If Lu Ban was here, he might not recognize what this thing is at first, but if he thinks about it carefully, he can associate it with the fact that the visual distortion means that the space has been bent, and the bending of space must be accompanied by gravitational anomalies.
In other words, there is a wormhole here.
Frostheart instinctively sensed danger. She looked at the twisted wormhole that was emitting a faint glow, illuminating the surrounding walls with its firelight.
Then, Shuangxin saw that the cement wall was covered with scratches.
Those scratches looked like they were made by humans using their fingers to scratch the hard wall bit by bit, or like a monster tearing something apart. It was shocking and made people feel a piercing pain just by looking at it.
The singer stared at the wormhole, and she gently touched the distortion with the tablet she had just held in her hand.
Soon, the singer discovered that the originally angular plate was actually bending, as if it had melted, and was rotating along with the fluorescence around the wormhole.
She pulled the tablet back and found that the brick-like tablet had returned to its straight state.
With his eyes wide open, the singer put the tablet over again. He repeated the process twice. However, his hand slipped and he failed to hold the tablet firmly, causing it to fall in.
"ah!"
The singer cried out in surprise. She saw the tablet fall into the wormhole, shrink rapidly, and disappear.
"What's wrong?"
Frost Heart looked over.
“Fell, fell in…”
The singer pointed to the wormhole.
"...I'm afraid...this is the bridge for the swarm to come over."
Shuang Xin immediately remembered the content presented in the information.
Humans in the old days discovered a passage leading to a foreign land, and in order to open this passage called the "bridge", they needed to use some special methods. Frost Heart didn't know what these methods were, but she knew very well that the bridge in front of her now might be the original one.
In other words, this bridge may connect to the world where the Zerg is located, which is also the world where humans in the old days launched the Great Crusade.
"...The reason they didn't destroy this place is because they need to maintain the wormhole here so that they can go to that world after destroying us."
Frost Heart murmured to herself.
She felt that she had grasped some key points. Those thoughts were like green smoke, spreading around her, looming, as if she could grasp them with just a stretch of her hand, and as if they would dissipate if she touched them.
"…Maintaining the wormhole?"
The singer didn't quite understand. Although she had heard Lu Ban and Shuang Xin mention these things, she didn't have such a real feeling and couldn't accurately understand the meaning.
"...Yes, that's right. To maintain the wormhole, the swarm cannot build a bridge on their own. They can only rely on other creatures to open the channel!"
Frost Heart felt that the mist around her had turned into a solid entity. She reached out and grabbed the cloud. In the mist, she held a gray-white thread firmly.
Lu Ban had discussed a similar topic with her, which was whether the consciousness uploading technology of humans in the old times was really realized.
Are the humans who become the Zerg real humans, or are they just mimics of the Zerg?
If that was just the swarm's mimicry, then the swarm's behavior patterns would be easy to understand.
They roam the universe, searching for planets to colonize, and sometimes conduct long-distance expeditions by teaching how to build bridges.
If those monsters could freely create wormholes to travel through, then they wouldn't have to go through the trouble of deceiving humans. They could just open a hole in the sky and swarm in.
"So, if we can destroy this place, then at least this wormhole will disappear, and the swarm will no longer be able to invade our world through this wormhole."
The more Frost Heart thought about it, the more she felt that she had found the key point and the way to save the world.
"If we find all the wormholes and destroy them, then at least our world won't produce new swarms of insects. Next, as long as we eliminate all the existing swarms of insects, then maybe we can really get rid of this biggest threat!"
She suddenly became excited.
However, this place is obviously very solid and cannot be destroyed by normal means. Frost Heart herself can only freeze creatures with water in their bodies and cannot do anything with these stones. The singer's voice is more like mental control.
"Let's go find him."
Shuangxin thought of Lu Ban.
She and the singer hurried upstairs and back to the rocket launch pad.
At this time, the sky became a little darker, and the afternoon sun was gray, as if covered by a veil.
Frost Heart saw that a sandstorm seemed to be rising in the desert in the distance, and a gust of black wind swept towards here.
"It's a sandstorm."
At a speed visible to the naked eye, the sandstorm has arrived near the industrial park.
Frost Heart and the Singer hurriedly hid back in the passage, and the next moment, a huge wave of sound filled their ears.
Crackle, clackle, clackle——
The sandstorms in the wasteland are not like the storms in Lu Ban's world that have become gentle due to the reduction of windbreaks and cities. In the sandstorms here, the speed of sand and gravel is far faster than the speed of sound, and sometimes stones weighing more than ten pounds will be swept into the sky. If you are in a sandstorm, it will only take tens of seconds for humans to become meat paste and be carried into the sky at a speed of tens of kilometers per second along with the storm.
This time the storm was apparently quite severe.
Frost Heart was a little worried about whether Lu Ban, Shanshan and the others were safe, but in the face of the loud noise, no one dared to leave the shelter, as that would be tantamount to seeking death.
"I don't know what the future city will be like. This sandstorm might destroy their energy collection equipment."
Frost Heart thought again that those mirror-like solar panels would obviously not be able to escape the disaster in this sandstorm. She only hoped that the storm would avoid Future City, so that those robots could at least exist for a while longer.
Fortunately, the storm went away quickly as it came.
About ten minutes later, the storm outside finally subsided.
Frost Heart saw that a large amount of gravel had accumulated at the entrance, and it took them some time to finally clear a path and climb out.
The entire industrial park looked even more dilapidated, as if it had been plowed by something.
Looking back, Shuangxin saw that some of the structure of the rocket launch platform seemed to have been blown away and it was in danger.
She hurriedly looked towards the house where Lu Ban and Shanshan were. Although it seemed that a layer of wall had been blown off, it was at least still standing.
Just when she felt relieved, the singer next to her tugged at the corner of her clothes.
"What... is that?"
The singer's voice trembled slightly, revealing fear.
Frost Heart immediately turned around and looked in the direction the singer's finger was pointing.
That was the direction the sandstorm was coming from, and there, between the horizon of the desert and the sky, there was a bit of black pollution.
Out of instinct, Frost Heart immediately determined the nature of those things.
That was the outermost scout of the Zerg swarm.