I take the earth to wander

In the barren land, gravediggers are using various tools to dig out the hard rock on the ground.

The downward tomb passage continues until it is 100 meters deep.

The gravedigger, who was holding a variety of iron digging tools, suddenly dug some kind of leather-like substance with his hoe.

The experienced old gravedigger immediately raised his hand to stop the other young people from moving.

Holding a flickering windproof lamp in his hand, he leaned over to observe it carefully, and finally confirmed it.

"We found it, we found food." The old gravedigger shouted excitedly.

"I found it, I found it, the tribe has a new food collection point, and we have something to eat." Immediately, all the gravediggers cheered.

In the distance, the lights of the city are indistinct.

The gravediggers crawled out of the deep pit, but they didn't move towards the city.

The city is the residence of the great people, they are just tribal people in the wilderness, and they are not qualified to live in the city.

They followed the familiar road and walked in the direction of the tribe in the dark.

The temperature transmitted from the earth makes this dark world not cold.

With only a few windbreak lamps, they quickly returned to the small tribe.

Soon, the whole tribe cheered.

Gathering food is not easy. In theory, there is food everywhere under the rock formations of this land.

But the rock formations are not so easy to dig, and even encounter hard rock formations that cannot be dug from time to time. When encountering them, they can only avoid them and dig again.

In the midst of re-excavation and disappointment again and again, the elderly and children in the tribe can only endure hunger, because the only remaining food must be given priority to the gravediggers.

Only when the gravediggers have food and can save their strength for the next dig, can the whole tribe have hope.

And now, they finally found another place where they could collect food. With food, the children would not have to starve to death, and they could even go to the city to exchange for some salt and even a few more windproof lamps.

So, the people in the tribe set up a bonfire in the eternal night, singing and dancing around the bonfire.

In the cauldron on the bonfire, the rocks that were collected from the ground just now were being stewed.

The so-called eating rocks are rocks that can be eaten.

This kind of rock is buried deep in the ground. Although it is extremely hard to touch, it is more like a leather feel.

It must be boiled in the pot for a long time before it can be barely bitten and digested after eating.

If you are very hungry and swallow it without waiting for it to be cooked, or if it is half-cooked, you will end up eating it and pulling it out.

So if you want to eat rocks, you must be patient.

The tribesmen, however, were patient. They sang and danced, and laughed all night. Knowing that the rocks cooked in the pot gave off a strange fragrance, they began to distribute the cooked food under the orders of the tribe elders.

Afterwards, everyone took small bites of food while listening to the old stories told by the elders.

The world is actually a huge fish, and what we eat is the flesh of the fish.

What children should be obedient and not noisy.

This huge fish will be woken up because of the noise of the children.

And once the huge fish wakes up and finds us eating his meat again, it will get angry and kill everyone.

There is something else, our ancestors used to live in a world with huge torches in the sky. Later, because they disobeyed the gods, they were punished by the gods, and they left that beautiful world and came to this eternally dark world. international.

At this time, some children would ask the elder what the huge torch burning in the sky looked like.

The elder hesitated for a long time, and he could only talk nonsense.

Because they have never seen what it would look like with a huge torch burning in the sky.

"Well, it means that the whole world is bright. Everyone doesn't need to light a bonfire or light a lamp. They can see everything around them, and there is no dark place." The elder described it in this way. The description heard from the elders.

"Everywhere is bright? Is it also bright when you sleep? Then you can sleep peacefully at any time."

"Yeah, yeah, sleeping in a bright place, you don't have to worry about wild animals, it's comfortable."

The children started discussing with one glance at me.

"But if you don't light a bonfire, how do you cook food? Do you take the food to the sky to cook?" Another child asked.

"Fool, you can naturally light a bonfire when cooking, and at that time the torch is not always in the sky, and it will go out from time to time." The elder explained with a smile and rubbed the child's head.

"It's still going out? Is someone in charge of lighting the bonfire, is it extinguishing the bonfire?" The children looked at the elder with blinking eyes.

"Yes, maybe our ancestors were exiled here because they offended the god who lit the bonfire." The elder thought for a while, but he didn't know how to explain it to the children, because he didn't know, and finally He had to sigh and said.

At this moment, a child suddenly pointed to the starry sky and said in surprise.

