Although for safety reasons, Chen Xin should turn on the car lights to illuminate the road ahead, but considering that turning on the car lights will also reveal his presence, in order to reduce some unnecessary trouble, Chen Xin still discredited that he was driving and did not turn on the lights. car lights.
Fortunately, although the sky was very dark, there was still a ray of light, allowing Chen Xin to see the road in front of him clearly.
The place where Chen Xin lives is on the outskirts of the city. In places like the Imperial Capital and the Magic Capital, it is called the urban-rural fringe. However, the city where Chen Xin lives is just a small southern town. It is not as prosperous as the Imperial Capital or the Magic Capital. The place where he lives is already a wilderness. There are not many people in Ling. There are only a few farmers living here. It is considered a small village.
Chen Xin also moved out of the city and lived here because it was clean and convenient for him to write books.
However, although the place is remote, due to Yanguo's massive infrastructure construction in recent years, the high-speed rail station was built nearby. The roads in this area have been well repaired, so Chen Xin did not worry about any obstacles on the road after driving out. Just follow the road to the city.
The road leading to the city is very empty, not like the streets full of abandoned cars like in European and American doomsday movies.
In fact, this is what the end of the world should look like, because mankind knew the news of the meteorite impact three months in advance, and the country also evacuated more than 80% of the country's population into shelters in advance. Under such circumstances, people on the streets again Where do you find abandoned cars that can block the road
If there are really abandoned cars blocking the road, there is only one possibility: it is a roadblock or road trap set by others.
There are no obstacles on the road leading to the city. Before the disaster struck, every household had stopped going out. Naturally, there were no vehicles on the road, and there were only a layer of gray.
The wheels rolled over, leaving two ruts. Chen Xin couldn't help but feel very heavy when he looked at the gray covering the surfaces of all objects.
Because these are the ashes left after the fire burned.
The road leading to the city originally crossed a river. Although the surrounding scenery is not beautiful, it is still green. After all, the city has always done a good job in environmental protection and greening, and was once selected as a green city.
But now all that is gone.
The originally green hills on both sides of the road have now turned into a dark patch, covered with gray ash. It looks like snow has fallen on a pile of black coal. Some plant remnants that have not been completely burned are like twisted and weird shapes. Ghosts are not only ugly but also scary.
The river that originally separated the city and the suburbs has now dried up into a huge ravine. Perhaps because of the water, the bottom of the river shows an ugly black and yellow color, just like the river in World of Warcraft. Like the famous Death Mark.
Chen Xin's memory of this river is still very deep, because his family lived near this river in the past, and he used to enjoy the coolness here in the summer evenings, and also asked girls to take a walk here.
It's just that now the river, which was once turned into a riverside park by the city government, can no longer see its original appearance. The wooden walkway that the city government spent a lot of money to lay has been burned down and only a few cement piles are left.
Facing this scenery, Chen Xin couldn't help but slow down the car and looked at everything in front of him with some sadness.
The water in the river has evaporated, so how much of the scenery by the river is left? Although Chen Xin did not get out of the car, he could guess that in a fire of this scale, even the remaining cement piles and stones on the river bank would have been burned to ashes.
Fortunately, the bridge was relatively stable and was not affected by the fire. Otherwise, he would not have dared to enter the city through this road.
After entering the city, the scenery in the city is not much better than outside the city.
The dense green belts on both sides of the road in the past now only have cement flower beds and tree stumps that have not been completely burned. Although the buildings along the road were not badly damaged, nothing was left of the original colorful signboards. , it was true that even the iron frame was burned.
Several stores that Chen Xin had frequented in the past even had their rolling shutters melted and turned into a charred mess.
Looking at all this, Chen Xin really felt that the end was coming, making him feel as if he was in a trance from another world.
The once bustling streets, lively squares, tall buildings, and colorful neon signs—all that we once knew and took for granted—turned out to be so fragile in the face of a disaster.
Just like a piece of exquisite porcelain, it looks so beautiful, but once it is pushed to the ground, it falls into pieces.
In the past, Chen Xin had seen a lot of photos and documentaries about war-torn areas when he was looking for material for writing novels. He had no real sense of the dilapidation of those once prosperous places after experiencing war, but now he has a real and personal experience of what he once had. Everything we take for granted is so precious.
But everything can't come back. If humans want to rebuild the bustling streets of the past, make the squares lively again, re-decorate the city with colorful neon lights, bring back everything destroyed by the disaster, and rebuild our homes, it will take at least one generation. Only with great efforts can it be possible to rebuild our home in this scorched land of doomsday.
And this is only possible if the environment of the doomsday does not change, but unfortunately, in the coming years, the temperature will only become colder and colder. Before the haze and darkness in the sky dissipate, the entire world will It will be a huge ice cellar, freezing everything in freezing cold.
It is extremely difficult for humans to rebuild their homes.
The cement may have turned into a lump of ice before it was even mixed, the ground was too frozen to be harder than iron and it was impossible to dig, and all surface water sources were also frozen...
Before the thick layer of haze in the sky that completely blocks the sun dissipates, the earth will be a huge ice cave. Whether human civilization can survive this catastrophe is unknown.
Rebuilding our home... I'm afraid it will really become something that we will never see again in our lifetime.
But this has nothing to do with Chen Xin now. Although the disaster has come, the real doomsday has not yet completely arrived. It can be said that it is the last trace of warmth before the cold night.
For the surviving humans, what they should do now is to step up the collection of supplies, and at the same time strengthen their shelters before the weather has completely cooled down, so as to increase their chances of survival in the coming extreme cold as much as possible.
Of course, for Chen Xin, who already had a safe and stable shelter and picked up a survival system, how to survive was no longer his top priority.
How to make yourself live longer and better is what Chen Xin needs to consider. (End of chapter)