Chapter 573: Prologue. Zero

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November 11, 2155
Snowy peaks, under a gray sky, in a mountain forest, a few deer are digging up the snow with their hooves, looking for edible plant rhizomes, the deer are very alert to watch everything around them.
In a somewhat withered plant bush, the muzzle of a black hole stretched out. There were a large and a small group of two in the grass, wrapped tightly and thickly, an old man, a little girl who had been frozen and reddened.
"Tahya, you come."
The old man handed the gun a little to the girl next to him. The girl held the cold but biting buttocks and could not pull the trigger. She looked at a deer in front of the deer in front of her, playing by the doe without even knowing it. The danger nearby is quietly coming.
"Child, don't hesitate, if you hesitate, you will fail and shoot."
The Tasiyas have not captured their prey for many days in a row. They must capture their prey and use meat to go to the largest human refuge nearby, and to exchange some food in the winter fortress to survive.
The Tassia family is an Orion family living near this mountain range. After the disaster that almost destroyed humanity, his great-grandfather took the family to escape from the city with difficulty.
Tahiya likes to listen to some of the old Kulai stories told by her grandfather. She is 16 years old this year, and she has to bear everything in her family. Recently, the sun has become increasingly difficult to pierce the clouds. Here is Tahia. When I was sensible, it was white.
In Tahiya’s world, there was only white, and her little red face was full of sadness, and the trigger hand pressed down a little.
Bang
With a loud noise, a lot of boulders rolled down the mountain, and the deer swarmed away. The grandson and the grandson hurried out of the grass.
"Climb up to Tarsia."
Grandpa shouted, Tahiya hugged a thick tree, and climbed directly up, followed by Grandpa, the two quickly climbed to a high place, a lot of slipped under the thick tree snowflake.
"No chance!"
Recently, there are fewer and fewer animals that can be hunted. Originally, the sixty or seventy family members in this neighborhood all followed the rules. They must never kill the animals. They must leave a little way for the animals to survive, but because food is becoming scarcer and continues The ten years of cold winter have almost driven everyone to despair.
"Sorry grandpa!"
Taxia cried a little sadly, but at this moment, Taxia saw a hand in the snow, which had been frozen and turned purple, and watched that Taxia was going down, and Grandpa pulled it she was.
"Don't go down, Tahya. It should have been the person who died on the ridge before, and was washed down by the avalanche."
The snow is still flowing, there is a possibility of a second avalanche, you have to wait for the situation to stabilize, then slowly go down, and then leave quietly.
The dead man Tahiya has seen it many times, but she always feels that the person with her hand under her is moving, and now it is near dusk, the light is very poor, and at this time Tahiya exclaimed.
"The people under Grandpa are not dead, just do it."
Grandpa who was watching Liu Xue shook his head.
"Stop talking nonsense."
However, the moment I saw in the corner of my grandfather's eyes, I grabbed the gun from Tahia's hand and pointed it at the man who really sat up underneath, his whole body was ragged, and his naked skin was frozen to purple In a heavy snowy day, I only wore a thin leather jacket, and it was still ragged, covered with bullet holes on the top, and only a pair of ordinary trousers on the bottom. The man seemed to be too cold to bear. , Sneezing, trembling.
"But grandpa, this man is so handsome."
Tasiya said that he had never seen such a handsome man with silver hair and good health. At this moment the man stood up, smiled and looked at the grandfather and grandson on the tree, saying hello.
"Yo, I just walked on it and fell into a hole in the ice cave. It was washed down with the avalanche. My name is Jean!"
The man said, Grandpa finally put down the gun, at this time Jean squinted behind him, suddenly a black thing jumped out, grandpa and grandson startled, this looks like a wolf, but it is actually a mutation The animal beast is very fierce.
boom
The gun rang, and the grandson and grandson widened their eyes, watching the monster in front of them standing upright in the air, and the man's eyes even spewed out incredible blue particles, and the monster stayed in the air.
"Some hungry, let's bake this and eat it first."
Click
Accompanied by a crisp twisting sound, the monster's neck was broken, and Jean carried a monster weighing hundreds of kilograms in one hand, and the grandson was dumbfounded.
Jean turned his head to look at the grandfather and grandson in the tree, and bowed with a smile on his face.
"What is this place!"
After a while, Grandpa and Grandson took Jean down the mountain and told him that it used to be a backer town in a country in Eastern Europe, but now many people are stationed here.
"Jean, aren't you cold?"
