"How big is 302.8 acres?"
If it was converted to the "square meter" that most people were familiar with, the number would be 1,225,000 square meters.
If Lin Sanjiu were to take the smallest fraction of that number — 388 square meters. In the city that Lin Sanjiu used to live in, that was already the size of a small mansion.
It was precisely because the area of the ring was so large that when Mo mentioned it, Lin Sanjiu didn't feel much about it. She only vaguely knew that the house was not small, but she didn't know how it was "not small".
Until today.
Lin Sanjiu stopped in the middle of a dense forest and looked around. She felt that this should be the area she was looking for. At this moment, as far as her eyes could see, the dense green forest stood in groups between the sky and the grassland, slowly rising and falling according to the slope of the land. Thin strands of clouds hung in the sky, as if they would be blown away by a gust of wind at any time.
Lin Sanjiu took out a key box from a document bag that was the size of a travel bag and placed it on the ground.
The smooth, white box was rectangular, and it glowed smoothly under the sky. Following the instructions, she reached out and pulled out layers after layers from the bottom of the box. She pulled out five layers, making the snow-white box look like a small staircase standing on the grass. There were rows of keys with different functions in each layer of the box. She picked up a golden orange-colored round metal block and turned it around a few times.
The thriving forest, the land of pale white weeds, and the wind that was so quiet that it was almost imperceptible … All of them seemed to be attracted by the surface of the earth in an instant. They suddenly deformed and dimmed, turning into shadows and particles of different colors. One after another, they were sucked back into the earth, revealing the true appearance of the land.
… If it could be called a piece of land.
Even though she was already mentally prepared, Lin Sanjiu was still stunned when she looked into the distance.
She was standing on the edge of a cliff in a grand canyon. Gusts of wind whistled across the yellowish rocky ground. The sand and dust turned into clouds of smoke that rose from the horizon.
The grand canyon was like a scar that cut the planet in half. Even if she looked down from an altitude of nearly a thousand meters, she still couldn't see the end of the canyon. Layers of rocks formed its jagged side walls. Amidst the howling of the wind, the canyon had been attacked by the sandstorms for hundreds of thousands of years or even millions of years. The bottom of the cliff seemed to be as high as the sky. This grand canyon that tore apart the world and smashed open the core of the earth seemed to last forever. Lin Sanjiu couldn't see any insignificant people around her.
Lin Sanjiu's heart started to race when she glanced at the abyss below her.
The moment she opened the map, it was almost blown away by the wind. She quickly pressed it down with a rock and squinted her eyes to search for the location of the house. When she finally found the location of the ring, her face was already red from the slap of her hair.
Perhaps, the reason why the owner agreed to reduce the price by half so easily was because the location of the ring was not suitable for living and working.
Lin Sanjiu walked against the wind for a while until she reached a flat cliff at the end of the grand canyon. The cliff was flat and spacious. Just like the name on the map, it looked like a well-deserved rooftop. The wind had died down, and Lin Sanjiu finally had a chance to have a good look at the grand canyon.
She looked up and saw that the sky was a startling blue. The sand and dust slowly stopped, returning to the vast expanse of silence along with the deep canyon and the endless land.
In the abyss, which was about a few hundred meters down, there was a huge white ring suspended in the middle of the two cliffs, hovering above the bottom of the canyon.
If Lin Sanjiu wasn't standing at the top of the Empire State Building, she wouldn't have been able to see the other side of the ring. Even now, a large half of the ring in the distance was still hidden in the dense smoke.
It was everything that she had imagined it to be.
Like the metallic hull of a battleship, there were many tiny scratches on the outer wall of the white ring. She wondered if it was because it had been standing in the sandstorm for many years. Geometrically shaped metal plates protruded from the ring. The transparent acrylic skylight and the titanium alloy frame intersected each other, giving it a neat yet complicated technological aesthetic. Occasionally, Lin Sanjiu could even see a patch of green under the skylight.
