Global Day Online
Chapter 284: Flash is beautiful
"Family" sat at the table, Kane did not say anything, still kept silent, Lena wanted to open her mouth to say something, but did not know where to say.
Rick looked at this weird atmosphere and said to Cohen, "Cohen's brother, come back all the hard work, drink your mouth and pressurize!"
Rick remembers that in the movie, Cohen was drinking water and began to vomit blood. Maybe Cohen, who came back this time, couldn't swallow the normal water of the earth. His body has not evolved yet, and he can't stand the swallowing water to digest.
Fortunately, Lek was glad that the Kane who came back was in a state of unconsciousness, or Kane would definitely shoot him with a gun.
Now sitting on the opposite side of Kane, it should be a new life that has been copied into the center of the flash tower and copied by the special environment.
Originally Lina’s husband, Kane, already in the flash tower, couldn’t stand the torture and collapsed, detonating the white phosphorus incendiary bombs.
Of course, in this case, Lake can't say anything to Lena now. After Lek finished, Lena blinked again.
Rick saw that he was always shackled, and that he had finished speaking, Cohen was still in a state of no reaction, and it was estimated that only Cohen’s ex-wife Lena would speak. Rick kicked Lena with his feet under the table.
"Kane, where have you been in the year! How come back, I am wrong." Lena, who had already put on her coat at this time, felt that her foot had been kicked by Leek, and then moved her foot backwards. And some awkward look to ask my husband.
"I can't remember it!" Kane replied.
"Kane, how did you get back to this house? Are you angry, ready to ignore me! If you hit me, you can do it, please, Cohen, don't do this!" Lena was a little excited. Said.
But when Cohen listened to Lina’s words, it’s still a wooden expression. “I don’t remember how to go home. I’ll come back according to the position of my home.” Kane said that he was looking at the position where Rick was sitting. He did not show anger.
"It’s good to be back! It’s still a family,” said Lake.
Even if Rick spoke, Cohen was not angry.
Rick gently patted Lena's shoulder and motioned her to come down.
Rick got up and walked a few meters away from Lena.
Rick whispered: "Lina, do you feel a little wrong?" Lake tried to remind himself of this lover.
"This situation can be blamed for being right, and all of them are hit by the husband! You are courageous enough, don't run and dare to talk! I told you that Kane is a special soldier. If he is angry, he will hit you. Can't live. You are going to hurry! I told you to wear clothes faster, you don't listen, you blame you! Now Kane is hard to come back, but it is stimulated, if he has any accident, I can't spare you! Lena complained in a whisper, whispering to Lake.
Lena said that she turned to look at the table. Kane picked up the glass of water and just drank a white water. She began to vomit blood from her mouth and her face became difficult to look. "Ah, Kane, how are you?" Hematemesis, what happened to you!".
After Lena’s anxious expression looked at Lec, she quickly ran to the table to see Cohen’s situation.
Rick felt that there was no way to have a pleasant exchange with this ‘girl.’
"Telephone, take my cell phone! Cohen, don't scare me!" Lena shouted at Lake.
Rexro turned to the floor and helped Lena take the phone from the big bed in the upstairs bedroom. Lena then quickly dialed the hospital phone.
Rick didn't leave. Before that, he couldn't get into the X zone of the flash tower. Just now, take this opportunity and wait for the **** Cohen to be taken away by the military.
Rick thought that he would be taken to the military secret base established by the flash tower as a suspected infected person.
Lena was at the table, supporting Cohen, who spit blood. She was a little panicked.
Rick chose silence next to him, helped take a bathroom towel and handed it to Lena to wipe the blood.
Fortunately, the ambulance arrived quickly, and then Lec helped Lena, who was cheating with her, and took her ex-husband Kane, who was still vomiting blood, to the stretcher.
Lena sat in the back seat of the ambulance and looked worriedly at her husband, Kane, and Leek followed the bus.
"What are you doing here, give it to me!" Lena glared at Lake.
"I followed, if Kane's brother had something to do, I could also take the handle! And he is in this state, there are many helpers next to him." Rick argued that there was no move to get off the bus.
"You get me off." Lena still yelled at Lake, but Lake was unmoved and died on the ambulance.
When the ambulanceman saw that Lake did not get out of the car, he closed the door.
