A glimmer of light appeared at the bottom of the deep, almost endless cavern, and after descending for so long, they finally reached the end.Hao Ren looked up in the direction he came, the entrance to the cave was long gone, and there was only a foggy darkness above: the cave was so deep that it even formed a cloud of dust in the middle of it.He was slightly surprised by the depth of the cave: "Good boy, so deep......
Did that Baptiste really have a way to get down to this kind of place alive?
”Vivien nodded, "The wizard has a lot of means, maybe he can fly spells: as long as he hasn't been torn apart by the monster hordes before then." ”As the car continued to descend, Hao Ren noticed that the light from outside was not directly diffusing from below, but shining in from the dark cave walls in all directions: after descending to a certain extent, many huge cracks appeared on the cave walls in the distance, and those cracks seemed to go straight to the outside world.After descending for a few hundred more meters, they finally touched the ground."
It's safe around," Duncan surveyed the outside, "just look for a direction and drive forward, those cracks around should lead to the outside world." ”The bottom of the cave is a place of light and shadow, which is still dark overall, but there is light peeking through some triangular chasms in the distance.Originally, Hao Ren thought that after coming down from the cave, he would directly reach an open place, but now it seems that this passage is like some kind of pipe directly underground, and after reaching the end, he needs to drill through the crack in the "pipe" to see the true view of the second floor of purgatory.He started the car and headed towards one of the largest sources of light, everyone holding their breath along the way: this strange place made everyone nervous.The ground at the bottom of the cave is rugged, with many strange stones scattered on the ground, and occasionally something else can be seen in it.Hao Ren saw a puddle of debris that had been completely discernible spread in front of him, and a large area around it was a dark red that burst open, and clear impact cracks could be seen on the ground.There is no doubt that this is a monster that accidentally fell from the surface above.I don't know how many creatures have fallen from that horrific cavern in the past 10,000 years, but it is conceivable that there must have been a large amount of debris piled up on the ground under the wheels, and these hapless creatures who had fallen from the surface world had turned to dust here, very far from where they lived.The wheels had run over the debris, and the team continued to explore, the light in the distance getting closer.In the interplay of light and shadow, Hao Ren saw something thick, like a stone pillar hanging from above, and the crack where the light came from showed a distinct angle, leaning inward as he leaned up.The strange structure made him stunned for a moment, because everything in this place was so huge, and the spatial imagination of common sense was challenged, he reacted for a long time before he realized what form this was: the bottom of the cavern was gradually expanding outward, and the further down it went, the wider it became.He picked up speed and drove into the light outside.An incomparably vast world is presented to everyone.The sudden widening of the field of vision even made people unreactive, and the scene of the second layer of purgatory made everyone fall into a state of aphasia.I saw the vast expanse of the land spread out of the car window, the rolling hills and low slopes covered with a shocking verdant green, and the whole land was full of green grass and flowers.The vast expanse of the earth stretches all the way in the field of vision, all the way to the end of the horizon, where there is only a clear horizon, and there is no imaginary edge of the cavern in sight.Hao Ren opened the car door and went outside in a state of almost dazedness, he felt himself stepping on a soft grass, and the pure scent of earth and plants came from his nostrils.He looked up at the "sky", where it was supposed to be a thick, dark dome of rock, but he saw a large expanse of white clouds: the subterranean world was so vast that its dome was even higher than the limits of the cumulus clouds, so that the water vapor and dust formed clouds in the middle of this "cavern" to block the rocks above.The clouds glowed as softly white as the outermost cloud tops of Purgatory, and their glow was so bright that the entire underworld was reflected as if it were day.Hao Ren's gaze wandered between the clouds, which were not as airtight as the cloud tops above, so he finally saw what he should have seen between the two clouds: a deep darkness, so far away that he could only see some rough gully lines with his eyes, and that was the earth's crust.Or something like the earth's crust.The others also got out of the car at this time, and Heathera was stunned for a few minutes with her head up, and finally took a deep breath: "Hiss-this......
Is it a cave?
”"I said earlier that although the second floor of Purgatory is underground, the scale is indescribable," Vivien said, but the expression on her face was not much more indifferent than that of others, "I didn't expect this to be like this......
I thought it was a worse place. ”"After all, the surface of the earth is already like hell," Lily frowned, looking at the living world in unimaginable form, "Is this 'purgatory'?"
Purgatory is not worthy of its name. ”Nangong May felt that the surrounding water elemental environment had finally regained its affinity, and the inexplicable atmosphere of crisis and hostility seemed to only stay on the surface above, so she transformed into an ordinary sea snake form, with a comfortable expression on her face: "The water here is very peaceful, and it is almost two worlds from the surface. ”Hao Ren didn't say anything more, because his mind was full of only one question now: how vast is this place?
Thinking of this question, he couldn't help but turn his head and glance at the "passage" when everyone came.A mountain peaks stretched to the sky before his eyes, and as expected, its form was not visible at this distance.He saw huge black ridges spilling down from above, stretching into the distance, melting into the verdant earth, and the upper part of the mountain gradually closing into a huge wall almost perpendicular to the earth, all the way into the endless depths of the clouds.The whole mountain was dark in color and had a rock-like texture, but after careful discernment, he found that the rock had a strange shape.A lightning thought suddenly popped up, and he immediately beckoned everyone to get into the car: "Come on, let's go to a distant place to have a look!"
”The group returned to the car, Hao Ren immediately drove the car to the distance all the way, the "mountain" that reached the sky when everyone came was quickly left behind, Lily sat in the last row and looked out of the window, her eyes widened and widened, and finally she couldn't help but shout: "Tree!
It's a tree trunk!
”Hao Ren stopped on a grassy plateau, and he looked in the direction of the "mountain" with the others, where he could finally see the whole picture of the behemoth.As Lily said, it was a giant tree, and it was a tree with well-developed roots and aerial roots bulging out of the earth's surface, the trunk of the giant tree had penetrated the clouds and connected to the bottom of the earth's crust above, as if supporting the whole earth above, and its lower part clung to the earth, and the sloping ridges and cones that Hao Ren had seen before were none other than the roots of the giant tree.And the place where they came down before is self-evident: it is a hollow tube inside the trunk of a tree.At this time, the data terminal suddenly spoke: "New images have been sent from other probes, and some probes have found other entrances to purgatory, and they are in the same situation as we are here." ”As he spoke, the terminal redirected the images of several probes, all of which depicted roughly the same scene: the giant trees that supported the entire earth (or the sky), and the vast expanse of green land around the trees."
Other high-speed probes have reached the other side of the planet, where they have also discovered the entrance to the second level of Purgatory.""
The second layer of Purgatory is not a cave or a series of caves, but another layer of the earth's crust," Hao Ren said slowly, "The planet is layered—not an exaggeration, but a real description. ”The world's speculation about the structure of purgatory is outrageously wrong, and the aliens once thought that there were a series of deep giant caverns under the earth, and that the giant caverns were a sinister other hell, but in reality, all the caves were connected, they were simply a space, and this space was not sinister, but like a paradise.The planet has a double crust, and Purgatory is only its epidermis.Maybe there is a third layer of the earth's crust, who can say for sure?
(To be continued.) )