Data Wasteland

Somewhere in the factory.

Inside the huge boiler, the flames were burning, and the surrounding space was bright red by the fire light.

High-temperature heat waves continue to gush out from the boiler, turning the entire plant into a steam furnace.

The surroundings were empty, there was no worker, and there were no piles of coal on the ground, as if there was no need to add any fuel, the flames in the boiler could burn forever.

Quietly, two figures appeared at the entrance. They looked around and touched in cautiously. After confirming that there is no threat, go to the boiler.

"This is really big enough."

Looking up, Chen Xing couldn't help sighing. The boiler occupies most of the factory building and is connected to the roof. Through the holes in the roof, you can vaguely see the huge chimney towering into the clouds.

Countless pipes are connected to the boiler, sending high-temperature and high-pressure water vapor everywhere.

Seven princesses took out various instruments and equipment from the storage space and inspected the surrounding area.

"The radiation index is abnormal, accompanied by strong chaotic energy fluctuations..."

"Things are here!"

Seven princesses inspected for a circle, and finally their eyes fell on the combustion chamber. I saw a piece of orange red inside, and the high temperature continued to radiate, making it impossible to get close.

"Look at me!"

Chen Xing showed off his stunts again, leaped forward and dived into the boiler like a fish.

Suddenly, fire waves hit his face, and the temperature reached tens of thousands. Chen Xing's eyes glowed with blue light, and dense loops of runes appeared on his skin.

There was a monstrous rain of fire in the spirit sea, and a simple rune slowly rose out of the sea, and then, like a black hole, produced a huge suction. The rain of fire was dragged, turned into countless fire dragons, and was involved in the runes.

The surface of the rune lit up, and cracks filled with lava emerged.

But at this moment, something strange happened.

The gate of the boiler fell down without warning!

Only a bang was heard, and the gate divided the inside and outside of the furnace into two worlds.

Chen Xing heard the movement and immediately launched a teleportation, wanting to leave the combustion chamber. Unexpectedly, he bumped his head against the furnace wall and was bounced back.

what happened!

He teleported again, but was still blocked back. It seemed that an invisible force was pulling him, preventing him from leaving.

The teleportation couldn't work, he immediately turned around to check the gate, but found that the gate was tightly closed, and there was no place to start. He slammed it up with a heavy punch, and the furnace wall remained motionless, like a mayfly shaking a tree, unable to produce even a single noise.

For a moment, he thought of Sun Dasheng who was trapped in the gossip furnace.

But he is not as resistant to fever as Dasheng Sun, who is of copper skin and iron bone, he is just a body of flesh and blood. Although Balrog's blood brings the ability of fire immunity, this ability is only a small part of the Balrog's body, and there is an upper limit on the amount of heat that can be absorbed.

"Boom!"

There was a dull knocking sound outside. It seemed that the Seventh Princess had discovered an abnormality and wanted to break the boiler with a steam iron fist.

However, the boiler remained motionless after several consecutive noises.

In less than thirty seconds, Chen Xing had already felt that the temperature was gradually rising. This is not because of the temperature change in the combustion chamber, but because the flame immunity is gradually failing after absorbing excessive heat energy.

At the moment of failure, he would be burned to ashes by tens of thousands of degrees.

Thinking of death, Chen Xing's forehead was sweaty.

what to do? what to do!

The time is too short, too urgent, and there is no time for him to think.

But the more urgent the situation, the less chaos it can be.

As a human being, he gradually calmed down. According to the Seven Princess, the undercurrent relic is in the combustion chamber.

Find it, control it, maybe this is the only way to survive.

Chen Xing turned around and walked firmly to the center of the combustion chamber.

The temperature is getting higher and higher, and there is a burning pain from the skin. On one side is the immunity that is about to fail, on the other side is the higher and higher temperature of the combustion center. Under the declining effect, Chen Xing’s ability to resist fire is rapidly declining.

It is orange-red where it enters the eye, making it difficult to distinguish the direction.

Chen Xing closed his eyes and sank his consciousness into the darkness.

A little light appeared in psionic vision. It is the only light in the darkness.

Chen Xing opened his eyes abruptly, rushed over and grabbed it!

"Uh!"

There was a violent pain, like reaching into the fire and grabbing a piece of red hot coal.

He smelled the burnt flesh, but he dared not let go, because this was the only hope!

He seemed to be able to feel the water in his hands evaporating, and the bones were melting.

He gritted his teeth desperately, not allowing himself to let go. Even if the entire arm was burnt to coke, he would not let go.

