Doomsday: Humanity shrinks 100 times

Chapter 184 Elevator
Lu Yuning now regretted not bringing Zhang Xinyue with her. If she were there, at least she could have done some investigation.

But now that I have found this strange place, at worst I can come back again later.

After figuring it out, Lu Yuning breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what, this trip was somewhat rewarding.

However, he was hesitant about whether to explore the fluorescent area in front of him.

The main concern is whether this thing will trigger some alarms.

When a few people were hesitating, there was suddenly movement in the fluorescent tree root area in front of them.

"Shh!" Lu Yuning quickly spoke to remind everyone to be quiet.

Everyone looked over nervously.

This area covered in strange tree roots visually appears to be at least the size of two football fields.

The actual size should be about two meters in diameter.

At this moment, a strange "popping" sound suddenly came from near the area.

It sounded like a piece of firewood being broken in half, and then the center of the area suddenly bulged slightly.

Under the shocked gaze of the crowd, a young plant broke out of the soil from the raised area and continued to grow.

It stopped when it grew to almost the same height as the nearby weeds. Several people looked at this strange seedling with surprise.

After a long time, the few people saw no movement from the seedlings. They were hesitating whether to get closer to take a look, when suddenly the seedlings showed new changes.

A thing that looked like a flower but was not a flower slowly grew out of the top of the plant, and then a fluorescent light slowly rose from the bottom of the plant into the flower.

As several people watched, the flower opened and two figures appeared inside.

It turns out this thing is actually an elevator?
Lu Yuning finally understood. It seemed that this was how the people from Xinghuo came to the ground.

I have to say, this thing is quite advanced.

At present, although the Spark's architectural system relies on these strange plants, it has surpassed the products of science and technology and is even more advanced than the technology before the end of the world.

Moreover, the defensive capabilities of this plant wall are also good. Although it is still afraid of fire, it has a very strong self-healing ability.

Due to the distance and insufficient light, the two people could only see vague figures.

Someone suddenly asked, "What time is it?"

"Who knows? I was woken up while sleeping so soundly." The other person was obviously a little impatient.

"Hey, it's late at night and they said there's something strange nearby and they insisted we come over to take a look. I guess there's some animal nearby."

"Who put us on duty? What should we do now?"

"..What else can I do? Am I really going to go out for a walk in the middle of the night? I can just pretend to do a patrol and come back and say there's a rat. Who can find me in this damn place?"

"That's true. I guess our team leader didn't take it seriously. Otherwise, why would he send two of us without special abilities to investigate?"

"What's wrong with not having superpowers? Not having superpowers means you still have unlimited potential! Who knows, maybe one day you'll awaken some amazing abilities."

"Forget it. I've given up hope. It's been almost two months. Those who should have awakened have already awakened. For people like us, it's probably because our genetic potential isn't good enough."

"Fart, that's you"

One of them was obviously hurt by the words, and he became very angry and muttered a lot of curses.

"Okay, be content. The two of us who are strong are still useful, otherwise we will be..."

The man suddenly fell silent at the end of his speech, obviously thinking of something terrible. "Stop talking. Let's live one day at a time. At least now we have food, clothes, and a good place to live."

The two were silent for a while.

"I heard that thing had problems recently?"

"Who did you listen to?"

"Who else do you need to listen to? Everyone knows that people are in a panic right now."

"It's useless to know. People like us at the bottom of the society can only leave it to fate, unless you can find a way to leave here."

"Didn't they capture a person with special abilities a few days ago? They say they might be able to control the situation."

"I hope it's almost done, let's go back"

The two of them had finished their conversation and seemed ready to go back.

From their few words, we can hear some information that the person with superpowers who was captured should be Xu Qi.

As for the purpose of capturing her, it seems to be related to some internal situations of Xinghuo.

From what they said, it seemed that something was out of control. Although it was not clear what it was, the only thing they could think of was the strange plant in front of them.

Considering that this creature seems to have evolved some animal characteristics, the situation they are talking about seems to be obvious.

Something seemed to be wrong with this alienated plant body, and Xu Qi's ability was to communicate with intelligent creatures, so the only thing that could be thought of was to capture her and communicate with this thing?

However, since they were able to build such an advanced base with the help of mutated plants, it proves that it was controllable or communicable before, so it is unknown what went wrong now. This is all we can guess at the moment.

The two people in front of him seemed to be preparing to go back. According to the situation when they appeared before, the plant with flowers in front of him should slowly shrink back into the ground.

However, the situation was not what they expected. The two of them actually jumped directly to the ground and then searched in the central area for a while.

Because the ground nearby was rugged and uneven, Lu Yuning and the others could not see the subsequent movements.

I just felt that the fluorescent light nearby seemed to suddenly become brighter, and then the plant seemed to lose nutrients in an instant, gradually withering, and then fell to the ground.

After a long time, the area became quiet and it seemed that the two men had gone back.

It looks like the way to their base is hidden among these fluorescent tree roots.

"What should we do? It seems like the other party has discovered us?"

Lu Yuning pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said, "From what they said, they must have discovered our straw boat, but they shouldn't have discovered us. We're about the same size as insects. If they can even detect that, then they'll come out to check at the slightest sign of trouble."

"That's right. We followed the fluorescent tree roots all the way here. Maybe they sensed us somehow."

"You guys wait here, I'll go over and take a look."

After saying that, he squatted down, then suddenly jumped up and jumped towards the place where the two people had just disappeared.

Lu Yuning landed quickly. There was nothing unusual on the ground except that there were tree roots everywhere.

There is an exceptionally thick tree root in this center of gravity area, which looks quite conspicuous. If nothing unexpected happens, the two people just now should have drilled into the ground from here.

He searched around the tree roots but didn't see any place to go in.

Then he walked forward and reached out to touch the roots of the tree. He felt a little warm. Just as he was wondering, he suddenly felt a suction force on his hand.

Lu Yuning only felt surrounded by a green light, and then was sucked into the tree roots.

(End of this chapter)