Jiang Luochen's hometown, September 10, 2022

Dust doesn't want to die, in other words, normal people don't want to die.

The traditional quantum ghost refers to the person who is quantized, and the life and death of the quantum person are in a superimposed state, that is, uncertain, but I don't know why, Jiang Luochen can make himself determine the [living] state.

Now that this kind of science fiction thing is on his head, he doesn't know whether the reality is science or fantasy.

He has two of his biggest obsessions: finding his kind and going home.

After becoming a quantum ghost, he is no longer bound by mundane things (food, physical attacks), in other words, the current world can no longer kill him.

……

Since the Great Impact struck, it has rained heavily.

According to the diameter of this comet, although it is not enough to directly destroy the ecology of the earth, it is enough to cause big changes.

Dust will block out the sun, and ice age is coming.

The eruption of blazing lava has reborn the landscape from destruction, and when their fury washes away, the continent will be a different place.

……

The United States, once the world's number one superpower, is now at rest, like all other nations.

When the comet came, there was no warning, and everyone was unprepared.

Before death came, countries that could afford it were in a near-death struggle: bombarding comets with missiles.

At that time, the earth was trembling, and one after another, intercontinental missiles that had been prepared to deter their own kind came out of the deep mountains, from the hidden bottom of the sea, and crashed into the comet with a long flame tail.

For a time, the flame of the missile and the strong light produced by the friction between the comet fragments and the earth's atmosphere came and went, and the night was like day.

Of course, it was a near-death struggle, and such a scattered blow was just an addition of fragments to this giant thing.

Destruction is a given......

In the United States, for example, the narrow Rocky Mountains were cut apart by comet streams.

The Great Plains of the central United States are dug into a smashing crater that is almost like the "Great Plains of the Moon".

Then a worldwide tsunami swept through the country with rage, as if to wash away all the sins of the land.

When the tsunami recedes, what will be left behind?

The survivors are miserable, the darkness lasts for months, the cold, the disease, the hunger, either of which can easily kill the vast majority of the remaining life.

Reduce, reduce......

"Survival" is reserved for those who are prepared, and those in the man-made hidden corners deep underground have survived.

These places are generally classified military facilities, or scientific research sites.

......

Jiang Luochen came to a certain ruin, and he walked aimlessly.

The mud of the wasteland boiled in the rain pile, and the dead gray tones obscured the view.

The distorted houses have no shape, and only sporadic abstract shells remain.

At this time, he seemed to hear something.

Almost heaven， West Virginia...

Paradise, West Virginia

......

..... Ridge Mountain

Shenandoah ....

... Ridge Mountains, Xanadu...

Life is old there，Older than the trees

Ancient life, older than the age of the tree

The song trembled unsteadily like the light of a dying candle.

It was as if it was covered with something thick.

It's like from... Coming out of the ground.

Jiang Luochen groped, looking for the location of the sound source.

Found it, it was a scorched earth in the ruins, mixed with stagnant water and muddy mud.

Jiang Luochen wore it.

It turned out to be a basement, or rather a shelter.

There was only dim light in the basement, kerosene lamps.

An old man sat on the leather couch in the corner, his old face emphasised by a dim shadow, half of which was buried in darkness.

There was an old-fashioned vinyl record player on the table next to it, and the song was apparently coming from there.

Jiang Luochen had turned into a collapsed state, because this old man was an observer.

This was the first living person Jiang Luochen had seen, but the excitement of the expected seed did not come.

Or did he decide to show up, maybe scaring the old man? Maybe it doesn't matter anymore.

Jiang Luochen observed himself, canceling out the old man's observation.

The old man still lowered his head, and did not notice Jiang Luochen's arrival.

Jiang Luochen walked up to him silently and sat down on the sofa next to him.

The sound of cortical friction made the old man notice Jiang Luochen.

The two looked at each other, and the old man's eyes were full of despair and tears.

He said in a hoarse voice, "Are you here to take me away?" ”

Jiang Luochen didn't react for a while.

The main theme of the music sounds.

Younger than the mountains，Growing like a breeze

It is younger than the mountains and grows slowly like the wind

Country roads， take me home

Country road, take me home

To the place I belong

Take me back to my roots

The old man continued, "Take me home. ”

Jiang Luochen: "Where?" ”

The old man didn't speak again, he pulled out a needle out of nowhere, and the silver tip of the needle shone with a cold light.

The old man pumped 35ml of air, and then coldly stabbed himself in the neck.

The needle fell, and the old man's hand naturally drooped, and he stopped breathing after a while.

Air embolism in the cerebral blood vessels of the elderly will cause necrosis of the respiratory center and respiratory arrest.

Jiang Luochen stared blankly at the scene that happened in front of him, the world before and after only a dozen seconds.