Chapter IV. The first outing after the end times. above
Time passed, and Yi Ling's experiments were carried out for several days.
Staying alone in a closed basement, there is no one to communicate with, and there is no information from the outside world, the only thing that can be confided is a few chickens in the corner that have not yet recovered from their senses, Yi Ling feels that his mentality has begun to slowly change, although he has repeatedly restrained, but the effect is not very ideal, if he does not make changes, Yi Ling feels that he will go crazy.
It seems that it is indeed time to come back with a little entertainment, and there is almost no entertainment in the basement except for growing mushrooms, raising chickens, and doing experiments.
Yi Ling planted several kinds of mushrooms, divided the cultivation areas for the mushrooms, and built a framework so that more mushrooms could be grown in a smaller space.
The surviving chickens were stimulated, and they still haven't eased up, laying very few eggs, and even less fertilized eggs, which can't help but make Yi Ling secretly scold the rooster who is not angry.
As for the research on mysterious bacteria, it can be regarded as some progress.
The composition of the mysterious fungus is very peculiar.
At first, Yi Ling was attracted by a large spor, which sprouted like a seed and grew a rhizome, like the aorta in the human body, which is an important structure for the fungus to transport energy substances.
The thick stem canals will split into tiny meridians, like tiny blood vessels separated from the aorta, which can transport nutrients to all parts of the body, and at the same time, the meridians can take root in the soil or any nutrient substance, so as to absorb nutrients.
The meridians can also grow a kind of slime, which contains a special thing that can obtain energy through photosynthesis, and these energy can allow the bacteria to multiply.
This is a very scary creature, they can survive in the water body, when in fresh water, the meridians of the fungus will be entangled and hang down into the water, like a hair, absorbing nutrients from the water, when in the seawater, the bacteria can also survive, but its meridians can not survive in the high salt water alone, can only float on the surface of the water like duckweed, and obtain nutrients through photosynthesis.
As for the infectivity of the bacteria, Yi Ling has no materials for experiments for the time being, but there are some conjectures.
The bacterium's ability to reproduce and parasitize through division is very weak, and those tiny meridians are rooted in the flesh and blood, and they will be directly destroyed by the immune system, and the really terrible ones are those spores......
After studying for a week, Yi Ling didn't figure out how the spores were produced, so he had to stop there, and there were more important things today.
It's been a week since the nuclear explosion, and now that the radiation should have dropped to the right range, it's time to take a look at the outside world.
Take a deep breath, excited, confused, hopeless, ...... Mixed emotions were running through his heart, Yi Ling didn't know what the outside world was, didn't know if the outside world was a mess, didn't know whether human society existed, everything was unknown.
People are emotional creatures, and they have been trying to go out for the first few days, but when they really want to go out, they start to suffer from gains and losses.
Yi Ling laughed at himself, put on his protective suit, took the key, and opened the last door after the disinfection of the quarantine area was completed......
With the opening of the civil air defense door, a ray of gloomy sunlight shone in, if that was sunlight.
The sky was obscured by thick black clouds, and the sunlight could not penetrate the terrifying radiation dust, although in the chemical protection suit, Yi Ling could feel the biting cold wind.
Nuclear Winter ......
Nuclear winter refers to the explosion of a large-yield nuclear bomb, the smoke and dust that are stirred up carry the radioactive dust into the sky, and the gas produced by combustion forms a layer of smoke cloud in the sky.
This layer of smoke clouds absorbs a lot of sunlight, causing the ground to be unable to reach sunlight, a large number of plants to die, and the temperature to drop dramatically.
Nuclear winters are theoretically going to get colder and colder, and I should have prepared in advance.
Yi Ling silently made a note in his heart, closed the civil air defense door heavily, and after a little camouflage, began to check his small treasure house one by one.
The eight underground storage rooms were all intact, but the stored items were damaged a lot, and the glass was broken, and Yi Ling cleaned it up for a long time.
After working hard for a long time, Yi Ling found his folding bicycle and officially started his first expedition.
Gloomy skies, cloud-obscuring clouds, charred dead wood, broken fields......
If this scene can be photographed and exhibited, maybe it will win a creative award or something, if there is an exhibition.
Riding a bicycle is like walking in hell, this strong sense of disparity makes Yi Ling feel uncomfortable, and occasionally passing by a few broken cars, the burned corpses in the car make Yi Ling almost vomit.
Hold back, hold back, don't spit in the chemical protective suit.
Yi Ling said to herself.
It may be that vomiting in a chemical protective suit is more disgusting than a corpse, Yi Ling stiffly restrained the desire to vomit, looking at the corpse in the car, Yi Ling felt that his heart was twitching.
