The first plug-in in the last days

The thousand-meter-deep underground can only be reached by walking alone.

Feng Xiaoxiao probed down for a few steps, but couldn't find out what was going on. Feeling that it was useless to worry, she simply threw out the diving rope, put on the lock, and slid down the stone wall.

The length of the rope was not enough, and a group of people stopped and went, which made the team very long. It took more than half a day to finally descend to the bottom.

It was pitch black, and I couldn't see my fingers, and even the bright flashlight couldn't illuminate a long distance.Under Feng Xiaoxiao's instructions, everyone pinned flashlights to their foreheads, their bodies tensed up, fully alert, and they moved forward slowly.

Yan Zhaozhi unscrewed a lighting tube and threw it in front of him. The lighting tube emitted a bright white flame, instantly lighting up an area in front of him.

The scene presented in front of them made everyone speechless for a moment.

An inconceivable metal gate was naturally embedded in the center of the stone wall in front of him.It stands majestically, with a dignified appearance.Looking up, the gate has not been raised, and the highest place has been hidden in the dark sky that cannot be illuminated. The scene is spectacular.

The side of the door is engraved with complicated and mysterious patterns, and in the middle of the patterns is a sentence written in unfamiliar characters.Others didn't know what that meant, but Yan Zhaozhu understood it. It was the old proverb - the source stone is power.

The fire of the lighting tube gradually weakened, and finally only a pile of gray-red embers remained, and the metal door was once again hidden in the darkness.

"Boss Feng, what is this?" Someone asked Feng Xiaoxiao.

Feng Xiaoxiao stepped forward and carefully inspected the gate with a flashlight.

It was really too big, Feng Xiaoxiao stood in front of the door, feeling a sense of smallness against grandeur.

Before she could do anything, she suddenly heard a slight "click" sound, and then there were some imperceptible turning sounds of the mechanism inside the door. Sliding a gap to the sides.

Feng Xiaoxiao took a step back and found that Yan Zhaozhu was also standing by the door.

"How did you open it?" She asked in a low voice under the cover of the sound of the door opening.

Yan Zhaozhu raised an index finger to his mouth.Then he opened his palm to Feng Xiaoxiao, Feng Xiaoxiao noticed that he was holding a few crystal nuclei in his hand.

Under the action of the energy provided by the crystal nucleus, this miraculous civilization site finally opened shyly to the first group of visitors thousands of years later, revealing its half-hidden true face.

Some excited people can't wait to step in.

"Wait, we have to test the air first. Generally, there is very little oxygen in such a deep underground." Feng Xiaoxiao said.

The experts and scholars began to get busy. After a quarter of an hour, they held the instruments in their hands and looked left and right. "Strange, strange, the oxygen concentration in this place is so high."

As soon as Yan Zhaozhuo lowered his head, the light from the forehead lamp hit the ground.

He has long noticed that the walls are all over the ground, and there are wild plants growing here—that kind of beautiful and weird transparent plants, anaerobic grasses.Abundance of oxygen here is no surprise.

Feng Xiaoxiao had already prepared sufficient gas masks, and everyone dared not be careless. The armor they should wear was neatly dressed, and then they entered this mysterious and unknown place cautiously.

Yan Zhaozhuo and Shen Yonghui are still at the forefront, and they have the spiritual power to explore the way. The darkness ahead is not so scary to them, nor is it completely unknown.

The growth trajectory of anaerobic grass extends into the door, no longer growing randomly everywhere, but distributed on both sides of the road in a trajectory.Yes, the road.There was indeed a road under their feet, a long straight road that was obviously dug by hand.

Go straight along the long road and come to the second door unimpeded.

There are no stone walls on both sides of the road, but some horizontal passages are interspersed, intersecting with the long road itself to form a simple cross shape, and extending deep, forming a series of circular corridors.

Mental strength probed in, and found that among these circular corridors, rows of narrow rooms were densely connected, and they were not on a single floor. There were suspected elevator passages connecting them up and down.

These rooms may have been used for living, and each one contains strangely shaped furniture.They are closely arranged on the perimeter of the circular corridors, embracing left and right, and encircling up and down, forming an extremely crowded circular tube building.

Yan Zhaozhuo followed suit and opened the second door first in the darkness.

The gate had just opened an opening that only allowed one person to pass through, when suddenly a black figure rushed through it, bringing a gust of cold wind from the ground, slipped into the opening, and disappeared.

"Zeng Juelin!" Mu Qing, who had been walking with him, shouted.