Tahiya looked at this weird and handsome man and really couldn't understand. In such a big winter, it was strange to dress like this but didn't freeze to death, and it looked like there was something special Power, Grandpa's heart is worried at this time, because he instinctively feels that this man is very dangerous.
Although the light was very dark, Grandpa Oleg carefully observed the man's body, and there were no scars on his body, but there was a lot of blood stains and the man's weirdness, which made Oleg worried.
At this time Taxia looked at the monster that Jean was holding in his hand. Many of the suddenly very fierce monsters appeared like wolf tigers or something. They were very bloodthirsty, but fortunately their meat You can eat it, but eating it will have a certain impact on the human body, but in such a lack of food, you can’t care about that much.
And the bones of this monster are very valuable, and can be exchanged for some materials, because the bones of the monster have an antiviral component that can be made into medicine.
"I'm so cold. Do you want to lend me your cotton-padded jacket?"
Jean just said so casually that Tahiya was about to take off the jacket, but was stopped by Jean.
"I'm a little bit different from normal human beings. I'm always completely lost."
Jean’s idea at this time was to quickly return to the plateau called the gladiator. Now the situation in the gladiator has stabilized, and the forces of all parties have begun to cooperate in building the wall. Among them, their power is the largest. All forces have gradually begun to obey them.
"Mr. Jean, where did you come from?"
Oleg asked.
"From the Himalayas."
Oleg immediately understood that before the late father often said that many people chose to go to higher altitudes to survive in the deteriorating environment. If it was not because the situation was extremely chaotic, the father had already taken The family went over the mountains directly to the plateau, but it was too difficult to cross the mountains. They missed the best opportunity.
At the moment of the disaster, the terrible deadly virus is also ravaging the whole world. Most people are feasible if they use transportation to the plateau at the first time, and the slow people can only find themselves in the chaotic era. Making a living, this deep mountain is also the best choice for most humans.
"You are stupid Jean!"
Taxia laughed, Jean stopped Taxia, did not let her give her a jacket, Oleg asked a lot about the plateau along the way, Jean just told him casually, the current situation there Stable, there are still tens of millions of people living.
This makes Oleg extremely shocked. The sun has disappeared for decades, and even if there is only a little glimmer, and these glimmers are gradually dying, some things can be planted on the outdoor land before, but Now there is no sunlight, and the plants are gradually dying. More than half of the plants in this mountain forest have already died.
There are still some people alive on the higher peaks, but it has been more than thirty years. With such a bad climate, Oleg is very clear that those people are probably dead, and they can often be seen accompanied by In an avalanche, someone's body was washed down.
Sporadic shimmers spread all over Jean’s eyes. He was a little happy. He didn’t know how long he hadn’t seen the light. He went to Tianpu Dakeng to find resources. At present, Gu Yi and Tang Yao have discovered a new substance and have begun Research, research has achieved stage-by-stage success, he shouldered the heavy responsibility of finding resources for the entire arena.
It's just that when it came out, it was a team of 50 people, but in the middle of the day, the sick died, or died after a fierce exchange of fire with some places where the forces still remain. The final resources were obtained by the remaining 6 people. Bring back.
Jean had to follow him back. After all, he was a little uneasy and wanted to meet his wife, Ellie. However, on the way, Jean saw the light from the northern border of Asia. He really remembered there. There is a dragon lighthouse, so I plan to go and see it alone.
After bringing a certain amount of food and locator, Jean set off on his own. Unfortunately, on the way, Jean saw the light of the lighthouse extinguished.
After coming to the lighthouse, this huge facility is full of bloodthirsty mutant monsters. There have been fierce battles and deaths everywhere. Jean is looking for people who may be alive.
But in the end, he was disappointed. No one survived. Everyone died. He once again saw the destruction of a human gathering place. After cleaning up most of the monsters and burying the dead ones one by one, Jean left.
During the battle, the locator was broken, and Jean could only walk by feeling, but he didn't expect to go all the way, and went directly to Europe, which was unexpected by Jean.
Looking at the grandfather and grandson in front of him, Jean saw that they were hungry, and still hungry for a long time, his eyes kept staring at the things in his hand.
"After going back, have a full meal!"
Tarsia smiled with excitement, and finally entered the village. The village was small, with sixty or seventy households. At this time, Oleg and Tarsia had just returned. Some people heard the sound. They came out one after another and looked at them with longing.
Jean glanced and found that these people had some physical problems. Some people had some sarcomas on their faces and dark spots. They didn’t look good. They should be caused by long-term consumption of some contaminated food.
