Little Mushroom

In the silent space, Jin Sen yawned: "The prison bed is quite soft."

An Zhe looked at the space around him. In the small prison room, there was a two-meter-long and one-meter-long plastic soft board in the corner, with a white blanket folded at the end of the soft board—this is probably the so-called bed.

He went over there, sat cross-legged, wrapped himself in a thin blanket, and leaned his back against the wall.

The sound of footsteps came from the end of the corridor, and the dazzling lights shone in the corridor. Three soldiers from the city defense station carried flashlights to check the room. When they passed by, a soldier on the left said, "There are three more, who sent them in? "

"The trial court, Colonel Lu is amazing. The city defense station is now the logistics team of the trial court."

"The trial court wants to take over the city defense station completely, but the director is still holding on."

They shook their faces with flashlights and stopped talking. They walked forward, checked one by one, and went up through another passageway.

After their movement disappeared, the entire underground space was silent, only the breathing of the prisoners, there were very few people, An Zhe could feel it.The sound of water dripping on the plastic board was heard in the distance, and Boss Xiao muttered: "The city defense station is just wasting water resources like this."

But the sound of water droplets falling still kept ringing, without interruption, very uniform, Jin Sen said: "It's a watch."

An Zhe listened hard, and recognized the sound coming from the next door to him. It rings at very short intervals. It's not water droplets, but the sound of an old mechanical clock.

In the darkness, the second hand rotates at a constant speed, and the time stretches infinitely.

Finally, Jin Sen said: "Boss Xiao, you have a lot of experience, how long will we be imprisoned?"

"It won't be closed for long." Boss Xiao said: "Illegal stealing of judge's information depends on the purpose, as long as it doesn't cause harm to the judge."

"I don't think it's right. You used it for profit," Jin Sen said, "Even if it won't last long, you'll have to pay a fine."

Boss Xiao: "Then I'd rather be imprisoned for a few more years."

Jin Sen sighed: "The judge is the judge. If you take a photo, you will be detained. I will sell my mobile phone honestly in the future. I just took a photo and was taken away by the court. I was scared to death when I thought I became a different species when I didn’t know it.”

Boss Xiao didn't speak, but a clear young male voice came from the cell next to An Zhe: "I have seen the crime of illegally stealing the judge's information."

Boss Xiao asked, "How many days will you be locked up?"

"The shortest is three days, and the longest is three years. One was executed. He wanted to assassinate the judge."

Boss Xiao tentatively asked: "...Is it all right?"

"Attempted."

"Is that also executed?"

"The provisions of the judge's act are like this." The voice was calm: "Without the absolute safety of the judge, there is no absolute authority of the judge."

Boss Xiao said: "Then...we don't mean to harm him, how long will he be locked up?"

The voice said, "Look at the judge's mood."

An Zhe scratched the blanket with his fingers. He felt that the judge was in a good mood.

Jin Sen asked curiously, "Brother, what did you do?"

The voice said: "The crime of incitement and the crime of spreading panic."

Jin Sen seemed confused: "Huh?"

"I wrote a manuscript for the Cultural Institute, and the City Defense Office arrested me." The humanity next door said: "Later, the Cultural Institute closed down, and I was not released."

An Zhe thought, it turned out to be An Ze's colleague.

I heard Jin Sen say, "How long have you been locked up?"

"Life imprisonment."

Jin Sen was obviously silent for a while: "You lied to me."

The man smiled and didn't answer.

An Zhe thought about it, and according to Anze's memory, he was engaged in a very safe job.

He asked the next door: "What are you writing?"

The man said: "Write popular science on the history of the base. My pseudonym is Poet. Have you read it?"

An Zhe: "No."

The poet said: "Then do you want to hear it? Your voice is very nice."

"Your voice is also very nice." An Zhe felt that he seemed to want to talk, so he said, "I want to hear it."

"Stop." Boss Xiao said: "You committed the crime of incitement, don't even think about inciting our children."

"Just listen to it, and you don't have to be afraid of being caught." The poet said with a smile: "After all, you have already been caught."

What he said actually made sense.

"It took me a long time to sort out the things. Since I was locked up here, I rarely have the opportunity to talk about it." The poet said, "However, you generally know those things."

An Zhe said, "I don't know."

"Oh?" The poet said: "Then let me explain in detail."

"Let me think about where to start..." His speech speed gradually slowed down: "Let's talk about it from the desert era."

"Before the desert era, it was the 'Great Prosperity Period'. There were a total of 70 billion people on the earth. In the plains, if you drive for an hour, you will definitely encounter a village or city. The city is full of people. The periphery of the city is farmland, Livestock farms and factories provided production materials for cities. There were also wars at that time, but they were all wars between countries, and animals and plants were not opponents of human weapons.”

Speaking of this, he paused, as if he was sorting out his thoughts, and after a while, he said: "It was 2020 at that time. It happened more than 100 years ago."

"When I was a mercenary, I went to the ruins of a research institute in a country's capital. I dug up a document there, which was a geomagnetic research report from 2020."

No one around spoke, he continued: "Since that year, they have detected the rapid weakening of the earth's magnetic field—do you know the magnetic field?"

Jin Sen said: "Don't ask me, brother. I have no education."

Boss Xiao didn't speak.

"The base doesn't teach these things." The poet continued: "In short, in 2030, the geomagnetism disappeared."

Jin Sen asked honestly, "So what does geomagnetism do?"

"The earth is a huge magnet, and the south pole and the north pole are its positive and negative poles. Geomagnetism is everything." The poet said: "After the geomagnetism disappears, the compass will fail, the global biosphere will be disordered, all human industries will stop, and electricity will not be generated. However, This is the lightest consequence of the disappearance of the geomagnetism."

