Chapter 496: The End of the World

"My father was a farmer, and people at that time were almost all farmers, although .... He wasn't at first. ”

After the four big words "Interstellar" flashed across the screen, an old lady suddenly appeared.

A documentary-like memory blurted out of her mouth.

The audience watched this scene without too much surprise. Because the beginning of "Truman's World" was very similar to this.

Immediately after, the picture appeared in the sky, Matthew (Liu Dehua) piloted a plane soaring in the sky.

But the accident happened immediately after, and a moment later, the plane crashed. And at the moment before the fall, the picture suddenly flashed, and Liu Dehua bounced up from the bed violently.

It turned out to be just a nightmare.

The audience breathed a sigh of relief, it would be fun if the protagonist GG as soon as he came out.

But the scenes that made everyone worried appeared again.

"The wheat is dead, all are sick and dead, and there are only a few acres of corn left. And also.... Dusty sky. ”

"We had to tie a strip of cloth around our nose and mouth so that we wouldn't get more sand into our bodies. ”

"When we set the table, we always have to hold the plates, whatever it is. ”

“......”

In a few voice-overs, the cruelty of the end times is also shown to the audience on the big screen.

It turned out that behind this endless corn field, there was a sandstorm in the sky.

It turns out that countless plants have become extinct, and a large number of humans have died.

It turns out that the end of the world has already come to Earth.

Human beings are facing an existential situation.

The beginning of the film does not show too many post-apocalyptic scenes, no tsunamis, no landslides and earth cracks, no comets hitting the earth, and no zombies.

There is only desolation, only dusty furniture that wakes up every morning, only gray skies.

Only sand.....

With the sad background music, a barren apocalyptic world is presented to the audience.

The audience couldn't describe this sad feeling, obviously there was no thrill of the Titanic hitting the iceberg, but they still felt a chill in their hearts.

Is this the last days in the eyes of the great immortals?

What a desolation!

.......

The life of the last days goes on.

The protagonist's family of four also appeared in the audience's field of vision. Matthew (Liu Dehua), his daughter Ma Murphy (Liu Xianghui), and his son Ma Yu (Liu Ran), and his father-in-law.

Matthew's wife has long since died, and only a few people remain.

And the protagonist's current identity is a farmer, a farmer who grows corn.

The protagonist's family lives uneventfully in this way, except that Murphy often complains to Matthew about ghosts in the study.

Because the things on the shelves, some books, decorations and so on, always fall to the ground inexplicably, which makes the smart daughter feel very puzzled.

The audience was also confused, but no one thought too much about it, thinking that the books were blown down by the wind or inadvertently slipped.

.......

On this day, Matthew drove his daughter and son to school, but in the middle of the trip, the car unluckily burst a tire.

The son complained, "Murphy's Law." ”

As a result, little Murphy was unhappy.

Murphy's Law says that bad luck happens whenever there is a chance. The son was unlucky enough to burst a tire because of the car, and he complained a little in his heart.

After getting out of the car, Murphy asked Dad why he had such a strange name.

Matthew calmly explained all this to his daughter.

It's just that Murphy's Law is a bit mysterious, and the audience was stunned for a moment, and a few big question marks popped up on their heads. Some people who know Murphy's Law are also a little puzzled in their hearts.

"Murphy's Law...???"

"What the hell? It turns out that the name has such a meaning. ”

"Murphy, why did Birch give his daughter such a name?"

Before the audience could think clearly, suddenly, a drone flew through the sky. Seeing this, Matthew hurriedly beckoned his son and daughter to get into the car, and he didn't even bother to repair the tires, so he rushed to the plane in a hurry.

"The Indian Air Force's drone, its solar cells power the entire farm!"

On the way, Matthew explained excitedly.

Immediately, he took out the computer and signal jammer from the back seat of the car, pointed it at the drone, and prepared to get it down.

After the drone landed on the farm, the son asked, "How long did you say it had been flying?"

"The control centers in Delhi and Huaxia were closed 10 years ago. ”

"That is, it flew for at least ten years!"

Matthew replied.

Hearing this, the audience was surprised.

Delhi is the capital of India, and if it is said that way, wouldn't it have been ten years ago that the air military power of India and China had been wiped out?

There is no positive description of the cruelty of the apocalypse, just a drone that has been flying for ten years has made the audience's hearts die.

This apocalypse is really terrifying.

