When Trist woke up, he found that the boulder pile he had chosen last night was about two meters high, and this pile seemed to be the remains of a house before the nuclear war, hollow inside, with a whole huge space, and even a huge staircase corridor could be vaguely distinguished, but it was only halfway through but broke in the middle and was finally buried in the earth. In addition, another strange feature of this "stone house" is that it seems to be made more like metal.

Trist tapped on the "stone wall" to verify it, and the fine, solid touch of metal from the knuckles, as well as the crisp sound in his ears, confirmed Trist's suspicion. It may be a remnant of a building from '96, but now it's a wreck, little by little overgrown by weeds and moss.

Trist didn't hesitate any longer, he put on his backpack and left last night's habitat with a few ups and downs, and then cautiously approached the ruins in front of him.

However, within a few steps, Trist noticed the notch on the stone slab in front of him, which was facing upwards. "Give me your tired your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. The foundation of his previous life and the fact that he had survived in the English environment for more than ten years in this life made him clearly recognize this somewhat familiar verse. Trist cleaned up the dust with a small brush as he used a dagger to cut through the vines around the huge stele.

"Let those who are tired and penniless from the long journey because they want to breathe the air of freedom snuggle up to each other and throw themselves into my arms!" Trist read word for word.

As the excavation progressed, more handwriting was revealed...... "Send these,the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

"I stand at the golden gate, holding aloft the lamp of freedom."

"Click", the dagger in Trist's hand suddenly fell.

The boy took a few steps back, and with the light rising in the early morning, he once again carefully observed the "stone pile" where he had slept last night.

From a distance, the pile of rubble, like a huge crown, was placed on the ground.

At the same time, out of the corner of his eye, Trist noticed that thirty-four meters away, the pile of rocks, also covered in vines and weeds, was faintly the outline of a large torch......

Trist didn't dig any further, he knew what it was, where he had been living last night, and where the ruins of the city were in front of him.

It's just that he didn't expect that the scenes that appeared in the movies countless times in his previous life would be so real in front of his eyes at this moment.

Once the epitome of that era, the pride of a country, after leaving a mottled broken shadow in the corridor of years, it is difficult to escape the fate of decline after all.

At the beginning of the morning sun, a faint ray of sunlight pierced through the gloomy sky, shining on the remnants of the aftermath of the nuclear war, and the Statue of Liberty was now dust. The once prosperous Apple City has gone with the wind.

Further on, there are roads covered with knee-deep grass and trees, and vehicles parked on the road that have never had a chance to start.

In yesterday's dream, he walked in the steel city full of futuristic atmosphere, but saw what should have been a thriving scene of cars and people, but the streets were full of panicked people, and even cars that collided because they were in a hurry to escape, and helicopters that were restlessly shuttling between high-rise buildings...... In his dream, he raised his head as he screamed around him, and a huge point of light dragged the tail flame closer and closer to the city, and the calamity from above the sky made the air quiet for a moment, and then everything around him was wiped out in the bright light and shockwave......

Who will rule the earth after the end of humanity? Trist remembers a documentary he had seen in his previous life, in which the subway in the city began to flood the day after the end of humanity due to the continuous pumping system being left unattended. Seven days after the demise of humanity, the water-cooling system of the nuclear reactor began to fail, and the high temperature caused a fire to destroy the nuclear power plant. One year later, city streets around the world are torn apart by the freeze-thaw force of water, then overrun by weeds. After two years, some of the roots of the trees along the street grew upwards and bulged out of the ground, while others continued to grow downwards to destroy the sewer system. Four years after the demise of humanity, the dead branches and leaves in the city that no one has to clean up may be struck by lightning, causing a fire. Human structures began to crumble. Twenty years after the demise of humanity, the sewer system has been destroyed and the city has been flooded. The roofs of houses slowly collapsed, and some buildings took hundreds of years to collapse completely. Five hundred years after the end of humanity, cities are covered with forests. The shell of the nuclear warhead left by mankind will have to wait until 5,000 years later, when the radioactive plutonium-239 element further contaminates the environment. More than 15,000 years later, the Earth is beginning to usher in a new ice age......

Of course, at the time these were just conjectures in the documentary, but now, these are actually happening in front of Trist's eyes.

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Ark.

A deep space black cell used to hold juvenile offenders.

Trist's stupid Doudou, Murphy, curled up in the corner.

The imprisoned teenager frowned, covered with a thin blanket, as if he had fallen into some nightmare.

"Fool Murphy, beaten again...... Hee-hee......"

"---- Shirley, Shirley don't leave me! Don't go, please......"

"Trist, you're the elder brother, take care of your younger brother."

"----Bob, Bob, Dad, you're eccentric! Trist: He's 17 minutes ahead of me! ”

"---- mother, my best mother, the mother who loves me the most, even you...... Woohoo......"

"Don't cry if you can't squeeze out tears, my stupid Oodou Dou!"

"---- Trist, you get out of the way!"

"----Ah, Trist, William of District 48 blocked me, come and save me...... I was wrong......"

"Live well, my children, Dad doesn't regret it, Dad is proud of you......"

"---- no! Daddy, no! ”

"I hate you!"

"----Mom, it's all my fault...... It's all my fault...... Don't leave me, please ......"

"Your twin brother, Trist, is dead. Not long after you were locked up, he left a suicide note and committed suicide through the airlock, whoa, by the way, his godfather, the Pike Councilman in the agricultural district, and Dr. Sinclair in the general control room, they were crying for a long time, hehe"

"---- Shirley, Daddy, Mommy, Trist...... It's all my fault...... Whining...... It's all my ......."

Tears wet the blanket.

"Squeak", the heavy iron door was opened again, this time it was actually Pike who stood at the door, the old man looked tired and vicissitudes, he put the cake plate he was holding on the ground, silently commented on Murphy for a while, as if he wanted to see another person from Murphy's shadow, after a long silence, he was urged by the deputy chief of the guard Sith to leave quickly, from beginning to end, without saying a word.

"Someone's coming!" Deputy Chief of Guard Sith sidestepped Paikla aside.

A haggard-looking Dr. Abby appears in front of the guards and Pike, who is hiding in the shadows of the aisle.

"Councillor Abby (doctor), please don't embarrass us......" Several guards at the door of the black cell looked at the powerful medical director with hesitant expressions, but finally refused her request to see her daughter, and they watched Abby leave the custody center in despair......

After all, even after Judge Ahab of the Ark changed the rules, the families of the juvenile prisoners could only visit their relatives once a month, and on the night that the council voted to decide on the "Earth Hundred Sons Project", Abby hurried to visit her daughter and passed by Pike, who was visiting Murphy at the time.