The best way to face loneliness is to think.

When a person is trapped in eternal loneliness, the only way to help him maintain his humanity and not lose his sociality in loneliness is to not let his thinking stagnate.

Recalling the past, analyzing the present, and looking forward to the future are the only and necessary things that lonely people must do.

Chen Feng didn't understand this truth before.

Even when he was a teenager with the most introverted personality, he never really tasted the loneliness of being completely isolated.

There are always people around him, even strangers and enemies are people, and they will have intersections with him.

Now he may not really understand it.

He did not summarize these truths, but his behavior quietly conformed to this law.

He just persisted in constant self-reminders, self-spurring and self-encouragement.

In order to fulfill a long-standing ambition, live up to the ability to travel through time and space given by fate, not wanting to see the end of the world again, and unable to give up the desire to see his peers escape the end of the world and get the future, he has persisted until now.

This is a very extreme situation, which usually only exists in fantasy, just like Robinson in "Robinson Crusoe".

But Robinson's hope is that he can always remember his family on the other side of the ocean, while Chen Feng's reason is that he will naturally return to the 21st century after death.

One is to cross space, and the other is to cross time. They seem similar, but in fact they are completely different

. Chen Feng's feeling is that even though he knows that day will come sooner or later, he can't help but feel a sense of illusion and unreality.

In the past six months, this mood has quietly emerged from his heart, spreading out bit by bit, soaking his heart like the spring rain that moistens everything silently.

Chen Feng has tried his best to resist and not let himself be idle. Even if a person is busy all day and tries to stay awake, he will inevitably be affected to some extent.

Now, the appearance of the song "Happiness to the Nth Power" instantly solved Chen Feng's sense of unreality, connecting him now with Zhong Lei who lived on this planet thousands of years ago, creating a new fulcrum for him.

Chen Feng sat on a chair, holding his chin with both hands, and raising his head at a 45-degree angle.

His eyes were wide open, his gaze was confused and scattered, and there seemed to be spots of light jumping in his eyes.

This went on for about ten minutes before he came back to his senses and his eyes slowly focused.

The countless clues in his mind had quietly gathered together like twine, forming a complete plan and a rope that was enough for him to climb the cliff.

Then Chen Feng quickly stood up and ran straight to the cockpit. He first turned on the gravitational wave scanner on Morning Breeze No. 1 and narrowed the scanning range to within 300 meters, just covering the giant whale's body.

The purpose of reducing the scanning range is to improve accuracy.

Chen Feng held the mouse in his hand, dragged the screen on the LED display, and once again positioned it on the giant whale's body that was generated like a 3D model.

After discovering the square box inside, Chen Feng did not look elsewhere and started digging excitedly.

If he had not returned to a meditative state and started to think carefully and comprehensively, he might have really forgotten to continue exploring the secrets in the giant whale's belly.

He kept scrolling the wheel, zooming in and out, just like an architectural design engineer looking at a CAD drawing.

After about ten minutes, he really found something strange.

In a wrinkled area deep in the giant whale's intestines, there is a lot of "garbage" piled up.

This garbage is usually composed of the remains of marine animal bones digested by the giant whale, mainly various large and small fish bones.

These bones will be slowly digested and become a source of calcium for the giant whale.

Chen Feng had noticed this pile of bones before, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

At that time, his focus was to find the antimatter biobattery components in the giant whale's body, but then his attention was attracted by non-organic matter.

He also did not narrow the scanning range of the gravitational wave detector before, and the monitoring accuracy was not enough to accurately display the shape of small and medium-sized fish bones. He could only distinguish two or three complete fish bones that were suspected to be sharks and large swordfish.

But now Chen Feng carefully observed and found some abnormal bones in this pile of fish bones.

Continue to zoom in and observe with the naked eye.

Chen Feng frowned, and he quickly figured out what it was.

A piece of human finger bone.

Searching one by one, he found more and more human bones.

Arm bones, ribs, leg bones... and a large pile of skull fragments pressed underneath, some the size of a palm and some the size of a fingernail.

Ten minutes later, he carefully picked out all the bones with a robotic arm.

An hour later, Chen Feng glued the skull fragments together with glue like he was piecing together a treasure map.

There was an unexpected surprise, as he thought there would be incomplete parts, but the final product was very complete.

Half an hour later, Chen Feng completed the facial simulation and reconstruction using a program he wrote.

Looking at the photo on the display screen, Chen Feng sighed.

It was a little unexpected, but also reasonable.

The owner of this face was Sergei.

According to the automatic identification of the age of the bones, Sergei was only in his twenties when he died.

So Sergei is dead after all, and died very young?

If it were the previous Chen Feng, he would probably have a mental explosion, but now he quickly adjusted himself, just sighed, and continued to move.

