Era of Disaster Chapter 112: Underworld

Chapter 112: Underworld

Bai Yi’s group carried the four corpses outside and dug a simple hole to bury them. Anyway, there was a big cemetery outside. As for the circ.u.mstances of Xiao’s team, they couldn’t be considered to be sad either, but Bai Yi’s group just felt that it was quite pitiful. Perhaps they just had some sympathy for people who had persevered through the same thing as them.

That’s right, pitiful!

In New Zealand now, the initial estimates of the number of surviving evolved humans was not even 1 million. The population of New Zealand before wasn’t a lot either but it was still around 5 – 6 million people. In this short 9 months, more than 80% of the people had died. Moreover, even now all the surviving evolved humans lived in fear every single day. They feared meeting some dangerous evolved lifeforms and getting killed in a moment of carelessness. Other than that, they still had to worry about when they would fall into the berserk state and not be able to wake up again, becoming truly mindless monsters.

In New Zealand now, all the evolved humans lived on the edge in fear, and every step they took could be their last.

Even Bai Yi’s team met with numerous dangers over these few months as well. However, they were lucky enough and very adaptable. As such, none of them had died during this period. One would be wrong if they thought that Bai Yi’s team could move around fearlessly and recklessly. Hence, when they witnessed the death of Xiao’s team, they also felt much sympathy for them.

The Progenitor had asked them to do something to make up to the entire world for her mistakes, but they still couldn’t see any trace of hope yet.

“Momo, can you get those Spirit Devouring b.u.t.terflies to follow us?” Bai Yi asked. There were another two vengeful spirits that chased all the way inside, but they were swiftly devoured by the b.u.t.terflies. The other vengeful spirits seemed to naturally feel afraid of the b.u.t.terflies and they didn’t enter this place anymore. Their journey would be a lot smoother in this ghost city if they could move with this bunch of Spirit Devouring b.u.t.terflies.

“Daddy are you willing to feed and take care of them?” Momo asked happily.

“I said if we could bring them along. As for food, I really don’t know how to feed these things,” Bai Yi explained. It wasn’t so easy to understand new things like this, and Momo’s eyes had also changed after entering this city. They didn’t know what would happen to her after leaving the city, so Bai Yi was also very worried about her.

“Oh……” Momo said with some resentment, seemingly quite unhappy.

“En, we can try to raise them if you can make these b.u.t.terflies follow us of their own will.”

“Really?!” Momo jumped happily.

“Really.” Bai Yi nodded.

“My daddy said I can bring you guys along. Do you want to follow us…?” Momo immediately said joyously to the b.u.t.terflies surrounding her.

Woolf and the rest of the group were instantly speechless. You shouldn’t pamper your daughter so much, no? Without even talking about how they were supposed to bring so many b.u.t.terflies with them, just the danger of these b.u.t.terflies was enough to keep all of them on guard. This danger wasn’t just talking about their ability to consume souls. After all, who knew what other dangers these b.u.t.terflies posed. However, since Bai Yi had already made the decision, the rest of them didn’t object either.

Bai Yi saw Momo talking to those b.u.t.terflies and felt like laughing. Could those b.u.t.terflies even understand her words?

In New Zealand now, practically every plant and animal had a.s.similated with activated cells, and their intelligence had grown greatly. However, it was still the intelligence of mammals that had increased more in comparison. Maybe it was because the Progenitor was human and thus a mammal as well.

“En en, oh ok, you guys can’t leave this place for now? This is the environment that you guys mutated and adapted to huh.” When those b.u.t.terflies stopped on top of the feelers on Momo’s head, she started talking to herself. It was like she really was communicating with the b.u.t.terflies.

Can she really understand them?

Bai Yi suddenly recalled that in the past, Momo communicated with Sharpei in this way too, but he just thought that it was because Sharpei and Momo grew up together since they were young. From the looks of it now, it didn’t seem to be just because of that.

Animal bond?

That doesn’t seem right either, Momo didn’t seem to be so close to all animals.

