Fragmented city

Xu Ran obtained the metal block of unknown origin for the first time. After experimenting with the metal block through the residual energy, he discovered that a folded debris space was hidden inside the metal block, and he tried to explore it.

However, the energy in the metal block was not enough at that time. Xu Ran only took about 30 seconds to enter. At most, he only walked around in a narrow space of about dozens of cubic meters before hurriedly picking up a wooden board and returning.

Now, the energy of the unknown metal block is full.

After Xu Ran entered that mysterious space, the unstable space that was originally vaguely like the state of chaotic particles had stabilized, but what appeared in front of him was a bizarre world.

The first sensation in the eye is desolation and silence.

The distance within sight is a vast plain, and you can vaguely see the dark whirlpool waterfall at the end, and the turbulence of space tearing apart the blue sky and gray earth, just like the cracks in the world.

The sky is gray, and there are a lot of lead clouds and dust floating, and the sun cannot be seen.

There is light on the earth, and the visibility is similar to the moment before the sun rises on the earth. It is a little bit darker, and the temperature is also a little bit low, about zero degrees.

Seeing a large amount of dust and lead clouds scattered in the sky, Xu Ran suspected that there was a radioactive element, and at first he held his breath and did not dare to inhale.

When I gradually grew bolder to breathe, I was surprised to find that I could breathe normally. There was no air pollution.

Overlooking the great plains, there are mountains, but no rivers, nor forests and lakes.

The soil on the ground was lead-grey, and there was no growth of plants or life. He squatted down and digs through the lumpy soil, and found that there were no insect eggs or microorganisms.

If you think about it, there is no water source in this debris space, so life cannot be born naturally.

However, looking at the Great Plains, there are a large number of well-preserved buildings there, indicating that there have been traces of civilization.

Just less than a hundred meters in front of Xu Ran's eyes, there was a village and town there.

Going closer to see the buildings in this village and town, they look very similar to the modern architectural style of the earth.

In this well-kept village, the streets are unclean and tidy.

Xu Ran entered the village and town, maintaining a state of vigilance. After investigating the village and town, he was surprised to find that the style of the village and town was exactly the same as that on the earth.

Everything is still, as if time is also still.

Even if you don't enter those houses to search, only the sculptures left on the walls and sculptures of some buildings will truly feed back the civilization information left in this different space.

The characters, instruments, and civilization features used here seem to be completely copied from the earth, indicating that human civilization once existed.

But now such a dead silence, without any living things, makes it impossible to imagine what kind of disasters this world has suffered, which led to the complete extinction of living things.

Therefore, Xu Ran opened the door of an ordinary house and entered the house to investigate.

This is a standard family of three. All the furnishings in the house are intact and maintained in a normal daily life. It feels like a family has not been out for long.

What's unusual is that Xu Ran didn't find anything containing water in the room. Even the unopened beverages or drinks on the kitchen cabinet were empty bottles.

Next, Xu Ran went to search for many houses, even some underground pipelines, the same was true, there was no substance containing water.

Xu Ran did a simple experiment.

After he spit on a smooth glass mirror, he quickly hid aside and stood on guard.

However, after observing for a long time, it did not attract any abnormal or weird things.

Here, it is too weird.

In order to understand what happened here, after Xu Ran found a human-powered bicycle, he began to ride in the direction of the big crack in the space of the day.

Of course, in some villages and towns garages, there are also cars or motorcycles, but there is no diesel gasoline, no oil, and no liquids such as refrigerants or lubricating oils, so naturally they cannot be used.

Xu Ran started from the village, and rode for about three kilometers before entering the area of ​​a city.

Traveling straight from the center of the city, it is about six or seven kilometers out of the urban area, indicating that the city is not large in scale, which is equivalent to the built-up area of ​​a county seat.

After leaving the city, Xu Ran discovered the remains of a river bed that dried up and became very shallow, at most one meter deep, near the villages and towns that he passed by about seven kilometers away.

It is inferred from the remaining traces of the river bed that the creek was at most 30 meters wide.

Then I rode straight for nine kilometers in the direction of the big crack that day, and I entered the mountain range of a mountain.

