It wasn't just Professor Vernal and Schultz who survived.

The large army marching along another wide passage was also hit by the "earthquake" that almost upended the entire ruins.

Getting up from the ground with difficulty, Wang Peng gritted his teeth and moved away from the stone that was holding down his leg. If it was on Earth, most of his legs would have been cold, but fortunately, the gravity of Mars is only 0.37 times that of Earth, and it doesn't have much effect except for a little pain.

Pulling out the flashlight hanging under the muzzle, he threw aside the broken rifle in his hand, walked to the side, and pulled out the buried Fan Tong from under the pile of rubble.

"I told you earlier...... Ahem...... That thing didn't work. ”

"Whether it works or not, it's broken."

After checking the operation of the equipment on the spacesuit, Fan Tong, who was relieved, leaned against the rock wall next to him.

"What about the others?"

"I don't know ......"

Aubrey and Lomonolov fell behind when they escaped and were forced to rush into another fork in the road, and now it is unclear whether they will live or die, and Wang Peng is too lazy to worry about it.

What really made him anxious was that Lu Zhou was also separated!

“…… Damn it! ”

He slammed his fist into the nearby rock wall, and the debris shook off his head.

Wang Peng's action startled Fan Tong, who was standing next to him, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to grab him.

"Brother, don't get excited...... The situation has become like this, let's think about it. ”

In the end, it was born in special forces.

Taking a deep breath, Wang Peng quickly calmed himself down.

"I'm going to find him."

Fan Tong said with a smile: "How do you find it?" Can you still blow this rock wall apart? ”

The corners of Wang Peng's mouth twitched, but he didn't speak.

He would have considered doing so if he could, but unfortunately he didn't have explosives or anything like that, and a broken gun wouldn't be of any use.

Looking at Wang Peng, who was clenching his fists, Fan Tong continued in a low voice.

"I've said before that the tunnels here change dramatically every two hours. But no matter how it changes, I think the end point is the same. If...... If he's still alive, we'll be able to meet up in front. ”

"In any case, we can only move forward!"

……

At the same time, the other side.

Lomonov, who had survived the catastrophe, leaned against the rock face with his hands on his knees, gasping for breath.

Not far from him, the right hand buried in the sand flicked for a moment, followed by a weak cry from the communication channel.

"Damn...... Pull me, I seem to be stuck. ”

Taking a deep breath, Lomonov patiently stepped forward and reached out to pull the buried American astrophysicist out of the pile of sand.

"I shouldn't have left you alone!" Looking at the embarrassed Professor Aubrey, Lomonov complained, "Now it's okay, we're completely left behind." ”

"It's just that we're left behind, don't get so excited......" After coughing dryly, Aubrey took a deep breath and looked around at the situation, "Aren't we still alive?" ”

"It's just alive!"

In the entire team, in terms of underground survival, the most useless professional skills are probably the two of them. Now Lomonov has begun to regret a little, whether it was really worth it for him to go to great lengths to get this opportunity on Mosca's side.

Compared to Lomonov's pessimism, Professor Aubrey's mood is relatively stable.

Finally catching his breath, he straightened up and took in his surroundings, thinking for a moment before speaking.

“…… It's not quite like a normal tectonic movement...... No, it shouldn't even be normal mechanical movement. ”

Lomonov glanced at him.

Although he didn't think that this discovery would help change the status quo, he asked casually.

"How did you come to this conclusion?"

"Draw conclusions? Are you kidding? As if hearing some funny question, Aubrey looked at the Russian aerospace engineering expert, "Millions or even tens of millions of tons of rock mass in eternal motion?" A massive geological movement every two hours? Well, maybe it's possible, but where does the energy come from? ”

Lomonov frowned.

Obviously, he was aware of this as well.

Looking at his munitive, Aubrey swallowed and continued.

“…… By the cooled core? And the closing tunnels, if they really collided because of the movement of the strata, then there is no doubt that this huge inertia alone is enough to flatten this mountain range. ”

Lomonov frowned and said: "It's not mechanical movement...... So what do you think it will be? Magic? ”

"It's not magic, but this technique is probably no different from magic to us."

With a sigh, Professor Aubrey sat down against the rock wall.

Glancing at Lomonov, who motioned for him to continue, he paused and continued.

“…… Of course, this is just a conjecture. ”

"Ever heard of the standard Euclidean space?"

……

Inside an empty grotto.

There was nothing around but the dust and the man standing in the dust.

Feeling the gradually steady heartbeat, Lu Zhou slowly opened his eyes and lowered his outstretched arms.

Glancing around him, his gaze finally fell on the massive arch in front of him, about five people tall, and a thoughtful expression appeared on his face.

"I see."

"Looks like I guessed it right."

After listening to Dr. Fan Tong's description, he had a similar idea before, and what he saw now seemed to prove it.

There are no earthquakes here at all.

These tunnels have never changed.

It's just that the order is out of order!

In short, the area in which the ruins are located is not a three-dimensional space in the traditional sense, but an expanded standard Euclidean space.

In this space, there are fragments of foam-like four-dimensional space or higher-dimensional space, hidden in invisible corners of three-dimensional creatures, and have merged with the entire ruins.

This explanation may be a bit confusing.

To put it more easily, everything in the ruins he was in at the moment, including the intricate tunnels and the people who walked through them, were like puzzle pieces.

Ostensibly, it was a geological movement that caused the collapse and formation of the old and new tunnels, but in reality it was an invisible hand that disrupted the pieces of the puzzle and put them back together.

Nothing has changed here.

And it's the kind that has been the same for billions of years.

After realizing all this, Lu Zhou immediately made a decision, and when the earthquake occurred, he deliberately left the others aside and took the initiative to let the "collapsed" tunnel engulf him.

Now it seems that he made the right bet.

Otherwise, he would have been crushed into a pulp by now, and he wouldn't be standing here.

"If nothing else, this should be the place where the holy relics are kept......"

Taking a deep breath, Lu Zhou did not hesitate and walked towards the five-person tall arch.

And almost the moment he stepped into the space behind the arch, the originally empty communication channel instantly lit up with a green light.

Immediately after, a hoarse sound like a wave of electricity swept through his ears.

“…… There you are. ”

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