Xia Lan organized the information in front of her and looked at the commander solemnly:

"The situation in Shuchuan is not optimistic now. Resources are already very tight. I think there is no need to mobilize so many troops to find the detector. Just provide us with transportation, and Wei Xu and I will go."

The officers were all sighing, and the staff members kept shaking their heads:

"This won't work. You are all senior experts. We cannot let you take risks! Even if there are no dangerous creatures outside, it is still no man's land. The risk is too great."

Xia Lan had a firm attitude and her big eyes were shining:

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"Wei Xu and I have both participated in the design and manufacture of the windmill detector, and no one knows its structure better than us. If the detector cannot be retrieved as a whole, we can only take out the storage, but others cannot.

Precisely because we are experts in this field, it is most appropriate for us to do it.”

The commander thought for a moment and nodded slowly:

"Okay, now let's discuss how to send you to Jinling safely."

Zhao Yao, who had been sitting paralyzed in the corner with his hat brim hanging down and his head silent, suddenly became energetic:

"If we only consider Xia Lan and Dr. Wei Xu, then things will be much simpler!"

Everyone looked at Zhao Yao, who was holding the armrests with both hands and slowly stood up from his seat and sat upright.

"What can you do?" the commander asked.

"Find a plane, give me a navigator, fly there and that's it." Zhao Yao replied casually.

Everyone was disappointed with Zhao Yao's answer. The commander even sneered:

"Zhao Yao, you yourself have experienced two problems with foreign objects being inhaled into the engine while piloting a fighter jet. How can you ensure that you can safely transport Xia Lan, Dr. Wei Xu, and the necessary equipment to Jinling and bring them back safely?"

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Zhao Yao said confidently:

"Although I am not entirely sure now how the organic organisms that clog the engines are distributed in the air. But I have discovered a pattern. The turbofan engines used by fighter jets have the largest intake volume, and they will soon become clogged after encountering organic microorganisms.

The turboprop engine used by the transport aircraft has a much smaller air intake than the turbofan engine. Moreover, the air inlet is behind the propeller, and the high-speed rotating propeller has a certain filtering effect, so the clogging process is much slower than that of the turbofan engine. Otherwise, as we have done before

It is impossible for the plane flying to the plateau to malfunction and crash after the soldiers parachuted."

"It seems that you have an idea?" the commander asked.

Zhao Yao raised the corners of his mouth slightly and said with a confident smile on his face:

"If we use a traditional piston engine aircraft and add a large air filter to the engine air inlet, I believe we can avoid this situation!"

Zhao Yao's idea attracted everyone's attention, and the staff officer asked:

"But where are we going to find a piston-engine airplane now?"

Zhao Yao stood up, straightened his military cap, and looked at the commander:

"The most proud military enterprise in Chengdu is the 611 Research Institute. When I was a student at the Higher Education Aviation Academy, I visited the 611 Research Institute. In their hangar was an early-developed amphibious twin-engine piston propeller aircraft.

It has a large space and a long range, so this mission is just right.

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You send me a dozen mechanics, and I guarantee that I can get that old guy here early tomorrow morning so he can fly into the sky. Xia Lan and Dr. Wei Xu, just prepare all the necessary equipment and instruments, and just meet at the airport tomorrow.

Already."

After discussing the details, everyone got ready to go.

Early the next morning, the rising sun had just dyed the sea of ​​clouds in the east a touch of red. A bloated twin-engine seaplane drove onto the runway. Amidst the roar of its engines, the plane barely left the ground before it almost overran the runway.

Then, it quickly disappeared into the horizon surrounded by a wall of clouds.

After the plane bumped through the heavy rain area like an old tractor, the weather gradually turned into a steady rain, and the plane flew in the narrow airspace between the dark clouds and the ground. In the cabin, except for those brought by Xia Lan and Wei Xu,

Instruments and equipment were piled high with oil drums.

"We estimate that the flight will take 5-6 hours. The comfort is a bit poor, so we can only ask two experts to overcome it." Zhao Yao's voice came from the earphones.

Wei Xu joked:

"It's okay. When my senior sister and I went to the North Pole, we flew for about twenty hours round trip, and the environment was not much better than this. I am also familiar with the refueling work, so don't worry."

After a burst of relaxed laughter, Zhao Yao said with a bit of sadness:

"Down below is the gateway to the Sichuan Basin, the famous wine city Jiangyang. There are no cities further east."

