Chapter 752 Disintegration Star
Deep underground, this place is isolated from the deadly sunlight on the surface. However, because the entire planet has been continuously heated for thousands of years, it is also extremely hot here. If there is no shield and life support system, I am afraid that except for Yzaks and Elizabeth The others simply won't last long here. Hao Ren led the small exploration team forward in the wide and slanted corridor. The road ahead kept sloping downwards and seemed to lead deep underground. And so far, the end of the road has not been seen.
Exploring this real planet that had turned into purgatory, Hao Ren couldn't help but think of Nolan who stayed in the virtual world, and the hundreds of reincarnations Nolan had experienced. He was certain that the humans in the virtual world were the residents who once lived on this planet, and they entered the virtual world undoubtedly to avoid something - Hao Ren once thought about whether it was because the planet fell into the sun when it fell into the sun. The people in the world were helpless, so they had to create a virtual world to hide in to numb themselves, but he soon realized that this timeline did not match up. The first reincarnation of the world in Nolan's memory occurred nearly ten thousand years ago, and the data terminal calculated that the planet's orbit was out of balance two or three thousand years ago. There is a huge difference between the two, even if Nolan's memory of the world is not Even if it is accurate, it should not deviate to this extent.
So the Drom people didn't enter the virtual world to escape the stellar fire - what was it to escape? The eldest son?
The journey in the underground tunnel was boring, so Hao Ren casually shared his guesses with the people around him. After hearing these guesses, Lily gave her own opinion: "There are too many possibilities. Maybe they didn't avoid it at all. What, it’s just that after technology developed to a certain level, the wrong technology tree was clicked, and all human beings were addicted to virtual reality and couldn’t extricate themselves. Then there was a problem with the server in the real world and humans could not log out, so they were trapped in the server. It was completely an accident that the planet fell into the sun afterwards. It is also possible that they did encounter a crisis that year and hid in the virtual world to deduce a feasible solution in the simulator. Then an accident occurred and they could not log out. It may even be that the planet on the planet The robots rebelled. The rebels locked the human spirit in the server, and then used the human body as a battery to generate electricity. Isn't this what happened on TV? Anyway, the surface of the planet has been burned by fire, and now it is estimated that only the underground The server is still running, the evidence has been burned, we can guess whatever we want."
Lily opened her mouth and made a lot of guesses about balabala. Vivian couldn't help but look at her sideways: Although she usually mocked this husky as a stupid dog, to be honest, this writer has such a big brain. It's so big that there's a circle all over the neck...
Yzaks coughed lightly at this time: "Ahem, speaking of which, we have just kept searching, but how do you plan to save people after you find them?"
"I haven't thought about it yet." Hao Ren was quite unsure when it came to this issue. He could only tell the best case scenario to reassure people, "But if there is really only one server down there... it depends on whether we can use the spaceship." Transport it away.”
Lily blinked after hearing this: "...What a whimsical solution."
Elizabeth jumped up and down next to Yzaks, and the little girl asked in a loud voice: "By the way, we have already walked down a few kilometers, how come..."
Before she finished speaking, a roar suddenly came from deep underground!
The roar lasted for a few seconds, and it sounded like a huge rock formation collapsing in a cave deep underground. Then there was a burst of heart-wrenching creaking and friction sounds from all directions. At the same time, the ground beneath everyone's feet It also shook violently, and the surrounding superalloy tunnel made an overwhelming tearing sound during the vibration, and fragments of earth and stone continued to fall from the cracks at the top of the tunnel. A blast of hot underground gas blew violently through the passage, nearly knocking Elizabeth off her feet.
Yzaks quickly grabbed the little girl and protected her by his legs: "Is this place going to collapse?"
Hao Ren opened his hand and held Lily and Vivian next to him. He waited for the turmoil to pass before exhaling: "It's quiet now...it shouldn't collapse. I guess this kind of situation must have happened a lot recently. Why did you come here before?" Didn't we see many twisted corridors?"
"What was that just now?" Vivian was a little uneasy, "Earthquake?"
Before Hao Ren could say anything, Lily beside him suddenly started to explain: "The planet is disintegrating. The gravity of the sun and the expansion and contraction caused by uneven heating of the planet itself are tearing the crust away from the mantle. Logically speaking, the sunny side should be This kind of movement is the strongest, but now the backside is also shaking... It is indeed reaching a critical point."
