Half an hour later, an aircraft with green camouflage crossed the sky of Elysium and appeared over the 2111 Basin.
This is a military aircraft. It is an exaggeration to call it a spaceship, because it does not have the ability to navigate in outer space. It can only fly briefly at high altitudes and outer space, with a maximum distance of 36,000 kilometers.
This distance is exactly the distance between the Elysian Space and the surface of the earth.
But it was completely enough for people in the Elysian Space Plane. At this time, the four jets of the aircraft turned vertically downward, and then the entire aircraft became a high-altitude hovering and landed little by little.
Finally, the military camouflage aircraft stopped at the edge of the basin and slowly raised its gull-wing doors.
Chen Chen, wearing PK armor, strode out of the aircraft.
Although X-112 has tested the environment of the Paradise Space, except for some regular bacteria, the place is as clean as his own toilet, and there is no problem with the air composition, except that the oxygen content is slightly richer, but Chen Chen still wears the clothes carefully. Wearing a face mask.
After getting off the aircraft, Chen Chen looked towards the so-called 2111 Basin.
Strictly speaking, this basin is just a valley surrounded by mountains on all sides, but at this time, the valley is filled with endless corpses. These corpses are like mountain peaks, dozens of meters high.
These corpses had rotted into a pile of white bones and were wrapped in dense vines, which became nutrients for these plants.
Looking at the endless skeletons, Chen Chen narrowed his eyes, "Have you found out the reason? Why are these people like this?"
"No reason was found."
X-112's voice came from the communication system of the aircraft behind him, "And it seems that the Elysian Space government has imposed some restrictions on artificial intelligence. Therefore, the main control AI here does not have the ability to think and reason. I can only Able to make inferences from the known clues of the other party.”
Chen Chen nodded, "Let me summarize it. At 23:59 on July 20, 2165, all citizens living here in Elysium lost their personality and consciousness at the same time due to unknown reasons."
"The behavior of this group of people who have lost their personality and consciousness is that they first stop all the work they are doing, then turn around and leave the house, heading towards the 2111 Basin."
"After arriving here, everyone seemed to have completed their mission, and then stood here motionless until death."
Chen Chen raised his head and asked, "Is there anything wrong with the situation I summarized?"
"No, Commander." X-112 replied.
"Very well, do you think this is a procedure?"
Chen Chen paced back and forth, "If humans are regarded as robots, their instincts such as eating and sleeping are a kind of program, and the anomaly was a hacker attack. Isn't it easy to understand?"
"Because hackers broke into the host, they implanted an instruction into everyone at the same time. The only requirement of the instruction is: put down everything in your hands and come to the 2111 Basin."
"Furthermore, this kind of instruction is the highest authority order, even exceeding the survival instinct of human beings, and cannot be disobeyed at all. So, the scene that day happened... "
Speaking of this, Chen Chen frowned, "However, the mastermind behind the implanted order did not give people the second order, so everyone could only wait indefinitely. But people are different from machines. It only takes a few days. , these people died because they had no energy intake.”
"I understand what you mean."
X-112 replied, "Do you think this is an information attack?"
"Yeah, what happened on Elysium was like being hacked, and I don't know how else to explain it."
As he said that, Chen Chen walked up to these skeletons and gently took out a yellowed skull. When he saw the traces of surgery on the skull, he immediately smiled and said, "If I am not wrong, all human brains in the Elysium Space have been damaged." Has it been implanted with a chip or something?"
"There are indeed examples of this."
X-112 replied, "However, only about one-third of people have been implanted with brain chips, but these chips are designed to cooperate with human-computer interaction and do not have the function of controlling thoughts."
Chen Chen paused when he heard the movement in his hand, and then he took out a skull again and looked at it. Sure enough, he found that the skull was smooth and there was nothing on it.
Seeing this, Chen Chen's expression suddenly froze, "So, my guess was wrong."
After thinking about it, Chen Chen asked again, "Are you sure that all the citizens in the Elysian Space stopped their movements in an instant?"
"According to the surveillance video I checked, it can be determined that this happened to everyone at 23:59." X-112 replied.
"Then let me express it differently."
Chen Chen thought for a while and added, "Are you sure that all the citizens of Elysium experienced abnormal behavior at 23:59 on July 20, 2165? Or there are before and after, some are at 59 minutes and 01 seconds, and some are at 59 Minutes, 02 seconds, etc.”
X-112 paused for a moment, then continued, "I adjusted and compared the monitoring time, and found no abnormalities. All citizens in the Elysium experienced problems at the same time."
"What about Earth?"
Chen Chen asked, "When something like this happens in the Elysian Space, can we contact the Earth at that time?"
"According to the log report, the same event also occurred on Earth at that time."
As he spoke, a 3D projection was projected on the screen of the armed aircraft, but there were countless screens, and the contents of the screens were various cameras on the earth.
It can be seen that when this situation occurs in the Elysian Space, the earth is also affected almost immediately.
"So, it's possible that all humans on Earth are dead? No wonder Earth hasn't sent anyone to check after so many years..."
Chen Chen's pupils shrank and he ordered, "Split and compare the surveillance on Earth and the surveillance in Elysium according to the number of frames!"
Because X-112 occupies the main control computer of the Elysian Space, this computing power is not a problem. Soon, X-112 replied, "Your Excellency, Commander, we have got the answer."
"According to the frame-by-frame analysis of the 480 frame rate surveillance video, the time when the human beings on the earth became abnormal was 0.12 seconds after the abnormality occurred among the humans in the Elysian Space. 0.3 seconds later.”
Hearing this, Chen Chen suddenly showed a clear look. After all, we must know that the distance between the Elysian Space and the Earth is 36,000 kilometers, and the speed of light is approximately 300,000 kilometers per second. In other words, it takes a long time for light to propagate from the Elysian Space to the ground. About 0.12 seconds.
