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Su Jingtong continued: "I really want to take the three guests to visit the base together."

He said helplessly: "It's just that the affairs in the base are heavy. The weakness of the mechanical bug that A Yuan just kindly told us is of great significance. I really can't turn down my work to accompany the three guests."

Su Jingtong's tone was apologetic.

"Let me ask Ajia to show you around the base. May I meet some strange guests who came to our base before? Maybe they are your partners."

Ajia, who was suddenly mentioned, puffed out her chest and said firmly: "I promise to complete the task of the teacher."

Su Jingtong couldn't help laughing when he heard Ajia's words: "Relax, I certainly believe that Ajia can do this job."

"I've already arranged the residences of the three guests. I've been exhausted all night. After the visit, I can go directly to rest."

Qi Wuyuan looked at Su Jingtong, hiding the deep meaning that flashed in his eyes.

"Okay, Mr. Su."

Su Jingtong watched them leave.

After they were no longer in sight, Su Jingtong raised his hand and clicked various complicated buttons on the one-way glass screen,

A Jia did not go to the third floor to exchange daily necessities as usual, but took Qi Wuyuan and the three of them back into the testing room with all his heart and responsibility.

Ajia walked to the tree of life with a diameter of tens of meters. The trunk of the tree of life was wrapped with many large and small vines, hanging from the crown to the ground.

The big vines are used as elevators, and the small vines are used as reminders and things like that.

When you get closer and take a closer look, the tree of life is also very different from ordinary trees.

There are many scattered metal blocks inlaid on the tree trunk. From time to time, a light flashes on the metal blocks. The flickering light can easily give people the illusion that they are breathing. The metal blocks covering the surface of the tree seem to be from life A living part of a tree that grows spontaneously.

It should be the transformation of this giant tree after humans settled in this place.

Qi Wuyuan secretly recorded the scene he saw before him.

Ajia stretched out her hand and pulled a few times on the tiny vine. The seemingly random movements actually carried a special rhythm, as if she was talking to this huge ancient tree.

Ajia turned her head to consult the suggestions of the three of Qi Wuyuan: "Is it okay to take everyone to meet the humans who suddenly appeared in the wasteland a few days ago and were picked up at our base?"

After thinking for a while, he said, "Or if you want to have other plans, you can tell me, and I will try my best to arrange them for you."

Ajia's tone was relaxed and polite, and her attitude at this time had changed significantly from the initial alienation and alertness.

As the captain of one of the few hunting teams in the base, Ajia is not only in his prime, but also has rich experience in searching for resources. His own potential and his contribution to the base are great, so he is naturally a worthy one in the base. character.

Said it was arranged for Qi Wuyuan and the others, Ajia really has this ability.

Qi Wuyuan shook his head: "No, go and meet those humans first, maybe they are our partners."

After hearing "Meet", Ruan Xiaoxiao's heart unconsciously became excited.

Ruan Xiaoxiao exhaled lightly, trying to suppress the expectation in her heart.

The person I will meet later is not necessarily my elder brother, so I can't let myself expect more and be more disappointed.

At this time, a huge vine wrapped around the tree trunk had let down its branches and reached the second floor. The end of the vine arched inward to form a platform for people to stand on.

A Jia took the lead to stand up and do a demonstration: "Brother A Yuan, come up together, those guests are arranged to live on the tenth floor, we need to take the vine elevator up."

Living trees, vines and elevators.

Machinery and nature are abruptly but harmoniously combined.

The end of the vine was deliberately controlled to look like an arched platform. Ajia stood at the farthest position and pulled up a small vine that was only as thick as a little finger. Qi Wuyuan and the others felt that the vine elevator was starting to rise.

Yu Bei protected Qi Wuyuan intentionally or unintentionally, and the vine elevator stopped soon - they reached the tenth floor.

The leaves covering the trunk spread out automatically, and the face of the tenth floor appeared in front of them.

Looking around, a floor with a diameter of about a kilometer extends from the farthest rock wall and surrounds the transparent building materials in front of the tree of life.

The huge space is separated into dense compartments by the most common mechanical shell baffles, and the roof of each room is covered with regular shell panels as much as possible, making the compartment look more like a serious home.

