Law Of Firepower

Behind the city wall, Gao Qi finally saw the wilderness.

There is no forest, no farmland, nothing but half-human grass.

Out of the city gate, it is a cement road. The cement road leads to a road where the roadbed is higher than the flat ground. That is the old highway. You can see villages on the highway, both far and near. , But it must be the remains of a village where no one is now.

In the university, you don’t teach everything, so Gao Qi doesn’t understand many things, but he will definitely know some common sense.

For example, why don’t you plant land near cities? That’s because the second cataclysmic war of alien beasts lasted for about five years, and the city is the main target of those alien beasts, so every city is On the battlefield, countless strange beasts died around every city.

The death of alien animals will pollute the land. The contaminated land does not produce food, but the food that is grown is poisonous. People will go crazy after eating it, so naturally these contaminated land will not be reused. .

In order to fight against alien beasts, humans use all weapons that can be used. Of course, this includes nuclear bombs. Therefore, outside the city, but farther away, the main source of pollution is nuclear radiation.

The nuclear radiation remaining after the nuclear bomb exploded is actually not strong, so the harm caused by nuclear radiation is behind the strange beasts. The distance from the city wall is also farther, but the closer the land is to the city, the more Unavailable, this is a problem that every city will face.

Fortunately, the number of alien animals is limited after all, and the residual radiation from the nuclear bomb is also impossible to cover every inch of land, so as long as the city is far enough away, there will naturally be land that can be cultivated.

What Gao Qi had always wondered before was why the city would not accept and help the deserters. In his opinion, even the ignorant Far Ancient Era, humans know that the population is the most important thing. Resources, so in today's desperate need for population resources, why not only do those in charge of cities refuse to accept the deserted people, but also those who were born and grew up in the city and have received higher education have to drive out?

It's okay to drive people out of the city, move some people out of the city, and let some deserted people live around the city. Organize gathering areas around the city, and carry out basic measures for the people in the gathering areas. Management, establish a minimum order, then human society will naturally recover.

This question seems very simple, but Gao Qi has never got the answer, and in his opinion, the best way to solve the problem is that no one uses it at all.

But after three energy burst events, just today when Gao Qi had to leave the city, at the moment he left the city gate, he suddenly understood. He understood what Professor Su said. What does meat-eaters mean?

After two cataclysms, mankind has regressed back to the city-state era. In Gao Qi's view, this is undoubtedly a civilization regression, and an important reason for this civilization regression is everyone. They all believe that the third cataclysm will definitely come, and humanity will eventually perish, and it will not take long.

People will be short-sighted after despair. If there is no future at all, then timely enjoyment will definitely be the consensus of the overwhelming majority. Of course, not everyone in this world will despair, but not one person controls the city. , But a group, when a group reaches a general consensus, then what happens next is difficult to change the direction of a certain person's will.

Those who control the cities, they have already got most of the resources, they just want the best living conditions and enjoy the present, instead of rebuilding human civilization.

Cities can be self-sufficient, but the number of people they can accommodate is ultimately limited, and the population is growing very fast, so when the accommodation in the inner city is close to the limit, it will naturally drive people to the outer city. People who don't need it in the outer city can only rush out of the city.

Egoism is the mainstream value of human nature. Live your own good life behind closed doors. As for those deserters who simply don’t know and are bound to be dangerous, who cares.

No matter what the starting point is to establish a pioneer group in Chaoxi City and open up farms outside the city, Gao Qi believes that this is the beginning of establishing initial contact with the deserters and slowly starting to establish order outside the city, and it is good The beginning.

But with three energy bursts, this good beginning is likely to end.

Speaking of this, we must explain the basis of the existence of a city, especially the basis of why a city can be closed and operated.

Speaking of the first catastrophe, the first catastrophe was a sudden invasion by aliens.

A spaceship fleet of advanced civilization aliens suddenly appeared. Three motherships stayed in outer space, and then numerous small spaceships entered the atmosphere to launch indiscriminate attacks on humans.

Aliens use energy weapons to attack human cities with some kind of microwaves, and humans have no ability to fight back, so in just three hours, nearly half of humans Killed.

Humans can’t make any response at all, but humans survived because the alien’s attack lasted only three hours. After the alien’s three motherships exploded in outer space, the atmosphere Of small spaceships fell to the ground one after another.

When human beings opened the first small spaceship that fell to the ground with anger, they discovered that there were no aliens inside. Those who entered the atmosphere to attack were only part of the alien weapon system.

As for the wreckage of the mothership, it was not until 3 months later that it gradually began to fall to the ground under the action of gravity. For more than a year, the night sky would be entered into the atmosphere by the wreckage of the alien mothership. Illuminated by the burning fire at the time.

This is the first cataclysm that made humans realize their fragility and ignorance. Humans were destroyed in ignorance, and saved in ignorance, but they didn’t even look like aliens. do not know.

