At the end of the tunnel is a shaft that goes downwards. There are sections of metal vertical ladders nailed to the walls of the shaft that look like they are hand-made.
In the end, the shaft is a winding tunnel, and the end of the tunnel is still a shaft. They walked in the tunnel for more than two hours, and Yue Yang finally opened a thick and strong metal round door.
Behind the door are the ruins of an underground city no smaller than Black Mirror City. With dots of fluorescent-like lights scattered at random, Bai Zhi sensed the flow of wind, the breath of water, and the pheromones of living things... In addition to the purebred and mutated animals and plants on earth that she knew, there was also the smell of zombies.
In many years, this is the first time Bai Zhi has smelled the smell of zombies except those she knows.
When the Lin family left, the earth was full of zombies. It's normal for them to take away some zombies and mutated animals and plants. It's possible that advanced mutated zombies could hide among them and escape.
Bai Zhi quickly wrote a note:
Yue Yang took me into the underground city of Xinglin, and I smelled the smell of mutated animals, plants and zombies on the earth.
Yun, whose sense of smell is even more sensitive than Angelica dahurica, responded: There is no smell of zombies or mutated animals on earth on the ground of Star Forest.
Zhang Tianzhao's note immediately changed to: The zombies may also be mutants that failed to break through, so be careful.
Haifengqiu said: We have to pass through two star gates, Shuitiantun and Shuifengjing, to get to Xinglin. The total navigation time of the spacecraft is nearly two months. If you can't hold on, you can join together and open the star gate to leave. Bai Zhi, how many times can the random star gate you carry with you be opened?
Bai Zhi quickly answered: One, ten times.
Yun Lai replied: I have four here, two are twenty times, and the two add up to nine times.
Dongting sighed: Xinglin is really a good place. Wang Zhiba spent a lot of effort in the past few days to get a random star gate that can be opened once, and looted all the valuables from him and all the team members. He also Very happy.
Dongting's emotion was almost sarcastic. Bai Zhi wanted to laugh a little, but she wasn't nervous at all.
Yue Yang stood on the small platform behind the door and continued to turn on his manual flashlight. The clicking sound spread far in the empty space.
After a while, the same clicking sound was heard in the distance. Yue Yang breathed a sigh of relief, turned the flashlight and found a metal slider as thick as his wrist on the edge of the platform. In the dim flashlight light, Xiaolian climbed onto the slide and slid down.
A minute later, the little girl's voice came up, "Aunt Qiao, there is a rope bed below, it is strong! Don't worry."
Bai Zhi hugged the slider and slid down. She was very cautious and just pretended to hug her, using a little bit of her wind power, which looked similar to hugging a slider. The slider is ultimately a rope bed more than one meter high from the platform. Xiaolian also had a clicking flashlight in her hand, but the light came and went. Bai Zhi tapped the knot with her toes and jumped onto the platform.
Yue Yang didn't say anything after sliding down. He hugged the sliding rod at the edge of the platform and slid down again.
"It's so exciting every time I do this." Xiaolian took two steps to illuminate the slider and asked Aunt Qiao to go down first. "Aunt, your skills are really good. How did you practice?"
"Everyone who is not skilled enough will die." Bai Zhi always felt that there was something wrong with this rope bed, so she hugged Xiaolian's waist and said, "Auntie, I'll take you down."
The next second she slid down with Xiaolian. The electric light in Xiaolian's hand turned in a circle, and Bai Zhi led her to jump from the rope bed to the platform.
Those who dare to spend a lot of money to buy boat tickets and come to Xinglin to pan for gold are more or less capable. Uncle Qiao did not take his son but took Aunt Qiao out to make a living. Aunt Qiao, who seemed to love sewing as much as the landlady, must have real skills. Yue Yang glanced at Bai Zhi in surprise and took the lead in sliding down to the next level.
The distance between platforms is approximately fifty to sixty meters. Although Yue Yang was sliding down very fast and the light never swung towards the side of the platform against the wall, Bai Zhi could still see clearly. There was a metal round door on each platform. There were twelve platforms in total. The twelve round doors had seven The doors are sealed with rust, but three of them are often opened, and there are people behind the doors. The door they came in from and the door they passed between were rarely opened. In other words, the entrance near Valley City is not a place they frequent.
There is no rope bed from the last slide to the ground. The rugged rocky ground is littered with small stones and gravel. No matter how light your footsteps are, there is no sound.
