To my frozen hometown

Chapter 1 To My Frozen Hometown

"Hum hum."

Under the clear blue sky, a vague voice came faintly from a distance. It sounded like a lazy person humming an equally lazy song.

This humming voice is not very pleasant, if you really want to say it, maybe it should be said to be a little neutral, mixed with some low-pitched male voices, and also a little bit sweet female voices.These two can be regarded as beautiful sounds, but when they are put together, it makes people have an indescribable strange feeling.

There were no clouds in the sky, which made the direct sunlight look a little harsh.

On the snowy field that can't be seen at a glance, an extremely old snowmobile is parked in this vast expanse of silvery white.With muffled sounds as if they were lingering on their last breath, wisps of blackened steam unwillingly spilled out.It's like an angry old man, knocking on his crutches to vent his dissatisfaction.

The humming sound, which is neither light nor heavy, came from under this dilapidated motorcycle.

Looking closely, there is indeed a person lying under the motorcycle, a person wearing a brown and black coat.

Right now the man was holding a wrench in his hand, turning a screw on the bottom of the motorcycle once and for all.The brackets supporting the motorcycle on the side were full of rust, and people couldn't help worrying that the few seemingly unreliable brackets would break off in the next moment, causing the snowmobile to hit the people below.

Fortunately, until the person slowly tightened the screws, the trembling supports showed no signs of breaking, but the base supporting them sank a little further into the snow.

The humming stopped, and the man in the overcoat pushed himself out from under the motorcycle.

Only then did she reveal her face.

Yes, it was her. Although she was a bit barren, it was undeniable that she was a woman, and a woman who looked quite young.

Judging from her appearance, she should be only about 20 years old, and her long black hair, which should have been black and beautiful, was hanging messily on her shoulders, tied casually with an army green belt.I don't know how long it hasn't been washed, and there are conspicuous dandruff and grease all over it.At the same time, her face was still stained with a lot of black oil stains. With the oversized coat and trousers that were almost off the line, her appearance was really unflattering.Like a beggar who just woke up from a trash can.

But contrary to her slovenly dress, her facial features are quite handsome. Yes, although it may not be appropriate to describe a woman as handsome, but that is indeed the first impression of her face.

An endless snow field, an old snowmobile, a slovenly but handsome woman.

I have to say that the beginning of this story is probably quite strange.

This woman's name was Liu Yuan, which was a strange name just like her appearance.Compared with a woman, this is obviously more like a man's name, and for this land, such names are really rare.

"It's really unlucky, why it broke down halfway."

Beside the snowmobile, Liuyuan gripped his messy hair while looking at the motorcycle in front of him and complaining.

"Hey, you should get well soon, it's not time for you to die yet." Saying that, Liu Yuan kicked the black smoked car body.

"Bang, bang, bang."

Another few puffs of thick and pungent smoke sprayed out from the car body, and sprayed on Liu Yuan's face in an unbiased manner.

"Cough, cough, cough." Coughing and raising his hand to disperse the black mist all over his face, Liu Yuan's face turned better when he heard the normal sound of the engine.

"Sure enough, these machines are just piles of cheap bones. If they break down, you have to kick them."

Liuyuan muttered casually, leaned over and broke off the bracket supporting the motorcycle.With a muffled sound, the snowmobile hit the ground, and Liu Yuanyuan hung the removed bracket next to the back seat of the car.

A brief inspection revealed that with these supports there was a roll of military canvas, a portable stove, coils of steel wire, and a medium-sized black tool bag.

Putting the wrench back into the tool bag and closing the zipper again, Liu Yuan looked at the snow field to the east and let out an inexplicable sigh.

She straddled the motorcycle and reached out to hold the handlebar.

"Keep going."

Saying so softly, she restarted the motorcycle and drove to the distance.

The wind blows the hair of the person on the car, and the flat snow is turned over by the tracks and skis. On the almost empty snow field, the tiny motorcycle goes farther and farther, and finally gradually disappears in the direction of the sky.

Now, let us tell what kind of story this is.

In fact, to put it simply, the content of this story probably only has one sentence: Liu Yuan is an undead person, and she wants to return to her hometown to end her own life.

As for the reason for doing this, maybe it is to return the fallen leaves to their roots. This is an indescribable local feeling.Or maybe, she is just tired of such a world, such a world that is too empty.

