182 Mushroom Essence(1/2)
"Run!!!"
Haba screamed, and he didn't even care about Ma Fan, so he ran away!
Just now, Ma Fan felt that these indigenous people were so careful to keep quiet, because there was no big impact on the sound, but now, Ma Fan was stunned and finally knew why this was!
Hundreds and thousands of caves of large and small size in the originally quiet cave caves made a locomotive-like roar, forming a thunderous roar, rolling in the passage like thunder. As the sound wave doubled, the stone stalactites on the top of the cave began to break "Gaba Gaba", and the world collapsed and cracked down like the end of the world.
In this environment, you can't hear anything or say anything. Even if you shout loudly, no one can hear it. The entire team had already started to rush into the passage crazy at the beginning. Instead, Ma Fan was foolish at the end, staring blankly at the chaos like the wonders.
And this was not the most dangerous. Just as Ma Fan stood in the cave and stared at the rain-collapsed stalagmites outside to smash the bloody and bloody goblin slaves who had not had time to get into the cave, there was a loud bang, as if something had exploded. After a sudden shock, all the sounds disappeared collectively, and the stalagmites in the air also fell to the ground, and suddenly became quiet strangely.
Ma Fan, who came back to his senses, exhaled and subconsciously smiled awkwardly: "Uh...hehe, is it okay?" But when he turned around, he found that everyone was gone, which made him sweat suddenly. If he was lost...
Fortunately, Haba, who had just taken the team and ran away in a mess, found that Mafan had not followed him, and turned around to find him. Haba, who was riding a wolf, was accompanied by Big Wolf and Ababa who were carrying the balls.
He rushed over and without waiting for Ma Fan to speak, Haba Bu. Fenyou said that Ma Fan was raised from the ground with a ruthless hand, threw it on Ababa's back, and suddenly turned without stopping and rushed back.
He hurriedly grabbed Ababa's long hair on his neck, and Ma Fan shouted: "Haba! Don't run away! Stop behind!"
Haba was full of horror and shouted: "Witch! No stop! No stop! Run!!!"
Ma Fan was sweating so much that he had to follow it and let Ababa run wildly. For the first time, the goblin slaves who were only one meter tall were running fast with their short legs. With such a little effort, they actually ran faster than Ababa and Big Big Wolf!
The team did not run too far in the passage, but a small fork appeared no more than 500 meters away, and everyone got into it. Moreover, some older goblins were very experienced in commanding the team to stuff them as much as possible, shouting: "Let's find a place to lie down! Leave down!"
At this time, they were not afraid of the loud noise, and they pushed the crowd desperately and stuffed people into it. Ma Fan also found that there were many such forks in this passage, and there was one every few dozen meters. With just such a big time, 2 goblins, 7 goblins slaves, 3 many wild donkeys, and many giant wolves, plus 11 Vajra Dragon Armor, etc., they were all diverted to various forks and hid.
Those old goblins were all very experienced. In this emergency, they actually scattered the tribe, the goblin slaves, giant wolf, and donkeys, all drove them into the forks without any frosts. When they passed through the forks, they kept blocking them and rushed forward. The person didn't get into that, so they hid in a short time.
Ma Fan was stuffed into a fork in a way by Haba, and ran away dizzyly from behind. Suddenly, he turned around, then ran a small part, and then turned again. Then he suddenly became clear. A stone cave about the size of an indoor basketball court appeared in front of him, but now it was stuffed with donkeys, wolves and goblins like canned sardines.
Until he entered here, Haba breathed a sigh of relief and began to wave his arms to yell at the big goblins who were squeezed into a ball: "Everyone is down! Or tighten each other! Be careful not to be sucked out!"
"Suck out?" Ma Fan was stunned for a moment: "What suck out?"
When Haba and the others were so nervous that Ma Fan was a little confused about the situation and found that even the Canglang King Gray Wolf, who had always maintained an elegant image, was now tightly huddled with his subordinates regardless of their image, and he also bent down and grabbed the ground firmly with his claws.
When they were so nervous, Ma Fan began to feel something was wrong, so he quickly approached the wall and squatted down, but after squatting down, he immediately found something unusual. There was wind in the depths of the z-shaped fork!
Some people may think there is something strange about wind?
But this is in a place underground where I don’t know how deep it is, and it is still deep in the caves around the corner. It’s good to squeeze so many people without suffocating. There will be enough airflow to create a blowing feeling?
really!
