Seeing that there was nothing to do, Luo Yuan left the office with his hands behind his back. He was ready to patrol the volcano.
The street was already lit up with heating lamps, extending endlessly on the street like a long dragon. The existence of these heating lamps allowed the temperature to be maintained at more than 10 degrees Celsius day and night. It was hard to imagine that everything outside was frozen.
There weren't many pedestrians on the road. There were only two or three pedestrians hurrying through the passage. Of course, it was only two o 'clock in the afternoon. It wasn't time to eat yet. In a few hours, this place would immediately become crowded.
In order to control the food and vegetables, Hope City had implemented a large cafeteria system. Although the situation had improved, due to various objective reasons and to avoid wasting resources, the system was still maintained.
After all, it was not only considered whether there was enough food and vegetables, but also a large number of kitchen utensils. With the current situation, it was impossible to use natural gas or gas. The only thing that could be used was various kitchen appliances that used electricity as a source of energy.
With Hope City's current technological capabilities and material reserves, it was not something that could be achieved in a short period of time. It was not necessary at all.
As for the few people on the street, it was because the city was still in a state of martial law. There were guards on both sides of the street.
It could not be helped. With the migration of the survivors from the three nearby cities, the population of Hope City had exploded. The jobs that Hope City could provide did not require so many people. Even if they wanted to increase the employment rate, reduce the use of machines, and repair the entire underground city, there were still a lot of people who were unemployed.
Millions of people had nothing to do at home. Coupled with the natural conflict between the local population and the foreign population, it was no doubt a huge powder keg. The continuous martial law was necessary.
Moreover, the martial law would probably continue for a long period of time until the humans moved into the spaceship. Perhaps only then would things get better.
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Luo Yuan walked out of the underground city.
It was snowing heavily outside.
Since the disaster, the snowfall had become unusually frequent. It would snow almost every two to three days. Looking at the one-meter thick snow on the ground, it was obvious that it had been snowing for a long time.
These snowflakes were grayish-black and carried a large amount of dust with them. Before they landed on his body, the air around him trembled slightly and the snow on his body was scattered by some kind of will.
With a stomp of his feet, his body suddenly shot up into the sky like an arrow. In the blink of an eye, the air let out a sharp whistling sound. A cloud appeared out of thin air, and his figure quickly turned into a small dot, speeding towards the horizon.
As usual, he went to inspect the huge craters created by the antimatter bombs and found that everything was fine. The volcano below had been completely frozen, forming a thick layer of ice. There was no sign of steam leaking nearby. Obviously, the previous countermeasures were effective.
Next, he turned around to inspect the nearby volcano that was already erupting.
After half a month of venting, the volcano had gradually calmed down. The originally red magma had already cooled down and was covered by a layer of ice. Other than the faint steam rising from the top of the volcano, there were no other abnormalities.
Luo Yuan heaved a sigh of relief. He had to admit that such a bad weather was sometimes not a bad thing. The volcano was also greatly affected by the extreme cold of -70 degrees Celsius.
The area was already in the wilderness. It used to be full of life, but now it was dead silent in Luo Yuan's eyes. Countless giant plants had been frozen by the greyish black ice, looking like huge metal sculptures. There was no sign of life at all.
Looking at everything that was in front of him, Luo Yuan could not help but feel a little depressed.
He strolled through the forest. The forest, which was originally fraught with danger, was filled with the cries of birds and roars of beasts. But now, it had already disappeared. The cold winter, which was comparable to the polar night of the North and South Poles, had already wiped out most of the life here.
He stood quietly for a while and was about to return.
At this moment, Luo Yuan's sharp ears suddenly heard a rustling sound coming from not far away.
He immediately gave up on the idea and looked towards the direction of the sound. The sound came from five to six kilometers away. His vision was blocked by dense tree trunks. However, to Luo Yuan who had four-dimensional vision, the tree trunks that blocked his vision did not affect him at all.
He saw a mutated beast that looked like a squirrel crawling out of the snow carefully. It was a mutated beast that looked like a squirrel. Its body was half a meter long and it was considered a small mutated beast among the mutated beasts.
Its body was covered with thick and fluffy beige fur. It looked rather plump and it looked like a round ball. Obviously, even in such a harsh winter, it was surviving quite well.
After it crawled out of the snow, its small black eyes looked left and right vigilantly. Its long red ears were moving agilely. It seemed to be quite cautious.
After a long time, it suddenly sprinted. Although its limbs looked short, it was not slow at all. It quickly climbed up a nearby frozen tree. Its sharp nails were firmly nailed into the layer of ice, so its movements were not affected at all. It was extremely agile.
