261 The Last Days and Wormholes
While Zhou Shuyun was preparing dinner, Nanxing roughly learned about their current situation from his cheap younger brother Murong.
It can be said that the current world is the most dangerous one of all the worlds that Nanxing has been to.
This is the end times.
However, it is not the kind of apocalypse infested with zombies. It's just that compared to zombies, these bugs from the universe seem to be more irritating, and they are also more difficult to deal with than zombies.
The various situations here, including the development of astronomy and technology, are not much different from the world of the game that Nanxing and Shang Lu have been in, if not counting bugs.
About twenty years ago, a wormhole appeared in the world's solar system. The location of the wormhole is near Venus, and because the location of the wormhole is very close to the native star of mankind, it is the first time that scientists have the opportunity to observe and study the wormhole up close. So after a series of data collections, the first unmanned spacecraft was sent into the wormhole.
This unmanned spacecraft is equipped with the most advanced transmission technology and high-precision recorders to ensure that after entering the wormhole, it can record the situation in the wormhole without landing for a second and send the information back.
However, this expedition did not go as expected, and the unmanned spacecraft lost contact with the native star after entering the wormhole. A year later, the undying scientists sent a second unmanned spacecraft, which was a big improvement over the first in every way.
However, after entering the wormhole, it still loses sound in an instant. Just when everyone was arguing about whether to launch the third unmanned spacecraft, a white light suddenly flashed near Mars, and it seemed that an exit from the wormhole had opened, and after the light and shadow disappeared, a spacecraft stopped there quietly.
After many inspections, this spacecraft is the first unmanned spacecraft launched by scientists. But no one can explain why the exit of the wormhole is near Mars.
Soon the unmanned spacecraft was towed back to the home planet, and scientists found that the recording equipment on board the spacecraft was all old and unusable, and the spacecraft was also a dilapidated appearance, as if it had been drifting in the universe for an unknown amount of time.
However, no one noticed that as the ship was disassembled, some undetectable black material was scattered on the ground, which attached to the sole of the research institute and left the laboratory, and when it came into contact with the dirt outside, it burrowed into the dirt for the first time.
Slowly, the black substance absorbed the nutrients from the soil and began to turn into an oval-shaped white object. The egg-like substance began to grow slowly, and as it grew, it burrowed deeper and deeper into the dirt, and tentacles-like things began to stretch out from the white ovate, all of which were absorbing the nutrients and energy from the surroundings.
After another three years or so, the egg had grown to the size of an ostrich egg, and it seemed that the contents of the egg had been fully formed, and the outer skin of the egg began to shrink gradually, but the tentacles stretched farther, and looked more complex than the root system of a tree that was more than ten years old.
Finally, in the tenth year of the wormhole's appearance in the solar system, the contents of this egg revealed its true form.
It was a bug, a bug that was completely different from the species on the native star.
It was the size of a thirty-four-inch monitor, and it looked like it was made up of two creatures, its upper body could stand upright, it had a pair of front chelae in the shape of a knife, several pairs of eyes on its head, and its lower body was very similar to that of a spider or a scorpion, except that it had wings on either side of its head and on the tail of its lower body.
The insect scurried through the dirt, and soon she found a cavity in the soil, and the temperature was very comfortable, and it used the cavity in the soil as its temporary nest, and then the tentacles protruded from its back, but now the tentacles were no longer an unnecessary extension, but surrounded the cavity in the soil, as if to enclose it with tentacles.
A few months later, it laid its first clutch of eggs, which were no longer white in color, but black, about a hundred or so. Due to the warm environment, it took only a week for the black eggs to hatch into black beetles the size of fingernails, and they quickly burrowed out of the cavities in the soil surrounded by tentacles and began to explore in all directions.
When it was discovered that there seemed to be an increase in the number of insects, the mother worm from outer space had already given birth to hundreds of thousands of insects of all kinds, which were constantly devouring organic matter and sending it back to the mother nest in an orderly manner for the mother worm to produce and consume.
Eight years ago, there was a large-scale outbreak of insect plague, and at first people could still have some advantages in the process of fighting insects, but in the process of fighting humans, insects continued to evolve, which gradually tilted the balance of war in favor of insects. Because insects prefer humans to trees, soil, flowers, etc.,
With the exception of the mother, these insects are not intelligent, and all of them hunt on instinct. The insects, which were originally small in size, have all evolved into huge shapes, and even the smallest of them is the size of a basin, not to mention those giant insects that are several meters or even tens of meters long.
But humans soon discovered that these bugs also have nasty things, and as long as animals and plants can't "eat" things, these bugs won't eat them. For example, inorganic substances such as cement and steel.
