Chapter 3 Into Darkness

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[Day 116, the construction of the underground city is in full swing]

Infrastructure is the country’s strength.

[On the 133rd day, the mirage of Kunlun Mountain appeared. This mirage did not dissipate due to the passage of time, and existed stably in the sky from beginning to end.]

"Kunlun Mountain is really a special place." Wang Ran thought, "It will not disappear because of the passage of time. Is this an exception or the beginning?"

If it is an example, this can only show that Kunlun Mountain is special, even in the mirror world.

But it’s different if it’s the beginning, it means the next stage of the end.

[On the 152nd day, more mirages did not dissipate with the passage of time. They were scattered all over the earth and became a fixed landscape]

Other mirages also became permanent.

This is obviously an anomaly caused by the increased synchronization rate between the two earths.

Wang Ran thought: "If every mirage stays here, it won't be long before the entire earth will be enveloped by these mirages."

By that time, I'm afraid not even a trace of sunlight can enter the earth.

[On the 175th day, the mirage becomes clearer]

[Pilots cannot distinguish mirages]

[The aviation industry suffered a major blow]

If pilots cannot distinguish mirages, they are likely to make emergency maneuvers to avoid mirages during flight, or mistake physical buildings for mirages.

Even if the autopilot system is used to drive the plane to its destination, if there is a mirage over the airport, the pilot cannot clearly see his landing runway, and the possibility of an accident will skyrocket!

It is foreseeable that in a while there will be no civil aviation industry.

[The mirage's blocking effect on sunlight is further improved, and the surface temperature is further reduced]

[Someone freezes to death every minute]

[On the 181st day, the United Nations issued a low temperature warning]

[According to the warning content]

[The surface temperature will drop ten degrees in the next half month, and most places on the earth will become uninhabitable zones. The United Nations is actively engaged in requesting countries in habitable zones to accept refugees]

[Some countries have made whether to accept refugees a campaign issue, with everyone from regional parliamentarians to the president of the country participating in it]

With the end of the world just around the corner, politicians in some countries still want to fight for their own political future.

[On the 205th day, the first underground city was built in our country]

It has been exactly three months since the country got the equipment, and it can be built so quickly. It can be said that the country has not been idle for a moment in building the underground city.

【International Sensation】

[You are invited to participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony]

[You named this underground city City of Hope]

I hope there is hope.

[Civilians migrate to the City of Hope]

[Dozens of countries have requested assistance from our country]

[Our country promises that after meeting the survival needs of its people, it will send engineering teams to other countries to assist in the construction of underground cities]

It is understandable to prioritize ensuring the life safety of our own people.

[my country’s reputation has increased significantly]

[Day 206, a scandal was exposed in a certain country]

[Due to serious corruption, the country’s underground city project has almost stalled. In three months, it has not been dug deep enough to build an underground city]

Building a new city from scratch is no easy task, and building dungeons is even harder.

But it is unjustifiable that the project has been stalled due to corruption issues, especially when other countries have already built underground cities. This matter will naturally cause huge repercussions.

[Citizen resentment boils in the country]

[Similar situations also exist in other developed countries]

[Many hacker groups announced investigations into dungeon projects in their respective countries]

[On the 207th day, resident mirages covered 5% of the total area of ​​the earth, and non-resident mirages covered 60% of the total area of ​​the earth]

"That adds up to sixty-five percent."

This means that as long as you raise your head, 65% of the sights in your field of vision are mirages.

It is difficult for people on earth to distinguish what the mirage above their heads looks like, because when they look up, they are covered in darkness, as if the sky is about to fall.

Between the lines, a sense of oppression is evident.

[The homeless are completely extinct]

All frozen to death.

[The second underground city was built in our country]

Other countries do not have the equipment to quickly build underground cities. Maybe the underground city project in China is completely over, and the first underground city in other countries has not yet been built.

[Day 208, more underground cities are built in our country]

[Some countries jointly put pressure on my country]

[They asked our country to provide equipment for building underground cities]

[The country asks you for help]

[Leave this matter to Apostle Chenxi]

[Overnight, hundreds of familiar faces appeared in the prison on Lonaway Island]

Wang Ran felt dumbfounded.

As soon as he rolled his eyes, he knew who was doing this.

[Day 209, a major earthquake in international public opinion]

[Countries that put pressure on our country have turned off their engines and are now frantically searching for their missing politicians]

[The hacker group announced the results of the investigation]

[Developed countries are generally careless about underground city projects. Only underground city projects in key cities are advancing as planned, while underground city projects in second-tier cities and even more remote areas have almost or completely stalled]

[The survey results caused an uproar]

【Global Outbreak Parade】

[Affected by the low temperature, the parade only lasted half an hour, and the hospital was full after the parade]

[On the 210th day, the angry people received apologies from various governments, but the underground city project did not undergo any changes and was still progressing at the original pace]

[The people are angry, but there is nothing they can do]

[They felt very frustrated]

It's so cold that it's difficult to march on the streets, let alone the politicians who let lard fool them into repenting.

