Shen Feng felt a little suffocated and looked at the photo carefully with his eyes wide open.

The photo was taken with a Polaroid and has faded a lot, but the expressions of the characters can still be seen clearly.

In the photo, his expression is a bit solemn, but Ji Xin still smiles heartlessly.

He shook the diary again, and immediately a few more photos fell out.

This time, it was a photo of Ji Xin with several other classmates in the class and his parents.

What exactly is going on!?

Shen Feng raised his head and looked at the skeleton. Could it be that this skeleton was Ji Xin!?

Is it Ji Xin who has been hiding in this shelter?

That best friend who was joking with him a few days ago reminded him to be careful of Li Chang's Ji Xin?

Which world is this? Is it the future of the earth he lives in!?

He quickly opened the diary and began to read page by page carefully.

It is said to be a diary, but more like a memoir, and the time span recorded in it spans more than twenty years.

A dusty past after a nuclear war unfolded before his eyes.

The earliest events recorded in this diary began one year after the outbreak of nuclear war, that is, in 2026.

That year, the entire world had completely collapsed. When the nuclear attack occurred, Ji Xin, who was studying for a master's degree in mechanical engineering, was on vacation in his hometown in the countryside, so he escaped the devastating blow.

But his family and friends basically did not escape the disaster.

Fortunately, human civilization has not been completely interrupted, and there are still many people alive. Although large and medium-sized cities have collectively suffered a disaster, some small towns have survived, as well as rural areas.

After the first batch of acute radiation patients died, although most of the remaining people suffered from various diseases due to radiation and had a very high probability of getting cancer, they were still alive after all.

There is still hope for human civilization.

It's just that this is really too tragic. It will take who knows how many years for the earth's environment to be completely restored. The original social order and all the civilizations that humans are proud of have been overturned.

The surviving people gathered together to form temporary organizations, and surviving humans around the world passed messages to each other.

Since almost everyone has lost a large number of relatives and friends, these painful experiences have caused many people to begin to doubt themselves and shaken their confidence as a human being.

Can we avoid self-destruction?

This is a question that almost everyone is asking themselves.

In the end, most people came to the same conclusion and reached a consensus:

Abandon information civilization, abandon industrial civilization, spontaneously downgrade the entire human civilization, return to before the invention of steam engines and gunpowder, and return to the agricultural and animal husbandry society of the Iron Age.

Of course, at this time, the remaining population in the world is only one percent of the original population, the industrial system has been completely destroyed, and the remaining civilization can barely maintain itself.

This so-called downgrade of civilization is probably actually forced.

Known in history as the Great Relegation Era.

The entire earth also ushered in a nuclear winter that lasted for three years.

Clouds of radioactive dust shrouded much of the Earth, blocking sunlight and causing massive plant death.

Then came the Great Famine.

During the three years of nuclear winter, and the following years, most crops died completely, producing almost no output.

Even the grass and trees died in large areas, and the ground was red for thousands of miles.

Naturally, the remaining animals cannot survive.

The remaining humans could survive on the food produced by the industry at first, but as time went by, everything was slowly consumed.

Finally, when everything passed and the remaining humans struggled to survive all this tragic fate in the ruins, when they thought they could finally usher in the hope of human civilization again, they suddenly discovered that they were waking up in the sunshine with them.

Also coming are the intelligent nuclear strike systems of several major countries.

The sun awakens the hiding humans and also awakens the sleeping nuclear strike system.

A new, conventional nuclear war has begun again!

The large city that had been rebuilt by the newly reunited humans was once again reduced to ashes by a mushroom cloud brighter than a thousand suns.

The remaining humans have completely lost the courage to rebuild civilization and are hiding in some small shelters, or lingering in the wasteland of the apocalypse, living like cockroaches...

Ji Xin was very lucky. After the first wave of nuclear strikes, he had already hid on this farm with a few friends.

Relying on the unique small basin climate, the inconspicuous coordinates, and the various automated tools on the farm, they have been able to survive.

Even before nuclear winter arrived, enough food was stored to survive those long years.

Ji Xin relied on his mechanical knowledge to modify various farm tools and became a good helper for them.

It's just that this is their paradise, and it's also a prison.

The edge of this forest is shrouded in radioactive contamination, making it impossible for them to leave.

Ji Xin once designed a pollution removal device using a lawn mower to create a lightly polluted strip in the forest, but in the end they did not leave.

Even if you leave here, where can you go?

Eat people or become food for others in the wasteland?

Despair nearly destroyed them.

And despair did not keep them waiting too long.

In just a few years, cancerous changes began to appear in several people, mostly leukemia or thyroid cancer.

More than ten years later, Ji Xin was the only one left.

And he also ushered in his final moments with leukemia.

At the last moment of his life, Ji Xin recalled his parents, his childhood friends, and all the good things in life, and passed away calmly.

Shen Feng looked at the white bones on the sofa and was sure that this was Ji Xin...

I broke free from the shock of the memoir, but was immediately shrouded in fog.

According to this memoir, Shen Feng turned into dust in the first wave of nuclear strikes.

What exactly is this world?

The future of the real Earth, or the Earth of a parallel universe?

"Shen...Feng, do you know...this person?" Yinghuo on the side also noticed something was wrong with Shen Feng and asked cautiously.

Shen Feng nodded:

"This person... is a good friend of mine. I even chatted with him a few days ago..."

Yinghuo quickly raised her hand and touched Shen Feng's forehead to see if he had a fever.

She must be too tired. After all, she has been escaping with her for so long, and she might have encountered a curse in the forest.

Yinghuo followed Shen Feng and said:

"Since he is your... friend, let's bury him properly, shall we? Mom said that it is not terrible for a person to die in the wasteland. As long as he is buried properly, his soul will go to heaven and be with those from the ancient times.

The great men gathered together and became a star."

Shen Feng nodded.

Yes, we need to bury him properly...

Then he put those photos into Ji Xin's arms, picked up his body, wrapped it in a blanket, and walked outside.

At this time, Shen Feng has controlled the entire building's intelligent system, and the two heavy machine guns on the roof have been completely controlled by him. They will not attack, but will serve as a guard.

Shen Feng came to the yard, opened the folding engineering shovel, dug a pit deep enough for one person, and carefully placed Ji Xin's body in it.

After thinking about it, he took out a ballpoint pen marked "Taicheng Senior High School" from his backpack and placed it in Ji Xin's arms.

Then the soil was filled back to make a small tomb, and a green branch was inserted on it.

Yinghuo watched Shen Feng's actions from the side and remained silent. She didn't know what happened to Shen Feng. Could it be that this skeleton that had been dead for who knows how many years was really his friend?

"Shen Feng, don't be sad... Many of my friends have died. It was sad at first, but then... I got used to it..."

Yinghuo is really not good at comforting people, and she didn't know what to say for a while.

Unexpectedly, Shen Feng turned around with a smile on his face, his eyes were as bright as two sharp swords, and he said:

"There is no need to be sad. Now that I have discovered the result of this matter, it is still not too late. As long as this is ended as soon as possible, the tragic future will not appear!"

With that said, he strode into the room and walked somewhere in the basement.

Regardless of whether this is the future of the real Earth or the Earth of some parallel universe, he will never allow this to happen again in his hometown!

He must complete his mission as soon as possible, return to his hometown, and stop all this!

At this time, the two of them had arrived at a wall in the basement. Shen Feng walked to the wall, grabbed a rusty iron chain, and pulled it down suddenly.

There was a "clattering" sound, and the rusty rolling shutter door was pulled up, revealing the wall behind the door.
Chapter completed!