allendalepharm Chapter 1 Earth is Expanding
Chapter 1 Earth is Expanding
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「本台消息：现在时间是公元2035年10月10日上午10点10分，请铭记这个在黑暗中坚守的时刻——
As of now, all 31 major cities of the Great Xia Dynasty, including Shanghai, Yancheng, Chongqing, and Shanghai City, have been confirmed to have been mysteriously occupied.
"Human civilization is facing the most brutal test of survival since its birth."
"Please remember: This is not the end, but a protracted battle for the survival of humankind."
"To all fellow survivors, please strictly adhere to these three ironclad rules of survival: Do not look directly at the blood-red sun; do not respond to anything eerie; do not attempt to salvage the situation."
"Live on, for those who are dead."
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Whenever Xu Si recalls this broadcast, he still feels a sense of dreamlike wonder.
The end of the world has truly come.
A month ago, the sun in the sky suddenly turned blood red, the sunlight no longer brought warmth, and the sun became unbearable to look at.
Any ordinary human who stares directly at the blood-red sun for more than five seconds will eventually suffer a mental breakdown and become food for the monster.
A global crisis has begun. At first, people thought it was just a minor disturbance, but today it has evolved into a crisis for all of humanity.
In just a few days, Africa, Europe, and Oceania were completely overrun, leaving only major powers struggling to hold on.
Two weeks ago, the Little Days were overwhelmed by a massive wave of strange phenomena and could not withstand it. The Great Xia used nuclear weapons to support them, but thermal weapons were almost ineffective against the strange phenomena. The Little Days collapsed and became part of the Strange Realm.
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A week ago, the entire Americas fell, and the Great Xia was in dire straits. Survivor bases set up in various places were subjected to bizarre and frenzied massacres.
The remaining members of the Great Xia Dynasty had nowhere left to retreat. They fought desperately until they were completely exhausted.
Earth was completely overrun, and humanity began a pointless migration in search of survival.
Today, the bizarre is everywhere, and humanity is almost extinct.
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"Shanghai, that's the world's largest metropolis! Yancheng, that's the capital!" Xu Si was on the verge of tears.
Six months ago, he dropped out of high school and came to Shenzhen, a big city, just to earn 30,000 to 50,000 yuan by delivering food and send it home to comfort his extremely disappointed parents, and also to contribute to the future of his lovely younger sister.
He's good at everything from fighting to brawling.
But his sister got into the best high school in the province!
Now there's nothing left.
Although my hometown of Los Angeles couldn't compare to a metropolis, it was still invaded by a large number of strange entities at the beginning of the strange events and was directly overrun.
At that time, the situation in Pengcheng was even more critical, and he was constantly on the run.
The last phone call he made home was to his parents, who told him to live well.
"Live on, Mom and Dad love you!"
As for his younger sister, she has always lived at school and wasn't allowed to bring a cell phone, so he couldn't contact her at all, and now he can't contact her at all.
That girl is Xu Si's only motivation to live now.
However, during his escape, he didn't even know which direction Los Angeles was.
Human civilization appears so barren at this moment.
Since the strange occurrences began, the consensus among people is that Earth is undergoing tremendous changes.
The most direct feeling is that Earth is expanding at an unimaginable speed and is beginning to become strange and unpredictable.
It refers not only to the bizarre, but also to the dramatic changes taking place in the weather, celestial phenomena, topography, animals, and plants.
The survivors speculate that the human world is merging with the supernatural world, and at an accelerating pace.
The most direct feeling is that the eerie forces are returning, and they are becoming stronger and stronger.
Humanity is in grave danger.
Thinking of Xu Miaomiao, that quirky girl, if she were alive, she would be terrified right now!
He ultimately failed to become the promising child his parents envisioned.
Sister, I'm afraid I won't be able to find you.
Don't blame your brother!
At this moment, Xu Si was riding his newly purchased Xiaodao brand electric scooter, which he had bought not long before the apocalypse, closely following a small convoy of survivors.
This was a brand-name product that he bought with half a month's salary specifically for delivering food.
The vehicle is the simplest kind, but it has both electric power and pedals, so that even if he gets lost on the road, he can pedal back without looking too embarrassed. The main reason is that it's cheap.
Normally, he can leisurely pedal to charge his car while following behind the convoy. When the convoy speeds up, he can twist the throttle and turn into a blond-haired kid. However, speed is his biggest weakness.
If he hadn't desperately pedaled to keep the headlights of the car in front of him from disappearing from his sight, he might have fallen behind.
But all the survivors who had followed him on foot were now gone.
He is now at the very bottom of the team.
As for why he didn't switch to a better vehicle...
First, the city had already fallen. Although there were broken cars on the roadside, he had been so focused on escaping that he didn't have the skills to drive them away.
The cars of 2035 will not be like those of 2005, which can be driven away simply by connecting two wires. By then, intelligent driving will have already entered every household.
Even if you steal his car, he can drive it back himself.
Moreover, electric vehicles are out of power and gasoline vehicles are out of fuel, making them less convenient than shared bicycles on the run.
Surviving the apocalypse is not a road trip; if the car breaks down on the road, then he will have to rely on his two legs.
Death was all that awaited him.
Most importantly, he was only eighteen last month, doesn't have a driver's license, and can't drive at all.
"Don't fall behind, don't fall behind, don't fall behind!!!"
The voice of team leader Fu Xiaojian came from the front of the convoy.
This is a consensus among all survivors: falling behind means death.
The ever-present eeriness is the sharpest scythe to harvest ordinary people.
Leading the way in the convoy was a modified Mengshi off-road vehicle. The owner was the convoy's captain, a young man named Fu Xiaojian, a pretty boy with a spoiled rich kid attitude. However, while others might be fake rich kids, he was definitely the real one.
It is said that he was a second-generation military officer before the apocalypse, which can be seen from his powerful Mengshi off-road vehicle, but the Mengshi vehicle has nothing to do with his temperament.
The second vehicle in the convoy was a Toyota pickup truck, which was the one Xu Si envied the most.
The owner is a female student, wearing a high school uniform, and about the same age as her sister.
The fact that this pickup truck hasn't been taken by anyone else for so long after the apocalypse says a lot.
This vehicle was the only one in the convoy with firearms, but it wasn't in the hands of the schoolgirl; instead, it was held by her second-in-command—an extremely sharp-tongued little girl.
While firearms cannot harm the supernatural, they can deter ordinary people.
Following the bullhead pickup truck was a wide, orange-yellow school bus, the kind with a small license plate sticking out from the back.
The school bus owner was a burly man from Shandong, who was at least half a head taller than Xu Si.
Xu Si also noticed that the school bus had the words "Chunlei Kindergarten" written on it, which meant it must have been found elsewhere.
There were quite a few people on the school bus; he counted them during a break, and there were more than ten.
These three cars are the core of this fleet.
Behind the school bus were two cars still barely hanging on, one carrying a family of three, and the other carrying two urban beauties, whom they should have known before the apocalypse.
Xu Si had only recently joined the team, so he wasn't familiar with any of the other members.
Behind the car were five or six motorcycles, followed by a whole line of shared bicycles.
They pedaled much faster than Xu Si's electric bicycle.
Xu Si didn't want to fall behind, because there was only one consequence for falling behind.
The convoy traveled along a desolate and dilapidated highway, with silent, nameless wastelands shrouded in mist on both sides, and the post-apocalyptic ruins were all enveloped in this mist.
Some people even deliberately left the road and walked into the fog, but none of them came out.