No matter where you go, you should remember that the past is false, memories are an endless road, all past springs no longer exist, and even the most tenacious and crazy love is nothing more than a fleeting moment.
A fleeting reality.
——Garcia Márquez
Five years after the sun disappeared, that is March 7, 2150 AD.
The wars launched by the New American League and the Southern African Community have all ended in failure. Countless fanatics who were fanatical about war and thought that the problem of survival could be solved through war were frozen into stiff corpses.
The only difference is that the failure of the New American Alliance Rebel Army was due to an accident that could turn the tide of the war. The war launched by the Southern African Community was due to internal differences.
The homeland that invaded reality also died, but Europe was not spared.
France fell, Germany was frozen by the ocean falling from the sky, Italy was penetrated by inverted mountains...
The "beacon" is still shining, and the world has restored basic connections, but the suffering is not over.
At this time, "living" has become everyone's goal, and everyone has almost acquiesced in the fact that they "give up their illusions and prepare to accept the death of civilization."
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Zhang Zien checked the route map again, then turned to the exhausted team members and said: "Everyone, hold on a little longer. We will reach Tengzhou in another hundred kilometers. Let's rest there."
Zhang Zi'en, who was wearing a dark cold-proof suit, had the word "烓火" on his chest, which was his status symbol at this time.
A year ago, the world was in chaos.
Africa and the Americas were at war, Europe was invaded, and Asia was not immune after the "beacon fire" was lit. Fortunately, at this time, a force that had been dormant for many years reawakened and joined the chaos.
The people in the center of chaos do not know the origin of this power, but they feel that the world is gradually returning to order.
By 2150, the war had basically subsided, and the disasters in Europe had temporarily subsided.
The remaining people in the world are confused and have lost hope for the future...
Fortunately, the "beacon" has finally been ignited, and people can finally see through it the efforts that all mankind is putting in. This is also the first time that the First Central Axis has officially announced to the world the losses and losses in the past five years in the public frequency band.
At the same time, we have launched an initiative to the world, hoping that more people of vision and elite talents will join the struggle to save all mankind.
Announcements and initiatives were issued one after another, both of which triggered considerable responses.
But as for the future...as for whether they can see the "sun" of tomorrow again, it seems that most people no longer have hope.
Now, the two things that officials are most worried about are beginning to take shape.
The first is the efficiency of circulation within the shelter, which includes three parts, mainly referring to the efficiency of life cycle, resource utilization efficiency and production and manufacturing efficiency. In the original plan of the "Beacon Council", tens of thousands of shelters around the world were
There are engines that can drive the wheel of human destiny. As long as they can maintain normal operation and continue to output power, then human beings will have enough capital to fight against this sudden catastrophe.
But as of now, too many things have happened in five years.
Terrorist attacks, divine pollution, the advent of the so-called "gospel" and wars in two large regions have consumed too much precious manpower and material resources.
This is the outcome that the "Beacon Council" least wants to see, but it is also a fact that has already happened.
The second is that the birth rate of newborns in major shelters has dropped significantly.
Especially after the turmoil of the past few years, the already very low birth rate has been cut in half. Now most shelters are experiencing negative population growth, and some have very serious negative growth.
This does not include suicides and human losses during maintenance of the external circulation system...
However, the official unexpectedly did not hide these figures anymore, but directly made a specific and clear data table and sent it to every survivor around the world through the attachment of the announcement.
Judging from the current data, the average new population in global shelters is only 173,505 people per month, while the average monthly death toll exceeds one million.
Judging from incomplete statistics, there are currently less than 2.5 billion survivors in the world. According to the current number of newborns decreasing month by month and the number of deaths increasing month by month, humanity will be completely wiped out in less than half a century.
According to another research report, the initial statement that the "sun disappeared" would not last more than 400 days is really self-deception. Not only is it baseless, but it has been severely slapped in the face by new evidence.
Xinghan International's internal report stated that the unprecedented catastrophe that mankind is experiencing is likely to last for 100 to 150 years, which means that humans will only have to go through three generations in a shelter before they can see the "sun" again.
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This report has not been made public, but major shelters have already sent similar signals to survivors within each shelter.
Generally speaking, doing so will undoubtedly trigger widespread panic and even turmoil.
It is harmful to the continuation of human civilization but not beneficial at all. But for some reason, the "Beacon Council" changed its policy thinking after being bloodbathed by the people of Takahashi Yinji, and they decided to directly inform the people of the truth.
The meaning of this is really difficult to understand.
At present, the response of the approximately 2.5 billion survivors in the 17,455 existing shelters around the world to the candid disclosure of the "Council of Beacon" is generally positive.
It can also be seen from this point that the existing survivors already have a relatively specific concept of the disaster itself, so they did not overreact after learning such "truth". Many of them even began to spontaneously respond to the follow-up
"Beacon Council"
The initiative was launched and began to focus on strengthening the ideological construction among individuals.
