Chapter 37: Harbinger of Disaster

After hearing that it was time to eat, Scott completed the cleaning work on the workbench at lightning speed, but it was of no use because I definitely had to wait for everyone to leave together. Scott, who had finished cleaning up first, had no choice but to follow me and ask about what to eat for dinner.

After dinner, everyone came back to continue studying, and I also started brainwave control training. During the peaceful training process in the base, huge changes are taking place in the game.

At the bottom of the canyon inside the Gourd of Heaven and Earth, a huge fountain is still erupting. The water column was constantly cutting the surrounding cave walls during the spraying process. From the time we left, the water column has been expanding its channel all the time. The water column continued to expand throughout the night. At ten o'clock in the morning when I asked Scott and the others to have breakfast, the water column had turned into a super fountain with a diameter of more than three kilometers, and the bottom of the canyon was completely submerged in water at this time. The average water depth It's almost 7 meters.

After breakfast, we were still training. Rose said she had to go back to school for some matters. Originally, I wanted to go with her, but Rose said she had too many things to do and needed to run back and forth between various office buildings in the school, so I didn't have to follow her. . I was in a rush to train, so I didn't stick to it.

The project Weina and the others are going to learn this morning is the use of two-wheeled vehicles. The main task is to learn to ride a bicycle. This thing is one of the characteristics of our country. Because of safety concerns, their cycling training is guided by me.

Everyone knows that the power of a bicycle is the people on it, which means the stronger you are, the faster it is. Most people ride bicycles very slowly, but Wei Na and the others are so powerful that the bicycles in their hands can reach even faster speeds than motorcycles. For this reason, I must personally be responsible for the guidance. If an average person is hit by a bicycle traveling at 300 kilometers per hour, it is no joke.

After breakfast, I took them to the mountain airport behind the base. The venue here is large and it is not easy for anything to happen. The training started relatively smoothly. Weina and the others were strengthened fighting humans, and their coordination and balance abilities of all parts of the body were quite outstanding. It was easy for them to learn things like bicycles.

When we were happily practicing our driving skills at the airport, the big fountain in the game was still spraying. In one morning it more than doubled in diameter, and the water flow was getting faster and faster. It was lunchtime when we stopped training. The entire canyon no longer exists, and the water level has reached the level of the canyon. Contrary to what we were worried about at the beginning, the monsters who were forced to the surface to breathe by the flood were not attacked by the experience barrier. The flood did not know what destroyed the integrity of the barrier, and the entire barrier actually no longer existed. , but we don’t know about it yet.

After lunch, Vina and the others began to learn how to drive a four-wheel motor vehicle, while I checked the situation online and made sure that the water had not burst the gourd before I got off. There is no use soaking in water anyway. As for the spout, I can't get close to it at all now. The water spurts out from it and pushes everything around. Even if A Di Na is there, I probably won't be able to get close. Besides, she's not here yet!

After I got offline, I continued my brainwave training, and Vina and the others' vehicle driving training also went quite smoothly. After all, a car is an easy-to-operate device for our neural reaction speed. Training continues after dinner. But the project changed to fixed-wing aircraft piloting training, and of course I still trained on brain wave control.

After another whole night, I entered the game again before dawn to check the situation. It seemed that the gourd hadn't exploded yet and I couldn't get out for the time being. After I get offline, I plan to go to school. Of course, I'm not going to class, but I'm going to the laboratory over there to get some special medicine for Wei Na and the others. This base is only responsible for the research of confidential projects, and some simple synthetic medicines are made outside. Anyway, the people who made them don’t know what these things are used for, so there is no problem of leaking secrets.

Wei Na and the others had been training for a day and a half, so they knew I was going out today and insisted on going out with me. I had no choice but to take them all with me. Just as we were on our way to school, various numbers of large whirlpools appeared simultaneously in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans in the game.

The source of the flood in Hululi is just as I guessed. They all come from the ocean. When we arrived at the rotunda at the bottom of the stone tower, we saw many passages connected to that hall. In fact, each of those passages was connected to a dislocated space, and their exits were all under the trenches of various oceans in the game. The reason why those floods are so overwhelming when they come in. It's because the exit is connected to the seabed. How could the huge water pressure under the trench be blocked by a shield?

