$299, Global Evolution 1

The first thing that changed was the tangled weeds and shrubs on both sides of the street. Within a month, without anyone noticing, it slowly grew in a subtle way, and the city that was originally covered by steel and concrete was replaced by these trees that were originally just buildings. Decorative green plant cover.

The succulents and spider plants cultivated by urban white-collar workers have broken through the flowerpots that originally restricted the growth of their root systems. They have broken the load and taken root in walls and cement soil. Perhaps someone noticed these strange scenes and took photos of them. When uploaded to the Internet, it is only regarded as a show off or a spectacle. No one has ever regarded this as an approaching crisis.

It wasn't until a slightly old public building collapsed because the roots of the plants planted by the residents inside destroyed the fragile structure of the building. This abnormality began to attract public attention and vigilance.

The explanations given by experts are mysterious and mysterious. When they still don't understand, all the residents in the city can do is destroy those potted plants to reduce the occurrence of similar crises.

In contrast, although the vast rural areas also have such troubles, another benefit brought by the abnormal growth of plants is the rapid increase in crop yields. They are just more diligent in removing weeds and weeds that compete with the plants for nutrients. Hua, contrary to the people in the city, regarded this abnormality as a great good thing.

Immediately after the plants, those animals that had not yet developed their intelligence were the ones that showed abnormal behavior.

At first, riots involving domesticated pets occurred during pet performances in some circuses, zoos, and the like.

A lion that was supposed to jump through the fire hoop as planned suddenly went berserk after being whipped by its trainer, killing the trainer who had raised it since childhood. It also attacked three onlookers and fled into the city. After being hit by a special police officer with a gun, he was taken back to a specialized supervision agency.

During a popular crocodile show held in the zoo, the crocodile bit the trainer's head in full view of the public. Even though the crocodile was killed in the end, the trainer died due to excessive bleeding from the aorta and ineffective rescue efforts. Watching at the time All the audience members were frightened and could not shake off the frightening scene for a long time.

Such things happen one after another, and more and more animal protection organizations have come forward to demand the ban on such inhumane performances that force animals. They only think that these things happen simply because the animals cannot bear the torture, so they rise up to resist.

It was not until domestic pets began to become irritable and hurtful for no reason that more and more people realized that the changes in animals seemed not only due to human oppression.

Because similar things happened one after another, people who originally believed in the "reasonable explanations" of experts finally realized that the earth seemed to be developing in the direction they feared.

At this time, rumors of doomsday were rampant. Many people firmly believed that the abnormal growth of plants and the restlessness of animals indicated that in the near future, the once doomsday theories would become a reality.

In order to cope with the doomsday, a wave of stockpiling has begun across the country. Many supermarkets and shops have been robbed of goods by panicked people. Perhaps because of their belief in the theory of doomsday, vicious incidents have continued to increase across the country, including robberies, rapes, and murders. .

It was not until state weapons began to suppress these riots that the panic of the people was temporarily relieved.

However, countries other than China do not have such a good way to deal with it, especially countries like the United States where guns are legal. In just one month, the power at the national level has become almost a display, with vast land, sparsely populated areas, and abundant greenery. The current situation has made their peacekeeping extremely difficult. The underworld forces took this opportunity to seize power from the government. Before the end of the world has begun, everything has begun to fall into panic.

On the evening of August 13, 2043, they did not wait for the silver moon. Instead of the previous silver-white moon, a blood-red full moon hung high in the sky.

Everyone began to panic, and no one dared to go out, because they did not know that such moonlight shining on the body would cause such unknown harm to the body.

Fortunately, most people have sufficient food reserves at home because of all the abnormalities that have happened before. Only a small number of people believe in the government and experts, and think that the end of the world is just a ridiculous statement. They have not retreated under the red moon. When the food at home can no longer sustain the body's consumption, wrap yourself up tightly, leave the house, and go to the small convenience stores on both sides of the street, or the supermarket that has long been unattended to find food.

Then after finding food, I went home, anxiously worrying about whether my body would undergo bad changes.

This red moon hung in the sky for ten days. These ten days were also called the Ten Bloody Days by later generations.