Xia Lan looked through the porthole and saw that Jiangyang City below, surrounded by lush hills, was still full of high-rise buildings. Except for the Yangtze River passing through the city, which looked like yellow mud churning during summer floods, everything was as usual.

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"Is the mountain city ahead gone?" Xia Lan asked.

"I heard from my comrades who flew to Jiangcheng along the river last time that there are no cities outside Jiangyang." Zhao Yao replied.

Not long after, the plane flew over the mountain city. Sure enough, as Zhao Yao said, the super city that stood on the banks of the two rivers and the four banks no longer had any signs of civilization. The tall buildings that once stood were all dumped to the ground, and the rubble and debris

Bricks bury the urban roads that extend in all directions deep beneath them.

Only the bridges across the river still stand upright above the rushing river. The looming ruins of the city under the rain and fog are like a huge scab on the earth. And those bridges are like sutures of wounds, pulling precariously on the ruins that are about to collapse.

earth.

The plane continued to fly east. The dark cloud cover in the sky and the drizzle of silky rain remained unchanged, but the sky became darker and darker. The Three Gorges Dam blocking the mud-yellow river suddenly appeared under the wing of the plane.

The mountains on both sides of the dam are no longer covered by green plants, and the scene is full of green mountains.

The valleys and mountainside were filled with ashes after the firestorm. The bare mountains were baked like charcoal, and the entire earth was like a piece of wrinkled black kraft paper. The embers washed into the Yangtze River by the rain turned the entire river into water.

It's dyed like ink.

The Yangtze River, which has become a black river, has merged with the charred world in a few reincarnations among the mountains that are like charcoal drawings. It is hard to find a trace. If not for the occasional sight on the top of the mountain,

The dead wood burned like a palm with skin and flesh peeled off, making it difficult for people to believe that the world in front of them is the earth.

Although several people on the plane had already heard that the world in the South had been turned into scorched earth in the firestorm, they saw with their own eyes that the once vibrant and colorful world had become what it is now, with only black and white left.

, in a withered world that is completely silent, it is still difficult to control the sadness and anger in my heart.

No one spoke on the radio for a long time, and the plane rumbled in the gray world between scorched earth and dark clouds. Wei Xu threw a few emptied oil drums out of the cabin door, and was about to close the door when he suddenly realized

, there is a string of strange colors in the valley.

If you look closely, you will see dots of purple-red spots appearing along both sides of the inky black Yangtze River, like strings of festering abscesses.

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"Look! There is something on the riverside!" Wei Xu shouted.

Zhao Yao raised his telescope and looked sideways:

"It looks like plants are growing on the riverside? But it doesn't look like it!"

Xia Lan also used a telescope to carefully observe the mud-like purple-red marks on the river beach.

"It does look like it started growing on the riverside, but it doesn't look like plants on our planet."

Wei Xu looked at Xia Lan:

"Yeah, this color doesn't look right. I still remember what I said in the elective course. Although green light carries higher light energy, the green plants on our earth just reflect green light and do not absorb green light.

, so it looks like the plants are green. This purple-red color, like rotten soup, doesn’t look like something from us.”

Xia Lan put down the telescope:

"Yes, the color of plants on the earth is the result of more than three billion years of evolution. Purple red can theoretically absorb the energy in the sun to the maximum extent, but there must be some incompatibility, and it will be eliminated by evolution.

"

Zhao Yao asked:

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"Dr. Xia Lan, do you mean that these disgusting things on the riverbanks on both sides of the river are plants grown by aliens on the earth?"

Xia Lan shook her head:

"I think so. From the perspective of energy absorption, this color has more advantages in photosynthesis."

The co-pilot asked anxiously:

"They burned down all the plants. Are they going to use these things to completely replace the green plants on the earth?"

Xia Lan frowned slightly:

"It's not clear yet, but it's entirely possible. But I'm thinking that they have been on Titan and Europa for hundreds of years. They want to create plants that are most suitable for the earth's environment. There must be something they haven't considered properly.

details.

Everything on the earth is the result of billions of years of selection by the law of the jungle, and every detail has been carefully crafted by Occam's razor. Even if their civilization level is higher, they will not succeed so easily."

"Then why don't we go down and see what this thing is?" Zhao Yao asked.

Xia Lan shook her head:

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"No need. I believe there will be more of these at our destination, and we will know what they are by then."

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