The city officials were a little surprised. Meeting such a strange person in such an early morning was already full of weirdness.
However, at this moment, they had more serious and heavy things to do and had no time to take care of this strange oriental man.
"Please get out of the way."
"good."
Cheng Lin walked to the street and stood under a black street lamp with a white lampshade.
I watched the city officials move forward quietly. Occasionally when they encountered a car blocking the road, someone would step forward to check. Then a dull, frightened, yet forced and calm voice would be heard: "Here! He died again.
one!"
"There's this one too! There's also one!"
"Oh my god, they're dead, they're all dead! What happened?"
"Shut up! Don't move, our job is to clear the snow!"
Where have the city officials seen so many deaths? Almost all of them were panicked. Only a few could still control themselves and command. However, their trembling voices also revealed their inner anxiety and fear.
die.
Death is everywhere.
Such a big city is filled with deathly depression!
…
"Rumble..."
The snow plow continued forward, pushing away the knee-deep snow. The snow was so heavy that many people had never seen such heavy snow since they were born.
Cheng Lin stood quietly on the side of the road, raised his head, and glanced at the dark sky. There were still snowflakes dancing, but the momentum was much smaller. At this moment, he realized that this time, the world was facing a sudden drop in temperature and a snowstorm.
.
"It's just... I don't know how serious it will be."
"According to the procedures, last night's cold wave covered the whole world. In other words, this is not just a disaster in one city or one place."
"There may be more people dying of cold than I expected. How many are there? Tens of millions, hundreds of millions?"
Cheng Lin was thinking, and at this time, information appeared in his mind again.
[You stand on the side of the road, staring quietly at the dead city. The snowstorm last night took away hundreds of millions of lives around the world. However, at this moment, people have not yet reacted. Most of the survivors do not know this catastrophic news.
, However, very soon, maybe in the next second, maybe it has already begun, the number of people who died last night will become explosive news, shocking the whole world, causing global shock]
[This is a huge disaster that humans have never seen in hundreds of years. You feel uneasy in your heart. You decide to buy a cup of hot coffee to warm your body. Unfortunately, all the coffee shops near you are closed. Fortunately, there is one not far away.
The supermarket has just opened and can meet your basic requirements]
At the same time, Cheng Lin felt something was in his pocket. He took it out and looked at it. It was a five-euro note. It was a gray paper with a Greek-style classical building on the front and the Pont du Gard on the north.
Cheng Lin looked at the note for a few seconds, as if thinking about something, but after a moment he just sighed quietly.
He raised his head and saw a familiar translucent guide cursor appeared on the ground. He followed the guide and walked a block along the cursor, and saw a small supermarket with a red horizontal background and white letters.
Can't recognize the brand.
The front of the supermarket seems to have been cleaned and the door wiped, but the surface is still covered with a thin layer of frost.
When I opened the door, the indoor lights were on and the temperature was very low. Even if the heating equipment was turned on, it was still very cold. There was a middle-aged woman in front of the counter wearing a thick down jacket and was rubbing her hands. In front of her, there was a middle-aged woman.
The man with slightly bald hair is wearing blue-black clothes, a thick scarf and glasses. He has a serious expression and looks like a scholar or lawyer.
"The situation is very bad, prepare for the worst," he said.
The middle-aged woman rubbed her hands: "Of course, I heard that someone froze to death last night."
"It doesn't seem like it, it just is."
"Oh my God, why did this happen? Mr. Durand, the weather forecast did not mention that there would be such a serious drop in temperature last night!" The middle-aged lady looked a little excited.
Mr. Durand heard this with a sullen face, took the cup of hot coffee that had just been brewed, and said, "Maybe it's not just a simple climate reason."
At this time, the middle-aged woman saw Cheng Lin and was a little surprised. She asked in English: "What do you want to order?"
Cheng Lin responded in pure French: "A cup of hot coffee, thank you."
As he said that, he handed over the banknote.
