Doomsday Wonderland

The painter only dug out a layer of soil as deep as one person. After jumping from the hole, the passage began to narrow. Lin Sanjiu had no choice but to climb all the way down, digging out the soil in front of her and converting it into cards - the number of cards she could convert every day was limited, and she soon used them up; fortunately at this time , but the dirt road ahead gradually opened up, and finally stretched into a spacious hollow.

They finally straightened up and moved forward as quietly as possible, holding on to the earth wall.

Beneath the land dozens of meters deep, everything was immersed in gloomy darkness, obscuring human vision. There were no fingers in sight, only the earthy smell was getting stronger and stronger, and from time to time, there would be a "cluck" sound under the feet, and a pool of slippery slime would be stepped on. The two groped for a while in the dark stench, and she felt a faint fig breath hit her ears, and then Sibaan's voice rang out in a low voice: "Illumination."

Before Lin Sanjiu could take out the [Ability Polishing Agent], a pale white light suddenly shot out from her shoulder. When she looked down, she realized that what Sibaan had just ordered was the multi-clawed weapon on her shoulder. Little machinery.

As soon as the light fell into the darkness, it immediately dispersed faintly and filled the entire cave together with countless floating dust.

The earth hole seemed to be only twenty to thirty square meters, about the same size as a bedroom. Occasionally, there would be curved dents on the soil walls, as if they were pressed out by something passing by; the ground was slippery, with pools of mucus glistening with wetness.

The wall facing the two of them seemed to be able to absorb all light and was still enveloped in darkness. Lin Sanjiu walked towards that wall, and the light slowly floated along her footsteps, falling into the darkness. She looked up and down, and couldn't help being slightly surprised. She turned around and shouted in a low voice: "What's behind this It’s a cavity, we can still go down!”

"This earth hole also has a radioactive trend on both sides, and it gets wider as it goes back." Siba'an also followed up and looked at it through the light: "...but this cavity is really big enough."

His voice drifted hollowly into the cavity and gradually dissipated. The cavity behind the earth cave looks like a hall connected to the bedrooms, but it is too deep - the light can vaguely illuminate the arched dome above, but cannot illuminate the deep darkness below.

Connecting the cavity and the cave is a slope much wider than the walls of the cave, and the ground is also covered with twists and turns. It's just that the dents on the slope became thicker, and the marks left behind were deeper, and the spots were mixed together; the two stepped on these uneven dents, and walked slowly down in the dead silence. , getting further and further away from the human world, but seeming to be getting closer and closer to an absurd dream.

There are more cavities below the cavity, and each one is deeper and wider than the last. After walking for who knows how many hours, they could no longer even see the edge of the hollow. Only the curved indentation on the ground still accompanied them, but now the indentation was enough for the two of them to lie down side by side. Sibaan took out two more flashlights, but after the light pierced the darkness, it could only gradually dissipate helplessly, and finally melted into the distant darkness.

"The ground is level here,"

In the constant overlapping of light and shadow, Sibaan's face looked like a reflection under the water of a forest lake, almost without any mortal aura. He put away the cylinder on the ground, stood up and said softly: "Maybe there is a cavity that continues to go deeper... I don't know how deep it will be before it ends."

Lin Sanjiu turned around and looked around. Wherever he looked, there was only endless darkness. The air did not become as thin as she thought, and her breathing was still as smooth as when she was on the ground. Even though there was a larger cavity below, they didn't know which direction to go from; no matter which direction, it looked like the same distant nothingness.

She stood still for a while and suddenly asked softly: "Why is the cavity getting bigger and bigger?"

Sibaan was startled, then frowned and remained silent for a long time.

"What? What do you think?"

"I seemed to have a thought just now, let me think about it..." The blond man muttered to himself for a while, but suddenly raised his head - Lin Sanjiu was startled, and was about to ask him if he was He had an idea, but unexpectedly he grabbed her wrist: "Did you hear that?"

What do you hear?

She held her breath, listened carefully, and then her expression changed involuntarily: "Then, what is that sound?"

Just like storms and raindrops hitting the earth, increasingly louder and clearer rustling sounds came from the dome above their heads; the two stood there in shock and doubt, with the light of their flashlights constantly pointing upwards. Sweep away, but before the light illuminates the dome, it is swallowed up by darkness just like before.

They were deep underground at this time, and even if a heavy rain suddenly fell outside, they would never hear any movement.

When the flashlight's aperture cut through the darkness again, a thin black shadow passed through their field of vision.

