Yue Xingwen pressed the ‘course selection’ button on the tablet, and familiar information quickly appeared on the screen——
[Compulsory Course: Environmental Pollution]
[Faculty: Faculty of Environment]
[Credit: 3]
[Examination Room Rules: Maximum number of examinees in the examination room is 12 (excluding X-team member)]
[Course Description: The environment of your city is polluted, and there is a serious crisis in the survival of human beings]
[Examination Requirements: Survive for 14 days]
[Confirm Course Selection: Yes/No]
Since the word ‘survival’ was mentioned in the course description, it seemed that it was a survival challenge under extremely harsh environments?
Yue Xingwen looked back at everyone and admonished, “Survival class. After everyone enters the examination room, first try whether you can type in the Research Group’s chat channel and report your location. If the chat channel doesn’t work, stay in place and wait for Xiao Tu to find people.”
Xiao Tu could use the song ‘Look, Look, and Look for a Friend’ to find nearby teammates. Hearing this, Ke Shaobin immediately nodded and said, “No problem, if everyone is scattered, I will let Xiao Tu go find you.”
Seeing that his teammates were ready, Yue Xingwen pressed the ‘confirm button’.
A cold mechanical voice sounded in his ear: “Congratulations to the C-183 Research Group for the successful course selection, the <Environmental Pollution> course examination is about to start, please wait…”
At 8 o’clock, everyone’s vision went dark at the same time.
When he regained his vision, Yue Xingwen couldn’t help but widen his eyes in disbelief at all that was in front of him——
Was this Environmental Pollution? This was the end of the world, right?!
He saw that the sky over the entire city was shrouded in a layer of yellow sand, no traces of the blue sky could be seen at all, and there was a pungent smell of dust floating in the air. His visibility was less than 50 meters.
The worst sandstorm Yue Xingwen had seen in news pictures was just like this.
And the city was far more than just a sandstorm problem.
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Yue Xingwen quickly observed his surroundings, the soil as far as his eyes could see, as if it had been corroded by something, the color was very strange, the plants on the roadside were all dead, and there were no traces of green on the whole city. THe branches of the trees drooped listlessly, the leaves dried up into gray, blown by the sandstorm, and fluttered around like paper money at a funeral.
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On the contrary, he, who did not wear a mask and hat, looked like an alien.
People around him cast strange glances at him, as if they were looking at a gorilla running out of the zoo.
Only for a moment, the sand blew all over his face, and a lot of dust burrowed into his hair. Yue Xingwen frowned and covered his mouth and nose with the sleeve of his left arm, and opened the Research Group’s chat channel with his right hand—— The input box was not disabled and they could communicate with teammates.
As soon as he was about to type, Jiang Pingce’s message appeared on the chat channel: “Xingwen, where are you?”
Yue Xingwen looked around and reported his location: “Directly in front of me is a building with a signboard that says Huaxiang Building, next to the intersection.”
Ke Shaobin said happily: “I’m also nearby, Xingwen, don’t move, I’ll come to you!”
Immediately after, several teammates sent messages: “I see the signboard of Huaxiang Building.”
“I’m at the back of the building.”
There were also teammates who couldn’t see the signboard of the building, and they each reported the surrounding landmarks.
Yue Xingwen prompted: “The wind and sand are too harsh to distinguish the direction. Everyone, don’t move, let Xiao Tu find people as soon as possible.”
Ke Shaobin immediately summoned Xiao Tu and asked Xiao Tu to sing and go to his teammates.
After half a minute, Yue Xingwen heard a clear children’s song rang out behind him.
It was difficult to see the scenery in front of him in the wind and sand, but the transmission of the sound was not affected. He turned around and walked towards Xiao Tu in the direction of the song. After a few meters, he saw a cute white robot turn from the corner,.Upon seeing him, the light on Xiao Tu’s head flashed, and the voice reported crisply, “Master, find a teammate.”
The coordinates of Yue Xingwen then appeared in Ke Shaobin’s laptop, and at the same time, Yue Xingwen typed on the chat channel: “I see Xiao Tu.”
Ke Shaobin immediately commanded, “Xiao Tu, continue to scan the surrounding area.”
The robot did not rely on the eyes to see things, but relied on radar scanning. The wind and sand weather would affect the human field of vision, but did not affect Xiao Tu’s function. Soon, Xiao Tu searched around according to Ke Shaobin’s navigation and found Jiang Pingce.
Yue Xingwen followed Xiao Tu, and the moment he saw the gray-faced Jiang Pingce, he was stunned and said with a smile, “Pingce? I almost didn’t recognize you!”
Jiang Pingce had a cleanliness fetish. In Yue Xingwen’s impression, he was always clean, liked to wear neatly ironed shirts, and had a kind of aloof air of rejecting people thousands of miles away, just like the leading actor of an idol drama who entered the university by mistake.
