Deep underground, this place is isolated from the deadly sunlight on the surface. However, because the entire planet has been continuously heated for thousands of years, it is also extremely hot here. If there is no shield and life support system, I am afraid that except Yzaks and Elizabeth
The others couldn't hold on here for long. Hao Ren led the small exploration team forward in the wide and slanted corridor. The road ahead kept sloping downwards, and it seemed that it could lead all the way to the depths of the underground, and so far
We haven't seen the end of the road yet.
Exploring this real planet that had turned into purgatory, Hao Ren couldn't help but think of Nolan who stayed in the virtual world, and the hundreds of reincarnations that Nolan had experienced. He was certain that the humans in the virtual world were
The residents who once lived on this planet undoubtedly entered the virtual world to avoid something. Hao Ren once wondered whether it was because the people on this planet were helpless when the planet fell into the sun, so they had to create it.
He hid in a virtual world to paralyze himself, but he soon realized that this timeline did not match. The first reincarnation of the world in Nolan's memory occurred nearly 10,000 years ago, and the data terminal calculated that the orbit of the planet was out of balance.
It should have happened two or three thousand years ago. There is a huge difference between the two. Even if Nolan's memory of the world is not very accurate, it should not be so biased.
So the Drom people did not enter the virtual world to avoid the stellar fire, but what to avoid? The eldest son?
The journey in the underground tunnel was boring, so Hao Ren casually shared his guesses with the people around him. After hearing these guesses, Lily gave her own opinion: "There are too many possibilities. Maybe they didn't escape at all.
What, it’s just that after technology developed to a certain level, the wrong technology tree was clicked, and all human beings were addicted to virtual reality and couldn’t extricate themselves. Then there was a problem with the server in the real world and humans could not log out, so they were trapped in the server.
It was a complete accident that the planet fell into the sun afterwards. It is also possible that they did encounter a crisis that year and hid in the virtual world to deduce a feasible solution in the simulator. Then an accident occurred and they could not log out. It may even be that the planet was unable to log out.
The robots rebelled. The rebels locked the human spirit in the server. Then they used the human body as a battery to generate electricity. Isn't that what happened on TV? Anyway, the surface of the planet has been burned by fire. Now it is estimated that only the underground servers are still alive.
It's running. The evidence has been burned away, so we can guess whatever we want."
Lily opened her mouth and made a lot of guesses about balabala, and Vivian couldn't help but look at her sideways: Although she usually mocked this husky as a stupid dog, to be honest, this writer's imagination is really big.
It's so big that there's a circle all over the neck...
Yzaks coughed slightly at this time: "Ahem, speaking of which, we just kept searching. But how do you plan to save people after you find them?"
"I haven't thought about it yet." Hao Ren was quite unsure when it came to this issue. He could only tell the best case scenario to reassure people, "But if there is really only one server down there... it depends on whether we can use the spaceship."
Transport it away."
Lily blinked after hearing this: "...What a whimsical solution."
Elizabeth jumped up and down next to Yzaks, and the little girl asked in a loud voice: "By the way, we have already walked down a few kilometers, how come..."
Before she finished speaking, a roar suddenly came from deep underground!
The roar lasted for a few seconds, sounding like a huge rock formation collapsing in a cave deep underground, followed by a burst of heart-wrenching creaking and grinding sounds from all directions. At the same time, the ground beneath everyone's feet
It also vibrated violently, and the surrounding superalloy tunnels made an overwhelming tearing sound during the vibrations. Pieces of earth and stone continued to fall from the cracks at the top of the tunnel. A burst of hot underground gas blew violently through the tunnel. Elizabeth was almost blown away.
Made a somersault.
Yzaks quickly grabbed the little girl and protected her by his legs: "Is this place going to collapse?"
Hao Ren opened his hand and held Lily and Vivian next to him. He waited for the turmoil to pass before exhaling: "It's quiet down now...it shouldn't collapse. I guess this kind of situation must happen a lot recently. Why did you come here before?"
Haven't we seen many twisted corridors?"
"What was that just now?" Vivian was a little uneasy, "Earthquake?"
Before Hao Ren could say anything, Lily beside him suddenly started to explain: "The planet is disintegrating. The gravity of the sun and the expansion and contraction caused by uneven heating of the planet itself are tearing the crust away from the mantle. Logically speaking, the sunny side should be
This kind of movement is the strongest, but now the backside is also shaking... It is indeed reaching a critical point."
