Epoch of Twilight

After Luo Yuan left, the meeting was reconvened again.

Bi Jianping scattered a circle of cigarettes, took out another one, and lit it for himself. Suddenly, the whole conference room was filled with smoke and smelled smoky.

For a while, no one spoke. The news just received from Luo Yuan was like a bolt from the blue. Up to now, everyone's minds are still in a trance, and they can't catch their breath.

Thinking that human beings are on the verge of extinction and the earth is shattered, everyone can't help feeling a little hopeless.

"The situation is far more severe than we had guessed before. We must prepare for a long-term war of resistance. How much material reserves do we have now? I mean water and food." After a while, Bi Jianping broke the silence and said.

These two are the top priorities of all materials. As long as the food and water problems are solved, Hope City will not be in any chaos.

"If the power cannot be restored for a long time, it can last for about three months." A deputy mayor in charge of agriculture said: "Although the agricultural area can still produce normally, there has been no light, and even mutant plants cannot work normally. Growth, and the source of water resources in Hope City is groundwater pumping, which also requires electricity. It can be said that without electricity, the entire Hope City will be completely desperate."

"It seems that the most urgent thing is to restore the power first!" Bi Jianping said with a serious expression.

"But all our power plants were thermal power plants at the beginning, and they were all built on the ground. Now they have been destroyed, and even the wreckage may not be found. There are several sets of steam turbines for power generation in the warehouse, but how to find fuel for power generation? We now They are all trapped underground, and there is no way to get out, unless the houses in Hope City are demolished!" A mayor in charge of industry took a deep breath and said.

"This is a stopgap measure!" Bi Jianping said, "However, even if we burn all the houses in Hope City as fuel, how long we will last depends on when the storm subsides!"

At this time, the ground shook violently again, and then there was a muffled sound above the head. Everyone's expressions changed. It was obvious that something had collapsed. The earthquake lasted for more than ten seconds before it subsided.

From yesterday to now, there have been more than a dozen earthquakes in a row, and the frequency has already become a little numb. After a while, the meeting continued.

"I think there are at least some reserves of food and water, and it can be slowed down for the time being, but the problem of keeping warm can't be delayed for a day. Now the temperature has begun to drop rapidly, and it is estimated that winter will usher in a day or two. Previously, due to the annual temperature Appropriate, everyone generally lacks warm clothes, and I am afraid that there will be widespread freezing to death.” The Minister of Propaganda mentioned the imminent crisis.

Everyone looks haggard, but there is no solution at all. There are naturally a lot of clothes in stock, but most of them are combat uniforms made of fiber fabrics, and even the quilts are light and thin quilts. against the coming winter.

"Let me also mention that since last night, the number of suicides has exceeded 20,000. Now the people are quite pessimistic. Coupled with the issue of freezing to death mentioned by Comrade Zhou Wenbo, I think we should be more vigilant." Politics and Law Li Feng, secretary of the committee, rubbed his brows, and said with a bit of exhaustion: "Moreover, our number of police officers is seriously insufficient, and we must urgently expand the number of recruits."

Everyone was silent, and a feeling of powerlessness emerged spontaneously.

Today's Hope City has completely become an isolated island. The external environment is deteriorating, and the internal situation is panicked. The situation is already difficult, like a tight steel wire. Now it can barely maintain order, which is the result of the inertia of order and the concealment of the truth. .

Once the power system cannot be restored for a long time, darkness continues to cover the dungeon, and winter comes, under the constant depression and despair, the entire Hope City will collapse, and the law and order will deteriorate sharply. At that time, only the tens of thousands of people left in Hope City An ordinary military policeman is completely useless and exhausted!

And this is just considering ordinary people...

Hope City has many evolutionists, and there is also a sharp sword department. This department is completely independent of the city government, and the two have no subordinate relationship. If the reconstruction area was still there in the past, they could still communicate and coordinate, but now no one knows. , Will the other party have other thoughts?

What's more troublesome is that Hope City's sword department is still the direct descendant of that person. With the opponent's ability to kill aliens, all the power of Hope City combined is not enough to look at.

Force is the foundation of all power, without force, existing rights will become castles in the air, crumbling.

"I think we should bring Minister Luo in, and we can't exclude him. With him, at least the evolutionary side will be stable." At this time, the head of the organization, Ye Yonglai, finally broke the line that everyone had been avoiding deliberately but could not avoid. open topic.

"I think it's okay, but when the time comes, what position will be assigned, he will be the rank of lieutenant general. In terms of rank, he is higher than all of us. And in terms of achievements to mankind, no one can compare to Minister Luo. He saved In a sense, he also saved everyone here!" Bi Jianping said before he finished speaking.

