299. Global Evolution 1
299. Global Evolution 1
The first thing that changed was the tangled weeds and shrubs on both sides of the street. Within a month, without anyone noticing, it slowly grew in a subtle way, and the city that was originally covered by steel and concrete was replaced by these trees that were originally just buildings. Decorative green plant cover.
The succulents and spider plants cultivated by urban white-collar workers have broken through the flowerpots that originally restricted the growth of their root systems. They have broken the load and taken root in walls and cement soil. Perhaps someone noticed these strange scenes and took photos of them. When uploaded to the Internet, it is only regarded as a show off or a spectacle. No one has ever regarded this as an approaching crisis.
It wasn't until a slightly old public building collapsed because the roots of the plants planted by the residents inside destroyed the fragile structure of the building. This abnormality began to attract public attention and vigilance.
The explanations given by experts are mysterious and mysterious. When they still don't understand, all the residents in the city can do is destroy those potted plants to reduce the occurrence of similar crises.
In contrast, although the vast rural areas also have such troubles, another benefit brought by the abnormal growth of plants is the rapid increase in crop yields. They are just more diligent in removing weeds and weeds that compete with the plants for nutrients. Hua, contrary to the people in the city, regarded this abnormality as a great good thing.
Immediately after the plants, those animals that had not yet developed their intelligence were the ones that showed abnormal behavior.
At first, riots involving domesticated pets occurred during pet performances in some circuses, zoos, and the like.
A lion that was supposed to jump through the fire hoop as planned suddenly went berserk after being whipped by its trainer, killing the trainer who had raised it since childhood. It also attacked three onlookers and fled into the city. After being hit by a special police officer with a gun, he was taken back to a specialized supervision agency.
During a popular crocodile show held in the zoo, the crocodile bit the trainer's head in full view of the public. Even though the crocodile was killed in the end, the trainer died due to excessive bleeding from the aorta and ineffective rescue efforts. Watching at the time All the audience members were frightened and could not shake off the frightening scene for a long time.
Such things happen one after another, and more and more animal protection organizations have come forward to demand the ban on such inhumane performances that force animals. They only think that these things happen simply because the animals cannot bear the torture, so they rise up to resist.
It was not until domestic pets began to become irritable and hurtful for no reason that more and more people realized that the changes in animals seemed not only due to human oppression.
Because similar things happened one after another, people who originally believed in the "reasonable explanations" of experts finally realized that the earth seemed to be developing in the direction they feared.
At this time, rumors of doomsday were rampant. Many people firmly believed that the abnormal growth of plants and the restlessness of animals indicated that in the near future, the once doomsday theories would become a reality.
In order to cope with the doomsday, a wave of stockpiling has begun across the country. Many supermarkets and shops have been robbed of goods by panicked people. Perhaps because of their belief in the theory of doomsday, vicious incidents have continued to increase across the country, including robberies, rapes, and murders. .
It was not until state weapons began to suppress these riots that the panic of the people was temporarily relieved.
However, countries other than China do not have such a good way to deal with it, especially countries like the United States where guns are legal. In just one month, the power at the national level has become almost a display, with vast land, sparsely populated areas, and abundant greenery. The current situation has made their peacekeeping extremely difficult. The underworld forces took this opportunity to seize power from the government. Before the end of the world has begun, everything has begun to fall into panic.
On the evening of August 13, 2043, they did not wait for the silver moon. Instead of the previous silver-white moon, a blood-red full moon hung high in the sky.
Everyone began to panic, and no one dared to go out, because they did not know that such moonlight shining on the body would cause such unknown harm to the body.
Fortunately, most people have sufficient food reserves at home because of all the abnormalities that have happened before. Only a small number of people believe in the government and experts, and think that the end of the world is just a ridiculous statement. They have not retreated under the red moon. When the food at home can no longer sustain the body's consumption, wrap yourself up tightly, leave the house, and go to the small convenience stores on both sides of the street, or the supermarket that has long been unattended to find food.
Then after finding food, I went home, anxiously worrying about whether my body would undergo bad changes.
This red moon hung in the sky for ten days. These ten days were also called the Ten Bloody Days by later generations.
It wasn't until dawn on the eleventh day that the sun, which had disappeared for a long time, slowly rose. Many people who had secretly observed the changes in the sky noticed the sun's appearance and rushed out of the house excitedly to feel the warmth of the sun.
