Chapter 657 The Hidden Race in the Underground Cold Storage
The caravan continued to move forward, but this time there were 6 more foxtail members. They were all women, wearing neat brown leather jackets, trousers that were easy to move, tactical straps, daggers, and rifles in their hands. They were elite combat members of the foxtail species, and the foxtail species that Heshia first met that day was also among them.
"My name is Moli."
Facing Heshia, who was slightly shorter than her, the black-haired and gray-eyed foxtail species was a little uncomfortable. The pair of fox ears on her head also stood straight, reflecting her nervousness and vigilance.
"The name is very concise." Heshia always felt that the people who created the foxtail species back then should be the oriental forces. Whether it was their names or clothing styles and habits, they all had the shadow of oriental traditions.
After that, there was another carriage in the caravan to carry the six of them and some of the goods. The six foxtails were divided into three groups, taking turns to lead the way and occasionally looking for water sources. Judging from their appearance, they should be very familiar with the surrounding environment.
With these local members, the trade of Tilan and her caravan became much more normal and smoother in the following days, and there were no more situations that required Heshia to appear and take action.
"We just seized this thing last month. Although not many people in our settlement understand electronic machinery, you can see that it is quite useful."
Several cockscomb-haired young men wearing short-sleeved shirts and vests were selling the big iron lump next to him to Guy and Moli. Judging from its appearance, it should have been a part of a large machine, but there is only a broken piece here.
"Dangdang--" As they said, several people knocked on it with the back of their knives.
"Listen, it's good steel at first glance. It's also a very good material for refining weapons. I'll sell it to you. Just exchange it with 10 barrels of fish." The other party said a few more words.
"How can this be worth so much money? It's heavy and clumsy. You said you want to refine weapons. I'm afraid you can't separate them even if you try for a long time..."
Tilan heard the voices of Guy and the other party discussing in front of her. She thought for a moment, put on a black veil, pulled up her hood, and walked out of the carriage. Because her figure was shrouded in a dark robe, outsiders could not see her body shape and appearance.
Seeing her walk out, Lololia, who had been eager to try, followed in small steps. At this time, she was also dressed similarly to Tilan, but her stature was obviously smaller.
After approaching, Tilan first stayed on the few people for a few seconds, and then her attention shifted to the mechanical wreckage placed aside. This piece was about 3 meters high, part of it was covered with armor like stacked shells, and part of it exposed part of the complex structure inside. It was all gray-silver metallic color, with traces of oxidation, so that the surface was slightly rough like fog.
"Can Lololia see what this is?" Tilan asked.
"I can't tell, but the material is familiar. It should be Mefia alloy, which is a common structural material used in the Mechanical Council and is used to make some middle and lower class mechanical bodies." Loloria searched the database.
"Mefia alloy is easy to smelt, and the raw materials are easy to obtain. In addition, the strength meets the standard, so it has been used
in large quantities to make low-end mechanical bodies." "However, its corrosion and oxidation resistance are relatively poor, which means that it will be phased out and replaced in a few years. Later, as our resources gradually became abundant, we gradually phased out the use of Mefia alloy and switched to Idia alloy with high corrosion resistance and higher material strength."
"In the two rows of rooms outside the hall where I slept, the mechanical bodies inside were all made of Idia alloy. Now, more than a thousand years have passed, and they are still as bright as new."
"What should this part be?" Tilan thought for a while.
"It may have been made after I fell asleep, because its structure is not in my database. Logically, even a small part can be searched from the design drawings." Loloria answered.
While the two were talking, Guy and several local youths in the settlement had also finished their negotiations, and finally the deal was made with two sets of steel breastplates and a rifle from the caravan.
"Okay, now the question is how to pull it away." Guy looked at the mechanical debris in front of him that was taller than him, and turned to look for Lololia.
He knew that Lololia could cut this big guy, so he went up to bargain with the other party. Otherwise, such a large piece of debris would be inconvenient for the team to carry.
