A Million Possible

Chapter 251 Human and Underground City

“Zizzi~”

The public screen on the side of the road emits a fine electric current, and Cheng Lin seems to be able to hear the sound of broken circuits inside the screen.

The temperature dropped sharply and the cold wind blew. Except for the place where he was standing, the background of the rest of the city became blurred, and the earth was enveloped by a new round of snowstorm, the sky seemed to be dim at night, and then turned to day.

“Crack…”

In the extremely cold low temperature, the screen finally cracked overwhelmedly, a black screen, completely damaged, but then, a strange scene appeared, the damaged display suddenly covered a layer of light, and a new one appeared on it. pattern.

It was a figure of a rotating earth. The originally aqua-blue planet seemed to be covered with white gauze at this moment. It appeared extremely lonely and rotated quietly.

[You can touch it tentatively]

Following the reminder of the information in his mind, Cheng Lin stretched out his hand and gently dragged the earth, and it spun around. Cheng Lin randomly clicked a position, which rapidly expanded and the angle of view narrowed from the endless height.

That is a city.

It seems that it is in the federal territory. There are huge English fonts on the frozen billboards in the picture. Cheng Lin even saw a few Marvel posters posted on the surface of the building. The superheroes were torn apart by the storm and damaged in many places.

The dense skyscrapers with dozens of floors have become icicles, and the surface is covered with frost. The pavement on the street has been cleaned once and again, but the effect is low.

The picture is silent, but many people and vehicles can be seen. Those are people who have come out for disaster relief. Most of them are wearing extremely thick clothes and are struggling to repair them during the relatively “highest” hour of the day.

There are also a few who have relatively thin clothes, and they should be practitioners from the Federation.

Someone seems to be yelling, some are commanding.

Cheng Lin saw that the rescuer rescued a fatty covered in blood from a collapsed building, but as soon as he was lifted out, the blood in his whole body quickly froze, and the whole person lost his breath.

It was a sorrow, everyone was wrapped up tightly, no expressions could be seen.

Storms and snow disasters caused many houses to collapse. Under such low temperatures, crying is a luxury. Without sufficient protection against the cold, if exposed outside during the day for a long time, the limbs will be numb, unable to move, and then frozen to death.

Not to mention the colder nights. When the night comes and the storm blows, no one except a few powerful practitioners dares to leave the building. Even so, countless people die every day.

Cheng Lin flipped the screen again and switched to Australia.

This season, here should be autumn and summer, the warmest and hottest time.

The vast land is full of green trees and the grassland is green, but now, in the picture, this warm land is also covered by blizzards.

The global blizzard is so unreasonable. The cold wave destroyed the city. The city lacked preparations for the cold was wailing, and there were countless deaths and injuries. The city has entered a state of emergency, and the surviving people have turned their boxes and cabinets to find thick clothing to resist. cold.

But little effect.

The surface is getting colder and colder.

Cheng Lin continued to rotate the earth at will, switching between different places. He thought he could see different scenery, but he was disappointed.

No matter where he points, as long as it is a place where people live, there is only one common theme of disaster relief and grief.

After fiddled a few times, he withdrew his hand tiredly.

As a result, different pictures flashed quickly on the screen.

It’s like switching slides. Each picture is a picture of what is happening. They come from more than 200 countries around the world.

From the Commonwealth to the Great Xia.

From Europe to Asia and Africa.

Countless countries, countless different nations, different nationalities, different skin colors, and non-verbal human beings face the blizzard and the ever-increasing extreme cold weather.

However, this is destined to be a losing battle.

[Three days have passed, and the global cold wave has not been relieved. Instead, it has continued to increase. The ice and snow on the surface have continued to increase, the ocean has begun to freeze, the number of humans has dropped sharply, and the social ecology has suffered the most severe blow in tens of thousands of years.

The heating industrial equipment in the city is fully turned on to provide heating, but the people in the countryside lack an adequate heating system. Therefore, all countries gather the population in several super cities.]

Information emerged in my mind.

The wind and snow stopped all around.

The sky is brighter.

“Rumble…”

He heard a bang once, but this time it was no longer a snow removal truck, but a row of tall military-green trucks in the distance passing through the icy city.

In a short while, these vehicles passed by his side, and the entire car was extremely tightly wrapped. However, at this moment, Cheng Lin suddenly found that the obstructions had become translucent. This was obviously the result of the procedure.

Through the obstacles, he clearly saw the silent people crowded together in the carriage like canned fish. They were villagers who moved in, and there were many such vehicles.

No one seemed to notice Cheng Lin, an observer on the side of the road. The vehicle went away and his eyes followed the past, and he saw the thick black smoke rising in the city.

