December 31, 2023, Deep Sea. Deathly silence.

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A loud mechanical sound resounded at the bottom of the sea, breaking the previous silence. Countless gears worked, surrounding the iron wall in an empty sea in the darkness with a radius of nearly ten kilometers. The iron walls wrap around the huge cruise ship-like building, and the "X-Sea Shelter Center" is faintly engraved on it.

Suddenly, a burst of light emanated from the iron walls around the building. lit up the surroundings, but frightened a lot of cute little fish.

Since then, it has been declared that there are 99 percent of the oceans on the earth, and only one percent of the land remains.

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Human science and technology have developed so far, from artificial intelligence, 100% air purification, to the later non-mechanical industry, and now the oxygen ion generator. People's work has also shifted from machines replacing humans, to the industrial chain of synthesizing directly from molecules without equipment, to the recent news of the development of a way to breathe oxygen without relying on photosynthesis from trees. Electronic contact lenses in daily life plus in-ear door signal receivers can replace transparent mobile phones for global socialization. Video games have also completed 100% immersion, through the special game equipment to control the human body's light sleep brain waves to play, because light sleep does not seize the subject's consciousness, but also to avoid the risk of sudden death. The speed of technology is undeniably fast, but the end of it all came so suddenly.

At 0:00 tonight, the number of people known to have survived on Earth was less than a few thousand. For some reason, they are kept secret by the state to shelters in the deep sea, where food is said to last for hundreds of years. Sounds good, but if you're like Dong Han. The blue sky and white clouds that I have seen since I was a child have now become a luxury. Such feelings are inevitably poignant at a time when environmental protection was celebrated.

And the more important thing is that the first year of the Star Ocean Era has begun.

...

Dong Han recalled what happened in the past few days, although he was an orphan and didn't miss his parents so much, but he was sad for a long time because the orange cat Qiuqiu that he adopted at home didn't have time to take away. After all, Qiuqiu has accompanied Dong Han for nine springs, summers, autumns and winters. At the time of the incident, he was smoking a Chinese cigarette that was about to become extinct in the office window. Seeing the tsunami, which was almost hundreds of meters high, sweeping from a distance, breaking through countless high-rise buildings and making it difficult for him to react, he simply did not have time to react. I only heard the sound of the air defense siren, and I squeezed my colleagues and ran downstairs like crazy. Squeezed by the chaotic crowd, he fell left and right, and struggled to walk, making him swear words. Recalling that countless unmanned vehicles on the street were discarded, such a means of transportation is obviously useless in such a congested Nanyang City.

His legs didn't stop, and his mind was recalling the state secret project he had participated in after graduating two years ago, the marine stationing plan. After all, I am also a graduate student of Marine Biology University, and I relied on a little relationship with my mentor to squeeze into this place. Now he knows that only by escaping to the marine shelter in the South Seas can he have any hope of survival!

The route in my memory is not far, and it usually takes ten minutes to sit on the unmanned rail crossing. But today all traffic is paralyzed! Thinking of this, Dong Han sighed: "Now I can only do some hard work..."

Dong Han squatted down and pressed the blue button on the side of the two pairs of shoes. As if activated, a small miniature exhaust pipe rose from the back of the shoe. "The aerodynamics subject of the university graduation project, just try how you are!"

After speaking, he ran and got wind on the soles of his feet. The extremely aerodynamic running shoe converts the powerful wind into its own speed, and it may not take too long to run five kilometers at that speed. As far as Dong Han knew, the shelter had a total of seven entrances and three exits. However, he only knew about the nearest entrance, and that wasn't the top priority. He knew it in his heart.

Taking shortcuts and paths along the way, he rushed to the nearest shelter passage as the tsunami approached. This gate is very hidden, and ordinary people would not have thought that there would be such a big iron gate under the Nanyang Dam. The dam is located south of Nanyang City, and the tsunami is rapidly hitting from the east. He didn't want to be slapped by the huge waves.

However, the sanctuary is located 50 kilometers away from Nanyang City, and you have to pass through the door in front of you, and you still need to take a 30-minute high-speed strait tram under the sea to reach it. He was all too familiar with this place, and he used to sit twice a day during his internship.

"I hope my finger prints still work." Dong Han slapped a wall next to the door three times, and a piece of transparent glass protruded from it. The size of a fingertip was empty in the glass, and Dong Han immediately put his thumb into it.

Three seconds later, the screen shows that the fingerprint analysis is successful, and the gene does not match...

Dong Han was speechless for a while, in this high-tech era, why are the products still so unreliable. Thinking to himself, he stretched out his index finger again to match. Then there was a longer wait, anxious, but there was no way, there was no place to hide from the shipwreck. In recent years, there has been a frenzy of digging land, cutting down trees, and building tall buildings. Oil is sky-high, although no one will use it anymore. But over-exploitation, destruction, this day is going to come sooner or later, it's just that it's happening in my generation...

