Volume 4: Spacetime Singularity Chapter 4: Waterworm
Ai Bishui stared at the sky in the distance without saying a word. She didn't know how long she would have to wait like this.
She made a rough calculation and based on the monster's movement speed during the day, it would take about two to three full days for it to reach the central Pacific Ocean from its current location.
But when she asked the T-800 before, the data it gave was only a few hours. When she asked about the reason for this abnormal speed, the other party's answer was still "no comment".
If there is some method of rapid movement in the universe or in a more "vast" space that seems to exceed the limits of cognition, then humans can still forcibly explain it through scientific concepts with a strong "science fiction flavor" such as wormholes or tachyons.
But this is the surface of the earth, and any operation on space will cause great damage to the surrounding structures and organisms. The scale and intensity of this destruction is simply beyond the imagination of her, an undergraduate student.
Ai Bishui was very grateful for the clouds under her feet, because she really didn't want to see with her own eyes what was happening on the ground. If the structure of space was really changed on a large scale, the scene would be creepy just to imagine.
Now we can only place our hope on this ray of strong light before our eyes.
She stared at the artificial rainbow in front of her and suddenly remembered that the half-life of a neutron was fifteen minutes. Thinking of this, she could not help but quickly estimate the radiation dose she would receive in the next few hours.
If there is no way to protect yourself, you will definitely die in the next few days.
This is not to mention the seawater she inhaled after jumping into the core of the shut down reactor. The radioactive hydrogen atoms accumulated in her body turned into internal radiation, which may cause more damage to the human body structure than the neutron rays that were so close.
Death is a wall, infinitely high upwards, infinitely deep downwards, infinitely far to the left, and infinitely far to the right. She originally thought that the wall was still very far away from her, but now she can clearly see it slowly pressing towards her, but when she really faces it, her heart is very calm.
She originally thought that the scenery she would see before death would be pure darkness, but she did not expect that it would be a magnificent starry sky. She looked at the deep blue sky in front of her, and the stars that filled her entire field of vision were twinkling, all rotating around the polar axis at a tiny speed that human eyes could not perceive. This was the result of the earth's rotation.
When will everything be enough? The sun and the moon rise from the west to the east. In the infinite universe, humans are just a grain of rice in a granary. In fact, the scale of humans to the universe is far smaller than the scale of a grain to a granary. Even if I no longer exist, everything will continue as usual. If I really end my life here, will I immediately become a star in the sky? In this way, death does not seem so scary.
Thinking of this, she stopped thinking about life and death and focused her attention on the starry sky in front of her.
It’s a pity that if we had observed it two days earlier, we should have been able to see the Aquarid meteor shower, which is also a regular feature of the starry sky in May.
Looking along the neutron rays in front of me to the end of my vision, I could vaguely see four neatly arranged small stars, which formed a small quadrilateral with an exquisite structure. It is called Corvus in Western astrology. In ancient Chinese astrology, these four small stars are part of the Zhenshui earthworm, located on the tip of the tail of the southern Vermilion Bird, and are the feathers it uses to control direction.
But that is not the protagonist in the southeast sky tonight, because Jupiter is about to rise.
Three or four hours after nightfall, a point of light that was obviously much brighter than the surrounding stars slowly rose from the end of the ray. After breaking out of the clouds, it slowly rose and moved to the west along the horizon.
This giant gas planet, whose brightness is significantly different from that of its surroundings, has attracted Ai Bishui's attention since it appeared. Although Jupiter can often be seen in the summer, it is rare to have such perfect observation conditions as today.
What's more, today might be the last time she sees Jupiter in her life, and she whispered to herself that it would be nice if she could see it more clearly.
As soon as this thought came to her mind, the scene in front of her eyes suddenly changed. The scenery around her became smaller and flatter, while the starry sky in the distance was rapidly expanding. In the end, Jupiter became a circle with a diameter of about ten centimeters.
Unlike the flattened magnification in a telescope, this zoom feels quite real, as if the real Jupiter has become a model at hand, and it seems that you can touch its clouds by stretching out your fingers.
She looked carefully for a while but couldn't find all four of Jupiter's large satellites. She subconsciously wanted to take out her cell phone to check the star map for tonight, then she realized there was no internet access here.
Today it is possible that the Earth, Jupiter, and their satellites formed a straight line, with Io's moon blocked by Jupiter; or the Sun, Jupiter, and their satellites formed a straight line, with Io's moon entering Jupiter's shadow.
The surface of Jupiter in front of us is covered with blue and yellow patterns, as well as eye spots of varying sizes. As time goes by, it seems that these patterns can be seen constantly moving on the surface of the planet.
This puzzled her, because according to her previous experience in astronomical observations, this slow movement of air currents could . In her opinion, this evolution seemed to be artificially accelerated by some technology. She should have seen changes in Jupiter that took several hours in just a few seconds.
The question is where does this extra time come from?
But she was too lazy to ask, and simply focused her eyes on Jupiter, watching it slowly fall under the clouds in the southwest direction.
She looked at the place where Jupiter set for a while, and then began to look for the next star worth noting in the sky.
Suddenly, a huge halo appeared in the center of the field of vision, and electromagnetic waves of various frequencies shot out in all directions at the fastest speed in the known universe, illuminating the entire sky as bright as day.
It seems that the magnetic field was successfully activated.
The next moment, fierce air currents of varying sizes rushed towards the aircraft. The sudden strong vibration knocked Ai Bishui to one side. When she subconsciously tried to hold on to the ground, she found that the clouds under her feet had been swept away. She could barely see the ground from a distance.
There were lightning and thunder under her feet. Strong winds carried the waves towards the coast. More than a dozen monsters of different sizes scattered along the coast and moved slowly in several different directions.
It’s over. As expected, I didn’t catch up in the end.
