Chapter 62 (I) The Collapse of Winter
Half an hour later, Tang Shuxing and the others appeared in an abandoned subway tunnel, Morgan led the way in front, and he didn't need a flashlight to see clearly in the dark.
"This is one of the earliest subway lines in New York City, abandoned at the beginning of the 21st century, and it was initially said that it would be renovated and reopened, but due to financial problems and the fact that the tunnel was full of homeless people who could not be evicted, it had to be abandoned, and in less than half a year, it became a paradise for aliens." Morgan stopped as he walked, and pointed to a small door next to him, "When you open that door, you will see that it is sealed with cement, but in fact it is a cement door, and inside is an underground boxing ring, a place for black boxing, but it is not a human being who fights black boxing here, but an alien race." โ
Tang Shuxing looked at the door, didn't know why, and remembered Qinghua.
"By the way, your friend, named Qinghua, has also been mixed up here." Morgan smiled, "The alien races in New York back then were quite peaceful, non-aggression with each other, and the relationship with the local gangs was also good, you must know that among the gangs, there were also many aliens and aliens, whether they were Eastern or Western. โ
Lin Xiaolin glanced at it and continued walking: "Whether it is the East or the West, alien races have always been unable to live peacefully with human beings, and there will always be people in alien races who will take humans as prey, and there will also be people among human beings who are not used to seeing alien races. โ
"Mr. Lin." Tang Shuxing walked behind him and asked, "When you were in China, did the Ministry of Ancient Science find you?" โ
Lin Xiaolin was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and smiled: "The Ancient Science Department will not find a magician like us. We don't disrupt the social order, we don't swindle, you know? When I started, the first rule set by my uncle was that I couldn't use Maoshan Taoism to make money, not even one and a half, otherwise it would be a betrayal of my master. The reason is very simple, this world has changed, it is no longer the world of a hundred years ago, and there is a department of ancient science for such things as subduing demons and eliminating demons. No need for us on. We also live in a world governed by law. โ
Follow Morgan through the tunnels of the abandoned subway, and along the way, you can see a lot of graffiti on both sides of the wall, many of which don't look like they were painted randomly, and some of them represent the past life of an alien race. Some are the confusion of the alien race now. In short, it can be seen. There are also many artists among the aliens.
As he walked, Tang Shuxing suddenly stopped in front of a painting, and looking at the painting, he stopped Morgan. Pointing to the painting, he said, "Who painted this picture?" โ
Morgan stepped forward and shook his head: "I don't know, is there anything special about this painting?" โ
Tang Shuxing looked at the painting, which depicted a scene like hell, with flames everywhere, and humans were gradually burned into skeletons in the flames, and there were several humanoid monsters around that looked the same as humans, but their skin was not very different. The monsters stared at the burnt humans next to them, looking helpless, and behind them were collapsed tall buildings, the sun in the sky was black, and a meteorite with flames was falling from the sky.
Tang Shuxing squatted down, pointed to the line at the bottom of the painting that he didn't recognize, and asked, "What does this line mean?" โ
Morgan looked closely, pointed from right to left, and said, "This is Hebrew." โ
"What do you mean?" Tang Shuxing looked at Morgan.
Morgan looked at him and replied, "The meaning is simple, it means the disappearing Sabbath." โ
"The vanishing Sabbath?" Tang Shuxing was very puzzled, this article is not the right painting, there is no connection between the two, the painting seems to be painting hell, the end of the world and other things, how can the text below be this?
Morgan shook his head: "Judging from the text below, it should be painted by Jews, maybe it is a Jewish alien or a sorcerer, and the Sabbath is the seventh day of each week, and I speculate that it means that there will be no Sabbath, probably to say, there will be no more days of rest." โ
Tang Shuxing squatted there and pondered, pondered for a long time, and got up: "Let's go, I'll write down this painting first, I have a feeling that about the next mass extinction, not only ancient humans predicted, but also other people know." โ
At this time, Lin Xiaolin and Yi Feng both looked at him, not understanding what it meant.
Tang Shuxing pointed to the burned humans below the painting: "These are ordinary human beings, after the end comes, there is no way to adapt, so they gradually die, the people depicted in the painting are only partially wrapped in flames, you look at the monster next to you." After Tang Shuxing finished speaking, he entered the state of corpse, pointed at the person, and pointed to himself, "The appearance of these people is a bit similar to me, their eyes widened, looking at the other burned humans, looking very helpless, I want to show that these people have become corpses, so they can adapt to the post-apocalyptic world, but they can't help others." โ
Yi Feng shook his head: "When the end comes, there will be fire everywhere?" Aren't you afraid of fire? โ
"No, fire is just a description, a representation, I think the person who painted wants to express what he wants to express is that after the end comes, the environment of this world will become extremely bad, and only the corpses can survive." Tang Shuxing nodded, "Let's go, I feel like a lot of things are already reminding me that I can't wait any longer." โ
The four of them hurried to move on, and along the way, Tang Shuxing was still thinking about something that he hadn't figured out so far - what was Reinhardt going to do by recasting the Eye of Rulai?