This place can be considered as using all available warning methods, but they can only guard against ordinary people and flightless mutant beasts.
Bai Zhi followed Yue Yang's footsteps very carefully, and was ready to open the random star gate at any time. However, Yue Yang made no other movements or spoke along the way. They walked in silence for several hours in the dark, bypassing a large building with lights, and stopped outside a three-story building with a lantern hanging from the eaves.
"Aunt Qiao, if you see something that makes you uncomfortable, please don't..."
Under the light of the lantern, Yue Yang's facial features were a little distorted.
"As long as it has nothing to do with me and won't hinder me, I can't see it." Bai Zhi promised that it had nothing to do with her.
"Thank you." Yue Yang pushed open the heavy wooden door.
The hot, humid, smelly and complex air rushed towards my face. A girl hanging in the air walked to the door and said with a smile, first in Jiuxu dialect and then in the standard common language of the sixty regions: "Welcome."
She was very beautiful. She wore very little fabric and had a good-looking figure. However, her hands and feet were amputated. Instead of her limbs, there were four metal rods with chains. Those four chains hung her over the hall. . She swayed around with a sweet smile, as if she was born that way.
Bai Zhi felt uncomfortable, disgusted and angry. Now she understood why Yue Yang had specifically warned her before opening the door. The mask kept her expression calm, and her heart was very blocked.
Xiaolian took out a tube of nutritional supplements from her coat pocket, unscrewed it and stuffed it into the girl's mouth. She sucked it all in with a happy hum, and whispered in Earth language: "It's safe. There's still half an hour. Come in quickly." .”
"Thank you." Xiaolian pulled Bai Zhi and followed Yue Yang to continue walking forward.
Bai Zhi walked a few steps and looked back. The girl was still licking her lips in recollection, her smile still sweet.
Bai Zhi's heart was even more blocked.
The layout of the lobby inside is similar to that of a common fast food restaurant on earth in the past. A large menu is hung on the entire wall. In addition to two normal humans behind the counter, there is also a strange man with enchanting makeup and a very hard-working multi-handed man. The man was standing next to a multi-layered shelf. Several hands were wiping dishes, bowls and cups, others were arranging plates, and there were even two hands knitting sweaters hidden in the shadows.
The menu is bilingual in both Standard and Jiuxi, and there are photos of the food. It only charges 1xu gold, and the cheapest bottled water costs as much as 1xu gold.
Yue Yang asked for three bottles of water, looking back and forth in the cheap package area, trying to buy the cheapest one.
Bai Zhi didn't want to eat the food here, and didn't even want to drink the water. She read the menu twice but couldn't find a sign prohibiting bringing food in. She asked, "Can I eat my own food?"
The smiles of several people at the counter, including the many-handed monster, froze. A young man stammered: "Yes, yes, but..."
When he spoke, his eyes were looking at Xiaolian, and his frightened expression seemed to remind Xiaolian to run away.
Bai Zhi pulled out three bags of transparently packaged boiled beans from her coat pocket. Yun Lai bought these at the market. They are considered fast food with the characteristics of Valley City. The taste is certainly not delicious, so Yun Lai only bought them. A few packs for show.
The young man was relieved. The multi-handed monster also breathed a sigh of relief and asked diligently: "Does the guest want tableware?"
Yue Yang shook his head, took a bag of beans from Bai Zhi and handed it to the multi-handed monster. He paid for three bottles of water, found a seat in the corner, and motioned for Xiaolian to sit in the corner that least attracted attention.
Bai Zhi placed the two bags of beans on the table and took the water that Yue Yang handed her. Yue Yang didn't unscrew the cap of the water bottle or open the bag of beans, he just sat there. The same goes for Xiaolian.
In this large restaurant with thirty dining tables, more than half of the guests like Yue Yang had ordered food and drinks but were sitting there.
Bai Zhi estimated that people who ordered food here but didn't eat were actually paying taxes, so she didn't touch her food.
The customers who were eating and drinking were leaving one after another, and the guests at the next few tables who came in were all consuming food but not eating or drinking. The last three men who came in didn't even bother to buy a bottle of water. They asked the multi-handed monster for four bowls. A man took a bag of raw beans from a large bag on his back, filled four bowls, and carried a bowl of beans to the counter. The three people at the counter happily accepted the bowl of beans.
