Chapter 43: The Vanishing Group

The rain finally stopped. The sky is washed blue, and the clouds are washed white. The people in the shelter came out and felt the soothing of the fresh air and sunlight brought by nature.

"The electricity group and the tree group don't know what's going on. Zhong, after dinner, let's split up and look for them. ”

"Lei, let's eat on the way to dinner, this time bring Jie, if someone is injured, it will be dealt with in time."

"Zhong, we're back!" Before I could see the shadow, the shouts of the three people came over. The people in the base were excited again.

"Jie, hurry up and cook some food, and let them warm their bodies. I'm afraid it's all the same as what was fished out of the water. As Zhong spoke, three gray shadows appeared in the morning light, tired but still running. The electric run was at the front, followed by the breeze, and then more than a dozen people in the iron-legged base also ran to meet them, and everyone hugged for a while. The excitement is also palpable. The hot batter here is also cooked, and the aroma spreads. No one was joking, watching the three of them eat fragrantly.

"Why are you so embarrassed, didn't you find that place?"

"Is that pit still there?"

"No injuries, right?" Everyone's questions are one after another.

"I found it, the big pit is almost flat, I wasn't injured but I almost fell off heroically."

"What's the matter, sniper?"

"Can you really imagine that aren't there a dozen of us survivors here, who will snipe us? I'll tell you, it's really a strategic supply place, and we almost became a target without a command, and we were beaten into a sieve. ”

"Ahh I see, to tell you, we had a similar experience, and if it weren't for the Rose, we would have been buried alive in the supply depot. ”

"Lei Lao, next time I ask Rose to come with us, I really want to go inside and see what cutting-edge high-tech equipment is used in modern warfare."

"Electricity, eat well, this girl is not an omnipotent god. Instructions in that place are not something that someone of my level can know, and it would require tedious calculations to get permission without knowing it. You can only know more when you go in, but you still need to calculate the deduction. If you make a mistake, you won't be beaten into a sieve, and you will stay in it forever and can't get out. Rose smiled, but Den looked at her thoughtfully.

"Den, you're back, what about the tree's three-man team?"

"Zhong, they were driving in a car, they should be faster than us, didn't they come back?"

In a word, everyone was silent again. Jie cooked a few more pots of batter, and more than a dozen people were eating silently, just like the taste of fast food. After breakfast, it was almost noon, and Zhong, Dian, and Jie rode their bicycles, and went to look for them in the direction of the three people of the tree.

After a heavy rain, the road surface was cleaner. Even the residue left behind was decomposed by the morning sun, and it was not easy to find the traces of the three people walking on the tree. The three men got off the bike and searched almost inch by inch, and finally found the traces of the car walking at a supply point, which was in a pothole, and the accumulated rain was still a little damp. A small area where the wheels rub against the road surface may be quickly decomposed after ten minutes.

"Zhong, this should be the place where they parked, which can leave friction marks, indicating that the car started too hastily, because when we were testing the car, everyone was not familiar with this kind of antique car, and this phenomenon also appeared." Jie said analytically.

"Zhong, I agree with Jie's inference that there is an anomaly at the supply point."

"yes, most of the time the supply points shut down or destroyed themselves. This is when I took the exam of the Environmental High School Bureau, there was such a fill-in-the-blank question. This is also due to the fact that the supply point has been destroyed in such a way that the intelligent terminal reacts after calculus and demonstration. The purpose is to tell the people behind that it is no longer usable. Zhong said with a heavy heart.

"Who's going to destroy the supply point, it's the lifeline of the Ring High Journey. Could it be an external force? ”

"Electricity, this is impossible, extraterrestrial civilizations can't reach the earth yet, at most, they use other means to protect, and they have never reached the level of destruction and provocation. The Earth's defenses are unknown to us. ”

"Zhong is right, even if there is a shadow of extraterrestrial forces in this disaster, it is impossible for them to come to the earth to do such destruction, although they don't know what the form of life is, but the supply of life should be the same. If you really come here, life must also follow the shape of the earth in order to live. Kiyoshi said as she observed the traces that were about to be decomposed by the sun.

"Excluding extraterrestrial forces, that's us. Zhong, under what circumstances can a supply point determine whether it exists or disappears on its own? ”

"Electricity, you asked a good question, there is only one possibility, that is, there is no supply here, or that this place is empty."

"Zhong, if this kind of supply point is not replenished at any time, it will be empty sooner or later?"

"Yes, Rose does this kind of work, regular patrols and feedback from the regional terminals, and the energy here is always at full capacity. There are also vehicles and people engaged in supplementary work on the ring heights. ”

"Oh my God, that's it."

"Is it gone, turned into air dust?"

"Zhong, I think the reason for the disappearance of this supply point is probably caused by the evacuation of the big crack."

"Jie, could it be that all the energy here has been emptied by the evacuated people?"

Excluding external factors, this can only be explained in this way. Our section of the road was closest to the big crack, because the underground fiber optic cable was damaged, and the warning we received was probably later than the person behind us, and the content we received was different. Panic and confusion are certain, and it is not yet known what the cataclysm will be, and in that case it is important to store enough of the necessities of life. ”

"Jie, your reasoning is terrible. But I really can't find anything else besides this inference. ”

"That's why they're forced to leave here in a hurry, so they should go back too?" Zhong thought about it.

"What if the tremendous force of the shock caused them to change direction?" Denki said as he thought about what happened to his own group.

"Then it's possible."

"Zhong, I don't think so, the habit of parking is to turn the front of the car forward, and this front should be the direction of the main road around the high road, according to this inference, the car is most likely to rush towards the opposite side."

"Jie, you're saying they're going to cross the ring and rush to the other side, then it's fine, at most they'll be injured and stuck here. The ring height road can be 100 cars side by side, and the buffer road surface is also one-third of the whole, and there is also a separation mesh belt. I'm sure the car broke down and people got hurt. ”

"That's not a small problem, don't forget that it rained heavily last night, so it's hard to say what the situation is. We went to the opposite side of the ring to look for it, hoping that it was still too late. The three of them simply replenished a little food and rode their bicycles to the opposite side.

"Bell, how wide the ring road is is is just a concept of 100 cars, in fact, it is only the middle section of the road that is often walked, and now it can be regarded as knowing what the width of 100 cars is." Denki said as he walked.

"It's really not an exaggeration to say that ring height is a feat of earth technology. Passing by this orange place, it should be a buffer zone. Zhong said, and there was an orange section of the road several meters wide in front of him. Under the blue sky and white clouds, the orange pavement also reflects light spots. It contrasts sharply with the silver-gray pavement.

"Spectacular, this orange pavement at night, that's a band of light." Jie sighed.

Although the width of the buffer road is not as wide as that of the main ring road. But it is also a jaw-dropping existence, and it has finally arrived at the place where the mesh belt is isolated. I really saw the wrecked car that was loaded, but I didn't see anyone. The isolation belt is also orange, with a height of about five meters, and the mesh is so small that it is absolutely impossible to climb past a person. But the three of them just disappeared out of thin air, and they couldn't even find a trace for the time being.

"Will you abandon the car and walk back?"

"It's impossible, the cars have crashed like this, how can people not be injured, and I haven't seen them all the way here."

"Zhong, Dian, come and see, is this the fabric on the overalls?" Jie asked, pointing to the strips of cloth on the separating belt.