After a while, all the people in the village came out, more than 100 people came around, each household took out some scattered things, and a big pot was put up, this monster weighing more than 150 kg After being skinned, the villagers began to sit around and deal with it. During this time, everyone had a hard time.
The village looks like old people and children. It is rare to see young and middle-aged people. Jean took a pipe from a villager's hand and some tobacco shreds. He sat leisurely and smoked it. He was wearing a hide .
There are only Grandpa and himself in Taxia’s house, and his brother went to the Winter City. From time to time, he brought some things back, but there is no news recently. Taxia’s parents were unfortunately killed in the previous two forces. It was grandpa who brought it up in one hand.
The villagers handled it very carefully, even scraping the remaining meat off the bones and putting it into the boiling cauldron. Jean did not say anything, so he should give it to everyone.
"Thank you Jean."
Taxia came to Jean, holding a piece of ice flowers that had been buckled from the tree. Jean smiled and looked at the shy little innocent girl, smiling and took the ice flower.
Although Jean wanted to stay for a few days and left, he thought about the situation in front of him and decided to stay for a while.
After that, Jean learned a little bit about the situation. The winter city was very large. It used to be a big town. After the disaster, the government that existed at that time also came over there and began to build walls. Most of them went to the mountains. Here, after more than 50 years of hard work, it was finally established more than 20 years ago.
Now that 80 years have passed since the day of punishment, Jean is well aware that this place may not last long. The Atlantic Ocean should have been frozen by a large area because of the extremely low temperature, so the subsequent disasters of the impact caused by the center of the Pacific Ocean did not spread. , Jean asked some more about the virus, but the virus only broke out in large cities in a large scale, but it is not here.
Seeing some old villagers struggling to cut the bones, Jean walked over and raised a hand, only to see the blue light flash, and the extremely hard monster bone was cut into pieces. Like this, everyone exclaimed.
After being questioned by the villagers, Jean just said that he was only one of the people who had mutated the human body on that plateau. Many people on that plateau had mutated and could use some similar super powers. the power of.
Tahiya listened to her head, looking at Jean with some longing.
"Jean, can you take me..."
"Don't talk nonsense to Taxia."
Oleg looked at Jean at this moment, and Jean nodded when he realized something.
"Sorry Tarsia, it's basically impossible to reach that plateau now."
Seeing Tasia's disappointed expression, Jean pressed her head with her hand.
"Tahya, can you arrange a place for me to sleep? I am a little tired and want to get a good night's sleep."
Taxia yelled and took Jean into her house. A three-storey log cabin with a lot of wooden furniture, tidy and tidy. The floor and windows, including the walls, were fully booked. The hide was much warmer in the room, the stove was still burning, and Jean sat comfortably on the hide cushion and leaned back.
Tahiya opened a room opposite the living room with a bed.
"You just sleep here, Jean, although the taste here is a bit heavy, but warm."
Tarsia looking back looked at Jean with some surprise. He had tilted his head and fell asleep. Tarsia found a piece of animal skin to cover Jean and crept out.
As soon as he went out, Tahiya took a jug of wine from an old man next door. He took a big sip, grinned comfortably, stretched his nose and smelled the meat, and the villagers started singing Here, many people here rely on mutual aid to maintain a minimum level of survival. Many people have not eaten any serious food for many days.
The grass-root bark leaves and everything you can eat are almost not found here. If you want to go hunting in the deep mountains, you will be at risk of being attacked by this monster and the physical energy required to travel long distances.
Recently, there are people who go hunting in the mountains and have not returned for many days. Everyone knows that they have died in the mountains.
Oleg looked at his face blushing and dancing in the villagers' happy brother Tahia. He felt a little uncomfortable. He pressed his abdomen, and the lumps became bigger and bigger, knowing that he was running out of time .
His granddaughter was just 16 years old. It was the beginning of a flower-like life. He had to teach his granddaughter how to survive, so recently he often took his granddaughter to a recent return trip that only took 1 hour to hunt for a month. I finally met some deer, but my luck wasn't bad. I met Jean's weird guy.
In the laughter, everyone squatted in a bowl, and happiness jumped on his face, and finally he could drink a thick bowl of broth. This big pot was enough for more than 100 people in the village to eat for several days, but it was big Some people will save food and should be able to persist for more than half a month.
Night
Like a curtain in the sky, Tahia and Grandpa sat at the fire by the door, and it was time for Grandpa to tell himself a story.