Bai Yi couldn’t guess the reason, but he thought that it probably wasn’t a bad thing.

At this time, 11 b.u.t.terflies flew out from the swarm. The b.u.t.terflies were all packed quite tightly together just now. As such, they couldn’t tell that these b.u.t.terflies seemed to be black and almost transparent. They only realized this when these 11 b.u.t.terflies flew out. If they didn’t look carefully, they almost thought that these b.u.t.terflies were just a projection and didn’t possess a real body. These 11 b.u.t.terflies stopped on Momo’s body and stuck to her closely.

“You guys can leave with me? It’s ok, Momo likes you guys a lot!” Momo said happily.

Just when they were trying to understand what had happened, these 11 b.u.t.terflies just stuck to Momo’s body like this and slowly merged into her. They went in…! Bai Yi immediately got a big shock and wanted to stop Momo. They only saw these b.u.t.terflies for the first time, and even their name was just given. They didn’t know the characteristics of these b.u.t.terflies at all. If something really happened, then it would be too late for Ba Yi to feel regret.

“Momo!”

“En daddy, what’s wrong?”

“What is this? Why did these b.u.t.terflies merge into your body?” When Bai Yi put his hand on Momo’s shoulder he had already forced himself to calm down. In a situation like this, n.o.body knew what was going on, so it was best to deal with it calmly.

“I don’t know either, they just said that they could leave with me!” Momo said and stretched out her right hand.

From her fingertips, a b.u.t.terfly spread its wings and flew out. Everyone dumbly looked at this b.u.t.terfly that carried a slight glow. There definitely wasn’t any b.u.t.terfly on Momo’s hand just now, so how did this b.u.t.terfly appear? Wait…If they could still tell that the b.u.t.terflies before had a real body, then this b.u.t.terfly was completely transparent without a physical body.

“Ah I can’t do this anymore, I’m hallucinating.” Woolf smacked his head. Pupu beside him shook his head vigorously too, his whole body shaking about.

Bai Yi also ma.s.saged his forehead. Even though they saw countless new and strange lifeforms in New Zealand so far, this kind of change was really still beyond their imaginations.

“Momo, what just happened? Explain slowly,” Bai Yi said gently to Momo.

“En!” Momo nodded.

After Momo used her simple and kiddy words to explain for a long while, the rest of them finally understood more or less what was going on.

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Underworld – A special environment where a large number of living things had died. Spiritual lifeforms can directly exist in this place.

The underworld existed in many legends around the world, but in reality, n.o.body had truly discovered any place that had ghosts so far. There were no ghosts discovered even in those ancient battlefields or ancient tombs. In truth, the world had a natural ability to repair itself, and Earth was a world that existed mainly in the physical dimension. Without outside forces to maintain it, an underworld that was born through chance like this would be gradually eroded by the main world before it eventually disappeared.

This was why people now couldn’t find any ghosts in places that reportedly had ghosts in the past like ancient battlefields or tombs.

Other than in the case of coincidence of coincidences, the underworld required somebody to maintain it so that it could continue to exist. Examples of this would be like the formations in ancient eastern legends, the Terracotta Army of Qin s.h.i.+ Huang, the pyramids of Egypt, Easter Island, and the like…

The things in the legends weren’t just legends. Instead, they really had a purpose to it, and that was to maintain the environment and energy field of the underworld.

Unfortunately, the humans after always thought too highly of themselves and entered these places with the goal of exploration. However, their reckless actions changed the setup of the systems in place to maintain the underworld. As a result, the main world swiftly eroded the underworld in these places away and it eventually became a normal physical environment.

Hence, when those tomb raiders, thieves or explorers entered a place for the first time, they would commonly encounter some hard to believe things. The system maintaining the underworld hadn’t been damaged yet so the spirits really existed then. When the underworld disappeared afterward, the spiritual lifeforms weren’t able to exist in the physical world for an extended period of time. Naturally, people subsequently didn’t notice any abnormalities. The people after didn’t manage to find anything abnormal and still shouted shamelessly that their predecessors were just deluding themselves, or that it had no scientific evidence.

