Chapter 394 Uninvited Guest 1
Another damn handover of goods.
At the same place, Zero was a little disappointed to watch the strong scorpion men move barrels of oil from somewhere in the city of Bethes to the small square in front of the warehouse, and the old Rob personally ordered the signature. The oil will be temporarily parked in the warehouse and will be taken away by the caravan tomorrow. Ling thought he could see the well of the abyss, but now it seems that he is delusional.
But this is also normal. The well of the abyss is definitely a secret place for Betis City. How can it be allowed to be visited by outsiders?
After the signing, old Rob seemed to see someone, but he bowed with one hand on his chest in the direction of the south. Zero followed his line of sight and fell on a strange life.
It also has female characteristics, but this underground person looks slimmer than the snake woman. Its upper body is not completely exposed to the eyes of other life. Although it is not wearing anything similar to clothes, a layer of brown shell covers its touching body. The shell seems to be born, so when it spreads to the lower body, it naturally transforms into the limbs of some kind of insect.
It has a spider-like abdomen and three pairs of feet that support the body. This makes the creature in front of us like a mixture of women and spiders, with some kind of almost strange beauty.
Next to this beautiful spider, there are also five snakes, scorpions and men. These ten underground warriors are different from ordinary soldiers. They have strange tattoos on their bodies, but they don't know what they mean.
When old Rob bowed, the beautiful spider also nodded to the old man. When it looked at zero, its eyes became sharp, with some sense of blame. Zero remembered their strange likes and dislikes and quickly lowered his head. At this time, old Rob came over and muttered, "I didn't expect the sacrifice to grow up. It's really a monster. It hasn't changed at all in the past 20 years."
Zero turned around and walked with him and asked in a low voice, "Is that their leader?"
"It can be said." Old Rob scratched his head and replied, "These monsters worship the abyss and believe that their king Naga is sleeping in the abyss and will one day wake up and lead them back to the abyss. Every spring, they hold a sacrificial event. The thing that looks like a woman and a spider is their sacrificial leader, presiding over the whole city of Betis, and these monsters are regarded as the * people on the ground.
By this time, Zero has roughly understood the strange form of this underground alien. From the perspective of weapons and urban architecture, they have advanced technology and technology. However, their culture remained in the stage of primitive feudal god worship. From a human perspective, this is a very contradictory phenomenon. The cause of this deformed civilization may be related to the environment in which they live.
He didn't even know that when he was observing the underground people, the sacrificial chief was also observing them.
In the eyes of this beautiful spider, zero is good, old Rob and other members of the caravan. They present multiple color spectra in the eyes of this strange life, and when these spectra overlap, three-dimensional images are generated. Looking at these images, the sacrificial chief said in their unique language, "How is the ceremony of the abyss prepared?"
Standing on the right hand of the beauty spider, a strong scorpion warrior wrapped his chest with one hand and bowed his head and said, "Respect, the gene completion of my king Naga has reached 94%. If there is no accident, it will soon reach 100%.
"Very well, thank you so much for these human beings." A cold smile appeared at the corners of the sacrificial long mouth: "This occupies the life of the earth, and the genetic fragments in the body are so diverse and complex. Otherwise, even if I get the inspiration from my mother, I can't make up for my king Naga's genes. As long as my king wakes up, it will be the time for the abyss to come to the earth. At that time, Pavalić's human beings will be the first delicious meal since my king woke up.
"This greedy creature that peeps into the blood of our abyss should have disappeared from the earth long ago!" Leaving this sentence, the sacrificial leader turned around and slowly left with the support of the clan.
It's late at night.
In the rest area of the caravan, Zero opened his eyes. He sat up and moved softly. Everyone has fallen asleep, and even the two underground soldiers on duty at night also leaned against the wall to take a nap. Ye Liu came to Ling's side. She had taken off her hooded cloak and put a colored dark leather armor on her banded body.
