Chapter 429: In the Face of Calamity
It was a day in early April, and there was still a subtle chill in the air, and the sun was shining brightly, which was obviously a warm early spring scene, but the empty and uninhabited street scene was inexplicably desolate.
Although the surrounding area is still surrounded by high-rise buildings, the rows of rows show the artificial creations of the modern city, but the original bustling urban style is no longer there.
The empty streets and roads suddenly lack the hustle and bustle that should have been, giving people a dull and depressing feeling.
There were clusters of people walking in the streets, but they were all in a hurry, as if the scenery outside was like a beast that would devour life, and only that little nest of their own was a place where their souls could be comforted. If it is not necessary, I want to hide in my nest forever and live a life of isolation.
Su Yuan walked alone on the street, and had been walking for more than an hour when she came out of her home, but the familiar scene she saw disappointed her.
These groups, who share the same life characteristics as her, and are still called "humans", at this time look like a frightened and phobic animal, and they dare not show the pride of the "overlord of the earth" to face this somewhat different world.
How sad it must be to be so decadent after a little setback!
She looked down and sighed, looked at the tall black martin boots she was wearing on her feet, and suddenly felt a little soreness in her legs. I just want to find a place to sit down and rest.
Not far in front is an old western restaurant "Strait Coffee" in the main urban area of Haizhou, which used to have a prosperous business and an endless stream of customers, but it seems very deserted at this time, just like other stores in Haizhou City and even the whole land of China, its transformation from prosperity to decline is a microcosm. After the disaster, as long as you can get food and clothing, few people talk about taste and enjoyment anymore.
Su Yuan walked up to it. He looked at the thick wooden door that symbolized the precipitation of time, and pushed it open and entered. The wind chimes hanging in the doorway jingled.
The waiter inside saw a woman in a red leather jacket enter, looked away from the TV news, and walked over with a menu.
"Miss, how many may I ask?"
The waiter quietly looked at Su Yuan and found that the woman was wearing a red leather jacket, looking gorgeous and capable. The fly in the ointment is that the leather jacket is a little worn, as if it has been worn for several years. But her appearance is speechless, and she has not seen one in a hundred.
"One. Su Yuan's voice was elegant and authentic.
"Please come here. ”
Under the guidance of the waiter, Su Yuan came to a window position. If you look up here, you can see the LCD screen hanging in the western restaurant. Originally, these LCD screens were playing some internal advertisements of Western restaurants, but at this time, the signal was actually playing news about the disaster situation in various places.
"Hello everyone, today is Thursday, April 3, 2014, and now I am broadcasting the latest disaster report released by the National Security Emergency Committee: as of the early morning of April 3, 2014, a total of 132432 disasters have been confirmed across the country, including 3 mega disasters, 35 mega disasters, and the rest are general disasters, causing a total of 433 cities to be affected. Among them, 22 cities were damaged by the disaster, with a total of more than 2,331 deaths and 6,732 missing people. ”
According to statistics from the health and civil affairs departments, more than 60 million people were seriously injured due to the disaster. More than 13 million people have been discharged from hospitals, and hospitals are overwhelmed by the large number of wounded. Pharmaceutical companies around the country are making every effort to produce anti-traumatic drugs, and hope that patients with minor injuries can be treated with drugs on their own......"
"This disaster is really too harsh. In just three days, more than a million deaths have been added, and I don't know when it will be the end. The waiter said with emotion. "Oh yes, what do you order?"
Su Yuan smiled silently at this, "Give me a Milanese-style pork chop and a glass of orange juice." ”
The waiter quickly made a note of it, and then Su Yuan focused his attention on the news that was being broadcast.
The National Security Emergency Committee, which was formerly known as the National Security Council, was suddenly announced two days before the disaster.
At the beginning of its establishment, the people of the whole country were all surprised by its establishment, but fortunately, its functions and powers were limited to being exercised only when the central organs were completely paralyzed, and it was not considered a chaotic government. But no one could have imagined that just two days after the establishment of this organization, that is, on January 18, 2014, the disaster that affected the whole world actually happened.
At noon on January 18, with Panzhou County, Guizhou Province as the first flashpoint, a huge disaster occurred that swept the whole country and even the whole world.
The sky suddenly cracked, the earth suddenly collapsed, and countless mountains and green trees were dumped into the unknown purple realm like garbage. A moment ago, the blue sky was still endless and the blue sky was torn in half by a terrifying crack in the blink of an eye, or a huge whirlpool suddenly appeared on the flat surface of the lake, and when the lake water was finished, a deep and gloomy crack appeared in the middle of the lake......
There are also towering skyscrapers, and the upper floors are completely plunged into the abyss after the waist is cut off......
Among them, the strictest is Panzhou County, Binhe City, and Haizhou City, which were later listed as the three major disaster sites, and almost the entire county and the entire district were the units that fell, and as soon as the disaster came, the entire city was abandoned. In terms of time, Panzhou County and Binhe City occurred the earliest, and Haizhou City was slightly later than the two, and the severity of the disaster was also the lightest of the three.
