The current time was 8: 30 in the morning in the ruined world. Of course, this time was calculated through conversion. The people on this planet weren't used to living on a twenty-four-hour clock. However, my elder sisters and the others all agreed that thirty hours a day was too much of a headache. So, we converted the time here to Earth's standard time.
Under normal circumstances, the day of the ruined world began at 6: 00 in the morning. Every morning, the time center of the "big city" would broadcast the standard time to the entire ruined world. Then, the solar furnace maintenance workers would restart the fusion reactors in the skies above all the planets. The reactors that operated at low power for an entire night would need thirty minutes to fully recover. At 6: 30 in the morning, the bright "sunlight" would illuminate the land, and a new day would begin in the ruined world.
However, this was all under normal circumstances.
Today, the ruined world didn't welcome dawn. That wasn't too accurate. The suns in other places were operating normally, even though they were a few minutes late. Strictly speaking, only the northern hemisphere of the ruined planet we were standing on had yet to welcome dawn. Of course, the northern hemisphere was a concept that was added for convenience. All the celestial bodies in this region didn't have orbits or stable magnetic fields. This made it difficult to determine which direction was north, south, and west. In order to make it easier for the scouts to gather information from these ruined planets, we could only use Shallow shallow's "Simple Positioning Method," which was to throw shoes. After throwing three pairs of shoes, Shallow shallow believed that we were in the northern hemisphere …
Everything was still shrouded in the thick darkness of night. A dim red halo hung in the sky. Just as I mentioned before, it looked like a tungsten lamp that was running out of battery. As far as I could see, the other parts of the sky were the same. All the fusion reactors in the northern hemisphere still hadn't been activated, so everything here was shrouded in darkness and cold.
I looked around and noticed that apart from me, Shallow shallow was still snoring, and the large fox was still in a daze, everyone else had actually woken up. Sandora was standing on a metal pillar that protruded from the ground a few dozen meters away. She was looking into the distance, deep in thought. Big sis was still in a state of low blood pressure after waking up. She squinted her eyes as she searched for a comb.
"There are so many girls sleeping on the same big bed. What a day of debauchery …"
Miss Lin strangled my neck and whispered in my ear. My eyes twitched and I knocked her on the head. "Can you not think the same way as Shallow shallow?"
Miss Lin clicked her tongue and continued to look at the sky.
I didn't know when, but some small bright spots had appeared around the dim red circle of light in the sky. These small bright spots were slowly moving along the edge of the red circle. After looking closely, I realized that there were some thin lines of light connecting them to the circle of light. After looking for a while, I touched Lin Xue's arm. "Girl, what is that?"
Lin Xue didn't even lift her head. She didn't need to look. She didn't need to look like me. She squinted and a white light flashed in her eyes.
"It's the spaceship that's repairing the fusion reactor. They're trying to reactivate the artificial sun. They've tried more than ten times since six o 'clock. They are trying to reactivate the artificial sun. They have tried to do it more than ten times since six o 'clock.
Of course, they haven't succeeded even once. "There was no emotion in Lin Xue's tone. It was as if she was just stating a fact. I had a feeling that something terrible had happened, but I didn't know how serious the situation was. It was easy to find out the current situation of the ruined world through the information link. That was because PL-15 had released countless probes yesterday. These probes were monitoring the three ruined planets and every corner of the Great Ruins Belt. According to the feedback from the probes, all the fusion reactors that acted as the artificial sun had only started operating a few minutes after the 'big city' gave the order to start up. As for Planet Ruin No. 1, which was the planet we were standing on, all the reactors in the northern hemisphere had yet to start up.
"Could it be that they all broke down at the same time?"
"That is one of the reasons." Lin Xue combed her hair that was messed up by the cold wind. "Those fusion reactors have not been maintained for a long time. I can see that they have been rotting for hundreds of thousands of years. They should have been built urgently after the end of the world and used until today … However, there must be another reason why so many fusion reactors failed at the same time. I am not an expert in nuclear engineering … The only thing I can confirm is that this is not a good sign."
"It's not a good sign …" I repeated in a low voice.
I repeated in a low voice, then suddenly remembered something. "I just had a dream."
Lin Xue's eyes lit up when she heard that. "Come, come, let me tell you about your dream. Stretch out your hand first and let me read your face …"
I only reacted after I stretched out my hand. Seriously, this girl was too sudden. I didn't even have a chance to react!
I slapped Lin Xue's hand away and said seriously, "I'm not joking. I think that dream is not normal …"
Immediately, I told her about the messy dream that I had just had, including how I saw all the fusion reactors turn dark at night, the low rumbling sound coming from underground, the planet disintegrating in an instant, and how I fell into the center of the planet. At first, I thought that these strange experiences were just a messy dream, but now, I felt that things might not be as simple as they seemed.