Then the driver of the ambulance drove quickly and headed for the hospital. The patient, Kane, said the state of vomiting blood was very serious, and the driver of the ambulance did not want to delay the time.
The ambulance had already started, and Lena looked at Lek angrily, knowing that she could not drive away the bastard.
Lena regrets, she should paint the bedroom tonight, and she believed that the **** helped her to paint the room, and brushed it with him, and went to bed.
Lena didn't even think that she thought she was dead, and she left her husband, Kane, who had been missing for a year. It happened to be back at this time.
Lena worried about this, and when she cured her husband, she was estimated to be divorced by her husband Kane. Thinking about it, Lena cried.
"Cry, he can't die!" Rick persuaded.
"If I divorced Kane, I will go with you." Lena said with an angry look at Lake.
"Reassure, Kane's brother will not divorce you, isn't it, Kane's brother!" Lake laughed and photographed Kane's shoulder lying on the stretcher.
"Glutle!" Cain Meng's shot by Reke, and spit a big blood.
"What are you doing, don't touch him!" Lena pushed Clark directly and protected her husband, Kane.
Rick smiled helplessly, leaning on the chair in the back of the ambulance, waiting for the arrival of the military secret base soldier.
The ambulance was driving fast on the road at night. After driving for more than ten minutes, he suddenly braked urgently. Kane in the rear compartment was shaken and spit a few mouthfuls of blood.
Lena frowned and was about to look through the window of the ambulance to see what was going on outside.
The rear door of the ambulance was quickly opened.
Lena and Lake saw that more than a dozen soldiers wearing white protective isolation suits appeared outside, and several black vehicles surrounded the ambulance.
Rick knew that he finally waited for the secret base of the military.
The doctor who followed the car did not dare to look at the situation.
Lena and Lake were pulled off the car. Kane on the stretcher was directly loaded into a special isolation bag by a soldier in a white protective suit and quickly lifted the black vehicle parked next to the ambulance.
"What are you doing, let go of my husband, you--" Lena was going to break her soldiers, but the soldier in a white protective suit took a shot directly on her thigh. Lena was in a coma.
A soldier carrying a lick took out a needle from his hand.
"Don't tie me, I can be honest, I don't bother!" Rick tried to communicate with the soldier in a white protective suit.
But the soldier did not pay attention to Lake's words, so he gave a shot to Lake's thigh.
After being tied, Laker feels that he is gradually losing consciousness, which is very sleepy and sleepy.
Rake's total body attribute value, in the world of entering this copy, took 200 points to separate as an immune attribute.
The physical state attribute of Lake in this copy world is not much higher than that of ordinary adults who have not exercised.
There is no resistance caused by high attributes. After being pinned, Lake is also very coma.
When Lake woke up again, he and Lena were lying on two metal single beds.
The **** clothes that had been smothered by Kane on his own body were also replaced and replaced with a sick suit like a patient ship in a hospital.
Lena, who was next to the bed, was also replaced with a sick suit, and now both are locked in a metal room with simple household items.
"What happened? Kane." Lena, who was just awake, tried to get out of the metal bed from her, but she felt a little confused, she had no strength, and she almost didn't stand.
Fortunately, Reke reacted quickly and helped him to fall.
"Don't touch me!" Lena broke freely and shouted at Lake.
Lexus **** loose hands.
"Hey!" Lena fell to the ground without standing up. She had a long leg and a fork, and her **** fell to the ground.
"What are you doing!" Lena glared at Lake.
"You let me not touch you!"
"I told you to leave clothes quickly, why don't you listen! Kane, what happened to him? How can we be here!" Lena asked Lek, she was holding the metal bed railing and finally stood. Get up and sit back on her single metal bed.
"I don't know, I remember a group of people wearing white protective isolation suits, stopped our ambulance, took Kane, and fainted us. Maybe Kane is an infectious disease, we are now It was also isolated.” Rick said, choose to let Lena not know her in general. After all, as a person who is a “friend” of Lena, she should not collapse too quickly.
A pair of "pseudo" couples, with big eyes and narrow eyes in this metal hut, Lena is now in the middle of the chaos, and she can’t tell the pain. She has now regretted that she is going to die, and she looks at the thunder. Gram, I won’t beat one.
Rick looked at Lena, whose expression was changing, and returned to her with a smile.