At the same time, the "Beacon" Council also prepared a backup plan.
This plan is called the "Holy Grail of Life". The main content of the plan is to collect DNA sequences from the ancestors of all mankind, and then generate a "civilization fire" named "The Holy Grail of Life" to ensure that when mankind is eventually forced to perish.
Rekindle human civilization.
This plan is planned to last 50 years. In the early stage of the plan, 1.23 million people will be recruited for implementation. They will undergo strict screening and must not only keep the details of the plan confidential, but also have absolute faith and persistence in the continuation of human civilization.
These people are called "Guardians", and their hearts are marked with the "Beacon Fire" article. For more than half a century after the plan was launched, they can only rely on themselves, the "Beacon Council" and some shelters.
Provide them with extremely limited resources to accomplish this great mission.
Maybe some people will feel very confused when they see this.
Why can't such a plan be directly delivered to the management level of major shelters for implementation step by step through the information network connected by "Fenghuo"? Instead, it would require recruiting more than one million people to do this kind of thing?
In addition, it is not difficult to understand the "fire of civilization", but is it really necessary to collect the ancestral genetic sequences of existing survivors around the world?
Finally, why do these executives, or participants in the alternative plan, not get the logistical support they deserve?
Zhang Zien raised the above three issues in front of Xiongan management personnel.
The answer he got was very detailed and convinced him.
In summary, there are three points.
First of all, the "Holy Grail of Life" project is not as easy as letting people pick the fruits when they are ripe in the yard. In fact, although the overall response has been improving after the basic report on the current world situation was issued, there are still
Many people show negative emotions.
They have given up hope and meaningless struggle, and have become a group of lunatics who only want to start a doomsday carnival, or simply like other smart people, they have begun to plan a longer-term future for themselves.
This means that once the "Holy Grail of Life" project is started, it is bound to encounter resistance. There will definitely be a small number of people who actively cooperate, and most people will definitely care about whether this project has a direct interest in them, while the rest will be opponents.
, or simply making trouble.
With these unstable factors, the management of major shelters, which have lost a lot of credibility and management value in the context of the catastrophe, are already overwhelmed. To hand over this kind of work to them at this time seems to be just a straw.
But it is very likely to break through the last fragile layer of Qiji deep in people's hearts.
Therefore, the "Holy Grail of Life" work can only be completed by a small number of staunch watchers who respond to the initiative of the "Beacon Council", and they must also learn to adapt to different circumstances and carry out ancestral DNA sequence collection in different shelters according to different situations.
plan.
As for why it is necessary to collect the DNA of existing survivors around the world, this is actually a "saturation" statement. The purpose is not to really collect the ancestral DNA of all people, but to collect as much as possible the DNA of the "Holy Grail of Life"
Particularly critical sequence data and samples, and only in this way can the natural superiority of human civilization be preserved to the greatest extent.
Biology also emphasizes the refinement of massive samples.
This is crucial for the recovery of human civilization after the "Holy Grail of Life" project is officially launched.
And why it is difficult to secure the personnel to implement the "Holy Grail of Life" plan, and there may even be no logistics at all... This is somewhat similar to the previous reason why exclusive personnel should be recruited instead of being directly handed over to major dome management agencies.
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Although the wars in Africa and America have ended, the message conveyed by the "Beacon Fire" has made people know how to calm down. However, the "Beacon Fire Council" predicts that until a solution to the "disappearance of the sun" is truly found or it is clear when the "sun" can become angry again
, human society, which has been completely broken up by this catastrophe, is still unavoidable from suffering the pain of war.
It may be difficult to see large-scale wars over resources like those in Africa and the Americas, but small-scale conflicts will intensify.
Especially when the controllable nuclear fusion energy supply built into some shelters in the central region of the continent gradually goes offline over time, there is no guarantee that these survivors struggling to survive in the central region will not head to the coastal areas to find a way out in order to survive.
.Although shelters in coastal areas have various safeguard measures such as the "Pacific Rim Nuclear Power System", the space of the shelters is very limited.
Even though the "Beacon Council" has considered that in the future, about 20 to 30 years after the sun disappears, when the human disaster level reaches the eighth level, it will mobilize major shelters to comprehensively integrate resources and personnel according to their own conditions. But
Until then...some minor accidents and conflicts are inevitable.
As for the Star Ring and the Ultimate Doomsday Fortress, these are Noah's Ark-style evacuation strategies.
Previously, the New United States of America assembled a large amount of elite resources in the Great Lakes region, which finally triggered the war in the New United States region. Therefore, even if the Star Ring and the Ultimate Doomsday Fortress exist, the "Beacon Council" can only acquiesce in their existence now.
continue to exist, but we cannot allow such things to continue to expand, because that will accelerate the decline of human civilization.
To sum up, the "Holy Grail of Life" plan can be regarded as the most tragic doomsday alternative since the birth of human civilization.
