doomsday exile

"The energy reaction is violent... No! Professor Xia, the situation is completely different from last time. They can't receive any information from the outside world, and they can't hear my questions."

Zhu Zhu was sweating and anxious.

Behind him, the wires connected to the metal pods in the protective gear, each flashing red lights, indicating an energy overload.

Zhu Zhu wore a bulky full protective suit, like an astronaut working outside the cabin, and had to ask the base for assistance and guidance through the communicator.

"Don't worry, it's still under control."

Professor Zhang Xun stared at the data on the screen, wondering.

It's obviously an overload, so why is the released energy value so stable?

Not a steady rise, but a steady hold at the tipping point, with the same number every second.

"Are there no more powerful energy converters?"

Professor Zhang Xun asked while looking back at Professor Xia who didn't know what to do with the computer terminal.

Zhu Zhu explained in a hurry on the communicator: "It has been replaced! To be precise, it has been replaced twice, but every time a device with a higher power is connected, the energy release will rise in a straight line and reach the critical point again. "

Professor Zhang Xun was speechless.

He rubbed his eyebrows and said with a headache, "Xiao Zhu, this is not out of control at all, Yan Long is consciously controlling these changes."

"But--"

Zhu Zhu still couldn't rest assured.

If Yan Long is sober, he will definitely respond.

But not now, something must have happened that Yan Long couldn't deal with.

"We have lost the possibility of communication, and we are not sure when the energy release will exceed the safety threshold..."

Zhu Zhu became more anxious as he spoke.

Professor Xia was reading the usage log of the spider mech. His eyes stayed on the last paragraph of characters that looked like garbled characters left by Yan Long, and he quickly opened a decoding program.

Professor Xia recognized that this was a hexadecimal encryption method Yan Long used to use.

For biological AI, seeing the original text can directly translate the information, and converting the information into encrypted characters is also amazingly fast.

Yan Long didn't lose contact all of a sudden, the person who suddenly lost contact was Lu Di, and after making all the preparations, Yan Long deliberately left such an encrypted message, obviously to convey an important message to Professor Xia.

This news must be very important, if leaked, it will cause panic.

Whether it is the other spiritual bodies of the Cocoon Department, or Yuan Zhongxia and Zhu Zhu, they are all trustworthy people, but Yan Long still chose the encryption method, which has already explained a lot of things.

During the few seconds that Professor Xia was waiting for the code to be decoded, the pressure made his brow sweat.

Then he saw the translated message, and for a moment he felt his heart stop.

"Old Xia?"

Professor Xia quickly turned off the screen, and then he said to the dissatisfied Zhang Xun, "I'm going to find Major General Li, no, I want to contact Yanjing."

"What happened?" Zhang Xun was very puzzled.

"Wait until you leave the hospital."

Professor Xia hinted that Zhang Xun's heart is not suitable for listening to shocking news, and then said to the communicator, "Xiao Zhu, if there is any abnormal data, please notify me immediately. In short, you should hold on first, and I will be there soon."

Looking at Professor Xia's back in the hospital gown, Zhang Xun's eyes almost popped out.

——We are all patients living in the same room, and you haven’t gone through the discharge procedures, okay?

***

Lu Di stood on a barren land.

Only rocks, clods and gravel can be seen.

He stopped suddenly as he walked, staring down at the green moss in the crevice of the stone.

This thing looks very strange, it is moss, it is more like a kind of algae.

Lu Di couldn't figure out why he was here, he couldn't feel the power, and it didn't look like he was dreaming—for a dream, everything here was too realistic—the sun that looked a bit bleak, the barren land, and The sound of waves hitting the rocks in the distance.

"Yan Long?"

Lu Di tried to shout again.

To his surprise, there was an echo this time.

"I'm here."

"Phew, I thought I had time-traveled, you know?"

Lu Di scratched his head. He was tearing up the jellyfish with great interest, but suddenly there was a "big explosion", and his consciousness seemed to be thrown into a drum washing machine. Dimensions are somewhat similar.

And then to a strange, lifeless place.

Let's say it's an alien, there is water and green here.

Let's say it's the earth, doesn't it seem like there are any large creatures here?

Lu Di was full of question marks. Although he felt that Yan Long was still with him, no matter how much he called Yan Long, there was no response, so he could only wait on the spot.

