In the ancient land, gravediggers are using various tools to dig out the hard rocks on the ground.
The downward tomb passage continues to extend until it is a hundred meters deep.
The gravedigger holding various iron digging tools suddenly hit some kind of leather-like substance with his hoe.
The experienced old gravedigger immediately raised his hand and stopped the other young people.
Holding a hurricane lantern that flickered on and off in his hand, he went over to observe it carefully, and finally determined it.
"Found it, we found food." The old gravedigger shouted excitedly.
"Found it, found it, the tribe has a new food collection point, and we have something to eat." Suddenly, all the gravediggers cheered.
In the distance, the lights of the city are dim.
The gravediggers climbed out of the pit, but did not move towards the city.
The city is the residence of the big shots. They are just tribal people in the wilderness and are not qualified to live in the city.
They followed the familiar road and headed towards the tribe in the dark.
The temperature transmitted from the earth makes this dark world not cold.
Relying on only a few hurricane lanterns, they quickly returned to the small tribe.
Soon the entire tribe was cheering.
It is not easy to collect food. In theory, there is food everywhere under the rock formations of this land.
But the rock formations are not that easy to dig. From time to time, you will encounter hard rock formations that cannot be dug. If you encounter them, you can only avoid them and dig again.
In the midst of re-excavation and disappointment again and again, the elders and children in the tribe could only endure hunger, because the remaining food had to be given priority to the gravediggers.
Only when the gravediggers have food and can conserve their energy for the next dig can the entire tribe have hope.
And now, they finally found a place where they could collect food. With food, the children would not have to starve to death. They could even go to the city to exchange for some salt and even a few more hurricane lamps.
So, the people in the tribe set up a bonfire in the eternal darkness and sang and danced around the bonfire.
In the large pot set up on the bonfire, the food rocks just collected from the ground are simmering.
The so-called rock-eating rocks are rocks that can be eaten.
This kind of rock is buried deep underground. Although it is extremely hard when touched by hand, it feels more like leather.
It has to be cooked in a pot for a long time before it can be chewed and digested after eating.
If you are extremely hungry, you will swallow the food without waiting for it to be cooked, or if it is half-cooked, you will end up with the same food you eat and the same food you pull out.
So if you want to eat eating rocks, you have to be patient.
The tribesmen, on the other hand, were patient. They sang, danced, and laughed all night long, knowing that the food rocks boiling in the pot gave off a strange fragrance. Only then, under the orders of the tribe elders, began to distribute the cooked food.
Afterwards, everyone ate the food in small bites while listening to the elders telling those old stories.
The world is actually a huge fish, and what we eat is the meat of the fish.
Children should be obedient and not noisy.
Because noisy children will wake up this huge fish.
And once the huge fish wakes up and discovers that we eat his flesh again, it will get angry and kill everyone.
What's more, our ancestors once lived in a world with huge torches in the sky. Later, they were punished by the gods because of their disobedience, and they left that beautiful world and came to this eternal darkness. international.
At this time, some children would ask the elders what the huge torches burning in the sky looked like.
The elder hesitated for a long time, but could only talk nonsense.
Because they have never seen what it would look like with a huge torch burning in the sky.
"Well, the whole world is bright. No one needs to light a bonfire or a lamp, and they can see everything around them. There is no dark place." The elder described how he felt from that time when he was a child. The description I heard from the elders.
"Every place is bright? Then it is also bright when sleeping? Then you can sleep peacefully at any time."
"Yeah, yeah, it's so comfortable to have a bright place to sleep without having to worry about wild beasts."
The children looked at each other and started discussing.
"But if you don't light a bonfire, how can you cook something? Should you take the food to the sky and cook it?" Another child asked.
"Fool, of course you can light a bonfire when cooking, and the torches were not always in the sky at that time, and would go out from time to time." The elder explained with a smile, rubbing the child's head.
"Will it go out? Is someone responsible for lighting the bonfire and extinguishing the bonfire?" The children looked at the elders with blinking eyes.
"Yes, maybe our ancestors were exiled here because they offended the gods who lit the bonfire." The elder thought for a while and didn't know how to explain it to the children, because he didn't know either. He could only sigh and said.
At this moment, a child suddenly pointed at the sky full of stars and said in surprise.
