Wild grow

Chapter 43

The first day was drizzle.

The average temperature of the earth is as low as minus forty degrees.

When everyone is temporarily relieved that the snow has finally stopped, only the employees of the base headquarters who know the truth are more and more silent. This is just because they know that the weather will not be as people thought. Just wait for the "rainy weather to clear" - after all, judging from the current situation, even if the rain stops, the sun will not come out, because the yellow dwarf star is already at a speed that eight horses can't pull back Ran away from the distance of [-] light-years from the earth.

Zhao Heng: "If the earth wants to catch up with the sun now, it may only be possible to install two legs of Liu Xiang in the Antarctic Circle, and then run wildly with strong legs."

Yucheng: "It's not enough just to have strong legs, I guess I need to install a small motor."

Yucheng: "Speaking of the Antarctic Circle, I heard from a colleague in the research department downstairs that when he went out this morning, his family's Alaskan sled was blowing on the heater in the dormitory, and his nose was freezing. It's the day in the Antarctic Circle, what's the situation in the Antarctic Circle?"

Zhao Heng dragged his laptop and entered a certain website to check, then raised his head and said blankly: "All kinds of penguins were officially declared extinct three hours ago."

Yucheng: "..."

Zhao Heng: "It didn't freeze to death. The ice was too thick for the penguins to dig open a hole to catch prey. Some of them dug a hole and jumped down to catch fish. When they came back after catching fish, they found that the ice was sealed again. Drowning alive is also possible - according to the data, the ice layer in Antarctica is now four times thicker than normal."

Yucheng opened the window and looked out, and randomly found that not only the Antarctic, but also the downstairs of the base headquarters had suffered. The rain melted the ice and then froze immediately. It turned into a huge block of ice. At this moment, the security team, led by the super soldiers, was wielding a shovel to clean up the ice accumulated at the entrance-this kind of ghost weather, ordinary human beings were so cold that their legs couldn't close together, but the super soldiers You can still talk and laugh, the red hair in the lead is wearing a black close-fitting black vest, his strong muscles are exposed to the air, his hair has been frozen into strands, and he himself didn't even frown .

Yucheng: "...Is there any Elfinu virus left? I beg one of you to give me a shot."

Zhao Heng: "Are you sick? The cold wind is blowing in. Close the window."

Yucheng retracted his head and slammed the window shut. A large lump of ice on the window fell downstairs due to the vibration. Yucheng was dumbfounded for a moment, afraid of hitting the people working downstairs. He just ran back to the window before he had time to bow his head. Looking down, I saw a burst of red light outside in the dark night, followed by the cheers of those super soldiers.

Yucheng put her face on the window and looked at it, just in time to see Lika put away the opened light tunnel, and at her feet was a piece of ice that fell to pieces - accidentally met her eyes, Yucheng Smiling and making an apologetic gesture, Lika also waved to him, then turned around and continued with snow shoveling.

Yucheng let out a long breath, patted the frost on his eyebrows, turned around, and stretched out his head. In less than 30 seconds, he already felt his head hurt from the cold, as if he had returned to the south of the motherland for a moment. In winter, feeling the malice brought by the damp and cold, he thought for a while and asked the man behind him: "Old Zhao, do you think there are still living animals and plants in the world now that the penguins are all extinct?"

Zhao Heng raised his head and glanced at Yucheng.

Before he had time to answer, an unhurried voice sounded from outside the door——

"Most animals died in the low temperature as early as three days ago. For example, the last bear was found dead in a hibernating sleep. Now the temperature outside is minus 45 degrees. Apart from humans, there are probably only humans left alive in the world. I'm going to fish in the deep sea." The door of the lounge was pushed open from the outside, Fushen walked in with a large box of materials, looked at Zhao Heng and Yucheng in the lounge, put down the materials, and paused Continued——

"The first floor of the headquarters has already received some people who have escaped from their homes. Most of them are because the heating system in their homes has failed, and the indoor temperature has dropped to minus [-] to [-] degrees. It is estimated that those who can support the headquarters are only young people. Some, most of it has been…”

"The death and injury statistics are being sent to us from various countries, and we can get a rough estimate tonight." Zhao Heng muttered, "What are you talking about hiding the end of the world? Anyone who is not stupid can guess what's going on in this situation Alright..."

