I have no pheromones, you smelled wrong

Layers of tall trees form a sea of ​​trees under the aircraft. The varieties are scattered, but the leaves of most tree species are wide and tender, and they are emitting bright red and yellow branches and leaves. The strong wind rolled up by the aircraft sets off waves in the sea of ​​trees.

According to the calculations of the astronomers of the investigation team, there are still [-] days before the vernal equinox, which is the equinox of the earth's day and night, but the temperature measurement of the aircraft shows that the average external temperature has reached [-] degrees Celsius.

In Lin Xu's impression, the vicinity of the base was originally surrounded by hardy coniferous forests, but now they all changed.

Over the past 3000 years, the earth has been gradually heating up. The polar glaciers have melted and flooded many coastal city ruins. The Eastern Region General Base, which was originally inland, has also become facing the sea. Looking out from the sky, there is a faint blue of the sea at the edge of the sky.

Who would have imagined that in every logistics meeting in the doomsday base back then, the most troublesome question for Lin Xu and others would be where to get the energy needed for heating the base in the cold nuclear winter.

What is more terrifying than zombies and more capable of destroying human civilization is thermonuclear warfare initiated by humans.

Long before the zombies appeared, the war among humans had already started. It was a local hot war at the beginning, and then the incident expanded rapidly, and the whole world was involved. When the first finger pressed the nuclear button, more terror was doomed Weapons will be dropped.

A large amount of smoke and dust filled the sky above the earth, ashes covered the sun, and crops, plants, and animals died one after another in the low temperature of the nuclear winter. The shortage of resources brought about by high-consumption wars will not extinguish the burning flames of war, but will only intensify the competition. A lot of manpower, material resources, and financial resources have been invested in the war machine, and everything seems to have no end in sight.

Until the zombie virus and animal and plant mutations broke this vicious cycle, the old war group was overthrown, and the remaining human beings stopped killing each other and began to work together to fight against zombies and mutations. The final punishment of mankind.

Pain and despair are still spreading. The General Base of the North Region and the high-level executives of each base shared the remnants of the old group they found. The data recorded the cause of the zombie crisis-one party in the war wanted to create a biological weapon, but the experiment was leaked and it was immature. A dangerous source of infection causes human mutations.

At the summit, the top executives of the various bases jointly signed an agreement, and they will absolutely keep this secret until the zombie crisis is resolved.

Making it public can indeed completely destroy the rationality of the old group that is waiting to be restored in the dark, and no one will question the political organization of the al-Qaeda.

But the hearts of human beings in distress can no longer bear another fire of pain, and they are told that all destruction is caused by their own greed and madness.

What mankind needs is new hope.

In the warm spring day 3000 years later, the trees sprouted new branches, and the white birds flew in fright, their wings shining with soft brilliance.

Among the dense forests, the Maimai Lake is like a huge turquoise, lying flat among the mountains and rivers, wrinkled by the breeze.

Looking down from the aircraft, there is no trace of human civilization in this area. Due to the overgrown vegetation, the aircraft cannot find a suitable landing position. Heinrich turns on the automatic hovering mode to keep the aircraft in the air. The two Rely on the downhill rope to descend to the surface.

The gravity of the earth is less than the standard gravity of the empire. Lin Xu and Heinrich had to adapt for a while before they could walk normally after stepping on the soft soil and grass moss.

The forest was silent, and there was almost no noise from the hovering aircraft, only the mountain breeze piercing through the forest and leaves.

Lin Xu glanced at the almost primitive forest, and walked towards the destination lake together with Heinrich. As the footsteps approached, the radiation value displayed on the detector of the isolation suit began to increase. When the two were on the shore of the lake, When it stopped, the detector issued a sharp alarm, "High radiation value, please approach with caution."

The water of the lake is still blue and calm.

"What is this place?" Heinrich looked at Lin Xu.

"...the relics of human civilization." Lin Xu stared at the surface of the lake. The blue water of the lake reflected the blue sky, and it was bottomless. However, under the natural state, it is impossible for a lake to have a radiation value hundreds of times higher than its surroundings.

Regardless of whether this is a former base or not, something must have happened in this area.

Lin Xu wanted to move on, but Heinrich grabbed his arm: "What are you going to do?"

Lin Xu glanced back and frowned, "I need to go down and have a look to confirm the situation at the bottom of the lake."

He sounded plain and serious, as if jumping into a pool of unfathomably radiated water was a normal routine. When Heinrich dragged Lin Xu back to him, Lin Xu was still using puzzled expressions. Look inquiringly.

"The situation at the bottom of the lake is unknown."

Lin Xu replied: "Yes, I know." If he could see the bottom, why would he go down?

"You..." Heinrich didn't know how to respond to Lin Xu's answer for a moment. In his memory, Lin Xu seemed to always deal with crises with bare hands, whether it was in Silver Fortress or Sand Star, "The aircraft has deep-water detection equipment. , you don’t have to go down by yourself.”

"okay."

Heinrich, who stopped Lin Xu, heaved a sigh of relief, connected the aircraft with an optical brain, and asked the AI ​​​​to put the spherical deep-water detector into the lake. in the water.

Lin Xu took a few steps closer to Heinrich's direction, and poked his head to see the pictures and data sent back by the detector on the light screen.

As the depth of the lake increases, the brightness brought by natural sunlight gradually decreases. The detector automatically turns on the lighting mode, and the light beam penetrates the lake and spreads out in all directions.

