tsunami
This melancholy completely dissipated when I started moving things.
Zhang Dahai wanted to ask, what on earth were they going to do with all these boxes of dirt? These days, people use hydroponics for farming and steel for construction. What serious person would build a space station with dirt? Perhaps it was the psychological factor that was causing this, but his arms felt an unbearable ache.
However, as he moved the soil from the warehouse to the elevator lobby and then to the first floor of the space station.
Sweating and panting... everything suddenly became worth it.
Zhang Dahai looked up at the entire settlement and was speechless.
There were many science fiction films before the end of the world. The space stations he knew were mostly pale iron walls on all sides, narrow corridors and rooms, monotonous beds close together, and uniform canned food. Even if he looked up and saw the vast universe, birth, old age, sickness and death were trapped in the cold and lonely iron walls.
These are what he and everyone else thought.
Last night, Noah's Ark officially released a video detailing the current state of the facility. The magnificent 28-story building boasts ten floors dedicated to accommodation. The rooms are hotel-like, along with a standard dining hall, a library, and a gym. It feels like even 10,000 points isn't a bad investment.
Compared to the aforementioned space station, many people are attracted to this. As far as Zhang Dahai knows, someone paid 30,000 points overnight last night, and a family of three decided to join Noah's Ark.
——It would be enough if the room was as spacious as Noah's Ark. This was Zhang Dahai's real thought last night.
Now he felt really stupid.
This place has completely overturned his cognition.
It was a vast, semicircular space. The ceiling, powered by some unknown technology, resembled a real sky. A faint sun shone, and a gentle breeze blew gently. On the ground, a variety of houses stood in a dense network, ranging from narrow single-family homes to spacious family homes. There were also shopping malls with "Hungry Hungry" signs overhead, interspersed among the residential buildings. High-speed rail-like tracks crisscrossed the ground and mid-air, connecting nearly every household and piercing upwards into the sky, leading to an unknown destination.
Only then did Zhang Dahai realize what the soil he'd moved was for. Artificial mountains stood in the distance, streams flowing along the riverbanks. Most of the land was already covered with lush grass, and pits had been dug in the newly filled soil for planting trees and flowers. Even at the entrance, the rich fragrance of green grass and the sweet smell of earth could be smelled.
Zhang Dahai took a deep breath subconsciously, turned his head and looked towards the entrance, until he saw the newly painted silver-white door frame, and suddenly he woke up from his dream -
This is the space station!
"Oh my God!" someone nearby muttered, "Is this some kind of projection? How can it be so real? Am I infected and hallucinating?"
After he said that, the others really thought it was a projection. Otherwise, everything before them was too unreasonable.
"It tastes like the real thing. I can smell grass."
"How could there be such a place? It can't even be found on the ground."
"Then why..." someone pointed into the distance, "did that person walk out of the projection?"
It wasn't until the man came closer and shouted at them, "Are you new here? Bring your things in! Why are you standing there in a daze!" that everyone reacted.
"Here they come! Here they come!" A group of people moved things faster than they thought and followed the man.
As they got closer, the feeling of reality deepened. Living in a barren, stagnant environment, even a single plant felt like a ray of hope. They never dreamed they'd ever walk on soft grass again. The nightlights and pavilions flanking the brand-new fitness trail were within easy reach, so beautiful that they felt a pang of fear.
A large group of strong workers walked with small steps for fear of stepping on ants, completely unaware of the pain in their hands. They were only worried that they would dirty the land by working in a dirty way.
"Big brother, please tell me..." One of them approached cautiously and asked, "Are these real grasses?"
The person in charge chuckled: "Could it be that there is fake grass?"
Everyone was so shocked that they were speechless.
There were originally all kinds of questions about staying in the space station, and some people even prepared some gifts to give to the person in charge to get some information, but none of them were used, and a group of capable people became speechless.
"Okay, we're here. Start by shoveling the dirt out and piling it up here."
"Okay." A group of people buried their heads in their work, and no one chatted.
It was not until the work was finished and they took the elevator back to the ground, saw the familiar, desolate ground again, and smelled the pungent, foul smell, that everyone seemed to have regained the ability to speak.
Friends and relatives who were waiting nearby came over and started asking questions.
Questions like, "Is the space station unreliable?", "Will we have to sleep in bunk beds and not be able to afford food?", and "Anything as good as Noah's Ark is enough."
Zhang Dahai suddenly remembered that he had worried about this not long ago, and suddenly felt a sense of strangeness as if centuries had passed. He now thought of the man who had ignored the territory's strong persuasion and resolutely set out for Noah's Ark, and felt a heartfelt sympathy.
It was right to trust the territory, and fortunately he had the foresight to do so.
Seeing that they had fallen into an eerie silence, one of the sisters became anxious: "Didn't I tell you to make a list of questions to ask? Just read them!"
Her brother, a straightforward young man, said honestly, "I just asked him a question. I asked him if the grass next to the house was real."
elder sister:"?"
The young man smiled innocently and said, "It's true!"
Zhang Dahai only realized it now. "Don't tell me, don't tell me. What are they thinking about such a large piece of land?" He only asked this question.
After all, it was probably because the space station exceeded expectations so much that all the questions they prepared became meaningless.
