Chapter 339: The Last Day of Mankind
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Eden National Park is located on the border of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho in the United Thracian States, and most of the area belongs to Wyoming, covering a total area of about 9,000 square kilometers.
The geothermal activity of Eden National Park is very frequent, with tens of thousands of geothermal features, there was a volcanic eruption here two million years ago, according to geological surveys, the underground depths of Eden National Park are intertwined with various magma networks, and three years ago a geological survey, through resonance observations, about eight kilometers underground to its northwest, there is a huge lava field, which stores more than 3,000 cubic kilometers of underground magma.
Most of the men in the Panzer Division who had been transferred here did not notice any of the anomalies that had already begun. The vast majority of soldiers who only regard this as an ordinary cross-country training exercise regard this training as a rare vacation time in military life.
"Is it because it's almost winter?"
A private pointed to the woods and asked, the time was October, but in the dense woods, the branches were bare, and the ground was covered with fallen leaves.
"But...... These are evergreen trees. Another private picked up pine needles from the ground, and the withered trunk stretched out into the sky like charred limbs.
As the two spoke, the ground beneath their feet began to tremble slightly. In the past few days, there have been many earthquakes with very low magnitude, so neither soldier paid much attention to it. Eden National Park is known for its complex geology, and occasional earthquakes are common.
"Hmm...... Now should be the time for Darius to be judged live on television. Looks like we'll have to watch the replay......"
In the barracks, many soldiers gathered on a virtual screen. Watch the trial of Darius, a war criminal arrested years ago.
On the screen, the slightly obese Darius is wrapped in a restraint suit, his eyes are very gloomy, and he has a metal part on his throat, and the warlord is said to have bitten off his tongue in prison, so he relies on an onomatopoeia to speak.
[The 108th Military Tribunal Trial Convenes...... ......]
The picture suddenly trembled, and on the screen, the jury was in turmoil. At this time, Darius XIV's slightly strange artificial voice spoke.
[Don't panic because of a small earthquake...... Soon. Everything has to start. And then it ended. 】
[Defendant Darius XIV, please be careful! 】
[But none of this is what I did......]
[Defendant, be silent! 】
[Not me...... The practitioner is ...... Abra! 】
[Defendant! 】
People all over the world who were watching the live broadcast of the trial couldn't help but ask, who is "Abra"? Those who are more familiar with the situation in Persia immediately think of the famous Dr. Abra. The phones of the Persian scientific research department began to ring. But Dr. Abra hadn't been seen since days.
Underground in the northwest of Eden National Park. As the strata go deeper. The temperature is also getting higher and hotter. Unlike the usual geological environment, it is not cold and damp. Aside from heat-resistant bacteria, there is no living life in this area - no, except for a vast shadow.
and next to the shadows, a tiny figure in a suit.
At some point, a space was violently carved out of this place, and some rudimentary equipment was piled up in this underground cavern. Through a cave, you can see lava flowing underground.
A huge black shadow was soaking in the lava, and the magma of more than a thousand degrees Celsius could not wreak havoc on the giant baby-like robot, which ran aground on the lava sand like a giant humanoid whale.
"Lava is still rising......"
Dr. Abra muttered to himself in the eyes of extreme danger, he had been operating here for several years, constantly calculating the cycle of magma eruptions. The large amount of magma stored in this lava layer will change its altitude in response to the movement of groundwater vapor, and it will erupt due to excessive pressure about once every 5,000 years. And the last eruption was ...... Five thousand two hundred years ago.
According to Dr. Abra's calculations, with the anti-proton bomb on Bora's body pressurized and blasted through the roof of the formation up to eight kilometers thick, the lava that was pressed to the limit would erupt with unprecedented intensity.
In just one hour, 100 million tons of rock and lava will rush into the clouds, and pyroclastic flows with temperatures of up to 800 degrees Celsius will instantly engulf an area of 100 kilometers at speeds of 700 to 800 kilometers per hour.
