Chapter 753 The Approaching Countdown

After hearing Nolan's words, Hao Ren didn't react for a moment: "The world is on fire?!"

Nolan was silent for a brief moment, as if he was organizing his words. In the background of the communication channel, faint noises and explosions could be heard in the distance. Nolan spoke again after a few seconds: " I don’t know how to describe it... Everything is suddenly spontaneously burning, including water and stones. Just now I watched a building suddenly burn like cotton. Now the streets outside are full of refugees... Humanity itself is The only thing that doesn’t spontaneously combust right now.”

"Spontaneous combustion?! Water and stones?" Hao Ren was heartbroken. At the same time, the rock formations around him began to shake again, and streams of hot underground steam quickly blew through the passage. Despite the shield, he could still I felt that this heat was enough to melt gold and iron, and the situation that happened in the virtual world was instantly connected to the situation in front of me. The answer was very obvious, "Maybe the disaster in the real world has affected the virtual space..."

Another loud sound of rock collapse came from nearby, and Lily immediately grabbed Hao Ren's arm and dragged him forward: "Landlord, leave quickly, it's not safe here!"

While being dragged forward by Lily, Hao Ren quickly asked Nolan about the situation there: "How are you doing there now? Has the fire spread around you?"

"The phenomenon of spontaneous combustion seems to have stopped temporarily. I am some distance away from the fire scene, so there should be no problems for a while," Nolan said in a hurry, "But I saw that the fires that burned before couldn't be extinguished... ...You are in the real world, right? Now I believe you, very much - what is happening outside?!"

To be honest, Nolan still doesn't know how to prove that Hao Ren really comes from the real world, but the current situation makes these details seem irrelevant. The world in front of her was experiencing an earth-shattering vision, something that had never happened in countless reincarnations before: no matter how crazy the previous world script was, it was at least "reasonable", but the ubiquitous sea of ​​fire that spontaneously ignited out of thin air in front of her was like It's a nightmare that ignores the laws of nature. Thinking of Hao Ren's sudden disappearance and what he said before leaving, Nolan could only regard the "real world" as the last straw.

"The outside world is also burning... In fact, the entire planet is slowly falling into the sun. I'm afraid it is this situation that affects the virtual world." Hao Ren described the situation in the real world as briefly as possible, and then suddenly Remembering that the communicator has a projection function, "You open the cover under the communicator. There is a blue button. Press it and I will send you some pictures."

After a while, Hao Ren transmitted to Nolan the scene of Zhuomu gradually sinking into the sun and the underground bunker in front of him.

"As you can see, the real world outside is like this... It was destroyed probably thousands of years ago or even longer, and the planet heated up probably two to three thousand years ago. We have not found any traces of human civilization on the surface of the planet. , but there is a huge underground shelter. We were lucky enough to find the entrance to the shelter and are now trying to find a way to enter the core of the shelter."

Nolan looked at the terrifying image of the scorching sun and sea of ​​fire in front of her. She seemed to have forgotten how to speak for a moment. The knowledge and experience she had accumulated through countless reincarnations suddenly became a joke. Those things were in front of the truth of this world. It has no effect.

The true situation of the world shocked Nolan for a long time. Under normal circumstances, it would take some effort for anyone to accept this shocking fact. However, time waits for no one now, so she can only force herself to accept the reality immediately and find a way to do something. Fortunately, the calmness she had gained through long experience in the battlefield could still exert some effect. She patted her cheek and calmed down: "What can I do here?"

"Report the situation of the virtual world at any time and keep the communication open. Maybe my PDA... Patty can analyze the location of the server based on these signals. The other thing is to protect yourself. This reincarnation may really be the last one. This time If you die... you really won’t be able to survive.”

Nolan hummed, and after a moment of silence, he couldn't help but ask: "What exactly are you going to do?"

"Find the server that generates the virtual world. All human beings should be stored in it. I have a spaceship here that can move the server." Hao Ren said his plan in as relaxed a tone as possible, as if everything was already in place. If you are well prepared, things will really develop so easily, "Don't worry, I have done larger relocation jobs than this - moving you will not be much more difficult than moving a large computer room."