"I'm here, I'm here~" Lololia ran over with a slightly brisk pace. The few young men who were selling the debris had returned to the settlement not far from them, surrounded by caravan members.
Don't worry about exposing anything, Lololia raised her hand, and then as she injected energy, a slender light blue light thorn sprayed out from her palm. This should be a modified and simplified version of the lightsaber.
As the light blue light thorn slowly cut through the parts, more details inside were also exposed. It seems that this should have been the joint part of a large machine. No wonder it is so strong, and there is a part similar to knee armor on the outside.
After cutting and separating the mechanical fragments step by step, the remaining members carried the fragments into the car and put them into wooden boxes for storage.
The caravan continued to move forward. The settlements in this area began to become dense. Heshia could see three or four passing settlements a day. Some of them had only about 40 people, while others had more than 100.
Another place that looked like a settlement. The inclined rocks were stacked like sheets and emerged from the ground. The settlement was in the gap between the strata and the surface. However, it was not peaceful at this time. There were obvious signs of explosions at the entrance of the settlement. There were also several corpses lying next to it. Occasionally, gunshots and roars could be heard from deep in the cave of the settlement.
"It looks like there is an attack conflict here. Do you want to go up and help?" A member asked the girl in the carriage.
Tilan stuck her head out of the car window, looked at the settlement in the distance for a few seconds, and then nodded.
"Let Lololia follow you. If anything unexpected happens, she can help you solve it."
"Lololia will definitely protect everyone~" The mechanical girl was quite happy to hear that she could also go out. Although she couldn't reveal her identity casually, it was still a good insurance.
So, five people were quickly separated from the caravan, and they rushed over quickly, especially the young man of the gray feather species, who was extremely fast and worthy of being a natural assassin.
As for the others, they followed the team to move forward slowly.
More than ten minutes later, Tilan got off the carriage. It was rare for her to not wear a hood today. Her soft hair fell on the hood and shoulders, and a small part was slightly bent, which was somewhat natural.
Walking to the entrance of the settlement under this small cliff, the air became slightly cooler. It seems that the people here have chosen a good location. The air here is smooth and not too sunny. I just don't know what the specific situation is in the cave.
He lowered his head slightly and walked down the stone steps at the entrance. It was very dry here, with a few pieces of sand and gravel on the ground. As he walked in, the light gradually dimmed. He saw two other dead bodies along the way. From their appearance, he could not tell their specific race. They should be ordinary people with mixed blood.
There appeared a small lobby with an area of about 30 square meters. He could also see stone sofas and chairs placed there. It seemed that they were well maintained.
Tilan's light blue eyes turned slightly curiously and looked deeper into the cave. At this time, a member of the caravan returned with a gun.
"What happened inside?"
"There were originally three attackers, all of whom were killed by us. As for the survivors, we are still looking for them."
Tilan nodded slightly, then closed her eyes slightly and let her consciousness spread out. After a few seconds, she pointed him to one of the directions.
"It seems that there is still a survivor there. As for the deep underground, there is also a certain breath." She tilted her head and thought for a while.
"Yes!" The other party went to the direction pointed by Tilan with high morale to search.
An hour later, the caravan members temporarily gathered in the front hall of the settlement. Tilan sat alone on a stone chair. A circle of people surrounded her. Two elite foxtails with guns stood beside her. Against the backdrop of these members who looked difficult to deal with, the girl in a black gauze skirt looked particularly mysterious. Although she looked quite delicate, the young man in a white shirt sitting opposite her did not dare to look up. His hands were placed on his knees nervously, shaking slightly.
"Can you tell me the details of what happened? Don't worry, we are not here to attack or rob." Tilan said a few words, and then the foxtails next to her handed her the freshly brewed hot coffee.
"I..." The young man in white shirt opposite still had a trembling voice.
"I don't know... the matter, the matter is like this." He narrated the process in a not very clear manner.
