Amidst the exchange of toasts, the tavern owner picked up the remote control and changed the channel on the TV. He suddenly didn't want to watch the analysis and discussion of these experts anymore. He wanted to watch the news and wanted to find out. The one he received was different from everyone else's. What does a ticket that says "Noah" mean.

However, the news channel did not broadcast what he wanted to know, but only reported some uninteresting factual news. The tavern owner continued to clean his own wine glass and pour wine for customers who ordered from time to time.

But not long after, the host on TV who was supposed to be reporting the news step by step was suddenly interrupted. Someone handed him a speech from the backstage. After reading the speech, the host looked at the audience in front of the camera. He cleared his throat and said: "Now we will interrupt an urgent news. Co-President Qi Ruiwen will deliver an important speech. Please don't leave the audience in front of the TV."

"Now for an urgent news break..." As if afraid that someone might not hear it, the host said it once and repeated it again.

This kind of repetition is effective. Some people in the tavern who did not hear it the first time also noticed the changes on the TV. More and more people raised their heads and stared at the TV.

Finally, after the host repeated it for the fifth time and everyone's attention was focused on the TV, the TV screen flickered and the original news host and his live broadcast room disappeared, replaced by the current co-president. Qi Rui heard.

Qi Ruiwen is a middle-aged man in his fifties, calm and close to the people. Since he was elected president seven years ago, he has invested heavily in building new energy heating facilities and tried his best to solve the problem of impending exhaustion of coal resources. Although he has not yet achieved results, his The people see his hard work, so his national support rate has always been very high.

At this moment, he was sitting at the desk in the President's Office, with his hands clasped on the table, and his fingers clenched a little uneasily. Even though he had spoken countless times in front of hundreds of millions of people in the seven years since he took office, any time he spoke in the past, It's probably not as difficult as this time.

But no matter how difficult it was, he would eventually speak.

Qi Ruiwen took a deep breath, and the people in the tavern couldn't help being infected by his solemnity and held their breath.

There were no more conversations or clinking of glasses in the noisy tavern, and the sounds Qi Rui heard became particularly clear.

"Today is the 99th year of the Ice Age, and it is also my seventh year as president. My slogan when I took office in the past was to find a way to save all mankind before the sun goes out. But unfortunately..."

Qi Ruiwen's voice was choked with sobs: "Before we found this method, the footsteps of destruction were already one step ahead of us."

"The process of the sun's extinction has come to an end, and its decline is irreversible and irreversible. Starting today, the sun will enter a countdown to complete extinction, which is expected to occur in ten days, on August 8. , the sun’s light and heat will dissipate completely, and there will no longer be a rising sun in the east.”

"An unprecedented cold wave will sweep across the world, and the world will also fall into a lonely and cold night. Almost all the new energy heating facilities we have invested in and built have failed, and the existing heating resources will also be completely exhausted soon after the sun is completely extinguished. Cities that lose energy to withstand the severe cold will become frozen snowfields, and humans..."

Qi Ruiwen used great strength to say these last few words: "This is the end of all mankind." After finishing speaking, he closed his eyes.

The tavern was very quiet, eerily quiet.

There were no particularly obscure scientific terms in Qi Ruiwen's words. What he said was very straightforward and easy to understand. However, everyone's brains seemed to be collectively rusty. Word after word passed by their ears, but they could not understand the combination of fonts. meaning after.

Or maybe you already understand, but don’t want to understand.

end...?

How could this supposedly distant doomsday come so unexpectedly before the eyes of their generation?

Everyone was stunned and didn't respond. Before the hysterical despair and grief could sprout from their hearts, Qi Ruiwen spoke again.

After the doomsday is not the end, Qi Ruiwen has not finished what he said. After closing his eyes in pain, he opened them again. The last glimmer of hope flashed in his black eyes: "Human beings are a race that is good at creating miracles. After the sun in the sky goes out, , we will use science and wisdom to ignite the artificial sun."

The scene suddenly changed. It was no longer Qi Ruiwen's office, but a computer-simulated 3D animation, which showed the artificial sun that was still under construction.

The artificial sun is not a real sun, and humans do not have the ability to truly imitate the sun. This artificial sun is just a new type of heating equipment, consisting of a central tower and four auxiliary towers.

"Among countless failed plans, the artificial sun developed by Professor Wen's team has made breakthrough progress recently. We are confident that this artificial sun can be built before the cold wave arrives on August 10."

When Qi Ruiwen said this, the animation showed the scientific research photos of Professor Wen's team developing the artificial sun. It also showed the eternal night after the sun went out. After the central tower was ignited, the light emitted radiated thousands of miles, the snowfields melted, and the grass and trees broke through the ice and snow. Bondage, in the sunlight of human beings, comes to life again.

The people in front of the TV were also infected by this trace of vitality, and the joy of surviving the disaster appeared on their faces. But some people also discovered a problem, that is, the radiation range of this person's sun is far from as broad as the real sun. Its light and heat are only spread within the range surrounded by the four auxiliary towers.

The area enclosed by the four auxiliary towers does not seem very large, just the area of ​​a small or medium-sized city.

Qi Ruiwen quickly answered this question, which is why his tone was so sad: "But the radiation range of this artificial sun is limited. It is impossible for everyone in the world's six billion people to live in this newly built city."

"To this end, we have launched a random drawing plan, and everyone should have received a text message a few minutes ago."

The people in the tavern were stunned for a moment, randomly picked up their mobile phones, and turned to the previous blank text message. They didn't understand what the blank message meant, but soon, after Qi Ruiwen's explanation, they understood.

It means to be given up.

