Chapter 1009 The Unreal Village

The situation is really strange. We originally came here to unlock the secret of the Green Star. This should be the legacy of the old empire tens of thousands of years ago. It is a high-tech planet battleship. Well, at least it is a planet fortress. I think I will meet some high-level people here. Layers of encrypted databases, criss-crossing starship bridges, or automatic defense robots armed to the heel, and even a few waves of dormant ancient guardians can pop out, and then I lead this group of girls with sky-breaking combat capabilities to kill them all the way. Go in and sort out some old accounts in the Star Core database - this is the normal development model.

But the final situation is this: we did pass through two starship bridges, and encountered a high-tech building complex, but what we finally came to was a low-gravity "satellite" floating in the center of the earth (I can only After naming it like this, how to call this small planet sealed in the core of the earth is a problem. It is not appropriate to call it a small green ball. So Tavel proposed to call it a "geocentric satellite". Who said that satellites can only be called "small green balls"? Orbiting the planet? Isn’t it the same as stuffing it into the planet and packing it away?) This low-gravity satellite is lush and green. Under the protection of an old-fashioned shield system, it resists the surrounding earth’s core environment of thousands of degrees. There are countless huge and huge The plants grow like crazy in the fairy tale world, but ninety-nine percent of them are mass projections that can be broken into pieces. The only solid thing on the ground is the vines that seem to wrap around the entire earth's core satellite. Well, in addition We also met a little girl who was a mess and had some intellectual problems according to visual inspection. This kind of child might not be able to be elected as a class cadre even if she was thrown into the temple of the goddess of life for three years...

"It's rude for you to think so." My sister reminded me seriously. I maintain a spiritual link with her. During the chat, he started to complain about this elf-like little girl, and then he was really educated.

"Although she is indeed not very smart - I should say she is too naive." My sister quickly continued the second half of the sentence.

The little girl who tried to fight off the intruders with a toy bow and arrow fell and injured her knee. It was strange. She was a mass projection, and the clump of plants she fell on was also a mass projection. It stands to reason that a normal projection-generating device would not be possible. The two mass projections were damaged during the collision, but what happened was that she injured her knee and it looked quite painful. This made Sandora curious: the projection generation facility here has too many unnecessary functions attached to make the environment here as real and credible as possible. The high-quality projection technology used by Xiling Apostle is just to create some advantageous features for herself. tools and working environment, but the quality projection here seems to be in a virtual world. I feel that the aboriginal people living here are like those players trapped in a virtual online game. They have mixed fantasy and reality together. Is this the purpose of this place?

An illusory, lush ideal world after the end of the world? So what's going on with the aborigines here? The little girl in front of her didn't look like she had experienced the end of the world. She looked more like she had been born and raised here since she was a child.

No matter what the truth is, I still have to carry the little girl who broke her knee on my back, endure her 100,000 whys, and make a high profile of "I'm not a lolicon" amidst Lin Xue's evil smile, and I have to Calm down your mood at any time so that you don't get angry because the troublesome guy on your back stabs your ears with arrow clusters from time to time. This is a complicated task, especially when the other party has no clue where to go. The last requirement is even more difficult.

"Do you know where your home is?"

After the other party stabbed the arrow cluster into my neck again, I finally couldn't help but said, "Also, what is your name?"

"You can't tell others your name casually, and you are still intruders," the little girl replied very firmly, "Just go forward, turn left... or maybe turn right. Anyway, I will tell you, no Our village is far away, it’s such a big village, and the patriarch happened to be a guest in the village these two days.”

"Peace of mind, peace of mind," Lin Xue glanced at me with a smirk. "We are really almost here this time, and there is really a settlement in front of us."

"Did you notice something?" I remained calm. He said to everyone in the spiritual link, "The gravity here is higher and more limited than on the moon. If you walk normally, you will float up accidentally. But this little girl doesn't seem to feel anything at all. She felt like she was down to earth when she walked just now, and she He also fell on the ground and injured his knee.”

"Because this is an environment dominated by mass projection, more than 90% of the surrounding things and the little girl are mass projections," Sandora responded, "No matter what the gravity is in the real environment, this little girl looks They all live in an 'environment' where the gravity is close to the earth. Based on her body shape and movement habits, I estimate that the gravity of the environment she feels should be about the same as that of the earth, close to the gravity of the green star's surface. For a mass projection, environmental perception It’s quite easy to be deceived.”

This is a weird world where reality and phantoms coexist. We are walking in the real world, but this projection girl firmly believes in the message from the phantom, and the two of us can communicate normally under such circumstances. This is really amazing.

