Chapter 265 Entering the Wilderness
After a moment, Xin Ji came out of the trade zone and did not make any stops in Bartolok City, and flew directly to the passage to the city center.
The hole leading to the first floor of the underground world is nearly a thousand meters in diameter. As the distance gets closer, it is like a huge beast's mouth swallowing. Every moment, various aircraft and flame beasts are coming from all directions to fly in or come out from inside.
Xin Ji approached the entrance of the cave and telepathically sensed that air defense firepower was everywhere nearby. At least one hundred turrets surrounded the entrance, forming an airtight cross-fire network.
The power of these turrets is no less than that of the main guns of meteor-class warships. They are hidden under a huge energy shield system and are not turned on at this time, so they are very hidden.
If someone forces a break through the passage, the ending will be very miserable.
There is a metal fortress-like floating island above the exit of the passage. This is the level set by the Yan Scale Clan. Xin Ji flew over slowly and paid a considerable toll with the newly processed identity card, and then he was released.
Xin Jifei entered the cave entrance, and the passage was brightly lit. You can see that it was not perpendicular to the ground, but extended downwards at a slope of about 45 degrees, curved and endlessly visible.
Most of the passages of the Yan Scale Star are naturally generated, but they are not very regular, so the traces of artificially trimmed have been built on the inner wall every few hundred meters, and a large number of Yan Scale warriors are sent to guard it, leaving no opportunity for outsiders to take advantage of.
Xin Ji flew at high speed in the passage and continued to descend toward the ground.
The armored light brain showed that he was moving away from the ground at a speed of ten kilometers per minute, and the surrounding temperature was also rising little by little. It was not until six minutes later that the slope of the passage gradually calmed down, and a red light lit up in front of him, and then his vision was widened, and he flew out of the passage to reach a huge defensive fortress.
This fortress looks like a city wall before the Industrial Revolution. It was built at the exit of the passage, and outside the wall is the underground world!
Xin Ji looked around and saw that his first impression was red, and then it was hot.
There is a kind of fern in the underground world of Yanlin Star, called Fire Lamella. They have extremely tenacious vitality. They can not only resist high temperatures, but also absorb heat and release a faint light.
Although the brightness of this glimmer is not high, the fire grass is everywhere, accumulating a lot, illuminating every layer of the underground world.
The fire-melted grass is the most numerous species in the underground world. It is at the bottom of the biological chain and provides food for countless herbivorous flaming beasts. The more fire-melted grasses, the higher the brightness, but this light is red, as if it has covered the entire world with red yarn, filling the vision of all living things.
In the light of the fire grass, a hot wilderness appeared before Xin Ji's eyes.
This wilderness is boundless, overgrown with weeds, and its geographical environment is similar to that of the planet's surface. It is like a plain, and the distant horizon cannot reach the end.
If you don’t look up and you can see that there is a rock top several thousand meters high above, instead of the sky, it is hard to imagine that it is more than fifty kilometers underground!
Xin Ji looked up at the top of the rock and found that the fire grass was really growing freely, with large areas hanging down from the top, like chandeliers, dispelling darkness for the closed space below.
He did not rush to set out, telepathically swept the fortress and walked into a store selling transportation tools.
The most important tool for action in the underground world is transportation tools. Otherwise, relying solely on the energy of power armor, we can't go much far in the huge world of hundreds of layers.
Not long after, Xin Ji rode a four-meter-long maglev motorcycle out and plunged into the vast wilderness.
In just one minute, the fortress at the exit of the passage was thrown far behind and could not be seen.
While driving at high speed, the violent wind was blocked by the invisible magnetic field and whizzed past him. Xin Ji had not driven a motorcycle for a long time. The feeling of long absence came to his heart, and he felt a little happy.
But he was not careless. As he got further and further away from the fortress at the exit of the passage, the danger would slowly approach.
Xin Ji maintained the maglev motorcycle at a height of one meter from the ground, and the speed was about 300 kilometers per hour, no longer fast. At the same time, telepathy had been released long ago, constantly scanning the movements within a thousand meters of the whole body.
Whether it is the information collected in the Federation or the memory of the Takas, they clearly point out an important thing, that is, you must act closely in the underground world.
Never fly high up before you have to!
