Volume 2 The Return of the Stars Chapter 48 Scientific Research Team
Under the sunlight, Jiang Luo gradually saw the whole picture of the city, although some buildings have completely collapsed and deformed, Jiang Luo can still confirm from some places he has been to that this is Lake City.
His fear was realized, as if he had traveled through a time tunnel, he came to Lake City in an unknown number of years, where there were no more survivors, except for those shadow people who were highly similar to humans, maybe they were human variants, but they were no longer humans, at least Jiang Luo didn't want to admit that they were humans. If he really "travels" to the future decades later, then he will be the loneliest being. In the last days of a few decades ago, although it was strange and chaotic, at least he still had a glimmer of hope that he would go to Jinling City to meet the agreed people, and then return to his hometown.
If it is really the future in a few decades, then all this will no longer exist, and his old people, his relatives, everything he is familiar with will only exist in memory.
When he reached the safe zone, he found that it had completely fallen, with huge plants taking over the town, wooden houses completely rotten, low concrete buildings reduced to a layer of stone chips on the ground, and tall trees overgrown with the streets and houses that once were.
Nothing, nothing!
The traces of human existence are being silently erased by nature, and Jiang Luo, as the "last survivor", a hundred years of loneliness that has left behind his independence occupies his heart.
No, it can't be, even if we were really on Earth in a few decades, it would be impossible for humans to become extinct in a few decades! Humanity, once the master of the earth, was not wiped out so quickly, even if it was invaded by outsiders! Maybe it's only here, Lake City, abandoned by humans.
Jiang Luo remembered the light curtain on the edge of Lake City, the mysterious light curtain, I don't know if it will disappear after a few decades? It brought itself here, and it should be able to send itself back as well? Maybe it's the other way around!
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At this time, on the edge of the eastern suburbs of Lake City, eight men in dark camouflage uniforms were cautiously testing on the other side of the transparent light curtain. They collected the soil and plants at the edge of the light curtain, and to their surprise, the energy shield-like light curtain seemed to have some kind of isolation property, but the matter around it did not produce any anomalous changes.
They could see the scene in Lake City through the light curtain, but when they put the probe with the camera inside, the long pole seemed to sink into an invisible extradimensional space, and the contact with the light curtain disappeared, and only the second half of the long rod they pulled out was left.
The fracture is neat and natural, as if it were born to be, and the camera loses signal completely once it enters it. Their detection was a failure, and no one knew what this sudden light curtain was, but there was no doubt that anything that entered it would disappear from this world, and it was like a wall to another world.
The appearance of a light curtain disrupted the plan above. In order to defend against the threat from Taihu Lake and the Demon Capital, Hucheng was used as an important stronghold city on the periphery of the Jiangnan Theater Defense Circle, but it was completely lost due to the mysterious light curtain. The retreating army even completely disappeared behind the light curtain, as if the world had evaporated.
They are from Jinling City, and they are one of the researchers who have served the military after the end of the world, and their research object is this mysterious and unpredictable apocalyptic world. Since the Blood Moon Event, the Earth has become stranger, and the earth is no longer familiar to humans, and rats that were once chased by humans will also attack and prey on humans in groups.
Countless post-apocalyptic movies and novels have become true, and after the Blood Moon, the world's communications are basically semi-paralyzed, and many communication towers and cables have been destroyed by unknown existences. As ordinary researchers, they do not have enough authority to know the whole truth, and from what they know, the disaster on Earth this time is not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster, perhaps an invasion of civilization from outside the earth.
Earthlings look at the extraterrestrial world from their own perspective, but their invasion is not necessarily real, and what is even more terrifying is the destruction without gunpowder. For example, biological weapons, such as genetic viruses, etc., these methods are both efficient and practical. Many scientists believe that in the eyes of space thinking, human beings are like parasites on Earth, and that the invasion of Earth by extraterrestrial civilizations must have a purpose, and no intelligent civilization will bother to do a meaningless thing. And the best way to kill parasites with the least loss, and then get a clean planet, is "insecticides". In the view of the high-level research seminar, the blood moon is like an insecticide, which brings not only natural disasters such as meteorites and fire rain, but also causes a series of abnormal changes, biological changes, and anomalies in the earth's environment - earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and climate upheaval.
These things are the real fatal causes, and according to their calculations, if the other side does not take further action, it will take at least twenty years for humanity to do its best to completely solve the current predicament. A huge frenzy of biological mutation has swept the world, and even the usually inconspicuous mosquitoes have become deadly killers.
So far, humanity has even been in turmoil. The central government is unable to communicate with the localities, and the localities are gradually losing and falling. The collapse of humanity is happening very quickly, and the only way to do this is to establish a security zone in the area where the army is stationed and wait for the reorganization to be completed before proceeding further. Sadly, so far, the gathering phase has not been completed, and the people fleeing everywhere are still on the road to life and death.
Although they had seen some possibilities for the human body to produce an anomaly, the force of that mutation was too small. For example, a person with the ability to generate "fire" out of thin air, but the flame he induces can only light a cigarette, and it is very easy to extinguish at the slightest breeze, let alone other uses. As far as Jinling is concerned, there are only a few hundred people who have changed among the people currently in the collection, and most of these hundreds of people are the above-mentioned fire powers, and their practicality is not as good as a kitchen knife.
