The world-devouring dragon

Chapter 273 End of Calendar...Year 0

Around the World, TVIK-6395465 Administrative District.

"The world is about to be destroyed! Only the chosen ones can survive..."

On the street, a man with open arms shouted loudly among the crowd, and his seductive words were brought into full play under the influence of powerful spiritual energy. The crowd surrounded it, circle after circle.

A crowd of people surrounded it, most of the faces of men and women had confusion on their faces, some already showed obsession.

"Look! The Satan Star is coming. We once lived on it, we are its descendants, it is our ancestors and our homeland. There is no need to be afraid, no need to panic, now we will return to its embrace, and return to its homeland. To my homeland..."

Under its guidance, the spiritual energy of thousands of people gathered and trembled, forming a huge spiritual whisper that affected the nearby people.

The majestic psychic whispers are like waves, spreading outward in circles, and the agitated "water splash" jumps up and is pulled towards the world outside the sky, and an inexplicable echo is fed back from the world outside the sky. .

Low, as if talking in sleep.

"Listen, beyond the starry sky, our hometown is calling us. We were originally born from dust, and now we will return to dust. The stars are not our home, the earth is our hometown! Compatriots, let us go home..."

"Bang!"

Before the words could be finished, the fanatical voice suddenly stopped amid the soft ringing.

The psychic whispers that were deliberately guided by humans lost their control. The men and women who were originally in a daze seemed to wake up from a dream, with a brighter look on their faces.

Not far away, Hase Garo, who was wearing psychic armor, put down the ray gun in his hand.

"Damn snake cub, you are already so presumptuous."

In the past, even if the Snake Cult was rampant, they would not dare to preach so blatantly in the areas ruled by the Third Reich. But now, the Snake Cult's behavior is completely blatant, and even such unarmed preachers dare to openly preach. .

"Citizens of the empire, please quickly return to your place of residence and undergo a mental infection review under the guidance of the security AI."

Fireworks erupted from the engine under his feet, and Changgu Jialuo flew above the crowd and said to the crowd who had just been bewitched.

But unexpectedly, the crowd only made a commotion, but no one really left.

Hasekara frowned.

"Citizens, I repeat, please quickly return to your place of residence and undergo a mental infection review under the guidance of the security AI!"

"Go back? Where to go back? The world will be destroyed soon, and we have been abandoned! Don't you understand?!"

Suddenly, someone in the crowd shouted.

Hasekara looked around, and he realized something was wrong. In the past, the people who were bewitched would basically do mental tests after they woke up. But in front of him, although the people had woken up, they still looked at him with a look in their eyes. Hostility and anger.

They were not just bewitched by psychic powers, but actually believed the preacher's words.

Do you believe those snake cubs who use ordinary people as human shields and carry out terrorist attacks? Believe those snake cubs that disgusted him to the point of vomiting?

A nameless anger emerged in Changgu Jialuo's heart.

"you……"

He was about to scold them, but at this moment, a loud bell rang.

"When... when... when..."

The long bells rang from afar, and when they heard the bells, both the people and Changgu Jialuo looked around.

In this small city, scenes like this are happening in every corner...

On the anti-gravity floating city, the man who was drinking tea raised his head; the woman who was driving the shuttle looked down in the sea of ​​clouds; the scholar who was thinking about the problem rubbed his forehead and looked worriedly at the sound of the bell. Direction; In the spherical building, the bureaucrat who has everything in the city in his eyes is silently playing with the beads in his hand, with complicated emotions...

Everyone knows what this bell means.

The end of the calendar has finally reached year 0.

In one year, the doomsday that everyone fears will come to the world.

…

No one knows when the Doomsday Calendar originated. It was first used to predict when the "star" would come to the ring world, and later it was called the Doomsday Calendar.

Every year that passes, the Doomsday Calendar deducts one year, year after year... So after two thousand years, mankind finally came to the last year of the Doomsday Calendar - Year 0 of the Doomsday Calendar.

The end of calendar year is 0 month 0 day.

In the Ring World, this day is regarded as the last day, [Doomsday], because when time reaches this day, the "star" will descend on the Ring World.

The "star" will swallow up the entire ring world, and all good and evil will end on this day.

In order to prevent this day from coming, countless people with lofty ideals have sacrificed their lives for the past two thousand years. But... it can't be done, no matter what, there is no way to destroy that "star".

And a long time ago, as early as the Second Republic era, humans who realized that they might not be able to destroy the "star" were gradually evacuating the population of the Ring World, but there were too many, too many, and the entire Ring World The population is simply too large.

How many humans are there in the ring world?

Trillions?

Billions?

Trillions?

Billions, billions?

That’s 30 billion billion human beings.

The area of ​​the entire ring world is trillions of times that of the earth, and the efficient use of the ring world space has allowed foundation cities and floating cities to be spread from the surface to high altitudes.

