Seeing that nothing happened, Luo Yuan left the office with his hands behind his hands, preparing to inspect the volcano.
The streets are already lit with heating lamps, stretching endlessly like a long queue. The existence of these heating lamps keeps the temperature here at more than ten degrees day and night. It is unimaginable that it is already outside. Freeze everything.
There were not many pedestrians on the road, only twos and threes, passing by in a hurry on the passage. Of course, it was only two o'clock in the afternoon, and it was not time to eat. If it took a few hours, the place would immediately become crowded with people.
At the beginning, Hope City implemented a large canteen system in order to control grain and vegetables. Although the situation has greatly improved now, due to various objective reasons and to avoid wasting materials, this system is still maintained.
After all, when starting a business as a family unit, you need to consider not only the adequacy of food and vegetables, but also a large number of kitchen utensils. In today's situation, natural gas or coal gas is completely out of the question, and the only energy that can be used is electricity. of various kitchen appliances.
With Hope City's current technical strength and material reserves, these cannot be accomplished in a short time, and it is not necessary at all.
As for the sparse flow of people on the streets, naturally it is still under martial law and there are guards everywhere on both sides.
There is nothing that can be done about this. As the survivors from the three nearby cities continue to migrate here, the population of Hope City is in a state of explosion, and now the jobs that Hope City can provide do not require so many people, even if it is to increase the number of people. Employment rate, reducing the use of machines, repairing the entire underground city, and carrying out infrastructure work, most people are still unemployed.
These millions of people are staying at home with nothing to do. Coupled with the natural conflict between the local population and the non-local population, this is undoubtedly a huge powder keg, and continued martial law has become a necessity.
And I am afraid that this martial law will continue for a long time, until humans move into the spacecraft, maybe then things will gradually get better.
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Luo Yuan walked out of the underground city
It was snowing heavily outside at this time.
Since the disaster, snowfall has become extremely frequent, almost every two or three days. Looking at the one meter thick snow on the ground, it is obvious that the snow has been falling for a long time.
These snowflakes were gray-black and carried a lot of dust. Before they fell on him, the next moment, the air around him shook slightly, and the snow on his body was suddenly shaken away by a will.
He kicked his feet, and his body suddenly rose into the air like an arrow. In just a split second, the air let out a sharp whistle, and a sedimentary cloud disappeared out of thin air. The figure quickly turned into a small dot, flying towards the sky with lightning speed.
He first made his usual inspection of the huge craters created by anti-matter bombs, and found that everything was fine. The volcano underneath had been completely frozen, forming a thick layer of ice, and there was no steam leaking nearby. Phenomenon, obviously the previous countermeasures are still effective.
Next, he changed direction and inspected the nearby volcano that was already erupting.
After half a month of venting, the volcano has gradually subsided. The originally red magma has already cooled and been covered by ice. Except for the vague steam rising from the top of the volcano, there is no other abnormality.
Luo Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. It had to be said that this harsh climate was not all bad at times. The volcanoes were also greatly affected by the extreme cold of minus 60 to 70 degrees.
The area here is already in a wilderness area. This originally vibrant world is now filled with deathly silence in Luo Yuan's eyes. Countless huge plants have been frozen by gray-black ice, like huge metal sculptures. Not even the slightest bit of life.
Looking at everything in front of him, Luo Yuan couldn't help but feel a little heavy in his heart.
He walked in this forest. The forest was originally full of dangers, and the birds and beasts that he was accustomed to roaring had long since disappeared. The cold winter comparable to the polar night at the North and South Poles has wiped out most of the life here.
He stood quietly for a while and was about to return.
At this time, Luo Yuan's keen ears suddenly heard a rustling sound coming from not far away.
His heart moved, and he immediately gave up the idea. He followed the sound and saw that the sound came from five or six kilometers away. His sight was blocked by dense tree trunks. However, for Luo Yuan, who has four-dimensional vision, this tree trunk blocked his sight. No impact at all.
I saw a squirrel-like mutant beast carefully emerging from the ice and snow. This was a squirrel-like mutant beast. With a half-meter-long body, it could only be considered a small creature among mutant beasts.
It is covered with beige thick and fluffy hair, looks quite plump, and looks like a round ball. It is obvious that it can survive quite well even in this harsh winter.
After it came out, its small black eyes looked left and right vigilantly, and its long red ears moved flexibly, looking very cautious.
After a long time, it suddenly ran fast. It seemed to have short limbs, but it ran very slowly. It quickly climbed up a nearby large frozen tree, and its sharp nails were firmly nailed into the ice. , making its movements unaffected at all and extremely flexible.
After a while, it climbed to a depression in the big tree that was obviously a tree hole. Then, its limbs moved quickly, and the hard ice was broken by it. For a while, broken ice splashed everywhere.
