Chapter 213 Enlightenment
What's in space?
There are nearly complete mechas - although those mechas have been damaged to varying degrees due to the self-explosion of the spacecraft, it can be seen from the video that the overall skeleton of the mechas has not been destroyed, and the interior should be able to remain largely intact except for those precision instruments.
There was a spaceship that crossed the stars. Although it had exploded, it was impossible for such a large spaceship to turn into ashes. There must be a lot of debris left. It was just that it was sent a long way by the aftermath of the explosion. It was impossible to collect all of it, but as long as one or two important parts could be recovered, their value would be equal to an escape pod. If we could get a black box or other recording equipment that recorded the spaceship's journey and important data, it would be a dream.
There were also those monsters that could come and go freely in a vacuum. Although they had died inexplicably and their bodies could not be found, if we could collect some hair, bones, flesh and blood that carried genes, we might be able to cultivate them in the laboratory. And the reasons for the sudden deaths of those monsters also needed to be investigated, and perhaps there would be other discoveries.
Therefore, all countries are eager to send the spacecraft they have been researching for a long time into space, intending to grab the biggest piece of the pie in the battlefield ruins. However, aerospace technology is not something you can get just by saying you want it. Except for countries like Sugar Country and Nut Country that have been researching and innovating technology for decades, most countries with less advanced technology have to rely on the power of other countries to launch communication satellites. At this time, no matter how jealous they are of space, they can only hope that the big countries will leave some soup for them.
In the following period of time, spacecrafts carrying people or robots were launched one after another. Because they were too hasty, two rockets were not up to standard and exploded shortly after they were launched. This was because the news that Sugar Country discovered the Moon City had spread, which accelerated the space race among countries. Many countries have greatly increased their investment in aviation technology recently, which led to nearly ten spacecraft joining the exploration in just one or two weeks. In the past, even if a space war broke out, countries could only watch helplessly and would not send spacecraft to explore at such a fast speed.
But who is closest to the battlefield?
It wasn't Huang Yanxin and the others. Although the lunar module had the ability to take off, it had limited supplies, power, and space. In addition, the crew was complex, and people all over the world were watching them. Even if they wanted to do something, they could only carry out the boring exploration of the End of the Moon City.
The closest and most capable of cleaning up the battlefield is the spacecraft that carried the joint exploration team to the moon and is now orbiting the moon.
So the Sugar Country took the first bite of the cake without hesitation, and picked up the two most complete mechas and the largest pieces of spacecraft wreckage nearby, and sent them back to Earth. Then came the second spacecraft of the Sugar Country, as well as the space shuttles of four or five countries, including the Nut Country, the Cake Country, and the Wine Country. Because the technology was mature, these countries almost all had successfully developed spacecraft, but most of them were still in the stage of modulation and experimentation. Not to mention whether they could carry people, they couldn't even guarantee whether they could return safely. But at this time, time was urgent and there was no time to worry about many things. The spacecraft arrived almost at the same time, tacitly divided up the remaining mechas, and then searched nearby, trying to find more valuable things.
Various types of space debris were sent to aerospace technology research institutes in various countries on Earth as if they were treasures. Among them, a silvery-white, intact box was inconspicuously mixed in with various parts and fragments.
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The raindrops fell on the sea surface in a continuous stream, and from time to time a small fish would pop out of the sponge and spit out bubbles, then disappear in a flash. Countless small pits were also smashed into the golden beach, and three or five colorful shells could be vaguely seen.
With a "splash", a person emerged from the sea, his short black hair stuck to his face, dripping continuously, his face pale, his eyes cold, and at first it made people feel cold. At this moment, there was a loud "boom" in the sky, and a dazzling arc shuttled freely among the clouds. The dazzling white light illuminated the darkness between the sky and the earth, making the sea water and the clouds that seemed to be pressing down on the sea surface even darker than ink.
The man who emerged from the sea looked up at the crackling thunder and lightning in the sky, curled his lips slightly, as if showing a sneer, and then walked to the shore leisurely. He was naked from the waist up, his left hand was wrapped with rags from fingers to shoulder, and in his right hand was a simple bamboo harpoon with a foot-long fish skewered on it that was still struggling.
This person is Rong Yuan.
He walked barefoot onto the beach, but stopped after just a few steps, squinting at a tall coconut tree in front of him. On the tree hung clusters of oval green coconuts, hidden among the trembling leaves.
Rong Yuan thought about it and decided to have a balanced diet. Eating fish alone might provide enough energy for activities, but coconut is rich in protein, sugar, vitamins, fat, trace elements, etc., and can provide the body with all kinds of nutrients it needs.
So he took a deep breath, turned sideways, raised his leg, and kicked the tree trunk hard!
The trunk snapped in two and fell to the ground with a thud. Rong Yuan walked to the front and saw that there were a dozen coconuts huddled together. It was not easy to pick just one or two. So he stepped on the front of the trunk and broke it. He put the harpoon in his left hand and lifted the top of the tree with his right hand, carrying it back as if it was nothing.
