Great time travel

139 Chapter [-], the appearance of sentient beings in the dark age
The ruined city of Bath in southern England, January [-], [-]

It has been two years since the dawn of civilization went out from this land.The Anglo-Saxons have worked so hard for hundreds of years, adventurous expeditions and plunders all over the world, while desperately squeezing the civilians of their own country, the rich family fortune accumulated with blood and tears has almost been wiped out.Countless factories, towns, mines, ports, buildings and industrial facilities that condensed the efforts and hopes of countless Europeans were all reduced to ashes in the brutal war and famine, leaving only a piece of devastation.Today's Great Britain has almost returned to the dark ages, and the centuries-old civilizations from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution have been extinguished one after another.Scholars and experts who possessed knowledge died of hunger and cold one after another, leaving only a group of lonely ghosts with nothing left, continuing to desperately survive in this land that has been repeatedly scorched by wars and nuclear explosions.

In the past, the clean and elegant, picturesque and touristy hot spring city of Bath, now there is almost only a piece of dirty and ugly ruins that have been burned by fire. After the collapse of the British Empire, the British Isle endured for two full years After the civil strife and famine, 90.00% of the original population of this scenic tourist city has disappeared without a trace, but some foreigners from far away are still wandering in the ruins of the city.

——As if after the collapse of the Roman Empire, from the Anglo-Saxons to the Viking pirates to the Norman conquerors, all kinds of foreign barbarians crossed the sea and landed on the British Isle, occupying the fertile land of England, and driving the old landlords Celtic The same goes for the Scottish Highlands.

Of course, in this nightmarish dark age, those who really live in the ruins of Bath City will not have such poetic and philosophical associations in their hearts at this moment, but will only have the simplest desire to survive , other than that, is the infinite daze, numbness and confusion...

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"...Today...seems to be a good weather! Sneeze! At least it's no longer snowing!" The dark-skinned former US military captain Kunta Kim got out of the basement of a dilapidated house, through the incomplete The glass window, looking at the sunlight piercing the cloud not far from the horizon, whispered.

In high latitudes like the UK, the winter nights are very long and the mornings come very late, so although it is only dawn, Kunta Kim has been awake for a long time.Just afraid of the cold outside, I shrank until now before I managed to get out.

In the past two years, the weather in the UK has been extremely cold. Since late November, the entire British Isle has been covered by overwhelming snowstorms.Especially shortly after the New Year, just like the frost giants in Norse mythology descended into the mortal world, a violent storm suddenly swept across the sky and roared for seven consecutive days and nights. Many people died at home due to falling snow crushing their houses.The snow near the city of Bath is also as deep as one or two meters, and it has barely subsided until the last few days.

But the cold winter is not the most fatal thing, the climate anomaly that lasts throughout the year is even more desperate. Since [-], the weather in Britain has hardly been normal, and the summer will fall from time to time. A few snowstorms, the temperature fluctuates irregularly.Human beings with strong environmental adaptability can naturally withstand such weird weather changes, but the crops in the fields cannot do without the warmth and sunshine of summer...

You know, without the assistance of industrial civilization, the most primitive farming is really called watching the sky and eating. No matter how diligent the farmers are, a drop of sweat falls to the ground and eight pieces of land work hard, but as long as there is more rain, more If the sun rises for a few days, or if there is a cold spring, the harvest will be greatly damaged.

As for this kind of weird weather with snow in June and disordered seasons, it is even more unreasonable for agriculture-it is unreasonable to keep harvesting!
——Even the crops that have been adapted to the alpine regions after long-term domestication by humans cannot grow in the darkness, cold wind, ice and snow of winter!

As a result, British agriculture, which had been degraded to the state of the Middle Ages due to the collapse of the chemical fertilizer industry, the shutdown of agricultural machinery due to lack of oil, and the disrepair of irrigation projects, was further degraded to the Ice Age in such an abnormal climate—except for a few fast-growing and cold-resistant crops. In addition, basically all of them were rejected.Even if there is no crop failure, the yield has dropped to the level of the Middle Ages. The harvest amount is at most four times that of the sown amount, and even less than twice.

