Chapter 6

The texts displayed on the virtual panel did not all appear at the same time.

After the first line of text appeared, there was a long period of silence before the second line was typed out, then another period of silence until the third line.

During this period, Lin Tuo did not leave his old house, but moved a stool and patiently and curiously observed the changes in the sand table.

In these 500 million years, the entire sand table had experienced countless times of rising and falling. The day and darkness simulated by the sandbox rotate continuously, and the lights and shadows flickered at the speed.

After 500 million years, it wasn’t “no change” as stated in the log.

Although there was no sign of intelligent life, there were several plate movements during this period. One after another volcanoes erupted, magma spread, and volcanic ash rose up, obscuring the sky.

Water vapor rose from the river, cloudless, and then it turns into rain.

Some hills were raised, some plains collapsed.

The entire land was elevated, the distribution of rivers had also changed. Also, on the four edges of the sandbox, there was a large area of ocean.

Because of so many changes, Lin Tuo didn’t feel bored while watching.

[After 5 billion years of evolution, the earliest simple life was born in the ocean, but even though their race spread, they were forced to stop due to the world’s climate change.]

[The world has gone into an ice age.]

As this short line of text appeared in the operation log, Lin Tuo discovered that a blizzard was actually sweeping over the originally deserted sand table.

Because of the acceleration of time, the entire sand table quickly turned into pure white.

The temperature dropped sharply.

The whole continent became icy, the mountains and the land were covered by thick ice, and even the sea seemed to be frozen.

“Huh, it’s cold.” Lin Tuo felt a small wave of cold air rushing toward him, but it was pretty good in this hot summer.

“There is also an ice age in the sand table?” Lin Tuo was somewhat surprised. In his opinion, the nature of the world in the sandbox was different from reality after all, and the starting point was also different.

In the early days of Earth, it was said that Earth was a liquid sphere shrouded in magma, and then slowly cooled.

Though, the continent in the sand table had soil and water from the beginning, so in his opinion, its evolution process must be very different from Earth.

But he never thought… there were also ice ages in the sandbox.

[The ice age has lasted for 1,843 years. The climate is gradually warming, melting snow water nourishes the entire world, the temperature rose, the ocean thawed, the evolution of life restarted, and the oxygen content in the air increased. Algae is spreading.]

After another while, new text appeared on the virtual panel.

Lin Tuo saw that the cold in the sand table began to subside, the snow-covered land began to melt, large tracts of lakes appeared, and rainfall was frequent.

The ocean gradually turned green, which meant the growth of plants.

“Plants have developed so soon?” Lin Tuo observed with interest that the green began to spread from the ocean to the land.

According to his limited biological knowledge, he guessed that this is probably the process of the transformation of gymnosperms to angiosperms.

It’s a pity that these plants are too small to be observed at all. Lin Tuo didn’t have a microscope at hand, so he couldn’t take samples. Instead, he pulled out a magnifying glass, but it was unusable.

Lin Tuo simply gave up.

As plants began to appear in the sand table, the interval between words appearing on the log began to shorten, and the flow of time seemed to slow down.

Of course, for life outside the sand table, the flow rate between the two was still amazing.

“It’s already so late?” When Lin Tuo raised his head again, he found that the light in the room had dimmed. Outside the old house, the sun was slanting to the west. Unknowingly, he observed it all afternoon.

The sand table is still in the era of plant reproduction.

“It seems that animals will not evolve for a while,” Lin Tuo estimated, stood up, and immediately felt helpless, “I planned to clean up the house this afternoon, but what did I do?”

Lin Tuo sighed. Fortunately, most of the rooms have been cleaned, basic bedding and clothes are also included, and the utility bills have been paid, so there was no problem if he took the day off.

The only trouble was eating.

Lin Tuo thought for a while, planning to go to the town under the mountain to eat in a short time, or order takeaway.

“It’s time for dinner too.” Looking at the sky, Lin Tuo locked the door of the old house. He immediately left the martial arts hall along the mountain road, his back to the sunset, and hurried to the town.

…

The whole Lishan town was covered with brilliant sunshine, and when seen from a distance it has a touch of texture in anime.

This is where he grew up.

Lin Tuo sighed in his heart, nostalgic for no reason, and involuntarily walked towards a snack bar he liked to eat when he was in school.

However, as soon as he entered the town, he noticed something was wrong. On the side of the street, some townspeople gathered together, holding mobile phones and talking enthusiastically, with confusion on their faces.

“…I heard that, the black box over the desert confirmed it.”

“Really? A rumor…”

“I don’t know, watch the TV news tonight, maybe it will mention…”

The small town had a small population. When he arrived at the shop, he realized that the diners inside were also talking about words such as black box and desert.