"Grandpa Elder, look there, it seems like there are stars flying by."
"Silly boy, that's called a shooting star."
"Meteor? What is that?"
"It's a kind of flying star. I heard that when we were in the world with burning torches in the sky, meteors were quite common. I don't know why after they were moved to the giant fish, meteors became rare and far away. The stars in the sky seem to be getting further and further away.”
The elder was puzzled.
But when the elder was confused, there was a place in the sky that the tribesmen couldn't see.
It is also a place that the big shots in the city cannot see.
A space jump channel was formed, and the Skylark jumped out of it.
Lin Xu in the cockpit directly saw the huge goldfish-like creature floating in space, which was as big as a planet and round in shape like a ball.
The creature's body was covered with hard rocks. It looked like meteorites in the universe were constantly hitting its body, forming a rock shell that completely covered the creature's body.
Lin Xu could only vaguely judge from some of the exposed parts of the giant goldfish that it was a huge goldfish with a deep red body.
"Is this a fish?" Nan Zhu lay on the porthole curiously and looked at the strange creature.
"Is he dead?" Lu Yao also leaned on the porthole to look at him.
"The giant creature ahead has no life breath." Zhenxing reported the test results.
"It seems he is really dead. How long have you been dead?" Lu Yao asked immediately.
"The autopsy report has not been generated yet and needs to be examined at close range." Zhenxing replied.
"Wait a minute, why does this fish seem to have lights on it?" Nan Zhu's sharp eyes saw a faint but real light on one side of the spherical fish body, near the back.
It looks like just a little light in the universe, but in fact it should be at least as bright as a big city before it can be observed in the universe.
"The detection data shows that there are still intelligent life surviving on the surface of the giant organism ahead." Zhenxing replied.
"Intelligent life? Do they regard this fish as their home planet?" Lu Yao looked incredulous. Since wandering the universe with Lin Xu, she has seen a lot, but she has never seen it before. this.
"Let's go and have a look." Lin Xu also became curious.
So the Skylark began to accelerate towards the surface of the giant goldfish in front.
As the distance got closer, this planet-sized goldfish became more and more oppressive.
Lin Xu suddenly remembered a network map he had seen in the 21st century.
The picture on the net shows a huge fish approaching the earth from the universe, and the earth looks as small as a bite of food in the fish's mouth.
Someone asked how long it would take for humans to resist the fish.
Someone answered below, it doesn't matter, I will take action.
Now look at the red goldfish in front of me. It looks a bit like the fish in the picture online.
It's just that this one is dead, and its size is not that huge, just about the same as the earth.
Soon, the Skylark entered the thin atmosphere formed on the red goldfish's body over a long period of time.
Once the distance was close enough, the giant goldfish could no longer be seen in its entirety, but it no longer felt so oppressive, as if what it landed on was just an ordinary planet.
"Does it even have an atmosphere? How long has this goldfish been dead?" Nan Zhu asked with emotion.
"The autopsy report came back and the time of death was 10,000 years ago." Zhenxing replied.
"Ten thousand years ago? Isn't that the time when humans came here?" Lu Yao was stunned and said.
"Ten thousand years ago, this fish must not have been created by humans." Lin Xu asked.
"The genetic sample analysis was not made by humans." Zhenxing replied.
"So, is it the work of that dimensionality reduction civilization?" Lin Xu continued to ask.
"There is insufficient information to confirm." Zhenxing replied.
Soon, the Skylark arrived at the place where the lights were just seen in space.
As the distance got closer, it finally became clear that this big city was built on the body of a fish.
The whole city is brightly lit with flashing neon lights, and around the city you can even see industrial areas that are constantly spitting out black smoke.
"Industrialized big cities, their development is a bit abnormal." Lin Xu stood in front of the porthole, looking at the city below with sufficient power, and at the entire dark land in the distance.
On the surface of this planet-sized fish body, with such a huge area, Lin Xu and others could only see one big city so far, and the rest of the place was completely dark.
According to the report sent back by Zhenxing, it is not that no one is living in the pitch darkness, but the living environment is completely different from that in the city.
"Are they the native race here?" Lu Yao looked at the city below in confusion.
