The third phase of the survey required the deployment of hundreds of personnel, mainly armed personnel and a small number of scientists, to form a mixed investigation team.

Their job is more difficult, they need to search for possible life and civilization in the new world, and find a way to get some information about each other, judging their level of development and racial characteristics.

With such a goal in mind, the heavily armed mixed investigation team set out.

The weather is very cold, and if it weren't for the improved Trailblazer assault vehicle's nuclear power, which can enhance power consumption and maintain the normal operation of the equipment, otherwise it will definitely not start due to low temperatures.

Six heavy armored vehicles drove on the ground covered with cold ice and snow, and according to calculations, they made their way all the way to low latitudes, and along the way, they controlled the hummingbird reconnaissance plane, expanding the observation area.

This place is not the polar region of the planet, but it is covered in ice and snow, and if there are still creatures in this world, it is more likely to be in lower latitudes.

However, based on the researchers' initial observations, the state of the stars here is full of anomalies and the distance is too far away, and they speculate that this factor may be one of the reasons for the snow cover in the New World.

After about five or six hours, the team finally walked out of the original area and came to a completely new area.

It's also icy and snowy, but the facilities in the new area are not completely covered, figuratively speaking, they are more like ice sculptures.

Skyscrapers of all shapes and sizes, rows of steel-made factories, their outer layers wrapped in crystal clear white crystals.

However, what surprised them the most was not the frozen buildings and facilities, but the large number of corpses resembling human beings beneath the ice.

"Are they human?"

"I don't know, although the appearance is similar, but the genes are inaccurate."

"I can't see the cause of death, and the time of death is estimated to have been a long time ago."

"Take some of it back, maybe you'll find out."

Several researchers with burning eyes fell to the ground, looking at the corpses of the creatures inside the ice and snow with emotion and excitement, and made a decision after some discussion.

The team then stayed here for several hours, excavating several humanoids from the ice for research specimens, and then set out on their way again.

The ice here is much thicker than in the previous area, and it seems that the temperature has risen after measurements.

It stands to reason that the mission should be happy about this, but the more they walked, the more solemn their expressions became.

"Something seems to be wrong......

One of the researchers said heavily, looking at the rising temperature.

"Based on the distance between the star and this place, it should not be enough to produce such a significant temperature difference, and there should be other reasons for the temperature increase."

"Indeed, the current region of the world should now be at the aphelion of a sidereal star, and even at a lower latitude, it is unlikely that there will be a drastic temperature change over such a short distance."

Looking at the obvious change in the exponent in the temperature measuring instrument, the other member of the team also began to nervous.

When things go wrong, there must be demons, and there may be dangers that they don't expect.

Exploring a strange planet, in addition to the threat of local life, the fickle planetary environment and the state of the universe are equally serious tests.

Especially the latter two, if one is not careful, the entire investigation team will be wiped out.

"Let everyone be careful, slow down, let's go some distance further, and retreat as soon as there is danger."

Once decided, the team slowed down slightly and continued its march forward in a gradually rising temperature.

After crossing the frozen city, they seemed to have come to a mountainous area. But it didn't take long for everyone to stop their tracks again.

Following the line of sight, in the direction of the horizon, there are countless huge pillars that stand up to the sky, each pillar emits a blue-white strong light like a huge fluorescent tube.

The members of the investigation team raised their heads and looked at the glowing stone pillars in front of them, which seemed to support the heavens and the earth in mythological stories, and felt that they were like ants on the boundless earth at this moment.

But from the regular vibrations of the earth beneath their feet, everyone realized that it was not a stone pillar, but something they did not know about.

"Hurry up and let the hummingbird pull in and zoom in on the image." The researchers were anxious.

As the distance increased, the image of the nearest black stone pillar emitting a blue light appeared in front of the eyes of everyone in the investigation team.

Everyone saw it clearly, and they were silent, and in the deep shock, they were dumbfounded.

"What's that?"

It was not a stone pillar that supported the heavens and the earth, but a device taller than Mount Everest, exuding terrifying fluctuations.

A 10,000-meter-tall black machine like a mountain stood on the earth, and a dazzling blue light rose from the center of the machine, and a huge pillar of blue light tens of thousands of kilometers long ran through the entire world.

When the pillar of light passed through the dark clouds, the blue-white strong light of the pillar of light was scattered in the clouds, turning into a crazy surging halo composed of countless colors, and the whole sky seemed to be covered by white-hot volcanic magma.

The giant pillars of light in the sky were tilted, and the members of the investigation team felt like they were in a palace about to collapse, and there was an awkward sense of the world being dislocated.

But after seeing this huge black machine like a mountain, they finally understood the reason for the temperature change.

Those pillars of light are not simple pillars of light, but plasma that emits ultra-high temperatures all the time.

A world covered in ice and snow, a city completely frozen in ice, a huge machine like a mountain, and a pillar of blue light that shoots out.

Everything makes the world look remarkable and impressive.

"From the information obtained so far, the world once had a highly developed social organization, and from the current buildings and equipment, it is estimated that the civilization has an advanced industrial civilization.

The New World may have suffered a catastrophe for some reason, and the entire social organization was greatly damaged as a result. However, judging from the huge machines that are as large as the mountains, the civilization on this planet may not have been completely destroyed. ”

The head of the team's scientific personnel, having concluded on the basis of the current information, knew that his current mission was almost over.

"Let's retreat, the next time we come back, we might know what those 10,000-meter-tall black machines are......"

Star Empire, Wasteland Meeting Room.

When the heads of each department saw the images transmitted from the portal area, they were all shocked by the various scenes of the new world.

In particular, the black machine, which was as tall as a mountain and emitted a pillar of blue and white light.

What kind of terrible weapon of great power, or some unknown industrial equipment?

After digesting all kinds of information, everyone came back to their senses from the shock just now, and began to think about the current situation of the new world, and its value, whether it was worth investing a lot of resources in its development and utilization.

And Shen Sen, who was sitting in the first place, didn't say a word at the moment, because it took him longer than the others to calmly and carefully scan the information that came up, especially after seeing the towering pillars on the earth, he felt that he already knew the true face of the new world.

A familiar world, the Wandering Earth!

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