Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Two-Headed Monster
Whether this metal monster is still alive or not, everyone still can't tell. The contents of the exploded monster's head smelled like rotting minced flesh with a disgusting stench. The entire warehouse seemed to be filled with biochemical gas, rising above the ground. Everyone exited, leaving only four droids whose light was fading.
"Zhong, I suggest replacing the energy gem for the robot."
"It's not the problem of the energy gem, it's that the robot's light can't reach the strength of suppression against this mutated metal monster."
"Yes, just a little bit, the outer shell of the metal monster's head is only a layer of transparent skin, and the robot's light can't continue to decompose. Is it a relationship between volume and hardness? ”
"It's an area we don't understand, Zhong, this metal monster has just come out with a head, what if the whole thing comes out? I'm afraid all four robots have been crushed. ”
"The robots used in seismic and geological exploration are old, and you can say that you are an expert in this area. Ray and I are in contact with the latest model of robots, and we discuss and study with each other, and integrate old knowledge with new theories to see if we can transform the four robots. ”
"Rose, your suggestion is viable. If it were me, I wouldn't have much faith. Zhen said truthfully.
"Yes, since the light of the robots cannot be further strengthened, we will reinvent them with modern technology."
"Zhong said well, we have found zombie people in the big rift, if the fusion light of the four robots can't suppress them, what we say is empty talk." As he spoke, the smell in the warehouse became very scarce, and the robot's light returned to normal. Everyone then re-entered the warehouse.
There was still a faint fishy smell in the air, which was still uncomfortable to smell when it blended with the unique smell of lava. The staircase was still in the square opening, and the remnants on the ground warned of the metal confrontation that had just taken place here.
"Hey, the contents of that big head are almost absorbed by the lava, what is this?" At the entrance of the cave, the ground was covered with a shiny substance. Everyone walked cautiously.
"Is this the outer skin of that big head?"
"Good boy, the hardness is okay, no wonder the robot's light can't continue to decompose." Rose said, picking up a piece and looking at it.
"Metal fibers? Robot baby, you're a great hero. ”
"The metal has been melted into fibers, and it is only one step or only a little bit away, which is good news for us to transform the robot."
"Hey, that's the bottom half of that metal monster, right?"
"Are you dead?" Everyone gathered around the square hole and looked down, and someone asked.
Below is an irregular space, the lava wall is still cutting, and there are even two road-building robots in the corner, as well as a pile of metal debris. In the middle was a large part of the metal monster, which now looked like a stout cylindrical shape, and the bead mountain had grown a few protruding things. Presumably, if you move forward, it is likely to be the limbs.
"Die. Hey, why do you still have a head? "Sure enough, at the tail of the metal cylinder, there was also a head slightly smaller than the one that had been disassembled just now, but there were no lantern-like eyes on it.
"How is it possible, if you want me to say it's an evolving tail."
"How can a tail be round? It's a monster, a monster with two heads. ”
"It's a good thing it's not a zombie, otherwise we'd be in even more trouble."
"It's a zombie man! It's just that in this enclosed space, the metal monster has developed a deformity. Meizi said in the back.
"Meizi, what basis do you have?"
"No, I just analyzed it from the direction of the organs and the order of development. You see, this space is almost filled with metal monsters, and its developed limbs are limited. In the end, it can only continue to develop in the tail. ”
"Well, yes, I guess that pile of metal remains was crushed by it. And those two robots, if they weren't there to cut and work, I'm afraid they would have been flattened. ”
"Nonsense, is this metal monster so big when it comes out? Since it developed and evolved in this space, this is contradictory. ”
"I think it should have continued to evolve after it was closed here. But since there is a robot's fusion light, the smaller metal bugs are not a problem, why is this place enclosed? ”
"yes, and what's that ladder up there, there's not a lot of room on it to cut another layer?"
"Such an analysis can only show one problem, this warehouse was still sealed during construction."
"It must have been so, we found several skeletons from the innermost lava room, and a well-sealed diary. A few of us roughly flipped through it, except for seventy percent of the words that we didn't know, we probably all knew about the things here more than one hundred and fifty years ago. ”
"Where's the diary?"
