Luo Yuan ducked into the thick metal door. Below was a zigzag staircase like an ordinary basement. Under the light from both sides, it was as bright as day.
After walking up about five floors, about ten to twenty meters deep, they entered a long passage about three meters wide. Every twenty meters, there was a soldier on guard. A tense and solemn atmosphere gradually spread among the crowd. Filled the heart.
Luo Yuan knocked on the wall of the passage with the handle of the knife, and there was a thick muffled sound. Under the induction of his senses, he found that the cement layer of these walls was more than one meter thick. This thickness was enough to withstand the bombardment of the giant cannon.
He breathed a sigh of relief. Under such a defense, even green-level creatures would have to spend a lot of effort to break through.
He continued walking for more than a minute, and after passing through three metal doors about fifty centimeters thick, the noise gradually came, and the group entered the hall.
The tens of thousands of square meters hall was buzzing with people and densely packed with people everywhere.
These people were sitting or standing, with fear and uneasiness on their faces.
A one or two-year-old child was crying loudly, and a woman kept coaxing him. Next to him, a man who seemed to be her husband kept rummaging for the bottle, but he seemed to have forgotten it, with a frustrated look on his face.
An old man who seemed to be a widower was sitting alone in the corner, sighing from time to time, and a trace of sadness flashed across his wrinkled face.
There were also a few strong young men, excitedly discussing what might happen this time, with excitement on their faces!
There are all kinds of life in the hall, with thousands of people and faces.
Luo Yuan glanced at the crowd and looked around carefully. On the rough cement walls, large encouraging slogans were posted everywhere. There are several passages near the hall. It seems that there is more than one hall like this.
He took a deep breath. Compared with the air-raid shelter before the apocalypse, this one is obviously more powerful in defense and more rational in design. Moreover, the halls housing survivors are relatively independent of each other. Even if one of the halls falls, they can still pass through the closed passage. Iron gates ensure the safety of other areas.
"Let's go find a seat and sit down!" Wu Xiaoxiao said, suppressing her uneasiness.
Luo Yuan nodded. Depending on the situation, there were obviously no rooms arranged here. He found an open space at random and sat down on the floor. Huang Jiahui and others also sat down naturally.
They are used to surviving in the wild, and they can still pay attention to cleanliness in normal times, but in this tense atmosphere, they have long understood that maintaining their best condition at all times is the most important thing.
However, Wu Xiaoxiao and Sun Youde were obviously not used to it. Wu Xiaoxiao hesitated for a moment, not knowing what he was thinking, and sat down as well. Sun Youde looked at the dusty ground that had not been cleaned for a long time. He frowned and hesitated again and again, but chose to squat instead of sitting down.
Luo Yuan glanced at Sun Youde, squatting like this seemed casual, as if he could stand up and escape at any time, which was much safer than sitting down. In fact, this is a big taboo in the dangerous wilderness. Over time, not only will the blood flow and the feet become numb, but also when the knees are extremely bent, if you want to stand up immediately, it will be difficult for the muscles to exert force, resulting in stiff and slow movements when standing up. If you are in the wild and encounter danger, such a delay can be fatal.
However, this is a shelter with strong defense and no danger in the short term. Luo Yuan had a fleeting thought and did not give any warning.
To be honest, the impression this man gave him was not very good. It was not the hostility shown by him when he met his love rival. After all, this was a normal phenomenon that occurred when every man met him. The same was true for him, but it was serious. It’s just a difference in degree or acting skills.
But this man was obviously different. What he showed was not the hostility under normal circumstances, but a hint of deep malice.
This is a kind of deep intuition, a feeling on the spiritual level.
The cicada wakes up before the autumn wind moves. It is a dream for ordinary people to hide the spiritual intuition he has developed through countless life and death crises. People can train their acting skills and put on many masks to hide their inner feelings and make themselves appear to be performing flawlessly, but they can never deceive their inner feelings.
It's just that he doesn't care about the malice of ordinary people.
"By the way, where's Cao Lin? Didn't you inform her?" Luo Yuan glanced around and asked Huang Jiahui in surprise.