To be honest, Captain Kunta Kim hardly knew how he led his black brothers through these two years of purgatory.

Although at the time when he united several routs of troops to attack the city of Bath together, he had seized a large amount of coal, flour, canned food, biscuits and grease, but no matter how much material was seized at that time, if he just sat on the mountain and ate nothing, It is also impossible to survive two full years.

However, the harsh environment can really temper people. Driven by survival instinct, Kim, who was not very good at farm work, has become a modern version of Robinson Robinson. Set up a small farm and survival base.They fished and fished in the Leven River that flows through the urban area, turned the abandoned gardens in the urban area into farmland and vegetable gardens, and took advantage of the short and intermittent warm weather to grow potatoes, radishes, and onions—although the yield was pitifully low, From time to time, the crops failed, but in the end it was a bit of a harvest, which was able to replenish the food reserves that were depleted day by day.In addition, they raised a flock of chickens with grass seeds, earthworms and insects collected from the wild. Unfortunately, one of them was careless and was wiped out by a fox who stole the chicken...

However, in England, which has returned to the Dark Ages, the biggest threat is not the unstoppable natural disasters, but other human beings. Britain in the era of World War III not only collapsed the government, collapsed order, and failed agricultural harvests, but also traded with overseas. also broke.With the poor production of this land in the disaster years, it is impossible to feed tens of millions of people.And those extra population, if they don’t want to starve to death quietly, can only be reduced to hordes of refugees, robbing houses and houses for a living—before they were transferred to settlers, Captain Kim and his subordinates were actually regarded as One of the armed refugees.

Driven by hunger, these refugees were like locusts, eating all the way, but they couldn't find any food to eat, so they gnawed on bark, grass roots or themselves-eating human flesh directly.In particular, fishermen and fishing villages that are less affected by the disaster climate and store a lot of seafood are their key targets of robbery.And those settlers entrenched in fishing villages or manors also attack and fight each other from time to time in order to compete for territory, food, women or other things-in this dark age without law and morality, the only thing that determines survival is the Under the simplest violence.

In the cannibalism of the remaining human beings, the already scarce resources were further wasted, resulting in a decrease in the population of this land.

Although the city of Bath is not directly adjacent to the sea, it is located in an important traffic artery, and there are also crazy gangs of refugees passing by from time to time.Therefore, in the past two years, Kim and his black subordinates who have been entrenched here have also been attacked by armed refugees or gangs many times-strictly speaking, there is no difference between the two. Potatoes and radishes that have not yet grown up have been looted, and even seedlings have been eaten up.There are also a few unlucky black American soldiers who were accidentally caught by refugees in their sleep, skinned alive, cut up their meat and cooked them in a pot... After learning from the pain, in order to protect their own lives and hard-won food, Jin Tom and his black subordinates worked tirelessly to dig stones from the ruins of the building, and finally built a fortification consisting of stone walls, barricades and ditches, which looked very much like an early medieval European cottage or an oriental dock. It's finally a little bit safer.

Of course, don’t think too kindly of Captain Kunta Kim and his black subordinates—during the previous food crisis, in order to save food consumption, they also mercilessly executed the remnants of Bath City Citizens; in order to rob land and food, they also broke out armed conflicts with other settlements near the city of Bath, but so far, they have not been extremely hungry and have not eaten human flesh...

What's more terrible is that even though they are so struggling to survive, fighting against the sky, the earth, and the people, the black people in Bath City are still reducing their numbers, some were beaten to death, some died of illness, some died of freezing Some accidentally caught fire and died... At this moment, there are only a dozen or so people left.

——In the dark age of Great Britain, everyone who survived was a dead species that was said to be as tough as a cockroach...

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Thinking back to all the hardships and sufferings he had experienced in the past two years, Kim couldn't help sighing, wrapped himself in a greasy and dirty overcoat, got out of the cellar where he slept, and walked through the doors and windows that were mostly blocked by snow The first floor, which looked very dark, walked up the rickety stairs to the second floor.

——In order to keep warm and safe, Captain Kunta Kim and his wife usually sleep in the basement in winter.

