It was just as Gu Yan had said.
The entire city seemed to be quite big. When they first entered, it was quite spectacular.
Even if there were not many people, they could still see the investment.
But the deeper they went, the more abandoned it became.
In places where half of the construction was abandoned, there were still buildings that looked like unfinished buildings. Even many large construction machines were left.
This made this city that should have been magnificent and magnificent was filled with the aura of the apocalypse.
No, this was the apocalypse.
This city was the representative of the decline of human civilization.
"I'm afraid that from the beginning, they didn't intend to set out towards the goal of publicity." Reid saw more things. "Originally, there wasn't much of a need to build such a city. In a world with developed transportation, there was no need to specially research all the projects. It was completely possible to accumulate the technological foundation in various places and then choose a place to build the spaceship production base."
"So … a face-saving project?" Gu Yan's tone was somewhat low.
"No, it should be an incentive project." Reid shook his head, his gaze seemed to have returned to the past. "At that time, human civilization had already begun to realize its future. The world's political power was established by human civilization's survival instincts. The first thing to do was to maintain order and stability, so they urgently needed a magnificent project that could inspire confidence in the world."
This was only a guess.
But it was easy to find evidence.
It was the publicity back then.
If the publicity focused on words like "investment", "determination", and "unprecedented", it meant that Reid's guess was very likely correct.
Relying on artificial intelligence, it would only take a few seconds to investigate this point.
The result was right in front of them.
This project was full of falsehoods from the beginning.
"As expected." Gu Yan narrowed his eyes. "The decision-makers of human civilization have an unshirkable responsibility for the world becoming like this."
Environmental problems were a problem that most human civilizations had to face when they developed to a certain extent.
In fact, as long as there was a certain amount of foresight, the situation would not have developed to this point.
This was because this kind of disaster could be predicted, calculated, and delayed as much as possible.
At the very least, when the environment deteriorated to the point where survival was no longer possible, humans had to have enough technical ability to deal with all this.
But the human civilization of this world went extinct because of this reason.
"It's useless to pursue responsibility for what has already happened." Reid shook his head and said in a deep voice, "What we really need to worry about is the negative consequences."
Gu Yan felt deeply helpless when he heard this.
He naturally knew what Reid was referring to.
At this moment, most of the people in the Divine Kingdom who had witnessed all of this understood.
Especially Chu Lin.
At this moment, he had a serious look on his face.
The disaster in this world could be understood as a weakened version of the disaster in his world.
In fact, it was an extremely weakened version.
High temperature? Reduced food production? Sandstorm? Harsh environment?
In the face of the collapse of the heavens and earth and the sinking of the earth, this was nothing.
Needless to say, this world's environment was still decades away from completely deteriorating.
As for his world … in just a year, the entire world had become uninhabitable for humans.
But how did they survive?
The Association's help could not be ignored, but it was also the collective effort of the entire civilization. Every survivor, and even the countless sacrifices, had finally achieved such a magnificent miracle.
This required collective willpower, collective confidence, and collective belief!
But …
In this world, this collective power had been destroyed.
Because they had experienced a crushing defeat.
The power of sixteen million elites, an unprecedented investment of funds, and the earnest expectations of the entire human civilization … After the hot-bloodedness that seemed to have gathered all power, it was met with an incomparably crushing defeat. It was not even a defeat to the calamity, but to the humans themselves.
This was like a dagger, a sharp thorn, piercing deeply into the spirit of the "collective".
When the collective power was summoned again, the bloody wound would rupture uncontrollably, bleed, and bring excruciating pain.
Then, what could a group that was already riddled with scars do?
This was the real reason why Gu Yan and Reid felt terrible.
The situation was more difficult than they had imagined.
However …
Since they had chosen to save this world, they could not give up so easily. Gu Yan and Reid suppressed their uneasiness for the time being and continued to investigate the situation of this so-called space immigration project.
120,000 people, naturally, were not evenly distributed in this city that had been mostly abandoned.
Instead, they were concentrated in a few places.
Obviously.
These places were the projects that were still running.
Reid and Gu Yan quickly arrived at the place with the most people gathered.
About 60,000 people stayed in a corner of this city.
When they arrived here, they finally felt a little bit of the city's liveliness. There were people walking on the streets in twos and threes. What surprised Gu Yan and Reid was that there were quite a few children among these people.
That's right, they looked to be in their teens, or even younger.
In this world, how many people were under the age of 20?
No more than 5%!
The constantly decreasing food, the increasingly harsh environment, and the visible apocalypse made most people refuse to have children. But in this place, there were so many children.
"They seem to be students." Gu Yan saw more information. He saw a young girl wearing thick glasses walking on the road with a notebook in her hand, constantly writing.
Just as Gu Yan was speaking, a football flew out of nowhere and flew toward the young girl.
It hit her hard on the back.
The young girl staggered and almost fell to the ground, but she also showed a painful expression.
Then, there were cheers and whistles from the teenagers and wanton mocking laughter.
"Hey, don't look down when you walk on the road."
"Worthy of being called a bookworm."
"Throw the ball back, I'll stand still and let you throw it."
"Hahaha, it's useless, she can't even find where the ball is."
"Useless Della."
“.....”
The young girl was obviously angry, even her face turned red, but there was also obvious fear. Her eyes were red, and she looked like she was about to cry.
The rest of the students were watching the show.
This was obviously not the first time this kind of thing happened.
Gu Yan and Reid didn't expect to see such a scene in such a place.
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