Beneath Deep Space

The appearance of a city immediately aroused everyone's interest.

But at first glance, the city was so dilapidated and desolate...

It had been submerged by the sea, with only a few taller skyscrapers showing their heads.

The tallest building had a wall that looked like a huge sample of stage tertiary syphilis, covered with red, orange, blue and purple algae...

Compared to the vibrant ocean, this lifeless city gave people an inexplicable sense of heaviness.

The drones flew by with a roar, transmitting back a large number of images. It was difficult for the human eye to get a lot of information from so many cameras, but extremely high-speed computers could!

At this moment, the calculation volume of the supercomputers on Titan Z and Deep Space began to soar. The image recognition function was fully turned on. As long as there was an unusual life being filmed, it would definitely be able to find it!

"How is it? Have you found any traces of intelligent life?" Xu Yunjin asked anxiously.

A staff member operated it for a while and shook his head: "Unfortunately, after calculation and analysis, the drone has not captured any suspicious images for the time being."

"According to our estimation, this area has been abandoned for decades... about twenty years, and it is full of ordinary marine life."

Xu Yunjin frowned, an abandoned city submerged by sea water...

What does it mean?

Many scientists are also analyzing the reasons why this city was abandoned.

Next, the drones naturally divided into several teams, one of which continued to explore inland areas. Another team circled over the city, trying to find some useful clues.

They dropped six-legged robots on skyscrapers, and the robots adhered to the walls and climbed in through the windows.

During this, Yu Yifeng did not issue any orders, but let them go. Overall, he was quite satisfied with the actions of these captains...

"Unexpectedly, although the city was submerged by the ocean, it still looked intact and there were no signs of attack. There was a little nuclear radiation, which should be radioactive dust from other places."

"You see, the rooms are generally clean, and valuable things have been taken away. It doesn't look like a hasty evacuation. So I think these natives should have retreated in an orderly manner... They had expected that the sea level would rise sharply and submerge the city... It doesn't look like an emergency!"

A scientist studied each picture and pondered carefully.

"It's a pity... Over the years, many things have been corroded by seawater. These marine organisms have a high ability to corrode. Only a small number of them were not submerged."

People did not get very effective clues from this city.

In particular, humans did not find any signs of war... This is a bit strange.

Of course, no matter how clean the evacuation site is, people still found a lot of discarded garbage.

Among them are electronic waste, some discarded furniture, books, electrical appliances, etc. The robot habitually collected them.

Especially the things in books are quite useful, and you can find the corresponding text and pictures from them...

"Try the translation robot that has been studied in recent years..."

"Huh... What is this? A reading machine? You can try to repair it. It's a good thing!" Some experts in information science have started to work in advance. Deciphering the text of indigenous civilizations has become the first major event.

Over the years, human technology has made all-round progress, and translation capabilities have certainly improved greatly. If there is enough information, translating a text language should not be a big problem.

Looking at the picture on the screen, Yu Yifeng pondered.

A submerged intact city... Is it because the civilization used fossil fuels on a large scale, which triggered the greenhouse effect and then caused the sea level to rise?

It is very likely that the city is submerged, so of course it cannot be inhabited.

Also, what are the light spots observed in the past few years?

Is it really a nuclear bomb?

"More than ten years have passed since the light spots observed by the astronomical telescope."

A scientist speculated: "It takes 6.8 years for the light here to reach the GB131 metal planet. We mined on the metal planet for two years, and the curvature navigation took three years... a total of more than eleven years."

"So... if there really was a nuclear war, it was more than ten years ago!"

"It has been more than ten years since the end of the war!"

Hearing this inference, Yu Yifeng nodded silently.

He wanted to give some instructions to the front, but forced himself to hold back. Since they were given enough authority, they should not interfere.

He just secretly reminded Xu Yunjin in Titan Z to be more vigilant because this planet was a bit strange.

In fact, the captains of these frigates were more careful than he thought. They did not issue more drones, nor did they let the robots enter the fully automatic working mode. They were still patient and manually controlled.

Well, even if it was a little slower, everyone could wait...

The first batch of vanguard flying troops were very fast. They passed the flooded city and headed inland.

As I took photos from a low altitude, I discovered roads covered by weeds, half-collapsed houses, and a mess of construction waste. There were also various iron towers lying crookedly on the ground, which were probably used to pull electric wires. All of these metals had a lot of rust on them.

It's completely... a wasteland world!

After so many years, the amount of radiation still exceeds normal standards. If you live in this kind of place for a long time, you will not die immediately, but you will probably get some chronic diseases. This made many people curse in a low voice. On such a wasteland planet, it takes a lot of energy just to control radiation pollution.

After half an hour, the drone finally found traces of the war.

A huge nuclear crater!

A large number of surrounding houses have collapsed, but the various plants in the crater are growing lushly.

Life is always tenacious. Even if there is radiation, there is still life that can survive here tenaciously.

They stick here generation after generation. Although their life span may be shortened, they are still alive and well...

"Judging from the yield and nuclear radiation, it should be a hydrogen bomb or a neutron bomb...the radiation amount is not large!"

"It's a pity...still no intelligent life has been discovered!"

Until now, the drone exploration has been more than three hours. There are indeed many traces of intelligent civilization, but no living intelligent creatures have been found.

This is a bit incredible...

Yu Yifeng thought about it in his mind. If New York or JD.com were razed to the ground, it would look like this...

In more than ten years, intelligent civilization has disappeared inexplicably. The entire planet has returned to the wilderness, animals have returned to wildness, and plants have grown wantonly. Everything seems to have been abandoned for a long time.

What about intelligent life? Gone. Not only the human eye, but even the computer didn't notice it at all!

Are they extinct?

Facing this scene, Yu Yifeng suddenly felt a sharp pain in his temple, and his heart beat rapidly. An inexplicable discomfort occurred at this moment!

His sixth sense showed that there was no huge crisis on the planet beyond human capabilities, but he always had a strange sense of uneasiness.

And as time went by, this feeling of uneasiness began to amplify.

There are many ordinary creatures, running happily on the ground, enjoying the return to wild nature. But according to the picture analysis, the probability that they possess real intelligence is extremely low... and they are certainly not the real owners of the planet.

Everyone feels a little baffled, yes, baffled. People searched carefully for a long time, but found no intelligent life. It was as if these creatures suddenly evaporated collectively from the planet.

Was it taken away by aliens?

Or... is the war all dead?

"It's not necessarily a nuclear war, there might be a biological and chemical war, such as zombie viruses, T-viruses..." A scientist whispered...