Finale: Ancient Origins
Jiang Miao, who is in charge of the room decoration, is a good friend of his team member, so he has it a lot easier. Once the door is closed, it is his own world and he can do whatever he wants.
Su Heng and Gou Sheng were removing the spell in the room. The eight-month-old tiger cub was full of curiosity about the world, especially when he came to an unfamiliar environment.
"Our new home is here." Jiang Miao rubbed the tiger's head and took out an electric saw to carve out a new hole. The hole was spacious and hidden, giving people a full sense of security.
Jiang Miao had planned the circuits, water tanks, sewage tanks, and oxygen supply systems in advance, and all the materials were the best available in the space.
It can at least guarantee normal survival in it for more than two years.
She took out a pile of furniture and gave it to the Immortal Lord to arrange, while she began to renovate the entrance. After all, people would come and go here frequently in the future.
With Team Leader Jiang personally supervising the progress of the work, Team A2 quickly finished using the supports and handed them over to Team D6. Jiang Miao took the distribution line and closed the door and tinkered with it on his own, which attracted the attention of other workers. They were all curious about how Team Leader Jiang was going to tinker with the small space that he had gone to so much trouble to get.
Regarding the outside of the safe house, Jiang Miao planned to divide it into two rooms in the middle to serve as a living room and a bedroom.
The living room is decorated in an ordinary way, with lead plates simply embedded in the walls; the bedroom is stacked with steel plates, candle layers and plastics, and the location leading to the safe house is built into a shower room. Every time you enter, you need to take a shower and change into new clothes to minimize the amount of radiation that can be brought in.
After more than half a year of training at the construction site, she has become a skilled worker and can complete the work of other workers in three days in just one day.
Finally, she was fully armed and pretended to be transporting a batch of furniture to the construction site. She was determined to settle down here.
Wang Feng was surprised: "Didn't the authorities notify you to move in? Isn't it against the rules for you to do this?"
Jiang Miao did not take off his helmet: "The contribution points required to pay the rent outside are increasing, and the aftereffects of the plague have not yet passed. Anyway, I am a million miles away from their central circle, so they can't control me."
What you said makes sense. We are all living in the end times, so it doesn’t matter where we live.
However, just when Wang Feng was planning to find some time to decorate the room, the command center suddenly issued an order for everyone to urgently find shelter.
A nuclear explosion occurred.
After the doomsday came, countless related maintenance personnel were killed or injured. The nuclear power plant had been in disrepair for many years and was on the verge of collapse. The Japanese officials had no choice but to announce a complete abandonment a day ago and were unable to save the situation.
However, on the first day of abandonment, the nuclear power plant seemed to sense humanity's inaction and abandonment of it, so it exploded without warning amid desperate wails, without waiting for all the staff to evacuate.
An island of more than 300,000 square kilometers was razed to the ground in an instant, but the intensity of the radiation emitted by the nuclear radiation source did not weaken, and it radiated across the globe at a speed of nearly a thousand meters per second.
An epic disaster struck, and great panic immediately enveloped the capital. People scrambled to find hidden hiding places. Even though the underground city had not yet been completed, the gate was already crowded with people wanting to move in.
The workers who were rushing to work at the construction site were also glad that they had not gone out. After all, radiation travels in a straight line, and it is much safer underground than being exposed to a radiation environment.
Jiang Miao closed the door and ignored the noise outside. He tied a rope bell behind the door so that he could hear someone knocking on the door outside when he was in the safe house.
Then, three pots of green plants and two mice were placed in the two rooms outside as a control group. Automatic lighting, watering and feeding machines were set up next to them to detect the degree of radiation enhancement on living animals and plants. Finally, cameras were installed so that their illness and decline could be observed at any time in the safe house.
However, since we cannot connect to the Internet now, the camera can only serve as a screen broadcaster. There is no way to save the data in the cloud for playback, resulting in inaccurate observation results.
But Jiang Miao is not a professional scientific researcher, he just wants to test the radiation intensity at different times.
Everything was ready, and there was complete chaos outside.
Fortunately, the authorities took timely action and diverted and introduced residents whose property rights had been confirmed as quickly as possible, and the remaining residents were selected by lottery to enter the underground city for refuge.
When workers were being recruited to build the underground city, some people thought that only fools would do the work for free. But now the situation is urgent and there is no time to even use the back door. Ordinary people have no way to live in except to rely on luck and draw lots. They began to envy those fools.
Before returning to the safe house, Jiang Miao washed herself first. After entering the safe house, there was a small room for her to disinfect and change clothes.
Nuclear radiation is everywhere, and there are no instruments to detect it in her space, so she can only make the best preparations she can.
