Chapter 1405 Living to Death

It wasn't just Professor Verner and Schultz who survived the catastrophe.

The large army marching along another spacious passage also encountered the "earthquake" that almost overturned the entire ruins.

Climbing up from the ground with difficulty, Wang Peng gritted his teeth and moved away the stone that was holding down his leg. If it was on the earth, his leg would probably have been cold, but fortunately, the gravity of Mars is only 0.37 times that of the earth, so it didn't affect much except for a little pain.

Pulling out the flashlight hanging under the muzzle of the gun, he threw the broken rifle aside, walked to the side and pulled Fan Tong out from under the pile of rubble.

"I told you... ahem...that thing is useless."

"Whether it's useful or not, it's broken."

After checking the operation of various equipment on the space suit, Fan Tong, who was relieved, leaned against the rock wall next to him.

"What about the rest?"

"have no idea……"

Aubrey and Romanov fell behind when they escaped and were forced to rush into another fork in the road. Now it is unclear whether they are alive or dead, and Wang Peng doesn't bother to worry about it.

What really worried him was that Lu Zhou also got separated!

"...Damn it!"

He punched hard on the nearby rock wall, and the debris shook from the top of his head.

Wang Peng's action startled Fan Tong, who was standing beside him, and quickly reached out to grab him.

"Brother, don't get excited... The situation has become like this, let's think of a way."

After all, the special forces were born.

Taking a deep breath, Wang Peng quickly calmed himself down.

"I'm going to find him."

Fan Tong said dumbfoundedly: "How did you find it? Can you still blow up this rock wall?"

The corner of Wang Peng's mouth twitched, but he didn't speak.

If conditions permit, he will consider doing so, but unfortunately, he doesn't have any explosives in his hands, and a broken gun is useless at all.

Looking at Wang Peng clenched his fist, Fan Tong continued in a low voice.

"As I said before, the tunnel here changes drastically every two hours. However, no matter how it changes, I think its end is the same. If... he is still alive, we can definitely meet up ahead .”

"In any case, we can only move forward!"

...

Meanwhile, the other side.

Lomonov, who survived the catastrophe, put his hands on his knees, leaning against the rock wall and panting.

Not far from him, the right hand buried in the gravel flicked, followed by a weak cry from the communication channel.

"Damn... give me a hand, I seem to be stuck."

Taking a deep breath, Lomonov walked forward patiently, and stretched out his hand to drag the buried American astrophysicist out of the gravel pile.

"I shouldn't care about you!" Looking at Professor Aubrey in a mess, Lomonov complained, "That's it, we are completely behind."

"It's just falling behind, don't be so excited..." After coughing twice, Aubrey took a deep breath and looked around, "Aren't we still alive?"

"Just being alive!"

In the entire team, in terms of underground survival, the two of them are probably the most useless professional skills. Now Lomonov has begun to regret a little. Is it really worth it to get this opportunity with Mosca?

Compared to Lomonov's pessimism, Professor Aubrey's mood is quite stable.

Finally caught his breath, he straightened up and observed the surrounding situation, and after thinking for a moment, he spoke.

"...This doesn't seem like a normal structural movement... No, it shouldn't even be a normal mechanical movement."

Lomonov glanced at him.

Although he didn't think this discovery would help change the status quo, he still asked casually.

"How did you come to this conclusion?"

"Draw a conclusion? Are you kidding?" As if hearing some funny question, Aubrey looked at the Russian aerospace engineering expert, "Millions of tons or even tens of millions of tons of rock mass are in eternal In motion? Massive geological movement every two hours? Well, maybe it's possible, but where does the energy come from?"

Lomonov frowned.

Obviously, he also realized this.

Looking at his teammates who were lost in thought, Aubrey swallowed and continued.

"...Relying on the cooled earth's core? And the closed tunnels, if they really collided because of the movement of the strata, then there is no doubt that this huge inertia alone is enough to shake this mountain range Razed to the ground."

Lomonov frowned and said, "It's not mechanical movement...then what do you think it would be? Magic?"

"Magic is not the case, but this kind of technology is probably no different from magic to us."

Sighing, Professor Aubrey sat down against the rock wall.

Glancing at Lomonov who motioned him to continue, he paused and continued.

"...Of course, this is just a guess."

"Ever heard of standard Euclidean space?"

...

In the empty grotto.

There is nothing around but the diffuse dust and the man standing in it.

Feeling the steady heartbeat, Lu Zhou slowly opened his eyes and lowered his open arms.

After taking a look at the surrounding situation, his eyes finally fell on the giant arch about five people tall in front of him, and a thoughtful expression appeared on his face.

"I see."

"It seems that I really guessed it right."

After hearing Dr. Fan Tong's description before, he had a similar thought, and what he saw now seems to prove this point.

There are no earthquakes here at all.

These tunnels have never changed.

It's just that the order is messed up!

In short, the area where the ruins he is in is not a three-dimensional space in the traditional sense, but an expanded standard Euclidean space.

In this space, fragments of bubble-like four-dimensional space or higher-dimensional space are scattered, hidden in corners invisible to three-dimensional creatures, and have been integrated with the entire ruins.

This explanation may be a bit difficult to understand.

To put it another way is easier to understand, everything in the ruins he is in at the moment - including those intricate tunnels, and themselves walking through the tunnels, are like puzzle pieces.

On the surface, geological movement caused the collapse and formation of old and new tunnels, but in essence, an invisible hand disrupted these puzzles and put them back together.

Nothing here has ever changed.

And it’s the kind that lasts for billions of years.

After realizing all this, Lu Zhou immediately made a decision. When the earthquake happened, he deliberately left other people aside and let the "collapsed" tunnel engulf him.

It now appears that he bet right.

Otherwise, he should have been crushed to a pulp by now, and he wouldn't be standing here anymore.

"Not surprisingly, this should be the place where the holy relic is placed..."

Taking a deep breath, Lu Zhou walked towards the five-person high arch without hesitation.

And almost the moment he stepped into the space behind the arch, the originally empty communication channel instantly lit up with a green light.

Immediately afterwards, a series of hoarse sounds like sweeping currents rang in his ears.

"……You came."

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