Rick estimates that this Lena, the stimulus that her husband Kane seized on the spot, is estimated to take some time to subside.
However, from time to time, Laker can't understand what Li Na is thinking about now.
Fortunately, the door of this metal house was pushed open in a few minutes, and a middle-aged woman in black overalls strolled in.
"Where is this? Who are you? Why should we lock us up, Kane, I am looking for a lawyer!" Lena said that when someone came in, she immediately said in a very strong tone.
Rick chose silence next to him. He has seen the classic sci-fi movie annihilated. He knows where he is, the remote area of the lighthouse of the Blackwater National Park, a military secret base specially built to deal with this special event. .
There is nothing to ask about Leike. Rick knows that what he has to do now is to find an opportunity to join the eleventh batch of five-person women's exploration team going to the flash tower. Obtaining the military's squad status, the military can provide guns and ammunition, food supplies and maps. It can be said that at this stage, the best entry into the X area of the flash is.
"My name is Vincius, a Ph.D. in psychology. Here, Lena, you can't find a lawyer, and no lawyer will come over. I want to ask, when is your husband, Kane, going home, he Say how to go home? What did he say to him after he came back? Did he contact you in the previous year?” Wentris asked Lena in a dull tone.
"How is my husband Kane, I want to see him! He came back tonight, didn't say anything, he couldn't remember how to go home. In the year he disappeared, I found everything I could find. His teammates and superiors, but no one told me the truth. I don’t even know what secret mission Kane has done until now.” Lena said.
This Vince looked at Leek, who was sitting on a metal bed.
"No. 2 Say, what are you doing when Kane appears tonight, what did he say to you?" Vincius asked Rick.
After listening to Lec, he looked at Lena next to him. "I am helping Lina to paint the walls of the bedroom. Lina's bedroom wall wants to paint the city pink. When I was honest with Kane's brother, he had a very good expression. Calm, nothing was said."
After the middle-aged woman Wentris heard the words of Lake, he looked at Lake and Lena with a weird look.
The military has already gone to Lena's residence to check it out, and what Leek said can only be on the upper half.
Vinci has learned from the report of the person who looked at Lena’s residence that the second and the Lena are already good, and Kane should be Lena’s ex-husband.
However, due to Lena’s face, Ventress did not continue to ask more questions on this issue.
After all, Kane had already performed the task for a year without an audio message. Even their military uniforms thought that Kane was already dead in the X area. It is not a big deal for his wife, Lena, to find the second person.
It’s just that Kane’s sudden appearance tonight is beyond everyone’s expectation. This Kane is the only one of the ten exploration teams sent in the past three years. The only one who came back alive is his significance.
"Lena, you have a good memory, your husband, Kane, revealed to you a task he had to perform a year ago before he performed the task? What special words did he say to you before he performed this task? "Vintus continues to ask Lena.
"No, my husband's mission is not to be revealed to me, I will not ask more. After all, I was a soldier before, knowing the confidentiality regulations in this regard. But I remember that Kane was told to perform the task a year ago. When he was nervous, he was nervous before he performed the task before. How was Kane? Take me to see him! Where is it? I have already answered your question, now you should answer my question, now Ms. Tries," Lena said in a loud voice.
"Lena, after waiting for you to rest for half an hour, after taking the effect of tranquilizer, I will take you to see your husband Kane and understand the situation here. You have to be prepared, the situation here is very Special. No. 2, you have to go see it together. If you choose to go with it, for the sake of confidentiality, you will not be allowed to leave this military base in the last six months or so. If you choose not to know the place here, If you have the truth, you will be quarantined for another week and you will be able to go home after you have confirmed your health!" Vincius said to Lake and Lena.
"I went with you. I accompanied Lena. I am afraid that the blow here is too big for Lena. She can't stand it alone. If I am by her side, she can still get better." Rick found himself. Excuse me.
"I don't have to be with you, you are more uncomfortable with me!" Lena said.
But what Lena thinks in her heart, Lake does not know, and Lake estimates that Lena is a lover who wants to leave behind. .
Half an hour later, Lake and Lena have restored their control of the body. The sedatives of the two have been weakened, and they can walk slowly.
The two followed the middle-aged woman of Ventress, left the metal house, and walked on the metal passage. When Lena walked, she unconsciously approached Lek.
