Little Mushroom

"No." Polly said, "We cannot make such unreasonable demands."

"The base has a well-established emergency system. In a short period of time, as long as they are prepared, they can survive." Tang Lan said.

"What if the device is damaged due to distortion during the short period when the artificial magnetic pole is closed? Once the magnetic field protection is lost in the cold winter, the environment is more severe than in summer." Polly said: "I can use independent magnetic poles to simulate a reverse force field , cancel each other out with the artificial magnetic field within the scope of the Simpson cage, creating a magnetic-free space."

"I don't know your professional knowledge." Tang Lan said: "But the artificial magnetic field itself has a very complicated frequency, so it must be difficult."

"Perhaps it is much simpler than the previous work."

Tang Lan said: "But the quickest way is to let the base temporarily shut down the magnetic pole."

"You can't do that."

"I..." Tang Lan looked at Polly: "I know your research is right. You have been wanting to explore this disaster for decades. As long as you can see the fluctuations, you will be able to find a way to deal with it. You always Too merciful."

"Besides, we are just making a request, and they don't necessarily agree. The northern base only believes in the interests of human beings, and we are alien species. Every year, they even send troops to try to wipe us out." He put his hands on the keyboard and said in a low voice : "This is my personal move, all... all consequences have nothing to do with you, sir."

Polly just stared at him like a wayward child.

The slightly pale fingertips rested on the keyboard.

One second, two seconds.

The hovering fingertips silently hover over the keys.

Three seconds, four seconds.

He suddenly let out a trembling breath.

"I'm sorry." The trembling fingers fell down, leaving a string of shapeless garbled characters in the input field. He seemed to be facing something terrible, and took two steps back, his eyes were slightly red: "I can't do it."

As if he had expected such a result, Polly shook his head lightly and said, "Silly boy."

Tang Lan's eyes were bloodshot.

An Zhe leaned on the fireplace and watched all this. The choices faced by human beings are often difficult, and the pain in the heart sometimes exceeds the pain in the body.What Polly said earlier is correct, kindness is the most obvious weakness of human beings.Under the weight of the cruel world, Tang Lan will suffer, but Polly will suffer a lot.So he looked at Polly for a long time, waiting for him to make a choice from the pain in his heart. Fate is so impermanent, and 100 years after he stepped down as a judge, he still has to face such a dilemma.

In this silent stalemate, the aurora outside flickered again.

Rum looked at the big screen reflexively, An Zhe followed, and the ghostly image appeared on the screen again. This time it took longer, and it took a full three seconds to disappear. The weird scatter plot burned on An Zhe's retina superior.

At the same time, Tang Lan reached out and pressed her temple.

"I heard it again," he said.

what does this mean?

Even An Zhe knew that this meant that the unknown fluctuations from the universe had suddenly strengthened.It turns out that it is not gradual as humans predicted-it can climb up by leaps and bounds.

After five seconds of silence, the aurora flashed again suddenly, like the heart of a huge thing contracted suddenly, and the whole world fell into complete darkness.

On the screen of the laboratory, dense dots of light swayed into one piece.

"It's coming." Tang Lan closed her eyes, raised her hand, and buried her face in her palm, her voice hoarse: "It's coming, I heard it. Soon, it will soon exceed the strength of the magnetic field. Don't worry, sir. Already. The distortion is already here, and it cannot be stopped.”

"We...we..." He lowered his head, "What are we... for?

After the words fell, he laughed muffledly, that laughter was like that - that kind of despair, there probably was blood in his throat, An Zhe thought.

Just now they were still being tortured by humanity for asking the base to close the magnetic poles, they were still hating the cruel world and the cruel fate that insisted on opposing them, and they were still sinking in the pain in their hearts—they thought they still had a choice room for.But in the next moment, they knew how ridiculous the struggle and hatred just now were.That is a meaningless struggle at all—of course, all meanings of human beings are also meaningless.

The world doesn't care about anything.It's not cruel or brutal, it just doesn't care, doesn't care about their pleasure, and certainly doesn't care about their pain.

It seems that a natural change is taking place, and it is just moving forward slowly.It is of course not intended to let humans know the real reason, it is not necessary.Only human beings are really obsessed with getting to the bottom of things.

Human beings will be destroyed, all living things will die, and the earth will collapse.

But it doesn't care.

An Zhe looked blankly at the sky outside.

After the intermittent flashes, the aurora began to vibrate crazily above the four fields, and the green light scattered into dazzling meteors at a terrifying speed. A grand meteor shower burned and then disappeared, and the remnants of the light streaked across the entire dark night sky.

"Beep—" In the laboratory, the machine beeped.An Zhe looked up suddenly, and saw snowflakes on the big screen.

Polly's right hand tightly grasped the armrest of the seat, and his hoarse voice showed his age: "Open the independent magnetic pole——"

Simultaneously with his voice, there was a creepy howling in unison. Each sound was difficult to describe with any onomatopoeic words in human language, and they vibrated and pierced the eardrum together.It's outside the window, under the mountain, in the abyss—the monsters uttered screams beyond common sense.

"Pla-la--"

The huge flapping sound resounded from the dense forest, like thousands of birds soaring into the sky.

They have been lurking in the abyss for a long time, testing each other, and stalemate each other.

But when this magnetic field was about to collapse, these terrifying monsters suddenly started to move together.

--why?

do not know.

The first black shadow passed over the Highland Research Institute.

Polly came to the console of the Simpson cage.

"Sir." Tang Lan asked in a low voice, "Is there still time?"

Polly said, "It's too late."

"Then do you want to continue?"

There was a brief silence.

"The vision of human beings is like the moon in the water." He suddenly said in a daze: "It looks like it is within reach, but it will shatter when it touches the surface of the water."

"When we thought that the broken moon was meaningful, we reached out to pick it up, only to find that there was only a handful of water in our hands. What's even more absurd is that within half a minute, even the water flowed from our fingers."

He looked at those numerous light spots, as if looking at a distant dream: "But, if you give me another chance. Let me still stand by the water, would I still be willing to go fishing?"

Polly Jean's eyes were red, her eyes trembled, her voice choked up, and she finally closed her eyes: "I do."

Tang Lan took out a black walkie-talkie from his pocket.

He looked at everything in front of him, lowered his gloomy eyes, and said calmly: "Prepare to defend."