The current time is 8:30 in the morning of the ruined world—of course, this time is obtained through conversion. People on this planet are not used to the 24-hour system, but my sister and the others agree that thirty hours a day is simply too much. It was a headache, so we converted the time here to the earth standard timekeeping method.
Under normal circumstances, the daytime of the ruined world starts at six o'clock in the morning. Every morning, the timing center of "Great City" will broadcast the standard time to the entire ruined world, and then the solar furnace maintenance workers will restart the fusion reactors above all planets, Those reactors that have been running overnight at low power will take thirty minutes to fully recover, and at half past six, the bright "sunshine" will flood the earth, and the day in the world of ruins will begin.
But these are normal things.
Today, the world of ruins has not ushered in the dawn-this is not very accurate, the suns in other places start normally, although they are also a few minutes slower, strictly speaking, only the northern hemisphere of the ruined planet under our feet has not yet started. Usher in the dawn. Of course, the northern hemisphere here is also an artificially added concept for convenience. All celestial bodies in this space do not have orbits and stable magnetic fields, which makes it difficult to divide them. Based on the information we received, we had no choice but to adopt Qianqian's "simple azimuth calibration method", that is, throwing shoes. After throwing away three pairs of shoes in a row, Qianqian felt that we should be in the northern hemisphere...
Everything is still shrouded in thick night, and the sky is hung with a dim red halo, as I said before, like a tungsten lamp with insufficient power. All fusion reactors have not yet been able to start, causing everything here to be shrouded in darkness and cold.
I looked around and found that apart from myself just waking up, Qianqian was still snoring, and the big fox was still confused, the others had actually woken up a long time ago, and Sandora was standing tens of meters away On the metal pillar protruding from the ground, looking into the distance, I don’t know what I’m thinking about. My elder sister is still in the state of getting up and hypotension, squinting her eyes and scratching around to find the comb.
"Sleeping so many girls in the big bed, what a crazy day..."
Miss Lin pinched my neck, and whispered into my ear in a strange way, I jumped out of the corner of my eye and knocked her on the head with my backhand, "Can you stop thinking in the same way as Qianqian?"
The eldest lady cut her head and continued to look up at the sky.
Some small bright spots appeared around the still dim red circle of light in the sky at some point. These small bright spots were slowly moving along the edge of the former. After watching intently, I found that there were some thin rays of light connected between them and the circle of light. After looking at it for a long time, I touched Lin Xue's arm: "Girl, what is that?"
Lin Xue didn't raise her head at all. She didn't need to use regular "eyes" to observe things beyond her line of sight like me. Instead, she squinted her eyes, and a white light flashed in her eyes.
"It's the spaceship for repairing the fusion reactor. They are trying to reactivate the artificial sun. They have tried no less than ten times since six o'clock. Of course, it seems that they haven't succeeded even once."
There was no emotion in Lin Xue's tone, as if she was just stating the facts. I had a vague feeling that something bad had happened, but I didn't know how serious the situation was. The current situation of the ruined world can be easily found on the information link , because pl-15 released countless probes yesterday, and these probes are monitoring every corner of the three ruined planets and the entire Great Ruin Belt. All the fusion reactors in the world did not start running until a few minutes after the "Great City" gave the order to start, and all the reactors in the northern hemisphere of Ruin Star No. 1, the planet under our feet, have not been able to start until now.
"Are they broken at the same time?"
"This is one of the reasons." Lin Xue brushed her hair that was blown by the cold wind. "Those fusion reactors have been in disrepair for a long time. I can see that they have accumulated hundreds of thousands of years of decay. They should be emergency after the end of the world." Manufactured and used until today... but there must be other reasons for so many fusion reactors failing at the same time today, but I'm not an expert in nuclear engineering... the only thing I can be sure of is that this is not a good sign."
"Not a good sign..."
I repeated in a low voice, and then suddenly remembered something "I just had a dream."
Lin Xue's eyes brightened when she heard it: "Come on, let me test your dreams for you. You first stretch out your hand and show you your face..."
I didn't realize it until I stretched out my hand. Really, this girl's madness was so sudden that I didn't even have a chance to react!
I slapped Lin Xue's paw off, and said very seriously: "I'm not kidding, I think that dream is unusual..."
At the moment, I narrated the messy dreams I had just now, including seeing all the fusion reactors dimmed at night, a low rumbling sound coming from under the ground, the planet disintegrating instantly, and myself falling down in a daze. Into the center of the earth, these weird experiences were regarded as a mess of nonsense by myself at first, but now, I feel that things may not be that simple.
Listening to my statement, Lin Xue opened her eyes wider and wider, and finally couldn't help interrupting: "Wait! Wood, you said that you dreamed that the last planet split and you fell into the heart of the earth?"
