Through the fading white light, Zhou Xin and the others could already vaguely see the outlines of the objects in the picture. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The first thing that appeared on the screen was a mushroom pattern in the middle, and what made Zhou Xin and them feel a little strange was that the mushroom pattern was actually swinging left and right in front of the detector's lens like a living creature. Recalling the scene that appeared in the frame before the explosion, the group had no idea that they had seen a similar object before.

At this time, Atlas opened his mouth to solve one of the doubts in their minds, "The detector detected a magnitude 6 earthquake with the debris falling to the ground as the epicenter, which was undoubtedly caused by the debris falling. Even where the probe is located, there is still some degree of shaking in the ground. ”

After a while, the shaking of the screen slowly subsided, and the picture became clearer. However, although the white light had basically dissipated, there were more snowflakes in the picture than before the explosion, and Zhou Xin and the others still had no way to identify what the object in the picture was.

"The images sent back by the detectors are being interfered with by radiation, and people are trying to find ways to correct the images." The little girl explained again.

A minute after the explosion, thanks to Atlas's efforts, the screen finally returned to normal, although there was still a slight shaking, but everyone finally saw what the "mushroom" that appeared on the screen at the beginning was.

It was a huge mushroom cloud, and its canopy was black on the top half and earthy gray on the bottom. Further down is the slender handle compared to the large canopy, which connects the canopy to the ground for several kilometers. While Zhou Xin and the others were observing, the mushroom cloud in the picture was still growing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. From time to time, you can see columns of soot stretching from under the canopy to the ground, which are still falling in the sky as they pass through the mushroom clouds.

Although he had seen similar mushroom clouds in the images before, Zhou Xin, who saw the real thing for the first time, couldn't help but be surprised. At the same time, a wall of dust tens of meters high in the distance rushed towards the location of the probe, and the shock wave generated by the debris when it fell. It wasn't long before the image sent back by the probe was blurry and shaky again.

A few minutes passed, and seeing that the smoke and dust still showed no signs of dissipating, the probe simply flew up from a position close to the ground. When the mushroom cloud reappeared in the picture, its shape changed quite a bit. The most obvious is that the height of the mushroom cloud has increased by at least a third, and it has also become much thicker, but the growth rate is much slower than before. After another moment, the growth of the mushroom cloud stopped. At this time, what appeared on the screen was a mushroom cloud with a height of nearly ten kilometers and a diameter of about five hundred meters.

Staring at the huge mushroom cloud for a while, Zhou Xin instructed Atlas: "Let the probe fly to the place where the wreckage fell, and we will go and see the situation at the scene." A few seconds later, the probe received Zhou Xin's instructions and began to fly in the direction of the mushroom cloud.

Although it may not seem that the location of the mushroom cloud is very far, the probe flew for a full hour to reach the target location. However, even after all this time, the smoke from the falling location still did not dissipate. Zhou Xin: They still can't see the scene below the detector clearly. During the flight of the probe, the huge mushroom cloud began to tilt in one direction under the strong wind in the sky, and even the edges began to show signs of dissipating.

"The smoke will be dispersed around the globe under the activity of the planet's atmosphere, and it will take a few years before it completely falls back to the ground." "However, because the wreckage of the fall is much smaller, the smoke and dust will not have a huge impact on the environment and climate of the entire planet. At most, the smoke and dust can't see the sky in the area where it passes nearby, which is not a big problem, just look at it as a cloudy day. ”

While listening to Atlas, Zhou Xin looked at the billowing smoke below. After a while, he spoke, "I wonder if there is a Kazlan settlement around the wreckage crash, and if there's a big city nearby, then—"

"They're in luck." The little girl continued, "The nearby detectors in this place have just been investigated, and it is just a garbage dump for dumping, and there are not many people. The closest settlement to here is more than a hundred kilometers away, due north of Yangcheng, if that piece of wreckage really hits there, the consequences will be unimaginable. Originally, according to the previous trajectory of the wreckage, it might have actually fallen closer to the city, but the previous explosion slightly changed its fall trajectory, so the wreckage fell here. Then she chuckled, "However, this crash site is just upwind of the central city, and I'm afraid that the people in the central city will only be able to live in the dust in the next few days." ”

"It's not just their luck, it's our luck." Hearing Atlas's report, Zhou Xin became nervous, and then he rejoiced, "If it really falls to the location of Central City, the base under the city will definitely not be saved, and our only hope now will be in vain." As for some dust, it's much better than the destruction of an entire city. ”

"Good luck indeed." Spred continued, "What about the rest of the place?" Did any other wreckage fall into the town or other settlement, and what about the loss of the Kazrans? ”

"There are quite a few wrecks that have fallen directly into the city, including some medium-sized wreckage tens of meters long." The little girl's answer made everyone's hearts a little heavy, "As for the loss, there is no way to estimate it now, in addition to the insufficient number of detectors, there are still many debris that have not fallen to the ground." ”

As Atlas spoke, a piece of debris of a few meters or so appeared in the probe's lens. In an instant, the small fragment smashed to the ground, raising a small mushroom cloud in the smoke below.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Xin simply ordered the probe to turn the camera to the air, and sure enough, he saw that there were still many debris flying in the air. But now there are only a few small fragments that remain in the air, and even the fragments that have just fallen a few meters long are very few. Even most of the debris burned out before it could hit the ground, leaving only a fiery red trail in the air.

