After hearing Nolan's words, Hao Ren didn't react for a moment: "The world is on fire?!"
Nolan was silent for a brief moment, as if he was trying to organize his words. In the background of the communication channel, faint noises and explosions could be heard in the distance. Nolan spoke again after a few seconds: "
I don’t know how to describe it... Everything is suddenly spontaneously burning, including water and stones. Just now I watched a building suddenly burn like cotton. Now the streets outside are full of refugees... Humanity itself
It’s the only thing that won’t spontaneously combust.”
"Spontaneous combustion?! Water and stone?" Hao Ren was heartbroken. At the same time, the rock formations around him began to shake again, and streams of hot underground steam quickly blew through the passage. Despite the shield, he could still
I felt that this heat was enough to melt gold and iron, and the situation that happened in the virtual world was instantly connected to the situation in front of me. The answer was very obvious, "Maybe the disaster in the real world has affected the virtual space..."
Another loud sound of rock collapse came from nearby, and Lily immediately grabbed Hao Ren's arm and dragged him forward: "Landlord, leave quickly, it's not safe here!"
While being dragged forward by Lily, Hao Ren quickly asked Nolan about the situation there: "How are you doing over there now? Has the fire spread around you?"
"The phenomenon of spontaneous combustion seems to have stopped temporarily. I am some distance away from the fire scene, so there should be no problems for a while," Nolan's tone was urgent, "But I saw that the fires that burned before could not be extinguished...
...You are in the real world, right? Now I believe you, I really believe what is happening outside?!"
To be honest, Nolan still doesn't know how to prove that Hao Ren really came from the real world. But the current situation makes these details seem irrelevant. The world in front of her is experiencing an earth-shattering phenomenon. This is what happened before.
A situation that has never happened in countless reincarnations: no matter how crazy the previous world script is, it is at least "reasonable". But the sea of fire that spontaneously ignites out of thin air everywhere in front of you is like a nightmare that ignores the laws of nature. Thinking of Hao Ren who suddenly disappeared
, and what the other party said before leaving. Nolan can only regard the "real world" as the last straw now.
"The outside world is also burning... In fact, the entire planet is slowly falling into the sun. I'm afraid it is this situation that affects the virtual world." Hao Ren described the situation in the real world as briefly as possible, and then suddenly
Remembering that the communicator has a projection function, "You open the cover under the communicator. There is a blue button. Press it and I will send you some pictures."
After a while, Hao Ren transmitted to Nolan the scene of Zhuomu gradually sinking into the sun and the underground bunker in front of him.
"As you can see, the real world outside is like this... It was destroyed probably thousands of years ago or even longer, and the planet heated up probably two to three thousand years ago. We have not found any traces of human civilization on the surface of the planet.
, but there is a huge underground shelter. We were lucky enough to find the entrance to the shelter and are now trying to find a way to enter the core of the shelter."
Nolan looked at the terrifying image of the scorching sun and sea of fire in front of her. She seemed to have forgotten how to speak for a moment. The knowledge and experience she had accumulated through countless reincarnations suddenly became a joke. Those things were in front of the truth of this world.
It had no effect.
The true situation of the world has shocked Nolan for a long time. Under normal circumstances, it would take some effort for anyone to accept this shocking fact. However, now that time waits for no one, she can only force herself to accept the reality immediately and think about it.
There is a way to do something. Fortunately, the calmness gained through long experience in the battlefield can still exert some effect. She patted her cheek and calmed down: "What can I do here?"
"Report the situation in the virtual world at any time. Keep the communication open. Maybe my pda... Patty can analyze the location of the server based on these signals. In addition, protect yourself. I am afraid this reincarnation is really the last one. This time
If you die... you really won’t be able to survive.”
Nolan hummed, and after a moment of silence, he couldn't help but ask: "What exactly are you going to do?"
"Find the server that generates the virtual world. All human beings should be stored in it. I have a spaceship here. I can move the server away," Hao Ren said his plan in as relaxed a tone as possible, as if everything was already in place.
If you are well prepared, things will really develop so easily. "Don't worry, I have done larger relocations than this. Moving you will not be much more difficult than moving a large computer room."
Nolan seemed relieved. She took a few breaths and said, "Okay, I believe you... there is nothing else to believe in anyway. I wish you good luck."