Originally because all the passages are relatively narrow. Therefore, the speed at which the water flows together is not exaggerated, and because the entrances are all on the bottom of the sea. So there was no reaction on the sea. However, after a day of digging, it was not just the spout at the bottom of the canyon that was enlarged. The passages in the underground caves were also enlarged a lot. As a result, the gathering speed of sea water began to increase continuously. Finally this morning, all the oceans Vortexes of different sizes appeared respectively.

In the Pacific Ocean in the game, American players' warships are escorting a group of transport ships towards Japan. This time they plan to sell these goods in Japan and make a fortune. After all, the Japanese are short of all resources and can easily sell anything.

Tommy, the president of the guild to which the fleet belongs, had just watched the beautiful sunrise on the sea on his beloved ship. Suddenly, he noticed that the ship in front of him on the right was running farther and farther away. Tommy asked the first officer beside him: "What is the Independence doing? Why do I feel that it is drifting further and further away?"

The first mate took a look with the sight glass and then said: "It seems that the problem is not the Independence, but that we are deviating from the course to the left."

"Then correct it quickly."

"yes."

The first mate ordered the battleship to turn its rudder and at the same time signaled to each ship to maintain formation, but after a while they found that the fleet seemed to be dispersing. The first mate asked various units, but the information recovered was very strange. The operator of the hydrophone said there were strange sounds under the water, which felt like turbulent currents.

Tommy waited outside the bridge for a while, feeling something was wrong, and shouted into the cabin. "First mate. First mate! What's going on? Why are we slower and slower?"

The first mate had been studying why the ship was heading off course and did not notice that the speed was decreasing. He looked at the speed display after hearing Tommy's question. The speedometer showed that the speed had indeed slowed down. He shouted to Tommy: "I'll have them correct it right away." The first officer quickly connected the intercom to the engine room. "Engine room, why are we slowing down?"

"Slow down?" The chief engineer was confused when he heard the news. "Wait a minute. I'm going to check on the situation."

After a while the chief engineer ran back again. "We may have encountered an ocean current or headwind. I just increased the power output and the speed should have been restored."

The first mate looked at the speedometer and said in surprise: "Did you make a mistake? We are slower than before! The speed keeps dropping!"

"Ah? Why is it still falling? Then I'll turn it up to the maximum."

Captain Tommy also noticed something was wrong. "First Mate. What happened? We are breaking away from formation!"

"I don't know, sir!" Although the NPC first mate has high artificial intelligence, even humans may not be able to understand this question. "Captain, I just told the engine room that we are slowing down, but they said that the power has been turned to the maximum, but the speed is still decreasing."

The chartman asked, "Is it a headwind?"

The data observer said: "No, we are basically following the wind now. The wind is blowing from behind us on the left, and the wind force is very small now. Even if there is a headwind, the speed should not decrease!"

The chief mate shouted to the deckhand outside the cabin: "Lay out the towline and measure the relative velocity."

"yes!"

A few minutes later a sailor rushed into the bridge while crawling. "96! Relative flow velocity 96! First officer, we have encountered a large vortex!"

"Do you know where the center of the vortex is?"

Before the sailor could answer, the first mate suddenly felt someone patting him. The first mate turned around and saw the helmsman pointing to the left front with a dull look. The first mate followed his finger and looked at it. It was a good thing not to look at it. He almost sat on the ground without being frightened by this sight. Less than five kilometers to the left and front of the battleship, a huge vortex with a diameter of more than two kilometers was spinning.

"Full right rudder! Engine room at full speed. Start auxiliary power. Flagman informs the warships behind to avoid!"

They turned the wheel just in time, but it meant nothing. The principle of vortex is to continuously rotate. The rotating water flow can concentrate the surrounding water into the central area to the maximum extent, so the vortex that seems to be rotating slowly is actually very powerful. And there is a characteristic of vortices. When a vortex is formed, it actually pulls the material at one end to the other end. Rather than absorbing it from the middle.

Although the entrance to the water inlet is at the bottom of the trench, which sounds very deep and should not affect the sea surface, in fact it does not suck in seawater from the surrounding area. The principle of the vortex allows it to pull all the water on the sea surface into the seabed and send it into the channel. Instead of pouring all the seawater from the bottom of the sea into that gap. This principle caused the suction on the sea surface to become very large, and these warships simply did not have enough power to resist the suction.

