Chapter 169: Obtaining Information
This place is called Xingye City, it is the capital of Xingheng Kingdom, Qianyunyue Tianyu City, where they were before, is the capital of Tianxingguo, these two countries are very small, so they can complete the cross-border in a few days, of course, there is another reason, that is, Qianyunyue's flying car is racing at a speed of 700 kilometers per hour, and it doesn't stop much on the road, and it drives tens of thousands of kilometers in a day, so it's so fast.
Before the natural disaster, the country had been suffering from drought and could only obtain water resources through artificial rainfall, but this method was extremely costly, and the country had spent a lot of financial and manpower to build the Starfall Box, and it was impossible to relocate, and many citizens could not bear it and fled to other places.
The first natural disaster that hit the country was the earthquake, a major earthquake of more than 8 magnitude destroyed the city, and the high-level of the Starfall Kingdom decided to use the Starfall Box as an emergency shelter for the long-term consideration, giving priority to young women and children, but the city still has a population of hundreds of thousands, and the Starfall Box can accommodate less than 30,000 refugees at most, so the tragedy happened.
People began to fight each other for the right to take refuge, and in the end it turned into a riot, even to the point of killing each other, and the scene got out of control for a while. As a result, before the evacuation was completed, a massive earthquake with a magnitude of more than 10 hit the city again, and the higher-ups were forced to close the entrance to the Starfall Box, at this time only 20,000 people succeeded in evacuation, and the others died in abuse and despair.
The earthquake lasted for a whole week before it slowly stopped, and just when the survivors thought they could finally breathe a sigh of relief, a new catastrophe began, with huge tornadoes sweeping in from all directions, devastationing the already scarred city, and seeing super-massive and persistent rainfall, and the country that had previously been suffering from drought was soon plunged into a sea of water.
People can't go out, so they can only hide in the starfall box all the time, but after all, the resources of life are limited, and they can't withstand long-term consumption, and in the face of desire and fear, the tragedy finally happened again.
Qian Yunyue listened to Mr. Zhang's story silently, in comparison, the people of Tianyu City were indeed much luckier, their city went underground and saved most of the people's lives. But the situation here is very miserable, and the destruction of this country is not only due to natural disasters, but also to the darkness of human nature.
"In just one year, there are less than 10,000 people left in the Starfall Box, and the situation outside has changed, and the temperature has begun to plummet after the storm, and a new ice age has formed in less than a month."
"Some people can't bear to continue to be locked in this cage, and decide to go out to find a new way to survive, although it is cold and snowy outside, but it is much better than those natural disasters with powerful destructive power, so thousands of people have left Star Industry City, no one knows whether they have succeeded in surviving or not."
"By the third year, the supplies had been basically depleted, and in order to continue the civilization, several researchers had chosen to volunteer to become test subjects in the same way as me, but they failed, and the others slowly died, and finally I was left alone here for a long time."
After listening to the story here, Qian Yunyue kept thinking, will his world become like this in the future? It's a terrible thing to think about, do people make those natural disaster movies just to create a horror effect? Isn't it a warning that people should restrain their unbridled attitudes?
"Looking at you, I can't help but think of the hopeful look in my eyes when I was young, which is amazing." Mr. Zhang had seen too much ugliness and despair in his last years as a human being, and that feeling was really terrible.
"Mr. Zhang, I have a question, what purpose was the Starfall Box built for?" Although Qian Yunyue probably understood the process of the country's demise, he wanted to know more about the meaning of this huge black box that had been built with a lot of financial and material resources.
"That's a good question." When it came to the Starfall Magic Box, Mr. Zhang was excited, "This is a super-civilization product researched and developed by hundreds of elite scientists in my country. ”
Mr. Zhang talked endlessly for a long time, and Qian Yunyue didn't understand a word of those professional terms, all in all, it should be quite advanced.
"So, what exactly is the Starfall Box for?" Such a powerful high-tech product will definitely not be used as a shelter.