"We can't blame the heating suppliers, they didn't expect that the heating system they made would have to face the end of the world one day." Yucheng shivered and tugged at the gloves on his hand, "Actually, I don't think the heating system in the headquarters can last long. , I decided to write a suicide note to myself while my hand was still moving—"

"When all human beings are dead, who will you leave your suicide note to?" Zhao Heng asked.

Yucheng thought for a while and seemed to think that what Zhao Heng said was right, so he stuffed his hands back into his pockets and continued to keep warm.

Fu Shen glanced at the indoor thermometer. With the heating equipment still working for the time being, the temperature at the base headquarters is now about ten degrees. The staff who were walking around wearing a sweater just a few days ago They also put on warm cotton clothes uniformly. If you guessed correctly, it is probably a matter of time before Yucheng said that "the heating system at the headquarters failed".

If at this time Zhao Heng took a look at the materials brought by God Fu, and after seeing the densely packed English report on it, he turned around and stuffed the materials to Yucheng: "Look at what it says?"

Yucheng: "Well, for one reason or another, the satellite communication technology is about to be paralyzed, and the last satellite that barely maintains normal work will be declared obsolete at [-]:[-] am tonight, which means that after that second, all countries in the world We fight each other for what we like, traffic depends on walking, and communication depends on shouting."

Zhao Heng put down the materials and thought for a while: "Has the news been released yet?"

"Not yet. I'm about to take it to the communication office on the first floor. I'll show it to you first." God Fu picked up the file again, "Now go get it to them."

"Let's go." Zhao Heng said with a frown.

Fushen held the folder and turned around, walked out of the lounge and went down to the first floor—compared with the upper floors, it barely maintained a calming temperature. The further you go down, the more you feel like you are rushing. A huge ice cellar. When walking from the safety stairs to the second floor, Fushen couldn't help but stop and wrap the scarf in his hand tightly. By the way, he turned on the personal heating device distributed by the headquarters to the staff, and looked at the The thermometer between the first floor and the second-floor jogging platform shows minus fifteen degrees here.

At this time, the heating equipment was still desperately blowing the wind, whether it was cold wind or warm wind. Fushen raised his hand and shook it at the air outlet, feeling a little bit of sensation in his frozen hand. Only then did he feel numbly: Oh, probably the heating equipment is still working normally.

When we got to the first floor, the thermometer showed minus 25 degrees.

This is still indoors.

Fushen held the folder and walked towards the communication office tremblingly. He glanced at the frost on the doorknob. He pursed his lips and turned around to push the door open with his body—there were probably more people inside the communication office than outside. It's not so cold—the fully armed staff wearing padded clothes with individual thermal equipment are walking around, and Fushen got in through a small gap squeezed out. Pull" a soft sound.

Fu Shen: "..."

He froze for a moment, and turned his head to find that part of his down jacket was stuck to the frozen door, and now the feathers were flying around.

Some staff members laughed, and Fushen took a closer look and found that under a certain layer of ice on the frozen door, there were already countless fragments of clothes proving that he was not the only one who did this.

"The information from the upper layers," Fushen said to the staff who came to greet him, "let me spread the information as soon as I receive it."

"Oh, that should be very important information." The staff member said listlessly, "My name is Jack, and I'm the person in charge of today's communications department. Damn bad luck, the temperature in the communications department was only minus fifteen degrees yesterday. It's my turn and it's turned into this bad temperature."

Fu Shen listened to his complaints and quietly followed behind him. Jack held the folder in one hand and poured himself a cup of hot coffee in a corner on the way to the work console. For coffee, he asked Fushen: "Would you like a cup? It can only keep the temperature for less than 1 minute at most. After 1 minute, it will become American crushed coffee ice, and after 30 seconds, it will be completely frozen into a lump." ice."

Fushen couldn't resist the steaming temptation, so he poured himself a cup with trembling hands, and the temperature from holding the cup in his palm made him feel warm all over his body.

Jack yawned, turned and walked over to the console.

Fushen held the coffee that was rapidly losing temperature and watched him sitting in front of the console, pressed a few buttons, and then seemed to be due to a problem with a certain system, he frowned slightly, picked up the The communicator was ready for warranty—but stopped when his hand was on the dialer.

This is because I was frozen and stupid, and I forgot the phone number of the maintenance department.Fushen stood by and thought blankly.

After a long time, when Jack was fixed in this position for almost more than 30 seconds, Fushen felt that something was wrong.