The door was wide open, and in the darkness, Zeng Juelin's back running fast could be vaguely seen.

"Wait! That's it!" Someone exclaimed, opening his mouth wide.

Just in the direction of the branch line where Zeng Juelin was escaping quickly, a little bean-sized blue fluorescence suddenly appeared.

Elegant, mysterious, and eerie.

An extremely dangerous cold air emerged spontaneously and climbed up everyone's backs.

People realized that these seemingly dazzling blue stars may actually be fatal.

There were more and more blue fluorescent lights, and they gradually began to gather. Zeng Juelin must have seen it, but he didn't intend to slow down or run away at all. He just rushed forward and was about to plunge into the pile of fluorescent lights.

He removed that radiant look and put on a relieved smile on his face.Finally, to be freed——

--what happened!

In the blink of an eye, he found that he was no longer running, but changed his position inexplicably, and returned to the place before entering the gate.

What he didn't know was that the use of Shen's dark teleportation had expanded again, and when he was about to succeed in sending him to death, he used his ability to move him back.

He tried to run over again, but Shen Yonghui lifted up his collar and threw him behind, letting East, West, North, South, and North China firmly hold him down.

Yan Zhaozhuo walked over and patted his cheek, "Mr. Zeng, have you ever heard a saying that death is something that does not need to be rushed, and death is a ritual that will inevitably come. I think it makes sense. This sentence The words are for you."

"Strictly." Shen Yonghui called him from the front.

When he turned his head, he saw that piece of blue fluorescent light had gathered to form a blue curtain, which was sweeping towards him at an increasing speed.

Shen Yonghui let go of his mental strength to explore the past, and when he saw the true face of the blue light, his expression became serious, and he said to Feng Xiaoxiao: "Retreat!"

Feng Xiaoxiao didn't dare to take his words lightly, and immediately ordered the team to retreat, but the whole team was too numerous, and they didn't cooperate with each other tacitly. Blockbusters.

The speed of the blue light became faster and faster, and finally, they caught up with the crowd.The laggard looked back tremblingly, and the first thing that came into sight was a set of ferocious fangs.

"It's bugs! Zombie bugs!" Feng Xiaoxiao blurted out.

It turned out to be a bug!It's a whole piece of glowing bugs!

"No." Shen Yonghui said, "It's a mutant. And," he paused, "there's no level."

That's right, there is no grade.I can feel the special energy fluctuations on them, but I can't see the level.

It is normal for a low-level person to not be able to see a high-level person. For example, until now, everyone is not sure whether Shen Yonghui is a fourth-level person, because he cannot see his exact level.

So, the level that even Shen Yonghui can't see, has reached level five...or even higher?

Not to mention, there is not only one bug here, but a large one!

Feng Xiaoxiao suddenly remembered that when the ruins of the previous life were discovered, it had been more than three years since the end of the world, and everyone's general level had reached around five or six levels.Moreover, after Chen Tianfeng came back from exploring the ruins, he had a bad face for a long time, and she never knew how many people were sacrificed in that mining.

When she thought of these things, the group of people who fell earlier were still pushing and shoving, with arms crossed, and they still didn't get up.

In an instant, blue light covered their bodies.

Because they found their prey, the mutants stopped and did not continue to chase.Everyone retreated to the back, and the supernatural beings quickly erected a solid wall, ready to go.

"Boss Feng, do you want to rescue..." Someone said impatiently when they saw the group of people covered by the blue light behind them.

Before he could finish his sentence, the hill covered by blue light collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Thunderbolt bang bang", "clink bang", a pile of bone frames crashed and fell, rolling on the ground.

Everyone was terrified.

Blu-ray rushed over again, this time much faster than before.Everyone knew that there was no hope of escaping, so they could only resort to Class [-] martial arts and try their best to resist.

The effect of resistance is negligible, whether it is burned by fire or struck by lightning, these bugs can hardly hurt much.Occasionally encountering a threatening big move, they even know how to form a group, and only wait for the outermost layer to be killed, while the inside is still alive and kicking.

The bugs rushed to the periphery of the crowd and began to harvest human lives.

Feng Xiaoxiao could only grit her teeth, and ordered the panicked people to retreat repeatedly.Seeing Yan Zhaoming's solemn expression, she instinctively asked him for help, "Is there any other way? Please find a way, at least to save it."

Yan Zhaozhu frowned, and slowly shook his head.