Half an hour finally arrived. Amid bursts of loud rumbling noises. The floor in the middle of the restaurant cracked open, revealing what looked like part of the escalator. Yue Yang whispered "Let's go", Xiaolian quickly took Bai Zhi's hand and followed him.
There are four grids on each escalator level. Yue Yang took two steps to catch up with the person in front, and stood two squares on the right with his feet. Bai Zhi saw Xiaolian stepping on the two squares on the left, so she felt relieved and stood on the square on the right. The escalator was smooth and fast. In almost a blink of an eye, they were sent to a rail car that was similar in appearance and length to a subway. In the blink of an eye, they were put into the car. The door was quickly closed, and the rail car It runs at a high speed comparable to a speeding car.
Unlike the efficient and comfortable automatic roads, the interior of the rail car is very shabby, half of the seats are damaged, and even most of the lights are broken. There is only one light in the car they are in and the car next door. .
Fortunately, there were not many people in the car. Xiaolian found a good three-person seat, pulled Bai Zhi to sit down, took a long breath, and said with a smile: "Aunt, we are so lucky."
"Okay, okay, I have to find a way to inform you Uncle Qiao." The corners of Yue Yang's originally slightly sad mouth turned up slightly, and it was obvious that he was in a happy mood now.
Of course Bai Zhi wasn't worried that Yun Lai wouldn't be able to find her, but she tried to figure out Aunt Qiao's mood and asked, "Just now...were you buying a ticket?"
"The rail car runs automatically. As long as you step on the conveyor belt, the conveyor belt will send you to the track without any cost to you. What we just paid was the cost of waiting for the train."
"So, locals take this kind of rail car to travel to various places?"
The outsiders were all surprised when they took the rail car for the first time. Aunt Qiao's reaction was far beyond ordinary people. Yue Yang nodded, "You can ride the rail car with a bottle of water and a piece of food. People who honestly walk on the ground A foreigner who has just arrived and has no roots.”
Bai Zhi understood why she and Yun Lai were always robbed. The two of them walking honestly on the ground was like stamping on their faces "outsiders who don't have friends yet, come and rob". In the notes, she told her friends how she rode the rail car, emphasizing her new discovery.
Yun Lai got angry and said, "The people in Xinglin are not kind. They all have intercity subways, so why don't you tell outsiders!"
Haifengqiu laughed two words and said: Ask where the dungeon was just now.
Zhang Tianzhao asked Bai Zhi carefully about the height and structure of the tunnels, platforms, and underground cities they saw along the way. The two of them answered questions and the time passed quickly.
In the eyes of Yue Yang and Xiaolian, Aunt Qiao was uneasy and a little depressed because of the separation from her husband.
The rail car drove for more than an hour, stopping twice. The third time it stopped, everyone who stayed in the car walked towards the conveyor belt. Bai Zhi followed Xiaolian and stood on the conveyor belt, and was soon teleported to the middle of a high mountain.
The sun had just jumped above the horizon and the sky was gray. The foot of the mountain is still dark, but the buildings that look like factories are brightly lit, and vehicles are coming and going. The busy scene is very similar to the factory areas in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta that Bai Zhi remembers.
"Where is this?" Bai Zhi was surprised from the bottom of her heart, because this place looked so much like the earth.
Yue Yang mentioned a place name, the pronunciation of which was similar to the Chinese word Baoshan, and then he explained in Jiuxu dialect: "The factory owners in Baoshan need free workers, not slaves. We are safe here."
Bai Zhi asked: "Just now, the one hanging in the hall..."
"They are all..." Yue Yang looked around with vigilance. The people who got off the bus with them were all separated now. There was no one dozens of meters away from the three of them, but he still lowered his voice and said: "Slaves of the Lin family. That one. The underground city is the Dongshi slave camp of the Lin family. Those who want to capture you would never imagine that we would go to their slave camp and take a rail car."
"They saw what we looked like." Bai Zhi said as she was worried about being seen.
"It's okay. It's safe when the overseer is away. The slaves pretend they can't see anything." Xiaolian looked at the lights in the distance and said, "Dad, I want to join the factory as a worker."
"No. We are just staying here temporarily. When dad finds someone to bring Uncle Qiao over, we have to leave."
"The environment here is too harsh. People who live here for a period of time can easily get sick." Bai Zhi took out a filter respirator and covered her mouth and nose, then took out two more and gave them to the father and daughter. "How are you going to notify my man?"
