The first thing to change is the weeds and shrubs on both sides of the street. Within a month, without anyone noticing, it grows slowly in a subtle way, and the city that was originally covered by reinforced concrete is replaced by these Embellished green coverage.
The succulents and spider plants cultivated by urban white-collar workers break through the flowerpots that originally restricted their root growth range, break through the load, and take root in the walls and concrete land. Some people may have noticed these strange scenes, and they took pictures of them Uploaded to the Internet, only as a show or a spectacle, no one has ever regarded all this as a crisis.
It wasn't until a slightly old public building collapsed because the roots of the plants fed by the residents damaged the already fragile structure of the house that such an anomaly began to attract the public's attention and vigilance.
The explanation given by the experts is abstruse and mysterious. When half-understood, all the residents in the city can do is to destroy those potted plants to reduce the occurrence of similar crises.
In contrast, although the vast rural areas also have such troubles, another benefit brought about by the status quo of abnormal plant growth is the rapid increase in crop yields. They just work more diligently to remove those weeds that compete with plants for nutrients. Hua, contrary to the people in the city, regards this abnormality as a great blessing.
Immediately after the plants, the abnormalities appeared, and it was those animals that had not yet developed their minds.
At first, some circuses, zoos and the like had a riot of domesticated pets during pet performances.
A lion that was supposed to jump over the ring of fire as planned suddenly went berserk after being whipped by its trainer, killing the trainer who raised it from childhood, and also attacked three onlookers before fleeing into the urban area. Finally, after being shot by the special police with an anesthesia gun, he was taken back to a special supervision institution.
A popular crocodile show held in a zoo. Under the watchful eyes of the public, the crocodile bit the head of the animal trainer. Even though the crocodile was killed in the end, the animal trainer died due to excessive bleeding from the aorta. The audience of the performance were all frightened, and couldn't get rid of the horrifying scene for a long time.
Such things happen one after another, and more and more animal protection organizations stand up and demand that this inhumane performance of persecution of animals be banned. They only rise up to resist when these things happen purely because the animals are unbearable to be tortured.
It wasn't until domestic pets began to be violent and hurt people for no reason that more and more people realized that it seemed that the changes in animals did not only come from human oppression.
Because similar things happened one after another, the people who originally believed in the "reasonable explanation" of experts finally realized that this earth seemed to be developing in the direction they feared.
At this time, the rumors of the doomsday were rampant. Many people firmly believed in the abnormal growth of plants and the mania of animals. All of these indicated that in the near future, the once said doomsday would become a reality.
In order to cope with the doomsday, a wave of stockpiling has begun across the country. Many supermarkets and shops have been looted by panicked people. Perhaps also because they firmly believe in the doomsday, there are increasing number of vicious incidents across the country, such as robbery, rape, and murder. .
It was not until the state weapons began to suppress these riots that the panic among the people was temporarily relieved.
However, countries other than Huaguo do not have such a good way to deal with it, especially countries like the United States where guns are legal. Almost in just one month, the power at the national level is almost useless, with vast land, sparsely populated, and rich greenery. The current situation has made it extremely difficult for them to maintain peace. The underworld forces took this opportunity to seize power with the government. Before the end of the world began, everything had already fallen into panic.
On the evening of August 13, 2043, they did not wait for the silver moon. A blood-red full moon replaced the previous silver-white moon and hung high in the sky.
Everyone started to panic, and no one dared to go out, because they didn't know that such moonlight shining on their bodies would cause such unknown damage to their bodies.
Fortunately, because of the various anomalies that happened before, most people have enough food at home. Only a small number of people who believe in the government, believe in experts, and think that the theory of the end of the world is just an absurd statement have been lingering in the red moon. When the food at home can no longer sustain the consumption of the body, I wrap myself tightly, leave the house, and go to the small convenience stores on both sides of the street, or the supermarkets that have long been unguarded to find food.
Then go home after finding food, worrying about whether there will be bad changes in your body.
This round of red moon hung in the sky for ten days, and these ten days were also called the ten days of blood by later generations.
It was not until the dawn of the eleventh day that the sun, which had disappeared for a long time, slowly rose. Many people who secretly observed the changes in the sky noticed the appearance of the sun, and excitedly rushed out of the house to feel the warmth of the sun.
