Hao Ren drove his official car, which could do almost everything except being an Optimus Prime, speeding across this desolate and weird planet, watching the huge, old, obsolete and depressing buildings. Iron and steel remnants flew by outside the car window. They are now passing by a huge engine that is in an extinguished state. This engine feels like a strange extinct volcano. It has a shape that is thin and thick like a mountain peak. From the thick pipes and alloy frame, some old and mottled traces are distributed on the high "mountain", which is probably the rust that occurred when the atmosphere of this planet was still abundant.
Lily was looking out the car window all the time, and she sighed quietly: "The machine is still alive, but the man is dead... Who created these things?"
"There are no signs of advanced life yet. There are only some microorganisms that barely survive in the extreme environment deep underground." Hao Ren glanced down at the car's control panel. The area that should display the fuel gauge mileage is actually floating. Looking at a virtual screen, the things on it are the complex radar map and the communication interface with the Juguiyantai, "The human beings on this planet may have died... Of course, they may be hiding in some shelters, and We haven't found it yet."
"The second possibility is not very high," Vivienne shook her head, "Intuition."
"You said these engines run automatically?" Hao Ren turned his head and glanced at Vivian.
Vivienne still shook her head: "I don't understand engines, I just feel that this place is haunted by the atmosphere of death... The blood race is very sensitive to this atmosphere."
The group of people did not stay near the stalled engine, but continued on their way after making a slight circle to leave a few images, and the huge propeller, which was as magnificent as a mountain, was quickly left behind. The crowd moved on, and after passing more huge pipes and iron ruins, they encountered some other scattered buildings that looked like sentry towers and bunkers—things that reminded people of military bases. It seems that there was a war on this planet before those huge engines were completed.
It's just that all the traces have been covered by thick ice and snow, and only these sporadic relics in the highlands can still expose the ice surface. Unless you stop and scan in detail, it is difficult to know the thick solid carbon dioxide and the hidden under the ordinary ice layer. What the hell is it.
The car moved on. The surroundings began to warm up, and three blue-white flames rushing into the sky, as well as the giant engine below the flames, could be clearly seen near the horizon. The thermal radiation of the plasma flame dissipates the cold in a certain area. Let the carbon dioxide return to the atmosphere, it even melts ordinary ice and snow within a certain range, and you can finally see normal mud and stones on the road.
From time to time, there was a crackling sound outside the car window. It was the sound of strong wind blowing sand and dust hitting the car shell: the operation of the giant engine caused nearby dry ice and other substances to return to the atmosphere. And these heated and expanded gases are cooled into ice chips after being lifted into the air and spread far away, and are re-rolled near the engine in the lower atmosphere, so sublimation-expansion-fall-cooling goes on and on, rolling up a never-ending process There is a strong wind at the edge of the engine, and the area around the engine becomes the only place on the planet where there is an atmosphere.
Those engines are so massive that they even create natural weather-like phenomena during their operation. However, the scope of these phenomena is quite limited. A "wind circle" surrounds each engine. After crossing this circular wind belt. The front became lifeless again.
After going on for a while, Hao Ren and the others accidentally discovered the ruins of the city.
The city was built on high ground, and because it was near a running engine, the heat of the plasma flames melted the nearby snow and ice, so the city was not covered in white. At the request of the Nangong brothers and sisters, Hao Ren drove into the ruins of the city. He saw orderly high-rise buildings everywhere. I realized that there used to be a civilization with strong technological strength here.
And unlike those dark engines, there used to be bright colors in the city-there were detailed decorations on the facades of buildings. On the streets, you can see colorful patterns like advertising paintings, roofs, squares, roads...all these places are not rigid. Hao Ren drove past a pair of twin buildings, and he saw that the two buildings looked like a pair of symmetrically growing plant shoots, and the buildings were connected by a slender and elegant curved bridge.
Buildings of this size can be seen everywhere in the ruins of the city, and their styles are also varied. Some are elegant, some are as rough as those huge engines, and some can't even tell whether they are used for living or simply for decoration. Lily looked at those old buildings with her mouth open. Imagine a sunny day, this alien city greets the busy day brightly, the buildings are covered with radiance, the roads are full of calm and idle people, and there may be agile civilian aircraft between the buildings. Shuttle back and forth... However, these imaginations receded like a tide, and there was still a lifeless scene in front of her eyes.
Those empty buildings stood lifelessly in the darkness, silently facing the distant stars, and greeted the uninvited guests with rigid and cold faces.
In the background of the city complex, a piercing plasma beam splits the entire night sky in two.
"There is no life response," Hao Ren looked at the radar on the car, "and the city has been abandoned for a long time, I guess at least 10,000 years."
What Hao Ren said was not random speculation, he now has more or less knowledge and judgment in this area. He felt that the city must have been created before the engines were completed, because once those engines were activated, the planet would be de-orbited into space, and the planet's natives obviously did not have the ability to maintain an entire atmosphere for themselves without the sun. Heating - so they must abandon the surface city after building the engine and move to an underground shelter or hibernation facility.
And if the engine hadn't started 10,000 years ago, everything would be even simpler: the residents of the city must have died in the catastrophe that wiped out the world.
Vivian asked softly: "Why do you think they want to transform their planet into this?"
"Obviously for escape," Hao Ren looked at the huge plasma flame in the distance, "and I guess it's probably the eldest son... or the disaster caused by those brain monsters. Apart from the disaster of extinction, what else can a race make of itself? Is the parent star of the world pushed on the road of wandering?"
Lily grabbed the back of Hao Ren's seat, rolled her eyes and thought for a while, then shook her head: "Obviously something went wrong with their escape."
Vivian was very surprised by this husky's occasional flashes of inspiration: "How do you know?"
"Because this planet only set off a hundred years ago." Lily's ears trembled. "The Wrath Spirit took away the Nangong couple and sent them to this planet a hundred years ago. At that time, the starry sky in its memory was still in the I saw it near the pile of sun embers before, which means that this planet was still in its own solar system a hundred years ago. The extinction disasters in this universe basically happened 10,000 years ago... so the escape plan of this planet is very simple. It obviously failed. By the way, you really didn't expect this?"
Vivienne said sincerely: "I just didn't expect you to think of these things."
"I'm not stupid." Lily rolled her eyes, lay down on the seat and ignored the bat.
Hao Ren smiled and watched the two friends quarrel daily: "Lily is right, since this planet is going to escape, it should have set off ten thousand years ago. So it must have something wrong to stay in the original solar system Ten thousand years, it didn't start suddenly until Nangong and his wife were brought here... The problem probably happened a hundred years ago."
The team wandered around the city for a while, but finally came out disappointed. There is no complex life reaction here, and there is no trace of human life in a short period of time. Although the city is relatively warm and liquid water and moss-like foundation plants can be found, it seems that the parents of the Nangong brothers and sisters did not live here.
However, the Nangong brothers and sisters still cheered up a little: the environment in this city is clearly enough for a sea monster and a demon hunter to survive. Although it is not comfortable, it is possible to make ends meet. There is more than one "livable" area like this, and every engine that is breathing out flames may have living conditions. Since there is no such thing in this city, they can continue to look for it.
Until the entire planet is searched again.
(I have to go out again today, so I had to put the update in the morning. In addition, I would like to remind everyone to pay attention to the safety of funds when shopping online. I heard that a reader got cheated 20,000 yuan because of buying G online. This world is really dangerous. ) (to be continued~^~)