After hearing Nolan's words, Hao Ren didn't react immediately: "The world is on fire?!"
Nolan was silent for a short while, as if he was trying to organize his words. In the background of the communication channel, he could hear faint noises and explosions coming from the distance. Nolan spoke again after a few seconds: " I don't know how to describe it... Everything is spontaneously combusting, including water and stone. Just now I watched a building suddenly burn like cotton. Now the streets outside are full of refugees... Humans themselves are the only ones Something that doesn't spontaneously combust."
"Spontaneous combustion?! Water and stone?" Hao Ren's heart skipped a beat. At the same time, the rock formation around him began to shake again, and gusts of scorching underground steam blew rapidly through this passage. Despite the shield blocking him, he could still Feeling that the heat is enough to melt gold and iron, the situation in the virtual world is instantly connected with the situation in front of me. The answer is 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 it forward vigorously: "Landlord, hurry up, this place is not safe!"
While being dragged forward by Lily, Hao Ren quickly asked Nolan about the situation: "How is your side now? Has the fire spread around you?"
"The phenomenon of spontaneous combustion seems to have stopped for a while. My side is some distance away from the fire scene. There should be no problem in a while," Nolan said in a hurry, "but the fires I saw before can't be extinguished... Are you in the real world? Now I believe you, very much—what the hell is going on out there?!"
To be honest, Nolan still doesn't know how to prove that Hao Ren really came from the real world, but the current situation makes these details seem irrelevant. The world in front of her is experiencing an earth-shattering vision, which has never happened in countless reincarnations before: no matter how crazy the previous world script was, it at least maintained "reasonable", but the ubiquitous sea of flames spontaneously ignited in front of her was like A nightmare that defies the laws of nature. Thinking of the sudden disappearance of Hao Ren and the words he said before leaving, Nolan can 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 has affected the virtual world," Hao Ren described the situation in the real world as briefly as possible. Then I suddenly remembered 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 sent Nolan the scene of Zhuom gradually falling 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 ago, and the planet's heating up should have happened two or three thousand years ago. We have not found any traces of human civilization on the surface of the planet, But there is a huge vault underground. We were lucky to find the entrance to the vault and are now trying to find a way into the core of the vault."
Nolan looked at the terrifying image of the scorching sun and sea of fire in front of her, and seemed to have forgotten how to speak for a moment. The knowledge and experience she had accumulated through countless reincarnations suddenly became a joke. It didn't work.
The real situation of the world shocked Nolan for a long time. Under normal circumstances, no matter who it is, it takes a lot of effort to accept this shocking fact. But now time is running out, she can only force herself to accept the reality immediately and find a way to do something. Fortunately, the composure gained from years of experience in the sand field can still play a little role. She patted her cheeks to calm down: "What can I do here?"
"Report the situation in the virtual world at any time and keep in touch. 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 time. If this time If you die... then you really won't be able to survive."
Nolan hummed. After a moment of silence, he still couldn't help asking, "What are you going to do?"
"Find the server that generates the virtual world. All human beings should be stored there. I have a spaceship here to move the server away." Hao Ren said his plan in a relaxed tone as much as possible, as if everything had been done. When you are ready, it seems that things will really develop so easily, "Don't worry, I have done relocations on a larger scale than this-it will not be much more difficult to move you than a large computer room."
Nolan seemed relieved. She took a few breaths: "Okay, I believe you... There is nothing else to believe anyway. I wish you well."
"I wish you well. Stay out of the fire."
After the communication was hung up, the voice of the data terminal suddenly came in: "You didn't tell her that this planet can only last for more than forty hours."
"Try to make the situation as optimistic as possible—we still have more than forty hours to clean up this mess," Hao Ren breathed out, "Just find the server before it burns up..."
"The premise is that you really have a way to transfer the server out. Considering the size of the shelter and the complex underground situation, you may need a lot of construction machinery to get this done, and you will have a longer time..."
"Okay, let's wait until we find the server," Hao Ren interrupted the data terminal's analysis, "Now give me a more precise guide, the general location of the server—you've been scanning for so long, you must have made some progress, right? "
The data terminal paused for a few seconds, seeming to be summarizing the data, and then reported: "Maintain the current direction, you are heading to the deep layer of the shelter, this machine has scanned a large number of electrical signals underground, distributed in a net shape in the shelter As for the surrounding area, it should be the power supply system of the server. A major node is just a few kilometers ahead of you, and you should be able to touch the edge of the system at least there."
Hao Ren and the others wanted to find a virtual world server beneath this planet that was on the verge of collapse—of course such an urgent search couldn't just be based 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 the suspected server signal deep in the formation. Although these guidelines are not very accurate, the general direction can be guaranteed. So although everyone seemed to be burrowing around in the hole like headless chickens, they were actually heading deep into the refuge.
This can be seen from the increasingly wide corridors around and the increasingly common equipment rooms: they are already very close to the core of this man-made bunker.
Right now, this section of the road has been squeezed by the ground to a certain extent, and the superalloy walls on both sides are mostly cracked, and some dark red rocks are squeezed into the corridor from the cracks, looking like solidified resin seeping through the cracks. Lily cut a small stone from the top with her paw and put it in her pocket, then turned her head and asked, "How long have we been drilling here?"
Vivian took out her mobile phone to check the time: "Not counting the time on the surface before, we have been underground for three hours. According to the rotation period of this planet, more than half of the night has passed."
Hao Ren connected to the communication with the spaceship: "Terminal, how is the situation up there?"
"The good news is that it is ushering in the calmest moment on the back side, and the formation activity will be reduced to the lowest value in the next two or three hours. The bad news is that the sun will rise in three hours, and the sunlight will heat the rock formations above your heads. Everything will be active, and it will be very exciting to stay here, you better find the server before then, otherwise you will have to return early," the terminal reported, and suddenly raised its voice, "There is also bad news—this machine A few seconds ago, the released probe captured a large-scale eruption of magma pockets on the sunny side. A piece of crust about the size of South America was blown into space. It is estimated that in ten minutes your place will explode. There's going to be an earthquake."
"Earthquake... The earthquake here is almost like drinking water." Hao Ren looked at the clods of earth and rocks falling from the top of his head, and sighed with a wry smile. "The real bad news is that the planet is about to reach the critical point, and the crust begins to After being stripped off by the sun, as long as one point is broken through, I am afraid that there will be a chain of collapse like dominoes."
"This machine's calculations can't be wrong. Before the fourth sunrise, this planet can still hold on. Of course, it's hard to say whether the shelter below can hold on."
"... This is really a good word for you." Hao Ren said, and hung up the communication.
They continued to travel between the seemingly endless, sloping downward passages and shafts, and picked up speed, several times even almost falling into the cracks that suddenly appeared in the road. Fortunately, the forward route was correct, and 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 group of Zhuom people who stayed in the real world once lived, but unfortunately the settlement is seriously abandoned, and there is no line or equipment connected 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, and a huge, tree-root-like column passed through the rock formation and lay in front of everyone's eyes.
"If I'm not mistaken..." Hao Ren swallowed, "This is the tentacles of the eldest son..." (To be continued~^~)