They thought the end of the world was over, but the successive screams told them that the end of the world had just begun.
After experiencing these ten bloody days, people discovered.
All plants and animals seemed to have completely mutated, and many originally weak creatures began to have varying degrees of attack capabilities after these ten days.
It seems that it is retribution for mankind's destruction of the environment for so many years. Human beings, who were originally at the top of the food chain, suddenly became the target of attack by all living creatures.
The living environment of human beings has suddenly become harsh, and human beings have become in danger.
Fortunately, God has not completely given up on human beings. Soon after animals and plants mutated, some people with strange abilities gradually began to appear among humans.
They are just like the superpowers described in novels, possessing the ability to control elements such as wind, fire, earth, wood, and water. Superpowers have gradually replaced thermal weapons, and the living space of ordinary people has been continuously compressed.
The prelude to the evolution of the country has completely begun...
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This time, the timing of Yan Chu's arrival was a bit unlucky. The changes in animals and plants had already occurred, and the red moon had already reached its tenth day. In a few hours, the red moon would completely end, and the gate to the new world would open. will be opened.
When he woke up, he was in a luxuriously decorated room with a pile of empty wine bottles beside him. Yan Chu touched his forehead, feeling the pain and dizziness after a hangover.
"Ouch——"
Yan Aotian appeared in front of Yan Chu with cat steps. He grinned like a silly dog and was so happy that he didn't know what he was happy about.
Yan Chu looked at its staggering steps and guessed that the stupid dog probably woke up earlier than him. Seeing the wine bottles lying on the ground, he couldn't help but drink some secretly. He was probably drunk at the moment.
"Awwww——"
Drunk makes people cowardly. When Yan Aotian is drunk, he is simply a coward. He screams at Yan Chu to make him admit that he is a very useful dog.
Seeing Yan Chu's half-smiling expression, Yan Aotian wanted to step forward to show off his power and majesty as a close relative of the wolf clan, and use his sharp canine teeth to let the human know that he was not a dog to be trifled with.
Just because he was drunk, the pictures he saw in front of him were all illusory ghost images. With a flying leap, Yan Chu was not knocked down, and he hit the bedside table first.
"Ouch——"
Because of the pain, the little coward suddenly woke up for the most part. He touched the dog's head with his front paws and looked at the owner with an aggrieved look, hoping that the owner would take revenge on him.
Yan Chu really couldn't bear to look at such a scene.
He rubbed the acupuncture points on his forehead to relieve the pain caused by the hangover, then stepped forward to pick up the drunken dog who seemed to be acting drunk again, and walked out the door.
According to the original memory, after the end of this red moon, about one-fifth of the survivors in the world activated supernatural powers.
In the tenth year after the Ten Bloody Days, humans finally knew how to unite and began to build survivor bases to jointly resist the threats of mutated plants and animals.
Because they had barely reached a balance with hostile and threatening forces, humans finally had their hands free and began to study the origin of supernatural powers.
After comparison with a large database, people were surprised to find that almost nine out of ten people who had gone out and been exposed to the red moon during the Ten Bloody Days had awakened their supernatural powers, while those who had been hiding in the house had awakened their supernatural powers. The proportion of energy is only one percent.
Because of some reasons, when everyone was terrified because of the red moon, the original person stayed at home alone and drank in the dark. He didn't care at all about the end of the world or death, and naturally he wouldn't do it at this time. I ran out to enjoy the red moon.
Unfortunately, he is not one of those lucky people who have never been exposed to the red moon but still can activate his powers. In his last life, until his death, he failed to successfully activate his powers.
As an ordinary person, at the beginning of the end of the world, when humans did not realize the importance of fire, he was not favored. He watched his enemies climb higher than him step by step, crush him, and despise him. The original's psychology began to become more and more distorted, and gradually turned into an anti-human existence.
But I have to say that he is indeed a very smart man. Even in such an environment in his previous life, he still cultivated his own power. Unfortunately, he did not follow the right path after all, and finally lost at the hands of those people. , is also an inevitable thing.
Yan Chu lowered his eyes, not thinking about the bloody scenes in his original memory. He put on a coat, then picked up the dead piece of meat on the drunk Yan Aotian's neck and dragged it out of the room. , came to the courtyard of the villa.
