The first day was drizzling.

The average temperature of the Earth is as low as minus 40 degrees.

While everyone was breathing a sigh of relief that the snow had finally stopped, only the employees of the base headquarters, who knew the truth, became more and more silent, simply because they knew that the weather would not be as people thought it would be, and now they just had to wait quietly for the "rain to clear" - after all, in the current situation, even if the rain stopped, the sun would not come out, because the yellow dwarf had already traveled 108,000 light-years away from Earth at a speed that eight horses could not pull back.

Zhao Heng: "If the current earth wants to catch up with the sun, it may only be able to install two Liu Xiang's legs in the Antarctic Circle, and then run all the way with his vigorous legs." ”

Yucheng: "It's not enough to have strong legs, I guess I have to install a small motor." ”

Yucheng: "Speaking of the Antarctic Circle, I heard from a colleague in the research department downstairs that when he went out this morning, his Alaskan sled was blowing heating in the dormitory and his nose was freezing - what was the situation in the Antarctic Circle on a day when we were all cold like the Antarctic Circle? ”

Zhao Heng dragged his laptop into a certain website to check, then raised his head and said expressionlessly: "All species of penguins were officially declared extinct three hours ago. ”

Yucheng: "......"

Zhao Heng: "It's not frozen to death, the ice layer is too thick, the penguins can't chisel open the predator, and some of them have chiseled a hole and jumped down to catch fish, and when they catch the fish and come back, they find that the ice surface is sealed again and drowned alive It is also possible - according to the data, the ice surface layer in Antarctica is now four times thicker than under normal circumstances." ”

Yucheng opened the window and looked out, and randomly found that not only Antarctica, but even the downstairs of the base headquarters had suffered, and the rain melted the ice and then froze immediately, and the snow that had not had time to be cleared was stacked into a huge ice block layer by layer, and at this time, the security team was wielding a shovel under the leadership of the super soldier to clean up the ice accumulated at the entrance - this kind of ghost weather, ordinary humans are frozen so that their legs can't close, but the super soldier can still talk and laugh, The red fur who took the lead was wearing a black close-fitting black vest, the strong muscles on his body were exposed to the air, his hair was frozen into strands, and he himself didn't even wrinkle his eyebrows.

Yucheng: "............ Is there any Alfino virus left, please any of you give me a shot. ”

Zhao Heng: "Are you sick, the cold wind is blowing in, close the window." ”

Yucheng retracted his head and slammed the window shut, a large lump of ice on the window fell downstairs because of the vibration, Yucheng was stunned for a moment for fear of smashing the people working downstairs, just ran back to the window Before he could look down, he saw a burst of red light outside in the dark night, followed by the cheers of those super soldiers.

Yucheng put his face against the window and looked at it, just in time to see Lika put away the open light, and at her feet was a broken block of ice - accidentally making eye contact with hers, Yucheng smiled and made an apologetic gesture, and Lika waved to him, then turned to continue his snow shoveling business.

Yucheng took a breath, patted the frost on his eyebrows, turned around, and stretched out his head, so in less than thirty seconds, he already felt that his brain was frozen, and for a moment he seemed to have returned to the winter in the south of the motherland, and felt the malice brought by the clammy cold, he thought about it and asked the man behind him: "Lao Zhao, do you think that at present, when penguins are all extinct, are there still animals and plants in the world?" ”

Zhao Heng raised his head and glanced at Yucheng.

Before he could answer, an unhurried voice sounded from outside the door.

"Most animals died in the cold three days ago, for example, the last bear was found dead in hibernation, and now the temperature outside is minus 45 degrees, and there are probably only deep-sea fish left alive in the world except humans." The door of the lounge was pushed open from the outside, and the god walked in from the outside with a large box of materials, looking at Zhao Heng and Yucheng in the lounge, he put down the information, and after a pause, he continued-

"The first floor of the headquarters has received some people who have escaped from their homes, most of them are home heating systems have failed, the indoor temperature has been low to minus twenty or thirty degrees, it is estimated that only a small part can support the headquarters to come, most of them have ......"

"The results of the dead and wounded are coming to us from various countries, and we will be able to get an approximate count tonight." Zhao Heng muttered, "What else do you want to hide the end of the world, as long as you are not stupid, you can guess what's going on in this situation......"

