After returning from Zhang Yuchu, Liang Qiuru has been sitting in the room in a daze.
Yan Haoming shaved after washing up and looked more energetic, but his old coat was still in tatters.
Liang Qiuru saw him and went into the back room to find Qing Shuirang's clothes for him to change into.
Although there is still one size difference between Yan Haoming's figure and Qing Shuirang's, he can still wear it barely.
After eating and drinking, taking a shower and changing into new clothes, Yan Haoming suddenly didn't want to go back to his doghouse.
So he said shamelessly: "Um... senior, you must be quite lonely living in such a big house by yourself, right?"
Liang Qiuru was drinking alone. After hearing this, she glanced at Yan Haoming and said, "I really want to keep you here, but if the Zhengxing Self-Defense Team finds out, I'm afraid you will be arrested and detained!"
Yan Haoming said with an indifferent expression: "That's okay. As long as you agree, I will be responsible for whatever happens."
Liang Qiuru was actually just trying to scare him, so she sighed and said, "I'll give you the room on the second floor, but if I hear any strange noises, get out of here right away!"
Yan Haoming's face straightened when he heard this: "Yes! Don't worry! We will definitely fulfill our mission!"
"Tch..." Liang Qiuru was very upset now and didn't bother to say anything to him.
Yan Haoming was very excited. He thought about it and said, "Well, senior, I still have some scattered things over there. I'll go back and clean them up."
"Well... go ahead..."
"Okay!" Yan Haoming said and went out.
After Yan Haoming left, Liang Qiuru took out his mobile phone and played a recording stored in an encrypted file. However, looking at the time marked on the recording, it was already many years ago.
The first half of the recording was very noisy and sounded like a lot of things rubbing against each other.
Only Liang Qiuru knew that it was the sound of friction between clothes and the cave wall...
The friction sound lasted for about a few minutes, and with a painful groan, it seemed like someone crawled out of the cave.
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"Let's take a break..." It was a woman's voice, and her voice was also very weak.
"Well..." The man who had just climbed out of the cave did not respond.
"Did you see anything at the bottom of the cave just now?" the woman asked.
"Well……"
"Let him drink some water and don't ask questions yet." Another voice appeared, with an older man's accent.
"Well, let him sit here and let him die suddenly like the two people before him!" The woman showed signs of losing control.
"Xiao Yin! What are you talking about? How could Xiao Zha and Professor Liu die suddenly?"
The quarrel lasted for a long time.
No one cared about the man who just crawled out of the cave.
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Liang Qiuru skipped this section. She buried her head in her arms and lay quietly on the sofa.
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"I... saw many, many things..."
"Ah? What's there?" After the quarrel was over, the woman came over and asked eagerly.
"I...don't know how to describe..."
"It's okay, don't worry, just describe it as best you can."
"It was very chaotic, very chaotic...you know? It was like messy oil paints smeared together...these things were all at the bottom of the cave...I seemed to see Professor Liu, but I couldn't make a sound, so I could only watch.
Watch him walk away."
"Liu? Professor Liu?! Xiaotao, don't scare me! Isn't Professor Liu lying over there? He has been dead for three days!"
"Yes! Senior! Are you sure you saw it clearly?"
"I'm sure... because he was the one who brought me out... I thought I would be integrated with those colors, but Professor Liu took me out... By the way... three days? What three days? I
Didn't you just go down for a few hours?" He seemed confused.
"It's not a few hours, Xiaotao, it's three whole days! We all thought...we all thought you had..."
"Well... no wonder..."
"No wonder?"
"Well... no wonder..."
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The recording ends here.
This was the last voice left by Liang Qiuru's husband and Huazi's father in this world.
Externally, everyone regards Momosawa Haruha as a selfless hero. It was his dedication that saved the entire team.
But internally...Liang Qiuru, who knew her husband's temperament well, always suspected that his death was not as simple as officially announced...
Sure enough, after more than ten years of hard work, Liang Qiuru finally got a key investigation report and this recording. All of these are related to the "Giant of Light" that once appeared on the Antarctic continent and now appears on the Siberian Plain.
"related.
The main reason why Liang Qiuru has always been so sensitive to these things is not that she wants to find out how her husband died...but...it was mentioned in the report.
"Momosawa Yoye once returned to the base together with Yan Hongda and Zhang Zhouyu, but the three of them all suffered from varying degrees of organ failure soon after returning to the base... The most obvious one was Momosawa Yoye, whose internal organs were all damaged.
Aging at an accelerated rate... On just the first day he returned to the base, his body aged into the appearance of an old man in his sixties or seventies..."
These records have clear medical diagnosis reports.
But Liang Qiuru's focus is not on this, but on the subsequent parts of the report...
"Momosawa Haruha is missing..."
Yes……
He's not dead, he's missing.
And the day after he disappeared, not only did Yan Hongda and Zhang Zhouyu gradually recover, but even
The other two members of the expedition team who were sent to the morgue were also miraculously "resurrected"!
Yes, "resurrection"!
