The Record of Unusual Creatures

Hao Ren licked his forehead and tried to grasp the feeling of remaining in his heart, but the sound that had been screaming in his mind had faded like a dream. He inquired about the previous mental communication record and found that it was a blank, and the data terminal did not speak at all.

"I just heard someone talking," Hao Ren sighed and turned to look at the display on the carriage. It seemed that the team was crossing the river, and the other side of the river was shining brightly. "It seems to mention The world can't support anything..."

"Your dreams are always special, don't underestimate them." The data terminal is hard to get serious. "You seem to have the ability to communicate with dreams and other consciousness."

"I know, I know, but this time the 'connection' is too short, I can't catch the clues. But I have the feeling that this time the ruins of the Northland are correct, this place must be the key to this planet... The precursor is always in the center of the event."

The three armored vehicles crossed the solidified gray river safely and greeted the mercenaries with a more desolate world of death than the wasteland outside, and everything here is even more strange. The camera came from the front and sides of the armored car. Hao Ren saw the earth glowing with silver and gray, all covered with the same luster, as if the whole world had been transformed into a piece of metal. There are no plants on this silver-grey land, no buildings, or even a stone of normal shape. Only a few shapes of weird ridges and round towers can be seen. They are like melted cheese and melt into the ground. Its smooth surface reflects the light of the armored car, and the ray of light is constantly refracted between a large number of such metal structures, showing a strange appearance.

Hao Ren tried to think about what the scene in front of him looked like. In the end, he finally thought of one thing: the melting city.

Just like casting a world of equal proportions with metal, then letting them melt into half and then suddenly cooling, what should be formed is this kind of thing.

"The Great Plains of Steel..." A young soldier looked at it nervously with a gun. "Is everything transformed into metal?"

"It's not metal. The nano-machines don't have the ability to change the properties of the material. They just make these things look like their own." Ulanov said, hitting the armor plate behind the gun with a gun. “Welcome to the old city of Sin Chew, you are driving on 653 million citizens and the wreckage of 200,000 buildings, including one of my legs, one arm, all the liver and three quarters. The lungs. Now I really can't find them."

The young soldier turned his head in a weird look: "Your jokes are never funny."

Ulanov snorted two voices, apparently he was very satisfied with his "visceral jokes." Hao Ren couldn't help but bring a strange emotion when looking at the scene outside the car: the silver-clad land outside is a product of the horror of the nano-machines. They look strange and beautiful, but they are countless. The human bones and the ruins of the city are piled up. The tall bumps and the round towers like the melting ice cream should be the once large buildings. If they are blown up, can they still find the artificial traces inside and below? If you dig deep into this land, can you still find the city's subway and the remains of the remaining pipes?

Or maybe nothing can be found. The nano-machine group may have penetrated this land long ago, transforming the entire northern ruin group into its own field from the depths of the underground. In short, everything can only be guessed. Everything that happens here is unknown. The silver-gray earth is buried in the depths of human beings. From the beginning of 65 years ago, no one can understand these nano-groups. What to do on this land.

Similar ideas are also permeated among other mercenaries, even those who are fighting for a living, can't help but feel a lot when facing the ruins of the Northland: fear and awe make them sensitive stand up. After Nolan saw the reaction of the people around him, he just yawned boring and seemed to lack interest.

The night is coming. The sky covered by dust and fog has no stars, no moon, no darkness: in fact, the humans of this planet have not seen the stars for decades. But Nolan did not stop the team, but ordered an increase in speed. She said that under the night is the lowest activity of the nano-group, the horrible little devil still needs to rely on solar energy to provide a part of the energy. Although they can be active at night, the response is much slower than during the day.

According to Nolan's calculation, if all the way goes smoothly, everyone should be able to arrive at the North Ring Road before the sun rises, just to stagger the moment when the nano-group recovers.

The armored vehicles are passing between two towering silver-gray "hills", and the glare lights illuminate the metal "hills" on both sides, reflecting a circle of magic. Ulanov looked at the two symmetrical "hills" and his voice was low: "This must be the Locke-Linton Twin Towers, which used to be the tallest building in the world. I have been there several times in this city. Still at the time."

“Yes. The tallest building in the world, when the fleet was out of control, set the world record for the most deaths in the same building, but in the fourth year it was refreshed by the big blast of the Far East Sanctuary,” Nolan said. Press and turn on the communicator next to it, "All vehicles, turn off the lights, use ultrasonic to probe the road, this is a dangerous area in front, strong light may activate some nano-machines that are less dormant."

All three armored vehicles turned off their lights. After losing the only light, this small team is more like a wandering soul in a silent hell. In this cold, dead, desolate world, as if everything is small and fragile, the heavy armor plate can not bring a lot of security, no situation can make people clearly aware of their own world from the living. How far away and the direction of the team is deepening into the depths of death.

On the boring and sleepy journey, Hao Ren was confused many times between half-dream and half-awake, but never heard any strange sounds. In the end, he found a bright light on the outside of the sky, and the armored car was passing a huge silver-white barrier. The material of this barrier is obviously different from the silver-gray material formed by the nano-group, and its regular appearance is also visible from the human hand. It is tens of meters high and looks indestructible, but it breaks a huge hole in the lower part, and the hole looks like it is melted through the heat.

The armored vehicles crossed the hole in the hole below the barrier. Ulanov patted Hao Ren's shoulder: "This is the first hole that was dissolved when the fleet lost control. Initially they were containers from across the barrier. Of course, now that the container has been swallowed up, and there are no nano-mechanisms across the barriers, they are all transferred to the gray river in the outer area for unknown reasons."

After passing through the hole, Hao Ren finally saw the natural rocky soil and the plants that had been severely mutated and twisted between the cracks of the rock. He knew that he had arrived in the central hinterland of the ruins of the North, a final island that had not been eroded by the nano-groups.

Nolan raised his hand and pointed to the center of the monitor's picture: "That is the North Ring Road."

In the hinterland of the northern ruins, the outer walls of the former nanometers formed a separation barrier like a crater, dividing the outer dissolved waste soil into two distinct areas from the normal land surrounding the ring tower. The North Ring Tower is situated on a towering hill. It is more than 400 meters high and consists of three symmetrical spires. The top and half of the three towers are each fitted with a huge ring. Facilities, they are the origin of the name of the "ring tower".

The two huge ring-shaped facilities are antennas. In the era when the computer was not in the doldrums, they released signals to control the surrounding nano-group.

After seeing the ring tower, the mercenaries were obviously relieved. They knew that the most dangerous areas had passed safely. At least before returning, they did not have to worry about being swallowed up by the nano-mechanism. The armored car drove all the way to the halfway of the hill, and the road to the front had completely collapsed, and the vehicle could not pass, but the entrance to the ring tower was already in sight. Nolan ordered everyone to get off and walk to the building.

Ulanov and Hao Ren got off the bus. He looked up at the building that had been away for sixty-five years and took a deep breath.

Then strode forward. (To be continued.)