After Tommy's fleet turned, it turned its back to the vortex, but they were indeed getting closer to the vortex. The entire fleet continued to fall backwards, and no ship could resist the huge pull.

The closer to the vortex, the greater the pulling force. The last battleship in the fleet was gradually pulled into the vortex and began to rotate with the sea water. As it turned, it approached the center of the vortex, and its speed became faster and faster. Finally, it reached the center of the vortex. The entire ship suddenly tilted up, with its bow facing upwards and its stern facing downwards, and the entire hull was vertically sucked into the vortex. Generally, it would take dozens of minutes for a warship to sink completely on the battlefield, even if it was punched with thousands of windows and holes. However, the battleship was completely invisible from the stern to the bow, which took less than 40 seconds. For a warship with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons, this speed is almost the same as disappearing suddenly.

The first battleship was followed by Tommy's own ship. Although his ship could not be saved, he finally thought of a way and personally notified other ships in the fleet with flags. When the last semaphore was waved, the entire battleship was already tilted up. After 40 seconds, Tommy and his boat disappeared into the center of the vortex.

According to Tommy's final order, the two transport ships carrying cargo proactively shut down their engines. Of course, the ship that lost power was quickly sucked into the center of the vortex, but at the same time, the two ships were sucked into the sea by the vortex at the same time. The bow of the boat was just submerged. There was a sudden bang in the center of the vortex, and water splashed all over the sky.

This was Tommy's final order, to sacrifice two transport ships loaded with large amounts of ammunition to save the entire fleet. The two ships transported special high-explosive ammunition. Ordinary cannons firing this kind of shells can increase the lethality by 15%. The Japanese do not have the production technology to produce this product, and it must be close to the mouth, so the Americans transport it in large quantities and sell it. This time Tommy's fleet happened to have two ships of these shells. What just turned off the power was the ship transporting the artillery shells.

After the two ships were involved in the whirlpool, the people on the two ships detonated their ammunition at the same time, and the two ships exploded at the same time. The huge shells of the entire ship destroyed the vortex structure in an instant. Although the vortex would form again after a while, the interval in between was enough for the fleet to escape.

The vortex stopped with a loud noise, and the fleet suddenly stopped and then all rushed out at a furious speed. When the vortex formed again, the fleet was already outside the safe range.

While the American fleet encountered misfortune, the British also had the misfortune to encounter one. But they didn't have a captain as smart as Tommy, and as a result, the entire fleet was sucked in.

If these battleships had appeared on the seabed eight to ten hours earlier, they could have completely sealed the vortex openings. The water pressure would have 'crushed' the battleships into iron bars and stuffed them into the holes to block the water flow. It's a pity that they arrived too late, and now the hole is too big. Not only will the battleship not be able to block the water flow, but it will make things worse. The metal battleship crashed everywhere in the cave. At this speed, every time the battleship collided with the cave wall, it would bring down a large piece of rock. As a result, these battleship wreckage further accelerated the excavation of the cave wall.

After these wreckage, more things were sucked into the vortex, including other ships that accidentally entered the vortex area, various marine creatures, seabed rocks, strange monsters, anyway, a bunch of 'messy' things were sucked into the vortex. Breathe it in.

Compared with the chaos at sea, the real chaos is actually the monsters inside the gourd. The rising water levels forced them to leave their homes, and not all monsters can swim. So there are not a few people who drown.

While these monsters in the gourd are in dire straits, Erlang Shen outside the gourd is heading to heaven with this time bomb. The players in our guild know that Ying and I are in the gourd, but Erlang Shen said that this gourd is very important to Heaven, so we must take it back and take care of it. After he promised to bring us back himself when we came out of the gourd. Hongyue agreed to his request to take away the gourd, so the gourd was no longer in Essinger.

Several great gods in the heaven were relieved when they saw Erlang God coming back with the gourd. Erlang God told them about us being sucked into the gourd. The great gods said that this was a small matter and they would wait for us to come out and send him away. Just go back.