After Lily finished speaking, she paused. After noticing the gazes of the people around her, she couldn't help but get angry: "So how many times do I have to say it before you can remember that I graduated from Peking University four times?! And I graduated based on my grades, okay? !”
"Well, that's probably what Lily said," Hao Ren touched the tip of his nose awkwardly and continued to move forward, "Everyone, please be careful. This planet is like a sugar ball that has softened in the sun. All the structures are damaged. It is unstable, so you must not stand still in an emergency."
As he spoke, he added: "And actually the vibration is not the most terrifying situation. The worst thing is that the walls and caves around us may suddenly squeeze in at some point. This is essentially a collision of the earth's crust. On the earth, The plate friction that takes tens of thousands of years to occur will be completed here in a few seconds..."
Lily's tail suddenly exploded into a sword mound: "What did you say, landlord?!"
"Don't worry, the life-support collar has an emergency disaster avoidance function. If the shield is about to be damaged by a sudden external force, it will teleport you to the spacecraft. But the scene will probably be more exciting."
Even a fierce man like Yzaks couldn't help but cast a fearful glance at the ceiling above his head: "...If hundreds of millions of tons of earth's crust are squeezed down, the devil king will be able to do it in seconds."
"This is the power of nature," Hao Ren smiled helplessly, "We are following a fifty-trillion-ton stone ball falling into the sun, so don't expect the working conditions to be comfortable. Everyone, stand still Stay strong and don’t fall behind.”
After the first shock, they will experience the second and third times - everyone goes all the way deep underground, experiencing more large and small earthquakes, and as the depth increases, the shocks become more and more terrifying. . Each vibration was not only accompanied by violent shaking and falling sand and gravel fragments, but also a roaring echo from deep underground, as if a bomb had been detonated in a huge cave. It was violent friction between plates, and the discontinuous gaps between them acted like speakers amplifying the roar of rock collisions. The structure of this planet has been completely disordered. It is impossible to tell how many cracks and moving rock fragments are scattered inside it. It is shaking in space like a sack full of gravel, and it is happening every moment. A massive plate collision. However, since the planet has not really disintegrated, these collisions are still within the "controllable" range. At least Hao Ren and the others are still reluctantly moving forward deep underground.
To the planet, this small expedition team is as small as a group of ants burrowing through the cracks in the rocks. However, this group of ants has power, and they are full of hope in trying to save something.
A completely blocked fork in the road blocked everyone's way. This fork in the road was blocked by collapsed rock formations, and this was already the sixth dead end that everyone had encountered. This is an unavoidable situation: with the entire planet slowly disintegrating, it's actually a good thing that there are still viable underground passages. Hao Ren could only lead the team back to the previous fork and choose a promising passage to continue exploring. At the same time, he contacted the giant turtle platform number who was cruising at a low altitude above everyone: "Terminal, can't you give a more accurate navigation? This is a dead end again."
"This aircraft has tried its best, but the underground situation is very complicated, and the surface area is being reorganized and deformed. This aircraft must first ensure the safety and stability of the route."
Hao Ren hung up the communication and shook his head at Vivian beside him: "Safety first, keep walking."
"To be honest, the underground has become like this...Droam's virtual world is still running?" Lily felt incredible, "I feel that such a complex virtual reality equipment should be very sophisticated, but the earth's crust has begun to split. The virtual world seems to be barely running."
"Anyway, the 1.6 billion people on Nolan's side are still alive," Hao Ren was also a little puzzled. "Maybe it's because the virtual world has many backup servers... After all, the planet has not completely collapsed."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a voice full of noise in the communication channel: "Hello... hello, can you hear it? This is Nolan..."
Hao Ren unexpectedly received the communication: "I can hear it, what happened over there?"
Nolan was silent for two seconds and suddenly asked: "You are in the real world now, right? Everything you said before is true, right?"
The corners of Hao Ren's mouth turned up unconsciously: "Well, now you have decided to believe it?"
Nolan's heavy breathing came from the communication channel. She seemed to be calming down. After a moment, she spoke: "What is happening outside?"
A kind of uneasiness suddenly came into his heart, and Hao Ren spoke urgently: "Is there something going on over there? I heard a lot of noise..."
"The world... is on fire."