The public screen on the roadside made a fine sound of electricity, and Cheng Lin seemed to be able to hear the sound of the circuit inside the screen breaking.
The temperature dropped sharply and a cold wind blew. Except for the place where he stood, the rest of the city background became blurred. A new round of snowstorm enveloped the land. The sky seemed to be dim and it was night, and then turned to day again.
"Click..."
In the extremely cold low temperature, the screen finally cracked under the load, turned black, and was completely damaged. However, immediately after, a strange scene appeared. The damaged display screen was suddenly covered with a layer of light, and a new image appeared on it.
pattern.
It was a figure of a rotating earth. The originally aqua blue planet seemed to be covered with white gauze at this moment, looking particularly lonely and spinning quietly.
[You can touch it tentatively]
Following the reminder of the information in his mind, Cheng Lin stretched out his hand and gently dragged the earth, and it started to rotate. Cheng Lin casually clicked on the direction, and it quickly expanded, and the perspective was zoomed in from the endless sky.
That's a city.
It seemed to be within the federal territory. There were huge English fonts on the frozen billboards in the picture. Cheng Lin even saw a few Marvel posters posted on the surface of the building. The superheroes were torn apart by the storm and damaged in many places.
The densely packed skyscrapers with dozens of floors turned into icicles, and their surfaces were covered with frost. The pavement on the streets was cleaned again and again, but the effect was low.
The scene is silent, but you can see many people and vehicles. They are people who came out to provide disaster relief. Most of them wore extremely thick clothes and were working hard to make repairs during the day when the temperature was relatively "highest".
There are also a few whose clothes are relatively thin, and they should be the practitioners of the Federation.
Someone seemed to be shouting, someone was directing.
Cheng Lin saw the rescuers rescue a fat man covered in blood from a collapsed building. However, as soon as he was lifted out, the blood in his body quickly froze and he was lifeless.
It was full of sadness, everyone was wrapped up tightly, and no expressions could be seen.
Storms and snowstorms have caused many houses to collapse. In such low temperatures, crying is a luxury. Without enough ability to withstand the cold, if you are exposed outdoors for a little longer during the day, your limbs will become numb, unable to move, and then you will freeze to death.
Not to mention the nights when the temperature is even lower. When night falls and the storm blows, except for a very small number of powerful practitioners, no one dares to leave the building. Even so, countless people still die every day.
Cheng Lin flipped the screen again and switched to Australia.
At this time, it should be autumn and summer, the warmest and hottest time here.
The vast land is covered with green trees and green grassland, but now, in the picture, this warm land is also covered by a snowstorm.
The global blizzards are so unreasonable. The cold wave destroyed the cities. The cities that lacked preparations for the cold were wailing and there were countless casualties. The cities had entered a state of emergency. The surviving people were rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find thick clothing to withstand the cold.
cold.
But it had little effect.
The surface of the earth is getting colder and colder.
Cheng Lin continued to rotate the earth at will, switching to different places. He thought he could see different scenery, but he was disappointed.
No matter where he clicked, as long as it was an inhabited place, there was only the common theme of disaster relief and sorrow.
After fiddling with it a few times, he took his hand back tiredly.
As a result, different images began to flash on the screen rapidly.
Just like switching slides, each picture is a picture of what is happening, and they come from more than 200 countries around the world.
From the Federation to Bactria.
From Europe to Asia and Africa.
Countless countries, countless different ethnic groups, different nationalities, different skin colors, and human beings who do not speak a language are facing blizzards and fighting against the increasing extreme cold weather.
However, this is destined to be a losing battle.
[Three days have passed, and the global cold wave has not received any relief. Instead, it continues to intensify. The ice and snow on the surface are increasing, the oceans are beginning to freeze, the number of humans has dropped sharply, and the social ecology has suffered the most severe blow in millions of years.
The heating industrial equipment in the city is turned on at full capacity for heating, but people in the countryside lack adequate heating systems. Therefore, all countries have gathered their populations in a few super cities]
Information comes to mind.
The wind and snow around me stopped.
The sky becomes brighter.
"Rumble..."
He heard a roar once, but this time it was no longer a snow plow, but a row of tall military green trucks in the distance passing through the icy city.
After a while, these vehicles passed by him. The entire vehicle was wrapped extremely tightly. However, at this moment, Cheng Lin suddenly found that the coverings had become translucent. This was obviously due to the program.
Through the obstruction, he clearly saw the silent people crowded together in the carriage, like canned fish. They were rural people who had moved in. There were many such vehicles.
No one seemed to notice Cheng Lin, an observer on the roadside. As the vehicle moved away, his eyes followed it, and he saw the thick black smoke rising from the city.