The leather armor is smooth and has few seams. Wearing it on Ye Liu's body, it looks like her second layer of skin. This is the latest hidden combat leather armor developed by Asgard. The thickness of the leather armor is less than 1CM, and the weight is almost negligible. And the surface has a slightly curved design, which allows the wearer to minimize wind resistance when moving. However, this set of leather armor called "The Hidden Shadow" is different from the full-cover design of Night God. It only focuses on protecting important parts and joints such as chest, arms and knees, and is not satisfactory in defense.
This is the combat armor that Zero specially bought for Ye Liu before departure. Although the hidden shadow lacks defense, it is very suitable for Ye Liu's killer ability. Compared with Night Liu's own hand-stitched leather armor, the latent shadow is much better in any aspect. When she got this set of combat armor that day, although Ye Liu did not say anything, it was not difficult to know from the sparks in her eyes that the girl liked the gift very much.
At this moment, Ye Liu, dressed in a hidden shadow, tied up her long hair to avoid unnecessary interference. Two blackened composite daggers are different from the outside of a pair of thighs to facilitate the extraction of enemies at any time. In addition, Ye Liu has no other equipment.
For the Night Messenger, her body itself is a deadly weapon.
Take off the clothes used to cover your body, reveal the close-fitting night god tactical suit, and then take out a carrying tool from the backpack with dry food. From the carrying tool, Zero took out a watch and let Ye Liu put it on. In this inconspicuous watch, there are pocket tools such as laser scanning, which can be used by users to scan terrain. Zero also took out one and put it on. The two watches have been modulated, and the built-in scanning system is connected to the terminal far away in Pavarić. When the scanning is completed, Beatrice and the others can get a detailed three-dimensional topographic map of Bethes.
"Listen, we are not here to fight this time, so try to avoid unnecessary conflicts." Zero said briefly and said with his fingers, "We are divided into two directions. You go up and me down and meet in the middle. Do you know how to use the scanner?
Ye Liu shook his head honestly, and Ling explained the usage to her again. This thing is not complicated to use, and Ye Liu can learn it. After icing, Zero gestured to start the action. Ye Liu nodded, his body shook, and disappeared into Zero's sight. Even Zero didn't notice how Ye Liu moved. She couldn't be quiet and her energy was not overflowing. She should have used some special skills.
Zero smiled, filtered out his thoughts, and activated the ability of shadow jumping. With the shadow of the corner of the room as the medium for the ability to launch, Zero's figure also quietly disappeared into the room. In the room, everyone was sleeping soundly, but no one found that Ling and Ye Liu had left.
Ye Liu's movements are light and fast. By borrowing some specific footwork, she can always make herself appear in the hiding places of various buildings or in the blind corners of the sight of patrol soldiers. She is like a nocturnal cat, walking in this huge city with gentle footsteps. She is like the wind and unpredictable. At this time, at the bottom of the overpass, the next moment she climbs to the vertical cliff.
Compared with Ye Liu's changeable and complicated special movements, Zero's action is much simpler, but its efficiency is no worse than Ye Liu's. The environment of Betis is almost full of land for zero. The three-dimensional city construction makes shadow areas inevitably appear in many places. With the support of the wandering people's ability to jump shadows, zero constantly flashes between various shadow areas.
The distance of each flash is about 100 meters. After dozens of flashes, Zero has come to the bottom of the city of Betis. This city built underground has very clear class characteristics.
Zero does not forget to observe the surrounding environment while moving. He found himself and the caravan in the upper area in the middle of the city of Bedes. Most of the ugly dwarves live in this area. According to human cities, the area up to the middle should be a slum or something, and it is also an area inhabited by the bottom class of Betis.
The lower it goes, the higher the class. Soldiers like snake women and scorpion men mostly live in the lower part of the city, and they occupy one-third of the city. As for the lower area of the city of Bates, the buildings are more complex and exquisite. Decoration techniques such as relief have been seen here. It can be seen that the aristocratic class living in this area is the underground clan.
