Chapter 66 There seems to be something wrong with this world
Lu Bai followed the siblings across the bridge and had a panoramic view of the scenery along the river.
The river under the steel bridge is clear and slightly blue, completely unlike what a river should look like in a city.
The promenade along the coast is equipped with benches at regular intervals, but no one is visiting. It is rare to see a pedestrian walking in a hurry, and the benches are almost empty.
There are no old people taking walks, and there are no fishermen either.
Under this situation, a figure wearing a long white dress sitting alone on a bench inevitably made Lu Bai look twice.
But he only glanced at it twice and then looked away. It was an insignificant person anyway, maybe he was just waiting for his friend.
…
Zhiqua~
The door creaked in disrepair.
However, both Lu Ziyi and Lu Yan looked unfazed.
"I'm finally back." Lu Yan threw off his shoes and sat on the sofa with several holes.
Lu Bai came in last, he closed the door gently, and then began to look at the various furnishings in the room.
The apartment layout is a standard one-bedroom, one-living room, and the living room area is at most ten square meters. Judging from this, the bedrooms are probably not that big.
There are some kitchen utensils and an induction cooker in an area of the living room, which is obviously used as a separate kitchen. There is also a tattered sofa in the little space left, which makes it even more crowded.
The sundries are stored in an orderly manner, but it's a pity that it doesn't look good no matter how you put them in such a small space.
There is a small square table against the wall, probably for eating, with a picture frame standing on it.
In the photo, a woman is smiling brightly with three children.
Lu Bai glanced around and found no trace of the fourth person living in the room, so this woman either ran away or died.
Judging from the woman's appearance, Lu Bai is more inclined to the latter.
But what is surprising is that after Lu Ziyi noticed Lu Bai's gaze, her eyes became a little colder.
It can be felt that her resentment is obviously directed at Lu Bai.
She didn't say much, because in her impression, no matter what she said, Lu Bai's reaction would be the same.
So she packed her backpack, said a few words, and opened the door to leave.
"I'm going to work."
Lu Bai watched her leave.
When he turned around again, he found that Lu Yan, the little kid, had sat up at some point.
She sighed in an old-fashioned tone: "Sister, this is what she is like."
Lu Bai's eyelids twitched.
but……
That’s all.
We can talk about these things later, but the most urgent task now is to understand what kind of world this is.
He took out the mobile phone he borrowed from Fan Ding and walked to the small square table to sit down.
The advantage of modern society is that the threshold for obtaining information has been greatly lowered. The disadvantage is that the threshold is too low, making it difficult to distinguish the authenticity of a lot of information.
So Lu Bai chose to go directly to the government website to check the news, as well as previous documents and announcements.
The content was extremely complicated, but fortunately Lu Bai was not in a hurry and read the information patiently.
Originally, he was mainly focused on information about the death match, but his attention was unexpectedly attracted by another incident. "The holographic canopy equipment has been further adjusted and will provide a more realistic visual experience"
"My underground city No. 9 has reached a strategic cooperation with underground city No. 3"
"The total population of underground cities exceeds 200 million, experts call for optimizing the population structure"
Dungeon?
Lu Bai remembered that when he was in the Death Arena, he heard Xiao Xueyin mention the word "refuge", but he didn't realize what it meant at the time.
It seems now...
This city is actually underground? !
No wonder the sky looks so depressing, no wonder the flowing river looks so abrupt, no wonder the houses seen along the way are as dense as honeycombs.
It took Lu Bai a full hour to sort out this information.
Just as he guessed, everyone in this world lives underground.
Of course, it's not because they like it. From the government's efforts to restore the ecological environment on the earth's surface, it can be seen that people do it as a last resort.
The reason goes back centuries.
At that time, mankind had just entered the twenty-first century.
With global warming, the climate has gradually become abnormal. At first, people did not pay much attention to it. Only occasionally experts said that the Little Ice Age would enter in the 1930s. Climate warming is the prelude to the Little Ice Age.
But in the final analysis, the Little Ice Age that occurs once every 400 years is not scary to modern humans. After all, technology and productivity are far from what they could be in the feudal period.
With the advent of the Ice Age, the power grid system was destroyed, small power generation systems gradually spread into communities, and changes in the earth's water cycle also led to an increase in ocean fish production, which was not even a bad thing.
Throughout the history of the earth, there have been five great ice ages. The first and second ice ages were separated by about 1.3 billion years, the second and third ice ages were separated by about 200 million years, and the intervals after that were tens of millions of years. …
Although the general trend is that the intervals between major ice ages are getting shorter and shorter, on a scale of millions of years, the mainstream view does not believe that the sixth major ice age will come so soon.
However, the cooling has not stopped, and the weather is getting colder every year.
People gradually began to panic, and many people realized that this was not the Little Ice Age. Humanity had entered the Ice Age unprepared.
Regrettably, in the face of nature's climate change, humans, who claim to be the primates of all things, are powerless to stop it.
The idea of an underground shelter was first proposed, and the various technical difficulties that followed made this idea an "Ark ticket" that could only retain a very small number of elites.
In desperation, the deathmatch system appeared.
This street stall literary setting, like a deus ex machina, has really entered people's field of vision.
Be it the conspiracy of aliens or the gift of God.
Human beings have no extra energy to care, they just focus on grabbing this sudden life-saving straw.
Lu Bai checked many sources of information. Regarding the period from the emergence of the deathmatch system to the time when humans officially entered the dungeon era, all the records were vague.
In short, mankind has mastered heavy element fusion technology and ecological self-circulation technology in a very short period of time, and has also made significant strides in material strength and engineering technology.
After mastering these black technologies, the historical process was on the right track, the coalition government was established, and the construction of shelters was put on the agenda.
Around the world, hundreds of underground shelters are under construction at the same time.
To be precise, shelters numbered within 100 should actually be called dungeons.
Because each one can accommodate a population of more than 10 million.
The higher the number, the more exaggerated the scale...
Seeing this, Lu Bai raised his head and looked out the window.
He couldn't help but rub his sore eyes and murmured to himself: "I always feel like something is wrong..."
(End of chapter)