Chapter 53: The Great Descent, the Great Famine, the Great Destruction
Shen Feng only felt a little suffocated, and looked at the photo carefully with wide eyes.
The photograph was taken with a Polaroid and has faded a lot, but you can still see the expressions of the characters.
In the photo, his expression was a little solemn, but Ji Xin still had a heartless smile.
He shook the journal again, and immediately a few more photos fell out.
This time, it was a photo of Ji Xin and several other classmates in the class, as well as his parents.
What the hell is going on!?
Shen Feng looked up at the skeleton, could it be that this skeleton is Ji Xin!?
The one who has been hiding in this shelter is Ji Xin?
The old friend who laughed with him a few days ago reminded him to be careful of Li Chang's Ji Xin?
What kind of world is this? Is it the future of the planet where he lives!?
He hurriedly flipped through the journal and began to read it carefully, page by page.
It is said to be a diary, more like a memoir, in which the time span of the record reaches more than twenty years.
A dusty past after a nuclear war unfolds before his eyes.
The earliest events recorded in this journal begin in 2026, a year after the outbreak of nuclear war.
That year, the whole world had completely collapsed, and when the nuclear strike occurred, Ji Xin, who was studying for a master's degree in mechanical engineering, was on vacation in his hometown in the countryside, so he escaped the devastating blow.
It's just that his family and friends have basically not escaped that catastrophe.
Fortunately, human civilization has not been completely interrupted, and there are still many people alive, although large and medium-sized cities have collectively suffered a catastrophe, some small towns have survived, and there are still villages.
After the first acute radiation patients died, the rest of the people were still alive, although most of them had various illnesses due to radiation to a greater or lesser extent, and had a high probability of getting cancer.
There is still hope for human civilization.
It's just that all this is too painful, and I don't know how many years it will take for the earth's environment to be completely restored, and the original social order and all the civilizations that mankind is proud of have been subverted.
The surviving people came together to form temporary organizations where the surviving humans from all over the world passed messages to each other.
With almost all of them losing a large number of relatives and friends, these painful experiences have caused many people to begin self-doubt and shake their confidence as a human being.
Can we avoid self-destruction?
This is a question that almost everyone asks themselves.
In the end, most people came to the same conclusion and reached a consensus:
Abandon the information civilization, abandon the industrial civilization, spontaneously downgrade the level of the entire human civilization, return to the invention of the steam engine and gunpowder, and return to the former iron age agricultural and animal husbandry society.
Of course, at this time, the remaining population of the world is only one percent of the original one, the industrial system has been completely destroyed, and the remnants of civilization can only barely survive.
Most of the so-called civilization downgrades this time were actually forced.
History is known as the era of the Great Degradement.
At this time, the entire earth also ushered in a nuclear winter that lasted for three years.
Radioactive dust clouds covered large parts of the planet, blocking out sunlight and killing large numbers of plants.
Then there was the Great Famine.
During the three years of nuclear winter, and for the years that followed, most of the crops were completely dead and yielded almost nothing.
Even the vegetation and vegetation have died in large areas, and the land is thousands of miles away.
Naturally, the remaining animals will not survive.
At first, the remnants of humanity were able to survive on the food they once used to make from industry, but as time passed, everything was slowly consumed.
Finally, when everything has passed, and the remnants of human beings have struggled to survive all this tragic fate in the ruins, when they thought that they could finally usher in the hope of human civilization again, they found that they woke up with the sunshine and the intelligent nuclear strike systems of several major powers.
The sun awakens humanity in hiding, as well as the sleeping nuclear strike system.
A new, conventional nuclear war is on again!
The large city that had been rebuilt by humanity that had just been reunited was once again reduced to ashes by a mushroom cloud brighter than a thousand suns.
The remaining human beings have completely lost the courage to rebuild civilization, and are hiding in small shelters, or surviving like cockroaches in the wasteland of the last days......
