As humans dig towards the center of the Antarctic with a drill, the aurora over the Antarctic moves irregularly. Until finally there was a click from the drill bit and the work stopped.

After the staff hurriedly checked, they found a milky white crack stuck in the drill bit. That rift didn't seem to belong to this plane, this planet. Revealing an ancient aura, when it was discovered, it began to climb up wantonly, invading the staff.

But it was clearly not fast enough when it was first born.

The staff hurriedly climbed up, and a strong instinct told him that it was alive.

"General Command, Antarctic Underground East Zone 3 Excavation 1 Branch Found Unidentified Creature, Suspected New Lifeform, Detectable, Current Performance Behavior is Active Exploration of Lifeform and Aggressive, Request for Additional Manpower."

"General Command Receives"

"General Command, excavation of 1 branch of the West 2 Sector of the Antarctic Low found milky white cracks, showing aggressiveness."

"General Command Receives"

……

Wei Jiangchuan received 4 consecutive reports of milky white cracks at the same time, and he felt very strange. Wei Jiangchuan said to his deputy: "Transfer the mining information of these branches to my cloud record. And the entire excavation branch is blocked, and no personnel are allowed to come into contact with the cracks. The time of the crack was too weird, which made Wei Jiangchuan inevitably have some too terrifying conjectures in his heart.

Wei Jiangchuan walked quickly to the core area of the headquarters, that is, the Institute of Materials, where there was his teacher, Academician Tong Heshi, who was engaged in the research of fossil materials. Wei Jiangchuan thought of the old-time canned food excavated in his early years with his teacher Taishan during his archaeological work, and he thought that the canned food unearthed at that time was also beyond his cognition.

When the can was taken out, it was as new as jade, not as if it had been hidden thousands of years ago. Of course, the most closely related thing is that the can is also stained with some milky white substance. The difference is that those substances are not aggressive. But when the can is ready to be stored and comes into contact with the milky white substance, the milky white substance disappears instantly, and the can also decays, revealing a dirty and strange atmosphere.

All that was left was the frantically rotating disk, and it wasn't until it stopped that the north and south poles of the pointer were nearly upside down. They could only barely make some counterintuitive inferences that the white substance had delayed the regional time, and they also sighed and lamented that they had not received the milky white substance.

In retrospect, Wei Jiangchuan saw his teacher and hurriedly said, "Teacher, Antarctica has seen those weird milky white substances again." This time the scope affected the entire Antarctic east, west, north and south four excavation sites, and showed aggressiveness. My staff claimed that this time it was more like a discovery of a living organism. ”

Tong Heshi was shocked that he also thought of the situation at that time in the archaeology of Mount Tai, and had to make the worst conjecture The moment the milky white substance came into contact with it, the entire Antarctic time would be reset, and the Antarctic might collapse at that time.

After Wei Jiangchuan adjusted his breathing, he frowned and continued: "But this time the manifestation is a crack, which may not be the same as the one in Taishan." I've cordoned off the entire area and don't let any touch the cracks. ”

Academician Tong Heshi breathed a sigh of relief: "First inform all the staff to prepare to evacuate Antarctica, and then make a decision after notifying the superiors after evacuation." ”

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In the excavation of each Antarctic branch, the cracks seem to sense the presence of each other, and the area is multiplied geometrically. They do not react with any matter and do not cause any meaningful destruction, but go straight through objects and converge on each other. They reveal an ancient scent, and the milky white substance is gradually shedding. The falling object overlaps with surrounding objects and quickly evaporates, making the crack seem to spread even more excitedly.

At this time, with the sound of footsteps, in the research institute, Wei Jiangchuan's deputy ran panting: "Captain, the information transmission channel is blocked, and there is no way to send the data to the cloud." But everyone in the institute only saw the deputy's mouth open and closed, and no sound could be heard. As they tried to make noises and looked around them, they were horrified to find that they were also in such a strange scene. Suddenly, the institute's computer screen freezes in a frame.

This frame seemed to be eternal, Wei Jiangchuan thought of a certain conjecture, ran to the computer socket, slowly pulled out the plug with one hand, and kept his body firmly on the screen for another time, until the plug completely left the socket. The computer screen is still on that frame.

Cold sweat swept through his body, and his body suddenly trembled and collapsed on the ground, his pupils began to dilate. They are enveloped in milky white matter, or the whole of Antarctica is frozen. It is known that all forms are frozen except for the ability to hear one's own voice and the ability to act.

At the same time, the four cracks were closed, and the spread area covered the entire South Pole, and the South Pole was frozen immediately. They were jumping wildly, like excited hunters. The plane they constructed produced a harsh sizzling sound when it came into contact with the physical object. And the entire Antarctic people only feel that the ground is sinking at the moment!

Desperately trying to communicate, but only their own heart-rending shouts were greeted, and beyond that, there was only boundless snow, and the distance between people became a measurable unit of loneliness and panic at this moment. They want to run to the edge of the South Pole, helplessly dare to crawl all over their bodies. But in the snowy world, they no longer know the east, west, north and south.