But if you want to tell it in a bit of a word, this is a somewhat lengthy story.

That day, people fell into "despair".

Oh, please don't get me wrong, the double quotation marks here do not mean false, but emphasize the meaning of marking.The reason is that the people of that day really faced a disaster they had never faced before.And it was also from that day that this azure planet originally called Blue Star was completely plunged into ice and snow in a very short period of time.

That catastrophe began with a terrible impact, a sudden collision that shook the ground, and a wave of heat that seemed to destroy everything.The world seems to be telling people that the end is coming.

But apparently, that was just the beginning of the nightmare.After the impact, the ocean engulfed a large piece of land, and the cold current that came from nowhere covered the mother planet that has nurtured people until now with layers of ice and snow, making her cold and cruel.

Probably this is the late wrath of nature. Hundreds of millions of years after the first extinction, she announced the arrival of the second mass extinction.At this time, the children's cries and begging for mercy no longer had any effect on her, and even as a mother, she no longer had any possibility of softening her heart.

After the disaster, the world has changed into a different place. The planet has turned into a white snowfield. It seems that only the ruins buried in the snow can prove the civilization of the past.

A small number of human beings barely survived. They did not die in the disaster, but surviving on the ruins of civilization, and struggled to build a new city-state in this wasteland and snow field - a greenhouse.

Resisting the severe cold and the infestation of post-apocalyptic mutant creatures, people began their second era, which they called the post-disaster era.

At the same time, there is no doubt that since that day, human beings have fallen into unprecedented despair.

The loss of technology and knowledge has caused a fault in human civilization. The primitive barbarism and some technologies left over from before the disaster are intertwined, making this era seem abrupt and difficult to integrate.

The large-scale decline of green plants made the air outside the greenhouse extremely thin, but the mutated beasts were all unreasonably tall.Fruits and food have become the enjoyment of the upper class, while ordinary people can only barely survive by eating the flesh and blood of wild animals.

It is interesting that whenever people seem to have classes, they have to distinguish themselves from the beasts.But there is one thing, there is always one thing after the disaster, it is the same among people, it will not make any difference because of the high or low status, that is, almost everyone has no hope for the future.

The reason is simple, because the available resources are no longer enough to support people through such an era.

As for Liu Yuan, her life experience is very complicated, and what she really wants to say may not be clear for a long time, so I will briefly explain it here.

She is a person who existed before the disaster, so she witnessed the disaster that made everyone fall into despair, and she also died in it.Although he was not what he is now at that time, it is undeniable that he was indeed dead.

Until she woke up again, in such a body amidst the endless ice and snow.

She has completely changed into another look. At the beginning, she had the joy of waking up again.And she also found that she couldn't die anyway.That's right, literally can't die.She felt neither cold nor pain.The broken arm can recover in just a breath, and the wound will heal instantly as soon as it appears. Even if she falls off a cliff and suffers fatal injuries, she can stand up tremblingly and quickly repair her body.

She thought she would start a new life, she thought it was, or in a way it was.

It's just that this new life is not as beautiful as she thought, even if she is endowed with extraordinary abilities.

At first, she was able to enjoy it, she found the gathering place of human beings, and began to learn the knowledge after the disaster.But as time went by, she was gradually assimilated by people of this era.Because almost everyone knows that there are fewer and fewer resources available in the shallow layers of the ice sheet, and the existing technology of human beings is simply not enough for deep underground mining.So unless the ice and snow recede, sooner or later, human beings will face a real extinction due to the depletion of resources.

Liuyuan has seen refugees who had to migrate collectively in the greenhouses where resources were exhausted, and people who were frozen to death in the ice field, and also saw that they were sick and even committed suicide because they ate inedible beast carcasses by mistake. unlucky.

For 100 years, or 200 years, Liu Yuan didn't know how long she had walked in this ice and snow, she only knew that she was getting more and more desperate day by day, until she no longer had any hope for this world.She is used to people like walking corpses, to the lifeless greenhouse, to the wind and snow that will almost never change.

Finally, one day she made a decision, not a difficult one.She is going to die, return to the seaside of her hometown, and sink to the bottom of the sea.

Perhaps for the sense of ceremony, she even started writing a letter specifically for this matter.

The title hasn't been fully decided yet, but it's just called "To My Frozen Hometown" for the time being.

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(End of this chapter)