With the support of a ninth-level civilization, do you want me to believe in electronic gods?

Chapter 122 Dungeon beyond expectations
Hong Chengdong naturally didn't realize what Chen Fan was thinking.

In his opinion, Chen Fan, whose face suddenly turned gloomy, was probably just temporarily shocked by what the Mechanical Sect had done.

He turned his head and glanced at Jiang Haichuan behind him, sighed silently and continued: "The underground city never raises idlers."

"After losing his parents, Xiao Jiang owed a large sum of money in order to continue living in the underground city."

"With no other choice, he could only choose to become a salvageman to make money and pay off his debts."

Chen Fan followed Hong Chengdong's gaze and glanced at Jiang Haichuan, whose eyes were red.

After a moment of silence, he raised his hand and threw the fusion battery towards Jiang Haichuan.

"Boy, go on."

Seeing the metal cube drawing a graceful arc in the air and flying towards him, Jiang Haichuan suddenly panicked after being stunned for a short time.

That's a fusion battery!
Can this thing be thrown away casually? !
At this moment, Jiang Haichuan felt his heart suddenly lifted into the air!

He caught the fusion battery in a hurry, with a look of shock on his face.

You know, let alone shooting down the drone, even when he shot Chen Fan just now, he had never been so panicked!

The cold metal shell was like a hot potato in his hands. In just a few seconds, Jiang Haichuan felt a thin layer of cold sweat break out on his back.

"You...I..."

The fingers of Jiang Haichuan's hands turned white, and he clutched the fusion battery tightly in his hands. His slightly trembling lips could not even utter a complete sentence.

In the end, it was Hong Chengdong who asked on his behalf: "Brother Fan, what are you..."

"If I'm not wrong, this thing should be worth a lot of money, right?"

Chen Fan stretched out his hand and tapped the fusion battery held in Jiang Haichuan's arms: "The remaining money after paying the salary should be used to pay off his debt."

Jiang Haichuan felt happy, but what followed was a burst of panic: "This, this is too precious, I..."

Hong Chengdong coughed hard and interrupted Jiang Haichuan's unfinished words: "Why are you still saying these things? Why don't you thank Brother Fan quickly?"

Jiang Haichuan was stunned for a moment, and then under the instruction of Hong Chengdong's eyes, he silently bent down to Chen Fan and said thank you very solemnly on his face.

Feeling the instant relief and no longer hostile gazes of the surrounding salvagers, Chen Fan, who had achieved his goal, chuckled lightly and said to Hong Chengdong again: "If I understand correctly, the job of you salvagers should be to start from Can we obtain some resources on the ground that cannot be produced in dungeons?"

Hong Chengdong nodded.

"Most salvagers will pick up some omnics and mechanical remains from pre-civilization eras. These things have little value, but they are better than being safe and reliable."

"But as time passed, the surrounding mechanical debris was rummaged through, and almost nothing of value could be found, so..."

Chen Fan suddenly realized: "So you set your sights on omnic drones!"

Hong Chengdong nodded: "There are many valuable things in the omnic's drone. Among them, the fusion battery is of very high value, and it is also what the big shots need most now."

With that said, Hong Chengdong stood up, banged the burned out pipe on the car body, and then turned around and pulled the switch on the console behind him.

The buzzing sound of the motor and a slight vibration came from under the feet. The next moment, the mine car that was originally parked on the track began to slide slowly.

Watching the mine cart begin to speed up, Chen Fan once again asked Hong Chengdong, who was driving the mine cart skillfully, "What about the hyena?"

"What do they do?"

After the words fell, the mine car fell into silence.

After a long time, Hong Chengdong's voice sounded again: "They are similar to us. They all go to the ground to salvage supplies."

"It's just that what we salvaged are various mechanical materials. What they want..."

"It's human."

Chen Fan's pupils quickly dilated: "Human?"

"What do you mean by this?!"

"Literally." Hong Chengdong sighed again, "The reason why salvaging people is an extremely dangerous job is partly due to the intelligent machines that move on the ground. These machines usually kill people on sight and do not leave any traces for them. Any way to survive, on the other hand, comes from the dungeon itself."

"Those hyenas will look for salvagers heading to the surface and look for opportunities to bring them back to the underground."

"Of course, I never saw those people being taken away by hyenas."

Chen Fan's eyes were a little confused: "Why do they do this?"

Hong Chengdong shrugged: "Who knows?"

"I don't know the status of other dungeons, but... there has been a rumor in Kukan Dungeon."

"It is said that those big shots are still in contact with the people of the Mechanical Cult. They capture humans just to extend their lifespan."

