Chapter 341 : Chapter 341

Chapter 341: Support Arrives, a False Alarm

At this moment, the huge elevator started up.

Perhaps because of the large number of people, the roar was quite loud.

They gradually descended into the ground.

The light became sparse until everything turned dark.

All they could see were the inscriptions etched on the platform under their feet, and the inscriptions engraved on the track that were rapidly ascending.

In the dark passage, these inscriptions were the only things that were glowing.

They were like meteors flying in reverse, streaking upwards before their eyes, while everyone else was descending at a steady speed.

After the initial enthusiasm for the novelty wore off, everyone here also became silent, leaving only the sound of mechanical friction.

Then, their expressions became tense, and their eyes were filled with vigilance.

This was the response of the city guards when facing an unknown situation.

Even the students of the transcendent academies became ready to act under this atmosphere, and were even prepared for the possibility of being ambushed midway.

This elevator had been running for a while, and there was still no sign of the bottom.

God knew what would happen if they were ambushed here and fell.

Even the outsiders who were not afraid of death were not unafraid of pain.

Until at a certain moment, the elevator platform they were on finally left the dark passage, and the scenery before them suddenly opened up.

The first thing that caught their eyes was naturally the Earth Vein that ran through the entire ground and dome of the underground city.

It emitted a soft, cool-colored light that illuminated the entire underground city, completely displaying this miracle located beneath Ninglan New City in front of everyone.

At this moment, too many people let out an unconscious gasp.

Most of the people here were seeing such a sight for the first time, and it was inevitable that they could not control their exclamations of amazement.

They slowly descended from the dome.

Even Tan Han, who was among them, had to sigh in her heart when she saw this scene again.

But she did not lose her basic vigilance.

Although she believed that with Little Han in the underground city, there shouldn't be too serious consequences, they were outsiders, and there would always be times when their strength was exhausted, and times when they were powerless.

Everyone looked at the vastness of this underground city.

Although the architectural style also had elements from the surface, the style of expression was completely different.

Unlike Ninglan New City on the surface, the rock walls of the boundaries were visible to the naked eye, and the buildings were of different heights, filled with an absurdly futuristic style.

For the underground city, the glowing Earth Vein was less like a sun and more like a supporting table lamp.

Huge artificial facilities were built around the Earth Vein, giving people a unique sense of harmonious beauty.

But facing such an underground city, they couldn't connect it with the need for support.

Everything here seemed very ordinary, without any signs of war or conflict.

After a period of daze, everyone also reminded each other to react.

At this time, they must not let their guard down.

But when they landed on the ground and the elevator completely stopped and stabilized, they saw that in the open area in front of them, there was already a group of people in almost uniform uniforms waiting for their arrival.

These people were naturally all important figures in the extraordinary research base.

The uniforms they were wearing were also those of scholars or researchers.

After all, even if they were the senior management of the base, they were also senior researchers or scholars with their own achievements in the base.

If it weren't for this meeting, I wouldn't have known that many of the people I had come into contact with before had such high positions in the base.

After the elevator platform opened, the people inside came out one after another.

The people from both the dream and reality seemed to explode like an unzipped file at this moment, filling the passage in front of the elevator.

"Thank you very much for coming to support our underground city so quickly. We are here to welcome you on behalf of the extraordinary research base of the underground city. I wonder..."

At this moment, someone from our side came forward and enthusiastically said some polite words, attracting the attention of that group of people.

They hadn't expected that there would be people to welcome them when they came down.

They thought they would have to face a fierce battle with the Nightmare Demons as soon as they came down.

The city guards were fine, but as the soldiers on the front line, the people from the base didn't know who to talk to for a moment.

After all, these people were responsible for confirming the safety below in the first place.

Neither Ninglan Qiuyu nor Ninglan Qiuyue was on this level.

But at this moment, the eyes of those outsiders were wide open, staring at a familiar figure in the crowd.

The students from the transcendent academies who dared to be in the first wave were naturally people who were extremely confident in their own strength.

And many of these people were guys they had seen or had a one-sided encounter with in the previous Dream State Exchange Competition.

Even if they didn't participate in the Dream State Exchange Competition, the live broadcast of the event also made the vast majority of people remember a name, an image.

This momentary silence and embarrassment made that person not know how to respond for a moment.

