Chapter 451: The End of Life
The tracked off-road vehicle drove through the gravel Gobi region and entered the large ice sheet covering 98 percent of the entire Antarctic continent.
Leaving the vicinity of the coastline, the wind speed began to decrease significantly, Liu Changan looked at the instrument in the car, and the wind speed decreased from the highest 40 meters per second to 20 meters per second.
Liu Changan remembers that 30 years ago, there was a super typhoon in Qionghai with a height of more than 70 meters per second, far exceeding the maximum standard of 17, and the wind speed in Antarctica could even exceed 100 meters per second...... It's just that the data observed by humans is more than 90 meters per second.
The wind was blowing and the clouds were flying.
Liu Changan sat in the bumpy crawler SUV and squinted his eyes, ignoring the gold coins that had been broken and thought, and entered a state of closed senses, just like he would have been in a state a long, long time ago.
In such a state, there is no feeling for the passage of time outside, when Liu Changan opened his eyes again, he looked at the date displayed on the instrument, two days have passed, this time is the season of the Antarctic polar day, Liu Changan looked out of the car, and the whole sky turned into a white and misty milky white sky.
Everything in the field of vision seems to be covered by the ice and snow of Antarctica, and there is a milky white light as thick as milk, which makes people unable to see far and near, and the eyesight of ordinary people is completely ineffective in such weather, no different from blind people.
This is a natural weather phenomenon unique to Antarctica, which is formed by the mutual reflection of light between ice, snow particles and clouds, Liu Changan observed with interest for a while, and then felt bored, and was about to continue squinting for a while, when the voice of the gold coin came from the voice system: "Lord Blood Ancestor, this is the testing ground for us to dominate the part of the earth, look at such a milky white sky, is it particularly beautiful?"
"It turns out that during the Antarctic scientific expedition and expedition, the accidents that occurred because of the milky white sky weather were all caused by you?" Liu Changan felt that this was a very effective method, in such a climatic environment, what hidden bases were established in it, and there was no way to use conventional detection equipment to find them.
The scientific expedition team passing by here, sensing the appearance of the milky white sky, will either retreat or bypass it far away, and will not try to pass through, because in such an environment, no equipment can play a normal role, and in a place like Antarctica, the failure of equipment often means a major accident or even death.
"A few decades ago there were a lot of accidents, but now there are very few, but unfortunately no one thinks of this place as a mysterious place to spread the popularity of Bermuda. Jin Coin said very regretfully, turning his headless body to face Qin Luming...... The sound is coming from the speakers of the car.
In a sense, robots do have advantages that are difficult for humans to achieve, and it is impossible for ordinary people to drive a car for two days and two nights without sleep, let alone chat happily with their heads dropped.
But Liu Changan naturally rejects robots, because robots are not living beings at all, and Liu Changan has been on the earth for so many years, and he has always been accompanied by colorful lives, and now there is such a thing as a robot suddenly, which brings him a sense of rejection that is no less than the moment when the catastrophe is coming.
What is the difference between robots and regular creatures? Where are the boundaries, and under what circumstances do they blur the definition of each other?
Liu Changan has not thought about these questions, he is not a philosopher who will always think about these questions, because life is too long, if you always think about some questions with no answers, or vague answers, the time will become incomparably long and tormenting...... By the time you consciously get the answer, the questions are often meaningless.
Completely unaffected by the milky white sky, the crawler shuttles through the world where the light melts into milk, and when the tone of the gold coin seems to announce the subway station, the sight finally returns to normal, and the snow-capped world seems to come to an end, and in front of you is a green temperate vegetation area.
This surprised Liu Changan, the overall transformation of the earth by gold coins and Tesla may be insignificant, but they are really doing it...... Because he glanced at the map in the tracked SUV, it showed that this is still the area of the Antarctic continent ice sheet, and the average thickness of the ice sheet in this place is more than 2,000 meters, and the thickest place is more than 4,000 meters.
