Chapter 15: The Eve of Despair
After knowing what the iron head was making, Lu Fan was not ready to go out and brush some more.
It's a ghost! He sold all the things on the list and couldn't redeem them! Not to mention that some things can't be changed even if you want to.
The most important thing is that he didn't really want to build a starry sky fortress, he just didn't look at it carefully at the time and made a mistake, and if it was just used to shelter humans, it was enough to build the part of the iron head now, and there were even rich ones.
Of course, if the iron head wants to continue to build, Lu Fan will not stop him, after all, he has already exchanged so many things before, and it is a waste not to use it, but he will not be a coolie anymore, if he really needs to exchange something in the future, then it is not too late to get points.
At the same time, Lu Fan finally knew why Tietou called him 'His Excellency the Marquis'.
According to Tietou, the Cangnan Federation is a constitutional monarchy, and the owner of every Titan-level Star Fortress will be granted the title of minimum marquis by the royal family, although Lu Fan's Star Fortress has not yet been completely built, but it is only a matter of time before Tietou judges with Lu Fan's ability and resources at his disposal.
In this regard, Lu Fan didn't know what to say.
Anyway, thank you for looking so highly of me!
But no matter how good Tietou said, Lu Fan would not waver in the slightest, he had been tired and tired for so long, he had already decided to rest for a while.
However, many times, things don't go the way you want.
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Leaving the top floor of the signal tower with a broken face, Lu Fan took the elevator to the penultimate floor below the top of the signal tower, and there was only one huge room on the entire floor, which was where Lu Fan usually used to work...... Well, in fact, this place is just pretending, and the time Lu Fan has spent here here before adds up to less than an hour.
And the reason why Lu Fan wanted to come to this office that he didn't usually use much was because he was going to find those two managers to learn something.
In the past, he didn't have time to go out every day to brush up, but now that he has time, Lu Fan also wants to know about the construction of the city, after all, it is a city that he has worked so hard to build, and it is somewhat unreasonable not to understand it.
Moreover, if there were another oolong incident such as 'building a starry sky fortress', Lu Fan would really want to cry without tears.
Hardware construction such as buildings can be understood by the iron head, and Lu Fan is not in a hurry, but software construction such as order is to be understood by those two human managers.
In addition, Lu Fan also wanted to ask them about 'mission'.
In fact, Lu Fan also thought about asking them to stop 'preaching', but Tietou said that this kind of behavior was conducive to the governance and stability of the city, so Lu Fan didn't care anymore.
Now, Lu Fan feels that it is time for him to take care of it, otherwise, he is afraid that he will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history, although he is just a passerby in this world, but it is not a reputation at all, and it is always bad if it stinks.
"I just hope something hasn't gone wrong."
Thinking silently in his heart, Lu Fan sent a communication to the two with the scanning device on his eyes, and then sat on the boss's chair that was almost like a dragon chair, with his feet on the boss's table that could be used as a tennis court, touching his chin with one hand, and his thoughts began to drift.
"By the way, it's the eighth day, right? In other words, there are still twenty-two days before the mission is over, and I will definitely take the small fish away by then, as for the iron head...... Forget it, we'll talk about it then. Also, shouldn't I move when I go back......"
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Just when Lu Fan's thoughts were in turmoil, in some inaccessible places on this planet, terrifying mutations began to be officially staged.
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North America, Midi National Park.
As the largest pre-apocalyptic national park, one of the largest active volcanic craters on Earth, and one of the largest forest owners on Earth, Midi National Park has always been a favorite among many travel enthusiasts.
Of course, that was before the end of the world, and after the end of the world, this sprawling national park became the entrenchment of many Aragami gods, a paradise of Aragami that refused to be entered by humans.
Now, however, not only humans, but also a place of purgatory that even the gods of Aragami would not want to set foot in.
The extreme heat came from the underground, and even when it reached the surface, it still maintained a terrifying temperature of more than 500 degrees Celsius, and the purgatory-like heat rose and spread in the vast area of the park, and the huge forest that had been eaten by the Aragami had completely lost its trace, not even a single branch or even a leaf was left, and it had all turned into dead black ashes, covering the ground that was beginning to faintly desertify.
