After completing the exploration of the layer where the plants were located, El's body continued to sink.

It is already past midnight, so the exploration should be smoother since there will hardly be anyone walking around in a place like this in the second half of the night.

Unless their purpose for coming here is similar to El's.

After his body slowly descended several dozen meters, El arrived at the next level.

From the perspective of external perception alone, there is almost no difference between the two layers.

If I have to describe it, it's like two barbell plates with a certain distance between them on an empty bar.

El used the same trick again, turned his body around and sneaked in.

The first thing to emerge from the ceiling was the boy's nose. He sniffed instinctively, and then his body fell into a state of stiffness.

El felt like he had come to the toilet. The smell was too strong.

In order to confirm whether there was anything wrong with his operation, he finally stuck half of his head down.

Then El saw a scene that he would never forget in his life.

The huge underground space is brightly lit, with luminous screens making up the ceiling, walls, and parts of the ground.

There are a few clouds floating in the blue sky, and the sun is moving slowly, with its edges a little blurry due to insufficient resolution.

Despite the wear and tear, El could tell the screen on the ground was showing grass.

And in such an illusion, a large number of livestock are imprisoned in separate long spaces, and even the range of movement of their heads is extremely limited.

The pungent smell he smelled was the result of a mixture of countless excrement.

A conveyor belt carrying some indescribable substances passed in front of each livestock. Some of them chose to take a bite, while others quietly watched the unchanging sky and grassland around them.

For these animals with insufficient thinking ability, this place may be a paradise imprinted in their genes.

El, hanging upside down on the ceiling, seemed to be in a dream. The cool breeze blowing across his temples made the vague illusion almost real.

No, how could there be wind?

Elben sensed the flaw and looked around quickly, and sure enough, he found hidden vents in some places on the wall.

Come to think of it, if there is no ventilation in such a fantasy place, even the livestock would not be able to survive.

Looking at the ground where there was nowhere to step, El gave up the idea of going in whole body to explore the place.

The structure itself is similar to the previous floor, and with so many livestock and strange smells, El always feels that the risk will increase after entering with his whole body.

What's more, those mountains of excrement were so huge that even if he had the ability to move in higher dimensions, he was unwilling to go through the smelly waste.

This should be the lowest level.

El checked carefully to see if there was anything missing and prepared to go home.

A lot of time has passed, and Lin Qingliu should still be waiting for him in the basement.

His own gas tanks were almost used up. Since he only stole the gas tanks and did not take the filling equipment away, these gas tanks were relatively luxurious consumables for El.

From a building structure perspective, the design of the central spire certainly exceeded El's imagination.

The above-ground part is said to be hundreds of meters high, while the underground area extends more than a hundred meters downwards and spreads out into two huge spaces.

It was truly spectacular, but it was a pity that El couldn't let others experience what he saw.

But when he was about to leave, he hesitated instinctively.

Since things had to be done well, El suddenly felt that he needed to sneak to the bottom of the entire building and make one last observation.

His body sank for the third time, passing through the underground pasture that was actually dozens of meters high.

And underneath this disc-shaped building, there was actually something else waiting for El.

I saw that under the underground pasture, the area that should have been filled with only soil and stones did not appear.

The main body of the spire that runs through the two-story building is still extending downward, as if it will reach the center of the earth.

El couldn't believe such an outrageous thing could happen.

Although he was only semi-illiterate, he understood that if human creations could really be so magnificent, then the strange beasts were obviously not terrible creatures.

Thinking of this, he opened the last gas tank and continued to sink his body.

After walking nearly a hundred meters, El finally saw something different.

The spire, which had remained almost unchanged in size and thickness, underwent a sudden change here, becoming as conspicuous as an inverted funnel.

El searched his memory and felt that he had never heard of the existence of this area.

Although less than one percent of the people in Hope City have actually seen farms and ranches, most people have more or less heard rumors about them.

After all, there are people who can eat vegetables and other foods occasionally, and this kind of thing cannot be concealed.

But it's different here.

Neither the people who lingered in the lower city, nor the high-level residences that El himself had sneaked into, nor the information obtained from Lin Qingliu, had ever mentioned the existence of such a space.

To enter or not to enter?

El fell into deep thought, his instinct telling him that there might be more danger ahead than he imagined.

At this moment, Lin Qingliu's figure suddenly appeared in El's mind.

If, if it was Dr. Lin who was here, what would he choose? (Of course, he would follow his heart’s wishes)

In an instant, the experiences of contact with the other party over the past six months continued to emerge. Although the other party's background and strength remained a mystery, there was at least one thing that El was very sure of, and that was the courage to face the unknown.

Thinking of this, El decided to take the risk and sneak into this area he had never heard of.

Lin Qingliu, who was lying in the basement waiting for news, certainly didn't know that his image was infinitely beautified by his little fan.

But even if he knew, Lin Qingliu might not choose to expose it. After all, distance creates beauty. He had finally left a good impression on the other party. If he took the initiative to break it, the atmosphere might become very awkward.

El dived into the inverted funnel-shaped area little by little, and after wandering in the solid for a while, he found a suitable foothold.

This was a circular area, with computers and other equipment he had never seen before forming a circle with a radius of dozens of meters. On every screen, there was an incomprehensible data stream flashing.

What shocked El the most was the substance in the center of this space.

The thick transparent material acts like a coffin, imprisoning a suspended cube in the center.

The object was suspended in mid-air, composed of several proportionally reduced cubes, and seemed to expand and contract as time went by.

It was not until this moment that El realized that all the light in this area except for the display screen came from this magical cube that did not look dazzling.