“Has it spread? The sandbox I built really had an impact in reality?” Lin Tuo forcefully pretended not to care, and ordered dinner.

Then he took out his cell phone nervously and unmuted it—he deliberately didn’t watch the news all afternoon.

As soon as he pushed the button, Lin Tuo only listened to a series of tones from the phone.

On the lock screen interface, there are densely packed message reminders. Except for a few spam messages that must be received every day, the rest are almost all group chat messages.

When he opened the app, his eyelids couldn’t help but jump, and he saw that almost all of his groups had been crazily active. The first few were already 99+.

And every second, a new message popped up. Since it was dinner time, people were particularly idle in group chats normally.

But all Lin Tuo had to do was click a random group chat, and the discussion in it was in full swing.

“…Look at the latest news I forwarded, the state media has spoken out!”

“Let me go, this is the final conclusion. There were people who said it was fake video before, and what about fake news now?”

“But this… is incredible, isn’t it? The entire Taklimakan Desert is just like that? It’s separated? I still can’t believe it…”

Lin Tuo silently watched the group chat, his eyes gradually becoming more complicated.

Although he had already anticipated it, it was difficult for him to remain calm when he really saw the impact he had caused.

As he had guessed, the matter eventually spread.

He opened Weibo and clicked on the hot search list, Lin Tuo unexpectedly discovered that the first hot search is “Taklimakan Desert Black Box”.

At a glance, related entries accounted for almost half of the entire list!

As he clicked to open the tab, Lin Tuo can see that the views of the whole topic has broken the one billion times mark!

Of course, there must be a lot of fake views in this data, but even so, it only took a few hours to reach this point, which is enough to judge that the topic of sandbox has been completely exposed.

In this era, the spread of hot topics is indeed terrifying.

Lin Tuo suppressed the surging emotions in his heart and looked at the top blog post.

“Black Box covers Taklimakan Desert”

“According to the National Astronomical Observatory: At about 3:17 this afternoon, a mysterious and irregular black box emerged over the Tuck Desert, covering the entire desert.

In addition, the four desert highways and some facilities and personnel were moved out of the desert by mysterious power…Relevant agencies have confirmed that the information is true and urgently organized an investigation team to go.

Please keep calm and refrain from spreading rumors or rumors…”

After browsing the news content quickly, Lin Tuo let out a sigh of relief.

‘That’s right. Everything is the same as I imagined.’

After starting the Creative Mode and selecting the big desert, in reality, the lonely desert land in northwestern China has indeed changed.

The so-called “irregular black box” is the isolation cover from which the Evolving Sandbox Table put over Taklimakan Desert.

And changes of this scale, even if they happen in remote places, cannot be ignored. It exploded on the Internet within a short period of time, causing an uproar.

Lin Tuo clicked on a video attached to the news article.

He saw that the background of the picture was outside a city.

On the highway, the surrounding area was full of vehicles. It was messy and crowded.

The background was a black wall that filled the entire frame.

The cameraman even quickly alternated between a few shots, so the hugeness and magnificence of the wall, or isolation cover, was clearly conveyed to the audience before the video.

…

In the video.

A female reporter holding a microphone was standing under the isolation cover, facing the camera.

“…As you can see, I am located in the northern part of the Taklimakan Desert at the moment, and under my feet is National Highway 318… Just a few hours ago, it was not located here…

Yes, according to satellite calculations, the entire national highway nowadays, under the mysterious force, has moved significantly to the north…”

“Behind me is almost invisible to the naked eye. It is the outer shell of the black box that covers the entire Taklimakan Desert!

We don’t know what material it is. In fact, through observation, we can find that its surface is extremely smooth and extremely strong, obviously not a common material…”

When the video was taken, the black box blocked the sun and the wind nearby was very strong.

As a result, the female reporter shouted and spoke loudly throughout the process and the wind curled up her hair from time to time.

After a brief introduction to the environment.

As the camera turned, the microphone suddenly pointed at a group of people around.

Lin Tuo felt that a few people were slightly familiar, and quickly determined that this group of people were a certain domestic film and television team, no wonder… I have seen them in film and television dramas before.

“Director Li, I heard that your crew was one of the first witnesses who found anomalies and gave feedback. Can you tell me the specific situation?”

The crew appeared on scene all the year round and while facing the camera, this group of people seemed particularly comfortable about it.

However, because of what happened, it seems that they have not yet completely calmed down.

“This is a miracle!” In the video, the director did not have the calmness of the past at this moment. He raised his hands excitedly, looked at the camera, his eyes were piercing, and he said,

“This is a miracle that is bound to make a global sensation!!!”