Annihilation of the solar system

Dome-like dark clouds pressed heavily on the entire Jinghua City, and dense rain curtains seemed to connect the sky and the earth. The whole world was always as dim as evening, making it difficult to tell the time.

However, none of the buildings in the rain were covered with a hazy film of water. If they could not still breathe freely, based on the sight in front of them, it would not be difficult to believe that the Capital City had submerged into the water.

Southeast of Jinghua City, outside the Sixth Ring Road, there is a forest park built on a hill. The hill is not high, but it stands out among the endless fertile fields of the Beijing-Tianjin plain. On the observation tower in the park

, when the weather is clear, you can see the outline of Langzhou City in the southeast and the high-rise buildings in the corner of Jinghua City in the northwest.

In the observation tower, Xia Lan was looking at Langzhou City in the rain and fog through a telescope.

"The tide should have completely submerged Langzhou City and reached the industrial area on the outskirts of the city."

Next to him, Wei Xu drew a new curve along the contour lines with a pen at the location described by Xia Lan on the map. After finishing the drawing, he looked up and thought for a while:

"Today is probably not a day of high tide. It seems that the tide will push forward, and it may reach our feet. This Jinghua City has really become a coastal city."

Xia Lan adjusted the focus carefully.

"It seems that most of the Arctic and Antarctic glaciers have melted, otherwise the water level would not have risen so high, and they are melting faster than we expected. According to predictions, the sea level will eventually rise by 60 meters, and the Sixth Ring Road behind us will

If it is submerged, the new coastline will reach outside the Fifth Ring Road."

Wei Xu put down his pen and map and looked at the pattering rain curtain outside the curtain wall:

"The rain here is a little lighter than in Jinghua City. Now the sky is covered tightly with dark clouds, and the star ring can't be seen at all."

"When we returned to Beijing from Vladivostok, the star ring began to throw away material again, and then it started to rain. I don't know if there is any relationship between the two." Xia Lan responded.

Wei Xu walked to the glass curtain wall, looked at the street not far away that was covered in yellow muddy water, and said:

"Hey! Senior sister, with such poor visibility, can you be sure that the flooded industrial area is not waterlogging caused by heavy rain, but the rising tide of sea water!"

Xia Lan straightened up and said, "You will know if you come and see for yourself."

Wei Xu came to the telescope. In the eyepiece was an industrial factory area built during the crisis era. Between the factory buildings arranged in a grid, waves with white spray passed through. When they reached the flat ground, they converged into a line again, slowly

The ground pushes closer and then disappears.

"It is impossible for urban waterlogging to have such a large-scale, sustained, and uniform direction surge. Let's go back and report quickly. Teacher Shen and the combat command center are still waiting for our data." Xia Lan said while wearing rubber waterproof pants.

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Because of the lush vegetation, they could not feel the heavy rain while walking in the forest park. However, the soil under their feet had become as muddy as a swamp due to continuous rainfall, but this only affected their progress.

Speed. When you get to the edge of the road, the situation is different.

The muddy water like the water of the Yellow River covered all the roads, making it impossible to see what was going on under their feet. They were connected to each other with ropes and groped forward in the water behind the leading soldiers. At first, the water was only up to their knees.

The waterlogging level behind the block has reached thigh level.

There was an assault boat tied to the street light pole in front. With the help of the leading soldiers, Xia Lan and Wei Xu climbed onto the boat. The assault boat drove along a scenic river whose direction could no longer be seen for a while.

As the water level deepened, we drove directly onto the wide road, and the rain in the sky became heavier.

The waves set off by the Zodiac went over the looming car roofs on both sides of the road and hit the rolling shutter doors on the ground floor of the building, making a muffled sound that echoed through the buildings. The speed of the boat was not fast, because the Zodiac needed to be carefully maneuvered around it.

Half-submerged in the water are combat mechs, armored vehicles and sandbag barricades in the middle of the road.

After passing the Third Ring Road, the rain was pouring down. Wei Xu and Xia Lan both picked up the ladles in the boat and started pouring out the accumulated water.

"How can our northern city's drainage system withstand such heavy rain? This has become Venice." Wei Xu complained.

