NOVEL WEB Chapter 735 Golza
The Earth's atmosphere, also known as the atmospheric sphere, is mainly composed of nitrogen, accounting for 78.1%; oxygen accounts for 20.9%; hydrogen accounts for 0.93%; and there are small amounts of carbon dioxide, rare gases, and water vapor.
When solar radiation enters the Earth's atmosphere, a portion will be reflected by it, another portion absorbed, and only the remaining part will reach the ground.
This part that reaches the ground should neither be too strong nor too weak; otherwise, there will be significant changes to the global climate.
For instance, the barrier formed by Sofia can directly absorb the cosmic rays, which means that before sunlight enters the Earth's atmosphere and is partially reflected or absorbed, a large portion must first be absorbed by Sofia.
How much energy is left to reach the ground after that?
Ice Age!
What Chu Xuan said is not unfounded!
Kujima Megumi immediately convened a press conference to make the world aware of the severity of the situation.
Most people chose to believe and started hoarding food.
Half a month later, snow began to fall all over the Earth, and the temperature dropped day by day, as if the entire planet had entered winter.
Plants and animals around the world, unable to quickly adapt to the sudden cold, died in large numbers, and those living in tropical and subtropical regions were hit hardest.
Sun Wukong secretly relocated plants and animals worldwide to Zhutian City, creating an environment suited to their survival and allowing them to settle there.
Of course, not all creatures are unable to adapt to the changing environment.
Perhaps due to the war between humans and Sofia, many inactive Sofia fragments have dispersed into nature, getting ingested, digested, and transformed into a part of plants and animals.
This accelerated their adaptation to the environment... but this is not something that can be achieved in one generation; it would take at least three generations of reproduction to adapt to the increasingly cold climate.
"If this continues, the whole Earth won't need an invasion by Sofia; everyone will have to hide at home, and when their supplies run out, Sofia will take over the Earth~ Achoo!"
In the Victory Team's operations room, Jujigang sneezed and said to Nori, "Turn up the air conditioning a bit, I'm about to freeze to death! I just came out of the freezer~"
"You can't do that, later you'll say it's too hot and want it off, how troublesome." Nori shook his head. ThischapterwasmadepossiblebythecommunityatMV|LEM|PYR.
"Stingy." Jujigang rolled his eyes at him and said to Kujima Megumi, "Captain, as it stands, there won't be major problems within a year, but after that, the Earth is definitely doomed."
Although it began to snow and hail worldwide, the impact on people's lives wasn't too significant; the plants and animals with specific environmental needs were the most affected.
Indeed, these plants and animals adapt faster than humans; especially insects and rodents with short growth cycles and fast reproduction, which adapt the quickest.
Adding in Sofia fragments—
The adaptability of these "lower" creatures is ironically stronger than that of humans.
And humans?
Though not fragile, in a modernized environment, they have lost the ability to survive in natural environments, and without technology, more than seventy percent of humans would starve to death.
"If Sofia is an alien civilization trying to invade Earth, then this is definitely the most successful means," said Chu Xuan, "But what does it want?"
Kujima Megumi and others pondered.
The reasons aliens might want to invade Earth are no more than four.
One, for a special resource on Earth, which is available only on a few planets like Earth and is extremely precious.
Two, to acquire a planet they can inhabit.
Perhaps civilizations that can travel far from their own star systems already have the technology to terraform planets, but if there is a ready-made planet and the natives are weak, why waste time terraforming?
Taking it over is most convenient.
Three, to obtain humans.
Compared to the first two guesses, this third one is the most likely.
Intelligence is the greatest value.
According to estimates from Victory Team's encounters with aliens, there are many planets in the universe capable of supporting life, but very few capable of producing intelligent life, which might be due to extremely rare chances, allowing the emergence of intelligent species.
Therefore, humans are a species of extreme rarity.
Four, based on the third, some alien civilizations might want to acquire faith-based powers from humans...
Regarding this, because humans have not yet studied spiritual power or superpowers, the only case is the Kirialod.
Therefore, there hasn't been much research.
There is simply no starting point.
So, what is Sofia's purpose?
For faith?
Impossible.
Sofia doesn't seem like an entity that needs faith, and the Sofia Synthetic Beasts all have only one purpose: destruction.
What kind of faith is based on that?
Although a "Sophia Sect" has indeed formed among humans, promoting Sofia's will, the last time a Sofia Synthetic Beast appeared, it completely ignored those who believed in them, destroying and devouring as it pleased, showing no regard for chilling the hearts of its "followers."
Faith in front of Sofia is nothing!
It doesn't exist based on faith!
For humanity?
That's even more impossible.
