Doomsday Fast Travel: Kill That Black Butterfly

Chapter 3 The Pain of Breathing (3)

Author: Jie Wuming

Chapter 3 The Pain of Breathing (3)

Underground cities are called underground. In fact, due to construction time and architectural layout constraints, some cities also have city structures on the ground. This part of the city is hidden in the mountain, and some less critical functional areas are set up in it.

Yu Di held the things in his arms and stood in the back row of the crowd. The underground city defense wall was visually estimated to be twenty meters high and backed by a mine. In comparison, the entrance through which people passed through seemed quite small. Entering the city

The review is very strict. This world has extremely advanced identification technology. From birth, the coalition government registers everyone's genetic information and creates a unique identification chip, which is implanted in the collarbone. This person's personal

Files are also stored inside and can be read using special instructions.

Yu Di looked at the scanner blocking everyone's way and the soldiers watching eagerly around him, and silently asked the system in his mind: "Can I pass that instrument?"

As soon as she finished asking, she felt a swelling and pain under her collarbone. She reached out and touched it, and there was a faint hard lump.

"Hey, can you also create a physical ID card for me?"

The system did not respond. Yu Di was used to this. The only time this broken system communicated with her was when she was bound to this apocalyptic system after her death. The system barely said a few words to explain its existence. After that, in addition to transmitting

message and never said a word again. In the virtual world of the novice tutorial, all the instructions given to her by the system were images, directly forming "ideas" in her mind instead of talking to her.

The process of waiting to enter the city was long and boring. Lanlong and Cheng Die had ground assets and other procedures to go through. Those standing in the same queue as Yu Di were all, well, proletarians for the time being.

These people are generally silent and highly alert to the environment, so few people talk to them. Yu Di doesn't know anyone, so he has no choice but to harass the system in his mind.

Yu Di felt that judging by human standards, this system was either language impaired or autistic, otherwise why would it not respond to her jokes.

Just as Yu Di was changing her strategy and using more aggressive trash talk to try to get the system to speak, someone suddenly tugged at the corner of her clothes. Yu Di looked down and saw a thin little boy holding a hand that was older than him.

The smaller one has a carrot head, and both of them are wearing inappropriately large masks.

"Sister." The little boy said timidly.

"What are you doing?" Yu Di took a big step back from the front of the team, carefully keeping a meter away from the boy.

"Um, are you alone?" Two pairs of big watery eyes looked at her pitifully.

The alarm bell rang in Yu Di's mind, and some bad memories from his life came to mind: "If you have something to do, go to the uncle with the gun in front of you. Don't come to me."

The little boy was so severely rejected that he lowered his head in grievance and said to his sister: "You still don't believe me when I said no one would be willing to take us."

"Sister, can we go with you?" The little carrot-headed girl looked more delicate. Even though she was dressed in shabby clothes and half of her face was covered by a mask, her outstanding appearance could not be concealed.

Yu Di was about to put on a ferocious look to scare them, when she heard the old lady a few seats behind her say: "You two kids, stand at the back, just like your gangster father!"

When the two children saw the old lady with mean eyebrows, they immediately put away their aggrieved expressions and scolded her angrily: "There is no one to see the old lady to death!" They turned around and ran to the front of the team, and disappeared after a while.

The old lady took a "poof" and saw Yu Di looking at her, and explained helplessly: "It's not that my old lady is mean, these two children just want to get a quota. The father of these two children has committed a crime in our production team.

It was the superiors who prevented his family from entering the city, not me. Girl, you are still young, so you cannot let them harm you."

"Is it possible to take advantage of the quota?" Yu Di was a little surprised.

The old lady was even more surprised than Yu Di: "You don't know? Why don't young people care about anything these days?"

The conversation between the two was like bubbles suddenly rising in a calm lake, and other people standing around them began to join in the chat.

A tall and thin aunt standing in front of Yu Di poked her arm and said, "You still don't understand this. The father of those two children ran away and no one took them into the city. They are considered orphans.

Sometimes they will be given to families with children who have been assigned rooms."

"Isn't that bad?" Yu Di asked curiously.

"Tsk, who wants to take care of other people's children if they have their own? Besides, the government has said that resources are limited. People like us who don't have houses live in large dormitories, and food and drink are all rationed. Those of them who have

The room is also very tight, and children are a burden at times like this."

The bald man in front of the old lady said, "What you said is too unpleasant. Didn't the government say that there are subsidies for families that take in orphans?"

"How long will the subsidy last? If they can live a good life after going there, why don't the two children wait for the allocation? It's fine if they don't have to deprive themselves of food. Why are they still so stupid at such an age? They just know this, wait

I'm trying to deceive those who don't know." As she spoke, she glanced at Yu Di, who looked innocent.

The uncle frowned: "Would it be better for them to find strangers and bring them in?"

"Of course, if you bring them in, you will be registered as a guardian, what do you think?"

The uncle stopped talking. Of course he knew that guardians have the responsibility of guardians, like that distribution situation, because they know that these families suffer the disadvantages, and they don’t care much about the situation of the orphans, as long as they are not blatantly abused, those

The parents of the family are not considered guardians of the orphans, they are only considered "hosts". In fact, they do not need to be responsible for anything other than providing food, clothing and housing. But if they are registered as guardians, they will have to take care of the children before they reach adulthood.

Responsible for all life.

The uncle held it in for a long time and said, "These two children are quite clever."

The aunt echoed: "I know how to rely on people."

The conversation between the two children stopped here. Although they hated the ghosts of these two little things, they also knew that in this society where it is difficult for adults to survive, what can you ask for two children who are struggling to survive?

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Yu Di listened with great interest as they talked about their past lives. They were all older people and survivors of various malignant diseases. Their lives were almost the "history of worsening pollution" in this world. Yu Di

Judging from the world's distress messages previously transmitted to her by the system, Yu Di discovered a point that was ignored by future humans.

In the original course of events, after the coalition government passed the "Lockdown Act", it concentrated its resources on researching ways to deacidify soil, hoping to change the surface environment within twenty years, and privately restarted genome research while cultivating people who could metabolize acidic gases.

plants, while cultivating embryos that can adapt to acidic environments. The former failed inexplicably, while the latter cultivated many strange creatures. After being placed on the surface, they lost tracking and monitoring due to the collapse of the underground city order, and failed to become human genes.

Opportunities for evolution.

It was the complete failure of the plant experiment that caught Yu Di's attention.

The thing she was holding in her arms was already huge for a tuber plant, but she felt that it was very fresh and still had room to grow. It's not like the underground city was hidden thousands of meters below the surface.

During the time, they didn't realize that this thing is not affected by the acidic environment?

This was not mentioned in the distress message sent by the world. Before she dug up this thing, she always thought that the distress message referred to the death of all living things, and that the world directly turned into a dead place. Now it seems that this is not the case.

It stands to reason that as long as there are living things, let alone plants, even microorganisms, new civilizations will always be born as time goes by. Why does the world think that these "remnants" are its last civilization?

It is a very strange thing in itself for such a world that "still has a chance" to ask for help from the apocalyptic system.

Yu Di looked at the endless queue, eyes blank, and began to quickly review everything that had happened in the world since the city was closed, as transmitted to her by the system.

(End of chapter)