Chapter 19: Another Su Hao
"Don't eat it!"
As Su Hao's words fell, Su Wan, who was eating noodles with her head down, raised her head, her small mouth was stuffed with instant noodles, and there were two elastic noodles hanging from the corners of her mouth. She looked at Su Hao with some confusion, as if she didn't understand why she wasn't allowed to eat this bowl of fragrant noodles.
Seeing the appearance of noodles hanging from the corners of Su Wan's mouth, Su Hao chuckled, and then said softly, "Don't you feel the strange smell in this water?"
Hearing Su Hao's inquiry, Su Wan first picked up the bowl and took a sip of noodle soup, then lowered her head and said with a somewhat gloomy expression: "I... I don't have much money... You can only drink this tap water..."
Hearing Su Wan's answer, Su Hao scratched his head in surprise. After he fainted, he had learned some of the world's news in that cinematic message, but after the last fragment of a painful wail, he never saw any more, but entered the endless darkness.
In that movie, he learns that the place where he is is is still the territory of the Celestial Empire, but the Celestial Empire of this world is very different from the Celestial Empire of his own space.
In this parallel world, the Celestial Empire also experienced that humiliating history, but it was nearly a hundred years earlier than Su Hao's original world, when the Celestial Empire stood on top of the world again, serious civil strife broke out in Western countries, and the European countries and the American continent even started a Cold War confrontation and even evolved into the Third World War. The Celestial Empire, on the other hand, took advantage of this opportunity to start Taoguang cultivation, which not only revived the economy, but also gained a large number of important military and scientific and technological forces during the war between the two sides.
When the end of the three wars, the Western countries once again set their sights on the Celestial Empire, but at this moment the Celestial Empire has long been different from what it used to be, in just 30 years, the Celestial Empire has caught up with the European and American countries in terms of economy and military, and there is a faint situation of the leading boss.
Under such circumstances, the Western countries held a summit meeting overnight and formed the so-called Rim of the Atlantic Economic and Military Organization for short as the Atlantic Rim Organization in just three days, with the aim of containing the revival of the Celestial Empire.
Although the establishment of this organization brought some resistance to the Celestial Empire, it still failed to hinder the development of the Celestial Empire. In the following 30 years, the Celestial Empire became the world's only economic and military power.
Seeing that the Celestial Empire had once again become the superior kingdom of the Celestial Empire, the Western countries brazenly launched the second war against China, but at this time, the powerful Celestial Empire was like a sword that had been unsheathed, and the blade of the sword was invincible, sweeping away all the invading enemies, and even firmly blocking the opponent's army from the coastline.
Sensing the power of the Celestial Empire, the member states of the Atlantic Rim brazenly launched a so-called nuclear war, intending to wipe out the 5,000-year-old Celestial Empire in one fell swoop. After intercepting another nuclear weapon of the other side, everyone from the officials to the common people of the Celestial Empire was angry at the madness of the other side.
Just when the Western countries were once again aiming their nuclear weapons at the Celestial Empire, an unexpected thing happened. The Celestial Empire took a fixed-point penetrating strike at the location of the nuclear weapons of the Western countries, and in an instant, a mushroom cloud rose from the Western countries, and the people in the country howled miserably.
Although the Western countries were defeated by the sword of the Celestial Empire in the end, the blue planet on which human beings live has also started its self-repair function, and most of the entire planet has begun to be affected by radiation, and the number of human beings in the world has been reduced to 2 billion in just one year.
At a time when mankind is facing life and death, the Celestial Empire has shown its great power to the world, not only opening up some advanced technologies to the world, but also actively assisting refugees in Western countries. At this moment, the ancient eastern kingdom became the savior of this world.
However, the spread of radiation is much faster than imagined, and it has spread to most of the world in the next three years after the war, and for the continuation of mankind, under the leadership of the Celestial Empire, all the top scientists in the world have gathered together to formulate three survival plans, which are called the continuation plan of land, sea and air.
Faced with three options, humanity finally decided to adopt the sea and air strategy, but due to technical problems, the sky strategy was limited, and mankind prioritized the sea strategy codenamed Ryugu.
Finally in 2010, the first underwater city of mankind was officially completed and started trial operation, although the seawater hindered the invasion of nuclear radiation to a certain extent, but in order to resist nuclear radiation more effectively, human beings spent 3 years using lead, zinc, tungsten, polyethylene, graphite and other substances to create a flexible material, because it will become like a colorless jade after solidification, so it is also called cold jade.
At the same time as the research and development of Hanyu, humans have improved the glass material, making it a third-generation glass that can resist the impact of 10,000-ton creatures. At the same time, there has been a breakthrough in the research of marine sonar, which can effectively simulate the cries of more than 90% of the creatures in the ocean to resist the damage caused by marine organisms to the city.