Fortunately, there were still some reliable people among the crowd. One person summed it up in the simplest terms: "The space station is great. Any doubt about the territory is a crime. Everyone, go home, eat and sleep well. Don't think about buying tents or participating in Noah's Ark. Just wait for news from the territory!"
The others nodded: "Yes, that's right."
"That's right."
"Well said."
"I'm hungry, hungry," the young man said, pulling his sister's arm as he prepared to leave. When his sister angrily scolded him for only knowing how to eat, he quickly defended himself, "I'll tell you the details when I get home. There's too much, really too much, to finish in a short while."
The crowd dispersed in twos and threes.
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The Hungry Hungry Space Station gradually came into everyone's sight in a mysterious way. Those who had been there praised it highly like missionaries, and those who had not been there gradually believed it after hearing the "wonderful" and "unique" descriptions, and told other people around them about it.
Word spread quickly, and even people outside the territory heard about it.
However, compared to expressing opinions on the space station whose occupancy conditions are unknown, people are obviously more concerned about Elephant Elephant's response to the disaster.
"I think living on the plateau is outrageous enough," someone said. "Hungry, hungry people are actually going to live in outer space. Is this disaster really that scary? So far, the coastline has only risen a little bit. It is said that the total rise is only 30 centimeters in 30 days."
"You're crazy! I know this is a mid-to-high level disaster, but the name Spring Paradise sounds... Could it be that Hungry Hungry has gone a little crazy from outer space?"
"I suggest the above poster fully recall past disasters. Which one wasn't due to the foresight of Hungry Hungry, which allowed everyone to avoid many dangers? I choose to believe in Hungry Hungry. I suggest friends with money quickly buy Noah's Ark tickets, and those who don't have enough money can go to higher places."
"Anyway...even though I think being hungry is a bit exaggerated, I still choose to believe it."
Whether they like it or not, because of the relocation of the entire territory of Hungry Hungry to the space station, the victims all over the world have begun to make more thorough preparations than expected.
Time will tell.
However, the speed of this verification was a bit too fast. The sea level reached the edge of the city wall faster than expected, and the sea level rose rapidly at an unprecedented rate.
Those who were hoping for luck have completely given up hope.
To slow the flooding of their territory, Hung Hung, like many other territories, tightly closed the reinforced city gates. The team checked the water depth every morning and evening. By the fourth day of Spring Paradise, the water level on the city walls had reached the oceanographers' worst-case scenario—30 centimeters. Over the next few days, it continued to rise at an alarming rate.
Of course, this wasn't because the oceanographer wasn't rigorous, but rather because he didn't know enough. It wasn't until the morning of the fourth day that news arrived from the territories near the North and South Poles: an endless expanse of icebergs had suddenly drifted over there, a spectacle of icebergs melting overnight.
The photos released clearly show a group of black giants standing in the ocean, tall and evil, like a nightmare. Based on this tip of the iceberg, oceanographers judged that the water level is likely to rise to a number they cannot imagine.
The spring paradise is actually a complete greenhouse disaster.
Hungry hungry hungry territory.
The rain was pouring down, so hard that umbrellas couldn't even hold up. The wind was howling, making it almost impossible to breathe. People in their raincoats were walking very fast, hugging the buildings.
"The water's coming in! The water's coming in!" At the gate, people kept carrying waterproof bags to block the city wall. However, the immense pressure still forced the seawater in, forming dirty foam on the ground and emitting a foul, fishy odor.
"Forget the wall! Next group, get in the car!" After the horn broke several times in the rain, the person in charge finally gave up on electronic devices and chose to shout. "Take your valuables with you, don't waste time! If you have anything to say, we'll talk when we get on!"
Two cars were speeding towards them from afar. Under the organization of the person in charge, hundreds of people gathered together at an extremely fast speed. They didn't stay for long before they got on the special line to the space elevator.
To avoid flooding, the space elevator entrance was rebuilt on a plateau, far from the city gates. The road ahead revealed a vast expanse of desolate land. All reusable buildings had been demolished, leaving only broken walls and rubble still lingering on the ground.
"How many people haven't gone up yet?" asked a team member.
"The last five cars!" The person in charge wiped his forehead, not sure if it was sweat or raindrops.
He'd been hauling supplies and people up there day and night for days, nearly collapsing from exhaustion. Finally, only the last 500 people were left! Based on a 20-minute round trip, they only needed the last hour and a half for all the hungry residents to evacuate safely!
Dark clouds pressed heavily on the sky, and the roar of waves could be heard in my ears. The whole sky seemed to be squeezed into a ball, making it difficult to breathe.
"Ya Ya——" At this moment, a few loud bird calls suddenly came from the dull air.
People looked up involuntarily, seeing flocks of pitch-black crows filling the dark, rust-colored sky amidst the shimmering clouds. They had once inhabited a certain part of the ocean, using the polluted sea as a sanctuary, but now they flew over the hungry, hungry territory, fleeing their former home.
People who didn't understand what was going on squinted their eyes and looked over. They could vaguely see a horizontal straight line running through the horizon where they came from.
Time seemed to stand still for a moment.
One of the team members finally saw what it was. He ran down the wall as fast as he could, and it took all his strength to hold back his screams: "Tsunami! Tsunami is coming!"
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