Chapter 224

Before everyone could react, they saw Wu Jin, who was standing behind Jiang Tianming in the front, pull down his clothes without leaving any trace. Everyone knew what this action meant, which meant that the clan leader had lied in what he said just now.

But where was the lie? Was it the first sentence, "I don't know what's going on with them," or the last sentence, "There will be no problem letting them treat it."

With such doubts in mind, the group headed towards the Grass and Tree Tribe. As soon as they entered the stone cave corridor of the tribe, they smelled a faint fragrance of grass and trees, which was very fresh in this place full of the smell of soil.

While singing, he introduced them: "Most of the members of the Plant Tribe have the ability to make plants grow. Many of the vegetables we eat are provided by them. The tribe has many herbs that can treat diseases, and there are also experienced doctors. We have never seen your disease, but maybe they can tell at a glance."

After Cai Ge said this, Wu Jin pulled Jiang Tianming's sleeve again.

This paragraph also contains lies. When it is linked to the lie told by the tribe leader before, Su Bei immediately understood where they lied. Putting the affirmative sentences in these two paragraphs together, the only overlap is the sentence "We have never seen this disease before."

Both of them specifically emphasized that they didn't know what disease Qiao Mu and the other had, but Wu Jin's expression told them that these people probably already knew what problems would arise if they wanted to return the same way.

And either this problem only occurs to humans on the ground, or they deliberately avoided it without reminding Qiao Mu and the others. Whichever possibility is true, it can explain another problem - that is, before they came, it is very likely that there were humans who fell down.

Otherwise, how would these people know that humans on earth would be in danger here?

Walking into the lobby of the Plant Tribe, it is completely different from the previous Mud Tribe. The ground is covered with a layer of fluffy grass, and various exotic flowers and plants are planted in the corners of the lobby. There are also many creeper-like plants on the walls, and the overall look is very beautiful.

It is worth mentioning that the flowers and plants here are the ones commonly seen on the ground. There is not even much green inside, and most of them are blue plants. The colors of the flowers are very rich and colorful.

It's a pity that their companions are in danger of their lives, and no one is in the mood to appreciate the scenery here. They just want to find a doctor to treat Qiao Mu as soon as possible.

The doctor who was called was an old underground man. His white beard and wrinkles on his body were enough to show that he was very old. The old man was indeed experienced. He touched his beard and used his other hand to check a few times, then asked with a clear mind: "Did these two outsiders try to return to the ground just now?"

"Yes, yes, do you know what happened to them?" Seeing hope, the ancestor nodded and asked respectfully.

The old doctor's answer was quite unexpected: "They were exposed to the energy of miracles, which caused the five elements in their bodies to become disordered, which is why they became like this."

"What is miracle energy?" This unfamiliar word made everyone stunned. Modern people are generally atheists and do not trust the so-called miracles he mentioned.

The clan leader knew about this, and he did not delay the doctor prescribing medicine. He asked Cai Ge to help explain: "At the beginning, our ancestors led people from several villages to come here because of an earthquake. But according to the ancestors' notes, that earthquake was not an ordinary earthquake, but an earthquake caused by a miracle."

Cai Ge paused and said more crucial information: "It is because of this miracle that we have not been discovered by the people above, and we have not been able to dig out. Although I don't know how you broke through the power of the miracle and jumped out, the problems these two people are facing now may be because of this power."

After seeing each other's eyes, they knew that this miraculous power was a problem they could not solve. Everyone could only pin their hopes on the underground people: "Then do you have any way to treat it?"

The doctor's voice was full of hesitation, and he mumbled a lot. After hearing what he said, Cai Ge's voice also hesitated: "Yes, there is..."

Obviously, it was not a good solution, but everyone was at a loss, so Huangfu Mingzhe went straight to the point: "Just tell me, what method is it?"

Seeing his decisiveness, Cai Ge no longer hesitated: "They became like this because the power of miracles caused the bodies to be inconsistent with the space they were in. In other words, their bodies on the ground are no longer suitable for living in the underground space. So there are two solutions. Either they find a way to return to the ground, or they change their bodies to underground."

The old doctor mumbled something else and Cai Ge helped him translate: "We can't do anything about the first method, but we can help you with the second method if you want."

The implication is that they can change Qiao Mu's body into the same as the underground humans, so that they can be safe. But this change must be irreversible, otherwise they would not be so hesitant.

This is undoubtedly a difficult decision. The difference between underground humans and humans on the surface is so great that changing the body is no different from changing the race. And once the body is changed, it will be difficult to return to the surface world. The bodies of underground humans are allergic to light. Even if they are not allergic because they are cyborgs, this alien-like appearance is not acceptable to the human society on the surface.

