Chapter 697: Looking Up at the Starry Sky!
It's been a hundred years since I've seen the stars, and the world has been polluted for so long.
The enthusiasm of human beings has also changed from the hope at the beginning, hoping that there must be a pure land that can accommodate them, to today's despair, numbness, and indifference.
One hundred years, three generations, four generations, countless lives were born, spent underground and in defense facilities, birth, old age, sickness and death, and in the end, not even corpses were left, they were decomposed into components that are beneficial to humans, and continue the ecological cycle of the base. Here, there is only a thin line between the dead and the living.
Just like the twenty staff members who came out to carry out repairs, most of them are middle-aged people, they have lived in this world since they were children, they have never seen the starry sky, they have never seen the sky, the sky outside is always gray, and there is a poisonous mist floating in it, and there are countless fierce beasts, evil plants, wild evolutionaries and wandering zombies on the ground.
Water is also inedible, not to mention those evil plants and beasts, the brains of zombies are edible, and they are non-toxic, but the irony is that zombies are also the transformation of humans and beasts, and in the end everyone is killing each other.
Everything is synthetic, and the evolutionaries voluntarily accept the transformation to explore new worlds outside, but every time, the reports that come back are failures.
There was no new land, just with the place they could go now, that was already the limit, and further out, not only could the motorized machinery no longer resist the corrosion of the fog, but there were more powerful beasts lurking.
On average, one Evolutionary Beast will appear in every 10,000 animals of the same family, and even fewer insects and the like, with an average of one Evolutionary Beast in every 100,000 animals. Of course, there are exceptions, and human evolutionaries are even rarer, and most of today's evolutionaries are born out of the research revolution, which is nurture, not innate.
There are also zombie evolutions, they will eventually return to the appearance of humans, that is, the wild evolutionaries on the outside, they will not attack humans, but they are by no means friendly creatures, and everyone is different, some berserk species will still kill without distinguishing between enemies and enemies.
Wild Evolutionaries possess the strength to surpass Acquired Evolutionaries, and they are crushing in terms of speed, strength, and reflexes. It's terrible, because in this world, all life is just a sustenance.
Normal wildlife is long gone, so this part is almost a different world, and no one knows what terrible things will happen.
The maintenance team began to repair the external defenses, this defense is called "eggshell", as the name suggests, eggshells can resist impact, but can not resist crushing, which is a metaphor for the current situation of human beings, want to break out of the stars, but can not do anything, just like the eggshell of the little chick, as long as it is crushed, it will be extinct in an instant.
Irony and self-deprecating appellation, eggshell, this is the title of despair. At one time, this defensive wall was called "the rampart" by its designers, and humanity had unprecedented confidence in its power, but unfortunately, everything ended with the destruction of the G-9 base, and the dream was shattered.
An incredibly powerful evolutionary beast has breached the base, and it is a monster like a dragon!
No one would have thought that there would be such a king-like evolution beast, and that "dragon" looked extremely hideous, but it couldn't fly. Following the destruction of Base G-9, the other base leaders organized a remote meeting and studied its form, confirming that the "dragon" had evolved from an alligator.
Life is the greatest miracle in the world, with infinite possibilities, this dragon completely woke up the human race, making them realize that the barrier is not impenetrable, the lifespan of the evolved beast is very long, if it goes on slowly, there will be more and more evolved beasts with the strength of the "king", and the barrier is just a joke.
Humanity is in danger of extinction, but the terrible thing is that there is no means to resist the monster that humans call king, that incomparable force can crush everything, and the hard skin is not even afraid of artillery.
In the face of this power that transcends the natural calamity, all one can do is pray, pray that everything will pass, that the dragon will not descend on their heads. This feeling of being slaughtered by others is really bad, and it suffocates all the surviving humans.
More and more people have given up the barrier, and as long as the monster exists, the barrier will always be like a paper paste, and there will always be a great threat, and there is no telling when it will come and deal a devastating blow to humanity.
The maintenance team sighed as they carried out the repair work in linen, replacing the external defensive metal plates, and the special machinery in their hands continued to rise and fall to deliver the materials to the repairers.
It doesn't matter if it's day or night, the biological clock has long been disordered, and the so-called day and night are just natural phenomena simulated in the base, along with rain, thunder, and wind, all of which are fake, but they can restore the appearance of the stars in the most realistic way.
"Hansen, your piece of metal should be gently put down, and the original rotten plate should be carefully pulled out...... The line below is vulnerable. ”
"This is your first time doing this job, but it doesn't matter, because those who can do it more than twice are old qualified employees, and most of them can't do it for more than five years. ”
The maintenance team leader spoke to an "astronaut" and instructed him in his movements, who studied carefully and occasionally looked around to ask how to carefully replace the defense plate.
Although the "barrier" has become an "eggshell", it is still a wall for them to shelter from the wind and rain, if they lose the eggshell, then the human base can be said to be completely exposed to the outside world, and there is no need to wait for the fierce beast to kill, and they will fall into destruction.
The wind was blowing all around, and the acid mist began to surge, constantly slamming on the protective clothing, and the members of the maintenance team braved this disaster to work, and at the same time they had to do more, and they needed to use the wind shield to block the acid mist.
"Oh, that's unlucky...... Hey, wait, what's that?!"
One of the maintenance workers raised his head and just said the words of complaint, and the next moment his eyes widened in shock, and he pointed to the sky and shouted, a mechanical roar came from the intercom on his chest, while the other maintenance workers followed his fingers and looked up to the sky.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at the sky in horror.
It was pitch black, like a curtain of broken ink, and on the curtain, countless bright lights were flickering.
For the first time in a hundred years, the people of Ulu saw the stars.