Chapter 239.

Heavy rain with the color of blood poured down, exactly as Long Tianyu and the others recalled, like a picture of hell.

Due to the time constraints, the full range shield of the capital base only had two layers.

Sheng An could only officially turn it on just before the acid rain was about to come, hoping that the shield would be able to successfully last through the entire acid rain period.

The shield was like a huge inverted half-circle, gathering the entire capital base inside.

The half circle and the other half circle under the ground formed a whole.

If one had seen the design drawings, one should know that the entire base’s shield was a ball, but with a bow cut off at the very bottom with a string, the length of the string being the length of the underground shelter, and the cut surface being the area of the underground shelter.

There are more buildings above ground than below, and in the future, they will still have to live above ground.

Humans were the inhabitants of this planet, they shouldn’t hunker down underground forever.

The people inside can hear the clear sound of water, the rain pouring down, and when they look up, they can see from the surveillance video outside – the rain looks like blood-colored rain from a distance.

From a distance, it looks like blood-colored rain, engulfing the whole world.

No sooner had the elation of the fire’s eradication risen than a chill ran down their spines as they were shocked by the image of the acid rain devouring what was left of the tree trunks cleanly.

This world, after this acid rain, would no longer have any green life.

“Splat–”

With a sound, an image abruptly disappeared, and soon after, the communications department cut the next camera.

All who watched knew that it was a covered up camera destroyed by acid rain ……

The new image belonged to the city.

After the meteorites, earthquakes, and fires, the uninhabited cities were already in a state of disrepair, with the capital city being properly controlled, and some parts of the city were well-preserved.

But at this moment, the acid rain smashed on top of the concrete, leaving a crater.

The buildings that had collapsed due to the earthquake were covered in dust, and the heavy rain did not wash away the dust, but left the remaining bodies of the buildings bruised and riddled with holes.

A shriveled rat that had survived in the cracks burrowed out of the ground, it was in so much pain that it rolled on the ground, and its body quickly turned into a puddle of blood and white bones.

The blood-carrying soil washed away by the heavy rain, leaving the ground haloed in red.

The sky was pouring with rain, and amongst the gloomy blackness, the same color of blood was mixed in.

–It was almost exactly the same as what Lai Wan Yun and the others remembered.

But, there was also a big difference.

Many of the dormitories had small televisions, but most of the people of the Capital Base had walked out of their dormitories, crossed the corridors, and converged in the rest areas of each building and floor.

They sat on the floor, their eyes glued to the big screen.

The couple who came late sat at the very back, and the TV was hung high enough that it didn’t interfere with the viewing.

“What took you guys so long?”

“Didn’t see the picture just now, did you? Damn, it’s so scary, it’s lucky we’re inside the base, if we were outside, I’m afraid we wouldn’t be able to survive!”

The couple took out a bag of snacks with melon seeds and other things in it.

The young husband said, “Have some?”

The young wife added, “We saw it in the points exchange store, it is so scary, fortunately there is an official unified organization to avoid the disaster, the world is really getting more and more scary.”

On the screen, another monitoring point was destroyed, the camera switched just in time to see a large signboard corroded by acid rain, gradually becoming dilapidated.

Voices of cold breaths were heard in unison in front of them.

Soon, the murmurs resounded once again-

“Holy shit, metal can be corroded, this is too horrible if it’s a human body ……!”

“I am now immensely grateful to the country, to the Alien, to the soldiers, to everyone who desperately built the base in the first four months, with this kind of acid rain, I’m afraid it’s not safe to live underground!”

“By the way, do we still need to continue our construction work?”

“Nonsense, of course we need to, the reason we weren’t allowed to go to the construction site today is to make sure the shield is safe, when tomorrow starts, everyone will have to continue their previous work and continue building the base, after all, the entire capital base is inside the shield.”

“However, I heard that after tomorrow, adjustments will be made, only half of the people will be left behind for the infrastructure work, the rest of the people will have to organize the production, especially the Exalted, the top priority.”

