Back then, when this group of miners was caught, they were locked up in a … building.
This transparent building had temperature and air. Occasionally, the walls would turn transparent, so they could see their surroundings … but there was nothing.
Generally speaking, this place was just a vast plain.
From then on, the miners were trapped here. They could not leave because the door of this building could not be opened at will.
However, there would occasionally be some holes in the wall, and some rat-like creatures would crawl into the holes. They would bring … a lot of meat-like food to feed this group of Ershi Min miners.
The miners did not know what kind of meat it was, but they had to eat it because there was no food at all.
In this way, the miners continued to live here on the food of the rats. Of course, as a normal intelligent creature, it was very unbearable to be kept here.
So, they kept thinking of ways to escape.
They could not contact the outside because the signal was not working, so the miners came up with another way to contact the company's rescue.
They used a small machine that they carried with them, which was … the light mosquito.
The light mosquito was originally an exploration machine used to detect the environment of the alien cave. When the rats brought them food, they released the light mosquito outside.
They adjusted and set the light mosquito to look for a position with good signal outside and send out a distress signal to contact the company.
Then, the light mosquito returned.
When the light mosquito reappeared in front of the miners, it was no longer the original light mosquito.
The miners found that the light mosquito had been modified … the light mosquito flew around outside all day and no longer responded to their commands.
And after a long period of observation, the miners found that the light mosquito would collect materials and assemble them together … to make a 'light mosquito nest'.
The light mosquito nest looked similar to an oven from the outside, but in fact, it was a small factory inside. It would use the materials brought back by the light mosquito to assemble new light mosquito, and when there were enough new light mosquito, it would continue to collect materials to make a light mosquito nest.
The original light mosquito … somehow became a 'wild animal' here and began to multiply in this world.
But that was not enough. At some point, the miners also noticed … some creatures that seemed to be native here … would hunt and prey on the light mosquito.
It was originally a small detection machine, but it seemed to have perfectly blended into this environment.
In the face of this strange phenomenon, the miners did not give up. They even thought of various ways to escape.
However, because they did not have any chance to come into contact with the outside world, all kinds of methods were meaningless unless they used violence to open the door. But they had already tried, and no matter what, they could not leave this prison that would become transparent at any time.
And as the miners stayed here, they witnessed the changes in their surroundings.
A small number of buildings slowly appeared around them. Most of these buildings were built by rats and some other creatures.
From the outside, it looked like a very simple stone house, probably at the level of the primitive Ershi Min era.
Then, the miners met with a special creature.
This creature was about the same size as them. It only, It did not enter the miner's prison.
It seemed to be observing from the outside. After dozens of days and nights, the creature finally entered the miner's prison.
As soon as they entered, the creature said ….
The language of the Ershi people.
It communicated with the miners and talked to them about various things.
In fact, it was mainly asking questions. It asked a lot about the civilization of the Ershi Min … and the miners initially thought that this creature was the one who had locked them up here … The rats' companions, of course, were not very willing to answer.
But the creature promised that as long as they answered, it would let them go back.
Because there was no better way, the group of Ershi Min could only discuss with it about their own civilization.
During the discussion, they also tried to ask where the creature came from, but the creature barely mentioned anything about itself.
After the first time, the creature said that it would let them go after they slept once.
The miners believed what the creature said, but after they slept once and woke up … they lost their memories.
And then, the creature came again.
The creature continued to talk about civilization and ideals with the miners who had lost their memories. Because the miners had lost their memories, the creature also did not remember what happened before.
And they only … lost part of their memories. They still remembered that they were Ershi Min and most of their knowledge … but they did not know who they were and why they were there.
So the creature could still continue to talk about civilization with them.
Every time the creature left, the miners would go into a state of amnesia again, and then it would come back again to continue the discussion …
It kept repeating, of course, the things they discussed were a little different … and the range of their memories became very small. Later, the miners only forgot about the creature and the civilization they talked about.
They still remembered that they had been locked up here for a long time.
So, many miners began to wonder why they were locked up here and wanted to leave.
At that time, the entrance of the prison was no longer locked, and they could enter and leave at will.
So some miners put on protective suits and ran out … When they put on the protective suits on the ship, they would exclaim, "So that's how it is!" and run out excitedly.
But the miners who ran out would … sink into the ground, and finally only their faces were left on the ground.
Every time an Ershi Min was buried in the ground, a stone house would appear next to it.
Because many of the Ershi miners had escaped, it had led to the formation of a large village where there were only a few buildings.
This phenomenon scared the remaining miners so much that they did not dare to escape, nor did they use the protective suits on the ship to recover their memories, so they stayed there.
Maybe one day, the creature that communicated with them felt that they were no longer valuable, so it let the rats kill them all?
On the surface, it seemed like this was the case.
So now Lin was more or less sure that there were creatures here … that wanted to understand the Ershi Min's civilization.
Maybe it was to prepare for an invasion.
Although there were no Undead Bugs here, Lin felt that they were similar to Undead Bugs.
Lin decided to look for them, but before that, Lin needed to get some … nutrients.
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