Chapter 1 Our home star is split apart
The air was filled with the pungent smell of sulfur, and red sparks appeared and floated in and out of the clouds of blue-black and yellow-yellow smoke, turning into blisters when they landed on the body.
A huge amount of flocculent volcanic ash, like dirty feathers, covered the entire world. Even the brilliance of the sun was blocked by it, turning it yellow and dark. Wisps of mottled and sticky ash were splashed on the huge, gloomy, and endless world. Live on billowing independent clouds.
Hot updrafts rushed from the foundation of the floating island to high altitude, and the fierce hurricane split the island foundation, making a sharp sound. The small floating island was drifting like a small boat, and it seemed that it might capsize at any time, and the flocculent Dust and flickering sparks rise with the wind, like an upside-down waterfall or a slowly flowing galaxy hidden in the darkest place of the universe.
Weird and terrifying, yet inexplicably majestic and beautiful.
Anyone wandering alone in such an environment, who has time to look at the scenery, will become anxious and even collapse.
Li Cang took out a cigarette, flicked it on the sparks, and took two puffs,
"Bah, bah, bah."
Luckily, the cigarette was lit!
"Cio. What the hell is this?"
It was only three days, and it seemed like three years.
Li Cang has begun to learn to talk to himself. According to this development trend, it is not very difficult for him to talk and laugh with himself.
The fear of loneliness and the threat of death are never the most terrifying things. The most terrifying thing will forcefully swallow you after three days of starvation.
The hunger like a savage beast made Li Cang move quickly——
However, in fact, he does not need to be so hungry, but this involves another problem. You have no idea how outrageous things a hungry person will do.
A few hours ago, after eating up everything he could eat, in line with the principle that mosquito legs are still meat no matter how small they are, after weighing for a long time, he chewed a board of Jianweijiasi tablets.
It's sour, sweet, and delicious. Why doesn't the old man in the bed next door prepare a few more boxes of such good stuff?
Now
Li Cang felt that he could eat a cow alive.
What's the point of drinking poison to quench thirst?
I was so hungry that I even dared to eat Jianweixiaoshi tablets!
Cough.
Unfortunately, the search value of this 16×16m irregular floating island is limited to the naked eye.
Before it was broken, it should have been a nook and corner of the wilderness. A few wild shepherd's purse trees looked sickly in the temperature of about 40°C and the seriously abnormal air composition. However, the wild roses next to it seemed full of vitality, clusters of them. The leaves covered with gray and white flocculent dust actually embrace dozens of small pink and white flowers.
Rose flowers, stems, roots, leaves and fruits can be used as medicine and food. The content of protein, crude fiber, carotene, niacin, vitamins and other ingredients is not low. It tastes sweet and cool, relieves heat and dampness, relieves dysentery, smoothes qi, suppresses vomiting and relieves oral and tongue irritation. Sores, just perfect for this damn weather - and it's worth mentioning that briar can even treat bleeding from trauma when crushed.
This is good stuff.
Li Cang dug out the entire wild rose with broken wood and left a head-sized ball of earth to protect the heart. The rotten plastic bag hanging on the branch of the wild rose could just hold a handful of shepherd's purse.
He tied the plastic bag around his waist, not caring about the thorny branches of the wild rose, and bundled it on his back with his belt. He glanced around and saw that there was really no value in searching, so he left decisively.
Following the jet-black cloth rope made of torn sheets, Li Cang quickly climbed back to where he was, and withdrew the cloth rope with steel bars tied to the top and twisted into a hook shape.
Without the link of the rope, the plundered "Wild Island" drifted away, slowly disappearing in the thick smoke.
The floating island belonging to Li Cang is much smaller than the wild island he just searched. It is only 8x8 in size and shaped like a peach.
The floating island is just like that, suspended in the middle of the vast smoke and clouds. The surface is flat and the island base is cone-shaped. It is like a fairy mountain described in ancient books. It is very magical.
But the overall environment here is far from that of a fairy mountain. The ambient temperature is often upwards of 40 degrees. The whole world outside the floating island is gray and yellow, with a hot and evil wind blowing, and the thick smoke smelling of sulfur is lingering. There is another "surface" at an inestimable depth below the island, where criss-crossing rivers of lava can be vaguely seen flowing freely, and billowing smoke columns as thick as mountain peaks hit the sky.
Li Cang used a jagged "knife" ground from a broken piece of iron to trim off the thin branches of the wild rose to reduce the width of the crown, and planted it in a hole dug in advance on the ground.
It stands to reason that under such a large environment, the floating island is so small, and it will soon be dried out and burst like chestnuts in a charcoal fire.
But the fact is that the land on the floating island always maintains a relatively low temperature, is cold and moist, and seems to be protected by unreasonable rules that can make countless scientific giants and powerful people lift the coffin boards.
After burying the soil, Li Cang tilted a large trash can into a bucket and poured some water down with a distressed look on his face.
The water was collected when it rained the day before yesterday——
It’s unbelievable that it rains in this environment.
The color of the rainwater is dark yellow, and you can taste the suspicious sourness just by looking at it. If you drink it in one gulp, half of the periodic table of elements will probably be in your stomach.