The constant heat even changed the terrain.
Near the center of the heat source, the rock and soil have fused together to turn into magma due to the high temperature of thousands of degrees, forming a magma lake with a diameter of hundreds of miles.
Radiating outward from the center of the heat source, the nearby surface soil has shown a state of glazed, and the distant soil has also been silted due to the evaporation of a large amount of water, and the rock layers below it have also become fragile because of high temperatures in the entire vast area, and the loss of a large number of groundwater and dark rivers has also caused some rock layers to lose support, large and small sinkhole collapses and rift faults can be seen everywhere, like a series of hideous scars imprinted on the earth.
At one point, the high temperature diffusing from the center of the heat source abruptly stops, and then rapidly converges towards the center of the heat source in a form that defies the laws of physics.
The ground in the outer desertified area, where the heat was rising, faintly condensed hoarfrost in an extreme time, and the nearby glazed area collapsed due to the transition from extreme heat to extreme cold, and the magma lake in the center also changed from a red liquid state to a dark solid state in a very short period of time, and then pulled out a series of hideous cracks because of the cold shrinkage effect.
The entire purgatory-like park became a cold, dead place in a very short time.
Then, the earth swelled like an earthquake, and a fiery red light broke through the solid dark rock ground in the center of the cracked black magmatic rock.
In the red light, a giant palm that covered the sky like a fiery red magma slowly stretched out.
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South America, Amazon Basin.
Even in the depths of the dense forest, which few people have set foot in before the end of the world, under the obvious pits dug the day after tomorrow, in the intricate underground passages, giant black ants that are larger than adult buffaloes are crisscrossed between them.
And at the very center of the intersection of this intricate underground passage, Chen Heng is a fat and bloated white queen, in addition to being much larger than the normal queen, this white queen is faintly engraved with mysterious patterns under the translucent white skin.
And beside this somewhat inexplicable queen, an ant egg that is only the size of a human and has a purple mysterious pattern engraved on the golden skin generally beats regularly in its breath, and around the golden ant egg is full of large and small Aragami cores.
At a certain moment, the golden ant egg quietly shrank by a point, and as the golden ant egg shrank, the large and small Aragami cores around it suddenly disintegrated into invisible Aragami cells under the action of an invisible force, and the milk swallow generally sank into the golden ant egg.
Sensing this, the two purple tentacles on the top of the queen's head swayed slightly, and in an instant, the huge ant colony seemed to have received some kind of information, climbed to the ground from the various holes scattered throughout the small half of the watershed, poured out of the nest, and began to hunt!
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Northwest of the Bear Country.
On the vast snowfield, in the midst of the violent wind and snow, a white humanoid figure with a height of 100 feet loomed.
At a certain moment, in front of the white figure, a desolate god of about the same size appeared, a powerful Aragami that the humans of this world called a forbidden species.
As if sensing that the white figure was a little difficult to deal with, the dragon-shaped Aragami with a whole body like a dragon-shaped arajin wearing mechanical blue steel armor let out a low roar like a demonstration, trying to persuade the white figure in front of him to retreat.
In the next second, the white figure's right arm covered with long white hair moved like a phantom, and in an instant, the violent wind and snow seemed to be still, and then continued to sweep down.
In the distance behind the dragon-shaped Aragami, the ground that was originally covered with thick snow quietly had four narrow and wide cracks in the moat, revealing the black and yellow earth and hard rocks below, and even the thick dark clouds in the sky were torn open four long passages, and the long-lost sunlight shone down through these four passages, forming a clear path of light.
At this time, the seemingly hard body of the dragon-shaped Aragami quietly split apart.
As if he had done something worthless, the white figure followed the path unchanged at all, passing by the corpse of the dragon-shaped Aragami, and a huge blue core quietly appeared in his hand with a thick meat pad, and then the white figure raised his hand and stuffed the blue core into his mouth with four fangs, and continued to move forward while chewing on a rattle.
