Chapter 2 Transition Bracelet
The universe is plural.
A butterfly in the Amazon jungle inadvertently flaps its wings and could set off a tornado in Texas in two weeks. That is, any slight change may, after being amplified infinitely, have an impact that is enough to change the future trend.
That is to say, the future as we understand it is extremely unstable.
Jiang Chen, male, 23 years old, undergraduate graduate. After graduation, I worked as a salesperson in a clothing store, but I was fired. With his shrinking wallet, he had to face a dilemma: should he stay in Shanghai to find a job, or should he return the rented house and live in his hometown?
To be honest, he didn't want to run back in such a bleak way. Being able to live in a metropolis like Wanghai City is not only his long-cherished wish since childhood, but also his parents' expectation. How many people who haven't seen the world are not eager to go out and see the world?
Even if you already know it, the reality may make you feel disheartened.
That night, he was drunk, and it was the first time since he graduated that he was unconscious after drinking alone. Just after venting his grievance, he vaguely felt as if his head had been slapped with a stick, and he fainted. After the unknown metal object hit his wrist, it disappeared as if it had merged with him.
Then, he acquired an incredible ability-traveling!
Of course, it has been a few months since the discovery of this abnormal ability.
The weird pattern is like a watch around his right wrist. Even if you look closely, you can only come to the conclusion that it is a strange tattoo.
So the question is, Jiang Chen has never had a tattoo before?
He didn't know why he was the one who was selected, but he only knew that his chance to reach the pinnacle of his life might come.
Time travel? Plane jump? ...he doesn't have enough expertise to explain this extraordinary phenomenon. It was only because of an accidental electric shock but no fart that it was discovered that after absorbing about 100 kWh of energy, the empty slot on his wrist that looked like a tattoo would be filled, which would satisfy the requirements for "traveling". A crossing will consume about half of the energy tank, that is to say, a full charge of 100 degrees is enough to cross a round trip. The cost of crossing is only about 50 yuan, and I have to say that this is really cheap.
In addition, the function of this quirky tattoo is more than just crossing. Jiang Chen inadvertently discovered that in addition to enabling him to travel to a strange world, this thing also has an independent subspace! In layman's terms, it is a storage space of about 1 cubic meter. However, since it takes a certain amount of energy to retrieve items from the space, Jiang Chen still chooses to use a backpack to carry items through. After all, if you don't save the energy in the energy tank, if you can't find a way to replenish energy in the last days, won't you be able to come back?
Jiang Chen has a hunch that this energy tank should be upgradeable, including the storage space, there should be some room for expansion, but he has not yet figured out how to upgrade it.
As for how to charge? The method is simple, just stick your right finger into the socket... This method is crude, but it works. As for how Jiang Chen discovered this method, as mentioned earlier, it was entirely because of an accidental electric shock.
The first time I crossed was in an abandoned dwelling. From the dusty bed and the rotten wooden window sill, it could be seen that the house had not been visited for a long time. After carefully confirming the environment, Jiang Chen began to explore this dilapidated dwelling.
From the half-destroyed radio with storage function and old newspapers, Jiang Chen barely learned some information about this world.
This is a parallel world similar to Earth, but technology is obviously ahead of Jiang Chen. There are many high-rise buildings, but there is no civilized atmosphere. The streets were full of zombies and alien creatures. Jiang Chen, who didn't even have a reliable weapon, naturally didn't dare to go out easily.
The time is 2190, and the location is still Wanghai City in the Republic of China. However, Wanghai City here is almost the same as Wanghai City on Jiang Chen's side.
In 2150, the global climate is warming, all kinds of resources are extremely stressed due to over-exploitation, and the economic crisis will come as scheduled.
In 2164, the Polish political crisis ignited the powder keg of Central Europe, and the red regime began to advance westward. Affected by this, global geopolitics has entered a state of extreme tension. It is worth mentioning that in this parallel world, the collapse of the Soviet Union did not occur in 1991. Therefore, the world political pattern is divided into a three-pole world - the NATO military body (NATO) composed of the United States and its allies, the red regime in central Asia and Europe (P) under the leadership of the Soviets, and the Pan-Asian cooperation composed of Huaxia and South Asian countries. Organization (PCA), and some peripheral countries remain neutral.
