Chapter 39: The Ashes After the Catastrophe (Ask for Recommendation, Ask for Collection)
Although Chen Xin should turn on the headlights for the sake of safety, so as to illuminate the road ahead, considering that turning on the headlights will also expose his existence, in order to reduce some unnecessary trouble, Chen Xin still smeared that he was driving the car and did not turn on the headlights.
Fortunately, although the sky was very dark, there was still a trace of skylight, allowing Chen Xin to see the road in front of him clearly.
The place where Chen Xin lives is the suburbs, and it is called the urban-rural junction in places like the imperial capital and the magic capital, but the city where Chen Xin is located is only a small southern city, which is not as prosperous as the imperial capital and the magic capital.
Chen Xin also wanted to be clean here, so that it was convenient for him to write books before he moved out of the city and lived here.
However, although the place is remote, because of the great infrastructure construction of Yanguo in recent years, the high-speed rail station was built nearby, and the roads in this area were repaired well, so Chen Xin did not worry about any obstacles on the road after driving out, and just drove directly along the road to the city.
The road leading to the city is very empty, and it does not look like the abandoned cars on the streets like in European and American apocalyptic movies.
In fact, this is what the end of the world should look like, because mankind knew the news of the meteorite impact three months in advance, and the country evacuated more than eighty percent of the country's population into shelters in advance.
If there really are abandoned cars blocking the road, there is only one possibility, it is a roadblock or trap set by someone else.
There are no obstacles on the road to the city, and before the disaster struck, every household did not go out, and naturally there were no vehicles on the road, and some were only gray.
The wheels ran over, leaving two ruts, and Chen Xin couldn't help but feel very heavy when he looked at the gray and white that covered the surface of all objects.
Because these are the ashes left behind after the fire.
The road leading to the city was originally to cross a river, although the surrounding mountains and rivers are not beautiful, but it is also green mountains and clear waters, after all, the city's environmental protection and greening have always done well, and it was once selected as a green city.
But now all this is gone.
The once verdant hills on both sides of the road were now black, covered in gray ashes, looking like snow had fallen on a pile of black coal, and the remnants of plants that had not been completely burned were like twisted ghosts, not only ugly but also terrifying.
The river that once separated the city from the suburbs has now dried up into a huge ravine, perhaps because of the relationship between the water and the present, the bottom of the river is an unsightly black and yellow, like the famous death mark in World of Warcraft.
Chen Xin's memory of this river is still very deep, because his family lived near this river in the past, and he also took a cool place in the summer evenings, and also asked girls to take a walk here.
It's just that now the river, which was once built into a riverside park by the city government, is no longer visible at all, and the wooden walkway that the city government spent a lot of money to lay is burned to the point that only a few cement piles remain.
Faced with this kind of scenery, Chen Xin couldn't help but slow down the car, and looked at all this in front of him with some sadness.
The water in the river has evaporated and dried up, and how much is left of the scenery by the river? Although Chen Xin did not get out of the car, he could guess that under a fire of this scale, even the remaining cement piles and stones built up on the bank of the river were estimated to have been burned to the ground.
Fortunately, the bridge was still stable and unaffected by the fire, otherwise he would not have dared to enter the city from this road.
Once in the city, the scenery in the city was not much better than outside the city.
The dense green belt on both sides of the road is now only covered with cement flower beds and tree stumps that have not been completely burned, and although the buildings on the side of the road have not been damaged, the original colorful signboards have burned nothing, that is, even the iron shelves have been burned.
Several shops that Chen Xin frequented in the past even melted the roller shutters at the door, turning them into a scorched puddle.
Looking at all this, Chen Xin really felt the end coming, which made his whole person feel like a trance in another world.
The once bustling streets, lively squares, tall buildings, and colorful neon lights, everything that was once familiar and accustomed to it, is so vulnerable in the face of a disaster.
It's like a fine piece of porcelain, which looks so beautiful and beautiful, but once it is pushed to the ground, it is a fragment.
In the past, when Chen Xin was looking for material for writing novels, he had seen a lot of photos and documentaries about war-torn areas, and he had no real sense of the dilapidated and dilapidated places that were once prosperous, but now he truly and personally realized how precious everything he once had was accustomed to.
But everything can't come back, human beings want to rebuild the bustling streets and alleys of the past, make the square lively again, redecorate the city with colorful neon lights, let everything destroyed by the disaster come back, and rebuild our homeland, it will take at least a generation of efforts to rebuild our home on this scorched land of the apocalypse.
And this will have to be the end of the world to keep the environment unchanged, but unfortunately, in the years to come, the temperature will only get colder and colder, and before the haze and darkness in the sky clears, the whole world will be a huge ice cellar, freezing everything in the cold.
It is extremely difficult for humanity to rebuild its homeland.
The cement may have turned into an ice mound before it was stirred, the ground was frozen harder than iron and could not be dug at all, and all surface water sources were frozen......
Until the thick haze in the sky that completely obscures the sun dissipates, the earth is a huge ice cave, and it is unknown whether human civilization will survive this catastrophe.
Rebuilding the ...... I'm afraid it's really going to become something that I can't see in my lifetime.
However, this has nothing to do with Chen Xin's now, although the disaster has come, the real end has not yet completely come, and now it can be said that it is the last trace of residual temperature before the cold night.
For the surviving humans, what should be done now is to step up the collection of supplies, and at the same time strengthen the shelter while the weather is not completely cold, so as to increase their chances of survival in the face of the impending extreme cold as much as possible.
Of course, for Chen Xin, who already had a safe and stable shelter and had also picked up a survival system, how to survive was no longer the first priority he had to consider.
How to make himself live longer and live better is what Chen Xin needs to consider.