"Thank you for coming down to support us. To be honest, without support, I would have been quite powerless on my own," I also stepped forward and said.

"Don't just stand here. There are still people on other levels who need to come down."

I looked at this multi-level elevator.

It was a multi-level downward transport.

At this moment, the platform on the second level was still above.

The people on the first level had to leave the platform completely before the next level could come down.

And this height was nothing for the outsiders.

Some of the impatient ones, such as those from the beast academies, jumped down directly and landed easily.

But when he raised his head handsomely, he saw a person who made him feel stressed.

The unpleasant memories from that exchange competition immediately flooded his mind, causing him to get goosebumps subconsciously.

Not only him, but many other people from other transcendent academies were also the same.

They were muttering in their hearts why they would see this lunatic here.

After reacting, they looked at their companions around them and also saw the shock in each other's eyes.

But what was more curious was why the other party would appear here.

Following my words, many people also started to move, and the staff in charge of operating the elevator also started to operate it.

And the next thing didn't need my management.

So many people had come down, and they naturally needed to be settled.

As for where to settle them, I didn't need to worry.

And I just stood where I was, watching Tan Han and the others walk towards me.

In the crowd of many outsiders, the first thing I saw was this most familiar figure.

As for the others, I at most just nodded in greeting.

After all, I was not familiar with them.

"Little Han, I didn't expect you to be here. Fortunately, you didn't leave here first," Tan Han also said with some relief at this moment.

If they had taken Little Han with them when they left before, then the underground city might have been in more difficulty.

"Yes, I didn't expect so many of you to come down," I straightened my scholar's robe and said to Tan Han.

However, at this moment, many people also spontaneously came over here.

It seemed that many of them were acquaintances, such as Aqier from the Holy Angel Academy, Yvette from the Sea Race, Ai Ke from the Dwarf Academy, and even people from the Elf Academy.

But for me, the only one I could name seemed to be Lin Qinlin.

After all, many of these people also knew my strength or understood the situation.

Even if it was not pleasant during the exchange competition, they at least recognized my strength.

And since I had come to the underground city before them, I knew more about the situation here than they did, so they were subconsciously attracted to me.

But I just had a simple conversation with them.

But the questions they asked were still more concerned with why I was here, and they went straight to the point, wanting to ask relevant questions to understand the current situation, and so on.

"It's a bit of a coincidence. I did kill quite a few Nightmare Demons. Now those disgusting guys are in the dark, and may launch some kind of surprise attack on this place at any time."

"So, the current situation in the underground city is not as urgent as imagined?"

"More or less. But the situation was indeed urgent at that time. The sudden attack of the Nightmare Demons directly brought the entire extraordinary research base to a standstill, so a distress signal was sent. Later, those Nightmare Demons cut off our connection with the surface, so we couldn't communicate in detail. But during this period, I conveniently solved some of the trouble with the Nightmare Demons."

After my simple explanation, the other party also roughly understood the current situation in the underground city.

It could be said that it was a complete false alarm.

But this didn't mean they didn't care anymore.

And I continued to explain some basic common sense about the extraordinary research base to them.

After all, they were new here and urgently needed to understand these aspects.

"Then... Big Sis Little Han, this uniform of yours... did you get a position in the extraordinary research base?"

"I suppose so. I'm temporarily working there as a scholar. It's usually quite relaxed," I shrugged and explained to them.

I looked at Ai Ke in front of me.

This cute little loli from the Dwarf Academy was a very talkative person.

Many of the things I said just now were in response to her doubts.

But what I said was also what they wanted to know.

"A scholar?"

Everyone looked at me as I said this so casually, and naturally, they didn't believe it.

They couldn't believe that the other party was just a scholar here.

What did a scholar do here?

They were just first-year students who had just come into contact with the transcendent.

They were not qualified at all, right?

But this matter was just passed over like that, because in the next batch that came down, I saw an acquaintance again.

Ninglan Qiuyue, and her brother Ninglan Qiuyu.

Just one glance, and I saw the shadow of a Nightmare Demon on him.

As expected... I didn't pay attention last time.

Perhaps at that time, he hadn't let this Nightmare Demon accompany him.

But was he that bold?

I remember Ninglan Qiuyue should have told him that there was someone here who could see the traces of a Nightmare Demon, right?

