In the first half of the night, Gu Zhuo and others were still conscious. They were all waiting for the long night to pass and were fully prepared for the unexpected arrival the next day.
But in the second half of the night, for some unknown reason, they all felt an inexplicable sleepiness coming over them. Even though Gu Zhuo forced himself to stay awake and flushed his face with cold water, his eyelids still couldn't help but fight up and down.
Finally, as if being forced by the Sandman, Chaoying fell asleep first, and Gu Zhuo soon fell into a deep sleep. To say it was a deep sleep, it was more like an involuntary fainting.
After a dreamless night, it was as if his brain had been forcibly shut down, and everything fell into the darkness of nothingness. Gu Zhuo was in a daze until the next morning, when he suddenly woke up.
When he woke up, he felt numbness and weakness in his limbs, as if electric current was flowing through his limbs, giving people a wonderful numbness. Fortunately, yesterday's conversation was still clearly engraved in his mind, but he had slept too much afterwards.
Suddenly.
He moved and saw Chaoying still lying in his arms, still not awake.
After she woke up, she felt the same fatigue as Gu Zhuo. She didn't know where this fatigue came from, but it was extremely profound.
"what time is it now?"
she asked.
Gu Zhuo looked at the time, it was now 7:35 in the morning.
"It's seven thirty-five, not too late."
"Um."
Chaoying nodded.
The two found that even though it was already 7:35, the surrounding light was still very dark, just like night. In the past, at this time, the sunlight would more or less penetrate through the gaps in the isolation board, at least it could make people distinguish.
Out of night and day.
"I don't know what's going on outside right now. I'll go to the cab and have a look."
Gu Zhuo said, preparing to stand up.
"Let's go together. I don't want to lie down anymore. I feel more and more tired the more I lie down."
Chaoying answered him.
The two of them briefly washed up together, changed their clothes, left the bedroom, and walked to the cab.
Sam was still sleeping in his nest at this time, sleeping deeply and not waking up. Even when Gu Zhuo and the two walked past it, it didn't move at all.
Gu Zhuo ignored it because he noticed that it was still dark outside. It was just that this dark night was different from the previous nights. It had a very dim green color.
"What the hell is this weather like? Could it be that the changes have already begun?"
Gu Zhuo was confused and his heart was beating in his chest. He didn't know what kind of situation he would face soon.
Sitting in the cab with Chaoying, Gu Zhuo realized why there was a dull green color in the dark night.
Through the car window glass, you can see that in half of the night sky, there is an aurora flowing slowly like a stream. It is spitting out green brilliance, and among the green brilliance, there is a little bit of silver mixed in, like the Milky Way of the universe.
It poured down in an instant, and heavy snow fell in the aurora.
At this moment, Gu Zhuo couldn't help but sigh in admiration. This half of the aurora is so beautiful!
Chao Ying on the side was also a little stunned. She quietly held Gu Zhuo's hand, and the two of them looked at the aurora in silence, without speaking for a long time.
I don't know how long it took before they heard some movement outside the Doomsday Fortress, and Gu Zhuo and his two men came back to their senses slightly.
Looking out the window, it turned out that Akashi and others were walking out of the stone hall. As soon as they walked out, they froze on the spot and did not move for a long time. Gu Zhuo rolled down the window and called them:
"Hey, Akashi!"
He shouted very loudly, but Akashi seemed not to hear him and ignored Gu Zhuo at all. He just raised his head and stared blankly at the sky, like a puppet on strings, just maintaining this movement.
"Jia Sheng! Niu Zheng! Yue Cen..."
Gu Zhuo called out to a few people next to him, but no one responded to him. They all just kept the same actions as Akashi.
"What's going on? Why are they all just like puppets?"
Gu Zhuo was suspicious. The scenery outside was beautiful, but it wasn't like this. It was like someone had taken away his soul.
"Chaoying, you wait here, I'll get out of the car and go take a look. These people are acting so strangely, something must be wrong when something goes wrong. If I don't say anything, you must not come down."
Gu Zhuo turned around and spoke to Chaoying, then took a deep breath, opened the car door, and got out of the car.
As soon as he got off the car and stood on the ground, Gu Zhuo smelled a strange smell in his nose.
The smell does not belong to any fragrance, nor is it a bad smell. It is like the snow that is about to melt in the early spring, and it is also like the smell of the ice-breaking river and the gurgling water.
It lingered quietly in Gu Zhuo's nose. Gu Zhuo didn't hate the smell, but he didn't know where it came from.
If he had to describe it, he felt like he was standing in Norway or Finland now, silent, remote, isolated from the world, and with a long night that seemed to never end.
The surrounding base suddenly became unfamiliar.
"It's really weird. Why do you feel like this?"
While Gu Zhuo was confused, he also became more vigilant.
He walked towards Yue Cen who was closest to him, but before he could reach her, as if someone had given him an order in his mind, Gu Zhuo subconsciously raised his head.
The moment he raised his head and saw the sky, he immediately understood why Akashi and others were so lost:
The sky in front of me is no longer a scene that belongs to the human world.
Just now he was sitting on the Doomsday Fortress and couldn't see the whole sky. Now that he saw the whole sky, Gu Zhuo's mind went "boom" and he couldn't say anything.
It was a magnificent scene that could not be described in any words. It was the ultimate combination of all the beauty and romance in the universe.
They are not standing at the end of the world now, but at the center of the universe.
I saw the night sky, dotted with stars, like the sparkling waves on the water, flowing calmly in the sky. The green aurora was shining, twinkling, and constantly changing, like nebulae radiating from the depths of the universe.
The night sky seemed to be embroidered with a piece of soft satin, mixed with silver threads and various wonderful colors. When combined together, the most beautiful flower in the world would wither in shame in front of it at this moment.
Gu Zhuo unconsciously took a step forward, wanting to get closer to the aurora. As soon as he took the first step, he subconsciously lowered his head and saw that the ground he was on looked like the surface of the sea.
The metal ground turned white, like an endless snowfield, with stars in the night sky printed on it, falling down bit by bit, like cherry blossoms falling, falling, falling to the top of Gu Zhuo's heart.
They are not looking at the scenery.
They were standing inside the scene.
They stand in the middle of the Milky Way.
[Author's digression]: I must see the aurora for real once in my life. The aurora is really beautiful.