Chapter 468: Surviving Dragonman Survival Record After the Great Impact
The devastation of an asteroid hitting the Earth has only just begun.
The dust and ash from the impact and combustion prevented sunlight from reaching the earth's surface for months, and the dragonmen's cities, both prosperous and barren, withered in the bombardment, and large amounts of smoke and carbon black entered the Earth's atmosphere, and in some cases the stratosphere, which reached a height of more than 12 kilometers.
This is likely to lead to very cold weather – the layer of smoke and carbon black particles that enter the atmosphere will significantly reduce the total amount of sunlight reaching the ground, and worse, this layer of particles can stay in the atmosphere for decades, causing the upper atmosphere to warm up and the surface temperature to drop, creating a meteorological effect that is the opposite of the greenhouse effect, giving the surface a harsh winter-like landscape.
Next, the westerly wind belt in the mid-latitudes will continue to transport smoke and dust around the world, forming a huge black cloud belt around the 30th to 60th degrees north latitude of the Northern Hemisphere.
These thick black clouds will block out most of the sunlight for decades, causing surface temperatures to drop dramatically during this period, and the temperature can drop by up to tens of degrees Celsius!
This kind of darkness and severe cold that lasts for decades, coupled with the high dose of radiation from radioactive fallout, will inevitably seriously destroy the ecological environment of animals and plants on the earth - a large number of animals and plants will freeze to death in the dark, and the entire biological chain will be cut off!
The toxic substances produced by the impact were scattered by the wind, and as the rain fell back to the earth, polluting the freshwater resources, even the dragonmen who survived the impact would soon have another mass death due to lack of food and clothing, plague epidemics, and internal strife for limited survival resources......
This is a time of despair, in the world of dragonmen, there is no shortage of writers who have been killed and paranoids have proposed the end of the world, but when it really comes, it seems so cruel and ruthless!
Perhaps after centuries of buffer, the shattered nature will eventually heal the scars with difficulty and slowness, but the entire generations of dragonmen before that will never see the sun again if they can continue to thrive.
In this post-apocalyptic scenario where the surface of the earth is almost destroyed by the ecosphere, the natural environment is extremely deteriorated, and the day turns into white night, if there are still dragonmen who can survive, then the only possible hiding place is a shelter deep underground.
The time when the Earth belonged to the Dragonman civilization is passing.
A month after the asteroid hit Earth, the world was reduced to wreckage and ruins.
Billions of dragonmen were on the verge of extinction, and the achievements of civilization accumulated over countless years were wiped out.
Never-dissipating clouds of dust obscured the sky, robbed the earth of warm sunlight, and brought a cold and dark eternal night to the earth.
Crops and flowers are dying in the dark cold, and a monstrous tsunami has turned the fertile plains into saltwater swamps.
In the devastated ruins of the city, rubble is piled up, and the city's functions are completely lost, like an endless pile of concrete garbage, making it impossible for any higher life to exist.
And in those large underground bunkers that can hide the effects of the massive impact, in order to compete for limited resources, in order to continue to maintain their own privileges, for the sake of inner selfishness, for some unpleasant reasons, under the desperate suppression, the surviving dragonmen launched a merciless slaughter of their own people, and the survivors are rapidly decreasing, until the minimum number of civilizations can no longer be maintained.
Rivers and lakes are polluted, rusty railroad tracks stretch to nowhere, and the remnants of the Dragonman civilization are only memories.
Only sporadic radio signals told the lonely survivors that there should be surviving dragonmen in some other corner of the planet.
However, in such an extremely cruel frenzy of annihilation, no one knows whether they will be able to hold on until the day when the light returns, only after a day of intrigue and brutal competition, the surviving dragon people, gradually fall asleep, occasionally flash and pass the glory of the past, but even such warmth is a luxury, in the world of refuge where all materials are in short supply, if you want to live, it is undoubtedly the easiest to attack the same kind, and those who dare to immerse themselves in sleep have long been regarded as supplies by the same kind.
In an inland shelter far from the asteroid impact site, there is still a small group of survivors alive, this is a rare shelter built by post-apocalyptic standards, after the initial division, reorganization, and factional bloody battles, there are still a few hundred people left, relying on abundant supplies from the reserves, enough to make them live to old age and die with peace of mind.
But they don't know if there are any other dragonmen left on the land, or if they're the last dragonmen on this planet.
I can't see the blue sky and white clouds, I can't hear the whistle and the birdsong, every time I explore the outside world,
All it brought was sacrifice and disappointment.
There is no tomorrow in such a world, and such a society cannot hold any ideals and hopes at all.