What Tang Shuxing heard from the people in the bracelet about the Eye of Rulai, that is, the Heavenly Eye, is completely a weapon with a ruining nature, and once the reforge is activated, the whole world will be finished. However, there is a paradox in the fact that according to the time estimated by ancient humans, because human beings did not protect the environment enough, the world in which they lived would produce the next mass extinction at a certain time.
If the Eye of Coming will destroy the Miรจ world, so will the mass extinction, if Reinhardt wants to destroy the Miรจ world? Why did he recast the Eye of the Buddha? Why don't he just wait for the mass extinction to come, or does he want to use the Eye of the Truth to advance the mass extinction?
Reinhardt is not a madman, so why would he do such a thing?
It was almost dawn before the four of them rushed to the entrance and exit near the original World Trade Building, because the sun had already fallen, Morgan and Yifeng could not go to the ground, Tang Shuxing had to adjust the intercom to other frequencies and hand them over, let them wait there, and inform them as soon as there was a situation, so that they would not walk around.
Subsequently, Tang Shuxing and Lin Xiaolin simply changed their appearance, made the appearance of Europeans and Americans, loaded their own swords and weapons with the boxes they picked up on the road, and then slowly climbed out.
When Tang Shuxing climbed out, he looked up and saw snowflakes in the sky, although there were still more pedestrians on the street, but they were several times fewer than usual.
"The snow in New York came early this year." Lin Xiaolin subconsciously looked at the electronic card next to him, "It's only the end of October now, and there is already such a big snowfall, and it will only snow around December in previous years." โ
Tang Shuxing nodded, put away his collar, and ran towards the opposite side with Lin Xiaolin, where the One World Trade Center Building had already stood on the old site, but there was still a memorial wall around it, and there was a cross standing next to it, and the memorial wall was engraved with the names of the victims of the 911 terrorist attack more than ten years ago, and there were many bouquets placed by people who came here to commemorate more than a month ago.
Although the bouquet was all withered, no one took it away, I don't know if it was because order in the country was gradually collapsing, or because the cleaning staff couldn't bear it.
Standing under the memorial wall, Tang Shuxing looked up at the new building, recalling news footage from the incident more than a decade ago, when the plane crashed into the building and the crowd was running, screaming and crying. The smoke from the explosion and collapse filled the entire city of Manhattan, and soon, nothing could be seen, just like today, and the sky was covered with snowflakes, making you not only cold inside, but also frozen in an instant.
The order, ideas and proud doctrines of any country have collapsed after the rise of Shangdu, and the East and West have fought for a hundred years, and finally let Shangdu pick up a big bargain, maybe when the world order collapses, people will understand that what isms, what ideas, are all bullshit, and people's selfish desires are the ultimate weapon to destroy the world.
Tang Shuxing and Lin Xiaolin walked under the memorial wall wearing hats, and saw an elderly lady kneeling under the wall, her hands folded, her face full of tears, and she said something in her mouth.
Tang Shuxing was thinking, maybe she was praying, praying that what happened on that day more than ten years ago would not happen again, not in New York, not in any city in the United States, and not in this world.
When Tang Shuxing and Lin Xiaolin walked behind the old lady, the old lady slowly got up and left with heavy steps in the opposite direction of them, she walked very slowly. Tang Shuxing stopped, looked at the background of the old lady, and always felt that in the next second, this living person would disappear into the snow and mist, and from then on, this life would be completely gone.
"How do we get to NYU?" Tang Shuxing asked Lin Xiaolin, he didn't understand this city at all.
"And across the Hudson River." Lin Xiaolin looked around, "Why don't we go George. Past the Washington Bridge, or take a boat, which is the most convenient by boat, and go and see if there is a bus. โ
Lin Xiaolin walked to the bus stop with Tang Shuxing, but saw that the electronic sign there showed that the Washington Bridge had been closed, and if you wanted to go to Manhattan Island, the only way was to take a boat at the newly established Newport Pier, and there were more than a dozen articles such as the benefits of taking a boat.
Tang Shuxing looked at the new government's coercive soft method is really ridiculous, obviously holding a gun in his hand, letting you take a boat, and deliberately hypocritically writing the benefits of taking a boat.
The two turned and walked towards the new port, and when they got closer, they saw that the port was very narrow, and temporary fortifications had been built on both sides, where the military had set up light and heavy weapons, judging by the dress of the soldiers, it should be marines.
Just as Tang Shuxing was about to discuss with Lin Xiaolin how to get through the security check, he suddenly raised his eyes and saw an officer wearing the uniform of the Shangdu Wehrmacht passing behind the fortification...... (To be continued......)