In an empty room on the second floor, a haggard-looking redhead had lit a bonfire and was cooking a pot of cloudy soup.The contents of the soup are potatoes, dried fish and a bit of meat - the meat comes from an unlucky wild cat caught by Quinta Kim with a trap before the recent snowfall, although the cat meat is smelly and sour It was hard to swallow, and it would emit a bad smell when it was cooked, but in such a difficult time of cannibalism, there is no room for any waste, so Kim hid the cat with ice cubes. Cut a few pieces of meat from time to time to supplement nutrition.

The red-haired woman who was making a fire and cooking was named Annie, and she was captured by Kim when he broke through the city of Bath. At the beginning, she was unwilling to be ridden by a black man, and she was looking for life and death. Several times, even tried to escape.But after a long time, especially after witnessing several tragedies of cannibalism by refugees, she gradually became numb - in today's extremely harsh and cruel world, even if a weak woman like her can escape , and it is impossible to find a way out on your own.Starving to death and freezing to death is a normal thing, and maybe they will be reduced to food for the hungry.

But here, she is the black leader's private pet, she can enjoy special treatment, at least she can eat half full every day, and she will not be cooked and eaten... And at this moment, red-haired Anne's belly Already slightly swollen, it was obvious that she was pregnant with Kim's child-so she resigned to her fate.

Kunta Kim whistled and leaned over to the pot to have a look. The soup in the pot had just started to steam, and it was far from being edible.I also looked at the place where the firewood was piled up, and found that there was not much firewood left before the snow fell, and it would be used up after two or three days of burning at most.

But winter will last for a long time. If you don't take advantage of the short sunny day after the snow stops, go out and collect some firewood against the cold wind, then when the terrible storm comes again, you will never be able to go out again. If there is no fuel to keep warm, then there is a risk of being frozen to death in bed—in last winter, many slackers under his command froze to death with their wives.

Normally, he would have kicked Annie's ass with his leather shoes, urging the lazy bitch to go out to collect firewood.But now this red-haired white girl is pregnant with her own cub, so she needs to take care of her a little bit more.So after hesitating for a while, Kim turned around and picked up an ax by himself. Then, he didn't bother to dig a hole through the snow-covered gate, but jumped directly from the balcony on the second floor, stepping two meters High snow drifts out.

As soon as he stepped out of the house, the strong wind rolled up finely shattered snow foam and blew towards his face, hitting people's faces with pain.Kim had no choice but to lower his head, wrap his coat tightly, and continue walking on the snow. After walking a few steps, he saw a rough barricade made of furniture, gravel, bricks, and broken cars— —This is the fortification of Captain Kim's small settlement.The entire settlement happened to be located on a small headland surrounded by rivers on three sides, and the torrential river water formed a natural defensive barrier.As long as you spend some effort to build a wall on the only side connected to the land, you can defend it decently.

However, Captain Kunta Kim couldn't help frowning at this time, because he found that due to the heavy snowfall, the snow was two meters thick, and anyone could easily step on the snow and walk from the side of the barricade. Go to the other side, and the trench outside has also been filled with snow.In addition, the river behind is also frozen solid, and even cars can run on it-that is to say, the current settlement has become completely defenseless!
But even if he knew about this kind of thing, he couldn't solve it. He thought to himself that there should be no enemies to attack him in the cold and freezing weather--the refugees are half-starved, ragged, and covered in abscesses. Physique, in this kind of weather, most of them can't walk a few kilometers, and they should be frozen into popsicles.

So, Kunta Kim just said hello to the shrinking black sentry in the barricade sentry box, and went out with the ax on his shoulder.

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Outside the barricades guarding the black settlements in Bath, separated by a small open space, there are still deserted houses that are deserted.

In the first days, in order to be lazy, Kim and his black men searched for combustibles directly from the ruins of the city-wooden doors, floors, books, newspapers, everything was dry and good fuel for fire.However, as more than two years have passed, the easy-to-collect and fire-resistant wood and books have almost been burned. Those cloth, clothes and other things have better uses such as keeping out the cold. The remaining small amount of coal and fuel oil are the final reserve treasured by Kunta Kim, and they must not be used lightly unless it is a last resort.