After Lily finished speaking, she paused. After noticing the gazes of the people around her, she couldn't help but get angry: "So how many times do I have to say it before you can remember that I graduated from Peking University four times?! And I graduated based on my grades, okay?
!”
"Well, that's probably what Lily said," Hao Ren touched the tip of his nose awkwardly and continued to move forward. "Everyone, please be careful. This planet is like a candy ball that has softened in the sun. All the structures are intact.
It is unstable, so you must not stand still in an emergency."
As he spoke, he added: "And actually the vibration is not the most terrifying situation. The worst thing is that the walls and caves around us may suddenly squeeze in at any time. This is essentially a collision of the earth's crust. On the earth,
The plate friction that takes tens of thousands of years to occur will be completed here in a matter of seconds..."
Lily's tail suddenly exploded into a ball. "Landlord, what did you say?!"
"Don't worry, the life-support collar has an emergency disaster avoidance function. If the shield is about to be damaged by a sudden external force, it will teleport you to the spacecraft. But the scene will probably be more exciting."
Even a fierce man like Yzaks couldn't help but cast a fearful glance at the ceiling above his head: "...If hundreds of millions of tons of earth's crust are squeezed down, the devil king will be able to do it in seconds."
"This is the power of nature," Hao Ren smiled helplessly, "We are following a fifty-trillion-ton stone ball falling into the sun, so don't expect the working conditions to be comfortable. Everyone, stand firm.
Stay strong and don’t fall behind.”
After the first shock, there will be a second and third time. Everyone goes all the way to the depths of the underground, experiencing more large and small earthquakes, and as the depth increases, the shocks become more and more terrifying. Each time
This shock was not only accompanied by violent shaking and falling sand and gravel fragments, but also a loud echo coming from deep underground, as if a bomb had been detonated in a huge cave. It was the violent friction between plates, and between them
The discontinuous gaps between them act like speakers that amplify the roar of rock collisions. The structure of this planet has been completely disordered. It is unclear how many cracks and moving rock fragments are distributed inside it. It is like a planet filled with gravel.
It was shaking in space like a sack, and large-scale plate collisions were happening every moment. But because the planet had not truly disintegrated, these collisions were still within the "controllable" range. At least Hao Ren and the others were still barely there.
Progressing deep underground.
To the planet, this small expedition team is as small as a group of ants burrowing through the cracks in the rocks. However, this group of ants has power, and they are hoping to save something.
A completely blocked fork in the road blocked everyone's way. This fork in the road was blocked by collapsed rock formations, and this was already the sixth dead end that everyone had encountered. This is an unavoidable situation: slowly across the planet
In the case of disintegration, it was actually thankful to God that there was still a feasible passage underground. Hao Ren could only lead the team back to the previous fork and choose a promising passage to continue exploring. At the same time, he contacted
Giant Turtle Yantai, who was cruising at a low altitude above everyone: "Terminal, can't you give me a more accurate navigation? This is a dead end again."
"This aircraft has tried its best, but the underground situation is very complicated, and the surface area is being reorganized and deformed. This aircraft must first ensure the safety and stability of the route."
Hao Ren hung up the communication and shook his head at Vivian beside him: "Safety first, keep walking."
"To be honest, the underground has become like this... Drom's virtual world is still running?" Lily felt incredible, "I feel that such a complex virtual reality device should be very sophisticated, but the earth's crust has begun to split.
The virtual world seems to be barely running."
"Anyway, the 1.6 billion people on Nolan's side are still alive," Hao Ren was also a little puzzled. "Maybe it's because the virtual world has many backup servers... After all, the planet has not completely collapsed."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a voice full of noise in the communication channel: "Hello... hello, can you hear it? This is Nolan..."
Hao Ren unexpectedly received the communication: "Can you hear it? What's going on over there?"
Nolan was silent for two seconds and suddenly asked: "You are in the real world now, right? What you said before is true, right?"
The corners of Hao Ren's mouth turned up unconsciously: "Well, now you have decided to believe it?"
Nolan's heavy breathing came from the communication channel. She seemed to be calming down. After a moment, she spoke: "What is happening outside?"
A kind of uneasiness suddenly came into his heart, and Hao Ren spoke urgently: "Is there something going on over there? I heard a lot of noise..."