Not long after, it climbed to a depression in the tree, which was obviously a tree hole. Then, its four limbs moved quickly, breaking the hard layer of ice. For a moment, ice fragments flew in all directions.
Soon, it dug a small hole. The hole was very small, only big enough for its body to enter and exit. Then, it crawled into the hole with difficulty.
Luo Yuan waited patiently for a while. Seeing that it did not come out after a long time, he could not help but be curious.
His body floated up and silently approached the tree. With his keen hearing, he could clearly hear a series of "kacha" "kacha" sounds similar to chewing.
Could it be that the "squirrel" had stored food here?
Luo Yuan thought that it was interesting. However, he did not want to disturb the "squirrel" while it was eating. After all, it was the first creature besides King Kong to be found on land after the disaster.
He continued to wait patiently for more than ten minutes. Perhaps the squirrel was finally full, because it crawled out of the hole again. It first poked half of its head out and looked around vigilantly. After a while, it saw that there was no danger.
Finally, it crawled out and used its claws to gently touch the snow around it, covering the tree hole again. Then, it jumped down from the tree and crawled back into the frozen ground. Soon, it disappeared without a trace.
Luo Yuan was not surprised to see that. Compared to staying in a tree hole, a cave under the frozen ground was obviously much warmer than a tree hole.
When the "squirrel" disappeared, Luo Yuan looked at the frozen tree curiously. The layer of ice on its surface was already 30 centimeters thick. It was like an armor covering the tree. He pressed his hand on the tree and released a little bit of his strength.
The layer of ice under this extreme cold was both hard and fragile. Once it was broken, the whole layer of ice would shatter into pieces.
As a large amount of crushed ice fell from the tree, the original color of the bark was immediately revealed.
The whole tree looked bare. Only the trunk was left, and all the leaves had fallen with the crushed ice. Then, Luo Yuan cleared the ice in the tree hole that the "squirrel" had visited.
The tree hole looked ordinary. There were no animal carcasses or stored fruits. However, he was surprised to see that the bottom of the tree hole was dug by the sharp claws and there was a milky white juice seeping out.
He used his hand to wipe away the juice, revealing the slightly green wood inside.
He was shocked that the inside of the tree was not frozen. It was still alive. At this moment, it seemed to be hibernating as most of its metabolism was suspended, quietly waiting for the sun to shine on Earth again.
The vitality of these plants was much stronger than he imagined. However, Luo Yuan thought about it and realized that these were not ordinary life forms. They were mutated life forms and some of them were even beyond the scope of common sense. They could not be compared to the life forms before the apocalypse.
This discovery made Luo Yuan excited.
Although to avoid the threat of the Glassians, he had already decided to temporarily leave Earth and go to space, Earth was still the mother planet of mankind. One day, mankind would return to Earth.
That day might be a long time coming, but Luo Yuan firmly believed in it.
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Luo Yuan left the tree and continued to look around.
He found that more and more trees were still alive. Generally, the higher the level and the bigger the tree, the better it could withstand the harsh environment. Some of the lower level trees and most of the shrubs had died under the extreme cold.
During this period of time, he found that some of the trees had even evolved in order to withstand the cold.
This was especially so for one of the trees, it was emitting hot air. Luo Yuan could not see any snow around it. The tree was not bald like other plants. Instead, it was full of leaves and it was full of life. The branches formed an umbrella that looked like a huge green net that covered a few kilometers. In the endless silence, it was like a crane in a flock of chickens.
Its existence had completely formed a shelter for living things and a simple and fragile ecological chain.
The whole tree was filled with birds and beasts. The density of the creatures was shocking. Fortunately, the tree was big enough to be like a small forest. Otherwise, it would not have been able to bear such a burden.
Of course, such a shelter was not the only one. While flying in the sky, Luo Yuan found that although there were no plants that had evolved, due to the unique geographical environment, some areas emitted a large amount of geothermal energy, resulting in the formation of unique oases. In this dead zone, it was a miracle of life.
However, most of the oases were too small. Luo Yuan found that the largest area was only about 100 square kilometers while the smaller ones were only a few hundred square meters. Dead silence was the most common color in the oases now.
Unknowingly, Luo Yuan had arrived at the ocean. He subconsciously stopped and slightly widened his eyes. Everything in front of him was extremely shocking.
The entire ocean had been frozen, but that was not the reason why Luo Yuan was shocked.
He slowly landed and stood on the coastline.
Now that the land and ocean had been frozen, Luo Yuan could still see the position of the coastline. Due to the fact that the upper layer of the ocean had been frozen and the density of ice was much lower than water, the entire layer of ice on the ocean had risen, forming a plateau.
He looked at the glacier that had risen at least 100 meters in front of him and was stunned for a long time.
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