Abyssal Kingdom

The night is getting late.

There is actually no distinction between day and night here, only night and deeper night.

The engineering department is going to build a more formal camp, and the newly built tent is almost a small single room.

Wei An walked in holding Gui Ling's hand, holding it so tightly that his hand was trembling slightly, and he didn't want to let go for a second.

Before returning to the mausoleum, he left the technical information of the black box, and then gave it to Lan Xiaolu's technical team. These people needed this very much.

He didn't continue talking with the people in the technical department, and gave Wei An the rest of the time to go back to the tent with him.

No one asked where the military vehicles of Wei An and Guiling Wutong came from, and they should have been seized.Wei An simply parked it next to the tent as a regular means of transportation.

The technical team didn't care what they wanted, there were too many new and scary things to study.

When he entered, Wei An looked at the military vehicle with satisfaction, touched the body of the vehicle lovingly, and felt that it was a part of a better life in the future.

Wei An didn't do anything "over the top" when he was in the tent, Gui Ling was already very tired, he needed to be more restrained.

He chatted with Gui Ling about the current situation—the man did get the deconstruction program he was looking for, which could completely destroy the world, but he needed to reach the underground river, find the core location and the precise timing.

There are some complicated operations, but everything seems to be on track, and there will be good results.

Wei An thought of the feeling of Gui Ling kissing his hair just now, and felt his heart soften.

He couldn't resist taking out the little glowing fish and watching the shimmering light flow in the tent, something sweet and promising.

Gui Ling smiled at him, and Wei An could see the person in his eyes, his eyes were focused, reflecting Xiaoyu's light, he looked like himself when he was young.

The self he wants more, the one who has not been controlled and destroyed, and has no dark desires.

Wei An had a nightmare.

There were traces of small fish in the dream, but what illuminated was something very scary.

Wei An woke up with a start, and couldn't remember what happened. It wasn't like a simple dream. It might be because of some leftovers from the previous world when he and Gui Ling's feelings were synchronized.

He couldn't catch it, only his heart was beating fast and he felt scared.

Wei An realized that he was awakened by the noise outside. It was not yet dawn, and he was lying next to Guiling. The other party didn't know if he was asleep or just woke up, looking outside.

He grabbed the corner of the other person's clothes, still afraid that he would leave in his dream.

The little fish stopped next to the mattress, swaying slightly, only it slept most peacefully.

"What's wrong?" Wei An said in a daze.

"An attack." Gui Ling said.

They put on their coats and went to see what was happening.

The sky was dim, and a group of people gathered around the edge of the camp, looking at something not far away.

Wei An could see Hong Fang standing not far away, wearing a soldier's coat and carrying a gun. He should be on the night shift for this round of patrol.

Together with him was the officer who had been sitting in the same car and had been encouraging him to break up with Guiling.This man can sit in the lead car because he is the "outcast" character.

The teams of these two people should have bumped into each other while patrolling, and they talked for a while, and the two "characters" gathered at the edge of the camp, and what will happen can already be guessed.

Wei An and Gui Ling walked over, and everyone automatically gave way.

At the edge of the camp, not far ahead, the scene in the mist was extremely strange.

There are some humanoid creatures standing on the flat land in front of them, which fit the characteristics of the plot point, but they are all still, bent over, holding simple earthen sticks in their hands, looking for something on the ground.

They were like a mass of mutilated sculptures of cultivators in the fog, gone from the thigh down, swallowed by the earth.

It's like a huge dollhouse rises from the fog, but somehow lost its energy, the dolls are stuck in the middle, standing quietly, the space is dead, creepy.

Where this plot point comes from is obvious at a glance.

This comes from another main character in the film, the "outcast".

The ruins of ancient civilizations are not just buildings, but also some normal minerals, or strange phenomena.

There is such a place on the planet where the "abandoned" is located, and some energy balls will seep from the subsurface formation here from time to time.

