Great time travel

1 Forty chapters, the appearance of sentient beings in the dark age
January [-], [-], New York, USA
New York in the middle of the winter night has long lost the feasting and bright lights of the city that never sleeps.

At this time, on the empty and dark streets of New York, there were hardly any lights to be seen.There are piles of rubbish everywhere on the road, as well as mud and dirt mixed with residual snow. The few scrawny wild dogs at the corner of the alley are still searching for food.Except for the closed doors on both sides of the street, there is not even an open shop in sight.The bustling scenes that were brightly lit all night in the past have long since disappeared without a trace, like a passing dream.

——As the war situation is deteriorating day by day, even the United States, which is known as the world's number one in industrial strength, gritted its teeth and broke out several waves of "warship seas", "aircraft seas" and "tank seas" in succession, but they were still being rejected one after another. After lighting up, it finally began to gradually lose its strength.

Since the beginning of the war, the living standards of all ordinary Americans have been declining rapidly. As time goes by and news of various defeats continues to spread, it is almost difficult for many people to even eat.Especially this year, because of the eruption of volcanoes in Iceland, it has led to irregular and abnormally low temperature weather for more than two consecutive years, which has almost caused a devastating blow to North American agriculture.What's worse, as the disaster shows no sign of ending so far, the panic atmosphere in the market is getting stronger day by day. Ordinary people who have no special connections and contacts may not be able to sell even if they hold the ration cards and tickets issued by the government. The food in the quota, because there is often nothing in the official store, the citizens can only go back and wait, and then wait for weeks or even months, until the ration certificate expires... and in the underground black market that does not require a ration card Here, the prices of flour, fruits, meat and vegetables have risen to sky-high prices, and a steak can cost an ordinary person a month's salary.

In fact, as a "chosen country" with a unique natural environment, the U.S. government has a huge amount of food and other materials stored in the country, which is enough for all citizens to spend openly for a year or two without any problem.However, the real problem is that the government cannot guarantee that the materials will be distributed fairly to everyone in need-various incidents of government-business collusion, illegal reselling, embezzlement, and hoarding are not uncommon. It is a shortage of supply and shortage every three days, but in the black market that eats people and does not spit out bones, there are a variety of goods, but the price has also soared to an unimaginable level, causing countless civilians to go bankrupt and live rather than die.At the same time, it also made the security situation extremely worse: You must know that the United States has always banned guns, and it is still a time of war, and many people have ways to get guns.When these people with sharp weapons found that they couldn't even eat, it became a matter of course to raise guns and rob in order to survive.

In addition to daily food, heating, electricity, fuel, cloth and a series of other daily necessities are becoming increasingly scarce.Every day fewer cars are on the streets because of the general rationing of gasoline.And, even if some supernatural beings could get gasoline, they couldn't get new cars—since the Pacific War, every auto plant in the United States had shut down civilian vehicle production to focus on military vehicles.In the folks, old cars from seven or eight years or even longer ago are almost at the end of their lifespan... In New York City, a considerable number of bus and tram routes have been stopped one after another. Can ride a bike or walk to work.

Although the planes of the Soviet Red Army have not visited the east coast so far, New York City has implemented extremely strict blackouts, even if only for the sake of saving power and creating a tense atmosphere, in order to squeeze enough power to turn on the lights. Those power-hungry centrifuges at the Oak Ridge plant churn out more weapons-grade uranium metal fuel.Therefore, the lights in New York were gradually turned off—in order to ensure the implementation of the blackout, the municipal authorities initially took measures to cut off power in different areas. All power outages.But the problem is that many people secretly lit kerosene lamps or candles for lighting, which instead caused a sharp increase in the number of fires.

As a result, the government had to promulgate martial law to prohibit citizens from going out at night to maintain law and order; at the same time, it sent a large number of military police and police to conduct night patrols in the New York City area to arrest any residents who dared to violate the blackout or martial law order. For the military police and police officers on night patrol, this is quite a disgusting chore: the cold wind in New York on a winter night, after a few hours of patrolling in the dirty snow, the little rations in the stomach The heat has long been exhausted, and everyone is eager to catch a few hapless people for some trouble, and have a hysterical beating and seizure, not to say how dedicated they are, but to get out of the cold and loneliness. At least get out of here for a while...

As a result, every night, many unlucky guys were beaten to the point of bleeding, and then packed into trucks and sent to concentration camps to do hard labor. Some of them were kicked out by their landlords because they were unemployed and could not pay their rent. Chinese.In addition, some bad boys who were disobedient were also arrested.

——The never-ending darkness, cold, lack, hunger and fear have become the main theme of life for New Yorkers this winter.

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However, despite the bleakness of the New York market during the war, the wealthy and powerful in the upper class who were never short of money still enjoyed their wonderful nightlife leisurely and leisurely. The full heating makes the wool carpeted hall warm like spring.The luxurious crystal chandeliers are still as bright as before, the cheerful black band is still playing as wonderfully as before, the beautiful actress with her thighs exposed is also dancing so enthusiastically, and the coloratura soprano seems to be singing more softly than before.And the extra-thick special curtains covering the floor-to-ceiling windows effectively blocked the bright lights and melodious music in the room... In fact, even if some leaked out, no one would dare to disturb them.

——In wartime New York, wealth and poverty, prosperity and depression, joy and decadence, pleasure and suffering, were often only separated by a street...

The long tables covered with snow-white linen were already filled with fine wines and tempting delicacies, just looking at them made one's mouth water.Salt and pepper lamb chops and roasted squab, fragrant creamy mushroom soup and baked apples, oily pork sausage and fried cod, as well as a variety of cakes, desserts and cheeses... plus the various shapes The intoxicating wines in different glass bottles are definitely exquisite and rich.

And in this era when everyone is starving and the poor are fighting for a piece of steak, it is even more jaw-dropping luxury.

However, all the dignitaries, wealthy celebrities, and ladies who are eligible to participate in this dinner party do not have much appetite when faced with the rich food and wine on the table.And when facing the dancers and female singers on the stage, they were somewhat absent-minded.

Most of the men and women in the entire hall, whether they were eating, drinking, or chatting, secretly turned their eyes from the corner of their eyes from time to time to look at the only protagonist of the party in the center of the venue, a tall, arrogant And majestic, a handsome old man with a corncob pipe in his mouth... Although he was wearing a suit and tuxedo at this time, he still showed the toughness of a professional soldier.

——He is the former Marshal of the Philippine Republic and the five-star general of the U.S. Army, as well as Douglas MacArthur, who has just been elected as the No. He toasted him with a smile on his face and congratulated him:

"...Congratulations on your election! Mr. President MacArthur! I look forward to your inaugural speech two days later..."

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PS: Today there is even more unbelievable news. Hawking in the wheelchair seems to have been to Lolita Island with Hillary—but what can he do there?At most, you can just watch it.Watching love action movies at home is enough, so why go to the scene to watch them?Well, some people speculate that Lolita can lick him... Besides, there are a lot of sanctimonious scientists and writers accompanying him-it seems that scientists may not have high integrity.

Think of many veterans of the American scientific community who overwhelmingly supported Hillary in the general election. Could it be that they went to the island to play loli friendship?

Alas, this year, the current political circle is really more violent than the entertainment circle, reality is more imaginative than fiction!If there is any web author who writes about Hawking playing loli, it is probably unreasonable to be sprayed to death by readers, right?