The fusion reactor suspended at an altitude of 3,000 kilometers began to work at a completely abnormal speed. The strong magnetic coil used to fix the reactor core changed from dark red to bright yellow in a few seconds, and was then replaced by the white light of the reactor core. The ball swallowed, and white light dozens of times brighter than the real sun instantly filled the sky, casting a vast whiteness in the eyes.
Lin Xue's reminder was yelled a few seconds before the reactor exploded, which gave everyone time to react. Although everyone didn't understand why, when someone yelled such a voice in an unexpected situation, many people subconsciously chose to follow suit. Just like when you suddenly yell and lie down at the train station, someone will surely fall down. Although you will soon be knocked down by the [police] uncle, the effect of "burst information appeal" is real. . Lin Xue's shout made many people close their eyes at the moment the reactor exploded.
not including me…
Really, our reaction is slow, if this girl had been vaccinated a few minutes earlier, maybe I would have reacted.
My field of vision was still a vast expanse of whiteness, and some people shouted in horror not far away: "Eyes! My eyes!" "I can't see anything!"
Sandora snorted coldly, and a little bit of mental oppression covered the [square], causing the townspeople who were almost in total chaos due to the panic attack of a dozen people to tremble and fell silent, and then she said indifferently One sentence: "Quiet, it's only temporarily blinding." After the mental oppression was removed, the people around obviously calmed down a lot, but they could still hear uneasy whispers. I have undergone a lot of physical enhancement, but it seems that "flash blinding" is a normal function of the eyes, and I have been tricked just like those ordinary people.
Fortunately, I now use various ways to observe the world. The detailed mental power scan is much easier to use than the eyes, so I don't care much about the paleness in my vision for the time being. I just touched Lin Xue's elbow and said He murmured: "Why didn't you remind me earlier?" "Wu Mu, why are you so slow?" The eldest lady smiled mischievously, and waved her hand in front of my eyes, but I knocked her off: "Don't make trouble, you think it's just me?" Do you see things by yourself without eyes?"
Just like Sandora said, the burst of white light just now was not enough to burn people's eyes, and even the blindness was quite short-lived. A few minutes later, the townspeople who were hit by the oversized flash bomb recovered one after another I recovered a little earlier than them, and my naked eyesight is completely fine.
If the night before the flash was just dark, and there was still a coil emitting red light providing illumination, the sky is really invisible now, and the dark red halo hanging in the sky has been wiped out with the explosion. Without any light source, the sky above his head is like a pure black curtain, empty and boundless, the only light is the occasional small bright spot across the sky, which is the remains of the fusion reactor burning blazingly across space, but this is the last flash It only lasted less than ten minutes, and in the end, nothing was left.
〖Guang〗There was deathly silence in the field, the townspeople looked around in a daze, and under the pale streetlights, there was a panicked face. What happened now was something they had never experienced and never dared to do. Imagine that the fusion furnace hanging above the head will go out, or even be blown into pieces. This impact on them may be no less than that of people on earth seeing the sun turn green with their own eyes. No one knows what they should do in this situation. What was the reaction? The only thing left was to look around anxiously. After seeing the same uneasiness in other people, I was even more panicked, but I also found a sense of security in the collective.
After a while, I don't know who started it, and there was a muffled voice from the crowd. It might have been a soliloquy at first, but it soon became a contagious conversation: "Glick said, He's been talking about the reactor going off..."
"He? He's just a little crazy, right? He also said that those ancient machines would also stop." "But the fusion reactor is really finished now. Although it was not made by the gods, they are also left over from the age of the gods. Let's go." "Don't talk nonsense, there will definitely be a new reactor going up. The church has a lot of ancient machines in their hands, and they can use that to recreate a fusion reactor..."
"I don't think it's reliable. Do you still remember that when we were young, the public light-off time was three hours after dinner every day (the time unit of the ruins world), and now it is two and a half hours. The time for the public lighting to be turned off has been advanced. The big energy furnace It must be insufficient effort, as Glick said, all energy furnaces have been used for at least 700,000 years... "
"Don't talk nonsense, Glick is just a whim, he's a..."
"My father is not whimsical! He is a hero!" A childish voice that had already exhausted its strength suddenly penetrated the deep whispers in the square, and little Glick struggled to squeeze out of the crowd and stood. Shouted loudly in front of everyone, "My dad said a long time ago that all machines will break. He said that he would find other big stars and find us new reactors and synthesis machines! He is a Heroes are not whimsical!"
Such a little boy suddenly appeared in the square and yelled, and the people were stunned. Mr. Barnard looked at Glick in surprise: "Didn't you be asked to stay at home with Shuizhu? The situation is not good now. , Children don't leave the room."
"I'm fourteen years old." Glick said loudly, his chest puffed up, trying to show his maturity." "I saw a flash of light outside the room just now, is it a fusion furnace?" Glick looked up subconsciously in the middle of speaking. He glanced at the sky, and what caught his eyes was the pitch-black sky, and the place where the fusion furnace was originally hung was empty.
