In the end, it didn't take long to find out what the scientist named Ivan was currently doing. As rumors have suggested, Ivan is indeed looking for investors to join his science program. After a short discussion, Zhaoli, Duofan, Lu Yuan, and Chade decided, according to the previous decision, to meet the scientist named Ivan first and see if the thing he was studying was worth the risk they had made. One day of the week after the burial of the son of Zhaoli. Early in the morning, after saying goodbye to their families, the four of them took advantage of the coolness of the morning to prepare to set off on the outskirts of the agreed city to find the scientist named Ivan. In order not to be noticed by the ill-intentioned, they chose a new place to gather and set off, of course, in the rubble of the section of the wall that had been abandoned due to the sharp decline in population. The dilapidated houses indicate that people with and without money have basically concentrated in the downtown area. If you have money, it's because it's safer to have police in the central area, and if you don't have money, because you can find a target even if you beg there, so it's inevitable that the house will be abandoned. They had been preparing for this trek for a long time, and of course, they thought they were well prepared. Two wide-tire six-wheel drive all-terrain vehicles, which were obtained many times from friends in geological exploration, one of them carried a water tank for vehicle fuel and domestic water, and the other carried hydrogen production and hydrogen liquefaction equipment for water electrolysis. In fact, they would have preferred to bring only a fuel transport vehicle and a manned vehicle that uses fuel as fuel, but many friends said that compared with the availability of water, fossil fuels are now difficult to find or buy in many places, and this is the experience they have gained from long-distance field work, so they have to give up. Although the process of electrolysis of hydrogen with water and re-liquefaction requires more equipment and is more complex, water is always easier to obtain than oil, which is the most practical need for long-distance journeys. After much thought: there was only one place name and direction to find Ivan, and he didn't know what the road conditions were like, and the distance to determine the amount of fuel was even more unclear, so he took his friend's advice after weighing it again and again. The weeds that grew in the crevices of the weathered ground had long since been dried out by the sun, and when they touched their toes, they were basically broken. Beneath the collapsed walls, between the windswept earth and the clutter of concrete, the sparse shrubs that grew were as dry and lifeless as weeds. They didn't let both trucks arrive at the same time, and a few minutes after the first hydrogen truck arrived, the water truck also stopped in a large area of rubble surrounded by a broken and collapsed wall. At this time, there was still some time before dawn, looking at the eastern sky, on the faintly discernible horizon, the color of the sky had begun to turn white, and the morning star was still radiating its light, and occasionally there were some small machine sounds, carried by the passing wind from a distant place into this piece of wall. As soon as the four of them gathered, they instructed everyone to begin to check the quantity and condition of all items and equipment. He took out a stack of papers: "I'll read the name, you move it down from the car, and then put it back when you're done." There was a pause: "Three hundred kilograms of multigrain bread, well!" This is a bit too much, so I won't move, this is what Lao Zhao and I prepared, and the amount of two months is only a lot more. Cured meat, four people are half a kilogram a day, a total of 30 kilograms, the amount is not much, but there are still 30 kilograms of soy protein, which can basically meet the demand for protein. The three people brought out the bags of cured meat and soy protein packaging. Many times: "Gain time, I'll hurry." Vitamins and medicines, three vitamins per person per day, a number of medicines for bruises, colds and fevers, etc., well! Lao Lu, just put it underground! Chad interjected: "I see that every crevice is stuffed with things, and it's not easy to find." Rolled his eyes many times: "Then take it out!" It's a big deal to count it and stuff it back! Then: "One raincoat and rain boot per person, one set of winter clothing per person, and one life jacket per person." Cha was impatient: "The water is all in the sea, and you still use a raincoat?" Zhao Li said angrily: "It's really lonely and unheard, don't you know that some places can kill people by drought now, and some places can drown people when it rains!" Our journey is so long, you know what kind of weather it will be" many times: "Old Zhao, don't pay attention to him." A sleeping bag per person, a bottle of sunscreen, two water purifiers are equipped under the pots and stoves for eating, one for machinery and equipment, one for people, one walkie-talkie with charger per person, four satellite navigators, and four paper maps. Come, turn on the walkie-talkie and try the same band call. Each turned on a walkie-talkie and tried to talk. Many times: "The coordinates of the satellite navigator are compared," several people did it many times: "Finally, check the radiation protection suit." He looked at everyone still dressed in casual clothes: "Put them all on!" Soon it will be dawn. Zhao Li took out four silvery-white, somewhat shiny garments from a large cloth pocket. I saw that there was a hat attached to the neck of the clothes, the hat could wrap the person's head and only show a face, and the ears of the hat were also connected with a protective cover with a dark color as transparent as glass with elastic fabric, and the bottom of the clothing was connected to the foot