[You noticed the black smoke rising, coal is burning crazily, heating the entire city, all transactions have stopped, and supplies have entered a state of control]
[However, this cannot last long. Another ten days have passed and the situation has not changed. However, the consumption of coal and the supply pressure of the entire city have gradually become unsustainable. The world continues to cool. Finally, someone has proposed a new idea.]
The scenery Cheng Lin witnessed changed again. Some large machines began to appear, destroying the surface with the help of some practitioners.
Cheng Lin saw with his own eyes that a drilling machine began to drill downward with a sewer manhole cover as the center. The entire huge machine sank into the ground, and the metal probe collided with the cold soil.
"Drilling? Sewer? Going underground?"
Cheng Lin thought to himself that this seemed to be the only way.
The surface temperature is already too cold, the population is shrinking, and hundreds of millions of people are dying every day.
[Relying on the perfect sewer systems of various super cities, various countries have begun to try to move people underground to seek life. This is probably the only way to survive.
The policy was carried out unexpectedly and smoothly. The state machinery was at full capacity and the underground space was rapidly expanded, extending in all directions. The urban underground drainage system that had been built for hundreds of years saved mankind a great deal of effort]
[In addition, coal mines have also become battlegrounds, especially giant mines that have been explored and excavated for decades or even hundreds of years and have become natural shelters. This is an extremely difficult decision. The entire
Human civilization was forced to abandon the surface of the earth where it had lived for thousands of years and sink into the sunless underground]
[The storms are getting bigger and bigger, the oceans are completely frozen, the entire earth's surface is covered by ice, and surface plants and organisms are being wiped out]
"Click, click, click..."
The blue earth on the screen in front of Cheng Lin was like a discolored orange, freezing bit by bit.
Gradually, it finally became a beautiful and round snowball floating in the universe.
Then, the screen finally shattered completely and became countless fragments.
The frozen ocean could not provide normal water vapor circulation, so the atmosphere was also destroyed, and the sunlight suddenly became dazzling, shining on this extinct planet.
…
Cheng Lin suddenly felt his body rising.
It was as if he was lifted up by some force and came into the air, looking at the world in a floating attitude.
"Is it a new perspective?"
He thought, and then he was surprised to find that the world in front of him became transparent.
The layers of mountains and countless layers of snow and ice could no longer block his sight. He was floating in mid-air, independent of the wind and snow, looking down at the surface of the earth.
As a result, the soil became transparent, and he was surprised to see people busy underground.
The entire planet seemed to have turned into a transparent glass marble, and Cheng Lin was floating in the air, curiously watching the changes underground.
"Time is accelerating."
He judged.
Everything underground was changing rapidly, as if he was watching an accelerated movie.
At this time, Cheng Lin suddenly remembered a term called "time-lapse photography", and the scenery in front of him was somewhat similar to this.
It was as if the long process of construction and development of underground civilization was compressed into a very short time and played to him.
very funny.
He stared meaningfully at the underground. At first, humans only relied on the sewer system to dig deeper. Gradually, they opened up those channels and continued to move deeper into the strata.
During this period, it seemed that it had stopped several times, but it seemed that because the surface temperature continued to drop, it had to dig deeper again.
Countless machines are distributed together in this vast underground world. In the huge excavated space, boilers began to be erected, using the original entrance as a ventilation duct to burn coal and supply energy to the entire underground world.
The boilers released billowing smoke, and people began to try to use the blizzards on the surface to generate electricity to provide electricity for underground cities.
During fast playback, the underground world is getting bigger and bigger. From being simple and pitiful at first, it gradually becomes extending in all directions and complex like a maze, and then it becomes orderly and continues to extend downwards in a spiral trajectory.
"Human beings have obviously found the most reasonable and efficient way to build things."
Cheng Lin commented in his heart.
Next, the original channels on the surface began to be used and transformed into various ventilation facilities. During the excavation process, people found underground coal, oil, and deeper geothermal energy, which freed them from the problem of supplying electricity on the surface.
"Everything is slowly getting better."
In Cheng Lin's eyes, human beings began to continue to migrate deeper. The thick soil isolated the cold and prevented people from being attacked by deadly cold waves. However, long-term underground life also caused danger to people's bodies.
As a result, artificial sunlight appeared. Like the street lights of the old era, they were built and embellished at key hubs in underground cities, making the dark world a little more beautiful.
"Is technology regressing? Or is it abnormal progress?"
Cheng Lin discovered that during the excavation process, the world's technological direction had transformed from the highly sophisticated and virtualized at the beginning to the crude steampunk style.
It's not a real degradation, but the rapid development of heavy machinery, gears, exhaust pipes, probes, robotic arms... and large-scale energy sources has completely become the main theme.
This prompted human aesthetics and art to begin to develop towards a rough style.