With the success of these studies, humans began to build underwater cities on a large scale in 2015 and began to carry out population migration, but because it takes time to build underwater cities, there are still a large number of people living on the current surface, and most of them are migrating to mountains and forests with low or no radiation pollution. Although the Celestial Empire was attacked by a nuclear weapon, because it was intercepted at an altitude of 10,000 meters and it happened to rain that day, the radiation of the Celestial Empire was much lower than that of the rest of the place.
Time turned back to the moment when Su Hao scratched his head, he had always regarded the pictures he saw after fainting as a promotional film for the movie, and he didn't care, but when he listened to Su Wan's words, those pictures inexplicably appeared in his mind.
After thinking for a moment, Su Hao tentatively whispered, "Is the radiation effect so powerful?"
Hearing Su Hao's words, Su Wan nodded a little disappointed, raised her eyes to look at the gray sky outside the window, and said softly: "Well, since two years ago, it has become more and more serious. Brother, how did you get rid of the effects of radiation?"
"What?" After listening to Su Wan's answer in the first half, Su Hao's heart was shocked at first, thinking in his heart that the pictures he saw were all real?
Just when Su Hao didn't know how to answer Su Wan's words, a picture suddenly appeared out of thin air in front of her eyes. It is pitch black all around, and a man walks forward weakly and helplessly, while coughing incessantly, each cough bringing out a mouthful of blood. As the man's figure moved away, it left patches of blood red behind him.
Looking at the picture in front of him, Su Hao suddenly felt an inexplicable sadness in his heart, the figure was still walking forward, but it was not difficult to see from his steps that he was already at the end of the crossbow and could fall to the ground and die at any time. Suddenly, the man stopped, struggled to raise his right arm, and stretched forward.
The man's right hand rested flat in the pitch black space in front of him, as if there was an invisible wall. Suddenly, a soft light spread outward from the man's palm, instantly illuminating the entire space. At this time, Su Hao saw clearly that this was the window of a building, and the man in front of him was lying on the window looking into the house, and with his eyes, Su Hao saw a girl lying on the bed in the window, with strings of tears on a familiar and slightly immature cheek.
Seeing that cheek, Su Hao suddenly glanced at Su Wan, who was sitting opposite, and the silhouettes of the two began to gradually coincide. At this time, the man turned his head with difficulty and looked at Su Hao.
After seeing the man's face, Su Hao was shocked, and an incredible emotion spread in his heart, which never dissipated for a long time. Because that face was his own appearance, although he was haggard, he could recognize from any angle that the man looked the same as himself.
The two looked at each other like this, and after a long time, a smile crossed the corner of the man's mouth, and that smile felt deep bitterness in Su Hao's eyes. The man opened his mouth and seemed to say something, but Su Hao didn't hear anything.
The man seemed to notice this, and with difficulty withdrew his left hand and stretched out his index finger, pointing to his mouth, and then to the girl in the room, his lips opening and closing with difficulty, as if to say something.
Looking at the shape of the man's lips, Su Hao's heart subconsciously said: "Shine... Take care... Under... Beautiful... Wan'er... Thank... Thank you... Other... The other me..."
The intermittent words echoed in Su Hao's mind, and after looking at the weak man again, Su Hao nodded lightly. Seeing Su Hao nodding, the smile on the man's face seemed to become brighter, he turned his head to look at the girl in the room again, a tear crossed his face, and he turned around with effort, the man seemed to want to look at the girl in the house again, but at this moment, an unbearable cough made him let go of his right hand, and the originally soft light in the space slowly dissipated, and it became pitch black in an instant.
After coughing violently, the man sat on the ground weakly, several times he wanted to get up but couldn't, he raised his head and looked at Su Hao above him and in the distance, the corner of the man's mouth crossed a smile, he tried to raise his hands, and made a fist action to Su Hao, before Su Hao could react, the arms slipped down instantly, and the man's head was also tilted to the side, and then the whole body fell to the ground, and there was no movement.
The picture disappeared with the man's death, replaced by Su Wan's curious eyes.
Looking at the young and beautiful Su Wan in front of him, thinking of the picture he had just seen, Su Hao's heart felt a burst of sadness, maybe this is family affection, when a person is dying, what he misses in his heart is also the most unbearable existence.
Su Hao's mood seemed to affect Su Wan, staring at Su Hao for a long time, Su Wan said softly: "Brother, as long as you are still here!"
Hearing this, Su Hao's tears couldn't stop flowing down anymore, and he felt a little warm when he was still a little repulsed by this world. Stretching out his hand and grabbing Su Wan's palm, Su Hao said softly, "Brother, I'm back."