Chapter 118 Moon Heart City
Rong Yuan reacted very quickly and immediately grabbed the edge of the cave. He let go and jumped down after seeing the environment under his feet clearly. The hole above his head opened and closed, and Rong Yuan's eyes were suddenly dark. He turned on the night vision and scanning functions on the space suit helmet and waited quietly for a while. There was no change around him. It seemed that no other life form in this secret underground building had discovered his visit.
He was standing about four or five meters from the hole above his head. It was surrounded by rocks and soil, and from time to time he could see some mineral crystals. It seemed to be just an ordinary underground tunnel, and there was not even a trace of artificial excavation. The ground under his feet was not flat, with a slope of 20 to 30 degrees, and the scratch on the ground extended all the way to the lower ground .
Rong Yuan raised his left hand. There was a small round button on his wrist. Pressing it would bring up a virtual operating platform. He clicked on the operating panel a few times, set it as the origin, and recorded the route and relative position. These data would be displayed on the display screen of the helmet glasses. Then he drew out the dagger, slowed down his pace, and walked deeper into the tunnel along the scratch. In this world, he could not hear any other sound except his own breathing. Walking in the darkness, he seemed to lose his sense of direction and distance. He felt like he had walked for a long time, but looking at the display screen, he had only walked less than a kilometer.
Suddenly something on the display screen moved. Rong Yuan looked carefully and saw a strange bug lying on the rock wall. At first glance, it seemed to be no different from a broken egg, flat, the size of a palm, and had a very random shape, but its surface was much smoother than gravel. This allowed Rong Yuan to see the clue.
After a while, the insect seemed to realize that Rong Yuan had discovered it, or maybe it was just tired and wanted to change its posture. Two mushroom-like rods suddenly popped up from its smooth back and turned left and right, as if they were its eyes or tentacles. I couldn't see if there were legs moving under its body, but the insect quickly crawled away as if it was floating on the water.
Scientists on Earth have always believed that there is no life on the moon due to the harsh environment. Even if there is, it should be microorganisms or bacteria. What Rong Yuan saw before his eyes undoubtedly overturned the long-standing understanding of the moon by earthlings. If he brought this insect back, this kind of creature that can survive in a vacuum, without liquid water, and with a huge temperature difference between day and night would definitely be a Genesis discovery. However, although he was very curious, he did not have the exploration mentality of some scientists who would get to the bottom of everything. He did not want to catch it for dissection and research, nor did he want to use it to become famous, so the insect disappeared smoothly from Rong Yuan's sight.
Rong Yuan continued to move forward, his heartbeat speed slightly faster. Since the moon's environment could breed the insect just now, could there be more advanced intelligent creatures?
If this assumption is true, it would be very dangerous for Rong Yuan, the uninvited guest. However, no matter how dangerous it is, he would rather encounter something different than a dark tunnel.
He walked for five or six hours, and when he was about ten kilometers away from the lunar surface, the scenery in front of him suddenly changed.
The scratch on the ground disappeared. From a certain point, the rough rock wall of the underground tunnel that seemed to be formed naturally suddenly became smooth as a mirror, square, and the ground underfoot was flat and hard, without even a speck of dust. The color of the floor could not be seen through the night vision goggles, but it could be seen that it had some criss-crossing patterns, the patterns were complex and abstract, and seemed to be some kind of flowers with vines entwined.
——Besides humans, what other creatures can build such underground structures?
After walking in this passage for only five or six minutes, the scenery in front of him changed again: a layer of smooth, soft, but opaque material like a soap bubble completely covered the front of the passage. This layer of material was not flat, but slightly convex towards Rong Yuan. He turned the dagger upside down and poked it, and the film immediately sank in a little, showing good elasticity. With another push, the handle penetrated, and half of Rong Yuan's palm passed through, without feeling any obstruction.
Rong Yuan quickly pulled his hand back and took a closer look. He found nothing serious. He asked Wandou to scan it again, but there was no problem either.
Pea also scanned the film blocking the road in front of him and found that it had both biological and synthetic properties. It was hard to say what it was, but it was harmless to the human body. Rong Yuan was skeptical and gently poked a finger into it. It felt like passing through a layer of jelly and then poking into the air.
