Knights of the Wasteland Fortress

Chapter 47

That is "well".

In other words, a patio-like place.

The current location of Jiatu and the others was still hundreds of meters underground, similar to a "patio".

The lightning and rain above their heads were all hundreds of meters away from their heads. A bright spot the size of a pot lid appeared in the black sky, and a flash of light flashed from time to time, and that was the one that everyone used to look up at the sky. small window.

This is not "the ground".

It is the bottom of the "tiankeng" hundreds of meters deep.

Most of the people present have not realized this yet.

Everyone is immersed in the touch brought by the real lightning and rain——

Even if it was only a few hundred meters away, a small aperture less than a hundred meters wide was opened for them.

"Aren't you going?" Sun Simiao's voice suddenly came from behind.

Jiatu realized that besides himself, there was another "bystander" present.

So he thought, and turned to look at the invigilator behind him:

"Is there another test tomorrow? I don't think it's good to get wet."

"Are you worried about this..."

The young man with the hedgehog head looked at Jiatu and couldn't help being a little dumbfounded.

But when he came back to his senses, he still shook his head helplessly, and explained: "Both the cloak and the combat uniform are waterproof...but since you're not very interested, then don't force it."

Jiatu nodded, understanding what Sun Simiao meant.

Some things, the first impulse is the most important.

After the impulse was extinguished and he calmed down completely, he looked at the small skylight hundreds of meters away, and all he felt was deep frustration and despair.

"If you can't become a explorer, will you never see the ground..."

Jiatu breathed the cold and humid air, and felt fine slags of ice in it. These rainwater may still be icy snowflakes at a height of hundreds of meters, but as they penetrated into the ground, they were melted by the heat of the ground and turned into rainwater. ...

But when it snows, does it thunder?

Jiatu tilted his head in confusion, feeling strange about the world in front of him.

But he turned his attention away from the patio, taking advantage of the dark sunshine in the rainy day, and gradually saw their "examination room" clearly.

It was a "ruin" with an area of ​​about two football fields.

There is a very huge "stone tablet" tens of meters away from the exit of the tunnel they are in.

Jiatu didn't know how to describe the abrupt cliff.

It was like falling from a high altitude, smashing all the layers of urban structure, and finally falling to the white stone tablet at the bottom of the tiankeng.

It is more than 50 meters wide and hundreds of meters high, steep and vertical, almost straight up and down.

He compared it with the Dongzhu TV Tower or the CCTV Building in his memory, the height may exceed 400 meters.

It was shorter than the 600 meters he expected before, and it didn't go straight to the ground like he imagined.

The bottom of the tiankeng under the stele is full of large and small falling rocks and collapsed floors. The stele itself is broken into three pieces from top to bottom, with an average difference of more than 130 meters, and they are piled up randomly on the structural layer behind it. up, like some kind of dead giant.

These ruins are filled with I-shaped steel bars, large and small, like tombstones. The longest can be more than four meters long, and the width is generally more than ten centimeters.

These I-shaped steels are inserted densely at the bottom of the tiankeng like a forest of needles, and extend all the way to the stele, and gradually become sparse as the height of the stele rises.

When the height exceeds 300 meters, the number of steel bars gradually becomes almost zero.

The rainwater flowing down from the patio also passes through these dense I-shaped steel, flowing down like a group of waterfalls, converging in the center of the ruins and the steel forest, forming a light-colored pond of about 200 square meters.

You can even see green shrubs and light blue flower fields beside this pond.

"Do not forget me."

Noticing Jiatu's gaze, Sun Simiao suppressed the smile on his face, and said in a deep voice:

"But we prefer to call them 'Blue Dao'."

"A blue prayer..."

Jiatu nodded and praised, "It's really beautiful."

"Yeah, an unforgettable light blue."

Sun Simiao regained his smile, glanced at Jiatu with a smile, and said:

"Let's go too. The camp for the exam is across the tunnel. We have to brave the rain."

Jiatu nodded, and slid down the gentle slope in front of the tunnel with the young man with the hedgehog head.

The ramp in front of the tunnel seems to be gentle, but in fact it has an angle of more than 30 degrees, and the length is only more than 20 meters, making it appear very flat.