Some people couldn't help but change their expressions slightly, and vaguely felt that a storm was brewing faintly. Today's decision is destined to be recorded in the annals of history.

...

Walking on the way back, Luo Yuan already felt that the temperature was a bit cold. It is already April, and at this time, the temperature in the morning is usually around thirty-five degrees, but at this time, it is not even ten degrees.

He quickened his pace and walked towards the house. The inside of the villa was also pitch black, except for a few simple oil lamps made by unknown people, emitting a dim light in the living room.

But it was just these few dim oil lamps that made Luo Yuan feel a little warmth again in his heart that had been cold and silent since last night.

After the women saw Luo Yuan, their eyes turned red. Since the drastic changes occurred in the reconstruction area last night, after they found that Luo Yuan was missing, they began to worry, for fear that something bad happened to Luo Yuan, but as his woman, I have to bear this kind of constant fear, and I have long been used to it.

"Okay, don't cry, everything is fine."

"You haven't eaten yet, I'll cook for you!" Huang Jiahui said, wiping away tears.

Luo Yuan nodded: "I'm not very hungry, just cook something."

His body now has two sets of energy systems, one is powered by mitochondrial cold fusion, and the other is powered by leftover food. The former has basically replaced the latter. For him, it doesn’t matter whether he eats or not. Just still inseparable from the water.

In the afternoon, officials came to visit one after another. Unlike before, these people would bring some gifts with them. This time they came empty-handed. Everyone was respectful and cautious.

This made Luo Yuan confused, but at the same time, he also vaguely grasped something. The situation in Hope City seemed to be turbulent and treacherous.

And in the evening, Wang Shishi, who was out to watch the fun, ran in hastily.

"Brother Luo, you really wiped out the aliens and saved the reconstruction zone?" She blinked her eyes and asked in surprise before she could breathe evenly, as if she was meeting Luo Yuan for the first time.

"How do you know?" Luo Yuan asked in surprise, he didn't tell his family about the aliens at all.

"Government personnel outside are making propaganda. Could it be that there are really aliens, and you killed them?" Wang Shishi was surprised.

His villa is located in a remote area, and there are few people living nearby. It is quiet and quiet, but at the same time, there is no news. He listened intently, and suddenly various subtle sounds penetrated into his ears. Sure enough, he heard someone a few kilometers away. living deeds.

Huang Jiahui and the others next to her were shocked when they heard Wang Shishi's words. As for the newcomer Ye Qiuyu, they even covered their mouths in surprise.

Luo Yuan had no choice but to briefly talk about the aliens from the beginning to the end again, and then ignored the unbelievable expressions of the women, thinking secretly in his heart.

This time, the city government pushed him to the position of a hero and savior of mankind.

Now all the people in Hope City are panicked and hopeless about the future. The government's promotion of him will undoubtedly inject a boost into the already desperate hearts of the people.

It's just that this kind of momentum, for the Hope City Government, is completely drinking poison to quench thirst. While creating gods, it also means that power has been shaken. This is also when the reconstruction area is still there. , There has never been a reason for publicity.

It also led to the fact that ordinary people knew nothing about Luo Yuan except some upper echelons knew a little about Luo Yuan.

Obviously this time the city government has been unable to maintain the situation and is ready to hand over power.

In fact, even if they firmly grasp the power, Luo Yuan will force them to hand it over.

He wasn't someone with a strong desire for power, and he wasn't particularly interested in ruling the Reconstruction Zone.

It’s just that the current human situation seems to have survived a catastrophe, but in fact the crisis has not really ended at all. Ignoring the next long nuclear winter, the Bossian spacecraft is likely to come again. This time he is lucky that all the aliens have been killed , but there is no guarantee that the next time will be so lucky.

What's more, once it comes again, the power of this group of aliens will definitely be even more terrifying.

Wanting to continue the human race, Luo Yuan thought about it, and he had no choice but to escape to the universe in the spaceship of the Boxing people.

But he has the highest authority of the spaceship, and unless he dies, he cannot be transferred at all. At that time, any decision-making cannot be separated from him.

In fact, the city government is more urgent than expected, which also shows that the situation in Hope City is more serious.

Not the next day, just at six o'clock in the evening, the senior officials of the city government came to his villa collectively for a closed-door meeting.

What was said at the meeting, except for a few participants, no one could know, but after coming out, everyone was drenched in cold sweat, their faces were pale, and there was a kind of suppressed excitement on their faces.

Originally, Luo Yuan thought that the situation could be delayed for at least ten days and a half months, but he never expected that the situation would be so urgent that it was almost impossible to delay for a moment.

At this time, the city government is completely like sitting on a powder keg, and it will explode completely at any time. No wonder, no one tried to take over this hot potato.

That night, Luo Yuan entered the city hall and sat in the mayor's office.

