Excerpt from "International Orthographic's Guide to Our World Today"

If you were to equip yourself with a hardened environment suit and stand in the middle of a Red Zone, you would see a landscape straight out of hell. The ground is a blasted and barren plateau of rock laced with veins of Tiberium that shine through with a malevolent green radiance. On the horizon are massive formations of pure Tiberium that have welled up through the surrounding earth. These frozen crystalline glaciers cast a sickly emerald glow on the surrounding terrain. Tilt your head and you'll contemplate a cloudy, tortured sky alive with twisting patterns of shimmering light and flickers of lightning. If you wait long enough, you'll see an Ion Storm begin to form, the lightning overhead intensifying until the entire environment is lit with rapid strobing flashes. Eventually the vast and terrible energy overhead will begin arcing to the ground around you in a terrifying display of destructive force. These fireworks are accompanied by a howling toxic whirlwind that scours the deserted ground and drives shards of Tiberium before it at insane speeds.

 Red Zones are like the surface of an alien world. Scientists have speculated that Tiberium is actually a terraforming agent for an alien civilization, slowly transforming our world into an environment suitable for beings that have evolved on a different planet. No definitive conclusions have been reached.

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如果你穿上厚重的环境防护服，站在红区中央，你就会看见地狱般的景象。地面是被诅咒荒芜的岩石高原，由闪烁着邪恶绿光的泰矿矿脉装饰。在地平线上是大量的纯粹泰矿由地里拔出，。那些冰冷的水晶冰川在周围的地面上投射出病态的翡翠绿光。仰起头，你就会看见多云的，备受折磨的天空，充斥着阳光与电光交织扭曲的景象。如果你停留的够久，就能看见离子风暴出现，头顶的闪电不断加剧，直到整片环境都被快速闪烁的电光照亮。最后头顶庞大而可怕的能量将向你周围的陆地投下电弧，展现出可怕的毁灭力量。这些烟花由呼啸的有毒旋风伴随，这些旋风冲刷着荒凉的土地，以疯狂地速度吹动着泰矿碎片。

 红区就像外星世界的表面。科学家猜测泰伯利亚是外星文明的地表改造剂，缓慢地将我们的世界转化为适应另一个不同星球进化的生物居住的环境。但目前还没有明确的结论。

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