"Not completely to the bottom." I thought for a while, "I just woke up when I fell down."
"Don't pay attention to the details." Lin Xue waved her hand, and then looked at me with straight eyes, making people feel awkward "Wood, I also had the exact same dream, even the shape and position of the small basin are not the same Poor - look behind yourself."
Lin Xue pointed to the opposite side, and I turned around in the direction of her finger, and a small basin exactly like the dream appeared in front of me.
"You should have never seen this place before. This is the first time we are standing on this platform. Only here can we see this basin." Lin Xue said in a low voice.
"We had the same dream?"
"It's not that I had the same dream" It should be that you had the same dream as mine, there is a difference: this dream belongs to me, and you are a bystander by accident." Lin Xue narrowed her eyes slightly, milky white light The dizziness began to flow in the eyes, "That is not an ordinary illusion, you should have discovered that you can clearly recall every detail of what you saw at that time, even after you wake up, there is nothing weird about what you saw at that time , normal dreams are not like this. Normal dreams will become incomplete after waking up. It is difficult for even trained psychologists to recall 100% of the scenes in their dreams. Moreover, when recalling the scenes in dreams in a waking state, people can easily find the hidden meaning of those scenes. The absurdity. Now that you think about it, is there anything absurd about that dream when you recall it now? "
I thought about it seriously, and after working hard for half a minute, I finally realized that it was exactly as Lin Xue said, that dream was very clear and reasonable from beginning to end, and now recalling the scene at that time will also have a feeling of looking back at the memory, rather than a dream. A hallucination, um, but if there is any absurdity, there should be—
"There's something abnormal, it's really incredible." I nodded solemnly, causing Lin Xue to be surprised, "In the dream, Qianqian didn't even push the quilt!"
"Oh, that's really unbelievable." Lin Xue nodded with deep surprise, and then kicked over. "You can't be more reliable! What Miss Ben means is that that dream is actually my ability." It's working, it's a passive prophecy, and then you don't know what happened, you broke into Miss Ben's spiritual world, you bastard!"
I hurriedly jumped to the side: "You should have said no earlier, don't you know that I have poor comprehension?"
Lin Xue was speechless at the time: Facing my calmness in certain aspects, she always had nothing to do.
"Well, that is to say, it is really possible that this world... is going to end?"
Seeing that the eldest lady didn't speak for a long time, I had no choice but to take the initiative to bring the topic back.
"It's one of the possibilities, but I don't know what caused the ruins to suddenly disintegrate." Lin Xue held her forehead in distress, "That is to say, if there is no way to avoid it, then it will happen in all likelihood. We I still don’t know what is maintaining this space, and I don’t know how its special structure was formed, but my intuition tells me that if the world collapses in the future, it must be some kind of “core” that maintains its current situation Something went wrong. Of course it shouldn't happen anytime soon, I'm sure of that. Now I'm even more curious about how you saw my dream."
When Lin Xue said the last sentence, she suddenly raised her head and looked directly at this side. Under the night, those all-seeing pupils with white light wandering looked like searchlights—I immediately thought of a dog's eyes. Bright.
"Turn off your skills first." I hurriedly waved my hand in front of Lin Xue, "It's so dazzling... Ahem, maybe the two of us have a good understanding? Then we will be in the same spirit when we sleep."
Lin Xue's face suddenly flushed slightly: "There is a mutual understanding? Can we reach this level? Qianqian sleeps closer to you, why don't you see what is going on in her mind at all?"
I thought about it, and suddenly felt that it might be because Qianqian really didn't install anything in his head when he was sleeping, or it was because the installed things were too weird, and after sharing, there were garbled characters left.
"That makes sense..." Lin Xue nodded subtly when she heard my explanation, "I really can't imagine how her mind usually works. As for Sandora, you probably can't understand that the apostle Xiling is dreaming when she sleeps, she If you happen to be thinking about the origin of the universe, you must think that it is more garbled than garbled characters. Sister, it may be because you are a little far away, and there is another big fox, the brainwaves of canines and primates are probably 80% are incompatible..."
With this ruled out, it seems that the only person here who can mentally synchronize with me in the previous situation is Lin Xue, but knowing this seems meaningless, what we are really curious about now is why I have personally experienced Lin Xue’s dream
We discussed this topic for a few minutes, but in the end, no one could explain why. At this time, my sis suddenly called us over from a distance, so this topic will stop here for the time being.
"Look over there, it's the direction of the town, it seems to be in chaos."
Elder sister pointed in the direction of the "condenser" town from afar, frowning and said.
The small town one kilometer away is now brightly lit, and there are many searchlight-like beams sweeping back and forth on the edge of the town. After strengthening the eyes, we can clearly see many people running around under those lights. Obviously, the "sun" in the sky is still alive today. It has already attracted the attention of ordinary people before it is ignited, and now it is probably panic.
