Chapter 332 The Satellite City Falling Into Darkness

Meng Chao thought deeply.

Now with a population of tens of millions and a complete industrial chain of light and heavy industries, Dragon City is far larger than any prosperous city in the Earth Era. Of course, it is far from being comparable to a mere starship.

The size of Dragon City is large enough to maintain the normal operation and continuation of human civilization.

But it was not like this when he just crossed over.

At that time, Dragon City was divided by fog, viruses, zombies and monsters.

Many survivors can only huddle in the small hive city, and the range of activities will not exceed a building.

Looking up, it is either devastated, or ruined walls, or raging flames, thick black smoke, and fog that can't be seen.

The diaries of many survivors said that at that time, they felt that they were abandoned by the whole world, and they even suspected that it was not the entire Dragon City, but only their own small area or even a building, and they traveled to another world alone.

There are indeed similarities between the "Nest City Civilization" with a fully enclosed building as the unit, and the "Starship Civilization" drifting alone in the vast sea of ​​stars.

Even, compared to "starship humans", the traversers are facing a worse situation.

At least "Starship Civilization" doesn't have to face all-pervasive viruses and crazy roaring zombies.

There will also be no such thing as psychic energy invading the brain, causing people to go mad and become a humanoid monster.

"Standing at the gate of hell, it is very difficult to maintain the identity of a human being. Human beings are originally an animal, and they can naturally degenerate into inhumans, beasts, and monsters in an instant, just to survive, even for a second longer Clock is fine too."

Ye Xiaoxing sighed and said, "Dragon City has just passed through, and in the darkest age, all the brilliance of morality, law, and human nature were torn to pieces, and countless people became zombies. A demon in human skin.

"Women can sell themselves seven times for a compressed biscuit, and men can shed seven barrels of blood for a barrel of gasoline. In countless black corners, human beings eat each other, kill each other, and eat Everything about the other side has happened.

"The nine super companies that created the Survival Committee were not pure and innocent white lotuses in the initial embryonic stage, in the era of primitive accumulation by any means. Development, the establishment of order to safeguard interests.

"If a person on Earth who lived in the early 21st century saw the hellish scene of Dragon City just ten years before he passed through, he would definitely be horrified, and he would never admit that the people in Dragon City at that time were still a part of the civilization of Earth. Party members, even, never admit that Longcheng people are still human beings.

"Fortunately, we made it through.

"We have rebuilt the order, restored the dignity of law and morality, tried many crimes in the dark years, suppressed the heinous demons, and repented of the mistakes we had to make.

"Dragon City has once again returned to the embrace of the earth's civilization, and we can finally hold our heads high and declare openly, 'We are still the people of the earth, and we are the expeditionary force of the earth's civilization'!

"However, the reason why Dragon City can survive is not because we are inherently kind, nor is it because we have deeply engraved the morals and laws of the earth age on our genes, nor is it because of nonsense like 'justice must prevail', it is just that Because we have enough volume.

"Even at the critical moment when Dragon City is closest to destruction, we still have tens of millions of people and a large number of industrial and technological facilities. Many old people who have traveled from the earth are still alive and can help us maintain the way of life and laws and morals on the earth. It guides the direction of our civilization, and when we have no choice, it can also tell us how to sacrifice like a human being on earth.

"Student Meng Chao, have you ever thought about what the traversers would look like if we didn't have such a scale, and if the size of Dragon City was reduced by a hundred times? Centuries later, can they still maintain the appearance of 'earth humans'?"

Meng Chao thought deeply.

He thought of Wu Wu.

A leopard girl who was raised by the ghost leopard.

He once forgot his identity as a human being and didn't even understand human language, but he was lucky enough to be found by the search and rescue team in Dragon City. It took him several years to reintegrate into human civilization.

But the upbringing of the monster still left a distinct mark on her, which may not be erased in her life.

"Not everyone is as lucky as we are."

Ye Xiaoxing said, "Before Dragon City crossed, it was a large-scale urban agglomeration. In addition to the core urban area, there were also a large number of satellite cities, characteristic towns, super-large factories and R&D centers scattered in a ring around the periphery.

"It is said that the Earth before the crossing was on the brink of war.

"A large number of coastal technological innovation, industrial and military towns have been relocated to the vicinity of Dragon City as a whole.

"Many satellite cities have more outstanding biotechnology, supercomputer chip manufacturing, and automated machinery technology than the main city, and some towns are simply independent university towns, with a large number of experts, students and researchers—they all have extremely smart people. brain.

"Unfortunately, the space ripples brought about by the crossing caused the space around Dragon City to be extremely distorted, like a wave smashing a big ship into pieces, and throwing dozens of sampans on board far away.

