165: Chapter 165 Magnetic Field Chaos, Comet Crashes

A monkey-head mushrooms?

Holy crap.

Isn't this a bit too realistic?

Jiang Chen's hand landed on the monkey-head mushrooms.

He felt the springy, bouncy texture of a mushroom.

He pressed it gently.

The monkey-head mushrooms didn't move; it seemed it really was just a mushroom.

"This is incredible. How can a fungal colony grow into the shape of a monkey?"

Xue Yao also walked over, her face full of wonder.

This monkey-head mushrooms wasn't tall, just over a meter, reaching only to Xue Yao's waist.

She couldn't help but bend over and stroke its monkey head.

It had a nose, eyes, and even a tail.

Yet the tactile sensation told her clearly that this was the feel of a mushroom, not a real monkey.

Commander Li Jing was currently taking photos everywhere with his phone. Seeing the monkey-head mushrooms, he immediately came over for a picture: "Amazing. I'll have something to brag about when I get back to the Southern Heavenly Gate."

Director Cai Minghui walked over with a smile and introduced it: "This monkey-head mushrooms was cultivated by the Professor. As for how it was done, I don't know how it grew like this either. You'll have to ask the Professor!"

Professor Shen Wanyu had cultivated monkey-head mushroomss before, but they had all been somewhat underwhelming.

Only this one was the most realistic and the cutest.

"Hubby, let's take a photo together too." Xue Yao pulled Jiang Chen over to take a picture with the monkey-head mushrooms.

"Okay!"

*Click, click.*

The group took several photos with the monkey-head mushrooms.

After the photos were finished.

They toured for a while longer.

Only then did Xue Yao reluctantly follow the others as they left.

Not long after everyone had departed.

The tail of that monkey-head mushrooms suddenly snapped off.

A guard on rotation saw this but didn't find it strange.

Instead, he picked up the tail.

Then he made a note in the logbook.

This guard didn't just watch the garden; he also had to record the times when the monkey-head mushrooms's tail broke off.

"This tail sure grows fast. It just broke off a week ago, and now it's off again."

The guard muttered to himself.

The logbook showed that previously, the monkey-head mushrooms's tail would break once a month.

Now it was once a week.

"Is it going to start dropping its tail every day in the future?"

The guard looked at the monkey-head mushrooms, feeling a bit puzzled.

How could there be a fungus that reproduced so quickly, growing tails infinitely like a gecko?

He shook his head.

The guard couldn't figure out what exactly was being grown in this Flat Peach Garden.

Just as he turned around.

A flicker of eerie light flashed in the monkey-head mushrooms's eyes.

After Jiang Chen left the Flat Peach Garden with Director Cai Minghui.

They were heading back in a snow jeep.

It so happened that a dozen large transport planes flew overhead.

A massive amount of wind and snow swept over them.

Watching these large transport planes fly past the Flat Peach Garden toward another mountain.

Jiang Chen couldn't help but ask, "Where are those going?"

"That way is Pangu Base; it's not under our research station's responsibility anymore."

"It's something the Nantianmen Project is working on over there."

Director Cai Minghui explained.

"It seems the construction of the Luan Bird is about to be put on the agenda."

"It's just that there's still no news on Controlled Nuclear Fusion."

Jiang Chen withdrew his gaze.

Building Pangu Base on the Antarctic continent, the biggest problem wasn't resources or the environment—it was energy.

Energy on the ground was limited.

Without energy, no matter how much infrastructure or high technology was poured in, it would be inefficient.

After all.

All high technology is built upon energy.

"By the way, have there been any phenomena of magnetic field chaos here in Antarctica?"

Jiang Chen inquired.

Currently, the Earth's magnetic field was in chaos, magnetic confinement experiments couldn't be performed, and Controlled Nuclear Fusion couldn't be achieved.

It was like the Trisolarans using Sophons to interfere with Earth's high-energy particle colliders; humanity's fundamental physics was locked down.

At present.

They could only wait for the Earth's magnetic field to stabilize.

Otherwise.

If the magnetic confinement experiments couldn't be done, Controlled Nuclear Fusion would never be born.

Director Cai Minghui said, "It's okay here in Antarctica; the deviation isn't serious."

"I see," Jiang Chen pondered.

The Earth's magnetic field was currently in chaos, and there was no telling when it would settle down.

If it never settled.

Then he could only suggest that his colleagues in the Great Northwest move all the equipment and everything else to the Antarctic continent to conduct the Controlled Nuclear Fusion experiments.

Jiang Chen and his group took the jeep back to the research station.

After greeting Professor Shen Wanyu.

Jiang Chen's group gradually left the research station and returned to the landing port.

...

Meanwhile.

In the sky.

Tiangong.

Inside the Tiangong Station in low Earth orbit.

A group of astronauts was conducting some experiments on space genetic modification.

Just then.

A bright light flashed outside.

It illuminated the astronauts' faces.

A female astronaut looked up in confusion, peered outside, and her eyes suddenly widened.

She said in shock.

"Look! What is that!"

As she spoke.

A comet streaked past in the distance.

It crashed into the Moon.

The other astronauts reacted and used telescopes to look out at the meteor shower.

They saw comet after comet crashing into the Moon under the cover of the night.

Some crashed successfully.

Some deviated from their orbits, brushed past, and headed off into the distance.

But soon.

These comets collectively vanished.

They came in a dense cluster.

And they stopped just as quickly.

It was as if they converged on Earth at a specific time and then ceased in the blink of an eye.

And just as the comets crashed into the Moon.

The astronauts on Tiangong felt like the station had deviated slightly toward the Moon.

"Calling Earth Aerospace Base... Requesting a calculation of Tiangong's position!"

The astronauts immediately sent a signal to Earth.

Soon.

Under the Aerospace Base's calculations.

In the past ten minutes, Tiangong had actually deviated from its set position by a full thirty meters.

"I think I know why the Earth's magnetic field has been in frequent chaos."

One astronaut had a sudden realization.

Previously, the Aerospace Base had sent news that the Earth's magnetic field was experiencing chaos.

They had asked Tiangong to measure the magnetic field effects.

However, Tiangong was located high up and far from Earth.

They had thought there was no problem.

But now.

After a large number of comets crashed into the Moon, the gravitational pull increased. The tides would not only affect Earth, but even Tiangong would be affected.

"The angles at which these comets crashed were very obscure, and their speed was very fast and sudden. If we hadn't rotated to this position, we might not have noticed."

Another astronaut also noticed the anomaly.

Recently, the Earth's magnetic field had frequently shown anomalies. Initially, everyone thought it was caused by normal lunar tides.

But now it seemed.

There were likely a large number of comets crashing into the far side of the Moon that hadn't been observed, which was what caused the magnetic anomalies on Earth.

"Hurry and transmit this news back to Earth."

The astronauts' expressions were solemn.

If they allowed so many more comets to crash into the Moon.

The Moon's gravity would become stronger and stronger.

The tides would become more and more chaotic.

And the magnetic field chaos would cause navigation problems for the entire Earth.

Even Tiangong's positioning would become increasingly inaccurate.

After the group finished collecting the relevant data.

They immediately turned on the communication equipment.

"Calling Earth Aerospace Base..."