Hao Ren stood on the bank of the river made of metal, looking at the endless gray-white river in front of him, the viscous, slowly wriggling, unsettling liquid that reminded people of origin blood carried an unsettling and dangerous aura.All the mercenaries kept their distance from the river bank in fear, and only he stood at the front with Ulanov and Nolan.Ulanov's hoarse voice came from inside the helmet: "The end of the world is only one step away. ”"This is a nanomachine swarm?"
Hao Ren lowered his head and pointed at the viscous liquid in the gray river, "It's so big......
Scale. ”"Everyone knows that the Grey River is made up of nano swarms," Nolan glanced at Hao Ren, "You should have crossed one of the Grey Rivers when you fled from the natural man city-state into the Void Zone, didn't you notice?"
”"One of them?"
Hao Ren frowned, and then changed the topic, "No, the situation was critical at that time, we were separated from the large army, and I didn't have much chance to pay attention to the surrounding situation.By the way, how are you going to cross the river?
Boating?
”"Wait for the condensation," Nolan turned and walked away, and began to order loudly, "Everyone, rest in place, we cross the river after dusk!"
Kim, Lorraine, make sure the armored car is ready to start at any time, and I want all the electromagnetic hibernators to be turned on twenty-four hours a day - if anyone has a problem with the electromagnetic hibernator, report it immediately. ”The mercenaries immediately moved under the order, they rested on the spot next to the armored car, and took out the compressed dry food from the car to hurry up and replenish their physical strength, Karl walked up and down among the soldiers and reminded loudly: "Do not touch the soil directly with your hands!"
Take care of your kettles and discard them immediately if they are broken!
Half an hour later, another injection of anti-poison, twice the dose of the injection with a burning sensation in the breath!
”Ulanov shook his body and walked to the armored car: "Ah, I can't use anti-poison against the air here, my lungs are already rotten." ”"He's actually quite optimistic," said the mercenary elder sister, who was very unrestrained, as she passed by, "but it's a headache when he jokes about his internal organs."
Speaking of this good man - I heard that you came out of the shadows?
Don't you want to start another love in a new environment?
”As she spoke, she rubbed towards Hao Ren, who took a half-step sideways slightly: "Do you need to throw you into the gray river to calm down?"
”"Hey, it's boring."
After everyone else walked away, Hao Ren turned around and returned to the armored car, he remembered that there was an on-board computer installed in it, and the basic query function was open to everyone, and he had also seen how Nolan operated the terminal in the car.After a few moments of tossing and turning, he managed to connect to the Internet and began to look up information about the Grey River and the Northland Ruins.The situation of the Northland Ruins does not need to be examined in detail, but it refers to the entire area that was destroyed after the nanometer group went out of control sixty-five years ago, this area includes three dissolved cities and the vast fields between them, hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land have been turned into life forbidden land, and the goal of everyone's trip: the Northland Ring Tower is located in the south-central location of this ruins group.As for the Grey River......
They are remnants of nanomachine swarms.The Grey River is not a single river – Hao Ren had misunderstood this before.The true Grey River refers to the large number of "rivers" that spread out like radial cracks around the Northland Ruins, and after removing the smaller tributaries, the total number of large-scale Gray Rivers reaches hundreds, like a spider's web, blocking the entire Northland Ruins Cluster.Viewed from the air, the Northland Ruins resemble a bloodshot eyeball, and the Grey River is the bloodshot around the eyeball: to get to the Northland Ring Tower, one must cross the Grey River.According to the rough maps found on the Internet, several major routes between the city-state of natural people and the lawless zone also need to pass through the basin of one of the gray rivers - no wonder Nolan would think that Hao Ren had seen the gray river.Although the nano-machine swarms dissolved everything in the area, they did not cover 100% of the Northland ruins, in fact, the remaining nano-machine swarms here are concentrated in the countless "gray rivers", and between the gray rivers are criss-crossed into countless "islands".These islands are littered with nanomachine-modified wreckage, the soil is infested with toxic substances created by the malfunctioning swarms, and the horrible gray-white "slime" is everywhere, but these islands are the only safe place to stay in the Northland Ruins.Nolan seemed to know the best route, which should be a series of contiguous lands, with only a few grey rivers to reach the ruins of the Ring Tower."