"Di ------" With a crisp sound, the screen is displayed: fingerprint matching successful, gene matching. ID:1000X。 Then the door slammed and slowly opened, and inside was a large empty factory. There are all kinds of red and blue shipping containers and large cranes, and no one uses these old antiques in this day and age.

It's still a familiar smell, and the abandoned Nanyang trading factory smells of disgusting dust. Although there are already air purification equipment in place, it is clear that no boss is willing to install a filter in a dilapidated factory like this, which has been shelved for 30 years. Dong Han skillfully walked to the gray container on the side and opened the passage hidden underneath. Looking down this passage, it was pitch black and bottomless.

At this time, the door to the shelter passage was slowly closing. Reluctantly, I glanced back at the sky, not knowing when I would see it.

Bang -------- door closed. Dong Han immediately got into the ladder and slowly moved down.

I don't know how long it took, maybe five minutes. Dong Han's feet stepped on a field, and an unmanned tram for four people was parked on the platform not far in front of him, as if it was always ready for him.

As before, after pressing the fingerprint, I got on this "doomsday" train. The electronic contact lens in front of me shows that the signal is very poor, and after a while, it becomes no signal.

I have to say that the speed of the unmanned tram is still very fast. When passing through the Strait Tunnel, Dong Han thought to himself about what thrilling things were happening to the people above, all of which had nothing to do with him, maybe because he had always been alone and lonely.

The walls of the Strait Tunnel are made of high-density, waterproof steel using light-reflecting technology, so he can clearly see his surroundings, which are pitch black except for the bright light emitted by his unmanned tram. Of course, this secret passage is also made of another one, unlike another public tunnel on the side of this tunnel, which is not made of such a transparent material, and it does not lead to the surrounding area, and it is not a passage to the shelter, perhaps a passage to the Oriental Islands. I guess it's already fallen.

In the distance, the dark shelter is like a giant whale, stopping in the deep sea. As the shelter in front of him got closer and closer, Dong Han became more and more strange. "Why are there no lights? Could it be that the power station has been paralyzed? This doubt was immediately dispelled by himself: "No way, the shelter has an independent power supply system, which is waterproof and shockproof, and there is almost no reason to stop it from working." Unless—" He wondered even more at the thought of this.

Could it be that someone shut down the power station, and I am afraid that there are only a handful of people who can have such a large amount of authority in their hands. It's just that a little person like Dong Han has never seen those leaders at all.

Hum ~~~ The unmanned tram finally stopped. It is now in the isolation window of the "X-Sea Shelter".

Dong Han immediately jumped out of the car, thinking happily in his heart, the tsunami disaster can be regarded as escaping, and he is considered to be blessed with great fate. After a while, I remembered the orange cat Qiuqiu at home and forgot about it! But now going back is undoubtedly a waste of all the previous efforts, and I don't know what happened on the ground, so it's too risky to do so. Mentally active, he thumped his head with his hand, trying not to think about it again. Go straight to the front window.

Outside the window, there is still a barrier made of transparent stainless steel, blocking the surrounding seawater. There's a big "3" written on the door, and yes, it's Entrance 3. There are a total of seven entrances here, due to the fact that the project was carried out in a state secret. Dong Han didn't know where the other six entrances were, and he didn't have the authority to ask. These are all done in secret, with a strict hierarchy, and once you do something that exceeds the limit, the consequences are unimaginable.

Standing in front of the entrance, there should have been a genetic scanner scanning from top to bottom. But there was no reaction at the door at the moment, which should also be related to the closure of the power station.

As soon as the power station was shut down, all the functions of the shelter were rendered useless. But why wasn't the unmanned tram he was riding in paralyzed? It's bizarre, it's not supposed to be.

But Dong Han still skillfully walked around to the right side of the entrance, where a mechanical lever was standing. The design is the traditional way to prevent high-tech from being paralyzed and inaccessible for some reason.

I pulled the lever hard, and found that it didn't move at all.

Dong Han is 1.83 meters tall, slim, thin and tall, with a capable back hair. Danfeng eyes, long eyelashes, and full lips are not particularly handsome, but the face shape of the awl still won praise from the girls. There is a black mole on the left side of the nose, which has little impact on the appearance. The only drawback is that the eye bags look a little old because they often stay up late and work overtime.

Dong Han continued to pull, and the whole person jumped up and pulled the pole. Slowly..... The lever moved down....

"I don't know what the hell it's like in there now."

After a hard tug, the entrance door opened slowly with a clatter.

However, at the moment when he had just stepped in, a strong light struck in front of him, accompanied by an incomparably stinging sound in his ears. Dong Han fainted...