Chapter 7

“Miracle!”

When he heard this word, Lin Tuo’s expression subconsciously changed slightly.

In the video, the director first briefly narrated the experience of his party, and then said excitedly:

“…Until now, I still can’t believe what I see in front of me.

If I hadn’t experienced it personally…this, this is simply too magical, the entire desert was covered, and the road moved silently.

When it happened, we didn’t even notice…

This, even scriptwriters dare not write like this!”

Behind him, the scriptwriter standing in the corner of the screen hesitated to speak, but he said nothing.

It could be seen that these people were not emotionally stable.

The reporter immediately interviewed the next few leading actors and most of them were in a similar state.

The video ended shortly. Lin Tuo silently clicked on the comment section on this blog post and found that the number of comments was approaching 100,000.

“It turned out to be XX! I didn’t expect them to be there!!!”

“Speaking of…this isn’t a publicity stunt? Is it that Director Li’s new play is about to be released? What kind of propaganda plan came up with this?”

“…Have you ever seen the state official media help publicity stunts? Even if it was a publicity stunt, he wouldn’t use this method!”

“Seriously, isn’t it really some alien technology?”

“Why panic… It’s just that Earth’s server has a bug… It will be fixed by the game masters.”

…

The comments at the top had hundreds of thousands of likes alone.

Lin Tuo silently opened several other software in the phone, and found that without exception, all platforms were talking about this sudden hot spot.

Checking the hot search index, the “Taklimaman Desert Black Box” entry had undoubtedly reached the top.

Even foreign media went wild over it. Lin Tuo saw that some people had pictures of several top foreign Internet platforms and they were all discussing the “Chinese Black Box”.

Some people question, some were scared, some were curious…

“Sure enough…” Seeing this result, Lin Tuo realized that he was calmer than he expected. Well, this shows that it was wise to mute the phone and relax for an afternoon.

“Are you also looking at the black box story?” At this time, the owner of the restaurant came over with food, put it on the table, glanced at Lin Tuo’s phone, and asked casually.

“Yes, I don’t know the truth or not.” Lin Tuo put on a skeptical expression.

The boss is wide and fat, with small eyes, and kind. He shook his head and said:

“I’m afraid it’s true, but it doesn’t matter to our small town. Aren’t the news saying some experts rushed over and that’s it?”

“That’s true.” Lin Tuo smiled, feeling a little more relaxed in his heart.

Yes, how lively the Internet was. After all, it happened in the remote desert.

Most people are just watching the excitement.

Life is so hard and if you couldn’t take care of yourself. How could you care about the fate of mankind?

Shaking his head, he felt refreshed after eating. Lin Tuo then bought some more daily necessities.

Before the wary sun fell, he rushed back to Lishan Martial Arts Hall.

…

“Hey, the land area has recovered.” When Lin Tuo returned to the old house, he saw the sand table. As he had a snack, the water produced by the melting of the glacier had slowly receded.

The land area in the entire sand table increased again.

[50 million years have passed. Because the sea has receded, the original seabed has become land. The algae ferns in the ocean have been stuck in the sun, and large areas of them have died. However, some of them have survived, evolved, and took root.

[Similar to plants, some invertebrate marine animals with simple life structures have also gone through a similar process.]

[After 10 million more years, vertebral reptiles have gradually appeared.]

Calling out the virtual panel with his mind, Lin Tuo saw another line of text on the log.

In the sandbox, there was also an ecosystem that was increasingly similar to Earth’s early environment.

On the land, green gradually became more and more. As for the animals, because they were too small, Lin Tuo still had trouble observing them.

“At this speed, by tomorrow morning, it should be possible to evolve an observable animal population.” Lin Tuo counted the time and silently estimated.

Considering that as the complexity of the environment in the sand table increases, the proportion of time passing decreases, he feels that his estimation should be accurate.

‘Speaking of which, the world simulated by the sandbox is completely based on the parameters of Earth. The world evolution process seems to be intentionally or unintentionally, approaching the real world…

That said, I just don’t know if the same animals will appear like they did on Earth.‘

Lin Tuo combed through the information in his mind while thinking.

It is inevitable that the sandbox world will move closer to the real world. After all, sandbox evolution had no accidents. It was impossible to evolve intelligent life that different from humans.

After confirming that the sandbox was running well, Lin Tuo took advantage of the fact that the sky was not completely dark. He then repaired the hole in the roof with a tool before he came to the patio.

Lin Tuo turned on the lights and the whole area became empty and bright.

The unexpected appearance of the Evolving Sandbox Table forced Lin Tuo to push back the reconstruction of the martial arts hall a little bit.

