Chapter 279: A New Beginning—The Epoch (1)
In the year 103 of the Black Rain Era, the Earth Federation
In the wilderness, the wind and snow cover the ground.
The faint moonlight inadvertently sprinkled on the towns of the old civilization, and the heavy snow that lasted for many days covered most of the half-dilapidated and collapsed towns, and the exposed rusty and abandoned car remains, rotting animal and human corpses, gathered sewage, and miscellaneous objects placed everywhere, making this ruin covered in silver, and the whole land glowed with a cold silver light.
The old abandoned factory was built at the foot of the hill south of the town, and fortunately it did not collapse and destroy in the 100-year turmoil.
Countless steel pipes of different thicknesses and large pieces of dilapidated rusty iron sheet factory sheds in the factory lie dormant in the darkness of the snowy night, many carvings that cannot stand the time break from the air and stick obliquely on the ground, and the undulating factory is like a twilight beast crawling in the dark, and the blizzard covers it with a layer of snow-white blanket.
"Jiang early, hurry up and make the stove prosperous, look at the situation outside, this snow has to go down" At the edge of the factory, under the rare woods, a bloated figure pushed open the door from the entrance of the factory building leaning against the woods, revealing half of his body and looking out.
This young man of about sixteen or seventeen years old, like countless wilderness boys hiding in the Black Rain Jidong, was wrapped in a rice dumpling, and several coats of various colors in red and black with military coats on the outside looked particularly warm but very festive.
His hair was messy, and a pair of squinting eyes on his ordinary cheeks looked different, and he couldn't help smacking his lips when he looked at the six-sided ice crystal snowflakes flying outside the window.
As soon as the words fell, the bloated young man connected the two cuffs of the military coat together, half-leaned against the wall, looked lazy, like a landlord's old wealth, and turned back to the swarthy girl in the room, who was also wrapped in a very stocky room, and kept putting waste ore into the boiler.
At the end of the last epoch, the black rain with evolutionary matter swept the world, meteorites fell, monsters raged, the earth was devastated, and suddenly erupted on a global scale, similar to the Cambrian period of the Paleozoic era of the Phanerozoic, where organisms evolved and multiplied in a blowout, and biodiversity was interpreted to the extreme to reach the so-called global evolutionary frenzy.
The sudden advent of the global evolutionary era has led to the rapid evolution of the life levels of various species on the earth. Between the various races that have risen in chaos, a race war has been waged that has lasted for decades.
And in the new era, a large number of new energy sources were born, new species, violence and competition have become the main theme of this land, but the howling cold wind, the icy temperature, even the high human evolutionaries do not dare to go out under this extreme bad atmosphere, and the earth temporarily presents a quiet and beautiful picture, all waiting for the snowstorm to pass......
The snowstorm lasted intermittently for four or five, ice crystals were hung on the ancient trees nearby, the low trees fell crookedly, and some of the old factories couldn't stand the heavy snow and collapsed, Du Chen looked at the eaves above the boiler room where he was, and the ice slag glass was hung in a row, and the snow about half a foot thick made him doubt that his broken house would collapse.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and snowflakes with the size of fingernails hit him in the face, making him quickly dodge, and hurriedly hid in the room and closed the door.
"Hmph" The swarthy girl sitting next to the boiler glared at him dissatisfiedly, and continued to put coal in the boiler, the boiler room, which was not large, was instantly filled with a scorching wave of fire, and the firelight shone the cheeks of the two Rao red.
"You're going to bully me, too!" Jiang muttered dissatisfiedly early, and then took the iron drill of the boiler and stabbed it fiercely, crackling and splashing countless sparks.
Even if the boiler was strong, the biting cold wind blowing from the cracks still made Du Chen shiver, with his feeling that the temperature outside was at least minus thirty degrees, especially the chill was extremely strong, and it seemed to be able to invade Rao's soul.
"The fire is reborn, and you can't do anything if you're clumsy" Du Chen knew Jiang Zao's character and said unceremoniously.
"Just this bit of waste ore, won't you have to freeze to death after burning these two burns!" Jiang said angrily, his face flushed, and he didn't know if it was caused by the fire shining or being angry.
The attacking weapons of several nearby cities, the energy supply of each gathering point is maintained by this new type of energy stone, even if the energy inside is exhausted, this waste ore that can be used as fuel is also scrambled by these lone wanderers in the wilderness.
"This snow is too big, there is a lot of snow on this house, raise the indoor temperature a little and let the snow melt first! And if the snow stops, we will go around the town below and see if we can find a way to settle there" Du Chen sighed in his heart, the big forces in the vicinity are constantly expanding, and the competition for resources in the wilderness is becoming more and more fierce, finding a place to live in peace and joining a force is now his best choice at present.
Han Ya set his eyes on Jiang Zaozao's swarthy face again, even though the girl was wrapped in layers of clothes and looked bloated, the girlish aura that was still fresh and dusty was still difficult to hide.
If you look carefully, it is not difficult to find that the black on her face is deliberately touched, women are synonymous with trouble in both civilized and chaotic times, and they have been blushing and troubled since ancient times, especially the girl who can amaze the world.
"Ahh
All species unfold their lives at the same time***, the cutting-edge technology that symbolizes the pinnacle of human civilization has lost its role in the new global environment, the wisdom that human beings are proud of has become useless, and the most primitive physical strength has become the key to the hegemony of all races, and human beings have been left far behind by other races.
