Chapter 156 Sign of Recovery

After exchanging a few more words and ending the video call with Bai Jingyan, Li Tianran recalled the information about Lan Ning in his mind.

After thinking for a long time, Li Tianran realized that his impression of this Lan Ning wasn't deep. Although Bai Jingyan had praised him to the heavens back then, in Li Tianran's memory, this Lan Ning's outline was very vague; just a hacker with some technical skills. And even then, he hadn't shown anything particularly impressive, at most helping Li Tianran check some personal information and hack into Nancheng's official surveillance…

Although the other party's background was with the Umbrella Corporation, the Lan family had already withdrawn from the research project before Li Tianran attacked the headquarters, so they weren't affected by Li Tianran's attack, and there was no family feud between the two sides.

After thinking for a moment, Li Tianran didn't take this matter to heart, throwing it to the back of his mind, thinking that this was just a "idle prince" that Bai Jingyan had casually tossed over.

After stretching, and ending his communication with Lu Chi, he glanced at the clock hanging on the wall.

It was already five o'clock in the morning.

There was a few hours time difference between Mofei La and Kuangxi Island. Li Tianran looked at the sky outside the window, which was already faintly showing the light of day, got up, dressed, and wasn't sleepy anymore.

He sent an inquiry to Ding Lu, who was going to meet Lu Chi, asking their current location, and then opened the window.

The cold wind outside the window blew in, making him feel refreshed.

He reached out and probed, noticing a problem.

Although the cold wind was still biting, compared to when the world had just changed, the temperature seemed to have warmed up a lot, and this temperature didn't seem to come from any external object, as if it were spreading outward from deep beneath Blue Star's surface.

It was as if there was a dormant furnace inside Blue Star, and it was now slowly recovering.

Li Tianran touched his chin and frowned.

If it was just a simple warming of the temperature, Li Tianran wouldn't feel worried or anxious, because Blue Star's interior itself was a kind of flowing, high-temperature mantle, with a maximum temperature of about 8000 degrees Celsius, but because of the thick crust and pressure, the high temperature was perfectly suppressed in the core of Blue Star.

And the disappearance of minerals caused by the Third Calamity might affect the pressure of the crust, and the temperature inside Blue Star might be spreading outward for this reason.

But this was just the first guess, and the probability wasn't high.

Because Li Tianran discovered that after the minerals disappeared, the original ore would turn into a substance similar to "pure soil," and this substance could still maintain the stability of the crust and mantle.

Therefore, Blue Star's internal flowing mantle wouldn't experience a massive, passive outward diffusion.

And the second guess made Li Tianran feel uneasy.

"The instructions for the Fourth Calamity are vague, but according to the literal meaning… those ancient, sleeping 'unknowns' will awaken." Li Tianran rubbed his forehead and muttered to himself, "If it's a virus, it might be in the icebergs of Antarctica."

"If it's a civilization, most of them are buried in the deep sea."

"Could it be a creature?"

"Okay, let's assume it's a creature…"

"Could it be that the earth's temperature is starting to warm up as a sign that some ancient creatures sleeping under the earth are about to awaken?" Li Tianran felt a headache. What level would it have to be to affect the temperature of Blue Star itself?

Even Godzilla was nothing more than that, right?

"No, there's a mistake in my thinking. It might not be that the awakening of ancient creatures is affecting Blue Star's temperature, but only when Blue Star's temperature starts to rise, do those ancient creatures have the conditions to awaken…"

Li Tianran conducted a brainstorming session in a short period of time.

If he had to choose between ancient "viruses," "creatures," and "civilizations," he would rather the first two awaken, because whether it was a virus or a creature, at least there was a possibility of fighting back.

And in the records, the ancient civilizations that Blue Star once gave birth to, which could be preserved until now, if they were to revive, that would definitely not be something that human technology could contend with at this time.

"This system is also starting to play coy…" Li Tianran frowned. Before the previous calamities arrived, it clearly pointed out the entry point of the disaster and gave Li Tianran plenty of time to prepare for dealing with the disaster.

But this time, the system didn't make a clear prompt, which made Li Tianran very uncomfortable.

Because he couldn't specifically prepare resources and equipment to deal with the disaster.

"Is it because it felt that I had it too easy in the first three calamities, so it's increasing the difficulty in the Fourth Calamity?" Li Tianran smiled. He didn't forget what the system had told him before the arrival of the First Calamity.

Welcome to the "Doomsday Survival Game."

Li Tianran, as the only player, his mission was to keep living.

Perhaps because the difficulty of the first three calamities was too low, the game difficulty might have been slightly adjusted before the arrival of the Fourth Calamity.

After some wild thoughts, Li Tianran didn't have any very reasonable ideas, so he simply threw all these thoughts out of his mind.

Many seemingly very complex things have a very simple explanation in the end.

Perhaps the Fourth Calamity and the temperature increase have nothing to do with each other, they're two different things, but the time points of their occurrence are too close, so Li Tianran is forcibly connecting them…

Li Tianran pushed open the door to his room and saw Yuan Wen's back in the kitchen.

He was a little surprised and walked over to ask, "Up so early?"

"Couldn't sleep." Yuan Wen smiled and said, the chopping board in front of her was covered with kneaded dough and filling: "Han Han said she wanted to eat dumplings yesterday, so I'm making some for us to try together."

"I'll help you." Li Tianran put on an apron. "What kind of filling?"

"Beef and green onion, and shiitake mushroom and chicken. I don't make dumplings often, so the filling might not taste very good…" Yuan Wen was a little embarrassed: "I put too much salt."

"What's that? When I was in college, the cafeteria aunt made us dumplings with Yuxiang Rousi (fish-fragrant shredded pork) and Maoxuewang (Sichuan spicy blood curd) filling, that taste was absolutely amazing…" Li Tianran laughed.

In the early morning, the castle was quiet.

A young couple were busy and affectionate in the kitchen, in perfect harmony.

……

At the same time, on an island three thousand kilometers away from Kuangxi Island, Ding Lu finally met with Lu Chi.

A large number of survivors were transferred from the helicopters and "Beast King Oral Cavity Containers" to the submarines.

"Distribute the Guyao-grade fruits. There are enough reserves of water and food, don't crowd!" Lu Chi stood on the island and shouted loudly to the survivors: "After you finish eating, I will take you to see our boss. Cheer up, I hope you won't be eliminated! You can all become one of us!"