After dealing with the chores in the capital, Xu Yuan took Xu Ruiwen, who was waiting at the door, to the clinic in the slum in the Huanglong Pass.

There was no one in the lounge, and it seemed that the shadow of the restriction number was affecting the clinic's business.

After getting the number from the metal ball robot at the door, Xu Yuan just waited for two minutes before walking into the consultation room with Xu Ruiwen, where he met the legendary Dr. Liu.

With a shaved head and a very Sven face, he looked to be in his twenties at most, and he didn't have the slightest feeling of spending twenty years in a shelter.

Putting down the notebook in his hand, Dr. Liu looked at the two people at the door.

"Are you here to see a doctor?"

Xu Yuan shook his head and said softly.

"For the secret of eternal life."

"You are Xu Yuan?"

"Yes." Xu Yuan nodded.

Doctor Liu nodded, did not speak, but looked at Xu Ruiwen who was leaning against the door, and his face was revealed. Out of a bit of nostalgia.

"How many years, is it already that old?"

"You know me?" Xu Ruiwen tilted her head and looked at him in confusion.

"I hugged you when you were only that old." Dr. Liu smiled faintly and gestured with his hand to the size of a baby, "If I'm not mistaken, your name should be Xu Rui... Wen? ”

Xu Ruiwen smiled and didn't say anything.

"Introduce yourself, my name is Liu Haitao, an observer at Shelter 76." Dr. Liu stretched out his right hand to Xu Yuan.

Holding his right hand and shaking it, Xu Yuan looked at him and made a simple self-introduction again.

"Xu Yuan, the president of the new country."

Letting go of his hand, Dr. Liu smiled kindly at Xu Yuan, and then said to Xu Ruiwen:

"There was a baby boom in the shelter at the time, there was a shortage of doctors, and it was me who was in charge of delivering your mother, through d

A restoration technology, when you were not born, what the future will look like, we already know, but unfortunately, I didn't get to watch you grow up. ”

Xu Ruiwen nodded knowingly.

Xu Yuan took out a diary from his pocket and put it on the table. "Did you keep this diary in the director's office?"

"The diary was there, and I just moved his body back to where it should be."

Obviously, he in Liu Haitao's mouth should be the director of the dead shelter.

"The diary had a few pages torn out."

"The diary has been torn off a few pages, by its owner, of course, I don't think you're very interested in the past of Shelter 76."

"Quite the opposite." Xu Yuan shook his head, "If it's convenient, I'd like you to tell me what happened after that, including the history of the shelter, including the experiment that you, as an observer, once carried out." ”

"Observer? You'd know the word. A hint of nostalgia appeared on Liu Haitao's face, "Even I almost forgot about myself." ”

After a pause, he looked at Xu Yuan and made a gesture of invitation to the chair next to him.

"Just sit down, this story might be a bit long."

……

"When I woke up from the dormant bin, it was already the tenth year."

Eight years ago, the director commanded security personnel to take down my lab, burn my hard work, and steal the results from me.

But instead of killing me, he said things like, "When the shelter opens, someone will judge you for your crimes" and put me in a dormant barn.

His arrogance unnerved me.

Not because of the impossible judgment, but because of his unrealistic fantasies about the outside world.

If he had this illusion, his naivety would sooner or later kill the entire sanctuary, and that would have killed far more people than I did.

And definitely for some boring reason......

I staggered back in my chair, staring blankly at the shelter propaganda mural on the wall, emptying my mind to the unnatural sense of space-time differences.

Eight years, it's like a dream.

As soon as you close your eyes, when you open your eyes, everything outside the glass window is covered with a thick layer of dust. Time has mottled everything, but there is no me in the mottled mirror.

My work has been destroyed, and it seems that the arrogant Mr. Director has stepped on the treasure in front of me after pressing the start button of the dormant chamber.

Anyway, my mission is over.

When I stepped out of that cordon. As I expected, this place has been abandoned.

When I stepped through the iron gate, as I expected, everything outside had been destroyed by nuclear war.

This outcome is obviously predictable. However, most people always hold on to that unrealistic fantasy and end up drowning in their dreams.

It was said a long time ago that only two nuclear bombs were needed to destroy the world, the first one called fear and the second one called revenge.

I can't remember his name exactly, but one thing is certain. He has risen from a sociologist to a prophet.

There were a few tin houses on the surface, and I remember them, they were the war reserves in the sanctuary.

The national flag, which has been burned to the point of slag, ironically corresponds to the posters reflected on the subway.