It is not difficult to understand from the words of old Rob that the underground clan is an alien who worships the abyss, so according to class status, the closer the area close to the abyss, the more noble it is. As for the abyss of the Forbidden City of Betis, it is located at the bottom of the city.
Another shadow jump, zero appeared on the periphery of a square building. He had seen several buildings like this when he came here and knew that the underground people used architectural shapes to distinguish their functions. A square building like this should be similar to the function of a human laboratory. It's just that this building is located below the city. The outer wall not only has symbols unique to their race, but also is decorated with a circle of relief at the top of the building. The relief content is a picture of many people of various ethnic groups bowing their heads to King Naga. Such content appears in many places throughout the city, and it is not difficult to see the status of King Naga in the minds of the underground people.
Zero originally wanted to continue to pass through the edges through the shadow, but he heard a whisper from the wall. The sound doesn't sound like a human, but it seems to be made by underground people. Although he doesn't understand this alien language, it is not difficult for Zero to hear a trace of pain from his voice. His heart moved and his figure flashed. By the time he appeared, he had already entered the interior of the building.
Zero appeared behind a load-bearing column and looked out behind the column and found that it was a hall of several hundred meters square. There is a stone bed in the hall. The stone beds are arranged 10 by 10, and there are as many as 100. Each stone** lies an underground man, including a snake woman, a scorpion man, and even a few dwarfs. These underground people moan from time to time, with a painful voice.
The underground people lying on the stone** look pale, and their bodies have ulcers of different areas, as if they are a precursor of genetic collapse in human beings. In the corner of the hall, there are rows of medicine shelves. Zero's figure flashed and appeared after one of the medicine racks. There were mostly antibiotics on the medicine racks, as well as some commonly used human medicine, such as aspirin.
Zero remembers that there are a considerable number of drugs in the goods shipped by the caravan, among which aspirin and antibiotics are the most. In Asgard's related materials about aliens, there is little mention of the use of human drugs by aliens, because there are huge differences in the structure of different races, from the body to even genes. This makes drugs that are useful to humans and may be poisons for different races.
But the underground people use a lot of human drugs, which seems strange. While thinking about it, there was a shout in his ear. But it was a stone** in the distance. A scorpion warrior suddenly grabbed his body so hard that he brought a large area of his skin and flesh between the rise and fall of his hands. When the cry began, there were footsteps outside the house. Ling knew that he could not stay, and his body had disappeared in the hall.
The hall should be a ward-like building, and there is no doubt that the people lying on the stone** are patients. I just don't know what disease they are suffering from. It seems to be serious, but they use human toilet medicine. It's really strange.
Zero did not go far, but hid outside the ward. A moment later, several dwarf hard laborers pulled out a body from the hall, which was the scorpion man who just screamed crazily. They didn't see how to deal with it, but directly threw the body into the abyss. Zero's body leaned forward slightly and disappeared into the shadow. When it appeared again, it was under an overhead bridge.
The vibration of a heavy object falling from the air, Zero poked out half of his body from under the overpass, reached out and caught the body left by the dwarf. Zero immediately flashed again and appeared in the shadow of nearby buildings. He quietly put down the body and took out a vessel from the carrying tool. This is a container for preserving genetic specimens. With a shake of the hand, a scalpel is used to produce a scalpel. He quickly cut off a piece of skin on the body, put it in a container, and then carefully put it into the carrying tool. He wants to take the specimen back. Maybe someone under Beatrice can test what disease the underground people have.
This may be a major breakthrough for the study of underground people.
After all this, Zero threw the body into the abyss. And he continued to lean down the city of Bethes. When Zero flashed for the second time, he heard a "plop" sound, which should have fallen to the bottom. From the sound, there seems to be an environment like a lake at the bottom of the city of Bethes, otherwise the sound of the body falling into the water will not come.
Zero's heart suddenly jumped. It may not be a lake, but an oil mine.
The well of the abyss!