But I just glanced at him and didn't stare too much, so as not to alert the enemy or something.

"Ninglan Qiuyu is down."

At this moment, many students from the transcendent academies and the soldiers of the city guard also had a backbone with his arrival, waiting for the next instruction.

Just as my gaze moved away, Ninglan Qiuyu's gaze also swept over here.

After all, there was a group of outsiders here, which naturally attracted his attention.

But it was just a glance.

The other party also recognized me at a glance.

Although he was a little surprised, his gaze did not stay for long.

After confirming that it was safe, the other party also communicated with the people from the base.

After all, they had come down with the intention of providing support.

The first step was naturally to understand the situation, then formulate a policy, plan a strategy, and so on.

This naturally didn't need my concern.

After all, the world would not be much affected by the absence of anyone.

I was not the material to be a savior, and I didn't have to meddle in everything.

After a brief chat, they also prepared to leave first.

And I was preparing to go back, to the extraordinary base.

After all, there were still many things to do there.

Just whether those three Nightmare Demons could be squeezed for some more intelligence was still to be determined.

The idle scholars in the base were all looking forward to whether I would open a project or topic about the Nightmare Demons.

They hadn't even figured out the existence of the Nightmare, yet they wanted to study the Nightmare Demon, whose life form was even higher than the Nightmare.

This was really aiming too high.

But it didn't matter.

It was also good to let them test some of the characteristics of the Nightmare.

Anyway, they were more professional than me in this process.

And my return to the base naturally had a more important matter to attend to.

With the display of my strength, the authority I obtained in the base also became higher.

This was one of the benefits that the people in the base provided me when facing the threat of the Nightmare Demons.

This also meant that I could touch the real core of the extraordinary research base, the deeper development and application of the inscription skills!

This was equivalent to using their way of understanding to interpret the application of the rune ritual with the inscription system.

Although it might not bring me any benefits, it could fill my Memory Bookshelf spellbook, serve as a foundation, and facilitate future analogies.

Returning to the base, I could clearly feel that with the arrival of the support from the surface, the atmosphere here had also changed from the previous tension to the current relaxation.

It seemed that those scholars and technicians were really scared by those Nightmare Demons.

And just as I was in the library where those experimental records were piled up, looking through those results, I also learned some news from the people coming and going here.

The number of city guards who had come down to support this time was too large, and the underground city seemed to have not that many spare accommodation for the time being.

So the city guards had temporarily withdrawn from the underground city, but were on standby at the surface passage at all times.

After all, after learning that the request for help from the underground city was just a few Nightmare Demons playing tricks, and that it was ultimately a false alarm, they couldn't waste so much manpower here.

I heard that after the city guards withdrew to the surface this time, they would begin to hold a grand ceremony for the inauguration of the new City Lord.

Before that, they had to clean up the impact of this resistance war, such as the bloodstains, corpses, and so on.

At that time, the new City Lord would give an inauguration speech at this ceremony and review the recent experiences of Ninglan New City.

After all, such a big event had happened in the city, affecting so many people.

It was certain that they had to give the citizens an explanation.

And the underground city would continue to be assisted by those outsiders.

Plus, with the return of the Earth Patrol Team to the underground city, it was enough to not be unable to resist when facing those Nightmare Demons.

Of course, if there were any outsiders who were unwilling to stay in the underground city, they could also follow the city guards to the surface.

And I heard that after Ninglan Qiuyu came to the underground city, the first thing he did was to discuss the military supply problem related to the beast tide with the person in charge of the extraordinary research here, but he encountered a lot of trouble.

I looked at the time.

It was not early now, and I really should go back.

Just as I put down the materials in my hand and went out, I ran into an acquaintance at the base again.

"Hmm? Tan Han, I didn't expect to see you here."

I saw the other party appearing here so leisurely, and it didn't seem like she was looking for me, so I asked.

And Tan Han had other people with her.

"Yes, because I'm free now, so I thought of coming here to visit and see how the transcendent systems of other worlds develop."

"Is that so? It's good to see more. While there's still free time, from what I understand, the inscription system and gear machinery of this world are indeed very powerful. They have some similarities with the entry-level mechanical alchemy in alchemy. And the inscription etching skills they have mastered are also very interesting. But for a visit, I would actually recommend the history museum on the surface more. That old curator will be very enthusiastic to explain many things to you."