"What's that look in your eyes?"
Li Yao was confused by Li Jialing's look, and Monk Zhang Er was confused, "Why do I read a strong meaning of 'care' in your eyes?
What's going on!"
"nothing."
Li Jialing averted his eyes and said solemnly, "I just hope Brother Yao knows that no matter what path I choose in the end, and no matter what kind of person I will become, I will never forget that you are mine." ...
Dear, in my heart, you are even more important than Her Majesty the Queen.
I sincerely treat you as a big brother.
I hope you will always be safe, uh, and healthy. " "Yeah?"
Li Yao felt Li Jialing's sincerity and grinned, "I really treat you as my little brother.
In short, little brother, don't be bewitched by that female devil Long Yangjun, and don't encounter some small darkness and difficulties."
We've just scratched the surface.
Anyway, let's take it step by step and save it.
You can let go of the world for a while, learn to draw a sword to help when the road is rough, and be brave enough to fight against the strong and help the weak.
In short, Brother Yao has confidence in you, and I believe that one day you will realize the essence of the path of cultivation.
Become a more powerful cultivator than Brother Yao!"
"Maybe."
Li Jialing said, "I still need to walk more, see more, and think more before I can choose the final path.
Only by doing this can I run on my own road without looking back!"
The two of them talked and walked to the deepest part of the town without knowing it.
This is a rock wall hundreds of meters high, but it is full of honeycomb-like caves.
The diameter of each cave entrance is about three to five meters.
The fence is woven with vines outside, and "humming" can be heard from inside. sound.
Countless underground people carried large amounts of moss, vines, mushrooms, and even buckets of finely crushed ore on their shoulders, and filed into the cave.
It can be seen that the weight on their bodies was extremely heavy, causing their bones to protrude and veins to protrude.
He was completely exposed, his expression both ferocious and painful.
After a while, the people in the depths of the cave emptied the moss and vines, and came out carrying buckets of smelly feces.
The burden was finally relieved, and the accustomed numbness appeared on the originally ferocious faces.
Li Yao and Li Jialing were both distinguished guests here.
The underground people did not prevent them from entering the cave.
They did not even dare to make eye contact.
They lowered their heads and walked past them in a hurry.
The two of them entered a cave at random and saw dozens of rockworms being raised.
Rockworms really don't look like bugs, but more like fat white pigs.
They are just a little more slender, reaching three or four meters in length and about two meters in diameter, like a large oval meat ball.
Rather than calling them "rockworms," it would be more appropriate to call them "rock dolphins."
Li Yao didn't know if the rockworm originally had legs or claws.
At least now, he couldn't see any organs for movement.
Maybe they were covered by layers of fat.
This is a spiritual beast that moves extremely slowly, like a sloth.
It curls up in the depths of the cave as motionless as a statue.
Li Yao doubts that they even have the ability to forage on their own.
The "humming and chirping" sounds turned out to be not their screams, but the sound of breathing coming from the vents above their heads.
These stupid and lazy spiritual beasts didn't even bother to scream.
The underground people chopped up a large amount of moss, vines and mushrooms, mixed them with ores ground into fine powder, stirred them evenly, and put them into the feed trough.
Several rockworms slowly swarmed over, looking round and invisible.
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A cross slit opens on the "head" where the eyes come out, and thousands of white threads spurt out.
The food is wrapped into snow-white balls and rolled into the cross slit, which is regarded as a complete eating action.
While the rockworms were eating, the underground people would bypass them and go deep into the cave to collect their dark green feces, carefully scraping every corner without leaving a trace behind.
Some underground people were holding long-handled brushes and scrubbing the rock insects hard.
At first, Li Yao thought they were going to clean them and then kill them and eat them.
But when he took a closer look, he was wrong.
It turned out that it was the underground people who were cleaning the rock insects.
Insect massage is relaxing!
It can be seen that rockworms are almost the only means of production for all residents in District 10084.
They are really troubled to the extreme in raising and caring for rockworms.
Li Jialing told Li Yao that the rockworm was an excellent food-like spirit beast that had been genetically modified ten thousand years ago during the Star Sea Empire era.
The earliest research had even begun during the period of the Monster Beast Empire, which was good at biochemical technology. .
Rockworms can devour tens of thousands of the roughest food materials, including ores containing large amounts of trace elements, and convert them into large amounts of fat and protein, providing the energy necessary for human survival in the harshest environments.
The rockworm is full of treasures.
It combines the genes of some special spiders and silkworms.
The silk thread used to wrap food is also a good textile raw material.
Moreover, it sheds its skin once a year, and the skin it sheds can also be used to make fabrics.
A leather jacket that is both lightweight and warm.
In addition, the excrement of rockworms hardly needs to be refined.
It is a natural fertilizer and is suitable for nourishing most plants, even mushrooms and mosses.
