Chapter 669 Earth? Earth!
After Timitite learned that all the villagers of Nami Village had entered a special space opened up in Etarga's body, he realized that they were not dead and sighed: "Follow everyone to go on an adventure? What a wonderful result!"
Afterwards, Timitite led the group to the ladder where Nami Village was located.
It is located near the mountain wall behind the original Nami Village.
There is a natural cave here. After walking into it and forward for nearly two hundred meters, a square device similar to an elevator appears in front of you.
Looking at its material, it is dark red.
Behind this device is a straight, bright red pillar with a slot about five meters in diameter on the top, which seems to be used to hold hematite.
Timitite knocked on the left wall, followed the sound, found the secret door, and asked Dugu Bo to help push it open. The inside was filled with purified hematite, which was crystal clear and bright red.
"Is this accumulated by the explorers who went down from Nami Village in the past?" Romantina asked.
"No."
Timitite shook his head. "Nami Village is too far from the center, so few explorers come to this area near the edge. The original villagers of Nami Village exchanged the red iron from the mutant villagers of other villages. After all, the village chief Hope also thought that there would be foreign explorers coming, so he planned to prepare a pile of red iron in advance in case of emergency... But over the years, except for seven or eight explorers who came here, the red iron here has never increased, or it has rarely been visited."
However, Nami Village had already disappeared at this time, and the red iron was useless, so it became theirs.
But Zhou Qing did not take it all away. He only took one third of it, preparing to take it back for Tang San to study. The rest was left where it was, pending the establishment of a corresponding base on this floor in the future.
Afterwards, Zhou Qing asked: "Timiti, how much red iron do we need to put into the slot above the ladder?"
"One thousand pounds will do."
Timitite said.
"I go!"
Romantina's eyes widened. "Then the explorers will have to mine for three years? Hope gives us a preferential price, but we still want 300 tons... What a profiteer!"
Timitite was also a little embarrassed, but still explained: "Maybe it's because the villagers can't go out to mine, so the value of hematite is higher in Hope's mind."
"Scarcity makes things valuable, and what matters is still the psychological price." After Zhou Qing complained, he stopped Romantina from complaining and asked her to help him move the hematite.
When the hematite was placed into the slot above the ladder, golden lines began to appear on the surface of the red pillar, melting and absorbing the hematite in the slot.
"It's really amazing!"
The first time Dugu Bo saw a pillar that could "eat iron", he was amazed.
But Zhou Qing understood that the principle behind this was probably not much different from the way a soul-guided mutant replenished the defective parts of the body by swallowing gold and iron.
But why doesn't the recorder have this function?
Otherwise, the recorder wouldn't be so rusty.
"In fact, I also have a similar function, but the soul guide core array of the corresponding function is damaged, so it cannot repair itself. It can only oxidize over time like an ordinary object." Seeing Zhou Qing's confusion, the recorder began to explain.
"Oxidation?"
Hearing this term, Zhou Qing was stunned——
He had always doubted the origin of the Abyss Ruins and the origin of the humans on Douluo Continent...
Now I know a modern scientific term from the recorder, not the legend of Abyss Town, or the localized chemistry of Abyss Town...
His mind was slightly disturbed. "It is the process of decay of things."
After the recorder finished speaking, he gave an example that everyone present could understand, "For example, when iron rusts, it is an oxidation process."
Zhou Qing was silent for a while, then asked quietly, "Has this abyss ruin existed for more than 20,000 years?"
"Because I damaged it, I lost a lot of information, but I can be sure that the Abyss Ruins have existed for more than 100,000 years."
The recorder revealed a big secret, "The Abyss people migrated back here 20,000 years ago. Although the accounts of the explorers who explored the fifth layer at that time were not exactly the same, after my analysis, the contents revealed were consistent: the purpose of the Abyss people was to preserve the flame of civilization."
These words mainly revealed two useful pieces of information.
First, the Abyss people should be the people who were unwilling to obey the orders of the first generation of angel gods 20,000 years ago and abolished their own writing and language.
For this reason, the town of Abyss has preserved many myths and legends left over from ancient times.
Second, the recorder said "migration back" -
"Could it be that this abyss ruins is the hometown of mankind when it was first born?" Zhou Qing couldn't help but ask.
"The information is lost and cannot be answered." The recorder could not give Zhou Qing an answer.
"So, do you still remember the name that humans used a hundred thousand years ago to call Douluo Continent? What's the name?" Zhou Qing asked in a different way, and his heart beat three times faster.
"One hundred thousand years ago, humans had a variety of languages, and the name for the world was not Douluo Continent, but——"
The recorder spoke two words that struck Zhou Qing directly in the heart, "Earth."
【WTF!!!】
Zhou Qing's head was buzzing. He couldn't believe it. The so-called Douluo Continent was actually the Earth! ?
[But one thing is certain, it is definitely not the one from my previous life. ]
"Earth?"
Dugu Bo even thought that the recorder was talking nonsense. "We are standing on flat ground, how could it be a ball? Didn't that person fall down?"
On the contrary, Romantina could accept it, but her reason was: "The sun is round, the moon is round, and the stars are round, so the Douluo Continent we live in is a sphere. It doesn't seem difficult to accept. Besides, they are all spheres, isn't that a very romantic thing?"
Dugu Bo snorted, "The moon also has its crescent phases."
Rico said, "In fact, the moon is always round. Abo also observes the stars and believes that the moon appears crescent because the ground beneath our feet is also moving in the void, blocking the sunlight. Therefore, the image of the moon in the night sky changes periodically. In essence, part of the light and shadow is blocked."
[Abai, this guy is really talented. He even studies astronomy. I must find a way to bring him to my side.]
Having made up his mind, Zhou Qing interrupted the speculations of several people about the world being round and the earth being square, and the egg being round. He clapped his hands and said, "Okay, to prove whether the world we live in is round or square, we can find time to keep moving forward in one direction and see if we can return to the starting point. Then we will know. Now let's go to the next level."
So, Zhou Qing, Dugu Bo, Romantina, Rico, Bunny Girl, Etarga, and Timidite entered the ladder together.
But the recorder was left outside.
It is my duty to record the changes in the environment, biology, and civilization on the fifth layer, and I cannot follow everyone else.
(End of this chapter)