"Grandpa Elder, look there, it seems that there are stars flying past."

"Silly boy, that's called a shooting star."

"Meteor? What's that?"

"It's a kind of star that can fly. I heard that meteors were quite common when we were in that world where torches were burning in the sky. I don't know why meteors are very rare after being relocated to a huge fish. The stars in the sky seem to be getting farther and farther.”

The elder was puzzled.

And when the elder was puzzled, there was something in the sky that the tribesmen couldn't see.

It is also where the big shots in the city can't see.

A space transition channel was formed, and the Skylark jumped out of it.

Lin Xu in the cockpit directly saw the gigantic goldfish-like creature floating in space that was as big as a planet and rounded like a ball.

The creature's body was covered with hard rocks, and it looked like meteorites in the universe were constantly impacting on its body, forming a layer of rock shell that completely covered the creature's body surface.

Lin Xu could only vaguely judge from some exposed parts of the giant goldfish that it was a huge goldfish with a deep red body.

"Is this, a fish?" Nan Zhu lay curiously on the porthole and looked at the strange creature.

"Is he dead?" Lu Yao also seldom followed by lying on the porthole and looking around.

"The giant creature ahead has no breath of life." Zhen Xing reported the test results.

"It seems that he is really dead, how long has he been dead?" Lu Yao followed up and asked.

"The autopsy report has not yet been generated, and a close inspection is needed." Zhen Xing replied.

"Wait, why does this fish seem to have lights?" Nan Zhu saw with sharp eyes that there was a faint but real light on the side of the spherical fish near the back.

It looks like a little light in the universe, but in fact, it should be at least as bright as a big city, so it can be observed in the universe.

"The detection data shows that there are still intelligent life on the surface of the giant organism ahead." Zhen Xing replied.

"Intelligent life? Do they regard this fish as their mother planet?" Lu Yao's face was incredulous. Since she wandered the universe with Lin Xu, she has seen a lot, but she has never seen it before. this.

"Let's go, go and have a look." Lin Xu also became curious.

So the Skylark began to accelerate towards the surface of the giant goldfish ahead.

As the distance approached, this planet-sized goldfish felt more and more oppressive.

Lin Xu suddenly remembered an internet map he had seen in the 21st century.

On that net picture is a huge fish approaching the earth from the universe, and the earth looks as small as a mouthful of food in the fish's mouth.

Someone asked how long it would take humans to rebel against the fish.

Someone answered below, it doesn't matter, I will shoot.

Looking at the red goldfish in front of him now, it looks a bit like the fish in the net picture.

It's just that this one is dead, and its size is not that huge, it's just comparable to the earth.

Soon, the Skylark entered the thin atmosphere formed on the surface of the red goldfish over a long period of time.

After the distance is close enough, you can no longer see the whole picture of the giant goldfish, but you don't feel so oppressive anymore, as if what landed now is just an ordinary planet.

"Does it even have an atmosphere? How long has this goldfish been dead?" Nan Zhu said with emotion.

"The autopsy report was sent back, and the time of death was 10,000 years ago." Zhen Xing replied.

"Ten thousand years ago? Wasn't that the time when humans came here?" Lu Yao said in a daze.

"Ten thousand years ago, this fish probably wasn't created by humans." Lin Xu asked.

"Analysis of genetic samples is not made by humans." Zhen Xing replied.

"So, is it the work of the dimensionality reduction civilization?" Lin Xu continued to ask.

"Insufficient information, unable to confirm." Zhen Xing replied.

Soon, the Skylark arrived at the place where the lights had just been seen in space.

As the distance approached, I finally gradually saw clearly, this big city built on the body of a fish.

The whole city is brightly lit, with neon lights flickering, and around the city, you can even see industrial areas constantly spewing black smoke.

"A big industrialized city, it's just that the development is a bit deformed." Lin Xu stood in front of the porthole, looking at the city with sufficient electricity below, and looking at the entire dark land in the distance.

On the surface of this planet-sized fish, with such a huge area, Lin Xu and others can only see such a big city at present, and the rest of the place is completely dark.

According to the report sent back by Zhen Xing, it is not that no one is living in the darkness, but the living environment is completely different from that in the city.

"Are they the original race here?" Lu Yao looked at the city below in doubt.