In 2171, the situation in China and Europe escalated. The red regime declared war on the blue regime. Both sides accused the other side of firing the first shot, which opened the curtain of the Third World War.
In the winter of the same year, the South China Sea incident broke out. China and Japan fought a naval battle in the South China Sea, NATO declared war on Pan-Asian cooperation, and the Asian battlefield opened. In the same year, a political crisis broke out in Mongolia, and the red regime and Huaxia had military frictions, forcing a large number of military forces of the two countries to confront each other on the border.
In 2172, the red regime detonated the first nuclear bomb in Paris, declaring the third world war to enter the stage of nuclear war.
In 2173, the modern war came to an unexpected stalemate. The whole world has been affected by nuclear radiation, and the ecological environment has suffered almost destructive damage uncontrollably. The nuclear winter covered 80% of the earth's land with ice and snow, and no one could have imagined that global warming would end for such a very ironic reason. War, famine, disease... This modern world war has almost exhausted all the vitality of human civilization in just two years, and the economic loss caused by it far exceeds the sum of World War I and World War II. It is precisely because of this that peace comes as a matter of course without a winner or loser. Because everyone knows that if we fight again, I'm afraid no one will be alive.
On New Year's Day 2174, the peace treaty came into force. The "Reconstruction of the Biosphere" plan was officially launched, and the radiation removal plan was jointly funded and promoted by all countries.
In the autumn of 2174, the international joint organization announced that the "reconstruction of the biosphere" plan was aborted. The radiation-purifying fungi under development had uncontrollable mutations due to radiation. At the same time, due to the attack of unknown armed forces, the mutant bacteria spread on a large scale in the city. Humans infected by mutated bacteria will become zombies, and a global biochemical crisis will break out. All institutions were paralyzed, and all order collapsed overnight.
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In 2176, the United World Organization launched six colony ships to the planet Kaptan b in the constellation of Centauri. It carries the hope of human civilization, and sails into space in the name of a seeding ship to find a new home. Yet none of this concerns the people who are still struggling on the ground.
In the same year, the World United Organization announced its dissolution.
The information recorded in the newspaper only lasted until 2176, and most of the remaining information Jiang Chen read from a yellowed diary. From the electronic watch still running in the drawer, it can be concluded that the current time point is June 2190.
Coincidentally, it is also June in this world.
But in just 5 years, the human civilization in this world line has personally buried itself.
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After a short stay, Jiang Chen chose to return to the modern age. There are too many unknown dangers here, and it is not a wise choice to explore without complete preparation.
After returning to the modern age, Jiang Chen took a rest for two days, and then bought a box of canned food, a box of ham, and a box of instant noodles from a nearby supermarket. Out of an abundance of caution, he carried three days' worth of food even though he had no plans to spend the night in that dangerous place.
The strength of the zombies during the day seemed to have been greatly weakened, which also facilitated Jiang Chen's exploration of this area. Passing carefully through the center of the street, avoiding the area with many zombies, Jiang Chen found this villa...
The tall courtyard walls and iron gates look very safe, and the withered and yellow vegetation in the courtyard looks quite desolate. The reliefs on the marble columns beside the main gate of the villa have been washed away by acid rain, and it can be seen that the pollution of this world should be very serious.
The stone building structure has nothing to do with science fiction. It can be seen that the former owner of the villa seems to be a rich man who can enjoy life very much.
As for why you choose to explore this villa, the answer is naturally obvious. No matter how rich people's homes are, they have to keep some valuables, right?
However, what Jiang Chen encountered was not anything valuable, but a beautiful woman who was almost starving to death.
Perhaps he was paralyzed by beauty, or perhaps Jiang Chen, who came from a civilized society, didn't think about danger at all. In short, when he saw the beautiful woman who had no strength to breathe, looked at him with pleading eyes, He generously took out a bottle of mineral water from his backpack, brought it to the mouth of the beauty, and fed her to drink it with pity.
It's important to save people... hehe, will she make a promise? cough cough.
Then Jiang Chen took out the can of chicken curry. After the beauty smelled the aroma of the can, she still looked at Jiang Chen with her big watery eyes full of pleading. Being stared at by a beautiful woman with such eyes was an indescribable enjoyment for Jiang Chen, who was still a virgin, both mentally and physically.