When she first got the report and saw this word, Liang Qiuru thought she was dazzled.
For this reason, she specifically found Yan Hongda through Yan Haoming's relationship to confirm the matter... Yan Hongda, who was recuperating in Harbin at the time, told Liang Qiuru.
"I'm pretty sure that Xiaoza and Professor Liu are dead... Their bodies were as cold as steel plates. If a rescue team hadn't come later, we would have wanted to leave them in Antarctica forever..."
"Then... what about 'resurrection'? What does 'resurrection' mean?"
However, Yan Hongda just shook his head and said that he had no impression of the two people's "resurrection" and had no idea where they went afterward.
Liang Qiuru, who basically returned without success, later tried to find the whereabouts of Zada Xili and Liu Jitang, but failed.
After so many years, Liang Qiuru slowly began to learn to let go. After all, her daughter had grown up, and she could not forever pursue a truth that might not be answered for the rest of her life.
until……
After something like that happened to Hanako, Liang Qiuru was shocked to realize that fate might not be ready to spare her yet.
In addition, she saw the "Giant of Light" in the news again today, and Liang Qiuru became even more curious about where her lover had gone...or rather...what did he do to save everyone in the expedition?
After much deliberation, Liang Qiuru, who had no answer, planned to take a shower and go to bed.
But as soon as he stood up, the whole room became dark.
Then, the siren sounded!!!!
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Seven months after the sun "disappears"...
The surface temperature has dropped to about minus 75 degrees Celsius...
But outside an underground shelter in Wangye Ecological Zone, tens of thousands of soldiers and volunteers gathered to find and rescue survivors.
This includes Natsume and Hanako.
When they heard more than a month ago that the nuclear power system in the Wangye Ecological Zone had been completely destroyed by the "Kingdom Warriors", Natsume and Hanako just felt angry and silently made wishes for the people in the shelter near the Wangye Ecological Zone.
But later, when Yaren told them that Yan Haoming and Liang Qiuru were also in these shelters.
Natsume and Hanako couldn't sit still anymore.
They voluntarily applied to become the first batch of volunteers to participate in the rescue of Wangye Ecological Area, and arrived at Wangye Ecological Area half a month ago.
However, the situation here is much worse than they imagined.
Six nuclear power generating units were blown up by the "Warrior of the Country", and emergency support to the Wangye Ecological Zone began in nearby shelters. At least three shelters in the Wangye Ecological Zone had continuous power outages for more than 72 hours!
During these seventy-two hours, due to the lack of emergency power supply reserves at the beginning of the shelter design, the outside world had no idea what happened in these three shelters.
Subsequently, the basic power supply was restored to the shelters in the Wangye Ecological Zone one after another, and the outside world also contacted the management of these three shelters.
They were amazed by the feedback they could get!
Due to the hasty construction of the shelters and the jerry-rigged emergency storage facilities, serious panic riots occurred in the three shelters during the seventy-two-hour power outage...
A large number of innocent people died in stampedes and falls... Many seriously ill patients died quietly in the dark... In addition, the water purification system stopped running, and the constant temperature system of the algae cultivation pool went offline... Water pollution... Large-scale death of algae... Various
Questions are pouring in...
In just three days and three nights, 70,000 people died...
And this is only the beginning of the disaster.
The emergency power supply system is an emergency system built on the Pacific Rim Nuclear Power System to respond to emergencies. Although this system can ensure the basic operation of the entire Pacific Rim Nuclear Power System support unit through redistribution, it is not a long-term solution.
Especially in the face of such a catastrophe that mankind has never experienced before!
In addition, the Pacific Rim Nuclear Power System itself failed to complete the construction as expected, and many emergency power supply nodes were in a semi-finished state... So... less than seven hours after the basic power supply was restored to the shelters in the Wangye Ecological Zone one after another,
With three loud bangs!
Three emergency power supply nodes located in the Sea of Japan exploded!
The lifeline deployed from Northeast China and Siberia to support the Wangye Ecological Zone was "exploded".
This time, it was not just the first three shelters that lost power. Due to chain reactions, multiple power systems failed.
The entire Wangye Ecological Zone was plunged into darkness...
The time has come to October 2, 2144.
It has been a month and a half since I last contacted the management of No. 03 Shelter in New Tokyo City, Mokino Ecological Zone.
The seven-meter-thick ice layer outside the shelter door was finally broken...
Ten thousand rescue team members are ready to go, and everyone is looking forward to it. Everyone in the shelter is still holding on.
But... when the external power system intervened and the door of the shelter was slowly raised, the people standing at the front and the first team of the rescue team saw an unforgettable scene!
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"This... this..." Some people were speechless.
Hanako's eyes widened and she didn't know how to describe her mood at this moment.
Natsume was also stupid...
Those stacked up...layer by layer, the body...the arms...the frozen cheeks full of pain and despair...
The cold wind howled, and everyone in the rescue team seemed to hear the desperate cries of these people before they died!
They had struggled hard...but the door of the shelter was surrounded by
The mechanical arm powered by the diesel engine was intact... I opened the diesel engine, only to find that it was empty...