Just after Ma Fan found that something was wrong, the air in the cave suddenly "swelled", pushing everyone's bodies backwards, and then shrank again, creating a suction force, pulling Ma Fan's body closest to the edge and swaying outwards, almost falling down. At this time, a huge claw stretched over and grabbed Ma Fan's body.
Ma Fan, who was almost pulled away by the airflow, turned around but Ah Dai grinned at himself with a big mouth and laughed foolishly, then pulled open his pocket and pressed him in without any explanation.
A Dai put the head and feet into his pocket. Ma Fan finally struggled and turned over. He was about to poke his head out, but he felt a furry thing crawling on his face. Needless to think about it, it was Maoqiu.
He reached out and held the ball in his arms. Ma Fan poked his head out of his pocket and heard the whistling sound of wind coming from the fork cave, and there were also shrill screams, just like the sound of breaking through the air when the thin bamboo branches swung past. It was obviously caused by something flying through the air.
Soon he knew what was passing through the air. A stone as big as a head suddenly hit the fork, splashing fragments all over the sky, and ejected in like bullets. It broke into stone powder like a rainstorm at the corner before. Even though it was broken, these fine particles could still be smashed when they were smashed into the fork, and the goblins hiding deep in the fork cave screamed in tears.
Generally speaking, it is rare for players living in cities to hear the real "wind" in the steel forest composed of tall buildings, but some people living in more remote suburbs or villages know that the sound of the wind is very terrifying. Even a small wave of "windows through the hall" is like a ghost night owl, exuding a burst of cunning power, not to mention these hurricanes that can blew huge stones.
The "swish~swish~!" sound made by huge gravel when it flew over the entrance of the fork tunnel at a very fast speed, accompanied by a "woo~~~" roar, and the rumbling sound of the stones that burst into pieces when they rubbed the fork tunnel at the fork tunnel. The gravel shot out suddenly made people unable to lift their heads. Moreover, although the fork tunnel turned two turns, the air current that rushed through the fork tunnel at a very fast speed produced a suction force on the air in the cave, which forced the person hiding inside to lie down as much as possible and grasp the body of the companion beside him, increase his weight and prevent it from being sucked away...
I don’t know how long it took, but it was as sudden as it was when I came, and the terrifying hurricane disappeared all of a sudden.
Ma Fan slowly poked half of his head out of A Dai's pocket and looked at it secretly. It was pitch black outside and the torches had long been thrown away or swept away, but Ma Fan could still vaguely see some scenery. The surroundings were very quiet, leaving only the breathing of the goblins and other animals.
"Haba?" Mafan shouted carefully.
"I'm here, wizard!" A sudden sound from beside him scared Ma Fan. He turned his head and saw a small green eye looking in his direction. Then there was a crackling sound of flints and a burst of sparks, which looked particularly dazzling in the dark cave, forcing Ma Fan to turn his head to avoid the sudden lit torches burning his eyes.
The torches gradually lit up, and the light was restored in the cave. Ma Fan crawled out of Ah Dai's pocket and looked at them. He found that although everyone was in a mess, they did not seem to have suffered much loss overall.
While Haba and the others were organizing the team, Ma Fan observed the cave and found that it was actually dug out by hand, with traces of shaking on the cave wall. This should have been a native tribe like the goblins who slowly risked their lives little by little as they passed through countless times and used primitive stone tools to dig out the cave, so that they could use the descendants to hide when passing through this terrible cave, in case of hurricanes.
The creativity and will of the race are great and terrible. Ma Fan reached out to touch the uneven wall with a hint of reverence. His carelessness just now made him do something wrong, which made him feel ashamed.
Fortunately, the hurricane was buffered for a short period of time, and it did not suddenly explode, but slowly increased from weak to strong, which gave them a chance to avoid it.
After everyone carefully sorted the team, Ma Fan found that overall it was quite fortunate. Except for dozens of goblin slaves who refused to enter the cave at the beginning, they were killed by dozens of goblin slaves, and later after the hurricane blew, more than a dozen donkeys were unlucky to get too close to the entrance of the fork cave and were swept away by strong airflow, so they did not suffer much damage. [Uploading of the disappearing grass]
Ma Fan took advantage of Haba and the others still sorting the team and secretly rode Ababa back to Qiankou Cave. He looked carefully and ran back with a little shock. Qiankou Cave plant was as clean as a plate licked by a dog, so clean that it could not be cleaner. Some broken stalagmites and small gravel were scraped to the point where they went.
