Zhang Tianyuan remembered that this movie had only appeared a few years before he time-traveled.
It skipped theatrical release and premiered directly online.
The story is set after an unprecedented solar storm, which destroyed Earth's ozone layer and caused a sharp increase in temperature and ultraviolet radiation.
Outdoor temperatures are so high that you can make popcorn directly in the sun, and a human hand will be burned in just a few seconds if placed in the sunlight.
Almost no living organisms can survive in temperatures that average as high as 70 degrees Celsius.
Vegetation on Earth is rapidly disappearing, and soil is gradually becoming desertified.
Most animals also went extinct because they could not adapt to the sudden increase in sunlight.
At the same time, humanity also faced annihilation after this disaster.
The disappearance of plants and animals led to food shortages, and survivors began to kill each other to compete for the scarce resources.
The film's protagonist Finch, suffers from a serious illness and lives cautiously alone in the apocalypse.
Knowing he was nearing the end of his life, his only wish was that someone would take care of the dog he had adopted after he died.
So the protagonist, an engineer by training, creates an intelligent robot named Jeff, intending to train it to take the place of a human and care for his only attachment after his death.
However, just as the robot was born, a superstorm lasting for forty days was about to strike. The shelter could not withstand this level of disaster, so the protagonist had no choice but to embark on the final journey of his life with the robot and the dog...
This is most of the plot that Zhang Tianyuan can recall.
This movie isn't complicated; it's just a road movie set in a post-apocalyptic world, and the plot is quite touching.
The most distinctive features are probably the surface temperature reaching 70 degrees Celsius and the desertified landscape.
In that case, protective suits are essential before entering this world. They must not only maintain a constant temperature but also protect against ultraviolet radiation; otherwise, skin cancer could occur in no time.
Zhang Tianyuan opened a Spacetime Tunnel and the next second appeared in the intermediate school at Tong Wenshi's stronghold, sitting down and carefully recalling the information revealed in the movie...
Until a call request comes through the system communication.
Zhang Tianyuan finally snapped out of his reverie.
The person requesting the call was Ke Jinjun.
Since their exploration was interrupted by a monster attack in the game world, Ke Jinjun didn't rest for more than a few days in the Wandering Spacetime before leading a group of people back.
For some time now, he and the other soldiers have been staying in the game world, studying the mechanics of the "game".
In particular, the special resources that Zhang Tianyuan specifically mentioned were needed.
Glazed Wood, Meteoric Iron, Radiant Stone.
These are essential materials for building a Level 4 hospital and a Level 5 training camp.
In addition, Ke Jinjun also led a research team to study the specifics of the game world.
Zhang Tianyuan guessed that the call was related to these two things.
Sure enough, as soon as Ke Jinjun answered the call, he excitedly expressed his hope that he would come over.
Zhang Tianyuan readily agreed.
They then left the school.
However, he did not immediately go to the game world to meet Ke Jinjun.
Instead, they first traveled to the Wandering Spacetime.
I consulted with Sun Deyi about whether the ground protective suit they were mass-producing—the red suit Liu Qi wore when he went to the surface in the movie—could be used in high-temperature environments.
As expected, the protective suit was designed for use in situations where Earth would be de-orbited and subjected to low temperatures and pressures.
In other words, it can only keep you warm, not cool you down.
If used in a hot environment, it will only turn into a rice dumpling in a steamer.
However, after figuring out Zhang Tianyuan's purpose, Sun Deyi immediately proposed another plan.
"If it needs to be used at high temperatures, we also have another version of the protective suit, specifically for personnel working in high-temperature positions inside the Planetary Engine."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Tianyuan's eyes lit up, and he immediately asked, "Could we add another layer of ultraviolet protective clothing inside this protective suit?"
Sun Deyi immediately said there was no problem.
After agreeing on the delivery time, Zhang Tianyuan left the Wandering Spacetime and returned to the game world once again.
"How about it?"
Zhang Tianyuan appeared beside Ke Jinjun, and casually glanced at the space in front of them.
This is a house built of cement, and it can be basically confirmed that Ke Jinjun and his men built it.
Even upon hearing a sudden voice beside him, Ke Jinjun remained calm. He glanced at Zhang Tianyuan to confirm his identity, then said, "Chairman, during this time, we have systematically organized all the intelligence obtained from the last expedition."
