Epoch of Twilight

Luo Yuan got into the thick metal gate with a short body, and below it was a zigzag-shaped step like an ordinary basement. Under the illumination of the lights on both sides, it was as bright as day.

After walking about five floors, at a depth of about ten or twenty meters, they entered a long passage with a width of three meters. Every twenty meters, there was a soldier standing guard, and a tense and solemn atmosphere gradually spread over the crowd. Heart filled.

Luo Yuan tapped the wall of the passage with the handle of the knife, and there was a thick muffled sound. Under the sensory induction, he found that the cement layer of these walls was more than one meter thick, which was enough to resist the bombardment of the cannon.

He breathed a sigh of relief. With such a defense, even green-level creatures would have to spend a lot of effort to break through.

He continued to walk for more than a minute, and after passing through three metal gates about 50 centimeters thick, the noise gradually came, and a group of people entered the hall.

In the hall of tens of thousands of square meters, there was a lot of voices, and there were dense crowds everywhere.

These people were either sitting or standing, with fear and anxiety on their faces.

A one or two-year-old child was crying loudly, and a woman kept coaxing her. Next to him, a man who seemed to be her husband kept looking for a feeding bottle, but he seemed to have forgotten it, with a dejected expression on his face.

An old man who seemed to be a widow was sitting alone in a corner, lamenting and sighing from time to time, a trace of sadness flashed across his wrinkled face.

There were also a few well-built teenagers, excitedly discussing what might happen this time, their faces full of excitement!

In the hall, there are all kinds of life, thousands of people and thousands of faces.

Luo Yuan glanced at the crowd and looked around carefully. On the rough concrete walls, big agitational slogans were pasted everywhere. There are several passages near the hall, and it seems that there is more than one such hall.

He took a deep breath. Compared with the air-raid shelters before the end of the world, the defense is now stronger and the design is more reasonable. Moreover, the halls where the survivors are placed are relatively independent of each other. Iron gates to ensure the safety of other areas.

"Let's find a seat to sit!" Wu Xiaoxiao endured the uneasiness in her heart and said.

Luo Yuan nodded. It was obvious that no room would be arranged here. He found an open space at random and sat down on the floor. Huang Jiahui and the others also sat down with a natural expression on their faces.

They are used to living in the wild, and they can still pay attention to cleanliness in normal times, but in this tense atmosphere, they have already understood that keeping themselves in the best condition at any time is the most important thing.

However, they are obviously not used to Wu Xiaoxiao and Sun Youde. Wu Xiaoxiao hesitated for a while, not knowing what she was thinking, and also sat down. But Sun Youde looked at the dusty ground that hadn't been cleaned for a long time, and couldn't help frowning, hesitating again and again, he still didn't sit down, but chose to squat.

Luo Yuan glanced at Sun Youde, squatting like this seemed casual, as if he could stand up and escape at any time, which was much safer than sitting. In fact, it is a big taboo in the dangerous wilderness. After a long time, not only the blood vessels are not smooth, the feet are numb, but also the knees are extremely bent. If you want to stand up immediately, it is difficult to use your muscles for a while, resulting in stiff and slow movements when you get up. If it is in the wild, when it is in danger, such a delay is enough to be fatal.

But this is a refuge, with strong defenses, so there is no danger in a short time, Luo Yuan thought about it in a flash, and didn't remind him.

To be honest, this man did not give him a very good impression, not the hostility shown by the other party when he met a rival in love. After all, this is a normal phenomenon that occurs when every man meets him, and he is the same, just serious It's just a matter of degree or performance.

But this man was obviously different. What the other party showed was not hostility under normal circumstances, but a trace of deep malice.

This is a kind of intuition, which belongs to the spiritual level.

The cicada perceives before the autumn wind moves, this kind of spiritual intuition trained in countless life and death crises, it is simply a dream for ordinary people to hide it from him. People can train their acting skills, put on heavy masks to cover up their hearts, and make themselves appear to perform flawlessly, but they can never deceive their hearts.

It's just that he doesn't care about the malice of ordinary people.

"By the way, where's Cao Lin, didn't you inform her?" Luo Yuan scanned around and asked Huang Jiahui in surprise.