At this time, everything in the outside world exuded a coquettish and dangerous atmosphere because of the red moon. Yan Chu sat on the stone bench in the courtyard and observed the surrounding environment.
A vigorously growing pine tree in the yard has grown from being less than two meters tall as an ornamental sight to now more than ten meters tall, almost reaching the top. The yard is covered by this tall pine tree, with only pine needles. The moonlight falling through the gaps barely kept the environment from being too dark.
However, perhaps it is because this pine tree is so overbearing that all the ornamental flowers that originally grew around it withered and died. Even the most tenacious weeds were nowhere to be found within a hundred meters of this pine tree. .
The garden that had been carefully tended by the gardener now seemed lonely and empty. Yan Chu sat on the stone bench farthest from the pine trees, looking at the yellow soil under his feet and the dead branches and leaves in the field, he couldn't help but frown. .
In the last life, shortly after the end of the red moon, the original person left the ancestral home where he had lived since childhood and went to the safe zone that the government quietly started to build when the signs of the mutation appeared. He never returned to this place again. place.
So what kind of changes will happen to the pine tree in front of me, even the original person doesn't know, let alone Yan Chu.
You must know that after the ten bloody days, all animals and plants have mutated. Many plants that were not a threat to humans began to become aggressive and began to attack all living creatures without restraint, including mutant animals.
In the memory of the original body, the world jointly drafted ten death areas at that time. Four of them were because of the existence of extremely aggressive plants in that area. Their root systems went hundreds of meters underground and scattered countless seeds. The descendants form their own colonies, and even the use of nuclear bombs may not be able to completely kill them.
All humans can do is to prevent their outward expansion as much as possible. Anyway, until the death of the original body, humans still have not figured out a way to eliminate these powerful mutant plants.
Yan Chu looked at the pine tree in front of him. Strangely, he didn't feel any malice, even though the pine tree had grown into a terrifying appearance.
You must know that among the ten death areas, one of them is called the Hell Pine, which is feared by countless superpowers.
Its pine needles can pierce all the defenses of fifth-level superpowers. Moreover, due to mutation, the pine needles are highly poisonous. Although not fatal, they can paralyze people.
In a crisis-ridden environment, a person who cannot move can only become food for other mutated animals, in addition to the nutrients called pine nuts and pine grandsons.
Yan Chu remembered that the hell pine seemed to have appeared in Nanjiang, and it probably had nothing to do with the one in front of him. However, they reached the same destination by different routes, and the mutated pine tree in front of him was definitely not something to be trifled with in the apocalypse.
As for why he didn't feel threatened by this pine tree now, Yan Chu just thought that this pine tree was a rare non-aggressive plant in the apocalypse and didn't think about it.
After all, even in the state of global evolution at the end of the world, there are still some plants and some animals that still retain their sanity and are harmless to humans.
Some ordinary people live a superior life because their pets at home have mutated after the red moon, and they still maintain the intimacy with their owners before the red moon comes.
In the last days, there are many cats that are bigger than elephants and dogs that can breathe fire and water. Some of them even have higher abilities than superhumans. The owners of these pets are also called beast masters. The envy of all ordinary people.
Yan Chu glanced at Yan Aotian, who was rolling around and drunkenly at his feet, and had doubts about its ability to help him in the future.
"Woo-"
Yan Aotian didn't know that his master didn't trust him. He was drunk and howling in the sky. He felt that he was just a wolf on the grassland, a very powerful wolf.
"簌簌——"
In the quiet environment, Yan Chu heard the faint sound of animals walking in the bushes. He picked up the gun he had held in his hand before going out and walked towards the bushes.
Soon, a Samoyed with somewhat dirty hair appeared in front of Yan Chu. His left leg was a little lame, and he looked at Yan Chu with extremely wary eyes.
This kind of appearance was probably the master's treasure before the change came.
It’s just that a previous case of pets attacking humans has made many cat and dog owners wary and fearful. They are worried that their pets will attack them in such an environment, and out of concern for their own safety, They have no choice but to abandon these domestic pets.
Before the red moon comes, such intact pet dogs and cats can be seen everywhere on the road. These cats and dogs with no survival experience simply cannot compete with those animals that are accustomed to such a life.
