This is definitely not a normal dark night.
Pei Yan remembered clearly that it was not long after dawn.
At most, only seven or eight hours had passed, and it would take at least another four or five hours before the sun set and the sky became completely dark.
Thinking about his previous speculations about various natural disasters, Pei Yan instantly had the answer in his mind -
The polar night is coming.
Polar night, also known as eternal night.
It is a phenomenon in which the sun is below the horizon in the Earth's polar regions throughout the day, meaning the night is 24 hours long.
Generally speaking, only the North Pole and the South Pole have polar day and polar night. In a year, there are roughly six consecutive months of polar day and six months of polar night.
The polar night that comes at this time is different from the normal polar night.
It was so dark that light could hardly penetrate the darkness.
Because of the golden light emitted by the Qingquan base shield, the naked eye can vaguely see a place about a hundred meters away with the help of the light.
Pei Yan wasn't sure whether it was because of the extreme cold that the polar night, which shouldn't have occurred, appeared in Linchuan City, or whether it was because of the end of the world.
What he was worried about was Lin Yu, who had just set off for the capital not long ago.
Darkness can make people lose their sense of direction.
Dabai is now shrouded in the polar night, and no bad changes have occurred in it, which makes Pei Yan feel a little relieved.
At this time, Lin Yu also noticed that the light outside suddenly dimmed.
It was pitch black inside and outside the car.
If you don't know in advance that there is someone sitting next to you, you won't be able to see the person next to you clearly even if you are less than one meter apart.
Even the steering wheel and instrument panel are invisible.
Li Hao, who was driving, broke out in a cold sweat. Relying on his memory as a veteran driver, he fumbled to turn on the headlights immediately.
I thought the view ahead would be illuminated soon, but under the illumination of the car headlights, visibility was only three meters away.
It was as if all the light was swallowed up by the darkness.
With the help of the car headlights, Li Hao could barely see the outline of the internal equipment of the off-road vehicle.
Lin Yu stared intently at the darkness ahead, his tone filled with uncertainty:
"…The polar night has arrived?"
The main reason is that this polar night is very different from the polar night she has in mind.
The known polar night does not swallow up light. Even when driving in the dark, the distance illuminated by the car headlights is definitely more than three meters.
She tilted her head to look out the window. The sky was also dark, without any stars or moon.
There were no off-road vehicles in sight, either in front or behind him.
It was probably because the darkness swallowed up all the light, and there was at least ten meters between the cars, so all we could see was darkness.
Jiang Yichen, who was sitting behind Li Hao, also noticed that the vehicles in front and behind him had disappeared. His face was solemn:
"Li Hao, stop the car first."
Li Hao stopped the car as instructed.
It seemed like a long time had passed, but from the arrival of polar night to the time Jiang Yichen asked him to stop the car, only one second had passed.
This one second is enough for everyone to react.
The sound of sudden brakes came one after another.
Fortunately, the darkness only swallowed up the darkness and did not swallow up the sound as well.
After hearing the sound of brakes, Jiang Yichen breathed a sigh of relief.
"Is everyone okay?"
Jiang Yichen shouted loudly in the car while unbuckling his seat belt.
"Captain Jiang, I'm here. Where are you? I can't see you!"
The soldiers who heard Jiang Yichen's voice responded one after another, which made him feel relieved.
Fortunately, everyone is still here.
Fortunately, the soldiers in charge of driving reacted immediately when the sky suddenly darkened, otherwise it would have likely caused a chain reaction.
Jiang Yichen unbuckled his seat belt and got out of the car. As soon as the soldiers in the SUV moved, he was interrupted by him at the top of his voice.
"Everyone wait in the car, stay where you are and don't move. I'll go out and take a look."
It was too dark, and Jiang Yichen was afraid that if too many people got off the bus, some people would be left behind, so he chose to get off alone to check the situation.
He took out his military flashlight, turned it on, and walked forward based on his sense of direction.
The soldiers in the off-road vehicle watched Jiang Yichen's back, with the light behind him, slowly merge into the darkness. Their hearts began to lift. Li Hao shouted with some concern.
"Captain Jiang?"
"I am here."
A familiar voice came from the darkness ahead, and Li Hao finally breathed a sigh of relief.
I turned around and glanced at the co-pilot seat and found that Lin Yu was still there.
Thinking that no matter how powerful she was, she was still a girl, and worried that she would be scared, the thoughtful Li Hao spoke to comfort her:
"Boss Lin, don't worry, we will protect you no matter what."
"Haozi is right, we will all protect you."
The others in the car echoed him.
Lin Yu paused: "Um...thank you."
The atmosphere in the SUV quickly fell silent.
Lin Yu ignored them and immediately opened the system panel and entered the building materials store page.
After browsing the building materials store, his eyes quickly fell on one place——
Energy lamp.
With a slight movement of the fingertips, a detailed description of the energy light appeared on the system panel.
[Energy lamp, made from lard, beef tallow, mutton fat, and crystal cores. The required ingredients are 500g, 500g, and 500g, respectively, and two first-order crystal cores. It can maintain illumination for five hours in darkness, with a visibility range of 50 meters.]
[The energy lamp workbench needs to be placed in the textile factory for work.]
A thoughtful look flashed across Lin Yu's eyes. She opened the building materials store to see if there were any items that could deal with the current dilemma. Unexpectedly, she actually found an energy lamp.
only……
Before today, Lin Yu had visited building material stores countless times, but had never seen energy lamps in a building material store.
It's also possible that the energy light was in a gray, unlocked state and she wasn't paying attention.
Could it be that it will only be unlocked under certain special conditions?
But now is not the time to worry about this. The most urgent task is to quickly purchase the energy lamp workbench and deploy it in the textile factory.
Otherwise... the road ahead will be difficult.
It is hard to tell when the darkness that swallows up all the light will cause it to deviate from its original course.
Deviating from the course is the least of our worries. The real trouble would be if we encountered a tide of zombies.
Lin Yu spent 1,200 first-level crystal cores to purchase 12 energy lamp production workbenches, and placed two energy lamp workbenches in each textile factory.
Then she immediately turned on the regional broadcast function.
Lin Yu edited a text and helped the system convert it into a sound mode, which was played in the first, second, and third factories of Qingquan Textile Factory and the first, second, and third factories of Nanyang Textile Factory.
"Hello everyone, I'm Lin Yu. I have an important announcement to make. Please put aside everything you are doing..."
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