Desert Island Infrastructure: Claiming the System Brings Many Blessings
Chapter 67 The Secret Deep Within the Underground Forest
After finishing their business, the girls couldn't wait to go and explore the underground forest.
Qin Chuan did some mental calculations. His LV3 Pupil Technique had a detection radius of 1 kilometer, which was enough for him to conduct a large-scale exploration of the underground forest. He had been there twice before, but he had only wandered around the entrance and hadn't even touched the boundary of the underground forest.
"Let's go then, we'll have lunch in the forest."
"Okay!" the women responded in unison, their voices filled with barely concealed excitement.
Qin Chuan led the six girls, one after the other, into the downward-extending passage.
The passageway floor was slippery, and the cave walls on both sides were embedded with luminous stones, casting long, blue-green shadows on everyone. The air grew cooler, and the scents of flowers and plants wafted from ahead.
After walking for about ten minutes, the passage suddenly opened up.
Wow!
Exclamations of surprise burst from everyone's mouths almost simultaneously.
Keiko Kitagawa froze at the exit of the passage, covering her mouth with both hands and staring wide-eyed.
The vast underground space unfolded before our eyes, with colorful glowing stones adorning the dome like a starry sky, a sea of flowers covering every inch of the ground beneath our feet, and all sorts of strangely shaped trees standing in the distance.
Liu Yifei's reaction was different from the others. Instead of exclaiming in surprise, she quickly walked to the nearest clump of shrubs with translucent leaves, squatted down, pinched a leaf with her fingers, and looked closely at the fluorescent light flowing in the veins of the leaf.
"This can't be driven by photosynthesis... The luminescent substance in the veins is more like some kind of bioluminescent protein," Liu Yifei murmured to herself, completely immersed in her own world.
Fan Yubing stood at the edge of the flower field, took a deep breath, and closed her eyes.
The fragrance of flowers filled her lungs, and her expression relaxed completely. After soaking in the hot springs and coming to this place, Fan Yubing felt she had never been so relaxed in her life.
Lin Shishi walked up to Qin Chuan and asked softly, "Brother Chuan, are you going to explore the deeper parts?"
Qin Chuan nodded: "Okay, I'll go deep into the forest and take a look. You guys stay near the entrance and don't go too far."
Qin Chuan instructed, "Eat whatever you like, and feel free to look around. All the fruits here are edible. However, there are many kinds of fungi, and we haven't figured out some of them yet, so please don't touch them."
"And what about you, Brother Chuan? What are you going to do?" Lin Shishi asked.
"I'll go deeper into the forest to see if I can make any new discoveries. This forest doesn't look very big, but it's actually bigger than I imagined."
Yang Mimi, holding a large handful of freshly torn noodle shreds, turned around and said, "Okay, then hurry back. We'll just wander around the cave entrance."
"Okay, don't get separated. We don't know what dangers lurk in the depths yet."
After saying this, Qin Chuan glanced at the six women.
Yang Mimi has already started stuffing breadfruit into her mouth, Kitagawa Keiko is chasing those pink little squirrels, Liu Yifei is squatting next to the bushes studying the leaves, Fan Yubing is doing stretching exercises in the flower field, Lin Shishi is organizing the tools everyone brought, and Mina is quietly standing by the stream watching the transparent little fish.
Relieved, Qin Chuan turned and ran deeper into the underground forest, his feet leaving shallow tracks in the soft grass. The trees on both sides rushed past, and flower fields, mushroom groves, and streams were left behind one by one.
With his pupils fully activated, information within a 1000-meter range was constantly being reorganized in his mind.
Five hundred meters ahead, a much denser forest appeared. The trees were completely different from those near the entrance, taller and thicker, their canopies intertwining to form a dense canopy in the air.
Eight hundred meters ahead, there is a wide underground river. The river is about five meters wide, the current is gentle, and the riverbed is covered with pebbles of various colors.
A kilometer ahead, there are even more plant communities, with several times more diverse species than near the entrance.
Qin Chuan sped up.
After running for about five minutes, Qin Chuan had already gone nearly five kilometers into the area.
The landscape of the underground forest is constantly changing, with the vegetation becoming more and more primitive and the trees becoming taller and taller.
Some trees have trunks so thick that it would take three people to hug them, and their roots have formed small mounds on the ground. The mushrooms are as big as stools.
The air temperature was also changing, from cool to warm, even a little stuffy. There must be geothermal energy seeping upwards from deep underground.
Qin Chuan did not stop and continued running forward.
Five minutes later, Qin Chuan had already gone nearly ten kilometers deeper into the area.
The underground forest still has no end.
Qin Chuan stopped and stood under a huge, gradient-colored tree, catching his breath.
[Ten kilometers already, and still no end? Is this underground forest on the island really that big? This is very illogical.]
Qin Chuan looked around. The underground space here was much more open than near the entrance, and the dome was so high that it was almost impossible to see clearly.
The density of the luminescent stones was also greater, and the continuous warm golden and light purple light illuminated the area as brightly as daytime.
Just then, Qin Chuan's pupil technique detected new information.
A large number of biological signals appeared about 800 meters ahead.
Qin Chuan's heart skipped a beat.
He focused his attention, allowing his pupil technique to precisely scan that area.
The news popped up one by one.
[760 meters ahead, a herd of otherworldly wild boars. Quantity: 12. Capture level: Level 1.]
[820 meters ahead, a herd of otherworldly deer. Quantity: 7. Capture level: 3.]
[A herd of otherworldly goats 850 meters ahead. Quantity: 20 or more. Capture level: Level 2.]
[900 meters ahead, a herd of otherworldly bison. Quantity: 5. Capture level: Level 3.]
Qin Chuan's eyes widened further.
[What? So many strange beasts? Could it be that all the strange beasts in the forests above ground came out from underground?]
Qin Chuan recalled his previous hunting experiences in the ground forest.
The otherworldly wild boar and the otherworldly elk were both encountered deep in the dense forests on the ground.
If there are other passages between the underground forest and the surface, then it is entirely possible that these strange beasts migrated from underground to the surface.
This discovery is extremely important.
If the underground forest is itself a huge natural pasture, then in the future, there will be no need to venture into the surface forest to hunt; you can do it all underground.
Qin Chuan lowered his body, slowed his pace, and approached the direction of the strange beasts.
With his current strength, these level 1 to 3 alien beasts pose no threat whatsoever.
However, Qin Chuan remained vigilant. Although his pupil technique had a scanning range of 1000 meters, he couldn't grasp the situation beyond that. Something of even higher level might be hidden deep within the underground forest.
Qin Chuan continued forward.
When Qin Chuan was about 500 meters away from the group of strange beasts, he could see what they looked like.
A herd of otherworldly wild boars were scattered in a low thicket, their snouts burrowing into the humus as they searched for food.
These wild boars were smaller than the ones Qin Chuan had killed on the ground, each weighing only about 200 jin (approximately 100 catties). Their fur was dark brown with a light-colored stripe down their backs.
The herd of otherworldly elk grazed leisurely on an open grassland a few hundred meters to the east of the wild boar herd. Qin Chuan scanned them with his pupil technique; two of the seven elk were males, each with large, forked antlers. The remaining five were females, slightly smaller, but each still weighed four or five hundred pounds.
Further away, there was a herd of otherworldly goats. The largest group, more than twenty, huddled on a rocky slope, their white fur standing out vividly against the glowing stones. The goats weren't large, each weighing only seventy or eighty pounds, but their sheer numbers made up for it.
The most eye-catching were the five otherworldly bison.
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