Xia Lan continued to splash water, and the splashing water had already soaked the hair next to his face:

"Yes, there has been more precipitation in the past few days than in the whole year in Beijing. I don't know how long it will continue to rain. What's even more troublesome is that dark clouds cover the sky, and we can't see the star ring at all.

There’s movement.”

"Do you think they want to drown us in the rain?" asked the soldier driving the boat.

"No, the total amount of water that came to the earth from the remains of Europa, including the melting ice caps of the North and South Poles, cannot completely flood the earth's continents.

Although it will bring serious disasters to human civilization, it will not wipe out mankind. We can rebuild civilization in less than a hundred years. What I am worried about now is that this heavy rain is just paving the way for their next move.

" Xia Lan replied.

Wei Xu poured a ladle of water onto a submerged combat mech that just passed by and said:

"Sister, you are right. I think so too. All the methods of attack by alien civilizations are different from our expectations. It seems that our twelve years of planetary defense preparations have not worked at all."

Xia Lan dropped the gourd and rubbed her sore arm:

"That cannot be said completely. Without adequate preparation and organization, at least when the big tide caused by the melting of the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps hits, almost no one in the coastal cities will survive."

The assault boat drove into the compound of the Ministry of National Defense and stopped in front of the building. The steps that were not yet submerged in the water were like a series of small waterfalls directed at the rain pouring down from the eaves. Xia Lan and Wei Xu took off their raincoats.

Just go straight to the conference room.

The officers and experts gathered in front of the map where Wei Xu had drawn the latest high tide line and studied it for a while. The commander lamented:

"The ice caps of the Arctic and Antarctic have almost completely melted, and the sea level has risen by more than 60 meters. The Haimen urban agglomeration, the Shanghai urban agglomeration, and the Pearl River urban agglomeration no longer exist. The North China Plain, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River plains have become a swamp, and Qilu Province

Only an isolated island in Qizhou was left.

The area of ​​the European continent has been reduced by 1/3, most of the east and west coasts of North America have sunk into the water, the Texas desert and the Amazon rainforest have turned into a swamp, and a large number of island countries have turned into a vast ocean.

The latest equipment that we spent more than ten years developing and the city fortress carefully deployed on the coastline completely collapsed in just a few days. And most of the enemies are still in the star rings in low-Earth orbit..."

The commander paused for a moment and looked at Zuo Mingyi:

"Chief of Staff Zuo, have you calculated the number of personnel losses?"

Zuo Mingyi looked gloomy:

"Communications among important departments in Jinghua City have improved to some extent, but external communications still rely on carrier pigeons. The continuous rain that started two days ago has seriously affected the efficiency of carrier pigeon communications. At present, the one we have the clearest information about is the one closest to Jinghua.

In the Haimen urban agglomeration, 75% of people have completed the evacuation.

The vast majority of them are D-type troops and armed civilians, militia and reserve forces. Except for a small number of amphibious armored vehicles, the heavy equipment has basically been lost.

From the Shanghai urban agglomeration, the troops patrolling outside the city today picked up a dying homing pigeon. Judging from the content of the information, they spontaneously organized an evacuation when the tide had just risen. However, there are large areas in the west and north of Shanghai.

In the low-altitude plains, their evacuation route is short but very narrow, and it is expected that less than 60% of the people will be able to complete the evacuation.

No news has been received from other places, but the situation should be similar. Fortunately, we have trained and organized a large number of people in advance, otherwise when this huge tide hits, at least 1 billion people around the world will not be able to escape."

The commander closed his eyes tightly for several seconds. When he opened them again, his eyes were filled with determination.

"We have no time to feel sad and dejected about our losses now. What we have to defend is the line of defense for human survival. This is a line of defense that has no strategic depth and cannot be retreated. The battle has just begun, and the enemy will not give us a chance to breathe.

Now, first of all, we must continue to find ways to restore communications and repair more equipment, and secondly, we must try our best to rescue the soldiers and civilians who are still trapped by the tide, especially Jeju, which has been reduced to an isolated island."

The commander looked at Xia Lan, Shen Manling and the other experts.

"At the same time, we must also find ways to figure out the enemy's movements in low-Earth orbit and why the rain is falling. We must also try our best to predict the enemy's next movement. This is something you can only work hard on."