Her current task is to follow the dietary recommendations of residents to eat all the protein, vitamins and sugars needed by the human body through food supplements, and then to strengthen her physical fitness, enhance her resistance and keep her body fully loaded with iodine.
During these years of the apocalypse, the most consumed food for her three meals a day was takeout from various restaurants, or high-fat, high-salt, and high-sugar foods such as hot pot, barbecue, and milk tea. Occasionally, she would have a seafood feast to satisfy her cravings.
She tried not to touch the fresh vegetables, fruits, meat, grains, river fish and olive oil that she had saved. Now they are still fresh and juicy, and the water droplets still have the coolness of being taken out of the cold chain.
By the time Jiang Miao had formulated a diet and training plan, the above assignment work was finally completed.
Under the official promise that they would continue to build underground cities for everyone to take shelter, the excited people on the streets finally looked for new shelters to protect themselves in worry and fear.
However, just building an underground city that could accommodate 20,000 people required nearly 3,000 workers and more than half a year to complete. How could nuclear radiation allow the people to wait another half a year?
On the third day after the dungeon was announced to be open, those who had survived the plague some time ago quickly developed pathological reactions in their bodies due to their decreased resistance.
The first thing that happens is hair loss. The hair, eyebrows, and sweat hairs on the body are like pieces of paper burned by fire, and they will shatter into pieces with the slightest touch.
Then sores appear on the mucous membranes and skin ulcers, and large blisters bulge out between the top layer of the epidermis and the muscles, containing pathogenic tissue fluid that the body cannot metabolize.
Then black and red tumors grew out of the rotten skin and hung in the wind. The bones became hard and brittle, and even the slightest movement while talking would result in fractures.
In the end, the whole person was like a walking corpse, and death was imminent in the next second.
Those who were exposed to the radiation environment for too long died within a month, and those who found shelter could not survive for more than three months. The first disease appeared in the underground city half a year later.
The radiation is pervasive, and the dungeons are only there to delay the invasion.
Jiang Miao, Xianjun and Gousheng lived at the outermost part of the underground city. People moved from the vast ground to the crowded underground, and their quality of life dropped several levels. They were so busy trying to save their lives every day that it was difficult for them to remember a small engineering team leader, especially since they lived among a group of refugees and soon forgot about her.
Jiang Miao also truly achieved obscurity and turned a deaf ear to what was happening outside. No matter if there was a fight or murder outside the door, or someone knocking on the door or prying it open, she would sit still as still as a mountain.
Anyway, the front door cannot be opened with ordinary tools. The underground city can avoid large-scale nuclear radiation, but drinking water, food, and hygiene are still difficult problems that affect human survival and make them unable to take care of themselves.
Gradually, the noise outside became less and less, until it was completely silent.
Jiang Miao glanced at the calendar. It had been one year and seven months since the nuclear radiation outbreak. She would have been dead by this time in her previous life.
"Woo woo--" Gousheng parkoured out of the secret realm and came to Jiang Miao's feet to act coquettishly.
She picked up a piece of lamb that had not been slaughtered yet and threw it to it. Gousheng immediately squatted in the corner of the garden with the food in his mouth and began to eat it happily.
"I wonder how many people are left on Blue Star now." She was daydreaming with the book in her hand, and only came back to her senses when she heard the light footsteps behind her.
"You're out of quarantine?"
Su Heng nodded and sat beside her very naturally, picking up the flower tea she had drunk and drinking it all in one gulp.
The Immortal King often went into seclusion during the days he came to the dungeon. Jiang Miao also knew that the power of the world's rules to control him was becoming weaker and weaker, and it seemed that it was about to break through.
Jiang Miao was very curious about the Immortal King in his prime, and couldn't help but look him up and down: "How do you feel now?"
Su Heng didn't say anything. He just put a touch of pure spiritual power in his hand, pressed it against Jiang Miao's Shenting acupoint, and began to clear the meridians and open up her spiritual palace.
The cyan-gold spiritual energy flowed into Jiang Miao's limbs along the acupoints. He felt warm in his limbs without any discomfort, as if he had soaked in a hot spring. He turned around and found that his body had undergone earth-shaking changes.
She was surprised and said: "This is..."
Su Heng placed his hands over her eyes and guided her to look at the outside world through his spiritual sense: "The weather outside has changed."
In the doomsday, the abandoned buildings that were originally in ruins are now surrounded by large areas of thick and lush plants. They are huge and grow rapidly, as if they are mutating all the time, and even attack the creatures passing by.