Until now, it is not difficult to imagine the humble appearance of the base at the beginning. After a closer look, every household not only used these hard mechanical materials to build their own small homes, but also continued to improve over tens of hundreds of years, adding Various materials were used to re-strengthen and soundproof their house.

Restricted by technical and resource issues, the houses in the human base look like simple compartments, but when you look closely, you can feel that the houses built by using the resources from the mechanical city are unexpected. sturdy.

——It can also feel a unique aesthetic from these densely located buildings on an entire floor.

Each cubicle-like house that covers the roof will be equipped with various light strips on the side or overhead eaves.

It should be something that was not unloaded when it was dealt with from the mechanical city-state.

Light bars of various colors emit soft light in the underground human base. The functions of these colorful light sources in the base are different from those purely used for decoration in the mechanical city-state.

All the light bars in the human base, no matter how fancy they are, only one of them acts as a light source.

Ajia led Qi Wuyuan and several people to shuttle between the alleys. The base was densely populated. He led the three people of Yuanyu team to walk inward from a very hidden passage on the side.

By the way, I talked about these buildings and light bars on the road.

——Anyway, when the hunting team picked up these metal building materials with luminous light strips, these light strips are things with solar power generation functions, which are very suitable for use in the base, as long as there is sunshine during the day. .

It happened that during the daytime, except for the first and second floors of the base, every floor could be exposed to the sun.

After listening to Ajia's words, Yu Bei grasped the key point: "Can you find the sun on every floor?"

Ajia scratched her head and said while walking: "The teacher said that the tree of life is a plant, and all plants need to be exposed to the sun, otherwise the leaves of the tree of life will not be green, and the tree of life will get sick."

"And the teacher also said that human beings also need to shine in the sun."

"so--"

Accompanied by Ajia's voice, three "tick" sounds came from the top of the base.

A few people looked up and could see some warm white street lamps evenly distributed on the ceiling of the tenth floor for lighting.

The time of the meeting has just arrived at 05:30 in the morning, and many residents can already be seen coming out of their houses to start the day's activities.

The children who have always been the most restless even finished their breakfast early and started fighting on the way to school together.

People in the base work very regularly, and most of the people living in the base follow a lifestyle similar to sunrise and sunset.

Many people heard the special "tick" sound, like an alarm clock, waking up most people in the base.

The children walking together on the way to school were visibly excited when they heard the voice, and all their small faces raised their heads to look in the direction above the tree of life.

Immediately afterwards, there was another dull and sharp sound, but it didn't sound harsh at all. You could see the movement coming from above the tree of life.

The soil and rocks that originally covered the canopy were all shaken to the ground on both sides by the propped up branches, and a translucent protective barrier was thinly covered above the canopy.

It is not difficult to see the concealment function outside the barrier, which covers all the canopy protruding two or three meters above the ground, creating an illusion that there is still only a piece of wilderness here.

The canopy and the protective barrier echo each other, reflecting a "bio-mechanical" texture.

The light enters the huge opening, and passes through the specially treated transparent building materials on each floor, so that the sunlight can directly penetrate the underground world, and all floors in the base can feel the sunlight.

Ajia stretched out her hand to feel the sun rising from the sky and the moist sky just arrived in the early morning——

"Every day, as long as it's not a cloudy day when you can't feel the sun at all, the base will bring in the sun."

Ajia took it for granted: "After all, both the tree of life and human beings need the sun. Without the sun, we will all get sick."

Ruan Xiaoxiao raised her head, and she could directly see the sky beyond the wilderness where the sun had already risen most of the way.

"Is the base much safer during the day than at night?" she asked.

Ruan Xiaoxiao thought of the way they carefully tried to hide the base when they came to the base with Ajia, and the huge canopy that was almost fully unfolded now, and felt that the contrast was a bit strange.

Ajia nodded: "Of course, there will be no danger during the day, and those things in the Mechanic City will not come out during the day."

He sensed that Ruan Xiaoxiao's doubts were not faked, and continued, "You want to ask, since the daytime is complete, why doesn't our hunting team go out during the daytime?"

