Chapter 9: The Cone in the Clouds

The Mission flew towards the black clouds with a long silver tail flame, and in just five seconds, it had already crossed a distance of seventeen kilometers to the bottom of the black clouds. The people in the cabin were under unprecedented oppression, Wu Feng half-opened his mouth, and saw through the porthole that the black clouds were rapidly approaching, it was quietly suspended there, there was no ethereal form, more thick and solid like mud and sand. Huge lightning flashed through the clouds, and the incessant rolling thunder shook the hearts of the people, as if they were poor souls who had been thrown into hell.

When people are terrified to the extreme, they can't make any sound. Wu Feng's eyes widened, his expression froze, and in the field of vision provided by the porthole, three strange white lightning flashed by, cutting through the real secondary clouds, the cracks in the clouds were like chiseled underground hot springs, and the powerful electromagnetic radiation formed substantial open flame particles, which erupted from the cracks in the clouds, and rumbled into the mission.

"Activate the shield! Toggle the manual airplane mode! ”

The driver, Lao Luo, yelled at the other two drivers. He held the lever in front of him steadily, all the vision windows covered by shields, and the impact of the open flame particles made the mission spacecraft tremble even more violently. "Everyone, sit tight!" Everyone could clearly feel that the climbing speed of the Mission was increasing, it was constantly flipping, and the reversal of gravity made everyone feel a strong sense of gagging, but the strong pressure on the face made everyone unable to move!

Two seconds later.

The tremors and tears on the spaceship disappeared, and everyone felt as if they had left the extremely bumpy ground and flew steadily. The pressure is slowly decreasing, and the thrust from below the crowd is slowly disappearing, and the space seems to enter a state of static.

"All the best! Radiation detection is normal! Lao Chen's voice sounded in the cabin, and he gave a thumbs up to Lao Luo and the female pilot with a happy face. Lao Luo smiled miserably for the rest of his life.

"Call the tower, call the tower, the mission number has successfully entered the secondary clouds, everything is normal!" Lao Luo tried to send a message to the tower with the communicator, but there was no response, and the ship's cabin returned to silence again, and the Mission temporarily lost contact with the ground control tower.

"The deceleration is complete, the cloud thickness is 51.34 kilometers, and it is expected to leave in 166 seconds. Manual airplane mode is normal. The female driver said as she operated the surrounding equipment.

The main driver, Lao Robbi, made an OK gesture, and he said: "Xiaohu, you can turn off the shield, and now start backing up data every 5 seconds." ”

"Okay, Uncle Luo."

……

The shield outside the porthole was slowly withdrawn, and the dazzling cyan light squeezed into the ship's cabin through the porthole, Wu Feng closed his eyes to resist the dazzling light, and everyone's exclamation immediately sounded in his ears.

"Doctor, look, look!" The monkey said excitedly.

Wu Feng opened his eyes, his eyes slowly adjusted to this light, the 360-degree panoramic view window of the spaceship had been opened, and he tilted his head slightly.

The Mission was hovering in a sea of pale cyan light. The ocean doesn't evenly distribute the cyan, it looks like a distant nebula, the dense parts of the halo appear brighter, and the dull parts reveal a deep black.

At the top of the ocean is a white film of light. As far as the eye could see, six huge black conical cylinders hovered straight through the light film, straight in the cyan sea. Wu Feng roughly estimated with the naked eye, combined with the thickness comparison of the secondary clouds, that the length of these six huge cones was about 35 kilometers, and the diameter was between two and four kilometers. On the surface of the cone pillar, there is a circle of ravines every few hundred meters away, and in the depths of the cone there is a cyan light circulating in a counterclockwise direction, and from a distance, the huge cone pillar is like a sword in the hand of the king of Yue, and its body is wrapped around a strange cyan halo, hanging upside down on the earth!

At the ends of the six conical pillars, countless black branches were tangled together like intertwined roots, intertwined with each other at random, intertwining into an impenetrable web over the earth. One end of them near the cone is black, the middle part of the center turns from black to blue, and the ends of each other glow with a crystal cyan glow. Orange and white ball lightning was generated near the cyan light, and was torn down by a wonderful suction, and the dazzling electric light was instantly torn into a long lightning bolt, dissipating on the surface of the condensed clouds.

"Rooty, rooty organization." Wu Feng muttered.

"Doctor, are you saying that's the root of the root theory?" The main driver, Lao Luo, said excitedly.

