Gene from the 13th Department of Bright City

Six days later.

The spaceship floated slowly over a city where only building bases could be seen. It was just 11 o'clock in the evening. Gene looked at the research successes in the past few days. He also heard Shakira talk a lot about the technological situation of the United States.

Although Shakira didn't know the principles or anything like that, she could describe the functions of many machines, and the people in Section 10 made preliminary guesses based on the junk left behind by the United States.

Jean was preparing in advance to go to the United States. After they arrived at the coast, they had to continue upward and go to the Dragon Lighthouse.

Now the spacecraft has just arrived at the coastline, 11 days later than the original plan. If they had followed the original plan, they would have arrived at the center of the ocean, a place with many mimics.

Now the plan to go out to collect resources is still on hold. There are still about 7,000 kilometers to the center of the ocean, and 15,000 kilometers to reach the United States.

Gene became a little excited. He was interested in the current matter, and Tang Rao came in with a cup of coffee.

"how's it going?"

Tang Rao nodded.

"After the last surgery, Tasia should be fine. After we go back, I will put her in Department 13 and let her recover slowly."

Gene laughed.

“Really a nice place to go.”

Jean continued to take a sip of the wine. Tang Rao sat down and looked at the values ​​​​on the light and shadow screen. They had hardly seen cities in the past few days. There were no cities on the plains, only many in ruins. of monsters.

In many places, no traces can be seen at all. When Jean last went out decades ago, he could still see some dilapidated cities. Unexpectedly, everything had disappeared in just a few decades.

"My feelings are really complicated now."

As Tang Rao said, Gene asked.

"What's wrong? Why is it complicated?"

Tang Rao thought for a while and said.

"How should I put it? You all have to leave. If the four of us are left after I go back, the workload will be huge. Although we don't care about the city's current policies and other things, we still need to start solving it. Some technical difficulties.”

"Isn't this great? You don't like scientific research very much."

Tang Rao smiled helplessly.

"It's true that I've been addicted for a while, but I want to be more relaxed and comfortable. I don't know what's going on in the city now, but I'm sure something big will happen, so I'm afraid that a lot of problems will arise when I go back to the city. At that point we will have to be forced to participate in the solution.”

"Are you that worried about Alpha?"

Tang Rao shook his head.

"It's not that I'm not worried, but I'm not worried at all. You also know how tough that girl is when doing things, and many of the things she wanted to do in the past were blocked by us. Now if she dominates the city , I always think it will be difficult.”

"It's been so long, are you still thinking about these questions?"

Jean asked and Tang Rao laughed.

"You think I'm the same as you? There are some things I must think carefully about."

"You guys go back and work hard."

Seeing that Gene didn't want to play the city, Tang Rao wisely said nothing.

"I heard Shakira say, you don't want to go back to the city? What do you want to do?"

"Use your last bit of ability to help Bright City clear the obstacles to the future."

Tang Rao laughed.

"That's what you say at best, but at worst you don't want to care about anything in the city."

Tang Rao said, took the cigarette from Gene and lit it.

"Okay, let's not talk about it anymore. These things will happen in the future. Now we basically have a basic concept of the United States. They should still be the same as before. They are controlled by capital. The bottom is still in chaos, and the top has it. More power to decide, or rather they decide, how people in the United States should live their lives.”

Gene nodded.

"No matter in the past or now, as long as the people they hold power are always the same group of people, then there will be no changes in this country."

The two of them looked at the distant place, and could already vaguely see the outline of the giant dragon lighthouse. This giant lighthouse that was three hundred years old but still stood under the dark night sky was shocking.

Guyi said that this lighthouse uses quite advanced technology, which can only guarantee that it will not collapse within 500 years, or even die semi-permanently.

And the most important thing is that the location of the lighthouse is not the main location of the impact. When the impact comes, it will have less than 1% of the original impact, so the lighthouse will definitely be able to stand.

Gradually, the dark cylindrical outline in front of him became clearer. Tang Rao had only seen the tip of the iceberg of the lighthouse on TV before.

"There are still dozens of kilometers to go. It's time to wake everyone up."

"Isn't this good? Let everyone sleep for a while."

As Jean said, Tang Rao pressed the wake-up button. After a while, many people came over with coffee, yawning. The lighthouse could already be seen in the image captured in front of him, as if it was a pillar reaching into the sky. Soaring into the sky, the interior of the lighthouse is as big as 4 football fields.

Soon everyone started gearing up, because there were some clearly visible buildings near the lighthouse, and Gu Yi looked excitedly at the place below.

"It's a military camp. You can still see the military camp."

Gu Yi excitedly introduced to everyone that there was a group army station near the lighthouse, and a small city had been formed near the lighthouse, but soon the small city was no longer visible.

"After the disaster happened, both my daughter and son-in-law entered the lighthouse, but I was in space. I didn't even have time to say the last words to my daughter."

Gu Yi smiled bitterly, and the voice in the control value began to disappear. Everyone watched carefully. The spacecraft began to land slowly. In the giant square directly opposite the lighthouse, there was nothing left here except There is dust.

Witte alone led people from Section 10 to search and guard outside, while Jean Tangrao and Gu Yi led more than a dozen people from Section 10 into the lighthouse.

Shakira looked at the lighthouse in shock. It was the first time she had seen such a huge building. She could not believe that this lighthouse was erected more than two hundred years ago.

Following his memory, Gu Yi quickly led everyone to find a door under a lighthouse. The heavy door had long since disappeared, and only a small piece could be seen. This alloy door with a thickness of more than 3 meters can withstand nuclear attacks. .

With a heavy heart, Gu Yi led everyone in. Once inside, there was nothing. In front of him was a huge and empty hall, with some rags of almost unrecognizable shapes placed in front of him.

