pjbooks Chapter 301 This world will be completely transformed.
Chapter 301 This world will be completely transformed.
Lin Jianguo sat in the communications room, with a modified satellite communication device in front of him.
The traffic lights flickered on and off, and the electrical current hissed and crackled.
Perhaps due to changes in North America, no matter how he tried, he could not get in touch with people back home.
It was only at this point that he fully realized that the entire North American region seemed to have completely lost contact with the outside world.
Just as he tirelessly tried to contact the country again and again, the long-awaited voice finally came from the buzzing communicator.
"...Received...Please speak..."
Hearing the intermittent sound, Lin Jianguo, who had been looking annoyed, finally showed a look of joy.
He didn't dare hesitate and quickly replied:
"I am Lin Jianguo, Awakened One of China, number 002. I am currently located in Oregon, the United States, in North America. The situation is urgent, and I need to be directly transferred to the highest command level."
Perhaps the person on the other end of the communicator didn't expect the connection to be established so suddenly, because a burst of noise came from the communicator.
"...Identity verification in progress...Please wait..."
Another long wait ensued. The traffic light flashed twice, and Lin Jianguo's heart leaped into his throat.
Then, a steady voice rang out: "Old Lin?"
Lin Jianguo recognized the voice and relaxed his shoulders slightly: "Commander, it's me."
"You two really are a family that never gives us a moment's peace."
There was a hint of relief in the other person's tone.
"What's going on over there? Why is the entire North American region out of contact? Even satellite images are blocked."
"Huh? The satellite images are all blocked?"
Lin Jianguo, holding the communicator, went to the window and looked up at the sky with a puzzled expression.
However, the sky he could see and remembered was exactly the same; he couldn't see anything different at all.
"Well... I really don't know."
Although he didn't know why the satellite images were like this, Lin Jianguo felt he should take advantage of the signal and tell them what was going on as soon as possible.
"But now is not the time to talk about this. I have an emergency to report."
"explain."
The person on the other end of the communicator probably sensed the anxiety in his voice.
Without hesitation, Lin Jianguo immediately relayed all the information Lin Fan had given him to the other party in the most concise language.
The accelerated evolution of life on Earth is irreversible. Plant mutations are just the beginning, and animals and humans will also be affected. The window of opportunity may only be two to three weeks.
These unexpected messages immediately silenced the other side.
After a long while, the voice asked solemnly:
Are you sure?
"I'm 100% sure."
Lin Jianguo said,
"It's already started in North America. The plants around the nuclear power plant mutated within hours. This speed... Commander, you must prepare in advance."
"……Understood."
Upon hearing this, the voice on the other end became extremely serious, "Anything else?"
"have."
Lin Jianguo hesitated for a moment, then said,
"Xiao Fan has decided to stay in North America for the time being. But he said that if China needs intelligence and sample data on mutated organisms, he can provide them. In exchange, he hopes that China can find a way to send a group of technical talents over."
The other side remained silent for a few more seconds.
"Your son certainly knows how to play the game."
The commander's tone carried a complex smile, "Alright, I'll have someone assess this. The signal is unstable, so send over the data you can as soon as possible."
"receive."
"Old Lin."
"exist."
"Take care of yourselves and your families. The country will not forget you."
"I understand, I..."
However, before he could finish speaking, the signal was cut off...
Lin Jianguo stared blankly at the communicator in his hand for a long time, then put it down, sat down in a chair, leaned back, and let out a long breath.
Well, I've done what I needed to do.
Now, let's see what fate has in store for each of us!
……
Meanwhile, in China, in the capital city.
Underground command center.
At three in the morning, the lights were still on.
The commander put down the phone and looked solemnly at the dozen or so generals and research leaders present.
"You all heard what was said when the nation was founded, right?"
He calmly looked at the crowd.
"Two to three weeks."
"This is our preparation time."
From now on, the 'Rock Solid' contingency plan will be activated, and all coastal cities will be placed on Level 1 alert.
The Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Health, and the military are working together; I need to see a complete response plan within 48 hours.
"yes!"
The chairs creaked, and more than a dozen people stood up almost simultaneously.
As these people took action, the giant machine of China began to operate at high speed.
Soon, all the troops stationed in the coastal provinces were put on standby.