Lin Xue listened to my story, and her eyes opened wider and wider. In the end, she couldn't help but interrupt me. "Wait! Blockhead, you said that at the end of your dream, the planet split open and you fell into the earth's core? "
"I didn't reach the bottom completely," I thought for a while. "I woke up as soon as I fell."
"Don't mind the details." Lin Xue waved her hand and stared at me. It made me feel awkward. "Blockhead, I had the same dream. Even the shape and location of the basin were the same. Look behind you."
Lin Xue pointed in the opposite direction. I followed her finger and turned around. A basin that was exactly the same as in my dream appeared in front of me.
"You have probably never seen this place before. This is the first time we are standing on this platform. This is the only place where you can see the basin," Lin Xue said softly.
"Did we have the same dream?"
"It's not 'the same dream'. It should be that you had the same dream as me. There is a difference between the two. This dream belonged to me, and you were a bystander." Lin Xue squinted her eyes slightly, and a milky white halo began to circulate at the bottom of her eyes. "It wasn't an ordinary illusion. You should have realized that you could clearly recall every detail of what you saw. Even after you woke up, when you recalled what you saw, there was nothing strange about it. A normal dream isn't like this. A normal dream will become incomplete after waking up. Even a trained psychologist would find it difficult to recall the scene in their dream. Moreover, when you recall the scene in your dream while awake, people can easily find the absurdity of the scene. Think about it now. Is there anything absurd about that dream? "
I tried to recall it seriously. After half a minute, I finally realized that it was just like what Lin Xue said. The dream was abnormally clear and logical from start to finish. When I recalled the scene, I felt like I was looking back on my memory and it wasn't an illusion. Yeah, but if I had to say if there was anything absurd, there should be.
"There is something abnormal. It's really unbelievable." I nodded solemnly. Lin Xue was shocked. "Shallow Shallow didn't kick off the blanket in the dream!"
"Oh, that's really unbelievable." Lin Xue nodded in deep surprise. Then, she kicked me. "Can't you be more reliable! What I mean is that the dream was actually my superpower at work. It was a passive prophecy. Then, I don't know how a blockhead like you barged into my spiritual world, you bastard! "
I quickly jumped to the side. "Why didn't you say so earlier? Don't you know that my comprehension is bad?"
Lin Xue was speechless. She was always helpless when faced with my calmness in certain aspects.
"Alright. In other words, this world might really … be finished?"
Seeing that the Miss didn't speak for a long time, I could only take the initiative to change the topic.
"It's one of the possibilities. But I don't know what caused the ruins to suddenly disintegrate." Lin Xue held her forehead in distress. "In other words, if we can't find a way to prevent it, then it will most likely happen. We still don't know what is maintaining this space. We also don't know how its unique structure was formed. But my intuition tells me that if this world were to collapse in the future, there must be a problem with the 'core' that is maintaining its current state. Of course, this shouldn't happen anytime soon. I can confirm this. Now, I'm more curious about one thing. How did you see my dream? "
When Lin Xue said the last sentence, she suddenly lifted her head and stared at me. Under the night sky, her All-Seeing Eyes looked like a searchlight. I instantly thought of a dog and my eyes lit up.
"Turn off your skill first." I quickly waved my hand in front of Lin Xue. "It's dazzling … Cough cough. Maybe our minds are connected? Then, when we sleep, our minds will be connected. "
Lin Xue's face instantly blushed. "Connected? Can we reach such a level? Shallow Shallow slept closer to you. Why didn't you see what she was thinking in her head? "
I thought about it and suddenly felt that it might be because Shallow Shallow didn't have anything in her head when she slept. Or, the things that were stored in her head were too strange. After sharing it with me, all that was left was random code.
"That makes sense …" When Lin Xue heard my explanation, she instantly nodded with a strange expression. "I really can't figure out how her brain works normally. As for Sandora, you probably wouldn't understand if the Shiring Apostles were dreaming. If she happened to be thinking about the origin of the universe, you would definitely think that it was even more confusing than random code. As for Big Sister, maybe it's because she's a little far away from you. Also, there's that big fox sleeping naked. The brainwaves of canines and primates are most likely incompatible … "
With that excluded, it seemed that the only person who could synchronize with me in the previous situation was Lin Xue. However, it seemed meaningless to know that. What we were really curious about now was how did I personally experience Lin Xue's dream?
We discussed this topic for a few minutes. In the end, none of us could come up with an answer. At this moment, Big Sister suddenly called us over from afar. Thus, we temporarily stopped talking about this topic.
"Look over there. It's the direction of the town. It seems to be in a mess."
Big Sister pointed in the direction of the "Condenser" town from afar and said with a frown.
The town about a kilometer away was brightly lit. There were many searchlight-like beams of light sweeping back and forth at the edge of the town. After my strengthened eyes, I could clearly see many people running around under those lights. It was obvious that the "sun" in the sky hadn't been lit yet, and it had already attracted the attention of ordinary people. Now, there was an eighty percent chance that they were panicking.