And the aliens were miraculously destroyed, it can only be speculated that it was a higher-rank alien civilization, or God’s help, in addition to drawing conclusions in an idealistic way , There is no other explanation.

The first catastrophe almost completely destroyed mankind, but it also promoted the development of science and technology. Mankind has obtained many key technologies, and the most important one is controllable nuclear fusion.

With controllable nuclear fusion, a near-infinite energy source, mankind can achieve breakthrough progress in many technologies, including agriculture, of course.

Mankind built buildings to grow food, soilless cultivation, combined with the uninterrupted light brought by unlimited energy, then factories that can grow crops without the land were born, and humans also There is a foundation for a city to operate completely closed.

So after the first major catastrophe, human beings have actually entered a period of rapid recovery. Population growth and key technologies have achieved breakthroughs. Humans may even enter a higher dimension of civilization.

But only six years later, a door with strange light appeared. Behind the door was a strange world, and countless kinds of strange creatures emerged from behind the door with light.

Four star gates appeared in four places. Four extremely powerful monsters appeared behind the four star gates, and four extremely powerful monsters led countless monsters to target Humans launched an attack.

It was also the occurrence of unfathomable mystery. Then, after two days of opening, the four star gates began to disappear one after another, and four extremely powerful alien beasts also died one after another, and they died of unknown reasons.

This is the beginning of the second cataclysm. After the death of four alien beasts capable of destroying humans, the remaining alien beasts continue to attack humans, and the worst thing is that these alien beasts can reproduce.

The war of different beasts changed the world. Humans gave birth to esper. Of course, mutants appeared. In addition, humans used walls to protect themselves and the city.

Five years after the war of alien beasts, another star gate opened and another powerful super alien appeared. But this time, the star gate disappeared after only three seconds, and the fifth After the super strange beast appeared, it disappeared. Some people said that the super strange beast was dead, and some said that the super strange beast did not die but hid.

This is the second cataclysm. Because it was caused by alien beasts, it was also called alien beast war. In this war, humans gave birth to esper, and of course mutants and humans appeared. After eliminating the city wall for many years, I re-enclosed myself in the city wall.

Strictly speaking, the second cataclysm has not ended until now, because alien beasts still exist, and the important reason for humans to return to the city-state era is also the most deadly reason, that is, humans have lost the ocean. .

The ocean has been completely occupied by alien beasts. The land is shared by humans and alien beasts, and the sky is controlled by humans. However, it is obvious that air transport alone cannot sustain the freight demand between several continents. The alien beasts that are distributed and cannot be completely eliminated are extremely risky. Therefore, each city is actually an isolated island. In this case, it is strange that there is no city state.

The origin of the city-state is roughly the same. Now we can explain the origin of the deserted people.

When those city dwellers were also defenders and fought a five-year war with alien beasts, no matter what the reasons were for those deserters, they were indeed absent from the war, so when the war ended, these did not affect the city. Those who make any contribution want to enter the city and share the survival resources with the defenders of the city, and the results can be imagined.

It is the original sin for urban residents to see those deserted people as defenders.

In the eyes of the deserters, the abundant survival data is the original sin of those in the city.

The urban residents are organized, resourceful, and victors of the war of alien animals. The deserters have an overwhelming advantage and are bound to be able to occupy the dominant position. So although those deserters dream of entering the city, and don’t mind breaking into the city to take everything from the people in the city, they can only survive in wasteland. .

Two catastrophes, driven by human nature, human beings who lost hope established a new world on the wasteland, a weird but reasonable world.

Not everyone can clearly recognize this world. Most people are just muddleheaded, waiting in fear for the third cataclysm, but Gao Qi, he is one of the few who can see clearly now One of the essential people of this world, and one of the few people who can figure out their position.

Gao Qi positioned himself as a person abandoned by the city. He knew how to survive, but he didn't know how to change his destiny.

But now, after three energy fluctuations in three days, everything is different.

These three energy fluctuations are very likely to be the precursor of the third catastrophe, or the third catastrophe that has already occurred, but these are not important to Gao Qi, the important thing is the first time. The energy fluctuation he was at the center of the outbreak, and the second time he was there, and he had very strong hallucinations in both energy fluctuations. If this can be regarded as a coincidence, it would be a coincidence.

But illusions are the opinions of others. No matter how reasonable Han Ruofeng and Huang Fei say, Gao Qi still doesn’t believe in all the illusions he experienced, the overlapping worlds, those whirlpools, and the light in nothingness. Point, everything is so real.

The most important thing is not the vision, but the feeling, the feelings of regret and sadness that have appeared briefly.

Regret and sorrow are only a short moment, but Gao Qi is unforgettable, making him impossible to forget, and making him believe that impossible is an illusion.

Since it is not an illusion, Gao Qi can only insist that he is awakened, but he is not awakening to become an esper.