Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 1022: Spread of Pollution
"Could it be that the undead crew has a backup plan... or..." Ke Lan suddenly realized that something was wrong and turned to Selene and said, "Is the Crescent Fortress equipped with environmental monitoring equipment?"
"The Crescent Fortress has the Alpha civilization's most advanced environmental monitoring equipment, which can monitor the environment in any corner of Alpha in real time." Selene replied.
"Give me the environmental monitoring report near the Ark right now! I want the most detailed one!"
"Okay." Less than half a second after Selene finished speaking, a large amount of information instantly flooded into Ke Lan's mind -
According to the analysis results of the environmental monitoring equipment, after the World Destruction Tree was destroyed by the Star Destroyer, the decomposed particles were evenly dispersed in the surrounding air and spread everywhere with the flow of air. Although these particles are extremely small, with a diameter of only a few nanometers, which is slightly larger than an atom, each particle is attached with this kind of abnormal energy. When the monitoring equipment of the Crescent Fortress analyzes this energy, the machine will keep reporting errors, and then directly freeze and restart.
These particles with abnormal energy are the culprits of the mutation incident in the military camp... This is not "memetic infection" at all! As for why the mutation symptoms are the same as the first memetic infection incident, this is obviously to mislead everyone to treat this incident as a memetic infection and miss the best time to evacuate!
"Maginot! This is not a memetic infection!" Ke Lan no longer cared about using Yaguna Tor as a signal relay station. He directly used the high-power communication equipment of the Crescent Fortress to cover the entire Alpha Star and shouted in the public communication channel, "The source of infection is a very small particle suspended in the air. If inhaled or touched by humans, it will cause mutations! Let everyone evacuate the camp and stay away from the Ark! If conditions permit, issue non-filtering breathing masks to all personnel to isolate the body from the surrounding environment as much as possible!"
There was no response. After Ke Lan finished speaking, silence returned to the public communication channel. Only a faint white noise of electricity could be heard... After waiting for half a minute, Layton's voice finally rang out: "Ke Lan, I tried to use the internal channel of the alliance, General Maginot's private line, and the secret communication channel of this operation, but there was no response. I'm afraid the ground troops have..."
A thick layer of radiation clouds covered the ground troops' camp, and the situation on the ground could not be seen directly from either the Crescent Fortress or Yaguna Tor... The only information Ke Lan could get was that the concentration of particles with abnormal energy in the area suddenly increased several times in just a few minutes.
"Activate the long-range vital sign detection device, target..." Before Ke Lan could finish, Selene had already given the result - "According to the detection results, a large number of signs of erosion activities were detected in the target area, and no survivors were found."
"They've all been corroded so quickly..." Ke Lan bit her back teeth hard, "What about the core area of the Ark? Are there any corroded bodies there?"
Selene: "No erosion bodies were found in the core area of the Ark... No survivors were found... But strong life reactions were detected. It has not yet been confirmed whether the reactions came from independent biological individuals."
"Could the undead crew still be dead? Or is it something ?" Ke Lan took a deep breath, "Notify the entire survivor alliance army, all fortresses and ground units to prepare for level III pollution protection, open all shelters, and strictly prohibit personnel from going out; Skadi will enter low-Earth orbit and rendezvous with Yaguna Tor, and stay on standby."
The Ark's various fortresses on Alpha are equipped with underground shelters, which are capable of withstanding a round of nuclear weapons attacks - assuming that these particles that can corrode humans can only take effect through direct contact, then the fully enclosed underground nuclear bunkers can at least guarantee the safety of those who remain on Alpha for a long time.
"Hasn't the abnormal energy carried by those particles been analyzed yet?"
"It is impossible to analyze... but it can be confirmed that the abnormal energy carried by these particles is directly related to the life form in the core area of the Ark." Selene said, "Based on the information in the database, it can be basically determined that this energy belongs to a kind of god-level energy. But there are doubts in this logic - the living organisms that come into direct contact with this energy will inevitably be corroded, but the life forms in the core area of the Ark are not only not corroded, but the degree of corrosion is basically zero."
The "god-level energy" that Selene mentioned naturally refers to something at the level of the energy of the alien gods. However, the energy of the alien gods that the Alpha civilization left to Ke Lan has been "purified", and the marks of the owners of the energy, that is, those gods, have been erased, so Ivan and Thirty-Three can directly use this energy to strengthen themselves.
However, unpurified divine energy is a very dangerous thing. Any creature that comes into contact with it will instantly break through the critical point of erosion - even if the amount of energy the creature comes into contact with is so small that it cannot even light a match.
The imprint of gods in the energy is difficult to explain with existing scientific theories. If we have to use a term to describe it, the "power of law" that often appears in fantasy novels is very appropriate.
If you come into contact with these marks, you will be completely eroded. This is the rule of this universe... Human civilization alone cannot break this rule.
Selene did not say that this was alien god energy, and she used the term god-level energy. The meaning could not be clearer - the source of these energies was not those messy alien gods, but the "Him" who "captured" the Alpha civilization and whose name could not even be mentioned.
This kind of god-level energy also exists in the Hive City, but the owner of the Hive City has used the chaotic space to "seal" these things in a relatively safe corner as much as possible... If Ke Lan is a super unlucky person and crashes into the space-time fragments that seal these things as soon as he steps into the top of the cloud, then he is likely to have died...
"You said that the life form in the core area of the Ark has a direct connection with the god-level energy? But this life form has not been eroded... Doesn't this violate the basic laws of the divine imprint?" Ke Lan asked.
"This is indeed the only illogical part of the analysis results. But considering that the database of human civilization is not perfect and our understanding of high-dimensional life forms is almost zero, I will only present the objective results of without making any judgments." Selene replied.
"That's right... AI's job is to analyze and calculate, and making judgments and decisions is a human's job..." Ke Lan nodded, "Then if I go and kill the guys in the core area of the Ark now...will these particles stop spreading?"
"The calculation has no result, please judge for yourself."
