Chapter 50: The White Zone
Duan Chengze felt as if he was being targeted from all directions at this time, the air pressure around him was extremely low, making people breathless, and he could clearly hear the laughter of a group of young men and women and the cries of vendors in his ears.
This feeling he had never experienced since he arrived in the west, and strictly speaking, this feeling only appeared when approaching the White Zone.
The so-called white area is an anomalous area, but not all abnormal areas are called white areas, and he once saw several images of white areas in the hands of Professor Lin of the Puhai City Research Institute.
The most familiar white area in the eastern seven cities is Shuangmu County, which is a county under the jurisdiction of the southernmost city of H Province in the old era, with a population of 500,000 before the catastrophe.
After the cataclysm, the southernmost city where Shuangmu Prefecture is located was eroded by high-temperature steam comparable to magma, and most of the cities closest to the east to the north were made up of refugees from H Province, but there were no southerners among them.
And Shuangmu County itself, the buildings are intact, there is no human or animal existence, there is no sign of being corroded by the high temperature steam, and even fifty years after the cataclysm, the inside still maintains the same as before the cataclysm, without a trace of dust, except for lifelessness.
After the cataclysm, the forces in the east and north of Shuangmu County have joined forces to send people to try the depth, but as long as they are close to the first ten miles of Shuangmu County, there will be something obvious to be stared at, not from one direction, but there is a feeling that something is being stared at in all directions, but the values of various instruments in the hands to test the air, soil, and radiation are normal, and the drones flying in the air have not been able to detect any problems. And there, all abilities are useless.
Of course, that alone doesn't make the white zone any more talkative.
In that exploration, the forces in the east and north sent a total of more than 200 people and hundreds of captive mice and insects into it, but no one came out after entering Shuangmu County, whether it was ordinary people or aliens, mice or insects.
They had even tried to use ropes to connect people with iron chains, and to enter from various angles from the earth and from the air, but as soon as the creatures came within the first ten miles of Shuangmu County, the human eye could still see that they were continuing to walk, but the other end of the rope chain had fallen to the ground, as if nothing had existed on it.
The point is that the creatures who continue to enter Shuangmu County will not notice such a change themselves, it is like a chain rope attached to their body, and some people will even make the action of touching the rope that has fallen on their body and then regain their confidence.
The drone once followed the people into Shuangmu County, and the people who were still displayed on the camera outside Shuangmu County, as long as they entered the range, it was as if they had walked into another space and disappeared completely from the drone's camera, but the people and cameras standing outside the range could capture the figures of the people entering the area, the words spoken during communication, and even the sound of people living there before the cataclysm talking and laughing on the street, the sound of cars driving by, and the sound of being observed by "people" before the cataclysm.
Professor Lin's drawer contained a box of sounds and images detected by the instrument after entering Shuangmu County.
Duan Cheng can go around twice from time to time because of his identity, he was once so scared that he didn't even dare to sleep because he was curious to watch a recorded short film, and he didn't dare to approach the research institute again for the next half a year.
In that short film, aerial photography is done with a drone with a large battery, and the drone is equipped with recording equipment. The shooting time is around 6 p.m., the season is autumn, and the afterglow of the foggy sunset is sinking into the horizon little by little.
At the beginning, the picture was only a comparison between the intact Shuangmu County and the surrounding ruined cities, and after flying two laps, the drone entered the first ten miles of Shuangmu County.
In the picture, the brick and stone buildings on both sides of the county-level public office are lifeless, and there is no one on the side of the road except for weeds, but there are voices of discussion and sweet potato sales in the recording equipment, as if the road is full of people who come to see the excitement, and the content of "they" talking is "why have drones been circling around recently, what are they going to shoot".
The drone flew along the highway towards the county seat, and the picture was still lifeless, the buildings were intact, the facilities were intact, except that there was no sign of life, everything was the same as the city before the cataclysm, and the recording equipment was much more lively.