The lake water was extremely clean, and Lin Xu didn't see any trace of aquatic animals or plants during the 30-meter journey when the detector was lowered underwater.

This phenomenon is not difficult to understand. The deeper the lake goes, the higher the radiation intensity. It is difficult for life to survive under such extreme conditions. Moreover, no runoff into the lake has been found so far, and the water lacks life-sustaining nutrients.

This is a pool of clear, quiet, stagnant water.

The screen was suddenly covered with a layer of smoke and dust, the whereabouts of the detector stopped, and the numerical value showed that the depth of the lake here was 117 meters.

The radiation value surged, even affecting the electronic components of the detector, and the screen flickered.

After waiting for the dust in the water to stabilize, the picture returned to clear, but there was nothing but mud and sand at the bottom of the lake.

Heinrich asked, "Should there be something in the water?"

Lin Xu looked very clear, and even stubbornly believed that there was something in this area.

"Well. 117 meters..." Lin Xu muttered, "Is there a way to check the situation below the mud layer?"

The base building will not disappear for no reason. Combined with the sunken terrain and the abnormal radiation value in the lake, Lin Xu speculates that an explosion may have occurred here.

Enemy attack?Or an internal crisis?

He remembered that after the thermonuclear war that year, in order to resist the harm of ordinary human beings from the residual nuclear radiation on the surface, the underground part of the base building reached a depth of 150 meters.

"It can detect whether there is space under the ground." Heinrich started the further procedure of the detector. Soon, the data returned by the detector showed that there was still space under the silt. Before Lin Xu could ask any more questions, Heinrich Actively asked, "Do you need to dig it out?"

Lin Xu thought for a while, "Dig."

After receiving the order, Arnold drove another aircraft to transport three intelligent drilling and excavation equipment into the location designated by Lin Xu in the lake. According to the detection data, it would take 35 hours for the three equipment to reach the underground space.

They had to wait.

Circle after circle of ripples spread out from the center of the lake. Heinrich took a test tube of lake water and asked Arnold to take it back to test the biomass.

Lin Xu stood by the lake for a while, and asked Heinrich if he wanted to go for a walk in the forest.

There are still three hours before the sun sets in this area, which is the warmest time of the day. The green leaves are blooming, and the scene of the deep forest on the earth cannot be enjoyed by the man-made forest on the capital planet.

Heinrich nodded in Lin Xu's gray eyes.

The two walked side by side in the forest. The moist and warm forest is rich in species. Heinrich caught awakened snakes more than once. After Lin Xu taught him to recognize the species, he threw the snakes away to prevent them from biting people. .

Heinrich suddenly asked: "Lin Xu, do you like the environment of Kakalamo Plain very much?"

"what happened?"

"I'm thinking, when you find the answer, where will you go after everything is over."

Lin Xu does not have a strong love and passion for the stars of the universe. On the contrary, walking through nature seems to make him look more relaxed. Then, after everything is over, Heinrich’s reason for abducting Lin Xu to the Victoria is not valid. up.

"I..." Lin Xu was about to say that he didn't have any extra savings, and if he didn't live in the house on the Kakalamo Plain, he would have to go to the border area to occupy the mountains and become king, but then he suddenly remembered that Marianne left him The wealth is enough for him to buy a planet, but the more choices there are, the more confusing it is.

"Godric—the Godric who runs the shipping company, he said that a civilian route may be established between the Earth and the Einstein galaxy, and maybe I can stay on Earth."

"It will take some time to re-establish a city on Earth. Before that, you..." Can you stay on the Victoria?

Before Heinrich could ask the question, Lin Xu suddenly grabbed his arm.

"what happened?"

Lin Xu turned his ears to concentrate, and suddenly his serious face pierced the relaxed outing atmosphere, "There was a voice just now..."

As the two walked among the trees, apart from the waves of leaves and birdsong brought by the breeze, their combat boots would also make tiny sounds when they stepped on the moss and branches.

But the sound just now wasn't any of them, it was more like... rather like glass breaking.Inorganic glass takes millions of years to degrade. It is not surprising that there are glass products left by humans in the forest.

But Lin Xu had a faint premonition, which made his temples throb, "You lift your feet and take a step back."

According to Lin Xu's request, Heinrich took a step back in the opposite direction, exposing the weedy ground under his feet. Heinrich's own weight plus the weight of the powered exoskeleton was enough to bend the blades of grass, leaving a deep mark. Deep footprints.

Right in the middle of the footprints, a group of transparent stones broken into several pieces is exuding orange-yellow light, something like light and liquid flows out from the pieces and seeps into the fallen grass leaves, A brown-green vine with the thickness of a human wrist squirmed, absorbing everything in the broken pieces.

Heinrich followed the vine and looked all the way out of sight, but couldn't find the plant itself.

Lin Xu's pupils shrank sharply, and he yelled at Heinrich: "Stand back immediately!!"

Before Heinrich could react, he kicked Heinrich out of the range of the vines. The orange-yellow liquid was completely absorbed, and the gravel turned into fragile dust aggregates.

Suddenly the vines lifted, dust scattered in the air, and the thick vines attacked Lin Xu who was closest to it like living tentacles.

Lin Xu jumped up quickly to avoid the vines coming through the air, and the trunk behind him was cut off by the vines!

It is a crystal nucleus and a grade A mutant plant!

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