The scooter was going very fast, much faster than anything Lin Fan had ever seen on TV before.
The wind blew past her ears, and she felt as if she was walking on a flying sword, which had a bit of the flavor of a special agency.
There are searchlights at regular intervals in the passage, illuminating the surroundings clearly.
There seems to be no difference between channels and passages.
After turning a few corners, Lin Fan couldn't tell east from west. He didn't know how Xue Ping could remember the correct route in such a complex passage.
Just as he was thinking about it, Xue Ping stopped, got off the balance bike, and turned around to wait for them.
"Are we there yet?" Lin Fan asked uncertainly, looking at the obviously blocked passage ahead.
"No, there's a fault here." Xue Ping bent down, picked up his balance bike, and walked to the wall. "There's a simple staircase here. Be careful."
As he spoke, he led the way by going down with his back to the other two, demonstrating to them.
Lin Fan walked closer and saw that the space for people to fit in was really small, only about thirty to forty centimeters.
Go down the stairs about forty to fifty centimeters and you will find a sunken passage.
From above, it looked a bit like a malfunctioning elevator car. No wonder from a distance, all you could see was a wall.
The two followed suit and picked up the balance bike and went down.
"Why is it broken again?" Lin Fan looked at the new passage, which seemed to be no different from the previous one.
"We speculate that this is a fault caused by crustal movement." Xue Ping stood up again on the scooter. "There are a few more ahead. When I stop, you must pay attention and don't bump into them."
The cave that Lin Fan entered at the beginning was mainly made of limestone, so it didn't matter if he bumped into it.
Now, as they went deeper into the earth, they had entered the sedimentary layer, and the rock had become much harder.
Given the speed of the balance bike, even someone as strong as Xue Ping would not be able to withstand a sudden collision, let alone someone as fragile as Lin Fan.
Lin Fan felt that the further he went down, the hotter it became. Sweat began to seep out of his body.
She asked John Woo if he felt it, and got a scientific explanation.
"The deeper you go, the closer you get to the mantle, and the temperature will indeed get higher. Your feeling is right." John Woo pushed his glasses and replied.
Lin Fan vaguely remembered from his geography lessons that the closer to the center of the earth, the hotter it gets... He zipped down his down jacket and asked Wu Yusen again. "Why doesn't the Special Office seem to feel hot?"
In order to fake the natural sky, many floors of the special office are very high.
Like the living area where Lin Fan first went, there was sea and sky.
There was also the prison floor where I fought Le Zhengyuanqing before. If I hadn't told you, no one would have thought it was underground.
Lin Fan didn't know how many floors there were in the Special Affairs Hall, as she had only been to a few of them.
But considering that the prison number is 99, I guess there won’t be too few floors.
"The underground structure of the Special Office can be considered from two perspectives," Xue Ping interjected. "Generally speaking, the area between ten and twenty kilometers below the surface is relatively habitable due to its suitable temperature. The Special Office's building area falls squarely within this habitable range."
"And the construction of the Special Office involved many bigwigs. They used barriers, illusions, and all sorts of high-tech, inexplicable methods," Wu Yusen continued. "That's what created what you see today."
Lin Fan nodded, indicating that he understood. He then asked, "So it's uninhabitable beyond 20 kilometers?"
"Well, it's not absolute. Generally speaking, below 20 kilometers, the temperature will be higher and the comfort level will be worse. It's not impossible to live there, but it's impossible to go beyond 30 kilometers above the surface."
"Is it because the temperature at 30 kilometers is too high?" Lin Fan asked.
"The high temperature is one of the reasons. Because we are too close to the mantle, thirty kilometers is equivalent to a dividing line, and the temperature will suddenly rise to several thousand degrees..." Wu Yusen was interrupted by Lin Fan's exclamation before he finished speaking.
"Thousands of degrees?" Lin Fan gasped.
"What are you afraid of?" Xue Ping was amused by her startled movements. "I heard that the stars can easily withstand temperatures of several thousand degrees. It's nothing to you."
Lin Fan was stunned. "Oh, yeah, I forgot."
"You are so jumpy, you really need to practice more. Let Master Wu take you on more tasks so that you can get rid of the label of rookie director as soon as possible." Xue Ping said with a smile.
"Newcomer Minister" was what they used to tease Lin Fan privately. They said she was strong and high-ranking, but had zero experience, comparable to a newcomer.
"Don't worry about that." John Woo replied coldly.
Xue Ping didn't care and continued what he was saying.
"Beyond thirty kilometers from the surface, life is difficult to survive not only because of the high temperature, but also because of the lack of oxygen and light. So, generally speaking, if you want to survive comfortably underground, the area within twenty kilometers is the most suitable."
Lin Fan understood.
I feel like I've gained some useless knowledge.
It was getting hotter as they went down. When Lin Fan couldn't stand it any longer and took off his down jacket, Wu Yusen's T-shirt was already soaked with sweat.
Fortunately, not long after, they finally arrived in front of the stone gate that blocked everyone.
It is said to be a door, but in fact it is a huge rock wall.
The largest doors Lin Fan had ever seen were the doors of the laboratories in the 800-story underground fortress.
Because it is necessary to allow some large equipment to pass through, it is built very huge.
But this stone gate is even bigger than that.
It is about ten meters wide and about twenty meters high.
Lin Fan looked suspiciously at the passage in front of the door which had suddenly grown larger. The passage the three had just walked through had also become narrower.
What is the purpose of such a big door standing here?
The staff who had been waiting at the door stood up happily when they saw them coming.
After asking a few questions, Xue Ping signaled Lin Fan that he could start.
Lin Fan saw that all of them retreated to the back of the passage. Just in case, they all put on gas masks. He handed the clothes in his hand to John Woo and walked forward alone.
After a few steps, the stars suddenly appeared.
This caused a burst of exclamations from the staff who had never seen it before.
After Lin Fan transformed, the door still looked very big in her eyes.
She first tried to poke it lightly with her hand and felt that the hardness under her hand was indeed unusual.
After thinking about it, I turned back to ask John Woo, "Could this be something similar to 818?"
Wu Yusen was shocked, "Do you think so?"
"I can't say for sure, maybe not." Xingchen shook his huge head. "I can tear 818 apart with one hand, but not this one."
As he spoke, everyone saw Xingchen's hand grabbing the door fiercely. After exerting force with his five fingers, only some stone powder fell off, forming a shallow dent.
"Is this door harder than 818?" Although John Woo asked a question, he didn't expect an answer.
The staff started buzzing with discussion.
Everyone had a general idea of the situation of the stars, and they were all wondering in their hearts whether Lin Fan had integrated some alien elements, that is, the 818.
Therefore, in terms of hardness, ability, and all other aspects, it far exceeds the level of this planet, which is why it can overwhelm everything.
And she now says that this door is harder than 818, which is suspected to be made of alien elements.
Does this mean that this door also contains alien elements?
The staff were excited and thrilled, and they all looked expectantly at Xingchen who was trying other ways to break the goal in front of them.
What is behind the door?