After doing all this, he washed the wild shepherd's purse a little, threw it into a rusty iron can, and cooked it in the embers of the charcoal fire.
After the pruned branches of the wild rose peel off the dark brown skin, the tender stems of watery green are exposed.
Li Cang threw it into his mouth without hesitation and chewed it, his expression even a bit greedy.
Tender and tender, with a refreshing and numbing green taste. When chewed for a long time, it feels a bit like inferior chewing gum.
It tastes good!
For Li Cang, who had not eaten even a decent meal for several days, his mouth was filled with confusion. This thing was no less than nectar.
Apart from a bit of throat irritation, there is nothing wrong with it.
After swallowing it hard, Li Cang couldn't help spitting out the fragrance,
"Grass"
Mr. Lu Xun once said that when God closes a door, he will often weld the windows shut for you.
Is there anything more fucked up in the world than when you close your eyes and then open them in the ICU and realize the world is ending?
It turns out, yes.
Because Li Cang had just paid a down payment for a large flat before being admitted to the hospital.
Before this floating island belonged to him, it was the intensive care unit on the first floor of Building B of Yanchuan Second Hospital that Li Cang had contracted for several months before it was shattered. The hospital building, which is said to be 9-degree earthquake resistant, now only has the ruins of a corner left.
He used the remaining steel planks and the like to cover the dilapidated L-shaped wall to live in. Between the corners of the L, there was a tile floor less than 2 square meters higher than the surrounding ground, and the surrounding land seemed to have been scraped away. There is a layer of blue-black soil, and directly opposite is an apple tree as thick as an adult's thigh.
This tree once had lush branches and leaves, but now only half of the crown is left. It is crooked and diseased. There are a few wilted flowers and bones on the tree, and it is not known whether it can still bear fruit.
The wild rose is planted just one meter away from the apple tree. It should be able to borrow a little shade during the hottest time of the day.
The heavy rain the day before yesterday saved Li Cang and the apple tree. Otherwise, Li Cang wouldn't even have the grass roots to chew on, and he wouldn't have the energy to climb over the rope to search for supplies on the wild island floating over.
There is still more than half a bucket of water, so save enough to last three days. The problem now is that there is no food. The branches of the wild rose are said to be rich in nutrients, but they obviously cannot provide enough calories.
There is only such a small amount, even if you dig out what was just planted in the ground and eat it all, you will not be able to survive two meals.
Li Cang waved his hand, and the ground in front of him suddenly evaporated with dots of green light. From seemingly absent to wisps of green light, they became more and more bright, and gradually gathered into a vortex.
The vortex flickered twice, and a dark green crystal-like coin jumped out of the vortex, suspended in the void above the vortex about a foot above the ground.
The ethereal fog light strips like aurora escaping from the crystal coin were finally projected into a three-foot-square virtual interface in front of Li Cang, and the most realistic "cut scene" in history began to play:
In the intermittent news footage, the city was instantly overturned into a bottomless abyss, landslides and ground cracked, magma flowed across the sky, mushroom clouds mixed with lightning shot up into the sky, and tsunamis tens or even hundreds of meters high were accompanied by hurricanes
"At 4:56 a.m. on May 29, 2026, the six major plates of the earth, including the Pacific plate, the Eurasian plate, the African plate, the American plate, the Indian Ocean plate and the Antarctic plate, as well as more than 20 small and medium-sized plates, moved at about 0.9 per second. The plates move away from each other at a speed of 50 to 750 million times and split rapidly."
"The mother planet on which we depend for survival is falling apart. Violent and intensive earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic activities are occurring at the edges of major plates. There is no relevant casualty data yet"
"Relevant departments call on the public to take shelter in the nearest anti-seismic fortifications. All localities should actively rescue themselves and be prepared to accommodate evacuated people in coastal cities. Major natural disaster emergency plans apply nationwide. The specific situation shall prevail in each locality."
Not only are there pictures, there are even sounds.
If you hadn't witnessed it with your own eyes, it would be hard to imagine that this was the last urgent news for humanity before the disaster, projected by a damn coin.
The scene changed to outer space, and the perspective was facing the blue pearl of the solar system.
Boom~
The earth exploded.
But it didn't explode completely.
A large living planet suddenly expanded dozens of times, shattered into pieces, and turned into countless dust-like fragments.
Immediately afterwards, an extremely large humanoid light and shadow swept out from the broken planet, stood on the planetary belt of "Jupiter", looked back deeply for a few times, and then disappeared.
Survivors on floating islands around the world are just like their home planet——
My mentality is broken!
What is this?
Is our home planet an egg?
I didn’t even see what the hatched thing was!
Please, no matter what kind of treasure you are, please take us with you to conquer the stars and the sea!
What if one person agrees to achieve enlightenment and ascend to heaven?
Technically speaking, we are all children of the same mother planet!
After the cutscene, without any unnecessary explanation, the screen returned to calmness, and a mysterious text that had never been seen before and could not be described in words flashed out,
[Air Island Subordinate: Li Cang (Cang)]
[Air island area: 8.03*8.56]
【Prayer】
【Communication】
The meaning of the words automatically comes to mind.