Epoch of Twilight

Seeing that there was nothing left and right, Luo Yuan left the office with his hands behind his back, ready to go to the volcano to inspect it.

Heating lamps have been lit on the street, extending endlessly on the street like a long dragon. The existence of these heating lamps keeps the temperature here at a temperature of more than ten degrees day and night. It is unimaginable that the outside has already Freeze everything.

There were not many pedestrians on the road, only twos and threes passing by in a hurry. Of course, it was only two o'clock in the afternoon, and it was not time to eat. If it was a few hours later, the place would immediately become crowded.

At the beginning, Hope City implemented the large canteen system in order to control food and vegetables. Although the situation has greatly improved now, due to various objective reasons and to avoid wasting materials, this system is still maintained.

After all, starting a business with a family as a unit not only considers the sufficiency of food and vegetables, but also requires a large number of kitchen utensils. In today's situation, natural gas or gas is simply out of the question, and the only energy that can be used is electricity. of various kitchen appliances.

With Hope City's current technical strength and material reserves, these are simply not something that can be done in a short period of time, and it is not necessary at all.

As for the lack of traffic on the street, it is natural that it is still in a state of martial law, and there are guards everywhere on both sides.

This is also impossible. With the survivors from the three nearby cities migrating here one after another, the population of Hope City is in a state of explosion, and now the jobs that Hope City can provide do not need so many people at all, even in order to increase The employment rate, reducing the use of machines, and repairing the entire dungeon, doing infrastructure work, still has most people in a state of unemployment.

With these millions of people staying at home with nothing to do, coupled with the natural conflict between the local population and the non-local population, this is undoubtedly a huge powder keg, and the continued martial law has become what it should be.

Moreover, this martial law is likely to continue for quite a long time, until humans move into the spaceship, and perhaps it will gradually improve at that time.

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Luo Yuan walks out of the dungeon

It was snowing heavily outside at this time.

Since the disaster, snowfall has become extremely frequent, almost every two or three days. Looking at the snow on the ground that is already one meter thick, it is obvious that it has been snowing for a long time.

These snowflakes were gray-black and carried a large amount of dust. Before they fell on him, the next moment, the air around him shook slightly, and the snow on his body was suddenly dispersed by a kind of will.

When he kicked his feet, his body immediately flew into the air like an arrow, but in an instant, there was a sharp whistling sound in the air, a sedimentary cloud disappeared out of thin air, and the figure quickly turned into a small dot, flying towards the sky with lightning speed.

He first inspected the huge crater blasted by several antimatter bombs as usual, and found that everything was fine. The volcano underneath had been completely frozen, forming a thick ice layer, and there was no steam leaking nearby. Obviously, the previous countermeasures are still effective.

Next, he turned around and inspected the nearby volcano that was already erupting.

After venting for half a month, the volcano has gradually calmed down. The originally red magma had already cooled and was covered by ice. Apart from the faint steam bubbling from the top of the volcano, there was no abnormality.

Luo Yuan heaved a sigh of relief, and had to say that this harsh climate was not useless sometimes, and the volcano was also greatly affected by the extreme cold of minus 60 or 70 degrees.

The area here is already in a wilderness area. This vibrant world is now completely silent in Luo Yuan's eyes. Countless huge plants have been frozen by gray-black ice, like huge metal sculptures. Less than the slightest vitality.

Looking at everything in front of him, Luo Yuan couldn't help feeling a little heavy in his heart.

He strolled in this forest. The forest that was full of dangers and the roar of birds and beasts that he was used to have already disappeared at this time. The cold winter comparable to the polar nights of the north and south poles has wiped out most of the vitality here.

He stood quietly for a while, just about to return.

At this time, Luo Yuan's keen ears suddenly heard a rustling sound coming from not far away.

With a thought in his heart, he immediately gave up his mind and followed the sound. The sound came from five or six kilometers away, and his sight was blocked by dense tree trunks. However, for Luo Yuan, who has four-dimensional vision, this tree trunk blocking his sight no effect.

I saw a squirrel-like mutant beast carefully poking out from the ice and snow. This is a squirrel-like mutant beast with a half-meter-long body, which can only be regarded as a small creature among mutant beasts.

It is covered with beige thick and fluffy hair, looks quite fat, looks like a round ball, it is obvious that even in this severe winter, it survives quite well.

After it came out, its small black eyes looked left and right vigilantly, and its long red ears moved flexibly, looking very cautious.

After a long time, it suddenly ran fast. Its seemingly short limbs ran quite fast. It quickly climbed up a nearby big tree that was frozen, and its sharp nails were firmly nailed into the ice layer. , making its movements unaffected and extremely flexible.

