Chapter 13: Metal Plains
On this flat, smooth, slightly curved metal plain.
There was really no sign of life.
The only foreseen thing is excessive fatigue, physical exhaustion.
The communicator is also a biometric telemetry sensor on his body.
It can detect signs of surrounding organisms.
But the communication device in Luo Chuan's left hand has not been lit for two hours.
More and more, he wanted to complain about the school's hospital.
It's just too unlevel.
When I installed the communication device, I felt refreshed, thinking that I had encountered some universal artifact.
Now not only is the communicator not working properly, but even himself, a veritable living organism, feels chaotic all over his body.
"If it weren't for Professor Shangguan's punishment to punish him, he would have to hike five kilometers on the metal plains."
He didn't want to stay in this wasteland where he couldn't see the edge.
"I knew what museum I wouldn't clean," Luo Chuan began to regret, "and I wouldn't have seen any ancient kelp paper"
"I won't be stupid enough to ask a professor about the word interstellar war."
After walking for kilometers along the smooth metal flats, there was not even a single figure, let alone any shops.
Hungry and tired.
Just stopped in front of a trick. At first, he thought it was some strange decoration, as it didn't seem to have any useful features. A radial groove was deeply embedded in the metal, and in the groove there were two handlebars, like a rimless wheel, with a small bushing in the center, but the wheel seemed impossible to turn, for they were embedded in the wall.
Then, with his excitement, he noticed that there was a well-shaped recess at the end of the spoke, just enough to accommodate a clenched hand. If a person stands like this, facing the plain, and pulls the handle, he will ......
This amazed him.
Luo Chuan found himself as if he had discovered a new continent, on this empty metal plain.
The communicator in his left hand finally lit up, but nothing unusual could be detected other than a faint heat wave and his own movements.
Do you want to turn it?
Luo Chuan remembered Professor Shangguan's rules for himself: "When you go out, be careful." ”
If you have to ask Professor Shangguan about everything, you won't be able to do anything.
"I really don't see what this thing is for."
"And I don't know what I'm going to face if I slide down," Luo Chuan said to himself.
Luo Chuan grabbed the two spokes opposite each other, spread his feet, and tried to turn the wheel, but it didn't move.
Of course, there is no reason to assume that the clocks and screws in the Metal Plains rotate in the same direction as the clocks on the Core Planet.
"Let me try in a different direction." Luo Chuan muttered to himself.
This time, there was no resistance at all, and the wheels turned smoothly and you could feel the load.
Half a meter away, the curved ground began to move, like a slowly opening mouth. A few specimens of dust were blown up by the air and shimmered like diamonds in the sunlight.
The road to the unknown is opened.
Then, his body slid down.
The smooth and flat shore wall slopes downwards at a pace of sixty degrees, and at the bottom of the trench is a flat layer of white material that looks very much like ice.
He had only seen ice in Dust Star, and the period when there was ice was called "Winter".
Dust Star has summer and winter.
However, there is only summer at the bottom of the core planet.
His surroundings were white because of the reflection of "ice".
Although he saw "Ice" with his own eyes, he still couldn't believe it.
After descending those seemingly endless rungs, it was a strange pleasure to walk on the water level again. Looking ahead, the ground is completely level, to the left and right, and at the limit of being illuminated, a slightly rising surface is barely perceptible. He seemed to be walking on a vast basin. It's hard to believe that he was actually crawling in a large cylindrical jar, and beyond this glimmering ice, the metal shells rose from both sides and bordered upwards, no, turned into zenith.
Although he still didn't understand the purpose of Professor Shangguan asking him to come here.
Overall, though, the trip was quite exciting.
It's just a little cold.
The communicator flashed a red light, indicating that his body temperature had plummeted.
"It's so cold," Luo Chuan said, "It looks like these white things are really ice."
"But it doesn't seem to be very scientific," Luo Chuan continued to say to himself, "Isn't our school a perennial summer?" ”
Ice underfoot, metal plains overhead.
It's a bit exciting to think of it.
Although he felt very confident and carried a communicator with him.
He had been suppressing his excitement and avoiding the rapid depletion of oxygen, but the extreme silence of the Metal Plains soon weighed him down. Every footstep, every word of speech, disappeared into the nothingness without reverberation. If he can't walk 500 meters, Luo Chuan can't stand it anymore.
Luo Chuan began to whistle.
It also makes you feel a little more fulfilled.
It was a 40-metre-deep, 100-metre-wide deep trough flanked by slopes.
Luo Chuan began to think that it was a canal or canal.
After 15 minutes of comfortable walking, he came to the edge of the deep trough, where he stood for a moment, looking contemplatively into its depths.
Luo Chuan decided to go down.
Slide down the slope. When sliding to the bottom, he thought he would hit the ice, but he was mistaken.
It turns out that the friction at the bottom of the valley is very high, and the feet are not slippery at all. The material is like some kind of glass or transparent crystal. When he touched it with his fingers, it was cold and hard, and it couldn't move.
It's completely different from the ice you just saw.
Luo Chuan turned on the communication device and tried to see through the crystal, as if he wanted to see through the ice on the lake. But he couldn't see anything.
This thing can transmit light, but it is not transparent. If this is some kind of solidified liquid, it must have a much higher melting point than water.
However, when he looked up into the distance.
Once again, he was confronted with the mystery of the core planet, and this time he couldn't avoid it.
He stood firmly on the smooth surface of the crystalline body for several seconds, trying to sort out his thoughts.
Whether it's forward or backward.
Professor Shangguan only told him to hike on the plain behind the School of History as a punishment, but did not say that he should explore what was in the metal plain.
Besides, this is the underground of the plains, and who knows if there will be any unknown creatures.
Those genetically modified creatures seem to be able to kill him.
If he encounters any "man-eating grass", his life will be gone.
Thinking of this, a sense of extreme fear permeated my whole body.
Then, he began to turn around.
Behind him, however, there was the sound of the door opening.
The fear of the unknown made him speed up the pace of his return journey.
There was a loud bang.
The sound hit his eardrums again.
A strong curiosity about the unknown made him turn away again.