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Huaxia, Hengduan Mountains.
In the depths of the inaccessible mountains, a huge purple-black object like a sarcoma is entrenched in it, and its huge body is not much better than the surrounding mountains, and even surpasses, the ugly and hideous purple-black skin is glowing with greasy metallic luster, and from time to time there is a purple-black greasy metal liquid sliding from the epidermis, like mercury smashing on the surrounding ground, smashing the ground into a cracked pit, and what is even more bizarre is that these purple-black metal liquids that fall on the ground seem to be extremely corrosive, After smashing a large hole in the ground, it corroded directly, leaving only black potholes in the ground.
In addition, the entire huge purple-black sarcoma is still beating regularly like a heart, and every time it beats, there will be a faintly visible translucent golden material gathered around, and with the convergence of translucent golden material, from time to time there are purple-black thick tentacles breaking through the epidermis and stretching out, and then unconsciously waving wildly.
If you look closely, you can also see that the end of each thick purple-black tentacle is a deep round hole, like a cannon barrel.
At the top of the purple-black sarcoma, there is a giant tentacle with a quarter of the diameter of the purple-black sarcoma, and the end of the giant tentacle is also a huge dark round hole, and on the outside of the edge of the dark round hole is a row of dense rows of small tentacles with a huge eyeball at the end.
At one point, one of humanity's few remaining satellites for exploration swept over the purple-black ball of flesh.
In an instant, as if sensing the prying eyes from distant space, those small tentacles with huge eyeballs looked at the direction of the detection satellite in the sky, and all the cannon barrel tentacles on the purple-black sarcoma also stopped their original unconscious dancing and all pointed to the direction indicated by the eyeball tentacles.
In the next second, the tentacles of the cannon barrel began to squirm and accumulate, and then, thousands of purple-black metal liquids erupted from these cannon barrel tentacles at high speed, rubbing and heating with the atmosphere under the action of extreme speed, like arrows of light shooting towards the detection satellites located in space.
A few minutes later, the Earth is in low Earth orbit.
Dense arrows of light swept in, most of them passed by the detection satellites, but a limited number of accurate hits instantly turned the fragile detection satellites into scattered fragments, a small part of the fragments fell downward under the action of the earth's gravity, and finally disappeared under the friction with the atmosphere, and most of them flew outward, turning into space junk.
At the same time, the ground is deep in the mountains.
As if sensing that the watcher had been eliminated, the purple-black sarcoma's huge body squirmed, and more than a dozen thick tentacles stretched out from the abdomen close to the ground, supporting his huge body while climbing the surrounding peaks and moving towards the mountains.
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The largest inland lake in southern China, Jiujiang.
In the depths of the vast waters, a huge dark blue translucent crystal stands majestically above the sediment deposited by the years, perhaps it is more appropriate to describe it as an 'egg', because through the thick dark blue translucent crystal, a huge blue figure can be faintly seen sleeping quietly.
With the rhythm of the blue figure as if breathing, the faint blue light quietly circulated above the giant 'egg', through the layers of lake water, the faint glow of the dim lake bottom that the original light could not reach, and with the flow of the dark blue light, there were countless translucent golden substances gathered.
At a certain moment, the dark blue translucent crystals that were the eggshells of the giant 'eggs' quietly cracked into a crack, and in an instant, the dark blue cold air wrapped in extremely low temperatures swept out, instantly freezing the lake within a radius of more than ten kilometers.
Looking down from above, in the center of the vast lake, a blooming ice flower quietly bloomed and spread to the surroundings at a very fast speed.
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North Pacific, offshore of RB countries.
A metallic yellow 'island' quietly approached the land......
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East coast of the North Atlantic Ocean.
In front of the blue water, several huge tentacles loomed in black shadows, ready to move......
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More and more terrifying beings are beginning to awaken and even begin to act, and most of the humanity of this world is about to usher in the most desperate moment of their stormy years.