Chapter 3: The Cambrian of Super Powers
"More than 10,000 years ago, a powerful gamma-ray storm swept over the Earth, instantly destroying nearly 30% of the Earth's atmosphere, exposing the Earth to the universe almost directly.
The most direct effect of such a drastic change in heaven and earth is that the air pressure on the earth drops to an incredible level overnight, and a large amount of water evaporates directly into the air and directly enters the universe.
The earth's water sources have decreased, the Arctic Circle has disappeared, and even the glaciers on the Antarctic continent that have not melted for 10,000 years have disappeared without a trace in just a hundred years, but these melted ice blocks have not melted into water to fill the lack of water resources, but have run out of the earth like the previous water.
The oceans, which once occupied nearly 70 percent of the earth's area, have shrunk severely, and large areas of shallow sea have been completely exposed, and countless creatures in the sea have been wiped out in a short period of time.
In addition, due to the decrease in the pressure of the earth, the geological movement on the earth, which has never stopped, has become unprecedentedly active, with plate movements, volcanic eruptions, and all the creatures running on the road of no return to extinction.
Frequent earthquakes have pumped endless amounts of greenhouse gases such as methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and volcanic eruptions have sent hundreds of millions of tons of ash and sulfide into the sky, turning the earth into hell.
Without water, the earth's biosphere, which is based on carbon-based structure, has become like a candle in the wind, and a large amount of volcanic ash that obscured the sky has cut off the most important source of energy for human beings. ”
"The population has plummeted by half! And it's not just humans, the variety of life on Earth has shrunk to less than one-third of what it used to be, and the number has also decreased dramatically! This was the final announcement issued by the only remaining official Earth organization fifty years after the outbreak of the Apocalypse.
As for the third year after this news was released, with the complete disintegration of the oldest and oldest country on earth and the country that has persisted for the longest time after the end of the world, human civilization has not been able to grasp the straw that saved its life after all, and irretrievably slipped into the abyss of destruction.
The last official power is gone, and humanity has lost the last shackles that bind it.
In order to survive, fighting, killing, and cannibalism have become ubiquitous scenes, and everyone refuses to retreat, and the small water source has become a large red lake in a short time, and a little food will soon bring more food for those who want to survive, and the threat of death has completely turned humans into wild beasts.
Humans struggled from the bottom of the food chain for a million years to climb to the top of the pyramid, but it took only a hundred years to return to the primitive, and there may be less than 10 million humans still alive. ”
When Yan Hua heard this, he only felt that his whole body was soaked with sweat, and his stomach couldn't stop churning.
"In the face of such a scene, at the beginning, some people of insight stood up and wanted to suppress this madness with the weapons in their hands, but there is no sun, which means that there is no energy, no energy, no matter how high-end and powerful the weapon is, it will soon become scrap metal, and the efficiency of killing people is not much higher than that of stones and wooden sticks, and the efficiency of human beings killing each other has been reduced a lot because of this.
However, humanity, which seems to be relieved, still does not see the light of day.
Because humans soon discovered that in order to survive, it was not only humans who struggled, but also other creatures that survived the apocalypse. ”
"At a time when the proud brains of humans are unable to solve the desperate situation in front of them and have no choice but to return to the jungle, there are predators who have changed dramatically."
It may be that the topic is a little heavy, or it may be that the cold wind is blowing outside the cave, Ling Feixue's face is also a little pale, and she pauses before continuing, "Humans are surprised to find that these creatures that could only be under humans before have become strangers, they are larger than human cognition, stronger and faster, and the fragile body of human beings has completely lost the capital to fight them.
What's more, these animals have an even more peculiar transformation, the giant tiger can roar a huge storm from its mouth, easily break the human defenses, and fly away after a full meal; The swift cheetah moves through the night like a ghost surrounded by thunder, silently hunting for its own food.
Two hundred years after the outbreak of the apocalypse, there are less than two million human beings left......"
"But aren't you human?"
Yan Hua actually believed the words of the woman in front of him, but the other party's statement was really appalling, so Yan Hua could only argue loudly.
Yan Hua then felt that this behavior was a little inappropriate, and the person in front of him was definitely not the person he knew, so he had to lower his voice and rephrase it: "From the perspective of appearance and communication, you and the guy over there who has become charred should be human, right?" ”
"It took millions of years for humans to shed the appearance of wild beasts, and naturally they did not become other strange things in one percent of the time.
As for language, it is simply that it became a lingua franca because it was used by the vast majority of the people who survived the post-apocalypse and the last official organization of mankind. ”
The woman who looked exactly like Ling Feixue was not dissatisfied because of Yan Hua's interruption, but just glanced at Yan Hua, who was quite excited with a look in her eyes, and continued: "As for me still standing here talking to you as a human being, it is because just when human beings were in despair because of the predator hunting, special individuals were also born in human beings.
Like mutated predators, some of these individuals have grown tall to resemble the legendary Titans, capable of competing with the greatest beasts of prey; Others have the peculiar ability to generate electricity or strong wind pressure in their bodies.
