The military base...
After the insect tide receded, Zhao Longchuan left some personnel on night duty, and the rest returned to their tents to rest.
Zhang Chen also returned to the villa.
He didn't sleep. Instead, he eagerly took out the [Map Carved on the Carapace] and input it into the minimap.
*Sizzle...*
Soon, the minimap finished scanning the carapace map.
A new route appeared.
It was a route map from Jinhai City to a port city in Tengxiang Country. This section of the area was lit up.
Other areas were pitch black, filled with what looked like fog of war in a game.
Huh?
Zhang Chen quickly noticed something was wrong!
His current location was Tianyang City. Half a month ago, he had set out from the Jiangnan District of Tianyang City, traveled west through Jinyu District, and then continued northwest, passing several cities along the way.
In the city where he awakened Xiaobai, he had cleared a large wave of zombie hordes, and finally arrived at the location of the meteorite crater.
This entire route was explored by himself. Even if the cities he passed couldn't all be lit up, there shouldn't be absolutely no light.
But on the electronic map now.
The paths he had previously traveled and the areas he had explored had all turned into fog of war.
Even the entire Tianyang City only had the military base location lit up.
What was going on?!
If the electronic map was not malfunctioning...
Then the problem must be with the real world itself!
Zhang Chen was startled!
Could it be that the terrain and landscape of the entire real world had changed with the lifting of the suppression!?
Only then would the previously explored areas turn black again.
Because in the new environment, besides the military base, Zhang Chen had not been anywhere else!
This made everything clear!
The entire world had undergone earth-shattering changes!
These thirty days were a critical juncture.
Not only had the terrain, monsters, and environment changed, but the channels for obtaining information had also expanded!
Whether it was Xu Ruina's research computer or the [Bloody Diary], the end times of their stories were completely consistent!
It was when the burrowing insects attacked the air-raid shelter, and the shelter at Tianyang University fell.
It was at that time that Xu Ruina injected herself with an undeveloped drug, thus becoming a Wailing One with a temporarily stored consciousness.
The owner of the bloody diary was attacked by another pair of burrowing insects when he rushed out of the air-raid shelter, and died directly at the entrance.
In other words, all the information Zhang Chen had obtained previously had abruptly stopped at the moment the mutated insects appeared.
The information and data were up to the appearance of the mutated insects.
And the first thirty days of the apocalypse were precisely without mutated insects.
The two seemed to correspond one-to-one.
Now it was the thirty-first day of the apocalypse, and mutated insects had appeared.
Zhang Chen had also obtained a map and a new notebook.
Did this mean that the information recorded on this page was also in sequence with the timeline after the appearance of mutated insects!
With this thought, Zhang Chen suddenly realized a flaw in his thinking.
When the Tianyang University shelter was breached, Zhang Chen had assumed that the indigenous civilization would collapse within a few months at most around this time.
In fact, it was not the case!
The destruction of the shelter only represented the end of a certain type of survivor, nothing more!
According to the content in the video introducing Tengxiang Country...
Tengxiang Country had excellent defensive measures that could counter six-legged monster insects and burrowing insects, and even deal with aerial enemies.
They would definitely survive the attacks of the mutated insect tides.
And the "New Era Year 7" written on this carapace might be a specific time point after the indigenous people fell from the top of the food chain, which was defined as the first year of the New Era by the surviving indigenous people.
This carapace had content carved on it seven years after that time.
In such an environment, the indigenous people were able to hold on for seven years?
It was truly impressive!
Zhang Chen shifted his attention to the [Notebook Wrapped in Scales].
The material of this notebook was very strange. The outer cover was like snakeskin, and under the light, it would reflect a faint green glow.
The feel was very smooth and soft to the touch, but if you pressed it hard, it would instantly become extremely strong.
It was probably because of this characteristic, coupled with its strong corrosion resistance.
That it was preserved from the corrosion of the burrowing insect larvae's stomach acid...
Opening this layer of scale-covered leather, inside was a paper with a peculiar texture.
It felt very thick and not at all soft, but stiff. It was less like paper and more like a thin, hard wooden board.
The title page read:
Chronicles of the New Era
To all carbon-based life forms capable of understanding text, of any civilization!
Compiler: Xi Song.
Zhang Chen turned to the next page, which read:
New Era Year 1.
Humanity had temporarily repelled the invasion of the mutated insect tide and could live in peace and recuperate.
People believed that with human wisdom, in time, they would eventually stand at the top of the new ecological food chain!
However, the two leading scientists of the human revival plan had a serious difference of opinion.
Gene biologists, represented by Mo Pai, insisted on enhancing human physique through gene modification.
Turning humans into superhumans, matching or even surpassing other mutated creatures in combat power, thereby adapting to the new environment.
On the other hand, progressive scientists, represented by Tang Houde, insisted that the important point distinguishing humans from infected individuals and mutated creatures was their intelligence and their ability to use tools.
Strengthening the body would only turn humans into beasts.
Only with wisdom could humans once again reach their peak.
Therefore, they insisted on developing bio-energy weapons, combining bio-energy with thermal weapons to create new types of weaponry!
In fact, for many ordinary people, these two plans made no difference.
As long as humanity could survive safely in the world, they would vote yes regardless of which path was taken!
There was nothing more important than living, wasn't there?!
New Era Year 2.
The deformed monsters created by the gene biologists were exposed, triggering protests from civilians.
Although the biologists insisted that this was a necessary path to success.
Under the pressure of the progressives and the opposition of the civilians.
Gene biologists fell from grace and became public enemies.
The progressive faction became the mainstream school of thought.
Under the advocacy of the progressive faction, countless mutated creature corpses were transported into the high walls.
Countless bio-energy weapons, combined with bionics, integrated biological skeletons with steel.
Creating incredibly powerful weapons.
With the support and protection of these weapons, humanity safely survived the year.
Long live the progressive faction!