Lin Xue and Big Sister immediately went to pack up the campsite and prepared to return to town. Shallow Shallow was still in a daze. She had slept on my body like a white crane with its wings spread out. As a result, her pillow was a little stiff. When she looked at others, she looked like a depressed young girl looking at the sky at a forty-five degree angle. Suddenly, Blue's soft shriek came from not far away. It sounded like a canine's tail had been stepped on. It turned out that her tail fur was caught in the zipper of her sleeping bag. When she pulled the zipper, a large piece of fur fell out. This unlucky fox almost cried out in pain. When she slowly put on her clothes and came in front of me, her nine tails were all curled up. One of them was even wrapped in bandages. No matter how I looked at it, it looked so cute. If it wasn't for the fact that I was afraid that Blue would really cry out, I would have taken a picture and sent it to Purple …
It took us a few minutes to tidy up Blue's tail. When we arrived at Condenser Town, the townspeople were already gathered in the square. The white light from the lampposts around the square shone on their faces, giving them a sorrowful look. There were five or six adults gathered at the corner of the street outside the square, discussing something. Last night, Glick had excitedly introduced us to the townspeople. These people had a deep impression of us, the 'guests from the big city'. When they saw us coming from outside the town, they all looked surprised.
I noticed that these people looked worried. Although I knew what was going on, I still asked, "What's going on?"
"You don't know?" A dark-skinned uncle shook his head. "We thought that the people from the big city would more or less know what's going on … The fusion reactor hasn't been activated yet, and the sky is still dark. I heard that if this continues, the cold wind will start blowing. If there's nothing else, it's best to hide in the house. I think it won't be long before the people from the big city come to pick you up. "
We exchanged a few words and walked to the center of the square.
It seemed that the situation was slightly better than expected. Although the residents were at a loss, they didn't fall into chaos. Perhaps in this world, it was common for those huge machines to suddenly break down. Even if the sun in the sky suddenly didn't light up, it could still be dealt with. Of course, this might be a bit of an assumption. No matter what, the fusion reactor wasn't something to be trifled with. Basically, the lifeblood of this world depended on them. If that thing broke down, who knew how long these ordinary people would be able to stay calm?
Old man Bernard was discussing something with a few other elders in the town in a low voice. The residents formed a circle around these respectable elders, keeping a distance of about five meters from them. They tried their best not to make a sound, but the worry and confusion were gradually fermenting in the air.
Just like the adults before us, Old Barnard showed an eager expression when he saw us walk in. He tried to get information about the fusion furnace from the "people from the big city". Of course, apart from the possibility that the reactors might have malfunctioned, we had nothing else to say.
"I've never encountered such a disturbing thing in my life." Old man Bernard kept wiping the cold sweat on his forehead. "I'm not saying that I've never seen a fusion reactor break down. When I was very young, I also encountered a fusion reactor that didn't light up in time. But that time, only one fusion reactor didn't light up, and it only delayed the day by less than an hour … But this time, the situation seems to be much more serious. The sky in the distance is also dark, and there is more than one fusion reactor that broke down. Also, it's almost noon now …"
"Don't worry, it will be fixed. It's just a coincidence that everything broke down together. We have confirmed that the big city has sent spaceships to activate those fusion reactors." His elder sister comforted Old Man Bernard in a steady voice, and her voice was loud enough for the people nearby to hear. Immediately, the surrounding atmosphere eased a lot. It seemed that the words of the "big shots from the big city" were quite credible.
At this moment, there was a small commotion in the crowd. Glick's thin figure crawled around the feet of the adults. As soon as he saw us, he shouted in surprise, "Wow! You guys are still here! I thought you went back. "
"Glick, be quiet." Old man Bernard quickly reprimanded him. Then, his expression softened. "Go home and keep Dewdrop company. The sun will light up later today. There aren't enough lights in the town. It's easy for children to run around."
Glick was very obedient to the old man. When he heard the arrangement, he just made a face at us and turned around to leave. However, at this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the crowd that made him stop.
"Look! The reactor is lit up! "
Someone exclaimed in surprise as he looked at the sky.
I raised my head and saw that the dark red ring hanging at the center of the dark night sky was slowly becoming brighter. The dark red color gradually turned into a bright red, and then into a bright yellow. The small bright spots around the ring were like a school of startled fish as they abruptly scattered in all directions. In the center of the ring, a bright white dot was rapidly expanding, and in an instant, it covered the dim yellow ring around it. The crowd was silent for a while, then there was a cacophony of cheers. However, before the cheers, Lin Xue shouted, "Close your eyes!!"
In just two to three seconds, the white dot in the sky expanded into a white ball of light that was more than three times the size of a normal artificial sun. Then, a blinding white light covered the entire sky.
The fusion reactor had exploded.
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