"Originally, I wanted everyone to study it together, but it was all delayed by this metal monster with two heads. Is it dead or not? ”
"Dead! The possibility of continued development and evolution is not ruled out. ”
"Secondary evolution is entirely possible, but it is also a long process. I believe that after the ring height is repaired, it will not be a problem. Otherwise, there has been no record of this for hundreds of years. Even if human beings usually report good news but not bad news, the ring network is an open, fair and unrestricted platform. There will always be negative events of one kind or another. ”
"I don't agree with this view, the earliest records of zombie people are hundreds of years ago."
"But it was cut. It can only show that the zombie people have witnesses, and they have not really been wiped out on the earth. ”
"Huangao is the guardian of the earth. What can survive beyond the ring height and into human society? ”
"Yes, thousands of years ago, there were many primeval forests and places on earth that humans had never set foot in, and now the earth is more of the ruins of steel and concrete, and there is no vegetation. The area that humans have not set foot on is much larger, and who can guarantee that there will be no new species adapted to lava. ”
"Well, high technology makes human beings live better from past mistakes, but it is not correcting mistakes. Besides, many mistakes can't be repeated. No one can guarantee that the ring will protect mankind from generation to generation. Didn't we catch up with the big crack? Zombie people aren't worth all the fuss about, either. ”
"When we are speculating on history here, we are all conjectures, not restorations, or a waste of time. Zhong, what to do here? Is it re-enclosed, or is there value in using it? Ray asked, looking at the cars on this floor.
"Can you use it? Where's the energy? ”
"Yes, how can such a means of transport drive on the high road surface."
Everyone talked about it for a long time, and the metal monster below was still lifeless and motionless. Liquid was already slowly flowing out of the gap in the head, and the foul-smelling gas was slowly filling the space. At this time, the ladder slowly lifted upwards and left the square opening. Everyone was stunned again.
"What controls?" Questions with no answers.
Back in the lava village, looking back at the gate embedded in the lava cliff, people were filled with emotion. It's a mystery here for hundreds of years, and the next time it opens it won't necessarily be humans, but it's certainly higher than humans.
The antique paper diary, or more appropriately called it a work diary, was spread out in front of Qiong and Jie, and when it came to ancient characters, the two of them knew the most. The book is not very thick.,It's just more than 100 pages at most.,It's almost full.。 Joan and Jie consulted with each other and spoke to everyone.
"From the point of view of time, this is a record more than 150 years ago, but it is not the original record, the owner of the book is a scientist, and it is the second batch of teams to come here to test the data of lava eruptions."
"Well, judging from the above records, such a monitoring team changes guards every five years, not including the time when there is no systematic monitoring team." Joan and Jie said successively.
"Oh my God, that coincides with the official start of the argument of the ring height, and this is also part of the argument of the ring height." Ray recalled.
"The ring has been built for more than 100 years, and it has been in operation for almost 100 years. In this way, the time from this diary to the present time is considered a historical record. ”
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"The reason for the closure of the warehouse was written in the diary, when cutting and digging the next floor, a large bug was encountered, and many people fell ill with the infection... The people sent out to Earth to ask for help died on the way... And no replenishment has been delivered for months. The inventory of food and the energy gems of the robots are decreasing little by little. In the end, everyone deduced that this place had been abandoned. At most, in half a year, dozens of people in the entire monitoring base will face the result of starvation and death, and the robot will also run out of energy and turn it into a pile of scrap metal..."
"I sealed this work diary just to leave a memorial for future generations. In the process of construction, the ring height will abandon some things, and will exterminate many creatures that once coexisted with humans on the earth, which is an inevitable sacrifice in the course of history. Perhaps after a hundred years and a thousand years, all the human beings here at that time will not need it, and even this written record is like a book from heaven. That is also the inevitable result of the development of science and technology, leaving this diary to remind future generations that we were once part of the ring high. (Hopefully, the ring will still be high and the earth will still be there at that time.) There is a lot of sublimation in the silver-white ring high road, and there is also our hard work in it. Joan and Jie closed their journals and read the last paragraph heavily.