Building a Transfer Station

An hour later, Lin Tuo felt that he had seriously underestimated the scale of the Great Transfer.

There were simply too many living creatures pouring out from every corner of the continent. Even setting aside the animals that were too small, the number was still enormous.

Moreover, they did not all set out at the same speed, and in certain areas, it was not suitable to place paper.

Thus, after working at it for quite a while, he finally transferred the lives within his field of vision to the Western Mountains one by one using this method.

The process was not continuous. For instance, after moving away several batches, he still had to wait for the remaining creatures to gather together again.

Making use of that interval, Lin Tuo conveniently did something else as well.

"How do you remove Nuclear Pollution?"

Opening his laptop and connecting to the internet, Lin Tuo tried entering the question into a search engine.

Well, regardless of whether the Tako Continent would be kept, the radiation pollution had to be dealt with somehow.

The Annihilation Bomb was most likely not based on the same principles as Nuclear Weapons, but Lin Tuo did not know the technical details. Even if he did, he probably would not understand them... so he could only search for similar entries to find some inspiration:

"Methods for removing Nuclear Pollution: physical methods, chemical methods, electrochemical methods, combined physical-chemical methods, microbial removal methods, incineration, super-compression methods... soil removal and decontamination, forest restoration..."

Staring at the answer on the computer screen, Lin Tuo sank into a long silence.

So... what was this even saying?

He could not understand it...

Feeling rather helpless, Lin Tuo searched further and read through the details. Only after quite some time did he roughly figure it out.

Well, setting aside the unsuitable methods, the simplest way was to dig out the soil in the Sandbox and replace it with fresh soil. It was practically turning heaven and earth upside down, and could completely eliminate the pollution in an extremely short time.

"But if I do that... where am I supposed to put the waste I dig out..."

Lin Tuo estimated that for a Sandbox this large, even after all that shrinking, the matter inside could fill his little cart several times over.

It was all contaminated, radioactive matter. He could not just dig a huge pit somewhere on Li Mountain and bury it, could he?

Who knew what kind of pollution it was? What if it affected the surrounding environment?

"To be safe... I should let time wear it away."

After a brief consideration, Lin Tuo closed the computer and made his decision.

In his view, the safest method was to use time and let the plants within the Sandbox slowly purify the entire Sandbox until it was fully restored.

Under normal circumstances, this might take an extremely long time, but the Sandbox came with Time Acceleration, which could solve that problem.

"Well... then that's what I'll do. But Time Acceleration adjusts according to the complexity of the civilization inside the Sandbox, and that complexity involves every aspect.

"Moving the humans out of the Sandbox may not be enough. Perhaps I can clear away the buildings and facilities in the Wasteland as well... reduce the complexity..."

"Besides, I previously fooled them into thinking their world was about to end. I have to make good on that promise."

Mulling over these matters, Lin Tuo pushed open the door and walked out. Before long, he returned carrying two items.

The first was a bucket already filled with clean water. This was the tool he planned to use to wash the Wasteland clean and fulfill his promise of "the world's destruction."

Of course, he had no use for it yet, so he set it aside for the moment.

As for the other item, it was a Potted Plant the size of a fish tank.

Yes, a Potted Plant!

It did not belong to Lin Tuo, but to his late grandfather. It was an indoor ornament slightly more "advanced" than an ordinary flowerpot.

It had previously been left in the courtyard of the Martial Arts Hall, where it had become somewhat dilapidated.

However, when Lin Tuo cleaned up a few days ago, he had tended to it, wiped away the grime, and moved it into his bedroom to keep as a flowerpot.

Traditional bonsai generally came in two types: Landscape Bonsai and Tree Bonsai. His was the latter, and its Flower Tray was quite large.

At its center grew a plant shaped like a pine tree, with a classical form and a rich Eastern charm. Lin Tuo could not identify it, but he thought it looked quite nice.

