"What's your look?"

Li Yao was confused by Li Jialing's eyes, and the monk was confused. "Why did I read the strong sense of 'caring' from your eyes? What's the situation?"

"nothing."

Li Jialing lowered his eyes and said solemnly, "I just hope Brother Yao knows that no matter what kind of avenue I choose in the end, no matter what kind of person I will become, I will never forget that you are mine... Relatives, in my heart, your weight is even heavier than His Highness. I sincerely treat you as my elder brother. I hope you will always be safe, uh, and healthy."

"Yeah?"

Li Yao felt Li Jialing's sincerity and grinned, "I really treat you as my little brother. In short, don't be deceived by Long Yangjun, the female devil, and don't get stuck in the horns when encountering some small darkness and difficulties. In short, let's take it step by step. You can let go of things like saving the world first, learn to help when you see injustice, and draw your sword to help you. It's also great to act bravely to help the strong and help the weak. In short, Brother Yao has confidence in you. I believe that one day you will understand the essence of the great way of cultivation and become a more powerful cultivator than Brother Yao!"

"Maybe."

Li Jialing said, "I have to walk more, look more, and think more to choose the final road. Only in this way can I run down my own road without looking back!"

The two of them said, and before they knew it, they walked to the deepest part of the town.

This is a rock wall hundreds of meters high, but it is covered with beehive-like caves. The diameter of each hole is about three or five meters. The fence is woven with vines outside, and the sound of "hum and hum" comes from inside.

Countless underground people carried a large amount of moss, vines, mushrooms, and even buckets of fine ore into the cave. They could see that the weight of pressing on them was extremely heavy, which made their bones burst, their veins exposed, and their expressions were both ferocious and painful.

At a moment, people in the deep cave emptied moss and vines, and carried buckets of stinky feces. The burden was finally reduced, and the originally hideous face showed a habit of numbness.

Li Yao and Li Jialing were both VIP guests here. The underground people did not stop them from entering the cave, and they didn't even dare to contact them with their eyes. They lowered their heads and hurriedly walked past them.

The two of them entered a cave at will and saw dozens of raised rock insects.

The rock worms are indeed not very similar to insects, but more like white and fat pigs. They are just slightly longer, with a length of up to three or four meters and a diameter of about two meters, just like an oval large meat ball.

Rather than calling them "rockworms", it is better to call them "rockworms".

Li Yao didn't know if the rock worms had feet or claws, at least they could not see any organs used for movement now, and perhaps they were covered by the stack of fat meat.

This is a spirit beast with extremely slow movement, like a sloth, curled up in the depths of the cave and remained motionless like a statue. Li Yao suspected that they did not even have the ability to forage on their own.

The "hum and whine" sound was not their screams, but the breathing sound from the exhaust holes above their heads. These stupid and lazy spirit beasts were too lazy to even make a sound.

The underground people chopped a large amount of moss, vines and mushrooms, and mixed them together with ore ground into fine powder, stirred them evenly, and threw them into the feed trough. Several rock insects slowly surrounded them. The "head" of the round eyes was not visible and the cross cracks were cracked, and thousands of white silk threads were sprayed out, wrapping the food into snow-white balls and rolling them into the cross cracks, which was considered to be a food operation.

While the rock worms were eating, the underground people bypassed them and went deep into the cave to collect their dark green feces, carefully scraping every corner without missing a single trace.

There were also some underground people who were holding long-handled brushes and scrubbing the rock worms hard. At first, Li Yao thought he wanted to clean it and slaughter it for food, but when he looked closely, it was wrong. It turned out that the underground people were massaged and relaxing the rock worms!

It can be seen that rock worms are almost the only means of production for all residents in District 10084. They are extremely worried about raising and caring for rock worms.

Li Jialing told Li Yao that the rock insect was a edible spirit beast that was 10,000 years ago in the Xinghai Empire era. It was a very excellent edible spirit beast that had undergone a large number of gene modulations. The earliest research was even carried out during the period of the monster beast empire that was good at biochemical technology.

Rockworms can swallow up tens of thousands of the coarse ingredients, including ores containing a large amount of trace elements, converted into a large amount of fat and protein, and provide the energy necessary for human survival in the harshest environment.

The rockworm is full of treasures. It combines some special spiders and silkworm genes. The silk thread used to wrap food is also a good textile raw material. It will peel off once a year. The peeled off can also make a leather jacket that is both light and warm.