"The Mechanicus Cult is notorious, and those big shots naturally dare not do such things openly in the underground city, so they focus on salvaging people. Anyway, there are too many salvage people in the underground city, and there are just a few less people. Don’t see the problem.”

Hong Chengdong smiled self-deprecatingly: "Furthermore... the inside of the salvage man is a mess, and he can even fight for a piece of mechanical debris. In the eyes of those big shots, there is probably no better target than the salvage man. ” Chen Fan didn’t know how to evaluate this for a while: “This…”

"Haha, these are all rumors. I'm afraid only the hyenas know what's going on." Hong Chengdong waved his hands with a smile, "Just take it one day at a time. Living in this terrible era, who knows who will come first tomorrow or the accident?" Come."

As he spoke, the minecart began to slowly tilt downward - the originally stable passage began to fall steadily at a certain inclination.

The speed of the mine cart was very fast, and the uniform passage walls around it passed by Chen Fan extremely quickly.

As the depth numbers in the holographic projection in front of him continued to increase, Chen Fan felt that the surrounding lights continued to dim.

"What about those people from the Mechanicus?"

Chen Fan continued to ask.

"Mechanical Cult?" Hong Chengdong shrugged, "Who knows?"

"Anyway, they were completely driven out of the underground city decades ago. Who knows where they are living now."

Hong Chengdong answered Chen Fan's question nonchalantly: "Maybe they reopened an underground city, or maybe they just wandered on the surface..."

[It is detected that the descending slope is beginning to shrink, and it may be that the underground city is about to be reached. 】

Just when Chen Fan was about to continue to get some information from Hong Chengdong, an electronic synthesized sound suddenly sounded in his mind.

At the same time, the originally dark passage became brighter as it gradually became smoother.

"We're getting there."

Hong Chengdong said in a deep voice, reaching out and pulling down a lever on the console.

Accompanied by a sharp and piercing sound of brakes, the mine car began to slow down and finally stopped at a simple platform made of concrete at the end of the passage.

Looking at the bright light at the end of the passage, Chen Fan couldn't help but feel a little surprised: he originally thought that the dungeon should be quite dark, but now it seems that his stereotype was obviously wrong.

Following Hong Chengdong's footsteps, Chen Fan and the others turned over and came to the platform one after another.

With the previous lessons learned, Isa made her movements as gentle as possible, but the mechanical prosthesis still made a lot of noise when it came into contact with the concrete table.

"let's go……"

Hong Chengdong looked helplessly at Isa, who had re-wrapped herself in the black robe. After waving to his "little brothers", he took the lead and walked towards the entrance of the dungeon ahead.

……

Kukan Underground City.

As soon as he walked out of the passage, Chen Fan was shocked by the scene in front of him.

The dungeon in front of him was completely different from what he had expected in his mind.

In his imagination, the so-called underground city was nothing more than a dark refuge made up of a large number of air-raid shelters connected together.

Low floor heights, dim lights, damp and musty air, lifeless residents...

These are the elements of a dungeon in Chen Fan's mind.

But in front of me...

The dozens of meters high concrete dome is covered with metal pipes of different thicknesses and unknown purposes. Around these metal pipes, extremely bright high-power fluorescent lamps are providing sufficient light to the city.

The breeze that came from nowhere blew across my face, and there was no smell of moisture or mold in it.

Apparently, the dungeon even has a good ventilation system!

Within sight, three or four-story concrete houses are scattered in an orderly manner around load-bearing columns with thick diameters - these huge load-bearing columns stand in the underground city, firmly supporting the concrete dome above.

In the very center of the city, a huge cylindrical building occupies a large amount of space. Except for the load-bearing columns, no building in the entire underground city exceeds its height!
This is a real city!

An industrial miracle built hundreds of meters underground and belonging to mankind!
According to Hong Chengdong, there is more than one such city, and a large number of underground cities are connected to each other, which together form the underground refuge of mankind today!

Chen Fan stood there, staring at the dungeon in front of him, with some emotion in his heart - when these dungeons were built, humans must have been at a disadvantage in the war with omnics. It is hard to imagine how humans at that time were. Such a magnificent wonder was created hundreds of meters deep underground!
【The potential of life is endless. 】

[When faced with a crisis of extinction, life will always find its own way out. 】

Yi whispered in Chen Fan's mind: [But I have to admit that this is indeed a civilization rich in potential. 】

[If there was no artificial intelligence crisis, they would have walked out of this planet long ago. 】

"That's the fusion reactor in the center of the city, responsible for providing energy to the entire city."

Hong Chengdong followed Chen Fan's gaze and said, "No one can understand that thing at the moment, so we can only let it operate on its own."

"It's like these complex pipeline systems overhead, and no one dares to touch those things."

"Even if one of the pipelines is broken, we can only let it break."

(End of this chapter)