Lin Xue and her elder sister immediately went to pack up the campsite and prepare to go back to the town. Qianqian was still confused at this time. She slept on me with her white crane spreading her wings all night, and ended up with a stiff neck. Like a melancholy girl looking at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle, Lan suddenly screamed softly not far away. The sound line sounded like a dog whose tail was stepped on. It turned out that her tail hair was caught by the zipper of the sleeping bag. It got stuck, and when I pulled the zipper, a large piece of it was pulled off. I didn't cry out the pain of the unlucky fox. When she dally put on her clothes and came to me, the nine tails were basically curled up. , One of them is still wrapped with a bandage, no matter how you look at it, it’s so coke, if I’m not afraid that Lan will really cry, I’d like to take a photo and send it to Zi with MMS...
It took a few minutes for Lan to tidy up his tail. By the time we arrived at the "Condenser" town, all the townspeople had gathered in the square, and the white light from the lampposts around the square was shining on these people On the face, there was a kind of sadness in everyone's face. There are five or six adults gathered at the corner of the square to talk about something. Last night, Glick happily introduced us to the whole town. "Guests" were also very impressed. They all showed quite surprised expressions when they saw us coming from outside the town.
I noticed that these people had worries on their faces. Although they knew what was going on, they still asked, "What's going on?"
"Don't you know?" A dark-skinned uncle shook his head, "We thought that people in Dacheng would know what was going on... The fusion reactor didn't seem to be activated, and it was still dark. I heard that if this continues The cold wind is about to blow, if you have nothing else to do, you'd better hide in the house, probably the big city will pick you up soon."
We vaguely said something noncommittally, and walked towards the center of the [Guang] field.
It seems that the situation is slightly better than expected. Although the residents are at a loss, they have not yet fallen into chaos. Perhaps in this world, the sudden breakdown of those huge machinery has become a common occurrence, so that the sun in the sky Sudden failure to light up can be downplayed. Of course, it may be a bit taken for granted. Anyway, those fusion reactors are not just for fun. Basically, the ecological lifeline of this world is maintained on them. That thing If it is broken, the calmness of these ordinary people does not know how long they can last.
Mr. Barnard was discussing things in a low voice with several other old people in the town. The residents surrounded these respected old people, keeping a distance of about five meters from them, trying not to make a sound, but sad and confused Emotions are still gradually fermenting in the air.
Just like the previous adults, Mr. Barnard immediately showed eagerness when he saw us walking in, trying to get information about the fusion furnace from the "people from the big city". Of course, except for those reactors that may happen We have no comment other than the glitch.
"I've never encountered such a disturbing thing in my life." Mr. Barnard kept wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, "I'm not saying that I haven't seen a fusion reactor break down. I also encountered it when I was very young." The fusion reactors didn't light up in time, but that time only one fusion reactor failed to light up, and it only delayed daylight by less than an hour... But this time it seems that the situation is much more serious, and the sky in the distance is also dark, There is more than one broken fusion reactor, and it's almost noon now... "
"Don't be nervous, it will be repaired. It's just a coincidence that things broke together. We have definite news that Dacheng has sent spaceships to activate those fusion piles." The elder sister comforted Mr. Barnard with a calm voice, and the voice was enough to make him When the nearby people heard it, the surrounding atmosphere eased a lot. It seems that what the "big men from the big city" said is quite convincing.
At this time, there was a little noise in the crowd, and Glick's thin figure slipped around and passed the adults' feet. As soon as he saw us, he exclaimed in surprise: "Wow!" ! So you are still there! I thought you went back."
"Glick, be quiet." Mr. Barnard quickly reprimanded, and then his expression eased, "Go home and stay with Waterdrop, the sun will be lit later today, and there are not enough lights in the town, so it's easy for children to run around out of danger."
Glick still listened to the old man very much. When he heard this arrangement, he just made a face at us and turned his head to leave, but at this moment, a louder voice suddenly came from the crowd, making him stop step.
"Look! The reactor lights up!"
Someone looked at the sky and made a sound of surprise.
I heard the sound and looked up, and saw that the dark red ring hanging in the center of the dark night a little to the west was slowly becoming brighter. The dark red color gradually turned to bright red, and then turned into bright yellow. The small bright spots around the halo suddenly scattered away like a school of frightened fish, and in the center of the halo, a bright white dot was expanding rapidly, instantly covering the surrounding dim yellow halo. The crowd was silent for a while, and then there were chaotic cheers, but one step faster than these cheers was Lin Xue's shout: "Close your eyes!!"
With only two to three seconds of reaction time, the small white dot in the sky expanded into a white light ball more than three times larger than a normal artificial sun, and then the dazzling white light covered the entire sky.
The fusion furnace exploded.