Chapter 270: Magnetic Field Reversal
Luo Yuan slumped into the thick metal door, and below it was a zigzag step like an ordinary basement, which was as bright as day under the light on both sides. XsHuoTXt
After walking about five floors, about ten or twenty meters deep, they entered a long passage about three meters wide, and every twenty meters or so, there was a soldier on guard, and a tense and solemn atmosphere gradually permeated the hearts of everyone.
Luo Yuan knocked on the wall of the passage with the handle of the knife, and there was a thick muffled sound, and under the sensing of perception, he found that the cement layer of these walls was more than a meter thick, which was enough to resist the bombardment of the giant cannon.
He breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, under such a defense, even if a green-level creature wanted to break through, it would take a lot of effort.
He continued to walk for more than a minute, and after passing through three metal doors about fifty centimeters thick, the noise gradually came, and the group entered the hall.
In the hall of tens of thousands of square meters, there are many people, and there are dense people everywhere.
These people sat or stood, their faces filled with trepidation and unease.
A one- or two-year-old child was crying, a woman kept coaxing, and a man next to him who seemed to be her husband kept rummaging through the bottle, but it seemed that he had forgotten to bring it, and his face was depressed.
A lonely old man who seemed to be a widow sat in the corner, sighing from time to time, and a trace of sadness flashed on his wrinkled face.
There were also a few sturdy teenagers, excitedly discussing what might happen this time, with excitement on their faces!
There are many kinds of life in the hall, thousands of people and thousands of faces.
Luo Yuan glanced at the crowd and looked around carefully, on the rough concrete walls, big agitative slogans were posted everywhere. There are also several passages near the hall, and it seems that there is more than one such hall.
He took a deep breath, compared to the pre-apocalyptic bomb shelter, this was obviously more powerful and well-designed, and the various halls where the survivors were housed were relatively independent of each other, even if one of the halls fell, the iron door on the passage could be closed to ensure the safety of the other areas.
"Let's find a place to sit!" Wu Xiaoxiao endured the uneasiness in her heart and said.
Luo Yuan nodded, looking at the situation, it was obvious that there would be no room here, he found a vacant space at random, sat down on the ground, and Huang Jiahui and the others also sat down with a natural face.
They are accustomed to surviving in the wild and can pay attention to cleanliness in normal times, but in this tense atmosphere, they have long understood that the most important thing is to keep themselves in the best shape at all times.
However, Wu Xiaoxiao and Sun Youde are obviously a little unaccustomed to them. Wu Xiaoxiao hesitated, didn't know what she was thinking, and sat down as well. And Sun Youde looked at the dusty ground that had not been cleaned for a long time, and couldn't help frowning, hesitated, but still didn't sit down, but chose to squat.
Luo Yuan glanced at Sun Youde, squatting like this, it seemed casual, it seemed that he could stand up and escape for his life at any time, which was much safer than sitting. In fact, it is a big taboo in the dangerous wilderness, after a long time, not only is it easy to lose blood and numbness in the feet, but also the knees are extremely bent, and if you want to stand up immediately, the muscles are difficult to exert for a while, resulting in stiff and slow movements when getting up. If you are in the wild, when you encounter danger, such a delay is enough to be fatal.
However, this is a refuge, the defense is strong, and there is no danger in a short time, Luo Yuan's thoughts flashed, and he didn't remind him.
To be honest, this man didn't give him a very good impression, not the kind of hostility that the other party showed when he met a love rival, after all, this is a normal phenomenon that every man will appear when he meets, and he is the same, but the severity or acting skills are different.
And this man is obviously different, the other party is not showing hostility under normal circumstances, but with a hint of deep malice.
It's a kind of intuition, a feeling that belongs to the spiritual plane.
The autumn wind has not moved the cicada, this kind of spiritual intuition exercised in countless life and death crises, ordinary people want to hide from him, it is simply a dream. One can train one's acting skills and wear a heavy mask to hide one's heart, so that one's performance looks flawless, but one can never fool one's heart.
It's just that he doesn't care about the malice of ordinary people.
"By the way, what about Cao Lin, didn't you inform her?" Luo Yuan swept around and asked Huang Jiahui with some surprise.