It's a bit troublesome to walk in this situation, because my sister doesn't want the little girl to notice that our walking posture is weird, so everyone has to ignore the surrounding gravity environment and use their own methods to "keep their feet on the ground". It doesn't take much effort, just take a step. You have to be careful and make people feel uncomfortable.

After walking in this unhappy state for more than ten minutes, we finally arrived at the destination: an elven village surrounded by plants.

The village is not big, with only a dozen households at a glance. The radius of the village does not exceed three or four hundred meters, and the households are sparsely spaced between them. The entire village is surrounded by a circle of tall and thin gray "mushrooms" that are more than ten meters high. These mushrooms serve as the natural fence of the village. There are thick fences woven with plant fibers between the mushrooms, which are regarded as the village walls. There are also many smaller "mushrooms" growing on the ground in the middle of the village. And those houses are built on the stalks of these mushrooms. It looks like a tree house built after hollowing out the tree trunk. These mushrooms are different from what I remember. Judging from the cross-sections of the doors and windows, these mushrooms are probably some kind of woody plants - well, we are in such a strange place, so don't worry about the woody plants.

I don’t know what kind of work and rest habits the residents in this weird world made of mass projections have, but it is obviously leisure time at this time. There are two or three villagers wandering in the open space of the village, or on the big mushroom. Drinks and chat in the shade under the house. The shield layer of this small planet has a halo that permeates the high-altitude atmosphere, providing light to the earth below. It is daytime now, and the light is a bit strong.

Just from the outside. This is a simple and peaceful village in the forest, full of the wonderful feeling of a mixture of fairy tales and legends. Even if there is anything eye-catching, it is just that the residents here all have the characteristics of elves. However, when you think about it, everything here is... Without the projection of life and substance, I felt strange, and the scene in front of me became increasingly unreal.

The arrival of outsiders attracted the attention of the villagers. The first few passers-by who saw us looked at each other nervously, and then ran back to their respective houses quickly. When they came out, they had various weapons in their hands. The women and children holding weapons looked at this side as if they were facing a formidable enemy. Two people saw the strange little girl on my back and suddenly exclaimed.

"Dad! Mom! I'm back!"

It's strange that the little girl jumped off my back quickly, took two or three steps and fell to the ground. She couldn't run smoothly when her legs were fine, not to mention that her knees were injured now.

A young man and woman not far away exclaimed softly, and then ran over quickly, but we were closer. My sister stepped forward first to help the strange little girl, and patted her gently to comfort her. Logically speaking, the twelve-year-old child had already She has passed her childhood years, but this little girl has obviously developed in a leisurely manner. She was coaxed like a child, and it was precisely because of this that my sister's naughty child control aura had the effect of increasing the skill level by three on the opponent. When the little girl's parents followed and bent down to check their daughter's injuries, the little girl was already happy. .

"These are my parents. Thank you for taking me home." The little girl nodded to us politely and introduced the stranger in front of her parents. "Mom and Dad, this is the intruder I met outside. He is a good intruder."

What a mess!

The little girl's parents had confused faces, and then they quietly protected their daughter behind them. The nervous villagers around them held their own weapons: spatulas, spades, and shovels, forming a loose circle to defend themselves against foreign enemies. But this scale really doesn’t put any pressure on people, and I don’t feel any murderous intent from these people. Their current reaction is not so much to face the enemy, but rather to be confused and frightened. Under the influence, I instinctively picked up something for self-defense, and then came over to see what was going on - watching the crowd, I gave them a definition.

"Who are you and why are you here?" The little girl's father quickly calmed down and asked loudly while protecting his wife and daughter.

Although they knew that everything in front of them was mass projection, I felt that they themselves did not realize this, so they answered seriously: "We come from above."

I pointed to the sky. This geocentric satellite is wrapped with a layer of atmosphere and shield, and has its own independent light adjustment. Therefore, the dark red hanging upside down earth with the dazzling river of magma cannot be seen clearly here. Looking through the layers of clouds and the shield layer that has a certain masking effect, you can only see a faint dark red shadow looming in the clouds. I wonder if the residents here understand what they mean: they know Is there another land high above my own world?

"Above?!" The villagers started commotion, and the little girl's father even exclaimed, "You come from the Flame Sky?"

The other party exclaimed while carefully observing our appearance: "It seems to be different from us. Did you fall? Is it still burning there?" As he said that, his eyes fell on Lilina again. Na was still in the state of transformation at this time, and she looked like a blood elf, "Huh? This girl also came from the Flame Sky?"

"It turns out that you call the mantle of the Earth the Blazing Heaven, which is quite appropriate," Lilina blinked, "but we came from higher up. We penetrated thousands of kilometers - by the way. You know that one kilometer is How much not?”

