Chapter 20

The text on the virtual panel came to an end.

Lin Tuo silently thought, put away the entire panel, and then began to deal with follow-up matters.

Drink cold strong tea, pack the takeaway box filled with instant noodles, brush teeth.

Fortunately, there was no one at home. His sloppy appearance wouldn’t not be seen.

After finishing all this, Lin Tuo threw himself on the chair helplessly. He felt weak and his body seemed to be overdrawn.

“I actually talked for five days and four nights? I feel that the teachers in my old make-up class are not as diligent as I am…”

Silently complaining in his heart, Lin Tuo looked at the sandbox that had already started the time acceleration again, and he felt a little emotional.

“Five days and four nights” is naturally a somewhat inaccurate figure. During which he took a lot of rest, but overall, it was indeed a big undertaking. Luckily, the final results look good.

In the end, his scene of “walking away and leaving” was thought of beforehand.

His purpose by doing that was to further strengthen authority.

“This way of leaving will definitely leave a deep impression on Chi Dynasty’s ruling and opposition parties. In this way, out of awe for God or for saints, the development policy I set for them can probably be implemented smoothly.”

Of course, all this will not have immediate effect.

As civilization in the sand table evolves and the complexity of society increases, the proportion of time flow rate will further decrease.

Lin Tuo estimated that it would take at least one or two days for the Ether under the creative mode to significantly improve.

Anyway, as long as it was faster than normal, it would not be in vain.

As for the Ether in the Observation Mode…well, although more than a week has passed, the Ether concentration in the Yangcheng area is still in a low state.

With a light sigh, Lin Tuo raised his hand and picked up the phone, ready to order a breakfast, and then take a rest.

But at this moment, suddenly, a series of messages popped up from his chatting app.

Lin Tuo found that it was from a non-work group in his original company department. The group owner just sent a message and notified all the members. Immediately the chat exploded with many people.

“What happened?”

“What’s up?”

Group owner: “Look at the link I sent! The live broadcast of blowing up the barrier in the Taklimakan Desert!”

Seeing this line of words, Lin Tuo was not sleepy anymore.

Blasting it open by force?!

After thinking about it a little bit, he remembered that he did see rumors about something like this in the first two days. Various detection methods failed one by one, therefore, the research team outside the Tuck Desert seemed to be preparing to try explosives.

That is, a large quantity of explosives would be buried, and the isolation cover, that is, the shell of the sandbox isolation cover, would be blasted at a fixed point.

This plan was proposed very early, but it had not been passed.

Lin Tuo still remembered that some people on the Internet had previously judged that if the research did not make progress, forcibly opening it was almost inevitable.

Unexpectedly, this plan was not only passed, but would be implemented this morning.

In fact, it was Lin Tuo who devoted his energy to teaching in the sandbox and didn’t know about it.

‘Fortunately, someone in the group posted about it, otherwise I would really miss it.’

…

He sat upright, and then thought about it. Instead of clicking directly, he opened the link in the group chat with his laptop on the table and successfully entered a live broadcast room.

The title of the live broadcast room was unusually direct.

“Blowing up the black box of Taklimakan Desert!”

In theory, the surrounding area should be under martial law.

‘How is this reporter is filming…’

Lin Tuo muttered in his heart and then soon discovered that the picture in the live broadcast room was really blurry.

The camera seemed to be set up at a certain vantage point. With the help of some machinery or algorithm, the lens was zoomed in and the extremely distant picture became enlarged.

As a result, the picture was extremely blurry, only a long highway, vehicles on the side of the road and busy staff could be seen.

And further away, the black box.

Obviously, the location of the blast was far away from the camera, and probably only the aftermath of the explosion could be seen.

As for why the explosion point was not selected in a more remote, farther away from the crowd, it was not known, probably due to a variety of practical factors.

Looking at the upper left corner of the webpage, the viewers of the live broadcast room had exceeded 300,000 and it was still growing rapidly. Every second, a large number of viewers were flooding in.

A lot of netizens were attracted.

In the chat box, the messages scrolled quickly.

“There is really a live broadcast? How are they filming!”

“The blur reminds me of mosaics, cameraman, are you serious? Why’s the picture so blurry?”

“Yes, this is being broadcasted across the Milky Way, right?”

“Hehe, take off your glasses, I can see perfectly fine.”

“Guys, stop complaining… It’s not that hard to see.”

Netizens discussed enthusiastically.

Some people expressed dissatisfaction, and some were sending 666¹, but overall, the atmosphere was not bad. After all, everyone knew that this kind of explosive test was impossible for civilians to approach.

Not to mention, if the government didn’t set it up in a public location, you wouldn’t even be able to see this.

The cameraman did not show his face and seemed to be adjusting the camera. At this time, he also said in an apologetic tone, “Excuse me, everyone, there is really no way to get a clearer picture. The distance is way too far. You’ll have to settle with this.”

“It’s okay.”

