It was past noon, but without the help of a watch, it was impossible to judge the approximate time from the sky. The sun was isolated from the clouds, and the world that was originally only black and white could now only distinguish between day and night.

Wei Xu threw out a few more oil barrels from the cabin door, and most of the oil barrels in the cabin had been thrown away. He took off his coat and threw it aside, then pulled up his T-shirt to wipe the sweat from his forehead and the tip of his nose:

"It's already winter. It's raining all the time. It's still flying two to three thousand meters in the air. Why is it so hot? It's just like summer!"

Xia Lan also used a folder to fan herself:

"Yes, this temperature is definitely not normal. When we just flew over the river city like Venice, the temperature was a bit high. After a while, I felt that the temperature had increased a lot!"

Zhao Yao's voice came from the radio:

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"The temperature definitely does not come from the cabin or the engine. All the instruments show that it is normal. The air temperature outside the cabin has reached 38 degrees Celsius, and the ground temperature should be higher. I think the ambient temperature is rising. Fortunately, we are very

We are about to reach our destination, Jinling, otherwise neither man nor airplane can withstand such a continuous rise in temperature."

Wei Xu leaned against the cabin door and stretched out his hand:

"The air is really hot, just like in a sauna"

Before he finished speaking, Wei Xu was shocked by the scene on the ground. The Mo River, which was originally looming among the coke-like mountains, is now as wide as a large lake, and its color is dark red. On the hills on both sides of the Yangtze River,

It has been dyed purple-red in large areas by plants or other things in the location.

"These things do start to grow from the river. They are a bit like kelp, but the color is wrong and they are thicker." Xia Lan said, holding up the telescope.

"Come to the front and have a look!" Zhao Yao said excitedly.

Xia Lan and Wei Xu came to the cockpit. The world in front of them was already a vast ocean. The hills were gradually submerged into the water, leaving only countless small hills like isolated islands. But what was even more strange was that they didn't know whether it was the luster reflected by the clouds or the sheen reflected by the clouds.

Due to the water itself, this ocean that stretches to the misty sky turns a dark red color as if it is filled with thick blood.

"Why is the sea water this color? Did they discharge something into the sea water?" Zhao Yao asked.

Xia Lan carefully scanned the sea of ​​​​blood slowly passing in front of her eyes, and after a while she said:

"I think it may not be that the seawater is dyed. The depth of the seawater in this area is actually only a few to ten meters, and the deepest place is only twenty or thirty meters. It looks more like the seawater is colored by underwater things.

"

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"You mean, the unknown plant we saw before has grown all over the seabed in the submerged area?" Zhao Yao asked in shock.

"It seems very likely that this is the case." Before Xia Lan finished speaking, Wei Xu, who was holding a telescope at the side, exclaimed:

"Look, there's something on those hills, and it's white!"

Zhao Yao lowered the flight altitude. After the plane approached, they saw one or several tall white columnar objects growing on the hills that were like an isolated island above the water and dyed dark red by unknown plants.

They are as tall as trees, but they are obviously not trees. Because there are no branch-like branches on the surface of its rounded body, nor does it have the structure of leaves. The smooth surface wet by drizzle does not even have any bark features.

.It looks more like a giant white radish growing in the opposite direction.

Just when everyone was wondering about this strange plant that covered almost all the hills and islands, the "beep" siren sounded behind them, and the co-pilot said excitedly:

"The detector was found! It's not far from us."

The plane circled at low altitude for several times and finally landed on the water near a hill. Four people paddled an inflatable raft and quickly found the underwater windmill detector with the help of signal detectors and metal detectors.

After a brief discussion, the co-pilot put on his diving gear and jumped into the water to explore the situation.

The three people who stayed on the inflatable raft were soon sweating profusely from the hot and humid temperature like a cage. Wei Xu stirred the cold water with his hands and suddenly shouted:

"Sister, Lieutenant Colonel Zhao Yao, look, there are bubbles on the water!"

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The two of them put their faces close to the water, and sure enough they saw, as Wei Xu said, countless tiny bubbles rising sparsely from the water, and then bursting on the surface.

"Isn't this poisonous gas?" Zhao Yao asked.

