Chapter 2483 Fiery Prison City (2)
"We need to traverse seven layers of mantle fissures and twelve magma zones before we can reach the Earth's core."
"The middle is filled with multiple lines of defense, including natural defenses formed by magma rivers and man-made defenses by the Zhurong clan. If your presence is exposed, the Zhurong clan will activate the Earth's core fire to stop your invasion."
"Therefore, please follow my instructions carefully."
Fire Ghost, looking extremely thoughtful, analyzed the pros and cons for Zhang Yi.
"Very well, let's go!"
Zhang Yi said it casually, not really caring.
All obstacles are meaningless to him; the vast distances are merely a fleeting moment in his spatial journey.
Zhang Yi opened a dimensional gate, bypassing various blockades, and continued towards the center of the Zhu Rong clan.
The process of traversing the Earth's crust is both magnificent and terrifying.
That was a world that human eyes had never seen before.
Ten-thousand-meter-thick rock layers shimmer with a metallic luster under high pressure, like a petrified starry sea.
Passing through the gaps in the dimensional gate, one can occasionally see enormous siliceous creatures wriggling in the rock walls, like giant beasts that have been sleeping for hundreds of millions of years.
The closer you get to the underground, the more turbulent the magma flows above, where high-temperature gases swirl and create violent energy storms.
Even though I knew it was perfectly safe in the shadows, witnessing such a spectacular scene still stirred my emotions.
Fatty Xu was sweating profusely with nervousness: "My God, this place is no human being!"
Deng Shentong glanced at him and said indifferently, "Are you afraid?"
"I'm not afraid; I respect nature!"
Soon, Zhang Yi had zigzagged his way through the defenses and arrived at the magma layer.
It was a true sea of fire.
Endless lava flows under the pull of gravity, surging waves reaching hundreds of meters high, and the ejected air currents can melt steel into liquid.
However, Tianhai Technology is no longer the fragile human civilization of the past.
Zhang Yi stood in the sky, his Terminator Armor activating stealth mode—a dual stealth system combining optical stealth and radar detection capabilities, making him virtually undetectable.
Zhang Yi gazed at the churning sea of rocks and murmured, "It's boiling like blood. Is this the blood of Earth?"
Yang Xinxin stood beside him, her dark eyes flashing with cold light: "And in that blood lies the flame of the ancients."
They continued their descent.
Finally, as Zhang Yi passed through the last lava flow, his vision opened up.
They arrived in an unimaginable underground world.
A vast "cave continent" floats above a sea of lava.
The sky was composed of flowing lava clouds, shimmering red like an eternal sunset.
Tens of thousands of rock pillars support this continent, resembling the skeleton of a god.
Countless waterfalls of lava cascaded down the cave walls, merging into the sea of fire beneath their feet with a deafening roar.
In the sea, a huge lava whale, hundreds of meters long, was slowly swimming, its eyes burning like golden fireballs!
There are also kilometer-long molten serpents coiling in the dark red waves; when they twist their bodies, the waves they create can swallow an entire skyscraper.
Those were lives, living beings, enormous, no less than a blue whale. Yet they could swim in the lava, and Zhou Ke'er's eyes widened when she saw them.
As a doctor, she has also made significant achievements in the field of biology, which is truly unimaginable; carbon-based organisms can achieve this.
"Zhang Yi, could you catch some of these magma creatures for me to study later?"
"Zhou Ke'er asked."
"Of course, I'd build you a lava zoo, no problem!"
Zhang Yi said with a smile.
He gazed into the distance, his tactical goggles rapidly sweeping across the entire continent via artificial intelligence, retrieving crucial information for Zhang Yi.
As the view rapidly zoomed in from high above, Zhang Yi was able to see everything below clearly.
The entire city before him was laid out before him in his entirety.
Describing this place as a "city" is not quite appropriate. Because its structure is land suspended in magma, like large ships or islands.
Above the island stands a man-made, reddish-black city.
A city wall made of megaliths and molten gold stretches for miles, with a fire tower atop the city burning with an inextinguishable crimson flame.
Within the city, the Zhurong people moved about in dense numbers. Their bodies were as red as rocks, and from a distance they looked like statues sculpted by flames.
Living in the Earth's core and able to survive by absorbing geothermal energy, they don't even need to bother developing technology.
Therefore, the level of technology is visibly very low.
This is an ancient race with muscular builds and simple limbs.
No wonder, they didn't even know the current strength of Huaxu Kingdom, nor did they know about Zhang Yi's existence, yet they dared to directly attack the ground!
"I love using a strategy of 'dimensional reduction' – I avoid you when you're at your peak, but I take advantage of you when you're weak!"
Zhang Yi grinned, revealing a set of chilling white teeth.
Looking around, everything was a crimson color, with waves of heat rising and scorching.
Fatty Xu swallowed hard: "My god, this place... looks like the eighteenth level of hell!"
Lu Keran's eyes gleamed with fervor: "With such concentrated firepower, the thermal energy resources are terrifyingly abundant! If we could obtain the technology of the Zhurong clan and develop this subterranean energy source, it would be a tremendous treasure!"
No matter the time, all Lu Keran thinks about is technology.
Deng Shentong also exclaimed with emotion, "This is the miracle of the Zhurong civilization, and also the miracle of the Creator!"
Yang Xinxin added coldly, "Their buildings are formed by the resonance of rock marrow, requiring no mechanical tools. However, their technological development level is still at the early stage of energy utilization."
Zhang Yi narrowed his eyes, his gaze passing over the city of flames.
"A civilization with knight-level warriors, yet unable to leave the lava."
He smiled faintly: "I'd like to see how long their flames can burn."
High in the sky, Zhang Yi slowly opened his arms.
"Begin, descend! Let this place become our stepping stone to the heavens and seas!"
A colossal dimensional gate appeared behind Zhang Yi, as if a rift had been torn in space, stretching across the sky.
The first thing to emerge was a row of obsidian-like steel formations.
A hundred thousand-strong mechanical army emerged from the dimensional gate in perfect formation, like a surging tide!
Each heavily armored mech soldier had a cold white identification ring lit up on its chest, and its shoulder nozzles emitted a thin mist. The shield gleamed with a warm light in the extremely high temperature.
Behind him were thirty colossal mechanical lifeforms, each over 600 meters tall, which were themselves giant land-based motherships. After being modified, they possessed destructive power comparable to that of Inhumans at the White Bishop level!
The massive, dark mechanical army has turned the sky above the Zhu Rong clan's territory into a gloomy and oppressive atmosphere.
