Epoch of Twilight

In the dark sky, a figure flew by at high speed, like lightning flashing through the air.

Suddenly, his body stopped abruptly, suspended in mid-air.

This figure is naturally Luo Yuan.

This place is located at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and countless dark clouds are rolling and surging below, like a ball of black ink. Lightning flashes in the dark clouds from time to time, making the whole sky bright and dark.

His body landed and passed through the thick dark clouds. The originally bustling reconstruction area has now become a ruin. Three huge potholes almost occupy the entire area of ​​the reconstruction area. Each pothole has hundreds of people. Kilometers wide, and the depth that can only be seen is more than a thousand meters deep. This is the result of the explosion of three antimatter bombs.

Even though the extreme cold is covering the earth now, except for one of the craters, which remains dead silent, the bottom of the other two craters is still steaming with steam, and the surface is boiling with water vapor and smoky.

Due to the big bang, the plate here is already very fragile, and volcanoes erupt frequently. This large amount of geothermal heat seeps out continuously through the gaps at the bottom of the pit, which is likely to be the precursor of volcanic eruptions. For the nearby Hope City, It is undoubtedly a huge hidden danger.

With the current strength of human beings, it is impossible to leave here in a short time and build a new residence. The horrific winter alone is enough to make human beings who have just regained a trace of vitality suffer another devastating blow. As for moving into spaceships, it is still far away.

This time, Luo Yuan just wanted to investigate the hidden dangers here.

Soon, Luo Yuan landed.

The closer to the bottom of the pit, the higher the temperature, and the surrounding ice and snow became thinner and thinner. The huge amount of steam rising from the pit met the extreme cold above, and quickly froze, turning into ice and snow, and falling down one after another.

The snowfall was astonishingly large, fist-sized snowballs fell down overwhelmingly.

In just a few seconds, his body was covered with snow.

Inside the entire pothole, it seems to be a small water circulation system.

When approaching the bottom of the pit two to three hundred meters, as the temperature rises, the ice and snow gradually melt, exposing the glazed rock wall, and the surface exudes bursts of light, which looks dazzling.

From time to time, Luo Yuan could see colorful crystals inlaid on the surface. These were the minerals that were precipitated when the lava cooled. Among them were some precious gems, which were invaluable before the end of the world, but now they are worthless.

As it continued down, the temperature here became higher and higher, and there was white steam everywhere, but when it really reached the bottom of the pit, the water vapor disappeared.

Unlike imagination, there is no magma here, but a violently boiling lake.

The lake is not big, only hundreds of thousands of square meters, a large number of air bubbles, tumbling violently, making it look white, and the humidity nearby is extremely high. After standing for a while, Luo Yuan was already drenched. .

Every second here, tens of thousands of tons of accumulated water flows into the lake from the walls of the surrounding pits like rivers, and tens of thousands of tons of water are evaporated by high temperature every second, causing the lake to not expand at all.

The temperature of this lake is higher than expected. If there is not a huge amount of water added to the lake every moment, the entire lake will be evaporated in a few minutes.

But this temperature is useless to Luo Yuan.

He untied his clothes, threw them aside, and quickly jumped into the lake naked. He didn't feel the slightest touch of water on his skin. The entire lake seemed to be composed of countless bubbles, and it felt as light as nothing.

The weight per unit area is not even one-third of that of water, and the temperature is also contrary to common sense, almost reaching more than 200 degrees.

But this is just the beginning. As it approaches the bottom of the pit, the density of the water in the lake becomes lower and lower, and the temperature becomes higher and higher. The lake water seems to have exploded, boiling violently. Either it was steamed at high temperature, or it had been blown to pieces, and there was a strong recoil force in it, preventing him from going further.

Luo Yuan used his hands and feet to resist the thrust, and continued to swim for more than a hundred meters. Suddenly, there was nothing in front of him. He seemed to have broken through a certain limit and entered a strange place.

Under the gravitational force of the earth, his body fell rapidly, and with a slight action of his will, his body was immediately suspended in mid-air.

There was a flash of surprise in his eyes, and he looked at this space. There is no water here, and there is no slightest air bubble. The humidity of the air here is almost completely saturated, except for water vapor, there is already a lot of other gases.

Even Luo Yuan didn't expect that this lake was actually hollow.

The high temperature here is as high as 600 to 700 degrees Celsius, so that the water here is completely turned into steam, and there is no water at all to maintain a liquid state. At the same time, the pressure here is 500 to 600 times the normal atmospheric pressure.

Of course, this kind of pressure and temperature had no effect on him except for a little discomfort.

The bottom of the pit emits a slight red light, and the air is filled with a strong smell of sulfur. There seems to be magma faintly inside.

Luo Yuan's heart sank, and he quickly fell towards the bottom of the pit.

As expected, there are magmas everywhere in the eyes, and these magmas boil violently like thick porridge, and occasionally spew out pillars of fire, dyeing the surrounding area red.

Looking at all this, Luo Yuan's face was gloomy. This is no longer an ordinary geothermal upwelling, but a volcano that is about to erupt.

The worst part is that this volcano is only more than 150 kilometers away from Hope City.

If it's a small or medium volcano, it's fine, at most it's just an earthquake. If it's a super volcano, I'm afraid the entire Hope City will be affected.

After repeated bombings by antimatter bombs, the plate here is quite unstable now, with volcanoes and earthquakes appearing from time to time. Including this active volcano and another steaming crater, although it has not been confirmed yet, the probability of a volcano is very high. There are eight or nine. In the area of ​​tens of thousands of square kilometers in the entire reconstruction area, three volcanoes have appeared, roughly forming a group of volcanoes, and these volcanoes may even come from different vents of the same volcano.

If there is a chain reaction once the eruption occurs, the consequences will be disastrous.

Although the destruction of the Bostians has passed, the subsequent disasters still continue to affect the entire earth.

In fact, the reconstruction area is already considered good now, such as Europe and North America, it is already like hell, where there are densely packed volcanoes, and earthquakes are commonplace. Looking down from space, the dense volcanic ash has covered the entire Eurasian continent. Shrouded in the deepest darkness.

Especially where the crater is located, the volcano is erupting fire day and night, and the fire cloud rushing tens of thousands of meters high can still be seen from space.

Half a month has passed, and the nuclear winter that has not been alleviated so far is at least a large part due to the eruption of these volcanoes.

However, the upheavals in the European and American continents, after all, are still separated by a continent, and when they affect here, the impact is limited. What's more, even if he is a hundred times stronger, he will not be able to curb the violent fluctuations in the plate.

But for this volcano that has not yet begun to erupt, it is not without a solution.

Luo Yuan's face was gloomy, and he pondered secretly, thinking about countermeasures.

Before the end of the world, there had been systematic research on mitigating volcanic eruptions.

For example, by digging holes on the surface to release the underground pressure and delay the eruption time; it is also possible to blast holes near the volcano to divert magma according to the special terrain characteristics of the volcanic area.

Similarly, in the process of accumulating energy in the volcano, the magma channel can be destroyed in stages so that the magma can release its energy in advance.

Even nuclear bombs are used to blow up specific parts of the earth's crust to reduce the pressure on the earth's crust in the volcanic area.

However, these methods require a large number of geological experts to conduct specialized stratum exploration, and today there are almost no human experts in this area.

After all, the reconstruction area is very small, and there is no need for geological research departments to be dispersed to various places to establish various geological research institutes. The entire reconstruction area only has such departments in Xinjing. However, in the disaster, they have already been reduced to fly ash.