Wu Xiaoxiao's face was a little strange, and she thought to herself, listening to the name, it looks like another woman. Since she followed Luo Yuan all the way, she felt more and more that this high school classmate was full of mystery. These women, each of them doesn't seem to be ordinary people, not only with weapons in their hands, but also with different temperaments, without the slightest sense of feminine twisting, her movements are capable and neat, she doesn't know what's going on, and she always feels a little pressured in the face of them.
Although they seem to be sitting separately, they are vaguely centered on Luo Yuan, and a few of them are still quite intimate, almost close together, if there is nothing between them, she will not believe anything. I thought this was enough, but I didn't expect to hear another woman's name.
"I thought you forgot?" Huang Jiahui glanced at Luo Yuan with a smile: "Cao Lin and Huo Dong have already gotten along, he is the deputy director of the logistics department of the guard army, and he has already arranged the woman.
Facing Huang Jiahui's slightly playful gaze, Luo Yuan didn't react at all, there was no ghost in his heart, so he could naturally deal with it calmly, and said in surprise: "There is such a thing, I didn't listen to Huo Dong talk about it." ”
However, when he thought of Huo Dong's restrained appearance in front of him, and when he was in the wild, Cao Lin hinted at himself several times, which was almost tacit in the team, Luo Yuan also understood that Huo Dong was obviously afraid of his reaction.
He shook his head in his heart, he is not a lower-body animal, Cao Lin has a good appearance, and he is also smart, but his mind is too heavy, this kind of person can live very well before the end of the world or now, but it is obviously not the type he likes.
"By the way, listen to Huo Dong, there is a spare room here, and he will arrange one for us when the time comes." Huang Jiahui continued, seeing that Luo Yuan's face was as usual, she couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief. She was really afraid of Luo Yuan's reaction, so she deliberately teased in a playful tone.
Cao Lin and Huo Dong were still matched by her, if he found out the truth, and caused Luo Yuan's unhappiness, or even disgust and alienation, she really didn't know what to do in the future.
She is not as strong as she seems, her love is weak and submissive, on the weak side, she can acquiesce to Zhao Yali's existence, and let Wang Shishi develop, just to make herself look not so redundant.
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Xinjing, the capital of the reconstructed district!
Is this one? A young city that has only been established for a year and a half, it is now the largest city in the country, with a political center, an economic center, countless factories and dense scientific research institutions occupying almost two-thirds of the entire city.
The chimneys are as dense as the woods, spewing foul-smelling black smoke into the sky day and night, and the thick haze, like a gentle veil, envelops every corner of the city, and even the sunlight seems dim and misty in this case.
Xinhua Road, an ordinary road name, the street with this name before the end of the world, there are not 1,000 but 10,000. But nowadays, in the city, it has been given a unique meaning.
If Xinjing is the center of the country, then this is the heart. Almost all the central departments are stationed here, and the guards here are even tighter, the entire street, three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry, dozens of armored vehicles patrol back and forth, not to mention that a kilometer away is the most elite troops stationed in Beijing, coupled with a dense automated air defense network, even a mutated fly may not be able to fly through.
In a small, inconspicuous gray building in the center of the road, the guards here appear to be tighter. If it weren't for the large red and solemn characters of the wartime committee written on the plaque on it, I am afraid that no one would have imagined that this place is the highest center of power in the country today.
Since a few days ago, the atmosphere here has become extremely solemn.
It started a month ago, a researcher at the Institute of Geology, who occasionally noticed a strange thing, he found from the magnetometer that the earth's magnetic field had shifted by 8 degrees, and the magnetic field had also weakened by 12%.
If it is the end of the world, this is definitely a major event that will cause a sensation in the world, but when mankind is in danger and survives, such a thing will naturally be ignored.
The movement of the earth's tectonic plates, volcanic eruptions, large-scale nuclear explosions, and rising sea levels will all cause pole changes, and even several magnetic field reversals have occurred in the history of the earth.
And this time it's just a little bit bigger.
The advent of the end times made his nerves already exercise extremely thick, and he didn't pay attention to it, he just wrote down the results in a notebook and didn't care about it.
