He wisely did not ask what the raw material of this meringue was.

Since it's not hard to eat, it's over.

If you don't look at the alien head of the commander, he is no different from an ordinary family man now.

Eating appetizers, drinking white "eight-eighty zero" wine with a spicy voice, baring his teeth and grinning happily, after drinking three glasses of wine, he began to talk about the past.

"What you want to know, I will tell you slowly now..."

"It depends on... um... when did you go to sleep?"

Elul has a bad memory, and has almost forgotten the logs she saw in the experimental base. She looked at Luo Xiu: "How many years has it been?"

"June 1, 2045." Luo Xiu did not say the date of his dormancy: "This is the date when the nuclear war broke out as far as I know. If it is convenient, let's start from here. What happened afterward?"

The commander took another sip of wine, nodded and said:

"Well... 2045... At that time... I was not born yet, and I also listened to my parents."

"My father is a real power in the military, and my mother is a senator... So I know a lot."

"At that time, no one thought that vampires would penetrate so deeply in human society, and even have the opportunity to launch a nuclear strike."

"After the nuclear strike, a chain reaction started."

The commander looked at the two of them: "Have you... heard of the death hand system?"

The 'Hand of Death' system was also mentioned in the log of the experimental base.

Elul has now become a quiet and beautiful woman, eating meringue jelly and drinking small wine without a word, just watching the two of them chatting and chatting.

If you give her a whole bag of melon seeds, she will definitely be able to taste the Northeast flavor.

Luo Xiu searched the knowledge base in his mind and found it: "It was during the Cold War, the nuclear counterattack system that the former Soviet Union developed, right? The hand of death system is also called the limbic system, but I think that It should be called the Duozi Jue Sun system."

The commander-in-chief smiled, his face was accustomed to being serious, and the smile was very incongruous in his expression, and it was like a comma for a short time.

"Yes, you're right, and I think so too. Haha, the name is really interesting."

Most ordinary people think that the Death Hand system is a special product of the Cold War.

This system... To put it simply, in the event of a nuclear war, the system will guarantee that even if all the people in this country are dead, without any instructions, they will definitely launch a nuclear counterattack!

And that's just the initial dead-hand system setting.

Then it became more and more terrifying...

The dead hand system is no longer aimed at one country, but at every nuclear state.

Once it detects that it has been attacked by nuclear weapons, and then fails to receive high-level orders, the system will determine that the entire country has been destroyed, and the Dead Hand system will send a desperate counterattack to all nuclear-armed countries!

You can imagine, tens of thousands of nuclear bombs with a total equivalent of 10 billion tons, what would be the effect of throwing them all over the world?

At that time, the "little boy" that the United States threw in benzene only had an equivalent of 12,500 tons, causing 200,000 deaths and turning the entire city into scorched earth!

but……

Luo Xiu asked: "Isn't it a rumor that the dead hand system is a rumor? And the former Sulian disintegrated a long time ago. It seems that the Ross country doesn't have so many nuclear bombs, right?"

Commander Lu gave a strange smile.

"After the disaster broke out, we realized... how crazy human beings are, and our civilization has always been hanging by a thread..."

"Not only is the dead hand system not a rumor, it's even... it's standard in many countries."

(In order to avoid political involvement, it is briefly mentioned here)

Luo Xiu can probably imagine the scene at that time.

The early warning was triggered, and countless missiles with nuclear warheads ascended to the sky, interacted in the air, and bombed strategically important places with each other.

Then cause further pollution.

In Luo Xiu's imagination, the most terrifying scene appeared, which made him figure out some key points in an instant: "Nuclear power plants! Nuclear power plants in various countries were also bombed by nuclear bombs, right? Did it cause a serious nuclear leak?! "

"right......"

The commander affirmed Luo Xiu's guess:

"If it was just a nuclear explosion, it wouldn't have produced such a long-lasting nuclear pollution on a global scale... A serious nuclear leak is the culprit. After that, the rivers are polluted, the oceans are polluted, and the radioactive dust and rainwater will be polluted again. Nuclear radiation has been brought to every part of the land..."

"This is the real doomsday. No one can count how many creatures on earth have been wiped out because of this disaster. No..."

"I haven't seen a few mammals since I was born anyway."

"Biologists say that mammals have the most complete physiological functions and the most advanced life structure of all animals...but it is precisely because of this advanced level that they are delicate and fragile."

"Even if it is as strong as a liger, it will still be unable to withstand nuclear pollution."

"It's the bugs that used to be at the bottom of the food chain... ushered in an era that belongs to them."

"Most of the bugs did not die, but adapted to this level of nuclear pollution, mutated rapidly, seized all the space in the food chain, and became bigger and bigger..."

When Luo Xiu was in the functional science experiment class, the teacher once mentioned the reason why animals in ancient times were so big.

It's just survivorship bias.

Large animal bones are easier to preserve, and 0.8 is easier to spread, so people are amazed, that's all.

As for why prehistoric insects hundreds of millions of years ago were so big, but now they are so small, it is not because of the deviation of oxygen content.

It's all a matter of where in the food chain.

Insects were at the top of the food chain back then! The strongest insect has absolutely enough food!

Later, they were pushed down by more "advanced" mammals and fell to the bottom of the food chain. If they didn't get enough food, they could only evolve smaller and smaller, so as to ensure that they could survive and reproduce by eating a little bit. .