They thought that the end of the world was over like this, but the screams one after another told them that the end of the world had just begun.
After experiencing the bloody ten days, people found out.
All the plants and animals seemed to have completely mutated. Many originally weak creatures began to have different levels of attack ability after these ten days.
It seems that it is the retribution of human beings for destroying the environment for so many years. Human beings who were at the top of the food chain have suddenly become the targets of attack by all living things.
The living environment of human beings has become harsh in an instant, and human beings have become precarious.
Fortunately, God did not completely abandon human beings. Not long after animals and plants mutated, some people with strange abilities gradually began to appear among human beings.
Just like the supernatural beings described in the novel, they have the ability to manipulate wind, fire, earth, wood, water and other elements. Supernatural beings have gradually replaced thermal weapons, and the living space of ordinary people has been continuously compressed.
The prelude to the evolution of the country has been completely kicked off...
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This time, the timing of Yan Chu's arrival was a bit unlucky, the mutation of animals and plants had happened long ago, and the red moon had already reached its tenth day, and in a few hours, the red moon would end completely, and the new gatekeeper of the world will be opened.
When he woke up, he was in a luxuriously decorated room with a pile of empty wine bottles beside him. Yan Chu touched his forehead, feeling the pain and dizziness after a hangover.
"Aww—"
Yan Aotian appeared in front of Yan Chu with catwalks. He grinned and turned into a big silly dog. He was so happy that he didn't know what he was happy about.
Looking at its staggering pace, Yan Chu guessed that this stupid dog probably woke up earlier than him. Seeing these wine bottles lying on the ground, he couldn't help but secretly drank some. He was probably in a drunk state at the moment.
"Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-"
Alcoholic and cowardly, Yan Aotian was so daring after he was drunk, he was about to yell at Yan Chu, making him admit that he was a very useful dog.
Seeing Yan Chu's expression that seemed to be a smile but not a smile, Yan Aotian also wanted to step forward to show his might and majesty as a close relative of the wolf clan, and use his sharp canine teeth to let this human being know that it is not a dog to be messed with.
It's just that because he was drunk, the images he saw in front of his eyes were all illusory double images. With a flying pounce, he didn't throw Yan Chu down, but he hit the bedside table first.
"Aww—"
Because of the pain, the little coward suddenly woke up for the most part. He touched the dog's head with his front paws, and looked at the master aggrievedly, wanting the master to avenge himself.
Yan Chu couldn't bear to look at such a scene.
He rubbed the acupuncture points on his forehead to soothe the pain caused by the hangover, then stepped forward to pick up the dog that seemed about to be drunk again, and walked out the door.
According to the memory of the original body, after the end of this red moon, about one-fifth of the survivors in the world activated their abilities.
In the tenth year after the end of the Scarlet Ten Days, human beings finally knew how to unite and began to build survivor bases one by one to jointly resist the threat of mutated plants and mutated animals.
Because the balance with hostile and threatening forces was barely reached, human beings finally had their hands free and began to study the origin of the supernatural power.
After comparing the large database, people were surprised to find that almost nine out of ten people who had been out of the house during the ten days of blood and received the irradiation of the red moon awakened their supernatural powers, while those who were hiding in the house at the beginning aroused supernatural powers. The proportion of energy is only one percent.
Originally for some reason, when everyone was panicking because of the red moon, he stayed at home alone and drank in the dark. He didn't care about the doomsday or death at all, and naturally he wouldn't be at this time. Ran out to bask in the red moon to play.
Unfortunately, he wasn't one of those lucky ones who had never been exposed to the crimson moon but still activated his abilities. In his last life, until his death, he hadn't successfully activated his abilities.
As an ordinary person, at the beginning of the last days, when humans did not realize the importance of fire, he was very unpopular. Seeing the enemy step by step climb to a higher position than him, crush him, despise him, The mind of the original body began to become more and more distorted, gradually turning into an anti-human existence.
But I have to say that he is indeed a very smart man. Even in the last life under such an environment, he still cultivated his own power. It is a pity that he did not follow the right path after all, and lost in the hands of those people in the end. , is also an inevitable thing.
Yan Chu lowered his eyes, not thinking about the too bloody images in the memory of the original body, he put on a coat for himself, then picked up the piece of dead meat on the neck of the drunk Yan Aotian, dragged it out of the room , came to the courtyard of the villa.