and neck, and what was even more strange was that there was a large bag on the back of the clothes. Zhao Li: "Two pieces were prepared for each person, and one was for spare. Chade pursed his lips and squinted his eyes to the ground looking at the so-called protective suit: "This is also too ugly!" It's a bit like a chemical defense soldier in a movie. Zhao Li squinted and glared at him: "This is a dress to prevent the sun from radiating to the human body, and it is not a fashion, so it should be so good-looking and useful." He said angrily: "Take it, put it on!" It's all wilderness along the way, and no woman looks at you, you still care about your image! Duofan and Lu Yuan both laughed, and Duofan: "The mask can be pulled down or pushed up." It is also equipped with a dialogue device, so it can be used as a backup in case of emergency. Its main function is not only to protect against radiation, but also to regulate the temperature inside your clothes. He seemed to have come to his senses, but he was actually looking for a step by himself: "Oh! With so many features, it's not bad! Several people laughed at him again. Zhao Li said to Chad: "I care so much about dressing today, and I have a girlfriend recently?" Chad: "How can I have a girlfriend!" Zhaoli said: "Yes, it's not that children can't fall in love, it's time to find a girl to take care of you." Chade: "Then you have to like it, what I like, she doesn't like me, she says I'm too distracted to be reliable, and she doesn't like me and she's not romantic enough." Zhao Li blinked and said: "The artist just has a lot of problems, and you like it, she likes it, don't you want to save up for decades and use it for everyone else, right?!" Duofan and Lu Yuan looked at Zhaoli at first, looking like they didn't understand, but they came to their senses after a while and began to laugh for a while. Zhao Li said seriously: "This is not good, if you really find one you like, she also likes you, just because she can't stand you, ah!" Your Colemon, yet, is going to leave you again! Cha De smiled indifferently: "Your colleague's assistant is good, I like it very much." Zhaoli: "Didn't I tell you that she has a boyfriend." Chad: "Not married?" Zhaoli: "Don't think about it, that girl is not a liberated type!" Cha got a hippie smile: "What years are it, I'm here, I'll help her emancipate her mind." Zhaoli: "What emancipate the mind, the mind is still emancipated by you?" Chad: "It's, hehe, that's it, you know." Zhao Li: "You just want to have fun!?" Cha De smiled and said, "Hehe, just kidding, don't take it seriously." He smiled many times and said: "I'm still thinking about playing now, when is it, if you settle down again, you will regret it in the future!" Zhao Li: "Not really! He looked at a few people back and forth, left and right, and waved his hand to the car: "Let's go when it's finished!" Zhaoli instructed loudly again: "The two of you have a car, and the walkie-talkie is on!" One after another, he replied: "Got it!" "They set out on a journey northwest. At the beginning, entering the open area on the far outskirts of the city, you can also see a few villagers and some pieces of constant temperature greenhouses (it is estimated that they are planted with crops), the further you go, the more scarce the villages and villagers, some villages in front of the house and behind the house, only floating soil and no traces of being trampled, from this judgment, where there may be no human beings. Whichever way you look, you can see either a few dead trees or dry, whitened shrubs and grasses around houses, flatlands, mountains and ravines. In the sky, the sun has been so hot since early in the morning that it can poison people, and there are thin clouds floating here and there. Sometimes, when you look at the distance from the ground, the twisted air distorted by transpiration distorts the shape of the mountains and dead vegetation in the distance. This poisonous sun seems to refuse to stop until it sucks up every drop of water on the ground and underground. During this period, you can occasionally see more or less groups of cars walking on the road, and the cars are basically full of household belongings of different heights and sizes. The four of them talked and came to the conclusion that these people are the so-called climate migrants. Sometimes they will see the bones of some animals on the side of the road - even if they seem to be human bones, the bones are more obvious under the fierce light, and whenever they see these white bones, they only glance at them and immediately look away, glad that they are not this fate, but it is difficult to say whether they will be like this in the future, no one can guarantee this. Sometimes you can also meet some hungry people, who are also dragging half their lives, or lying on the side of the road or sitting on the side of the road waiting for the alms of passers-by, at this time, the four of them are inevitably stimulated to distribute some food and drinking water to the hungry people. Among them, the begging eyes of the occasional nursery-taker can also make their tears roll in their eyes. Chad tearfully brought up the idea of taking these people with him, but they had special things to do, and for everyone's safety, the sober man stopped the move. In some of the above cases, none of these inconsistencies have been reported in any media. Leaving the city, away from the bright lights, singing and dancing, is like lifting the manhole cover of the sewer of a bar--- full of black water, like the floor of a gorgeous stage--- everywhere is dusty and dirty. The tragic scene unfolding in front of them will eventually be deeply rooted in the hearts of each of them, and it is difficult for anyone to say what they will become when they suddenly think of it later, and when they take it out in their minds. Climate migration - what if they move to the North Pole, to the South