Along the way, there were voices shouting "Mom looks at the little plane", "Why is this drone so noisy again", "It's not annoying every day", "What kind of project is this", and there are still cars and buses passing by on the road, as if the people who died in the catastrophe are still "alive" in this intact old D county.
As the time progressed to half past six, the lights of the whole city were all lit up in an instant, and the warm yellow street lamps illuminated the road, and the shops on both sides of the road were open. The lights are also lit inside, and the rows of goods on the shelves seem to have just been put up, without a trace of dust and decay, and when the sound of the rolling shutter door being pulled down and locked in the recording equipment is heard, the lights of the shop in the picture are turned off, and the rolling shutter door is pulled down from the top by a pair of invisible hands, and the store is closed behind the rolling shutter door that is still good after 50 years, and the sound of a man talking to a woman is randomly heard.
Man: "Close the door early and cook dinner for my daughter, I don't feel at ease when she's alone at home." ”
Woman: "Yes, anyway, it's almost the Chinese New Year, so I'll close the store early and go back to my hometown." ”
The voices of men and women faded away while discussing the tickets and flights of the year, and at this moment a line of words was typed in the picture: "The power stations around Shuangmu County have all been destroyed due to the cataclysm, and the southernmost city where it is located has been eroded by high temperatures, and the whole city has melted except Shuangmu County, and no one has survived."
According to other data, the day of the catastrophe broke out was a small year in China. ”
With the continuous advancement of drones, there are constantly the sounds of firecrackers and fireworks, but from the picture, there are only the glorious lights of the old D county town style and the roller shutter doors that have been pulled down and locked by invisible hands.
If this is just a simple video record, it is not like it will not scare Duan Cheng, who has been eroded by the culture of the old era.
Later in the picture, the drone followed a small robot that had just been put in from the outside, recording that the little robot went to a store to steal a can of red can of drink before the catastrophe crawled out of the back door not long after, the fat aunt boss in the store scolded who stole her things, from the monitoring at the front desk of the store, it can be clearly seen that the little robot crawled in and took a can and crawled away The video of the fat aunt boss also watched the surveillance video to know that he was stolen.
Even the fat aunt boss held a stick, simply locked the door of the store, chased the little robot all the way and scolded, and chased all the way from the commissary near the center of the city to the county gate, which is the so-called dividing line of ten miles in front of the county.
In the process of chasing the little robot, the fat aunt boss has been maintaining a constant speed, that is, the little robot is fast and she is fast, and the little robot is slow and she is slow, and the distance between her and the little robot is kept at 10.00 meters from beginning to end, no more than no less, and even this image is clearly marked with a red straight line in post-processing.
The little robot quickly climbed out of the dividing line with the drink, and the fat aunt boss also hit the dividing line, at this time, the drone and the night vision device arranged around the dividing line lost the boss's figure at the same time, and the drink in the hand of the little robot has always been real.
Three of the northernmost popular drinks among xenohunters in the east, were made from the can of drink brought back by the little robot.
Anyone who touches a beverage can, whether or not it is touched through the medium, but as long as it touches the can, it eventually becomes the situation of Shuangmu County - people can only be captured and touched by inanimate instruments, but they completely disappear in the eyes of the naked eye, and they cannot even be touched.
These "humans" who cannot be captured by the naked eye, whether they are men, women, children, whether they are alive or dead, will return to Shuangmu County and become a member of the county after becoming "uncatchable with the naked eye".
In just 8 months, a can brought out of the white zone has wiped out the cities of the three H provinces in the eastern northern region, and joined the small county town of the old era that constantly complains about "housing prices are too high" and "how the foreign population is increasing".
The white area, which originally only existed in Shuangmu County, was suddenly expanded to the entire southernmost city, and the southernmost city did not have the devastation at the beginning of the short film, but gradually showed the architectural style of the old era, just like the former Shuangmu County.