[At the same time, the 19th underground city was built in our country]

[A large number of wealthy businessmen went to our country to take refuge]

[On the 211th day, the hacker organization released a recording]

["Don't worry about those low-class people."]

【"The weather is getting cold."】

["They will freeze to death soon."]

[The recording was a phone call between the president of a certain country and the country’s secretary of state. Once it was exposed, it immediately aroused huge anger among the people]

Wang Ran was stunned.

Good guy!

Because the civilians are freezing to death, we don’t need to pay attention to them. What kind of outrageous theory is this?

[A large number of armed people stormed the private homes of politicians]

[Government building fell]

[The underground city project under construction was forced to stop work]

【The country is in chaos】

The underground city project in this country is inherently slow. Only a few key cities are progressing steadily, while underground cities in other places are at a standstill.

Originally, the civilians still retained a trace of sanity.

As a result, the phone recordings were exposed, and they discovered that although the politicians apologized, they actually planned to let them freeze to death.

Attacks on politicians' private homes and government buildings are justified.

As for attacking the underground city under construction?

This thing should have been done by people in remote areas. They were people who had been abandoned by politicians, so they went to key cities to stop the construction of underground cities and let everyone freeze to death with them.

"This is just the beginning of the chaos."

Before each apocalypse completely consumes humanity, humanity will first collapse from within.

The dungeon project was the trigger for this chaos.

Phone recording is not an exception.

Politicians in other countries have not been exposed, or they may not say so, but they think so in their hearts.

[Day 212, the international situation is in a state of decay]

[riots broke out in many countries]

[Government agencies in some countries are completely paralyzed]

[Our country has built the 35th underground city, the society is stable, and the trust index of civilians in the country has further increased]

Because of Wang Ran's existence, the gap between domestic and foreign countries has become wider and wider.

[On the 213th day, the country contacted you urgently]

[You learned that the mirage may materialize]

"Materialized?" Wang Ran was shocked, "The mirages turned into entities. They covered the entire earth!"

Is there another layer of crust outside the crust?

[Ask the researchers]

[You know that the mirage has not yet become a reality, but objects passing through the mirage will be significantly hindered. The faster the speed, the more obvious the obstruction. High-speed objects hitting the mirage are equivalent to hitting reinforced concrete]

"Are planes unusable?"

[You learned that the aircraft can still fly at high altitudes, but it needs to wait for the launch window]

launch window

Wang Ran had only seen this word in news about rocket launches.

When a rocket waits for a launch window, it is to wait for good weather to prevent the rocket from being struck by lightning or losing the signal when it rises. Now, ordinary aircraft wait for the launch window to avoid hitting a mirage.

If ordinary aircraft have to wait for the launch window to get into space, it will be difficult for rockets to get into space, and the human aerospace industry will suffer a devastating blow!

Humanity is going to lose the sky and the stars.

[You continue to discuss with the researchers]

[You learned that the source of the hindrance cannot be determined]

[You learned that this hindering effect may be related to space, but the earth’s space science is still in its infancy, and it is temporarily unable to provide a reasonable explanation for this phenomenon]

[Based on the reasoning of scientific researchers]

[As time goes by, the hindering effect of mirage will become more and more powerful until it is equivalent to the entity]

"It has the appearance of an entity, but also has the obstruction effect of the entity." Wang Ran frowned and said, "Isn't that the entity?"

If a mirage becomes a reality.

Wang Ran was shocked.

He seemed to know the outcome of this apocalypse.

[Day 214, international chaos intensifies]

[Civil aviation grounded]

[Land and sea transportation are booming]

[On the 234th day, the amount of sunlight reaching the earth has been greatly reduced, the earth is dark, and people have forgotten what a sunny day looks like]

[Day 255, despair fills the earth]

[People are so cold that they don’t even think about having sex]

[On the 286th day, the sun’s light almost completely disappeared. Even at 12 o’clock at noon, people still need to use lighting equipment for activities on the surface]

[On the 291st day, the sun’s rays completely disappeared]

[The earth falls into darkness]

The light and heat from the sun are an important reason for life on the earth. Without the sun, it is simply impossible to maintain the huge number of life on the earth just by relying on the little heat emitted by the earth's core.

An unprecedented mass extinction has arrived.

This mass extinction will be far better than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, because this time even the original driving force for the birth of life has disappeared.

[On the 304th day, our country’s civilians completely moved into underground cities]

[Our country tries to provide assistance to other countries]

[Government agencies in other countries are almost paralyzed, and social order has completely collapsed. Even if the equipment arrives, the local area cannot provide the manpower and resources needed to build underground cities]

[The country had to give up aid]

Building a city requires more than just equipment. It also requires scientists, workers, and construction materials, and a collapsed country cannot provide these.

[On the 315th day, the mirage has almost completely materialized]

[You discuss with scientific researchers]

[In addition to having no mass and being unable to be destroyed, mirages are no different from entities in other aspects]

[Researchers invite you]

[You have boarded a mirage]

[The sun is shining brightly here]