Chapter 496 [Chapter of Hidden Abyss] Forty: Arriving at the Origin of Disaster

Chen Yan looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar chronology of the celestial stems and earthly branches of the lunar calendar, and an idea arose in his mind.

‘I’m not already crazy, am I…’

He looked at the faces of the passers-by on the street who had exactly the same characteristics as the Asians from Tianshenzhou, and he became suspicious of the existence of the "City of Mountains".

'Is the [City of Mountains] I saw real or fake?'

‘How could [City of Peaks] be full of Asians from Tianshenzhou? Shouldn’t they be strain people? How could strain people exist in the form of Asians?’

He looked at this incredible steel city again.

‘Could it be that all this is just an illusion caused by my loss of control?

Could it be...because I have the deepest impression of Asian facial features in my mind, so when I have hallucinations, my subconscious calls upon the impression of Asian facial features deep in my brain, so all I see are Asians

What does it look like?'

The more he thought about it, the more confused he became, and his whole person fell into such uninhibited and random thoughts that he could not extricate himself from.

‘Perhaps… there is no ‘resurrected’ city of mountains at all, and everything I experienced underground was also an illusion caused by my loss of control?

The city that has been turned into ruins that I wish to see is real!

Everything I have experienced is fake!

Everything I see...

They are all things that only exist in my fantasies caused by my loss of control!’

He took out his mobile phone with trembling hands and opened the inspiration intensity APP. He saw that the inspiration intensity still did not break through the maximum value, but swayed below the maximum value.

'But no matter what, mobile phones will not lie!'

He looked at the floating mercury ball on the thermometer APP and gradually calmed down.

'My spirit must be disturbed.'

He looked solemn.

‘Since [City of Peaks] has been resurrected, [Brain Ball Strain] must have also recovered. I guess I have been infected by [Brain Ball Strain] now, so I have such...random thoughts.'

Chen Yan finally came to a more reliable conclusion, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

'According to the precedent of Alice and Wilke Young, even if you are infected by a bacterial organism like [Brain Ball Strain], there will be a period of infection process. This process can take several days...or even half a month.'

'In other words, as long as I find my teammates, leave the city of mountains, and return to the surface before I am completely infected by the [brain ball strain], I will definitely be saved!'

Chen Yan once again opened the map marked with the location of Paulkin Walker and continued along the street toward the little red dot representing him.

As Alice described before, the people in the City of Peaks looked a little strange, and the location of the buildings was also strange. After Chen Yan came to the street, he saw that the buildings here were layered——

There are streets, gardens and shops between the upper and lower buildings. It is obvious that each floor is a [block].

It is unknown how the two adjacent [blocks] are connected. Although there are some parts between the buildings in the upper block and the lower block, those bordering parts are not enough to support the buildings in the upper block.

So, it seems like the buildings on the block use some type of levitation technology?

The blocks in some locations are not "level", but have a certain slope, but the pedestrians walking on them did not "fall" because of this. When they walked on the sloping streets, the angle between their bodies and the street was still at a right angle.

'Well...is this some kind of gravity technology...'

Looking at this part of the city as a whole, it is almost completely "hollowed out".

It was really hard for Chen Yan to imagine why such a completely "hollowed out" city wouldn't collapse and fall frequently.

As far as the city within Chen Yan's current field of vision is concerned, there are a total of 6 floors of [blocks].

From bottom to top, the higher the blocks look, the more "high-end" they look. There are even streets and buildings made of glass-like materials in the blocks on the top 6th floor.

Chen Yan squinted his eyes and looked hard at the "glass building" for a moment, and then found a line of small letters with a dim green light "floating" on the top of the glass building:

"Old Radiation Ring Natural Disaster Sequence Research Institute"

It's really baffling.

The neighborhood where Chen Yan is currently located just looks very shabby. Not only do there not be many commercial buildings, most areas are also rusty. Some buildings are so rusty that the doors and windows cannot be opened.

Should this level of block be considered a public residential area?

The buildings in the area above Chen Yan's head look relatively new, and they clearly resemble shops. The billboards on top of the shops look like some kind of holographic image, which is different from the holographic image Chen Yan knows.

This kind of holographic image is obviously based on some very high-end algorithm, and it actually attracts customers on its own and interacts with the guests.

Chen Yan lowered his stiff head.

In the neighborhood where he is currently, most of the people are wearing weird clothes. Chen Yan's miner's uniform is not the most conspicuous among the crowd -

Most of the clothes worn by the people on the street are very worn out. The ones that can be seen at a glance are various styles of jackets, obviously ill-fitting factory work clothes, static protective clothing with black armor, and a large number of heavy isolation clothing with reflective stickers.

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Even if they don't belong to a civilization, Chen Yan can still tell the identities of passers-by at a glance——

They are workers.

Although wearing these heavy "equipments", the pedestrians on the street did not show any discomfort. They were going about their normal daily lives in this city, just like the pedestrians on Walker Street in Yanan City. These

"Heavy" equipment is just a part of their lives, not a "burden".

There were only pedestrians on the streets of the block, and there were no similar "vehicles". Instead, between different blocks, Chen Yan saw vehicles floating "out of thin air"——

There was no sound of engines or any air waves. Those things that looked like "vehicles" were just like "ghosts" shuttling through the air between blocks without any trace of them.

sound.

'The technology of the City of Peaks is even more incomprehensible than the pirate technology...'

Seeing that he did not attract people's attention, Chen Yan followed the direction of Paulkin Walker pointed on the mobile phone map and walked towards a certain location in the center of the City of Mountains.

The atmosphere in the City of Peaks is rather strange. The people here... look like normal people, but in fact they are strains of people. The atmosphere between them is a bit depressing, and greetings can only be carried out in the form of "whispering".

The feeling they gave Chen Yan was very similar to when Chen Yan had just left Tianshen Prefecture and felt that his hometown might be hit by military disasters every day.

The original living environment of the City of Mountains must have been very harsh.

Chen Yan looked at his phone and counted more than thirty minutes. He had arrived near the center of the block, that is, close to the red dot where Paulkin Walker was.

'According to my walking distance, I can walk about three to five kilometers in more than thirty minutes. In other words, the horizontal area of ​​the City of Mountains is not large... but the City of Mountains is a three-dimensional city. The horizontal area of ​​the bottom block is

It does not represent its overall size.'

As Paulkin Walker said on the phone, at this moment, the central part of the block has been blocked, and Chen Yan can only see the layers of layers smashed through by the ruins of the Midea laboratory from a distant position on the outside of the blocked area.

Layer blocks.
Chapter completed!