What is on the other side of the membrane?
Rong Yuan calmed himself down, walked through the film, then widened his eyes with a look of shock.
——What did he see?
Rong Yuan always thought that this was a scene that only existed in fantasy.
That film was not a barrier to the passage, it was a huge protective film. It was so big that it seemed to have hollowed out the entire moon and turned the inside into a "soap bubble". Inside the bubble was an underground city of unimaginable beauty. Rong Yuan stood on a small platform in a corner of this underground city and felt that he was so small compared to this city.
"Rongyuan, after testing, the air quality here is excellent. The oxygen content is 13.5% higher than that in City A, and the harmful gas content is 0.007% of that in City A. It is an environment suitable for human survival and activities." Wandou said.
Hearing this, Rong Yuan took off the helmet on his space suit, and a slightly humid air immediately penetrated his spleen and lungs. The air here was much fresher than on Earth and was very comfortable. However, Rong Yuan didn't care about it. He looked at this underground city without blinking, his heart full of shock and admiration.
The center of this underground city is a light blue hexahedral crystal stone. This crystal stone is so large that even though you are so far away from it, it looks like a mountain from afar.
This crystal stone is not only the core of the underground city, but also the light source here. It emits a soft and cold light, illuminating this underground city as bright as day. There are no common street lights on Earth to decorate this city, because it does not need them at all. For some places that the crystal stone cannot illuminate, it is enough to install some reflectors on the nearby walls.
The crystal stone is fixed with metal, and six long metal poles extend from it, all the way to the edge of the soap bubble membrane. Some small metal brackets are split from these metal poles in the middle, and more will be split near the edge. In the end, there are densely packed metal frames, just like branches split from a big tree, supporting the membrane wall.
Most of the buildings were on the outermost supports. These buildings seemed very strange to Rong Yuan. Perhaps it was because the supports came first and the buildings came later. In order to accommodate the position and shape of the metal frame, the buildings had to twist themselves into strange shapes. Some were condensed into twists, some were like an inverted U, and some were tilted 70 or 80 degrees; some were as thin as a girl's arm at the bottom, but they were getting bigger and bigger on the top, like a big round fat ball; some buildings were sometimes concave and sometimes convex, just like the building blocks that children randomly built. The number of floors of these buildings also varied greatly. Many of them were single-story buildings, like an inconspicuous bird's nest; some had countless floors. The most exaggerated building Rong Yuan saw was coiled on a large support like a snake, and then it went around for most of the circle and connected to another support. The densely packed small windows on it looked like a honeycomb.
It was difficult for Rong Yuan to appreciate the architectural style here, but it was obvious that the owners of each strange-looking building were very proud. Not only did they decorate their houses with exaggerated decorations, such as neon lights flashing in hundreds of colors, but they also wrote words such as titles or shop signs on large signs for everyone to see.
There are bridges of different sizes connecting different supporting building communities, and sometimes there are some winding bridges between buildings, which seem to be built very casually, and there is no clear plan. If people here want to travel, if they want to go east, they may be turned to the west along the bridge.
There are some plants here. Most of them are small mosses, covering the road, walls and all decorations like a carpet, except for the crystal stone in the middle. There are also some vines or flowers, but no trees. The inner support is probably the botanical garden here. Rows of square platforms are fixed on the support, and various plants more than one meter tall are planted on them. Maybe it's because there is no sunlight, the plants here are rarely green, and they are basically white or transparent, with only a very small part of them having light colors.
Some mechanical objects that looked like stones or flying birds slid quietly on the road or walls. Rong Yuan watched for a long time before he realized that they were cleaning. However, the walls and roads were already very clean, so this cleaning seemed to be a useless effort. Rong Yuan thought of the road outside the membrane that was free of dust, which must have been the result of their labor. As for the "stone" that led him here, it had been sent to an unknown place by a conveyor belt.
This is a city so unique that it seems to exist only in fantasy. It is so clean and magical, yet so... dead silent.
There are no sounds, no animals, no humans.
The only thing is... a corpse.