The unit of measurement used by the other party did not seem to include the unit of kilometer, but he still understood what Lilina meant, and the surprise on his face was even greater: "More above? Have you penetrated the flaming sky?"

Shandora and I looked at each other, and the other party's voice came from the spiritual link: "Arjun, they don't seem to know that they live in the center of the earth - and they don't know that they live in a projection world."

This is a bit different from our initial guess, but I am not in a hurry to find out the answer immediately. Anyway, the Green Star is now parked in the capital of the empire, and there is plenty of time to figure everything out. I just feel that the situation in front of me is somewhat black humor: these indigenous people who exist in the form of mass projection have no idea about anything on the surface. They don’t even know where their home planet has been dragged to. They have no idea about the world. Cognition is limited to the "normal-looking" inner earth world where one lives. There is also the blazing fire above the head, which is regarded as the mantle of the sky. To them, visitors from outside the "Fire Sky" are incredible. Because this requires cutting through the sky...

Are they really projections from a certain entity? Or is it just a virtual character that evolved from a program and has no body? In the spiritual link, the more cautious sister raised such a question. If these villagers here are conventional mass projections, then they must have their own bodies somewhere (I thought of the huge tombs I saw on the mantle before, and the bodies sleeping in countless dormant cabins) , which means they should have quite high scientific knowledge: primitive people cannot operate projectors, but something is wrong with the current situation. They look more like those living in the jungle in fantasy novels, without even human stone castles. The elves I’ve seen—I’ve seen them. They also fetch water from wells.

The water is also a phantom, but it must be a virtual item created by the program.

Of course, there is another possibility that the high-tech race that transformed Green Star is no longer here. These elves living in a low-tech state are actually some kind of experimental subjects. They don't know how to use projection devices, but they were used by the original Green Star. The builders stuffed the dormant capsules and transferred things like souls to this place: the small planet in the center of the earth is actually a biological laboratory.

The more I think about it, the more I feel that I am really wronged for not writing the script. You can just throw these stories into Hollywood with two people who love each other until they are cast. That’s at least seven or eight little golden figures...

My sister's affinity and Lilina's elf appearance finally worked. After communicating for a long time, the wary villagers around them all put down their weapons. I found that these elves are quite cautious and a little nervous, even though we are "invasion" "" But when they came here, there was no hostile behavior at all, and they were already facing a formidable enemy. Could it be that in this society, any creature whose dress or appearance is different from our own race can be regarded as an enemy?

The strange little girl was taken away by her parents, and the villagers dispersed. Finally, a male elf who looked similar to a middle-aged human came over and introduced himself as the village chief here.

"I'm sorry, we have grown up listening to legends. Anything coming from the flaming world is extremely dangerous. Any aliens who appear in the forest may be intruders," the middle-aged man led us towards the village. The largest treehouse in the world, "so the legend goes."

"Oh." I said noncommittally, simply perfunctory. Now this weird place left too many confusions for people, so I decided to keep a low profile before discovering more secrets.

The elf's tree house was built in the mushroom handle, but the appearance inside was different from what was expected. It was not damp at all, and there was plenty of light. The surrounding curved walls were dry and neat, and a very soft white light shone through from the inside of the mushroom. Coming out: It turns out that these walls are transparent when looking from the inside out.

The village chief's house doesn't look very well decorated. Everything is just the simplest household necessities, furniture made of wood chips, hanging chairs and tapestries made of plant fibers, and a few small furnishings with no apparent texture. It’s everything on the first floor: because the mushroom handle is very tall, every house here is several stories high. These buildings made of local materials are destined not to develop into commercial buildings and courtyard houses.

"Our patriarch is handling matters. She will come to meet you guests in person when the time comes."

The middle-aged man let us rest for a while on those slightly smaller hanging chairs, and then got up to prepare drinks and food. He seemed very hospitable and wanted to make up for the previous offense to some extent. Lilina twisted restlessly in the middle of the hanging chair made of plant fiber for a few times, and finally jumped down and got into my arms, burying her head and making no sound.

"What's wrong with this girl?"

I looked at the people around me dumbfounded. Lin Xue had a look of contempt, Qian Qian was full of thoughts, Sandora looked here with a half-smile, and my sister poked me in the head: "Jun, respect yourself."

It's quite heavy. The combined weight of the two of them would almost collapse this not-so-strong hanging chair!

"Boss, I don't like it here," Lilina said in a sullen voice. "There is a very huge life form waking up. I feel like my whole body is wrapped in it. The lifeless projection here is also uncomfortable - —My physique is too sensitive.”

Is it necessary for this girl to break off a normal sentence into a very abnormal second half? ! (To be continued)