This strange phenomenon should be because of the special topography of Qiankou Cave, which has produced a strange spatial environment. The sound waves amplified by the layers of caves of all sizes caused the air to fluctuate, which gradually strengthened the turbulent airflow, causing a large amount of airflow to concentrate in the huge caves under the giant stalagmites and erupted into a hurricane. However, it is not clear what the detailed principle is.
Because they did not suffer any losses, everyone's spirit was still stable. They quickly gathered the team again and continued to move forward. The death of dozens of talking "farmers" did not make them feel sorry for them, but they felt very grateful. The goblin slaves themselves did not seem to care about the deaths of dozens of companions, but just followed the team more honestly. The "spiritual whipping" just now made them more afraid than the pain on the **, and directly acted on the pain of the nerves, just as unbearable as holding an awl to stir their barren brain species.
Because of his mistake, the team suffered losses, which made Ma Fan realize that his understanding of the environment was far less clear than that of these indigenous people. Many things were not as seen by his own eyes, so he left his mind to ask Haba at any time to prevent any accidents like this one.
The heart passed through the winding passage silently, and Ma Fan and the others began to enter the real underground world. The desolate and dry cave walls finally appeared on the damp and mossy plants that the underground cave should have.
After leaving the large cave that might be called "Hurricane Thousand Caves" appropriately, the team began to regain noisy and venting cheers, while Haba and the older goblins scolded their young tribesmen and used the vine whip and fur-footed slaves to teach their slaves a lesson and made them shut their mouths. Obviously, there was no danger here.
"Haba, aren't we going to the temple of the ancient mountains? Why do we need to enter the underground?"
Ma Fan asked Haba in confusion, and Haba slowed down on the wolf and rode on Ma Fan: "Witcher, there is no way to climb the ancient mountains directly, and there are too many dangerous monsters living in the mountains outside. We weak tribesmen do not have the ability to survive. Only through these 'selected caves' can those who survive to reach the temple alive."
"The caves selected" should be just the name given by the goblins themselves, which is a bit of a fate. It means that although these caves are dangerous, they still have a chance to survive. If you walk directly outside the mountains, you will have no chance of survival. Even if you are not eaten by dangerous creatures on the mountains, you will lose a large number of tribe members because the road is too difficult.
In the "myth" of the goblins, the "Hado Tide" that will explode every 40 years (the time in another world, the time on the earth is 20 years, only counting the time, not counting the rotation cycle of the planet.) is regarded as the "God"'s choice of this world. Those who survive are the lucky ones chosen by the "God", and those who die are the eliminated ones. They seem to have agreed with this fate, and even think that this is what they deserve, and have never thought about how to solve this problem once and for all.
But it is true to think about it. Even humans on earth can only bear the laws of nature silently and cannot resist, let alone the primitive indigenous people in other worlds.
The goblins with much physical fitness far stronger than those on Earth can only be regarded as the lowest creatures in the food chain on this No. 1 colonial planet. As Haba described, there are too many powerful creatures living on this magical planet, far from being able to withstand them. The only way to make the tribe reproduce is to increase the population of their tribe as much as possible, and use a huge number to resist the consumption of death. This seems to be the way for most species on this planet to survive.
At this point, the big goblins or small goblins are not much different from those wild rats and snakes living near sunny hills. The only thing that proves that they are higher than those primitive creatures is that they also know that when the "Hado Tide" comes, they migrate to that mysterious "sanctuary" to avoid the disaster of the "Hado Tide".
Although it will also lose a large number of tribe members, at least they have the opportunity to preserve tribe fire, and those primitive creatures can only rely on their luck by fate. It is not impossible for the entire race to become extinct under the invasion of Hadotō.
The danger of Hadot Tide is the same for the creatures on the colony No. 1. It does not mean that individuals can gain more survival opportunities if they are strong. Haba said that it has seen several huge animals like hills disappear into the Hadot Tide species, but theoretically, creatures like that have no natural enemies.
Because Haba said that in the last Hado tide it had experienced, dozens of creatures disappeared from their living areas, and I don’t know whether it is elsewhere. Anyway, since the last Hado tide, the creatures that were originally seen everywhere have never seen them appear again.
These underground cave passages are the reproduction paths paved by the indigenous races who have certain wisdom and their ancestors paved with the bodies of their tribesmen for generations. Even if there is only one person left in the end, they must pass on the route of survival. This is also why the goblin slaves dared to violate the orders. Each race and tribe has its own "chosen cave", and they only trust the routes passed down by their ancestors.
