Chapter Seventy-One: The Strange Cheerleaders

The light of the fire faded after nightfall.

Although the main body of the lunar spacecraft has been eroded by some unknown force, the remaining fuel in the engine still exploded violently.

Fortunately, the spacecraft stayed in lunar orbit for a little longer and consumed too much fuel during the journey, and this time the explosion destroyed only the second half of the spacecraft, and threw all kinds of materials into a large fan, scattered all over the jungle. Half of the front part was buried in the soil, and it was protected by the earth, and it was lucky to escape.

Ten minutes later, the hatch was torn open with a tremendous force, and a hand poked out.

Hold your hand on the edge of the door, and push hard—

Li Zhen stood on the dry, charred ground from the explosion.

Look around......

It seems like a jungle.

He didn't know much about the types of trees, but he could still make out that the one directly in front of him was a clump of banana trees. But the leaves had been burned to the point of disfigurement, and only a short section remained near the ground. No matter how you look at it, this can't be the northwest.

But he was still slightly relieved.

It shouldn't have been long since the accident happened - because the flames from the explosion were still burning. It was 7:55 a.m. when they entered the outer atmosphere, and it was already night. It takes up to one to three days.

And he is glad that he is still on Earth, not miserably floating in outer space like the ghost bomber formation.

He realized that he might have encountered the same thing or phenomenon. It was that kind of thing that caused the anomaly in the capsule to occur and cause the moon landing spacecraft to fall here. It's just that it seems that the ghost fleet has changed in space, and the moon landing spacecraft has changed in time.

Sci-fi at all. Li Zhen thinks it's "time acceleration".

It was as if a magic had been cast, and decades of time passed in a hurry, and the two people in the cabin quickly decayed and turned into a pile of dry bones.

As for themselves......

There's no reason to circumvent that change. It's just that as Mr. Zhou from the North Courtyard said, he is a person who can "live forever". He never expected that the inference would be verified in such a dangerous way.

But here's the problem...... How long has it been? It doesn't mean how long it has been since the fall, but how long has it been "really" in this world?

The thought weighed heavily on his mind, and he could barely breathe. Because he couldn't imagine that all the people he knew were dead. What a scenario it would be.

So he took a deep breath. Hold the "gun" in your hand.

In fact, it wasn't until now that he had the heart to take a closer look at what this thing looked like. The surface of the aluminum had been rusted to the point that it was not in shape, and with a light stroke of his hand, the fragments fell off with a clang. By the light of the fire, he could see it clearly.

It was completely different from what he had imagined.

Not so much a gun. It's not so much the barrel of a gun. Just a prosaic, ivory-white pole. There is no strange light and no complicated patterns. If you leave it on the side of the street, no one will be interested in catching a glimpse. But it has to be it. Because only now it still looks clean and strong, without the slightest trace of erosion by time.

Li Zhen touched the tip of one end and muttered something. Then he took it in his hand and looked around with a frown.

It's all jungle, but the trees aren't very tall. The trees with the thickness of the bowl mouth can already be regarded as "old trees", and most of them are thin and short, as if they have just grown. The distribution of trees is not regular, and it appears that it is not an artificial forest, but a wild forest.

He tried to take a few steps ahead, then stopped.

He kicked something and made a muffled sound. Li Zhen immediately bent down and picked up the thing - it was a can.

He stuck his gun on the ground, took a few steps towards the fire with the can, and wiped the dirt off the can with his hands. Coca-Cola tubes, with familiar captions on the cans - this is China.

Then he wandered the cans from one can to the other to see the expiration date printed on it.

A set of numbers made up of small black dots - 2015/2/15 - 2016/8/15.

Li Zhen closed his eyes slightly and let out a sigh of relief. No matter how you look at this empty can, it will not be a decade or a few decades - the printed text on the can is still relatively clear. This meant that he could put aside his worries for a while. But it's just "for the time being", in fact, he still hasn't been able to figure out whether he is still in the original time, or has he delayed it for a few months and moved forward?

This thought, which seemed fantastical in the past, jumped into his mind at this moment, and he didn't feel the slightest difference. To know the Dao, this world is no longer the world he is familiar with.

