CHAPTER XXII

Ling has adapted to the thunderclouds that have joined the meteorite core, and she feels much better than before, and her body is recovering quickly. So I want to go to the fourth district to have a look, and when I was still ZERO, I used to go to a few civilian areas.

There were still many unnumbered civilian areas, but over time, those unnumbered civilian areas are now almost gone.

Because of the changes in the earth's environment after that war, human beings can no longer adapt to the current environment, and only the 'sky wall' of the protective circle can protect the people living in it, just like the environment before the war.

However, there are still a small number of people who can live in it, and there are people who live in civilian areas.

Although he knows that his ability is limited and cannot help most people, this old friend Pude has also told himself, but he still wants to make people's lives better with his own meager efforts.

But Pude's death made him realize that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't withstand this society that was driven by the 'human heart'......

Zhuge Xun and Kate and Red Moon have already seen through this, so they put themselves out of the matter.

These five numbered civilian districts, in the past, would always go to see them.

The brute head of District 1 and Hatit Hatit in District 2 are friends who know their names.

Lake in District 5 and Hellman in District 4 are not friends, but they are very caring for the people they manage and are competent administrators.

The third district is a little special, and I don't know what is happening over there now.

There is no Zhuge Xun on the second floor, and there is no one on the first floor, so he should be in the library on the third floor, and when he came to the library on the third floor, he saw Zhuge Xun there.

"Kaoru, how are you resting? What are you looking at? ”

"Good. I'm looking for some information here, how can I find something? Zhuge Xun put the bookmark on a book with an animal cover and put it down.

"I'd like to go to the Fourth and Third Civilian Zones to see what's going on." Ling said.

"It's fine. Shall I take the tree with me? Zhuge Xun asked. I haven't forgotten the metasequoia for Ling.

"No need. I just wanted to check it out. In my current situation, I don't see anyone there, and Zone 4 is not suitable for metasequoia. ”

"When are we leaving?" Although Zhuge Xun said that he followed Ling to various civilian areas, he actually wanted to understand the current world, when he didn't come to the Red Moon Pavilion, he had been hiding and practicing because of his body, and when he thought that he should go to the world for a walk, he encountered something that happened in three circles.

"Tomorrow." Ling wanted to give the two of them time to prepare.

"Okay, you come to me tomorrow."

Early the next morning.

Ling went to Zhuge Xun's room but didn't see him, could it be that he was still on the third floor, and sure enough, he found Zhuge Xun in the library again.

"You didn't sleep?" Ling asked.

"Well, Miss Hongyue's collection here, there are many books that I haven't read, and I want to read them all."

"After reading them all, it seems that there are as many as 5 billion copies here."

"Look at the table of contents is. Are we leaving? ”

"Hmm. From my room, let's go to the fourth civilian area first. ”

"Let's go." Zhuge Xun put down the book and left the third floor with Ling.

On the second floor, I met Kate who was playing the piano.

"Are you leaving again?" Kate asked.

"Go to the Fourth Civilian District."

"Kaoru-chan, Ling will leave it to you."

"Hmm. Aren't you together? ”

"I won't go, I don't want to go to places like the civilian area, you have to be careful."

"I'm not going to worry you anymore, I'm just going to see what happens." Ling said.

"Yes, let's go." Kate continued to play his piano.

…………

"Is this the Fourth Civilian Zone? Why is it so hot here. ”

Zhuge Xun, who came out of the Gate of Time, looked around at his surroundings.

"What's wrong?" Zhuge Xun saw Ling's puzzled face.

"This is not the Fourth Civilian Zone. I opened the door at the entrance to the Fourth Civilian District, but this was not the original entrance to the Fourth Civilian District. ”

Ling looked around, it was too desolate, and there was a fishy smell in the air. Although the Fourth Civilian District is close to the sea, it is still far from the coastline, but as soon as you come out of the Gate of Time, you can see the seaside...... If it's not the gate of time that goes wrong, the sea has risen.

And even by the sea, the environment here is terrible, there are all kinds of land animals, alien corpses on the coast, some broken human corpses, and some surprisingly large conch shells, everything here is too abnormal.

"Could it be that the Gate of Time can also go wrong?" Ling said to herself.

"Are you mistaken? The Gate of Time determines the location of the exit based on memory, so do you think of this as the entrance to District 4? Zhuge Xun didn't believe that anyone would live here.

The surface temperature here is also too high, and the current temperature can be about 50 degrees Celsius.

After a while, his inner clothes were soaked with sweat, and he had no choice but to take off his outer robe. I can't adapt to this kind of hot weather.

"I can't be mistaken, the last time I was here, I opened the door here, and it's only been a year, how did this place come to be. Let's look for it, maybe because of the movement of the coastline, so the people in this area have also moved. ”

Ling turned over the carcass of the animal on the beach with her foot, and the corpse seemed to have been corroded by some strong acid or something.

There are several corpses of people with only the upper body in front of them, the body has been swelled a lot by the sea bubble, and it is no longer clear what it looks like, from the fracture, the flesh should have been torn by something, but the bones are broken very neatly, and the edges of the bones are jagged, it should be cut off by something......

After examining the body, Ling walked over to the surprisingly large empty conch shell.

"Is this the shell of a conch?" Ling surrounds this empty shell, which looks to be more than three meters in diameter, and there are spiral patterns on the surface of the shell.

"This ...... Aren't they all extinct? Zhuge Xun also walked in front of the empty shell. This one is only an empty shell, and the creatures inside are supposed to have rotted and left in the sea.

However, there are many such empty shells on the coast here, and it seems that the water here is suitable for the growth of this creature.

"Do you know this?" Ling listened to Zhuge Xun's tone, he should know this kind of thing.

"This one should be called the Nautilus, an ancient creature that existed before humans appeared in this world. But in the continuous changes of the earth, such a large nautilus has not adapted to the earth's environment, so it has almost become extinct, after evolution, the nautilus that survived in the sea before the war is only about 20 to 30 centimeters.

But the diameter of this empty shell should also be about three meters.

Although the current environment is gradually approaching the ancient high temperature environment, there will not be such a large nautilus.

And you see, there are other empty shells of nautilus on the coast, indicating that there should be more nautilus in this sea......

If a nautilus that has evolved to this size is still dead, then its natural predators ......

Don't touch it with your hands, we don't know yet, what virus it has. ”

Zhuge Xun stopped Ling from touching the empty shell.

"Kaoru knows a lot. But such a big creature lives in the sea, what does it eat, if the people of District 4 go out to sea to meet it......" Ling said as he walked along the shore, wanting to see if there were any other clues.

"I also happened to see the 'paleontology' chapter before I came, and I saw this creature, so I only knew." Zhuge Xun continued to observe the empty shell.

"In the library on the third floor?"

"Hmm. What are you looking for?" Zhuge Xun saw that Ling seemed to be looking for something in the decomposing corpse.

"I want to see ......"

Before Ling finished speaking, he felt his feet tighten, as if his feet were entangled in something, and then his body was pulled into the sea.