This underground world is very complex. Just the section where Ma Fan and the others passed, the route recorded on the panoramic virtual map is already winding and complex like a vine. This is still not to explore other things upwards, downwards, left and right, which is equivalent to a comprehensive three-dimensional fork.
If all channels and routes are marked out, even if those dead ends and places that cannot be passed in normal conditions are ignored, the underground network composed of the remaining passable channels can make the person with the best sense of direction faint after looking at the map.
Because the composition of this underground karst landform is too complicated, if it is on the earth, I am afraid that this crust will not be able to support such a dense group of underground hollows, and it is easy to collapse or collapse in large areas. However, the minerals contained in the rocks of Colonial Star No. 1 seem to be very strange, and some minerals not found on the earth make some rocks particularly hard and enough to support cracks like spider webs.
This karst landform located under the ancient mountains seems to have penetrated the entire mountain and a deep area underground. It is hard to say that it has penetrated there. If it is distinguished from top to bottom by the vertical plane layer, it may not be less than a few hundred layers, and the horizontal distribution is impossible to estimate.
The size of the colonial planet is one-tenth of the earth, which means it is only one-tenth of the size of the moon. It feels like it is too small, but in fact, in terms of the size of the planet, it is definitely no problem to have tens of millions of people, and the area players have reached currently does not even account for one-tenth of the whole, or even less.
Because the ocean area of colonial planet No. 1 accounts for about 2/5 and the land area is 3/5, this number is already huge. The places where humans live on earth are concentrated, and there are many areas that cannot be inhabited, such as deserts, swamps, etc. Although colonial planet No. 1 also has these terrain, overall the entire planet is extremely abundant.
Take the No. 1 Forward Base as an example. When building 72 forward bases in advance, Mafan considers that the number of players in China is large, the reserved territory is relatively wide, but it is only 7.8 million square kilometers, and the Shanghai area is no more than 10,000 square kilometers, which is about one-tenth of China's actual area.
With the current traffic ability of players, they have not yet walked out of the core area of the No. 1 Forward Base, which is why Chinese players at No. 1 Forward Base have not yet encountered players from other bases.
But even the area around the core area is enough to feed more than 7 million players and many NPCs. Although the population density is obviously too high, the short-term crops grown in abundant foreign lands are enough to provide enough food. The only disadvantage of being dense is that they have a greater damage to the natural environment.
After the "dungeon system" was opened, the living space of players was actually far more than the one on the surface. Some camps that were deep underground on a large scale have even developed several or even more than ten layers of dungeon camps, which is equivalent to expanding the living space exponentially.
Although "Alien World" has opened login restrictions and the number of players in "Alien World" has soared, it has not been able to develop to the territorial boundary reserved by the No. 1 forward base. Once players in the core area are spread, it is impossible to have the imagined population density too large, resulting in the possibility of unsurvival.
Even when the traffic conditions have not reached a certain level, the scattered players will feel that there are few people. After all, "Alien World" is different from traditional online games. If you can use a teleportation array or a moving scroll, you can only rely on your legs to move.
Because the matrix that the secretary can control is currently super core, it is greatly restricted when building the 72 forward base. Only more than half of the planetary areas can be detected, so these 72 forward bases are basically radioactively uniform and distributed in the half of the colonial planet centered on the 1st forward base. The "back" of the planet is still in an unexplored state.
The overall result of this ancient mountain range is like a huge starfish lying on the ground. Countless wrists and feet extend out in all directions, spreading a large area. Apart from this huge mountain range, Mafan has not found any huge mountain range in the area of the detected area, which makes the ancient mountain range wear a hat on the No. 1 colonial star like a watermelon, which is very strange.
According to the secretary's detection data, the ancient mountains are as high as Piaotian. A registered literary member recommends this work. Although the rice is not as good as Mount Everest on the earth, it is already quite terrifying compared to No. 1, which is only 1/490 of the earth's size. This mountain range, which is a starfish-shaped mountain lies in the center of the continent, and a plateau is formed on the top, but it is estimated that no one can survive on it.
The middle of such a large mountain range is like wood that has been eaten by insects, and this kind of karst landform is densely distributed. Imagine it is actually quite terrifying. If there is an earthquake, the entire mountain range may collapse by more than 1/5.
Fortunately, the secretary said that the crust of colonial satellite No. 1 is quite stable, and no signs of mainland plate migration have been found for the time being, and there should be no major earthquake situation.