Within two or three days, the whole territory of Thrace would be covered in smoke and dust. All livestock and crops will die in a short period of time. Large quantities of volcanic ash will soon spread to a 50-kilometre stratosphere in the atmosphere, permanently altering the structure of the Earth's atmosphere, and hundreds of millions of tons of sulphur dioxide will block out sunlight...... According to the chain reaction, the temperature in the northern and southern hemispheres will drop by 20 degrees Celsius, and the dust in the air will erode the respiratory organs – in short, the vast majority of living things will die in agony, and only those living in enclosed spaces will survive.
In a month, humanity on Earth will be destroyed. And the first to be brought to the altar was the United States of Thrace.
This is his revenge, his revenge against Thrace, and his revenge on the whole world.
When he saw the bombing of Berlin on television, he immediately understood that Thrace had finally struck. The sinister president and the unscrupulous central intelligence, he is not their opponent at the least, and his most powerful tool, Pruto, has died in the nuclear explosion, so he only has this one move left, and the most reckless one is to die with the enemy...... This is the most desolate elegy of the Persian kingdom, a dying blow to this tyrannical and immoral world!
Abra sat on a rock, painful memories flooding back again. A black frenzy overshadowed his thoughts.
Air strikes, explosions, collapses and screams.
The wife collapsed in front of him, two steel bars inserted into her chest, and blood gushed out, spreading into a small pool of blood. Her legs were crushed under the collapsed wall, and she could only stretch her arms as hard as she could, trying to hold her hand......
What is it for?
What is it for?
Maybe they should have taken refuge in air defense facilities, but this time the air raid came so suddenly, and no one knew what was going on. War is like something that happens only on the distant front, and no one knows that even Baghdad will be attacked......
For what...... Why do I want to study weather robots...... If...... If......
As he lay dying, the excavators finally dug him out of the rubble. Lying on the stretcher, Abra felt that his lower body was unusually light. Rejuvenated a little by the pure oxygen of the breathing mask, he turned his head sideways to look at Baghdad, which had finished turning into ruins in flames.
Oh, my God.
What did you guys do.
Abra stood up with all his might. He saw that his legs had been sawn off. But that's not what he wanted to do. With a shaking, he pulled out a black memory chip from the side of his ear with his hand and handed it to the medical staff.
"I am Abra, the director of the Persian Academy of Sciences...... Give this chip to the ...... of the emergency bomb shelter Pegasus ...... He knew what he could do with this......"
Abra sat in the crypt frowning, where memories became confused. He knew that he sometimes lost his mind for a while, but he never thought about what it was for...... Perhaps this is a self-protection measure for the mind. In order to preserve their intelligence. He unconsciously crossed the questions that would drive him crazy.
For example. Am I Abra, or "Takashi"?
Lava.
Outside the crypt, liquid flames are rising. Soon, the pressure was able to reach the threshold in Abra's calculations. Then, as long as the anti-proton bomb is detonated, everything will be gone with the wind in the karmic fire that burns out the world. Whether it's sin, good, evil, pain, sorrow......
Everything will burn out, leaving only snow-white ashes.
Burn, O flame.
"Dr. Abra?"
Suddenly, a voice broke his musings. Abra opened his eyes and was shocked to find that two people, a man and a woman, were standing across from him. The man, in his early twenties, with long black curly hair tied into a ponytail, a casual suit and a white shirt unbuttoned, and a black and white plaid tie, and a pair of boots on his feet, looked like a tourist running out of nowhere. The woman stood gently and demurely, dressed in a white women's casual suit, with long, supple hair that shimmered with moisture and seaweed, just tied with a tortoiseshell hairpin.
Both of them are oriental faces, like characters who came out of a movie, and they stand opposite Abra like this.
"It's eight thousand meters underground...... You guys...... How to ......"
The robot desperately calculates the possibilities, but none of the explanations are ...... Could it be that I have been infected with the virus?! They're all illusions?!