"I wish you peace and avoid the fire."
After the communication was hung up, the voice from the data terminal suddenly interrupted: "You didn't tell her that this planet can only last for more than forty hours."
"Let's make the situation as optimistic as possible. We still have more than forty hours to clean up this mess," Hao Ren breathed out, "As long as we find the server before it burns down..."
"The premise is that you really have a way to move the server out. Considering the size of the shelter and the complex underground conditions, you may need a lot of construction machinery to do this, and it will take you longer..."
"Okay, let's wait until we find the server," Hao Ren interrupted the data terminal's analysis, "Now give me more precise guidance. You have been scanning the general location of the server for so long, there should be some progress, right?"
The data terminal paused for a few seconds, seeming to be summarizing the data, and then reported: "Maintain the current direction, you are heading to the depths of the shelter. This machine has scanned a large number of current signals underground, which are distributed in a network in the shelter.
The surrounding area should be the power supply system of the server. A major node is just a few kilometers ahead of you, and you should be able to at least touch the edge of the system there."
Hao Ren and the others want to find a virtual world server underground on this planet that is on the verge of collapse. Such an urgent search cannot just rely on luck and impulse. Everyone's route is directed by the spacecraft radar, and the data terminal is also constantly
Analyzing the energy response of suspected server signals deep in the ground, although these guidelines are not very accurate, the general direction can be guaranteed. Therefore, although everyone seems to be crawling around in the hole like headless flies, in fact they are indeed in the ground.
Heading into the depths of the shelter.
This can be seen from the increasingly wider corridors and increasingly common equipment rooms around them: they are already very close to the core of this man-made bunker.
At present, this section of the road has been squeezed by the ground to a certain extent. The super alloy walls on both sides are often cracked. Some dark red rocks squeezed into the corridor from the cracks, looking like solidified resin seeping in from the cracks. Lily casually raised her paw.
He cut a small stone from the top and put it in his pocket. He turned around and asked, "How long have we been drilling here?"
Vivian took out her phone and checked the time: "Not counting the time on the surface before, we have been underground for three hours. According to the rotation period of the planet, more than half of the night has passed."
Hao Ren connected the communication with the spacecraft: "Terminal, how is the situation up there?"
"The good news is that we are facing the calmest moment on the back side of the sun. In the next two or three hours, the formation activity will drop to a minimum. The bad news is that the sun will rise in three hours, and the sunlight will heat the rock formations above you.
Everything will come alive, and it will be very exciting to stay down there. You'd better find the server before then, otherwise you will have to return early," the terminal reported, suddenly raising its tone, "There is also bad news for this machine.
The probe that went out captured a few seconds ago when a large-scale magma sac erupted suddenly on the sunny side. A piece of earth's crust about the size of South America was blown into space. It is estimated that you will be there in ten minutes.
There will be an earthquake."
"Earthquake...the earthquake here is almost like drinking water," Hao Ren looked at the soil and stones falling from above his head, and sighed with a wry smile, "The real bad news is that the planet is about to reach the critical point, right? The earth's crust
It begins to be peeled off by the sun, and as long as one point is broken through, the chain of collapse will probably follow like dominoes."
"The calculations of this machine are correct. The planet can still hold on before the fourth sunrise. Of course, it's hard to say whether the shelter below can hold on."
"...This is really your kind words." Hao Ren said and hung up the communication.
They continued to travel through the seemingly endless, downward-sloping passages and shafts, and increased their speed. Several times they almost fell into cracks that suddenly appeared in the road. Fortunately, the path forward was accurate.
The road in front of them is getting wider and wider, and there are large-scale caves and structures that look like abandoned settlements. The latter may be the place where the last batch of Drom people in the real world once lived, but unfortunately
The settlement is in a serious state of abandonment, and no lines or equipment can be found to connect to the virtual world.
Just as they entered another large cave, Lily, who was running around as a scout, suddenly exclaimed: "Everyone, come and see this!"
A group of people came to Lily's side, and a huge cylindrical object like a tree root passed through the rock formation and lay in front of everyone.
"If I admit it correctly..." Hao Ren swallowed, "This is the tentacle of the eldest son..." (To be continued...)