Chapter 466: Frozen Life (1/2)

Chapter 466: Frozen Life

Translator: EndlessFantasy TranslationEditor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Luo Yuan left the office, as he got ready to patrol the volcano sites.

Heating lamps lit up the street to maintain the surrounding temperature. It was unimaginable how everything out there had frozen over.

There were not many pedestrians as it was only two o'clock. Perhaps it would be crowded later during dinner time.

Earlier, Hope City implemented a centralized cafeteria system to control the availability of food. Although the situation seemed to have improved, this system was not abolished due to several reasons and to prevent the wastage of food and resources

Not only the availability of food was considered, but a lot of utensils were needed if it were to be supplied for the cooking needs of each family. Under such circumstances, there would not be a supply of natural gas or coal gas, as only electronic kitchen appliances could be used.

Based on the current technology of Hope City and the materials stored, it was impossible to prepare all these things in a short period of time, and they were far from necessary.

However, there were only a few people walking on the street, possibly due to the city being governed by martial law at the moment; both sides were heavily guarded.

They had no choice, as survivors from the three cities had migrated to Hope City, resulting in a subsequent surge of the population. However, there were not many vacancies available in Hope City. In order to increase the rate of employment, the use of machines was reduced. There were several ongoing renovation works and construction activities offering job opportunities to the people. Nevertheless, there were still a lot of people unemployed.

Million people were at home doing nothing, and with the ongoing conflict between local and foreign citizens, the enforcement of martial law became a necessity.

It was believed that martial law would be exercised for quite a long period of time. Perhaps the situation would turn better after humans had all migrated to the spaceship.

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Luo Yuan walked out of the underground city.

It was snowing out there.

After the disaster, the city started to snow more frequently. Apparently, it had been snowing for a long time, considering the amount of snowfall that had accumulated on the ground.

The snowflakes were dark gray in color falling with a huge amount of dust. Before the snowflakes landed onto his body, the surrounding air was stirred. The snowflakes on his body were instantly drifted by his Will.

He stomped hard onto the ground and his body immediately propelled himself forward like a rocket. Suddenly, a very sharp hissing sound came from the air. His figure was now as small as a dot, flying towards the sky.

As usual, he headed toward the pit resulting from the explosion of the antimatter bomb. Everything was fine and the volcano beneath had been completely frozen, forming thick layers of ice. Sublimation of the ice layers did not happen, indicating that the initial plan was still effective.

He then headed towards the erupted volcano.

The volcanic activity gradually subsided after half a month. The red lava was cooled and covered by layers of ice. Other than some steam coming out of the volcano, everything was fine.

Luo Yuan was slightly relieved. Sometimes it was not too bad to have such a bad weather as the volcanoes were greatly influenced by such extreme temperatures.

The place was deserted. Countless gigantic plants were frozen and had turned black. They were dead and looked like gigantic carved metals.

Luo Yuan felt heavy-hearted to see this.

He walked into the forest. The place which was initially loaded with danger, filled with birds chirping around and the roaring of beasts. All these had disappeared now and most of the living creatures had perished.

He stood there for a while, getting ready to return.

At this moment, Luo Yuan's sensitive hearing senses had picked up a rustling and hustling sound.

He immediately switched his thoughts away and followed the direction where the sound came from. It was around six kilometers away. His vision was blocked by trees. However, thanks to Luo Yuan's four-dimensional vision, it did not affect him at all.

He saw a squirrel-liked mutant carefully squeezing out of the snow. Its body was half a meter long and was considered as a small sized creature.

It was covered with thick beige fur, making it look as plump as a round ball. Obviously, it was able to survive under such an extreme conditions.

It looked around with its dark small eyes, and as soon as it squeezed out of the snow, its long red ears were monitoring the surroundings, being extra alert.

Suddenly, it ran very quickly and climbed onto a frozen big tree. Its sharp nails were strongly embedded in the ice layers, ensuring its movements were not affected, being quick and agile.

In just a short while, it climbed into a tree cave and scratched the ice layers into tiny pieces and scattered everywhere.