The eight of them had been collecting information for three days, but they had found nothing in three days, the huge lake city was like a ghost town, at least they had not seen any traces of biological activity inside.
Until this night, the old Fu who crawled out of the tent to pee noticed something unusual. On the road deep in the woods behind the light curtain, there seemed to be a slender figure.
He quickly woke up the other team members, and the eight of them squatted in the bushes at the edge of the light curtain, observing the situation on the opposite side with the help of night vision devices.
It was a young man as thin as a skeleton, and at first they thought it was some kind of mutated zombie monster. But it was clear that the man was not the kind of zombie that had lost his humanity, and his eyes and movements were full of vigilance.
He walked up to the light curtain, and to the surprise of the eight researchers, he managed to get through the light curtain after some temptation!
The light curtain turned out to be ineffective against him? Or is the light curtain ineffective against the people inside? The latter was denied by eight people at the same time as soon as it appeared, and if that was really the case, the hundreds of thousands of people at the beginning would not have disappeared into the light curtain!
This person is special, he is immune to the effects of the light curtain!
The layer of light that Jiang Luo passed through was the same as before, like a thin layer of lake water, and after the temptation, there was no abnormality after passing through. Just as the light curtain leading to the mosaic space had completely disappeared, Jiang Luo had not entered the terrifying void space since the light curtains on the east and west sides passed.
But is this the outskirts of Lake City? Is it because of time that the light curtain in a few decades no longer has that special space-time property?
As he thought about it, he was startled by the sudden burst of eight men in dark clothing, and the pistol he raised almost fired.
Fortunately, these eight people raised their hands more than ten meters away from Jiangluo and made a sound.
"Young man, don't get excited! We are human beings, people from Jinling City! Lao Fu shouted loudly, for fear that the other side would not hear him. In fact, they also have guns, after all, they are military researchers, and for the special services that collect information, scientific research ability is secondary, but each of them is no less powerful than a special soldier.
Jiang Luo felt that the voice of the person opposite was very familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it. At least it can be determined that it is a human being, and it is a person from Jinling, Jiang Luo was a little excited in his heart, he finally met a human in the barren Lake City!
It's him! How is he!
After Jiang Luo saw the person who spoke clearly, he was shocked in his heart. The person who greeted him turned out to be exactly the same as the madman Jiang Luo had met in the alley before! But it will never be the same person, and if this is the world decades from now, then this person may be a direct blood relative of a madman.
Jiang Luo didn't know anything about the situation in the outside world, and in line with the principle of saying less and making fewer mistakes, he was basically listening to these eight people narrate the situation.
According to the old Fu who looked exactly like the madman, they were a scientific research team from Jinling, but under Jiang Luo's observation, he felt that they were by no means ordinary researchers, and each of them had eyes as sharp as eagles and falcons, strong bodies, and also carried large firearms, more like some special troops.
"You're here to gather information about Lake City? Why don't you go in? ”
"Go in? We wanted to, too, but the light curtain was like an energy cover, we couldn't touch it at all, we tried countless times, but there was no way. Saying that, the eight people looked at Jiang Luo with hot eyes.
"How did you do that, young man, and why are you free to come and go?"
Jiang Luo had too many questions in his heart, but he didn't know where to start. Moreover, Jiang Luo did not fully trust these eight researchers who claimed to be from Jinling, and their appearance was too abrupt. Compared with what others said, Jiang Luo was more willing to believe his own observations, judgments and facts.
"I can't explain it to you, and I don't know why. I've always wanted to get out of Lake City, but I can't get out, how did you get here, can you take me out of here? ”
Lao Fu was clearly the leader of this team, and he showed a wry smile.
"Of course, we will help you, but we hope that you will also cooperate with our research and investigation. We're here to get all the information you need to know about Lake City, and we want you to tell us what's going on inside and what it's like now. ”
What does it look like? Don't they know that Lake City is now in ruins?
When Jiang Luo told them what he had seen, they looked at Jiang Luo with a psychotic look.
"You don't believe me?"
Lao Fu shook his head, "It's not been half a year since the end of the world came, how could a city become what you said...... You're probably a little too nervous, young man, calm yourself down......"
Jiang Luo knew that no matter how he explained, these eight people would not believe it, so the best way was to let them see it for themselves!
"You come with me!"
Jiang Luo said as he turned around and ran towards the light curtain.
"Don't!" The eight people thought that Jiang Luo would disappear into the light curtain like anything else, but to their surprise, it was reasonable, just like when he first came out, the light curtain had no effect on him!
"This ......" The eight people were dumbfounded, no one could have imagined that the light curtain that made the entire Jinling City helpless would have no effect on this young man at all!
"Come in and see for yourself!" Jiang Luo passed through the light curtain with his hand and beckoned to them.
Old Fu cautiously stretched out his hand to touch the light curtain, but to his surprise, this light curtain really seemed to be ineffective!
It's like meeting a nemesis, after this young man appears, the light curtain completely withers!
The eight people walked through the light curtain in amazement, and behind the light curtain was still a dense forest, but when they followed Jiang Luo out of the dense forest, everything they saw verified Jiang Luo's words.
What he said before was not a hypothesis, everything they saw showed that they had traveled to Lake City decades later, or Lake City decades later to the present!