Sunlight shone through the clouds and fell on the white ring, which was as vast as the mountains. Specks of golden light danced.
Even if Lin Sanjiu had anything to complain about just now, she felt nothing but joy. She stared blankly at the snow-white ring under her feet, speechless for a long time. It just stood there quietly in the canyon, like a huge but gentle white beast, waiting for its master to come closer.
"Oh, that's it."
Lin Sanjiu quickly wiped her face and realized that she sounded a little nasal.
"How do I get down …"
She opened the folder again and flipped through it for a while. Suddenly, she smacked her forehead and took out the remote control switch for the Camouflage Barrier.
The Camouflage Barrier didn't just produce a holographic image to fool people. After all, there were many posthumans in this world. If people could tell that it was fake just by touching it, then the barrier wouldn't be able to stop anyone. Lin Sanjiu didn't know who designed this item, but she couldn't help admiring the ingenuity behind this item. She slowly rotated the orange-gold button in the opposite direction. As she carefully controlled the speed, she looked at the trees growing out of the ground. The stone path and grass spread out and covered the ground again.
When she saw the suspension bridge on the river in front of her, Lin Sanjiu became more cautious. She groped her way to the bridge.
The Camouflage Barrier was actually a layer of material that existed in reality on top of the target that needed to be hidden.
There was nothing in the world that could deceive people more than reality.
The forest, the birds, and the breeze were all created by the Camouflage Barrier. However, this was a kind of reality on a molecular level. With just a command from the owner, all the material would be stored in the molecular form and wait for the next "unsheathing".
The only exception was the river under Lin Sanjiu's feet.
The original canyon was now replaced by the river, the land, and the oasis in the water. However, unlike the forest behind her, they were just projections. After all, the material needed to fill up the canyon was an astronomical figure. No Camouflage Barrier could work.
The waves from the river hit Lin Sanjiu's feet, but they didn't feel anything. They receded without leaving a trace.
She walked along the slanted suspension bridge for almost an hour before she finally arrived at the foot of the white ring.
"How tall is it?" Lin Sanjiu couldn't estimate. However, when she looked up, the top of the ring seemed to touch the blue sky. It was like a snowy river under the Arctic sky. It was so white that it was almost blinding.
She stepped on the iron stairs and the Camouflage Barrier disappeared again.
"Welcome to Exodus."
A gentle female mechanical voice buzzed, "I am your voice control system. My name is Silas."
Lin Sanjiu's hand, which had just reached into the air, froze in shock. "Is this … Is it really that advanced?"
"Thank you for your compliment. Please put your name tag into the groove. "
"What groove?"
Before she could finish her thought, a square hole appeared on the white metal wall. There was an empty groove at the bottom that corresponded to one of the keys in her box.
"Thank you for your cooperation. We have detected that you are the new administrator of Exodus. Please set your name and password as proof of your identity. "
"Lin Sanjiu," Silas hesitated for a moment, "The password is … Muscle Peach."
"Setup successful. Activation successful. It is Silas's honor to serve you. "
Just as it finished speaking, the place that Lin Sanjiu thought was the wall suddenly opened up. Following a burst of air pressure, the metal door slid into the wall.
Behind the door, lights lit up one after another in the dark corridor.
"Welcome to Exodus. Next, I will take you on a sightseeing tour." Silas's voice always sounded like it came from somewhere close to Hao Ren. "Are you ready?"
"Wait a minute," Lin Sanjiu raised her head, trying to find the source of the voice from the ceiling, "This is more than 300 acres. Isn't it going to take us a long time just to walk around?"
As soon as she said that, she felt goosebumps all over her back. Twisting her body, Lin Sanjiu's gaze fell on a vehicle that had just stopped behind her without a sound. It looked like a small spaceship that had been hollowed out. It floated silently in the air, and the leather of the seats glistened under the light.
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