Chapter 798 The Other World

A glimmer of light appeared at the bottom of this deep, almost endless cave. After descending for so long, they finally reached the end.

Hao Ren looked up at the direction he came from. The entrance to the cave was completely invisible, and there was only a misty darkness above: the cave was so deep that it even formed a cloud-like dust siltation belt in the middle. He was slightly stunned by the depth of the cave: "My dear, it's so deep... How can Baptiste really get down to such a place alive?"

Vivian nodded: "The wizard has many methods, maybe he can fly spells: as long as he is not torn apart by a group of monsters before then."

As the car continued to descend, Hao Ren noticed that the light outside was not coming directly from below, but coming from the dark cave walls in all directions: after descending to a certain level, many huge cracks appeared on the cave walls in the distance. , those cracks seem to lead directly to the outside world.

After continuing to descend for several hundred meters, they finally touched the ground.

"It's safe all around." Duncan observed the outside environment, "Just find a direction and drive forward. The cracks around should lead to the outside world."

The bottom of the cave is a place where light and shadow intersect. It is still dark overall, but there is light revealed from some triangular cracks in the distance. Originally, Hao Ren thought that he would reach an open place directly after coming down from the cave, but now it seems that this passage is like some kind of pipeline directly touching the ground. After reaching the end, he still needs to drill through the crack in the "pipeline". Only when you come out can you see the real view of the second floor of Purgatory. He started the car and headed towards the largest light source. Everyone along the way subconsciously held their breath: this weird place made everyone very nervous.

The ground at the bottom of the cave is rugged, with many strange stones scattered on the ground, and occasionally other things can be seen among them.

Hao Ren saw a puddle of shapeless debris spread in front of him, surrounded by a large area of ​​bursting dark red, and clear impact cracks could be seen on the ground. There is no doubt that this is a monster that accidentally fell from the ground above.

I don’t know how many other creatures have fallen out of that terrifying cave in the past ten thousand years, but it is conceivable that there must be a large amount of debris piled on the ground under the wheels. These unlucky creatures that fell from the surface world Living things turn to dust here, very far away from where they live.

The wheels rolled over the debris, and the team continued to explore forward. The light in the distance became closer and closer. In the interplay of light and shadow, Hao Ren saw some thick, stone pillar-like things hanging down from above, and the crack from which the light came showed an obvious angle that tilted inward as it went up. This strange structure made him stunned for a moment. Because everything in this place was too huge, his common sense of spatial imagination was challenged. It took him a long time to realize what the shape of this place was: the bottom of the cave gradually expanded outwards. The farther down you go, the wider it gets.

He sped up and drove into the light outside.

An extremely vast and vast world appears before everyone's eyes.

The sudden broadening of the field of vision even made people unable to react, and the sight of the second level of purgatory made everyone fall into a state of aphasia. I saw the vast expanse of land spreading out outside the car window. The rolling hills and low slopes were covered with shocking green. The entire land was covered with green grass and luxuriant flowers and trees. This vast land stretches all the way to the end of the field of vision, where there is only a clear horizon, and no imaginary cave edges can be seen.

In an almost dazed state, Hao Ren opened the car door and came outside. He felt that he was stepping on a piece of soft grass, and the pure fragrance of earth and plants came from his nostrils. He looked up at the "sky", where there should have been a thick and dark rock dome, but instead he saw large tracts of white clouds: This underground world is too vast, and its dome is even higher than the cumulus clouds. boundary, so water vapor and dust formed clouds in the mid-air of this "cave", blocking the rocks above. The clouds emitted the same soft white light as the outermost cloud tops of Purgatory, and their light was even brighter, so that it reflected the entire underground world as if it were daytime.

Hao Ren's eyes wandered between the clouds. The clouds here were not as airtight as the cloud tops above, so he finally saw what he should have seen between the two clouds: a deep darkness, extremely From a distance, with his eyesight he could only see some rough ravine lines, which were the earth's crust.

Or something like the earth's crust.

Others also got out of the car at this time. Hesiana kept raising her head for a few minutes and was stunned. After a long time, she finally took a deep breath: "Hiss-this... is a cave?"

"I have said before that although the second floor of Purgatory is underground, its scale is indescribable." Although Vivian said this, the expression on her face was not much calmer than others. "I didn't expect this place to be like this... I thought this was a worse place."

"After all, the surface of the earth is already like hell," Lily frowned, looking at this vibrant world in disbelief, "Is this 'Purgatory'? With Purgatory looking like this, it really doesn't deserve its name."

Nangong Wuyue felt that the surrounding water element environment had finally returned to harmony. The inexplicable atmosphere of crisis and hostility seemed to only stay on the surface above, so she transformed into an ordinary sea snake form, with a contented expression on her face: "The water here is very peaceful. It's almost a different world from the one on the surface."

Hao Ren didn't say anything anymore, because there was only one question in his mind: How vast is this place?

Thinking of this question, he couldn't help but turn his head and glance at the "passage" where everyone came from.

A mountain peak stretching to the sky and the earth appeared in front of him. As expected, its shape could not be seen at all from this distance.

He only saw some huge black mountain ridges splashing down from above, extending into the distance, until they melted into the green earth. The upper part of the mountain gradually converged and turned into a huge line that was almost vertical to the earth. The wall has been disappearing into the depths of the endless clouds. The entire mountain was dark in color and had a rock-like texture. However, after carefully examining it, he found that the rock had a strange shape.

A lightning-quick idea suddenly came to him, and he immediately called everyone to get on the bus: "Come up quickly, let's go somewhere far away to see!"

The group of people got back to the car, and Hao Ren immediately drove the car towards the distance. The "mountain" that reached the sky when everyone came was soon left behind. Lily sat in the last row and looked out of the car window. His eyes grew wider and wider, and he finally couldn't help shouting: "Tree! It's a tree trunk!"

Hao Ren stopped on a grassy highland. He and others looked in the direction of the "mountain", where he could finally see the full view of the behemoth. As Lily said, it is clearly a giant tree, and it is a tree with well-developed roots and aerial roots protruding from the surface. The trunk of the giant tree penetrates the clouds and connects to the bottom of the earth's crust above, as if supporting it. It was like the entire earth, and its lower part clung to the earth. The sloping mountain edges and cone-shaped mountains that Hao Ren saw before were none other than the swollen roots of this giant tree.

And the place where they came down before is self-evident: it is a hollow tube inside a tree trunk.

At this time, the data terminal suddenly said: "Other probes have sent new pictures. Some probes have found other entrances to purgatory. The situation there is the same as ours."

As the terminal spoke, it transferred the pictures of several probes. All the pictures described roughly the same scene: a giant tree supporting the entire earth (or sky), and the vast green land surrounding the giant tree. .

"Other high-speed probes have arrived at the other end of the planet, where they also discovered the entrance to the second level of Purgatory."

"The second floor of Purgatory is not a cave or a series of caves, but another layer of crust," Hao Ren said slowly, "This planet is layered - not an exaggeration, but a true description."

The world's guesses about the structure of purgatory were wildly wrong. The aliens once thought that there was a series of deep giant caves underground in this world, and that there was another sinister hell in the giant caves. However, in fact, all the caves were connected together. They are simply a space, and this space is not sinister, but rather like a paradise.

This planet has a double crust, and purgatory is just its surface.

Or maybe there is a third layer of crust, who can say for sure?