Doomsday: Humanity shrinks 100 times

Chapter 183 Underground Base
The moon is hidden and the stars are sparse, and the night is dark.

Spark Outpost.

Lu Yuning and his group had explored this place in advance and found that there were no Xinghuo personnel here.

It seems that after the last action, they have no signs of activity, and the holes in the wall that were broken last time are still there.

At this time, in the outpost, six people with dim light crawled out of the fluorescent tree root hole under the outpost.

They wanted to confirm whether the roots were still glowing.

After everything was almost ready, the six people climbed onto the straw boat that had been placed in the grass.

The six people on this trip include Li Wengang and Zhang Muyan, as well as Han Yingying's trio and Lu Yuning.

Although she really wanted to bring Zhang Xinyue along, six people was already the limit of Han Yingying's current coordination ability.

With the help of Liu Rui's companion ability, she can continue to use her supernatural powers.

The ability to camouflage at night is necessary, otherwise it would be too dangerous.

Moreover, after the light source is installed on the boat, it will attract some flying insects.

Although we have taken measures, we still see a few insects flying towards us from time to time.

Other insects are fine, but some moths will drop a lot of powdery substances from their wings when they flap their wings.

However, they had already considered these things before taking action. In addition to the spider webs used to intercept flying insects, they were also wrapped tightly at this time, wearing cold-proof down jackets and a filtering respirator on their faces.

This respirator is very simple to make because it is only used to protect against powder on moths and does not require high filter materials.

Lu Yuning climbed up a tall blade of grass and looked around.

Then his eyes focused, and a vague green fluorescence appeared in his field of vision.

Following the direction of the fluorescence and looking further into the distance, you can seem to see a faint fluorescence even further away.

It seems that this direction is where the Spark Base is located.

After confirming the direction, Lu Yuning jumped back onto the boat.

"How is it?" Liu Rui asked.

Lu Yuning nodded. "You can see that there is a fluorescent light every few meters. This is probably a mark they deliberately made. The people inside probably enter and exit this bush by looking for the mark."

Lu Yuning made a rough guess, although the people before Xinghuo went back and forth to the base through the strange tree roots.

However, this method obviously cannot be used at any time. The last time I heard them mention it, it seemed that it would take some time to move once.

During the downtime, they would definitely have other ways to move in the grass. The grass area itself is not large, but for the shrunken humans, it is equivalent to a vast ocean.

It is difficult for people in the grass to determine the direction, so it is more reasonable to use landmarks to determine the direction of movement. The positions of the lights in front of us should be their way of marking the direction.

However, the direction of the fluorescent light is different from the direction of their bow, so they have to adjust the direction of the bow.

The method of adjusting the direction is also very simple, just control the center of gravity.

You only need to control the horizontal center of gravity of the boat while moving.

For example, if you want to turn right, you need to reduce the weight on the left, and the boat will tilt to the right.

Li Wengang was already quite proficient in this control method. After Lu Yuning determined the direction, he quickly adjusted it.

Then the whole boat went up and down and sailed away into the distance.

After passing the first fluorescent mark, Lu Yuning re-determined the direction and then silently wrote down the direction of travel.

They were just exploring this time and would come back again, so they had to determine the specific location to facilitate their subsequent actions.

The group walked and stopped, and soon came to a place with a steeper slope, where they could no longer move by controlling their center of gravity alone.

However, from the perspective, a large fluorescent area appeared in front of them, and it seemed that the purpose of their trip was just ahead.

Now the grass boat can no longer move forward, but the remaining distance is not far, so we can only try to explore forward on foot.

The six people jumped off the boat and began to crawl. This journey was quite difficult. It was difficult to walk and they had to stop almost every step. Judging from the time they took action, it was almost midnight.

After crawling hard for almost an hour, the moving light source behind could no longer reach here.

At this time they were almost completely operating in the dark, but they finally reached their destination.

A large area of fluorescence appeared in the six people's field of vision, and the green fluorescence lit up a large area nearby.

If the purpose of this trip is not to investigate the enemy situation, the scene before us is worth a careful viewing.

This large area has almost no grass except for the fluorescent tree roots, and looks bare.

Yes, it's completely bare.

According to Lu Yuning's initial idea, Xinghuo and his group should live in a plant house similar to an outpost. Logically, there should be a lot of strange buildings here.

But it was obvious that the scene before him was somewhat different from what he had imagined.

Could it be that I found the wrong place? Lu Yuning was puzzled.

Although the place looked empty, the six people did not dare to go in and explore casually. It was better to be cautious since they could not figure out the situation here.

"What should we do?" Liu Rui asked.

Lu Yuning was also at a loss.

He looked at the fluorescent objects on the ground. It seemed that a faint stream of light was constantly emerging from the ground, as if a strange energy was constantly being transported upwards from underground.

Wait, underground?

Lu Yuning was stunned for a moment, then looked carefully at the fluorescent area, and then said in disbelief: "We may have been misled by the outpost's architecture."

"Misleading?"

"Well, from a normal perspective, their base should be a large area of plants growing on the ground. However, perhaps it's the opposite. Their base may be underground, and these tree roots are just used to absorb sunlight."

Everyone was stunned and looked towards the fluorescent area in disbelief.

"Ah, what if it's underground? We probably won't be able to dig in."

A new problem arose. If, as Lu Yuning thought, the Xinghuo base was underground, then it would be difficult for them to enter.

In order to prevent the ground from collapsing, the underground cavity must be deep enough.

If their base was several meters from the ground, it would be difficult for them to dig down even with Lu Yuning's ability.

Lu Yuning had explained this before when they were laying the pipeline. Ground excavation is different from tree trunk excavation. The soil crushed by the supernatural power must be cleaned out, which is a huge workload.

Another point is that although the fluorescent tree roots are concentrated here, the specific location of the Spark Base is indeed difficult to determine.

Since they have the ability to open up underground space, this entire lawn area could become the construction location for their base.

　Just say a few words.

　　It’s 400,000 now. The last time I posted a thank you note was when I wrote 100,000.

　　To be honest, I rarely read more than 400,000 words.

　　So I didn’t expect that I could persist in writing 400,000 words.

　　However, I found that there are several book friends who are more perseverant than me. They send recommendation tickets at the appointed time every day, almost rain or shine.
　　I would like to thank a few people here, hello, how are you, the kind of virtuous fish, the one who was born in heaven, I am fat, the way can be told but cannot be named, and cool soy sauce.

　　There are also some book friends who saw the book when it was first published, and those who read it a few days ago are still reading it. In short, I am very grateful to them all.

　　So far, this book has deviated from the feeling it had at the beginning. It was originally about survival in the apocalypse, but as I wrote it, I found that I had to move towards the struggle for supremacy among civilizations, otherwise there would be nothing to write about except water.

　　Although the results are dismal, I still take each chapter seriously and have gained a lot. Thank you all for staying with me until now.

(End of this chapter)