Chapter 88-88- Why are you almost turning into a savage now?
Commander Zi's retreat from Kux lasted the entire night. Due to poor visibility at night and the darkness on the surveillance camera, Yvette went straight to bed. When she arrived at the next morning, she saw that the entire Kux was deserted and had become a dead city with almost no living things.
Without disturbing anyone else, Yvette quietly came to this ruined city covered with frost and snow all year round and saw the huge pit where the pale mother nest once was.
Standing at the edge of the pit, with the help of the lighting magic that gathered into a beam like a flashlight, she lowered her head and saw the material details in the pit after the mother nest disappeared.
At first glance, this is undoubtedly an ordinary pit. The cross-section of the cave wall shows that the top layer is modern fill, mixed with steel bars, pipelines and various debris; the middle is the alluvial layer, composed of alternating sand, clay and gravel; gray-white limestone begins to appear further down, which seems to be the bedrock layer.
But as the light continued to move downward, illuminating deeper details, what came into Yvette's sight was no longer ordinary bedrock.
Instead, there are regular, reflective metal walls with obvious rust, like tiles, clinging to the rock wall below the pit and extending deeper.
Yvette was immediately surprised. In the map of the origin civilization and related information she copied, Kukes was just a beautiful snowy town. It was not economically developed and was roughly equivalent to a large urban-rural fringe area. The only thing that was popular was its outstanding tourism industry, which made it one of the Internet celebrity cities in the New Eden United States.
In such a small place that is no different from the countryside during the off-season, why is there a sealed metal tunnel leading deep underground deep in the city center?
And this tunnel is so huge that even giant deformed creatures like mountain whales can easily drill out from here and come to the outside world?
After being surprised for a few seconds, Yvette quickly ruled out the possibility of an air-raid shelter. After all, a normal air-raid shelter would not have such a large straight tunnel.
This looks more like the aircraft entrance and exit of some kind of military base. When the base is in operation, the tunnel opens, and fighter planes, aerospace battleships or magic mechas can fly out from here in a line to quickly support the battlefield.
Then, after observing carefully for a while, Yvette no longer hesitated and jumped into the endless darkness below.
After walking about one or two hundred meters, what came into her sight was a huge underground space. A large number of load-bearing columns supported the ceiling like giant towers rising from the ground. The floor was made of alloy and looked quite old. When she walked on it, she could hear the crisp footsteps echoing in the darkness and spreading into the distance.
Yvette immediately released a more powerful lighting spell, which spread out in all directions with her as the center, like a golden sun, restoring light to this huge metal tomb that had been sealed in dust for hundreds of years.
However, after lighting up, Yvette floated into the air and looked around, but didn't find much.
Perhaps it was dealt with by Commander Zi before she left, so she didn't see any text messages or useful items left. The entire base was empty except for its size.
It was like an open world game with only the shell built. The map was huge, but after walking around for a long time, there was nothing to explore. After looking at it over and over for a while, Yvette couldn't even figure out which faction this base belonged to.
Two hours later, after walking through the entire underground cave and gaining nothing, Yvette returned to the surface.
She thought that perhaps the Purple Commander chose this place as his base not only because the space was large enough to accommodate the Pale Mother Nest, but also because there were other important secrets hidden here, so much so that when he left, he specially cleaned up all traces of those things' existence.
However, this must be a secret left before the end of the world, so if she has the chance to enter the dream again, she will specifically search for information on this aspect.
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By the time we left Kukes, it was almost noon.
The beautiful spring scenery flows like melted syrup on the meadows all over the mountains. The snow-capped mountains in the distance cut out spire-like shadows under the blue sky. The basalt on the mountainside is dark and rugged, with icicles still remaining in the cracks from last winter.
Since the notice was issued yesterday and they had to say goodbye this afternoon, Yvette slowed down her pace a little and her eyes fell on the white cotton balls that were spreading out like clouds in the distance.
Those were the sheep raised by the kingdom's shepherds, mainly to provide food for Dugrabi.
But perhaps because they had developed a relationship, after learning that everyone was about to leave, especially a certain dragon, the shepherd in the village was the only puppet who showed happiness. He probably felt that the sheep he raised could finally live well.
Standing on a black rock ridge, Yvette watched the sheep grazing from afar for a while, and suddenly thought of the indispensable link in the ecological chain of the End of the World, especially wild animals that eat herbs.
After all, the mutants will devour each other, like raising a parasite, until a high-level mutant is produced. Their numbers will inevitably decrease, and the mutation factors will become increasingly concentrated. At the same time, the mutants cannot mate and reproduce, so the only way to increase their numbers is to infect various wild animals.
So once the number of wild animals in a place decreases, it won't be long before the number of low-level aberrations also becomes scarce. During this period, wild animals will take the opportunity to reproduce, and the number of low-level aberrations will increase again...
While insects are also included in this model, because they are so small and absorb so little distortion factor, it is actually much more difficult for insects to become distorted. Moreover, after distortion, they often become food for other distorted ones... Of course, this is the Snow Region. If it were in the south, the presence of insect distorted ones would probably be even stronger...
As for higher-order aberrations?
This should be counted as another ethnic group called the descendants of God. After all, their intelligence level is different. They are naturally beyond the Three Realms and not within the Five Elements.
Thinking about the ecological chain in a very unromantic and unpoetic way, Yvette looked at the sheep in the distance, lost in thought. More than ten minutes later, a lurking figure in the meadow below suddenly attracted Yvette's attention.
That is...
Spider Witch?
Yvette blinked in surprise, and saw that the fifth-stage lord who had once smashed the magic mecha into pieces with a slap was now squatting behind a big rock, staring at a sheep not far away with vicious eyes, looking like a female leopard ready to pounce.
Compared to when she was released two days ago, she looked much more miserable. Her gorgeous black backless dress had turned into strips of cloth like straps, revealing her black armor that looked like underwear. Her originally fair skin looked as if it had been washed by mud and water, and was covered with stains. One of her high heels was missing, and no one knew what kind of perseverance allowed her to insist on wearing the other one.
Yvette showed a surprised expression, thinking that she was at least a fifth-stage aberration, and a aberration with human intelligence. Even if she had lost most of her aberration factors, she shouldn't have fallen to this point, right?
How come they're almost turning into savages now? Is their ability to survive so precarious?
But after hesitating for a moment, she did not go over to disturb him immediately. After all, the other person was hunting. What if she ran over and scared away the prey?
She continued to stand there, looking down from above, and saw a sheep approaching the stone where the Spider Witch was ambushing.
This seemed like a good sign. If it were a normal hunter, this hunt would have been smooth sailing. But she didn't expect that the next moment she saw the Spider Witch, who had rushed out, was thrown out by the struggling sheep because she lacked strength or something.
The scene that followed was even more tragic. Seeing this sudden, uninvited guest, the leader of the flock rushed over and suddenly butted against the Spider Witch's waist, causing her to lose her balance and fall flat on the grassy slope. After getting up, she was still being chased around by the leader, and she was completely unable to fight back...
Yvette lowered her eyes silently, thinking that this was really terrible.
(End of this chapter)
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