Therefore, the current Kunta Kim can only use an ax to cut down branches like the ancient woodcutters - without going too far, as a tourist city with a high degree of greenery, in the urban area of ​​Bath, the city of hot springs There are enough trees in the city and the outskirts of the city to provide firewood.

After working for more than an hour, Kim collected two large bundles of firewood just after his body started to feel a little hot. He tied the firewood with ropes, took a steel pipe as a pole, and walked back like this... After the heavy snowfall, the abandoned city gave people an extremely quiet feeling. The sky and the earth seemed to be filled with bleak whiteness, and there was only the whistling sound of the strong wind blowing in the ears.Kim felt that the heat in his whole body was being quickly blown away by the cold wind, and his limbs, nerves, and senses were almost numb from the cold. He just stepped on the snow with his feet deep and shallow and carried his burden back home. Walk.

It wasn't until he accidentally noticed a flash of metal on the corner of the street that his frozen thoughts suddenly started to work again, and he became alert for a moment.

However, by this time, it was too late for Captain Kunta Kim.

"……boom!"

Accompanied by the flames ejected from the muzzle of the gun, a hot bullet shot out, piercing Captain Kunta Kim's abdomen before he had time to dodge.The next moment, because of the impact, his body bowed and flew backwards, and fell heavily in the snow... The shoulder pole and firewood were scattered all over the ground, and the warm blood flowed out like a fountain. The wound on the abdomen gushed out, and in the blink of an eye, a large expanse of pure white snow was dyed red.

"……what--"

The fatal pain caused Captain Kunta Kim to almost lose his ability to move in an instant. Even so, he struggled to pull out the M1911 pistol at his waist to fight back, but at the next moment, he was hit hard by a wooden stick. Hit the head, and eventually fainted unwillingly.

Then, two vagrants who were all in tatters, dirty and smelly, like moving garbage, jumped out excitedly, looked around Kim, and one of them pulled out a dagger from his waist, "... Well done, John, for a nigger stew tonight!"

But another guy named John stopped him, "...Wait! William, this is not the time to do this kind of thing! Have you forgotten what we are here for? Go and attack the river with Boss Goodman That stronghold is the real thing! They say there are plenty of potatoes, biscuits, flour and canned food, and women! If we delay here and get there too late, the good things in there will be snatched up by someone else! "

"...That's right, oh, let's leave this nigger here for now! I hope that when we come back, it won't be taken away by wild dogs..."

So these two dirty and smelly refugees just took Kunta Kim's pistol and axe, turned and walked along the street, leaving him lying on the snow stained red by a pool of blood to fend for himself Extinction... After a while, Captain Kunta Kim, who was dying, woke up again before dying, but seemed to vaguely see black smoke and flames rising from the direction of the settlement, and vaguely heard a violent explosion Sounds and heart-piercing shouts...

——In this way, the already extremely weak light of civilization on Great Britain was once again extinguished by a handful...

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PS: The anime mentioned at the end of the last chapter is "GOSICK" by the blue-eyed blonde loli Victoria de Blois.There is a plot that on the eve of World War I, a small fictional Mediterranean country held a bloody festival, kidnapped girls and boys from various powers around the world, and put them on a slowly sinking ship full of traps for killing agencies, forcing them to kill each other, so as to The cruel divination of the last survivor to determine who the winner of the world war is.

Although the background and process are different, it is still reminiscent of the misty Korean Sewol shipwreck—from the boss to the captain to most of the crew members are cult believers, it is said that 48 hours after the ship sank, there were still students in the cabin Li used his mobile phone to ask his family members for help, but none of them were rescued.Afterwards, the female president also blocked the big-ticket artist media to suppress the news.Hey, the female president of South Korea who worships indescribable things, Mrs. Clinton who likes to organize a group to go to Lolita to play imprisoned girls, this world is really getting more and more out of morals.I bet even the best screenwriters will be shocked by this kind of plot, who said that art comes from life but is higher than life?Facts tell us that life is the top art!If Hillary Clinton really planned to launch a nuclear war and play radioactive wasteland immediately after taking office, as rumored, and use a world war to get rid of the burden of the financial bubble, I might believe it too.After all, countless facts in the past year have proved that we are far from understanding how low the lower limit of integrity and IQ of political figures in this world is.