A few minutes later, Ventres took Lectra and Lena to a glass-isolated room, through the glass, to see Kane inside lying on the hospital bed, filled with tubes and instruments for treatment.
"Kane now has multiple organ failures and is accompanied by massive bleeding in the body. The treatment effect is not optimistic. We can only try to delay his condition as much as possible." Ventress said to the two.
"How could this be the case, what kind of task did Kane go to, and he came back after a year of disappearing? When he came back, he fell ill?" Lena asked Wentris, who was next to her.
"Come with me, don't be surprised, let you see the truth, but after reading this truth, you can only stay here for a while, you can't leave, do you think about it?" Ventress said.
"Go and see, if you can go home without knowing the truth, you can't sleep." Reke said.
Lena also nodded.
Vincius began to take the two men and move on. After pushing a metal door, it was a large research laboratory. Many of the staff wearing white scientific suits were doing this work here, just like a secret experiment. The same as the room.
Lena herself is a Ph.D. in biology and she doesn't have much reaction to this kind of laboratory.
"What are you studying, a special virus, infected with my husband Kane's virus?" Lena looked at Ventress.
In his heart, Rick muttered the words "ex-husband!"
"Is it a virus, we don't know it now. The truth is behind another metal door at the forefront of the lab, pushing the metal door, you have no retreat." Ventress said, after saying this, Waiting for the reaction between Lake and Lena.
When Lena hesitated, she took a step forward and walked toward the metal door in front of the lab. Lek did not hesitate to follow.
Rick knows that only by choosing to join here can he complete his task of destroying the flash tower more conveniently.
Otherwise, as an ordinary civilian, especially his physical attribute value, has been reduced many times, it is difficult to get close to the flash X area where the military has been martial, not to mention diving into the destruction of the lighthouse to complete the task.
Rick and Lena, who walked through the long lab area, surrounded the researchers who were working, did not pay attention to the two outsiders, Lake and Lena, who were busy with research in their hands.
Leek and Lena stood in front of the metal gate, and Lake was very interesting. He handed his hand to Lena, ready to let her hold, to ease the feeling of fear of Lena.
However, Lena did not take the feeling of this husband, and directly opened the hand of Lake, and glanced at Lake.
Rick laughed and didn't care. After all, Lena just watched her 'ex-husband' lying on the bed in the isolation room like a hedgehog. Some little emotions were normal. .
As Lena raised her hand and pushed the metal door open, a grotesque world like a bright white mask shrouded in front of Lake and Lena.
After seeing Lec, he has experienced several copies of the online world of the world, and now it is somewhat attracted by the magical scene in front of him, let alone the aboriginal female biological doctor Dr. Lena.
Rick and Lena couldn't help but walk forward, then stood on the metal terrace extending outward from the experimental base and looked into the distance.
The bright white irregular cover directly covers the sky and the ground in the distance, and the colorful light appears in the cover. The nearest floor to their lab is a large bath, but now the environment on this bath is different from any bath on the planet.
Some of the dead trees inside have grown up in a strange form, and the trees have become like crystals.
The bathing floor is also covered with many weird moss-like fluffs that are densely coloured.
"What is this? What happened here?" Even Lena, who was born in biology, couldn't help but exclaim when she saw the scene in front of her eyes.
If she had just stepped out of the lab and walked over the metal terrace, she thought she had come to an alien planet.
Ventress also came over from the metal door behind the two. She also looked up at the weird environment in front and said, "Flash, we call it it. Three years ago, a meteorite fell in the black water. A lighthouse in the National Park. This kind of thing happened later. The military used the toxic chemical dye as an excuse to let the citizens in the nearby area move away and smashed the area. Initially, the flash just covered the lighthouse. As time goes by, the area of the flash is getting bigger and bigger, and the speed of expansion is getting faster and faster. It is called the X area. Our isolation and ecological exclusion zone has been expanding for three years. Now if we don’t want to Preventing the expansion of the flash X area, it will take a few months, and the area where our military laboratory is located will also be shrouded in it. By then, this flashing X area will become bigger and bigger, gradually covering the major cities, or even the whole Earth."
"My husband, Kane, was sent to this flashing area a year ago?" Lena asked Vincius next to her.
"Ex-husband!" Rekmer read.