After a while, it climbed to a hollow in the big tree where it was obviously a tree hole, and then, its limbs planed quickly, and the hard ice layer was broken by it, and the broken ice splashed everywhere for a while.

A small hole was soon dug out by it. The opening was very small, only allowing its body to go in and out. Immediately, it got in with difficulty.

Luo Yuan waited patiently for a while, seeing that it didn't come out for a long time, he couldn't help feeling a little curious.

He floated up and approached the big tree silently. With his keen hearing, he suddenly heard a "click" and "click" sound similar to chewing.

Could it be that this "squirrel" is still storing food here.

Luo Yuan thought it was interesting, but he didn't want to disturb the eating of this "squirrel". After all, this was the first creature found on land after the disaster besides King Kong.

He continued to wait patiently for more than ten minutes. Perhaps the squirrel was finally full, and it got out again. It first exposed half of its head, looked left and right vigilantly, and waited quietly for a while. , I didn't find any danger.

It finally got out, and then gently stroking the surrounding snow with its claws, covering the tree hole again, then it jumped from the tree, drilled into the frozen ground again, and quickly disappeared without a trace.

Seeing this, Luo Yuan didn't find it strange. Compared to staying in the tree hole, the hole under the frozen soil was obviously much warmer than the tree hole.

When the "squirrel" disappeared, Luo Yuan looked curiously at the frozen tree. The ice layer on its surface was as thick as 30 centimeters, covering the tree like armor. He held the tree with his hands, The strength spit out slightly.

The ice layer under this extreme cold is hard but also quite fragile. Once it is broken, the entire ice layer will be torn apart.

As a large amount of crushed ice peeled off the tree, the original color of the bark was suddenly revealed.

The whole tree looked bare, only the trunk remained, and all the leaves had fallen off with the crushed ice. Immediately afterwards, Luo Yuan also cleaned up the ice in the tree hole that "Squirrel" had visited.

This tree hole was unremarkable, there were neither animal corpses nor stored fruits, but he was surprised to see that the bottom of the tree hole was dug open by sharp claws, and milky white juice was seeping.

He gently wiped off the juice with his hands, revealing the slightly green wood inside.

He was greatly surprised, the inside of this tree was not frozen, it was still alive, at this time it seemed to be in hibernation, suspended most of its metabolism, quietly waiting for the sun to come to the earth again.

The vitality of these plants is stronger than imagined, but Luo Yuan thinks about it, these lives are not ordinary life, but some mutant life, and even some life has exceeded the scope of common sense, and it is not comparable before the end of the world.

This discovery made Luo Yuan very excited.

Although in order to avoid the threat of the Boxing people, he has already decided to let human beings leave the earth temporarily and run to the universe, but the earth is the home planet of human beings after all, and one day, human beings will return.

This day may be a long time, but Luo Yuan firmly believes in it.

...

Luo Yuan left the big tree and continued to look around.

He found that more and more big trees are still alive. Generally speaking, the higher the level, the bigger the tree, the more able to resist this harsh environment, while some low-level trees and most of the shrubs are already in the Die in extreme cold.

During this period, he sporadically discovered that some trees even developed unique evolutions in order to resist the cold winter.

One of them, in particular, exudes steaming heat. Around it, Luo Yuan can hardly see the slightest bit of ice and snow, and its tree body is not as bare as other plants, but instead looks lush and leafy. The vibrant scene, the canopy formed by the branches is like a huge green net covering a radius of several kilometers, and it stands out from the crowd in this endless silence.

Its existence completely forms a shelter for creatures and a simple and fragile ecological chain.

The whole tree is full of birds and beasts, and the density of creatures is almost staggering. Fortunately, this tree is big enough, like a small forest, otherwise it would not be able to bear such a burden.

Of course, such biological shelters are not the only ones. During the high-altitude flight, Luo Yuan found that there are also some areas. Although no plants have undergone similar evolution, due to the special geographical environment, some areas emit a lot of geothermal heat, resulting in the formation of unique habitats. The oasis of life forms a miracle of life in this dead and silent forbidden area.

However, most of these oases are too small. Luo Yuan found that the largest area is only a few hundred square kilometers, and the small ones are only a few hundred square meters. The endless silence is the most common color nowadays.

Before he knew it, Luo Yuan had come to the ocean, he subconsciously stopped, his eyes widened slightly, everything in front of him was an extremely shocking scene.

I saw that the entire ocean was completely frozen, but this was not the reason why Luo Yuan was shocked.

He fell slowly and stood on the shoreline.

Now the land and ocean are frozen, but Luo Yuan still saw the coastline at a glance. Because the upper seawater was frozen, and the density of ice was much lower than that of water, the ice layer of the entire ocean rose as a whole. If a plateau is formed.

He looked at the glacier that had risen at least 100 meters in front of him, and couldn't recover for a long time.