"You can't blame the heating supplier, they didn't expect that the heating system they made would one day have to face the end of the world." Yucheng shuddered and tugged at the gloves on his hand, "Actually, I don't think the heating system in the headquarters will last long, so I decided to write a suicide note to myself while my hand can still move-"

"When the time comes, all mankind will die, who will you leave your suicide note to?" Zhao Heng asked.

Yucheng thought about it and seemed to think that what Zhao Heng said was right, and stuffed his hands back into his pockets to continue to keep warm.

Fu Shen glanced at the room thermometer, in the case of the heating equipment is still working temporarily, the temperature of the base headquarters is now about ten degrees, and the staff who can still wear a sweater and walk around a few days ago have also put on warm cotton clothes these days, if you are not mistaken, Yucheng said that "the headquarters heating system fails" is probably also a matter of time.

If Zhao Heng opened the information brought by the god of cocoon at this time, he turned around and stuffed the information to Yucheng after seeing the dense all-English report on it: "Look at what you said?" ”

Yucheng: "Well, for one reason or another, satellite communication technology is about to be paralyzed, and the last satellite that barely maintains normal operation will be declared scrapped at 1:15 a.m. tonight, which means that after that second, all countries in the world will fight for their own battles, transportation depends on walking, and communication depends on roaring." ”

Zhao Heng put down the information and thought for a while: "Has the news been released?" ”

"Not yet, I'm about to go to the communications office on the first floor, and I'm going to show you first." The god picked up the materials again, "Now go and get them to them." ”

"Let's go." Zhao Heng said with a frown.

Fu Shen hugged Wen Jiàn and turned around and walked out of the lounge and went down to the first floor - compared to the upper floors still barely maintained a temperature that could make people calm, the further down he went, the more people felt like he was running to a huge ice cellar, and when he walked from the safety staircase to the second floor, Fu Shen couldn't help but stop and wrap the scarf in his hand, and by the way, he turned on the personal heating device distributed by the headquarters to the staff, and looked at the thermometer hanging between the first and second floors, which showed minus fifteen degrees.

At this time, the heating equipment was still desperately blowing out of the wind that I don't know if it was a cold wind or a warm wind, and the god raised his hand and shook it at the air outlet, feeling that his hand that was frozen a little stiff had a trace of consciousness, and he felt numbly: Oh, probably the heating equipment is still working normally.

When we got to the first floor, the thermometer showed that it was minus 25 degrees.

It's still indoors.

Fu Shen hugged Wen Jiàn and walked to the communication office, looked at the frost knotted on the doorknob, he pursed his lips and turned around and pushed the door open with his body - the inside of the communication office is probably a lot of people, a little less cold than the outside - the staff who are fully armed and wearing cotton clothes with individual thermal equipment and insisting on working are walking around, and the cocoon god got into a small slit that was squeezed out, and before he could go far, he heard a soft sound of "tearing".

Cocoon: "......"

He was slightly stunned, and turned his head to find that part of his down jacket was glued to the frozen door, and the feathers were flying around.

Some of the staff laughed, and when they looked at it, they realized that under a certain layer of ice under the frozen door, there were countless pieces of clothing to prove that he was not the only one who did this.

"The information sent down from the upper floors," said the cocoon god to the staff who came to greet him, "let the information be disseminated as soon as it is received." ”

"Oh, that should be a lot of information." The staff member said listlessly, "My name is Jack, and I'm the head of the communications office today, hell it's bad luck, yesterday the communications office was only -fifteen degrees Celsius, and it was my turn to become such a terrible temperature." ”

Listening to his complaints, he quietly followed behind his buttocks, and Jack held the Wen Jiàn clip in one hand, and poured himself a cup of hot coffee in a corner on the way to the work control platform, holding the hot coffee, he asked the god of cocoon, "Do you want a cup?" At most, it will only stay at a temperature of less than a minute, and after a minute it will turn into Americanocrushed coffee, and after another thirty seconds, it will completely freeze into a lump of ice. ”

The god couldn't resist the temptation of the steaming heat, and he gave himself a cup with trembling hands, and the temperature of the cup in the palm of his hand made him feel warm all over his body.

Jack yawned, turned and walked to the front of the platform.

Holding the coffee that had quickly lost its temperature, he watched him sit down in front of the control table, pressed a few buttons, and then, as if because something was wrong with a system, he frowned slightly, picked up the communicator in his hand and prepared for the warranty - but when his hand rested on the dialer, he stopped.

