Chapter 21 Heading to the Underground
After a long wait.
Finally, an extremely deep male voice sounded from the service cabin.
“40 seconds, 40 seconds!”
This male staff member did not count down, but simply repeated the remaining time every ten seconds.
"30 seconds, 30 seconds!"
At the last ten seconds, the staff member just started counting.
"10, 9, 8, 7"
"Take off!"
"C1, April 3, 6141, 5:21:00."< br>
"Axial docking and separation, acceleration."
"Finished!"
After the other party finished reading a series of professional terms that Xie Shen did not understand, the tugboat began to gradually leave the Tiangong Space Station.
——Due to the gravitational force, the tugboat does not need to be given any acceleration when flying to the surface.
Not only that.
The tugboat's engine also needs to work in the opposite direction to resist the gravity from the earth to slow down the impact of the fall.
This process does not require Xie Shen to do much.
The only thing he needs to pay attention to is to constantly calibrate the longitude and latitude of the positioning system to ensure that the landing location is consistent with the planned one.
The tugboat descended very quickly.
Xie Shen stayed in the cockpit. Less than five minutes had passed before he was able to overlook the surface conditions from a high altitude.
——But on the ruins of a certain city not far away, there were countless black towers rising into the sky.
I don’t know why.
Xie Shen just stared at the black towers for a few times, and he unconsciously felt a sense of nausea and disgust in his heart.
This forced him to look away
at the same time.
The voice of a man in a suit sounded in the headphones worn by Xie Shen: "You have felt it too, right? Those towers, as long as you look at them a few more times, you will feel uncomfortable."
"It's true!" Xie He was deeply confused and asked: "Is this considered mental pollution?"
"There is no need to be superstitious." The man in the suit explained: "In fact, any phenomenon can be explained from a scientific perspective."
< br>“If we can’t explain it, it only means that our knowledge is not comprehensive enough.”
“Just like those towers.”
"You look uncomfortable because they are designed to look completely contrary to our human aesthetics."
"Be more specific." The man in the suit continued: "Not all of us humans like symmetry. Is it beautiful? Then those towers are all built into asymmetrical shapes. And there are many details like this, but I don’t study this area, so I can’t explain it to you.”
While the two were talking, the tugboat driven by Xie Shen slowly descended to the ground.
In the world of cultivation, there has always been a common sense: the more people there are, the thinner the spiritual energy will be.
Maybe it’s because no one has been here for a long time.
On the tugboat.
The moment Xie Shen opened the hatch, a strong spiritual energy enveloped him in an instant.
For a moment, Xie Shen actually had the illusion that he had returned to the world of cultivation.
It is no exaggeration to say that one day of practice here is at least as good as the more than ten days of hard practice in the space station.
Considering that monsters like the ‘Thalamus Sentinel’ will become very active after nightfall.
Therefore, to ensure safety, humans who land on the surface must return to space before night arrives.
Xie Shen left the space station by tugboat at 5:21 in the morning. The flight took a total of 9 minutes.
So the exact time he landed on the surface should be exactly 5:30.
It is summer in the northern hemisphere at this time, the daylight hours are longer, and the sky will gradually dim after about 19:30.
In this way, if you fully calculate, you will have almost 14 hours to collect zirconium ore.
Time is running out.
After getting out of the tugboat, Xie Shen simply glanced at the surrounding environment.
After confirming that there are no dangers or abnormalities nearby, we began to deploy mining exploration machines.
He had practiced this operation countless times in the space station, and now he had it at his fingertips, and he quickly dug the drill into the ground.
After doing all this, the man in the suit reminded Xie Shen through the earphone: "It will take about 30 minutes for the exploration machine to look for minerals. If it finds it, the green light will turn on. Then you don't need to worry about it. Just let it keep digging on its own."
"Then if it is not found, it will light up red."
"At this time you have to manually change its position, and then let it continue digging like this."
Operating the probe is not difficult.
Xie Shen knew it almost immediately, so he followed the man in the suit and said, "So when the exploration plane is looking for minerals, I can move freely?"
"Well, as long as you don't leave too far." The man in the suit replied: "Otherwise, when the underground people see that the exploration plane is unguarded, they will come and sabotage it."
"Underground people?" Xie Shen had previously said I have never heard of the existence of underground people.
"Uh"
The man in the suit thought for a while and said: "How should I put it, the underground people are actually not much different from us, they are all humans who escaped from the tower prison."
“It’s just that there seems to be something wrong with their cognition.”
"What's the problem?" Xie Shen asked subconsciously.
The man in the suit said: "Those underground people regard pain as a kind of enjoyment. An obvious example is that the underground people like to eat a red mushroom, which is their staple food!"
“This kind of mushroom is easy to grow, so the space station was originally planning to grow it.”
“However, after trying it, someone found that although this kind of mushroom has a high yield, it also feels very full. It’s strong, but it makes people feel inexplicably uncomfortable.”
“This kind of discomfort is beyond your imagination”
"If the person who eats mushrooms is not controlled, he will definitely commit suicide as soon as possible."
Hearing this, Xie Shen had already guessed what the man in the suit meant.
He followed what the other party said: "What about the underground people? Do they enjoy eating mushrooms?"
"Yes." The man in the suit said: "And this kind of enjoyment is not an illusion. "
"The space station has conducted experiments on underground people."
"They fed the underground people a lot of red mushrooms, and then in the underground people's... uh..." the man in the suit thought for a while and said: "It seems to be called the basal ganglia of the brain. At that location, researchers from the space station detected the concentration A terrifying amount of dopamine."
"To put it simply: underground people can truly enjoy physical pleasure by eating red mushrooms."
"And not just that. Red mushroom."
"Pain and torture are a kind of enjoyment for underground people, and they can cause their brains to secrete dopamine."
"This is too exaggerated. ?” Xie Shen was shocked after hearing this: “Isn’t Nata Prison just like heaven to the underground people?”
"It's true!" The man in the suit followed: "So the Tower Prison will never resurrect the underground people. The only people locked there are normal humans like us."
"I don't understand this. "
Hearing this, Xie Shen said with a hint of confusion in his tone: "You Didn't I just say that the underground people are just like us, they are all human beings who escaped from the tower prison?"
"Since everyone is the same, why can't the people in the space station have the same abilities as the underground people? ?”
“Can’t we learn the ability?”
(End of this chapter)