"Over there!" Lin Sanjiu shouted, and the light in their hands immediately converged in the same direction. The flashlight's aperture continued to burn out a ray of light in the darkness, but the aperture was empty; the rustling above the head became louder, buzzing and intertwined in the cavity, echoing indistinctly. sound.

Just when Lin Sanjiu almost thought that he had seen it wrong, another shapeless black shadow suddenly crossed the circle of light and fell to the ground in the distance with a "clack".

That thing was like a signal - and then, countless fine soil began to fall in clusters from the dome above. In the swirling dust, black shadows of different shapes and sizes rushed into the light one after another; in the distance where the aperture could not illuminate, there were more raindrop-like black shadows crossing one after another. In mid-air, it fell straight to the ground.

"Go back first," Siba'an grabbed her, and the two of them ran towards the direction they came from. In just a moment, the black shadows falling from the dome were as dense as a heavy rain; before they could run out of the dome, countless wet and smelly things fell down one after another. On them, slide it along the collar and into the clothes.

Lin Sanjiu endured nausea, covered her head with one hand, and desperately swept away the things on her body with the other hand; a familiar rotten smell with a fishy smell floated into her nostrils again.

The last time she smelled this smell was on those "human figures" made of purple and black tongues.

"It's those purple-black tongues!" She was shocked and shouted to Siba'an; the white light of the [Protective Force Field] on her body appeared and re-wrapped herself: "Be careful!"

Siba'an let go of her hand, and several lightning-like dazzling lights lit up on his body one after another, shattering the air with a "crackling" sound, and jumping to knock down several black figures one after another. More and more shadows fell from his head, but he stopped suddenly, covered his head and face, and said loudly: "No, look at our feet!"

Lin Sanjiu almost bumped into him, hurriedly lowered her head and glanced, and couldn't help being stunned.

The fishy smell did indeed come from the purple-black tongue, and the black things that fell down were indeed those maggot-like black things - but to be more precise, they were their fragments.

Smashed pieces of meat, pieces of broken shells, and occasionally a small piece of needle, or a pool of unknown liquid, muddy the ground under their feet, shimmering like a carrion swamp. Lin Sanjiu endured the constant feeling of being hit by the dirt on her body and quickly called out for the tent to be unfolded over the two of them. Listening to the continuous "bang bang" sounds on the tent cloth, she finally managed to take a breath.

She lowered her head and looked at the ground carefully for a while, filled with doubts; when she raised her head again, her eyes met Sibaan's.

"Why...why are they all pieces like mud?" She opened her mouth and felt that the smell seemed to have penetrated into the gaps between her teeth. She spat a few times and wiped her mouth and asked: "Where did it all come from? This is What to do?"

If a large number of purple-black "tongues" emerge from the soil like just now, they may be able to cause unexpected damage in the dark.

Sibaan's silhouette condensed into a sculpture-like outline outside the flashlight. He took off his soaked uniform jacket, threw it away, unbuttoned his shirt and wiped his face with it, then whispered: "Don't you think these things look familiar?"

"We've broken countless pieces, of course they look familiar."

"No, I mean," Sbaan said softly, his voice almost inaudible over the rustling rain. "...These are the things we just smashed."

Lin Sanjiu was stunned and looked at her feet carefully for a while.

"You mean..." When she spoke, she felt that what she was about to say was ridiculous: "After we smash these things, their broken corpses will come from - just from -"

She raised her head, glanced at the dark sky, and murmured: "...Drilled down from the earth?"

"In other words, it was brought down by some kind of force."

The blond man gently kicked open the half-broken strip of black flesh with the toe of his boot, looked at it and whispered: "They are all dead and will not move at all."

What force could it be? And why take them off?

While Lin Sanjiu was full of surprise, Sibaan continued: "You asked me just now why the cavities were bigger than the other... Then I had an idea."

"what idea?"

"These cavities must have been prepared for that thing you and I call the Mother Queen, who lives underground..." His voice trembled slightly again, as if he was enduring some kind of trembling excitement: " In other words, it was only as big as a room at first, and then it grew bigger and bigger, and had to constantly dig out new and larger cavities to accommodate it..."

Even though the tension was anesthetized, Lin Sanjiu could not help but feel her heart shrink.

"You feel it too, right?" Siba'an sighed like a whisper, gently passing by her ears, his breath blowing her broken hair and tickling her neck: "Behind us, there is now a huge creature. ."