"Everyone go home and wait. There should be news from Dacheng soon." Barnard coughed and said loudly, "Maybe the new fusion reactor is already on the way to launch, but that It will take time. Today's work is cancelled, everyone is not allowed to leave the town, and it is best not to leave the room, prepare something warm, if the fusion reactor is shut down for too long, it will definitely blow cold wind... ..., Glick, you too , go back quickly, you are fourteen years old, but Shuizhu is only nine years old, she needs someone to take care of her."
After Mr. Barnard's orders were clear and firm, Glick could only choose to obey unconditionally. Several townspeople who still had something to say also nodded in agreement. The crowd began to disperse. After a while, only Leave the rest of us and Mr. Barnard.
"I'm sorry, there is no transportation in the town to take you back, and the road between here and the outside world may also be blocked by darkness." The old man rubbed his hands anxiously, observing our expressions, "I'm afraid that several Guests from Dacheng can only stay in town for the time being..."
"It doesn't matter, just experience life." Lin Xue habitually wanted to run the train with her mouth full, but I stared at her, and then her expression became serious, "Old man, do you really think that the new fusion reactor will be in place soon?" Nadwan didn't expect the guest from the big city to ask such a question. He froze for a moment, then said hesitantly, "I don't know, but it's not certain. Those ancient things can always be maintained, the priests said." Their light never goes out "The fusion reactor will be repaired, let's hope the town doesn't get blown down by the cold winds until then."
"Is it "never extinguished"?" Lin Xue repeated a few words in a low voice noncommittal, shook her head imperceptibly, but didn't say much, we said goodbye to the old man first, and then found Gerry gram hut.
The warm light yellow light is still on in the hut. The difference from the previous visits is that it has been cleaned up a lot after "beeping" and many broken parts have found their proper functions. The neatly assembled machinery and equipment are placed in a place where they can function, or at least not take up so much space. Glick is sitting in front of his iron table in a daze, with a half-eaten piece of bread in front of him~ that We brought it last night, and Shuizhu was curled up in the big chair in the corner of the room, hugging his knees and huddled up, with panic in his eyes.
In fact, it would be easy for all of us to just repair the fusion reactor, but the current situation is definitely not as simple as the fusion reactor being scrapped. Facts show that worse things are happening here. This system that has been in operation for more than 700,000 years is about to come to an end, and those non-imperial fusion reactors are the first batch of ancient ones to come to an end due to technical limitations. equipment.
Under normal circumstances, the imperial machines that maintain this world should be able to last longer, at least far beyond the lifespan of those fusion reactors by several times, it is no problem, but this is not a normal situation, those things are dismantled from the wreckage of the spaceship The dilapidated equipment, thinking of Lin Xue's prophetic dream, I am afraid that the shutdown of key equipment such as food synthesis machines and atmosphere generators will only happen overnight.
In this case, fixing a fusion reactor is irrelevant. If you don’t want to watch the aborigines of this world suffer catastrophe, sending them all to a safe world is the simplest and most rude way. This is one of our preliminary plans, but before that, Sandora and I both think that There should be no rush to act: it will take some time for those systems to break down, and we have to unlock the other secrets of this space before the final moment arrives.
Glick looked a little sullen, but that was all, he looked quite calm. A thirteen-year-old child didn't panic too much after facing such an event that would make adults panic. His calmness or rough nerves are surprising. It is also possible that the plumber father who held the doomsday theory every day was influencing the child, making him appear calmer than others in the face of disasters.
The same is true for Shuizhu. Although she seems to be more panicked than Glick, it is surprising that a nine-year-old girl is not crying or fussing in this situation. Now it is endless night outside, in order to save energy , the street lights in the town had just been turned off halfway, and the street was shrouded in darkness at the "noon hour" on weekdays. The water droplets leaned on the window and looked outside, then shrank back in fear, staring straight at over here.
"Uncle, will the sun come up?"
the little girl asked timidly.
I really want to remind her that she should be called brother in this situation, but after taking a look at Glick, I think it's better not to be the same generation as that 13-year-old brat.
"There's something wrong with the sun, but the grown-ups have gone to fix it."
The older sister gently pressed Shuizhu's thin shoulder, took out some snacks from her pocket and stuffed them in her hand, "Don't worry, with us, no matter how bad things are, they will get better.
The wonderful snacks made this simple child forget his fear immediately, just like a little squirrel eating, Shuizhu held a small bag of puffed food and ate it quickly, while Glick suddenly glanced at us and suddenly remembered Something: "By the way, why are you the only ones back in town? What about those brothers and sisters?"
"You mean Bingtis and Mercury Lamp?" I suddenly didn't know how to answer, "They seem to be..."
"We're back!"
As a result, when I was thinking about how to explain to Glick the whereabouts of the gang of people, Bingtis's carefree and uneducated loud voice rang outside the door, just like going back to my own home, This female hooligan, who has never known politeness, pushed the door openly, carrying my mercury lamp on her shoulder—but the latter hit the door beam with a "boom" when talking about the door.
