, human desires are complex and changeable. Only a fool would believe in narratives of binary opposition." Morazar sneered.

"So what about Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes? Is it a real finger or a virtual finger? Or is it some kind of detection method?"

"My first death here is that I didn't realize that the pure white priest connected the clover through mycelium, monitoring every corner of the kingdom." Morazar said solemnly.

"I see...but during the hunt, how did you upload your consciousness?" Ashley asked curiously.

"Everyone has their own secrets, don't you too?" Morazar asked back.

Ashley thought, where do you put the Riddler here?How to connect to the Starlink deep in the ground?And it was in the state of being hunted down... There is a high probability that it did not upload, but hid this piece of information somewhere, revived and picked up the soul, and then went back to upload.

That is the 'log', it is unlikely to be written by hand, maybe it is some kind of information carrier that is convenient for concealment.

"I'm curious, how many times have you died here? Can this question be answered?" Ashley asked again.

"Sixteen times." Mo Razar didn't hide it, and his tone revealed a sense of hatred.

"Terrible..." Ashley was stunned. The strong people in the fungus kingdom are not good at it. There are mycelium monitoring everywhere, and the net is everywhere. Mo Laza is more inconvenient to move here than in United City, so many people died. Second-rate!

It can be inferred from this that Starlink's main consciousness may have been laid out here very early.

Hearing that there had been sixteen deaths, Eunice and Vitic looked surprised and couldn't help but ask, "What's the cause of death later?"

"I'll talk about it slowly in the future. In short, let me tell you how to hide the truth from the 'Leaf of Truth'."

Leaning against the cave wall, Morazar explained while gazing at the clover above the intersection:

"Due to adapting to the underground environment, the bacteria man needs less oxygen, and the carbon dioxide content of the exhaled gas is 3%, which is one percentage point lower than that of the surface man... If you can distinguish it from the appearance details, it is not only blocked by the moss, but also needs to be monitored at the same time. It is impossible to rely on twelve pure white priests to rely on twelve pure white priests, and it is impossible to replace twelve super brain computers, but it is very simple to monitor the composition of the exhaled air and send an alarm to the main brain from the terminal , like a smoke alarm ... I didn't realize it until the fourth time I died."

"How did you guess the carbon dioxide?" Ashley asked puzzledly. Generally speaking, he would not associate it in that direction, but it was no coincidence that he was able to get it on the fourth try.

"Because the cave dug out of the rock cover above is connected to the ground, and the air here circulates with the ground, so there are mosquitoes in Parast. I found that mosquitoes are more interested in me than bacteria people, and mosquitoes have carbon dioxide sensors. , tends to fly to places with high carbon dioxide concentration... so I discovered it." Morazar explained, but he was not complacent, and the fact that he died four times still made him brood.

Ashley was secretly startled, Zhiwei saw that this guy was definitely a criminal with a high IQ, and it was terrifying to be able to read files.

"Holding your breath won't work. If you don't release carbon dioxide for a long time, it will also cause suspicion... This is a small patch that releases oxygen. After breaking, it will reflect that a small amount of oxygen is mixed in the exhaled gas to dilute it."

Morazar passed out a stack of cards to the other three.

Ashley snapped off one and stuck it to his throat, and walked through the intersection with a little nervousness, seemingly all right.

Going forward, there began to appear "refined" caves made of rock fragments. Irregular granite fit together to form a uniformly stressed whole, and mycelium filled the gaps to make it more dense.

What surprised her even more was that she saw the 'Bug House' again - an underground space supported by insect molting as building materials.

These insect shells have a thicker and harder feel than Amber's father's clinic. They are dark brown or pure black, with different shapes, creating a reassuring space in the dirt.

However, the power of the worm house clinic is the life-and-death cycle caused by the transcription of genetic information, and the worm houses of the bacteria people are obviously only strong and light building materials, otherwise they would not be seen everywhere.

"There are so many big bugs in the ground, and the pupal shells are more than a dozen or 20 meters long. How big are the adults? Moreover, many of them have the outline of wings. Why can't they be seen on the ground?" Ashley asked curiously.

