withering day

The National Research Institute is directly under the national government department and is responsible for the research of all major scientific and technological projects in Xia Kingdom. One of the departments is called "The Right Hand of God". The people who received Han Mo and the others were from this department.

Coincidentally, the headquarters of God's Right Hand is in Qinshui City, not far from Shui Hanjiang's home, and also in the suburbs of Qinshui.When Han Mo and his team came to the abandoned factory, they couldn't believe it. The research department directly under the state actually works in such a dilapidated place!

Si Han, who was in charge of the reception, saw through their thoughts and smiled slightly: "This is just a bunker, the real base is still underground."

"Bunker? Why did you build the base of the research institute underground?" Shen Mingxi asked curiously as he followed He Sihan into the abandoned factory.In fact, he wasn't the only one who was curious. Everyone else looked at Si Han, waiting for his answer.

This factory has been abandoned for many years, and it is dilapidated everywhere. Some walls have even collapsed halfway, and clumps of grass have grown in the gaps in the floor, but they are probably affected by withering. Although these grasses are not dead, But it has begun to turn yellow gradually. There is no doubt that once the withering spreads to Qinshui City, it will also become a dead place.Among the weeds, there are small paths made by human stepping, and there are deep tire tracks. It seems that there are not few people who usually come and go.

While leading Han Mo and his group forward, Si Han explained: "Although we are directly under the national government, it is not considered a formal department in the entire National Academy of Sciences. It was just temporarily established by the older generation of ministers to deal with the ancient civilization at that time. The problem, after the old minister retired, because the problem has not been resolved, so our problem has continued to this day..."

"To be honest, it is actually not easy for our department to continue to this day. The funds allocated by the state are very limited, and the research institute is already a bit unable to make ends meet. Fortunately, the discovery and decline of the Chiyan Basin made the country see our importance. In recent years, the operation of the research institute has improved to a certain extent."

Just as he was talking, Si Han had brought everyone to the center of the factory. The machines here hadn't been completely dismantled, and they were already covered with rust. It was hard to see what was produced here before.Among the abandoned machine tools, there was an elevator leading to the underground, which was also badly corroded. Han Mo was afraid that it would suddenly get stuck in the middle if it was running halfway.

However, what he was worried about didn't happen. The elevator was running very smoothly, without any feeling of stuttering, and it was even quieter than those new elevators.

When the elevator door opened again, everyone was stunned by what they saw. No one could have imagined that there was a huge base under such an abandoned factory!The underground base is clean, with a white marble floor and a snowflake-like ceiling, the light can be seen.The entire underground base was at least tens of thousands of square meters in the past, and various new instruments were constantly operating. Many scholars in long white coats walked back and forth, or gathered together to discuss something loudly.The entire underground base is like a scene in a sci-fi movie, full of futuristic sense of technology.

"Go this way, our director is waiting for you." Si Han pulled everyone's thinking back.

Following Si Han through the high-tech machines, the scholars who saw them all looked at them with strange eyes, as if they were asking why these ordinary people could come in.

The office of the director of the God’s Right Hand Research Institute is located in Kaobei, an underground base. The space is neither too big nor too small, and the facilities inside are complete. According to Si Han, most of the researchers basically stay in the underground base every day. Here, people eat, sleep and live in the office, and basically don't go out if there is no major event, so the facilities here are very complete, nothing surprising.

The director is a gray-haired old man. It is said that he is the successor of the old minister. He has taken over the research institute for five or sixty years. It can be said that he knows every job very well. After seeing Han Mo and others When he came in, the old man stood up vigorously and greeted him eagerly, only missing Han Mo.

"The director has been eager to understand the reasons for the disappearance of ancient civilizations. The information you provided gave him a glimpse of the answer, so he is inevitably a little excited. Don't mind." Seeing that Shui Hanjiang frowned slightly, Si Han spoke softly. he explained.

Shui Hanjiang nodded, expressing that he would not care too much.

After a while of pleasantries, the conversation began to be unbearable. The old director put on a serious expression and asked quite seriously: "Actually, I want to know, why do you think that the disappearance of ancient civilization is related to the Book of Apocalypse?"

"We have consulted a large amount of information, and at the same time, based on the analysis of the clues you provided, every civilization suddenly disappeared at its peak without any reason. First of all, this is definitely not caused by ordinary trivial things. If it is a virus, So why haven't they been found in all the ruins? According to the last murals of the Yan civilization, they encountered a catastrophe. You know, even with our current technology, we can deal with serious disasters such as tsunami, tornado and earthquake. □□Come here, not to mention their technology is far superior to ours, why did they perish in the disaster?" Han Mo said flatly.

"Then isn't your so-called Book of Apocalypse also a disaster? Since you say that disasters can be fought, why are civilizations destroyed in the Book of Apocalypse?"

"Because Apocalypse is not an ordinary disaster!" Gu Changxi frowned on his pale face, "The first day of Apocalypse has come, even withered, and you have seen that this kind of disaster has no source to investigate. You don't know why it happened, let alone how to fix it, it's beyond what we can handle."

The old director was silent. What Gu Changxi said was correct. The current withering has far exceeded the scope that modern humans can solve. Regarding the death of plants and animals, no matter how they do it or how much energy they put into research, But it seems that there is a layer of gap between them, which has also led to the result of being helpless now.

"How many disasters are there in Apocalypse?" After a long time, the old director suddenly asked.

"Ten kinds," Han Mo answered earnestly, "God created the world in seven days and destroyed it in ten days. Of course, the ten days mentioned here refer to disasters, not time."

"Can you tell me everything?"

"Withering, cracking, huge explosion, ground fire, wind disaster, disease attack, freezing, sea anger, meteorite and oblivion... I think that it is not the first nine disasters that can completely destroy a civilization, but the tenth disaster." , let its back forever forget it!"