"How long will it take?" Jiang Tianming suddenly asked, taking a deep breath. "I mean, how long can they last in this state before their lives are in danger?"

The old doctor glanced at Patriarch He Bin and replied, "Three days, at most three days, their bodies will decay and die."

Jiang Tianming nodded calmly: "I understand."

Then he turned to look at the clan leader: "You two should go back and discuss this first."

"Of course." The tribe leader was not surprised. "I will take you back now. Do you want to place these two people here first and let the people of the Plant Tribe use potions to protect their bodies, or should we take them back directly?"

"Stay here." It was Jiang Tianming who responded. Since the underground people had no intention of letting them return to the surface, in their eyes, Qiao and Mu were either dead or about to become their own people. So they would not attack these two people, and they could leave them here without any worries.

"By the way, wait a moment." Cai Ge suddenly called them and took out a few things similar to headphones from her bag. In addition to those worn on the ears, there was also a microphone-like thing connected.

Everyone was very surprised to see such modern things in this somewhat ancient place. How should I put it? It felt like breaking through the dimensional wall.

Zheng Caige distributed several headphones to them and explained: "Put on these and you will be able to understand what others say without my translation, and what you say will also be understood by others."

"Is this done specially for us?" When Wu understood his willingness, he was able to provide emotional value and asked with a look of surprise and gratitude.

Cai Ge nodded and said kindly, "I'm just sitting here with nothing to do. You can use it first. If you have any questions, tell me. But you'd better learn the language here in your spare time, otherwise it will be inconvenient."

It must be said that, apart from suggesting that they stay, Cai Ge is indeed a very good person. It's a pity that they are destined not to stay, and therefore destined to go against Cai Ge's wishes.

Back in the room, the atmosphere was very depressing. Zuzong suddenly looked at Su Bei and said, "You said before that someone was going to be in trouble. Are you referring to Bowen and Qiao Mu?"

Without waiting for Su Bei to answer, he continued to question: "Since you knew that the two of them were in danger, why didn't you remind them? Why didn't you stop them from going up? Say that if they didn't go up, they wouldn't encounter that miraculous power, and nothing would happen!"

At the end, his eyes were red. Although he was questioning Su Bei, his eyes were more filled with regret for himself, regretting why he could not stop his companions. Although he knew rationally that it was unreasonable to blame himself or Su Bei, people's emotions were often not controlled by reason.

Now was not the time to argue, and Su Bei was too lazy to argue with the other party. To be honest, if possible, he would rather take advantage of the opportunity of his ancestors finding fault to directly break away from the protagonist group and act independently.

But he had no idea how to get out, and if he left the protagonist group without hesitation, he would undoubtedly miss a lot of clues. Besides, this place was not like the previous places, and he couldn't find a deserted place even if he wanted to slack off.

Therefore, Su Bei chose to ignore the question of his ancestors, and did not even give him a glance, and looked directly at the others: "There were humans who came here before."

Hearing this, Si Zhaohua nodded affirmatively: "You also heard it. According to the two lies that Wu Jin found out, they obviously knew that we would encounter danger in the cave. It must be that someone jumped down in the past, which allowed them to accumulate such experience."

He was afraid that if he didn't follow Su Bei's lead and change the subject, his ancestors would continue to find fault with him, and he would be in trouble if he really annoyed Su Bei.

Seeing that Su Bei did not give up because of his ancestors' words, Jiang Tianming breathed a sigh of relief and quickly replied, "Then let's go and find out the relevant information. If those people are still alive, we can definitely get useful information from them. If they have passed away, at least we can avoid the risks of living here through their past traces and prevent such things from happening again."

"But we can't reveal that we know this," Wu Mingbai said with a troubled expression, "In this case, how do you want to find out the relevant information?"

"Damn it, Wu Jin." Jiang Tianming obviously had an idea. "We can rely on his ability to distinguish truth from falsehood to infer the correct answer from the wrong answer."

Hearing this, Wu Mingbai immediately understood and made an "OK" gesture: "Okay, then there is no time to waste, let's go now."

Qiao Mu and Li Bowen are in a critical situation right now, with only three days to spare. They cannot waste a single minute, and must find a way to get back to the ground within three days, otherwise they will have to stay here to survive.

"...Originally, the three of us were going to Sister Cai Ge's house to look for clues. Now that the two of them have become like this, does anyone want to go with me?" Lan Subing raised her hand and asked. She didn't expect that the agreed three-person action would leave her alone before it even started.