There are more than 300 billion stars and 10 trillion planets of various sizes in the entire Milky Way. Today, there are more than 700 billion administrative planets in the entire Milky Way. Among these administrative planets, some have a population of less than a thousand, and some have a population of more than a billion. But even if the entire population of these 700 billion administrative planets in the entire galaxy is added together, it is less than one-tenth of the ring world.

Ring World, this is the crystallization of all human wisdom, a miraculous product that combines all greatness, glory, splendor, and sublimity.

It's so huge, it's so majestic that it dwarfs any star in the universe. It makes mankind stand proudly among the stars, calling itself the Creator. But now, its hugeness has become the fatal weakness of all mankind.

Even if the population of the entire ring world is divided among all the administrative stars, it will not be enough to carry it; even if a new colonial planet is urgently expanded, it will not be able to accommodate such a large population.

Every year, humans disperse more than billions of humans from the ring world to all corners of the universe. But even with desperate efforts to relocate, after 2000, less than one-tenth of the population has been relocated. Today, there are still more than 20 billion people in the world.

Everyone knows that it is too late, everyone knows that all 20 billion people in Beijing will die in the [Doomsday], but everyone is powerless.

"Go back? Where to go back? The world will be destroyed soon, and we have been abandoned! Don't you understand?!"

The crowd has been intensively reviewed by AI for mental infection, and the matter has been resolved. But for some reason, the man's voice of grief and anger is always echoing in Hase Jialuo's mind.

There was peace in my heart.

His mother said that she was like his father whom he had never met before, calm and silent, as solemn as a sculpture, and would only become calmer no matter what happened.

There were not many people on the bustling streets in the past, neither in the sky nor on the ground. There were no shuttles or hover cars, only some autonomous robots at work.

When we come to the Public Security Department, although we have entered the interstellar era, not everything is science fiction. Due to cost issues, many places are still very similar to our police counterparts a long time ago. The work should be concentrated.

Looking around, there are only a few people in each spherical weightless room, and most of the few people there are depressed and weak.

"Isn't the Director here?"

Hasegara asked.

In his impression, the director was not a diligent person, but he was not absent from work either.

"AI just sent a message saying that the director got drunk at home and resigned."

A handsome young man was floating in his own gravity-free room, speaking feebly while controlling the optical brain.

"By the way, many people have also resigned. We may be the only ones in the Public Security Department now."

Every time we count down one year to the end of the calendar, it is inevitable that some people can't bear the pressure and give up on themselves. This is also normal, but this year is the end of the calendar year 0, so there are especially many.

Hasegara nodded.

"There are only a few of us. It seems that the work in the next period of time will be tiring."

As he spoke, he floated into his spherical weightless room, controlled the surveillance optical brain, and with the assistance of AI, analyzed the movements of the entire city to prevent crimes from occurring.

The handsome young man glanced at him in astonishment.

"I said...do you really feel nothing? You are still thinking about work at this time."

"How do you think I should react?"

Hasegara replied while scanning the information.

"Next year today, we will all die. Don't you feel anything at all?"

"so what."

"So? What more so? We will all die, you, me, her, we will all die, and you don't have any reaction at all?"

The young man's face was full of confusion and he couldn't help but say.

But the answer to him was...

"so what."

Changgu Jialuo raised his head and looked at him calmly.

"Jerome, I know what you mean. Today next year, we will all die, so we don't have to work today?"

Jerome looked into his eyes, those calm, deep eyes.

He couldn't see any fear.

Hase Garo's mental fluctuations were as calm as ever, as if the end of the calendar year 0 and the resignation of most of his colleagues could not affect him.

The young man took a deep breath and smiled bitterly.

"As expected of you... But I'm not like you. I can't be so calm. Changgu Jialuo, I am very afraid of death. If I can, I am willing to pay any price to escape to other planets, but I have no choice. "

"You see, you can still see that 'star' even during the day. When I was very young, it was only vaguely visible at night, but now, I can see it clearly even during the day. Whenever I look at When I look at it, I feel scared, because I know it is getting closer and closer, and death is getting closer and closer to me..."

The young man lowered his head.

"Hagugu Jialuo, do you think we are really just waiting to die?"

"I don't know, I just know that you should work hard, otherwise a third-degree crime will happen in front of you."

Always calm in response to his mental fluctuations.

The young man raised his head and looked at Hasekara, who was staring at him.

I don't know why, but I was already very scared in my heart, but seeing that my friend remained calm as ever, the fear in my heart was gradually blown away.

“Okay, work hard, work hard.”

Looking at Jerome who had restored his playful smile, Hasekara nodded.

TVIK-6395465 Administrative District, nothing happened today.

There are still 365 days until the end.