Coupled with human vigilance, food sources for stray cats and dogs have become scarce, and the living environment of these abandoned pets has become extremely bad to a certain extent.
Even because some humans are hostile to these animals and worry that these stray cats and dogs going crazy will endanger their normal lives, it has almost become normal to feed poisoned feed to stray cats and dogs on the streets and beat them with sticks.
The Samoyed in front of me was obviously abandoned by its owner, and then injured by someone who was hostile to cats and dogs, so he was wary and hateful of humans.
Yan Chu's hand holding the gun paused. At this moment of hesitation, Samoyed, sensing the danger, ran away quickly with his three intact legs and rushed out of Yan Chu's shooting range.
When he was running away, the Samoyed didn't forget to look back at him, as if he wanted to remember the appearance of this human who had murderous intentions towards him.
Yan Chu took back the gun in his hand and smiled bitterly.
Because his momentary kindness seemed to have brought him trouble that he couldn't get rid of.
Unlike humans, other animals seem to be blessed by nature. When the end of the world comes, most of them have mutated. Except for those that have feelings for humans and remain rational, most of these mutated animals regard humans as food. Partly because of humans Those who have suffered the sin will even fight to the death with mankind.
That Samoyed was obviously the latter. If it took a grudge against him, Yan Chu would definitely be in trouble if they met again in the future.
After looking at the husky next to him who had finished howling like a wolf and was lying on the ground sleeping soundly, it seemed that he had to improve his life-saving methods as soon as possible, otherwise he would not be able to save his life just by relying on this stupid dog.
At this moment, there is only one hour left before the end of the red moon.
In another hour, the animals and plants that have been sleeping due to absorbing the power of the red moon will begin to wake up.
Yan Chu picked up Yan Aotian, who was fast asleep and showed no signs of mutation in his body, returned to the room, and locked the door.
The power of the red moon appears very slowly in humans. Many humans who have been illuminated by the red moon do not show abilities different from ordinary people until the seventh or eighth day after the global evolution has completely begun.
In these seven or eight days, due to mutated animals and plants, the number of humans on the earth suddenly dropped from more than eight billion to three billion. The rulers of this aqua blue planet are no longer human beings.
Yan Chu didn't know if he could awaken his powers. After all, his original body in his previous life did not have such abilities.
Therefore, in these seven or eight days, saving his own life became the first thing Yan Chu had to do.
According to the development in the previous life, on the first day when the sun came out, that is, during the day, someone would come to pick him up and take him to the safe area. But what happened after that...
Yan Chu frowned slightly. He wanted to change his previous life experience. From the first day after the end of the red moon, he should make a completely different decision from his previous life.
"Ouch."
Yan Aotian slept until dawn, stretched out happily, and then wagging his tail, he wanted to ask for food from his master.
At this time, Yan Chu had already changed into relatively well-protected clothes, picked up a pair of Tibetan knives that were kept as collectibles by his original body, and stood outside the curtains, listening to the cheers that started to sound outside the house after the sun rose. , couldn’t help but mourn for these people who were surprised and then despaired.
But now he has no ability to save those people. Listening to the cheers gradually turning into screams, Yan Chu closed his eyes, took a deep breath, opened the door, and led Yan Aotian out of this unpredictable place where they were. The first step in the new world.
At this time, the sun had risen high. After Yan Chu came out, the original screams and screams gradually disappeared, and everything around him became extremely silent again.
Yan Chu could only hear his own inaudible footsteps and Yan Aotian's rough breathing.
The pine tree in the courtyard remained motionless. Yan Chu walked out of the villa, looked at the surrounding environment warily, and walked slowly outside the villa area.
He knew that probably many people in those houses were looking at him through the windows, wanting to use him as a guinea pig to test changes in the outside world.
He knew it, but he didn't care.
"Ouch——"
There was a roar, and a huge shadow blocked the light in front of Yan Chu's eyes. He raised his head and found that a Samoyed about four or five meters tall was raising its noble head and looking down on him, a small human being.
The look in the other person's eyes made Yan Chu quickly realize that the Samoyed in front of him was the dog he let go last night in a moment of weakness.
Yan Chu smiled bitterly in his heart, this world was different from any other world he had experienced before.
In this world, maybe he should change his temper.
Being soft-hearted can be fatal in the last days.
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