It can domesticate wild plants by humans into crops with skyrocketing yields.
It can be said that when humans explore and colonize unknown areas, as long as they bring rockworms with them, they can solve the two key problems of "clothing" and "food" and lay a solid foundation for the development of agriculture.
However, too many genetic modifications have been made in terms of "omnivory" and "availability".
The result of the rockworms' desperate efforts to grow fat and protein is that their mobility and predatory ability are greatly weakened, to almost zero.
This is a kind of life that was born in the laboratory.
It is extremely difficult to adapt to the harsh life in the wild while maintaining its current traits.
It can only stay in the breeding room and be fed by humans to grow up.
When the Star Sea Empire designed these underground shelters 10,000 years ago, they naturally had a set of extremely advanced and sophisticated automated breeding equipment to ensure that this "meat factory" could continuously output products, starting from the very beginning of rockworm mating.
In the end, it turns into boxes of ready-to-eat meat packaged in cans, and the entire process does not require many workers and breeders to control it.
But with the erosion of the years, the automated breeding equipment of the past has long exhausted its energy, fragmented, and ceased to exist.
The original knowledge of raising rockworms has also been lost.
Today’s underground people can only use the most primitive methods to raise them. them.
Since rockworms can grow so much meat, they naturally have a huge appetite.
They cannot go out to find food themselves.
They have to rely on underground people to collect moss, tear off vines, chop down mushrooms, dig out ore, and then grind and mix them laboriously before putting them into the feed trough.
This is very heavy physical labor.
Three or five strong men work all day long, just enough to satisfy the appetite of a rockworm.
In order to ensure that so many mosses, vines and mushrooms can grow in the underground world, rockworm feces must be continuously thrown into the cracks of the rocks, and then various crops must be carefully served.
The underground world is not originally suitable for crop growth, even if The smallest tuft of moss was watered by the blood and sweat of the underground people.
Because the real fully automatic breeding tank has been destroyed long ago, the rockworms are not adapted to the environment deep in the cave, so people have to massage their bodies day and night and force them to get up and exercise, otherwise the rockworms will soon grow black spots on their bodies.
Spot, all the flesh and blood inside is necrotic, so you can't eat it.
These jobs account for 99% of the underground people and 99% of their time.
It can be said that the entire District 10084 exists around the "rock insects".
Based on the number of stalagmites, stalactites and caves on the rock wall that he just saw, Li Yao quickly calculated the ratio of the number of rockworms to the underground residents, and found that compared to the population of area 10084, the number of rockworms seemed too large.
If there are too many, even if we kill them all for meat, we still won't be able to eat so much.
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If we can raise a few less animals, wouldn't it be much easier for people?
Li Jialing shook his head and said that he only knew one but not the other.
As I said just now, although the underground people worked hard to raise so many rockworms, they were usually reluctant to eat large pieces of meat.
Every few days, they could have a small piece of meat cut.
It’s good to break it into pieces and mix it into meat porridge.
After most rockworms have shed their skin three times and become fully mature, they are carried to the towns above, which are the "four-digit areas" numbered between 1000 and 9999, in exchange for precious energy, civilian magic weapons and weapons. .
After all, the underground residents of area 10084 are not completely ignorant barbarians.
They still retain their basic language and culture, and a small number of magic weapons and formations are still in operation.
They are also eager to know what the world above is like and a large amount of materials.
You have to rely on rockworms to buy food and fuel.
However, all kinds of synthetic foods are very popular in the world above.
Rockworms cannot be sold at a high price, and three or five rockworms may not be able to replace a standard crystal box.
Even if they bite the bullet and don't want any magic weapons or energy, there is at least one essential material that they must go to the towns above to buy, and that is fresh compressed air, as well as components for repairing the air circulation and filtration systems.
A town tens of thousands of meters underground, even with the most massive and efficient ventilation system that continuously introduces fresh air from the surface, is still a very depressing and dull world, full of all kinds of deadly poisonous gases.
Once the exhaust gas exhaled by humans accumulates too much, it will also cause everyone to suffocate to death.
Therefore, underground residents can waste all magic weapons, even the lighting array above their heads, and become ghosts in the dark, but they can never waste the air circulation and filtration system.
Once the air circulation and filtration system fails, ultra-highly compressed fresh air must be released promptly to gain valuable repair time.
No air is more terrible than no sunshine, it is a real disaster.
The residents of the four-digit towns had to suffer from the fatal weakness of the underground people in the five-digit towns.
The lion opened his mouth and raised the price of the relevant magic weapon components and compressed air to extremely high prices.
Dozens of rockworms could be exchanged for one.
Small tank of compressed air.
Therefore, what the residents of area 10084 work hard to grow and raise every day is not only what they wear and what they eat, but also the air that is crucial for survival and cannot be lacked for even a second!