Nolan seemed relieved, and she took a few breaths: "Okay, I believe you... there is nothing else to believe anyway. I wish you good luck."

"I wish you peace and avoid the fire."

After the communication was hung up, the voice from the data terminal suddenly interrupted: "You didn't tell her that this planet can only last for more than forty hours."

"Let the situation be as optimistic as possible - we still have more than forty hours to clean up this mess," Hao Ren breathed out, "As long as we find the server before it burns down..."

"The premise is that you really have a way to move the server out. Considering the size of the shelter and the complex underground conditions, you may need a lot of construction machinery to do this, and it will take you longer..."

"Okay, let's wait until we find the server," Hao Ren interrupted the data terminal's analysis, "Now give me more precise guidance, the general location of the server - you have been scanning for so long, there should be some progress." ?”

The data terminal paused for a few seconds, seeming to be summarizing the data, and then reported: "Maintain the current direction, you are heading deep into the shelter. This machine has scanned a large number of current signals underground, which are distributed in a network in the shelter. The surrounding area should be the power supply system of the server. A major node is a few kilometers ahead of you, and you should be able to at least touch the edge of the system there."

Hao Ren and the others want to find a virtual world server underground on this planet that is on the verge of collapse. Of course, such an urgent search cannot just rely on luck and impulse. Everyone's forward route is indicated by the spacecraft radar, and the data terminal is also constantly analyzing the energy response of suspected server signals deep in the ground. Although these guidance are not very precise, the general direction can be guaranteed. So although everyone looked like headless flies burrowing around in the hole, they were actually heading deeper into the shelter.

This can be seen from the increasingly wider corridors and increasingly common equipment rooms around them: they are already very close to the core of this man-made bunker.

At present, this section of the road has been squeezed by the ground to a certain extent. The super alloy walls on both sides are often cracked. Some dark red rocks squeeze into the corridor from the cracks, looking like solidified resin seeping in from the cracks. Lily casually cut a small stone from it with her paw and put it into her pocket. She turned around and asked, "How long have we been drilling here?"

Vivian took out her phone and checked the time: "Not counting the time on the surface before, we have been underground for three hours. According to the rotation cycle of the planet, more than half of the night has passed."

Hao Ren connected to the communication with the spacecraft: "Terminal, how is the situation up there?"

"The good news is that we are facing the calmest moment on the backside of the sun. In the next two or three hours, the formation activity will drop to a minimum. The bad news is that the sun will rise in three hours, and the sunlight will heat the rock formations above you. Everything will come alive, and it will be very exciting to stay down there. You'd better find the server before then, otherwise you will have to return early," the terminal reported, suddenly raising the tone, "There is also bad news - this The probe launched by the aircraft captured a few seconds ago when a large-scale magma sac erupted suddenly on the sunny side. A piece of earth's crust about the size of South America was blown into space. It is estimated that you will see it in ten minutes. There's going to be an earthquake over there."

"Earthquakes... Earthquakes here are almost like drinking water." Hao Ren looked at the soil and stones falling from above his head and sighed with a wry smile. "The real bad news is that the planet is about to reach a critical point. The earth's crust is about to reach a critical point." It begins to be peeled off by the sun, and as long as one point is broken, the next step will probably be a series of collapses like dominoes."

"The calculations of this machine are correct. The planet can still hold on before the fourth sunrise. Of course, it's hard to say whether the shelter below can hold on."

"...This is really your kind words." Hao Ren said and hung up the communication.

They continued to travel through the seemingly endless sloping passages and shafts, picking up speed and almost falling several times into cracks that suddenly appeared in the road. Fortunately, the route forward was accurate. The road in front of them was getting wider and wider, and there were large-scale caves and structures that looked like abandoned settlements. The latter may be the place where the last batch of Drom people who stayed in the real world once lived, but unfortunately the settlement is in a serious state of abandonment, and no lines or equipment can be found to connect to the virtual world.

Just as they entered another large cave, Lily, who was running around as a scout, suddenly exclaimed: "Everyone, come and see this!"

A group of people came to Lily's side. A huge column like a tree root passed through the rock formation and lay in front of everyone.

"If I admit it correctly..." Hao Ren swallowed, "This is the tentacle of the eldest son..."