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Chapter 190 Falling Star
Four hours later, Xia knocked on Zhou Yuan's door and the tram arrived.

When we arrived at the station, a weathered double-decker electric bus slowly drove in. The windows were covered with scratches, and some of the windows were even broken and simply glued together with tape.

The bus arrived at the station and the door creaked open, like an exhausted old man who might collapse at any moment.

"Three people." Xia handed the ticket seller three banknotes.

"Get on the bus." The conductor was a muscular man smoking a cigarette.

Zhou Yuan and the other two boarded the bus smoothly and sat at the back of the second floor.

More than 20 minutes later, the bus was fully charged. The driver took his last puff of his cigarette, extinguished it, and returned to the driving seat to start the bus.

"If you haven't slept enough, you can continue sleeping. Our town is still six hours away." Xia said.

"So far? Does the bus have enough electricity?"

"Of course, although this car looks broken, it can travel 2,000 kilometers in one go after being fully charged, and the charging time is very fast." Xia said with regret, "It's a pity that the manufacturing technology of batteries has been lost, and we can no longer make such a durable battery."

After driving out of Diamond Town, the front fell into endless darkness. Only the lights of the bus were like a sharp sword, cutting through the dark night like dawn.

Along the way, Zhou Yuan saw some small towns with twinkling lights on. As he got farther and farther away from Diamond Town, the lights gradually disappeared, replaced by red flames.

"Don't these towns have generators?" Zhou Yuan asked curiously.

"Generator? That thing has been unusable for a long time. Fuel is very precious. Is there a lot of fuel in your hometown?" Xia asked back.

"It seems that there are quite a lot left after the disaster..." Zhou Yuan answered vaguely.

"Do you have any now?" Qiao became excited when he heard this. If there was enough fuel, he would go and bring it back no matter how far away it was.

Zhou Yuan shook his head: "It has been destroyed by those mutant monsters."

"What a pity." Qiao sighed, "After the disaster, we looked for oil in many places but couldn't find any. We didn't dare to use the remaining oil at all. Once we used it up, it would be gone forever, so all the generators became scrap metal.

Fortunately, a power station survived the catastrophe, otherwise we would have no electricity now.

Alas, I read in a book that there used to be controlled nuclear fusion, which could produce energy continuously and inexhaustibly, but it is gone now too.”

Can't dig up oil?
Zhou Yuan didn't care too much about this, because oil is not everywhere. In some places, you can't dig out any oil even if you drill all the holes, while in other places, you can find several large oil fields just by digging a few times.

Currently, the area explored by humans in the wasteland world is not very large, so it is not surprising that no oil can be found.

He was more concerned about the power station.

"Power station? Where is it? Near Diamond Town?"

"We don't know about that. The location of the power station is top secret. Only a very few important people know it. For example, the mayor of Diamond Town, the heads of various strongholds, and the top leaders of major organizations..."

Qiao lowered his voice and said, "It is said that more than a hundred years ago, a group of Night Cultists attacked the power station, wanting to destroy it, so that the whole world would completely lose its light and fall into the arms of the Night Goddess.

The crazy group of Night Cultists did not succeed, but their actions sounded a wake-up call for everyone. If humans want to continue to thrive in this wasteland world, they must not allow this group of religious elements to continue to develop. Just like what was said in the book of the old world - religion is an obstacle to the development of civilization.

As a result, people from all the major strongholds united and launched a purge against the Church of the Evernight Goddess. This purge caused the Church of the Evernight Goddess to decline completely, and the surviving fanatics all fled outside, which is now the danger zone.

In fact, many years ago, the danger zone was still part of the safe zone, but mutant creatures suddenly migrated there, making it impossible for humans to survive there, and those religious fanatics later all died in that great migration.

Well... since that accident, the location of the power station has become top secret. I heard that in order to cover up the real location of the power station, they also set up a lot of fake warning areas to distract attention."

"Who are they?" Zhou Yuan asked.

"The real power in this land is the Alliance."

Joe said, "The Alliance is formed by Diamond Town, Power Plant, Wasteland Industry, Hunters Club and other forces as well as large and small safe zones. It is similar to the countries in the old world. Everyone knows that unity is essential if they want to continue to survive in this world, and they must work together."

Zhou Yuan pondered for a moment and asked, "Is there Hyperion Technology in the alliance?"

"!!!"

Xia and Qiao's mental fluctuations showed obvious shock and astonishment: "Where did you know this name?"

"I once accidentally got a newspaper from the Old World, which mentioned this company. Well... later I saw things made by this company while traveling." Zhou Yuan explained seriously. Anyway, the other party would believe whatever he said.

Qiao lowered his voice and asked nervously, "Is this the hibernation capsule they produced?"

"?"

Zhou Yuan was stunned for a moment, then nodded calmly: "Why? Have you seen him?"

Qiao and Xia looked at each other, exhaled, and nodded slightly.

“We went deep into the danger zone this time to investigate the [falling star incident] that happened a year ago.

It was an ordinary day, but suddenly dozens of meteors streaked across the sky and fell towards the danger zone.

You know, since the catastrophe, the sun, moon and stars disappeared, and there has been no meteors since then. At that time, everyone was surprised and happy, thinking that this was a sign that the eternal night that lasted for two hundred years might be about to end, but unfortunately it did not, and the falling star incident did not cause any changes.

In order to find out what those falling stars were, the Alliance summoned a large number of hunters to explore the danger zone, but they suffered heavy losses and the expedition was abandoned. Only a few hunters are still exploring to find out the truth, such as us..."

Xia took over the conversation: "We walked in the danger zone for a long time and set foot in an area we had never been to before. There we found a hibernation capsule produced by Hyperion Technology Company. However, the hibernation capsule was very unlucky to land in the territory of the mushroom-headed monster. The hatch was violently torn apart and the people sleeping inside were also eaten.

Before we had time to investigate further, the mushroom-headed monsters surrounded us and we had no choice but to flee."

She paused for a moment and said, "There is no Hyperion Technology Company in the wasteland world, but a long time ago, when I just started to remember things, I seemed to have heard my grandfather mention this name...

Hmm... he seemed to have been a member of Hyperion Technologies."

(End of this chapter)