Wu Xiaoxiao's face was a little weird, thinking to herself, it looks like another woman from the name. Ever since she followed Luo Yuan all the way, she felt more and more that this high school classmate was full of mystery. None of these women seemed like ordinary people. Not only did they hold weapons in their hands, but their temperament was also different from ordinary people. They didn't have the slightest sense of femininity, and their movements were capable and neat. She didn't know what was going on. Feeling a little stressed.

Although they seemed to be sitting separately, they vaguely centered on Luo Yuan, and some of them were sitting quite close, almost close together. If there was no relationship between them, she would not believe anything. I thought this was enough, but I didn't expect to hear another woman's name.

"I thought you forgot?" Huang Jiahui glanced at Luo Yuan with a half-smile: "Cao Lin and Huo Dong have been dating a long time ago, he is the deputy director of the logistics department of the guard, and he has already arranged for women.

Facing Huang Jiahui's playful gaze, Luo Yuan didn't react at all. He had no ghosts in his heart, so he could deal with it calmly, and said in surprise: "There is such a thing, but I didn't hear Huo Dong mention it."

But when he thought of Huo Dong's cautious appearance in front of him, and Cao Lin's explicit hints to herself several times in the field, which was almost tacit in the team, Luo Yuan also understood that Huo Dong obviously It's the fear of your own reaction.

He shook his head inwardly. He was not a lower-body animal. Cao Lin was good-looking and smart, but she was too thoughtful. This kind of person could live well no matter before the end of the world or today, but she was obviously not the type he liked.

"By the way, I heard from Huo Dong that there is a spare room here, and he will arrange us one at that time." Huang Jiahui continued, seeing Luo Yuan's face as usual, she couldn't help but secretly heaved a sigh of relief. She was really afraid of Luo Yuan's reaction, so she deliberately teased him in a joking tone.

She was the one who matched Cao Lin and Huo Dong. If he found out the truth and caused Luo Yuan's displeasure, even resentment and alienation, she really didn't know what to do in the future.

She is not as strong as she appears on the surface, her love is weak and obedient, on the weak side, she can acquiesce to Zhao Yali's existence, and let Wang Shishi develop as she pleases, just to make herself look not so superfluous.

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Xinjing, the capital of the reconstruction district!

This is a young city that has only been built for a year and a half, but now it is the largest city in the country. Its political center, economic center, countless factories and dense scientific research institutions occupy almost two-thirds of the entire city.

The chimneys are as dense as the woods, and they spew foul-smelling black smoke into the sky day and night. The thick mist, like a layer of soft tulle, covers every corner of the city. Underneath, it was all dim and misty.

Xinhua Road, an ordinary road name, the street with this name before the end of the world, if not ten thousand, there will be ten thousand. But now, in this city, it has given it a unique meaning.

If Xinjing is the center of the country, then this is the heart. Almost all the central departments are stationed here, and the guards here are extremely tight. The entire street has a post every three steps, and a sentry every five steps. It is the most elite troops stationed in Beijing, coupled with the dense automated air defense network, even a mutated fly may not be able to fly through it.

In a small, dusty and inconspicuous building in the center of the road, the guards here are even tighter. If it weren't for the large red and solemn characters of the Wartime Committee written on the plaque above, no one would have thought that this place is actually the highest center of power in the country today.

Since a few days ago, the atmosphere here has become extremely dignified.

It started a month ago. A researcher at the Institute of Geology occasionally noticed a strange thing. He found from the magnetometer that the earth's magnetic field had shifted by 8 degrees, and the magnetic field had also weakened by 12%.

If it was the end of the world, this would definitely be a major event that caused a sensation in the world, but when human beings are dying and dying, such things are naturally ignored.

Magnetic field shifts occur from time to time and are always changing. The movement of the earth's plates, volcanic eruptions, large-scale nuclear explosions, and rising sea levels will all cause pole changes, and even magnetic field reversals have occurred several times in the history of the earth.

But this time it's just a little bit bigger.

The coming of the end of the world had already made his nerves extremely rough, and he didn't take it to heart. He just wrote down the results in his notebook and didn't care about it.

