Pollution throughout the territory

The wind howled in my ears, and beneath my feet were the mountains, rivers, and steel jungles passing by quickly.

Xia Ren held Niu Changshou tightly with one hand and took out his black mobile phone with the other hand. He was surprised to find that the red area, which was only two hundred kilometers in diameter, was rapidly expanding.

Fortunately, he had already asked Qin Yun and the others to leave in advance.

"What exactly is the Color of Stars?"

Xia Ren asked loudly, but his voice was covered by the wind, and even he couldn't hear clearly.

"It seems we can only talk about it when we get to the place."

Xia Ren looked down and found nothing strange, nor did he feel any contamination. But the more this happened, the more dangerous he felt. The foundation would not be aimless, but the huge potential crisis had not yet been exposed at this moment.

Niu Changshou is very fast, and it is unknown what kind of fuel his thrusters use. His small size can actually support such a long period of supersonic flight.

Ten minutes later, they came to the place where the meteorite landed.

The traces of black smoke in the sky have not yet dissipated, and there is still a lot of thick smoke coming out of the ground.

The meteorite fell in the center of a small lake. At this time, most of the water in the lake was evaporated by the heat of the meteorite itself and the energy generated by the impact, leaving only some weak water flow.

The area around the lake has been cordoned off by employees from the Logistics Department and the Superman Association, but no one has entered the crater to check the situation.

"This color is indeed the color of stars..."

Niu Changshou landed on the ground, put away the thrusters, and looked at the meteorite a few hundred meters away, feeling a little lost.

Xia Ren also looked over.

After being burned by the Blue Star's atmosphere, the meteorite was still huge after it landed on the surface. It was about twenty meters in diameter, with a black surface and a weird and peculiar shape. It didn't look like a meteorite at all, but rather like some kind of meteorite. It is a huge crystallized ore, but the crystals it produces have no rules at all. Instead, it gives people a distorted and deformed feeling.

Numerous small gaps were cracked on the surface of the meteorite, and black smoke kept pouring out from those gaps. The residual water flow from the original lake continued to gather at the bottom of the crater, but it was evaporated before it could get close to the meteorite.

The steam had a disgusting stench for some reason, causing the area around the lake to become almost a restricted area. Even the logistics team members wearing a full set of security measures could not get close to the stench.

Xia Ren squinted his eyes and gradually discovered that the black mist emitted by the meteorite was not completely black. It also contained some colors that ordinary people could not discern with the naked eye.

This color does not exist in any spectrum known to mankind. It shines brightly, is not dazzling, and is not dim. It looks like a pure color, and it seems to have an elegant and flowing material entity, moving upwards along the black mist. flow.

"Is this the Color of Stars..."

Xia Ren suddenly understood why it was called such a name.

At this moment, a familiar voice came from behind.

"Xia Ren, why are you here?"

He turned around and saw that it was Jiufeng and Yi Zhiyu.

"Why are you here too?"

Xia Ren was also a little surprised. Jiufeng was fine. One of Yi Zhiyu's arms was wrapped in a bandage, and there were other large and small wounds on his body. Some of them were not even scabbed. The bloody wounds were directly exposed to the air, like He had just experienced a fierce battle.

"This is not the place to talk. Let's get out of here first."

Jiufeng said.

Everyone then began to evacuate, and even the employees of the Logistics Department and the Superman Association gradually left, leaving only some bionic robots still at the scene.

They came to a temporary camp set up nearby. Jiufeng said: "The government has issued an announcement that the meteorite is highly radioactive and has begun to ask nearby citizens to evacuate urgently. But everyone knows that it is too late to do anything now."

She took out a map and roughly drew a circle on it, which exactly matched the area the Foundation had sent to the investigators.

"Originally, the spread area of ​​the Color of Stars was planned to be approximately 30,000 square kilometers, which was the area initially designated by the foundation, but..."

Niu Changshou was in a daze and answered: "But there was an accident."

He covered his head with a painful expression: "It happens to be here, it happens to be here..."

Xia Ren wondered: "What is he talking about?"

Jiufeng sighed and said, "Do you know where the foundation's dark water comes from?"

Xia Ren shook his head: "Not sure."