"Dragon City and these satellite towns are separated. Because of the barriers of fog, mountains and monsters, we have not heard from the satellite towns for decades, and it is even hard to imagine what happened to them.

"According to experts' deduction, these satellite towns with a population ranging from a few thousand to tens of thousands, and at most no more than a few hundred thousand, are difficult to survive independently under the erosion of other worlds.

"Even if they did survive, in the desperation of lack of water and electricity, not having enough force to defend their homeland, and being subjected to various attacks every three days, the tragedies, famine, chaos, and human beings that were once staged in Dragon City Cannibalism, order collapse, moral depravity... All these will inevitably be staged in satellite towns.

"The difference is that we are big enough to survive the hardest and darkest years, correct mistakes one by one, and regain the glory of human civilization.

"However, once these undersized satellite towns fall into darkness, it will be difficult for them to regain their humanity on their own."

Hearing this, Meng Chao was silent for a while, and said, "Didn't the search and rescue team in Dragon City find many satellite towns and rescue the survivors? Although they are more brutal and tough than the residents of the main city." , but it is not impossible to save.

"I have a friend who is a student of the Beast Control Department of the Agricultural University. She is a leopard girl who grew up in the wilderness. After several years of study, she has successfully regained her humanity."

"You mean classmate Wu Wu?"

Ye Xiaoxing said, "She is a special case. She is the lucky one who was rescued by the Monster Research Institute with a lot of manpower and material resources. Most of the humans raised by monsters have neither her talent nor her conditions. .

"As for what you said, those 'lost towns' that were shown in the news are all relatively close to Dragon City, where the roads are relatively smooth, and where Dragon City's force and supplies can be easily reached. So there is still room for redemption.

"In fact, the satellite towns discovered by the exploration team are far more than the ones disclosed in the news.

"Many satellite towns have crossed to places that are relatively far away from Dragon City, where the fog is shrouded along the way, and monsters are rampant, which is not suitable for large-scale mobilization and deployment of the Red Dragon Army.

"Why not make it public? For one thing, we are beyond our reach, and there is no way to rescue the residents of the entire town for the time being.

"Besides, after half a century of development, these satellite towns have become beyond recognition. It is difficult to judge whether the residents are human beings, or monsters, or half-human, half-beast monsters, and whether their 'civilization' is still human. civilization.

"Recklessly disclosing the status quo of these satellite towns may have an impact on the order of Dragon City, and even cause confusion in the definition of 'human civilization' by the people of Dragon City, so..."

Meng Chao scratched his head.

In the memory fragments of his previous life, he has even seen elves and dwarves, and his definition of "human" is quite open.

"is it so serious?"

He thought for a while, and said, "In the history of mankind, the dark age of changing children to eat has been experienced countless times, but we have survived all of them!"

"If it's as simple as changing the child and eating it, then that's fine."

Ye Xiaoxing sighed, knocked on the table for a long time, and finally made up his mind, dug out a safe from the messy documents, took out a file bag from the safe, took out a thick stack of documents, handed In front of Meng Chao.

Meng Chao glanced at it.

The first information is some rather blurred photos.

It can be roughly seen that in a dilapidated town covered with thorns and vines on the ruined walls, a huge and towering giant tree grows from the tall buildings.

The giant tree is forked and forked, covering half of the town. From the tentacle-like branches, there are huge bags hanging down, as thin as a cicada's wings, covered with bloodshot skin, like some kind of giant cocoon, and Like a mix of fungus and fruit.

"What is this place?"

Meng Chao cast suspicious eyes on Ye Xiaoxing.

"This is Dragon King Town."

Ye Xiaoxing said, "Earth Age, this is one of the subsidiary satellite towns of Dragon City, and it is also an industrial town with a high degree of industrialization. There are two large machinery manufacturing enterprises in the town, and three branch campuses of science and engineering schools. The population of 10,000 young and middle-aged people also has certain mechanical processing and armed defense capabilities.

"The problem is that the ratio of men to women in Longwang Town is seriously out of balance.

"Most of the employees and students of the science and engineering schools and machinery manufacturing enterprises in the town are men. Due to industrial pollution and other reasons, the faculty members and female family members of the enterprise management all like to live in the main urban area of ​​Longcheng, or the nearby commercial areas. Towns, when crossing, the ratio of men to women in the town may reach eight to two or even nine to one.

"You should be able to easily imagine that a town with such a sex ratio crosses unexpectedly, is shrouded in fog, and has been isolated and helpless for decades. Why would the young and strong male residents in the town die? Cause conflicts, and if you want to continue civilization, what problems will you encounter?"