The field boots on Jiatu's feet were also specially made. Once he stepped on a stone, he could be firmly fixed on it, so that he didn't need much effort to slide to the bottom of the sinkhole.

The widest part of the entire tiankeng exceeded 100 meters, and the destination that Sun Simiao wanted to lead them to was an underground plaza on the opposite side of the tunnel, about ten meters away from the stele.

There is a height difference of more than one meter from the bottom of the tiankeng, which can isolate most of the rainwater, and the ground is very flat, most of the terrazzo ground is broken into a whole, and there is a protruding rain shelter above the head. The entire stela is also well observed.

The closer he got to the stele, the more Jiatu could feel its magnificence.

It doesn't look like it was made by manpower, but it suddenly appeared deep underground in this artificial city.

The candidates in the third round who recovered from the spring thunder and the rain also gradually realized the unparalleled sense of existence of the stele. Except for a small number of people who were attracted by the pond, the steel forest and the forget-me-not flower field, most of them Looking up at their next exam room full of apprehension.

Estimating how high it was—

And how long it will take me to reach its top and complete the third round of assessment.

"Okay, everyone is here, right? Let's simply report the number."

When Sun Simiao crossed the tiankeng, he greeted the trainees he met along the way and asked them to follow his footsteps.

When they arrived at the underground plaza, everyone was drenched in water.

Fortunately, the gray shadow suits are all waterproof, so except for a few unlucky ghosts who accidentally fell, most people are still clean.

After everyone finished counting, Sun Simiao nodded and said with some satisfaction:

"Everyone is here, and no one is left behind along the way. You have completed the initial stage of the third round of assessment fairly well."

Hearing Sun Simiao's praise, all the candidates had relaxed smiles on their faces.

However, seeing their relaxed expressions, Sun Simiao changed the subject, and his expression instantly became serious:
"But what's next is the point—"

"It's 60:[-] noon on weekends, and until midnight next Wednesday, you have almost [-] hours to take the exam."

"In other words, you have almost 'three nights' that you can use to find your own path to the summit."

"Once Wednesday's deadline is reached, all candidates who slipped from the stele or returned to the ground by themselves must give up the assessment and wait with me for everyone to fall to the ground or fail before returning to the refuge."

"Among those who returned together, are there no successful ones?"

Jiatu noticed that Hua Lun raised his hand in the middle of the crowd, and confirmed to Sun Simiao.

"No."

The young man with the hedgehog head nodded, and seemed very happy that he could ask this question: "There is another responder at the top of the stele. He will confirm that you have succeeded in attacking the top, and then take you away with another route."

Seeing that Hua Lun let go, Sun Simiao continued:
"Except for the time, there are basically no restrictions on the third round of exams, but some rules still need to be mentioned—"

"Number one, no peer-to-peer violence will be allowed."

Sun Simiao looked at everyone with a serious look: "This is the most basic. In the expedition team, any violence between companions must be resolved after returning to the refuge. Those who cannot abide by this point, I can do it now." Disqualify you - permanently."

Sun Simiao's words sent a chill down everyone's spine.

For the captain of the explorer with a threat level of 2.0 or higher, what he declared naturally has a very realistic effect.

"Second, don't leave the stele when climbing."

Sun Simiao saw that his warning had taken effect, his expression relaxed slightly, and he smiled again:
"Although sometimes, the fault layer behind the stele will be easier to climb, but in that case, it will not be useful for testing-so in principle, you are not allowed to use climbing points other than the stele, but if you want to If you want to give up the assessment, you can choose to leave from the stone tablet, and I will go to meet you."

Sun Simiao's statement seems redundant.

But Jiatu thought about it, and then realized that going up the mountain is easy and going down the mountain is difficult. When the candidates feel dangerous and want to give up, this rule becomes very important.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at the stele.

There were quite a few people who thought of it with him, and most of them lingered on the climbing points on both sides of the stele.