Wu Xiaoxiao looked a little weird and thought, judging from the name, she looks like another woman. Ever since she followed Luo Yuan all the way, she felt more and more mysterious about this high school classmate. Each of these women seems to be different from ordinary people. Not only do they have weapons in their hands, but their temperaments are also different from ordinary people. They don't have any sense of female coquettishness, and their movements are capable and neat. She doesn't know what's going on, but she always faces them. Feeling a little stressed.
Although they seemed to be sitting separately, they were vaguely centered on Luo Yuan. Some of them were quite close to each other, almost leaning against each other. If there was nothing between them, she would not believe anything they said. I thought this was enough, but I didn't expect to hear another woman's name.
"I thought you had forgotten?" Huang Jiahui glanced at Luo Yuan with a smile but not a smile: "Cao Lin and Huo Dong have been getting along for a long time. He, the deputy director of the logistics department of the guard force, has already arranged for the woman.
Facing Huang Jiahui's slightly joking gaze, Luo Yuan did not react at all. He had no worries in his heart and could naturally deal with it calmly. He said in surprise: "There is such a thing, but I didn't hear Huo Dong talk about it."
However, when he thought of Huo Dong's reserved appearance in front of him, and Cao Lin's several explicit hints to him in the wild, which was almost tacit in the team, Luo Yuan understood. Huo Dong obviously It's the fear of one's own reaction.
He shook his head in his mind. He was not a lower-body animal. Cao Lin was good-looking and smart, but too thoughtful. This kind of person could live a good life no matter before the apocalypse or now, but he was obviously not his type.
"By the way, I heard from Huo Dong that there are free rooms here, and he will arrange one for us when the time comes." Huang Jiahui continued. Seeing that Luo Yuan's expression was as usual, she couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She was really afraid of Luo Yuan's reaction, so she deliberately teased him in a joking tone.
She was the one who set Cao Lin up with Huo Dong. If he discovered the truth and caused Luo Yuan's displeasure, even disgust and alienation, she really didn't know what to do in the future.
She is not as strong as she appears. Her love is weak and submissive. On the weaker side, she can acquiesce in Zhao Yali's existence and let Wang Shishi develop as she pleases, just to make herself look less redundant.
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Xinjing, the capital of the reconstruction area!
This is a young city that was only built a year and a half ago, but it is now the largest city in the country. It is the political center and the economic center. Countless factories and densely packed scientific research institutions occupy almost two-thirds of the entire city.
The chimneys are as dense as woods, spewing foul-smelling black smoke into the sky day and night. The thick mist is like a soft veil, covering every corner of the city. Even the sunlight is in this situation. Below, everything looks dim and misty.
Xinhua Road is an ordinary road name. Before the end of the world, the street with this name would have ten thousand if not one thousand. But now, in this city, it has given it a unique meaning.
If Xinjing is the center of the country, then this is the heart. Almost all the central departments are stationed here, and the guards here are extremely tight. There are one post every three steps, one sentry every five steps, and dozens of armored vehicles patrolling the entire street, not to mention that it is only one kilometer away. It is the most elite force stationed in Beijing, and coupled with the dense automated air defense network, even a mutant fly may not be able to fly through it.
In the center of the road, in a small, gray and inconspicuous building, the guards here appear to be even tighter. If it weren't for the large red solemn words "Wartime Committee" written on the plaque above, no one would have thought that this place was now the highest power center in the country.
Since a few days ago, the atmosphere here has become extremely solemn.
It started a month ago. A researcher from the Institute of Geology accidentally noticed something strange. He found from the magnetometer that the earth's magnetic field had shifted by 8 degrees and the magnetic field had weakened by 12%.
If it were the end of the world, this would definitely be a major event that would cause a sensation in the world, but when mankind is in danger and struggling to survive, such things will naturally be ignored.
Magnetic field deviations occur from time to time and are always changing. The movement of the earth's plates, volcanic eruptions, large-scale nuclear explosions, and rising sea levels will all cause pole changes. There have even been magnetic field reversals several times in the history of the earth.
But this time the change is just a little bigger.
The coming of the apocalypse had already made his nerves extremely strong, so he didn't take it to heart. He just wrote down the results in his notebook and didn't care about it.
