Hao Ren drove his official car, which could do almost anything except Optimus Prime, on this desolate and strange planet, watching the huge, ancient, old, and oppressive steel ruins speed past the car window.They were now passing by a giant extinguished engine that looked like an eerie-looking extinct volcano, with a mountain-like shape, thick pipes and alloy frames visible on the black shell, and some old and mottled traces scattered over the tall "peaks", presumably the rust that had been produced when the planet's atmosphere was still abundant.Lily kept looking out the window, and she sighed faintly, "The machine is still alive, but the man is dead......
Who created these things?
”"At present, there are no signs of advanced life, only some microorganisms, barely surviving in the extreme environment deep underground," Hao Ren glanced down at the control panel of the car, where things like the fuel gauge mileage should be displayed were actually suspended a virtual screen, and the things on it were complex radar charts and the communication interface with the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace, "The humans on this planet may have died......
Of course, it's possible to hide in some shelter, and we haven't found it yet. ”"The second possibility is not high," Vivien shook her head, "intuition. ”"You say these engines run automatically?"
Hao Ren turned his head to look at Vivien.Vivien still shook her head: "I don't understand the engine, I just feel like this place has an atmosphere of death......
The Bloodlines are sensitive to this atmosphere. ”The group did not linger near the flame-off engine, but only made a slight circle to leave a few images before continuing on their way, and the huge thrusters of the mountain were soon left behind.As the group moved on, passing more massive pipes and steel ruins, they came across a few other scattered structures that looked like watchtowers and bunkers—things reminiscent of military bases.It seems that there was a war on the planet before those huge engines were completed.It's just that all traces have been covered in thick ice and snow, and only these scattered ruins in the highlands can still show the ice, unless you stop for a detailed scan, it's hard to know that the thick solid carbon dioxide and ordinary ice car continues to move forward, and the surroundings are starting to get warmer, and three blue-and-white flames rushing into the sky can be clearly seen near the horizon, as well as the giant engine below the flames.The heat radiation of the plasma flame dissipates the cold within a certain range, allowing carbon dioxide to return to the atmosphere, and it even melts the ordinary snow and ice in a certain range, and the normal dirt and stones can finally be seen on the road.From time to time, there was a crackling sound outside the window, which was the sound of the wind blowing sand and dust against the hull: the operation of the giant engine caused the nearby dry ice and other materials to return to the atmosphere, and these heated and expanded gases were lifted into the air and dispersed into the distance, then cooled into ice chips, and were re-rolled near the engine in the lower layers of the atmosphere, so that the sublimation-expansion-landing-cooling cycle continued, rolling up a never-ending edge wind, and the area around the engine became the only place on the planet where the atmosphere existed.Those engines are so huge that they even produce phenomena that seem like natural weather during their operation.However, the scope of these phenomena is quite limited, with a "wind circle" around each engine.After crossing this ring of wind, the front becomes lifeless again.After continuing to travel a distance, Hao Ren and the others also accidentally discovered the ruins of the city.The city was built on high ground, and due to its proximity to a working engine, the heat of the plasma flames melted the nearby snow and ice, leaving the city not covered in white.Hao Ren drove into the city ruins at the request of the Nangong brothers and sisters, and saw that there were orderly high-rise buildings everywhere, although the style was very different from the earth, but he could still realize from the exquisite planning and the building design full of science and technology that there was once a civilization with strong scientific and technological strength.And unlike those dark engines, cities used to have beautiful colors - the facades of buildings were delicately decorated, and the streets could be seen with colorful patterns like advertising paintings, roofs, squares, roads......
All of these places are not rigid.Hao Ren drove past the middle of a twin building, and he saw that the two buildings were in the form of a pair of symmetrical plant shoots, and the buildings were connected by a slender and elegant curved sky bridge.Buildings of this size can be found everywhere in the ruins of the city, and the styles range from elegant to rugged like those huge engines, and some are not even indistinguishable whether they are used for living or mere decoration.Lily looked at the old buildings with her mouth open, imagining a sunny day, a busy day in this alien city, the buildings clad in glitter, the streets roaming with idyllic people, and perhaps agile civilian aircraft shuttling between the buildings......
However, these imaginations receded like a tide, and there was still a dead patch in front of her eyes.The empty buildings stood lifeless in the darkness, silently facing the distant stars, greeting uninvited guests with rigid and cold countenances.In the background of the city complex, a beam of plasma light splits the entire night sky in two."
There is no life reaction," 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." ”Hao Ren's statement is not a random speculation, and he now has some knowledge and judgment in this area.He felt that the city should be a product before the engines were finished, because once those engines were activated, the planet would be deorbited and into space, and the original inhabitants of the planet obviously couldn't afford to keep their entire atmosphere heated without the sun - so they would have to abandon the surface city and move to underground shelters or hibernation facilities after building the engines.And if the engine hadn't started 10,000 years ago, it would have been much simpler: the inhabitants of the city would have died in the catastrophe that destroyed the world.Vivien asked softly, "Why do you think they made their planet like this?"
”"Obviously to escape," Hao Ren looked at the huge plasma flames in the distance, "and I guess it's probably the eldest son......
Or the catastrophe caused by those brain monsters.What else could make a race push its home planet down a wandering path other than annihilation?
”Lily grabbed the back of Hao Ren's seat, rolled her eyes and thought for a moment, then shook her head: "It's obvious that something went wrong with their escape. ”Vivien was surprised by the occasional flash of inspiration from the husky: "How do you know?
”"Because this planet only set off a hundred years ago," Lily's ears twitched, "The Angry Spirit took the Nangong couple a hundred years ago and teleported to this planet, and the starry sky in its memory was still seen near the pile of solar embers before, which means that this planet was still in its own solar system a hundred years ago.The catastrophes that destroyed the universe basically happened 10,000 years ago......
So the planet's escape plan has obviously failed.By the way, you really didn't expect this?
”Viviant is honest: "I just didn't expect you to think of this. ”"I'm not stupid."
Lily rolled her eyes and lay down in her chair to ignore the bat.Hao Ren smiled and looked at the daily bickering of these two enemies: "Lily is right, since this planet is going to flee, then it should have set off 10,000 years ago."
So there must have been something wrong with it to stay in the primordial solar system for 10,000 years, and it didn't suddenly activate until the Nangong couple were brought here......
The problem probably came a hundred years ago. ”The team wandered around the city for a while, but eventually came out disappointed.There are no complex life reactions here, and there are no traces of human life in the short term.Despite the relative warmth of the city and the availability of liquid water and moss-like basal plants, it seems that the Nangong siblings' parents did not live here.However, the mood of the Nangong siblings was still slightly uplifted: the environment in this city was obviously enough for a kraken and a witcher to survive, and although it was not comfortable, it was possible to barely survive.There is more than one "habitable" area like this, and there may be living conditions near every flame-spewing engine, and since there are none in the city, they can continue to look for them.Until the entire planet is searched.
(I'm going out again today, so I had to put the update in the morning.)In addition, remind everyone to pay attention to the safety of funds for online shopping, I heard that there is a reader who won the phishing website because he bought G online, and was cheated 20,000, this world is really dangerous. ）(To be continued.) )