It wasn't until dawn on the eleventh day that the sun, which had disappeared for a long time, slowly rose. Many people who had secretly observed the changes in the sky noticed the sun's appearance and rushed out of the house excitedly to feel the warmth of the sun.

They thought the end of the world was over, but the successive screams told them that the end of the world had just begun.

After experiencing these ten bloody days, people discovered.

All plants and animals seemed to have completely mutated, and many originally weak creatures began to have varying degrees of attack capabilities after these ten days.

It seems that it is retribution for mankind's destruction of the environment for so many years. Human beings, who were originally at the top of the food chain, suddenly became the target of attack by all living creatures.

The living environment of human beings has suddenly become harsh, and human beings have become in danger.

Fortunately, God did not completely give up on humans. Soon after the animals and plants mutated, some people with strange abilities gradually began to appear among humans.

They are just like the superpowers described in novels, with the ability to control elements such as wind, fire, earth, wood, and water. Superpowers gradually replaced thermal weapons, and the living space of ordinary people was constantly compressed.

The prelude to the national evolution was completely opened...

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This time, Yan Chu came at a somewhat unfortunate time. The mutation of animals and plants had already occurred, and the red moon had already reached the tenth day. In a few hours, the red moon will end completely, and the door to a new world will be opened.

When he woke up, he was in a luxuriously decorated room, with a pile of empty wine bottles around him. Yan Chu touched his forehead, and there was still pain and dizziness after a hangover.

"Awoo--"

Yan Aotian appeared in front of Yan Chu with a cat step. It grinned and laughed like a big silly dog, and didn't know what it was happy about.

Yan Chu looked at its staggering steps and guessed that this stupid dog probably woke up earlier than him. Seeing these bottles of wine on the ground, he couldn't help but secretly drink some. He was probably drunk at the moment.

"Awoo--"

Wine makes cowards brave. After getting drunk, Yan Aotian was simply a dog's courage. He was about to shout at Yan Chu with a choked voice, asking him to admit that he was a very useful dog.

Seeing Yan Chu's half-smile, Yan Aotian wanted to show his might and majesty as a close relative of the wolf clan, and use his sharp canine teeth to let this human know that he was not a dog that was easy to mess with.

It was just because he was drunk that the scenes he saw in front of him were all illusory double images. He pounced and didn't knock Yan Chu down, and he bumped into the bedside table first.

"Awoo--"

Because of the pain, this little coward suddenly sobered up a lot, touched the dog's head with his front paws, looked at his owner aggrievedly, and wanted his owner to avenge him.

For such a scene, Yan Chu really couldn't bear to look directly at it.

He rubbed the acupuncture points on his forehead to relieve the pain caused by the hangover, then walked forward to pick up the drunken dog with one hand and walked out the door.

According to the original body's memory, after the end of this red moon, about one-fifth of the survivors in the world activated their superpowers.

In the tenth year after the end of the bloody ten days, humans finally learned to unite and began to build survivor bases to jointly resist the threats of mutant plants and animals.

Because they barely achieved a balance with hostile threatening forces, humans finally had time to study the origin of superpowers.

After comparing the big database, people were surprised to find that almost nine out of ten people who went out and were exposed to the red moon during the bloody ten days awakened their superpowers, while the proportion of people who hid in the house at that time who activated their superpowers was only one percent.

For some reason, when everyone was worried about the Red Moon, the original body stayed at home and drank heavily. He didn't care about the end of the world or death, so he naturally wouldn't go out to bask in the Red Moon at this time.

Unfortunately, he was not one of the lucky ones who had not been exposed to the Red Moon but still stimulated his superpowers. In his previous life, he did not successfully stimulate his superpowers until his death.

As an ordinary person, at the beginning of the end of the world, when humans did not realize the importance of fire, he was not favored. Seeing the enemy climb up to a higher position than him step by step, crushing him and despising him, the original body's psychology began to become more and more distorted, and gradually, he became an anti-human existence.

But it must be said that he is indeed a very smart man. Even in such an environment in the previous life, he still cultivated his own power. It's a pity that he didn't take the right path after all, and it was inevitable that he would lose to those people in the end.

Yan Chu lowered his eyes, not thinking about the overly bloody scenes in his original memory. He put on a coat, picked up the dead meat on the back of the drunk Yan Aotian's neck, dragged it out of the room, and came to the courtyard of the villa.