The crawler SUV stopped, its location was already on the edge of the cliff, Liu Changan got out of the car and looked over, it seemed that a huge piece of the Antarctic continental ice sheet had been dug out, revealing the real Antarctic land, not the layers of ice and snow covered on the land.
On the edge of the land where temperate plants grow, there are thick ice cliffs up to thousands of meters or even two or three thousand meters, and in the center of the land is a boxy glass house, which is not much different from the one in Hunan University, but it occupies a broader area.
"Blood Ancestor, in the past, all the continents were basically still connected, we called it the Rhodinia Supercontinent, and when the global ice froze came, the continent under our feet was fortunate to split off from the Rhodinian Super Continent and became the only living ark that could draw sunlight at that time...... Do you remember where you were at that time, what kind of biological state was it?" The headless body of the gold coin followed behind Liu Changan, but the voice came from the car.
As if someone was shouting at him with a loudspeaker behind him, Liu Changan didn't look back, thought calmly for a moment, and shook his head, "It's probably frozen by ice that is thousands of meters thick...... So there is no image impression left at all. I am accustomed to this situation, and when crustal movements, volcanic eruptions, or geomagnetic rotations change, the global environment has changed, and it is natural that I have come to my senses again. ”
Sometimes there are some extreme climates on the earth, which are completely unguardable, such as a large body of water, a whole lake, and a whole sea suddenly frozen, and at this time, the creatures in it, even if they are super natural life, are frozen in the ice layer that is more than a kilometer from the front and back, left and right, and it is difficult to get out.
"We now call this the continent of New Rodinia in honor of the global ice age. At that time, this continent became the only life zone on Earth, and it evolved a highly developed technological civilization that far surpassed that of today's humans. ”
Liu Changan felt a little regretful, because he actually missed such a scientific and technological civilization, but just like the current human civilization compared to the history of the earth, how short is it? The highly developed scientific and technological civilization in the mouth of the gold coin, even if it exists for 10,000 years, 100,000 years, or even millions of years, it is just a white horse.
The gold coins next to him, or Tesla, probably have a deep bond with such a technological civilization.
"Are you speculating about the relationship between me, Lord Tesla, and the technological civilization at that time? Your thinking is correct, Lord Tesla is the only surviving descendant of the ancient civilization, she was resurrected in the eighteenth century, and promoted the process of modern human civilization, but now that the cataclysm is coming, she has no time to wait for the current human development. The gold coin lightly touched Liu Changan, "You have to push it again, use your special physique, and let all mankind evolve." ”
It turned out to be a descendant of an ancient civilization...... Liu Changan was slightly disappointed, such a descendant of an ancient civilization should have used some of the most cutting-edge technology at that time, so that she could be resurrected in modern times, and this kind of technological application is not repeatable, at least she can't do universal application now, so she still hit him with the idea.
If it was his kind, how good would it be, Liu Changan sighed softly, the plane tree he planted had no phoenix to inhabit after all.
"What cataclysm?" Liu Changan asked, human beings are so fragile, and all kinds of problems on the earth are cataclysms for human beings, and he can't guess which kind of gold coin is talking about.
"The most recent one is the pole shift. We all know that every once in a while, the North and South Poles are switched...... The last time the magnetic field conversion between the north and south poles was seven or eight hundred thousand years ago, which means that the magnetic field conversion will occur at any time now. ”
"Well, the Earth's magnetic field is much, much weaker now than it was many years ago when I was fished out of an underground river, and it was only close to half the strength it was then. Liu Changan nodded.
"When the earth's magnetic field is reversed, the magnetic field of the entire earth will decay to a state close to nothing in a short period of time, and then the solar wind will blow the earth's atmosphere clean, and the ozone layer will of course be gone, and the earth's interior will lose control of the magnetic field, and volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis will occur frequently......"