After a stalemate for dozens of seconds, or even a few minutes, the whole world suddenly became quiet.

The temperature gradually dropped, from the scorching heat at the beginning to the endless cold.

Opening his eyes again, the world plunged into endless darkness.

"you made it!"

Behind him came the clear voice of Princess Seven.

Only then did Chen Xing see the object in his hand clearly.

A golden key.

Looking around, the original factory building, the patrolling mechanical guards, and the mechanical workers lining up like ants, all disappeared.

And instead of all of this, only the heavily deserted land underfoot.

"You found the key to the manager of the factory!"

Chen Xing only glanced at the golden key in his hand, and threw it directly to the seventh princess without much exploration.

He is very clear about his position. In this treasure hunt, he is just a facilitator, and the harvest is naturally the other side's.

Of course, the reason why he gave it so readily was because he did not have enough sources of psychic energy to support such a huge factory operation.

The seventh princess looked at it for a while, put it in her pocket, and leaned slightly towards Chen Xing, "Thank you!"

"Let's go, we should go back."

When he got the things, he should also go back to be the prime minister of his red country. There are a lot of national affairs waiting for him to deal with, and there are a lot of women waiting for him to be lucky.

"Wait, there is still something."

On the detector's screen, the green line was beating slightly, indicating that there were still faint fluctuations in psychic energy.

"over there!"

The two soon found a place where the psionic energy fluctuates abnormally-a wooden cabin.

The huge factory disappeared like a mirage because the energy core was taken out, but a lonely cabin was left behind.

"Crunchy..."

Pushing open the old wooden door, the fluorescent feather snake flew in.

Under the cyan light, the furnishings in the room were exposed in front of the two of them.

Old big wooden tables, rows of wooden shelves, and mountains of drawings. On the shelf, on the table, on the ground, there are all drawings of mechanical parts.

After a glance, the two of them looked at the tabletop at the same time.

Among the scattered drawing tools, a small reflective object is particularly conspicuous, like a little red in a green cluster, and the difference between it and the surrounding objects can be seen at a glance. This is a unique attribute of the undercurrent relics. It is academically called the "red mung bean phenomenon", which means that putting a red bean in the mung bean will make it particularly conspicuous.

From the appearance point of view, it is a monocle used by mechanical designers.

"Give you."

Princess Seven picked up the glasses, wiped the dust on them, and then handed them to Chen Xing.

Chen Xing didn't say anything and put it away. Although it doesn't seem to be of any great use, it is an undercurrent relic anyway. It looks relatively complete and can be used as a prosthesis.

The two returned to the station, intending to return along the same route. At this time, it was discovered that there was another exit at the station.

Now that it is here, it is impossible not to explore.

The two walked up the steps, their eyes flashed, and they appeared in a virgin forest.

Behind it is an oval space entrance and exit.

"What's the situation?" Chen Xing confirmed to the Seventh Princess.

"As you can see, we left the world fragments and returned to the main space." The Seventh Princess stated.

"Are we still in Greenland?" Chen Xing observed the surrounding plants, mainly fir trees and ferns common in Greenland.

"I'll check the coordinates." As she said, Princess Seven closed her eyes and faced the sky, seeming to be receiving satellite signals.

After half a minute, she opened her eyes again, "We are still in Greenland, about a thousand kilometers from the entrance of the previous space."

"Is there a clearnet signal here?" Chen Xing asked strangely. This is obviously an undeveloped place, and there is no satellite signal base station for the mass network.

"If necessary, I can also receive the World Bank's network signal." The Seventh Princess replied.

"How did you do it?" Chen Xing couldn't help asking. The World Bank network, also known as the dark web, exists independently of all human network systems.

"Such a backward signal encryption technology, I cracked it in a few minutes." The Seventh Princess said casually.

"Okay." Chen Xing said helplessly. Unexpectedly, human technology is so fragile in the face of cyber civilization.

"Wait..." Suddenly, he seemed to think of something, "You just said that we are more than a thousand kilometers away from the entrance of the previous space?"

"Yeah." Princess Seven nodded.

"In other words, there may be other stations," Chen Xing inferred.

"It should be. The train track has not yet reached the end." Seven Princess guessed, "Theoretically, the perpetual steam engine has enough energy to affect the entire railway track and the stations on the road."

Then she shook her head, "No, I should go back, or my father will find out."

"Then talk about it next time." Chen Xing gave up easily. He has become accustomed to the king-level protection and feels very uneasy when he is alone outside.

"There is a rocket base two hundred kilometers from here." The Seventh Princess pointed to a certain direction in the dense forest, "Let's go!"