Wei Xu confirmed the air monitoring equipment he brought:

"No, I confirmed on the plane and when we landed that there are no known toxic gases in the air. And now the detector has not detected any toxic or harmful gases."

Xia Lan took out a flashlight and shined it into the water. Under the light beam, the kelp-like purple-red leaves looked particularly thick. The leaves were covered with small bubbles that were colorful due to the refraction of the flashlight light. Those small bubbles were gradually converging into larger bubbles.

, until the bubbles are large enough to leave the blades and rise to the water surface.

"Wei Xu, take a bag or bottle and collect some gas samples for analysis later. Since the toxic and harmful detector does not alarm, it must be something else."

Wei Xu took out a wide-mouth bottle, put the bottle upside down on the water surface where the bubbles were slightly denser, and began to collect gas. However, he could not hold on in this position for long in the midsummer temperature before his face turned red and his ears were red, and he was sweating like rain. The three of them were sweating like rain.

While alternately collecting gas samples, the co-pilot emerged from the water.

"The good news is that the windmill detector is ten meters below. It hit a rock and did not sink into the mud. The bad news is that it got stuck in the cracks of the rock. And the whole underwater is densely covered with that purple-red color.

Each piece of kelp is as long as the tail, as thick as a waist, and is very tough. We cannot winch the detector up."

Wei Xu capped the bottle in his hand and picked up the toolbox and diving equipment at hand:

"I'll go down with you, and we'll just take down the storage equipment. Let's cool down by the way, it's too hot up here!"

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After Wei Xu and the co-pilot dived into the water, Xia Lan and Zhao Yao both looked at a hilly island not far away and the towering white pillars in the mist and rain on the island.

"This is waiting, why don't we go over and take a look?" Zhao Yao said.

After Xia Lan nodded in agreement, the two of them paddled an inflatable raft and approached the hilly island. When they stepped onto the island, the entire ground was covered with purple kelp stretching out from the water, and the huge intertwined kelp had disappeared.

Over the ankle. Zhao Yao pulled out the dagger and wanted to cut off a part.

As a result, he cut hard several times, but only left a shallow cut in the strong kelp. He panted heavily and wiped away the sweat:

"Why is this thing so hard! This dagger can't cut it!"

Xia Lan took out a dropper bottle and sucked some of the viscous liquid that oozed out from the incision.

"Just take samples this way, the temperature is too high, be careful of heatstroke!"

The two continued to walk forward, and when they approached the huge white pillar that was three or four stories high and could only be surrounded by two or three people, they were surprised to find that the ground about ten meters away from it was covered with yellow-brown soil again.

The dense kelp on the ground seems to be deliberately trying to avoid this giant radish-like pillar-like creature.

"Dr. Xia Lan, it seems that they are not the same group!"

Xia Lan walked onto the naked soil, squatted down and looked carefully at the purple-red kelp:

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"These purple kelps become sparse and shallow when they get close to this pillar. It seems that they are a little afraid of this pillar."

Zhao Yaotong kicked the loose purple kelp at the edge of the soil, bent down and easily cut off a section, and put it into a ziplock bag.

"Judging from the shape alone, I think these purple kelps are closer to species on Earth. This pillar is like an alien creature. What exactly is it, and it can be seen everywhere."

Xia Lan tried to get past Zhao Yao's dagger, walked to the huge white pillar, and easily cut off a piece of the pillar with her dagger:

"I'm not sure, but it's very similar to a fungus I've seen in books called Yuanshan."

Zhao Yao was shocked:

"You mean, this thing that looks as thick as a Roman column is a mushroom?"

Xia Lan sealed the ziplock bag and turned around and walked towards Zhao Yao:

"I'm not sure. I can only draw a conclusion after going back to molecular biologists for analysis. Yuanshan lived 4.5 billion years ago. No one has seen its true appearance. People have only discovered its fossils. But this hot and humid

The environment is indeed very suitable for the growth of fungi.”

Zhao Yao was still confused:

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"A large number of mushrooms can grow in this environment. I don't think it's surprising. But it's incredible to grow such an ancient fungus, which is more than ten meters high and has disappeared for hundreds of millions of years!"

At this moment, the shouts of Wei Xu and the co-pilot came from the distance. In the fog, they saw Wei Xu's raised hand waving a small module with a few wires connected to it.

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