After a brief silence, Hesta continued walking forward as if he hadn't heard anything.
But Lin Jiao obviously doesn’t intend to stop here.
"I don't know if you have ever thought of a possibility," Lin Jiao looked at her, "The era of great power outages is actually not that far away from us. In the future, it may happen again at any time -"
"If," Hesta suddenly interrupted Lin Jiao, she turned around, "someone comes and asks me tomorrow what I did with you tonight, what I said...how do you want me to answer?"
"It's still up to you." Lin Jiao replied with a smile, "If you are willing to hold back for us, that is of course the best. If you plan to tell the truth, then we will respect your choice."
"Thank you for your trust...but I won't do anything illegal."
Lin Jiao suddenly laughed, "We won't do it either."
Hesta looked sideways for a moment, doubt evident in her eyes.
"All of us have obtained hunting licenses from the North Fourteenth District - except Yi Ti," Lin Jiao glanced at her youngest companion with a smile, then withdrew her gaze and looked at Hesta again, "So we can legally Possessing certain types of firearms is a legal right granted to us by the government—"
"What an air!" The youngest girl in the crowd gave Lin Jiao a slap, "When I turn sixteen next year, I can do the same!"
Lin Jiao smiled again, and she walked to the opposite side of Hesta, "...Actually, even in the South Fourteenth District, there are still shooting clubs. But to become a member, you must have an acquaintance to write a letter of recommendation for you. If there is no connection, Basically you can’t get in——”
"Let's talk about the Great Power Outage Era," Hesta whispered. "Is this the doomsday survival you just mentioned for preparation?"
"Yes, considering that there was no such appalling thing as chelation disease during the last major power outage, the situation we will encounter will only be more complicated than before."
"...Why do you think the 'Big Blackout' will happen again?"
Lin Jiao shrugged lightly and sat down on an empty coffee table. "It would be troublesome to explain...if you don't have some prerequisite knowledge."
"Like what?"
"Have you heard of the 'Eden' set up by Robbeglier in the first arrondissement?"
"I've heard of it," Hestad replied, "a closed community that is out of jurisdiction and fully controlled by Roboglier and his team."
“This man bought a boat in the Third District this year, and then bought a piece of land in the North Fourteenth District. A large number of his followers came from all over the world, intending to go deep into the snowfields of the North Fourteenth District—— You should have heard of this to some extent, after all, the whole world has been discussing the strange case on the Shengming in the past two months."
"Yeah." Hesta responded.
"But," Lin Jiao crossed his arms, "Have you ever thought about what they are doing?"
"You mean 'Second Eden'?"
"...That's why Fan recommended you to us!" Lin Jiao stood up again, "Yes, why would a rich man like Robbeglier go to the bitter cold land of the far north to find fault for himself? Even if To build a second Eden, can’t we find a countryside with a pleasant climate?”
At this point, Hestad already understood what the other party meant. She really didn't think much about this question in the past: why did Robbeglier choose the site of the Second Eden in the snowy fields of the North Fourteenth District? It can drop to minus 40 degrees Celsius... Except for a very small number of aborigines living there, there is almost no human habitation.
No human habitation in sight means there is less risk of chelation disease or chelate tides - as long as they can solve their own energy problems and not rely on external supplies.
"It's hard to say there is any causal relationship between these two things." Hesta whispered, "Isn't it a bit ridiculous to use this to demonstrate the doomsday?"
"Indeed," Lin Jiao smiled and narrowed his eyes, "It's just an exciting confirmation."
"When did you start preparing?" Hesta asked, "When was the destruction of Eden in the first area?"
"It has nothing to do with that." Xiang Hanshan suddenly said.
Hesta turned her head, "When was that?"
"...from the first time we learned about the origin of the Mother City."
"What happened to the Mother City?" Hesta asked again.
Xiang Hanshan looked up at Hesta with some confusion, "Have you never had that sense of crisis?"
"what do you mean."
"Sixteen mother cities suddenly rose from the ground, and the era of blackout for nearly two hundred years suddenly ended, and civilization returned... So far, we have re-established fourteen human settlements around the fourteen mother cities. But what happens after that?" Xiang Hanshan blinked, "Who knows whether these mother cities that suddenly rose will suddenly fall again one day?"
"Most of the core technologies in the mother city are not circulated to livable places, and even the circulation between mother cities is very strict." Lin Jiao said softly, "My mother worked in an organization in the mother city. For a while, she said, judging from the current understanding of the Mother City by various regional governments, the Mother City is almost still a black box."
"And we know almost nothing about what happened before the big blackout," Xiang Hanshan continued. "We don't know why or when the disaster will come, nor do we know what exactly is protecting us... and the price. What is it?"
"It will be soon..." The eldest man in the crowd suddenly said, "It must be within our lifetime."
…
Late at night, Hesta returned home alone.
Just as she had promised Yu Xuekun before, she rejected all invitations from Lin Jiao and others - not only including the position of consultant, she even did not agree to participate in activities with them in the future.
However, the conversation that night was still deeply engraved in her mind. The grand hypothesis about the fate of mankind had great stamina. Hesta thought that this was probably due to the addition of the night. Maybe when she woke up tomorrow morning and thought about it, she There will be different feelings again.
Before leaving, she asked Lin Jiao two questions. First, all supplies will be exhausted one day. If the era of blackout really comes again, how do you plan to solve the problem of survival in the future.
Lin Jiao's answer was very short: There is no way to solve it.
In fact, this issue is not within their scope of consideration now. For them, the most important thing then is how to survive the first five years after the disaster. Any human settlement, no matter what kind of disaster has occurred, will not survive the first five years after the disaster. After the impact, the survivors will work together to establish a new order.
All their current preparations are to survive this period and ensure that they are not pushed to the edge most of the time.
(End of chapter)