In fact, he was not originally a member of this settlement, but was sold here by the looting team half a year ago. Because he knew some knowledge of mechanics and electronics, he was valued by the boss of the settlement here and asked him to maintain some equipment in the settlement. It is said that the member who was originally responsible for this died accidentally in the battle.
"Are they nice to you?" Although it was a rough stone chair, it looked like some kind of ancient throne to the black-haired, blue-eyed girl, and she looked very natural.
"They are a bit fierce and often come into conflict with nearby settlements, but they are quite nice to me."
"They always leave a portion of the food and goodies available in the settlement for me." In many settlements, this is a treatment only for core members.
"You don't have to do any heavy work on weekdays, just maintain the equipment and solar panels in the base."
"But when it comes to making decisions in the settlement, there are still some major issues, and they won't ask me for my opinion." The young man in white shirt spoke a little more clearly now.
"Last month, the leader got an electromagnetic gun from somewhere. He felt that the time had come, so he led people to attack another nearby settlement, preparing to conquer it." "
But since they left, they never came back, so there are only me and six other members left in the base. Most of them are not combatants. Two of them are cooks, one is a doctor, one is a gunsmith, one is responsible for simple sewing and cleaning, and the remaining one is the leader's nephew. He has a full body armor and is quite capable."
"The leader has not returned this month. We are very uneasy, but because of the shortage of manpower, we dare not go out to look for him casually. Today, we were finally attacked."
"Do you know the identity of the attacker?" Tilan picked up the coffee and took a sip.
"I don't know them, but my companions said that they don't look like people from the local settlement. They should be wandering abandoned wolf blood species."
"Now that everyone in the settlement has died in the battle, what are you going to do in the future?"
"I definitely can't defend this place alone. You take me away. Please, it's okay. Everything here is for you. You can take it away. Just don't kill me." At this point, his voice trembled with panic again.
Regarding his statement, Tilan shook her head slightly, and did not express her opinion immediately, but continued to ask curiously.
"Have you guessed the reason for the leader's disappearance? If the attack on other settlements failed, the other side should have fought back. It is impossible for them to leave you alone for a month."
"I can't guess. I have been staying in the cave to work for them and basically never went out." He looked completely without fighting ability. No wonder the members of this settlement were not worried about his escape.
"Is that so..." Tilan thought about it.
"Do you know what's deep underground in the cave of the settlement? It seems to be very unusual there."
"There? There should be a cold storage there. Although I am responsible for maintaining the refrigeration equipment on weekdays, I don't have the key to the door inside. It has always been in the hands of the two chefs."
Hearing this, Tilan looked up, and soon a member searched for the key on the chef and brought it to him.
"Is it this key?" The key was silver-gray and slightly rough.
"Yes, it's this one. I saw the chef uncle use it. He also secretly gave me extra meat." Thinking of the experience in the past six months, the young man in white shirt was full of emotion.
"Then let's go down and take a look." Tilan stood up and asked several members to take the young man in white shirt with them. Several people walked in front with torches.
The passage leading to the underground cold storage is quite long and tortuous, which is also very different from the style of the upper part. Looking at the smoothness of the wall on the side, it even makes people have to doubt that this underground warehouse was built first, and then the cave settlement on the ground was built later.
A few minutes later, several people stopped in front of the thick sealed door. The young man in white shirt nervously inserted the key and twisted it left and right. After a while, with a faint sound, the door slowly opened, revealing the cold air accumulated inside.
Facing them were various animal carcasses hanging in front of them, as well as separated and boneless meat pieces, all frozen very hard. Going further in, there were some bagged internal organs in the corner. It seemed that they were not welcome and ate very little. The ice on them was also very thick.
The members behind Tilan walked out and carefully searched in this nearly 100 square meters of cold storage. After a while, everyone returned.
"I didn't find anything special, but..." A member was about to say something, but soon he was patted on the hand by his companion and shook his head at him.
"Nothing, Lord Heshia, it's all frozen meat."
What exactly is it that they are hiding from me so obviously? From the looks of them, it seems that it is for my own good. The girl was a little puzzled and couldn't help but want to understand it clearly.