When I was in front of me, I was carried backwards by Bingtis.
This is the tragic lesson of height exceeding the limit.
"Wow! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" The sloppy goddess hurriedly threw the mercury lamp that hit the alloy door frame from behind to in front of her, nervously checking to see if she hurt the other party.
I really couldn't see it, and reminded me next to me: "Hey, hey, you took it down..." It seems that mercury lamps have always been associated with collisions since they met each other. When she first arrived at home, she often forgot that When flying around the house, I always forget that there is a corner in front of me and hit something to stop. Even now, being carried by Bingtis, I will die because of the latter's Ma Daha To be knocked dizzy, this is probably a curse-like fate for Mercury Lamp.
It took me a bit of effort to prevent the doll from desperately looking for a certain goddess. The price I paid was a lot of desserts, a big bucket of yogurt, and a promise of a body pillow when I went back. At the same time, Bingtis occupied the only cushioned chair in Glick's house carelessly without any image, and exaggeratedly said: "Oh boy, it was really bright at that time, it scared the concubine I jumped." I raised my eyebrows and asked with a spiritual connection: "You mean the fusion furnace?"
"Fusion Furnace? Well, that's what mortals call it." Bingtis' voice sounded in his mind, "The artificial suns in this area of the sky are all extinguished, and a layman like me can tell that they are seriously used beyond their lifetime. Didn't you see, their shells are full of bumpy patches.
Some mortals wanted to force pressurize one of the artificial suns, oh, the one above your heads, and when it was pressurized, the body and others happened to be hanging out in the orbit, and we watched its shell vaporize, and the pipes were like rubber bands in an instant If it weren't for 123 to help those mortals bear the impact, and Lilina secretly treating the radiation, I'm afraid there would be a bloody storm at an altitude of 3,000 kilometers..." "You saved people. "My lord sister showed a very happy look.
"Of course, we are gods, so we can't watch mortals die innocently, right?" Bingtis spread his hands, "But to be honest, if this continues, the world will be over. PL-15 analyzed those probes and scouts Professionals did not understand the information sent back, but one thing is certain: 80% of the most basic mechanical systems in this space are seriously declining, and now is the period of concentrated outbreak of all system shutdowns , as long as hundreds of years, as short as a few months, the various ancient factories that ensure the minimum life support in this world will be completely shut down, and the mortals in this world can no longer find the parts that can repair those ancient machines . These are its exact words."
"I really don't know if it's luck or what." Elder Sister shook her head with a subtle wry smile." "As soon as we came to this world, the maintenance system of this space just happened to be completely shut down. After hundreds of thousands of years of survival, it's time to catch up." Did it happen when we came here? "
"If we hadn't appeared, the world would have collapsed silently," Sandora said, "From this point of view, this world is very lucky.
Gehrig couldn't hear these conversations happening on a spiritual level, and we talked about these things in the spiritual connection for less than a second, so he didn't realize that the few people in front of him were discussing the world he grew up in. It is a matter of life and death, he is now busy sharing a small packet of puffed food with his sister, in front of snacks, he is just an ordinary child.
But at this moment, a burst of noise suddenly came from the direction of the square, which caught our attention.
When I led Qianqian and the others to the [Guangzhou] field, there were already more than a dozen people gathered here, and the protagonist of the ** was standing in the middle, and one of them was an acquaintance: a fat and honest old man, Ba Nader.
"Dacheng will take care of everything. The only thing we can do now is go back and wait." Barnard cast his eyes on the person in front of him, his eyebrows twisted into a pimple, "Tek, I know you are very brave, but at this time Big is useless, the nearest big town is more than ten kilometers away, and the road has to pass through a valley that is not fully opened, there is no light, no supply station, and we have no means of transportation!"
Mr. Barnard was talking to a bald man who was as strong as an iron tower. Although he was two heads lower than the latter, his tone of voice was really severe. The bald man called Tek lowered his head slightly and did not dare to speak loud retorted, but insisted: "Are we just waiting here? If the fusion reactor can't be repaired in a month, we'll spend a month in the dark! Until then, the town and the roads outside will be even more blocked than they are now." Seriously, it will be too late to ask for help. Dacheng can't notice such a small settlement like ours. If we want to find help, we can only go out and ask for help... "
We listened by the side, and at this time we roughly understood what was going on. The big man named Tie Ke in front of him was obviously a radical in the town. He felt that the fusion furnace had exploded. In the long night, before that, it is wisest to get in touch with a nearby big town that has a formal settlement establishment, but the old mayor of Barnard is from the perspective of safety, and his reasons are also very good: the small town has no The means of transportation that can be used for long-distance travel, the town and the roads outside are not safe at all, especially in the current dark conditions, that road does not even have lights and places to replenish energy, just walking in the dark night Traveling more than ten kilometers to ask for help is tantamount to suicide.