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"Group 1! Move the bodies at the door! Group 2! Enter the shelter and look for survivors as soon as possible!"
The commander sitting here is Fang Xiaodong, a commander from a certain military region in Northeast China.
He who thought he had long been indifferent to life and death could not help but feel his heart tremble after witnessing the scene in front of him.
The rescue team started working.
Hanako and Natsume endured their grief and stepped forward with everyone.
But when they tried to separate the stacked corpses, they found that they hugged each other tightly before death... After death, the corpses were stiff and frozen, and they had turned into a city wall of flesh and blood... By themselves,
It is impossible to separate them manually, at least if you want to preserve each corpse intact, it is impossible to separate them.
Fang Xiaodong also discovered this. He immediately changed his mind and ordered his forces to break open the passage and enter the shelter, with finding survivors as his first priority!
After a lot of hard work, the rescue team finally entered Neo-Tokyo City's No. 03 shelter.
The overall design space of this Type 017a shelter, which was designed and built by experts from Neo-Tokyo City, is like a standing cannonball.
Its entrance is designed seventeen meters above the ground.
After entering the shelter, you reach the highest point of the shelter, but you cannot directly reach the "sky garden" on the top of the "center mast" area of the shelter.
The surrounding design allows it to extend downward layer by layer, and is divided into six layers abcder according to different depths and different original design intentions.
The design height and space size of each floor are different.
Among them, the three production and living areas of ABC have the largest space and can accommodate at least 500,000 people.
Therefore, after a 10,000-person rescue team entered the shelter, it was like a pebble thrown into a big pond. It was a drop in the bucket for the rescue work.
But when the first group of rescue teams arrived in Area A, they found that most of the production areas were empty, and most of the civilians who originally lived in Area A were missing.
Here, they only found the bodies of more than a thousand victims who had tried to keep warm by burning facilities in the shelter.
When the rescue team discovered them, some personnel with special tasks in the team conducted a simple analysis and sampling of the corpses...
It was initially determined that most of them were not frozen to death... but starved to death and smoked to death...
When the shelter lacks basic power supply, the ventilation system will also go offline. Coupled with the continuous cooling outside, the ventilation system will soon be blocked... It is undoubtedly suicide to burn wood and other combustible materials to stay warm here.
Natsume and Hanako didn't stop here. They held hands and clasped their fingers, cheering each other on.
When the rescue team arrived in Area B, another rescue team had already completed the construction of a new emergency power system transmission line.
New Tokyo City Vault 03 was finally lit up after being in darkness for more than a month.
But when the light warmed the dead shelter again, the rescue team members failed to hear the cheers from the survivors that they most wanted to hear...
Area b is the granary of the entire refuge.
There are 4,500 sub-armed Zhengxing Self-Defense Forces stationed here. They are responsible for guarding the important supplies in the entire No. 03 shelter and maintaining the basic order of the shelter.
But now, this place has turned into a battlefield littered with corpses...
After entering the main control room of the shelter, Fang Xiaodong activated the surveillance system to search for survivors in the shelter and informed the arrival of the rescue team through the radio.
When the horn sounded, Natsume and Hanako were slowly walking through the granary area of Area B.
Here, the Zhengxing Self-Defense Forces established three lines of defense, but all were breached... Thousands of corpses were frozen here... Some were even put on iron racks and roasted to char!
This cruel and terrifying scene was unforgettable for all rescue team members.
What's even more unimaginable is that... in front of this corpse were kneeling and worshiping the bodies of at least two thousand men, women, and children... most of them starved to death... But even if they were tortured to the extreme,
They were still kneeling there without moving.
Some rescue team members were unwilling to go deeper when they arrived.
Because this scene completely subverted their worldview...
I thought that if everyone in Vault 03 worked together, at least half of the people would survive.
Unexpectedly, the darkness of the past two months has turned this place into a cruel and cold hell...
Hanako never expected that the lively and lovely people in New Tokyo would become like this...
Natsume also had the same idea.
But when he passed by a corpse with eyes still open angrily, he noticed something strange!
It was an old man wearing a cold-proof jacket of the Zhengxing Self-Defense Force. Judging from his thin face, he should not be a Zhengxing Self-Defense Force member. There were also obvious blood stains on the clothes he was wearing... When Natsume found him, he was "hiding" in the corner.
Inside, a pair of blue eyes seemed to be still peeping at the prey.
It was this feeling of being spied on that made Natsume discover something unusual.
"Wait! Everyone stop!" Natsume's scalp went numb, and he shouted loudly, asking the team to stop.
Everyone also stopped obediently.
Colonel Wang Junchi, who was leading the team, heard the sound and came over and asked: "What happened? Have you found any survivors?"
Natsume shook his head, then moved aside and pointed at the eyes of the dead old man and said: "Eyes! There is something wrong with the eyes of these corpses!"
"Eye?" Wang Junchi was followed by several experts with special tasks.
They looked at each other and immediately came over with the toolbox.