Han Mo's voice seemed to have a kind of magic, everyone present seemed to grasp something when they heard it, especially the old dean, who stared blankly at Han Mo, speechless because he couldn't find it. Any reason to refute, the lifespan of the world is too long and too long, far longer than they know. In this long river, the time from the emergence of a civilization to its destruction is almost negligible. Time can erase everything, including memory !

Taking a deep breath, the old director continued: "The last question, why are only you guys seeing the Apocalypse? How did you see it?"

"These are two questions, right?" Shen Mingxi muttered in a low voice, and when he found that everyone was staring at him, he closed his mouth embarrassingly.

"To be precise, there are eleven people who have read the Apocalypse, and there are still three people who are not here, or in fact, there were only ten people originally. They are called the ten executors, and they are the keys to unlock the disaster. As the ending to end the disaster, as for me... I don't know what I am, maybe I am special, and there is no ending for me in the future..." Han Mo was also confused by this, he can see the fate of others, What about his own fate?Shui Hanjiang also left on the last day, leaving him alone, what will happen after that?He doesn't know.

"How did you see the Apocalypse?"

This time it was Li Siran who spoke, with a steady and thick voice: "In a dream..."

"In a dream?" The old director was dumbfounded, obviously this explanation was not convincing.

"They were in a dream, but I..." Han Mo took over and said, "It can be said to be in a dream, or it can be said to have experienced it in person. I hope that it is a dream and it will be over, and there will be nothing in the future. It will happen, but the Apocalypse has really begun!"

"Okay, I basically understand everything, do you have any questions you want to ask?"

Han Mo and his team looked at each other, and finally Shui Hanjiang spoke instead of everyone: "We just want to ask, how much ancient super technology has been harvested by the research institute? How much has been analyzed? Can it resist disasters?"

"I don't know how to answer these questions..." The old director looked embarrassed, "It was originally a state secret, but... I can tell you a little bit, the ancient civilization's super technology has gained a lot, but most of it The content is not something we can analyze, or we can’t analyze it now, and there is only a little clue at present, whether it can resist the disaster of the Apocalypse, it is hard to say..."

"Then there is no problem left. We will wait until February to go to the ruins of the Yan civilization, hoping to find something there." Han Mo stood up directly and prepared to bid farewell to leave.

The old director beckoned to Si Han, who immediately came over, handed a few black cards to Han Mo and the others, and said, "This is a black card we specially customized for you, and you can freely enter and leave the institute."

Han Mo and the others were a little surprised, and they all looked at the old director.

"I hope we can cooperate happily." The old director smiled.

"Happy cooperation!" Everyone answered, and then walked out of the office under the leadership of Si Han.

I have to say that the materials in the research institute are much more than those in the library and the Internet outside, and they are all true. In the following time, Han Mo and the others spent almost every day in the underground base just like those researchers. The difference is that they have to go back to Shui Hanjiang's house every night.

While analyzing the data and waiting for the arrival of February, the last three executors, Chu Yue, Dai Li and Lu Liang Qianqian also came to find them one after another. At this point, the top ten executors and Han Mo formally formed a team .Sometimes Han Mo would sigh, whether this is fate or a coincidence, the futures of eleven people from different regions are closely linked together.

From the perspective of outsiders, although this team has different personalities, they are all amazingly handsome. The narcissistic Shen Mingxi, the aloof Shui Hanjiang, the stupid and big Yan Wei, and the pathological Gu Changxi. Type, all belong to the male god in the eyes of outsiders.There are also Xiaojia Biyu like Jiang Xiaoxue, hot Yujie like Xiang Xin, gentle lady like Chu Yue, fresh and refined like Lu Liang Qianqian.There are so many beauties and handsome men, which also makes them a hot topic in the research institute.

On the contrary, Han Mo is a bit ordinary. He has no height, no muscles, neither delicate nor handsome, so almost no one talks about him, only as a "support staff", but only other people in the team know that Han Mo is theirs core.

Half a month passed quickly, and the scope of withering became wider and faster. Forced by survival, riots finally broke out in the northern part of the planet, and the governments of some northern countries were overthrown. The situation around the world has become tense and full of gunpowder.

As the scope of withering expanded, Jiang Xiaoxue seemed to be more and more affected, and her whole body began to appear occasionally confused, as if she had consumed a lot of energy, and even a trace of black spots appeared on her fingertips. Bloodstains, you can't usually see anything, but they can be scary when you look closely.The people in the research institute were busy, doing CT and X-ray, but they couldn't find out the reason. Perhaps, she was the first and only person who was "infected" wither.

Finally, when the day of departure was approaching, a private plane landed on the abandoned factory above the underground base. Han Mo and his party of 11 people boarded the plane with other people in the research institute and headed for Lahaier City on the Weiling Plateau.

"Weiling plateau is relatively high altitude, prone to altitude sickness, can you survive?" the entourage reminded.

"I, Shui Hanjiang and Shen Mingxi have been there, there is no problem, how about you?" Han Mo looked at the others.

"We should be able to, after all, we exercise regularly." Jiang Xiaoxue and Xiang Xin said.

Li Siran and Dai Lixi also nodded: "It should be fine."

"I'm so strong, no problem!" Yan Wei continued.

Both Chu Yue and Lu Liang Qianqian nodded, indicating that there was no problem.Only Gu Changxi was more hesitant. He didn't know if his weak body could withstand the toss of altitude sickness, but since he had already come, he had no reason to retreat.Si Han looked at Gu Changxi, and then handed over a medicine bag, which contained more effective medicines for alleviating altitude sickness.

"Thank you." Gu Changxi took it and thanked him a little embarrassedly.