Pole? To escape the punishment of this climate disaster, it is easy to eat on the way, and it is enough to make do with it, because considering that water is used as fuel for both round-trips, so the space reserved for drinking water for people is a little tight, and what is even more exciting is that the water shops on the way are extremely scarce, even if you use money, it may not be able to solve the problem of drinking water. So the next day they changed their way and walked two hours before the sun set and two hours after the sun rose. It's been three days of walking, and it's been said many times that it may take about a few days to get to it. This is a small place that is not marked on the map, and he said that his friend told him that it is unusually remote, at the foot of a large continuous mountain, the environment is relatively harsh, and in front of the mountain, there is basically a vast area of the Gobi Desert. One day, shortly after crossing the ancient Mongolian plateau, they drove into a terrifying area that stretched as far as the eye could see. The ground here is densely scattered with the remains of trees that have been dead for a long time. A little attention will show that these wrecks are the work of drought, strong light, strong heat, and strong winds, and their size, some like piercing swords, some like animals with severed heads and limbs, some like unspeakable monsters, in short, although they are all strange shapes, they all have a uniform color, that is, the color of the dead bodies of trees, gray-white. Something like one, two, three, or four can still make people feel that they are not bad in the desolation, but they are a scenery at all, but so thousands of them can't see the edge of the line, which can't help but make people nervous and numb. If there is one more consolation in the hearts of the people, it is that the trees are still trying to stand up with a little effort after death, to resist the destruction of themselves by another force of nature, although the result is no difference between standing and falling. How could the four passing by not know the end result of this confrontation - only like the branches and leaves on their tops, finally merging into the lifeless soil, sand and dust of the land. And what about the space left - it can only be replaced by other substances, and this substitution is somewhat sad, and the sadness is not that an organism replaces the organism of the tree, but by an inorganic substance - this is the result. I still want to reproduce for generations! Animals, plants, and advanced animals, people, are all delusional, right!? The tires of the vehicle rolled through the dust and smoke, and on the right side of the car, it drifted to a height of twenty or thirty meters with the wind. The two parallel rows of ruts sink deep below the ground, and if they weren't driving a geology vehicle, I'm afraid the chassis would have been erected by the ridge in the middle of the ruts. After many times, he was well-read and explained to everyone: "This place may be Siberia in ancient times." Zhaoli: "It's not marked like that on the map?" How do you see that? Many times: "You don't need to look at the coordinates of the map, I can guess it." Now at this latitude, if you look at the remains of this endless primeval forest, I am sure that this is ancient Siberia hundreds of years ago. Why am I so sure? That's because I know that the primeval forests of ancient Siberia cover almost seven million square kilometers. Zhaoli: "So big?!" Duofan: "Yes! Isn't it? But look what it has become now. Ay! Iniquity! Zhao Li: "This really fulfills the sentence 'you can't live if you do your own evil'." "Repeatedly: "If I insist, I secretly found a map that indicated that there might be an abandoned asphalt road not far ahead, and when we got there, we might not walk so bumpy." Zhaoli: "That's great, it's so bumpy all day, I want to rest all the time, it's really annoying." "It was said that it would take a few days to arrive, but in fact, it took half a month for them to find a small place called Sun. It's close to the northern cold zone, which is divided by the climatic zone, so it's not too hot yet. Walking on the dusty road here, you can occasionally see green farmland in some places, and the farmland is divided into pieces by green trees and an earthen wall about two meters high. The trees and earthen walls must have been able to protect against wind and sand. In the open air without the cover of the greenhouse, green can be seen, which is something that several people did not expect, and when they first saw the first piece, they were not only surprised, but also drove to a closer place to watch. After much inquiry, Ivan's laboratory was in the Gobi Desert wasteland, which was farther away from him. It is estimated that it will only be a day's journey, which drives them not to rest during the day but to step up their journey. After another day's trek, and after asking questions and pointing on the road, just when the four of them were about to be a little discouraged, an old man came out of the shadows under a tall, half-dead tree. The four of them and the old man asked each other word by word, and the old man looked at the four of them vigorously in addition to the question and answer, so that for more than twenty minutes, the old man pointed in one direction: "There, just under the root of the mountain." Cha De was reluctant to say: "I talked for a long time, and I didn't say it early, and I said that everyone was thirsty!" He pulled the clothes he found many times and stopped: "Okay! Just tell it. Still unconvinced, he turned around and walked in the direction of the car. Zhao Li was still not at ease, and asked the old man, "Are there any other markings there?" The old man stared at his eyes with gray pupils, white and cloudy eyes, and some bloodshots, and wondered, "What mark?" Zhaoli: "It's different from