At this time, Tong Heshi reacted, and quickly pulled up Wei Jiangchuan, who was sitting on the ground, Wei Jiangchuan looked at Teacher Tong Heshi numbly, looking at the cramped face, he smiled somehow, only to see Tong Heshi's mouth shape: Run

Wei Jiangchuan stood up numbly at first, he didn't know where to run, he knew that the car outside the command room at the door couldn't move at all, and he didn't know that he could run out of the command room in the center of the Antarctic plate just by running. Then he froze in place, at a loss, and seemed to accept his death in the face of calamity.

Tong Heshi turned around and ran away from the moment he finished pulling Wei Jiangchuan, crowding with the crowd at the door of the institute where only one person was allowed to pass. Looking back at Wei Jiangchuan from time to time, somehow, he also understood that he couldn't run out of this South Pole at all, and fortunately he withdrew from the crowd and walked towards his students, and also accepted his death.

They all understood that there was no point in running, and their conjecture was correct: the South Pole would collapse.

At this time, the South Pole was shrouded in a sense of despair, and the rate of ground sinking was still intensifying, and at this time, the insignificance of human beings was revealed, and they could not run on the rapidly sinking glacier, and one by one they fell to the ground. You can feel it getting closer and closer to the distant horizon, overlapping more and more......

It was at this moment that all the sounds were restored, but all of them were played as if they had been pressed 30 speed shifts. People have regained their right to speak. They shouted and communicated, spitting fragrant curses.

Wei Jiangchuan and Tong Heshi exchanged in the research station: "Teacher, I want to know what the milky substance is. Wei Jiangchuan didn't know why he was discussing this kind of issue at the last moment of his life, he was too sensible, maybe too ruthless, and he also fantasized about calling his wife and children or important people in his life, but his thoughts drifted back here.

Tong Heshi was speechless: "What? ”

"I guess it should be a kind of precipitation of time, they will only react with time, but when observed, time will continue" Wei Jiangchuan was relieved and looked at the teacher with a smile.

Tong Heshi also seemed to be infected, and he also pondered seriously, and nodded after reacting. But he couldn't help laughing and scolding: "You kid didn't have a human touch when he was in school, and he still thought about these things before he died." ”

Wei Jiangchuan smiled, didn't take the words, and then said: "Who said that there is no hope in the face of disaster, doesn't this give us the last chance for the master and apprentice to communicate?" Then he continued: "I suddenly remembered that after the Taishan incident, I visited the surrounding ancient villages, and an old man who was over 100 years old told me that there are immortals in the world. At the time, I thought that such a thing as an immortal was too contrary to science, so I didn't think about the authenticity. But today, I realize that there are too many things in the world that go against science. ”

"Immortals? It was the first time I had heard such a word in unwavering materialism. Tong Heshi said.

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In Antarctica, the voices that were frozen thousands of years ago have gradually begun to spread to the people of this world over time. From the roar of the beast to the carving of the stone tools of the ancient ape, these sounds passed quickly in an instant. Until at last the murmuring in an unknown language gradually became louder, and the words that penetrated through the nine heavens reached people's ears.

Wei Jiangchuan and Tong Heshi also naturally heard it, and that kind of sound felt as if it was close at hand as long as they were in any place. The two of them then stopped talking. Wei Jiangchuan heard that bursts of white mist had risen around his body, and sat cross-legged. On the side, Tong Heshi's eyes were about to pop out, and 10,000 alpacas passed by in his heart, and he also learned to sit up, closed his eyes, and began to realize in his heart, but he didn't know what he wanted to write in his heart, and wanted to ask Wei Jiangchuan what he understood, and he didn't know whether to disturb him now, for fear of interrupting the opportunity to become an immortal.

Wei Jiangchuan secretly opened his left eye at this time, looked at the teacher who closed his eyes tightly, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise, and finally laughed. Tong Heshi was furious when he heard the laughter, and slapped Wei Jiangchuan on the skull. Gritted his teeth, he asked, "What's going on?" ”

Wei Jiangchuan covered his head with one hand, and gave the teacher a capsule similar to the shape of a smoke bomb in his arms with the other, and said cheaply: "It's liquid nitrogen, I added liquid nitrogen to it." ”

The corners of Tong Heshi's mouth twitched violently, he really couldn't imagine that before he died, his mind was full of flowers, thinking about the chemistry of the crack, and then making a whole appearance.

Wei Jiangchuan immediately said: "Teacher, you see that I follow the teacher's teachings and be humane." ”。

At this time, the Antarctic ground gradually began to collapse over time. The cracks began to climb upwards and gradually enveloped the entire Antarctic sky. Viewed from a satellite, Antarctica looks like a shattered mirror. As the milky white substance completely dissipated, the fissures began to form to the maximum, completely occupying the South Pole, and they gradually began to converge and converge. Humans who come into contact with the rift seem to be fixed, overlapping the rift like torn paper. The glacier beneath their feet was crumbling all the time, and those people were frozen in time, even if they stepped on the void, they remained motionless at the confluence.

The crack also spread to the research institute, and the crack speed swept through Wei Jiangchuan and Tong Heshi's bodies like thunder at this time. They kept laughing, eternally frozen in that moment.