Chapter 74 Countdown to the asteroid impact! Survival or destruction, this is a question worth thinking about!

World subtree?!
Could the so-called World Tree be the main computer in the digital world, the World Tree called God?
And this sapling is the subtree of the World Tree?

Could it be He who is guiding me along the way?

Does that fictional digital world really exist?
At this moment, Chu Xu's heart was in turmoil.

"Om-!!"

Suddenly, the air trembled, the scene in front of Chu Xu shook, the space twisted, and the light became diffuse.

It's like a drop of ink falling into the water, then slowly spreading, outlining a world filled with massive data and information.

"here it is?"

Chu Xu had just asked the question in his mind when a familiar electronic synthesized sound rang out.

[This is the internal program of this world subtree, and you are accessing it with administrator privileges. If you have any information you want to know, you can search for the answer here. ]

Chu Xu suddenly realized that the new administrator privileges that appeared after the system update referred to the administrator of the World Tree system!

The existence of the Administrator is higher than the World Tree, which is called God, and has absolute control over it.

"Does the Digital World really exist?"

Chu Xu reacted and immediately asked the question he wanted to know the answer to the most.

[The digital world does exist, but it is not the digital world you have known before. ]

[The so-called digital world is a virtual world composed of various data and is a subordinate world of the real world. ]

[The digital world acts like a recycling station in the real world. When a large number of biological species on Earth become extinct, they will be converted into data and recycled by the digital world, where they will continue to survive and reproduce as digital life forms.]

[Their bodies are composed of digital cores like cell nuclei, skeletal wireframe models that form their information basis, and electronic textures that serve as skin, so they are called digital creatures.]

!!!

The biological species that became extinct on Earth were all recycled into the Digital World? !
Chu Xu's expression was shocked. This meant that there existed in the digital world various ancient biological species before the Cretaceous period, since the birth of life on Earth!

Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic...

They have become extinct on Earth in the real world, but they still continue to exist in the unknown digital world in the form of digital life forms!
Chu Xu was in shock for a long time. Such a sudden overturn of his worldview had a great impact on him as a paleontologist in his previous life.

This digital world is not that digital world. It is a parallel world that exists in the same time and space as the Earth but at different latitudes. The two are in a master-slave relationship, and the digital creatures living in it are all extinct ancient biological species on Earth!
If the earth is compared to a computer, then each biological population is an electronic file.

The extinction of life on Earth is like formatting a computer, which clears all stored electronic files and turns them into useless data that is thrown into the digital world that serves as a recycle bin.

It seems that they are extinct on Earth, but they still exist in the digital world in another form of life.

Now, at the end of the Late Cretaceous, they have gone through tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years of development. I wonder to what extent they have evolved? !

The arthropods of the Cambrian period, the mollusks of the Ordovician period, the brachiopods of the Silurian period...even the fish age of the Devonian period, the giant worm dynasty of the Carboniferous period, the giant beast kingdom of the Permian period...

There are also dinosaur empires in the Triassic and Jurassic periods!
Do those ancient creatures that only exist in the imagination of later humans, such as Godzilla, Titans, and Dinosaurs... really exist?
"So... will the digital world be connected to the real world? Will those digital creatures still appear on Earth?"

After pondering for a long time, Chu Xu finally came to his senses and continued to ask questions.

Since the two worlds are inextricably linked, there must be a connecting road, otherwise this World Tree sapling from the digital world would not appear here inexplicably!

[The solar system's revolution period is about 2.5 million years. Every time it orbits the center of the Milky Way, it swings four times between the two poles of the Milky Way's plane. This swing period is exactly 4 million years.]

[Every 6300 million years of the sun's swing cycle, the Earth will usher in an inevitable biological extinction cycle, the specific reason is unknown. ]

[At the same time, the subordinate digital world will also be affected, and the connection channel between the two worlds will gradually open. The World Mother Tree will sow a batch of seeds to descend on Earth to recover the extinct biological populations. The World Tree seeds will absorb natural energy and grow stronger. ]

[Under normal circumstances, recycled digital creatures cannot appear in the real world again.]

[But if the Earth's biological mass extinction cycle is interrupted and the rules are broken, it is likely to cause violent turmoil in the two worlds, causing the connection channel to be completely opened. ]

After getting the answer, Chu Xu's whole body trembled violently. The shock in his heart was beyond words, and he immediately thought of the current time period.

6300 million years of mass extinction cycle!

He lived at the end of the Late Cretaceous period, which was the time of the mass extinction cycle!

Since this world sub-tree has descended on Earth, it means that that day is just around the corner!

"How long will it take until this extinction event on Earth?"

Chu Xu asked again.

[According to calculations, an asteroid fragment with a diameter of about 10 kilometers is moving toward the Earth at a speed of about 65000 km/h. It will enter the Earth's atmosphere in about 360 days and hit the northwest corner of the Yucatan Peninsula in the southern part of the Laramidia subcontinent from the northeast at a horizontal inclination of 60 degrees.]

360 days!
When Chu Xu heard this number, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. There was only less than a year left!

It seems very long, but in fact, compared to the tens of millions of years that the entire Cretaceous period lasted, it is just a blink of an eye!
The nightmare that I had dreamed countless times was really about to come true!
Although Chu Xu had prepared himself mentally a long time ago, he still felt a little caught off guard at this moment.

What to do next?
At this moment, there seemed to be only two choices before Chu Xu.

One is to let nature take its course. It won’t be long before the destined mass extinction of dinosaurs arrives, and everything will return to dust.

It is estimated that even I will find it difficult to survive. Even if I can avoid the damage caused by the asteroid fragments hitting the earth, I can't avoid the subsequent series of secondary disasters and food chain collapse.

The same thing happened to Dragon Mother and the others, who eventually had to face death. After that, the Cretaceous period on Earth ended and the Cenozoic era began.

The second is to try every possible means to prevent the inevitable extinction of dinosaurs, not only for oneself but also for one's family, to save the last dinosaur dynasty on the verge of collapse, to turn the tide and support the collapsing building!
However, this may cause turmoil in the real world and the digital world, causing those extinct and recovered ancient creatures to come back again, thus bringing about new and greater crises!
To survive or not to perish, this is a question worth thinking about.

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(End of this chapter)