‘In addition, the work of digesting and fusing Ether is also on the agenda.‘ Lin Tuo tried to sense his body and found a faint cyclone in his lower abdomen.

At this moment, he already knew that Ether needed to be digested.

With the help of the Evolving Sandbox Table, he only needed to breathe for the blue and white air to inhale into his cells, muscles and bones, flesh and blood… These energies would enhance his body.

The rest, the Ether that hasn’t really been absorbed, was still stored in the body and can be used. For example, condensed into an illusory weapon.

It can also be exchanged with the mall to purchase more viewing area for the Observation Mode.

Lin Tuo carefully thought about it, and decided to focus on tempering his body for now. He wanted to achieve evolution at the highest level of life. As for the method of speeding up tempering and digestion…

Based on his previous experience in martial arts, he felt that he could use the traditional way of hitting his body to speed up.

‘However, with my current physical fitness, basic exercises have little effect. I need to challenge myself with some more difficult ones.‘

Standing at the door, Lin Tuo raised his sleeves, looked at his symmetrical and powerful arm lines under the light, and got an idea.

…

That night, Lin Tuo didn’t stay up and slept early in the bedroom next to the sand table.

Silence filled the air.

When the morning light was faint, Lin Tuo woke up and washed his face briefly before pushing open the door to go to the sand table.

According to the description of the system log, he already knew that his judgment was accurate.

“Large animals have appeared.” Lin Tuo stood beside the sand table with some joy and looked down at the vast land.

One night later, the mainland was already lush and beauitful. Snow-capped mountains, plateaus, basins, river valleys…different terrains were distributed in a pleasing and logical way.

When Lin Tuo manually adjusted the time flow rate to 1:1 and tried to lean over to blow away the clouds and mist in the sky, he even startled a group of flying birds….

“Boom!” Lin Tuo cautiously tried to tap the ground with his fingers, which caused the ground to shake for a while. Because he controlled his strength, it wasn’t a big earthquake.

But many animals in the forest screamed and fled and ran to the plain.

Most of them were small and could only be roughly identified as cats and canines.

There were a few larger ones though, which stood out.

“This is… an elephant? Uh.. or a similar species?” Lin Tuo was a little surprised looking down at a short-haired species resembling an elephant. They ran in groups on the ground, raising clouds of smoke.

Lin Tuo was curious and thought for a while. He decided to stretch out his right hand into the sandbox, carefully grabbing an “elephant” running away with his fingers.

…

Outside of a certain city in the northwest of China, outside of the enclosure known as the “black box”.

It was early morning and the sun had just risen from the eastern horizon.

However, beside the national highway in a temporary station, it was very lively.

Cars parked in the distance and the searchlights on the roof were not turned off.

The researchers who had arrived in quick succession last night gathered here. Currently, a temporary research site had been set up.

One after another strange sensors were connected to cables. They were placed on the surface of the “black box”.

On the temporary table in a military green tent, the screens of computers were bright and they had data analysis programs open.

Compared with the noise outside, this place was particularly quiet.

Due to the sudden occurrence of the incident, related equipment arrived late after the first group of experts arrived.

After a meeting and discussion, for the sake of caution, they did not use explosives to try to open the black box for the time being, but chose to use professional instruments for detection.

Nothing has been discovered yet.

Suddenly, several devices sounded an alarm at the same time and the computer screens showed a sharp sound wave curve!

“There is a signal!”

The operators who had seemed tired because they hadn’t been sleeping all night at the same time were now wide awake. The young man who was the first to find the abnormality shouted.

“What happened?”

“What signal?”

Outside the tent, a few people suddenly rushed in. The leader was an old man with white sideburns. It seemed that they had just arrived not long ago.

“Professor Zhou…” A researcher stood up suddenly, at the arrival of the other party. But he knew the priorities, and said in a hurry:

“Vibration! A slight vibration signal just appeared inside the black box! It has… disappeared!”

…

Lin Tuo, who was far away from the desert, was naturally unknowing about everything happening over there.

Even though he had lightened his touch, the vibration caused by his own finger hitting the ground was still captured.

Unfortunately, this was destined to be a discovery that couldn’t be analyzed.

At this moment, Lin Tuo was looking at the primitive elephant sitting in his palm with interest.

When he picked it up cautiously, it was already strongly frightened.

When he took it out of the sandbox and observed it before his eyes, the poor elephant’s eyes widened in horror.

It let out a mosquito-like scream, and…closed its eyes.

……

Log:

[656 thousand years have passed. The first life outside of the sandbox faced its creator and then… fainted.]