Earth Era

Zhao Huasheng lived in this place arranged by Mengzhuo. Although the living environment here is much worse than the previous life in the capital city, for example, there are no convenient supermarkets, shopping malls, or even cheap, delicious and convenient restaurants, and no entertainment venues, but Zhao Huasheng is still very satisfied with his current life . Zhao Huasheng is not a person who is picky about living conditions.

Especially after learning about the living conditions of the people in other parts of Equator City through news programs, Zhao Huasheng even felt a little guilty about his current living environment.

People in Equatorial City usually live in crowded multi-person rooms, the air is filthy, food is limited, and entertainment is lacking. They work hard during the day and cannot rely on entertainment to relax at night. But this is already the best condition that human society can provide. It's better to live like this than to be frozen to death.

Zhao Huasheng has been maintaining close contact with various departments under the Sun Crisis Coordination and Processing Center, and any latest discoveries will be presented to Zhao Huasheng as soon as possible. But Zhao Huasheng's work still hasn't made a breakthrough.

A vague idea has already appeared in Zhao Huasheng's mind, but this idea still lacks some key evidence, which makes Zhao Huasheng unable to connect them effectively. To solve the puzzle left by Director Li Qi is not just a matter of patting your head and coming up with an idea. You can come up with an idea, but you must have evidence, otherwise the idea will be meaningless and worthless.

For example, Zhao Huasheng can put forward the idea that "creatures exist on the sun", but what about the evidence? Without evidence, what kind of changes can this idea bring to mankind?

Zhao Huasheng has been perfecting his own ideas, constantly trying to connect the existing evidence combinations, but some key parts are still missing, which makes Zhao Huasheng's work still incomplete.

The weather is getting cold. Although this is area C, although this is one of the areas closest to the equator. Even during the day, Zhao Huasheng needed to put on a coat when he went out.

Zhao Huasheng felt a faint feeling of uneasiness in his heart. This feeling does not come from news reports about how many people died somewhere, nor does it come from worrying about the fate of human beings. This kind of anxiety comes from real life. Even though walking in this area is still very quiet, Zhao Huasheng seems to be able to feel the smell of gunpowder in the air. This seems to be a gunpowder barrel. The powder barrel is filled with gunpowder, and the fuze has already started to burn. This powder barrel may detonate at any time.

At this moment, four months have passed since the outbreak of the solar crisis, and two months have passed since the launch of the Red Heart spacecraft. According to the latest report of the scientific research department, Zhao Huasheng knew that the Red Heart spacecraft had crossed the orbit of Venus and approached the orbit of Mercury. During this period of time, Zhao Huasheng paid close attention to the movements of the Scarlet Heart spacecraft every day. Facts have proved that the spacecraft made by humans is quite reliable. During this period of time, the Red Heart has not had any accidents except for some small faults that can be manually eliminated.

Today is still a normal day. Zhao Huasheng remembered that since he came to Equator City, he hadn't gone out to see the city's appearance, so he temporarily put down the materials in his hand and walked out of here with Meng Zhuo. Li Wei didn't follow because she was a little uncomfortable.

Even if the weather is cold, the streets are still bustling with people. It's just that this is different from the past in the capital city. The flow of people in the capital city is full of laughter and relaxation. There are colorful neon lights on both sides of the streets there, shops everywhere, and people dressed in fashion and smiling everywhere. Although there are equally many pedestrians here, they seem to be shrouded in a depressive tone.

Zhao Huasheng felt heavy and numb from here.

The sky is gray, and so are the sides of the street. There are no flickering neon lights, and no numerous shops. Even on this long street, there are not even people with brighter clothes. People were wearing dark, heavy clothes, walking in a hurry, and there was no smile on their faces.

Heavy work and stressful lives have robbed them of their ability to laugh.

Zhao Huasheng and Meng Zhuo walked along this long street, feeling the various forms of many human individuals struggling to survive in the last days.

When passing by a small square on the street, Zhao Huasheng saw many people sitting cross-legged on the cold ground in a neat queue, each holding something that looked like a doll in his hand, and gesturing strangely with the other hand, His eyes were closed tightly, and his face was full of piety. There were still a few people in blue robes walking around in front of the queue, and they seemed to be muttering something in their mouths. The entire square is full of dignified, serious, and even slightly weird atmosphere.