Luo Yuan's first order was to summon all the surviving electrical engineers in Hope City overnight, researchers from various laboratories, and a large number of workers, and then directly start the curvature flight in the office and leave Hope City.

An hour later, he returned from space with a five-meter-diameter metal ball already in his hand.

This is the deep nuclear fusion furnace disassembled from the Boxing air-ground integrated aircraft he killed first, and it was packed and shipped back by Luo Yuan, including the auxiliary equipment, which can be regarded as waste.

This kind of Boxingren fusion furnace has a very high technological content and is also very safe. When the energy output stops, it will automatically jump to the dormant state.

Just after it was placed on the ground of the city government hall that was urgently cleared, a large number of researchers and engineers who had been assembled overnight surrounded it with strange eyes, with shock and excitement on their faces.

Every smooth and complex surface on it, every part made of special materials, and even every inscription on alien metal attracted everyone's amazement.

"Don't be surprised by it. You will have time to read it later. Let's start experimenting one by one now, but pay attention to safety." Luo Yuan said.

The Bosingian civilization and human beings are two completely different civilizations, and no one here has been exposed to nuclear fusion, let alone analyze the technological content of this direct thermoelectric conversion fusion furnace that far surpasses human beings.

But you don’t need to understand this at all. As a power output device, its basic principles are the same, and it outputs current through the positive and negative electrodes. What’s more, the more advanced the technology, the easier the operation.

It has very few operation buttons, only three, and after a little groping, I already understood the specific meaning of the words on the buttons.

Hibernate, shut down and start up.

When it is closed, the fusion furnace stops working completely, and the fuel tank is unlocked, which can be easily pulled apart by pulling on the surface.

After analysis by scientific researchers, the fuel inside is not other substances, not ordinary hydrogen, nor helium 3 used in human nuclear fusion, but a kind of ultra-pure water. Of course, this is a deep fusion furnace, even ordinary pure water is irrelevant.

Looking at the scene where these engineers are carefully groping for the function of the button, this fusion furnace has been quite mature in the technology of the Bossing civilization, and it is widely used. Even intelligent robots and smart bombs have their own miniature nuclear fusion furnaces. It is also very safe, with its own safety protection measures. During the process of the engineer's groping, there was no danger from the beginning to the end, but Luo Yuan felt that it was necessary for him to go to the spaceship and use his brain to print out Boxing characters and Chinese reference materials into a book for organizational learning.

It is conceivable that there will be more and more Boxing devices in contact with in the future. It will be a very troublesome and dangerous thing to not understand the Boxing language. At least before human beings fully absorb the Boxing technology, Boxing The star language will be the most important foreign language.

In the early hours of the morning, a large number of electrical engineers had begun small-scale experiments. When the lights were lit up in the hall, the hall that was originally dim under the oil lamp suddenly became brightly lit.

"Mayor, its maximum output power is astonishing, and the power is almost endless. Fortunately, it can be automatically and intelligently adjusted according to the usage, otherwise we would not be able to find a suitable transformer." The chief engineer of Jie's power station said excitedly to Luo Yuan.

"When will the grid-connected operation be possible?" Luo Yuan asked. It is already early in the morning, and the temperature has become colder and colder. It has reached minus ten degrees. If it continues to drag on, I am afraid that frostbite and death will soon occur.

"I hope that the lines in various parts of the city are still undergoing intense maintenance. The electromagnetic pulse during the previous disaster has caused most of the circuit bulbs to burn out. We must first check and install them again, and wait until they are correct before they can be connected to the grid for power generation. It is estimated that it will not be until the afternoon of the third day. It's gone." The chief engineer couldn't help being a little nervous when facing Luo Yuan.

"It's been too long, the people can't wait so long." Luo Yuan shook his head and beckoned.

Bi Jianping, the deputy mayor who was directing nearby, trotted over quickly. Now he respected and feared Luo Yuan. It was one thing to hear it, but another thing to see it with his own eyes. The starman's fusion furnace appeared here, completely proving what the other party said before, without any falsehood.

"It seems that we need to gather more workers, conduct simple training, and carry out maintenance of various circuits. During this time, we will first start up some factories to produce heating equipment and warm clothes. I don't want to see the phenomenon of freezing to death. "

The destruction outside is only the heavily polluting metal smelting and chemical industries, and there are more factories underground. There is no technical difficulty in producing such heating equipment.

"I'll do it right away." Bi Jianping said hastily.

"Wait! There is one more thing." Luo Yuan stopped Bi Jianping again, and said seriously: "Now Hope City is in a state of panic, we can't let the people do nothing in the dark and think wildly, which is easy to cause accidents. We must let them move Get up, go back and discuss the specific method with other people, even if some materials are wasted, it doesn't matter."