Of course, the "Beacon Council" is also actively concentrating manpower and material resources to march towards the sun. Their next step will be to establish a "vanguard" camp on Mercury and deploy a resource supply transfer station on "Venus". The purpose is the same, that is, to completely
Find out why the "sun" "disappears" and whether it is possible to make the "disappeared" sun rise again with human power.
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Coming off the super expressway, ahead is the deserted urban area of Tengzhou standing in the dark.
The high-rise buildings have turned into dead trees in the dark forest, they are dim and silent. Zhang Zi'en was the first to get down to the ground, and then immediately entered the predetermined warning position.
Natsume and Chen Shuang followed. After they came down, they also entered their respective alert positions.
The direction Natsume was alerting was towards the city, and nothing could be seen on the road where a large number of abandoned vehicles were piled up.
After making sure it was safe, Natsume signaled for others to come down.
Not long after, all eleven members of the team landed safely.
Zhang Zien stood up and said, "Let's go."
The team cautiously followed the side of the road and headed towards the city. The reason why they were so nervous was because their team had just been ambushed by an unknown armed group ten minutes ago.
Fortunately, the team's position was close to the inside of the sharp bend of the super-high-speed passage. Otherwise, Zhang Zi'en would have to leave at least two corpses behind in this ambush before he could escape smoothly.
Preliminary estimates indicate that there are two types of people who attacked them.
One type is the survivors who fled from Europe to China. However, they are illegal immigrants and it is basically impossible to be accepted by shelters in various places, so they become "lonely ghosts" in the night.
They survive by attacking other people operating outside the shelter.
The other type is those who have not given up their extremely crazy ideas and arrange plunderers near major domes. Not only are these people well-equipped, but after discovering the target, they will usually gather nearby associates to hunt. Zhang Zien is here
On the way, I heard news from the Xiongan headquarters that three teams had been attacked by unknown armed men, and all of them had lost contact with their respective command centers.
So Zhang Zien had to guard against it.
Especially since there are only five people in his team who are truly capable of fighting, including himself, Natsume, Li Dan, Masato Shimizu, and Chen Shuang.
Zhang Yenan was originally one of them, but unfortunately this guy accidentally broke his cold-weather suit during the operation a few days ago and suffered frostbite on his right hand. Now he is basically a disabled person.
There were only five of them. If they were really hunted by that kind of fanatics, Zhang Zien felt that they would definitely be found here.
The team moved forward very slowly, basically at a stop-and-go pace.
Zhang Zi'en was very careful. He didn't speak during the whole process, and relied on packing and some slight tapping sounds to convey action signals. He just groped forward for a few hundred meters, when suddenly a fire shot into the sky in the darkness.
Immediately following the "bang" sound, when Zhang Zi'en looked over, he saw on the other side of the road that a damaged infantry fighting vehicle in the forest was blown into the sky.
The fire flickered and everyone was frightened.
Zhang Zi'en immediately raised his hand to signal everyone to fall to the ground. At the same time, he made a roundabout gesture to Natsume on the left, indicating that he should not stay at the rear of the team, but should actively shift positions to distract the enemy's attention.
Natsume, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, is no longer green anymore.
He immediately took Zhang Yanan with him, and the two separated from the rear of the team, then crossed the road directly and squatted down behind a thick-looking transport truck.
The firelight in the distance was very dazzling. With the help of this light, when Zhang Yanan turned around inadvertently, he happened to see someone in the transport truck listening to him, staring at him.
At that time, Zhang Yenan was so frightened that she almost cried out.
Fortunately, Natsume reacted quickly and stopped it immediately.
Natsume also saw the "people" in the car, or rather the frozen corpses.
She was sitting in the passenger seat, and her expression was full of sorrow when she died. It seemed that she was killed by the influx of extremely cold air after the vehicle lost power.
Natsume looked at other vehicles and found that most of them were occupied by people.
I don’t know where they escaped from, but they died here because of the traffic jam.
Zhang Yenan calmed down a bit. He used his left hand to pry Natsume's hand away, then picked up the pistol and said, "I'm fine."
Natsume nodded, then looked towards the firelight again.
In the woods beside the road, the branches are intertwined, and the firelight is reflected, which makes it even more eerie and eerie. And behind the firelight, a group of armed men with weapons are slowly approaching.
Natsume quickly realized that they must have encountered that group of extremists, but what he didn't understand was that this group of people had been setting up an ambush to attack them before, so why did they make a big noise and then slowly approach them this time? He really didn't understand.
Do these dozen of them take it seriously?
Just when Natsume was hesitating whether to strike preemptively, a loud and sharp sound like a whistle came from very far behind him, and then a little light penetrated into the darkness of the sky.
Natsume knew what that thing was without even thinking!
I saw his expression change and he shouted: "Hidden!!!!!"
Then he knocked down Zhang Yanan next to him, then pulled him and rolled him under the transport truck.