"What are they doing?" Zhao Huasheng asked.

"A group of cultists are gathering." Meng Zhuo said indifferently, "This is the Church of the God of the Sky. They believe in the God of the Sky, and firmly believe that the coldness at this moment is sent down by the God of the Sky to punish human disrespect. Giving property and pious repentance can make the sky god forgive his sins, and he can ascend to heaven after the end."

"Some people believe in such a doctrine?" Zhao Huasheng was a little surprised, "Why do cultists dare to gather in public? Why is no one to deal with it?"

"At the end of the world, even the most obvious lies will be regarded as life-saving straws. Moreover, once they fall into it, it is difficult to get out. As for why no one cares..." Mengzhuo looked a little sad, "Too much I can't manage it."

Zhao Huasheng also fell into silence. The two continued to move forward. After walking for a while, Zhao Huasheng saw a large crowd gathered on a certain street corner. In front of the crowd, an excited man was standing on a high platform, talking hoarsely into the microphone in front of him. yelling something.

"Don't you understand? The end has come, it has come! The government is unreliable, those idiots and idiots only think about their own interests, and they will abandon us without hesitation! The only ones who can save us are ourselves , only ourselves!"

It looks like a street speech, except that the words spoken by the speaker are full of emotional words and wild guesswork, without any logical coherence. But it is undeniable that the more absurd and sensational the remarks are, the easier it is to attract people's attention. In a fanatical atmosphere, people will lose their rational judgment.

At least that's the case here. Every time the man yelled a word, the crowd of onlookers would let out deafening shouts and applause. In stark contrast to the frenzy here are the pedestrians on the side of the street who still turn a blind eye to it. They seem to have been used to the existence of this phenomenon for a long time, they didn't stay here for even a second, and they didn't even bother to look over.

Zhao Huasheng felt that the world seemed to be different. In just a few short months, the world above the earth has undergone changes that Zhao Huasheng felt a little unable to adapt to. Craziness, ignorance, heaviness and depression are intertwined here, as if the air has turned into mercury, so heavy that it is almost breathless.

On this long street, among at least several thousand people, Zhao Huasheng felt that only he and Mengzhuo were alive.

Zhao Huasheng shook his head in disbelief, then left and continued walking.

Finally came across a shop that was still open. Zhao Huasheng felt a little thirsty, so he walked in and took a bottle of water from the sparse shelves. Another person came over from the side, he carefully blew off the dust on the potato chip packaging bag, and then took it in his hand.

The man took two bags in total.

Zhao Huasheng didn't pay too much attention to this person. Meng Zhuo paid the money, Zhao Huasheng walked out of the shop, and that person also walked out. Zhao Huasheng saw that the person who bought potato chips wanted to tear open a bag of potato chips, but accidentally dropped another bag of potato chips on the ground.

Potato chips fell to the ground with a crisp crash. The man bent down, trying to pick up the bag of potato chips. But just as his fingers touched the bag and before he could pinch it, the bag of potato chips suddenly disappeared.

One was slender, but the nails were not neat, it was obvious that it hadn't been trimmed for a while, and there were some black stains inside, and some rough hands picked up the bag of potato chips before that person. The man raised his head with some doubts, and saw a face of a young woman who was indifferent and calm, but there seemed to be some flames burning in his eyes.

"It's mine," said the young woman.

The man said, "Are you very hungry? Then you can take it."

The young woman nodded, turned and left with the potato chips.

At this moment, within a radius of ten meters around that person, at least a dozen people stopped at the same time. After confirming that the person had gifted the bag of chips to the woman, a man walked up to the woman and said, "Give me some."

The woman held the potato chips in her arms and shook her head warily. The man suddenly reached out, grabbed the bag of potato chips and pulled it hard. With a bang, the bag of potato chips was torn. The things inside fell to the ground with a clatter, and fell to the ground.

Time seemed to stand still at this moment, and it seemed that within this short period of time, something was ignited. Zhao Huasheng saw an indescribable and extremely absurd scene.

At this moment, more than a dozen people around rushed towards here at the same time. A young man was the fastest. He rushed here and knelt on the ground, grabbing the potato chips that fell on the ground with his hands, desperately Stuff it in your mouth.