The gourd returned to the secret treasure house in heaven. Several divine generals guarded the treasure house, and various warning instruments were hung up. On the surface, everything seemed to be peaceful. But in fact, the gourd has already turned upside down, and tens of millions of monsters are struggling in the flood. Of course, monsters that know water, such as carp spirits, are not uncomfortable with this. On the contrary, they feel very comfortable. It's just that the various strange iron lumps in the water make them more confused.

The monsters were splashing in the water, the gods were enjoying themselves leisurely, the fleet was struggling on the sea, and I was driving the car. Because Weina and the others wanted to go to school with me, a regular car would not be able to fit them in. In the end, I had to find a luxury bus. Although they had learned to drive, Wei Na and the others did not have driving licenses. Of course I am the driver.

After parking the car in the parking lot, we walked out together. Ling looked at the surrounding buildings and said excitedly: "Shenlin. Is this your school?"

"Yeah! How do you feel?"

"So big!"

"Isn't the base area larger than here?"

"But the base is full of passages and divided rooms, not as open as here!"

"This is so true."

Wei Na suddenly said: "Can you take us to see your classroom?"

"Huh? Classroom? This...!" This question is serious. And it’s embarrassing to say it.

Xiaochun got excited for some reason. "That's right! Shenlin, you know everything about us, but we don't know about you. Now is the time for us to understand."

"This..." I hesitated for a long time and still could only tell the truth. "Actually, it's not that I don't want to take you there, but...but...!"

"But what?"

"But I forgot where the classroom is!"

Boom, a large area fell around! "You actually don't remember where the classroom is?" Wei Na asked in surprise: "You should still be a student at school, right?"

"This...! The classrooms in the university are not fixed. You usually go to the classroom according to the class. And as you can see in our college, the area is relatively large, so... um, there are a lot of classrooms. And... I'm good Xiang hasn’t had a few classes in school at all!”

"It turns out it's because you're always absent from class!" Xiaochun spoke so directly!

Ling jumped out to help me and said: "Master, that's not right, because it should be Shenlin. He skipped class to be with us. If he went to class every day, we wouldn't be able to get out! Besides, with a nervous system like ours, using an accelerated learning machine will It’s okay, there is no benefit at all from studying slowly in the classroom.”

"That's not necessarily true." Xiaochun wanted to retort but was held down by Wei Na.

Wei Na stretched out her arms, hugging Xiaochun and Ling. "You two, please stop arguing. There is still time for enemies to reconcile! I'm here to have fun today, not to listen to your quarrels!"

As expected, Wei Na had a sisterly demeanor and restrained both of them in one fell swoop.

"Okay, let's get down to business first. Let's go get the stabilizer, and then we can do whatever we want."

Pepper asked: "I think my body is normal! Why do I need to use 'medicine'?"

"The stabilizer I took this time is not a drug to treat the disease, but a drug used to accelerate the body's cell stability."

"Cell identity?"

"Your cells are replicated in a short period of time using native tissue and have not gone through the egg fertilization process, so your cells lack biological stabilizers. Before being exposed to this stabilizer, your cells are undetermined. ’, that is to say, if they encounter appropriate stimulation, they may return to the original state of the cells, which is quite dangerous. If we can repair the muscle group, if the brain cells are restored, it will be completely over. "

"But aren't we having a good time these days?"

"That's because you have all been injected with a temporary stabilizer, but the effectiveness of that thing is about to end. If you don't inject a permanent stabilizer within three days, you will be in trouble."

Chili said: "It's so scary. Let's get the stabilizer quickly! The dead here can't be resurrected. It's too dangerous!"

I took them to the basement of the school's experimental building to get medicine. In the game, the water level in the gourd continued to rise, and it was about to reach the bottleneck. The big hole at the bottom of the Hululi Canyon is now more than ten kilometers wide. The huge water flow has brought a lot of things from the outside, including some creatures, and there are still some that are not dead.

In the custody room of the Heavenly Court, on a cyan lotus-shaped stone platform, a gourd is placed in the center of the flower. The four divine generals all had their backs to the gourd, and no one noticed anything wrong with the gourd. At this time, the water in the gourd was gradually full, and a faint black color appeared on the cover of the gourd, which was a wet watermark.

The four generals stood motionless without noticing, but the lid of the gourd slowly began to loosen, and it was only a matter of time before it exploded.