This is because the geology under your feet and above your head contains a large number of star stone ores. They interfere with each other from the sky, twisting the space in places without ore, forming turbulence. This kind of space-time turbulence is simply everywhere, and in fact there are even on the ground, but the degree is lighter. The higher the ground, the greater the chance of encountering distorted space.
Whether it is a human or an aircraft, once it hits a twisted space, the material will be deformed and squeezed and fall down; at worst, it will be crushed into powder and the plane will be destroyed and the people will die.
Even the star-level powerful man is powerless to resist this distorted space and can only avoid it far away.
The distorted space is invisible and difficult to detect. Generally, it can only be detected when it is very close. Moreover, the distorted space is moving at any time. Many times it is too late to find out.
The aircraft made by the Yanlin Clan all have the function of detecting twisted space, but the effect is unsatisfactory. The detection distance is only two or three hundred meters, so you can only avoid it first, fly against the ground, and the speed cannot be too fast. Otherwise, if you just find the twisted space and hit it head-on, it is equivalent to seeking death.
In the underground world, many fire beasts are naturally extremely sensitive to twisted space. The ability to avoid twisted space is deeply engraved in their genes. They can safely dodge all twisted spaces without even looking at them, and fly freely in the sky.
Therefore, the Yan Scale tribe tribe tried every means to tame the flame beast, and would rather give up the convenience of the aircraft and use the ability of the flame beast to open up the underground world.
Xin Ji had already activated the singularity star core, and his eyes passed through layers of space, as if he wanted to see through the essence of the world.
In his telepathy, the space around him was extremely disordered, far less stable than other places. Strange invisible fluctuations were emitting everywhere in the sky and the ground, and they interfered with each other, like ripples on the water surface. Because of the difference in wave frequency, some offset each other, and some strengthened resonance, and gravitational effects that ordinary people could not see were always dazzled.
“These are all spatial fluctuations!”
Xin Ji sighed inwardly. In his eyes, the space used to be as calm as an ancient well, unchanged forever, and as strong as steel. However, here, the space changes anytime and anywhere, which is simply unimaginable.
"Hmm? That's..."
He turned his head and looked up at the sky on the left. He telepathically detected a space with extremely violent fluctuations about 600 meters away, with a range of less than two meters. It was like a strange vortex appearing on the sea surface, refracting the light entering it. This is the distorted space!
Xin Ji slowed down the maglev motorcycle and carefully observed the twisted space.
I have to say that the distorted space is really hidden. When my telepathy swept through, I found that there were some extremely faint abnormalities in the light, which was similar to other places.
Even a high-level warlock with extremely keen perception is too difficult to discover the twisted space so far.
However, all of this was telepathic and there was no way to hide.
Xin Ji understood that this was his huge advantage in the underground world. As long as he maintained telepathy at all times, distorting the space would not pose any threat to him.
Thinking of this, he laughed and no longer cared about it. The speed of the maglev motorcycle suddenly soared, with a speed of more than 500 kilometers per hour!
The maglev motorcycle moved forward rapidly, and the surrounding environment gradually changed, from plains to hilly areas, but the temperature was still the same hot. It was getting farther and farther away from the fortress, and the surroundings became rare. Various flame beasts and insects were lurking in the tall and dense grass and trees. Xin Ji avoided them one step ahead of time with telepathy, and no battle occurred.
His destination is the star well leading to the deeper underground world.
The Sky Star Well is actually a weakened gravitational well. The space channel formed by the large concentration of Sky Star Rocks is sometimes referred to as the "Star Well". Its function is similar to the "Star Gate" that everyone knows about in the universe. The Star Gate connects major river galaxies and conducts teleportation across galaxies. The transmission distance of the Star Well is much smaller and can only connect to the underground worlds of each layer.
The underground world of Yanlin Star has hundreds of layers. Except for the dozens of layers above that have some naturally formed geological channels, most of the deep underground worlds are in and out through star wells.
Almost every underground world has star wells, with the number of them. Generally, the larger the area of the underground world, the more star wells it will form.
Xin Ji is now located on the first floor. The map shows that there are hundreds of star wells in this world of hundreds of millions of square kilometers, and they are all very stable, leading to different layers.
The closest star well to him is three thousand kilometers away, but it leads to the third floor.
