Trickster Hunter

Chapter 198 Yuanchu Underground Palace

The mobile cabin suddenly began to accelerate, and the number on the holographic screen used to indicate the moving speed increased from zero to sixty before it stabilized. Thanks to the excellent buffer design inside the cabin, Sun Hang could not feel any shaking at all during this vertical descent.

Even the bottle of Coke he just took out of the refrigerator, the liquid inside remained in a very stable state.

"That 'Mr. Pei'... does he live underground? In that... Houtu layer?" Sun Hang asked.

With the current momentum, it is obviously heading straight for the "Houtu" layer below the ground.

"No, deeper than Houtu... Mr. Pei's residence is located 16 kilometers underground. We call it the 'Yuanchu Underground Palace'." The accompanying staff replied.

Yuanchu Underground Palace? Sun Hang always felt that this name seemed to have a slight connection with the original primary weirdness, but he knew very well that even if he asked, the other party would either not answer, or with the authority level of this accompanying staff, he could not access that level of secrets at all.

"Oh my goodness, sixteen kilometers... This is almost reaching the mantle, right?" Sun Hang chose to avoid the main point.

For questions involving the original primary strange things, it is better to ask the boss directly instead of asking the little Karami who leads the way.

"Chunming City is located at the intersection of the northern plate of Xiazhou, the Taihang Mountain fold belt, the Yanshan fold belt and the Ji-Liao fault basin. The thickness of the crust is more than thirty kilometers... In fact, the Yuanchu Underground Palace is not the deepest place in the Tianshu Tower. The No. 9 test well, which started construction half a year ago, is expected to reach a depth of twenty-five kilometers and will be used specifically to accommodate some special strange things." Before the entourage spoke, a virtual girl image appeared on the holographic screen in front of Sun Hang, answering Sun Hang's questions very enthusiastically.

"AI?"

"Yes, I am the management AI No. 90026 of the Tianshu Tower. I am happy to serve you." The girl said.

Sun Hang was still thinking that the voice of this AI was a little familiar at first, and he was stunned for a while before he realized that this was the female voice that Sun Hang mistakenly thought was a real person at the entrance of the jade pillar.

Sixteen kilometers deep is exactly sixteen minutes for a mobile cabin that travels at a speed of sixty kilometers per hour. Sun Hang just ate the last Oreo in the box, and the mobile cabin stopped in a stone chamber made entirely of dark black rocks.

These dark black rocks have streamlined orange-red lines, which emit light that is sometimes strong and sometimes weak, just like breathing, as if there is magma flowing inside the stone. But when Sun Hang walked out of the mobile cabin, he found that the temperature in the stone chamber was the same as the mobile cabin equipped with air conditioning, maintaining the most comfortable 24 degrees Celsius for the human body.

"Welcome to the Yuanchu Underground Palace." The holographic image of the AI ​​girl did not disappear as Sun Hang left the mobile cabin, but moved to the inside of the stone chamber and floated beside Sun Hang.

"I thought it would be very hot underground." Sun Hang said casually.

"Based on the sea level, the current depth is 15,975 meters, and the normal temperature here should be around 270 degrees Celsius." The AI ​​girl replied.

"Two hundred and seventy degrees?" Sun Hang looked up at the dome of the stone chamber, which was more than twenty meters high. "To maintain this temperature, the energy consumption for cooling every day is enough to supply the electricity for a standard-sized block in Tianfu City for the whole summer, right?"

"There is no high-power cooling equipment installed here. The ability to maintain a constant temperature is entirely due to these stone bricks." The AI ​​girl said.

"Stone bricks?" Sun Hang squatted down and gently stroked a winding orange-red pattern at his feet. Indistinctly, he seemed to feel a hint of the breath of the weird meme inside the stone bricks.

"These stones...are they monsters?"

"To be precise, they are man-made monsters." The AI ​​girl circled around Sun Hang, "These bricks come from the Geng 59 monster 'Origin Temple'. After artificial meme editing, they were made into the construction materials of the Yuanchu Underground Palace, which is also the origin of the name of the Yuanchu Underground Palace."

"Origin Temple? Is it an original primary environmental monster? But shouldn't the serial number of the original primary monster be zero? What's the matter with this Geng 59?" Sun Hang asked in confusion.

"'Origin Temple' is not an original primary monster, it is just an underground cave in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Based on the meme traces left in the cave, experts believe that a certain original primary monster was born in this cave, or a certain original primary monster used this cave as a nest for a long time, so that the cave itself was also infected by the meme and became a Geng-type monster." The AI ​​girl explained to Sun Hang in great detail.

"So, the geothermal heat was absorbed by these stones?"

"The standard name of these stones is 1092 'Energy Concentrating Rock (A)', and the suffix A is the abbreviation of 'artificial'." The AI ​​girl said, while writing this English word out of thin air in front of Sun Hang with her fingers, "All 'artificial weird things' have this A suffix."

The Xiazhou Federation rarely uses English letter numbers or abbreviations... Obviously, this A suffix is ​​an "imported product", that is, the first person or organization in the world to start studying artificial weird things, or to propose this concept, is likely to come from an English-speaking country.

"Energy-gathering rocks can absorb geothermal energy, store it, and release it under certain conditions." The AI ​​girl said, "The original purpose of the construction of the Yuanchu Underground Palace was to use this man-made weirdness. Every six months, the energy-gathering rocks in the underground palace will be replaced. The energy-gathering rocks that are full of energy will be sent to where they are needed, and new energy-gathering rocks will fill their vacancies."

"It sounds quite environmentally friendly." Sun Hang nodded, "Then what will these energy-absorbing stones be used for? As power banks?"

"The energy release process of energy-gathering rocks is very violent, and they are generally used as weapons such as bombs." The AI ​​girl said, "Of course, there are also a few equipment equipped with special power furnaces that can withstand the energy of energy-gathering rocks."

"For example?"

"Garuda." Yang Qi answered Sun Hang's question on behalf of the AI ​​girl, "That thing is driven by energy-gathering rocks."

"Amazing." Sun Hang exclaimed from the bottom of his heart.

The four of them walked through a corridor also made of energy-gathering rocks and entered a brightly lit hall. A burly figure like an iron tower sat up from the corner of the hall and walked towards Sun Hang with a stern face.

Sun Hang recognized this man. He was the first-level hunter "Iron Wall" who served as Professor Li's personal bodyguard at the Baqu City Combat Conference.