Chapter 56: Thawing
The cold wind was fierce, and the white was endless as far as the eye could see, and on the other hand, there was a sky like night, hanging high, except for a dazzling but unscorching sun.
It was only a matter of time before it would become like this, but what Hogu had done in the first place accelerated the process.
The distance between the planet and the star is too far to receive enough light to maintain the surface temperature, and the reason why the Plutozoic was able to form a liquid ocean was due to the geothermal heat of the planet itself, and on the other hand, the presence of a methane atmosphere that can lock most of the temperature on the surface to form a secondary use.
When the effects of both are no longer apparent, the planet will become the giant snowball it is now.
However, from Hogu's point of view, it is a different and wonderful scene.
The sun rises over the horizon quickly, and after a while it reaches noon, and then sets on the horizon at the other end, and when the sun sets, the stars appear in the sky, and the real night comes, and then the night passes quickly, and so on.
The white condensate that collects on the surface of the earth because of the low temperature rushes along the latitude line like a tidal wave, from the rising end of the sun to the setting end.
The reason for this phenomenon is all because of the consequences of 'thinking slowdown', and after the perception of time is infringingly slow, this is what you see.
[Carbon dioxide has basically frozen into dry ice, mixed with ice and snow, the atmosphere is too thin to complete the refraction and focusing of light, and the physical ice crystals are used for refraction and focusing, what do you think?] 】
"It works, but there are still some places that need to be adjusted, and the rhizome remains closest to the ice surface are at least 2,500 meters away, and with such a thick layer of ice, it should not be enough to melt by the current focus."
"You try to lift the plate up a few thousand meters, and lift the rhizome debris above the average ice of the planet, so that you can focus and thaw from the side."
[Understand.] 】
From the earth's core in the depths of the planet, there has been an unusual change, and circles of infrasound waves have diverged, and the mantle, which has periodically surrounded the earth's core, has been affected......
A chain reaction in the Earth's mantle causes lava to accumulate in an area in an interactive flow......
The accumulation of heat energy, the pressure will naturally rise, and the next situation is basically the same principle as a steam boiler, under the huge pressure, the planetary plate changes, the only difference is how much pressure the different continental plates need to change.
[It's really hard, what I could have done easily before, but now I have consumed so much and I haven't seen results......]
Planetary life, which was struggling with its continental plates, began to complain that if it had been before the ice, it was now enough to trigger a large-scale crustal movement of one-thousandth of the planet's surface.
"It's normal, because the huge ice sheet has put a lot of pressure on the earth's crust, causing the crust to subside, and relatively speaking, the density of the earth's crust has increased a lot compared to before."
[That's not right, there is an ocean on the earth's crust, and if you want to press it, it should have been pressed before, why did this kind of thing happen after it was frozen? The quality has risen? Where does the extra mass come from? 】
The life on the planet was a little confused by Huo Gu's explanation, even if the liquid water froze due to low temperature, it was only a change in form, how could the mass also change?
"No, this is the quality that already exists, but because when it was still a liquid ocean, there was a tidal force at work, and to a certain extent, the tidal movement of seawater shared this part of the mass of the earth's crust, and now the seawater has changed from liquid to solid, and this sharing is naturally almost non-existent."
Finally, the earth's crustal plate could not withstand the pressure and slowly uplifted.
This kind of scene, seen from the perspective of slowing down the mind, is spectacular.
I saw that the white and almost flat ice surface cracked, and an ugly and hideous crack was formed, adding an incongruous color to this snow-white world, which is regrettable.
The fissures stretch all the way to hundreds of kilometers, and even in outer space, they can be clearly seen with the naked eye.
The combination of the two factors, which are lifted by the pressure of the ground and the other side at the same horizontal level, creates this staggered ice structure, and the slope that connects them is almost 90 degrees vertical.
As far as the eye can see, this kind of landscape stretches to the end of the horizon, and the feeling of a scene like this is probably similar to the feeling of witnessing Moses divide the sea in the Bible.
Of course, this is Hogu's perspective, and it has not yet shaken off the state of mental slowdown.
From a normal person's view of time, the rise of this ice layer is about one meter a year, which is difficult to give people any special feeling.
When the ice rises to a certain height, it stops, because there is no need to continue to raise the altitude.
Planetary life began to use the wind to carve.
Just as flowing water can pass through stones, the wind can do the same thing, and after a period of deliberate change in the direction of the wind, the part of the frozen rhizome remains is separated independently and carved into a circle of reflective concave ice.
[Done, all that's left is to wait.] 】
"Speaking of which, I don't know what to call you yet, my name is Huogu, what about you?"
【…… Name? What is that? 】
"Didn't you ask me before, 'Who am I?' Now I'm answering your question head-on. ”
After thinking about it, Huo Gu repeated what he had just said again in a way that the other party could understand.
"I, a special entity with the title 'Huogu'."
[I...... I don't know what my title is, I don't have a name in the first place. 】
For this kind of thing, Hogu didn't even need to consume brain cells to give a method.
"It's simple, there's no name to take, I didn't have a name at first, I took it later, you should also give yourself a name, so it will be convenient for us to communicate."
Hearing this, the life of the planet was silent, and Huo Gu knew that it was pondering.
However, after a long time, the other party didn't seem to be able to make up their minds what their name should be.
【…… Can you give me some advice? I have no experience with this. 】
Hogu thought about it for a moment.
“…… Okay, too. ”
"We met in the Underworld, and it's been a few years, so it's better to add the word 'Hades'...... No, that's not a good idea. ”
“…… The global ice is also a major event worth noting, so there should be a 'day' in the 'underworld' to symbolize the temperature, so it is 'twilight', what do you think? ”
[Twilight? Okay, then I'll be called 'Twilight' from now on. 】
Huo Gu was slightly stunned, it didn't expect the other party to only use the one he thought, in this way, wouldn't the meaning be completely different?
"Wait, I just gave a suggestion that you just use one word like that, uh......"
Probably due to the influence of his time as a human, Hogu felt the need to speak out again.
In this regard, the life of the planet expressed confusion and asked.
[Isn't the name just for ease of communication?] From what I understand, overly complex salutations can have an impact, and a single word communicates best. 】
“…… Okay, if you're happy. ”
At this point, what else can Huo Gu say?