Although science was really becoming more and more advanced, humans were also increasingly losing their reverence and devotion, becoming more and more arrogant!

Foolish…!

A large number of people dying in addition to the unique construction of Wellington had caused this place to become the mythical underworld.

In this special environment, the lifeforms that still survived in Wellington either left or adapted and changed because of this place. The other lifeforms only adapted to the special environment and energy field of the underworld, but the Spirit Devouring b.u.t.terflies had changed even more thoroughly and started to feed on souls.

This characteristic caused a small portion of the Spirit Devouring b.u.t.terflies to undergo a drastic change, that is…Half-Spiritual Body!

These 11 b.u.t.terflies were the ones that adapted the earliest and had already had half-spiritual bodies They lied on the boundary between the physical and the spiritual. That was why they could adhere themselves to Momo’s body, and maintain their existence through feeding on the excess energy that her soul gave out. Moreover, these b.u.t.terflies roughly judged the strength of Momo’s soul now, and they didn’t let too many b.u.t.terflies adhere themselves to Momo. They only let a number of b.u.t.terflies that Momo’s soul could withstand to adhere to her.

11 Spirit Devouring b.u.t.terflies, that was the limit of Momo’s soul.

The rest of them looked to the swarm of b.u.t.terflies and realized that there indeed were more b.u.t.terflies that were at a similar level as the 11 b.u.t.terflies in the swarm.

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Momo only used simple words to describe the special environment of Wellington, as well as why those Spirit Devouring b.u.t.terflies had changed and why they adhered themselves to her body.

As for the underworld, not just Momo, but the rest of them couldn’t wrap their heads around this idea either. Even if Wellington was a ghost city now, they still couldn’t figure out why.

Wellington was an underworld formed by chance. Nonetheless, as time pa.s.sed, it would be eroded away by the main physical world and return to normal. At that point in time, all the lifeforms living in Wellington now would either have to adapt to the normal world again or truly die. When that time came, other than people like Bai Yi’s team who had really seen the ghosts, everyone else would probably think that everything was an exaggerated rumor.

In truth, Heloise had fallen into a slight daze and shock when she looked at the scene of Wellington below her in the air.

So Wellington looked like this from the top, but why is it the more I look at it, the more…how do I describe this?

Heloise couldn’t describe this weird feeling that she had, but she felt that the topography and environment of this place was a little strange. She decided to stay there and think about it for a while. She also drew down the appearance of Wellington since she wasn’t in a rush to look for Bai Yi and the rest. However, Heloise at this point in time didn’t understand the importance of the drawings in her hands.

Chapter 112: Underworld

Bai Yi’s group carried the four corpses outside and dug a simple hole to bury them. Anyway, there was a big cemetery outside. As for the circ.u.mstances of Xiao’s team, they couldn’t be considered to be sad either, but Bai Yi’s group just felt that it was quite pitiful. Perhaps they just had some sympathy for people who had persevered through the same thing as them.

That’s right, pitiful!

In New Zealand now, the initial estimates of the number of surviving evolved humans was not even 1 million. The population of New Zealand before wasn’t a lot either but it was still around 5 – 6 million people. In this short 9 months, more than 80% of the people had died. Moreover, even now all the surviving evolved humans lived in fear every single day. They feared meeting some dangerous evolved lifeforms and getting killed in a moment of carelessness. Other than that, they still had to worry about when they would fall into the berserk state and not be able to wake up again, becoming truly mindless monsters.

In New Zealand now, all the evolved humans lived on the edge in fear, and every step they took could be their last.

Even Bai Yi’s team met with numerous dangers over these few months as well. However, they were lucky enough and very adaptable. As such, none of them had died during this period. One would be wrong if they thought that Bai Yi’s team could move around fearlessly and recklessly. Hence, when they witnessed the death of Xiao’s team, they also felt much sympathy for them.

The Progenitor had asked them to do something to make up to the entire world for her mistakes, but they still couldn’t see any trace of hope yet.