"Unlike, if it is a native race that can develop to such a degree of electrification, it is impossible for there to be only such a city. Such a deformed civilization form looks like a colonial point. But, colonizing on the corpse of a fish? And I didn’t see the existence of the colonial spacecraft." Lin Xu shook his head and said.
"Did something happen to them and they were trapped here?" Nan Zhu thought for a while and said.
"If they are really a colony, they should also come from the river system we are targeting this time. Maybe they have some knowledge of the dimensionality reduction civilization." Lu Yao tilted her head and said after thinking.
"Yes, so this is a good opportunity to learn about the dimensionality reduction civilization in advance." Nan Zhu also nodded in agreement.
After a while, the Skylark continued to hover over the city, and the optical camouflage on its body was turned on. The entire city was unable to detect the existence of the Skylark.
At the same time, a large number of autonomous mechanical aggregates were spread throughout the world without the people in the city knowing it. They began to drill holes downwards and collect various tissues and organs from the giant red goldfish for more detailed analysis.
Lin Xu is now worried that if this red goldfish is really the work of the dimension reduction civilization, then they must have created more than one.
Maybe the river system ahead is like a real big river, filled with red goldfish like this.
Maybe there are even bigger fish, behemoths that can really swallow the earth like a mouthful of fish food.
After all, it was once a high-dimensional civilization. Even if the dimensionality is reduced now, a skinny camel is still bigger than a horse. Lin Xu will not underestimate the other party's civilization at all.
Walking on the bustling streets, Nan Zhu looked at everything around him with curiosity.
But what made her most curious was that there was no concept of day and night here. When did people here go to bed?
"The lights here are on twenty-four hours a day, right?" Nan Zhu said suddenly, looking at the street lights beside him.
"Yes, there is no sun to illuminate them here, so the light is their only source of light." Lin Xu nodded.
"How did those people living in the wild survive?" Nan Zhu couldn't believe it.
"It can only be said that life can always create miracles." Lin Xu also sighed with emotion.
"But, how can we maintain the temperature here without sunlight? We can't have 24-hour floor heating, right? Although it is indeed quite warm underground." Lu Yao said, tapping the ground with her foot.
"The planet's geothermal heat, no, it's the residual heat of the fish carcasses. They can't afford the fuel to burn the floor heating, and they can't sustain a planet." Lin Xu shook his head and said.
"The remaining warmth of a fish carcass can last for ten thousand years." Lu Yao clicked her tongue with emotion.
"Yes, and according to Zhenxing's report, the staple food of the people on their planet is fish carcasses. There is no sunlight on this planet, and there are very few types of plants that can grow. They all rely on digging down. Let’s eat the flesh of a fish that has been dead for ten thousand years.” Lin Xu looked at the latest report sent by Zhenxing and could only sigh with emotion. Sure enough, life is diverse.
"The fish that died ten thousand years ago are not zombie meat anymore, they are stone meat." Nan Zhu felt extremely disgusted just after thinking about it.
"The locals call this kind of food rock-eating, which means rocks that are dug out and can be eaten." Lin Xu continued.
They were discussing how the people on this planet, no, this fish carcass, survived.
On the street ahead, there were sudden bursts of shouts.
A large number of people were attracted by the sound and went to watch, followed by bursts of cheers.
Lin Xu and the others looked at each other curiously, and then went over to watch.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked over, several people dressed as students thrust a handful of small flags into their hands.
Lin Xu looked at the text written on the flag. This time it was not in Chinese.
Lin Xu guessed that it might be a language related to the dimensionality reduction race, or it might be a language native to this civilization.
However, regarding the text and language of this civilization, Zhenxing has collected and analyzed the conversation data, and transmitted it to Lin Xu's mind through nanorobots, so Lin Xu can now understand the text.
What it says means when translated, "We want light, not darkness."
"Return to the Arena of Gods and Demons and fight for civilization."
"Our civilization should not sink like this."
At the same time, someone was speaking loudly on a high platform not far away.
"Compatriots, we have escaped for too long. It is time to return to the Arena of Gods and Demons and regain our honor."
"Our civilization has been avoiding it for too long, and we can't continue to avoid it."
"When we first came here, we still had space navigation technology, but now, we can't even launch satellites."
"Without the sunlight, without the sun, we are like a group of trapped animals that can only survive here. We must return to the river system and be under the light of the stars again. Only in this way is the only way to save civilization."
