Luo Yuan crouched down and went through the thick metal door. Below him was a flight of stairs that looked like an ordinary basement. It was as bright as day under the illumination of the lights on both sides.
They walked up the stairs for about five floors and reached a depth of about ten to twenty meters before they entered a long passageway that was about three meters wide. Every twenty meters or so, there was a soldier standing guard. A tense and solemn atmosphere gradually spread in everyone's hearts.
Luo Yuan knocked on the wall of the tunnel with the handle of his knife. There was a loud thud. He sensed that the cement layer of the wall was more than a meter thick. It was thick enough to withstand the bombardment of a giant cannon.
He let out a sigh of relief. With such a defense, even a green level creature would have to spend a lot of effort to break through.
He continued walking for more than a minute. After passing through three metal doors that were about 50 centimeters thick, a group of people entered the hall.
The hall was tens of thousands of square meters wide. It was noisy, and there were people everywhere.
Some of them were sitting, some were standing, and their faces were filled with fear and anxiety.
A two-year-old child was crying loudly, and a woman was comforting her. Next to her was a man who seemed to be her husband. He kept looking for a feeding bottle, but he seemed to have forgotten to bring it with him.
A widowed old man was sitting alone in the corner, sighing from time to time. His wrinkled face was filled with sadness.
There were also a few well-built youths who were excitedly discussing what might happen this time. Their faces were filled with excitement and high spirits!
There were thousands of faces in the hall.
Luo Yuan glanced at the crowd and carefully looked around. On the rough cement walls, there were big encouraging slogans everywhere. There were also a few tunnels near the hall. It seemed like there was more than one such hall.
He took a deep breath. Compared to the bomb shelter before the apocalypse, this one was obviously more powerful and the design was more reasonable. Moreover, each hall was relatively independent of each other. Even if one of the halls was destroyed, the iron door on the tunnel could be closed to ensure the safety of the other areas.
"Let's find a place to sit!" Wu Xiaoxiao said, suppressing the anxiety in her heart.
Luo Yuan nodded. It seemed like there would not be any rooms here. He found an empty space and sat down. Huang Jiahui and the rest also sat down naturally.
They were used to surviving in the wild. Usually, they would pay attention to cleanliness, but in such a tense atmosphere, they knew that maintaining their best condition was the most important thing.
However, he was not used to Wu Xiaoxiao and Sun Youde. Wu Xiaoxiao hesitated for a moment. No one knew what she was thinking, but she also sat down. As for Sun Youde, he looked at the dusty floor that hadn't been cleaned in a long time. He couldn't help but frown. After hesitating for a while, he didn't sit down. Instead, he chose to squat.
Luo Yuan glanced at Sun Youde. Squatting like that seemed casual, as if he could stand up and run away at any time. It was much safer than sitting down. In fact, it was a big taboo in the wilderness where danger lurked everywhere. Over time, not only would it be easy for one's blood vessels to clog up and their feet to go numb, but when one's knees were bent to the extreme, it would be difficult for one's muscles to exert force when one wanted to stand up immediately, causing one's movements to be stiff and slow. If they were in the wilderness and encountered danger, such a delay would be fatal.
However, this was a shelter with strong defense, so they wouldn't be in danger for a short period of time. The thought flashed through Luo Yuan's mind, but he didn't remind Sun Youde.
To be honest, the man didn't give him a good impression. It wasn't because of the hostility he showed when he met a rival in love. After all, it was normal for every man when they met a rival, and it was the same for him. The only difference was the degree of severity or the quality of his acting skills.
However, this man was obviously different. He didn't show the usual hostility, but a deep sense of malice.
It was a kind of intuition, a feeling that belonged to the spiritual level.
It was a kind of spiritual intuition that had been honed through countless life and death situations. It was impossible for ordinary people to hide from him. People could train their acting skills and put on layers of masks to hide their inner thoughts. They could make their performance seem perfect, but they could never fool their inner thoughts.
It was just that he didn't care about the malice of ordinary people.
"Oh right, where's Cao Lin? Didn't you inform her?" Luo Yuan looked around and asked Huang Jiahui in surprise.
