"Why?"

Feiya looked at him doubtfully.

This question made Carlin think about it for a moment, and then he slowly stood up and said, "Follow me."

The two of them followed his figure through the 'corridor' between the metal partitions.

At this time, He Ao also saw the appearance of the interior of the partitioned 'rooms'. A simple metal bed that seemed to have been converted from a table filled most of the space in the compartment, and something unknown was spread on the bed.

Bedding woven from the fibers of the material.

Most of these compartments are not covered.

Some thin people stood beside the bed, looking at He Ao and Feiya carefully.

He Ao's eyes swept across the faces of these people, finally stopping on a couple who looked much stronger, and then withdrew his gaze.

"Approximately how many people are there among you here?"

he asked casually.

"Seventy-six," Carrington paused, "this is the number of people who survived."

He didn't know how many people had entered this place, but only seventy-six were left alive.

The few people walked very quickly, passing through the compartment area and arriving at the back of the hall in a short time.

Here are two huge machines five or six meters across.

He Ao glanced at the text on the machine.

As he expected, these machines still had instructions marked in five different languages.

He Ao easily found the text in the second area and knew the names of these two machines.

[Synthetic starch nutrition bar production machine (carbon dioxide fixation type)], [Synthetic meat production machine (depollution type)]

At this moment, both machines have red lights on, indicating a lack of consumables such as 'synthetic vitamins', 'minerals', 'packaging degradable plastics' and so on.

"We don't know what these two machines do,"

Carlin walked to the machine on the left and pressed the most conspicuous green button on the machine.

boom--

With a violent roar, a silver opening in front of the machine opened, and a white stick-like object fell out of the machine.

"This is?"

Feiya stared at this magical scene with her eyes widened.

"food,"

Karin took out the stick-shaped object and opened it slightly, revealing the inside that was similar to an osmanthus cake. "It's a bit like a pastry made of rice flour. It's edible. We rely on this to make a living."

"How is this done?"

Feiya obviously couldn't keep up with the rhythm. She looked at the huge machine in front of her and asked, "Does this thing store food? Can it be stored for such a long time?"

"have no idea,"

Karin shook his head, "There is always plenty of food in here, so much is produced every day, it seems like it will never be enough."

"Maybe it can produce food itself,"

He Ao glanced at the machine and said casually, "For example, fixing carbon dioxide in the air into starch."

When he said these words, both of them were stunned at the same time.

It wasn't that the two of them were enlightened by He Ao's point of view. From the blank looks in their eyes, He Ao felt that maybe they didn't understand.

He Ao thought for a while and organized his words.

"Strictly speaking, photosynthesis of plants is the process of fixing water and carbon dioxide into organic matter such as glucose and starch. The flour and rice we eat are all 'produced' through photosynthesis in this way.

"This machine may be the kind of machine that can obtain raw materials from the air and produce flour."

"Oh! So that's it!"

Feiya clapped her hands, and the gray-brown holes under the thin lenses exuded wisdom, "Let's take a look at the machine next to us."

"cough."

Carlin coughed. Although he didn't fully understand it, he understood the 'metaphor' behind He Ao and realized that the machine they had been relying on might be an inanimate 'plant'.

At this time, he saw He Ao's eyes also moving to the machine next to him.

So he walked to the machine on the right and introduced, "This machine is different from the one here. This machine cannot produce food on its own, but if we throw in the poisonous meat from the monsters outside, it can produce food."

'Blocks of meat' we can eat."

"Sounds like a machine that removes some kind of harmful substance,"

He Ao glanced at the 'decontamination' note on the machine, then looked at Karin and continued, "Doesn't this mean you need to go out and 'hunt' by yourself?"

"Yes."

Kalin nodded and raised the Gauss gun hanging on his chest, "This is a weapon we picked up in this hall before. Although we don't know how it works, it has a long range and is very powerful."

Then, he sighed, "When we first found this place, there were only a few people who could survive by eating the white rice noodles and occasionally going out to find some prey. But now there are more and more people, especially the most recent one."

There wasn’t enough rice nuggets to eat, so we had to go hunting every day.”

"Um."

He Ao looked up at the two machines.

With these two machines here, there will indeed be no food shortages here, at least there won't be physical shortages that force everyone to leave.

That gate can also withstand the impact of peak C-level monsters.

So why did the ‘remnants’ who once stayed here leave here en masse?

Seeing that He Ao seemed to be lost in thought, Karin glanced at Feiya beside him and asked in a low voice, "Don't know your names yet?"

"Fiya."

Feiya introduced herself.

"Hoo,"

He Ao lowered his head and introduced himself. Then he looked at Karin's body and asked thoughtfully, "Have you become a transcendent?"

According to the institute's information, Carlin is just an ordinary person.

"Yes,"

Karin seemed to recall something and sighed slightly, "When I first got here, I hadn't found this hall yet. I was too hungry and met an injured monster. I ate some of the monster's flesh and blood. I thought

He was bound to die, but he unexpectedly survived and gained some extraordinary powers, but the process was not very pleasant."

It seems that Carlin should have eaten the main material of a certain talent sequence in the monster's body. Compared with the promotion of secret medicine, this method of directly eating the 'main material' can also be promoted, but the mortality rate is much higher and the stability

Sex is even worse.

Strictly speaking, Carlin is a very capable person with a bottom line.

The 'settlement' in front of us already has some shadow of the wandering tribe in the wilderness of the replica world. In this dangerous environment, order and humanity are the least able to withstand the test.

If another person were to manage this place, there might not be so many people alive here.

People living here may not be able to stand like humans.

"correct,"

After a brief pause, Carlin took the initiative and asked, "Did you also come in through the 'door'? Has our 'disappearance' been discovered outside?"

He paused and asked the question he had always wanted to ask, "Is there a way for us to go back?"

This sentence attracted the attention of everyone in the entire 'settlement'.

"Now there are open 'doors' everywhere in Newland city-state,"

He Ao thought for a moment and sorted out his words, "We came in just to investigate this matter. Only by solving the problems behind the scenes can we possibly go back. In this regard,"

He paused and looked at Karin, "We may need your help."

"Is there anything we need to do?!"

Karin immediately straightened his body.

"You often hunt nearby, are you familiar with this 'underground palace'?"

He Ao then asked.

"Underground Palace? This is a good name. We also guess that the area we are in now is underground,"

Karin thought for a moment and nodded,

"What we know so far is that this 'underground palace' has more than one floor. Our main hunting area is on this floor. This seems to be the top floor and the largest floor. We usually call this floor underground.

layer.

"The monsters on this level are not strong. A few of us can kill some small monsters by working together. Those monsters you just killed, we are called 'Sheep Demons'. They are actually the 'overlords' of this level. Normally, we are called 'Sheep Demons'."
To be continued...