After decades of lingering and dying struggles, the power of the human race represented by the Hundred Cities Alliance suddenly burst out with huge combat power in a desperate situation, and the new technology based on new energy emerged in the troubled times, and in the global evolution era, human beings defeated corpses, zergs, beasts, and many other strong races, stood out from various species, won the final victory in the final battle, re-became the overlord of the blue planet, and recast the glory of the human race in the past.
In the apocalyptic period, the ugly side of human nature broke out, and a large number of rioters and criminals who killed innocents indiscriminately and artificially created disasters were produced in various regions, morality was trampled on, laws were ignored, and the flower of civilization withered.
After the victory of the Hundred Cities Alliance, the mob and sinners who committed heinous crimes in the last days in order to satisfy their own selfish desires were immediately expelled from the safe zone, and they were never accepted by the Hundred Cities Alliance.
The expelled sinners wander the wilderness, and after decades of devastation, not only did they not become extinct, but they multiplied and became nondescript beings, constantly fighting and fighting with other species, and survived tenaciously in extremely harsh environments, called scavengers.
Mobs and scavengers in the wilderness are careless about human life, and fighting means death, especially in the face of weakness, falling into the well is the favorite thing for ruthless scavengers to do.
"Actually, let's be fine now! There's no need to go out like this, it's a big deal that you will hurt me again in the future, I won't talk back! Don't go, okay!" Jiang Zao looked at Du Chen pondering, as if he was thinking about something, and hurriedly said.
She didn't want Du Chen to take risks, even if he could become the final victor every time, stubborn like a cow, humble like grass, and ruthless like a wolf, but what if?
I don't know when the two wandering children in the wilderness met, and since then the two originally parallel lines of fate have been fetted, and there have been disputes, cold wars, and anger in the numb days, but neither of them has left each other.
This world is so big that people who knew each other one moment will be separated by life and death the next.
The world is too, so that wherever they hide, danger, hunger, and death will find them.
"How much food is left, and how many bags of clean water are left?"
"There is still half a catty of bacon strips, no, no, no, there is still a catty, and there are three bags of water! By the way, there are still some black breads" Jiang shook like a rattle in the morning, and hurriedly changed his words, "The food is still enough for us to last for a while, don't worry!"
The two poor homeless children have survived together for seven or eight years, and they usually listen to her in everything, and Du Chen takes the idea of major things, but in fact, all major things are Du Chen's calculations.
"There is too little food and water, especially the water source, which is not enough to support our survival" The house leak happened to rain overnight, and Du Chen was also a little bitter.
Smoked meat strips are a common food in the wilderness, simple to operate, can be stored for a long time, and are a necessary skill for scavengers to survive, but this kind of bacon is made of rough smoked meat of unknown beasts, and the white is made of dead beast corpses, which carry a large number of bacteria and viruses, and are eaten by inferior people in the newly built civilization fortresses of the human race, but they have become a precious main food in the wilderness.
The remaining bacon in the hands of the two of them has long been gone, and the clean water source is also in urgent need of replenishment, the black rain is coming, the new global environment, a large number of new species are born, the feces of various races, the rotting corpses poured in the water source, the corpse poison of the corpse clan, and so on...... Catalyzed by many conditions, ordinary water sources are simply undrinkable, and even rain and snow dare not drink easily, who knows that the rain in this new environment is still not a kind of fresh water.
Only by going to a gathering point with more people can you exchange with the black-hearted traders who walk on the barriers of civilization and the wilderness, but the huge price of changing the water source every time makes Du Chen secretly feel heartache.
The most feared thing in the wilderness is to get sick.
To be sick is to embrace death.
The 'grown-ups' who live in the fortresses of civilization have a great deal of prejudice against the scavengers who live in the wilderness as rats, and indeed, they are now rats living in the dark and damp cellars, scheming about a few grains and a little water, and even rejoicing and disappointed that they are moldy or not.
"Okay, I'm here, I'll make sure you don't have to worry about food and clothing" Du Chen watched the girl fall into silence, and said with a grimace.
During the wandering, the most silence between them is that they are tormented not only by physical embarrassment, but also by mental deprivation, and the daily quarrels between the two people are the only living existence that they remind each other.
"Phew, dead Du Dog, you can brag" Jiang looked at Du Chen's grimace early and said stupidly, and unconsciously the fear in his heart also dissipated most of it.
Du Chen smiled and didn't argue, the two had a tacit understanding to use the waste slag that had been prepared next to them to gamble on the boiler mouth, leaving only a gap, and there could be hot air flowing out under the condition of ensuring safety.
Every cold winter famine, a large number of people can disappear in all corners of the wilderness, especially the cold winter night, the unpredictable cold night makes many lives dissipate in the dreamland Zheng
The two men did all this, took some dead branches, blankets, and torn cotton cloths, and built them into a simple resting place in the corner of the wall, and then they snuggled together in the corner of the wall in a shabby bedding.
The flames in the boiler went down, the temperature in the room dropped rapidly, and the sound of the cold wind howling outside reached Liangrao's ears through the doors and windows, Du Chen stretched out his hand to blacken the place where Jiang Zao's ears showed her white skin, covering her beautiful face.
"Good night, morning girl"
"Good night, morning"
The cold night in the wilderness ushered in its most violent hour, commanding the wind to run from place to place, even with innocent snowflakes flying in the air, the ancient and tenacious giant trees swaying back and forth from its edge, the earth trembling, and the people who prostrate under its majesty wrapped their clothes tightly in their dreams as a sign of submission.
PS: Du Chen in this is just a clone of Chu Ran in this world.