“It’s fine, don’t worry.”

“Cameraman don’t pay attention to those annoying bugs.”

A barrage of messages floated by.

Immediately, Lin Tuo listened to the unknown cameraman explaining:

“Look, everyone, you’re looking right at the scheduled blasting site. You may not be able to see it clearly. Let me tell you what I learned.

Since last night, people have arrived and started to set up explosives.

Look, it’s right here… this section of the black box… there is an army blockade nearby, of course we can’t see clearly either way. I’ll try to get a shot of what’s inside if they are successful.”

In the live broadcast room, more and more people poured in.

Lin Tuo’s expression in front of the computer was constantly changing.

Although intellectually, he believes that the ability of the Evolving Sandbox Table was absolutely not lesser than human explosives, but emotionally, he was still a little nervous.

However, compared to him, people in the Taklimakan Desert were undoubtedly more nervous.

…

A section of the Tuck Desert.

Restricted area.

At this moment, the early morning sun has already risen, illuminating the vast expanse of land. A large area of the black box also showed mixed colors of black and the sun’s rays.

Amid the deafening mechanical roar, the atmosphere in the entire blockade was tense and serious.

In the distance, special soldiers transferred from a nearby corps were busy setting up blasting points. There were a large number of people outside to block the area.

Farther away, there were many firepower points to prevent an invasion of whatever was inside the black box.

Out of sight, more special forces had set up missile launchers, waiting for instructions at all times.

…

Inside a temporary camp.

A group of researchers gathered here. They did not wear white coats, but simple coats, and their faces were covered with fatigue.

The few in the middle had gray and sparse hair, looking at the mysterious black box with dignity.

“How long will it take to start?” Suddenly, a person asked, speaking into the walkie talkie.

“The explosives have been placed and the final round of inspection is underway… It is estimated that in ten minutes, the personnel will be evacuated.” There was a very calm voice on the other side.

“That’s good.”

There waas no unnecessary dialogue. Some researchers were still busy setting up various observation equipment, preparing to record all the changes that may be caused by the explosion.

“Don’t be nervous, relax.” Probably feeling the tense atmosphere here, a scholar with a significantly higher status smiled and said to the younger operators.

It’s said they’re all young, but in fact, almost none of these personnel responsible for operating the machines were younger than 30 years old.

Though, just pull one out and put them in major universities and research institutes and they’d be immensely valued. They were all national treasures, but at this moment, they were all nervous.

“Professor Zhou, can we really brute force our way into the black box?” One person hesitated and finally couldn’t help asking.

“What does everyone think?”

“I don’t know. The power of the explosion is guaranteed, but the material of the black box is too special…”

In the camp, the atmosphere became extremely quiet. No one spoke, which also showed that this was indeed what most people thought.

During this time, no one knew how much pressure they are under.

The eyes of the whole world were focused on them, but the research made little progress.

They had no choice but to accept the military’s proposal.

On the Internet, countless people believed that as long as they used explosive weapons, they couild definitely pry open this mysterious black box.

However, the scientists were not so confident.

Thermal weapon?

Powerful explosives?

This cruel killer on the battlefield, could it really work in the face of this alien technology?

In the silent atmosphere, a second felt like a minute.

Soon, the evacuation was completed and everyone entered the protective facility at a safe distance.

“Countdown to ignition!”

Through the walkie talkie, a loud voice came out. That was the person in charge of the detonation work.

The atmosphere suddenly changed. At this moment, everyone put aside the distracting thoughts in their hearts.

“10, 9,、8…”

The countdown started to prepare time for personnel at all levels. After all, this was not a simple blast, and no one knew what would happen.

…

In the live broadcast room.

The viewers had reached in the millions. Though how many actual fans of the cameraman were watching was probably in the thousands.

On other Internet platforms, more people were following this experiment in various ways.

“6, 5,、4…”

In front of the laptop, Lin Tuo’s attention was focused entirely on this moment.

“2, 1, 0…detonate!”

In the next second, the entire blockade area only heard a terrifying roar. The explosives placed in various positions detonated at the same time, raising a huge flame.

The huge wind pressure lifted up a large swath of smoke and dust and rolled it towards the observation area. The yellow sand was all over the sky and the sound was heard for hundreds of miles!

In the live broadcast room, the chat speed had reached its peak at this moment.

The cameraman even blurted out a swear word to express his shock.

On the live broadcast, there was a brilliant flame first and then a mushroom cloud rose up.

Lin Tuo turned to look at the sand table on his left.

It could be seen that at the same time as the explosion occurred, at the edge of the sand table, the effect the explosives had minimal. Only, the wall suddenly rippled.

Then the ripple gradually faded away.

…

Soon after, the smoke and dust gradually dispersed.

Restricted area.

Many professors and more researchers looked at the screen silently. The black box was intact. They fell into silence.

And when the results of this experiment was sent back..

The whole world fell into silence.

Not even a dent!

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