Nearly half an hour passed again, and the number of falling debris was noticeably much lower. Zhou Xin and the others could only occasionally see a red light streak through the air, and at the same time, the thick smoke and dust on the ground began to slowly dissipate. Through the gradually thinning smoke, everyone can already vaguely see the scene below.

The first thing that caught everyone's eyes was the huge fall pit, although because of the obstruction of smoke and dust, Zhou Xin and they could not see the whole picture of the entire fall pit, but from the corner they could see now, they could also judge how huge the pit would be.

Seeing that the probe happened to be near the edge of the crater, Zhou Xin simply ordered the probe to circle along the crater first. Unexpectedly, with the speed of the probe, it took a full three minutes to complete this journey.

"Brother Captain, the diameter of this crater is more than two thousand meters." Just as the probe returned to its original location, Atlas came up with the results in an instant.

"Two thousand meters? It's not too small. Zhou Xin said thoughtfully. Then he commanded, "Go and see the wreckage." ”

The probe turned its perspective to the center of the crater, and not far away, a bright fire shot through the smoke and dust that had not yet dissipated at the bottom of the crater. In the direction of the firelight, the probe began to slowly burrow into the smoke and dust along the pit wall.

In less than a minute, the outline of the fallen wreckage appeared on the screen. As the probe continued to advance, the wreckage slowly became clear to everyone. When it flew to a position only a dozen meters away from the wreckage, the probe stopped.

Because it's at the bottom of the pit, the smoke doesn't dissipate as quickly as it does on the ground, so it still looks a little dim. However, because the wreckage was still burning, through the light of the wreckage, Zhou Xin and the others could still see the appearance of the entire wreckage.

"I didn't expect this wreckage to be so big." The first time he saw the wreckage, Spred couldn't help but sigh. They didn't think it was in the air before, but when the probe got closer, they realized that the wreckage was so huge that it looked like a building, and even at this distance, the probe's lens couldn't fully fit it.

It took some time for the probe to walk around the wreckage. Then Zhou Xin and the others saw that the violent impact of the wreckage on the ground had broken it into two pieces. One of the parts of the pit of unknown length was deeply embedded in the bottom of the pit, and the exposed part was burning violently, and most of the light shone from this area. The other fragment was just leaning against the debris inserted into the bottom of the pit, and it was about forty meters long, with only a few small flames burning in some broken places. The surface of both pieces of debris is covered with pitch-black scorch marks, as well as some scratches that line parallel in the same direction, apparently formed by friction with the planet's atmosphere during the fall.

Without saying a word, Zhou Xin looked at the wreckage in silence for a long time, and then he let out a sigh, "Atlas, most of the wreckage of space buildings should have fallen to the ground." How long will it be possible to count the specific losses of the Republic of Kazran. ”

"Some of the debris has not yet fallen to the ground. However, all the destructive debris had fallen, and the tiny debris left in the air no longer caused substantial damage to the ground. The little girl replied, "As for the overall damage to the Republic of Kazran, there is no way to get results from our own probes alone. The Kazlans can only be counted on their own internal reports, and they will need to spend some time counting and listening to their internal communications. After saying that, she added, "But if the captain's brother wants to be attacked in certain places, it is not impossible." As he spoke, the screen of the probe preparing to investigate the inside of the burning wreckage disappeared into the footage taken by other probes in various places.

Although the wreckage that had struck the rest of the place was not as large as the one they had just seen, they were not to be underestimated. The wreckage of about 50 meters in length can also make a large crater with a diameter of nearly 1,000 meters in the plain, and if the wreckage of about the same size falls in the mountains, the damage to the terrain will be even greater. In a few flashes of the screen, Zhou Xin saw a mountain that might have been more than 3,000 meters high, but under the attack of the wreckage, less than half of it was left, and it was very incongruous between the surrounding groups of mountains of similar height. But even such a devastating devastation would be acceptable to the Republic of Kazran, as they would have to deal with something even more horrific - the wreckage that had fallen directly into the town.

That's right, not all cities are as lucky as Central, and some medium-sized wreckage inevitably falls into the towns. In the next picture, Zhou Xin and the others saw an amazing scene.

A fall crater with a diameter of nearly a kilometer appeared in the town that should have been scattered, and everything on this pit was completely gone, only the ruins of buildings looming in the smoke and dust that had not completely dissipated in the pit could prove what this place was once like. Of course, the fall of the wreckage did not only destroy the buildings within the scope of the fall pit, but also the high-rise buildings that originally stood on the edge of the pit were also reduced to a pile of broken walls and ruins under the destruction of the earthquake wave. Of course, one or two of the buildings were not completely destroyed by the force of the impact, but were only broken by the waist, standing out in the ruins. If you look further into the distance, you can see that the destructive force caused by the wreckage when it fell to the town radiated more than 6,000 meters beyond the impact point. The buildings here managed to withstand the worst of the tremors, and despite the obvious cracks in the walls, they still held on, except for the glassy structures that shattered into even slag.

As soon as the scene cuts to the crater, everyone is completely silent, and for the next period of time, everyone quietly watches the probe investigate the city where the wreckage fell, without saying a word.

When the image of the probe finally rested on the glass shards on the floor, Spred finally spoke in a trembling voice, "Oh my God, how many people have died in this city......