"Wait, when the Earth's magnetic field flips, it does decay, but it's not as serious as you say, I've experienced it many times. Liu Changan disagreed, "It will soon return to normal intensity, the South Pole is still the South Pole, and the North Pole is still the North Pole." ”
"In short, this is also a cataclysm. ”
"In short, you have enough reasons to treat me as some kind of test subject for the sake of the planet, for the sake of humanity, or for the sake of your plans. "Of course, Liu Changan is willing to contribute to mankind, but why should he hand himself over to gold coins and Tesla? A robot, a descendant of an ancient civilization, can't have the slightest trust in them.
Even when Zhou Dongdong saw a stranger and suspected that the other party was a bad person, he would keep staring and scaring the other party.
"Yes. The gold coin generously admitted.
"Before that, let me meet Tesla. Liu Changan looked at the glass house in the distance and said.
What a beautiful landscape, if it is developed into a tourist attraction and converted into a hotel, it will definitely be a good business.
It's okay to come on vacation, let him stay here, Liu Changan is not willing to ...... It is like a scene in the sky, not like the world, but what Liu Changan loves most is the world of mortals.
The gold coin didn't speak, just pointed to the glass house in front of him, and a large helicopter rose into the air and flew over.
"I thought you'd use a more tech-savvy vehicle. Liu Changan said with a little disappointment.
"Practicality, effectiveness is more important. Said the speaker on the tracked off-road vehicle.
The helicopter stopped on the edge of the cliff in front of Liu Changan, and the first thing to jump from the helicopter was a gold coin.
Liu Changan glanced back at the headless robot body.
The gold coin came running and kicked its own body, which was still in use, into the snow.
"Blood Ancestor, you should be aware, just like you have pinched my body many times, and you are still helpless against me, you have to resist, you want to escape, you want to be free, you refuse to take responsibility, you refuse to sacrifice for humanity, these struggles and non-cooperation...... It's all pointless. The corners of the coin's mouth curled slightly, pointing to the robot body on the ground, "Look, in fact, you are just like it, after all, you are just a vehicle carrying some kind of function." What you carry is the code of human immortality. By the time we've studied you thoroughly, you'll be as free as it is. ”
With that, the gold coin kicked again, kicking the robotic body off the cliff.
After a long time, I faintly heard the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.
Liu Changan felt that he hated robots, and there was really a reason, he glanced at the gold coin expressionlessly, and didn't try to pinch it again for the time being.
Immediately afterwards, a familiar face of Liu Changan walked down from the helicopter, Su Nanxiu.
Su Nanxiu was still wearing a white gown, wearing glasses that didn't know if she could connect to the data system here, her face was a little haggard, and she looked at Liu Changan in surprise, as if she didn't realize that she would see Liu Changan here, and she didn't even know who she was going to see next before boarding the helicopter.
Behind Sunan Xiu was a blonde girl, a typical Russian beauty, but her skin was not covered with fine fluff, she opened her mouth when she saw Liu Changan, and then said to Liu Changan: "Oh, you were also caught, I'm Aphrona, you may have heard my name, my name used to be Rasputin...... Where's my serpent?"
Liu Changan was a little surprised to see Aphrona, he had heard this name in the mouth of the gold coin, but he didn't realize who she was at all...... Rasputin, the once great bird demon monk lost his bird, but became a woman, which is really a natural development.
The snake snake in Aphrona's mouth also walked down from the helicopter, she was a dark and cold, temperament faintly a little Jiangnan water town style of the woman, Aphrona said to Liu Changan very actively: "It's Xiaobai, Xu Jiuzhou was you, right? You left it in Lin'an before you went to sea, and it still resents you." ”
The corners of Liu Changan's mouth curled slightly, and he nodded as a greeting, although there was still a lot of resentment in Xiaobai's eyes, but Liu Changan could understand, but how did a snake become a human?
By the way, the former Rasputin, and now Aphrona, are also a bear turned into a human.