Although the public is still unaware of the specifics of what happened, the official "extreme weather warning" and "evacuation recommendations for coastal areas" have already alerted many to the unusual situation.
The supermarket was emptied of all its supplies.
Traffic flowed inland on the highway.
But everything is still relatively orderly.
After all, they are from China; they have experience with this kind of thing.
However, not all countries have such a rapid response time.
……
Cancun, Mexico.
The Caribbean coast, once a tourist paradise.
At this moment, heaven is turning into hell.
The first person to notice something amiss was Pedro, a homeless man on the beach.
At four in the morning, he was awakened by a strange noise...
It wasn't the sound of waves, but some kind of...strange...rustling sound.
The sound was like countless snakes crawling on the sand.
Pedro got up in confusion and opened his eyes. In the dim light of dawn, he saw a scene that he would never forget.
The palm trees along the edge of the beach were... swelling.
The trunk thickened at a visible rate, and the bark cracked open, revealing moist, fluorescent green tissue inside.
The palm leaves were also stretching wildly, growing from two or three meters long to seven or eight meters, with dense, tiny tendrils growing along the edges of the leaves, swaying slowly in the air.
On the ground, the originally dry sand is being rapidly covered by a layer of blue-green moss.
The moss spread at an absurdly fast rate, almost a meter every ten seconds.
Pedro scrambled to his feet and ran.
He had run less than fifty meters when he heard a muffled thud behind him.
Looking back, the swollen palm tree had burst open.
It didn't explode, but... it bloomed.
A giant flower, over three meters in diameter, blooms from the top of the tree trunk. Its petals are translucent purple and emit a pulsating fluorescent light from within.
The moment the flower opens, it releases a large amount of golden powder, which is then scattered by the wind.
The powder fell onto the moss on the ground, and the moss immediately began to grow rapidly, climbing upwards and covering everything it could reach.
Pedro ran onto the highway and discovered that the same thing was happening all along the coastline.
Palm trees burst open one after another, giant flowers blooming in succession, golden powder filling the air like mist.
Screams came from a resort hotel in the distance.
Someone rushed out of the gate, with blue-green moss climbing up the wall behind them.
Pedro stood in the middle of the road, watching all this, with only one thought in his mind...
The end of the world has come.
However, compared to the changes here, in Vancouver, Canada...
The mutation occurred earlier.
After all, this place is closer to the United States.
Stanley Park in Vancouver was once one of the largest urban parks in North America.
Ancient trees, tranquil lakes, leisurely squirrels and raccoons.
Now, those ancient trees are "awakening".
The first person to notice something amiss was park ranger Thompson.
During his routine patrol, he discovered strange patterns on the surface of several redwood trees deep in the park. They were not natural cracks in the bark, but regular, geometrically shaped protrusions, resembling some kind of circuit pattern.
He shone his flashlight over them, and the patterns glowed faintly with a blue light.
"What the hell...?"
Thompson reached out to touch it.
The moment my finger touched the bark, the whole tree trembled violently.
Then, the tree roots moved.
It wasn't the kind of swaying caused by the wind; it was actually moving. Thick roots were pulled from the soil, slowly wriggling like giant pythons.
Thompson was so startled that he took three steps back and tripped and fell to the ground.
He watched as the sixty-meter-tall redwood tree, like a giant waking from a deep sleep, slowly "stood up".
The root system has completely detached from the ground, becoming a support structure similar to legs.
The geometric patterns on the tree trunk lit up, and the blue fluorescent light made the whole tree look like a glowing lighthouse.
Then, the second one.
The third one.
The entire redwood forest is "awakening".
Thompson jumped up and ran, out of the park, onto the street, shouting as he ran, "The tree's alive! The tree's fucking alive!"
But nobody believed him.
Ten minutes later, the first "walking redwood" stepped out of the park boundary and crushed a Toyota parked on the side of the road.
Downtown Vancouver has descended into complete chaos.
And this chaos is not limited to Vancouver...
Panama, Panama City. This is a vital passage connecting North and South America.
The changes here are even more bizarre.
The water in the Panama Canal has changed color.
It wasn't the murky kind of pollution; instead, it turned into a transparent emerald green, like liquid jade.
Moreover, bubbles began to rise to the surface of the water, with countless bubbles surging up from the bottom and releasing a sweet smell when they burst.
The canal administration staff were the first to notice the anomaly and immediately closed the locks.