Jiufeng explained: "Normally, humans cannot obtain Styx Water, but in certain areas on Blue Star, there are several strange springs that can connect to the Styx River. They are called Styx Spring. The Styx Spring has been discovered so far. There are three eyes in total, one in Beizhou, one in Nanzhou, and one in Xizhou.”

She tapped her finger on the map near the center of the red circle: "And the Mingquan in Xizhou is less than fifty kilometers away from here."

Xia Ren was puzzled: "Then what does this have to do with the Color of Stars?"

"It's a big deal, little brother Xia."

Yi Zhiyu also looked ugly, not sure if it was because of the injuries on his body or something else: "Star Color is actually a kind of creature in the deep space of the universe, where there are completely different laws from the solar system and even the Milky Way. The Star Color The germs of Cai will wander in the universe, looking for nutritious living planets. Once they begin to fall on the planet, they will begin to absorb the nutrients of the entire planet, and will not leave until they turn the entire planet into a death star with no value. ."

"Originally, it would take several months for the Color of Stars to mature. We still had the opportunity to limit it to a certain area so as not to cause the entire Blue Star to suffer the disaster of annihilation. But unfortunately, they just fell. Near the Nether Spring, the Nether Water contains powerful vitality, which will quickly ripen the color of the stars. We no longer have any way to limit it, and can only watch it spread to all places visible to the naked eye."

After hearing this, Xia Ren was a little stunned.

"Absorb...the nutrients of the entire planet..."

What kind of concept this was, he couldn't imagine it at the moment.

Niu Changshou clenched his fists: "This is already a level five disaster."

Xia Ren's spine felt chilly.

He had heard about the Superman Association's plague classification system, level five, which had reached the point of the end of the world, and there was almost no hope for humanity.

What else could he do in this level of disaster?

Xia Ren tried to think about it, but found that his mind was blank.

"Can't Star Color be killed?"

Jiufeng shook his head and said: "No, although the Star Colors are not invincible, they cannot absorb the vitality of powerful creatures, such as us who have reached S level, and you, but the rest, whether they are ordinary humans or plants on the ground, Even bacteria, all their vitality will be devoured and exhausted by the color of the stars."

"But it's not completely despairing."

Xia Ren raised his head, expecting her to come up with some good ideas.

Jiufeng hesitated for a moment and said: "There are three shelters on the Blue Star, which are specially set up for this situation. We will protect a small part of the human race until we survive the Star Color and leave the planet, but all resources have been exhausted. , is no longer suitable for human habitation..."

So, it's just a difference between dying a little earlier and dying a little later.

Yi Zhiyu looked at the sky in the distance and said: "Humanity only has a month left at most."

As they say, there seems to be no hope.

Neither the Foundation nor the Superman Association intends to do anything to the meteorite, because they know it is useless and nothing will be changed.

The Underworld Spring cannot be sealed. No matter what method is used, Star Color will not let go of such a sufficient source of nutrients. Even before the meteorite has completely landed on the ground, they have already found a route and invaded the Underworld Spring. .

The nearby citizens only evacuated to neighboring cities under the arrangement of the government, and then there were no further arrangements.

It seems that they have all given up.

In the afternoon, Xia Ren stared at the stench and went to the crater again.

After a few hours, the size of the meteorite has become much smaller. The Star Colors built a gorgeous sky bridge in the sky to connect to the distance. They learned from Niu Changshou that the other end of this beautiful sky bridge was connected to the Underworld Spring.

Things took a turn for the worse at night.

The red line drawn by the Foundation came to an abrupt end when it spread to a diameter of 500 kilometers.

Just at the edge of the red line, no one paid attention at first. All the plants began to wither, the groundwater began to drain, the water in the soil evaporated, and became dry and cracked.

When people finally discovered late at night, the soil that had lost its moisture could no longer support its weight. With the rumbling earthquakes, the earth began to collapse, forming a huge ravine nearly five kilometers wide. It circled around and was 500 kilometers in diameter. area separated from the entire continent.

At the same time, a huge hole of unknown origin appeared in the ozone layer in this area. Without the protection of the atmosphere, strong solar wind and high-energy cosmic rays will shine on the surface of the earth without any hindrance, gradually destroying life in this area. At the same time, the magnetic field of the blue star Changes occurred, the direction of the monsoon changed, the climate became abnormal, and the earth's crust also began to undergo strange changes. Under the squeeze of the surrounding plates, the isolated land began to rise vertically. After just a few disappeared, it rose. Hundreds of meters.