So Jiang Chen enthusiastically took out the spoon and fed the hot, long-legged beauty little by little to eat the delicious food in the can.
And then... no then.
Then Jiang Chen regretted and wanted to slap his face.
The actions of the beautiful woman perfectly explain what is called the story of the farmer and the snake.
After eating a can of food and a few steamed buns, the beauty pulled out a pistol from her waist without saying a word, and placed it on Jiang Chen's forehead. When Jiang Chen was completely dumbfounded and didn't react, she had already tied him to a stool skillfully, and took out the original owner's... er, it should be a sex toy - a leather whip. Aggressively began to torture Jiang Chen.
By now, Jiang Chen has probably realized what it means to walk down the street with a backpack of food on his back.
Fortunately, I met a more or less conscientious Miss Sun Jiao. If I encountered some villains such as cannibals and slave traders, I am afraid that they would have been bundled into rice dumplings and used as food or commodities. .
Of course, Jiang Chen can actually choose to activate the tattoo on his wrist and send it back to modern times. But in this case, it also means that his biggest secret is exposed. Once he is "guarded" by this woman, he will have to face even greater danger.
He is not willing to give up this "treasure land".
What's more, it takes time to start the crossing function. Once this crazy woman finds something wrong, there is no guarantee that she will not shoot directly.
Jiang Chen didn't want to take this risk, but fortunately, he has now reached a cooperative relationship with this woman.
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"Hey, I said, how are you going to transport the living supplies here?" Sun Jiao asked in a puzzled voice while reinforcing the weak defense area of the villa.
"My partner naturally has a way, you don't have to worry about this." Jiang Chen continued to lie.
There are indeed a lot of banknotes in this villa, but the banknotes in this world are very different from the banknotes in Jiang Chen's original world. Jiang Chen wanted to look for some valuable gold and other things, but the owner of this villa obviously did not keep those valuable things at home.
The murals hanging on the wall may be very valuable, but those great painters probably don't exist on Jiang Chen's side. It is obviously impossible to exchange these works of art for money. Jiang Chen showed great interest in the more advanced home facilities in the villa. However, when she found out that the hologram TV, automatic cooking equipment and the like could not start normally, Sun Jiao simply gave the reason.
"Ah, what are you talking about... After the nuclear explosion, most of the electronic equipment can't be used. However, if the key components are removed, they can still be exchanged for a small amount in many survivor bases. useful stuff."
Hearing this, Jiang Chen sighed and had to give up the plan to move these devices to Hyundai for sale.
But since these things have existed, it means that someone must be able to create these things again. Jiang Chen believed that if food was exchanged, there must be many "elites" in this world willing to work for him. After all, in this apocalypse, those extravagant civilian technologies are really worthless.
Weak technicians, if they are not those who have mastered high-end technologies such as making arms, most of them can only face the fate of living in slums.
Sun Jiao didn't know where Jiang Chen was interested in this villa, but since her employer asked her to work, she naturally wouldn't refuse.
"If I'm going to put it bluntly, there is no point in strengthening this building. As long as there is not too much movement, it is impossible for those brainless zombies to get in. There are no powerful mutant creatures in this area, you are doing this purely Yes..."
"Okay, I'm not guarding against zombies, and I also know that as long as I don't provoke those disgusting guys, they won't take the initiative to come and provoke me. I'm preventing uninvited guests from coming in, understand? You definitely don't want to sleep either. It's time to wipe our necks. We need to stay in the city for a while, and this place will serve as our supply point." As he spoke, Jiang Chen gave Sun Jiao a vicious look.
"Okay boss," Sun Jiao rolled her eyes and put the last nail on the board. In fact, she wanted to refute: no one would touch such an apparently raided building at all.
As for why she's here... that's her secret.
"Is there a map around here?" Sitting on the moldy sofa with Erlang's legs crossed, Jiang Chen didn't feel any guilt for letting this beauty do the hard work. This bitch almost tortured him just now, and it doesn't feel good at all to be pointed at by a gun.
Sun Jiao was obviously very proficient in this type of work, and soon the first floor of the villa was fully reinforced. As for the materials for the transformation, naturally they are all locally sourced...
"What about your Epaid? I can pass it to you directly."