They are very close to the conventional energy spheres of the Federation, but the energy storage is more powerful, as if seeping out from a larger energy point that cannot be seen, and after entering the surface space, it turns into a sphere and condenses.

Unlike the red stone mine, which comes from the permeation of the ancient fuel depot into the mountain for many years, the excavation is more routine.

This kind of energy ball ore slowly penetrates to the surface of the earth over a long period of time, becoming less and less, and slower and slower. People use sticks in the shape of a "T" for farm work, and search the land over and over again over the years.

From Wei An's point of view, there should be an energy warehouse deep in the space nearby, and a leak occurred in the surface area.

But I don’t know if it’s because of the war, the energy ball in this place is unstable, and long-term exposure is harmful to the human body. Many “miners” have skin ulcers and various physical problems. Few of them can live beyond 40 years old.

Here, there is no high-tech magic anymore, it is pure dull, painful and extortionate labor, and it is deadly.

According to the plot in the movie, this "mine" has existed for hundreds of years.

A faction occupies this resource and rules a large area of ​​land.

Energy orbs have been "gathered empty" in some places in the area, no new oozes.

This piece of deep space energy probably didn't have much left, but this little bit of residual infiltration turned the life of people in this piece of land into a long disaster, and they fell under the greedy desire.

Day after day, the diggers used wooden implements—some fitted with rudimentary detection equipment—to scour the land.

At the beginning of the movie, finding one energy ball a day is a nice bonus.However, the lord will take [-]% of the market price, and the diggers can only maintain a basic life. As time goes by, most of them become slaves.

The "outcast" at first sounds like he came here voluntarily, hoping to save some money, buy a house, marry and have children, and so on.However, it was later revealed that he had been sold.

Not long after he came here, he encountered a wave of lord production increase activities.

After day-to-day fatigue, weight loss, toxins, and later being pushed out to the fields where there are basically no energy balls to generate, the "abandoned" are in a lonely state of searching because of the inflammation on the bones. ,died.

The technical department spent quite a bit of time discussing the worldview of the story in case it comes in.

They didn't spend much time on the laborers, and mainly studied the "lords".Although there is almost no mention of that faction in the movie, it is only said that some of them are extravagant to the point of unimaginable.

However, the situation in the story is very common, and it is a recurring thing in history.

Some people should be the first to discover this area where a large number of energy stones are accumulated.Initially, these people probably wanted to bring their families back to live a good life, and then see how to use the resources to build this place.

So many resources are enough for many people to live a good life.

But then the most common thing in this world happened—several of them killed their companions, used the energy stones they dug to buy weapons, gathered an army, established good relations with powerful warlords farther away, and provided cheap Energy, seek military support, and then turn this place into a hell on earth for a long time.

This kind of person has too much money to spend, of course it is crazy waste.

At this moment, more people gathered in the camp, looking at the half-risen world.

In this huge "toy house", everyone bowed their heads and hunched their bodies, and the supervisor with a gun and a whip can be seen farther away.

Together with the technical department, Wei An carefully entered this area to check the details.

Looking closely, these things look like crops growing from a land full of malice. They look ugly and menacing. Some have no nose, only a small round eye in the eye socket, and stunted fangs in the mouth. .

Their flesh grew out of the earth, distributed and grown into the clutter of the clothes and utensils of the dead.

Everyone can imagine what it was like when they were fully raised, only now it was eerily still.

Before, a soldier was too panicked and shot one of the rising creatures, smashing its head. The thing only trembled and didn't move. Now a group of technicians are collecting data from a safe distance.

Wei An tried it, and found that the flames could hardly rise here, and there was a strange thinness, as if the energy itself should not exist here.

He turned his head to look at Gui Ling, who looked at the situation in front of him with a cold face.

He didn't look at too many details, just stood there, feeling the eerie dead silence.

There is obviously something unexpected here, Wei An thought, he doesn't like surprises, unexpected things in this place are not a good thing.