[You noticed that black smoke is rising, coal is burning frantically, heating the entire city, all transactions have been stopped, and supplies are under control][However, this will not last for a long time. Ten days have passed. The situation has not changed. However, the consumption of coal and the supply pressure of the entire city are gradually becoming unsustainable. The global cooling continues. Finally, someone put forward a new idea.]

The scenery that Cheng Lin witnessed changed again, and some large machinery began to appear, destroying the surface with the help of some practitioners.

Cheng Lin saw with his own eyes that a drilling machine centered on a sewer manhole cover and began to drill down. The entire huge machine sank into the ground, and the metal probe collided with the cold soil.

“Drilling? Sewers? Go underground?”

Cheng Lin thought to himself that this seemed to be the only way.

The surface temperature is too cold, the population is decreasing, and hundreds of millions of people die every day.

[Relying on the perfect sewer system of each super city, the forces of various countries have begun to try to transfer the people underground to seek vitality. This is probably the only way to survive.

The policy was unexpectedly implemented smoothly, and the state machinery was fully equipped to rapidly expand the underground space, extending in all directions. The construction of the centuries-old urban underground drainage system has saved mankind a great deal of effort][In addition, coal mines have also become a battleground, especially giant mines that have been explored for decades or even hundreds of years have become natural shelters. This is an extremely difficult decision. Human civilization is forced to abandon the surface of Life for thousands of years and sink into the sunless underground][The storm is getting bigger and bigger, the ocean is completely frozen, the entire surface of the earth is enveloped by ice, and the plants and creatures on the surface have been wiped out]

“Crack, click…”

The turquoise earth on the display screen in front of Cheng Lin was like a discolored orange, which was freezing a little bit, chucking.

Gradually, it finally became a beautiful and round snowball floating in the Universe.

Then, the screen was finally completely shattered into countless fragments.

The frozen ocean cannot provide a normal water vapor cycle, so the atmosphere is also destroyed, and the sun suddenly becomes dazzling, shining on this living extinct planet.

…

Cheng Lin suddenly felt his own body rising.

As if pulled up by some kind of power, he came into the air and looked at the world with a floating posture.

“Is it a new perspective?”

He thought, and was surprised to find that the world before him became transparent.

The layers of mountains, countless layers of snow and ice, could no longer block his sight. He floated in the air, independent of the wind and snow, looking down at the surface.

As a result, the soil became transparent, and he was surprised to see the busy people underground.

The whole planet seemed to have become a transparent glass marble, and Cheng Lin just floated in the air, watching the changes in the underground curiously.

“Time is accelerating.”

He judged.

Everything underground was changing rapidly, and he seemed to be watching an accelerated movie.

At this time, Cheng Lin suddenly remembered a term called “time-lapse photography”, and the scene in front of him was somewhat similar to this.

It was as if it was compressing the construction and development process of underground civilization into a very short period of time and playing it for him.

very funny.

He stared at the underground meaningfully. At first, human beings were only digging deep downwards relying on the sewer system. Gradually, they opened up those passages and kept moving toward the depths of the earth.

During this period, it seemed that I had stayed several times, but it seemed that because the surface temperature continued to drop, I had to dig deeper again.

Countless machines are distributed in this vast underground world. In the huge space excavated, boilers have been erected. The original entrance is used as a ventilation duct to burn coal to supply energy for the entire underground world.

The boiler released thick smoke, and people began to try to use the snowstorm on the ground to generate electricity to provide electricity to the underground city.

In the fast play, the underground world is getting bigger and bigger, from the initial simple and pitiful, gradually, it becomes spread in all directions, complex like a maze, and then it starts to be organized, continuously extending downwards in a spiral trajectory.

“Humans have clearly found the most reasonable and effective way to build.”

Cheng Lin commented in his heart.

Next, the original passages on the surface began to be used and transformed into various ventilation facilities. During the excavation process, people found underground coal, oil, and deeper geothermal energy, which freed them from the problem of surface power supply.

“Everything is slowly getting better.”

In Cheng Lin’s eyes, humans began to continue to migrate deeper. The thick soil isolated the cold, making people no longer attacked by the deadly cold wave. However, the long underground life also caused danger to people’s bodies.

As a result, artificial sunlight appeared. They were like street lamps of the old age. They were built and decorated at the major hubs of underground cities, giving the dark world a little bit of beauty.

“Technology is regressing? Or is it a deformed progress?”

Cheng Lin found that in the process of digging, the direction of the world’s science and technology changed from the very high-precision at the very beginning, the virtualization to the crude steampunk style.

Actually it is not true degradation, but the rapid development of heavy machinery, gears, exhaust pipes, probes, robotic arms… and large energy sources has completely become the main theme.

This prompted human aesthetics and art to develop into a rough style.

“This is also inevitable, well, they stopped.”