Chapter 285 Era

The biting cold wind howled in front of the silent little building, like crying and complaining.

Zhao Yi's hand holding the note was shaking uncontrollably. He was like a beast about to collapse. He opened his mouth fiercely, wanting to roar, but could only make a painful whimper...

He clenched his right fist fiercely, and smashed it hard on the ground with all his anger and despair!

Boom--! !

A visible air wave spread out in the surroundings, instantly shattering all the surrounding frost, and the hideous cracks spread wildly in all directions like a spider web.

Zhao Yi took a deep breath, and several completely different strange voices overlapped, like a volcano:

"...Who is selling coal in this city?!!"

"Three major chambers of commerce." After leaving the headquarters, Dr. Yi has been wandering aimlessly on the road. He looked at Zhao Yi who was about to go berserk, and slowly answered, "It's over there at the Century Tower in the center of the city..."

Zhao Yi stumbled to his feet, and a terrifying pressure mixed with a cold killing intent burst out from this black monster like a wave!

The eyes flashing with strange spells looked in a certain direction of Aurora City.

Song——! !

A thunderous sound exploded, and his figure left a residual shadow and disappeared instantly.

Frost fragments flew in the air, and Dr. Yi was still lying on the ground like a corpse, not caring at all about what Zhao Yi was going to do...He tilted his head slightly and looked at Ling'er who fell beside him, her long eyelashes frozen together by ice and snow.

He looked at the delicate girl who looked like a porcelain doll, and deep guilt and despair emerged in his eyes again... If, if his research could bear fruit, perhaps all this would not have happened.

The Aurora Base has accumulated for more than 300 years to have the current Aurora Realm... and a small "pump" has become the last straw that destroyed this realm. The science that humans once prided themselves on, and the material civilization that they once thought was enough to rule nature, are simply vulnerable in the face of the real unknown.

Dr. Yi stared at the sky above his head in a daze. He has been in the Aurora Base for more than ten years, and it has been a long time since he really looked up at the sky... But at this moment, he suddenly felt that there was not much difference between looking at the sky on the surface and looking at the concrete slab at the base.

What is the difference between the empty sky without hope and the dull barrier that makes people breathless?

Dr. Yi was silent for a long time, and suddenly laughed.

He fumbled to pull out the pistol from his waist, calmly and desperately, put the muzzle of the gun against his temple, and slowly closed his eyes.

"... This fucking era."

Bang——!

A gunshot rang out, and blood bloomed in the abyss of despair, like countless shouts swallowed up, silencing the world.

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"Don't get into trouble..."

"It's enough for me to be unlucky alone, don't involve my family..."

Jian Changsheng was speeding on the icy road. On both sides of the road, from time to time, he could see pedestrians who were frozen to death or fainted, or residents who were still struggling to find warmth.

He saw everything, and his heart became more and more worried. He could only pray constantly.

A noise came from not far away. Jian Changsheng looked to the side and saw a wide avenue, where dense figures were crowded together, as if fighting for something.

Jian Changsheng had no intention of stopping, but just as he was about to retract his gaze, several familiar figures appeared in the crowd.

"Uncle?!"

Jian Changsheng's eyes lit up, and he immediately turned around and rushed towards the crowd, grabbing the shoulder of a middle-aged man crowded in the crowd.

"Uncle, why are you here?"

"Xiao Jian?"

Uncle turned around and saw Jian Changsheng, and was also stunned, "Are you here to buy coal too?"

"...Coal?"

Jian Changsheng looked up, and the first thing that caught his eye was a tower with a simple and majestic shape. This is the tallest building in Aurora City at present, and the road below it, which is crowded with countless people, is also one of the most core avenues in Aurora City, but it is now blocked by people... A little further ahead is the central area boiler factory that is no longer in operation.

I saw that the dense crowd was surrounding the boiler factory, and from time to time there were chaotic beatings and scolding. The people in the front row held silver bills in their hands and waved them wildly, as if they were queuing up to buy coal.

Perhaps because there were too many people, the temperature here was slightly higher than other places, but even so, the faces of those people were frozen red.

"Buying coal, such a big battle?" Jian Changsheng asked in confusion.

"Don't you know? The price of coal has gone through the roof now... Ordinary people can't afford it at all, but in order to survive, they can only find people to buy it together and use it together. However, not everyone will cooperate honestly. They rob coal, rob money, beat people... It's completely messed up here."

"God-boosted? How expensive can coal be?"

"Five hundred thousand, one kilogram."

"Five hundred thousand????" Jian Changsheng widened his eyes, "Are they crazy? Such expensive coal, is there really someone willing to spend money to buy it? They robbed it, why don't they just rob the boiler factory?"

My uncle stretched out his hand and pointed to the front of the boiler factory. Many figures gathered together, staring at everyone who came to trade like a human wall. Among them, there were even several law enforcers, with their palms on the handles of their guns, and their expressions were a little unfriendly.

Behind them, a man with squinting eyes was leaning against the wall and standing by the door of the boiler factory. His hands were still stained with a few strands of blood. A vague pressure enveloped the entire open space in front of the boiler factory.

Shinto owner?

Seeing this scene, Jian Changsheng's brows frowned more and more.

"Does the law enforcement officer not care?"

"There have been several calls... but in the end they didn't do anything, they just stood and watched." The uncle sighed, "These people are very cunning. Someone just incited the crowd to go in and rob together, but they didn't get in yet. They were all stunned by the squinty-eyed man, and there were no external injuries on his body. Even if you want to convict them of assault, you still can't..."

Just as Jian Changsheng was about to say something, his uncle was squeezed forward by the people around him.

"Little Jane! Just wait outside for me, do you hear me...Uncle, I still have some pension money, enough to buy some things. Come home with me later, don't fall asleep outside..."

Before his uncle finished speaking, he was pushed to a distance by the crowd. The surrounding noise drowned out his words, and Jian Changsheng behind him did not hear them clearly at all.

Jian Changsheng looked at those figures who were struggling in the tide of the times. In a daze, threads seemed to extend from their bodies, like puppets controlled by others. They were pleading, cursing, and trying their best to survive. Go down, but in the end all the value is squeezed out... And at the end of those threads, what holds their fate is the greed and ambition of the superiors that they cannot see with the naked eye.

Jian Changsheng's fists clenched unconsciously, and he raised his eyes to look at the chimney in the center of the boiler factory that was no longer functioning.