This number is exactly the same as the time calculated by X-112.
"Light travels at the speed of light?"
Chen Chen looked thoughtful, "That's true..."
X-112 continued to add, "Based on the detection, I found that the closer to the 2111 Basin, the earlier this situation occurs."
"Understood."
Chen Chen couldn't help but look at the ground under his feet, and said in deep thought, "X-112, send me a construction robot to dig here. Even if it digs through the ground, I still want to know what's inside!"
"Your Excellency, Commander, according to safety regulations, the risk of you continuing to stay in the Elysian Space has risen to more than 10%. Please return to reality first."
However, X-112 did not immediately agree to Chen Chen, but instead made a suggestion.
Chen Chen was stunned for a moment, "Has the risk rate increased to ten percent? How did you calculate it?"
"Because I combined with your reasoning, Commander, the demise of human beings in Elysium is likely to be related to the 2111 Basin."
X-112 replied, "The excavation of the 2111 Basin is likely to trigger the incident again. According to my estimation, once the incident is triggered again, your mortality rate will be extremely high."
"Very well, your reasoning is very good."
Chen Chen nodded, directly put the skull robe in his hand, turned around and boarded the aircraft, and asked at the same time, "In this case, send me all the data of Medpod3000, and provide me with a cracking method based on the data. And here I will keep all two black knights and assign one of them to you, and the other will be responsible for guarding the passage. What you have to do is to restore the power system of Elysium and control the construction machinery here to dig through the 2111 Basin. .”
"Understood, just leave it to me." X-112 replied.
So next, Chen Chen was sent back to the government building, and under the guidance of X-112, he went to a 3D printing room. Then, Chen Chen saw the printing room printing a USB flash drive at an extremely fast speed. .
A white USB flash drive.
"Here are all the technological materials of the Elysian Space Plane, including exoskeleton technology, robots, pulse rifles, short-range aircraft, Medpod3000, etc."
X-112 said.
"Well done!" Chen Chen put away the USB flash drive, even he couldn't help but look surprised.
This trip, obtaining all the technology of a civilization at once, can be said to be Chen Chen's biggest gain so far.
Then, Chen Chen was sent back to the villa where the USB drive channel was located, and Chen Chen did not hesitate and returned directly to reality.
After walking out of the disinfection room, Chen Chen took off his PK armor and looked thoughtful.
"What happened in there?"
Xiao X asked.
"Yes, I discovered something very interesting in the "Elysian Space" plane."
Chen Chen said thoughtfully, "If my guess is correct, it would be better to open as few channels as possible in the future."
After thinking for a while, Chen Chen handed the USB flash drive to the black knight on the side, and said, "X, please receive the data in this USB flash drive, and at the same time, make a directory of the data inside for me."
"Is this information from the "Elysium Space" plane? Got it."
"besides."
Chen Chen thought for a while and added again, "If the two black knights on the other side of the passage return, remember to isolate them. If you find anything wrong, report it to me as soon as possible."
"clear!"
Although Xiao X didn't understand, he still answered quickly.
After explaining everything, Chen Chen turned around and left the substation and stayed in the rest room of the nuclear power plant.
About two days passed.
Just when Chen Chen was about to leave the nuclear power plant temporarily and wait for news from the other side of the passage before returning, Xiao X finally brought the news.
"Your Excellency Godfather, a black knight has returned from the other side of the passage and brought a video document."
"I'll come right away!"
After hearing this, Chen Chen immediately returned to the substation. In the next room, Chen Chen saw the so-called video material.
It was still a USB flash drive, the same as the one Chen Chen brought back before.
After thinking about it, Chen Chen inserted the USB flash drive into the computer, and then the computer screen flashed, and a laboratory filled with cold-colored walls appeared on the screen.
The camera of the video first panned around, seemingly showing various equipment in the laboratory. According to Chen Chen's memory, if he guessed correctly, this should be a materials laboratory, and the instruments in it are all used for materials experiments. .
However, the final scene on the screen was fixed on three human-faced statues.
These three human-faced statues are about 30 centimeters long and 20 centimeters wide, about the same size as ordinary human heads, but the shapes of the statues are extremely weird.
From a stylistic point of view, these statues are like poor products made by beginners, without any refinement or beauty. Not only that, the lines that make up the statue patterns are also extremely simple, and can even be described as primitive.
Looking from left to right, the first statue has diamond-shaped eyes that seem to be closed tightly, and its ears are pointed and long, standing high like a rabbit.
As for the one in the middle, the eyes are open, but it seems to have one eye socket, and the inside is deeply sunken, as if the owner of the statue has no eyeballs.
As for the statue at the end, both its ears and eyes are normal. Only its mouth is wide open, and its mouth is like a black hole. Even if it is just seen from the video, Chen Chen still has an inexplicable feeling. of chill.
"Your Excellency, Commander, I am X-112. What you see now are the three statues I excavated from the 2111 Basin. They are also the only things found in the 2111 Basin."
"I checked all the records about these three statues. The earliest record of these three statues was discovered in 2025 in the Elysian Space Plane."
The childish voice of X-112 is exactly the same as that of Little , he claimed that the statue was dug out of a gold mine and was taken to an appraisal expert for identification.”
"However, after fault identification and isotope identification with age instruments, the final result is that these three statues were carved within only one year, that is, they were carved recently."
"Subsequently, Gross became a laughing stock in collecting circles."
"Then, hundreds of years later, with the establishment of Elysium, the descendants of Gross also moved here from the earth, and it can be confirmed from the records of the items they brought with them that these three statues were indeed brought here by the descendants of Gross of."
X-112 continued, "These are the only records of these three statues, but I found a very strange situation during the previous inspection..."