The two people in the car, maybe husband and wife, maybe father and son, their figures I don't recognize, they may have despaired, maybe they have struggled, but under the destruction, human beings are so fragile.
Along the way, there are more and more corpses, from the nausea at the beginning, slowly starting to get used to it, fear, confusion, discomfort, and now becoming accustomed to it.
It has to be said that humans are extremely adaptable creatures.
Some people are killed by the high temperature and high pressure generated by the explosion, in this high temperature, people are actually not much different from paper, and a split second is enough to kill you.
There are also people who are killed by negative pressure and low oxygen, and they also die in a very short time after the explosion, and the pain should not be great.
And some people are quite miserable, I don't know whether they are lucky or unlucky, they survived the explosion of the nuclear bomb, the explosion did not kill them, the heat did not kill them, but the radiation from the explosion will not sympathize with them.
Intracranial hemorrhage, bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract, damage to the nerve center, death within a few hours, this is the most severe, slightly milder, vomiting blood, coughing up blood, massive weakening of the organs, death within one to two weeks.
Even in the modern era of advanced medical technology, there is still no good treatment for this radiation disease, and in the end it can only die painfully.
Looking at the hideous, terrifying corpse with a face full of sarcoma, Yi Ling stood silently and bowed slightly.
Stranger, go all the way, and may Heaven be free from pain.
The town is not too far away, and it took more than ten minutes to reach the entrance of the township, and looking at the scene of the tragic car accident, it is not difficult to imagine what happened here.
Getting the news that the nuclear bomb was about to explode, the townspeople went completely crazy, driving on a rampage to escape the town, human society lost order, people thought about their own priority, and the result was this tragic car accident, rear-end collision, rear-end collision, serial rear-end collision......
The drivers of the first few cars died in the crash without even seeing the nuclear explosion.
Yi Ling pushed the car around the blocked main road, and glanced at several supermarkets on the side.
The glass has all been shattered, and there is no goods left, and his eyes turned to the scene of the car accident, those goods should be in these cars, but these things should be described as dirty things more reliable, after all, I can think of it with my ass, and the owner must not have paid for these goods.
With the last glimmer of hope, Yi Ling still went to check the container, and as expected, it was clean and clean, leaving nothing behind.
This kind of store must have no warehouse, and the goods are pulled by trucks and put directly on the shelves, unlike large supermarkets that have special warehouses to store things.
Although it was said that if you searched carefully, you could find the materials, but after all, the time was limited, and there was no time to search slowly, so Yi Ling went directly to the most important target point.
The wholesale farmer's market is in the center of town, which is one of the bulk cargo distribution centers, and the scene here is particularly tragic.
Several large trucks collided together, one of which pushed nearly ten meters on top of another truck, leaving a long black mark on the ground, and several small trucks around were almost broken into slag, and it is estimated that the driver walked without pain.
Looking at the scene in front of him, a picture appeared in Yi Ling's mind.
Two large trucks and several small cars competed for entry and exit, the big truck was full of goods and wanted to go out, the small car wanted to come in to get supplies, no one let anyone, and then the two sides collided and had a car accident, at this time both sides should still have the final bottom line, and at this moment, a crazy big truck broke the deadlock.
Yes, breaking in a physical sense, the truck crashed directly into the scene of the accident, and several cars blocking the door were torn and torn in an instant, and the front of the big truck in front was also smashed, and the driver died on the spot.
Ay...... Damn natural and man-made disasters......
Yi Ling sighed, stood up and looked at the truck bed, the tarpaulin had disappeared in the heat, and the contents of the truck were in full view.
A cart of rice...... Unfortunately, I can't eat it......
Yi Ling looked at the other two trucks, which were also loaded with food, and they couldn't eat it.
Forget it, it's expected.
Keep going inside, the more you go, the more chaotic it becomes.
Rotting vegetables scattered everywhere, electric tricycles that were overturned on the side of the stalls, cars that crashed into cement stalls, and mutilated corpses everywhere, as if you could smell a putrid smell through the chemical protective suits.
It's already commonplace......
Cautiously stepping past a corpse, Yi Ling finally saw the first tractor that seemed to be functional.
This tractor is parked next to the temporary stall, and it should be loaded with vegetables and sold directly as a simple stall, but the end is coming......
Yi Ling glanced around, and his eyes focused on a corpse lying on his side on the side.
The nuclear explosion is approaching, and the stall owner wants to protect his cart of vegetables, but is overturned by the raging crowd, and the vegetables on the cart are swept away, leaving only the fainting boss, waiting for the end to come in his sleep.