Chapter 5

In this extraordinary afternoon, under the influence of the Evolving Sandbox Table, the buildings selected by Lin Tuo shifted silently on this vast and barren desert.

Even the people inside those buildings didn’t notice any abnormality.

“Ah this…”

“Damn… how come we’re here? This highway shouldn’t be here…”

The convoy of crew cars stopped one after another, and the entire crew jumped out of the car and gathered together under the blazing sun. Most of them were still at a loss, not knowing what happened.

They just asked each other in a mess, and soon everyone learned that at the moment they and others had walked out of the desert without people, they came to the northern part of the Taklimakan Desert.

“No, it’s definitely not that we went wrong! It’s this road! This desert highway has moved more than a hundred kilometers to the north!” A deputy director said with eyes widened, holding his phone in disbelief.

Many people initally doubted the deputy director. After all, this statement was too incredible.

However, in the next second, everyone suddenly felt that their surroundings had cooled down…To be precise, a huge shadow enveloped them in the blink of an eye, it seemed that something was covering the sun.

“Ah! Look over there!” a man suddenly shouted, pointing to the south.

Everyone hurriedly watched, and then the crew was silent for a moment!

They saw that just in front of them, an extremely huge shadowy high wall slowly emerged in the twisted air. The wall was probably hundreds of meters or even kilometers high, and it spread infinitely in the east-west direction.

Under the gaze of everyone, in just a few breaths, it turned from illusion to real matter.

As if dividing the world into two.

If you viewed from high enough, you would see it.

At this moment, an incomparably huge, irregular, and opaque black cover resembled a huge “bowl”, covering the entire Taklimakan Desert with nearly 300,000 square kilometers of land!

…

Lishan, the old martial arts hall.

Lin Tuo stood by the sand table, quietly watching a slightly dark translucent cover seal the sand table, and realized that it was the so-called “isolation cover”.

According to the information in his mind, he knew that this isolation cover was extremely strong. Plus, with the current technology of Earth, it could not be broken or detected.

Although it appeared translucent in the sandbox, in fact, it was insurmountable and unobservable for both the life inside the sandbox and the humans outside.

As for the desert roads and several important engineering buildings he marked, the personnel have been safely moved outside the sandbox under the power of the Evolving Sandbox Table.

“I’m afraid that satellites have already noticed the abnormality. Soon, news of the entire desert being isolated will spread…” Lin Tuo subconsciously glanced at the mobile phone placed aside.

After hesitating, he walked over to mute it.

While he was doing this, the entire sandbox was also changing, and an imperceptible force quietly swept across the vast desert.

The sandbox eliminated the microbial environment.

The plants inside withered within a few breaths.

Lin Tuo was not surprised by this, knowing that this was part of the “antivirus”.

[Sandbox No. 1 has been constructed. It has been detected that the current environment is not suitable for evolving civilization, please provide the necessary basic materials.]

A large piece of information flooded into his mind again, and Lin Tuo sorted it out. The system probably meant that the desert environment was too hot and he needed to enrich it.

Apart from other things, it was necessary to provide basic soil and water.

Although these substances were also in the desert, if Lin Tuo provided some help, it could save a lot of time for evolution.

“Well… the sand must be removed first.” Lin Tuo whispered to himself, then walked out the door. He turned his head to the utility room, and found a shovel and a small cart.

Lin Tuo then came to the house with a shovel, took a deep breath, and shoveled a sand dune.

According to the information given by the Evolving Sandbox Table, he knew that in the process of creation, his actions would not affect the area outside the sand table.

In other words, even if he dug hard, he didn’t have to worry about causing an earthquake.

The isolation cover did not only exist on the surface, but it separated the Taklimakan Desert from Earth in all directions.

As Lin Tuo raised his shovel.

…

Taklimakan Desert area.

Over the 300,000 square kilometers of land that was isolated, the air was slightly distorted, and immediately, a shovel that covered the sky and sun appeared!

The shovel swung mercilessly and easily picked up a sand dune weighing hundreds of billions of tons. The shovel uprooted it and lifted it to the sky.

After reaching a certain height, the sand dune suddenly disappeared with the huge shovel.

In the desert, only a horrible looking pit was left.

“Wow.”

Putting a shovel of sand into the cart, Lin Tuo curiously reached out and felt it, and found that the 'sand” was as small as dust.

“It seems that there is a scale conversion mechanism inside this sandbox. When ordinary things enter from the sand table, they would be enlarged. If sand of normal size was taken out of the sand table, it would be as tiny as dust.”

Lin Tuo retracted his hand, his eyes thoughtful.

