Deep underground, it 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 Yizaks and Elizabeth Others here simply can not last long. Hao Ren led a small detection team forward in the wide and crooked corridor. The road in front of him continued to slope downwards, and it seemed that it could lead all the way to the depths of the ground, and so far the end of the road had not been seen.
Exploring on this real planet that had turned into a purgatory, Hao Ren couldn't help thinking of Nolan who stayed in the virtual world, and the hundreds of reincarnations that Nolan experienced. He can be sure that the human beings in the virtual world are the residents who once lived on this planet, and they entered the virtual world to avoid something—Hao Ren once thought, is it because when the planet fell into the sun, the The people were helpless, so they had to create a virtual world to hide in to paralyze themselves, but soon he realized that the time axis was not right. The first reincarnation of the world in Nolan's memory happened nearly 10,000 years ago, and the data terminal calculated that the planet's orbital imbalance should have happened two or three thousand years ago. Even if it is accurate, it should not deviate to this extent.
So the Zorms didn't enter the virtual world to escape the stellar fire - what was it to escape? The eldest son
The journey in the underground passage was very 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, just clicked on the wrong technology tree after the technology developed to a certain level, and all human beings were addicted to virtual reality, and then there was a problem with the server in the real world, which made humans unable to log out, so they were trapped in the server. It was a complete accident that the planet fell into the sun after that. It is also possible that they did encounter a crisis back then, and hid in the virtual world to deduce a feasible solution in the simulator. Afterwards, an accident caused them to be unable to log out. It may even be the The robots rebelled, and the rebels locked the human spirit in the server. And then used the human body as a battery to generate electricity - hasn't it been shown on TV. Anyway, the surface of the planet has been burned by fire, and now it is estimated that there are only underground servers It's still working. The evidence is burned out, so we can guess all we want."
Lily made a lot of guesses about balabala, and Vivienne couldn't help but look sideways at her: Although she usually mocked this husky as a stupid dog, to be honest, this writer has a really big brain. It's so big that there's a circle on the top of the neck...
Yizaks coughed lightly at this time: "Ahem, speaking of which, we 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 he mentioned this issue, he could only say the best possible situation to calm his mind, "but if there is really only one server down there... It depends on whether the spaceship can be used to control the server. It's shipped."
Lily blinked when she heard it: "...what a whimsical solution."
Elizabeth bouncingly followed beside Y'zaks, and the little girl asked bluffingly, "By the way, we've already walked down for a few kilometers, why..."
Before she finished speaking, a burst of 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, followed by a tooth-sick creaking and rubbing sound from all directions. At the same time, the ground under everyone's feet also shook violently, and the surrounding superalloy tunnel made an overwhelmed tearing sound during the vibration, and pieces of earth and stone continued to fall from the cracks at the top of the tunnel. A blast of scorching subterranean gas violently blows through the tunnel. Almost turned Elizabeth over.
Y'zaks quickly grabbed the little girl to protect her by his legs: "Is this place going to collapse?"
Hao Ren held Lily and Vivian beside him with open arms, and waited for the turmoil to pass before exhaling: "It's quiet... It shouldn't collapse. I guess this kind of situation must have happened often recently. Why did you come here before?" Didn’t you see many twisted corridors?”
"What was that just now?" Vivian was a little uneasy, "Earthquake?"
Before Hao Ren said anything, Lily next to him suddenly helped to explain: "The planet is disintegrating. The gravity of the sun and the expansion and contraction movement caused by the uneven heating of the planet itself are tearing the crust from the mantle. It stands to reason that the sunny side should be The place where this kind of movement is the strongest, but now the back side is also shaking... It really is going to the critical point."
Lily paused after she finished speaking, and couldn't help but frowned after noticing the eyes of the people around her: "So how many times do I have to tell you to remember that I graduated from Peking University four times?! And I graduated based on grades, okay? !"
"Um, that's probably what Lily said," Hao Ren touched the tip of his nose in embarrassment and said as he continued to move forward. "Everyone, be careful. This planet is like a ball of sugar that has been softened in the sun. All structures are unstable, so you must not stand still in an emergency."
As he spoke, he added: "In fact, shaking is not the most terrifying situation. The worst thing is that the walls and caves around us may suddenly squeeze over at some point. This is essentially a collision of the earth's crust. Plate friction that takes tens of thousands of years is done here in seconds..."
Lily's tail exploded into a ball, "Landlord, what are you talking about?!"
"Don't worry, the life-support collar has an emergency disaster avoidance function. When the shield is about to be damaged by a sudden external force, it will send you to the spaceship. It's just that the scene will probably be more exciting."
Even a fierce man like Yizaks couldn't help but look at the ceiling above his head in fear: "... the hundreds of millions of tons of earth's crust are squeezed down, and the demon lord will be able to do so in seconds."
"This is the power of nature," Hao Ren smiled helplessly, "We are falling into the sun with a big stone ball of 50 trillion tons, so don't expect how comfortable the working conditions will be. Everyone stand firm Help, don't fall behind."
After the first tremor, there will be the second and third—everyone went all the way deep underground, experiencing more large and small earthquakes, and as the depth increased, the tremors became more terrifying. Each vibration was not only accompanied by violent shaking and falling sand and gravel fragments, but also a bang echoing from deep underground, as if a bomb had been detonated in a huge cave. That is the violent friction between the plates, and the discontinuous gap between them amplifies the roar of rock collisions like a speaker. The structure of this planet has been completely disorganized, and it is impossible to say how many cracks and moving rock fragments are distributed inside it. It is shaking in space like a sack full of rubble, and it is happening all the time. with massive plate collisions. But because the planet has not really disintegrated, these collisions are still within the "controllable" range, at least Hao Ren and the others are still barely advancing deep underground.
To the planet, this little team of expeditions is as small as a group of ants crawling through rocky crevices, but this group of ants has power, and they are hoping to save something.
A completely blocked fork blocked everyone's way. This fork was blocked by collapsed rock formations, and this was already the sixth dead end that everyone encountered. This is an inevitable situation: with the entire planet slowly disintegrating, it is actually thankful that there are viable passages underground. 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 Juguiyantai, which was cruising at low altitude synchronously above everyone: "Terminal, can't you give a more accurate navigation? This is a dead end again."
"This machine has tried its best, but the underground situation is very complicated, and the surface area is being reorganized and deformed. This machine must first ensure the safety and stability of the route."
Hao Ren hung up the communication and shook his head to Vivienne beside him: "Safety comes first, let's go."
"To be honest, the underground has become like this... Zhuomu's virtual world can still work?" Lily felt incredible, "I feel that such a complicated virtual reality device should be very sophisticated, but the earth's crust has begun to split, and the virtual world is still working." The world seems to be barely functioning."
"Anyway, the 1.6 billion people on Nolan's side are still alive." Hao Ren was also a little puzzled. "Probably because there are many backup servers in the virtual world... After all, this planet hasn't completely collapsed yet."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a voice full of clutter in the communication channel: "Hello... Hey, can you hear me? This is Nolan..."
Hao Ren took the communication by accident: "I can hear you, what's going on over there?"
Nolan was silent for two seconds, and suddenly asked: "You are in the real world now, right? What you said before is true, right?"
The corner of Hao Ren's mouth curled up unconsciously: "Well, now you have decided to believe it?"
Nolan's heavy breathing came from the communication channel, and she seemed to be calming herself down. After a while, she said, "What happened outside?"
A feeling of uneasiness suddenly flooded into Hao Ren's voice, "Is there something wrong with you? I heard a lot of noise..."
"The world... is on fire." (To be continued~^~)