Infinite Survival: The winner takes all!

"Our livelihood mainly depends on food storage." Xingmei gave an unexpected answer.

Cecily and Yunshan glanced at each other, both of them were a little confused. Eat food? Where does the stored food come from?

Li Ming seemed to have gotten some key clues. A flash of understanding flashed in his eyes, and he had roughly guessed the reason behind it.

Xingmei understood the confusion between the two. She smiled and explained: "Actually, the cold here is not constant. In our calendar, there are 3455 days in a year."

"And during these long years, there will be more than 700 warm days, and the temperature will climb above 30 degrees."

"Taking advantage of this precious warm period, we will go all out to harvest and store food. Among them, the most important food to store is purple melons."

"Purple melon?" Yunshan murmured, her eyes tightly fixed on Xingmei's towering breasts and fair and flawless skin, a hint of keenness flashed in her eyes, as if she had captured some key information.

Cecily cast doubtful eyes on Li Ming and asked curiously: "Little man, do you know what's going on? Why is the temperature so extreme?"

Li Ming smiled slightly and did not directly respond to Cecily's question. Instead, he turned to Xingmei and said, "If I guess correctly, during the period of warm climate, the sun looked much bigger than it does now, right?"

"That's right." Xingmei said with certainty, and at the same time made a rough gesture with her hand, "The sun in the warm period was probably dozens of times bigger than it is now."

"That's right." Li Ming looked at Cecily and further explained: "First of all, the mass of the sun is abnormally small, and the planet is still running in an extremely elliptical orbit. The distance between its perihelion and aphelion is The difference may be more than 50 times."

"As it approaches perihelion, it becomes very close to the sun and the temperature rises to a comfortable level."

"However, once it moved to aphelion, because it was too far away from the sun, heat could not be transferred effectively, and the planet entered an extremely cold ice age."

Cecily looked thoughtful and asked, "Does such an extreme orbit really exist?"

"Good question." Li Ming praised, "Although this kind of extremely elliptical orbit is possible in theory, it is almost impossible to observe in reality because it is too unstable."

"So, if this planet can maintain stable operation, it must be affected by other unknown factors. This is not easy to speculate."

After saying that, he glanced at Xingmei.

Xingmei shook her head simply and said: "All our energy is focused on increasing food production. As for other fields, we basically don't spend time on research."

Li Ming nodded lightly and said nothing more.

Then, the three of them followed Xing Mei's footsteps and stepped into the majestic huge stone gate in front of them.

Inside the stone gate, there is a relief stone wall that blocks the wind.

A channel extends from each side, and they join together at the rear and continue to extend downward.

What surprised the three of them was that the space inside the stone gate was not as dark as they expected, but instead was extremely bright.

It turned out that there were many stones emitting soft milky white light placed on both sides of the wide staircase. They were like bright lights, illuminating the entire space transparently and brightly.

"Wow, is this the legendary Luminous Stone?" Yunshan exclaimed.

"Well, you can say that." Xingmei responded calmly, "But here, it is just a very common ore. Just burn it red, and it will continue to emit light and illuminate for several days. "For as long as days."

"It's amazing..." Yunshan's eyes flashed with excitement, as if she had thought of some wonderful idea, "I will definitely take some back and sell them like treasures. Hey, selling one for 50 million shouldn't be too much. ?”

"I didn't realize that you still have the talent to be a businessman." Cecily joked.

When Yun Shan heard this, she immediately raised her little head and said triumphantly: "Don't underestimate me, I am very good at making money. The building I live in now was bought before I joined the game and cost more than 120 million." Woolen cloth."

Several people were chatting and laughing all the way, walking happily down the passage.

When they descended along the passage to a depth of nearly a hundred meters, the view ahead suddenly became wider, as if they had entered a whole new world.

I saw rows of shelves on both sides of the road, filled with rotten wood.

And on these rotten trees, various mushrooms are growing densely. They are obviously carefully cultivated here.

These mushrooms have different shapes, some are round and cute, some are tall and straight, and some are colorful.

As they continued to move forward, the scene of this mushroom garden was constantly changing. Sometimes it was a sea of ​​white mushrooms, and sometimes it turned into a yellow-green mushroom forest.

Make them feel as if they are in a wonderful underground world.

"I see. In addition to purple melons, do we need to eat more mushrooms?" Yunshan whispered to herself, while glancing at Xingmei without leaving any trace.

Cecily's attention was attracted by another thing. She said in surprise: "It's really strange. It's not cold here anymore. The temperature must be above zero."

Hearing this, Li Ming's expression was slightly unnatural. He just used a tungsten needle to explore downwards, and the result was a bit scary.

Less than two hundred meters below their feet, there was actually boiling magma...

Although he is not afraid of volcanic eruptions, it will definitely be a disaster for ordinary people living here.

"Ahem..." Li Ming coughed lightly and asked seemingly casually: "Xingmei, I'm curious, do your volcanoes erupt frequently here?"

However, Xingmei seemed to see through his mind and responded: "You mean there is magma underground, right? This is actually normal. We can't survive if we don't live in such a place. Although there is indeed a certain danger, volcanic eruptions It’s not very common here.”

It's just uncommon, not absent. Li Ming understood the meaning of the words, but he would not express any further opinions. After all, this is the way people survive.

As they continue deeper into the underground world, they soon encounter a dozen workers toiling in a mushroom garden.

There are both men and women among these people. Like Xingmei, they all have silver-white hair, deep purple eyes, and unusually fair complexion.

It looks like an elf in this underground world.

Obviously, these people who work in the mushroom garden are familiar with Xingmei.

They greeted Xing Mei warmly. However, when their eyes turned to Li Ming and his party, their faces showed an extremely surprised look, as if they had seen something incredible.