At this time, everything outside was shining under the red moon, exuding a seductive and dangerous atmosphere. Yan Chu sat on a stone bench in the courtyard and observed the surrounding environment.

A pine tree that was growing vigorously in the yard, originally less than two meters high as a small ornamental landscape, has grown to more than ten meters high now, and the top is almost invisible. The yard is covered by this tall pine tree, and only the moonlight that falls between the pine needles barely keeps the environment from being too dark.

However, perhaps it is precisely because this pine tree is too domineering that some ornamental flowers that originally grew around it have all withered and died, and even the most tenacious weeds have no shadow within a hundred meters of this pine tree.

The garden, which was originally carefully taken care of by the gardener, now seemed lonely and empty. Yan Chu sat on the stone bench farthest from the pine tree, looking at the yellow soil under his feet and the dead branches and leaves on the ground, and couldn't help frowning.

In the previous life, not long after the red moon ended, the original body left the ancestral home where he had lived since childhood and went to the safe zone that the government quietly began to build when the signs of the mutation first appeared. He never returned to this place.

So even the original body didn't know what kind of changes would happen to the pine tree in front of him, let alone Yan Chu.

You know, after the end of the Bloody Ten Days, all animals and plants changed. Many plants that were not a threat to humans began to become aggressive and began to attack all living things, including mutant animals.

In the memory of the original body, the world jointly formulated ten death zones at that time. Four of them were because there were extremely aggressive plants in that area. Their roots went deep into the ground for hundreds of meters, and countless descendants were scattered to form their own communities. Even if nuclear bombs were used, they might not be completely killed.

All humans can do is to prevent them from expanding outward as much as possible. Anyway, until the death of the original body, humans still had not figured out a way to eliminate these powerful mutant plants.

Yan Chu looked at the pine tree in front of him. Strangely, he did not feel any malice, even though the pine tree had grown into a terrible appearance.

You know, in the ten death zones, one of them was called the King of Hell Pine, which was feared by countless superpowers.

Its pine needles can pierce all the defenses of a fifth-level mutant, and because of the mutation, the pine needles are highly poisonous. Although they are not fatal, they can paralyze people.

In a dangerous environment, a person who cannot move can only become food for other mutant animals, except for the nutrients called pine nuts and pine seeds.

Yan Chu remembered that the hell pine seemed to appear in Nanjiang, and it should have nothing to do with the one in front of him, but they have the same goal. The mutated pine tree in front of him is definitely not something to be messed with in the end of the world.

As for why he does not feel threatened by this pine tree now, Yan Chu only thinks that this pine tree is one of the few plants in the end of the world that is not actively aggressive, and he did not think about it.

After all, even in the state of global evolution in the end of the world, there are still some plants and some animals that still retain their rationality that are harmless to humans.

Some ordinary people live a superior life because their pets at home have mutated after the red moon and still maintain the intimacy with their owners before the red moon comes.

In the end times, there are cats bigger than elephants and dogs that can spit fire and water everywhere. Some of them even have higher abilities than those with superpowers. The owners of such pets are also called beast masters, and are envied by all ordinary people.

Yan Chu looked at Yan Aotian, who was rolling and madly drunk at his feet, and doubted that he could help him in the future.

"Woo woo--"

Yan Aotian didn't know that his master didn't trust him. He howled to the sky while drunk. He felt that he was now a wolf on the grassland, a majestic wolf.

"Swish--"

In the silent environment, Yan Chu heard a faint sound of animals walking in the bushes. He picked up the gun he had in his hand before going out and walked towards the bushes.

Soon, a Samoyed with dirty hair appeared in front of Yan Chu. Its left leg was a little lame, and it looked at Yan Chu with extremely vigilant eyes.

Such a product, before the mutation came, it was probably the owner's treasure.

It's just that the previous cases of pets attacking humans have made many people who keep cats and dogs wary and fearful. They are worried that their pets will attack them in such an environment. For the sake of their own safety, they can only choose to abandon these domestic pets.

Before the arrival of the red moon, such pet dogs and cats in good condition could be seen everywhere on the road. These cats and dogs without survival experience could not compete with those animals that were originally accustomed to such a life.