Wu Xiaoxiao looked a little strange. Judging from the name, it seemed to be another woman. Ever since she had been with Luo Yuan, she had felt that this high school classmate of hers was full of mystery. These women didn't seem like ordinary people. Not only were they holding weapons, but their temperament was also different from ordinary people. They didn't have the slightest shyness of a woman, and their movements were clean and efficient. She didn't know why, but she always felt pressured when she was with them.
Although they seemed to be sitting separately, Luo Yuan was the center of the group. Some of them were sitting very intimately, almost leaning against each other. Wu Xiaoxiao would never believe that they had nothing to do with each other. She thought that was enough, but she didn't expect to hear another woman's name.
"I thought you'd forgotten about it." Huang Jiahui looked at Luo Yuan with a faint smile. "Cao Lin and Huo Dong have been together for a long time. He's the Deputy Director of the Logistics Department of the Defense Force.
Luo Yuan did not react to Huang Jiahui's teasing gaze. He was not guilty, so he was able to remain calm. He said in surprise, "Is there such a thing? I can't believe Huo Dong never mentioned it."
However, when he thought about how Huo Dong was so reserved in front of him, and how Cao Lin had hinted at him a few times in the wild, Luo Yuan realized that Huo Dong was obviously afraid of his reaction.
He shook his head in his heart. He was not an animal with the lower half of his body. Cao Lin was pretty and smart, but she was too scheming. Whether it was before the apocalypse or now, this kind of person could live a good life, but she was obviously not his type.
"Oh right, I heard from Huo Dong that there's an empty room here. He'll arrange one for us," Huang Jiahui continued. She was secretly relieved when she saw Luo Yuan's expression was normal. She was really afraid of Luo Yuan's reaction, so she deliberately teased him.
She was the one who brought Cao Lin and Huo Dong together. If he found out the truth, Luo Yuan wouldn't be happy or even hate him. She really didn't know what to do in the future.
She was not as strong as she appeared on the surface. Her love was weak and submissive. She was on the weaker side. She could acquiesce to Zhao Yali's existence and let Wang Shishi develop. She just wanted to make herself look less redundant.
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New Capital City, the capital of the Reconstruction Area.
This was a young city that had only been built for a year and a half. Now, it was the largest city in the country, the political center, the economic center, and the countless factories and densely packed scientific research institutions occupied almost two-thirds of the entire city.
The chimneys were as densely packed as a forest, spewing foul smelling black smoke into the sky day and night. The thick fog was like a layer of soft gauze, shrouding every corner of the city. Even the sunlight seemed dim and hazy in this situation.
Xinhua Road was a common road name. There were thousands of streets with this name before the apocalypse. But now, in this city, it had a unique meaning.
If New Capital City was the center of the country, then this was the heart. Almost all the central departments were stationed here, and the security here was extremely tight. The entire street was guarded every three steps, and there was a sentry every five steps. Dozens of armored vehicles patrolled back and forth, not to mention that the most elite troops stationed in the capital were one kilometer away. Coupled with the dense automatic air defense network, even a mutant fly might not be able to fly past.
In the middle of the road, there was a small building that was gray and inconspicuous. The security here seemed to be even tighter. If it wasn't for the solemn red words "Wartime Committee" written on the plaque above, no one would have thought that this was the highest power center in the country.
Since a few days ago, the atmosphere here had become extremely heavy.
It had started a month ago. A researcher from the Institute of Geology had noticed something strange. He had found from the magnetometer that the Earth's magnetic field had shifted by 8 degrees, and the magnetic field had weakened by 12%.
If it was the end of the world, this would definitely be a huge event that would shake the world. However, with humanity on the verge of death and struggling at death's door, such a thing was naturally neglected.
Magnetic field shifts occurred from time to time and were always changing. The movement of the earth's plates, volcanic eruptions, large-scale nuclear explosions, and rising sea levels would all cause pole changes. Even in the history of the earth, the phenomenon of magnetic field reversal had occurred several times.
But this time, the change was just a little bit bigger.
The advent of the apocalypse had trained his nerves to be very strong. He didn't take it to heart. He just wrote the results in his notebook and didn't care about it anymore.
