Chapter 18 Natural Disasters and Departures

   "There are too many volcanoes on this planet, right?"

   "I've driven the Silver Star for thousands of kilometers, right? But I can see a volcano! A volcano! It's still a volcano!"

Lu Yu didn't just stay in place to observe for a month. He wanted to keep some tools that he rubbed out with his hands. If he couldn't bring them into the cockpit, he had to have a stable external environment. Frequent earthquakes made him make up his mind early. Mountains and mountains leave this land of right and wrong.

  Although the Silver Star has only four small wheels with short legs, the special performance of the armor makes it immune to the four basic forces and at the same time spatially anchored in the three-dimensional world, so that it will not be thrown out due to the movement of the planet.

   And because the Silver Star only exhibits the characteristics of virtual points in three dimensions, Lu Yu can even drive it vertically along the huge tree trunk to climb to the top of the tree.

   It is not strenuous to exercise in the potholes in the jungle, but the distance is a lot farther. After Lu Yu found the river, the situation improved a lot.

  Silver Star is like a weightless object, floating directly on the water surface and moving on wheels, using water as its road.

  Although there will be rocks blocking the way, the silver stars slide over the rocks as smoothly as real mercury.

   The cockpit will not feel bumps at all, after all, even the explosion of a supernova will not affect it.

  Even if there is no problem in terms of movement, after leaving the river for a considerable distance, Lu Yu found that there are too many active volcanoes on this planet! So many that Lu Yu could see the crater emitting black smoke no matter which direction he left.

   "We infer that the state of this planet is similar to the geographical environment of Blue Star 100 million years ago, and it is very likely that it is in the active period of the crust, which matches the phenomenon of frequent earthquakes we observed."

   "Geologists believe that during this period, there may even be earthquakes that can break the continental plate, which has exceeded the magnitude and intensity of earthquakes that humans currently distinguish."

Professor Mao analyzed the conjectures made by the expert group for Lu Yu. Now the base has expanded to more than 200 members of the expert group serving as Lu Yu's external brain. They come from various industries, from quantum physics professors to fitness coaches. There is only one Purpose—to try my best to solve the problems before Lu Yu.

  Lu Yu frowned and asked: "Then the plan to build a simple scientific research base on this planet is a failure?"

   "There is no need to be so pessimistic. No matter how active the crustal movement is, there must be relatively calm areas."

  Professor Mao clicked on a photo taken by Lu Yu on the phone screen: "Although the Silver Star does not have the ability to fly, we can rely on its characteristics to find a big river as our communication line."

   "In this way...as long as we don't suddenly encounter a major earthquake that shatters the earth, we can always find a place suitable for the base plan."

   Lu Yu nodded in agreement. Compared with drifting in the emptiness and cold space, he still prefers to develop on a living planet.

  The Silver Star is standing still in the middle of the rushing river, and there is a small waterfall in front of it, where you can vaguely see the river meandering in the jungle.

Just as Lu Yu was about to end this conversation and continue on his way, he saw a gigantic monster squeezed out of the bushes on the river bank. It had a pair of huge gray ivory, and its huge body was covered with thick scales. The alien creature named Gray-toothed Elephant swayed and stretched out its nose towards the river, drinking the water.

   Such ferocious beasts are herbivores. Lu Yu failed to record this alien creature several times.

  This opportunity was rare, he was about to open the hatch, when the river shook violently without warning, everything on this planet seemed to shake.

  The earthquake came again.

   This earthquake lasted about three to five minutes. In fact, the shock was very violent for the first one or two minutes, and then gradually calmed down. It took only about five minutes in total until it stopped completely.

   When all the vibrations stopped, Lu Yu was able to see everything around him again, and he could see the intensity and frequency of the vibrations.

  At this moment, the jungle below is glowing red, and lava can even be seen overflowing in many places.

  A deep crack extended from the end of the ground, and the river water below the waterfall poured in crazily. The rising white water vapor quickly formed local heavy rain when it was cold, but it couldn't stop the fire that spread due to the overflow of lava.

Lu Yu was no longer in the mood to observe any alien creatures. As soon as he controlled the Silver Star to turn around, he saw the volcano that he had just crossed not long ago. The magma was continuously ejected from the crater to hundreds of meters into the air, and the volcanoes around it coincided with each other. The explosion turned the original blue sky into red and black.

   More violent earthquakes are coming again!

The landslide was even just the prelude to this earthquake. It seemed that the ground around the Silver Star collapsed. It was really turned upside down. The whole land was squeezed by both ends, and it was broken and closed from the middle like a biscuit. Lift slowly.

   Naturally, Lu Yu in the cockpit did not suffer any harm. After everything calmed down, he looked outside, but saw that the outside was pitch black, but it was not the deep darkness in the universe, but a color similar to pitch black soil.

  During the earthquake that just erupted, the Silver Star might have been buried deep underground, and it couldn't move even if it tried to use the wheels. It seemed to be stuck underground and unable to move.

"Um"

  Professor Mao, who had made a prophecy, no longer knew what to say, but Lu Yu made a judgment immediately after several attempts to confirm that he could not leave here by ordinary means.

   "Use points in exchange for black technology products to get out of trouble."

   "Or you can only use space jump to leave."

   Stay or leave forever.

   Change to a black-tech drill bit that drills through rocks and soils, and then continue guerrilla scientific research and observation on life-like planets with frequent earthquakes?

   Or step into the sea of ​​stars again to encounter the next miraculous opportunity?

   Gambling for luck is never a good way, Lu Yu's consciousness sank into his mind, and he planned to see if the system could provide some black technology products to solve the predicament.

   The result was that Lu Yu felt his own poverty again. With 25 points, he couldn't exchange the equipment that would allow the Silver Star to leave here.

   "That means there is only one choice left."

   This planet of life is the first time humans discovered a planet with extraterrestrial life, so Lu Yu got 25 points from it.

   This is not Blue Star after all, and it is not home after all. Even if a simple scientific research base is established here, Lu Yu will eventually leave.

   I just didn't expect this day to come so fast and so suddenly.

   Stayed in the dark underground for two days, and after confirming that there was no external force to help him escape, Lu Yu finally chose to pull the switch of the space jump.

   "Click!"

  The new journey started again, and Lu Yu was even mentally prepared for another long time of aimless drifting in the deep universe.

   But just after the space jump was completed, Lu Yu was dumbfounded.

  The yellow sand outside the Silver Star is long, and the towering buildings stand not far away like a mirage.

   And even closer, there are scattered steel fragments scattered here and there, resembling the wreckage of a spaceship in a science fiction novel!

  The previous jump was to a living planet, but this time it was actually a planet with civilization?

  Looking at everything in front of him, Lu Yu looked like he was drawing a card with Yangshou.

  (end of this chapter)