other places, and it's also very eye-catching." The old man turned around and sat down on the stone covered with thick paper: "Look for yourself!" He pulled Zhaoli next to Lu Yuan many times, and said on the way to the car: "This time it should be the place." Zhaoli: "Why?" Many times: "Didn't you notice that this time asking for directions is different from before!" In the past, when we asked others, others sent us away with a word, but this old man, who has been talking to us for so long, the most important thing is that he also asked us where we came from, what we want to do, etc., if we don't get to the place soon, strangers will take care of this nossy business? Zhao Li blinked: "Well, I want to come and go, this has nothing to do with getting to the place where I am about to go." I think it's the old man who is afraid that we will do something bad for him, hey! I think it's probably because we're afraid we'll steal something from his house, so he asks questions like this! Today's society is so unstable, is he doing it for this? Many times: "You want to fork, it's not that simple." At this time, they had already arrived at the side of the car and said casually: "Get in the car." Zhao Li hurriedly said: "Hey! Tell me why? After many times, he said: "I guessed too, I guess it may be a spy arranged by them." Zhaoli: "Spy." Many times: "Don't be brainless, I'm just guessing, get in the car and go, you will know the place when you get there." "Under the bare cliffs on the side of the mountain, which are not too high, and which are not too high, I vaguely saw a courtyard with four or five adobe houses, could this be Ivan's laboratory? I can't believe it, it is estimated that the four of them are all skeptical in their hearts. No matter how tight the car is, it can't be impermeable, and if there are gaps, the mixture of air and dust will drill into the cab mercilessly. They looked at each other and laughed at each other's natives who had just crawled out of the ash pit, and then the four of them slapped each other, and within a few meters of it, the flying ash almost enveloped their bodies. Also because of fatigue driving and upside-down sleep, everyone is red and bloodshot all over their eyes. The adobe yard has no door and is an open opening. The four of them glanced inside and saw no one, and with puzzled eyes and expressions, they swaggered inside. Fortunately, there seems to be some popularity in the adobe house. Out came a tightly wrapped medium-sized, grim old man, a dry, wrinkled old man, who came out of the door of the adobe house to meet them. He was very polite, and directly invited the four of them into a small room in the middle of nowhere, and after the old man directly asked them about their origin and the introducer, he went out. The four of them found a place to sit down, and began to look inside the humble house. There is only one door to enter and exit, there are no windows, and the roof is made of three beams made of a tree trunk more than ten centimeters thick, and a layer of grass is densely laid between the beams, and it is unknown what material is on the grass. Under the two walls in the corner, there were two beds, simple and somewhat dirty sheets and bedding, and it was not necessary to guess that this was where the man slept. The only thing in it that is somewhat up to date is a snow-bright lamp hanging from the beam in the middle. Ten minutes later, a man in his fifties, with more than 1.9 meters of head, unkempt hair, and wrinkled clothes and pants, made people feel quite sloppy at first glance. Although his clothes looked uncomfortable, the brown eyes under the thick, somewhat pale eyebrows were full of energy, and there was a little kindness in his eyes that people of this age had. The beard on his face was not much, but it was seven or eight centimeters long—and it was as scruffy as some of the people he had seen along the way. Above his neck, except for the part of his face covered by hair, the exposed part, even from his chin to his neck, were covered with ravines of different depths. The mouth under the trembling beard trembled—and he said, "Hello, I've had a hard time, and I'm Dr. Ivan." A few people didn't seem to have recovered from the fatigue of the long journey, or they wanted to discern something from the actions of the visitor, so that they were still stunned when they heard the person introduce themselves. After many times, he came back to his senses and stretched out a hand: "Hello! Dr. Ivan, it's a pleasure to meet you! After introducing a few people around him to Ivan many times, they shook hands with each other and said hello. After a pause, Ivan added: "I have learned your background, and I know that you are all relatively reliable people, so I can come out to meet you, please understand-it would be terrible if the spy knew." I am here to thank you for coming! Zhao Li thought to himself about how this person was jumping around, and thought, it's a little strange that all geniuses are like this! Ivan: "You've worked hard all the way, so let's take a break for three or four days to get rid of the fatigue on the road, and during this time, I'll introduce you to some basic information before you visit the laboratory, right?" That way, you'll know whether or not to invest in me. As you have seen, the environment here is quite difficult, and I hope you can understand. Duo Fan said politely: "It's okay, we're not here to enjoy it, besides, it's many times better than what we saw and experienced along the way." Ivan: "Good! Good! Then rest first. If there is anything, tell this old gentleman. He pointed to the old man, and then said to the old man, "Arrange a room for them to rest, and other daily necessities, if they need it, you can prepare it for them!" With that, his cheeks tilted upward, and he nodded to everyone as if smiling, and then turned and went out.

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