"You should tell me, don't be so secretive."
"This..." Several people hesitated.
"Forget it, I'll do it." Guy came over and whispered a few words in Tilan's ear.
Then Tilan turned her eyes to the hanging pieces of meat in the cold storage, her eyes swept over some of the details, and then looked away.
"Is that so..." Her voice was slightly low, and she no longer asked everyone why.
"But." Then, she raised her head again, her eyes directly looking at the innermost wall of the cold storage.
"There should be a passage here." After saying that, she walked forward slowly and pressed her fingers lightly on the wall covered with frozen ice.
Then, as if by magic, the frozen ice on the entire wall melted in an instant, turned into flowing water and slid down, revealing the faint gap on the wall.
Tilan blinked her eyes, and a faint and invisible cold light emerged from her fingertips, gently swiping across the wall. After a few seconds, the wall collapsed into a hole as high as a person, revealing the space inside.
"What is this?" Everyone looked inside curiously.
Inside, there is a four-meter-long metal structure passage with an iron door on each side. Judging from the rust on the passage and the various graffiti and waste paper that have not been cleaned up, it should be quite old. Tilan came to an iron door, held the door handle tightly, turned the valve on it, and then the iron door opened, revealing
an extremely narrow small room inside. A fluorescent tube emitting extremely weak light was tied to the ceiling with iron wire. In the almost invisible weak light, a figure with fluffy moth feathers knelt between the waste blankets and flannel. Small balls emitting soft light appeared on Tilan's fingertips. As they flew closer, they illuminated the pair of uneasy and frightened blue eyes.
She was plump but not tall, wearing extremely simple clothes, or perhaps it was more like a piece of cloth that was about to be torn. Although the clothes and the situation were extremely simple, the snow-white down feathers extending from her back were like moth wings magnified many times, with fluffy ball-like hair at the base, and the tail of the wings was slightly smooth, with a little scale powder faintly visible, keeping her body clean and avoiding moisture and odor.
She may not be as tall as Tilan, but with the white moth wings like a cape and the plump body curves, she always gives people a feeling of being much more mature, but still with a bit of cuteness of petite body.
Under the reflection of the light ball, the most amazing thing is the beautiful hair like silver snow, which has the beauty of a rare thing.
"Is this... a silkworm moth?" Fran looked at the figure kneeling on the ground in shock and surprise. He had only seen the description of this species in the records.
"Yes, this is a silkworm moth." Guy stepped forward, slowly squatted down and looked carefully at the figure in front of him who was shrinking in fear.
"It is said that all silkworm moths were stripped of their aggressiveness when their genes were designed. They dare not resist anyone's orders and are afraid of any bloody scenes. Their hair is the best silk, very beautiful and has a self-cleaning effect. In the past, they were welcomed by all new races."
"At the same time, their body organs can adapt to any humanoid species and will not cause rejection reactions. If you want to use her to save people, she will be very happy and happy because she can be useful."
"No matter how you bully her, as long as you give her a little encouragement and reward, she will forget the pain you brought her."
"Thousands of years ago, many new races would raise these silkworm moths. They were the best livestock and maids, but later the situation continued to deteriorate, and various forces did not have the spare money to raise them."
"Do silkworm moths have wisdom?" Tilan also came to the frightened silkworm moth, carefully bent down, and stretched out her hand to show her goodwill.
"Yes, according to the records of the association library, the wisdom of silkworm moths is the same as that of normal people, and even a little smarter, but no one will teach them too much knowledge." Fran recalled what he had learned.
"Can you understand what I'm saying?" Tilan blinked her eyes gently, and touched the back of the other's hand, trying to convey her gentle kindness to the other.
This silk moth seemed to be particularly sensitive to emotional consciousness. She sensed the kindness released by the girl in front of her and was no longer as nervous as before. Her eyes opened wide and looked at the girl in front of her, as if she wanted to remember this face.
"My name is Olenna, are you... my new master?"
(End of this chapter)
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