"You are really a curious baby, I happen to know something inside." Eunice took the initiative to say, "It is said that in the depths of the Rock Mountain Kingdom, there is a secret road leading to the seventh largest flat layer, the 'Rotten Sea'. Scholars have researched that the bacteria, plants, and microorganisms flowing out of the Rock Mountain Kingdom, including these insect shells, are very similar to the unique ecology of the Rot Sea, so the adults of these insects spread their wings and fly in the underground space."

"Eh? But isn't the Sea of ​​Rot under the northern crack city?"

"The Rift City goes straight to the central areas of the first and second largest flats, 'Miracle' and 'Underwater', as well as the entrance to the Rot Sea. The Rot Sea runs northwest, and no one has ever reached the deepest point."

"Are the Rift City and the Rock Mountain Kingdom located at the end of the Rot Sea?" Ashley understood, "The span is too large, stretching for hundreds of kilometers."

"It is also possible that they are not connected to each other. There is a big rotten sea and a small rotten sea. You should know that there is no soil in the world. They are all part of the sky. As the unique ecosystem of the sky, the rotten sea appears. It's not surprising that the two places are similar, just like there are lakes and forests everywhere in the world." Eunice spread her hands.

"If there is a rotten sea below, then this branch of humans arrived at the rotten sea first, and then found a way up. Could it be that the rotten sea hastened the coexistence of humans and fungi? Or, in other words, those who cannot coexist have been eliminated by natural selection ?” Ashley was full of curiosity, but the other three were not interested, and no one spoke, so the discussion stopped here.

Chapter 160 Three: Dumb Ball

After walking for a while, the four of Ashley came to a space evenly distributed with piles, like an underground parking lot.

This is sector E106, where Nei Ying's family is located.

Each of the piles is the width of two people, supporting a three-dimensional ceiling of cascading Romanesque arches.

The huts made of soil mixed with fibers are distributed at intervals, most of which are in the shape of ring-shaped chrysalis, and the convex surface of the walls is inlaid with bright quartz or crystal, which has a delicate sense of handmade products.

The house is short on both sides and high in the middle, with a front and back yard. A very narrow canal passes in front of the door. A row of ceramic flower pots are placed beside the canal, planted with fluorescent plants emitting blue-purple light, forming a natural fence.

The four of them walked into the small courtyard with the door sign of 'Gardenia', and a gray moss-covered fungus who had been waiting for a long time greeted them.

The gray moss grows for many years and produces tough ganoderma and charcoal fungus, and the edelweiss on the hood is covered with small white star-shaped flowers.

Gardenia Maggio was his first name, but Morazza called him 'Isestia', the Christian name he took at his baptism.

Although he was only a seventh-level congregation, Maggiore's eyes shone with fanaticism, and he, who was not good at expressing himself, spoke incoherently flattering words.

"As long as I have seen the light of the stars and the moon once, human beings will not be willing to live underground." Morazar turned his head and said proudly to the three.

Morazar mentioned this on the road. He invented a religion called 'Selene', advocating the worship of the goddess of the stars and the moon, Selene.

The bacteria people living underground have a biological instinct for the surface. Compared with the scorching sun that burns their delicate skin, the brilliance of the stars and the moon is as cool as water, which is conducive to their activities on the surface and is naturally close.

His missionaries are those fungus who have seen the night sky from the mouth of the rock mountain.

After gazing at the starry sky exceeds the warning value of wisdom, the birth of religion is a matter of course, let alone someone to guide it.

Morazar also claimed that the moon is the wine cup of the gods, as long as you drink the moon in the wine, you can experience the realm of the gods.

Then lead the congregation to brew a kind of blue dew wine with plant roots and aphid honeydew, and get drunk in the 'moon hole' dug under the house.

The Moon Cave is a place for secret preaching, enshrining the statue of the goddess of the stars and the moon, and a well for baptism. In addition to these two standard configurations, there are murals, columns, seats, etc.

After some flickering and instigation, Morazza finally persuaded Gardenia Maggio to sacrifice his daughter—Gardenia Anna who was only 8 years old.

While the adults were discussing in the house, Anna was playing with the new young lady outside the house.

"Sister Ashley! Let's play hand throw!"

Lolita, with small white flowers blooming on the hood of the moss coat, stood opposite Ashley, with red lips and white teeth, big eyes like purple grapes, holding a ball with the texture of an old loofah sac in both hands, and its shape was close to that of a football.