Zhang Tianyuan nodded and sat down with Ke Jinjun, gesturing for him to slowly...
explain.
"First of all, the most peculiar thing about this world is that we can't see the curvature of planets."
Zhang Tianyuan had a sudden thought and already guessed what was going on. The subsequent developments did not surprise him.
Ke Jinjun produced a report:
"During our previous voyage, we were able to determine that the spacetime we are currently in has no planetary curvature, meaning it is a completely flat space."
"Just like the ancient Chinese legend of a round heaven and a square earth, we don't know yet whether the heaven is round or not, but the earth is definitely square."
Zhang Tianyuan nodded, "If there's no planetary curvature, then what about the gravitational coefficient?"
"It's basically the same as Earth, so we don't feel any difference."
As Ke Jinjun spoke, he couldn't help but marvel at the uniqueness of this time and space.
Logically, gravity, or gravitational force, should have a center, just as all the matter on Earth tightly surrounds the Earth's core.
Only in this way can humanity stand firm on Earth.
This spacetime does not have planetary curvature.
This means that the mass of the planet beneath our feet is either so enormous that its curvature is not visible even when sailing on the ocean.
Or it defies common sense that there is no center of gravity, like a fantasy world.
If the first possibility is true, a planet of this mass would have gravity so great that it would be unbearable for humans.
In other words, it can only be the second possibility.
As expected of a super civilization.
Both Zhang Tianyuan and Ke Jinjun felt that this technology was too exaggerated.
This level of artificial gravity is beyond the current comprehension of humankind.
"And then? What other intelligence was gathered from the last voyage?"
Ke Jinjun said, "After communicating with other players over this period of time, we believe that during our last voyage, our fleet may have reached the edge of the 'map'."
"The edge of the map?" Zhang Tianyuan's gaze darkened, and his voice became excited. "You mean you've reached the end of this world?"
Ke Jinjun nodded. "Yes, the waters we sailed through last time were probably the edge of the map, and those terrifying monsters might be the guardians there."
"During this period, we provided targeted guidance to other players, enabling them to build more advanced hot air balloons and unlock airspace within 600 meters."
"This is what we've achieved over this period of time, and some of it is a bit strange." He submitted a report to Zhang Tianyuan.
The report shows that during this period, Ke Jinjun used the unlocked airspace to launch long-range drones and piloted them to places they had never been before.
However, after flying to the area of sea that appeared to be the edge of the map, the drone seemed to have hit an invisible wall and was destroyed.
Afterwards, Ke Jinjun repeatedly used the same trick, launching drones in all directions, which easily allowed him to test the rough area of the "map".
It covers approximately 100 million square kilometers, which is more than half the area of Pacific Ocean.
The land area is approximately 8 million square kilometers.
It's a bit bigger than Australia.
Moreover, the terrain is mostly islands.
What is called the mainland is actually just a larger island.
Zhang Tianyuan continued reading and soon came across the somewhat strange part of Ke Jinjun's speech—
The results obtained from spectral analysis of the air wall in the marginal sea area were quite unexpected.
Because the spectrometer detected a large amount of polluting gas behind the air wall.
For example, carbon dioxide.
This is a typical characteristic of industrial emissions.
"Therefore, we speculate that there may be another world behind that invisible wall, and that world may have already entered the industrial age."
Zhang Tianyuan closed his eyes and pondered for a while. When he opened them again, he agreed with the views put forward by Ke Jinjun and others, and added a few small points.
"Behind the invisible wall, it's not another world, it must be another server!"
He spoke slowly.
He was increasingly surprised.
He glimpsed the game's deeper mechanics for the first time.
It turns out that the essence of this Lord Game might just be a series of areas separated by "partitions".
A certain number of players are deployed to each region, which then becomes a server.
After thinking about it, Ke Jinjun quickly agreed with Zhang Tianyuan's point of view.
This is indeed a possibility. Xxs-②
"In addition, we detected radio waves at the edge of the invisible wall, but the number of times was too few, and the amount of information was insufficient for us to crack its inner workings."
Allow..."
After finishing the thick report, Zhang Tianyuan gained a deeper understanding of the Lord Game.
"President, what are our next steps?"