"...we are affected by the debris particles of Delta, and in the state of quantum entanglement, some fragments of disorder are captured by us."

"Uh, another word I can understand?"

"We saw Delta's memory."

Lu Di slowly opened his mouth wide, and then asked in shock: "Ordovician?"

"Maybe. After all, he lived a long time. In theory, we can see dinosaurs and Peking Man, so it's hard to say what era it is."

"Why are you not surprised at all?" Lu Di asked in wonder.

At this time, he had already seen a hazy figure slowly forming in front of him, it was Yan Long.

Yan Long's expression was very serious, with a faint heavy breath.

"I just accepted another piece of memory... Very bad news, that one is broken, not as complete as yours."

"What is it?"

Yan Long didn't answer, but just looked ahead.

Lu Di turned his head suspiciously, then was startled.

A few foggy shadows floated over all the way, and then there seemed to be a dispute around the barren rocks, and the sharp low-frequency sound constantly stimulated the eardrums of the landing flute.

"De... No, the jellyfish spirit body?"

Seeing several misty jellyfish suddenly, Lu Di can still keep calm, which is already very good.

Yan Long nodded lightly, and said in a low voice, "Delta is not the only one in their group."

Lu Di took a deep breath.

This is so exciting.

The earth had intelligent populations hundreds of millions of years ago.

It's just that they don't have bodies, so they don't know how to build them. There are no stone tablets or any prehistoric relics left on this planet, so no one knows that they ever existed.

These jellyfish spirits were born in the ocean, and their initial consciousness was blank, only the collective concept of hunting, survival, and the surrounding environment.

Later, I gradually realized that there are similar people who communicate through different audio and sound waves, and found that I am the only group on this planet who knows how to think. I found that the earth is round, and the sun and the moon have fixed cycles?

Do they live like deltas?

Accumulating strength in a long life...they can quarrel, will there be a fight?

Where have all the jellyfish spirits except Delta gone?

Lu Di was thinking, and suddenly saw a group of spirit bodies coming from the sea. This time they looked like octopuses, but their heads were bigger, occupying almost two-thirds of the phantom, and there were wing-like fins on both sides. The whole body is red and black, and the tentacles are connected with a layer of something like a membrane. From a distance, it looks like wearing a tutu skirt.

Lu Di: "..."

It turns out that jellyfish are not the only intelligent spirits.

As soon as these octopus spirits appeared, they also joined the quarrel.

The quarrel channel was changed to a weirder sound wave, but Lu Di still couldn't understand it.

"This, this?"

Lu Di uttered a few syllables dryly and looked at Yan Long.

"The shape is very similar to the ghost octopus." Yan Long specifically explained, "A deep-sea creature. Scientific research shows that they are an ancient species of cephalopods. In other words, it is the common ancestor of modern octopuses and squids."

Lu Di asked a little dullly: "Have you studied it?"

"No, the mental body of Delta's subordinates we met in Antarctica last time is the one that controlled the right-angled Nautilus to attack the federal scientific research station. It is not a human spiritual body at all and cannot communicate. Do you remember?"

"..."

"So besides human beings, there are still spiritual bodies that have transformed other creatures on the earth, and they are very cunning and smart. I will look for those ancient creatures that human beings cannot always pay attention to the details of the group's ecology... especially the deep sea Creatures, it's just that modern ghost octopuses are usually small..."

Lu Di wiped his face. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly saw something even more incredible.

A huge off-white object hovered in the sky.

wrong!That's a spaceship!

Lu Di didn't notice it at all before, but the octopus and jellyfish pointed to the sky while arguing.

Lu Di, who was in shock, desperately tried to pull Yan Long, but it was empty.

"We are all just shadows, do not exist, and cannot be touched by anything, including ourselves."

"Why do you still have mood analysis and research? That's a UFO! There were no humans at that time, and jellyfish like Delta didn't seem to understand technology. There were only aliens!"

A vein almost popped out on Lu Di's forehead.

But at this time, the memory came to an end, and Lu Di was swallowed by an invisible vortex involuntarily. He only had time to catch Yan Long. In fact, this was just an illusion. After all, he and Yan Long were still in a fusion state and had never separate.