Originally, the steel forest in the city was a good place to take refuge, but due to people's pursuit of the living environment, the greening in each city was very good, which was equivalent to giving the insects a powerful terrain, which caused humans to have to withdraw from the city.
Nanxing's family of three is now staying at an airport on the outskirts of Y City, because Nanxing's original identity is an anomaly, and her younger brother has also been detected to have extremely high supernatural talents, so their family can live in the office of the original airport.
The office area is not large, and it is actually a little cramped for a family of three, but this is much better than those ordinary people who live in the lobby on the first floor and set up tents.
"What am I?"
"Sister, you can't forget all your abilities, do you?" Seeing that Nanxing shook his head, Murong Cai spoke: "You are a spatial ability, and the space is not small. I remember you mentioned it once, saying that there were twenty cubes. ”
Nanxing was silent, she didn't feel any of her abilities at all. However, she suddenly thought of the chaotic space, before she collected two more pages, at this time there were already various plants in the chaotic space, but there was still no trace of animals.
Before coming to this world, Nanxing had just sown the seeds that she and Shang Lu had purchased in the previous game world, and she hadn't checked them until now, so she didn't know if those seeds had sprouted.
In the game world, since Nanxing is an absolute rich person, after discussing with Shang Lu, she purchased a lot of supplies, especially food. Since eating a serious meal, she and Shang Lu can no longer eat those 3700 years of nutritional paste, since the black cat said that the chaotic space will gradually wake up, then farming must be no problem, and it is because of this that Nanxing bought a lot of seeds while buying food.
Now in this world, Nanxing couldn't help but sigh that his good luck had not disappeared, but was only used in this place.
After the infestation, this airport on the outskirts of Y City became the best place to take refuge. The head of the airport took advantage of the situation to accommodate many people who had fled the city, including the Nanxing family.
Today, eight years after the infestation, the airport has grown to nearly 10,000 people and is now one of several medium-sized clusters around Y City.
With the outbreak of insect plague, people began to awaken their abilities one after another, and the initial ability only made people more powerful and faster, and then gradually there were various elemental abilities, such as Nanxing's younger brother Murong, who had a fire ability, and a spatial ability like Nanxing is still an extremely rare type of ability. It is also because of the emergence of the ability that people can win a chance to survive in the battle against the bugs.
As for thermal weapons, due to the outbreak of insect plagues, production has come to a standstill in various places, and the ammunition that thermal weapons rely on is very rare, and only those settlements that have occupied certain military bases can have relatively sufficient ammunition. For example, at an air base located two hundred kilometers east of the airport settlement in City Y, they will occasionally trade ammunition for rare food or items.
"Sister, your previous team has been disbanded, do you have any thoughts next?" Murong asked while playing with the small fireball in his hand.
Nanxing sighed, she still knows too little about this world now, if she dares to go out to act, she may encounter danger, originally heard her brother say that she has a rare space ability, and joined a search team, there is still a hint of joy in her heart, but immediately reality gave her a basin of cold water.
"What was the name of my previous squad? Why did the squad disband? ”
"The strength of your squad is not very good, but the tone is very big, called the Shenfeng team." Murong put away the fire ball in his hand, and said disapprehantly: "Last time you went to Y City to collect supplies, I don't know why you alarmed a king-level bug, I heard that the bug is good at sonic attacks, or your captain is desperate to let people bring you out." But you seem to have been hit on the head in the process, and you were in a coma for almost half a year before you woke up. ”
"Was the team disbanded because of heavy casualties?" Nanxing's mood was a little heavy, in 3700 years, many scavenging teams suffered a lot of casualties because in the process of scavenging, and even some teams only survived one or two people, and the rest of the people had to disband the team.
Of course, there are also those who have to rebuild the team, but a scavenging team cannot be formed in a short time, so often the scavenging team with too many casualties will choose to disband or merge into other teams.
"I've heard that a lot of people died, but there are still four or five people counting you. However, when you were in a coma for three months, the doctors said that the chances of you waking up were very low, and they never came after that, and then I heard that the team was disbanded. Don't take it to heart, it's okay if those stinky fish and rotten shrimp are dissolved. If it weren't for my sister, you said that people should have righteousness, and the team of human weapons invited you, you should have gone. If you had gone to that team, you wouldn't have traveled that long. ”
Nanxing wanted to ask a few words, but he heard Zhou Shuyun call him, "Xiaorong, can't you talk to her about something interesting as soon as your sister wakes up?" Come over and help serve the meal. ”
The curtain next to Nanxing's bed was also opened, and there was another bed over there, which seemed to be her younger brother Murong's. When the curtain opened, there was a little space between the two beds, just enough for a small metal table.
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