"Geomagnetism... Its most important function is to protect the earth. The earth is suspended in the universe, and there are cosmic rays and solar wind in all directions, but these things will be deflected to other directions after encountering the geomagnetic field, and will not harm the surface Biological. So in 2030, after the disappearance of geomagnetism, the whole earth directly faced the attack of solar storms and cosmic rays. The radiation outside was too strong, most of the land was directly lifted by the storm, the water disappeared, and the atmosphere became thinner. Drought, Skin diseases, cancer... half the people on the earth died, this is the 'desert age'."

Jin Sen: "Oh my god."

"However, the desert era is coming to an end very quickly." The poet laughed and continued: "Since the discovery of geomagnetic changes in 2020, human beings have proposed countermeasures, which are divided into plan A and plan B. I have turned a lot in the abandoned city. The information was found."

Jin Sen's voice has become respectful: "Speak."

"Plan A is to build huge magnetic field generators in two special places in the Asian continent and North America, one is called the 'Eastern Magnetic Pole' and the other is called the 'Western Magnetic Pole'. The two magnetic field generators in the east and west will replace the north and south poles of the earth, and Charged particles in the solar wind resonate to create a new magnetic field that covers the globe."

Jin Sen clapped his hands a few times: "Amazing."

"Plan B, build a large underground city, shift the focus of human life from the surface to the underground, and protect it from rays and solar wind."

Jin Sen continued to applaud: "Good."

"In 2040, Plan B is successful, and the underground city is open for occupancy."

"In 2043, Plan A was successful, the weak magnetic field covered the whole world, the climate would no longer deteriorate, and organisms would no longer die from cosmic radiation. Human technology began to recover. The period from 2040 to 2043 is called the 'Dawn Era'."

Speaking of this, the poet sighed softly: "However, the most difficult time for human beings has just begun."

An Zhe opened his eyes wide.

"I know." At this time, Jin Sen who was facing him said, "The era of catastrophe is coming."

"Well," said the poet: "Cosmic radiation has brought about unknown genetic mutations, and the mutations have produced terrible things."

"In the beginning, it was superbugs, fungi, and viruses. They multiplied in human cities and infected everyone without distinction. The cities were full of corpses. Anyone who has been to the ruins in the wild knows this."

An Zhe asked, "How did you survive?"

"Survival is destiny." The poet said: "In your genes, if you have immunity to these bacteria, you can survive, and if you don't, you will die. In the end, all the people who are immune will be left. In the end, the living people on the earth Of the 30 billion people who have passed through the desert era, only about [-] million are left. However, this is not the most difficult time for human beings.”

An Zhe: "And then?"

"You all know what happened next. Whether it's the unknown evolution brought about by cosmic radiation, or some kind of virus that we can't detect, comprehensive biological mutations have appeared, and the whole world has been occupied by these things. They must be There is something special, human beings will be infected when they come into contact with it, gradually lose their human characteristics, and be assimilated. They like to attack humans, and human genes are delicious to them - and the war begins. A great war."

Taking a breath, the poet continued: "Human beings who live in a scattered life cannot resist the attack of monsters. Human beings began to integrate the remaining resources and build a human base. Our ID number starts with 3, which means that this is the third base of human beings. Dungeon The base, the Virginia base, the northern base, and the southeastern base, the alliance of these four bases is a community of shared future for mankind. After the base is formed, you can take a breather, so you have your current life."

With this sentence, the atmosphere in the prison seemed to ease down, but it fell to freezing point again with the next sentence.

"Unfortunately, the base is not a safe place." The poet coughed a few times, his voice gradually lowered.

"In 2073, the tide of mutated rodents broke out, and the southeast base fell."

"In 2121, alien species in the ocean sneaked in, and the Virginia base fell."

"Fuck," Jin Sen interrupted him suddenly, "I know why you committed the crime of incitement and malicious spreading of panic, the city defense station should shut your mouth up."

"But I didn't do anything wrong." The poet smiled and said, "I just mixed in with my boyfriend's mercenary team, collected data from human ruins, sorted them out and published them, and was sentenced Life imprisonment."

Jin Sen said: "Your tongue should be cut off for life. You even have a boyfriend."

The poet laughed: "The base is so boring, why can't I have a boyfriend?"

He stopped talking to Jin Sen and said, "So, the only ones that can still function are the Northern Base and the Dungeon Base. These two bases protect the magnetic field generator, so the aurora at the base is brighter than other places." , the aurora is the flow of particles in the solar wind."

Speaking of this, the poet sighed: "I don't know if there is still a connection between the two bases, after all, the entire Pacific Ocean is separated. I said before that the most difficult time for human beings is not the age of deserts, nor the age of catastrophes, because The hardest time is now. Who knows what will happen next moment."

As soon as the words fell, the ground under their feet shook violently.

Dust fell from the ceiling of the prison and landed on An Zhe's head and body. He was choked and coughed, but then a stronger vibration shook him.

Jin Sen stood up abruptly and said loudly, "An earthquake?"

"It's not an earthquake." An Zhe heard the voice of the poet next door getting up from the ground. This knowledgeable man was chanting something he couldn't understand: "An earthquake is a transverse wave and a longitudinal wave. Now it's an irregular vibration, and the source is very shallow—— "

"—There's something underground!"

An Zhe understood this sentence.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, a loud noise came from the depths of the corridor, accompanied by the clang of the iron door falling to the ground.

"Boom!" Another sound.

There was a hundred times stronger vibration than before, and An Zhe firmly grasped the iron gate railing to stand firm.

He heard it.

Something, a huge living thing, was slamming into the floor from below.