In their souls, only the most primitive survival instinct remains: live, live, live at all costs!
So, someone kindly suggested that it would be better to live in a different way.
Two years have passed since the dawn of civilization was extinguished from this land, and the rich family wealth accumulated by blood and tears after countless generations has almost been swept away.
Countless factories, towns, mines, ports, buildings and industrial facilities that condensed the efforts and expectations of countless dragons, and symbols of civilization were all reduced to ashes in the brutal disasters and famine caused by the asteroid impact on the earth, leaving only a devastated land.
The light of civilization has been extinguished, and the scholars and experts who have knowledge have died of hunger and cold, leaving only a group of lonely ghosts with nothing, who continue to desperately survive in this land that has been repeatedly ravaged by earthquakes, tsunamis, fires, acid rain and cold.
Two years after the impact, 99% of the original population of this typical dragonman city has disappeared without a trace, except for a few dragonmen who still wander in the ruins of the city from nowhere.
They were the first explorers to emerge from the Underground Vault, a narrow, cramped, intrigued, and intriguing confined space that drove some dragonmen crazy, and they decided to step out and see how the world was going.
These dragonmen who have returned to the ground, dragonmen who are struggling to live in the ruins, will not have such poetic and philosophical associations in their hearts at this moment, but will only have the simplest desire to survive, and beyond that, there is infinite confusion, numbness and confusion......
In the basement of a dilapidated house, a scrawny dragon man emerged, looking through the broken glass window, looking at the cloudy sunlight not far from the horizon, and muttering quietly, as if lamenting the damn weather.
The disrupted global climate, the dark nights of winter are particularly long, and the morning comes very late, this dragonman has actually been awakened from hunger for a while, but he is afraid of the cold outside, and he has only barely managed to get out until now.
After the big impact, not only did the weather in this area begin to become extremely cold, the day was shorter than the night, and the overwhelming wind and snow wrapped the whole world, and the blizzard came irregularly, a while ago it was rare to see the sun, and then a violent storm suddenly swept in, roaring for seven days and nights in a row, the dragonman who came out of the shelter did not expect this at all, the residence was not reinforced, and the house was directly crushed by the falling snow and died at home.
But the cold winter is not the most fatal thing, and the weather anomalies that last all year round are even more desperate - the weather on the earth is almost normal, and there are a few snowfalls from time to time in the summer, and the temperature is warm and cold irregularly.
The dragonmen themselves, who are highly adaptable to the environment, can naturally withstand such strange weather changes, but the crops in the fields are inseparable from the warmth and sunshine of summer......
Although the ancestors of the dragons were carnivores, they also became omnivorous over the long evolutionary period.
The edible food on the surface no longer exists, and these dragons who came out of the shelter still maintain civilized rationality, and have not thought about cannibalism, and if they want to be full, they can only do it themselves.
But before the big impact, the dragon society has entered the industrial civilization, mechanized and automated farming, and now, but to return to the ancestral slash-and-burn farming, the difficulty can reach the sky, you know, once there is no industrial civilization assistance, the most primitive farming is really called watching the sky to eat, no matter how diligent the dragons are, a drop of sweat falls into the ground and falls eight pieces of hard work, but as long as there is a little more rain, a few more days of sun, or a cold spring, this harvest is greatly broken.
As for this kind of strange weather with snow in summer and chaotic seasons, it is even more difficult for agriculture - it is unreasonable not to stop harvesting!
- Even cycads and ginkgo biloba, which have been domesticated by dragonmen for a long time, cannot grow in the darkness, cold wind, and ice and snow of winter!
As a result, British agriculture, which had been degraded to the era of handicrafts due to the collapse of the fertilizer industry, the suspension of agricultural machinery due to the lack of oil and the disrepair of water conservancy and irrigation projects, further degraded to the ancient era in such an abnormal climate-
With the exception of a few fast-growing cold-tolerant crops, the harvest was largely lost.
This group of dragons who came out of the underground shelter, when they first entered the ruins of this city, they were almost crazy, the city is located inland, far from the impact point, it was not completely destroyed in earthquakes and fires, and a lot of materials were retained, and the dragons found a lot of energy, flour, canned food, biscuits and grease, which once made them extremely optimistic, these are all ownerless things, so other cities, isn't it......
But no matter how much material was seized at that time, if you just sit back and eat, it will not be possible to survive the whole two years.
However, the harsh environment can really train people, driven by the survival instinct, these dragons who have been cultivated by industrial civilization, in countless failures, try their best to build a small farm and survival base in the ruins of the city.