"To clean up the Wasteland, I first need to move out the humans and those animals. Before the New Continent takes shape, I have to give them a temporary place to live—or rather, a Transfer Station."

Lin Tuo placed the Potted Plant on his desk and examined it carefully.

He planned to temporarily relocate the humans and animals in the Western Mountains into this Potted Plant.

The flowerpot's area naturally could not form an independent ecosystem, but it was more than enough to house them for a short time.

Especially since Lin Tuo could provide them with food. That meant they needed even less land.

"Well, its current state won't do. The soil particles in the flowerpot are bigger than humans... transferring them rashly... definitely won't work. I have to modify the Potted Plant a little...

"Well, the bottom can remain as it is, but at the very least, the surface layer cannot be this rough..."

"How should I alter it? Lay down a layer of paper? Or plastic wrap?" Lin Tuo thought for a while, then his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Right, I almost forgot. There's still plenty of sand piled up in the backyard."

Not long ago, when Lin Tuo had begun creating Sandbox No.1, he had used a shovel to clear out the entire Takk Desert and dumped the sand in the backyard with his cart.

Because of the Rules of the Evolution Sandbox, once that sand was removed, it became as fine as dust. Looking at it the other way around, that exceptionally tiny sand would appear to be normal-sized grains of sand to the humans inside the Sandbox.

It could not be more suitable for laying in the flowerpot.

Lin Tuo did not delay. He immediately went to the backyard and brought back some sand—most of it had already been scattered by the wind, but fortunately, there had been enough that some still remained.

Carefully removing and discarding the upper layer of soil from the flowerpot, he replaced it with sand and packed it down. With that, a patch of land large enough to house the lives from the Wasteland was complete.

As for the ornamental tree in the pot, Lin Tuo considered it and still chose to keep it.

"Well... it still feels like something is missing." After staring at the flowerpot on his desk for a while, Lin Tuo suddenly realized. "I can put in food and water, but supplying water won't be so convenient..."

The solution was simple as well.

Lin Tuo simply dug a small pit beneath the tree in the flowerpot. Then he casually grabbed a bottle of mineral water, unscrewed its cap, placed it inside, and buried the edges.

Afterward, he tried filling the cap with clean water. Considering the number of animals that needed to be transferred, Lin Tuo placed several more bottle caps.

"This should do it..."

Once he had finished everything, Lin Tuo let out a satisfied breath. Only then did he turn and transfer the remaining migration parties in the Sandbox to the Western Mountains.

When no more migration parties remained in his field of vision, Lin Tuo looked toward the Western Mountains. He saw that the mountains, once blanketed in gleaming white snow, were now covered with humans and wild beasts.

The hypnotic effect had not yet disappeared, so even gathered together, they did not slaughter one another.

Because there were so many of them, the heat radiating from their bodies had actually changed the local temperature. Much of the accumulated snow had melted, and it was no longer so cold.

Looking closely, the Evolvers of Blaze, Gray Mountain, and Floating Apocalypse had even taken the initiative to organize the refugees, separating them from the Mutant Beasts and occupying several mountaintops.

They waited for the Celestial's further guidance.

With so much life gathered in one place, the clamor they produced rose into the sky, making it impossible for even Lin Tuo to ignore.

"Looks like I can move on to the next step." Lin Tuo surveyed the continent, drew a deep breath, and finally lifted the bucket from the floor, attempting to pour more than half of its clean water into the Sandbox.

This land was too heavily polluted. It needed a thorough washing.

And so, at that very moment, the humans, birds, and beasts in the Western Mountains suddenly sensed an indescribable oppression.

They saw only that the eastern sky abruptly darkened, while clouds and mist churned.

Then, as though a hole had been torn open in the sky, endless "rainwater" poured down like the Heavenly River descending upon the world, crashing onto the earth and making the entire continent faintly tremble.

The once-noisy mountains fell silent in an instant.

All living beings turned toward the east in unison.

"Is our world... truly about to be destroyed?"

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