If the gates are opened, survivors will rely on these tools to rebuild their homes from the ruins.

However, from the bones and bullet marks, I can already guess their end.

Why did the regular army lose to the refugees who were outdated in weapons?

I guess it's definitely not because of the marksmanship, it must be the ridiculous humanity. ism, and the reserve of civilized people.

I rummaged through the rubble, trying to find something useful.

A pistol, a photograph of unknown people, and a diary with many pages torn out, all I could muster.

I thought about going back to sleep.

Ten years is too short, and if you "time travel" to 1000 years from now, the situation must be much better than it is now.

At that time, it was a desert with no people, or a city founded by new humans.

If it's the former, I can revive a pre-war civilization through cloning technology in other sanctuaries.

If it were the latter, the museum of the new humanity would have offered me a well-paid job telling elementary school students about how the people in front of the station lived and how they spoiled themselves.

Whichever choice I make, however, the immediate matter must be addressed.

There was no energy, no food, and I had to go to the ruins to find something useful.

At the very least, we need to have enough nuclear fusion cores and a few nutrient mixtures for the dormant chamber.

I first changed out of this outfit before looking for other survivors.

If all the fledgling rookies wore similar clothes, I have reason to believe that this dress would cause me trouble.

It's like civilization, with an innate attraction to barbarism.

It took me quite a while to find the right fit, and eventually I chose a faded suit and put a body armor on it.

I followed the road all the way to the city.

Zombies, mutated creatures, marauders, radiators...... There are also cannibalistic tribes.

There are dangers everywhere, and I only have 14 bullets in my hands for two**.

Hospitals, schools, automated factories...... These places where the core of nuclear fusion could be present have already been visited by scavengers.

There were some survivor settlements where human activity could be seen, but I didn't approach them for safety reasons.

After all, this is the end of the source star.

Later, by accident, I rescued a merchant from the mouth of a zombie and exchanged the source star in my hand for something useful.

He took me to the Gree Federation and told me that as long as there was a source crystal, anything could be bought here, whether it was a woman or a man.

If it's not available in the market, go to the bar.

After coming into contact with the survivors, my life was a lot easier.

After learning that there was a shortage of doctors here, I opened a clinic here and charged Yuanjing to treat people.

These source crystals are then used to open a commission in the tavern to acquire the nuclear fusion core.

A lot has happened in the course of the year, and I've got 10 fusion cores together anyway.

This fusion battery is very efficient, and if it were used to maintain a dormant chamber, one would be enough for me to sleep for 100 years.

I closed the clinic, turned down the president, the congressman, and my friends, and went back to the shelter.

But a second before I was about to lie down in the hibernation chamber, I hesitated again.

"Why?" When he heard this, Xu Yuan couldn't help but ask.

"People are like this, the more they come into contact with people, the more unwilling they are to endure the loneliness of being alone."

Liu Haitao sighed, "No matter how thoroughly you analyze human nature, no matter how indifferent you look at all this, you will definitely not understand it if you are only in your twenties." ”

Xu Yuan looked at him with inquiring eyes, waiting for his next step.

"In the story, I remember mentioning that I had saved a businessman."

"Yes." Xu Yuan nodded.

"We became friends and he invested in my clinic."

Liu Haitao paused for a moment and sighed, "It's not just him, but also the lame hunter, the merchant in the United Territory District, and the female gunman in the Black Street Bar...... I remember their names, even though some of them may have died or gone to settlements far away. ”

"But no matter what, this concern is here, and the more people you know, the more you can't let go of those friends, and this life now, I admit that everything here is bad, but it's not so desperate that you can't live."

"Is it just because you can't let go of your current relationships?" Xu Yuan asked.

"Don't say it lightly." Liu Haitao shrugged his shoulders, "If you are allowed to lie in a dormant chamber for 1,000 years, are you willing to let go of everything here and go to the future alone?" ”

Thinking of Shen Xi and the others, as well as those who were loyal to him, Xu Yuan shook his head.

"I guess I understand."

Liu Haitao nodded.

"Although I decided to stay in this era, I didn't leave the shelter immediately, but started the experiment again with the only remaining quantum computer in the shelter."

"What about the sample problem? Because of your experiments, those samples...... Those people must have been killed. Xu Yuan asked.

"I'm the sample." Liu Haitao looked at Xu Yuan, took out a small bottle from his pocket, and put it on the table, "And this is the secret of eternal life." ”

Xu Yuan's gaze locked on the thumb-sized bottle.

The bottle contains a green liquid.