At this time, everything in the outside world exuded a coquettish and dangerous atmosphere due to the shining red moon. Yan Chu sat on a stone bench in the courtyard and observed the surrounding environment.
A thriving pine tree in the yard has grown from less than two meters high as a small ornamental scene to a state of more than ten meters high, almost invisible to the top. The yard is covered by this tall pine tree, only pine needles The moonlight falling from the gap barely kept the environment from being too dark.
However, perhaps because the pine tree is too domineering, some of the ornamental flowers that originally grew around it all withered and died, and even the most tenacious weeds were nowhere within a hundred meters of the pine tree. .
The garden that was carefully cared for by the gardener looked lonely and empty at the moment. Yan Chu sat on the stone bench farthest from the pine tree, looked at the yellow soil under his feet, and the dead branches and leaves, and couldn't help frowning .
In the previous life, shortly after the end of the Red Moon, Yuan Bo left the ancestral house where he had lived since he was a child, and went to the safety zone that the government quietly started to build when the signs of the mutation appeared, and he never returned to this place. place.
So what kind of changes will happen to the pine tree in front of him, even the original body doesn't know, let alone Yan Chu.
You must know that after the end of the Scarlet Ten Days, all animals and plants became volatile, and many plants that were not a threat to humans began to become aggressive, and began to attack all living creatures recklessly, including mutated animals.
In the memory of the original body, at that time the world jointly drafted ten dead areas, four of which were because there were extremely aggressive plants in that area, their roots went hundreds of meters underground, and countless seeds were scattered. The descendants form their own communities, even if nuclear bombs are used, they may not be able to completely kill them.
What humans can do is to prevent them from expanding outward as much as possible. Anyway, until the original body died, humans still haven't figured out a way to eliminate these powerful mutated plants.
Yan Chu looked at the pine tree in front of him, strangely, he didn't feel any malice, even though the pine tree had grown into a terrifying appearance.
You must know that among the ten death zones, one of them is called the Hell Pine King Pine, which is feared by countless supernatural beings.
Its pine needles can pierce through all the defenses of a fifth-level ability user, and because of the mutation, the pine needles are highly poisonous. Although they are not fatal, they can paralyze people.
In a dangerous environment, a person who cannot move can only become food for other mutated animals except for the nourishment called pine nuts and pine grandchildren.
Yan Chu remembered that the hell pine tree seemed to appear in Nanjiang, and it should have nothing to do with the one in front of him, but the same result by different routes. The mutated pine tree in front of him is definitely not a troublesome existence in the last days.
As for why he didn't feel threatened by this pine tree now, Yan Chu only thought that this pine tree was a rare non-aggressive plant in the last days, and didn't think about it.
After all, even in the state of global evolution in the last days, there are still some plants and some rational animals that are harmless to humans.
Some ordinary people, just because the pets at home mutated after the red moon, still maintained the intimacy with their owners before the red moon came and lived a superior life.
In the last days, there are cats that are bigger than elephants and dogs that can breathe fire and water everywhere, and some of them even have higher abilities than those with supernatural powers. The owners of this kind of pets are also called beast masters. The envy of all ordinary people.
Yan Chu glanced at Yan Aotian, who was constantly rolling around at his feet, drinking madly, and doubted that it could be his help in the future.
"Woo-"
Yan Aotian didn't know that his master didn't trust it, so he raised his head to the sky and howled wildly through the wine, and he felt that he was now a wolf on the grassland, a wolf with an incomparable steed.
"Srust—"
In the quiet environment, Yan Chu heard the faint sound of animals walking in the bushes. He picked up the gun that he had in his hand before going out, and walked towards the bush.
Soon, a Samoyed with dirty hair appeared in front of Yan Chu. Its left leg was a little lame, and its eyes looking at Yan Chu were extremely vigilant.
This kind of appearance, before the cataclysm came, was probably also the master's treasure.
It’s just that a case of pets attacking humans happened before, which made many cat and dog owners vigilant and fearful. They worried that their pets would also attack them in such an environment, out of consideration for their own safety, They can only choose to abandon these domestic pets.
Before the red moon came, such pet dogs and cats with good appearance could be seen everywhere on the road. These cats, cats and dogs without survival experience could not compete with those animals who were used to this kind of life.