"How's the exploration of the resource points going?" Zhang Tianyuan suddenly asked.
"We have located the resource site for Glazed Wood and are now attempting to harvest it."
As he spoke, Ke Jinjun took out a transparent branch that looked like glass, from which the internal veins of the branch could be clearly seen.
"This is Glazed Wood."
Zhang Tianyuan took the strange piece of wood with its fine details, held it in his hand and played with it for a while. He found that the surface of this wood had a fish-scale-like feel and was very, very light.
If you look closely, you can see that its bark is layered.
The texture of fish scales comes from this.
It's more accurate to call this a gemstone than a piece of wood.
Zhang Tianyuan turned to look at the system.
At this moment, a prompt appeared on the panel, asking him whether he wanted to add this piece of Glazed Wood to the system warehouse.
Selecting "Yes" caused the Glazed Wood to instantly disappear from Zhang Tianyuan's hand.
Ke Jinjun wasn't too surprised, and calmly reported on the mining situation at the ore site:
"This wood is exceptionally hard. We deployed eight professional logging machines, and all of them are now broken down. We've only managed to harvest four tons."
"As far as we know, other players previously didn't even have the tools to cut down these trees."
"Not even arson is allowed?" Zhang Tianyuan asked.
Ke Jinjun shook his head. "No, this kind of wood has very good fire resistance, and even if we set it on fire, it will crack and break completely, making it unusable."
Zhang Tianyuan understood.
Ke Jinjun and his team clearly hadn't figured out why this piece of wood was so peculiar; otherwise, they would have explained the underlying principles to him directly.
He took out the piece of Glazed Wood again and tried to cut it using Spacetime Tunnel.
The result was as expected.
The Spacetime Tunnel flashed by in my hand, and before the wood could react, it had already broken in two.
Moreover, the cross-section is incredibly smooth.
Seeing this, Zhang Tianyuan stood up and said to Ke Jinjun, "Let's go, I'll take you to cut down trees."
The gaming world has become much more volatile lately.
Liu Huo had a clear understanding of this.
The Yanhuang Alliance, which had previously been advocating for stockpiling resources and delaying the declaration of kingship, now has nearly half of its members saying they no longer want to play.
They decided to return to modern society by joining the Mutual Aid Society.
The remaining people also chose to cooperate with the Mutual Aid Society so that they could leave the game world at any time.
He was one of these people.
Compared to the previous independent or allied relationships between players, they are now more like subordinates of Mutual Aid Society.
Everyone does their best to help the Mutual Aid Society Mutual Aid Society, in exchange for various modern items.
For example, beverages, paper, condiments, or other special items you might want...
Each person can do different things for the Mutual Aid Society. Liu Huo knew about several resource points and shared them with the Mutual Aid Society, which is why he was able to profit from them.
This includes the Glazed Wood resource point that Zhang Tianyuan and Ke Jinjun have just arrived at.
The two jumped over using the resident's location data.
Looking at the grove of trees before him, their trunks straight and resembling Topol poplars, Ke Jinjun said, "This resource site isn't very large. According to our estimates, there are a total of two hundred trees here, yielding approximately five hundred tons of resources."
The small grove in front of us could be seen to its end at a glance; it certainly wasn't very large.
Since the first batch of logging machines brought in has all broken down, there are only a few people on duty in the Glass Forest now.
After summoning these people, Zhang Tianyuan aimed at the area in front of him and delivered a Spacetime Cutting close to the ground.
Whoosh!
The sounds of trees collapsing echoed one after another, and the tall glass tree crashed to the ground.
Zhang Tianyuan entered the scene and personally stored the Glazed Wood into the Spacetime Warehouse.
Although these trees are lightweight, they are still incredibly thick, each one as large as a palace pillar, too heavy for one person to encircle.
A short while later, Zhang Tianyuan finished collecting the items and checked the weight displayed in the system.
520 tons.
It's an auspicious number, enough to cover the expenses of a level-four hospital.
After some brief consideration, Zhang Tianyuan decided to place the Level 4 hospital in the domestic part of the Legend Spacetime, just as before.
The 2012 timeline is out of the question; the Wandering Spacetime are all underground cities with no extra space, and the Pacific Rim Spacetime is currently not within the core system of the Mutual Aid Society...
Legend Spacetime is the best place.