These magical lives are probably because they were captured by Tesla, and Tesla wants to study not only Liu Changan.
The hidden mysteries of life, even the ancient civilizations of the past, did not explore the truth at the bottom.
"Well, now we're all caught. I used to think that we were already the strongest in the world, where did I think of this called Tesla, she is better than us. Aphrona apparently thinks that Liu Changan already has the status of a "captive".
"Father. Mrs. Karnstein was the last to step out of the helicopter, and she was the most emaciated compared to the others.
Her eyes were sunken and her skin was pale...... Although her original image as a vampire fits perfectly, she is actually supposed to be a more beautiful woman.
There is no doubt that she is the subject of Tesla's most frequent research, Liu Changan saw that there were many black chips implanted under the skin of her arms, and there was not much hair left, only a few bits and pieces covering the top of her head.
Liu Changan narrowed his eyes, spat out a tiny bead of blood, and shot his fingers into Mrs. Carnstein's lips.
In an instant, Mrs. Karnstein changed, her hair grew thick again, like a black liquid flowing, covering her soft back, her pale skin became rosy again, she stretched out her fingers to scratch the epidermis, pulled out all the chips, and the bloody arm was soon restored to its original shape, and a vampire figure like the most elegant in a work of art returned to her.
"How miraculous it is, no matter how we extract, copy, cultivate, and research the products, we can't have such an instantaneous effect of turning decay into magic. A beautiful maiden was behind everyone, and she made a voice of admiration.
Redheads.
Double ponytail.
White shirt.
Bib skirt.
Slender body type.
The Tesla that Liu Changan had seen back then was like this, and he was the last to get off the helicopter.
Liu Changan is not surprised that her appearance may not be at all, or she just wants to appear like this today.
All he cared about was that Tesla was pulling a coffin.
Bronze coffin.
It is almost exactly the same as the coffin of Shangguan Tang.
"You wonder why I have a coffin like this, because this is the ark of eternity that the ancient civilization did with all its might to build only two, one to protect me and the other to ...... Oh, Shangguan used it as a coffin, and painted a lot of colors on it. Tesla glanced back, "It does look like a coffin." ”
"I really worked hard to get you, and I have no choice but to get to this point, after all, my previous conservative and gentle plans have failed. Tesla then said regretfully.
"We tried to use Yan Huaye and Liu Yuewang, their bodies have been modified, and they are theoretically very compatible with you, so that they can carry out a better human reproduction plan, but unfortunately they have repeatedly failed by mistake. You're probably aware of something wrong and shrewdly disappearing...... I just didn't expect you to briefly change your identity and reappear. The gold coin walked over to Tesla and said in the same regretful tone.
I see...... Liu Changan stared at the gold coin and Tesla, he didn't plan to ask for more details, as long as he knew who arranged and troubled many things that felt strange or coincidental back then.
He glanced at Mrs. Karnstein, although he didn't trust the woman who called him "father" at the beginning of the reunion, but the two blood infusions, like a kind of confession ceremony, made Liu Changan feel that she was worthy of being tried and accepted.
Feeling the entrustment in Liu Changan's eyes, Mrs. Karnstein hugged Su Nanxiu beside her without hesitation, and disappeared in place like a cloud of black smoke.
"They ran. Aphrona shook her head presciently and said, "I can't get out, I've run several times." ”
Ignoring Aphrona, he followed Mrs. Karnstein's smoky figure in the distance.
Aphrona stopped in place, thought for a while, and simply sat down, she was just a bear, and she didn't want to move much in the cold season, not to mention that it was surrounded by magnetic field disturbance devices laid by Tesla and gold coins, as long as it was an earth creature, it couldn't tell the direction at all, and even the most basic ability to distinguish between front and back, left and right, up and down would be lost, where could she run?