"Yes, he is the tenth batch of squads that have been sent to the flash area to explore the situation inside the lighthouse. It is also the only one who is alive from the flashing area. We want to know what he found and whether he arrived at the flash X area. The central lighthouse, what is there? Now all the flashing areas are isolated, there are no creatures, and they have come out of this area, even if the birds flying in the sky enter this area, they have not flown again." Tries replied to Lena.
"Since it is a lighthouse, I have never tried to approach a warship from the sea, or approach the aircraft from the air, or do you directly bombard it with a missile? What is it? It is constantly expanding, directly destroying the flash tower, and razing it It’s not enough on the ground.” Lake tried to advise Ventress.
After Vincius listened, he shook his head helplessly. "Everything that enters the flashing X area of the electronic equipment is like a sinking sea. No information can be transmitted. We have tried the route approaching from the sea, but that is a dead end. The entering ship will sink to the bottom of the sea. The missile can't locate the lighthouse in the flash area. The missiles that were launched before are far from the flash tower. It seems that there is some kind of mysterious power, which is protecting the lighthouse. According to my analysis, only from the land, there is hope to get close to the flash tower. After crossing the bath, after the woods, walking along the beach, it is possible to reach the mysterious flash tower."
When Lek heard this, it was estimated that it was a special refraction environment in the flash area, which caused the missile to lose its target.
I don’t know the long-range strike of the main gun of my own Titan spaceship, and I can use it at a close distance.
However, after analyzing Leike, it should be a problem. Since Zhu Tian Online has given him the summoned battleship main gun card item, he has identified it, as long as he has specified the coordinates of the main gunship of the Titan family, and it is It can be used in the science world and in the world of copies of the universe.
If you get close to the inside of the flash tower, even if the flash has refraction or other characteristics, you can specify it to hit the coordinate target.
And this annihilation of the copy world, happens to belong to the science and technology related to the copy of the universe, the call card use restrictions are fully satisfied.
It is also because of this space warship master cannon call card, Rick dare to boldly enter this annihilation copy world.
Although this summons the card's Titan main gun attack radius, some small pity, only a radius of three meters is the hit range. However, Lake feels that since it is called the main gun of the Titan space warship, the power should not be weak, and the essence is concentrated.
As long as you locate the exact coordinates of the meteorite that originally fell into the lighthouse, if you can't hit it once, you will come back twice. Anyway, the summoning card can be used three times, which is a waste. If the conditions permit, he can also throw some white phosphorus burning grenade in the side.
Rick is now full of confidence in the task of destroying the flash tower.
"You wear less, go back first, if you want to see it, you can see it someday!" Vincius said to Lek and Lena, two people wearing sick clothes.
Lena nodded.
Rick understood the meaning of the middle-aged woman's Ventris, meaning that you have now seen the military's secret flash zone incident, and can not leave the military laboratory base in a short time.
Rick and Lena were once again sent back to the previous room with two single metal beds by Ventress.
"The calming dose in your body has not completely dissipated. Today, you may feel some vomiting and nausea, but it's all normal. I will send someone to bring food and clothes later. Your identity here, I need to Under the application of the superior, you are temporarily wronged today. You can't leave this room without me." The middle-aged woman, Ventress, told the two.
"Well, no problem, wait for more food when you send food. I was a little hungry before I was busy," said Reke.
Wentris listened to Lake's words, and did not expect that Lec adapted to the mysterious events of the Flash X area so quickly, and the university professor's heart was too strong.
"Dr. No. 2, you are a professor of archaeology at the university. I don't know the appearance of the flash X area brought about by your meteorite. What do you think of it? I want to hear from you. Insights.” Wentris asked Rick.
After listening to Lec, he realized that he is the identity of a professor of archaeology! Before, Lake only knew that he was replacing Lina's lover Dan, but what Dan taught at the university, Lake is not clear.
Upon hearing Vincius's inquiry, this Lec, who had just obtained the identity of the archaeology professor, thought about it and then flickered: "Do you know how the dinosaurs are extinct! There is a dinosaur extinction speculation theory, saying that it was during the dinosaur period. Because a large number of meteorites fell on the surface of the earth, causing a drastic change in the surface environment, and let the dinosaurs become extinct. I was not quite sure about the doctrine of the annihilation of dinosaurs before, but after watching this flash X area today, I have to believe that the dinosaurs are really The meteorite is extinct. I feel that the current human civilization, if it is not handled well, the meteorite in this lighthouse will also be extinct. I happened to study some dinosaurs were destroyed by the meteorite extinction theory, if I want to be able to observe the meteorites at close range If you do, you might be able to figure out how to destroy it or solve this unusual flash area."
