The abyssal portal is closed, but not completely.
This was the answer given by the scientist responsible for studying the portal, which made Yang Tianyi a little confused.
"I'm not questioning your professionalism, but can someone explain to me in layman's terms what 'closed, but not completely closed' means?"
This difficult, but not entirely difficult question immediately made the scientists in the laboratory look at each other - they are good at doing research, but it is not that easy to condense what they have learned throughout their lives into a few easy-to-understand words.
Finally, the scientific research director in charge of the laboratory stepped forward, handed Yang Tianyi a tablet that could play holographic projections, and invited him to walk outside the laboratory and talk.
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"Boss, what do you think is the difference between the abyss and our world?"
"This..." Yang Tianyi thought for a moment and felt that this question was interesting. To say there is a difference, there is definitely a difference, and it is a big difference.
This can be easily seen from Demon General Bozo who was captured alive. The natural environment of the abyss and the human world are very different - the former is a black world filled with high-temperature seas of fire and sulfurous magma, while the latter is a habitable place with the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers. exist.
"Like you, at first we thought that the environment of the abyss was eternal. Just like us humans were born on the earth, demons also crawled and crawled step by step from the abyss with harsh environment, growing from single cells or something unknown. The existence form of the form has evolved into an intelligent race and advanced life form like human beings.”
"Until we found this."
As the supervisor tapped the tablet in his hand, Yang Tianyi's tablet also projected a spherical existence, but the smooth surface of the ball was covered with small spike-like particles, making the originally round spherical shape extremely ferocious. , like a virus in the human body, full of infinite malice towards life.
"Is this a virus carried by demons?"
Yang Tianyi observed the shape of the ball, and many guesses appeared in his mind.
"No, this is a kind of fine particle in the abyss air, with a diameter of only a few microns or even smaller. It is as ubiquitous as the air pollutants produced by developed industries in our world. But in comparison, this kind of particle is The concentration of pollutants in the abyssal air is much higher than ours."
"The excessive concentration has caused them to become part of the abyss air. If these particles are lost in the air you breathe, the demon's physiological functions will be weakened a lot, just like suffering from some kind of acclimatization symptom."
Yang Tianyi nodded, indicating that the explanation so far was within the scope of his understanding - but the next words of the scientific research director completely scared him.
With just one sentence, Yang Tian, who had never felt real fear since time travel, felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave. A wave of cold air instantly penetrated his spine like an electric current, causing fine cold sweat to break out on his back.
"The composition of this kind of particulate matter shows traces of human modification."
"What!"
Turning the spherical holographic projection on the tablet in disbelief, Yang Tianyi frowned. Before he could ask any questions, the scientific research director patiently explained.
"We didn't believe at the beginning that anyone or civilization could do such a thing."
Recalling the scene of silence in the laboratory at that time, the scientific research director shook his head with lingering fear and said to himself: "It's like carving and operating on these particles. Some beings have installed these originally smooth particles. The spikes are removed, turning them from harmless substances to human bodies into deadly poisonous gases."
"If you want to ask me how I can tell that these particles have been modified, I can only say that the electron microscope does not lie. After comparing thousands of such small particles one by one, it is possible that they are naturally formed. Sex is infinitely close to zero.”
"Let me guess, the devil has also been transformed?"
"Almost." The scientific research director pointed at the ball in front of Yang Tianyi. Apparently, this is the culprit that caused the demon to mutate.
"After dissecting several so-called higher and lower demons, we found such particulate matter residues in all the organs of their bodies."
"It is precisely because of breathing such particulate matter for generations that the bodies of the demon clan have changed. Take the simplest example, their lungs."
The scientific research director tapped the tablet and changed the holographic projection screen, turning the black thorny ball in front of Yang Tianyi into a dark and ugly lung.
Gu "When inhaling or not inhaling determined life or death, I believe that for most demons at that time, they had no other choice but to continue breathing these strange air with pain and disgust."
"Perhaps there will be many demons who cannot bear the heartbreaking pain caused by the particles entering their bodies and choose to kill themselves. But obviously, more demons have survived. After countless years of evolution and mutation, , became the current demon clan."
"At that time, perhaps the humanoid intelligent life evolved into the high-level demons we have today; those beasts and insects with low intelligence turned into huge, obedient low-level demons."
As the scientific research director explained more and more in-depth, the two people walking and chatting came to the gate of the frontline scientific research base.
Through the huge glass windows that occupied the entire first floor, their gazes easily spanned the cleared flat land in front of the base and stared at the abyssal mist that was still surging at the entrance to the canyon.
"As you can see, after the Mgul Empire on the other side of the abyss closed the portal, no more fog poured into this world. Fortunately, the quality of the air in the abyss is heavier than this world, and It is very viscous and does not dilute easily, so there is no need to worry about the mist spreading in the short term.”
"And the funniest thing about it."
The scientific research director seemed to suddenly remember something, turned his head and asked: "Do you remember the lost robots and drones that were sent into the canyon for reconnaissance?"
"Yeah, I remember."
Yang Tianyi nodded, saying that of course he remembered this one of his few mistakes. It was only after confirming that the robot and the drone had completely lost contact that he issued an order to the entire army not to enter the canyon without permission.
"That's not because there are any powerful monsters in the mist, but because of the mist itself!"
The supervisor handed his tablet to Yang Tianyi, which played a video of a team of experimenters sent from the Elysian Space World entering the canyon - these guys who were originally death row prisoners made the researchers feel comfortable using them without feeling guilty at all. No sense at all.
After several wireless signal transmissions failed, the ancient but practical wired connection was used to record the video. Only in this experiment using a wired connection, the experimental subjects successfully transmitted the images.
It can be seen from the somewhat shaky footage that when the five experimenters lined up entered the fog, the light and visibility were visibly reduced, and the images in the video began to seem to be disturbed and became Somewhat blurry.
But compared to the pile of snowflakes transmitted wirelessly, this is enough to satisfy the researchers.
When the experimenters anxiously walked forward for a certain distance, the still bodies and crashed wreckage of robots and drones appeared in the video. Their internal circuits had a large number of short circuits and were burned, and Because small particles adsorbed on circuits are difficult to repair.
And although the independently powered head sensor of the Z-1 robot has not been burned due to good sealing measures, it cannot receive signals from the outside world and can only spin in vain, collecting environmental data over several dozen meters around it over and over again. .
At this time, when observed with the naked eye from the outside, their figures had completely disappeared. Only the still-moving video footage could prove that nothing had happened to the experimenters.
The final result surprised many people.
In the eerie atmosphere, the experimenters successfully reached places that previously failed to reach by robots and drones, proving that there were no terrifying murderous demons in the mist, nor was it as dangerous as the researchers had suspected.
Thanks to the high-concentration abyss air samples extracted by these death row prisoners who risked their lives, the frontline scientific research base has harvested numerous experimental results.
"So, the abyssal air rich in particulate matter is like a signal jammer and graphite fiber clusters that always emit electromagnetic interference, making all wireless devices and wired circuits useless. Even wired devices with heavy protection, It’s also difficult to run perfectly.”
"That's right. Therefore, even if the abyss portal is not closed and can be transmitted in both directions, if the group wants to launch a counterattack, it will still require a long time of material preparation and careful planning."
Yang Tianyi glanced at the paused screen on the tablet and asked the unanswered question in his heart.
"I'm sorry I haven't understood the previous sentence 'The abyss portal is closed, but not completely closed'."
"Haha, boss, don't worry."
The supervisor laughed and then blinked, indicating that what he said next was the highlight of the research that hundreds of researchers in the laboratory had worked hard for a month.
