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Chapter 1128: Underground civilization?

 After discovering the body, everyone, led by Duanmu Huai, began... to pick up the body.

That's right, this unlucky guy obviously encountered some kind of monster, and was torn into pieces and had a large piece bitten off. But that's not the problem. The problem is that the victim's equipment is... very complete.

“The clothes are of good quality and workmanship.”

Duanmuhuai glanced at the fragments of clothes in his hand and scanned them.

“It seems like these underground people are living a pretty good life.”

"Yeah?"

“Of course, to be honest, I originally thought that in an underground environment like this, it wouldn’t be strange to go back to the tribal era where people wore fur, drank blood, and wore animal skins.”

Duanmu Huai is quite experienced in this. Many empire ruined planets are like this. The ruins of a high-tech civilization that were originally quite high-tech ended up with a group of rough people drinking blood. It felt like savages who had returned to primitive society... I don’t know what happened. The regression of civilization caused by this.

On the contrary, although most of this world has been abolished, its technological civilization is still quite advanced at present. At least it has not directly fallen to the level of savages. Should it be said that it is worthy of being a foundry planet of oil guys? Sure enough, it's not the same routine as the coquettish **** in other places.

 Then there are weapons………

 “Melee combat, well, this is a good civilization.”

Duanmu Huai picked up the half-broken sword next to the corpse and nodded with satisfaction.

“It seems that the metallurgical and forging technology in this underground world has been turned on.”

 “But that is strange, Mr. Knight.”

At this moment, An raised her hand curiously and asked.

“You can obviously forge metal weapons, so why don’t they wear armor instead of ordinary clothes?”

Yes, this is also the question discovered by An. Judging from the condition of the body, the victim was obviously attacked by some kind of monster during the battle and then killed. Of course, this is not surprising, but what is strange is that From the current point of view, he is only wearing light ordinary cloth clothing instead of armor, which is puzzling.

You must know that even the knights over there in the magic tower have armor. If you don't even wear armor and come to fight monsters, unless your body is harder than steel, isn't this a gift?

 In fact, this is indeed a gift.

"Who knows what this underground civilization is like... Let me see what else is there... Oh, wallet, gold coins... silver coins... Well, now it seems that the development of the civilization down there is quite interesting. It should be Completely centered around mineral mining and forging... Gee, if they didn’t look like this, I would have thought this was a dwarf civilization.”

 “But dwarves also wear armor.”

“So this is very interesting, maybe it’s a dwarf mixed with a dark elf.”

After all, dark elves do not wear heavy armor and specialize in assassinations and sneak attacks. If the underground humans here also follow the route of dark elves, then they really do not need to wear armor to fight like dwarves.

 “There is no map...it’s useless even if there is a map.”

Duanmuhuai turned over for a long time and finally stopped, then raised his head and looked at the ground in front of him.

“Forget it, just follow the blood trail and see what you can find.”

 This is the only way at present.

 Obviously, the unlucky guy was not killed here, but was killed by a monster and carried all the way here. But no one could see what kind of monster it was, but luckily the opponent's blood stains were clearly visible along the way, which could be used as a guidepost. So everyone took action again and continued to move forward along the blood trail.

Obviously, this place should have been a subway station before, but the subway trains that originally stopped here have naturally turned into a pile of useless scraps over time. There is no need to pay attention to things that are not maintained. Any machine soul that is displeased would have long since become a pile of waste.

 At least for now, the maintenance of equipment underground is not as concerned as that of the Magic Tower... Well, Duanmuhuai can understand this to some extent. If we go by the legend, those who were able to take refuge in the space elevator at that time must have been important members of the Mechanicus, and they would naturally not neglect the maintenance of the space elevator.

The people underground are probably just ordinary people, and at least they certainly don’t look like the kind of people who have the ability to maintain Mechanicus equipment. Therefore, the development is naturally very different in the sky and the earth. Although Tiantian is still lagging behind, they have at least built an aerostat.

As for the underground... From the current point of view, it is probably retracing the development process of human civilization, maybe it has only reached the Middle Ages.

Of course, while walking, Duanmu Huai did not forget to inform the other people on standby on the Mammoth of his discovery. Fortunately for the others, Shurelia was shocked when she heard the news.

“Is there actually human civilization underground...?”

“It’s quite interesting, isn’t it? You two are on the ground and the other is underground, but after so many years, you don’t know each other’s existence. Isn’t it quite interesting?”

 “Uh…this…”

Facing Duanmuhuai’s teasing, Shurelia didn’t know what to say for a while. Indeed, as Duanmu Huai said, they had always thought that they were the only remaining people in the world. However, they did not expect that under the sea of ​​clouds, deep in the earth known as the Land of Death, there were actually traces of human civilization. …

"Owner."

At this moment, Ogis, who was sitting on Duanmuhuai’s shoulder, suddenly spoke.

 “I don’t think we’re going in the right direction.”

“Wrong direction? Didn’t we follow the blood trail? What’s the problem?”

Hearing the reminder from his little cotton-padded jacket, Duanmu Huai was stunned for a moment. Although he was not a direction idiot, Duanmu Huai was still having a headache in a place like the underground world where he could not distinguish between east, west, north and south. But he doesn't need to find the direction now. He just needs to follow the reaction of the remaining blood stains to find it. What's the problem?

 “Are we going the wrong way?”

Duanmuhuai looked back at An and Lorena who were following him again. The latter shook their heads.