The underground space is not stable enough to use guns rashly. The last time it was also in the ruins, it was because of a shot that the ruins collapsed.

Seeing his expression, knowing that even the most powerful people can't do anything, many people finally fell into despair.

Everyone's escaping movements gradually slowed down, some people were exhausted, and some people were already determined to die.

Only Zeng Juelin smiled lightly, "If you can't escape, then don't run away. I'm finally going to die, hey, unexpectedly, after trying so many ways to die, I was finally eaten to death by a group of ugly ants."

Yan Zhaozhu raised his head abruptly, "Ant?"

Zeng Juelin shrugged, "Yeah, that's unexpected, hahahaha."

"Are you sure these things are ants?" Yan Zhaozhi was referring to their gleaming fangs and wings as thin as cicada's wings.

"Of course, I'm not ashamed to say that besides thermodynamics, I can also be called an expert in biology."

Yan Zhao held the sword flower in his hand, held the long knife upside down and stuck it to the back of his arm, slowed down, and approached him, "So, as a biology expert, do you know that most ants have a special habit? "

Zeng Juelin frowned, "What did you say?"

Yan Zhaozhu didn't answer any more, he stopped running, walked to the back, and approached those laggards shrouded in blue light.

Shen Yonghui didn't stop him, but just followed closely behind him.

"Headfinder ant." Yan Zhaozhu said to him.

The two searched in the ant colony, and found the head ant easily. It was bigger, with wider wings, and its body presented a strange color. The dirty color, the fangs look extremely sharp.

The head ant is lying on a human body, gnawing on it.

Yan Zhao shook Shen Yonghui's hand, "Follow me and protect me."

"it is good."

Hearing the answer, he confidently entrusted his safety to Shen Yonghui, and the hook popped out of his hand, hooked the half-gnawed human body at once, and dragged him over.

The rapid dragging caused many flying ants to fall off his body, and they continued to climb up tenaciously.

In order to prevent this body from being eaten up too quickly by flying ants, Yan Zhaozhuo had to shake the rope while dragging, constantly shaking off the flying ants on his body.

Finally, the head ant was completely irritated by him after being swung again and again, and changed its target. It no longer focused on the corpse, but flew straight towards Yan Zhaozhu.

In an instant, all the flying ants that landed on the ground immediately lifted into the air.

He stayed in the air for a second, as if he was pausing to accumulate energy, and rushed towards Yan Zhaozhuo.

Yan Zhaozhu began to speed up and walk quickly.

"What the hell is he doing!" Not far away, people who had given up hope exclaimed.

"He's going around in circles." Feng Xiaoxiao said, frowning.

Yes, the overwhelming blue fluorescent lights up the entire cave, and everyone noticed that Yan Zhaozhuo was circling around.

To be precise, he was leading the group of flying ants to run in a circle around the remaining survivors.

Under the blue fluorescent light, people gradually discovered that the underground cave they were in was actually so big, and there were many openings in all directions, and there seemed to be long corridors in the openings.

The circle that Yan Zhaozhuo ran out of was naturally huge, vainly enclosing everyone in it.

"He is!" Only Zeng Juelin realized something, and stretched out his finger in shock.

Mu Qing and the other five quickly pulled him back to stop him from making trouble.

Finally, Yan Zhaozhuo ran the full distance, and ran out of a huge circular trajectory with the head and the tail connected.

He led the ant colony all the way, leading their end point to the very beginning point, making them also run out of a closed circular trajectory.

Then he turned around, faced the ferocious twisted body of the head ant, and stabbed it with a knife.

Shen Yonghui connected in time, and used the spatial power to tear the head ant into pieces. The fragments were scattered in the air, and before they hit the ground, they were swallowed up by the devouring power.

The cooperation between the two was flawless, and the tacit understanding was incomparable. The leader Fei Ant, who was originally arrogant and terrifying, was wiped out by them just like that.

Yan Zhaozhu threw out a look, Shen Yonghui immediately understood, wrapped his arms around his waist, led him teleport away, and returned to the crowd.

"What the hell did you do?" Feng Xiaoxiao shouted in a low voice, "Are you crazy? If you kill the head ant, the group of ants will have no rules and will disperse immediately. Then we will be real." Not far from death!"

"Yes, you know the habits of ants very well." Yan Zhaozhu said, "Even if they mutate, they are still ants. Bugs are bugs, and their inherent habits will not be changed so easily."

"Since you know this! Why pay it back!" Feng Xiaoxiao was about to accuse him.

