The first year of the Dark Age, January 1, Jiangcheng.

An easterly warrior ran over the cracked asphalt road and drove into the endless wilderness.

"In a few hours, the New Year's bell will ring. We are about to say goodbye to the past and usher in the first rays of sunshine in the first year of the Dark Age. At this time to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. I would like to extend New Year's greetings to the people of all ethnic groups across the country, to the compatriots in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Macao Special Administrative Region, to the compatriots in Taiwan and overseas Chinese, and to friends from all countries and regions in the world. ”

"Looking back on the past year, the catastrophe of the end times has changed the whole world, and the mountains and rivers have lost their color! At this great turning point in the history of all mankind, I have mixed feelings, and the challenges we face are more daunting than ever! ”

"In the year ,......"

Syllable! Zhuang Yichen stretched out his hand to turn off the radio on the car, and then changed it to a light music that Lin Xue liked.

Yesterday's President's New Year's message was being replayed on the radio. The early morning sun gently passed through the car window, and as the car player slowly poured into the cab, Zhuang Yichen squinted his eyes to meet the sun, and a round of fiery red morning sun was rising from the undulating hills.

This is the first ray of sunshine in the Dark Age.

He turned his head, but just in time to see Lin Xue staring out the window in the same obsessed manner. "What are you thinking?"

"Huh? Hee-hee, it's nothing. She came back to her senses and smiled at Zhuang Yichen. I just feel that people are creatures that need a sense of ritual! You see, it's just another ordinary revolution of the earth around the sun, but people like to give so many special meanings to this day. ”

Zhuang Yichen slowly stepped on the accelerator and steadily raised the speed to 120. "Because we always need a ritual to say goodbye to the past, like you said, people need a sense of ritual."

"Hmm!" Lin Xue nodded heavily, then rolled her eyes, and came up with a smile. "Hey, nerd.

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"Huh? What are you doing? ”

"Kiss me."

"Why?"

"Hey! Don't make a fuss, hey, sit down! Don't make a fuss, drive! ”

Dongfeng Mengshi's excellent off-road performance was vividly reflected in the wilderness, and the car drove all the way to Jiangcheng. Their destination was the lava pool of the lava behemoth in Jiangcheng, which by this time had a resounding name, the Advance Fortress.

Lin Xue's official identity is a scientific research assistant at the Military Institute of Mutant Biology, and this time he Zhuang Yichen came out to go to the advance fortress to get two biological samples.

Of course, it was not so much a tolerance as a private date between her and Zhuang Yichen, and taking specimens was just a casual incidental thing.

The car raced wildly for a while, and the speed slowly slowed down. This place has completely entered the garrison range of the Dawn Camp, and in the knee-high barren grass, the number of various mutated creatures and demonic beasts has also increased. On one side of the road, there is a newly established farmland protection zone, with tall barbed wire and huge yellow warning signs visible in the distance.

As soon as New Year's Day passes, there are three more months before rice can be planted. In the past six months since the end of the world, almost all of the country's strategic grain reserves have been consumed below the warning line, and it is natural that there is no delay in resuming grain production.

In this wilderness, if you want to protect the farmland from all kinds of monsters, just relying on a circle of barbed wire will certainly not help. So, in addition to this barbed wire, there is also a minefield about 200 meters wide, and all the mines laid in it are butterfly mines.

Looking at the entire human civilization, perhaps the most representative of the level of human science and technology may be stealth fighter jets, spaceships, large particle colliders, space stations, and aero engines, which are known as the flowers of industry.

But aside from the most cutting-edge technology, in fact, a small plastic lighter can also represent the level of development of human science and technology. A disposable lighter, the whole set of ignition system, flame regulation system, gas storage system are all compressed within the cost of one dollar, behind a small lighter, representing a highly developed industrial civilization.

Similarly, the butterfly mine is a representative of this inexpensive but efficient invention. This kind of mine has a very simple shape, that is, a piece of plastic with a thickness of no more than one centimeter, because its shape is very similar to the wings of a butterfly, so it is called a butterfly mine.

Such mines are simple in structure and extremely inexpensive. It is also one of the most evil weapon inventions in the history of human warfare. The Phalaurede has a small charge of explosives inside and is not fatal to step on, but it will allow your feet to fly with the mine. This kind of specially disabled landmine was used in large numbers in the Vietnam and Afghanistan wars before the end of the world, and was widely spread by aircraft, forming a minefield covering a range of tens of kilometers at a time.

This mine is extremely sensitive and only requires about five kilograms of weight to trigger. In war, the loss of a wounded to the enemy is much greater than the direct attrition. Once a soldier steps on a butterfly mine, he will immediately have his lower half of his limbs amputated by this vicious mine, and at the very least, he will lose half of his foot.

A disabled wounded can drag down at least two soldiers, and at the same time put a huge strain on the enemy's logistics and greatly reduce the morale of the opponent. If humanitarian considerations are not taken into account, such mines should be called the most perfect weapon of war.

Now, it is this butterfly mine that is laid in the minefield around the farmland reserve. In order to cope with mutated creatures and monsters that are much stronger than the human body, this mine also increases the charge. In the test, the improved butterfly thunder was just as powerful as it could blow off one of the wind wolf's claws, the amputated hind limbs of a demonized boar, or one of the feet of the Sinking Demon.

Although their physical recovery ability is amazing, they are far from the point of regenerating their broken arms. The law of the jungle in the wilderness is far more cruel than human warfare, and in the competition for survival, the disabled are not qualified to survive in this wilderness.

Based on the cheap nature of butterfly mines, the military naturally has no scruples about spreading them. Large-scale farmland around Jiangcheng has been integrated and established into similar protected areas.

Those mutated creatures and demonic beasts went forward and left behind countless stumps and broken arms, and finally imprinted a law into their simple brains.

It's the land of the dead, and it's never to be entered!

Two hours later, Zhuang Yichen and Lin Xue finally arrived at the destination of the trip.

With the shock of Zhuang Yichen, the road went smoothly like an outing.

Compared to the last time Zhuang Yichen saw it, the forward fortress has been completely built into a veritable steel fortress. The basalt formed by the cooling of the magma in this magma pool often crystallizes large amounts of natural copper and copper ore. Its quality and purity are much higher than all the proven copper deposits in our country. There is also sulfur, iron, gold, and diamond. There is such a treasure land around the Dawn Camp, and the military top brass will basically wake up laughing from a dream.

By this time the fortress had already housed a whole regiment of troops, which, together with a large number of workers and scientific researchers, had a population of nearly two thousand.

He and Lin Xue went through layers of interrogation, and finally entered the inside of the fortress. In the fortress, basalt is simply melted and turned into fine building materials, cast stone. The entire fortress is made of this locally sourced cast stone, and the majestic fortress walls are three meters high and are constantly being widened.

An artificial river was led from the Yangtze River, which crossed the city, into the forward fortress. Here, the river water is instantaneously evaporated into water vapor in the expander through a geothermal vent established by the magma pool, which then gives power to the generators. Half a month ago, this geothermal power station was connected to the power grid of Shuguang Camp and became the main power supply of the camp.

The existence of this magma pool has changed the climate of the surrounding microenvironment, and the entire forward fortress is as warm as spring, and in the center of the magma pool, it has become unbearable hot. In the follow-up plan of the camp, a supporting vegetable planting base will be established here.

Zhuang Yichen and Lin Xue were deeply shocked by the huge power of industry for the first time, just like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden. They walked around the forward fortress before taking two samples of the mutant blood crow and slowly leaving the place.