Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 83 Projection
At the beginning, Ke Lan planned to calculate how far he could float in eight hours, but it didn't take long before he realized that this matter was completely meaningless - he didn't float here in a normal way at all. According to the normal calculation, he should not be stuck on this beach, but pressed into a patty several kilometers deep under the sea.

It's not just that there is a problem with the underwater city, but the whole sea area itself is very wrong. Ke Lan even wondered if he entered this area by mistake if he entered a miniature wormhole with a short-distance teleportation function - but this The technology of artificial wormholes, let alone humans, has never appeared in the various relics of the Alpha civilization.

Although during the 900-year voyage of Noah's Ark, human beings were forced to make a space jump, but that jump used a natural wormhole that existed in the universe for hundreds of millions of years, and, after the jump was completed, , less than one tenth of the people survived, and the entire ark was severely damaged, and it took nearly a hundred years to recover.

Theoretically, the stability of artificial wormholes is far less than that of natural wormholes. Ke Lan once read several related papers out of boredom. The author of the paper believes that even if humans have this kind of technology in the future, the wormholes created The hole can only exist for a very short time. In the words of the original author, it is about ten to twenty femtoseconds, and a femtosecond is only one billionth of a billionth of a second.

The reason why it can only exist for such a short period of time is because the energy required to maintain the artificial wormhole is an extremely terrifying figure. Suppose there is an artificial wormhole made by the Alpha civilization in the sea, not to mention how long the Alpha civilization has disappeared. Now, even if it's only for one year, the energy used to maintain this artificial wormhole in this year is enough to drain the entire star system where Alpha star is located...

Maybe not even enough.

"...In addition to the wormhole, there seems to be no other way to make such a big living person like me instantly transfer to another place without realizing it?" Ke Lan thought hard for several minutes, and finally gave up It's... This kind of question, even a professional can't explain it clearly, let alone a layman like him.

If this is the plot of a science fiction novel, maybe he can use the reason of "indecision, quantum mechanics" to get past it, but the problem is that it really happened to him, he can fool others, but You can't lie to yourself, can you?
"At least still alive... It's better than dead." Ke Lan comforted himself.

It took nearly 10 minutes for Ke Lan to take off this armor-like deep diving suit, but as soon as he came into contact with the outside environment, his skin felt bursts of tingling pain.

This is not good news: the radiation concentration in this area is high, which is lethal for Ke Lan, who has no spare protective suit.

"Fortunately, there are anti-radiation pills in the emergency backpack..." Ke Lan found a small bottle marked "Anti-Radiation Ning", poured out two small pills from it, and swallowed it with his head up.

This is the smallest medicine bottle, and there are only 36 medicines in it. If you take two pills every four hours and increase the dosage by two pills every four hours, this amount is not enough for him to take for 24 hours...

"We have to figure out where this is, and we have to find a way to get in touch with the Pioneer." Ke Lan glanced around, and then walked towards the coastal bedrock not far away.

This rock strip is more than ten kilometers away, almost enclosing the entire coast, and the top of the bedrock is almost 100 meters above sea level.

Ke Lan found a gentle slope and climbed up with both hands and feet - there was no soil on it, and no vegetation cover, and the bare stones were all stones.

Although it looks very desolate, there is no sign of any biological activity, but it also means safety - on Alpha, the indigenous creatures themselves are synonymous with danger and threat.

As long as the problem of temperature-saturated radiation can be solved, Ke Lan will not be in danger for the time being.

Standing on the top of the bedrock and looking towards the sea, the mirage in the distance presented a completely different scene from before - I saw towers trembling violently, burning flames everywhere, and a strange black mist shrouded After visiting the whole city, the aircraft in the sky fell like dumplings... After a while, those towers began to sink one by one, the originally prosperous city was fragmented, the transportation network built in mid-air was torn apart, and the range of black fog , it is constantly expanding on the sea...

"This mirage...could it be the ruins of the underwater city?" Ke Lan was very shocked—the ruins of the underwater city he was referring to were not the buildings built on the underwater plateau, but the pioneering land. The original target point of the No. —— "Remains of A-094".

"Is this a reproduction of the video recording of the city sinking to the bottom of the sea..." Ke Lan took out the camera from his backpack, and pressed the power button with the mentality of trying it out. With a burst of pixel snowflakes flashing on the screen, the camera actually started.

"Is it because of leaving that sea area?" Ke Lan glanced at the locator and communication device on his body, but unfortunately, these electronic devices were still in a malfunctioning state, and he did not have the corresponding maintenance tools at hand. .

"Hey, at least take a picture of this mirage first. This video should be able to sell for an astronomical figure." Ke Lan pointed the camera at the sea, but to his astonishment, it did not appear on the screen of the camera. A picture of a mirage.

There is only a calm sea, no black fog, no fire, and no towers sinking into the sea.

"What's going on?!" He glanced through the optical viewfinder - black fog, fire, ruined city... but when he moved his eyes to the screen, there was nothing!

He stood there in a daze for a few seconds, then turned around somewhat dumbly, took out the mirror, and pointed it at the sea behind him.

The sea on the mirror was empty, the same as the camera screen.

In other words... This mirage can only be seen by Ke Lan's eyes.

No, to be precise, it is not only he who can see the mirage, but these scenes were originally recorded in his mind. Only when he turned his eyes to the sea, these pictures would appear in front of his eyes...

This is not a mirage at all. If you have to use one word to describe it, "retina projection" is more appropriate.

"First it was text, audio... Now even images and videos are out..." Ke Lan stretched out his hand and rubbed his temple forcefully, "That damn stone tablet... it's all stuffed into my brain. What is it..."

(End of this chapter)