"Jack, it's said above, we must spread the news as soon as possible..." Fushen hesitantly stretched out his hand and patted Jack's shoulder, and then he heard a soft bang, and the cup filled with frozen coffee came out of the console. At the same time as he fell to the ground, Jack's body also fell straight from the seat.

Fu Shen froze in place.

He raised his hand and looked at his palm.

When human beings are in a low temperature environment, the body will slow down the metabolism. At the same time, the heartbeat, pulse and blood flow will be weakened. They may feel sleepy and tired, and then the heart rate will gradually decrease. , step by step towards death.

Fushen still remembers that Experimental No. [-] asked him a question: Do you remember what happened the last time the earth entered a frozen period?

The earth entered the Cambrian period about [-] million years ago. This era marked the beginning of the Phanerozoic era and was also the "age of abundant life". One hundred million years later, the earth entered the Ordovician period, because the activities of glaciers led to changes in climate and ocean levels. The Ordovician period ended with a large ice age, and this ice age directly led to the second mass extinction of life on earth.

If we say that the original Cambrian period is the earth before the beginning of the current ice age.

So now there is no doubt that the earth is already facing the third mass extinction.

——According to the data that is counted every day, it is true in real time. The data ahead shows that the only living creatures on the earth under the condition of absolute ice are human beings, some domestic cats and dogs, and deep-sea marine fish , other animals and plants are quietly extinct one by one in invisible places.

And human beings are also rapidly extinction.

Since the rain began to rain all over the world, tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of humans have been frozen to death in the severe cold every minute.

When Fushen saw these numbers for the first time, he felt a little shocking—however, when these numbers were constantly updated every day, the initial shock was gradually replaced by numbness, and the cold seemed to paralyze human nerves. One day, I stood next to the TV or the radio, listening to how many people were frozen to death outside, and then sighed, the earth is a pill.

Until the real death happened by my side—maybe it was a relative, a friend, or a neighbor who I met and greeted on weekdays—at this time, my numb heart became alive again, and I was driven to a desperate situation. Fear is awakened again, and people will start to think about a question: So death is so close to me.

For example, Fushen at this moment, and the staff who rushed up around him.

They surrounded him by calling Jack's name, Fushen silently pushed away from the crowd, he silently took out the internal communicator from his pocket and contacted the upstairs, "Hello", Zhao Heng over there After responding, he said slowly: "Something happened on the first floor."

Zhao Heng was stunned: "What?"

"A staff member froze to death at work, and everyone's mood is very unstable now." Fushen glanced at his colleagues around Jack, "Arrange a few messengers to come down. If this information is to be spread, let us know first." Citizens in the urban area, if you are not completely sure that you can walk from home to the headquarters base, don't try it blindly. You may live longer by staying in your own home, and then hurry up... Say goodbye to relatives and friends who are no longer around .”

Zhao Heng thought for a while, and said "Mmm". It didn't take long for Fushen to hear Zhao Heng's voice became blurred, and he seemed to turn around and say to Yucheng, "Where is my mobile phone, bring it, call my mother." A phone call is ready."

Fushen hung up the communicator.

Taking out the mobile phone that was about to become a piece of scrap iron, he thought for a while, then edited a text message and sent it to a certain mobile phone number that he remembered so badly——

【Mom, you have to hold on and wait for me to come back. 】

……

2078 1 Month 2 Day.

According to the information sent back from the front, dozens of countries near the equator, such as Indonesia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, and Congo, have become the most advanced areas where human beings have fallen due to national physical problems, and have become the most severely affected areas. Some countries have therefore Forced to declare its disintegration, even most of the refugees who survived fell on the way to the surrounding developed countries.

According to statistics at 2078:1 on January 2, 25, the total number of human victims in the world currently exceeds [-] billion, accounting for one-third of the total population of the earth.

This is also the last counting result of the number of human beings surviving on the earth in various countries around the world, but this result has not yet been released through various media channels, and the last working satellite has reached the end of its lifespan.

So far, human beings have returned to primitive society in terms of communication.

Perhaps even the primitive society is not as good, after all, even the pigeons that can fly pigeons to pass books are all dead.

January 2078, 1, at 2:30:[-] AM.

When everyone was waiting for the moment when the world was silent, the headquarters base in Washington, D.C. received a message from Bangalore at the last second. About 5 minutes ago, the second Alfinu energy crystal had appeared In the area.

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