"Epaid?" Jiang Chen was stunned.
"That's it," Sun Jiao tapped the wrist-mounted computer strapped to her arm with her fingers, grinning as if she had heard some funny joke, "You don't have it, right?"
"...I can buy it." Jiang Chen sneered and touched his nose. He felt like a primitive man in front of this girl.
"It's hard to imagine... You dare to explore the city without EP. Are you afraid that the radiation index in your body will exceed the standard?" Sun Jiao sighed and took out a large electronic watch from the portable backpack behind her. Throwing the thing to Jiang Chen, "Put it on and try it."
"It seems quite suitable... Where did you get it?" Jiang Chen fiddled with it, surprised at the development of technology in this world. This thing called EP is very light to wear on the hand, and there is no feeling of getting in the way. Jiang Chen's physiological indicators were displayed on the pale yellow screen, which seemed to be a health monitoring device.
"Take it from the corpse of an unlucky guy." Sun Jiao's mouth grinned. The smile was bright, but Jiang Chen couldn't help shivering.
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Username: Jiang Chen
body condition:
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Muscle Strength: 12
Bone Strength: 10
Reflex nerves: 11
Brain cell activity: 14
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Radiation value: 11 (safe)
Abnormal state: none
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When he saw the radiation value, a drop of cold sweat slipped across Jiang Chen's forehead. He almost forgot, this world is full of radiation, and if you stay here for a long time, it will end sooner or later. He didn't know what the radiation value of 11 meant, he only knew that it was impossible for him to be exposed to radiation before coming to this ghost place!
"Oh, all abilities don't exceed 20... I said, are you really a man?" Sun Jiao glanced at Jiang Chen's lower body maliciously.
"Do you want to try?" Jiang Chen said fiercely.
"The old lady is standing here, why don't you come and try?" Sun Jiao stepped on the armrest of the sofa with a leather boot domineeringly, looking at Jiang Chen with provocative eyes.
Holy crap, can this be tolerated? Now is not the time to wait?
...let's wait.
Jiang Chen resolutely confessed.
Just kidding, whether you can beat the "barbarian" or not. Even if you can beat it (impossible), I'm afraid that when you do that, you have to beware of this bitch biting her own bird. Jiang Chen believed that Sun Jiao could really do such a thing.
It is safer to go back to the modern age to do that kind of pleasant thing. If you have money, you are afraid that you will not have a woman?
For some reason, Jiang Chen suddenly thought of a person, the woman who fired him, the woman who made him almost lose his source of income and almost made him unable to live in Wanghai City, the woman who always had this stinky face ...
"What's the matter, my little boss, why did you suddenly stop talking?" Sun Jiao bit the word "small" very hard, and looked into Jiang Chen's eyes with a playful look.
"It's nothing, I remembered something from the past."
Sun Jiao was stunned for a moment, and her flat tone made her feel a little chill. Although she didn't think this man with less than 20 combat power could pose any threat to her, the intuition about danger that she had cultivated from walking around the edge of life and death for many years was indeed seldom lying.
Sun Jiao wisely closed her mouth.
There is no need to offend a free meal ticket, one can have enough food every day, which Miss Sun Jiao had never thought of before. The taste of the chicken curry was simply amazing. It was the first time she had discovered such delicious food in this world. In this wasteland, it is a very happy thing to have a piece of steamed bread to eat. Oh no, most people still rely on nutritional mixtures to satisfy their hunger. The kind of thing that can't eat enough, but can't starve to death.
In addition, this immature boss seems to be a good person...
Don't get me wrong, the word good man is definitely a derogatory term in the wasteland. But for some reason, even though she said so, she was more willing to get along with this "bad good gentleman" than the "normal people" that can be seen everywhere in the wasteland. At least, you don't have to wake up to find yourself tied into a zongzi.
Thinking of this, Sun Jiao's somewhat dry red lips couldn't help but outline a faint smile.
"I said, do you want to laugh so horribly..." For some reason, the smile on Sun Jiao's face was obviously beautiful, but it made Jiang Chen shudder.
"Is there? Don't you think my sister is very attractive when she smiles?"
"Should I answer yes, or no..." Looking at that gorgeous pretty face, Jiang Chen swallowed and muttered in a low voice.