Another ten days have passed, and the subject he is researching has not improved. His thinking seems to be blocked, which makes his brain ache. When he saw the humble magnetometer in the laboratory, he couldn't help but think of it. The measurement a few days ago came on a sudden whim, and he subconsciously tried it again, but the result made him turn pale.

Deflection of 17 degrees, weakening of magnetic field strength by 21%

In just ten days, there was a 9-degree shift, which was almost the first time in human history. He looked a little uneasy, and even thought that he remembered it wrong last time. He returned home in a daze, suffered from insomnia one night, Early the next morning, with his drowsy head on his head, he measured again, and it was 18 degrees. His heart shivered, and he immediately realized the seriousness of the situation. He immediately reported to the research institute, and then the researcher reported to the central government, which soon caused highly valued.

After several research institutes worked day and night, a more detailed report was sent to the meeting table of the wartime committee. The conclusion was desperate. All the data showed that the earth's magnetic field was about to reverse, and the speed of the reversal was shocking. No reaction time.

The consequence of magnetic field reversal is catastrophic. Once magnetic field reversal occurs, the magnetic field strength will weaken first, and there will be zero strength. At that time, the "magnetic field" as the protective cover of the earth will disappear temporarily, the strong solar wind will "blow" the earth, the ozone layer will be destroyed, and the intense ultraviolet rays will no longer be shielded.

However, what is more serious is that the cosmic storm caused by the supernova explosion has not stopped until now, and has been wandering in the solar system. Without the protection of the magnetic field, it will cause even more terrible consequences.

But before these, the migration of mutated organisms caused by magnetic field disturbance has already sounded the red alarm in the reconstruction area.

For changes in the magnetic field, insects and birds are undoubtedly more sensitive than humans. In fact, when the report was reported, the satellite images had already captured the changes of mutated creatures around the world.

A large number of insects and birds swarmed like crazy, rampaging. These insect swarms or bird swarms ranged from several square kilometers to hundreds or even tens of thousands of square kilometers. On the satellite images, they were densely packed, almost forming a huge shadows.

Unfortunately, the rebuilding area was the path of one of the large bug swarms.

Prior to this, several nuclear bombs, including a large-yield hydrogen bomb, fell into the swarm, trying to intercept it halfway or change its path, but the effect was minimal. Although most of the swarm was killed, it was also , making the bug swarm more dispersed and wider, reaching an astonishing tens of thousands of square kilometers.

The nuclear attack stopped!

It's not that we are worried about excessive launching of nuclear bombs, which will lead to the coming of nuclear winter. In fact, in the past year, more than 3,000 nuclear bombs were launched around the world, and on average, ten nuclear bombs detonated almost every day. If you use a mentality to describe it, it is drinking poison to quench your thirst. After all, the situation cannot be worse than it. Some scientists also claim that nuclear winter will play a positive role in curbing global warming, regardless of the radiation cloud.

However, the world has not cooled down, and radiation clouds have not appeared. Under the cover of a huge number of plants whose total mass in the world is tens of thousands of times higher than before the end of the world, the radiation is perfectly absorbed. As for the mutation caused by the absorption of radiation, it is still a word, It couldn't get any worse than that.

And the reason why the nuclear attack stops is that it is undoubtedly too wasteful to launch a nuclear bomb at this time. After all, a nuclear bomb is not a Chinese cabbage. China is not the United States and Russia, with tens of thousands of stocks.

China's total reserves are only a few hundred, and coupled with its large territory, a large number of nuclear bombs were launched at the beginning of the end of the world, and the stockpile has almost been exhausted.

Of course, with today's production capacity, it is not too difficult to manufacture nuclear bombs. If we fully exert our efforts, we can even manufacture hundreds of them a year. However, the scarcity of uranium mines and the demand for uranium for electricity have made the production of nuclear bombs very limited today, and they have always been in a "zero inventory" state.

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The insect swarm of tens of thousands of square kilometers is already a super-large insect swarm. Once it gets close, half of the reconstruction area will be flooded with insect swarms, and the newborn human civilization will be severely damaged again. The achievements that have been accumulated with great difficulty will also be destroyed. Now More than a dozen group armies and millions of soldiers had already marched to the battlefield from three directions a few days ago.

War is on the verge of breaking out!