So he walked back quickly, crouched down, and dug hard for a while where he found the can.

The place used to be a garbage dump, with less than ten centimeters of soil under a rich amount of content. But most of the things he dug up came out with bits and pieces, not to mention the date, and he couldn't even see what it looked like. It took him fifteen minutes to dig a large hole about a meter in diameter, and finally he took several of his trophies in his arms and walked back to the bright fire.

He then looked at it for five minutes, then was silent for another five minutes.

Because there is also a can. The production date above is, January 22, 2018.

At least 3 years.

At least three years have passed since I left Earth.

Three years was much better than thirty years or two thirty years, but it was still not the outcome he was most happy to accept—and only at least. He sat in silence for a moment, gave up his intention to dig further, and turned to walk back into the cockpit.

He took out the spacesuit wrapped in the ashes of Qian Suidang and Wu Jiechao, and then dug two pits and buried them in it. After thinking about it, he used the fragments of the spaceship scattered on the ground to erect a simple tombstone for the two of them.

Then he picked up the gun, looked at the sky, found the location of the North Star, and headed north.

Flying is actually much faster and more convenient than walking.

But he still remembers that it took less than 40 seconds from the time the spacecraft received a call from the ground command center to the time the ship fell. They had just entered the outer layers of the atmosphere, but they fell to the surface 40 seconds later. This means that by the time the two of them were reduced to ashes, the ship was already quite close to the ground. In other words, perhaps the entire area from that point to the outer layer of the atmosphere belongs to the anomalous zone.

He didn't know what the height of the area was, and he wasn't going to try it out again. So he rudely used the "Longinus Spear" to make a way for himself, and stepped into the jungle through the thick weeds.

There was the sound of insects chirping in the woods, and occasionally the birds that were startled by him for the night. The temperature is not low, about 20 degrees. Right now he should be in southern China, and the season is the turn of spring and summer.

There was a garbage dump there, which means that it is not far from a human settlement. But what puzzled him was, why did there make such a big noise here, and no one came to check it for so long?

Species......

He muttered to himself in his heart, feeling a little chill down his spine, the species won?

Such vague and terrifying thoughts made him gradually lose patience. After only five minutes, he stopped and took off his shirt.

A pair of wings spread out behind his back, and Li Zhen soared into the air. But he didn't fly very high, flying only close to the treetops. The reason why he did this, in addition to being anxious, was because he had just seen an owl in flight. The thing was flying against the treetops, too, but it didn't seem to be in trouble. In fact, he felt a little stupid—he should have known that when he heard the birdsong. If it were a "no-fly zone" if it were more than ten meters above Xianglu, then the birds would have been extinct long ago.

Two minutes later, he saw a "canyon". It's an exaggeration to say it's a canyon, but it's a bit of a ravine to say it's underestimated. It is about a dozen meters deep, and the bottom is also covered with trees. Look over the canyon again......

Li Zhenxin jumped slightly. He saw the outline of the building, and the fire!

There seemed to be a long line of people in the distance, holding candle-like light sources in their hands. There is the other end of the canyon, where there are no trees growing on the ground, but tiles. Li Zhen sped up, and then saw more clearly. It looked like a stadium with a dark red plastic track. It's just that the stands on one side were destroyed for some reason, and those people stood on the destroyed side and looked this way.

His figure gradually appeared in the field of vision of the group of people, that is, at the same time, the crowd erupted into an exclamation, followed by a noisy shout, the voice sounded very young, it seemed to be a group of young people in their twenties.

The cacophony lasted for a moment, then fell silent. Then, as if under someone's command, the voices gradually converged into a rhythmic piece—

Now Li Zhen finally heard it clearly. They shouted, "Don't come, don't come, don't come!" ”

It's a bit funny and a little weird – they're like a cheerleader of college students. If it had been because they were afraid of him, they would not have moved.

But he noticed something unusual. The area below was originally green with trees. But right in front of that group of people, an open area about two meters wide appeared. It was as if there was an invisible wall running across the earth, stretching north and south until the end of the line. That area, ungrown, was unusually smooth, as if everything had been erased by an invisible force.

The side of the stadium where they were standing should have disappeared like this. (To be continued......)