Coupled with human vigilance, the food sources of stray cats and dogs have become scarce, and the living environment of these abandoned pets has become bad to a certain extent.

Even because some humans who are hostile to these animals are worried that these stray cats and dogs will go crazy and endanger their normal lives, feeding them poisoned feed on the street and beating them with sticks has almost become the norm.

The Samoyed in front of him was obviously abandoned by its owner, and then beaten by people who are hostile to cats and dogs, so he is wary and hateful of humans.

Yan Chu paused holding the gun. At the moment of his hesitation, the Samoyed, sensing the danger, ran away quickly with its three intact legs, rushing out of Yan Chu's shooting range.

Before running away, the Samoyed did not forget to look back at him, as if wanting to remember the appearance of this human who had murderous intentions towards him.

Yan Chu retracted the gun in his hand and smiled bitterly.

Because of his momentary kindness, it seemed that he had found himself a trouble that he could not get rid of.

Unlike humans, other animals seem to be blessed by nature. When the doomsday comes, most of them have mutated. Among these mutated animals, except for those who have feelings for humans and remain rational, most animals regard humans as food. Some of them even fight against humans because of the suffering they have suffered from humans.

That Samoyed is obviously the latter. If it holds a grudge against it, Yan Chu will definitely be in trouble if they meet in the future.

Looking at the husky who was sleeping soundly on the ground after imitating the wolf howl, it seemed that he had to improve his life-saving methods as soon as possible, otherwise he would not be able to save his life just by relying on this stupid dog.

At this moment, there was only one hour left before the end of the red moon.

In another hour, the animals and plants that were sleeping because of absorbing the power of the red moon would begin to wake up.

Yan Chu picked up Yan Aotian, who was sleeping soundly and had no signs of mutation, and returned to the room and locked the door.

The power of the Red Moon manifested itself very slowly in humans. Many humans who were irradiated by the Red Moon did not show abilities different from ordinary people until the seventh or eighth day after the global evolution was completely opened.

During these seven or eight days, due to the mutation of plants and animals, the number of humans on Earth dropped from more than 8 billion to 3 billion. The ruler of this aquamarine planet was no longer human.

Yan Chu didn't know if he could awaken his superpowers. After all, his original body in his previous life did not have such abilities.

So in these seven or eight days, being able to save his life became the first thing Yan Chu had to do.

According to the development of his previous life, on the first day of the sun coming out, that is, today during the day, someone would come to pick up his original body to the safe zone, but the things he experienced afterwards...

Yan Chu frowned slightly. He wanted to change his original body's experience in his previous life. From the first day after the Red Moon ended, he should make a completely different decision from his previous life.

"Awoo."

Yan Aotian slept until dawn, stretched happily, and then wagged his tail to ask his owner for food.

At this time, Yan Chu had changed into a relatively tight-fitting outfit, picked up a pair of Tibetan knives that were treasured by the original body as a collection, stood outside the curtain, listened to the cheers that began to sound outside the house after the sun rose, and could not help but mourn for these people who were surprised and desperate.

But now he did not have the ability to save those people. Listening to the cheers gradually turning into screams, Yan Chu closed his eyes, took a deep breath, opened the door, and took Yan Aotian to take their first step in this strange and unpredictable new world.

At this time, the sun had risen high. After Yan Chu came out, the original screams gradually disappeared, and everything around became extremely quiet again.

Yan Chu could only hear his own inaudible footsteps and Yan Aotian's rough breathing.

The pine tree in the courtyard was still as still as a mountain. Yan Chu walked out of the villa, looked at the surrounding environment vigilantly, and slowly walked out of the villa area.

He knew that there were probably many people in those houses who were looking at him through the windows, wanting to use him as a guinea pig to test the changes in the outside world.

He knew, but he didn't care.

"Ah——"

With a roar, a huge shadow blocked the light in front of Yan Chu. He looked up and found that a Samoyed about four or five meters tall was holding its noble head high, looking down on him, a tiny human.

The other party's eyes made Yan Chu quickly realize that the Samoyed in front of him was the dog he let go last night because of his soft heart.

Yan Chu smiled bitterly in his heart. This world is different from any world he has experienced before.

In this world, he may have to change his temper.

Being soft-hearted is fatal in the end times.