Chapter 63: Secret

The enemy, the enemy that no one knows.

"They" came with an irresistible catastrophe that destroyed an old world, but did not create a new one.

Hundreds of years later, only a few people who don't know what happened before are left in this land, living in ignorance.

I don't know when it started, but it was already dawn.

In the sky, the sun was like an orange-red coal, but with a bit of cold light, a slightly distorted light rose on the earth.

An indiscernible mass appeared on the distant horizon, and its appearance was only a stationary black dot in this empty world.

After just a few minutes, the "black dot" gradually moved, and as the distance closed, its appearance became more and more distinct.

It's a unique fleet that is almost non-existent in the wasteland world.

A second-hand pickup truck begins with four large trucks that look like they have just been painted yellow, stirring up dust and exhaust fumes in this land where winter has already fallen.

This combination is extremely "special" in the wasteland, so special that the old man Li, who has lived for hundreds of years in this train fleet, can't figure out where these things come from.

Cars, the current wasteland simply cannot produce such a thing.

This has two implications: one is that almost 99.9% of the current wasteland's technical and industrial facilities were destroyed in an instant by the catastrophe that destroyed the world, and it was impossible to produce at all.

The second is that even if there are complete technical and industrial facilities in the wasteland, it is impossible to produce such a backward means of transportation.

This kind of tool, Old Man Li has only seen it once in the industrial history books that have been preserved for thousands of years in the electronic library, and it is a super antique in the historical records.

But now, this leader of Shen Sen doesn't know where he got so many transport vehicles with a history of "thousands of years", and he can still run.

Weird, weird!

Old man Li retracted his gaze in the rearview mirror and looked at the leader of Shen Sen who was sitting beside him, the doubt in his eyes was undisguised, and it was almost overflowing.

But Shen Sen, who obviously felt the gaze from the side, pretended not to know at the moment, and directly ignored the depressed old man Li.

His telecasts had limited influence on the old man for a while, but Shen Sen wanted the old man to work for him loyally.

If you don't open your mouth, you want to prostitute your own information for nothing, how can there be such a cheap thing.

If it weren't for the fact that Old Man Li was old and a rare antique-level scientist, and he himself was a good person who respected the old and loved the young.

According to usual, in this case, Shen Sen had already instructed Zhang Ting to give this old man a set of chili water and tiger chairs, and if he was reluctant, he had to be reluctant.

Now, he is not in a hurry, he has much more chips in his hands than this old man, and sooner or later, he will become extremely loyal.

"Sir, why don't you let me drive for you, and you can take a break. There is a reason for subordinates to sit and let you drive, sir. ”

Zhang Ting, who was sitting in the back seat, seemed to hesitate for a long time, and then finally couldn't help it, and asked in shame.

"It's okay, you just learned to drive not long ago, and you're still a new driver, I'm driving fast!"

"Later, when the rest is time, you can take my place."

Shen Sen stared at the endless yellow earth in front of him, and said without looking back.

Although, until now, Shen Sen is just a "rookie" who has not passed the third department.

But here, there is no speed limit, there are no traffic lights, and there are only a few cars on the vast land, and they are not afraid of hitting people at all.

In just half a day, he has become an old driver.

The pickup truck of the extremely fast Mercedes-Benz drove straight in one direction, and the road ahead was almost empty, with an unobstructed view.

But apart from the gravel and a few dry thorns scattered around, it was a barren scene, and there was not a speck of green.

Without a car before, Shen Sen spent nearly a month exploring the surrounding boundaries within a radius of thousands of kilometers.

However, the surroundings of the camp at that time were almost the same as the picture seen now, and it was also so desolate and lifeless.

At the time, he thought it was just the geography of his area, but now it seems like the whole world.

"Mr. Li, the environment of this planet is so harsh that there is almost no grass, why did you choose such a place to build a city at that time?"

Shen Sen drove the car, but threw his questions to the old man Li who was sitting aside.

To be honest, he was very curious about this question, because in his lifetime, Shen Sen had never seen humans establish cities in outer space, and he didn't know if there were many planets in the universe like Earth.

A man's romance is a sea of stars, but the journey of mankind is a sea of stars.

Hanging high above Shen Sen's head, the vast, mysterious and unknown universe is like a gene rooted in his DNA.

It makes him curious, and it makes him impulsive, if there is a chance to get a glimpse of the secrets of the universe, he will definitely not let it go.

"Hmmm......"

Old man Li lowered his head and pondered for a moment, at this moment, the old man seemed to instantly become a scientist full of awe of the universe, and replied in a leisurely tone.

"Leader Shen Sen doesn't know, for us, if we can find a perfect habitable star, it will definitely be a great luck."

"A perfectly habitable planet with almost all the resources needed for a creature like ours, such as water, soil, minerals, and an intact ecology.

As long as you find such a planet, it means that you have solved the problem of 99% of survival, and the difficulties encountered in building a city on such a planet are simply not worth mentioning. ”

"However, you must know that such a planet is very precious, and among the millions of stars, there may only be one or two such habitable planets, and you still need to have a chance to find them.

Most of the stars in the galaxy only meet some of these conditions, and if they want to survive and develop on such a planet and build a city, they need to be greatly transformed. ”

Old man Li seemed to have fallen into a long time of memories again, and his tone was full of emotion and gloom.

"And when we decided to settle down, we heard from our Joint Conference of the Wise Men that our group had been floating in space for hundreds of years.

However, it may be because I was born on this ship, or maybe it is because I am only a teenager who has lived less than forty years, and I have never felt anything wrong.

But the longest-lived engineers have lived on a giant city-like spaceship for almost two hundred years.

One day, when they get tired of this feeling, it seems that some invisible mental illness erupts on the spaceship.

In order to completely solve this problem, the Joint Council of the Wise Men decided to find a planet suitable for our survival and settle down. ”

Speaking of this, Old Man Li smiled helplessly.

"We won't be able to find the perfect habitable planet for a while, but a planet with a lot of minerals, a barren but a small amount of soil, and a not so small ocean is also very good for us."

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