My ability pool is superior to others

Chapter 66 There seems to be something wrong with this world

Lu Bai followed the brother and sister across the bridge and took in the scenery along the river.

The water of the river under the steel frame bridge is clear and slightly blue, which is completely unlike what a river in a city should look like.

There are benches at regular intervals along the coastal trail, but no one is visiting. If you do see pedestrians, they are in a hurry and the benches are almost always empty.

There are no old people taking a walk, and no fishermen.

In this situation, Lu Bai couldn't help but take a second look at a figure wearing a white dress sitting alone on a bench.

But he only glanced at him twice before looking away. He thought that he was an unimportant person and might just be waiting for a friend.

……

creak~

The door creaked with age and disrepair.

However, both Lu Ziyi and Lu Yan looked as if they were used to it.

"I'm finally back." Lu Yan took off his shoes and slumped down on the sofa which had several holes in it.

Lu Bai came in last. He closed the door gently and then began to look at the various furnishings in the room.

The apartment is a standard one-bedroom and one-living room, with the living room at most ten square meters. Judging from this, the bedroom probably won’t be that big either.

There is an area in the living room where some kitchen utensils and an induction cooker are placed. It is obviously separated out and used as a kitchen. There is also a tattered sofa in the little remaining space, which makes it feel even more crowded.

The sundries are stored neatly, but unfortunately with such a limited space, it won’t look good no matter how you put them.

There is a small square table against the wall, probably used for eating, and there is a photo frame on it.

In the photo, a woman is smiling brightly with her three children.

Lu Bai looked around and found no signs of a fourth person living in the house, so the woman either ran away or died.

Judging from the woman's appearance, Lu Bai is more inclined to the latter.

But surprisingly, after Lu Ziyi noticed Lu Bai's gaze, her eyes became even colder.

One could feel that her resentment was clearly directed at Lu Bai.

But she didn't say much, because in her impression, no matter what she said, Lu Bai's reaction would be the same.

So she packed her backpack, said something, and pushed the door open and left.

"I'm going to work."

Lu Bai watched her leave.

When he turned around again, he found that the little brat Lu Yan had sat up at some point.

With a conscientious tone, he sighed: "Sister is like this."

Lu Bai's eyelids twitched.

but……

That's it.

We can talk about these things later. The most urgent task now is to understand what kind of world this is.

He took out the cell phone he borrowed from Fan Ding and walked to the small square table and sat down.

The advantage of modern society is that the threshold for obtaining information has been greatly lowered, but the disadvantage is that the threshold is too low, making it difficult to distinguish the authenticity of a lot of information.

So Lu Bai chose to go directly to the government website to check the news, as well as past documents and announcements.

The content was extremely complicated, but fortunately Lu Bai was not in a hurry and read the information patiently.

Originally, he was mainly concerned about the information on the deathmatch, but was unexpectedly attracted by another thing. "The holographic sky equipment has been further adjusted to provide a more realistic visual experience"

"My No. 9 Underground City has reached a strategic cooperation with No. 3 Underground City"

《The total population of the underground city exceeds 200 million, and experts call for optimizing the population structure》

Dungeon?
Lu Bai remembered that when he was in the death arena, he heard Xiao Xueyin mention the word "sanctuary", but he didn't realize what it meant at the time.

Now it seems……

This city is actually underground? !
No wonder the sky looks so depressing, no wonder the flowing river appears so abrupt, and no wonder the houses along the way are as dense as honeycombs.

It took Lu Bai a whole hour to sort out the information in this regard.

Just as he guessed, all the people in this world live underground.

Of course it’s not because they like it. It can be seen from the government’s efforts to restore the surface ecological environment that people have no choice but to do so.

As for the reasons, we have to trace them back to several centuries ago.

At that time, mankind had just entered the 21st century.

Global warming has caused the climate to become abnormal. People did not pay much attention to it at first. Only occasionally some experts said that we would enter a Little Ice Age in the 1930s of this century, and that global warming was the prelude to the Little Ice Age.

But in the final analysis, the Little Ice Age, which occurs every four hundred years, is not terrible for modern humans. After all, technology and productivity are far beyond what they could achieve in the feudal era.

With the coming of the ice age, the power grid system was destroyed, small power generation systems gradually became popular in the community, and changes in the earth's water cycle also led to an increase in marine fish production. It was not all a bad thing.

Throughout the history of the Earth, there have been five major ice ages. The interval between the first and second ice ages was about 1.3 billion years, the interval between the second and third ice ages was about 200 million years, and the intervals after that were tens of millions of years...

Although the overall trend is that the intervals between ice ages are getting shorter and shorter, on the scale of millions of years, the mainstream view is that the sixth ice age will not come so soon.

However, the temperature has not stopped dropping and it is getting colder year by year.

People gradually began to panic, and many people realized that this was not the Little Ice Age, but that mankind had entered the Ice Age unexpectedly.

Unfortunately, faced with climate change in nature, humans, who claim to be the most intelligent creatures on earth, are powerless to stop it.

The idea of ​​an underground shelter was first proposed, but the various technical difficulties that followed made this idea a "ticket to the Ark" that could only be reserved for a very small number of elites.

In times of desperation, the deathmatch system appeared.

This deus ex machina-like setting of street literature has truly entered people's field of vision.

Be it an alien conspiracy or a gift from God.

Humans don’t have the extra energy to care and are just trying to grab this life-saving straw that suddenly appears.

Lu Bai checked many sources of information, but all the records about the period from the emergence of the deathmatch system to the time when humans officially entered the dungeon era were vague.

In short, in a very short period of time, humans have mastered heavy element fusion technology, ecological self-circulation technology, and have also made great strides in material strength and engineering technology.

After mastering these black technologies, the historical process got back on track, a joint government was established, and the construction of a shelter was put on the agenda.

Around the world, hundreds of underground shelters are being built simultaneously.

To be precise, shelters numbered below 100 should actually be called dungeons.

Because each one can accommodate a population of over 10 million.

The earlier the number, the more exaggerated the scale...

Seeing this, Lu Bai looked up and out the window.

He couldn't help rubbing his sore eyes and muttered to himself, "I always feel like there's something wrong..."

(End of this chapter)