"I'm sorry, but for those who have not drawn tickets, you are not qualified to enter this city. At the same time, I also want to congratulate those who have drawn tickets. You are the last fire of mankind. Please come on August 8 , hold your ticket and ID card to enter Noah, the city of hope in the eternal night."

After Qi Ruiwen finished speaking, some people stared blankly at the blank text message, and some people yelled: "What a random draw, it's not all for the powerful..."

He couldn't finish because Qi Ruiwen spoke again: "I know that there will be many people who have doubts about the fairness of this draw. Before the end, no one will be exception. We are all human beings, and no one should be superior to others. This time The draw is completely random and no one can cheat.”

"I am no exception." Qi Ruiwen took out his mobile phone. Under the gaze of hundreds of millions of viewers, he opened the constantly flashing frame. The frame finally settled in white, the same white as most people.

Those suspicious curses stopped, and the last outlet for venting was also stopped.

Even the president is no exception. What do ordinary people like them have to complain about before this equal and random doomsday screening?

The only thing I can complain about is probably my own misfortune.

Unfortunately, I was born in such an era, and unfortunately I was blocked from the city of Noah.

There was also a look of cruelty on someone's face. He had no luck in surviving, so he went to rob other people of their luck! But even this last desire to survive by any means was blocked by Qi Ruiwen's next words.

"There are a total of 100 million tickets to enter Noah's City. The moment you draw them, they are bound to the identity information authenticated by your mobile phone card. The ticket number is unique and cannot be forged or replaced. Please do not try to rob others. If the ticket and ID information do not match, you will still be unable to enter Noah's City. And people holding tickets with inconsistent identity information will be treated as criminals and will be exiled once discovered."

"Everyone, the snowstorm is about to end. In the countdown to the end, please cherish the last sun." Qi Ruiwen concluded his speech with these words.

His speech ended here, and after no one on the TV spoke, the tavern became quiet again.

The silence of despair, the silence of death.

Finally, after a long silence, a hoarse cry sounded in the tavern. The cry was muffled in his throat, but grief and despair overflowed from his fingers.

Negative emotions are contagious, and sometimes, they are even more susceptible than any disease.

Some people choose to cry loudly, while others choose to raise their glasses and drink.

"Boss, take out all the wine you have here!" Leather Jacket suddenly slammed his wallet off the bar and shouted at the tavern owner.

The tavern owner was stunned for a moment, then moved all the drinks to the counter with a complicated mood, and said boldly: "Free order today!"

Leather Jacket laughed, and so did his companions. They raised their heads and poured the ice-blue wine down their throats. This is the best-selling wine here, strong and warm, and it was also the one Meng Xing just drank. kind.

Meng Xing had never known the name of this ice-blue wine, but now, he knew from the labels on the bottles that it was called "Drunk Life, Dreams and Death".

Leather Jacket drank the whole bottle of spirits, threw his head back and laughed, but then burst into tears a moment later. He was crying and laughing at the same time, as if he was crazy.

Before the inevitable doomsday, living in a state of drunkenness and dreaming of death is not a blessing.

But Meng Xing couldn't live in such intoxication. He also didn't get a ticket and was not qualified to enter Noah's City, but he saw a person who briefly appeared on TV, Professor Wen, who led a team to develop artificial suns.

Professor Wen is not as old as most professors. Instead, he is very young and has outstanding appearance. He is so outstanding that Meng Xing saw him and recognized him at a glance in the team photo wearing uniforms.

While crying and laughing, Meng Xing slid the system description to the last page, which read: "On August 8, Wen Rulan died at the end of the world."

Meng Xing looked at this line of writing, and sat in the tavern for a while. Then, just as the snowstorm stopped, he drank all the drunkenness in the cup, put on his cotton-padded coat, and sat in the tavern when the temperature was not yet warm. When he got warmer, he walked out of the tavern.

The coldness on his face almost drove him back again, but Meng Xing didn't want to go back because he was too desperate. The desperate cries condensed in the small tavern here, making him unable to breathe.

Although he knew it was a dream, the dream was so real that Meng Xing didn't want to stay in such despair for another moment.

He tightened his collar and walked alone on the street where the wind and snow had subsided. The thick snow was half a meter deep, and Meng Xing moved forward with difficulty.

He thought that when he left the tavern, he would leave the low pressure of despair, but when he actually walked out, he discovered that despair was everywhere in the apocalypse.

The entrance fee to Noah's City is only 100 million, but the total population is 6 billion. The abandoned 5.9 billion people are everywhere.

Meng Xing tried hard to block out the screams and pain in his ears. He set a goal for himself. He was going to find Wen Rulan and help Wen Rulan survive the end of the world. Others had nothing to do with him, and he was also powerless.

The wind and snow had just subsided, and except for him, there was no one else who went out in the still cold weather. He walked alone on the snowfield, leaving the only footprints on the vast land.

I don't know whether his self-hypnosis worked or whether he was numb from the cold. Meng Xing's mind was as blank as this snowy field.

He just walked forward numbly, not knowing where to go or who to look for.

After an unknown amount of time of trekking, something else appeared on the vast snowfield, it was light, the light of the headlights of a snowmobile.

The snowmobile passed by Meng Xing and had already gone away, but after a moment, it suddenly turned back.

The snowmobile stopped in front of Meng Xing, the door opened, and a tall man stepped out.

Meng Xing's numb steps suddenly stopped. He looked at this man. The first time he saw him, his frozen brain instinctively knew that he was the one he was looking for.

Wen Rulan held the car door, as if she didn't dare to confirm, and stood there without making any move.

Meng Xing also stood there. He looked at Wen Rulan and suddenly smiled. The despair lingering in his ears dissipated at this moment, just because...

They met again in the wind and snow at the end of the world.

作者有话要说:感谢在2020070620:05:172020070702:41:13期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦

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