"Yes, they are the true source of energy for cloud lightning, the energy roots. Now it seems that their energy may all come from these suspended cones. ”

"Those pillars, did the Americans put them there? What does the root theory mean? The monkey asked Wu Feng in a low voice, his voice was very small, as if he was afraid of being heard by the pillars.

"No way. How can Americans be so powerful, if they are really so godly, they will not let their country be trapped in dire straits, don't you say, doctor? The driver, Lao Chen, hurriedly said.

"Hardly a word of what Broad tells us is true. The only thing that is known for sure is that the interior of the secondary cloud layer is relatively stable. There seems to be a law of transmission, and this law is more like the law that is most in line with the energy transfer set artificially. Wu Feng said.

"As for the root theory, it is a conjecture I put forward last year based on the law of lightning motion in secondary clouds, which refers to the breeding body of lightning energy in secondary clouds. Now it seems that it does exist. As long as we can destroy the root tissue and destroy its transmission law, the ball lightning in the clouds will not be generated, and the energy of the root will accumulate in the root when it cannot be released, and when the range of the accumulation exceeds its containment range, it will disintegrate on its own. This powerful explosion of energy will have a collapse effect, and it will absorb all the matter within a radius of hundreds of thousands of kilometers of itself! ”

"So it's the second way to do it besides nanolytic agents?" Adrian asked. The black uncle finally got used to it, and his lips were a little pale and he looked very weak.

"Matter, which refers to all matter, including the atmosphere." The co-pilot said nonsense. Her voice was abrupt, as if she had known what Wu Feng would say, she looked at Wu Feng, the round-faced Chinese girl with a big pair of intelligent eyes. She turned her head to look at the cyan ocean outside, leaving only Wu Feng's back.

"Doctor, is she right?" The monkey followed closely for verification.

Wu Feng nodded, and he said: "Moreover, these giant cones outside of Gendi, we don't understand the principle of its levitation, if it loses the power it carries and falls into the earth, it is very likely to bring even more unimaginable disasters." ”

Under Lao Luo's preoccupied control, the Mission smoothly shuttled through the sea of cyan clouds, and between the intricate and huge roots, the Mission was like an insect, stubbornly searching for every gap that could accommodate it to shuttle.

The Mission drove smoothly out of the Root Zone, and it climbed up the side of the giant cone, the details of the cone became clearer, the surface of the giant pillar was composed of black hexagonal material of the same size, and each hexagonal material had a faint cyan light transmitted through the joints, and its interior seemed to hide a huge amount of energy that had been materialized.

Wu Feng felt his scalp tingle. This thing is definitely not naturally formed, and it cannot be made by the Americans, and with the current level of earth technology, even in another hundred years, there may not be such technical means. Wu Feng's mind echoed with that name—the Extraterrestrial Counter-Terrorism Bureau. For a moment, Wu Feng seemed to understand what kind of force Broad and the others were fighting against. When he speaks of extraterrestrial counterterrorism, he does not mean extraterrestrial bases created by the Americans.

Rather, the real extraterrestrial civilization!

So, when exactly did they come to Earth? When secondary clouds appear? Or is it earlier? Wu Feng realized how shocking his guess was, and he was reluctant to accept it, but the huge building in front of him seemed to prove it.

Where do they come from?

Where did they come?

Where are they hidden?

Directly below the Mission, the cracks in the surface of the hexagonal shape of the giant pillar slowly became brighter, and then a hollow man's low roar suddenly appeared, and the substantial sound wave instantly brought the Mission into the impact range, and the spaceship was like a small ship in a storm and jolted violently. Wu Feng's ears buzzed loudly, and his internal organs were almost shattered. "Sonic interference! Sit tight, everyone! Lao Luo manipulated the mission to climb upward, and the spacecraft drew a 120-degree obtuse angle and tilted slowly out of the enveloping range of the sound waves, and in just two seconds, everyone fell into a nightmare, and everyone was so shocked by the huge sound waves that they almost fainted. As the hull of the ship farther and farther away from the giant pillar, the cabin finally stopped jolting, and after a short silence, a woman's retching sounded. The muffled sound lasted for nearly four seconds before disappearing.

The giant pillar, it seems to have consciousness, is it alive!

Everyone in the ship's cabin heard clearly, and there was no doubt that the source of the sound was coming from the huge cone below. Its roar is full of impatience and intimidation, and it seems to warn humanity that we are definitely not friends!