But it was too late.
The emerald green water began to overflow the riverbed, not because the water level was rising, but because the water itself was...climbing.
The liquid climbs upwards along the concrete wall of the riverbank, defying gravity and all common sense of physics.
Wherever the green liquid touched, a thick layer of moss quickly grew on the concrete surface.
The moss continues to grow, turning into vines, which then bloom and release spores.
The entire cycle is completed within a few minutes.
An hour later, the banks of the Panama Canal were completely covered by mutated vegetation.
Those former reinforced concrete buildings now look like ancient ruins swallowed up by the rainforest for thousands of years.
……
Havana, Cuba.
An island nation in the Caribbean Sea, only 150 kilometers from the Florida peninsula of the United States.
The mutated spores, carried by ocean currents and monsoons, first arrive here.
In Havana's Old Town, an elderly fisherman named Martinez is mending his fishing nets.
He noticed some strange things floating on the sea surface. They were clumps of glowing blue flocculents, like jellyfish, but not jellyfish.
The flocculent material is pushed onto the beach by the waves, and the moment it comes into contact with the sand, it immediately begins to take root.
Tiny roots penetrate the sand at an astonishing speed, and then—
The coconut trees on the beach began to tremble.
Martinez threw down the fishing net and ran into the city.
He ran through narrow streets, past colorful old buildings, and past old men playing chess on street corners.
"Run! Something's coming from the sea!"
But nobody paid him any attention.
The old men glanced up at him, then looked down and continued playing chess.
Five minutes later, seawater surged onto the street.
It wasn't a tsunami; the water level only rose by a dozen centimeters. But the water was green, and something was moving in it.
Tiny vines emerged from the water and climbed up the building's exterior walls at a speed as fast as time-lapse photography.
The old men who were playing chess finally stood up.
But there's no escaping it now.
The vines entangled their chair legs, the chessboard, and everything that couldn't move.
Fortunately, these vines seem uninterested in humans—at least not for now. They simply grow, climb, and cover the city like crazy, turning it into a green jungle.
Twenty-four hours later, Havana appeared completely green on satellite images.
The original building outlines are still faintly discernible, but they are all covered by thick, mutated vegetation.
The city still exists, but it no longer belongs to humankind.
……
This scene is playing out simultaneously in every country along the Caribbean coast right now.
Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico...
One island after another was swallowed up by greenery.
Meanwhile, on the mainland, in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and other countries, the mutated vegetation is advancing southward at a speed of tens of kilometers per hour.
Governments around the world reacted differently.
Some were evacuated immediately, some tried to use flames to block the fire, and some simply collapsed.
But no matter which reaction you take, the result is the same... it's unstoppable.
This is not a disaster in a particular region, nor is it an invasion of a particular species.
This is a change in the rules of the entire world.
The door to the old era is closing.
The tide of the new world has already overflowed the threshold.
……
Raccoon City, City Hall.
Lin Fan stood in the communications room, watching the satellite images gradually disappear.
All the images disappeared one by one, as if they had been interfered with by something.
Upon seeing this scene, he quickly connected it to the mutated plant spores. Da Wu had once said that these things had signal shielding and influence effects.
"Faster than expected."
Night Owl stood behind him, his face pale.
"Young Master Lin, at this rate, I'm afraid the whole world will be affected in less than half a month, right?"
"If nothing unexpected happens, that's likely to be the case."
After Lin Fan finished speaking, he added words of comfort.
"However, it won't affect us much. With those two things helping us clean up, the spread will gradually slow down. But..."
He paused.
"But plants are probably just the first wave."
Night Owl swallowed hard: "What's the second wave?"
Lin Fan did not answer.
He stared at the ever-spreading green on the screen, the words of the Great Crow echoing in his mind...
"All life will be involved. Plants are just the first to respond. Next are insects, then animals. And finally... humans."
Lin Fan turned and walked towards the door.
"We need to speed up all preparations," he said. "We may have less time than we anticipated."
He pushed open the door and walked into the corridor.
The sounds of people bustling about could be heard downstairs.
Everything seemed to be in good order.
But Lin Fan knew that how long this order could last depended on how much preparation he could make in the next few days.
Because when the second wave of mutations arrives...
When those mutated animals began to appear...
When humanity itself begins to change...
This world will be completely transformed.