After crossing the beach and passing through a dense forest, there is a huge natural rock. One side of the rock is slightly concave. Rong Yuan built a temporary residence here with bamboo and palm leaves. Although it is simple, it is 34 square meters. He dragged the fish and coconut tree heads in and placed them on a relatively flat and clean stone. There is also a flat bed made of bamboo, a stove made of stones, and some wood chips, dead branches, stone knives and other things in the room.
Outside the house, there were containers of all sizes for collecting rainwater. Although Rongyuan was not short of water at the moment, the more fresh water the better. He went outside to get a few bamboo tubes filled with water, poured the water into a concave stone basin, and placed the bamboo tubes outside to continue collecting water.
Then Rong Yuan took off the strips of cloth wrapped around his left shoulder one by one and threw them into the stone basin. A faint red color immediately spread across the originally clear water.
His left arm had almost changed its appearance. Large patches of black and red blood scabs looked disgusting. Looking closely, these scars extended from the shoulders to the chest like spider legs, and stopped abruptly when they were about to touch the heart.
Looking at his wound, Rong Yuan frowned in disgust, washed the wound with strips of cloth torn from his shirt, then scooped some green medicinal mud from a half-hollowed coconut shell and smeared it evenly on his left arm, then took two dry strips of cloth to wrap his arm again.
This process was naturally painful, but compared to the pain of being struck by lightning, it was nothing. Rong Yuan's face became paler, but there was no other change.
Looking back today, Rong Yuan feels that it is a miracle that he survived.
The rules state that the first thunderbolt is actually the weakest, and the power will double each time. When preparing to break out of the Bhikkhu Star, Rong Yuan had imagined that he might need to kill innocent people, and he also made some preparations for the thunderbolt, but when he really faced it, he didn't use them.
When the countdown ended, Rong Yuan found himself in a pure white space. His ring, mecha, mimicry clothes and wristbands were all gone. The only special items left were the unique ones in the mall - the eye of heaven, the stone and the pea. If Rong Yuan never spent merit on the things he usually wore, he would be running naked now. All the goods he exchanged for to resist the thunder also disappeared. Among the special goods, there were no props that could resist thunder.
All the preparations were in vain. In front of him, Pea raised her little hand, with an ominous blue-white lightning crackling in her palm. Rong Yuan stared at it and saw Pea looking at him expressionlessly. There was no longing, pursuit, or gentle joy on her face. There was no emotion in her dark eyes. She just swung the lightning in her hand without hesitation!
A small ball of lightning suddenly became overwhelming, and that power beyond nature carried the momentum to destroy everything. However, closing one's eyes and waiting for death was not Rong Yuan's style. He subconsciously put his left hand in front of him, hoping that the stone ring on his hand could exert a little of its [legendary] power.
Like a "buzz" sound, the lightning was right in front of my eyes, but time seemed to be infinitely stretched.
He saw the lightning approaching at a snail's pace, millimeter by millimeter, and the surroundings fell into absolute silence. However, when the silence reached its extreme, he seemed to suddenly hear a lot of sounds -
"Buzz... Ding... Dong... Ding... Ah... Wu... Mi... Hiss..."
A tiny, all-pervading sound came to his ears, slow, empty, ethereal, with no trace to be found, yet it was everywhere.
It was the sound that he had vaguely heard from the stone countless times, but this time it was stretched out a lot, clearer, and more chaotic. There was no regularity at all, and no two sounds were even exactly the same.
This time, Rong Yuan no longer tried to capture or understand it deliberately. He just listened quietly, immersed in an unspeakable mystery. He didn't exert any strength in his body, as if he let the sound penetrate into his body through millions of pores, and it seemed that he himself melted into the sound.
He closed his eyes and saw a scene he had never seen before in the darkness - he could not feel the existence of his own body, but saw countless large and small, cotton candy-like things surrounding him, and changing all the time: stretching, compressing, rebounding, deforming, sometimes like a flower, sometimes like a thorn ball, sometimes turning into a shuttle, and sometimes turning into a tangled fishing net.
Those sounds are what are emitted when they change.
It seemed as if a voice was asking him:
——Isn’t it amazing?
--No.
--Why?
—Because I already knew what it was, I just hadn’t thought of it.
It was like removing the last layer of cloth covering his eyes. In an instant, Rong Yuan understood everything he saw and heard.
This is the string.
From the universe of stars to electrons and protons, time and space, creation and extinction, everything in the universe is made up of strings. The different vibrations and movements of strings produce various basic particles, particles form atoms, atoms form molecules, molecules form matter, and matter and energy transform into each other. One-dimensional strings, energy lines of two-dimensional space-time, contain all the mysteries of the world.
"Legend has it that this stone contains all the principles of the universe. Those who possess it can comprehend all the rules of the world, such as the evolution of stars, natural life and death, and the changes of time and space. There is nothing that cannot be known and nothing that cannot be surpassed."
Wandou once introduced the "legendary stone" like this. Rongyuan didn't understand it before, he thought the stone itself contained some mystery. Now he understands that the stone is just a medium, and this medium allows him to hear sounds that no creature can hear... No, that is not sound, it is the law of string vibration.
Rong Yuan opened his eyes, and the wonderful scene disappeared in an instant. The white light of destruction had already engulfed his entire left arm. His expression remained unchanged, and his hand chopped down like a sharp sword -
The thunder and lightning suddenly dissipated!