But it would be impossible for her to go on this mission alone. At most, she could only be responsible for finding things. Asking her to chat with Cai Ge would be simply killing her.

"I'll go with you." Wu Mingbai gave a brilliant fake smile, "I think I'm pretty good at this."

The others also quickly divided into groups. Jiang Tianming, Si Zhaohua, and Wu Jin went in a group to look for information about the people who fell in the previous wave. Lan Subing and Wu Mingbai went to Cai Ge to gather intelligence. Huangfu Mingzhe and Zuzong continued to look for a way to leave.

"Then Su Bei, what are you going to do? Which group are you going to join?" Jiang Tianming looked at Su Bei, who had been silent since they had divided the work, and was a little afraid that he would just quit.

Su Bei blinked and said, "I'll go look for Cyril and the others."

Yes! Where did Cyril and Lee want to go?

After he said this, everyone suddenly remembered that after leaving the cave, the two of them disappeared. The presence of these two people has been very low today, which is why they forgot about this incident.

"Why are you looking for them?" Jiang Tianming was able to grasp the key issues as always. In fact, he now began to suspect whether Cyril and the other two were doing something secretly.

As the saying goes, a quiet child is definitely up to something. With Cyril's personality, it is impossible for him to have a low sense of presence. He can make others feel that he has no sense of presence, which must be intentional.

Su Bei answered earnestly and sincerely: "Curiosity."

Everyone: “…”

They didn't care about him at all. Su Bei was doing something useful anyway, and they didn't want to waste their breath on him. Jiang Tianming stood up and clapped his hands: "Okay, now that we have discussed everything, let's start. Come back on time for lunch, and I hope everyone can gain something by then."

After saying this, he took the lead and prepared to leave the room.

The others also stood up, but before they could walk out, the ancestor who had been silent for a long time suddenly spoke: "Su Bei!"

Hearing this call, everyone looked at him nervously, fearing that he would say something that would affect the atmosphere. Su Bei also raised his eyebrows and turned to look at him. Although he didn't want to cause any trouble at this time, he was definitely not a good-tempered person. If the ancestor still made trouble unreasonably, he would not tolerate it anymore.

However, what no one expected was that the ancestor pursed his lips and apologized directly: "I'm sorry."

This made everyone stunned for a moment, but soon their expressions relaxed. The ancestor's apology was not over yet: "Just now I was angry with you because of my emotional problems. Well, you are a magnanimous person. Don't be so petty with me. You know that I have always been a bit mentally ill."

Su Bei was not angry at all after the apology went so far. He looked at the green-haired boy in front of him with amusement: "Your attitude changed quite quickly."

The ancestor was very sensitive to his attitude and flattered him like a lackey: "I am a person who knows when I am wrong and corrects it, okay? Then you are not angry anymore, right? If you smile, it means you are not angry anymore!"

"Not angry." Su Bei shook his head. He knew that the other party was emotional at the time, so he would not get angry because of a provocation. But if there was a second time, it would be different.

"Well, I have another question." Zuzong said carefully, and was afraid that Su Bei would misunderstand his apology for a purpose, so he added, "But if you don't want to answer, you don't have to. I'm just asking."

Su Bei understood that the other party must want to ask whether Li Bowen and the others can return to the ground as scheduled. The others naturally guessed what he was going to ask. This was a question they all cared about, and everyone's attention immediately shifted from the ancestors to Su Bei.

His fate-related ability is often seen by many people as the same as Feng Lan's prophecy-related ability, which is specifically used to predict the future. But in fact, the emphasis is different. Feng Lan's emphasis is on "seeing", while his emphasis is on "changing", so he is bound to be much weaker in "seeing".

Without giving the other party a chance to speak, Su Bei shook his head and refused bluntly: "I don't know."

Hearing this, Zuzong lowered his head in disappointment. He didn't know if Su Bei's "I don't know" was true, but there was no doubt that the other party would not answer his question. He was really worried about his friend's safety. Seeing that Su Bei's supernatural power was so powerful, he wanted to seek a guarantee from him. But since it didn't work, he could only work harder.

"Forget it, let's get started as soon as possible." The ancestor forced a smile, trying to cheer himself up.

The two people in the team reconciled, and everyone else breathed a sigh of relief, and finally started to act according to the original plan.

Su Bei didn't know where Xili'er and the others were, so naturally he couldn't find them accurately. But it didn't matter, he came out with the intention of fishing anyway, so if he could find them it would be a pleasant surprise, and if he couldn't find them it wouldn't hurt him.