Ten more days passed, and there was no improvement in the topic he was studying. His thinking seemed to be blocked, which made his brain hurt. When he saw the inconspicuous magnetometer in the laboratory, he couldn't help but think of The measurement he took a few days ago, suddenly on a whim, he subconsciously tested it again, but the result made him turn pale.
Deflection of 17 degrees, magnetic field strength weakened by 21%
In just ten days, there was a deviation of 9 degrees, which was almost the first time in human history. He looked a little uneasy, and even thought that he had remembered it wrong last time. He returned home in a daze, and after one night of insomnia, Early the next morning, with his groggy head, he measured it again and found that it was 18 degrees. He felt a chill in his heart and immediately realized the seriousness of the situation. He immediately reported it to the institute, and then the researcher reported it to the central government, which soon caused a stir. highly valued.
After several research institutes worked around the clock, a more detailed report was delivered to the wartime committee's conference table. The conclusion was disappointing. All the data showed that the earth's magnetic field was about to reverse, and the reversal speed was so fast that it was shocking. No reaction time.
The consequences of magnetic field reversal are catastrophic. Once a magnetic field reversal occurs, the magnetic field strength will first weaken and 0 strength will appear. At that time, the "magnetic field" as the earth's protective shield will temporarily disappear, the strong solar wind will "blow" the earth, the ozone layer will burst, and the harsh ultraviolet rays will no longer be blocked.
However, what is more serious is that the cosmic storm caused by the supernova explosion has not stopped until now and has been wandering in the solar system. Without the protection of the magnetic field, it will lead to even more terrible consequences.
But before that, the migration of mutated organisms caused by magnetic field disturbances had already sounded a red alert in the reconstruction area.
Insects and birds are undoubtedly more sensitive to changes in the magnetic field than humans. In fact, when the report was reported, satellite images had already captured the abnormal movements of mutated creatures around the world.
A large number of insects and birds swarm like crazy, running rampant. These insect or bird swarms are as small as several square kilometers, and as large as hundreds or even tens of thousands of square kilometers. On satellite images, they are so densely packed that they almost form a huge area. shadow.
Unfortunately, the reconstruction area is in the path of one of the large insect swarms.
Prior to this, several nuclear bombs, including a large-yield hydrogen bomb, had fallen into the insect swarm in an attempt to intercept it halfway or change its path. However, the effect was very little. Although most of the insect swarm was killed, but because of this , making the insect tide more dispersed and wider, reaching an astonishing tens of thousands of square kilometers.
Nuclear attacks stop!
It is not that we are worried that excessive launch of nuclear bombs will lead to the advent of nuclear winter. In fact, in the past year, more than 3,000 nuclear bombs were launched around the world, and on average, ten nuclear bombs were detonated almost every day. If I use a mentality to describe it, it is to drink poison to quench thirst. After all, the situation cannot be worse than it is. Some scientists also claim that if radiation clouds are not considered, nuclear winter will play a positive role in curbing global warming.
However, the world has not cooled, and radiation clouds have not appeared. Covered by a huge amount of plants with a total global mass that is tens of thousands of times greater than before the apocalypse, the radiation is perfectly absorbed. As for mutation caused by the absorption of radiation, in one sentence, It couldn't get any worse than that.
And the reason why the nuclear attack has stopped, but to launch nuclear bombs again at this time is undoubtedly too wasteful. After all, nuclear bombs are not cabbage. China is not the United States and Russia, and has an inventory of tens of thousands of coins.
China's total reserves are only a few hundred, and coupled with its large territory, a large number of nuclear bombs were launched at the beginning of the end of the world, and the inventory has been almost exhausted.
Of course, with today's productivity, it is not too difficult to manufacture nuclear bombs. If we use all our efforts, we can even build hundreds of them a year. However, the scarcity of uranium ore and the demand for uranium for electricity have made the production of nuclear bombs very limited today, and they have always been in a "zero inventory" state.
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The insect wave covering tens of thousands of square kilometers is already a super large insect wave. Once it approaches, a small half of the reconstruction area will be flooded by the insect wave. The new human civilization will be severely damaged again, and the hard-earned achievements will be destroyed. Now, More than a dozen armies and millions of soldiers had already marched to the battlefield from three directions a few days ago.
The war is about to break out!