Chapter 638 After the Doomsday

Hao Ren drove his official car, which could do almost anything except transforming into Optimus Prime, on this desolate and strange planet. He looked at the huge, ancient, outdated and depressing buildings. The steel relics flew past the car window. They are now passing by a huge engine that is in an extinguished state. This engine feels like a strange-looking extinct volcano. It has the shape of a mountain peak, thin at the top and thick at the bottom. You can see on the dark shell From the thick pipes and alloy frames, some old and mottled traces are scattered on the high "peaks", which are probably the rust produced when the planet's atmosphere was still abundant.

Lily kept holding the car window open and looking out. She sighed quietly: "The machine is still alive, but the people are dead...Who created these things?"

"No signs of advanced life have been scanned so far. There are only some microorganisms barely surviving in the extreme environment deep underground." Hao Ren lowered his head and glanced at the car's control panel. The place where things like the fuel gauge mileage should be displayed was actually floating. Looking at a virtual screen, what is on it is a complex radar chart and a communication interface with the Giant Turtle Yantai. "The humans on this planet may have died... Of course, they may also be hiding in some shelters. And we haven’t found it yet.”

"The second possibility is not high," Vivian shook her head, "Intuition."

"You said these engines run automatically?" Hao Ren turned to glance at Vivian.

Vivian still shook her head: "I don't understand engines. I just feel that this place is surrounded by an atmosphere of death... The vampires are very sensitive to this atmosphere."

The group of people did not linger near the stalled engine, but made a slight circle to capture a few images before continuing on their way. The huge propeller, which was as majestic as a mountain, was soon left behind. The group continued to move forward, and after passing more huge pipes and steel ruins, they encountered some other scattered buildings that looked like guard towers and bunkers - these things were reminiscent of military bases. It seems that before those huge engines were completed, there was a war on this planet.

It's just that all traces have been covered by thick ice and snow. Only these sporadic ruins in the highlands can still expose the ice. Unless you stop and conduct detailed scanning, it is difficult to know what is hidden under the thick solid carbon dioxide and ordinary ice. What on earth is it.

As the car continued to move forward, the surroundings began to get warmer. Three blue-white flames rising into the sky could be clearly seen near the horizon, as well as the giant engine beneath the flames. The thermal radiation of the plasma flame dissipates the cold within a certain range and allows carbon dioxide to return to the atmosphere. It even melts ordinary ice and snow within a certain range. Normal soil and stones can finally be seen on the road.

From time to time, there was a crackling sound outside the car window, which was the sound of strong wind blowing sand and dust hitting the car shell: the operation of the giant engine caused nearby dry ice and other substances to return to the atmosphere, and these heated and expanded gases rose into the air and spread far away. After being exposed, it cooled into ice shavings and was rolled back to the engine in the lower atmosphere. So the cycle of sublimation-expansion-fall-cooling started over and over again, blowing up a never-ending edge wind, and the area around the engine became the only place on the planet. Some places have atmospheric atmosphere.

Those engines were so huge that they even produced what appeared to be natural weather phenomena during their operation. However, the scope of these phenomena is quite limited, with a "wind ring" surrounding each engine. After crossing this annular wind belt, the front became lifeless again.

After continuing for a while, Hao Ren and the others unexpectedly discovered the ruins of the city.

The city was built on high ground, and due to its proximity to a running engine, the heat of the plasma flames melted nearby ice and snow, so the city was not covered in white. At the request of the Nangong brothers and sisters, Hao Ren drove into the city ruins and saw orderly high-rise buildings everywhere. Although the style was very different from that on earth, he could still see the exquisite planning and technological building design. The Chinese realized that there once was a civilization with strong technological strength here.

And unlike those dark engines, there used to be beautiful colors in the city - there were detailed decorations on the exterior walls of the buildings, and colorful patterns like advertising paintings could be seen on the streets, on the roofs, squares, roads... all of these The place is not rigid. Hao Ren drove past a twin building. He saw that the two buildings were shaped like a pair of symmetrically growing plant buds, and the buildings were connected by a slender and elegant arc-shaped overpass.

Buildings of this size can be seen everywhere in the city's ruins, with various styles. Some are elegant, some are as rough as those huge engines, and some can't even be seen as being used for housing or simply for decoration. Lily looked at the old buildings with her mouth open, imagining that there was a sunny day, and this alien city welcomed the busy day brightly. The buildings were covered with radiance, and there were tranquil and idle people wandering on the roads. There may be crowds of people, and there may be agile civilian aircraft flying between the buildings... However, these imaginations receded like a tide, and her eyes were still lifeless.

Those empty buildings stood lifelessly in the darkness, facing the distant stars silently, welcoming uninvited guests with rigid and cold faces.

In the background of the city buildings, the plasma beam that penetrates the sky and the earth divides the entire night sky into two.

"There is no life response," 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 was not random speculation. He now had more or less knowledge and judgment in this area. He felt that the city was a product of before the engines were completed, because once those engines started, the planet would deorbit and go into space, and the natives of the planet obviously did not have the ability to maintain an entire atmosphere to themselves without leaving the sun. Heating - so after building the engine, they must abandon the surface city and move to underground shelters or hibernation facilities.

And if the engine had not started ten thousand years ago, then everything would be even simpler: the residents of the city must have died in the disaster that destroyed the world.

Vivian asked softly: "Why do you think they want to transform their planet into this?"

"Obviously it's to escape," Hao Ren looked at the huge plasma flames in the distance, "And I guess it's probably the eldest son...or it's the disaster caused by those brain monsters. Apart from annihilation, what else can make a race How about pushing your own home planet into wandering?"

Lily scratched the back of Hao Ren's seat, rolled her eyes and thought for a while, then shook her head: "Obviously there was something wrong with their escape."

Vivian was very surprised by this husky's occasional flash of inspiration: "How do you know?"

"Because this planet only set off a hundred years ago," Lily's ears twitched, "The angry spirit took Nangong and his wife away a hundred years ago and sent them to this planet. At that time, the starry sky in its memory was still there. What we saw near the pile of solar embers earlier shows that this planet was still in its own solar system a hundred years ago. The annihilation disaster of this universe basically happened ten thousand years ago... so this planet's escape plan It obviously failed. By the way, you really didn’t expect this?”

Viviante said sincerely: "I just didn't expect you to think of this."

"I'm not stupid." Lily rolled her eyes, lay down on the seat and ignored the bat.

Hao Ren smiled at the daily bickering between the two enemies: "Lily is right. Since this planet wants to escape, it should have set off ten thousand years ago. So there must have been something wrong with it to stay in the primitive solar system. It took ten thousand years, but it wasn’t until Nangong and his wife were brought here that it suddenly started... The problem probably started a hundred years ago."

The team wandered around the city for a while, but eventually left in despair. There are no complex life reactions here, and there are no traces of short-term human life. Although the entire city is shrouded in a relatively warm environment and liquid water and moss-like basic plants can be found, it seems that the parents of the Nangong siblings did not live here.

However, the Nangong brothers and sisters were still slightly cheered up: the environment in this city was obviously enough for a siren and a demon hunter to survive. Although it was not comfortable, it was possible to survive barely. There is more than one "livable" area like this, and each engine that is spitting out flames may have survival conditions. Since there are none in this city, they can continue to look for them.

Until the entire planet is searched.

(I have to go out again today, so I have to put the update in the morning. Also, I would like to remind everyone to pay attention to the safety of funds in online shopping. I heard that a reader fell into a phishing website and was defrauded of 20,000 yuan because he bought G online. This world is really dangerous. )