Chapter 1988 Underground River

In the multiverse, there are many ways to achieve immortality. Although it is difficult for ordinary people to do so, if you exhaust all your abilities to look for it, it is not particularly difficult to find.

For example, mages would prepare longevity potions, use alchemy to clone new bodies and transfer their consciousness to them, or simply transform themselves into liches.

But no matter what method is used, it can only achieve longevity, but it cannot achieve eternal youth or immortality.

In the multiverse, the only one who can be truly immortal is God.

If you seek ultimate immortality, following a powerful god is actually the best choice.

If you are pious enough and useful enough, you will be taken into the divine realm by the gods after your death and reborn as a petitioner. At this time, your life span is bound to that of the gods. As long as the gods do not die, you will not die.

Although there are disadvantages to doing so, such as the fact that the petitioner will gradually merge with the god over a long period of time and become a part of the god’s power, it is true that immortality is achieved no matter what.

This is what the predecessor of the Glowing Ion Yin Order, the Cult of Genesis, thought.

But if you want to enter the realm of God, the prerequisite is that there must be a God and you must be pious enough.

Therefore, as one of the branches, the Glowing Ion Yin Order compiled and revised a large number of doctrines and scriptures, and assigned a large amount of power to the gods that had not yet appeared.

If you tell a lie a thousand times, you will start to believe it. At first, it was just a simple fear of death, but as time went on, this group of people gradually forgot their original purpose and gradually transformed into a pure religious organization.

This is a kind of self-hypnosis and also a kind of self-domestication.

Thus, the Glowing Ion Yin Society became what it is today.

Li Chengxi couldn’t say whether their choice was right or not, but at least the Glow Ion Yin Society seemed to get along well with fellow believers like Zora, and that was enough.

Then Li Chengxi turned his head and looked at Alyssa.

It was around eight in the morning when Li Chengxi came online, and Alyssa had just gotten up. Judging from everyone’s expressions, most people were not used to sleeping in the wild.

This is not surprising. After all, no one would have thought that while working on a warship, one day they would need to camp in the wild.

Alyssa was no longer surprised by this. When she was a child, she followed her grandfather to explore the ruins of the ancient elves. It was normal for her to live in the wild for a month or two. This was just the beginning.

They packed up, ate some convenience food, then opened the door and set off again.

The next high-energy reaction site was still far away, and Alyssa was not sure whether she could reach the vicinity today.

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For those who are back on the road, the only good news at the moment is that there are no forks in the road, so there is no need to worry about which direction to go.

Leaving the tea room where they set up camp and walking out of the door on the other side, everyone soon saw some small cars that were probably originally used for commuting.

However, after trying, we found that these vehicles were seriously damaged. Unless Fang Lanyin was here, and it would take time to repair them before they could be driven, we had better just use our legs.

After moving forward for about half an hour, Alyssa judged from the map that they had probably left the scope of the mine. At this time, everyone could clearly feel the temperature rising, as if there was a considerable heat source ahead.

Within a few minutes, sweat began to appear on everyone’s forehead, and the thermometer on the protective clothing showed that the temperature had reached over 30 degrees.

There are temperature control devices in the planetary fortress. Generally speaking, the temperature in most places where people pass by is around 15~20°. This abnormally high temperature is definitely not normal. It is probably caused by some equipment failure. After walking a little further, orange and bright red lights began to appear in the darkness ahead. The temperature also became unbearable. Everyone had to close their masks and rely on protective clothing to isolate the temperature.

Sista became even more uneasy. For this two-headed sea snake that has lived in water for a long time, high temperature is the environment it dislikes the most.

Walking out of the tunnel dug out of the rock, what comes into view is a sticky fluid. It is hard to tell whether it is lava or molten iron. It is stacked layer by layer in the field of vision, emitting terrible heat.

Alyssa pulled up the map and took a look. Now she knew why there was a malfunction in the forging workshop.

Judging from the map, Alyssa and the others are now located right below the forging workshop. It is estimated that there is a problem with the melting and heating equipment. The crucible that should have been heated is not hot, but instead burns through the structure below.

If you want to repair it, you need to completely cut off the power supply and conduct a thorough inspection after it cools down, but you definitely don’t have the time to do that now.

Alyssa looked around and saw that the molten iron completely blocked the way forward. Or rather, the road forward was melted into molten iron by the high temperature and flowed along the ditch under the supporting structure to an unknown place.

Fortunately, there is strength in numbers. After looking around with flashlights, everyone found an entrance to a maintenance passage in the depression on the left.

According to what was shown on the map, they should be able to go around it, at least so that Alyssa and the others wouldn’t have to return the same way.

The maintenance passage was similar to an underground pipe gallery, filled with all kinds of pipelines, and the road was of course extremely narrow, forcing everyone inside to move forward in a long snake formation.

Gradually, the high temperature began to decrease. Everyone should have moved away from the place where the melting equipment had problems. They poured a few bottles of water on Sista, and it became happy.

Since it is a maintenance passage, it is mainly responsible for the maintenance of the mine and surrounding facilities, so taking this road will lead you back around the mine.

After walking for a while, the surrounding passages became like they were dug out of the rocks, making Alyssa feel like a mole staying in a hole in the ground.

When the temperature returned to normal, everyone opened their masks. At this time, they heard the rumbling sound of water and appeared on the other side of the maintenance passage.

Lieutenant Dui, who was walking in the front, opened the heavy isolation door with some difficulty, and everyone walked out of the maintenance passage.

They walked out of a narrow crack in the rock and found a raging underground river surging into the darkness. The sound of water they had just heard came from here.

It is estimated that the river was formed by a broken water pipe where everyone came down.

There is a corridor coming out of the maintenance passage, but the water is rushing along the corridor. The water depth is much higher than before when it only covered the calves, and the water flow rate is also faster. It is probably not a good idea to move forward along the corridor.

The sound of rushing water echoed throughout the space, and the surrounding walls were cold and slippery.

Alyssa twisted the aperture of the light on her chest to make it more focused and shine a little further.

Everyone saw that the corridor narrowed in front, and there was something like a stone arch bridge spanning the dark and raging river.

This was definitely not built by the people of the Glowing Ion Yin Society. If it were them, it would be better to just repair the water pipes instead of building an arch bridge.

Although no living person has been seen since leaving the castle, there are traces of human activities everywhere after the disappearance of the Glow Ion Yin Society.

The crowd now had no choice but to wade through the water towards the stone bridge.

(End of this chapter)