While the woman was brewing, he turned to look at Durand, "You seem to know something?"
Durand looked at Cheng Lin. Foreign tourists often came to this city, and Easterners were not uncommon, but Cheng Lin still gave him a very strange, even weird feeling.
"People from Xia country?"
"Yes, I just heard you say that this is not a simple climate reason?"
Durand pondered for two seconds and said, "It's just a guess."
"Appreciate further details."
"Do you know the snowball hypothesis?" Durand said a strange word.
Cheng Lin shook his head, indicating that he was not sure.
Durand was not surprised. He seemed to simply want to find someone to talk to. At such a moment, talking could relieve his inner tension and fear:
"That is a scientific hypothesis put forward by the geological community, mainly to explain the Neoproterozoic glacial relics that have been discovered around the world."
"About 635 million years ago, during the Neozoic period, there seemed to have been a global freezing phenomenon on the earth. The entire world's oceans and land were frozen, and the entire earth became an ice ball completely covered with ice and snow.
Internationally it is called the Malino Ice Age, and in your country it is also called the Nantuo Ice Age.
There are many hypotheses for this in the geological community. In 1992, Kosch Weink, a geology professor at Caltech, first used the term "Snowball Earth", or the Snowball Earth hypothesis. Since then, it has also been included in
Support from colleagues such as Harvard University geology professor Hoffman."
"It is speculated that global freezing times similar to Snowball Earth have occurred three times in history, so..."
Durand suddenly stopped talking and just took a sip of coffee.
Cheng Lin looked at him unexpectedly: "No way, this is too sudden. What evidence is there?"
Durand shook his head with a heavy expression: "There is no evidence, but I always think about the worst. I hope I think too much. Maybe tomorrow, the temperature will slowly rise and everything will become normal."
Well, then your hopes may be in vain...
Cheng Lin thought to himself, took his hot coffee, took a sip, and watched Durand turn around and open the door and walk into the cold street.
After he left, Cheng Lin looked at the middle-aged woman: "That Mr. Durand just told me a wonderful theory. Do you know what he does? A scholar? Or a university professor?"
Unexpectedly, the middle-aged woman was startled when she heard this and said, "He...he is a veterinarian."
"……Thanks, bye."
Cheng Lin pursed his lips and opened the door to leave the supermarket. The moment he opened the door, the warm coffee in his hand quickly cooled down, crackled, and froze, causing cracks in the paper cup.
Throw it carelessly in a snow-covered trash can on the side of the road.
Cheng Lin looked around and found that there were more people on the street.
[You come out of the supermarket and quietly listen to the city in the early morning. The heavy snow hinders the transmission of sound, but you still find that the city is slowly becoming noisy uncontrollably.
A piercing scream came from somewhere, probably because a woman accidentally encountered a frozen corpse.
From a certain corner, miserable and desperate cries came from people who came out to look for their relatives and friends.
Tears blurred their eyes, but soon froze, the snowplows rumbled to full speed, and the municipal government began to clean up the semi-paralyzed city]
[More and more people know what happened last night. The number of deaths has increased at a terrifying and chilling speed. The city's police stations have been surrounded by people, and major hospitals are full of patients with severe frostbite.
patient.
Behind the cloudy sky, the faint sunshine splashed down without any warmth. The whole city and the whole world were recovering. No one knew what happened. Countries blamed the incident on unexpected natural disasters and were busy trying to appease the turbulent people.
society.
However... the situation will not get better as people hope, but will continue to get worse]
Cheng Lin stood silently, and suddenly the surrounding scenery suddenly blurred and changed. When it became clear again, he had arrived at another street.
He turned around and saw a city public display screen next to him light up.
Not long ago, this screen was scrolling with blessings from couples about true love.
But at this moment, there was only a scarlet, eye-catching exclamation mark.
There is also a line of small letters at the bottom:
"Highest level, global disaster warning!". Mobile version website: m.