It soon dug out a small hole. The opening was so small that it only allowed its body to go in and out. Then, it got in with difficulty.
Luo Yuan waited patiently for a while, and when he saw that it didn't come out for a long time, he couldn't help but feel curious.
His body floated up and he approached the big tree quietly and quietly. With his keen hearing, he could clearly hear a "clicking" and "clicking" sound similar to chewing.
Could it be that this "squirrel" also stored food here.
Luo Yuan found it interesting, but he didn't want to disturb the "squirrel"'s feeding. After all, this was the first creature besides King Kong to be discovered on land after the disaster.
He continued to wait patiently for more than ten minutes. Maybe the squirrel had finally eaten enough. It came out again. It first exposed half of its head, looked left and right warily, and then waited quietly for a while. , no danger found.
It finally got out, and then gently caressed the surrounding snow with its paws, covering the tree hole again. Then it jumped down from the tree, re-entered the ice on the ground, and soon disappeared without a trace.
Seeing this, Luo Yuan didn't find it strange. Compared to staying in a tree cave, the cave under the frozen soil was obviously much warmer than the tree cave.
After the "squirrel" disappeared, Luo Yuan looked curiously at the big frozen tree. The ice layer on its surface was already thirty centimeters thick, wrapping the tree like armor. He held down the big tree with his hand. He spat out his strength slightly.
The ice layer under this extreme cold is hard but also quite fragile. Once broken, the entire ice layer will fall apart.
As a large amount of broken ice peeled off the tree, the original color of the bark was suddenly revealed.
The whole tree looked bare, with only the trunk remaining, and all the leaves had fallen off along with the broken ice. Immediately afterwards, Luo Yuan also cleaned up the ice in the tree hole where the "squirrel" had visited.
This tree hole was unremarkable, with neither animal carcasses nor stored fruits. However, he was surprised to see that the bottom of the tree hole was dug open by sharp claws, and there was milky white sap seeping out.
He gently wiped away the pulp with his hands, and the wood with a slight green color was suddenly revealed inside.
He was greatly surprised. The inside of the tree was not frozen. It was still alive. At this time, it seemed to be hibernating, suspending most of its metabolism, quietly waiting for the sun to come to the earth again.
The vitality of these plants is more powerful than imagined, but Luo Yuan thought about it. These lives are not ordinary lives, but some mutated lives, and even some lives are beyond the scope of common sense. They are not comparable to those before the end of the world.
This discovery made Luo Yuan very excited.
Although in order to avoid the threat of the Bosnians, he had already decided to let humans temporarily leave the earth and run into the universe, but the earth is the mother planet of humans after all, and one day, humans will surely return.
This day may take a long time, but Luo Yuan firmly believes in this.
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Luo Yuan left the big tree and continued to check nearby.
He found that more and more big trees were still alive. Generally speaking, the higher the level and the larger the trees, the better they could withstand this harsh environment. However, some low-level trees and most shrubs were already there. Death from extreme cold.
During this period, he discovered sporadically that some trees even had unique evolutions in order to withstand the cold winter.
One of them, in particular, was exuding steaming heat. Around it, Luo Yuan could hardly see any ice or snow. Its tree body was not as bare as other plants. Instead, it looked lush and leafy. The vibrant scene, the umbrella formed by the branches seems like a huge green net covering an area of several kilometers, standing out among the endless silence.
Its existence completely forms a biological sanctuary and a simple and fragile ecological chain.
The entire tree was filled with birds and beasts, and the density of the creatures was almost staggering. Fortunately, the tree was big enough, like a small forest, otherwise it would not be able to bear such a burden.
Of course, such biological shelters are not the only ones. While flying at high altitude, Luo Yuan discovered that there are also some areas where although no plants have evolved similarly, due to the special geographical environment, some areas emit a large amount of geothermal heat, resulting in the formation of unique The oasis forms a miracle of life in this dead silence zone.
However, most of these oases are too small. Luo Yuan found that the largest area was only a few hundred square kilometers. As for the small ones, it was even only a few hundred square kilometers. Endless silence was the most common color today.
Unknowingly, Luo Yuan had arrived at the ocean. He subconsciously stopped and his eyes widened slightly. What he saw in front of him was an extremely shocking sight.
I saw that the entire ocean was completely frozen, but this was not what shocked Luo Yuan.
He slowly fell down and stood on the shoreline.
Nowadays, the land and sea are frozen, but Luo Yuan can still see the position of the coastline at a glance. Because the upper seawater is frozen, and the density of ice is much smaller than that of water, the ice layer of the entire ocean rises as a whole. If a plateau is formed.
He looked at the glacier ahead, which had risen at least a hundred meters, and couldn't recover for a long time.