"Don't you understand? The Starfall Box is an inexhaustible solar energy reservoir. Mr. Zhang said excitedly, and then suddenly became very disappointed, "It's a pity that such a disaster happened before the development was completed, otherwise the city would not have been destroyed." ”
"I see." Qian Yunyue suddenly realized that from a scientific point of view, this black box is indeed an epoch-making research achievement, and the mere fact that it can absorb the sun's energy to operate is beyond imagination. Although there are also solar applications in their original world, but the scale is too far apart, the biggest advantage of solar energy is that there is no industrial pollution, and theoretically it is infinite, as long as the sun still exists, the energy will not be exhausted.
"Xianggong, we ......" Yu Ling had been silent beside him, and finally spoke.
Qian Yunyue came back to his senses, although these things sounded powerful, but they didn't have any practical meaning to them, they were so fascinated by listening to them that they almost forgot their original purpose, so he asked, "Mr. Zhang, I want to ask again, do you know anything about the Wall of Life?" ”
"The wall of life? You mean the wall that stands on the edge of the continent? Mr. Zhang asked suspiciously, "Of course, all the countries participated in the construction of that wall, and that thing is even more powerful than the Starfall Box, and it is the largest man-made miracle in the world." ”
"We want to go to the outside world, is there any way to get out?" Qianyunyue was overjoyed, he couldn't query in Tianyu City before because he didn't have enough permissions, but now he finally ran into a clue.
"Want to go to the outside world? Are you crazy? Mr. Zhang was shocked when he heard this, "Do you know why that wall was built in the first place?" It's because there are so many dangerous creatures in the outside world, and the outside world is not a place where humans can go at all. You have some skills, but I can't watch you die. ”
"Mr. Zhang, as a scientist, you should understand that human beings like to explore the unknown, even if you don't tell us anything, we will continue to look for clues on our own, so it's better to do this, you only tell us information from the outside world, maybe we will give up this idea after knowing the danger?" finally ran into a source, of course Qian Yunyue would not let go easily.
Mr. Zhang was silent for a while, and finally agreed, but there was no problem with the information from the outside world, but he did not provide the information immediately, but arranged a room for Qian Yunyue and the two to live in, and instructed the robot to drag in the flying car they parked outside.
"Xianggong, do you think he will lock us up here and not let us leave?" Yu Ling asked worriedly.
"Don't worry, let's get the information we want first." They brought a lot of food and water to store in the space of the Blue Moon Ring, there was no problem in life, and Qian Yunyue had also considered this possibility, in case Mr. Zhang really didn't let them go, then they could only take some rough measures.
Long before the construction of the Wall of Life, people have basically completed the exploration of most areas of the world, in addition to the continent where they are called Pangea World, there are a total of five continents in the outside world, only two of which are inhabited by humans, and the others are all ruled by powerful foreign objects, the vampires they have seen in Qianyunyue are from the nearest continent called the Dark Night World, vampires are not human mutations, but have transformed into human shapes in the long years of evolution, and the body is just a huge vampire bat.
There is also a continent adjacent to this world, where all are huge ancient creatures, in fact, that place is not strange to Qianyunyue, it is the dinosaur world where he played games with Chaos in another space, but at that time, that world was a small world conjured up by Chaos with his own mana, and the real dinosaur continent is very vast, with all kinds of giant foreign objects.
The other continents are far away, on the other side of the planet, the two human civilizations are similar to this side, and the last continent is called the Sanctuary, which is said to be inhabited by various gods, but they will not leave the Sanctuary, nor will they interfere with the outside world, and it is the only area that has not been explored.
However, this information is millions of years ago, and no one knows what the world is like now. After all, after the natural disaster, the people of the Pangu world no longer have the ability to go out to explore, and with the barrier of the wall of life, this place has become a completely closed space.
Mr. Zhang analyzed the current world described by Qian Yunyue, and he guessed that no matter which race they were, they should all be human survivors after the natural disaster, but he didn't know why they mutated into the way they are now.
Qian Yunyue suddenly remembered the information he had seen on the Sky Island, once all bipedal humanoids were called humans, it seems that something must have happened in this world hundreds of thousands of years ago, which led to the mutation of some humans, and only then would subhumans like the demon race appear.
Although he knew the information from the outside world, Mr. Zhang still didn't say a word about the wall of life, maybe he felt that if he told Qianyunyue and the two, they would find a way to leave.