Chapter 137: Other Humans
"Before here, it must be under the sea." Duan Qing muttered.
She pointed to the world outside the glass, and the whole outside presented a shocking scene.
The earth is charred black.
It's like a rolling desert, except that instead of gritty yellow, it's charred black.
Like the earth that remains after the fire of destruction.
It was precisely for this reason that Duanqing deduced that this place was the bottom of the sea before. Because only the explosion of a very large amount of fossil fuel can create such a shocking scene.
I just don't know if this used to be a shallow sea hundreds of meters deep, or three or four thousand meters of seabed, or even ** thousand meters of deep sea bottom seabed. But neither option can explain the question in their minds: Where did the sea go?
Temporarily pressing the doubts in their hearts, the three of them looked at the sky at the same time. At this glance, their question seems to be answered.
There is ice in the sky.
You can't see the edge. The whole sky, all ice!
When Duanqing saw this scene, she couldn't help but shudder! It's because it's cold, and it's because it's beyond imagination!
They seemed to have entered a room with a ceiling made of ice crystals. The size of this room is not a living room of 100 square meters, not a large shopping mall of 10,000 square meters, but the whole sky!
The whole sky is ice!
The ice is flat, thick, and lets in a little light, but not much. I could barely see a spot of light outside, presumably the sun, but it was too dark.
Because of this, the ground was very dark and there was no light, so it was very dark inside the Eco, and it was not until the three of them came to the edge that they could see the outside scene.
The sky they saw was endless, but it was only a tiny fraction of the entire earth. However, this is enough, because it is already possible to imagine the image of the earth already covered by floating ice.
I can't tell how high the ice is, because the sky is full of ice.
But Xu Liang has a faint feeling in his heart, it should be more than 30 kilometers! In other words, the ice is 30 kilometers above the ground, already beyond the troposphere and reaching the stratosphere.
And it's a very thick layer of ice.
Could it be that all the sea water rose into the sky and turned into ice? Why is this change happening?
"Forced explanations can barely make sense." "The previous tsunami set off waves as high as 6-7 kilometers, so the splash could reach more than 10 kilometers or even higher. ”
"And this height is already the scope of the stratosphere. The stratosphere is located at the bottom of the atmosphere in the upper troposphere, 10 km to 50 km above the ground, and the temperature is stable at minus 55 degrees Celsius. It's an extremely low temperature, and a large amount of water is ejected to this height, freezing, and condensing into a whole suspended sheet of ice that covers the globe. It's not impossible. ”
"Also, ice is the best reflector that reflects most of the sun's heat, which leads to a decrease in temperature! This would explain why the overall Earth's temperature has increased, but now the actual temperature is being felt to be lower. ”
Duan Qing said as she clasped her arms to her chest. It was noticeably colder, and her lips were a little blue.
Xu Liang shook his head. This time he was not intimidated by the scientific question: "I can understand the temperature or something, and I can also understand the cause of the formation, but I just have a problem that I can't figure out!" Why does such a thick layer of ice not fall? Well? ”
Xu Liang said loudly: "Although my buddy doesn't know how to learn, he still knows gravity!" Apples can still smash people's heads when they are ripe, why don't these ice layers fall down? ”
Duanqing frowned, obviously she was also thinking, "If you imagine the whole earth as a football, maybe it can be explained?" The surface of the soccer ball is like these layers of ice? The soccer ball doesn't collapse inward because there's gas in it? Maybe it's because the atmosphere below us is holding up? Or maybe it's because of the principle of arch bridges......"
Duan Qing spoke, and her voice became quieter, except that she didn't think that these principles could explain the phenomenon well. The more important reason is that they discovered a new situation at the same time!
Another ship!
It is obviously much more important to pay attention to this ship than to make an explanation that cannot be demonstrated!
The ship was parked about 2 kilometers away from them, and it was all dark and mixed with the charred black earth, making it difficult to spot. Just now they had been paying attention to the macro earth and sky, so they didn't notice.
But as the eyes gradually get used to this dim environment. They have finally discovered the ship, too!
The three of them were immediately excited!
If there is a boat, it means that there can be a living person!
Although the ship appeared to be badly damaged, leaning crookedly against the reef, the overall shape was still there. There are countless broken chains on it, and it seems that they were also torn apart during the previous tsunami.
But in any case, where there is a ship, there is hope!
The amount of time they spent on the Ecology was not said on the surface. But there has always been an irritability in my heart. Because I was really afraid that they would be the only three people left of the human race. However, now that the ship is seen, there is at least a possibility that it can be searched.
"It's an artwork number." Duan Qing recognized it.
The ship's designation had long been broken, and she was determined by the shape of the ship. After all, every megaton ship passed by her hand, and she was familiar with it.
"We're going to take a look! Gotta go! ”
Duan Qing was a little emotional, and she even started digging the exit of the collapsed passage directly. However, Xu Liang stopped her at this time: "Don't worry, you look over there again, the situation has changed." ”
Duan Qing stopped after a moment.
Not because she was willing to listen to Xu Liang's words, but because she heard that there was something wrong with the tone of Xu Liang's words.
This kind of tone, she has never heard Xu Liang use it.
It was a tone mixed with great shock, but forcibly pressed into an ordinary tone!
Duan Qing couldn't help but look in that direction.
She saw people!
Column after column of people!
The dim environment and the distance can't be seen clearly, it was a high-resolution telescope given to her by Xu Liangsai that allowed her to observe.
That's a column of fellow human beings!
However, at this time, these "human" actions are very strange. It's as if they didn't want to come out on their own, but ...... was forced to walk into this method of column by column, and slowly walked out.
It's like when you were still in school, everyone stood in line on the playground, and they had to be aligned in columns one by one, and as long as there was any misalignment, they would be named and criticized in the loudspeaker and in front of the whole school!
Those people are like marionettes, like military training, walking very neatly!
It seems to be controlled!
Then, through the binoculars, Duan Qing found the "teacher", or "supervision team", or "disciplinary committee" behind these people.
Officially, because he saw these characters, Xu Liang would have such a tone.
They, no, they, are ants.
It's ants one by one.
Although it was so far away, Duanqing could still see clearly that those six-legged things with tentacles on their heads were ants!
Tuba! Taller than the average person! More than four meters long and more than two meters high! Standing next to those people is equivalent to Yao Ming's height! The length of the car!
Because the distance is too far, if you are a little thinner, you can't see clearly.
Duan Qing put down the binoculars, feeling that his people were already starting to tremble. She handed the binoculars to her sister Duan Han, who had a puzzled expression, and then looked at Xu Liang, who turned his head.
Then he glanced at the group of termites that had quietly disappeared and had just made friends.
He didn't speak for a long time.
Duan Qing was speechless. 8)