"Humans... are a bit luckier than other mammals and have survived a lot... but now... are also on the verge of extinction..."

The commander's eyes were covered with the same despair as the residents in the base:

"Humans are infertile.".

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Unable to bear children……

Luo Xiu suddenly realized. No wonder these residents are so lifeless and desperate!

"Have been affected by nuclear radiation for a long time, have you been passively sterilized..."

Luo Xiu quickly thought of a solution, and asked: "What about cloning technology? At this time, shouldn't you be entangled in moral and ethical issues?"

The commander shook his head heavily: "Everyone's DNA has been damaged to varying degrees. We have no way to repair the damaged DNA. Even if we clone, the clone will not survive for long."

Elul asked, "Is this the case all over the world?"

The commander said: "It should be, but over the years, we have not had contact with other survivors, the radio is too dangerous, and it is easy to be located by vampires... The wreckage of human civilization is now in their hands, and they have mastered the signal base station. , satellite system, as long as we show the slightest trace, we will be found by the swarming vampires."

"Then from other countries..."

Luo Xiu said halfway, and suddenly changed his words: "Vampire, what order of magnitude has it reached now? Can the outcome of this war really be reversed by 15?"

He had wanted to ask what was going on with the gene pools of other countries.

It is also mentioned in the log of the experimental base that other countries also have the fire plan they prepared.

As long as there are human genes that have been preserved in advance and have not been damaged by nuclear radiation...

Even if this batch of human beings are all sterilized, a batch of healthy human babies can be artificially recreated.

But he immediately thought that his main task was to complete the human fire project.

Since this is the main quest, then...

There is a high probability that the whole world is hopeless.

The only kind of fire is in the experimental base in the Black Forest.

And Luo Xiu is not convenient to ask this question now, otherwise the commander will easily guess the purpose of their hibernation.

Before getting enough information, Luo Xiu didn't want to showdown.

The commander poured himself another glass of wine:

"No one knows how many vampires there are in the world now... You just need to understand that ecological changes are a disaster for humans, but to vampires, they don't matter at all..."

"So, it's not that I'm pessimistic, all awake people know that humanity is just lingering right now."

"Human civilization... is doomed to extinction."

Elul raised an eyebrow.

She sensed the commander-in-chief's emotions and was not so desperate.

The commander-in-chief's last sentence seemed to carry a hint of temptation.

Luo Xiu does not have the talent to perceive emotions like an elves, but he is not stupid, and he can hear some overtones.

Moreover, if the commander really firmly believes that human beings will die, there is no need for him to rush to say this to himself.

After a delicious treat, it's over. If you have wine, you will be drunk.

Luo Xiu took off his protective clothing and loosened his muscles.

"Huh... Commander... If you have something to say, just say it."

Luo Xiu drooped his eyelids and looked at him a little sleepily: "You must have guessed about the appearance of the two of us? Just ask if you want to ask, and we won't be around the corner."

The commander's hand raised the wine glass, stood still, and then slowly lowered it.

He stared at Luo Xiu: "I hope the two of you can tell the truth, what exactly are you here for?"

People with two brains are naturally not stupid.

In any case, he could not believe that these two people had been dormant for decades, just to support the future.

Elul drank quietly, this kind of brainstorming thing, let the intellectual teammates do it.

She still had it in her heart.

Luo Xiu no longer concealed: "We are the researchers in charge of the fire project, the experimental base is in the forest, where we were seen by the hunting team, under the abandoned air-raid shelter, there are thousands of frozen jingzi and luanzi. ."

In fact, there is no need to hide it. Since the commander is a smart person, he became suspicious and asked the hunting team to go there to search for a while, and it was easy to find the experimental base.

Hearing this, the commander slammed the table with excitement: "I knew it!!"

Styron: 'Stunned, really worthless...'

Previously, he, who was an older brother, had already analyzed for his younger brother, the tasks that these two might carry when they came here.

The most likely of them is this.

Their parents once mentioned the official Tinder plan of the country.

It's just that they don't know the exact location.

After calming down, a sad shadow cast on the commander's face again. He pulled the folding chair and sat down, sighing:

"It is indeed hope... But we can't let these children be born now... We can't guarantee that they can live in health... Our activities have been discovered by safari ghosts, and they must have spread the word, and we can hide here again. and will be found eventually."

Luo Xiu could see that the commander-in-chief was a well-thought-out standard leader. He must have had ideas, so he asked, "What are you going to do?"

The commander raised his eyes: "Can the sleeper still work?"

"Part of it is damaged, it should be repairable."

"I'll find someone to take a look first."

"Okay."

The two said this and stopped talking.

Elul couldn't understand: "What's the matter? Don't talk? Why didn't I understand what you were doing?"

The commander-in-chief smiled: "You guys eat something first and rest for a while. There are many things that can't be finished in a while, so don't be in a hurry."

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The guards found them two vacant rooms on the 2nd floor, where food was scarce, and clean 880 water sources were scarce, but there was plenty of space.

This hidden cave shelter was built 50 years ago and can accommodate at least 3,000 people.

There were indeed so many people here at first, but after 50 years, many people died, and the newly found survivors outside were far from enough to fill the death rate, so many rooms were vacated.

Elul fell to sleep directly, but Roche went to the toilet first, and tried to recite the prayer incantation pointing to the ancient existence...