 “But we are going back.”

“Go back? Wait, which one are you talking about?”

　Duanmuhuai finally came to his senses and seemed to understand the meaning of his little cotton-padded jacket. When the group of people set off before, Duanmuhuai parachuted the Mammoth under the space elevator. After all, except for the space elevator, the rest of the place was shrouded in clouds and fog. You had no idea what was underneath. You just have to find a place. It would be funny to throw it into the sea.

So Duanmuhuai used the space elevator as the coordinates and threw the Mammoth near it.

 The result is now………

“You mean we are heading towards the Magic Tower?”

"Yes." "……………"

Hearing Ogis's answer, Duanmuhuai was silent for a moment and looked at the other two people.

 “It’s interesting, maybe we can see another one who relies on the tower to eat the tower.”

 “Huh? Is that so?”

“What’s so strange about this? A building like a space elevator must have a very deep foundation. Otherwise, how do you think such a tall building can stand? And this tunnel...”

As he spoke, Duanmuhuai pointed at the tunnel in front of him that was so badly weathered that its original appearance could no longer be seen.

"Perhaps it's the passage connecting the space elevator to other places. Well, if that's the case, then it's understandable why we couldn't find a life signal after searching for a long time. Maybe we simply ignored this... If you think about it carefully, it’s really a blind spot.”

Indeed, as Duanmu Huai said, they must have detected life signals around the magic tower, but at that time everyone thought that those life signals came from the floating island in the sky, so they didn't think much about it. No one thought of digging under the tower... After all, most people's imaginations are not that big.

"Now what?"

“Let Maria and the others turn around first, and let’s continue moving forward.”

Duanmuhuai made a decisive decision.

“You’re all here, why not take a look around?”

　　　…………”

 Okay, what you say makes sense.

An hammered his sore legs and looked at Duanmuhuai dissatisfied.

 “But I can’t walk!”

 An is a mage after all, not a warrior. After walking for such a long time, he is already tired.

 “Come up.”

Duanmuhuai was not stupid. When An looked at him, he knew what he was thinking, so he directly extended his right hand to An. The latter smiled and hurriedly climbed along Duanmuhuai's arm. He came up, then sat on the other shoulder opposite Ogis, and made a proud face to Ogis, who just looked at her silently and said nothing - after all, Ogis and Ogis They have been together for a long time, and their relationship is good. If it were someone else who was not so familiar with her, Ogis would probably kick her down.

 “Lorena? Are you coming up?”

 “No need, Lord Knight.”

Facing Duanmu Huai’s invitation, Lorena shook her head and clenched her fists hard.

 “That’s right, I can still exercise for a while!”

 Speaking of which, this is a ruthless man who spends his free time running circles around the planetary belt on the space station. His daily steps on WeChat must have exceeded 10 million...

 “Then let’s go.”

Since no one was willing to walk, Duanmuhuai didn't say much. He activated his jetpack and rushed forward immediately. Lorena, on the other hand, followed Duanmu Huai leisurely, her legs running very fast... To be honest, looking at her like this, she didn't look like a priest...

Of course, this road is not smooth. Due to the long disrepair, many parts of the passage have collapsed, and some places even look like they have exploded, and are completely blocked by piles of scrap metal and debris. Generally, at this time, you should choose to take a detour and move forward on other trails. But Duanmu Huai obviously has no such plan. For him, there are thousands of ways, but he only has one choice!

 “Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!! Mr. Knight, there is a wall in front of you!”

 “Boom!!”

Along with An's screams, the hard concrete wall in front of him exploded instantly, and then he saw Duanmu Huai rushing out of it like an angry tyrannosaurus, and on his shoulders, An and Ojis were standing together. The man grabbed one of Duanmu Huai's shoulders and hid behind him... After all, if he hadn't been like this, he would have been thrown out long ago.

 “Oh, sorry, I’m used to bumping...”

Duanmuhuai touched his head, then stopped and looked around. Behind him, Lorena rushed in quickly in three steps and two steps at a time - almost at the same time as Lorena rushed in, The dilapidated wall in front of him collapsed instantly, completely blocking the gap.

 “I, I’d better come down and take a walk by myself.”

 At this moment, An also climbed down from Duanmu Huai's body with weak hands and feet. Ogis may have been used to sitting on Duanmu Huai's shoulders and was completely unmoved. But An couldn't, it felt like she was sitting on a heavy truck that was speeding out of control, watching herself hit the wall and still not being able to escape. It felt really terrible.

Although he knew that Duanmu Huai was powerful,... An felt that as a mage, he still couldn't withstand such stimulation.

 “It’s time to come down.”

 Duanmuhuai was not surprised that An refused to continue "taking the bus".

 “We’re here after all.”

"Why?"

Hearing Duanmuhuai's words, An was stunned for a moment, and then looked forward. Then she was surprised to see that what was in front of her at this moment was no longer the narrow passage before, but a huge, vast underground cavity. In this underground hollow, various houses are rising one after another, and there are people everywhere. At this moment, they are wearing relatively simple-looking clothes and looking at me with wide eyes...

Why? Looking at yourself?

An turned her head and looked around carefully.

 They are... rushing directly into the other side's city?

 “Run quickly!”

 “Monster ahhhhh!!”

 The next moment, accompanied by screams, everyone around them suddenly dispersed.

"ah………"

Seeing this scene, An helplessly stretched out her hand to hold her forehead.

 “This is bad…”