Xu Ran didn't cross the mountains and ridges, he went around some flat places.

After approaching the area of ​​the big crack on that day, I will feel breathless. The lead cloud and dust there are so thick and dense that people can feel it can be touched by reaching out.

Going forward, it is a little difficult to move, which will make people feel suffocated. At the same time, there are villages and towns there, but they have become ruins.

Seeing that there was still a few kilometers away from the big crack that day, Xu Ran gave up the plan to continue exploring in depth.

However, if you look closely at the big cracks that day and the earth, you will find that the dark vortex shrouded the cracks can not see the end, as if straight through the universe and space, and its edges are covered with extremely large dense clouds of lead and dust, just like the formation of the collapse of the sky and the earth A unique atmosphere protects the debris space here.

After that, Xu Ran took a moment to return to the city he had passed by in a straight line.

He did not calculate the total area of ​​this debris space, but standing at a high place, looking at the four directions of east, west, south and north, except for the north, you can find that kind of big crack in the world. The place he went to explore earlier , Relatively the nearest direction.

In other words, the shape of this fragmented world is a flat elliptical geographic feature, which is very similar to the shape of the metal block of unknown origin obtained by Xu Ran.

I didn't think so much for the time being. Xu Ran explored the city and discovered some buildings of government, hospitals, enterprises, factories, schools and other functional institutions.

All the open-air parts of those buildings are covered with lead-grey ground, and there is nothing else, but some facilities and related equipment inside the building framework are still intact, and some places are messy, indicating that something has happened.

Xu Ran randomly selected a building and searched it, but found a large number of banknotes, different types and styles, they should be from different countries.

But what made him depressed was that most of those banknotes, no matter the patterns and patterns, were not available in Xu Ran's location, and could not be brought back to earth for use.

Because, all banknotes are printed and issued in 2030, and they are taken back to the earth, so they are not considered as crazy?

However, there is no problem with gold jewelry.

When Xu Ran discovered gold jewelry and other luxury goods, his whole body was almost ablaze with excitement.

This could not help him not being excited.

Because all the resources in the entire city have opened their arms to him alone, if they can be brought back to the earth, the wealth that can be created will be an unimaginable astronomical number.

However, after a while of excitement in his heart, Xu Ran forced himself to calm down.

The resources in this fragmented world are readily available, and he will continue to explore and discover in the future.

But whether there is any potential danger here, how this fragmented alien space was formed, and what kind of disasters have occurred here that led to the extinction of organisms, Xu Ran has to figure out.

At least he has to figure out that the issue date printed on the coin is 2030. Can it explain whether the scientific and technological achievements of this fragmented world are really ahead of the current earth technology by about 20 years.

Therefore, Xu Ran continued to look for clues related to him.

Soon, Xu Ran found something in the search.

What surprised him was that he found calendars in many houses, whether wall calendars, desk calendars, or mechanical clocks with static time, and paper forms with dates filled in by hand, all time was fixed in 2037.

In the fragmented world, what happened at this time?

With such doubts, Xu Ran searched for some paper-based information printed at the time of the disaster, even the so-called confidential documents, but found nothing.

Continuing the search, Xu Ran found a large number of electronic products in this debris space city, all of which could not be turned on. It is estimated that there is no electricity.

He chose a few representative products in daily life, such as smart phones, smart watches, digital cameras, and digital video cameras.

After disassembling and inspecting them, they found that these electronic products are all intact inside, but I don't know if they can be turned on after being brought back to the earth and charged.

In addition, Xu Ran also wants to test whether other types of things can be brought back to the earth, or whether objects on the earth can be brought into this debris space.

So he selected some other small items that are representative in various industries, and a few memory cards for surveillance video, and put them in a handbag for the first time after returning to the earth world. Detection.

After making some preparations, Xu Ran took out the metal block of unknown origin, and found that the metal block actually appeared in the form of an entity in this fragmented space, which was somewhat unexpected to him.

As a result, Xu Ran opened the door to space, walked in directly with a big bag on his back, and after turning into a burst of illusory particles, he disappeared into the fragmented city in that different space.