"Dr. Abra, we're here to stop you." The man stepped forward and stopped precisely on the outside of the robot's psychological cordon, "Considering the current situation, revenge - maybe it should be done in a different way, instead of being sold and counting the money for it." ”
"You...... You mean?! ”
"Central Intelligence of the United States of Thrace, Dr. Lutzbelt. A runaway AI that is about to be punished for crimes against humanity. To be precise, if it weren't for his connivance, there would be no possibility of your plan being realized. ”
Su Jing slowly paced around Abra, the robot's eyes moving rapidly, and it seemed that it had fallen into extreme madness.
"Mr. Abra, think about it. If it weren't for the war drivers, how would you have found the lava layer beneath Eden National Park? Who sent this confidential geological data to your laboratory information terminal? Who 'guided' you to come up with the formula of the principle of the antiproton bomb? And this 'geological survey site' that you secretly used is completely undocumented in the Thracian Geological Monitoring Center and related research institutes, but we found a contractor who was hired by the government to carry out an inexplicable excavation in Eden National Park...... Only you, Dr. Abra, will not be suspicious of these coincidences. Whether it is a human or a robot that simulates the human mind, it will subconsciously believe the facts that are beneficial to them...... That's interesting. ”
“…… Who are you?! ”
Su Jing stopped and looked down at Abra, who was already trembling uncontrollably.
"Who the hell is 'you'? Is it the ghost of Dr. Abra who died in the bombing of Baghdad, or something else, like ...... A robot? ”
"What a joke! You idiot......"
Su Jing pulled out a piece of paper that was already a little yellowed from his pocket.
"It's easy to get lost in times of war, and during the bombing of Baghdad, the hospital that housed 'you' was later hit by a bomb. I found the original record by chance while investigating you...... The person in the photo is you. Dr. Abra, who died at 1:33 p.m. on July 13, 2033, suffered from excessive blood loss, ruptured internal organs, and ceased bodily functions. After that, the doctor gave you fifteen minutes of resuscitation, but there were so many wounded that you were told to give up. At 3:20 p.m., a second wave of air strikes came, and the hospital was hit by a bomb. ”
“…… Fake ...... Something fake! ”
Abra let out a low roar, but his face had begun to distort, like countless worms wriggling under the skin of his face, and his face began to gradually deform.
"So, didn't you doubt it? What do you need to recharge? ”
"Because, because my body has been modified, these mechanisms need to be recharged to ......"
"So, what's going on with the electronic brain interface in the back of your head?"
"It's not an electronic brain...... This is...... It's ......"
The crypt trembled again, but this time, the source seemed to be coming from the direction above their heads. It seemed as if some kind of huge object was moving through the formation, all the way down to the ground, towards this place.
"Give up, Takashi. You've come far enough. If you go any further, you will have to die here stupidly, and the beneficiary will only be the one who manipulated everything. ”
“…… No! This is my most vengeance! I'm going to send Thrace to hell!! Abra yelled with a hideous face, and then he laughed maniacally, "Do you think you can stop me?" Do you think it's still too late? No, it's over! You can't stop Bola! My Planet Climate Modification Robot! ”
Abra, or Gao Zhi, slowly fell to his knees, the back of his head was empty, and there was no electronic brain in it. Countless cockroaches crawled down from him, Su Jing squinted his eyes and took a closer look, all of these black cockroaches rushed towards the black giant soaked in magma......
"Psionic projection can't interfere with the ...... of the real world," Sadako Yamamura whispered.
"I know it." Su Jing pursed her lips and hugged the woman's body hard, "I just didn't expect him to be so decisive...... If Pruto fails, then the earth will really be destroyed......"
Sadako Yamamura's pretty eyes drooped. The survival or non-existence of life on this planet does not matter much practical to them, but the decline of more than half a billion human beings......
"Go back to the ground."
With the whispers, the figures of the two of them instantly distorted, disappearing into the ground like illusory shadows, and the black giant god soaked in the lava also began to slowly squirm. (To be continued......)