The roar of Exodus's engine gradually stopped.

With the air pressure valve hissing open, a row of people wrapped in protective clothing fished out of the spacecraft, clutching the grab ring on the outer wall of the spacecraft and walking slowly, gradually adapting to this new gravity environment.

The place where the huge circle lies prone is a desolate reddish brown earth. On the curved horizon, it is the deep and absolute black of the universe. On the ground covered with sand and gravel, there are strips of light white sand dunes stretched by the wind, like the splashing marks of a brush. There is no life and luster here, but there is a desolate and silent beauty.

Lin Sanjiu is hard to believe that her feet are the mother king of the original "Shambhala".

According to spaan, the mother king and its nerves are buried in the deep heart of the earth; As the celestial body itself grows day by day, the queen will also develop into a mature body. As a person who has experienced Shambhala with him, Lin Sanjiu can never forget his scenes in the underground cave - in her imagination, countless white nerves are stretching out around the core brain in the depths of the earth, tightly pinching the dust and stones into a celestial body.

The mother king can grow up, and the celestial body is its "flesh and blood". It can actively capture various substances in the universe and add them to its own "flesh and blood", so it doesn't have to spend a long time in the sense of the universe like a real planet to get bigger step by step. By planetary standards, it is still very small; The mass is not big, so the gravity is not big - everyone is not quite adapted to this gravity environment. After eight people left for a while, Ji Shanqing ate a horse.

Lin Sanjiu just blew air from his nose, and was heard by the gift bag from the internal communication of the protective clothing.

"I'm going back!" He threatened.

It's pathetic. It's obviously a data body. As long as he abandons this body, he can shuttle into space at any time... Lin Sanjiu waved to him, and the gift bag suddenly forgot to go back. He clumsily tried to catch up, but he fell again.

Nu Yue, Han Suiping and two other evolutionists all followed Ji Shanqing and walked harder than him; When they finally got there, spaan had been waiting for a long time. With a pile of steel cables beside his feet, he was standing under Exodus' stomach - if he looked far away, Exodus was now like a doughnut, stretching out a circle of small feet on the ground, and the distance between his stomach and the ground was just enough to stand next to him.

"Everyone get the wire rope ready," spaan ordered from the communication system. "Each find a spaceship leg and fix one end of the wire rope on the leg."

The task itself is not worth mentioning, but Lin Sanjiu didn't expect that the gift bag was a data body, wearing a heavy and fat protective suit. When she began to work, it was simply painfully clumsy - she finished her own work, looked at him for a few eyes, and had to do his work again.

Next, spaan took out another long stick. Lin Sanjiu found that after putting on the white protective clothing, even spaan, who had always looked startling, looked a little silly: especially when he used that stick to plunge into the earth, it looked like a white fat mosquito was preparing to eat from a distance.

He didn't know it by himself. After pulling it out, he came over and handed it to Lin Sanjiu, saying, "as I just did, after digging down, it can easily separate a passage from the soil by itself."

"In fact, I still don't quite understand what we are doing." Han Suiping grunted.

Since leaving the modern world, his spirit has gradually recovered; Just different from nvyue, he never mentioned the modern world. Even when people sometimes talk about maruqingge who took the initiative to stay, he usually doesn't speak, as if he intended to completely cut off the world.

"You will soon know." Spaan was very patient, "after everyone separated the tunnel underground, put the steel cable in... Yes, that's it, all the way to the end."

Lin Sanjiu pushed the steel cable into the small round hole in the ground and let it fall down the corridor. Now, one end of the wire rope is fixed on the spacecraft, and the other end falls into the tunnel under the soil.

"I'll inform her now to catch these cables." Spaan said softly, as if the mother was just a little girl.

"Ah?" Confused, someone couldn't help but ask, "who?"

Coming, Lin Sanjiu held one end of the wire rope in one hand and couldn't help taking a breath. Unlike other evolutionists present, she had seen the mother king and guessed what spaan was going to do.

Spaan, who was in his protective suit, turned around and turned his back to the crowd; There was silence in the helmet communication system. But a moment later, Lin Sanjiu felt the earth shaking slightly under his feet - not the shaking feeling when the earthquake occurred, but more like something walking through the depths of the earth.

At the foot of Lin Sanjiu, the wire rope with soft magnetic pieces on the ground was suddenly pulled straight by a force underground, tightly stretched between the spacecraft and the ground, and even pulled Exodus askew, sending out a dull creak. One by one, the steel cables seemed to suddenly have vitality, and jumped up one after another, stretching straight in the air; Just when everyone was in doubt, spaan's voice rang out in the communicator: "the task is completed, and the mother king's underground nervous system has rolled up the wire rope."

With the mother king dragging on the ground, Exodus was firmly fixed on the ground. The gravitation of this celestial body is not large, and Exodus only weighs a few tons here at most, which is not as heavy as a truck on earth; So on the way to sparan and Ji Shanqing, they fixed the spacecraft in this way, and then the mother king completed the next section of the journey.