Don't you think there's a sense of dissonance?"
The voice of the data terminal sounded in Hao Ren's mind, "All the data mentions the loss of control of the nanomachine swarm, but there is no mention of how they were controlled......
These things could have destroyed the whole world, but why did they stop in the Gray River?
”"I can't find it on the Internet, maybe someone erased it," Hao Ren turned off the computer and turned to leave the car, "I'll go talk to Nolan."
What does it feel like to be in your personal space?
”"It's okay.,The machine found the place where you put the gravity generator.,Now I've built a 1.0G standard ground.,I'm practicing walking," the voice of the data terminal is very pleasant, "The machine feels like this body.,Walking is still like a cerebral thrombosis.,No matter how much training doesn't work.,Probably compatibility has encountered a bottleneck.。
”“…… Well, if you're happy, just don't mess with my arsenal. ”Hao Ren found Nolan, who was standing alone on the riverbank at the moment, facing the darkening sky, and the figure of the gray-haired girl looked unusually thin in the dim sky.He leaned over from behind, and when he was still more than ten meters away, he saw Nolan's ears move slightly: he was really a scary mercenary leader.Waiting for the other party to turn his head, Hao Ren beckoned: "Why aren't you with everyone?"
”"The Grey River is about to condense," Nolan pointed to the surface of the river with his chin, the viscous liquid surging slower and slower, and showing signs of imminent solidification, "After dusk, the nano swarm will temporarily cease to move, turning into a flat surface like an alloy block, large enough to carry armored vehicles through."
Of course, the premise is that the electromagnetic sleep device does not shut down, otherwise these things will wake up in an instant, and I have a group of people who die like this. ”Nolan seemed to be in a good mood now, or a little excited, she was not as cold and distant as before, but patiently explained Hao Ren's question, who thought it was a good time to ask questions: "Anyway, how did humanity stop these runaway nanomachine swarms sixty-five years ago?"
”"Stop?"
Nolan shook his head lightly, "No one stopped them at all, the fleet stopped spreading on its own."
At that time, many people thought that the world was about to be destroyed, that all countermeasures and safety devices were not effective, and that the people here were waiting for death, and that it was the nanomachine swarm that suddenly stopped, sparing the lives of mankind.See these riverbanks—" Nolan stomped his foot and stepped the metallic ground, which resembled rocks in nature, but made of metal."
These seemingly barrier things are not man-made, they are made by the nano swarm itself, and they delimit their own range of activities, so that human beings can survive and continue to fight outside the territory of the swarm.Originally, the nano swarm was supposed to cover the entire world, multiplying and devouring until the planet was turned into a mud mass......
But they made themselves a complex container and held themselves inside. ”Hao Ren glared: "Why is this happening?"
”"Who knows?
Scientists can't tell," Nolan's mouth turned up slightly, "you should ask Ulanov, he's an expert on this, but I don't think he likes it." ”"Ah, since I've come here, I don't mind talking to you about this," Ulanov's voice suddenly came from the side, he came to Hao Ren's side, and quietly looked at the gray river that was getting calmer and calmer, "Some people speculate that the 'Juggernaut' computer successfully sent the last control signal before it went down, so that the fleet stopped proliferating, and some people suspect that in fact, the 'Juggernaut' computer is still running, they are buried deep underground, powered by nuclear reactors, and theoretically they can indeed operate to this day- If you consider that it controls the nanomachine fleet to maintain itself underground, maybe it will run forever. ”Ulanov paused at this point and continued in a mocking tone: "There is even more crazy speculation that the mutants who call themselves the Rangers believe that the nano swarms have evolved intelligence, and they have made the decision to keep this world based on some kind of superhuman intelligence and logic, just to observe the evolution of humanity.The Rangers see the nano-swarms as the new masters of this world, and they assert their evolutionary superiority by indiscriminately attacking other humans, believing that this will give them a place in the New World when Judgment Day comes.Statements like that......
Numerous. ”(I ran outside all day, and this chapter was rushed out at night.)In addition, being idle anyway is also idle, and by the way, ask for a monthly pass =.=) (To be continued.) )