Chapter 211 Falling into Darkness
[Day 116, construction of the underground city is in full swing]
Infrastructure, this is the country's strength.
[Day 133, the mirage of Kunlun Mountain appeared. This mirage did not dissipate due to the passage of time, and it existed steadily in the sky from beginning to end]
"Kunlun Mountain is really a special place." Wang Ran pondered, "It will not disappear due to the passage of time. Is this an exception or a beginning?"
If it is an exception, it can only mean that Kunlun Mountain is very special, even in the mirror world.
But if it is a beginning, it is different, which means the next stage of the end of the world.
[Day 152, more mirages do not disappear with the passage of time, they are scattered all over the earth, becoming a fixed landscape]
Other mirages also began to stay.
This is obviously a strange phenomenon caused by the increase in the synchronization rate of the two earths.
Wang Ran thought: "If every mirage stays here, it won't be long before the whole earth will be covered by these mirages."
By then, I'm afraid not a single ray of sunlight will be able to enter the earth.
[Day 175, the mirage is clearer]
[Pilots cannot distinguish mirages]
[The aviation industry suffers a major blow]
If pilots cannot distinguish mirages, they are likely to make emergency avoidance attempts during flight, or mistake solid buildings for mirages.
Even if the autopilot system is used to fly the plane to the destination, if there is a mirage above the airport, the pilot cannot see his landing runway clearly, and the possibility of an accident will increase sharply!
It is foreseeable that the civil aviation industry will no longer exist in the near future.
[The mirage's effect of blocking sunlight is further enhanced, and the surface temperature is further decreasing]
[People are being frozen to death every minute and every second]
[On the 181st day, the United Nations issued a low temperature warning]
[According to the warning content]
[The surface temperature will drop by ten degrees in the next half month, and most places on the earth will become uninhabitable. The United Nations is actively asking countries in habitable areas to accept refugees]
[Some countries have made whether to accept refugees an election issue, and everyone from regional councilors to national presidents has participated in it]
As the end of the world is approaching, politicians in some countries have not forgotten to fight for their own political future.
[On the 205th day, the first underground city was built in our country]
It was exactly three months since the country received the equipment. It was completed so quickly. The country has not been idle for a quarter of an hour in the construction of the underground city.
[International sensation]
[You are invited to participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony]
[You name this underground city the City of Hope]
I hope there is hope.
[Civilians migrate to the City of Hope]
[Dozens of countries ask for assistance from our country]
[Our country promises that after meeting the survival needs of its people, it will send engineering teams to other countries to assist in the construction of underground cities]
It is beyond reproach to prioritize the safety of the lives of our people.
[The reputation of our country has risen sharply]
[Day 206, a scandal broke out in a certain country]
[Due to serious corruption, the country's underground city project has almost come to a standstill. After three months, they have not dug deep enough to build an underground city]
It is not easy to build a new city from scratch, and it is even more difficult to build an underground city.
But it is unacceptable that the project was stalled because of corruption, especially when other countries have already built underground cities. This matter will naturally cause a huge response.
[The country is full of resentment]
[Similar situations also exist in other developed countries]
[Many hacker organizations have announced investigations into the underground city projects in their respective countries]
[On the 207th day, resident mirages covered 5% of the total area of the earth, and non-resident mirages covered 60% of the total area of the earth]
"Total 65%."
This means that as long as you look up, 65% of the scene in your field of vision is a mirage.
It is difficult for earthlings to distinguish what the mirage above their heads looks like, because as soon as you look up, you will see a dark oppressive area, as if the sky is about to fall.
Between the lines, the sense of oppression is ready to burst out.
[The homeless are completely extinct]
All frozen to death.
[The second underground city was built in our country]
Other countries do not have the equipment to quickly build underground cities. Perhaps the underground city project in China has been completely completed, and the first underground city in other countries has not yet been built.
[Day 208, more underground cities have been built in our country]
[Some countries have jointly put pressure on our country]
[They asked our country to provide equipment for building underground cities]
[The country asked you for help]
[You leave this matter to the Apostle of Dawn]
[Overnight, hundreds of familiar faces appeared in the prison on Ronaway Island]
Wang Ran felt amused.
He knew who was in charge of this matter as soon as he rolled his eyes.
[Day 209, a major earthquake in international public opinion]
[The countries that put pressure on our country have stopped working one after another, and instead have been anxiously searching for their missing politicians]
【The hacker group announced the results of the survey】
【Developed countries are generally not paying enough attention to underground city projects. Only the underground city projects in key cities are being carried out as planned. The underground city projects in second-tier cities and even more remote areas are almost or completely stalled】
【The survey results caused an uproar】
【Large-scale marches broke out around the world】
【Affected by the low temperature, the march lasted only half an hour, and the hospitals were full after the march】
【On the 210th day, the angry people received apologies from various governments, but the underground city projects did not change and were still being carried out at the original pace】
【The people were extremely angry, but there was nothing they could do】
【They felt very frustrated】
The weather was too cold, and it was difficult to take to the streets to march, not to mention making the greedy politicians repent.
