Chapter 238: Population
He asked when the boss shelter was built, in fact, it was to judge how long this era had lasted, if it was longer, it would be clear that the living patterns of the people here might have been relatively stable, which was still more beneficial to his search for bottles.
The boss thought for a moment and said, "It's not clear exactly when they were built, but I heard that these shelters were all built in the early stage of the cataclysm, and it should be nearly three hundred years ago." ”
He went on to explain: "In the first few decades of the cataclysm, people often died of all kinds of strange diseases, so the inheritance has been somewhat broken, and the exact date is unknown to many people. ”
The uncle seemed to be more interested in these historical events, and now when he heard Chang Fa ask about it, he immediately began to gush endlessly.
"I've heard many versions of the cataclysm back then, but I think the most reliable one is that the world was in chaos at that time, and then they used a weapon that could destroy the world, which eventually led to the cataclysm. ”
The uncle even brought out a teapot from behind the counter, drank a few sips of water, and then said: "That kind of weapon that can destroy the world, just like what I just said, after using it, it may make people continue to be sick for many years, and many people will die inexplicably. ”
At this point, the uncle described the strange diseases he had for Changfa again, some people had inexplicable skin ulcers, some people suddenly bled from seven orifices, and some people had something in their stomachs, and finally sucked blood and sucked people to death.
He could have caused some strange diseases, and everyone thought it was a little strange, could it be that this world-destroying weapon was a bacteriological weapon or a genetic weapon? But as soon as he got this, Chang Fa and Chen Chen immediately understood.
This is a strange disease, but it is not a strange disease, it is a very common phenomenon of excessive radiation.
Just like skin ulcers, this type of disease is likely to be skin cancer, or some skin disease, because the skin is really prone to this when exposed to radiation.
Moreover, it is often speculated that during that time, just after the explosion of nuclear weapons, there were still a lot of radioactive materials left in the surrounding environment, and those who bled may have become like this because of their exposure to these radioactive materials.
As for the things in his stomach that will suck blood, his should be a tumor, and the tumor will indeed suck blood, and then make people malnourished and eventually die.
Therefore, those weapons that destroy the world are obviously nuclear weapons, and only they can destroy the world.
But looking at the current situation of human beings and creatures here, Chang Fa feels that this title of annihilation is still a bit too high, because it has not destroyed the world at all, but only destroyed most of the human civilization.
But looking at the current situation of human beings, the overall situation is not as bad as Chang Fa imagined, only three hundred years have passed, and many technologies seem to have shown a state of recovery.
In fact, whether it is a state of recovery or not, Chang Fa still doesn't quite understand what kind of level of technology here is, but he thinks of the wall made of barbed wire that he encountered outside before.
At that time, I just came here, and I didn't know about the situation of the peripheral civilization, so I wasn't overly surprised after seeing the power grid wall, but now that I think about it, it is actually a relatively advanced technology.
At least in this environment, it's a relatively advanced technology.
After all, to make such a power grid, it is first necessary to connect high-voltage electricity there, and then let those high-voltage electricity circulate smoothly in the power grid, and there will be no abnormalities such as leakage, which is not something that the civilization that has just invented power equipment can do.
Seeing that Changfa was not afraid of the diseases he described, the uncle seemed to be a little dissatisfied, and recounted again: "Let me tell you, before the catastrophe, the Middle-earth civilization had a population of 1.5 billion, and after the catastrophe, the population directly decreased by 500 million, and later because of these strange diseases, 7 or 800 million people died, and when the shelter was finally built, there were only a little more than 300 million people left. ”
He directly listed the death toll, hoping to let Chang Fa and a few people feel the power of this world-destroying weapon.
But Chang Fa Rao's performance still disappointed this uncle, they didn't show too much surprise at the time, although their faces changed a little, but they didn't have that kind of panic, it seemed that this result was still more acceptable.
Several of them are intellectuals, and they are all people of the new era who have read a lot of books and heard a lot of things.
They have their own understanding of the power of nuclear weapons, and they are all relatively aware of the harm caused by the widespread use of such weapons.
They even think that it is incredible that human beings can survive hundreds of millions of people in the end, so many people have survived, and it is clear that the adaptability of human beings is still relatively huge, or that the war is still a little different, and it has not reached the real extinction.
Because if that kind of war really breaks out, it will be followed by a long winter, and the surrounding environment will become cold and difficult for people to survive, which has been predicted by scientists before.
But looking at the current situation, the current situation is not the same as expected, although the environment here is a little cool, but it is not the state of winter, not to mention that everything is frozen all around.
So the environment of this place has not completely deteriorated because of this, but there have been some uncontrollable changes.
Chang Fa asked again, "Then how many people are there in Middle-earth now?"
As soon as he asked, the uncle was suddenly stunned, he had heard of how many people there were at the beginning of the establishment of the shelter, but now how did he know how many people were still alive, when there were a certain number of people, unprofessional people would not be able to judge at all.
Not only does the uncle not know how many people are alive in the world, but he doesn't even know too much about how many people are around this acropolis city, and he probably has a vague feeling that there will be hundreds of thousands of people around him, but he hasn't counted how many there are.
If it were a few thousand people, he might be able to judge and perceive how many there were according to his feelings, but once these people were tens of thousands, it would not be something that ordinary people could count, because the number was already very large.
Moreover, there is no form of household registration in this, and how many people have not been registered at all, how can anyone know.
And the current situation of the survival of people here is not at all that the record can solve the problem of the number of people, because the number of people here fluctuates too much, and many people may be fine now, but after a period of time, it suddenly became cold, and a large number of people were frozen to death.
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