Ji Xin was very lucky, after the first wave of nuclear strikes, he and a few friends were already hiding in this farm.
Thanks to the unique climate of the small basin, the humble coordinates, and the various automation tools on the farm, they have survived.
Even before the arrival of the nuclear winter, enough food was stored to survive those long years.
Ji Xin relied on his mechanical knowledge to modify various farm tools and became their good helper.
It's just that this is their paradise, and it's also a cage.
The edge of this forest is shrouded in radioactive contamination, making it impossible for them to leave.
Ji Xin once used a lawn mower to design a pollution removal device to carve out a mild pollution zone in the forest, but in the end they did not leave.
Even if you leave here, where can you go?
Do you eat people in the wasteland or become food for others?
Despair almost destroyed them.
And despair didn't keep them waiting long.
In just a few years, several people began to develop cancerous changes one after another, basically leukemia or thyroid cancer.
More than ten years later, only Ji Xin is left.
And he also ushered in the last moment in leukemia.
At the last moment of his life, Ji Xin recalled his parents, friends from his youth, and all kinds of good things in life, and passed away calmly.
Shen Feng looked at the white bones on the sofa, and he could already determine that this was Ji Xin......
Break free from the shock of the memoir, but immediately be shrouded in fog.
According to this memoir, Shen Feng was reduced to dust in the first wave of nuclear strikes.
What the hell is this world?
The future of the real Earth, or the Earth of a parallel universe?
Shen ...... Feng, do you know ...... This person? The fireflies on the side also noticed that something was wrong with Shen Feng and asked cautiously.
Shen Feng nodded:
"This man...... It's a good friend of mine, and I talked to him the other day......"
Firefly hurriedly raised his hand and touched Shen Feng's forehead, wanting to see if he was having a fever.
I must be too tired, after all, I have escaped with her for so long, and I may have encountered a curse in the forest.
Firefly followed Shen Feng and said:
"Since he's yours...... Friend, let's bury him properly, shall we? Mom said that it is not terrible for a person to die in the wasteland, as long as he is buried properly, his soul will go to heaven and join those great people of ancient times to become a star. ”
Shen Feng nodded.
Yes, he should be buried properly......
Then put those photos into Ji Xin's arms, picked up his bones, wrapped them in a blanket, and walked out.
At this time, Shen Feng had already controlled the intelligent system of the entire building, and the two heavy machine guns on the roof were completely controlled by him, and they would not attack, but would act as a guard.
Shen Feng came to the courtyard, opened the folding sapper shovel, dug out a deep pit that could accommodate one person, and carefully put Ji Xin's body inside.
After thinking about it, he took out a ballpoint pen marked "Taicheng Senior High School" from his backpack and put it in Ji Xin's arms.
Then he filled it back in and made a small tomb with a green branch on it.
Firefly watched Shen Feng's actions from the side, and didn't speak all the time, she didn't know what was wrong with Shen Feng, could it be that this white bone that had been dead for I didn't know how many years was really his friend?
"Shen Feng, don't be sad...... My friends have also died a lot, and they were sad at first, but then ...... Then I got used to it......"
Firefly is really not very good at comforting people, and I don't know what to say for a while.
Unexpectedly, Shen Feng turned his head, with a smile on his face, his eyes were blazing, like two sharp swords, and said:
"No need to be sad, now that I have found out the result of this matter, then everything is still in time, as long as this is ended as soon as possible, the tragic future will not appear!"
With that, he strode into the room and headed for somewhere in the basement.
Whether this is the future of the real Earth or the Earth of some parallel universe, he will never allow this to happen again in his hometown!
He wants to complete the mission as soon as possible, return to his hometown, and stop this!
At this time, the two had already come to a wall in the basement, Shen Feng walked to the wall, grabbed a rusty iron chain, and pulled it down suddenly.
There was a creaking sound, and the rusty roller shutter door was pulled up, revealing the wall behind it.
Guns, dense, layered, all guns!