Xin Ji wanted to reach the 107th floor as fast as possible. The navigation device calculated the optimal route. He wanted to go to a star well five thousand kilometers away, which led to the eighteenth floor, and then enter the forty-second floor from a star well on the eighteenth floor.
In this way, he continued to teleport through the star well, and after five times, he reached the 107th floor where the fire source crystal vein was located. At his current speed, it took a week.
The rushing speed along the way, alarming countless flame beasts, but the first-level flame beasts are very weak and cannot catch up with the speed of the maglev motorcycle.
Occasionally, when I encountered some explorers, they were frightened by Xin Ji's speed and cursed at his back.
Xin Ji ignored it. A few hours later, halfway through the journey, he was about to stop and rest when suddenly a fire beast ahead entered his mind force field.
"The melting snake." He immediately recognized it as a melting snake.
The melted line snake is a very common flame beast, with almost every layer. There are two red lines like lava on their sides, hence the name. The melted line snake is not toxic, generally has weak strength, and does not pose a great threat to explorers. It is already rare to grow to a first-level flame beast.
What surprised Xin Ji was that the melting snake turned out to be a third-level flame beast, nearly twenty meters long from beginning to end, and the snake body was as thick as an ordinary person's waist. I don't know how long it took to survive to reach this point.
He locked his telepathy on the snake's body and looked in, and suddenly he was excited: "Sky Star Stone!"
Usually only the body of the flame beast above level 4 will exist in the sky star stone. There is an olive-sized sky star stone in the belly of this melting snake, which is comparable to a level 6 or seven-level flame beast. It is incredible, and it seems like you have won a lottery.
This was the first time he had discovered the Sky Star Stone in the Flame Beast's body.
Such a large sky star stone is worth about 150,000 Fire coins, which is 400,000 to 500 million federal coins.
Xin Ji naturally had no reason to refuse the wealth delivered to his door. He adjusted the direction of the maglev motorcycle without hesitation and rushed directly to the melting snake hidden behind a pile of gravel.
With the roar, the melting snake was immediately alarmed.
It raised its huge triangular head, stared at the maglev motorcycle rushing towards the high-speed speed. The snake sent and spit. When the maglev motorcycle approached only ten meters, it opened its mouth and sprayed out high-temperature flames. Suddenly, its whole body could not move, as if it was pressed down by a mountain.
The maglev motorcycle stopped in front of him, Xin Ji got out of the car leisurely, pulled out the lightsaber, ignored the frightened gaze of the melting snake, and the lightsaber accurately cut the scales and made a short cut. Then, the bloody sky star stone flew out from the wound and fell into his hand.
The Sky Star Stone is translucent, with a very light color, reflecting beautiful light, and its appearance is somewhat similar to that of diamonds. Xin Ji took it in his hand and weighed it. The mass of this Sky Star Stone is about 200 grams, and the price is similar to what he had estimated before.
"A surprise, good."
He laughed, put away the sky star stone, and then looked at the melting snake on the ground.
As an ordinary snake, it is not easy for this melting snake to grow to a third-level flame beast, so Xin Ji did not kill it, but just took out the Sky Star Stone. When the lightsword was cut in, he avoided the key points and it would not take long to heal.
"For the sake of your contribution to the Sky Star Stone, I will save your life, go." Xin Ji said and let go of the constraints of Wanci.com.
The melting snake has a certain wisdom and has been scared to death. It realizes that it can move, so it quickly escapes without looking back, and crawls into the grass and disappears.
Xin Ji returned to the car and continued on his way. Perhaps he was lucky. Not long after, he found another flame beast with a star stone in his body, but it was very small, with a mass of only a few dozen grams.
The flame beasts in the first underground world are no more than level three. They have no power to resist in front of Xin Ji. They only need a ten thousand magnetic net to control them, and then easily take away the Sky Star Stone. This way, after half a day, when Xin Ji arrives at the Sky Star Well, he already has four Sky Stars in his hand, which is more than 400 grams, worth more than one billion federal coins!
This Sky Star Well is located in a canyon. From a distance, Xin Ji saw a wide square built in the center of the canyon.
There is a twisted space in the center of the square that can be seen by the naked eye. In telepathy, this space with a diameter of more than 30 meters is twisted into a funnel shape. There is no way to go under the funnel, and even telepathy cannot be detected opposite.
Chapter completed!