Then he operated the robotic arm to quickly collect the beach chairs, parasols, grills and other things on the shore, and immediately set off back to his base where materials were stored in the coastal city.

He took a nap first, and got up early the next morning to start assembling equipment.

By the evening, he built a half-life detector with a detection accuracy of up to thirty days based on the disassembled parts scanning probe on the quark instrument.

The test results show that the CD player is not very old, less than 30 years old.

The time when Sergei's skeleton stopped showing signs of life is basically the same as the CD player, which is also less than 30 years old.

New doubts arise.

It means that about 30 years ago, Sergei, who was less than 20 years old, was buried in the belly of a fish, and because his bones were unusually tough, he and the CD player were hidden in the belly of a giant whale for 30 years.

On the surface, this makes sense, but in fact there are logical loopholes.

First of all, Sergei Ponomarenko was born in 2543, which should not change.

In this timeline, 2543 must be a chaotic war era, which is a good opportunity for Sergei to take advantage of the situation.

But 2543 is 477 years away from 3020, and 437 years away from 2990.

How could Sergei be less than 20 years old in 2990?

So maybe I didn't travel to 3020, but around 2593?

But Chen Feng measured the half-life of some other things and could clearly determine that he was in 3020.

The contradiction could not be solved.

Chen Feng continued to force the deduction.

There are two possibilities.

First, Sergei, who was less than 20 years old, mastered the human body cryogenic technology, and woke up more than 30 years ago, and then was swallowed by a giant whale.

Second, Sergei obtained the technology that can rejuvenate and lived until he died 30 years ago.

But these two possibilities are actually unrealistic.

Assuming that the possibility is true, then if Sergei is really dead, and thirty years have passed, with the information transmission ability of ZS bacteria and the connection between ZS bacteria carrier animals, the part about Sergei in the hostile instructions should have gradually dissipated, but it did not.

Whenever Chen Feng wanted to answer a question, he would always get more questions.

If it were him before, he would have given up thinking, but this time he decided to continue to think deeply.

Gradually, the third possibility emerged from the depths of his mind.

Sergei cloned himself and established a secret base. In the past five hundred years, he has been cloning himself using the automatically set default program.

The owner of the corpse is not Sergei, but his clone.

After each of Sergei's clones died, a new Sergei would appear at regular intervals.

Therefore, the animals have been chasing him. After

this judgment came out, Chen Feng hesitated for less than ten seconds before he determined that this seemed to be only possible, but it was actually inevitable.

Therefore, a new focus has emerged.

Where is Sergei's secret base?

How many things are still stored in his secret base?

The quantum storm in Chen Feng's mind erupted again, and a huge amount of information gushed out like a fountain.

Although the giant whale he killed was a mutant, it should have been a blue whale before the mutation.

In the 21st century, what was the distribution of blue whales on Earth, and what were the activity patterns of large blue whales?

Sergei's personal character and inclinations are revealed in his life story.

If automated cloning is to be achieved and such precise control can be maintained after more than 400 years, then this technology must not only be the work of Sergei alone, but another genius in the 26th century who is older than him, Lai Wenming, is also likely to be involved. Then,

considering the personality traits of these two people, the world environment at that time, and the life patterns of blue whales, Chen Feng gradually came to a conclusion.

The place where the giant whale ate Sergei's clone did not happen on the Asian continent, but on another Australian continent!

Australia has always been characterized by vast land and sparse population, and is far away from other continents, making it an enclave.

Sergei is a crazy scientist who often has crazy ideas. Lai Wenming is not much better.

In the timeline when the S bacteria first appeared, it was Australia where Lai Wenming completed his self-improvement and stepped onto the historical stage.

So it is not surprising that there are some fateful ties between Lai Wenming and the Australian continent.

So if these two people join forces to build a base, they will most likely choose the enclave of Australia.

After making up his mind, Chen Feng took off decisively, crossed the Pacific Ocean, and headed straight for Australia.

Time flies, and he stayed in Australia for another month.

During this month, he kept hunting animals and collecting more information.

At the same time, he continued to explore the sites of various cities and towns in Australia that were sparsely distributed but still existed, as well as road relics such as large railways connecting settlements.

On the afternoon of June 1, 3020, Chen Feng input the reconstructed road network map and urban distribution points, as well as the comprehensive distribution of mutant animals into the server, and then projected them onto the large display in front of him.

He sat there, his eyes focused, scanning the map with his naked eyes while frantically driving his intuition to deduce in his mind.

After four hours, he slowly stood up, picked up a pen, and drew a small circle on the hand-drawn map of the Australian continent.

Go ahead!

Head straight to Hamersley Ridge!