Suddenly, someone pulled her sleeve from behind.

"Boss, Boss," the subordinate's voice trembled, "Look quickly, look quickly!"

Looking at the past along the line of sight, when the scene over there completely came into sight, Feng Xiaoxiao was stunned and could no longer speak.

After the death of the head ants, the group of mutated flying ants did not become chaotic and completely out of order as she had imagined.

They just continued to march silently, stubbornly, and without distraction, according to the circle trajectory Yan Zhaozhu had drawn for them.

——They actually continued to circle around!

The ant colony, which was hysterical and crazy just now, looked extremely cute and docile at the moment.They seem to be able to obey Yan Zhaoming's instructions, and they concentrate on walking in that closed circle.

Feng Xiaoxiao managed to squeeze out a sentence, "You, you can still tame animals? Is it the ability to control... the ability to control animals?"

Before Yan Zhaozhu could speak, Zeng Juelin, who was leaning aside, first laughed, "Supernatural powers, what are supernatural powers? Rules are the ultimate power in this world. Hahahahahaha, as long as you master the rules, what can't be controlled? Everything follows the rules. Keep discipline, everything can be tamed!"

"What?" Feng Xiaoxiao was dumbfounded by what he said.

"It's a pity, it's a pity! This is an era where rules have fallen!" Zeng Juelin continued to laugh.

"What did he say?" Feng Xiaoxiao asked.

"Don't pay attention to him, he's just pretending to be aggressive." Yan Zhaozhu said.

"Pretentious? No, no. I know what rules you just used." Zeng Juelin said, "It's not our rules, it's the rules of ants! When ant colonies march on a large scale, in order to shorten the distance, they will not distinguish themselves. Direction, will only follow a head ant, copy the route of the head ant!"

"The head ant will secrete a special pheromone on the way it travels. Ordinary ants who cannot tell the direction can only follow the road made of pheromones and move forward without thinking!"

"They have no other way, pheromone is their way! Either they are taken home by the head ants, or they keep going, never stop!"

Feng Xiaoxiao was hit by a flash of light, and she said, "If the pheromone path is closed..."

"If the road is a closed circle," Zeng Juelin said, "the ants will keep walking along it, walking and walking, walking and walking... until they die."

Just like the scene in front of you.

An ant colony keeps going in a huge circle.

The human survivors are tightly gathered in the center of the circle.

With a radius of tens of meters, death surrounds the whole body.

It is obviously a desperately close distance, and it is obviously a desperate situation surrounded by disasters.

But all, for the first time, realized so clearly and so deeply: they were saved.What saved them was not only Yan Zhaozhuo and Shen Yonghui, but also wisdom and knowledge.It is the curiosity that human beings do not want to stop, and the desire for the truth of nature and the world that they do not want to give up.

"Don't provoke them casually, otherwise it will trigger their counterattack." Yan Zhaozhu said, "Just let them run like this, they will always die of exhaustion."

"Okay." Everyone wrote down seriously.

In the dark and cold underground cave, surrounded by extremely dangerous blue fluorescent lights, everyone felt an indescribable sense of security because of these short instructions.

After calm down, people began to count the casualties.

When Feng Xiaoxiao heard the final result, she didn't know whether she should breathe a sigh of relief or continue to worry.

The death toll was only [-]%, which was less than she had imagined.On the contrary, more people were injured.

However, this has just entered a gate, who knows what will happen on the road behind?

If all these people are lost here... Her heart sank, no, one-third of the top-notch people in the East China base are here, and they cannot all be lost, otherwise, the strength of the base will be destroyed immediately. Drop a lot.

Without strength, there is no deterrence. Even if the ruins are excavated, why can she hold these things in her hands?

She sighed, and said to the group leaders who were looking at her eagerly in front of her: "When the ants are dead, let's explore the corridors outside first. After we are done, everyone will go back. I will take a smaller team and go alone. Go deeper."

There is no objection from everyone, and the matter is so settled.

Zeng Juelin was next to him, crazy for a while and nervous for a while, laughing for a long time, and crying again.

Yan Zhaozhuo thought to himself why he fell in love with such a thing, thinking that he could bring the spaceship to solve the energy problem.He simply planned to give up. Anyway, the world is so big, and scientists can grab a lot of it.

After Zeng Juelin finished crying, Mu Qing walked over and chatted with him.

"Can I ask you a question?" Mu Qing said.

"What." Zeng Juelin rolled his eyes.

"Why do you want to die?" This is what Mu Qing can't understand the most.