In addition, the feces of rockworms need to be refined almost, they are natural fertilizers, suitable for the nourishment of most plants and even mushrooms and mosses, and can make wild plants domesticated by humans into crops with skyrocketing yields.

It can be said that in the expansion of unknown regions in human exploration, as long as rock insects are brought with them, the two key problems of "clothing" and "food" will be solved, which will lay a solid foundation for the development of agriculture.

However, too many genetic modifications have been carried out in terms of "omnivorous" and "availability". The consequence of rockworms' desperate growth of fat and protein is that their mobility and predation ability are greatly weakened, which is to be nearly zero.

This is a life born in a laboratory. It is extremely difficult to adapt to the harsh life in the wild while maintaining its existing traits. You can only stay in the breeding room and be fed and grown up by humans.

When the Xinghai Empire designed these underground shelters ten thousand years ago, there was a complete set of extremely advanced and sophisticated automated feeding equipment to ensure that this "meat factory" continuously outputs products from the initial rockworm mating to the end of turning into boxes of ready-to-eat meat wrapped in cans. The entire process does not require many workers and keepers to operate it.

But with the erosion of time, the automated feeding equipment of the past has long been exhausted, broken and no longer existed, and the initial knowledge of feeding rockworms has long been lost. Today's underground people can only raise them in the most primitive ways.

Since rock worms can grow so much meat, they naturally have a huge appetite. They cannot go out to find food by themselves. They all have to rely on underground people to collect moss, tear off vines, cut off mushrooms, dig ore, and then grind and mix them hard. They put them into the feed trough. This is a very heavy physical labor. Three or five strong men can barely satisfy the appetite of a rock worm.

In order to ensure that so many mosses can grow in the underground world, vines and mushrooms must continue to throw the feces of rockworms into the cracks of the rocks and then carefully serve various crops. The underground world was not suitable for crop growth, and even the smallest cluster of moss was watered by underground people with blood and sweat.

Because the real fully automatic feeding trough has long been destroyed, the rock worms are not adapted to the environment deep in the cave, so people have to massage their bodies day and night to force them to exercise, otherwise dark spots will soon grow on the rock worms, and all the flesh and blood inside will be necrotic and cannot be eaten.

These work accounts for 99% of the underground people and 99% of the time. It can be said that the entire 10084 area revolves around "rockworms".

Based on the stalagmites, stalactites and the number of caves on the rock walls I saw just now, Li Yao quickly calculated the ratio of rock worms to underground residents. He found that compared with the population of District 10084, the number of rock worms seems to be too many. Even if they kill all the meat, they can't finish eating so many. If they can raise a few fewer heads, wouldn't people be much more relaxed?

Li Jialing shook his head and said that he only knew one thing but not the other. As I said just now, although the underground people have worked hard to raise so many rock insects, they usually don’t want to eat large pieces of meat. It would be nice to have a small piece of meat chopped and mixed into the meat porridge every few days.

Most rock insects have shed their skin three times and have completely matured, and they have to carry them to the town above, that is, the "four-digit area" numbered between 1000 and 9999 in exchange for valuable energy, civilian magic weapons and weapons.

The underground residents of the 10084 area are not completely ignorant barbarians. They still retain basic language and culture, and a small number of magic weapons and formations are still operating. They also long to know what the world above is like, a large amount of materials and fuel must be exchanged for rock worms. However, various synthetic foods in the upper world are popular. Rock worms cannot be sold at too high prices, and even a few rock worms may not be able to exchange for a standard crystal box.

Even if they grit their teeth, they do not have any magic weapons and energy, at least there is an essential material, and they must go to the towns above to buy it, that is, fresh compressed air, and components of the maintenance air circulation and filtration system.

Even if the towns under the ground have the largest and efficient ventilation system, which continuously introduces fresh air on the ground, it is a very depressing and dull world full of all kinds of deadly poison gases.

Once the waste gas exhaled by humans accumulates too much, it will also cause everyone to die of suffocation.

Therefore, underground residents can abandon all magic weapons, and even need to use the lighting talisman array above their heads, turning into ghosts in the dark, but they will never abandon the air circulation and filtering system.

Once the air circulation and filtration system fail, ultra-high compression fresh air must be released in time to gain valuable maintenance time.

Without air, it is more terrifying than without sunlight, and it is a real disaster.

The residents of four-digit towns will eat the fatal weakness of the underground people in five-digit towns. The lion opened his mouth and opened the price of relevant magic weapons components and compressed air to an extremely high price, so that dozens of rock worms could exchange a small can of compressed air.
Chapter completed!