"Of course not. Asteroid impacts on Earth are actually very common, much more frequent than you might think."
Xu Ying’s lips curled up as she explained.
"It’s very common. Even a thousand years ago on the Earth we lived on, there were asteroid impacts every year. But the size of asteroids in the asteroid belt isn’t that big; so are only a few ters in diater, just big rocks."
"...Huh? And that’s called a planet?" Li Wenxi said with so disbelief.
"The big rocks in the asteroid belt are all considered planets. You’ve all seen teors, right? It’s about the sa thing. Most teors are completely consud when passing through the atmosphere at high speed. A small part that isn’t fully consud and falls to the ground is called a teorite."
"I understand that." Xu Xin imdiately asked, "How big are the teorites that those alien invaders can control?"
"Not very big. After being consud by the atmosphere, the overall size when they hit the ground is at most a few hundred ters in diater."
Xu Ying pondered for a mont and then said.
Then she waved her hand: "The teorite that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs had a diater of over ten kiloters and created a crater 300 kiloters wide. That’s simply not comparable."
"...A teorite a few hundred ters in size could still easily destroy us," Li Wenxi said, feeling a bit panicked, "still so powerful..."
"Did you say they guided the teorites to attack us? That’s impossible." Xu Ying laughed, "Guiding teorites is also a very difficult task for them. If it wasn’t to claim unclaid resources in the universe, they wouldn’t do it."
"A small asteroid impact with a diater of several hundred ters could affect an area of several dozen kiloters. And they can’t guide its position accurately. It would be better to use a nuke; Earth technology could do it better—Da Yi Man would laugh at this power."
Xu Ying spread her hands.
Co to think of it, that’s true.
Guiding teorite attacks, though formidable, is really not worth the trouble.
"But, does that an there’s already iron teorite on Earth?" Xu Xin asked.
"Hmm... there is, but it’s completely under the enemy’s control. We really have no way to obtain it." Xu Ying sighed, "It’s hard without resources."
"We still have so iron teorite," Xu Xin said, "we got it from below, in that underground space."
"Then let’s go down and check."
Using the sa thod they went down before, the three of them arrived at the underground warehouse.
The large warehouse below was still empty.
There used to be so shelves, but now there’s nothing.
Completely cleared out.
"What’s going on here?"
Xu Xin frowned.
It was entirely empty now.
"Could they have left after your last ’underground exploration trip’?" Li Wenxi guessed while looking at the empty warehouse.
Xu Xin slowly shook his head: "No, it’s not. After the World Tree matured, Lou Fei’Er and I ca down here once, and there were still swarms of petrified creatures wanting to attack us then."
At least at that ti, this place couldn’t have been empty.
Later, he ca down with Ji Chaoyang once more, and just went out to explain the situation, only a few minutes had passed outside.
It had been almost a day inside in the anti.
And by the ti he and Ji Chaoyang ca down that ti, there were no petrified creatures attacking them anymore; they had completely vanished.
After they got out, the explorers discussed and moved all the survivors inside the World Tree.
Xu Xin slept outside for three and a half hours, causing the internal ti of the World Tree to flow for about half a month.
...and this underground world’s ti also flowed for half a month.
That is to say, this prison must have been cleared during this ti!
Why...?
Because the strange flow of ti here frightened them?
Because they knew that this was beneath the fully matured enemy World Tree, so they didn’t dare to stay?
"Although we don’t know why they left, it’s not a bad thing." Xu Ying grabbed the wrists of the other two again, "At least we don’t have to drive them out ourselves."
At the sa ti, the three were transported back into the prison’s passage.
Xu Xin brought the two won into the control room.
"...Is this empty too?"
The control room, once filled with complex chanical consoles, was also completely devoid of anything now.
Following the narrow corridor they had previously walked through, the three people exited the prison and ca into the space outside the prison.
The ground of which was once made up of soft giant creatures.
But...it was completely dark.
Previously, the top here was illuminated, but now it was not at all.
However, all three had eaten the red berries, granting them night vision abilities, so they could still see around them.
"Below, is it empty...?"
The lowest level of the underground prison, where a soft giant beast was once ’suppressed’ below, had already disappeared.
Without the support below, the underground prison was now suspended directly in mid-air, akin to being hung on the main vine bundle outside.
And beneath the underground prison was a giant pit over a hundred ters deep.
"Wow..." Li Wenxi leaned over to look down, widening her eyes, "It’s so deep below!"
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