Soon, noon arrived.

The logistics dining cart pushed the meals over, everyone went back to their rooms to get their dishes and points cards, what to eat and what to sell, how many points to spend and how many points to deduct, everything was in order.

Someone exclaimed, “Look outside and then look inside, it seems like two worlds, I even sometimes wonder if the images inside the TV are all fake.”

Another pointed to the soldiers and xenos patrolling ahead, and then to the workers as well as the teams of xenos passing by from time to time on the walkway outside the dormitory-

“We’re safe because the state is protecting us, hurry up and eat, I want to go see if there’s any volunteer work this afternoon, I heard that volunteers are needed over in District D.”

“I’ll go too, don’t we need them in District B. District D is too far, and you have to take a bus.”

“Don’t go if you think it’s far, get your strength up, you have to work tomorrow.”

The people behind them in line broke into smiles.

The heavy rain hitting the shields and the disturbing sounds all disappeared in the midst of such hilarity.

The days where they could eat as long as they worked, in the end times, were already the best days that the country had fought and won for them.

Seeing the outside, everyone’s uneasiness, fear, and irritability would all disappear.

They would work harder and survive together.

Everyone was in their dormitories, but there were still convoys flowing on the strip of roads of the huge base, trucks, buses, and small cars, coming and going.

An alien’s car.

“Tick-tock–”

An alarm sounded.

The leader immediately reached for his walkie-talkie: “Coordinates received, repairing immediately!”

The shield was firmly guarded when the acid rain came.

However, there were still less secure locations that needed to be reinforced, and whenever they monitored a place with a security risk, their team of gold system adepts would immediately drive to it.

And there were many other teams like them.

The team of earth system psychics was tamping down the soil outside the underground area, trying to make acid rain less likely to enter and touch the base.

Part of the water-based shifters were pumping water out of the soil, again helping to tamp it down.

One part was checking around to make sure there were no leaks.

The other part was completing their daily water storage tasks, trying their best to ensure that the base used water, and if there was an occasional shortage, they would make up for it with stored water.

Jia Guangliang was at the General Command Office, staring blankly at the countless images in front of him, both outside and inside the base, encompassing everything in a well-organized manner.

He opened his mouth wide.

Wu Buye gave him a sidelong glance, “Surprised?”

Jia Guangliang closed his mouth and swallowed:

“I’ve already experienced acid rain in the Southwest, I know what kind of horrifying picture it is, and with the foreknowledge of the Informing Council, we knew it was coming.

“But when really faced with it, still a mess, you can say, Southwest mess up is from the acid rain, unlike so …… so vibrant?”

The last four words he was hesitant.

Because it is difficult for anyone to connect these four words, with the end times.

One of the several screens in front of him was the Plantation Research Institute.

Acid rain had a great impact on the soil, and the soil in the base, which had no contact with the outside world, was likewise changing.

Academician Zhou was jumping to his feet, but twisting his head to see the mutated Folding Ear Root, his anger and anxiety disappeared, and he got busy again, actively researching.

There was no more green outside, but there was still life and hope in the survivor base they had established.

Hao Jingye looked at him and pushed up his glasses:

“Vitality is what we try to bring to all the survivors, but for us, you’ve joined the Special Intelligence Service, don’t you know the crisis we’re facing?”

Jia Guangliang turned back, retorting seriously for the first time, “It’s not the same.”

He said word for word, “Those who have experienced it once for themselves know how different it is.”

He looked up at the base’s tens of millions of living and breathing survivors, comparing it to the memory of the ragged corpses that no one had collected all over the place……. It’s really not the same, even if the pressure is greater, it’s still not the same.

“Yeah, it’s different.” Sheng An stood up, “For the sake of this different, let’s go.”

Jia Guangliang looked solemn and immediately stood up.

–Yes, it’s time for them to set off for the sake of this difference.