From the universe, it looks like a circular platform rising from the Xizhou continent.

Due to changes in the magnetic field, the surrounding monsoons began to change direction and hit the vertical high platform walls, forming ferocious updrafts. These airflows became stronger and stronger, and directly formed a terrifying cyclone, blowing the nearby air along the atmosphere. The hole has been sent into outer space.

In this way, this circular platform with a diameter of 500 kilometers is completely isolated from the entire Blue Star. Even the air is blocked by the cyclone and cannot escape.

For a time, everyone who knew about it was shocked by the changes that had taken place during this period, and they all speculated about who had done all this.

But they all know that there is no human being on the Blue Star who can possess such great power.

This is already the power of gods.

Xia Ren found out about this the next day.

He got up and walked out of the room and found that the world had become strange and beautiful.

He seemed to be on other planets in space. The air, earth, rivers, plants and animals, and even people's skin all exuded a faint luster, and the color was exactly the same as the color of the Star Color he saw yesterday.

After just one night, the surrounding scenery changed significantly.

Flowers that have never been seen before bloom in the grass and between the bricks and stones. They are extremely beautiful, and some novel reptiles and insects appear in people's sight.

Fruit farmers found that the fruits and vegetables they grew had grown a lot overnight, but the fruits they produced were strangely shaped and had a bitter taste that was impossible to eat.

Xia Ren was about to find someone to ask what was going on when he saw Jiufeng walking towards him.

and told him,

The government has abandoned everyone within the circular area.

To be more specific, all 30 million people here will inevitably die within the next three days.

No matter whether they are civilians, wealthy businessmen, high-end talents or government officials, they are not immune.

They have been infected by the Color of Stars. Once they go to the outside world, the Color of Stars will spread around the world.

"how so……"

Although Xia Ren already knew that this was the best solution, he still couldn't accept it.

"The Underworld Spring was cut off last night, but the Star Colors have absorbed enough nutrients and are expected to leave Blue Star tomorrow. When they leave, they will scrape the last trace of nutrients from this land. Even us, stay here There will also be dangers.”

"So, let's go."

Xia Ren nodded silently.

Before leaving through the cyclone, he took one last look back at the isolated continent.

There is light everywhere, as if countless elves are dancing between heaven and earth. It is so beautiful here that it seems that if you take another look, the human soul will easily get lost in it.

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…

Two days later, Xia Ren returned here.

The land has lost its color, the plants and animals have disappeared, and the residents who once lived here have also disappeared. There is only a thick layer of gray-white dust on the ground.

The investigators of the Foundation were holding several buckets of ghost water and a dry tree root, digging the soil aside and planting the tree roots.

A few minutes later, a green shoot broke through the soil, bringing a glimmer of life to this gray-white world.

The buds grew rapidly at a terrifying speed. In just half an hour, it broke through the clouds and grew to tens of thousands of meters.

Its main trunk is rooted in the wasteland. The tree body is thicker than the largest mountain on the Blue Star. Its branches are spread out. Even the thinnest branches are as wide as a skyscraper. The emerald green crown even blocks the atmosphere. the hollow,

The leaves rustled, and Xia Ren looked above his head, as if he had arrived in another fairyland.

The Mother Tree of Mercy stands quietly on the ground, with clusters of pink flowers blooming in the crown of the tree, exuding a refreshing fragrance.

It gently swayed the branches, bringing up the gentle breeze and blowing across the entire continent together with countless scattered petals.

Standing under the tree, Xia Ren felt that his sadness seemed to be drifting into the distance with the breeze...

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In the land of clouds.

"So beautiful~"

Ping Shiqing was playing with her children and saw the scenery in the distance, feeling a little lost in it.

On the lawn in front of the orphanage, Zhou Yuan stretched out his hand to catch a petal from the wind and put it into the box he had prepared.

Wu Merci clasped his hands together, tears streaming from his eyes: "Is it worth the death of hundreds of millions of people in exchange for a seed from the Mother Tree of Mercy?"

Zhou Yuan looked down at the box and gradually tightened his fingers.

In the end, there was no explanation.

This chapter is actually an outline.