Binhai City a thousand years later?
Zhang Zian's brain did not respond to this sentence for a long time.
For him, a year was a long time. He did not know if he could marry a wife in ten years. Living to the 22nd century was already a great victory. What was the concept of a thousand years?
When his consciousness finally accepted the reality, he was so scared that he almost peed his pants!
The only reason that could stop him from peeing his pants was because he kept telling himself that this was a dream.
"You … you are not kidding, right? This is a thousand years later … Is humanity extinct? "he asked bitterly.
It was no wonder that he thought so. Standing at the top of the Hidden Fog Mountain, he could not see any signs of human activity. The huge Binhai City was like a dead city, cold like a tomb.
Zhuang Xiaodie stopped smiling. "This is not necessarily true."
"Not necessarily … What do you mean?" He had a glimmer of hope.
She said calmly, "This is just one of the futures I deduced based on the current technological trends of human beings, national relations, social changes, group thinking, and other conditions. It does not necessarily mean that this is the future. After all, I can't travel through time."
Zhang Zian was stunned again. He had mixed feelings in his heart, but he was more or less relieved. This was the future she had deduced, not the real future. From what she had said, there were many possibilities in the future, and this was only one of them.
"Where did all the humans go?" he asked tentatively.
"In different futures, humans have different endings: in some futures, humans self-destruct with nuclear war; in some futures, humans successfully leave the earth and go to the stars; in some futures, humans are destroyed … But no matter which future, the future of Binhai City will be like what you see. Not only Binhai City, but the existing big cities in the world will be like this. After a thousand years, humans can't still live in the primitive cities on the surface. Otherwise, I'm afraid that this thousand years of time will be wasted," she replied firmly.
Zhang Zian was speechless. I think you are scolding me, but I have no evidence.
"It's really interesting. I created a dream copy of the real world, and then accelerated the flow of time in the copy without any interference. The real world a thousand years later is like this … As long as the initial conditions are slightly adjusted, the results of the evolution will also change, but the appearance of the city a thousand years later is basically the same." She leisurely recalled the process of her experiment, and the expression on her face was like that of a scientist obsessed with exploring the nature of the world.
The only difference was that she used the entire Earth as her experimental subject to observe the evolution of human society. It was similar to how humans would observe a nest of ants after hundreds of generations.
The more Zhang Zian listened, the more speechless he became. If it wasn't for the fact that he was afraid of pulling his balls, he really wanted to do a split for her.
She squatted down, picked up a broken brick, and gently rubbed it. "Civilization is really fragile. Whether it is the giant steel ships that cover the sea or the global aviation network, they are all vulnerable in the face of time. Only stone and concrete can survive thousands of years, just like the pyramids in Egypt."
Zhang Zian looked at Binhai City again. Just as she said, as long as one looked carefully, they would find that the whole city was only left with the outline of concrete. Things such as billboards, glass, neon lights, cars, garbage cans, and so on, had all turned into scrap copper and iron.
The Hidden Fog Teahouse at the top of the Hidden Fog Mountain could not escape the erosion of time. Not even a single piece of wood was left.
"Let's go," she said.
"Where to?"
He thought that she was kind enough to let him leave the dream.
She glared at him, as if blaming him for not being romantic. "Where to? Of course to go shopping in Binhai City. "
Zhang Zian was speechless.
If it was in reality, he would probably be punished by heaven if he refused the invitation of such a beautiful woman. But now he was not in the mood to go shopping. Thinking of the street where he was born, grew up, and lived, turned into ruins, he was really in a bad mood.
Having said that, he did not dare to offend her. He could only try to ask, "From here to Binhai City? Walk there? "
After all, the Hidden Fog Mountain was also located in the suburbs of Binhai City. Although the straight-line distance from the city center was not too far, they still had to go down the mountain.
Of course, she did not care about time, and he did not actually care either. A day in the dream world may only be equivalent to a second in the real world.
She did not explain much. She walked directly to the edge of the cliff, and one of her feet was already in the air.
Although he knew that it was a dream, Zhang Zian was still frightened, and his palms were sweating.
She did not fall from the sky like he had imagined, nor did she fly with wings on her back. However, there seemed to be a rainbow path under her feet, leading from the top of the mountain to the city. She stepped on the rainbow and walked slowly.
Zhang Zian was convinced. Not to mention anything else, at least in the ability to show off, she had already surpassed her teacher.
He imitated her and stood on the edge of the cliff, casually glancing at his feet. His fear of heights was about to act up, but he had no choice. If he did not want to be looked down upon by her, he could only bite the bullet and follow her.
He stretched out a foot and tried to step on the rainbow. It felt like stepping on a rubber track, firm and elastic, but not slippery.
Walking on the rainbow was really a very magical experience. The earth extended under his feet, and because the rainbow was at a small angle downward, it was not difficult to walk at all.
The wind was a bit strong, and he felt that he could be blown down the rainbow at any time.
The straight line between two points was the shortest, and it did not take long for him to enter the traditional urban area of Binhai.
Because of the dense trees and weeds, most of the landmark buildings in the urban area were no longer recognizable, and there were more high-rise buildings than he remembered. The most obvious landmark nearby was the main teaching building of Binhai University. He still remembered the main teaching building. After all, he had been looking for Richard for a long time, but he had never observed it from the outside at such a close distance. He was afraid that no one else had.
The rainbow path passed by the teaching building, and most of the tiles on the building had been peeled off. Even if there were occasional remnants, they had long been eroded by the wind and sand and lost their original luster.
Walking over the familiar and unfamiliar urban area, the closer he went, the closer he was to the ground. The closer the buildings were, the clearer they were. It gave him a sense of the vicissitudes of life.
After walking for a while, the rainbow was getting lower and lower, and Zhuang Xiaodie stepped on the ground first.
"This is …"
Although everything around him was unfamiliar, a familiar feeling suddenly welled up in his heart.
"Zhonghua Road, the former site of the Amazing Fate Pet Shop," she said.
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