Seeing that everyone was attracted by his words, Sun Simiao nodded with some satisfaction, and continued:

"However, in addition to these two rules that must be followed, there is also a 2.5 rule, as a suggestion, not enforced—"

Attracted by Sun Simiao's strange words, Jiatu looked away, but the magic power of the stele combined with his physical exhaustion made his brain spin twice before he understood what Sun Simiao meant——

"That's when it's daytime, try not to climb."

"It's also best not to extend into the daytime when climbing."

Sun Simiao glanced over Jiatu vaguely:
"Otherwise I can't guarantee any 'accidents' will happen."

Sun Simiao's last "suggestion" made everyone frown.

If you can't climb during the day, the climbing point will become difficult to see clearly, which will increase the difficulty of climbing in disguise.

"Then, what about the power of the exterior horror brain?"

Jiatu noticed that behind the crowd, a somewhat familiar teenager raised his hand.

Jiatu froze for a moment before realizing that he was the gloomy boy next to Noah.

"Did he come too? No wonder, he failed in the second round of tests..."

"But his wrist is broken, right? Will it be cured so soon?"

Jiatu was thinking in confusion, but from his current perspective, he couldn't see the gloomy boy's body, he could only notice that his raised left hand was indeed intact.

"Before I set off, I informed you that each person can carry three spare batteries for Brainstorm, save a little, and it is enough for you to climb to the summit once."

Hearing the gloomy young man's question, Sun Simiao nodded indifferently.

He patted his backpack proudly, as if he had considered this issue:

"As for the power consumed during the summit attack, each person can come to my place to charge once a day."

Probably solar panels...

Jiatu looked at Sun Simiao's backpack, frowned and looked at the gloomy courtyard above his head, a little confused, what Sun Simiao was going to do in order to fully charge the brains of more than 20 of them.

This is not something that a few charging treasures can handle.

"Okay, if there are no other questions, you can start resting too."

Sun Simiao looked at his watch and said with a smile:

"From now until the sun goes down at 18 o'clock, you can still rest for six hours."

"If it continues to rain after waking up, then you can consider waiting for the rain to stop, or choose to climb in the rain-give you the gray shadow suit, which also includes this consideration."

He added at last.

After hearing Sun Simiao's reminder, Jiatu and the others realized that the rain brought them more than just joy and water—

It will also make the third round of testing difficult.

With worries and apprehensions in their hearts, everyone looked for their companions amidst Sun Simiao's "dismissal" sound, or seized a relatively quiet place, preparing to rest.

Jiato glanced at the crowd.

He didn't see the gloomy boy, but he did notice Warren and Hena.

Warren chose to meet up with his companions, and Hena chose to find a resting place, so when Jiatu and Warren met, Hena had already found a dry corner deep in the square.

There are obviously traces of other people's previous use here. It is far away from the position of the main force, but it is very convenient to observe the movement of the entire square. The most wonderful thing is that there is another place that was smashed out by a huge boulder less than four or five meters away from it. The floors are perforated, and the rainwater flows down from there, forming a clean pool on the ground.

Perhaps because the angle of the light is suitable enough, there is even a small piece of forget-me-not growing beside the pool.

"kettle."

Seeing the two of them approaching, the girl stretched out her hand without hesitation.

"I've filled it outside."

Warren waved his hand and pointed to the cluster of forget-me-nots on his head.

But Jiatu didn't think about it that much, and his attention was all on the stone tablet.

For some reason, he always felt that the huge stone wall hundreds of meters high gave him a very bad feeling.

"...How tall do you think the stele is?"

Jiatu subconsciously turned out the empty water bottle on his body, handed it to Hena, looked at the two of them and asked.

"More than 400 meters."

Warren stretched out a hand and made a "pistol" gesture: "I estimated it with the thumb measurement method, and the error will not exceed 50 meters."

"Shorter than expected."

Jiatu nodded, affirming Warren's statement: "If you think about it, you should be able to climb up in four hours. If I think about it, I can try almost twice in three days."

"Try twice and that's under the condition of complete climbing."

Warren shook his head and replied with a smile:
"On the first night, it's normal for some people to go up and down more than a dozen times. Let's just watch."

Warren cast his eyes on Jiatu:
"And I saw Noah, in his hands, there should be a correct climbing route."

(End of this chapter)