Resurrection of all mankind

Chapter 21 Heading Underground

After a long wait.

Finally, an extremely deep male voice sounded from the service cabin.

“40 seconds, 40 seconds!”

The male staff member did not count down, but simply repeated the remaining time every ten seconds.

“30 seconds, 30 seconds!”

It was only until the last ten seconds that the staff member started counting.

"10, 9, 8, 7"

"take off!"

“C1，6141年4月3日，5时21分00秒。”

"Axial docking separation, speed up."

"complete!"

After the other party finished reading a series of professional terms that Xie Shen could not understand, the tugboat began to gradually move away from the Tiangong Space Station.

——Due to the force of gravity, the tugboat does not need to be given any acceleration when flying to the surface.

Not only that.

The tugboat's engine also needs to work in the opposite direction to counteract the gravity from the earth in order to slow down the impact of falling.

This process does not require Xie Shen to do much.

The only thing he needed to pay attention to was to constantly calibrate the longitude and latitude of the positioning system to ensure that the landing location was consistent with the planned one.

The tugboat was descending very quickly.

Xie Shen stayed in the cockpit, and in less than five minutes, he was able to overlook the surface conditions from a high altitude.

——But on the ruins of a city not far away, there were countless black towers standing tall, reaching into the sky.

I don’t know why.

Xie Shen only stared at those black towers for a few seconds, and he unconsciously felt nauseous and disgusted.

This forced him to look away.
At the same time.

The voice of the man in the suit rang out through the earphones that Yu Xieshen was wearing: "You have also felt that those towers, if you look at them a few more times, you will feel uncomfortable."

"Really!" Xie Shen asked doubtfully, "Is this considered spiritual pollution?"

"There's no need to be superstitious." The man in the suit explained, "In fact, no matter what the phenomenon is, it can be explained from a scientific perspective."

"If we can't explain it, it only means that our understanding is not comprehensive enough."

“Like the towers.”

"You feel uncomfortable looking at them because they are designed to be completely contrary to our human aesthetics."

"Please be more specific." The man in the suit continued, "Don't we humans like symmetrical beauty? So those towers were built in asymmetrical shapes. There are many details like this, but I'm not studying this, so I can't explain it to you step by step."

While the two were talking, the tugboat driven by Xie Shen slowly landed on the ground.

In the world of cultivation, it has always been common sense: the more people there are in a place, the thinner the spiritual energy is.

Perhaps it's because no one has been here for a long time.

On tugboat.

The moment Xie Shen opened the cabin door, an extremely rich spiritual energy instantly enveloped him completely.

For a moment, Xie Shen actually had the illusion that he had returned to the world of cultivation.

It is no exaggeration to say that one day of practice here is at least equivalent to more than ten days of hard practice in the space station.

Considering that monsters like the 'Thalamus Sentinel' will become very active after nightfall.

Therefore, to ensure safety, humans who land on the surface must return to space before night falls.

Xie Shen left the space station by tugboat at 5:21 a.m. The flight took a total of 9 minutes.

Therefore, the exact time he landed on the surface should be 5:30.

It is summer in the Northern Hemisphere at this time, with longer daytime hours. The sky will gradually darken after about 19:30.

In total, this means that there are about 14 hours available for collecting zirconium ore.

Time is tight.

After getting out of the tugboat, Xie Shen simply glanced at the surroundings.

After confirming that there was no danger or abnormality nearby, they began to deploy mining probes.

He had practiced this operation countless times in the space station, so he now performed it easily and quickly got the drill into the ground.

After doing all this, the man in the suit reminded Xie Shen through the headset: "It will take about 30 minutes for the probe to find the ore. If it finds it, the green light will turn on. Then you don't have to worry about it. Just let it keep digging."

“And then if it doesn’t find it, it’ll turn on a red light.”

"At this point you have to manually change its position and let it continue digging like this."

Operating the probe is not difficult.

Xie Shen understood it almost immediately, so he followed the man in the suit and said, "So when the probe is looking for minerals, I can move freely?"

"Well, as long as you don't go too far away, it'll be fine." The man in the suit replied, "Otherwise, the underground people will come and destroy the probe if they see that no one is guarding it."

"Underground people?" Xie Shen had never heard of the existence of underground people before.

"Uh"

The man in the suit thought for a moment and said, "Well, the underground people are actually not much different from us. They are all humans who escaped from the Tower Prison."

"It's just that there seems to be something wrong with their cognition."

"What's the problem?" Xie Shen asked subconsciously.

The man in the suit said, "Those underground people regard pain as a kind of enjoyment. An obvious example is that the underground people like to eat a kind of red mushroom, which is their staple food!"

"This kind of mushroom is easy to grow, so the space station was originally planned to be built."

"But after trying it, some people found that although this mushroom has a high yield and a strong sense of fullness, it makes people feel inexplicably uncomfortable."

“This kind of pain is beyond your imagination.”

"If the mushroom eater is not controlled, he will commit suicide immediately."

Hearing this, Xie Shen had already guessed what the man in the suit wanted to express.

He followed up on the other person's words and said, "What about the underground people? Do they find eating mushrooms enjoyable?"

"Yes." The man in the suit said, "And this enjoyment is not an illusion."

"The space station once conducted experiments on underground people."

"They fed the underground people a lot of red mushrooms, and then in the underground people's... uh." The man in the suit thought for a moment and said, "It seems to be called the basal ganglia of the brain. It is in that location that the researchers on the space station detected a terrifying concentration of dopamine."

"Anyway, to put it simply, the underground people can actually enjoy physical pleasure from eating red mushrooms."

"And not just red mushrooms."

"As long as it's pain and torture, it's a kind of enjoyment for the underground people. It can make their brains secrete dopamine."

"Isn't this too exaggerated?" Xie Shen was shocked after hearing this: "Isn't the tower prison like heaven for the underground people?"

"That's true!" The man in the suit continued, "So the Tower Prison will never resurrect the underground people. The only people imprisoned there are normal humans like us."

"I don't understand this."

Hearing this, Xie Shen said with a hint of confusion in his tone: "Didn't you just say that the underground people are just like us, they are all humans who escaped from the Tower Prison."

"Since everyone is the same, why can't the people on the space station have the same abilities as the people underground?"

"Can't that ability be learned?"

(End of this chapter)