Ten days have passed, the subject he studied, has not improved, his thinking is like being blocked, let his brain ache, when he saw the inconspicuous magnetometer in the laboratory, he couldn't help but think of the measurement a few days ago, suddenly on a whim, subconsciously tested again, but the results made his face pale.
Deflection of 17 degrees, 21% reduction in magnetic field strength
In just ten days, there was a 9-degree offset, which happened almost for the first time in human history, he looked a little uneasy, and even thought that the last memory was wrong, he returned home in a daze, a night of insomnia, the next morning, he was groggy with his head, and measured again, 18 degrees, he was in his heart, and immediately realized the seriousness of the situation, he immediately reported to the research institute, and then the researcher reported to the central government, which quickly attracted great attention.
After several research institutes worked day and night, a more detailed report was delivered to the table of the wartime committee, and the conclusion was desperate, all the data indicated that the Earth's magnetic field was about to reverse, and that it was so fast that there was no time to react.
The consequences of magnetic field reversal are catastrophic, once there is a magnetic field reversal, first of all, the magnetic field strength weakens, and there will be 0 intensity. At that time, the "magnetic field" will temporarily disappear as a protective shield for the earth, the strong solar wind will "blow" the earth, the ozone layer will burst, and the fierce ultraviolet rays will no longer be blocked.
However, what is more serious is that the cosmic storm caused by the supernova explosion has not stopped until now, and has been wandering in the solar system without the protection of magnetic fields, which will cause even more terrible consequences.
But before that, the migration of mutated organisms caused by magnetic field disturbances had sounded the red alert in the reconstruction area.
Insects and birds are undoubtedly more sensitive to changes in the magnetic field than humans, and in fact, by the time the report was reported, satellite images had already detected mutations around the world.
A large number of insects and birds flock in flocks like crazy, rampage, these insect tides or bird tides are small for several square kilometers, large for hundreds or even tens of thousands of square kilometers, on the satellite screen, densely packed, almost forming a huge shadow.
The redevelopment area, unfortunately, is the path direction of one of the large insect infestations.
Prior to this, there were already several nuclear bombs, including a large-yield hydrogen bomb that fell into the insect tide, trying to intercept it halfway or let it change its path, but the effect was sparse, although most of the insect tide was killed, but because of this, the insect tide became more dispersed and wider, reaching an astonishing tens of thousands of square kilometers.
The nuclear attack stops!
It's not that I'm worried about over-firing nuclear bombs, which will lead to a nuclear winter. In fact, in the past year, more than 3,000 nuclear bombs have been launched around the world, with an average of 10 nuclear bombs detonated almost every day. If there is a state of mind, it is to drink to quench your thirst, after all, the situation is no worse than it. Some scientists also claim that a nuclear winter would have a positive effect on curbing global warming if radiation clouds were not taken into account.
However, the world has not cooled, and the radiation cloud has not appeared, and under the shroud of a huge number of plants with a total mass of tens of thousands of times more than the pre-apocalyptic world, the radiation is perfectly absorbed, and as for the mutation caused by the absorption of radiation, in a word, the situation will not be worse than it.
And the reason why the nuclear attack stopped, only to launch a nuclear bomb at this time is undoubtedly too wasteful, and the nuclear bomb is not a cabbage after all. China is also not the United States and Russia, with tens of thousands of stocks in stock.
China's total reserves are only a few hundred, coupled with the large territorial scope, a large number of nuclear bombs launched at the beginning of the last days, and the stocks have almost been exhausted.
Of course, with today's production capacity, it is not too difficult to manufacture nuclear bombs, and if we make full efforts, we can even build hundreds of bombs a year. However, the scarcity of uranium ore and the demand for uranium for electricity have made the production of nuclear bombs very limited today, and it has always been in a state of "zero stock".
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Tens of thousands of square kilometers of insect tide, is already a super-large insect tide, once it is close, the small half of the reconstruction area will be flooded with insect tide, the nascent human civilization will be hit hard again, the hard to accumulate results, will also be destroyed, now more than a dozen group armies, millions of soldiers have been a few days ago, from three directions to the battlefield.
War is on the verge of breaking out!