No wonder Valkyrie feels frightened.
The desktop background of a military laptop is a dynamic image of an "alien planet" from a space perspective. Or called satellite imagery.
The bare planet looked lifeless at first glance, completely devoid of life. As the bird's-eye view zoomed in, it became apparent that there were no traces of alien civilization on the gravel-covered surface, let alone alien civilization.
But. What frightened Valkyrie, who was born in the wasteland and was accustomed to seeing death, was that this lifeless death planet reminded her of her home planet, the Earth, for a moment.
Because the name "Earth Kaleidoscope" marked on this dynamic desktop background image has already given her a psychological hint in advance!
"Found it." In the dynamic background of this space perspective, Wu Chen keenly discovered the so-called "kaleidoscope".
The on-board computer of the "T815 Extreme War Truck", which fully and remotely took over the coalition government's military laptop, immediately freezes a frame and continuously enlarges it.
"My God..." Ferosha was also shocked by the details of the "Earth Kaleidoscope" that was constantly approaching before her eyes.
All I saw was a huge underground cave. Surrounding the deep cave wall, in a spiral pattern that is completely incomprehensible to humans, relics of the old world grow in circles.
It was as if the human city, which was originally flat on the ground in an upright position, was rolled up into a roll like a paper tube and forced into this huge cave. The high-rise buildings, roads and bridges in human cities have all been rolled into "pancake fillings". Or more vividly called the "Kaleidoscope of the Earth" by the coalition governments of the old world.
The location of the "Earth's Kaleidoscope" that involutes the entire human civilization is at the North Pole where Wu Chen is at this time. The center point of the kaleidoscope is exactly the coordinate point of the Kola Deep Hole.
"They dragged the entire 'terrestrial biosphere' into the Cora Deep Hole." Wu Chen had already thought of it.
The biosphere refers to the integrated whole of all ecosystems on the earth. It is an outer circle of the earth, and its scope is approximately 10 kilometers vertically above and below sea level. It includes the air, land, lithosphere and water on Earth where life exists and is changed and transformed by life processes. From a broad geological perspective, the biosphere is a global ecosystem that combines all living things and their relationships, including their interactions with the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and air.
Of course, what Wu Chen is talking about is the "ground biosphere", which refers to the part of the biosphere that goes vertically downward from the ground.
"What exactly happened? Why were all human cities drawn into the Cora Deep Hole?" Ferosha asked everyone's doubts.
As more and more encrypted files in military computers are cracked remotely, Wu Chen is getting closer and closer to the truth of the "catastrophe".
First of all, when the ancient mold that spilled out of the Korra borehole continued to infect all living things on the ground, it also continued to evolve and mutate in the process of parasitic host. Just like the rapid spread of fungi, the terrifying "mycelium" is grown.
Mycelium is a collection of hyphae, criss-crossed, with different shapes and diversity. The division of hyphal cells occurs mostly at the tip of each hyphae, and the front end branches. The hyphae spread and stretch in the matrix or on the culture medium, and branch repeatedly into a network of hyphae, commonly known as mycelium. Its functions include at least four functions: absorption of nutrients, transportation of metabolic substances, storage and reproduction of metabolites.
Mycelium is composed of many branched filamentous hyphae, which are produced by the germination and reproduction of spores. It is a filament composed of tubular cells. It is villi-shaped and has diaphragmatic branches. The wall is thin, transparent, and has a diameter of 2~3 microns. The initial hyphae sprouted from spores have only one nucleus in each cell, so they are called monokaryotic hyphae, also called primary hyphae. Their hyphae are slender, have small branching angles, grow slowly, and have poor vitality. , belongs to single-sex infertility and will not produce fruiting bodies. When the monokaryotic hyphae grow to a certain stage, the two monokaryotic hyphae come into contact with each other, the cells communicate with each other, and the protoplasm fuses together to form a lock-like union to form a dikaryotic mycelium. According to the order of development, mycelium can be divided into primary mycelium, secondary mycelium and tertiary mycelium.
Under suitable conditions, mycelium can reproduce endlessly. The reproduction of mycelium usually starts from one point and spreads radially around. Therefore, the fruiting bodies formed by the new mycelium on the periphery of some mushrooms are often distributed in a circle, which is called "mushroom circle" or "fairy ring".
As more and more advanced species become parasitic, the mycelium mutates again and again. Tertiary mycelium, quaternary mycelium, quintuple mycelium... until "infinite mycelium".
And as the "catastrophe" spreads at a terrifying speed, the parasitic spores that continue to erupt during the "scattering day" continue to produce criss-crossing infinite mycelium of different shapes, and eventually it seems like a big net spread all over the world. After enveloping human cities, villages, forests, lakes, mountains, canyons, and all "terrestrial biospheres" in layers, it eventually became a "bacterial disaster" that ended the earth's ecology.
It has always been said that "the net is cast in order to collect the net".
Centered on the origin point of the outbreak of the "annihilation bacteria disaster", the entire "terrestrial biosphere" was dragged into the Deep Hole of Korra by infinite mycelium. It has turned human civilization into a "Kaleidoscope of the Earth".
So the bare dead planet in front of us is basically the inorganic earth that has been "peeled" as a whole!
That's right. Peel off the entire "organic surface" that was created on the human planet alive. Together with the human creations and natural environment on the surface, they were also stripped away. All that's left is an ugly dead planet.
To be honest, as the only major Zijin VIP player in Sanctuary, Wu Chen has seen many apocalypses. No matter what kind of "cataclysm" it is, it is a process of "point-to-point": it breaks out locally and then continues to expand until it infects the whole world. And even if it has infected the whole world, the remains of human civilization are still there, and most of those remarkable natural landmarks are also intact. Just like the wasteland Wu Chen had just visited, the human relics of the old world were still standing tenaciously in their original places. Moreover, the earth's environment has not changed significantly. Of course, The Matrix's robotic cities are a tolerable exception.
However, "skinning" the entire surface of the earth is an atrocity that Wu Chen, the only purple and gold VIP player in the sanctuary, cannot tolerate (honestly, my lord, you are indeed the pinnacle of imagination).
The on-board computer of the "T815 Extreme War Truck" is still decrypting the data of the old world all the time.
But everyone on the "T815 Extreme War Truck" fell into a deathly silence.
You must know that the "Wasteland Skinner" is an evil person despised by warlords, gangs, refugees, scavengers, everyone. And the level of evil hidden behind the infinite mycelium that peels off the entire earth is not at all on the same scale.
"Dust?" Ferosha's soft voice contained powerful anger.
"I'm here." Wu Chen came back to his senses slightly.
"continue?"
"Well, continue."