Ajia laughed helplessly: "Wait about 10 minutes and you will know the reason."

Qi Wuyuan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "Is it because of the weather?"

"Yes."

Ajia was not surprised that Qi Wuyuan would guess this right.

"In this damn weather, the temperature can only be maintained at around 10 degrees in the first 20 minutes of the sun's exposure. After 10 minutes, the surface temperature during the day is at least [-] or [-] degrees, and most of them will remain in the early [-]s. "

In addition to the extremely hot weather, it is also accompanied by hot storms left over from the catastrophe decades ago.

The interior of the heat storm can even cause a high temperature of thousands of degrees, and even the precision parts in the robot body cannot withstand this temperature.

There is simply no way for humans to get out of the human base during the day.

Speaking of this, Ajia unconsciously brought up the worship of the tree of life: "Should I say it or not, it is indeed the tree of life in our base. It is entirely dependent on her that our base can be sheltered and kept at a temperature of [-] or [-] degrees. constant temperature."

So the tower stipulates that the out-of-city converter is on duty at night, is it not only because of concealment?

It's also partly because daytime conditions outside the city aren't normal.

The Tower knows everything.

But Qi Wuyuan recalled Yan Cang's previous attitude.

—It seems that he is not aware of the bad weather conditions outside the city during the day.

Qi Wuyuan's face remained unchanged, and he kept the secret he discovered in his heart.

[Congratulations to the Yuanyu team for successfully advancing the main mission [-]: Find out the difficulty level of this dungeon. 】

[Congratulations to the Yuanyu team for triggering side mission A (main mission [-]): the Yuanyu team has officially obtained the qualification to investigate the important location of the dungeon [human base]! 】

[Note: Side mission A accounts for 50% of the main mission 0 in total. There is no accurate standard for side mission A. After the dungeon is over, the system will make a judgment based on the depth and accuracy of the player's investigation, and finally the player in side mission A The performance is incorporated into the main task 50, and the evaluation and measurement of [-]-[-]% are carried out. 】

A series of prompts from the system appeared in the minds of the three members of the Yuanyu team at the same time.

This is a series of system notifications that are more complicated than in previous copies.

The system's notification is a bit convoluted logically, but Qi Wuyuan still understood it quickly.

There was a flash of understanding in his eyes.

To put it bluntly, it is a mission with a higher degree of freedom than other dungeons, and relatively speaking, it is also more uncontrollable.

On the surface, Qi Wuyuan continued to follow Ajia and continued to walk forward, but in fact his brain was running fast, thinking about trying to piece together the scattered information in his brain reasonably.

Yu Bei walked beside Qi Wuyuan, watching the road carefully for him.

Within a few minutes of walking, the three members of Yuanyu's team could clearly notice the temperature change while walking on the road.

Qi Wuyuan keenly felt the increase in temperature in the space.

Originally, the cold body temperature with water mist in the early morning disappeared within a few minutes.

The temperature in the air quickly rose by four or five degrees, and because the change was too fast, this change could be clearly detected.

The humidity dropped even more significantly, and the environment in the base immediately dried up.

Qi Wuyuan untied his robe, and Yu Bei handed it over.

After a while, under the leadership of Ajia, they reached the destination.

At this time, the sun has risen from the horizon at a speed so fast that the real world cannot compare, revealing its full figure.

Ajia led the three members of the Yuanyu team to a building near the rock wall of the base.

Compared with other simple-looking "compartments", this building is a bit bigger, and it can be seen from the outside that this building is more guarded than other houses.

Ajia stepped forward and knocked on the door, and a small identification machine that was easily overlooked by people was revealed at the door.

The machine, which is slightly smaller than half the palm of an adult, opened its probe and scanned Ajia up and down.

The machine quickly confirmed Ajia's identity, and the door opened behind him.

A group of people walked into the building.

The decoration inside the house is closer to the decoration of ordinary people in the real world than the buildings that a few people have seen in the mechanical city-state, and it is even a bit old in comparison.

The living room is not big, so Ajia went straight to a bedroom, knocked on the door and asked, "Ms. Pu Meng, are you and your teammates up yet?"