Humanity found a weapon to compete with those guys, and it was only from this time that the situation was stabilized and the capital was obtained. ”
Yan Hua recalled the scene he saw before he fell unconscious, and asked tentatively, "Just like you just did?" ”
"Ling Feixue" nodded, stretched out a white and smooth hand and put it in front of Yan Hua's eyes, and then the muscles in his hand tensed slightly, and several jumping electric sparks emerged from his hand and slashed through the air.
Looking at Yan Hua with a sluggish face, "Ling Feixue" explained: "That's right! Humans have gained the ability of animals that have gone extinct in the apocalypse, and like me, they have evolved cascading cells like electric eels to emit high-voltage electrical current from their bodies by stacking these cell batteries.
But in the final analysis, this kind of electricity is generated by consuming one's own physical strength and energy, and if there is no energy in the cell, it cannot be activated, and I cannot use it indefinitely. ”
"And what happened to that air cannon just now?" Yan Hua forcibly removed his eyes from the beautiful side face in front of him and the slender neck under his face, pointed to the coke on the side and asked casually.
"The volume of the lungs is greatly increased, and at the same time, the muscles of the respiratory tract are strengthened and toughened, and the air is condensed by inhaling air and then compressing and releasing it.
It's a pity that this set of organs was not born to this black bear, but was transplanted the day after tomorrow, and although he can rely on his body to forcibly use the compression function of his lungs and release air bombs, the power is much less than that of the original owner.
And his respiratory tract is estimated to be unable to withstand such a strong air pressure, and if he uses it a few more times, he will suffocate himself to death due to respiratory bleeding without my intervention. ”
Speaking of this, "Ling Feixue" said with an obvious look of disgust on her face: "Taking other people as experiments and brainwashing others and working hard for themselves, those guys in the Divine Court are really disgusting. ”
Although Yan Hua was still curious about the ability of "Ling Feixue" and wanted to ask the other party what the Divine Court was, after thinking about it, he changed the topic and said, "Then what is the Cambrian you just mentioned?" ”
"Human beings have found through research that about 500 million years ago, life on the earth evolved into a rich variety of life forms, and these life forms are completely different from the previous life forms as if they appeared overnight, so this phenomenon is called the Cambrian explosion of life, and that period is the Cambrian period.
In the same way, human beings gave birth to a variety of special individuals overnight, which are extremely similar to the Cambrian explosion of life, so human beings simply call the current period Cambrian. ”
"Ling Feixue" explained: "Because the anomalies displayed by these special individuals are very similar to those superpowers in human records, and in order to avoid conflicts with the previous Cambrian in terms of title, although the verbal abbreviation is now Cambrian 13,000 and 5, in fact, the correct title should be added before this era. ”
"Ling Feixue" paused, looked at Yan Hua with a bewildered face with moving eyes, and said, "So the correct statement should be - Super Cambrian!" ”
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Yan Hua leaned against a glowing vine, looking loveless, and repeatedly chanted the term "Super Cambrian" in his mouth, while trying to digest the information that Ling Feixue had just said.
Ling Feixue, the name of the teacher Ling that Yan Hua knew was exactly the same except for one word.
The same pronunciation, the same appearance, and even the profession are exactly the same, he is a teacher in an academy, which is why Yan Hua was misunderstood by Ling Feixue when he woke up and shouted Ling Feixue's name.
But it's always different, this Teacher Ling is not the Teacher Ling that Yan Hua had seen before he climbed out of the life support cabin.
Although the face is the same, the temperament is very different, the previous Teacher Ling gives people the feeling that if it is the warm wind of early spring, then this Teacher Ling who rescued himself from the life support cabin is the cold snap of winter, which makes people dare not get close.
And it may be like Ling Feixue herself said that although she is called a teacher, she is more like an instructor, this Teacher Ling not only does not have intellectual softness, but has a kind of compelling momentum.
"It's time to eat!" Just as Yan Hua was thinking, something wrapped in leaves fell from front of his eyes with Ling Feixue's cold voice, interrupting Yan Hua's thoughts.
"What is this?" Yan Hua curiously opened the leaves in front of him, but found that there was a gray-brown paste inside, and it smelled like burnt plastic, so he couldn't help but look up at Ling Feixue and asked.
Ling Feixue held a piece of "food" like Yan Hua, and explained lightly: "The rhizomes of gray potatoes are finely crushed in fiber, although they can only be boiled and cooked, they are rich in carbohydrates and can replenish energy. ”
Yan Hua looked at Ling Feixue, and then at the "food" in front of him, and wanted to say more that he didn't actually want to ask what it was made of, but seeing that Ling Feixue had already eaten his share of food as usual, he had no choice but to pinch his nose and open his mouth to bite it.
"Maybe this is the food of the Super Cambrian, right?" Yan Hua saw Ling Feixue's expression in his eyes, and while thinking like this, he swallowed the food in front of him.