Wandering among the giant plants are half-meter-long insects, giant pythons covering half an acre of land, and even flying elk, all of which seem like magical species that could only appear in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
"Outside, outside..."
Even though Jiang Miao had seen big scenes, she was shocked by the scene outside and was speechless. In the vast and high-definition picture, she even saw a familiar face.
——Yuan Yexin clumsily threw out a spirit ball, hitting the giant spider that was approaching him, and then ran away in a hurry, his running speed could catch up with the high-speed train!
This is obviously not the speed a human should have!!
All kinds of strange things that overturned her worldview washed over Jiang Miao's cognition. She stared with her eyes wide open and was speechless. It was obvious that she had no idea what happened after her death in her previous life and was completely unprepared.
"Just now, the world's main god lifted the rules that restricted me." Su Heng called Gousheng, who had a full meal, over and opened the spiritual palace for him.
Jiang Miao felt a faint spiritual energy surrounding him, and his body absorbed it unconsciously. Soon, the spiritual energy wandering in the room was cleared away.
"What's going on outside now? Has the nuclear radiation disappeared?"
There was a slight smile on Su Heng's lips, as if he was finally liberated and relieved, but also a little helpless knowing that he could never go back.
"After lifting the restrictions, I used my divine sense to cover an area of thousands of miles, and found that the current appearance of this continent is very similar to the picture I saw in the ancient divine book."
"Spiritual energy is abundant, animals are mutating, and plants are growing wildly. When I sent out a trace of the original god, my guess was confirmed."
When he talked about the important points, Jiang Miao couldn't help but hold his breath and concentrate.
"This is the ancient origin three hundred thousand years ago of my time."
Wh, what?
Su Heng stood up and invited Jiang Miao to go to the ground to take a look.
She only felt a flash before her eyes and they were standing in mid-air, overlooking the boundless primeval forest waving its claws and expanding infinitely to the outer edge.
"I live in the Dharma Ending Age. Cultivators need to spend their entire lives and never slack off for a moment to reach the Nascent Soul stage," Su Heng said, pointing at Yuan Yexin who was desperately escaping below. "But in the Ancient Age, even if you didn't know any magic, you could still reach the Nascent Soul stage by absorbing pure spiritual energy."
Feeling the crazy increase in the cultivation level of the people around him, Su Heng tilted his head and smiled helplessly: "It won't even attract the thunder."
Jiang Miao could feel the surging spiritual energy outside his body rushing into his meridians just by breathing. Soon, he was wrapped up like a transparent little baby and sank into his spiritual palace.
"ah?"
In just a few breaths, Jiang Miao had already reached the Great Perfection of Nascent Soul.
She learned from the Immortal King how to circulate the spiritual power in her body and expand her spiritual awareness, no longer relying on Su Heng's transmission. Everything within ten miles appeared clearly before her eyes.
It turns out that the aftermath of the end of the great radiation era is the mutation of animals and plants, and even epic mutation of humans!
She was not surprised that Yuan Yexin was still alive, but she also saw four or five people within a radius of ten miles, clumsily and unfamiliarly manipulating spiritual power to fight for a chance to survive.
Jiang Miao closed his eyes and felt the abundant power in his body.
The doomsday is over, but it’s a pity that I died at the last level in my previous life.
Su Heng considered and decided not to say more about some things.
In his time, the most famous ancient record was about the Goddess of Creation.
The goddess led the cultivators to fight against all kinds of demons, establish sects, pass on culture, and finally achieve perfection in merit and ascend to heaven.
The book records very little about the name, appearance, clothing, and preferences of the Goddess of Creation. All we know is that her mount is a mighty and majestic divine tiger named "彀".
Su Heng didn't know whether the goddess of creation who was famous in later generations was Miaomiao, but whether she said it or not would not hinder her from creating her own prosperous era in this primitive land.
"Ahem, Miaomiao."
The end of the world, the absence of existential crisis also means that what he says will finally not be 100% rejected.
"I wonder... if I can have the honor of becoming your Taoist partner."
A cold wind blew over the endless primeval forest, lifting the two people's hair, making them stick together and then tear apart in the air.
Jiang Miao was stunned for a moment after hearing these words, but he regained his composure after a moment.
Everywhere she looked was the sea of stars. Even though she had some feelings for the Immortal King, now was not the time to talk about romantic feelings.
"Sorry, I don't have any plans for that right now."
Su Heng was not disappointed after receiving a rejection, but took out a book on magic from his storage ring: "How about you consider me after you have this plan?"
After the Nascent Soul stage, it is difficult to advance further without practicing magic.
Jiang Miao took the magic book and smiled gratefully, his eyes firm.
Now, she has a new goal.
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