Later, when Matthew finished tossing the drone and sent his daughter to school, the conversation between him and the teacher made the audience sigh at the end of the world.

Because of his poor grades, Matthew's son couldn't go to college and could only become a farmer. In other words, there are not so many resources in the world for students to go to college.

"We don't need engineers anymore, what we lack now is not televisions and airplanes, we lack food. This world needs farmers, good farmers like you, and Ma Yu..."

Hehe, what a tactful reason.

In today's society, even if you can't go to university, there are still all kinds of jobs to do. Three hundred and sixty lines, the line is the champion.

But in the last days, the peasants became the most important of the three hundred and sixty lines.

What siege lions, what programming apes, are useless professions, not to mention artistic professions such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

Human beings in the last days are not in the mood to appreciate these things.

Fill your stomach first.

This is what a male teacher said to Matthew, and it is also a true portrayal of this last days.

Another female teacher told Matthew about Murphy's situation. She thinks Murphy is smart, but she deliberately spreads the "non-existent" facts.

What facts?

Murphy looked at textbooks from decades ago and thought that humans had ever landed on the moon, but the teacher who grew up in the last days didn't.

"The Apollo program was fake, and it was just to bankrupt the Soviet Union," she said. ”

Matthew was stunned for a long time before he squeezed out a sentence: "You don't believe that humans have ever been to the moon?"

The female teacher shrugged: "I believe that it was very shrewd propaganda that allowed the Soviet Union to waste all its resources on useless machines and rockets, which led to their bankruptcy." If we don't want to repeat the wasteful and over-depleted mistakes of the twentieth century, we must teach children to know the planet and not think about leaving it. ”

Matthew's face sank suddenly.

It's ugly.

The faces of the audience are not very good-looking.

In the last days, don't humans believe that they have ever been to the moon?

Have rockets become useless machines?

The deeds of the great men of mankind have been maliciously erased?

Just to keep humanity on Earth... Waiting to die?

For some reason, the audience's mood was a little heavy.

This end of the world is not only the destruction of the earth's environment, but also the culture of human beings and the beliefs of human beings.

This is the end of human culture!

When did science become worthless?

It's like Matthew coming home and confiding in his father-in-law: "We humans seem to have forgotten who we are." We are explorers, pioneers, not guardians!"

The old man sighed: "When I was young, it felt as if something new came out every day, some gadgets, some new concepts or something, every day was like the New Year." But that's six or seven billion people, now.... It's scary to think about. ”

Humanity is about to perish, like a small insect in the desert, in danger of being drowned by the wind and sand at any time.

Finally, Matthew said, "We used to look up at the vast starry sky and think about our own existence, but now we can only think about how to survive the sandstorm. ”

This is the end of the world!

Not only to destroy the environment, not only to destroy mankind, but also to crush human culture and destroy the last days of human faith!

......

One day, the sandstorm struck again.

On the big screen, the yellow sand filled the entire village. The audience could only see a vast yellow patch, and nothing else.

When Matthew and the others returned home against the wind and sand, Murphy suddenly remembered that the window in the study upstairs was not closed. By the time Matthew arrived in the study, the dust had blown in, and the whole room was a misty yellow.

And that's when the unexpected happened.

As the sand slowly fell from the sky, it seemed to follow a certain pattern, falling on the floor to form parallel lines one after another, lines made of sand.

These lines range from thick to thin and are neatly arranged. It's as if there's a pair of hands at the mercy of it.

The audience was amazed, what the hell is this? Can the sand still fall like this?

Murphy said, "It's a ghost!" and she thought of the books on the shelves that had fallen for no apparent reason.

The next day, Matthew, who had been studying in the study all night, said to Murphy, "It's not a ghost, it's gravity!"

The audience was also taken aback, gravity?

Does gravity pull the sand, forming these strips?

Later, after studying it again, Matthew said, "It's not Morse code, it's binary, the thick one is 1, and the thin one is 0." ”

"This is a coordinate!"

Seeing this, the audience blew up a little.

"Awesome, get a coordinate from the sand?"

"It's kind of weird. ”

"Can anyone tell me how that sand is formed?"

The audience was confused, and the sand inexplicably combined into a string of binary numbers, and then became a coordinate again. It's really weird how it looks.

However, Matthew only gave a single explanation of gravity, and there was no follow-up.

Filled with curiosity, the audience followed Matthew to the coordinates of that location........