After explaining this, everyone should understand how complex the underground caves and passages spread throughout the ancient mountains are, right? Maybe you have been wandering around for a hundred years and have never taken the repetitive route. In the end, you find that you are just walking in countless circles like a "bag of yarn", and finally you are not unavailable to return to the original place. After all, the passages inside are too complicated, not to mention the connections between them, there are still hundreds of layers up and down, and anyone who goes in will be dizzy.
Why do Haba and the aboriginal people have no pioneering spirit at all? They only follow the old path left by their ancestors?
Because it is too dangerous to explore a new safe passage, the manpower required is not as simple as imagined. According to the abilities of these indigenous people in other worlds, if they have to be forced, for example, if the original passage collapses, it will be killed and will not be carried out.
Moreover, these "safety channels" that have been explored are far from being as "safe" as imagined. Take the "Hurricane Thousand Caves" as an example. It is just located at the entrance of the surface, and it is already so dangerous. Who knows what more incredible and incredible dangers will be encountered after continuing to penetrate underground.
So Ma Fan began to regret following Haba and the others to explore the mysterious "sanctuary".
I heard from the secretary report that there were some large artificial building relics on the colonial planet No. 1, and it was suspected that there were smart creatures. At that time, Mafan didn't care. It was such a big planet and the natural environment was so rich that even if there were smart creatures, it was nothing strange. But now Mafan was a little suspicious that the intelligent creatures that could build large artificial buildings on the ancient mountains were definitely not natives like Haba, and that was not something their ability could do.
If it weren't for the indigenous people of Colonial 1, then who were the creatures that built those huge complexes? Why did they leave these huge buildings and disappear after leaving behind? Will they also be the "tomatoes" entrenched on this planet?
Originally, I thought that the colonial planet 1 was just Mafan, but I began to find that this planet seemed not that simple. More and more questions began to be exposed. Because of the lessons of the earth, Mafan even began to doubt whether the so-called "Hado Tide" on the colonial planet 1 was the regular "harvest" action by the "big tomatoes" to harvest "little tomatoes".
Before the truth was revealed, it seemed that Ma Fan could only continue to be so confused. Although the matrix super core has the ability to be magical, after all, there is only a little physical hardware left. It is really a huge project to restore it. Ma Fan worked hard for so long, but it was only one percent restored, which is not far from the complete form of the matrix super core.
So for the time being, the secretary has extremely limited ability to use. This is why Ma Fan only dares to pretend to be a "big tomato" to scare those "little tomatoes" on the earth, instead of jumping out to cut melons and vegetables to destroy them. It’s not that he doesn’t want to be Superman to save the earth, but he really doesn’t have red underwear to wear outside.
After walking tremblingly underground for about 30 hours, Mafan finally heard Haba say that he would stop and rest for a day. There would be a safe environment not far ahead for everyone to rest and add some supplies.
Although Ma Fan and the others carried a lot of supplies, the goblins alone had enough food, but the accompanying slaves, animals and giant wolves did not have much food. Although the giant wolves did not eat for a week, it did not affect their actions, but Ma Fan was worried that they would starve and attack the wild donkeys that were carrying animals. The wild donkeys carried a lot of things on their backs. If the giant wolves ate all the donkeys, who would carry those messy things?
What made Ma Fan creepy was that Haba said inadvertently that if he couldn't find food, it would be fine. At worst, eating those goblin slaves would make him disgusted. Although the goblin slaves are not humans, they at least look very much like humans, and they are also intelligent creatures who walk upright and use tools. Ma Fan cannot accept it by letting him eat them, so it is best to have a place to supplement supplies.
The more than 3,000 wild donkeys accompanying him were fine. In some places in the underground caves, the groundwater flowed through nearby and looked very humid, so a large number of thick moss and lichen plants grew. The donkeys chewed while walking, and the best physical strength was they. Goblin slaves didn't seem to be very picky about eating food, and donkeys ate them. Ma Fan saw that many goblin slaves were secretly bent over and pulled a handful of fat and tender moss into their mouths and chewed, which could not only satisfy hunger or replenish water.
The danger is the more than a thousand seated wolves and more than 500 green wolfs. They are all naked carnivorous creatures. They have not eaten for only ten or twenty hours, and there seems to be nothing unusual. If there is another two or three days, it will be a bit dangerous. Ma Fan saw a wolf passing by the donkey and licked the round buttocks of a wild donkey, almost scaring the donkey down.
To be continued...