Chapter 454: Ruins

The slanting sun shone through the broken corner, and Roach's eyes narrowed. They first saw an abandoned three-story building on the gravel road, followed by a second dilapidated building. As they climbed higher on the gentle slope, an abandoned city appeared in front of them. Abrupt and devoid of beauty, like a misshapen pearl in the center of the gravel booth.

The streets into the city are sloping and stretching upwards, and in the other part of the city there seem to be some skyscrapers, and some shadows can be seen in the distance. None of the buildings as far as the eye could see were intact, and most of them had collapsed. There is no glass in the windows, the façade of the building is long mottled and unrecognizable, and plants grow freely inside and outside the building, and it seems that it will not be long before nature will gain the upper hand here.

On the right side of the street, a number of rusty cars were haphazardly parked, and Rocky got closer to find some personal belongings in them. He reached out and grabbed a fluffy bunny from the back seat of a car, dirty and dusty, but still a fluffy bunny. He knocked on the roof of the car with his rabbit ears and threw out a miniature sandstorm.

He stared at the rabbit for a while, and suddenly gave it to Liu Ziyu, "I hunted a rabbit." ”

Liu Ziyu subconsciously took the plush toy and looked at Luo Qi's strange and enthusiastic eyes in confusion. "When you were with my senior brother, was it the same way? I mean, so relaxed? She looked around suspiciously, where the traces of humanity were all too obvious. The man who manipulated everything built a human city here? They put a human abandoned city into a sandbox? Figure what?

"You're kidding, aren't you? If he owes him so much in front of his eyes, he will beat me up. Rocky said, reaching into the car and pulling out a children's water bottle with a tiger motif. The year is very close, and I often seem to see children holding this thing. ”

"What's the point?" Liu Ziyu asked.

"In a calm situation, children generally don't let go of the stuffed toys they carry with them, and their parents don't let go of their water bottles. So if it's real, or if it's a parody of a real scene, then the people here are suddenly evacuated. Roach let go of his hand and threw the kettle back into the car, "By the way, are there any signs of radiation exceedance?" ”

"No, or the machine will ring again." Liu Ziyu said, she looked down at the rabbit and carefully placed it on the front hood of the car.

"Don't you think the pomp is a bit big?" Rocky asked, walking down the street, searching for all the cars. He vaguely recognized the brand of the car, but as a mage's child, he could only identify part of the model, and he couldn't tell the year.

"It's so big that it's far more than it makes sense." Liu Ziyu sighed and said, she had nothing to do, so she automatically followed Luo Qi's pace. "Unless they were going to pit a bunch of people here. To deal with scattered customers like the two of us, this is too costly. ”

Roach didn't speak, this is aimed at him here, it may not be a temporary idea, but a common routine. Or rather, he should revise his thoughts, this is not aimed at him, it is more likely to be aimed at a mind mage like him. A place where there is no people, no consciousness, so that the skills of the mind mage are completely useless.

But if this is the case, Du Zhengyi will not specifically remind him not to fully let go of his abilities.

"Under what circumstances would a human being abandon a city? I heard you're still an anthropologist? Anyway, that's how my senior brother explained it to the old pedant of Qionglin before. Liu Ziyu said on the side, pulling his attention back. Her eyes gave up speculation on the plausibility of the enemy's actions, which was an unsolvable puzzle for the time being, lacking parameters. So she turned to something else, looking around curiously, "I haven't seen the human city from this perspective yet. ”

Archy remembered that she was a lab kid raised by Qionglin, and unlike other mages, she was actually more isolated than other mages. However, Luo Qi thought that she actually had a mobile phone, using WeChat, which was much more fashionable than Du Zheng. She's not in the human world, but she seems more reasonable than the average mage, probably because of her intelligence.

He thought about Liu Ziyu's question, "Human beings will give up some villages because of the shrinking population, but they will never give up the cities. Every city has a complex reason for choosing a location, and even if there are frequent major earthquakes in that place, they will continue to rebuild on the same site. So far, there is only one possibility that humanity will abandon cities, and that is radioactive contamination. ”

"That's interesting." Liu Ziyu said with interest, and then continued to ask out of pure curiosity, "Then if human beings disappear from the city inexplicably like this, how many years will these relics they left behind?" ”

"Do you mean a reinforced concrete city?" Rocky asked.

"The kind of grand city, oh yes, it's a reinforced concrete city."

"A hundred years, two hundred years at most." Roach said.

"What? In the lifetime of a mage? Liu Ziyu asked in surprise, they were walking into the depths of the city, and the silent city poured dark shadows on them. I don't think so, the city is magnificent, isn't it? Many human cities are hundreds of years old, right? And it's not our mage who helps maintain it! ”

"We don't take care of it, but humans have their own magic. Without the magic of humans, the traces of their existence will soon disappear. They would constantly paint the steel of the bridge to prevent corrosion. They built water conservancy projects to prevent rivers and oceans from backing up, and built sewer systems to relieve waterlogging from rainfall. They also use various methods to inhibit plant growth and prevent the roots of the plants from propping up their houses, as you can see when the Highland Mage was almost killed by the plants. Roach couldn't help but smile, though the thought of that still made him feel extremely weird.

"Oh." Liu Ziyu understood, "That's right." It's not like I've never seen humans do these things, well, if you think about it, humans are busy repairing and maintaining all year round, I just didn't expect this. You're a bit special, and I'm guessing humans don't all realize that. ”

Luo Qi was in a trance when he heard this, and he suddenly realized that before Liu Ziyu asked, he didn't actually know that he hadn't paid attention to these things. But when she asked, he thought, and easily found the answer in his head. But he didn't know which head this answer came from, and too many people's memories were in his head. At the moment when his anchorage was unstable, the marginal parts of these "existences" began to blur somewhat ominously. 11