With the earphones Cai Ge gave him, Su Bei was finally able to communicate with the underground people freely. However, he knew that no matter how friendly Cai Ge was to them, it was impossible for her to be completely free of guard against them.

Originally, everyone had to rely on her translation to communicate with the underground people, and she knew whatever they wanted to say. But now that they have this thing, naturally, everyone will no longer ask Cai Ge to translate, so it is difficult for her to control what they say.

Just like when she met Xiao Fan before, the questions Xiao Fan wanted to ask were things she didn't want them to say, so she simply didn't translate, effectively preventing them from communicating.

Su Bei didn't believe that she would not be on guard against this, so this headset might have some other functions, such as a monitoring function.

This is also the reason why Su Bei specifically chose the mission of finding Cyril and the other two for himself. It is normal for them to want to find their companions after they disappeared. There is no need to intrigue with each other into the earphones. They just need to tell the truth.

Whenever he met underground people on the road, Su Bei would ask them if they had seen Cyril and Li Xiang. These two people could be inconspicuous in the eyes of Su Bei and others, but they could never be inconspicuous in the eyes of underground people. After all, this completely different appearance was enough to attract people. When a monkey walks on the street, it is difficult not to attract people's attention even if it wants to be low-key.

Especially in this broken place, not only can't you use super powers, but you can't use super power items. Su Bei is not sure if his resurrection item can still be used, but at least the invisibility charm can't be used. Since his active items can't be used, Cyril and the others certainly can't use items that can reduce their presence. So just ask passers-by and you can easily find their traces.

Without asking anyone, Su Bei determined where they went based on their movements - the home of the psychic tribe leader.

On the surface, among the six tribes of underground humans, the Mud Tribe where they are currently staying is the most powerful, and has the potential to be the leader of the six tribes. The last of the six tribes is the Spiritual Tribe. He had asked many people along the way, and when he was looking for Cyril and the others, he also asked them which tribe they belonged to. He met many people from the other tribes, but he didn't meet anyone from the Spiritual Tribe.

When talking about this tribe, the underground people did not show them special respect because of their abilities. Instead, they looked down on them, which might be one of the reasons why they did not like to come out.

Just think about it, in a place like the underground world where resources are scarce, the practicality of superpowers is definitely more important than other properties. [Psychic] is a superpower that is almost exclusively used for communication. If it were in the aboveworld, it would be very respected, but it is really useless in the underground world.

But in Su Bei's mind, the psychics might be the strongest race in the underground world. Their strength lies in their ability to communicate everything and know everything from ancient times to the present. In other words, they must know a lot of things. Not only things in the past, but also things in the present. The only thing they cannot know through communication is things in the future.

And now the people from the "Black Flash" organization are looking for them. Su Bei raised his eyebrows and walked quickly towards the psychic tribe.

Each tribe hall has its own characteristics, and the characteristic of the Spiritual Tribe is minimalism. The hall is made of solid stone walls without any decorations. There are not even many people in the whole hall, which is in sharp contrast to the crowded appearance of other tribes.

The only distinctive thing here is... there are quite a lot of animals. In the blink of an eye, three mice ran past him.

Fortunately, Ai Baozhu is not here. Su Bei sighed in his heart. He still remembered the high pitched sound that could kill people when rats appeared in the classroom. Afterwards, Ai Baozhu was even more serious, wearing a white protective suit that could isolate all viruses and disinfected the entire classroom.

He asked one of the few underground people in the hall where the patriarch's room was. After getting the answer, Su Bei went straight there.

However, he did not knock on the door directly, but used his mental power to detect from a distance from the door. If possible, Su Bei would rather eavesdrop than go in and participate in person.

However, these two people were not ordinary people. As soon as Su Bei's spiritual power touched them, Cyril's joking voice came from the room: "It seems that there is a little tail following us, why don't you come in?"

It turns out that he is also a high-level psychic power owner, but he has never shown it before. But it is also normal for a big shot in the "Black Flash" organization to have high-level psychic power.

Seeing that he had been discovered, Su Bei was not embarrassed. He took off his headphones and held them in his hand, then knocked on the door calmly: "Can I come in?"

"Come in." The person who answered him was not Cyril, but an old and haggard voice. It should be the chief of the psychic tribe.

After getting the permission, Su Bei pushed the door open and walked in, and immediately saw the old man sitting at the top. The moment he saw the other person, he froze in his place, with a look of surprise in his eyes.

This old man actually has eyes.