Exploration

Xu Ran was disappointed.

He thought that through the surveillance video on the memory card brought back from the fragmented city, he could find out what kind of disaster happened in the world exactly like the earth, which collapsed into fragmented space.

However, the video was seen from the beginning to the end, except for some transparent shadows and mysterious fluctuations in the last five minutes, no other abnormal findings were found.

In other words, it is likely that the power was cut off early, or the equipment was damaged, so that the monitoring did not record the scene content when the disaster occurred.

The only clues left in the video are the mysterious fluctuations and transparent shadows that appeared in the last five seconds of the screen.

Xu Ran repeatedly watched the content many times, and even cut the picture and zoomed in to study it. He still couldn't figure out what the transparent shadow was and what the mysterious wave was.

But Xu Ran was not in a hurry.

Although it is unknown how much time has passed in the fragmented space, there will always be some important clues left for him to explore and investigate in that fully preserved city.

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The night is long, and the wind outside remains the same.

At this time in the past, Xu Ran mostly stayed in front of the office computer after sorting out the used goods in the warehouse, updating the information of the goods in the online store, and seeing if anyone placed an order.

Once someone places an order for payment, he will bring the goods to the collection station set up by a courier company not far from here overnight, so that they can ship to the buyer as soon as possible.

But now, all Xu Ran's mind was already firmly attracted by the fragmented city in the different space hidden in the mysterious metal object.

After researching and testing the items brought back from the fragmented city, he knew very well that the city in the fragmented space contained in the mysterious metal object that survived the disaster is a huge city that can bring him infinite wealth. Treasure.

After two experiments, Xu Ran also has a general understanding of the energy supplement and consumption of mysterious metal objects.

In order to replenish the mysterious metal block, Xu Ran spent half a year through a number of experiments. During this process, the experiment failed a lot, and finally achieved success by introducing drought and lightning.

It's just that the weather of thunder and lightning does not occur frequently, so this method of energy storage can only be regarded as a dumb method, and it needs to be studied and improved.

In terms of energy consumption, Xu Ran explored and brought back some small objects with a total weight of only ten kilograms. Together with his own entry and exit, it consumed about one-fifth of the energy, indicating that the consumption is still relatively large. .

Not only that, Xu Ran discovered that he lost a lot of water in his body during the process of entering and exiting, and he didn't know what caused it.

Regarding this question, Xu Ran planned to enter the fragmented city to do another experiment.

This time, Xu Ran will make some preparations.

He randomly picked a few small pieces of old goods weighing no more than five kilograms in the warehouse, brought a three-liter bottle of mineral water, a mechanical watch, and some small snacks to eat, and put those things into him from the debris. In the bag brought back from the world.

Subsequently, Xu Ran chose an open space in the warehouse, adjusted the newly brought back and extremely powerful future mobile phone to the position where the video mode was directly opposite, and then set the timing with another mobile phone. After the function, he once again entered that mysterious space.

This time I entered, very smoothly.

There was still the familiar world in a lead-grey tone, and it didn't change much from what Xu Ran saw and felt the last time he entered.

However, the place where Xu Ran came in changed. It was not the village or town, but was directly sent to an empty space near the city.

There was an irregular big rock near the open space, and the protruding part was only five centimeters above the ground. Xu Ran vaguely felt that the big rock seemed to contain a kind of energy.

I remember that when I first came in near that village, there seemed to be stones a little smaller than here, but I didn't pay attention.

Xu Ran guessed that there was a change in the place where he was sent in, which might have a subtle connection with the stone, so he took a sample and planned to take it back to study it.

But the main goal of this entry was not these. Xu Ran checked the bag he brought in the first time.

Surprisingly, except for the bottle of water, which was about one-third less, everything else was the same, and there was no qualitative change.

In this fragmented city, looking around, there are no traces of hardened roads outdoors, except for the dry gray ground, there are only those well-preserved buildings.

But in the surveillance video, he saw exactly the same scene as on the earth, with roads extending in all directions, pedestrians passing by, and vehicles galloping across.

But now, apart from the vast flat gray land and well-preserved buildings, there is nothing else outdoors.

It can also be said that anything related to survival, such as food, water, microorganisms, etc., does not exist here.

This phenomenon makes Xu Ran puzzled.

Xu Ran chose the most conspicuous iconic building in this fragmented city, which was once the city's former commercial center.

He went to the highest floor overlooking the entire city and looked at the whole situation, but found some anomalies, that is, most of the urban buildings in this fragmented space seemed to be in a slightly inclined state.

But Xu Ran stayed in the building, but couldn't feel it at all.

There is nothing outdoors, but in those buildings, everything remains intact, and there are many technological crystallizations and civilization clues that can be found in this world, which is exactly the same as the earth, just a timeline. 20 years ahead of schedule.

Of course, Xu Ran didn't come in this time to find the truth about the fragmentation of this world, and the secrets contained here that need to be verified through testing and experiments.

With his current conditions, it is impossible to build a large-scale laboratory and various experimental instruments to crack and find the truth behind this fragmented world, even all kinds of very professional experimental equipment and testing tools he cannot afford.

As we all know, doing scientific research is very expensive.

To study the mysteries of this mysterious space in depth, Xu Ran must have a strong research team and invest massive amounts of funds.

Therefore, Xu Ran entered the Fragment City this time, his primary purpose is to use the resources of the Fragment City in this space to create wealth for himself.

Putting the old goods from the warehouse on a table, Xu Ran picked up the electronic timer and found that the time on it was still flashing at the point before he entered the space, and it was not counting normally.

After adjusting the time of the timer to 19 o'clock in the earth time, the timer began to beat normally, and nothing abnormal happened.

Xu Ran found a drawing board and stood on the highest floor of the fragmented city. Using this building as the center and reference, first outlined the outline of the fragmented city.

Once you have a rough outline of the city, plan the roads according to the gaps between the buildings, and then mark the buildings of some special functional agencies, add some eye-catching and recognizable buildings nearby, and draw a rough Simple map.

Because he will search for this fragmented city in the future, he will mark each place he has searched on the map, which can reduce time-consuming repeated searches.

As the saying goes, sharpening the knife and not cutting wood by mistake, it is necessary to make some planning in advance.

After drawing a simple map, Xu Ran began to search from the top floor of this commercial building and classify and count those well-preserved materials.

However, searching for such a 19-story building requires a lot of time and effort.

After taking a short break, eating something and drinking some water, Xu Ranyi spent about seven hours before basically taking an inventory of the well-preserved materials in this building.

However, some floors are like locked safes and metal closed doors that cannot be opened temporarily. He just made rough statistics.

After summing up, there are tens of thousands of well-preserved items in this building, thousands of valuables, and dozens of vehicles in the underground garage.

Especially among those vehicles, there are many luxury cars. Although they look distraught, they have no fuel or electricity. They are not useful, and any Xu Ran can't drive away.

However, there are certain factors that limit the carrying of items back to Earth. Xu Ran needs to understand the key. His attention does not stop on those vehicles.

After basically searching the entire building, Xu Ran did not search elsewhere.

Staying in this space for seven or eight hours made him feel a little tired.

He picked a few valuable diamond rings and gold jewelry, and put a few experimental items that he brought in from the earth into the bag, estimated to weigh ten kilograms in total, Xu Ran took out the mysterious metal block and opened the space door to return. Earth.