"It's not like, if it is a native race that can develop to this level of electrification, it is impossible to have such a city, such a deformed civilization, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a colony. It's just, colonizing on a fish corpse? And I didn't see the existence of the colony spaceship." Lin Xu shook his head and said.

"Did something happen to them and they were trapped here?" Nan Zhu thought for a while and said.

"If it's really a colony, they should also come from our target river system this time, and maybe they have some understanding of that dimension-reducing civilization." Lu Yao tilted her head and thought for a while.

"That's right, so this is a good opportunity to learn about the dimensionality reduction civilization in advance." Nan Zhu also nodded in agreement.

A moment later, the Skylark continued to hover above the city, the optical camouflage on its body was turned on, and the entire city could not find the existence of the Skylark.

At the same time, a large number of self-disciplined mechanical aggregates were also scattered all over the world without the people in the city knowing it. They began to drill holes and collect various tissues and organs from the giant red goldfish for more detailed analysis.

Lin Xu is now worried that if this red goldfish is really the handiwork of a dimension-reducing civilization, then they must have made more than one.

Maybe the river system in front of him is like a real big river, full of these red goldfish.

Maybe there are even bigger fish, monsters that can really swallow the earth like a mouthful of fish food.

After all, it used to be a high-dimensional civilization. Even if the dimension is reduced now, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Lin Xu will never underestimate the other party's civilization.

Walking on the bustling street, Nan Zhu looked at everything around him curiously.

But what makes her most curious is that there is no concept of day and night here, what time do people here go to sleep?

"The lights here are turned on 24 hours a day, right?" Nan Zhu said suddenly, looking at the street lights beside him.

"Yes, there is no sun to illuminate them here, and the light is their only source of light." Lin Xu nodded.

"How did those people living in the wild survive?" Nan Zhu was incredulous.

"It can only be said that life can always create miracles." Lin Xu was also full of emotion.

"However, how do you maintain the temperature here without sunlight? It can't be heated 24 hours a day, right? Although the underground is indeed quite warm." Lu Yao said, stomping the ground with her foot.

"The planet's geothermal heat, no, it's the residual temperature of fish corpses. They can't afford the fuel for floor heating, and they can't maintain a planet." Lin Xu shook his head and said.

"The residual temperature of a fish carcass can last for 10,000 years." Lu Yao clicked her tongue with emotion.

"Yes, and according to Zhenxing's report, the staple food of the people on their planet is fish carcasses. There is no sunlight on this planet, and there are very few types of plants that can grow. They all rely on digging down. Let me eat the meat of a fish that has been dead for 10,000 years." Looking at the latest report from Zhen Xing, Lin Xu could only sigh with emotion that life is indeed diverse.

"The fish that died 10,000 years ago is not zombie meat, it must be stone meat." Nan Zhu just thought about it, and felt extremely disgusted.

"The locals call this kind of food food rocks, which means edible rocks dug out." Lin Xu continued.

Discussing how people survive on this planet, no, on this fish corpse.

On the street ahead, there were bursts of shouts suddenly.

A large number of people were attracted by the sound and went to watch, and then bursts of cheers came.

Lin Xu and the others looked at each other curiously, so they also went to watch.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they walked over, a few people dressed up by students stuffed a small flag in each of their hands.

Lin Xu looked at the words written on the flag, this time it was not Chinese.

Lin Xu speculated that it might be the language related to that dimensionality reduction race, or it might be the native language of this civilization.

However, regarding the text and language of this civilization, Zhenxing has collected dialogue data, analyzed it, and transmitted it to Lin Xu's brain through nano-robots, so Lin Xu can now understand the text.

The meaning written above translates to "We want light, not darkness."

"Return to the arena of gods and demons, and fight for civilization."

"Our civilization should not have sunk like this."

At the same time, on the high platform not far away, there were still people speaking loudly.

"Compatriots, we have escaped for too long, it is time to return to the arena of gods and demons and take back our honor."

"Our civilization has escaped for too long, and we cannot continue to escape."

"When we first came here, we still had the technology of space travel, but now, we can't even launch satellites."

"Without the sun, without the sun, we are like a group of trapped animals. We can only linger here. We must return to the river system and be under the light of the stars again. Only in this way is the only way to save civilization."