After listening to Lake's words, Vincis nodded very seriously. "You will analyze the meteorite threat of falling into the Blackwater National Park Lighthouse. I will join my report later."
Ventress stayed in the room for a few more minutes, comforted Lena a few words, and left.
When Ventress left, he also locked the metal door of the room from the outside. As she said before, the identity of Lake and Lena has not been reported yet. Today, without her, she can’t The military experiment base moved around.
Rick and Lena each sat back on their little iron bed.
"Lena, do you feel that the iron bed is small, much smaller than the big bed in your home, or if we put together two small iron beds, after forming a big bed, you can sleep more comfortably tonight. "Rick said,
But Lena returned directly to Lake with a white eye and said: "No, when I was a soldier, I slept in a single bed. It is very accustomed to sleep in this single iron bed. If you are not used to it, you will find Vincius. You change rooms!"
"It’s not good to just come to Wenduis. She looks very busy. He still wants to save the world and destroy this flash X area. I can actually sleep in a single iron bed. I used to sleep when I was at school. This." Lake replied.
Rick didn't want to change the room to sleep. In this base, he could barely see the pleasing eye, now Lena.
And the woman in the original movie of Lena will be the eleventh person to enter the Flash X area, and she will follow her. See when she applied to join the eleventh batch of sent-to-death squad that explored the flash X area, and they also applied to join, so that the chance of being incomeed was greater.
If I live separately, Rick will now know his understanding of Lena. Lena certainly does not tell her that she has joined the expedition to send the death squad. She will leave herself alone and will not let her live and die together.
The two stayed in the room, Lena slept directly on her small iron bed, and Lake did not know if she was sleeping or sleeping.
Suo Leke is also lying on his small metal bed, thinking about the next main task.
Now my physical attributes have weakened. Fortunately, the skills are still there. The previous shooting ability to master the firearms is also there. If you give yourself a gun and enough ammunition, then Lake is not weaker than the special forces here.
It is estimated that after a few weeks, the eleventh exploration of the flash X area will begin.
Rick thought that the five-person woman led by the female psychiatrist who had cancer from Ventreus sent the death team, and it felt unreliable.
The five-person women's team can sneak up in the first instance, which is not conducive to the completion of this dangerous exploration mission.
Once inside the flash zone, Lake knows that he is entering the countdown to life and must arrive and destroy the flash tower within 200 days of the normal time of the copy world.
Otherwise, the value of the immune attribute will be exhausted, and the body will be infected by the flash area. Even if it is infected for even one day, the threat is not great. According to the tasks set by him, they will not let themselves leave the copy world. .
Rick feels that he now has two strategies to go after entering the flash zone.
The first plan is to follow the five-person women's team. After entering the flash zone, they will leave the team and go to the flash tower alone. The advantage is that you can act faster, you don't have to worry about the drag of the five-person women's team. The only danger is that you should be on the lookout for those mutant creatures. The unknown risks must be their own.
The second option is to follow the five-person women's team to the lighthouse in the flash area. On the road, they will take turns to watch the night, whether it is a vigil or a new nuisance in the flash area. If you face it with the five-person women's team, you can be relatively safe.
Rick thought for a while, or chose the second option. After all, his own attributes have been reduced. The variable biological strength in the flash area will now be strengthened by the online, and Lake is not sure now.
And in the end, Lena, the woman in the movie, can find the white phosphorus grenade left by her former husband and burn the flash tower.
Rick feels that he is acting with Lena, maybe he can have good luck, at least Geely.
Later, the metal door was opened and the two soldiers sent Lake and Lena a new set of clothes and two large boxes of rice and two bottles of mineral water.
After the two soldiers put down their things, they turned and left, and locked the door.
Rick and Lena, sitting in their small bed with a box of rice, began to eat.
After eating, Rick replaced the sick suit, and when Lek changed clothes, Lena didn't look at it.
Rake changed her clothes and looked at Lena. She didn't choose to change her clothes now, but put her clothes on her bed. It looks like she is going to wake up tomorrow and change.
"Tomorrow, try to get up early." Lake thought.