There is a big hole in the middle, Gu Yi said.

"There are still some facilities down there, but they should be gone."

Tasia couldn't remember exactly where she saw the man, but it was certain that it was above. At that time, Tasia also went up from the decaying stairs surrounding the entire lighthouse.

Obviously, one or two people would be fine, but more than one person would definitely not work. Soon a person from Section 10 drove the aircraft in. Everyone got on the aircraft and began to rise slowly. The original giant elevator had disappeared.

All she could see were big holes. Shakira closed her eyes and was sensing everything here. There were monsters in the darkness, ready to move. Suddenly, with a sharp cry, some flying monsters with bat wings and horns appeared. They were huge. It was huge, with wings spread out only five or six meters long, and it rushed towards the aircraft.

There was a banging sound, and when the monster was less than 5 meters away from the aircraft, a green light fell, and in an instant the monster was crushed and torn to pieces by the huge power of telepathy.

"Would you like some?"

Tang Rao asked, Shakira shook her head.

"I've replenished enough energy."

At this time, the aircraft stopped on the 12th floor. Soon everyone saw that the missing elevator was on the 12th floor. The aircraft came to a stop. Many facilities inside were still intact, but it could be seen that the facilities had been destroyed on a large scale. had been destroyed, it should have been done by those monsters.

"It's farmland."

Soon people from the 10th department discovered that behind these buildings were pieces of farmland. It was certain that humans were still living on this level at that time. After the disaster, there should be a large number of humans coming over. Every time this lighthouse It is not a problem to accommodate thousands of people on each floor, and the lighthouse has 38 floors in total, which can still accommodate 40,000 to 50,000 people.

Everyone found a lot of things in the dilapidated building, all of which were relatively complete. Gu Yi was a little excited. He looked at a can of seeds that was still intact and sealed in a can.

"Can I still have this?"

Tang Rao asked and Gu Yi smiled.

"It can be taken back for study. It is of great research value, because we were also studying some biological seeds here at the time."

"Make it feel like you're back at home."

Tang Rao said, Gu Yi smiled, and Jean looked at a building that was still intact. After walking in, he could see simple daily utensils. Although many of them had been destroyed, he could still see what they were. Compared with the outside world, it is completely different.

"Did you feel anything?"

Gene asked and Shakira shook her head.

"If there is life here, I will definitely be able to sense it. Within a radius of only ten kilometers, there will be no problem with my perception."

Guyi nodded excitedly. He really wanted to see the people living in this lighthouse. He really wanted to know whether the last person living in this lighthouse might be his descendant. This was Guyi's most urgent thought at the moment. .

The aircraft started up again, and everyone was stunned when they went up one level. Gu Yi's face was solemn, and the aircraft slowly approached.

There were a large number of human skeletons on this floor. Soon everyone went down. There were quite a lot of them, and they were complete human skeletons. Judging from their appearance, they should have starved to death or died of thirst, and leading to the upper level The stairs have been partially destroyed.

"What's going on here?"

A person from Section 10 asked, and Tang Rao smiled.

"It's obvious what will happen to people in a closed environment, especially when there is a shortage of food and water. They should be a group of people who didn't have time to evacuate after the monsters broke through on the floors below, but the ones above left early in the end. People abandoned them.”

Jean looked around and saw that things were just as Tang Rao said. The people here should have been quite desperate at the time, but the reality before them was that they could only wait to die. Why didn't the people on the upper floor open the passage? You can imagine , because more people means less food.

The aircraft continued to go up. As soon as it went up, many monsters appeared in the darkness. Tang Rao and Jean jumped in first, and quickly eliminated many monsters. Some of the remaining monsters escaped, and they did not attack. , because of the appearance of Shakira.

"Where did your Steka ability to make monsters fear come from?"

Tang Rao asked, Shakira shook her head.

"I don't know, but shouldn't wild animals be afraid of hunters?"

"Hunters, you are indeed a group of hunters."

Gu Yi's face was very sad. He looked at some granular objects that had become stiff on the ground. Tang Rao came over. Soon, people from Section 10 took out their equipment and confirmed that these objects were seeds, and there were a lot of them.

"Why did this happen? Shouldn't everyone be more united?"

Gu Yi asked, and Gene patted his shoulder and comforted him.

"We have experienced fights in such a closed environment countless times. I think everyone should know why. Because fear is taking away everyone's last bit of sanity all the time, and any little bit of dissatisfaction may turn into a big problem, leading to such a mass death in the environment.”

Guyi's expression was sad. He didn't expect that his country would end up like this. There were also his daughter and son-in-law in this lighthouse. The son-in-law was Guyi's most proud student and was already an outstanding scientist at a young age.

"They may also die in such riots."

"Don't be so pessimistic, it's been so long."

Tang Rao muttered, Gu Yi nodded, and the aircraft continued to go up. Monsters were still gathering up higher. In such an environment, it is already difficult for humans to survive, but with these monsters, it will be even more difficult for humans to survive. More difficult.

Floor after floor, everyone sighed when they reached the 20th floor. There were more monsters here. Tasia also said that there were a lot of monsters in the tower. She relied on her speed and dexterity to get there. Keep going up and finally find the living man.

It was almost impossible to survive in such a severe environment. Gu Yi gave up because Shakira still couldn't feel anything.

"That girl said that she invited the man to leave at that time, but he refused to leave. He might have died."

Looking at Gu Yi who looked uncomfortable, Gene smiled.

"Let's take a look at the top. There are many floors anyway, right? Maybe we can see the man when we get to the top."

The aircraft began to accelerate, and Shakira felt it carefully.

However, the aircraft soon reached the top floor, and Shakira felt nothing.