"They have a lot of faith in you. Tesla lifted the suspender strap from her skirt, "I'll catch you first, and then I'll get them back." ”
Liu Changan hadn't spoken since he saw the helicopter appear, and he didn't plan to talk nonsense at this time, his figure disappeared in place, and he rushed to Tesla's side in an instant, and blew the head of the robot's gold coin with one punch.
"Blood Ancestor, giggle...... Why do you always like to do such meaningless things?" came from the helicopter again.
"The gold coin is actually a consciousness of yours, and it will not really disappear until you are killed. Liu Changan thought of this possibility, otherwise how could such a robot get Tesla's greatest trust, when the gold coin and Tesla appeared together, Liu Changan had this strong intuition, it and she are one.
"That's right. Tesla did not deny that it was pointless to choose to avoid this kind of issue, because Liu Changan could not kill her, no matter how much the primitive life evolved, the power of the natural body was limited, and it was difficult to resist the power of technology.
The coffin behind her had disintegrated, forming pieces of metal the size of fingernails that floated in the air, encircling Tesla.
Liu Changan was familiar when he saw this scene, and the next moment these metal pieces were going to cover her body and become her battle armor? Liu Changan once fought against Su Nanxiu, and Su Nanxiu wore a similar set of battle armor, which was probably a technology product with the same principle, but it was obviously not as powerful as Tesla.
Liu Changan still didn't care, and smashed it in front of Tesla with a punch.
Those pieces of metal instantly formed a floating protective shield in front of her, resisting Liu Changan's fist.
A majestic force rebounded, and his figure was suddenly rebounded by this force and retreated dozens of meters one after another.
"It's kind of interesting. Liu Changan laughed, this kind of rebound power felt so familiar, it was completely the power he sent out, and it all hit him back.
"It would be more interesting. Tesla also laughed, and she walked towards Liu Changan, and the metal pieces no longer floated in front of her, but covered her body, connecting with each other to form a set of battle armor.
Tesla's battle armor was on her body, but her slowly moving posture exuded a majestic momentum, Antarctica had been silent for an unknown number of thousands of years on the hard ice, leaving clear footprints, she suddenly accelerated her pace, like an outbreak of armored war gods, turning into a black streamer carrying a violent force and smashing Liu Changan's chest with a punch.
Liu Changan's body was like snow particles blown up by a helicopter, spinning in the air and being thrown out, smashing heavily on the ice, and the traces of cracks spread around his landing point, his body kept falling backwards and hitting the ice, and the fragmented ice was piled up by his body, and finally dissipated the power of his being knocked away.
"Isn't that interesting?" Giggles...... Tesla let out a laugh similar to a gold coin, "I told you to watch the nuclear explosion to test your physical strength, but unfortunately you didn't dare to enter the center of the nuclear explosion with me...... Now let me put your strength to the test again, try the tiny hydrogen bomb in the Ark of Eternity, don't be afraid, it's a fusion of metallic hydrogen explosions, completely free of radiation contamination...... In fact, after extreme miniaturization, the power is not great, it is only dozens of times the power of ordinary Ottokin HMX explosives. ”
As soon as Liu Changan stood up, he saw Tesla raise his palm, and bullets that seemed to be ordinary 5.8mm in size shot out like rainstorm pear blossoms, and before he could make any blocking movements, one of them had already hit his body.
"Hahaha......" Tesla watched Liu Changan's body be blown up into the sky, while other bullets formed an overwhelming devastating explosion effect around him, and his eyes burned with extreme excitement.
Tesla raised her hands, she was a little surprised that Liu Changan's body did not appear fragmented...... It was also a test of his healing abilities, but when his body flew into the sky, why didn't it fall for a long time?
Well?
Tesla looked up, and the sound waves above the clouds spread beyond the ears of a human ear.
This sound wave was captured by Tesla's armor and cannot be deciphered into a meaning that humans can directly understand, but some frequencies are similar to those emitted by some social animals when they gather their kind.
"Lord Tesla, the animals at the base are rioting, they're rushing over!"
"What's going on? Tesla ordered.