"Some people say that if you bask in the sun, you must participate in the arena of gods and demons, but so what, if this is the rule of the gods, if this is the price of basking in the sun, we are willing to pay, it is better than a little bit here rot."

Following the speech of the person on the high platform, there was a round of applause without saying a word.

In the end, there was even louder cheers.

Yep, they've had enough here.

Enough of this forever dark sky.

They also want to see with their own eyes, the blue sky, the flowers and the big trees that they have only seen in the film and television materials.

Everything that can only be enjoyed when bathed in the sun.

They want to return to the arena of gods and demons.

Even if it is a desperate civilization to perish, it is better than continuing to linger on like this.

However, before the people on the high platform finished their speeches, there were already teams of military police running in the distance.

The students gathered immediately, trying to block the armed men so that the speaker could escape.

It's a pity that not only the speaker didn't run away, but even the students were beaten up and arrested one by one.

Amidst the noise and chaos, the crowd of onlookers had already run away without a trace.

Lin Xu took Ms. Qiu, Mu Xiyue, Nan Zhu and Lu Yao, and stood on the side of the road eating melons and watching the excitement.

The crowd coming and going passed by several people several times, but they ignored their existence as if they hadn't seen them.

It was the nano-robots that affected their sensory judgment and made them ignore a few people.

Until the military police took away all the arrested people, leaving only a mess on the street.

"The arena of gods and demons? The price of bathing in the sun?" Lin Xu muttered the few words he just heard, his eyes thoughtful.

"Is there a price to pay for bathing in the sun? Isn't it enough to just find a galaxy with stars?" Nan Zhu was puzzled.

"They said that this is the rule of the gods. Could it be the rule set by the dimensionality reduction civilization?" Lu Yao guessed.

"The only one who can be called a god in this river system is the dimension-reducing civilization! But what exactly is the arena of gods and demons?" Nan Zhu was still puzzled.

"Okay, don't make wild guesses. Since even the students know, it shouldn't be difficult to investigate." Lin Xu reminded.

"That's right, but who should we ask? Wait a minute, I seem to have found it." Nan Zhu stretched out his hand and pointed to the screen that was playing on the big screen in front of him.

Lin Xu and Lu Yao were also looking at that scene.

What I saw on the screen was exactly the screen of a movie.

It seems to be a movie made a long time ago, when this civilization was still bathed in sunlight.

On the film, two different races are fighting hard on a piece of land.

Those two races looked like they came from two planets with completely different environments.

One race appeared to be upright arthropods, covered in shells, and the other was clearly modeled after the civilization itself.

And the most important thing is that above the stage where the two races are fighting, in the background of the starry sky, there is also a huge, living red goldfish as the background.

The goldfish stared at two eyes as huge as planets, with an incomparably terrifying coercion, even through the screen, people could feel as if they were actually there.

It seemed that the two races that were fighting below were going to be swallowed in one gulp in the next moment.

Finally, this civilization won the battle, and the race represented by the arthropod failed.

Then, the gods in the sky who had been watching the battle bestowed blessings on the victors.

The gods were delighted with their performance.

The movie ends here.

The movie should be just a fiction, but many things conveyed in it made Lin Xu frown constantly.

"This god is the civilization that has reduced the dimension." Nan Zhu said with certainty, his tone was very unhappy.

"They really treat the civilization of the low-dimensional universe as a toy, right?" Lu Yao also felt very upset.

"I'm afraid they forgot that they are also a member of the low-dimensional universe now, and they have been aloof for too long." An electric arc flashed between Mu Xiyue's fingers, and she felt like she was about to hit the Lingxiao Palace in the next moment.

"What is their purpose for doing this? They fell from high-dimensional, don't they want to return to high-dimensional? Do these things, are they willing to degenerate?" Lin Xu was puzzled.

"Who knows, maybe it's just that the gap is too big, it's sluggish, and it's abolished?" Nan Zhu thought about it, and it was terrible.

"Forget it, don't think about it. It seems that this civilization may also know that it is begging for a living on a fish. It just doesn't know what the high-level people of this civilization think. Let's go, let's go and ask directly." Lin Xu decided.

Since you want to investigate everything in this world and learn more about the dimensionality reduction civilization, it is easier and more convenient to ask the higher-ups directly!

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