"Some people say that to bathe in the sun, you must participate in the Arena of Gods and Demons, but so what, if this is God's rule, if this is the price of bathing in the sun, we are willing to pay, it is better than just a little here. of rot.”
As the person on the high platform gave a speech, there was applause from below without saying a word.
At the end, the cheers were loud.
Yes, they've had enough here.
Enough of this always dark sky.
They also want to see with their own eyes the blue sky, the flowers and the big trees that they have only seen in film and television materials.
That can only be enjoyed by bathing in the sun.
They want to return to the arena of gods and demons.
Even if it means fighting to the death of civilization, it is better than continuing to survive like this.
However, before the people on the high platform finished their speeches, there were already groups of military police running in the distance.
The students immediately gathered to block the armed men so that the speaker could escape.
Unfortunately, facing the sticks swung in the face, not only the speaker did not run away, but also all the students were arrested one by one after being beaten violently.
The crowd of onlookers had already disappeared amid the noise and chaos.
Lin Xu, along with Miss Qiu, Mu Xiyue, Nan Zhu and Lu Yao, stood on the roadside eating melon and watching the excitement.
The people coming and going passed several people several times, but it was as if they didn't see them and simply ignored their existence.
That was because the nanobots affected their sensory judgment, causing them to ignore a few people.
Until the military police took away all the arrested people, only a mess was left on the street.
"Arena of Gods and Demons? The price of bathing in the sun?" Lin Xu muttered the words he just heard, his eyes thoughtful.
"Does it cost anything to bathe in the sunshine? Can't we just find a galaxy with stars?" Nanzhu asked puzzled.
"They said this is God's rule. Could it be the rule set by the dimension reduction civilization?" Lu Yao guessed.
"The only one who can be called a god in this river system is the dimension reduction civilization! But what exactly is the Arena of Gods and Demons?" Nan Zhu was still confused.
"Okay, stop guessing. Since even the students know it, it shouldn't be difficult to investigate." Lin Xu reminded.
"That's right, but who should we ask? Wait, I think I found it." Nan Zhu reached out and pointed at the picture being played on the big screen in front of him.
Lin Xu and Lu Yao were also looking at the scene.
I saw that what was displayed on the screen was a scene from a movie.
It seemed like a movie made a long time ago, when this civilization was still bathed in sunlight.
Above the movie, two different races were fighting hard on a piece of land.
Those two races looked like they came from two planets with completely different environments.
One race looks like arthropods that walk upright and are covered in shells, while the other race is obviously modeled after the civilization itself.
And the most important thing is that above the stage where the two races are fighting, there is a huge, living red goldfish as the background of the starry sky.
The goldfish stared with two huge eyes as big as planets, and the terrifying pressure made people feel immersed in it through the screen.
It seemed as if the two races fighting below were about to be swallowed up in one gulp in the next moment.
Finally, this civilization won the battle, and the race represented by the arthropods failed.
Then, the gods in the sky, who were always watching the battle, sent blessings to the victors.
The gods were delighted with their performance.
The movie ends here.
The movie should be just fiction, but many things conveyed in it made Lin Xu frown continuously.
"This god is probably the civilization that reduced the dimensionality." Nan Zhu said with certainty, with a very unhappy tone in his tone.
"They really treat the civilization of the low-dimensional universe as a toy, right?" Lu Yao also felt very unhappy.
"I'm afraid they have forgotten that they are now also a member of the low-dimensional universe. They have been aloof for too long." The arc of electricity flashed between Mu Xiyue's fingers, and she felt like she was about to hit the Lingxiao Palace in the next moment.
"What is their purpose for doing this? They fell from high dimensions, don't they want to return to high dimensions? Are they willing to fall into trouble by doing these things?" Lin Xu asked puzzledly.
"Who knows, maybe it's just that the gap is too big, it's been ruined, and it's been ruined?" Nan Zhu thought about it, and it was incredible.
"Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore. It seems that this civilization may also know that it is making a living on a fish. It just doesn't know what the top leaders of this civilization think. Let's go and ask directly." Lin Xu decided.
Since you want to investigate everything in this world and learn more about dimensionality reduction civilization, it is easier and more convenient to go directly to the top management to ask!
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