This apocalyptic scene has appeared so much on TV that it is so impressive that I can't help but shudder when I think about it now.
Soon, the food ordered came up, Su Yuan quickly finished her lunch, settled the bill and walked out from Strait Coffee.
At this time, it was already twelve o'clock at noon, the fierce sun was hanging in the sky, shining brightly on the main block, Su Yuan covered it with his hand, quickly walked to the car parked a kilometer away, got inside, and drove towards the direction of Longmen Community with a smoke.
The Longmen community was the heart of the disaster in Haizhou City, and today, the entire Longmen community sits on the edge of a deep spatial rift. It's a bit shaky. Half of the neighborhood disappeared, and the original lush landscape grove was completely bisected by a branch crack. The residents who survived the disaster fled from this dangerous place one after another, leaving only Su Yuan and the two elders of the Ji family still here.
The car drove into a dilapidated neighborhood. As soon as she stopped, two people walked over, it was Aunt Wang and her husband.
"Miss, have you found Miss?"
Aunt Wang saw Su Yuan coming back, and greeted him and asked. The young lady in her mouth refers to Su Caiwei.
Su Yuan shook his head gloomily: "No, I don't know how my mother is now." ”
"Don't worry, Miss, Miss will definitely be fine. I've heard on the news that the disaster is now leveling off. There shouldn't be any more shattering......"
Su Yuan nodded silently, the space shattering was indeed much smoother, but this stability was relative to the earth-shattering disaster at the beginning, until now, there are still various disasters every day, but after experiencing too much, people will become numb.
Su Yuan returned to Haizhou from Panzhou County two months ago after a lot of hardships, and before that, she used [backtracking] again and again, hoping to save Ji Ye Hao's life. But in the end, they all failed to do so, and for the last time, Su Yuan, who was already a little tired, was already desperate, but after a moment of warmth with Ji Ye Hao. But once again the idea of saving him was born.
However, the time of [backtracking] is shorter and shorter each time, so the act of escaping Panzhou County is actually a race against death in a limited time, and the hope of success is extremely slim. This time, however. Su Yuan, Ji Ye Hao, Gao Jun, Xia Linfeng and others finally miraculously left Panzhou County, and they drove jeeps. I thought I would be able to arrive at the Sumeng Culture Provincial Distribution Center in Guiyang, and then change to a new car and go to Haizhou.
It's a pity that fate played a joke on them again. At that time, it was the month of Layue, it was the busy period of the Spring Festival, and a car in front of Su Yuan on the highway to Haizhou had a car accident, and the road was blocked all of a sudden, there was no way, Su Yuan and others had to abandon the car and walk off the highway, ready to find other ways.
This back and forth delayed time, broken and came, Ji Ye Hao and Xia Linfeng fell into the crack in order to save Su Yuan and Gao Jun like in "history", Su Yuan wanted to [backtrack], but was shocked to find that her [backtracking] skills were actually not good, coupled with the panic at the scene, she was sluggish, and she was separated from Gao Jun.
It wasn't until a few days later that Su Yuan returned to Haizhou alone, accompanied only by a few clothes and a package weighing more than 30 catties. Inside is Gaia's small chassis and the Worldline Sniffer, as well as a stack of materials about the Worldline, the Time Machine, and the Space Machine.
Back in the Longmen community, she was frightened by the dilapidated scene of the community, which at this time also seemed to have just experienced a catastrophe, and there was a feeling of ruins and decay everywhere. She even learned from Aunt Wang that Su Caiwei took some people to find them because she didn't wait for Su Yuan and them, and the communication was blocked. It's another needle in a haystack.
In the past two months, Su Yuan has lived in his own yard, and he usually eats with Ji Yehao's parents for convenience.
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Seeing that Su Yuan didn't seem to listen to much of her persuasion, Aunt Wang sighed.
"By the way, Miss, are you hungry? I'll prepare lunch for you. ”
"Ah, no need, I just ate a little outside, you boil me some water, and I'll just make a bowl of noodles." ”
"How can that be!" Aunt Wang's eyes narrowed, how can instant noodles be nutritious?
"Okay, okay, I'm busy!" Su Yuan disobeyed, waved his hand, and hurriedly ran into the room, picked up the information about the space device and looked at it.
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A dimly lit computer room, with deep and ornate cables crisscrossed through the room, no windows around it, and only two fluorescent lamps hanging from the ceiling.
A huge, shimmering screen with a string of intricate and incomprehensible messages across from it were two rows of huge server blades, flashing lights and the occasional cacophony of fans humming.
At this time, the door opened, Su Yuan walked in, she was wearing a red leather jacket, holding a bowl of Master Kong's braised beef noodles in her hand, came to the computer, and casually put the instant noodles on the empty table on the side.
Looking at the progress on the screen, his brows furrowed, and he said unhappily: "Haven't calculated a suitable result yet?"
What the computer was calculating at this time was a digital model, and for this model, Su Yuan could be said to have invested in forgetting to sleep and eat.
"If only that person were there. ”
A thought popped into the girl's mind, and she shook her head, picked up a plastic fork and ate hot instant noodles. (To be continued......)