The three drivers looked at each other, and they finally set their eyes on Wu Feng's body, this action attracted everyone's attention, and everyone looked at Wu Feng in shock, hoping that he could give everyone a reasonable explanation.

Wu Feng struggled to control his emotions, he swallowed his saliva, "I think the same as you think, this is not a product of human technology. They come from outside the earth. ”

"Really, it's true!" Lao Luo exclaimed, and before his voice stopped, the spaceship suddenly sank downward, which immediately caused two more medical personnel to scream.

"Lao Luo, what are you doing!" The co-pilots Lao Chen and Xiao Hu looked at the main driver Lao Luo in horror, he grabbed the control stick fiercely like he saw a natural enemy, pressed the control stick down desperately, and roared through gritted teeth: "Slut!" Slut! I'll let you go out and fool around, you don't even want children! You still have the face to come back! Lao Luo's eyes burst out, he shook vigorously while pinching the control stick, and the spaceship lost control under his control, and it was in danger of crashing at any time!

"Quick, take back the lever!" Adrian quickly unbuckled his seat belt, and he yelled at Old Chen. Lao Chen reacted at this time, didn't care about the shock in his heart, and tried his best to break Lao Luo's arm. Adrian rushed behind Lao Luo in two steps, his arms firmly wrapped around Lao Luo's upper body, Lao Luo's arms were broken by Lao Chen, and the upper body was restrained by Adrian, he shook his body vigorously while yelling, "What are you doing!" What are you doing! This slut killed my son, let me kill her! ”

"Lao Luo! She's dead! She's been killed by you! Lao Chen turned his head and yelled at Lao Luo, and he stretched out one hand and slapped Lao Luo's face fiercely. Your wife is dead! Have you forgotten? Have you forgotten why you're here? Yes?! Lao Luo suddenly stopped struggling, he seemed to be stunned by this slap, he seemed to understand Lao Chen's words. His eyes closed and opened, and he shook his head as if trying to see what was in front of him.

"No...... Wrong...... There was a voice...... I saw her...... Also, my son ......"

Old Luo muttered, he looked twenty years older in his forties, his body seemed to be shrunk, he lowered his head, and let himself be dragged by Adrian under the shelves at the back of the ship's cabin and tied up. Adrian seemed to be prepared for this, and he did it all without hesitation. The two medical staff stared blankly at the corner where Lao Luo was, not knowing what they were thinking.

The spaceship returned to stability in Lao Chen's hands, only Wu Feng's heart was beating wildly, and he was shocked again. This time, it seems that Broad is right, Lao Luo is the first person to produce illusions, and it is the person who produces illusions by his side, Wu Feng is very sure.

There was a brief silence in the cabin.

"How long will it take to fly out of the secondary clouds?" Wu Feng asked.

"Thirty seconds, thirty seconds later, it will leave the secondary cloud layer at the planned coordinate point, and after leaving the secondary cloud layer, the mission will cross the Kármán line in 25 seconds and completely leave the Earth's orbit." The co-pilot Xiaohu replied.

"Lao Chen, can you do it?"

"Don't worry, doctor, I'll do it." Lao Chen didn't look back, his voice was very calm.

The Mission was slowly accelerating, and Wu Feng's angle of observing the giant pillar changed from looking up to looking down. Now, except for the top part of the pillar, which is in the secondary cloud layer, the rest of the column can be seen in full view. It stands still above the Earth, hiding its body in secondary clouds, and only the most cutting-edge part of it is facing out of the Earth. So, is it really a weapon or a defensive device?

"In the last five seconds, I'm about to cross the secondary clouds." The voice of the co-pilot Xiaohu sounded.

Wu Feng's gaze moved from the giant pillar below to the white film of light above. As we got closer, the film of light looked like clouds reflecting the sun's rays, and as the spaceship approached, the film became more and more ethereal, and this is what really belongs to the earth! Wu Feng thought to himself. The white film of light began to fade like mist, which was a harbinger of having entered the film of light, and Wu Feng's heart was peaceful.

"Super Radiation Detected! Turn on the shield! ”

Xiao Hu's sharp voice sounded, and at the same time, the ethereal white mist in front of everyone's eyes instantly ignited, and the radiation ion cloud formed a substantial fire ball, overwhelmingly smashing towards the rising mission!