Chapter 344 The Disappearing Natives

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

But at first glance, this city is so dilapidated and desolate...

It has been submerged by the sea, with only a few taller skyscrapers peeking out.

The walls of the tallest building look like a huge sample of tertiary syphilis, covered with red, orange, blue and purple algae...

Compared with the ocean full of life, this lifeless city gives people an inexplicable sense of heaviness.

Drones roar by and transmit back a large amount of images. It is difficult for the human eye to obtain a large amount of information from so many cameras, but extremely high-speed computers can!

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

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

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

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

Xu Yunjin frowned, an abandoned city submerged by seawater...

What does it mean?

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

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

They placed six-legged robots on skyscrapers one by one. The robots clung to the walls and climbed in through the windows.

During this period, Yu Yifeng did not issue any orders, but let it go freely. 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 traces of attacks. There was a bit of nuclear radiation. It should be radioactive dust drifting from other places."

"You see, the rooms are generally clean, and valuable things have been taken away. It doesn't look like they were evacuating in a hurry. So I think these natives should have retreated in an orderly manner... They have expected that sea levels will rise significantly. , Flooding the city... doesn’t look like an emergency!”

A scientist studied each picture and considered it carefully.

"It's a pity... Over so many years, many things have been corroded by sea water. These marine organisms have high corrosive capabilities. Only a few have not been submerged."

From this city, people did not get very effective clues.

In particular, humans have found no traces of war... This is a bit strange.

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

Among them are electronic waste, as well as some discarded furniture, books, electrical appliances, etc. The robot collected them out of habit.

Especially the things in books are quite useful. You can find the corresponding text and pictures...

"Let's try the translation robot that has been researched in recent years..."

"Eh... what is this? A reading machine? You can try to repair it. This is a good thing!" Some information experts have already begun to work in advance, and deciphering the characters of the indigenous civilization has become the first big thing.

Over the years, human technology has made all-round progress, and of course translation capabilities have also been greatly improved. Given enough information, translating a text's language shouldn't be too much of a problem.

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

Is it an intact city that was submerged? Is it because the civilization's extensive use of fossil fuels triggered the greenhouse effect, which then caused sea levels to rise?

That's very likely... The city was flooded, so of course it couldn't be inhabited.

Also, what are the light spots observed a few years ago?

Is it really a nuclear bomb?

"In terms of time, more than ten years have passed since the few light spots observed by the astronomical telescope."

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

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

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

After hearing this inference, Yu Yifeng nodded silently.

He originally wanted to give some instructions to the front, but he forced himself to hold back. Since they have been given sufficient authority, they should not take more care.

He just secretly reminded Xu Yunjin in Titan Z to be more vigilant because this planet is a little weird.

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

Well, even if it's a little slower, everyone can wait...

The first batch of vanguard flying troops was very fast. They passed over the city submerged in the sea and headed inland.

Taking low-altitude shots along the way, I discovered some roads inundated with weeds, half-collapsed houses, and messy construction debris...

There are also various iron towers crookedly lying on the ground, which should be used to pull wires. The metal all had extensive signs of rust.

It's a completely...wasteland world!

After so many years, the radiation level still exceeds the normal standard. If you live in such a place for a long time, you will not die immediately, but you may get some chronic diseases. This made many people whisper and curse. It takes a lot of energy to control the radiation pollution on such a wasteland planet.

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

A huge nuclear bomb crater!

A large number of houses around it collapsed, but the various plants in the crater grew lushly.

Life is always tenacious. Even with radiation, there are still lives that can survive here tenaciously.

They stick here generation after generation. Although their lifespan may be shortened, they are still endless...

"From the equivalent and nuclear radiation, it should be a hydrogen bomb or a neutron bomb... The radiation level is not large!"

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

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

This is a bit unbelievable...

Yu Yifeng imagined it in his mind. If New York or Jingdong on the earth were razed to the ground, it would look like this...

For more than ten years, intelligent civilization disappeared inexplicably, the whole planet returned to the wilderness, animals returned to wildness, plants grew wantonly, and everything looked abandoned for a long time.

What about intelligent life? Gone. Not only human eyes, but even computers did not find it at all!

Are they extinct?

Faced with these scenes, Yu Yifeng suddenly felt a sharp pain in his temples, and his heart beat faster and faster. An inexplicable discomfort arose at this moment!

His sixth sense showed that this planet did not have a huge crisis beyond human capabilities, but he always had a strange sense of uneasiness.

And as time passed, this sense of uneasiness began to gradually magnify.

There are many ordinary creatures. They are running happily on the ground, enjoying the return to wild nature. But according to the picture analysis, the probability of them having real wisdom is extremely low... They are definitely not the real owners of the planet.

Everyone felt a little puzzled, yes, puzzled. People carefully searched for a long time, but did not find any intelligent life. It was as if these creatures suddenly evaporated from the planet.

Were they taken away by aliens?

Or... died in the war?

"It may not be a nuclear war, maybe there is a biological war, such as zombie virus, T virus..." A scientist whispered...