Otherwise, it wouldn't have enveloped Earth, reducing Earth's solar radiation and plunging it into an Ice Age—if it comes to that, how many people would be left on Earth?
For resources...
Setting aside the other three, there's only the first possibility left.
There must be some resources on Earth that don't exist in the universe, attracting Sofia.
"Could it be Ultraman?" Nori's imagination runs wild, voicing a possibility, "Tiga, Dyna, they are light and possess extremely powerful force. If Sofia is after their power..."
"Nori."
Before he could finish, Kujima Megumi interrupted him, "Don't speak such 'Monsters brought by Ultraman' rhetoric. There's no such possibility."
"No, Captain, what I mean is that Sofia covets Ultraman's power." Nori insisted, stating his view was different from those keyboard warriors'.
"It's possible, but more likely, Sofia wants to devour the entire planet and acquire everything the planet has." Chu Xuan said, "According to our estimations, Sofia clearly has its own 'intelligence', even capable of devouring and integrating other species to obtain all the information of that species."
Xin Cheng was puzzled: "But now that Sofia has enveloped Earth, causing severe climate changes, in some time, humanity might go extinct. They can only devour a Frozen Snow Star... Why travel all the way to Earth? There are plenty of lifeless planets in the universe."
Clearly, of all the planets, they chose a life-bearing one, and they don't even care about life on it.
Does Sofia find lifeless planets too easy and wants a challenge?
Or do they just enjoy eating meat, wanting to feast on various biological corpses?
"Sofia's devouring of planets isn't necessarily for consumption, likely also for harvesting the scientific and technological advancements and souls within the civilizations of the planets."
Chu Xuan gave his explanation, "At least Sofia's ability to integrate any organic and inorganic matter certainly didn't come from natural evolution."
"It's just that this technology is so close to the path that we can't perceive the evolutionary process."
"And—"
Here, he directed his gaze towards Kujima Megumi, "Although Mr. Asuka Ichimasa keeps many things under wraps, one of his descriptions of Sofia is a devourer of highly developed civilizations on planets."
"Could this indirectly prove that Sofia's main goal in devouring planets is to acquire the scientific technology of highly advanced civilizations to transform itself?"
Da Gu was confused: "But Xin Cheng's question remains unresolved; if humanity is extinct, what scientific technology can it gain?"
"This is the reason it blocks Earth."
Chu Xuan spoke quietly, "Humans can replay recorded images via videotapes, essentially recreating the recorded information. With scientific progress, they can even store and transmit information through electromagnetic waves."
"Creatures like Sofia don't even need tools; they can receive, transmit, and store a variety of information naturally."
"After Earth is enveloped by a barrier, Earth's radiation information can't escape... which means once a planet is wrapped by Sofia, no matter if the planet's civilization is destroyed or resists, all information will eventually be seized by Sofia."
"In the Stone Age, humans carved information on caves and stones; in monarchical times, on animal bones, bamboo strips, and paper; in modern times, there are various electronic memos."
"It seems like progress, but the world's process of recording information, whether cut by knife, written by pen, or typed on a keyboard, is a form of interaction that a high-level lifeform like Sofia can perceive."
"Thus, as long as it can wrap Earth with a barrier, it can ensure that Earth's information won't be lost due to cosmic radiation."
This is truly desperate!
Is Sofia actually such a powerful and bizarre lifeform?
Just then, an ear-piercing alarm sounded, and Nori quickly connected, saying to Kujima Megumi: "Captain, a huge ship suddenly appeared in the Sakura Hill area of Japan. The local police are seeking our help."
With work to do, Kujima Megumi naturally became more spirited, asking: "Nori, investigate whether there's any abnormal magnetic field there."
Nori made a bitter face, saying: "Captain, I can't investigate that. Currently, we can't connect to the satellites, and the only option is to check on-site."
"It seems without the convenience of satellites, future work will be very troublesome."
Kujima Megumi frowned but still directed the team to move out.
Sakura Hill.
When the Victory Team arrived, the place was already extremely chaotic, with buildings, objects, and even people from different eras and countries appearing here.
The Titanic!
The Pyramids of Egypt!
Little girls from the 70s and 80s!
...
Jingzhi said incredulously: "The magnetic field here is very chaotic, like a spatial boundary causing a huge degree of time-space chaos."
"Is it Sofia's doing?" Kujima Megumi asked.
"Can't be sure it's not, but it's likely not." Juejing held a detection device with some uncertainty, "This kind of fluctuation is more like the Rainbow Magic Mirror we encountered before."
"You mean, Hilbagon?" Zheng Zha came over, eyes flickering as if to confirm a guess—the monster faced this time is of the same kind as Hilbagon, Golza!