"Tahya, what do you think, Yefim has been here before, you think about it, you might have a better life in the winter city."
Taxia shook her head in disgust.
"The man who is 20 years older than me, how could I like him."
Oleg sighed, Yefim was a sheriff in the winter city, and his family was much better than them. Yes, Yefim said he liked Tarsia very much and hoped to marry her. Oleg was very happy at the time. Although Yefim looked average, he was able to marry a sheriff in this age The granddaughter is lucky, he has no ability to create anything for the granddaughter.
"Grandpa, I think we should follow Jean to the Himalayas!"
As soon as Tarsia spoke, Oleg's face changed suddenly. He didn't know how the man named Jean came here to endure such a harsh environment, but ordinary people want to cross mountains and cross thousands of kilometers. Mountains are tantamount to finding their own way.
"No, Taxia, you can't cross the mountains with such a delicate body."
Taxia also nodded, and she just had a hint of hope in her heart. At this time, she picked up the bowl set aside, filled a large bowl of broth, and brought it in. Jean woke up now. , Yawning, drinking broth comfortably, praising the taste is really good.
"It's a pity there aren't some vegetables."
Jean just said that when he saw Tasia a little embarrassed, she smiled and shook her head.
"Can this small bag of bones kill more food?"
Jean looked at the small bag on Tasiya's waist, which was probably less than 20 bones.
"There are already many, you can change 1 kg of flour."
Jean has a rough idea. On that plateau, I haven't seen so many mutant animals yet. Jean is interested in what the pharmaceutical ingredients extracted from the bones of such animals can do.
"When are you going to change and bring me."
Tahiya hurriedly ran out of the door and ran in.
"Grandpa said to wait until the day after tomorrow."
Jean raised his head and put down the broth. He hadn't eaten for many days. He thought about it and said.
"Tomorrow to continue hunting, I help, it should be quite fruitful, you tell me where there are many such monsters, I go straight to fight back a few heads."
Jean’s idea is that the monster’s body produces resistance to certain substances that cause mutation due to the mutation, so there are ingredients in the bone that can be made into medicine.
Jean does not have any biological detection equipment at hand, otherwise he has already gotten interested, and wants to check the cell genes of this monster, it seems that he can only go to the city.
"By Jean, can you tell me what is on that plateau!"
Looking at the naive face of Tahiya, Jean scratched his head and fell silent for a moment.
"Where there are more people, there will always be fighting, and it is not a good place."
Tahya snorted.
Jean then asked a lot of things. The current population of the Winter City is probably less than 200,000. In addition to the small villages like them, the total number of people living on this land is less than 300,000.
The city has a solar light greenhouse plantation, but the output is average, and it is only enough to supply people in the city. This place is powered by thermal power. There is a thermal power plant in the west of the city, which is built beside a coal mine. In fact, the storage capacity of coal mines is still very large.
There is no currency here, just exchanges for things, there are managers. Once a large-scale conflict broke out on this land, and finally the smoke disappeared, and people finally took the posture of helping each other.
There are sheriffs and sheriffs in the city, which is equivalent to the army, but many of them are technical people, and they are also responsible for checking all the equipment in the city.
Jean probably already knew the structure of everything. At night, Jean lay quietly on the bed, a little uneasy. He knew exactly what the ending of the people in this place was.
I have witnessed too many human gathering places finally going to the tragic state of extinction. The problem at the edge is the beginning of the collapse of a human society.
One day, food will not be available, and the environment will continue to deteriorate. This is just the beginning. Jean has gone out and inspected many times and clearly knows what this means.
This place is not safe. Jean can see it on the ridge. From the strange light above the ocean, those harmful substances are slowly moving over, and will eventually come here to cover everything here.
The door of the room was knocked, and Jean got up. After opening the door, Oleg was still awake, and he stared at Jean.
"Jean, I just hope you don’t tell Taxia anymore about the plateau."
Jean nodded.
"I promise."
Oleg said thank you, then walked up, almost fell, and Jean supported him.
"My body is no longer good, the granddaughter is still young, her only way is to marry the sheriff Ye Feim in the city, in order to be able to live a stable life in the next few decades, you know what I mean!"
Jean nodded.
"This is also a helpless thing. It is impossible to want you to cross the mountain to the plateau. It is impossible to go around. I have not seen people who can survive in the past for decades."
Oleg looked at Jean with surprise, and Jean smiled and bowed.
"Good night Mr. Oleg."
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