"Hahaha." Zeng Juelin laughed three times, appearing to be even more insane, "I want to die for love, I want to die for love!"

"Uh, your girlfriend is...?"

"Girlfriend? No, no, no." He shook his head repeatedly, "I don't have a girlfriend."

"Then what are you dying for?" A Dong squeezed over and asked.

"I die," Zeng Juelin said, "I die for science, for that era when science was so brilliant."

"..."

"Science is dead, science is dead... No, it's not science that's dead, it's thermodynamics, thermodynamics is dead! You don't know, our family, my grandfather studied thermodynamics, my dad studied thermodynamics, and in my life , still can’t let go, can’t let go.” Zeng Juelin said, “But thermodynamics, it’s dead! Dead!”

"Emmmm..." Mu Qing, who had already forgotten all about physics in high school, and A Dong, who dropped out of school and joined the army and never knew what physics was, looked at each other silently.

Mu Qing tried to ease the embarrassment, but had nothing to say, "How do you know that thermodynamics is dead?"

Zeng Juelin suddenly put away the messy expression on his face, and the face-changing skills made the two people amazed. Then he was silent for a long time, and said, "I'm from Z City."

"Well...well, we got it." Mu Qing didn't want to continue this topic either.

"You don't know," Zeng Juelin became stubborn, "You don't know that when I left City Z, its entire construction had already returned to the level before the end of the world."

"During the day, everything is as usual, and at night, the lights are bright. The signal tower can work, mobile phones can be connected in the base, running water is connected to thousands of households, and electricity flows through the entire base..."

Those who listened to him couldn't believe it, "How is it possible? This is the end of the world."

"That's right, it's the last days, and there are zombies in the last days." Zeng Juelin said, "Zombies can move and run instinctively. When they run, they won't be like these mutated ants, who will eventually die of exhaustion. You know this Does it mean something?"

He said, "Perpetual motion machines, here we go. Thermodynamics, here we go."

Those who heard this sentence were completely stunned. It took them a while to understand the true meaning of these words.

He continued to mutter, "Do you think zombies are enemies? No, in City Z, they are not enemies. They are the huge base supporting the city, the incubator and culture medium of human civilization. They..."

He was about to continue, but Yan Zhaozhu grabbed him and interrupted, "What did you say?"

Zeng Juelin looked at Yan Zhaozhu, and he noticed a solemn expression flashed on his face that he had never seen before, "...why?"

"Repeat what you just said."

"..." Zeng Juelin said, "They are the base that supports the city, the incubator and culture medium of civilization..."

"It's the base, it's the culture medium." Yan Zhaozhu repeated.

"Yes……"

Medium, base...seat.What he thought of was the diary of a prehistoric civilization that had been dug out from the ruins.

The hand holding Zeng Juelin's arm was released, Yan Zhao stood up abruptly, and ran to Feng Xiaoxiao.

"Come here, look at these two words."

Before he had time to touch the strong flashlight, he simply used his luminous ability to make his hands emit a faint white fluorescent light, and gestured on the ground.

Feng Xiaoxiao yelled in surprise, and then looked at him with extremely surprised eyes.

But slowly, she closed her eyes.

She looked at the patterns that Yan Zhaozhuo had drawn in the soil—the oddly shaped patterns, against the light of the opponent's hand, looked dim, but still clearly visible.

"How do you know..." She heard her voice trembling.

"You know him?" Yan Zhaozhu said.

"I think... I remember." Feng Xiao said with a smile, "These words appeared on the stone tablet above the sea."

Yan Zhaozhu looked down at the words.He wrote in Mirage, two words: origin stone and cultivation.

"If you were given more words like this, would you recognize them?"

"...Yes." Feng Xiaoxiao first thought about it uncertainly, and then said firmly, "Yes."

Yan Zhaozhu said, "I'll write it, and you'll recognize it."

Three days later, Shen Yong came over with a small bag of crystal nuclei.

He told Yan Zhaozhu that the ants were almost dead, and their crystal nuclei were dug out, and they were different from all the known crystal nuclei. They were regular and transparent...level seven.

Yan Zhaozhu wrote down another set of words while listening to his report.

Feng Xiaoxiao said: "There is this! I remember!"

"Is this the last group?"

"Well, I spelled it out." Feng Xiao said with a smile, "But what kind of word is this? It's a sentence together?"

"No." Yan Zhaozhu said.

Together, these words are not sentences.

is a noun.

The third origin stone cultivation base.