Then she saw some white dots, some black dots appear on the distant horizon.
That's a penguin.
Antarctica is home to the world's largest number of penguins, emperor penguins, Adri penguins, kintu penguins, capband penguins, king penguins, rocky penguins and flashy penguins, with a total of more than 100 million penguins.
Tesla only felt that the penguins that appeared densely on the horizon seemed to be the penguins from all over Antarctica.
These cute and cute little animals, appearing so densely, move their little short legs neatly, but they have a kind of military momentum, which makes people's scalps tingle, as if they want to crush the ice sheet of Antarctica.
"Lord Tesla, there are tens of millions of king crabs coming here!" said the gold coin strangely, these thousands of king crabs are still the huge population that Su Nanxiu discovered when he was still in control of the Tesla Biological Research Institute, they were originally considered a disaster in the Antarctic biosphere, because they have no natural predators here.
"Lord Tesla, there are countless krill in the surrounding seas, and it is conservatively estimated that there are tens of millions of tons!"
When there are enough of these dense small creatures, people can't help but wonder, the sea around Antarctica is rich in krill resources, they are the bottom of the entire Antarctic biosphere, but their number is enough hundreds of millions of tons distributed in the southern part of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and now tens of millions of tons are gathered around?
"And whales, Lord Tesla, it must be the whales of the whole world here!"
"Big octopus, big octopus! How can there be such a big octopus, it feels so big that it can pull an aircraft carrier to the bottom of the sea!"
"Oh my God, Lord Tesla, there's a strange creature, they're tentacle pellets that roll over the ocean floor and crawl out of all sorts of trenches, we've never found this creature before!"
Tesla couldn't care about finding Liu Changan, who was completely gone, ran back to the helicopter and retrieved various surveillance images on the console.
She couldn't help but gasp, because a search of the footage of the surveillance ship at sea showed that a large whirlpool had appeared in the nearby sea, and those creatures with abnormal behavior found by the gold coins were gathering next to the maelstrompool, which was obviously abnormal.
What is this whirlpool?
The gold coin remotely manipulated the drone on the surveillance ship to take a clearer and more detailed image of the maelstrom.
Tesla stared at the surveillance screen, only to see countless large sea creatures looming in the maelstrom of inestimable diameter, many species of which had never been seen before, and some of the physical features were completely prehistoric creatures.
"The whirlpool is about to form a waterspout!"
The whirlpool spun at high speed, the pressure in the center decreased, and the water was drawn around the center of the whirlpool to form a vortex, which stretched all the way to the sky, and soon connected the sea surface with the dark clouds.
"Those sea creatures have ascended to the sky in waterspouts!"
Tesla was annoyed by the sound of the gold coins, these sea creatures no longer follow the survival instincts, they seem to be fearless, just to sacrifice themselves.
They were born in the ocean, and they should have died in the ocean.
They never thought of leaving their homeland.
At this moment, they had forgotten all their instincts and had the will to die on their own.
Tons of krill.
The king crab that covered the bottom of the sea.
Those massive, alien creatures that resemble ancient behemoths.
There are also familiar whales, large octopuses and other common marine creatures.
In this moment they are so united, following the same will.
The waterspout finally broke away from the surface of the sea, reached into the air, and swam into the clouds.
Tesla jumped out of the helicopter and looked up at the clouds overhead.
The clouds spread from the sea, lightning leaped through the clouds, and thunder and riots were like the footsteps of some kind of creature walking through the clouds.
Did this thing absorb those sea creatures just now, or did it strengthen itself by condensing their vitality and blood?
Tesla had no way of knowing, just looked at it in amazement, which ...... Unscientific.
Tesla involuntarily backs away as she sees the clouds above her being swept away by a piece of fingernails.
She couldn't help but feel weak in her legs, which ...... What is this?
The nail belonged to a sharp claw.
"Have you ever seen a dragon?"
A dragon groaned, piercing through the clouds.