In the process of the particles representing memory slowly shattering and disappearing, Lu Di captured more scattered fragments.

Scary and blinding light.

The gorgeous coral reefs turned gray and white, and the bodies of strange creatures, large and small, were floating in the sea.

And Delta's painful wailing in his memory, desperately fleeing to the deep sea...

Lu Di was also deeply infected by the fear that everything was collapsing and destroying.

He struggled for a long time as if drowning, finally heard Yan Long's voice, and rushed out of the kaleidoscope-like vortex.

When I landed, I found that it seemed to be a dense rainforest, with many plants that I had never seen before filling my field of vision. A mosquito that flew past Lu Di was about half a meter long, and there was a bigger spider spinning a web in front of its nose.

Lu Di: "..."

Not calling out is purely courageous.

Lu Di turned his head dumbly, waiting for Yan Long's explanation.

"Maybe it's the Devonian?"

Yan Long is currently disconnected and can only rely on knowledge and memory, unable to find the corresponding information in the database.

"The light we saw before may be the Cambrian Ordovician mass extinction. More than 90.00% of all marine life on earth died. There is a saying that there was a supernova explosion thousands of light years away from the earth. Gamma Rays swept across the Earth."

"The UFO..."

"It may really be aliens. If there is a civilization between the earth and the supernova, they have the ability to travel in space. After observing the supernova explosion, they will definitely escape from the parent star, and then pass by the earth and find that there is life here. I stopped for a while... to replenish ore energy, and if it is a race with a body, it will also replenish water and food." Yan Long analyzed calmly.

Lu Di blinked, and then said, "I have a more terrifying guess."

Yan Long looked at him silently.

Lu Di wiped his face and said weakly: "Please, you thought about it too, didn't you?"

The spaceship that landed on the earth to replenish resources is likely to be attacked by jellyfish and octopus spiritual bodies. It is difficult for races with bodies to resist these invisible spiritual destructive forces. Let alone aliens, in fact, the Paleozoic Earth has a great impact on modern times. Human beings are also like another living planet, from the composition of the air to the environment.

"...They killed some outsiders, and then controlled and enslaved them. From Delta, I feel that although he has been learning for a long time, he looks down on human civilization in essence. No matter what humans say , is it better than the original ecology of jellyfish and octopus? At least life is more fun?"

Lu Di tried to analyze, "I feel that Delta may have seen a highly developed technological civilization, which is similar to human beings, or a little more advanced? Because Delta looks down on this civilization, so I haven't studied it in depth. Then Delta and It is very possible that his group subdued or enslaved outsiders! When these jellyfish and octopuses... realized that the earth was about to be destroyed, they had a dispute. Maybe one part of the spiritual body thought it was necessary to escape by boat, and the other part Like Delta insisting on staying on Earth."

Delta was one of those diehards who refused science and refused to leave his hometown.

"You make a lot of sense," Yan Long reminded, "By the way, Delta is just ahead."

Lu Di jumped up suddenly, and then realized that this was a fragment of memory, and everything was a phantom of the past.

In the direction Yan Long pointed, a gray mist jellyfish floated on the top of the treetop, and it was the only one.

Lu Di didn't know whether Delta's jellyfish species escaped in an alien spaceship before the catastrophe came, or they all died.

But at this time, Delta was already very imposing, and there were still a group of strange-looking spirit bodies floating opposite it.

The appearance of these guys is even more strange and terrifying, with a spiritual body with dozens or even hundreds of tentacles.

Their tentacles are not as slender as jellyfish, nor like octopus, but look like a weird furry feeling, and they are waving their limbs violently at the moment.

Lu Di groaned like sleepwalking: "What is this?"

"It should be crinoids."

Yan Long didn't wait for Lu Di to continue asking, and took the initiative to answer, "It appeared in the Cambrian period, but it reached its peak in the Devonian period. It looks like a plant is actually an invertebrate, similar to a jellyfish. Every ' The crinoid strains are a large group, so Huaxia's biological AI team considered using crinoids as the initial form of the No. [-] bionic neuron completion body."

Got it, another natural miracle, a spiritual body transformed from group consciousness, a successful masterpiece imitated by biological AI unintentionally.

The earth is so lively!

There are too many mental bodies!

Lu Di's eyes were blank.