Shaking his head, Lin Tuo didn’t think much anymore. He seized the time and got busy again. After a few minutes, he shoveled out the whole sandbox and poured it on the open space in the backyard of the martial arts hall with a cart.

When the entire Taklimakan Desert was cleaned up, Lin Tuo switched to digging for earth and rocks.

“The more complex the basic material of the sand table, the less difficult it is to evolve.” Lin Tuo murmured softly, and then began to dig the soil from the back mountain and transfer it into the sand table.

The backyard of the martial arts hall was a forest with bamboos and flowers and plants. Although it appeared to be decayed because it hadn’t been cleaned for a long time, the soil there was really good.

During the process, Lin Tuo also discovered that when he put the soil in the backyard into the sand table, the minute it entered the isolated space, the tiny creatures in the soil would die, and the color of the soil would even change.

The area of the sand table was not small, and Lin Tuo tossed sand and soil back and forth several times before he considered it to be full.

Immediately, he took water from the well in the courtyard and poured it into the sand table.

After hesitating, he turned out a few discarded metal parts from the utility room and threw them into the sand table.

“This should be fine.”

Lin Tuo wiped his sweat, then looked at the sand table and waited for the Evolving Sandbox Table’s reaction.

[The sand table has met the basis for evolution, do you want to start the project?]

In Lin Tuo’s mind, information emerged at the same time.

“Start.” Lin Tuo said.

Immediately, the entire sand table was covered with a layer of brilliance, and there seemed to be some kind of transformation inside it, which only lasted a few seconds before calming down.

Inside the sand table, some major changes took place.

Lin Tuo noticed that a rotating nebula appeared above the sand table, which seemed to be a simulation of the universe by the sandbox referring to the outside world.

There was also a sun and a corresponding moon in the universe.

“Is it necessary to simulate the moon?” Lin Tuo couldn’t help but complain. After all, the essence of this sandbox world was not a planet, but a flat earth.

But the Evolving Sandbox Table seemed to want to completely simulate an environment based on the environment of Earth.

In other words, the evolution of the entire sandbox world was carried out in accordance with the parameters of the earth.

Lin Tuo looked at the sandbox world again and found that the land had also changed.

Those originally rough soil particles turned into countless fine dusts under the action of the sand table, and they had been uplifted, forming primitive mountains and hills.

The water that Lin Tuo poured into it also gathered together and became an ocean and various lakes.

It seemed that there was a rudimentary form of world anyway.

[Sandbox No. 1 has been started, and it is currently running…]

Lin Tuo also discovered at this time that the virtual panel on his retina had changed.

Now, along with the Creative Mode and the back button in the upper left corner, there was a new option.

There was an extra line that said “Current Environment Ether Concentration”, but the number 0 followed.

It should be a detection of the Ether in the sandbox world.

In addition, there was a toolbox icon.

Lin Tuo clicked to open, however there was only two functions inside.

One was the opening and closing of the isolation cover, which was in the closed state at the moment. Lin Tuo ignored it.

The other was the time flow rate. Dynamic Adjustment and Synchronization could be selected.

The meaning was also very simple.

“Dynamic Adjustment” was an ability in the toolbox, which would automatically adjust the ratio of the internal time and external flow rate of Sandbox No. 1 according to the computing power and environment of the sandbox world.

Possibly, in reality, in an hour, hundreds of millions of years would have passed in the sandbox.

With the emergence of civilization in the sandbox and the increase in complexity, the time ratio will decrease.

In reality, one hour, in the sandbox, may only have passed a few hundred years, or even shorter.

Lin Tuo knew that the reason for this was because the more complex the environment in the sandbox, the greater the computing power required. So he could only reduce the flow rate, otherwise the computing power of the Evolving Sandbox Table would not be able to support it.

As for “Synchronization”, it was a manual switch. Lin Tuo could adjust the internal and external time flow rate to 1:1 at any time.

It was to synchronize the time inside the sand table with reality.

“This function is pretty good, it’s very worry-free…” Lin Tuo smiled.

Except for this toolbox, the large area in the center of the entire virtual panel is blank.

“Such a large blank area is not very coordinated.” Lin Tuo couldn’t help but spit out from a designer’s perspective.

However, in the next second, he found that the blank area began to click and click:

[Operation log:]

[In a certain year, certain month, certain second, the world evolves and opens. At this time, the world is still a quiet world with irregular shapes.]

[There is no life on the surface. It’s full of chaotic soil, sand, water, and a small amount of metal. However, it already has the basis for the birth of life.]

[100 million years have passed, the world has not changed.]

[200 million years have passed, it still remains the same.]

…

[5 billion years have passed,, there is a wave of fluctuation in the once dead ocean.]