Coupled with human vigilance, food sources for stray cats and dogs have become scarce, and the living environment of these abandoned pets has become harsh to a certain extent.
Even because some humans who are hostile to these animals worry that these stray cats and dogs going crazy will endanger their normal life, it has almost become normal to feed and scatter poisonous feed on the street and beat those stray cats and dogs.
The Samoyed in front of him was obviously abandoned by its owner, and then injured by people who were hostile to cats and dogs, so it has vigilance and hatred towards humans.
Yan Chu's hand holding the gun paused, and at the moment of hesitation, the Samoyed, who sensed the danger, ran away quickly with three intact legs, out of Yan Chu's shooting range.
When he was about to run, the Samoyed didn't forget to look back at him, as if he wanted to remember the appearance of this human being who had the intention of killing him.
Yan Chu withdrew the gun in his hand and gave a wry smile.
Because of his momentary kindness, it seemed that he had created a trouble for himself that he couldn't get rid of.
Unlike humans, other animals seem to be blessed. When the end comes, most of them have mutated. These mutated animals, except for those who have feelings for humans and remain rational, most animals regard humans as food, partly because humans Those who have suffered, even live with human beings forever.
That Samoyed is obviously the latter, if it bears a grudge and meets Yan Chu in the future, there will definitely be trouble for Yan Chu.
Looking at the husky next to him who had finished howling like a wolf and fell asleep on the ground, it seemed that he had to improve his life-saving methods as soon as possible, otherwise he would not even be able to save his life just by relying on this stupid dog.
At this moment, there is only one hour left before the end of the red moon.
After another hour, all the animals and plants that were sleeping because they absorbed the power of the red moon will start to wake up.
Yan Chu picked up Yan Aotian, who was sleeping soundly, and his body showed no signs of mutation, and went back to the room, and locked the door behind him.
The power of the red moon appeared extremely slowly on human beings. Many human beings who were illuminated by the red moon did not show abilities different from ordinary people until the seventh or eighth day after the prelude to global evolution was completely kicked off.
And in these seven or eight days, due to the mutated animals and plants, the number of human beings on the earth has dropped from the original more than eight billion to three billion. The master of this water-blue planet is no longer still human beings.
Yan Chu didn't know if he could awaken his abilities, after all, his original body in his previous life did not have such abilities.
So during these seven or eight days, being able to keep his own life became the first thing Yan Chu had to do.
According to the development of the previous life, on the first day when the sun comes out, that is, during the daytime today, someone will come to pick up the original body and go to the safe zone, but what happened afterwards...
Yan Chu frowned slightly, wanting to change the experience of his previous life. From the first day after the end of the red moon, he should make a completely different decision from the previous life.
"Aww."
Yan Aotian slept until dawn, stretched his waist happily, then wagged his tail and wanted to beg for food from his master.
At this time, Yan Chu had already changed into relatively tight clothes, took a pair of Tibetan knives that the original body kept as a collection, stood outside the curtain, and listened to the cheers outside the house after the sun rose , I can't help but mourn for these surprised and desperate people.
But now he doesn't have the ability to save those people. Hearing the cheers gradually turn into screams, Yan Chu closed his eyes, took a deep breath, opened the door, and led Yan Aotian out of their unpredictable place. The first step in a new world.
At this time, the sun had already risen high, and after Yan Chu came out, the original screams gradually disappeared, and everything around him became extremely silent again.
Yan Chu could only hear his inaudible footsteps and Yan Aotian's rough panting.
The pine tree in the courtyard was still as motionless as a mountain. Yan Chu walked out of the villa, looked at the surrounding environment vigilantly, and walked slowly towards the outside of the villa area.
He knew that there might be many people in those rooms looking at him through the windows, trying to use him as a guinea pig to test the changes in the outside world.
He knew, but didn't care.
"Ow—"
With a roar, a huge shadow blocked the light in front of Yan Chu's eyes. When he looked up, he realized that a Samoyed about four or five meters high was raising its noble head high, looking down on him, a small human being.
The look in the eyes of the other party made Yan Chu quickly realize that the Samoyed in front of him was the dog he let go last night in a moment of resignation.
Yan Chu smiled wryly in his heart, this world was different from any world he had experienced before.
In this world, maybe it's time for him to change his temper.
A soft heart is fatal in the last days.