In the faint confusion, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help feeling a little frightened. Fixing the spacecraft is obviously for fear of being thrown down... But what force can throw the spacecraft down from the celestial body when sailing in a windless and wave free vacuum space?

Besides, the mother king doesn't have a driving engine. How can he move forward?

After everyone returned to exodus, she returned to the control room with the gift bag and spaan. On the walls of half the room, there was still an immediate picture in front: reddish brown earth, sand dunes extending all the way to the horizon, and a few distant stars in the dark space.

"After receiving the signal from my sister that day, I found that it was not far from us," Ji Shanqing curled up in a chair, leaned her head on her shoulder, and whispered, "immediately followed the source of the signal with sparan to its launch site... But at first glance, the universe was empty."

"Wrong place?" Lin Sanjiu thought of this possibility at the first time.

"No mistake. At that time, all analytical means can prove that the signal came from the empty nothingness... However, there was not even a floating meteorite in the range of nearly 10000 kilometers around, except the direction we came from."

When Ji Shanqing said this, he couldn't help shivering a little - just think about it, and you know how terrible that moment was for him.

"Then how did you... Find me?"

"It's a long story. The mother king happened to be nearby at that time."

Spaan, sitting in another chair in front of him, turned to connect with this sentence and replied, "its volume and mass are still relatively small. If it is attracted by the planetary gravity, it may become a satellite, so generally speaking, it will avoid being too close to the planet. When I drive exodus to the ground, it will stay in distant space."

Lin Sanjiu felt as if the picture on the screen in front of her trembled slightly in the afterglow of the corner of her eyes - when she subconsciously glanced at it, she didn't notice any difference from just now.

"We will stop the spacecraft on the surface of the mother king, and then continue to travel to the depths of the universe to find where you may be... When we are discussing what this is about, the 'flood' is coming." When spaan said this, he grabbed a blonde hair with his hand, looked back at the big screen and said, "before we could react, the mother king took us to swim into the flood. When the light of the flood dispersed, we found the modern world in the place where there was nothing just now."

Naturally, it goes without saying.

"Were you transported by the flood?" Lin Sanjiu suddenly understood, "so we also need to rely on the flood to return to the doomsday world... Wait, did the screen image tremble just now?"

"Yes, the mother king can find the great flood..." spaan's voice is low and soft, "or its way of movement is conducive to the occurrence of the great flood. Ji Shanqing explained this more clearly than I did."

"Sister," the gift bag looked indifferent to the trembling screen scene, Just patiently explained: "Generally, spaceships can advance in the universe only by pushing the medium. The medium is thin in the vacuum, so they need to carry a lot of fuel. The mother king essentially belongs to a living planet, and there is no engine or fuel, so its way of advance is very interesting... I think it is through some means to make its whole body become an independent space, compress the front space, and expand the rear space. In this way, it 'falls into' In the space ahead. "

Lin Sanjiu always felt that he didn't have the imagination needed to understand physics, so he had to listen silently. The image tremor on the screen is more and more frequent, but it is very slight: unlike the image jitter when the signal is bad, it seems that the universe in the field of vision is constantly shrinking and enlarging - at the same time, from the coordinate number on one side of the screen, their position in space is moving forward.

"Its way of moving forward, which distorts space, seems to easily lead to floods." Ji Shanqing also looked at the screen and said softly. "I've been thinking, what is the essence of the flood?"

Lin Sanjiu stared at the screen and blinked. It was still dark in front of the planet, but she always vaguely felt that something was brewing in the dark... Maybe brewing was not a correct statement.

"Until we were sent into the flood," Ji Shanqing was still murmuring, "I finally understood the essence of the flood. Sister, do you remember the scene you saw in the meat world? That's the one you saw in the dimension crack..."

Lin San sat up straight and almost let the gift bag slide down. How could she not remember; At that time, air and material were rushing towards the cracks at a high speed, and the strong wind seemed to blow away people's thoughts. She has been doubting that it is her illusion - why is there a small planet deep in the forcibly torn crack?

The mother king seemed to be suddenly thrown up by some force, and the picture on the screen suddenly tilted; When Lin Sanjiu was almost thrown off the chair, she first pressed the gift bag. When she sat down again, she looked up again and found that the whole screen was dark - she couldn't see her fingers in the control room without turning on the light, which could almost make people even have a sense of space disorder.

"What's going on?" She asked in a low voice.

"The nature of the flood and the crack is very similar." The gift bag murmured, "where the floods and cracks appear, it means that the dimensions of space and time have all collapsed and disappeared at that point, and can no longer be observed... In other words, the universe we are in is broken."

Can the universe also be "broken"?

"What about after the hole?" Lin Sanjiu sat in the darkness and asked blankly.

"It's like what happened when I went to you. We fell from the broken hole into another Universe... You see."

Lin Sanjiu raised his head when he heard the speech. At first, she still felt that all she saw was darkness; But she soon found that the big screen did not disappear. In the dark depths it showed, there was a small, shiny dust floating. Half a minute ago, that coordinate was obviously empty, but now there is another planet.

"We just fell from the cosmic hole formed by the flood and into another universe." The gift bag whispered, "there should be another doomsday world ahead."