Another ten days had passed. His research topic had not made any progress. His mind seemed to be blocked, making his brain hurt. When he saw the inconspicuous magnetometer in the laboratory, he could not help but think of the measurement a few days ago. Suddenly, he had a sudden impulse and subconsciously tested it again, but the result made his face pale.
Deflection of 17 degrees, magnetic field strength weakened by 21%
In just ten days, there was a deviation of 9 degrees. This was almost the first time in human history that it had happened. He looked slightly uneasy and even thought that he had remembered wrong last time. He returned home in a daze and couldn't sleep all night. The next morning, with a groggy head, he measured again. 18 degrees. He was shocked and immediately realized the seriousness of the situation. He immediately reported it to the Institute, and then the researchers reported it to the central government. Soon, it attracted great attention.
After several research institutes worked day and night, a more detailed report was sent to the conference table of the Wartime Committee. The conclusion was desperate. All the data showed that the Earth's magnetic field was about to reverse, and the reverse speed was so fast that there was no time to react.
The consequences of the magnetic field reversal were catastrophic. Once the magnetic field reversal occurred, the strength of the magnetic field would weaken, and the strength would appear at 0. At that time, the "magnetic field" as the protective shield of the earth would temporarily disappear, and the strong solar wind would "blow" the earth, the ozone layer would be destroyed, and the harsh ultraviolet rays would no longer be blocked.
However, what was more serious was that the cosmic storm caused by the supernova explosion had not stopped until now. It had been wandering in the solar system, and without the protection of the magnetic field, it would cause even more terrible consequences.
However, before that, the migration of the mutated creatures due to the magnetic field disorder had triggered the red alert in the Reconstruction Area.
There was no doubt that insects and birds were more sensitive to the changes in the magnetic field than humans. In fact, when the report was submitted, the satellite images had already captured the movement of the mutated creatures on a global scale.
A large number of insects and birds had formed groups and went on a rampage. The smaller groups of insects and birds were a few square kilometers in size, and the bigger groups were hundreds or even tens of thousands of square kilometers. On the satellite images, they were so densely packed that they almost formed a huge shadow.
Unfortunately, the Reconstruction Area was in the direction of one of the large groups of insects.
Before that, there were already a few nuclear bombs, including a high-yield hydrogen bomb, that fell on the group of insects in an attempt to intercept or change the group's path. However, the effect was minimal. Although most of the insects were killed, it also made the group of insects more dispersed, and the area was wider. It had already reached an astonishing tens of thousands of square kilometers.
The nuclear attack had stopped!
It was not that they were worried about the nuclear winter due to the excessive launch of nuclear bombs. In fact, in the past year, the world had launched more than 3,000 nuclear bombs. On average, there were almost ten nuclear bombs detonated every day. If one were to describe it with a mentality, it would be like drinking poison to quench thirst. After all, the situation could not be worse than that. Some scientists even claimed that if the radiation clouds were not taken into account, the nuclear winter would play a positive role in curbing global warming.
However, the world did not become colder, and the radiation clouds did not appear. Under the cover of a huge number of plants that were tens of thousands of times more than before the apocalypse, the radiation was perfectly absorbed. As for the mutation caused by the absorption of radiation, it could still be said that the situation could not be worse than that.
The reason why the nuclear attack had stopped was because it was undoubtedly too wasteful to launch nuclear bombs at this time. After all, nuclear bombs were not cabbages. China was not like the United States and Russia, which had tens of thousands of nuclear bombs in storage.
The total storage of China was only a few hundred. In addition to the vast territory, the large number of nuclear bombs launched at the beginning of the apocalypse had almost depleted the storage.
Of course, with the current production capacity, it was not too difficult to manufacture nuclear bombs. If they were to go all out, they could even make a few hundred in a year. However, the scarcity of uranium and the demand for uranium for electricity had caused the production of nuclear bombs to be very limited. They had always been in a state of "zero inventory".
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The group of insects that was tens of thousands of square kilometers was already a large group of insects. Once they got close, half of the Reconstruction Area would be flooded by the insects. The new human civilization would suffer a heavy blow again, and the achievements that they had painstakingly accumulated would be destroyed. Currently, more than ten armies with millions of soldiers had already set off from three directions a few days ago.
The war was about to begin!
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