Is this a frozen stupid phone call from the maintenance department forgotten? The cocoon god stood beside him and thought expressionlessly.

For a long time, when Jack had been in this position for almost thirty seconds, it was only then that the cocoon god felt that something was not right.

"Jack, as I said, get the word out quickly......" The cocoon hesitantly reached out and patted Jack's shoulder, and then he heard a soft clang, and at the same time that the cup containing the frozen coffee fell from the control table to the ground, and Jack's body fell straight from his seat.

The cocoon god froze in place.

He lifted his hand and looked at the palm of his hand.

When humans are exposed to low temperatures, the body's ability to metabolize will slow down, and at the same time, the speed of heartbeat, pulse and blood flow will decrease, and they may feel sleepy, tired, and then gradually die as the heart rate gradually decreases.

The god still remembers that the sixth real body asked him a question: Do you remember what happened to the last time the earth entered the ice period?

The Earth entered the Cambrian period about 500 million years ago, which marked the beginning of the Phanerozoic and the "age of abundant life", when the temperature of the foresea water around the world, including the North and South Poles, was warm - until 100 million years later, the Earth entered the Ordovician period, because the activity of glaciers led to changes in climate and ocean horizons, and the Ordovician ended with the Great Ice Age, which directly led to the second mass extinction of life on Earth.

If the original Cambrian period is the earth before the beginning of the ice age.

Now, there is no doubt that the Earth is already facing a third mass extinction.

-- And according to the statistics that are counted every day, it is true in real time, and the number jù in front shows that the only living creatures that are currently alive on the earth under the absolute ice are humans, some domestic cats and dogs, and deep-sea marine fish, and other animals and plants are quietly extinct one by one in invisible places.

And humanity is rapidly dying out.

Since the beginning of the rain around the world, every minute of human beings frozen to death in the bitter cold has been counted in tens or even tens of thousands.

When I saw these numbers for the first time, I felt a little shocked - but when these numbers were constantly updated every day, the initial shock was gradually replaced by numbness, and the cold seemed to paralyze the nerves of human beings.

It is not until the real death happens to oneself - it may be a relative, it may be a friend, or a neighbor who usually meets and greets you - at this time, the numb heart becomes alive again, the fear of being cornered is awakened again, and people will start to think about the question: It turns out that death is so close to me.

For example, the god of cocoon at this moment, and the staff who rushed up around them.

They called Jack's name and surrounded him, and pushed him away from the crowd silently, he silently took the internal communicator out of his pocket and contacted the upstairs, "Hey", and after Zhao Heng over there responded, he said slowly: "There is an accident on the first floor." ”

Zhao Heng was stunned: "What?" ”

"There are staff members who have frozen to death at work, and now everyone is very unstable," Fu Shen glanced at his colleagues around Jack, "Arrange a few more information officers to come down, this information should be disseminated, first inform the citizens of the city, if you are not completely sure that you can come to the ABP from home, don't try blindly, stay in your own home and maybe you can live a little longer, and then hurry up...... Say goodbye to friends and family who are no longer around. ”

Zhao Heng thought for a while, "um", and it didn't take long for Fu Shen to hear Zhao Heng's voice become a little blurred, and it seemed that he was turning around and saying to Yucheng: "What about my mobile phone, bring it, call my mother." ”

The cocoon god hung up the communicator.

Pulling out his mobile phone, which was about to turn into scrap metal, he thought about it, and then edited a text message to send to a certain mobile phone number that he remembered badly-

[Mom, you have to hold on and wait for me to come back. 】

……

January 2, 2078.

According to the data transmitted from the front, dozens of countries near the equator, such as Indonesia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, and Congo, have become the most front-line areas for human beings to fall due to national physical problems, and have become the most severe disaster areas.

According to statistics at 0:00 on January 2, 2078, the total number of human victims in the world currently exceeds 2.5 billion, accounting for one-third of the total population of the earth.

This is also the last time that the number of people living on Earth has been counted by countries around the world, but this result has not yet been released through various media channels, and the last working satellite has reached the end of its life.

At this point, human beings returned to primitive society in terms of communication.

Maybe it's not even as good as a primitive society, after all, even the pigeons that can fly pigeons and pass on books are dead.

January 2, 2078, 1:14:30 a.m.

While everyone was waiting for the moment when the world was silent, the headquarters base in Washington, D.C., received a message from Bangalore at the last second, and about five minutes ago, the second Alfinu energy crystal had appeared in the area.