【At the same time, the 19th underground city was built in our country】
【A large number of wealthy businessmen fled to our country】
【On the 211th day, the hacker group released a recording】
【"Don't worry about those low-class people."】
【"The weather is getting colder."】
【"They will be frozen to death soon."】
【The recording is a phone call between the president of a certain country and the secretary of state of that country. Once it was exposed, it immediately aroused the anger of the people】
Wang Ran was stunned.
Good guys!
Because the civilians are about to be frozen to death, we don't need to care about the civilians. What kind of outrageous theory is this?
[A large number of people armed themselves and attacked politicians' private homes]
[Government buildings collapsed]
[Underground city projects under construction were forced to stop]
[The country fell into chaos]
The underground city projects in this country were already very poor, with only a few key cities progressing steadily, and the underground cities in other places were at a standstill.
Originally, the civilians still retained a trace of rationality.
As a result, the telephone recording was exposed, and they found that although the politicians apologized verbally, they actually planned to freeze them to death in their hearts
. Attacking politicians' private homes and government buildings was reasonable.
As for the attack on the underground city under construction
, it should be done by people in remote areas. They were people abandoned by politicians, so they ran to key cities to stop the construction of underground cities and let everyone freeze to death with them.
"This is just the beginning of chaos."
Every time before the apocalypse completely devours humanity, humanity will collapse from within first.
The underground city project is the fuse of this chaos.
The phone recording is not an isolated case.
Politicians in other countries just haven't been exposed, or they didn't say it, but they thought so in their hearts.
[Day 212, the international situation is in ruins]
[Many countries have erupted in riots]
[Government agencies in some countries are completely paralyzed]
[Our country has built the 35th underground city, society is stable, and civilians' trust in the country has further increased]
Due to Wang Ran's existence, the gap between the country and foreign countries is getting bigger and bigger.
[On the 213th day, the country urgently contacted you]
[You learned that mirages may become solid]
"Solidified?" Wang Ran was shocked, "Mirages become solid. They cover the entire earth!"
Another layer of crust outside the earth's crust?
[You asked the researchers]
[You learned that mirages have not yet become solid, but objects passing through mirages will be significantly hindered. The faster the speed, the more obvious the resistance. A high-speed object hitting a mirage is equivalent to hitting reinforced concrete]
"Aircraft can no longer be used?"
[You learned that aircraft can still fly at high altitudes, but they need to wait for the launch window] Wang Ran has only seen the word
launch window
in news about rocket launches.
Rockets wait for launch windows to wait for good weather to prevent the rocket from being struck by lightning or losing signals when ascending, while ordinary aircraft now wait for launch windows to avoid hitting mirages.
If ordinary aircraft have to wait for launch windows to go up, it will be difficult for rockets to go up, and the human aerospace industry will suffer a devastating blow!
Humanity will lose the sky and the stars.
[You continue to discuss with the researchers]
[You learn that the source of the obstruction cannot be determined]
[You learn that this obstruction may be related to space, but the earth's space science is still in its infancy and cannot make a reasonable explanation for this phenomenon for the time being]
[According to the researchers' reasoning]
[As time goes by, the obstruction of the mirage will become stronger and stronger until it is equivalent to a solid object]
"It has the appearance of a solid object and has the obstruction of a solid object." Wang Ran frowned, "Isn't it a solid object?"
If the mirage becomes a solid object,
Wang Ran will be shocked.
He seems to know the ending of this doomsday.
[Day 214, international chaos intensifies]
[Civil aviation is suspended]
[Land and sea transport flourishes]
[Day 234, the amount of sunlight reaching the earth decreases significantly, the earth becomes dark, and people have forgotten what the days of bright sunshine look like]
[Day 255, despair pervades the Earth]
[People are so frozen that they don't even have the thought of indulgence]
[Day 286, sunlight almost completely disappears. Even at noon, people still need to use lighting equipment to move around on the surface]
[Day 291, sunlight completely disappears]
[The Earth falls into darkness]
The light and heat from the sun are the important reasons for life on Earth. Without the sun, the little heat emitted by the core of the Earth cannot sustain the huge amount of life on Earth. An
unprecedented extinction has arrived.
This extinction will be far worse than the one that caused the extinction of dinosaurs, because this time even the original driving force for the birth of life has disappeared.
[Day 304, our civilians have completely moved into underground cities]
[Our country tries to provide assistance to other countries]
[Government agencies in other countries are almost paralyzed, and social order has completely collapsed. Even if the equipment is delivered, the local area cannot provide the manpower and resources needed to build an underground city]
[The country has to give up assistance]
Building a city requires more than just equipment, it also requires scientists, workers, and building materials, and a collapsed country cannot provide these.
[Day 315, the mirage has almost completed its materialization]
[You discuss with researchers]
[The mirage has no difference from the entity in other aspects except that it has no mass and cannot be destroyed]
[Researchers invite you]
[You climbed the mirage]
[It's sunny here]