Volume III, Chapter 4: Undercurrent
The moment he stepped out of the ground, Lu Ren was truly shocked by the future world.
When he was in the "slum" before, through the rows of dilapidated high-rise buildings, he had vaguely seen a touch of silver gray in the sky. It's just that at that time, he thought it was the air haze polluted by Yan zhΓ²ng in the future world, however, it wasn't until he really got out of the slum area that he found out that where was the bullshit haze, it was clearly a silver-gray, towering super building!
"Really...... Spectacular......"
Lu Ren looked at the magnificent buildings on the other side of the sea and muttered to himself. People who have not witnessed it in person can't imagine the grandeur of this world, the silver-gray buildings, like the ancient magic mountains, connecting the clouds and the tide below, even with Lu Ren's strengthened eyesight, he can only see the silhouettes of a forest, not to mention the more magnificent and magnificent silhouettes behind the circle of buildings on the coastline like a metal giant wall.
"Hee-hee, how's it going...... Intimidated, right? β
Shui Yunge and Shui Yunyu seemed to be very satisfied with Lu Ren's deflated appearance, standing beside him on the left and right, with a clever smile on their faces.
"It's not ...... to be scared," Lu Ren flicked his fingers lightly and said calmly, "When I was in the Zhongzhou team before, I have seen a much more magnificent scene than this......"
"You guys ...... from there" After a pause, Lu Ren pointed with his hand to enclose the slum behind him, and then pointed to the huge buildings on the other side of the sea, and asked, "It really only took six hundred years to develop to this point?" Didn't get anything like alien technology in between? β
"Four hundred years, to be exact." Lan Xiaoqian smiled and said, "The buildings in this area are already the old city two hundred years ago, and the latest city is a little farther away from here...... As for extraterrestrial technology or something, at least I know it...... No, in fact, we have not made much progress in the search for extraterrestrial life now compared to 600 years ago, the universe is too big......"
"That's pretty remarkable." Lu Ren nodded and said with satisfaction, "But judging from the speed of the explosion of human technology, it is not too outrageous to develop like this in six hundred years...... However, the more this happens, the more confident I am in working with your government, and at first I was a little worried that they would not be able to read the drawings we brought back in a short time, but now it seems that this worry is unnecessary......"
Lu Ren's worries are not unreasonable, because according to the theory of multiple planes, even in parallel worlds of the same era, under the influence of the butterfly effect, the level of science and technology may differ by one or even several generations, for example, in one of our parallel worlds, Einstein's parents suddenly remembered to use a condom when they loved love one day, then, Einstein in that world is likely to be strangled in the state of sperm, and then the butterfly flapped its wings, The theory of relativity in that world has been delayed by a hundred years, and the result is that they are at least a hundred years behind us in theoretical physics......
For another example, the timeline is also the 21st century, and the world of EVA and the world of Predator have completely different levels of technological development of human beings......
"Xiaoqian, lead the way, go to your Lan family first......"
"Go to my house first?" Lan Xiaoqian was stunned for a moment, and said reluctantly, "My family's relationship with the government is not as close as that of the Shui family...... The daughter of the Shui family is here, why do you want to go to my house......"
"Because you didn't run away from home...... Shui Yunyu leaned next to Lan Xiaoqian, patted her shoulder with a smile and said, "Good sister, do me a favor......"
At the same time, a fierce quarrel is nearing the end of a mysterious military base......
"I say, arrest, arrest, him, they!"
A man whose voice was full of iron-blooded roared word by word in the darkness, and as he roared, several other equally clanging voices echoed in unison.
"It's a massacre! In the rebellion! β
"That's right, we actually killed so many people to demonstrate to us, don't you think we can't help them!"
"The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister! No matter what they get, they should take the initiative to hand it over and contribute to the country, what are they doing! Do you want to negotiate terms with us? β
"Arrest them! And then forced confessions! β
A series of hideous and domineering words erupted from the mouths of a group of black shadows sitting together, and in the middle of this group of black shadows, a virtual screen was emitting a faint light, which showed the station hall that had been slaughtered by Lu Ren before, and the corpses were lying in the dim light, making this already abandoned building look even more ghostly and terrifying.
However, just when this group of people was indignantly saying that they were going to arrest Lu Ren's group, suddenly a slow and logical voice sounded, "Hey, I said that you brainless Qiu Ba, our intelligence officers transmitted the information back, don't you all take it seriously?" β
Together, the anger in the audience suddenly paused, but it was like a drop of water falling into boiling oil, and after a short period of cold silence, it immediately broke out into a more noisy backlash!
"Director Lin, what do you mean by that?" An eerie voice replied, "Are you planning to provoke discord between our military and your intelligence system?" β
"Just tell the truth." "Director Lin's" words were still unceremoniously, but they hit the nail on the head, directly hitting the details that none of the military bigwigs noticed, "Look at the death of these corpses......
After mentioning it slightly, Director Lin's voice fell silent for a moment, but just before several military bigwigs were about to express their opinions, he preemptively said,
"As you can see, all the corpses from the symptoms, are suffocation, this is not unusual, but, from another point of view, the matter itself is very unusual, as we all know, human blood has the ability to temporarily store a part of oxygen, and even the human muscles in a state of hypoxia, can also turn to anaerobic respiration, and then move for a period of time, which is why people from suffocation to death, generally go through a few minutes or even ten minutes, but ......"
"Director Lin" paused, a slender finger stretched out from the darkness, clicked a few times on the light screen, and called up a set of numbers,
"You see, this is the number of jΓΉ received by the Manhattan ghetto monitoring station, from the appearance of the signal representing the target to the disappearance of the surrounding victim signal, the time difference is only a short five seconds, that is, these people are only held back for five seconds and die directly, which is very inconsistent with the human body structure......"
As he spoke, Director Lin clicked on the light screen a few times again, revealing a 3D human anatomy diagram, and he pointed to the red road all over the human body.
"This is the result of the autopsy of the bodies of the victims at the scene by our intelligence officers, and there is no trace of any residual toxin, but in all the victims' bodies, no oxygen levels have been detected, and the chips in all the cells have been destroyed, as if in an instant...... There is a big invisible hand that squeezes out all the oxygen in their bodies while destroying the chips......"
Director Lin's words suddenly made all the bigwigs present fall into deep thought, and after a long time, an old voice slowly asked,
"Lin, you mean, it's a weapon we don't know yet?"
"It's very likely." Director Lin's words were full of solemnity, "If our guess is not wrong, they are likely to be ......"
"The people who came out of there!"
[I was sick in the days when I wrote here, so there are probably a few chapters in the future that are 2K word short chapters, so please bear with me]