But now, Jiang Pingce’s hair was blown like weeds by the wind, his hair was full of sand, and his face was also pasted with a layer of yellow sand. He had never seen Jiang Pingce look so embarrassed.
Thinking of it, his current appearance must be similar.
Both of them looked at each other. Jiang Pingce looked up at the wind and sand that enveloped the city and said helplessly, “Let’s find an indoor environment first and avoid the sandstorm.”
As soon as he opened his mouth, sand and dust poured into his mouth.
Jiang Pingce frowned and closed his mouth, signaling Yue Xingwen with his eyes to go to the building in front.
Yue Xingwen nodded his head, followed Jiang Pingce to Huaxiang Building, and typed in the chat channel as he walked: “Students who can see the signboard of Huaxiang Building, go in first and wait in the entrance hall. If you can’t see it, let Xiao Tu come to you.”
After entering the door of Huaxiang Building, Yue Xingwen stood behind the door and patted the dust and sand on his body.
The sand and dust floating in the air were really pervasive. Both of them only stayed outside for a few minutes, not to mention the clothes, their hair were covered with sand, even their ears had traces of sand.
Yue Xingwen plucked his ears while saying, The environment here is too harsh, right? Have you noticed that the entire city is barren without even a single green tree to be found, and there are no flowers or grasses along the roadside?”
Jiang Pingce quickly brushed the sand off his body and hair, and said, “Maybe it’s because of the soil pollution, plants can’t survive here.” Seeing that Xingwen’s hair was messy like a bird’s nest, Jiang Pingce couldn’t help but reach out his hand and said in a soft voice, “Close your eyes.”
Yue Xingwen didn’t know what the other party was going to do, but he still obediently closed his eyes.
Jiang Pingce’s fingers gently passed through his hair, shaking out all the sand in Yue Xingwen’s hair, and then used his fingers as a comb to help him comb his messy hair.
The fingers gently slid over the scalp and it felt very comfortable.
Yue Xingwen squinted his eyes and waited for him to finish, only then opened his eyes and said, “I know that you dislike the dirty environment the most, next, we have to survive here for half a month, you have to endure it.”
Jiang Pingce said lightly, “En.”
At this moment, Xiao Tu entered the Huaxiang Building with a group of teammates.
Yue Xingwen swept his gaze and was relieved to see that all the members of the Research Group had arrived. It was just that the classmates all had gray faces, and they looked like a group of people who had just rolled in the solid and looked wretched.
Lin Manluo’s originally smooth black and shiny long hair had been dyed into a ‘muddy version’ of gray and yellow. She shook the soil on her hair, and said helplessly, “It’s a complete air pollution, soil pollution, and water pollution in this city, but I found that the residents of the city street don’t have panic expressions, as if they have adapted to such an environment?”
Ke Shaobin was puzzled, “Moreover, their attire is very uniform. All of them wear strange masks, headscarves on their heads, goggles on their eyes, and a jacket like a raincoat. Their whole body is not exposed at all!”
Liu Zhaoqing had a straight temper, and couldn’t help but scold, “I fucking thought I had arrived in the desert, blown by the sand so much that I can’t even open my eyes, but it turns out, this actually a city?”
Xu Yishen’s curly hair had the most sand in it. While scratching his hair, he said, “The residents of this city dressed up a lot like the special forces in the apocalyptic movie, that mask is also too exaggerated.”
Xin Yan explained in a low voice, “It’s a gas mask, and there are several layers of filters at the position of the breathing valve, not only to filter sand and dust in the air, but also filter poisons.”
Zhang Xiaonian whispered, “The environment is so harsh. Didn’t they think about moving to another place to live? How can the residents of this city endure living in such an environment for a long time?”
Jiang Pingce suddenly said, “What if they have been here since birth?”
Everyone looked back at him in unison.
Jiang Pingce said, “Judging from the reaction of the people around, they have long been accustomed to such an environment. Perhaps from childhood to adulthood, they lived in such an environment. They have never seen the blue sky, they have not breathed fresh air, and the people around them are all wearing masks and goggles, which has become everyone’s daily attire when they go out. There are no greenery or flowers in the city, but this is their home.”
Judging by the calm expressions of the residents, such speculation was very likely.
Yue Xingwen said with a serious face, “Growing up here, they have long since adapted to such an environment. Xiao Nian, you wonder why they didn’t move out? I’m afraid they don’t have a place to move, because other cities are almost the same.”
JIang Pingce nodded and concluded, “The world we came to should be the end of the environment.”
Goosebumps all over Lin Manluo’s body kept coming out.
She often went to internship inspections with her teacher. In reality, she had never seen such a harsh environment. Human beings would definitely have many health problems to survive in such an environment, and breathing such air every day, life expectancy would be shortened.
There were no mutated animals in this world, and no viruses spread…
This was the end of the environment.
HUmans could still live. However, the quality of life was terrible.
Blue sky, white clouds, flowers and trees. People in this world had probably never seen it!
Lin Manluo took a deep breath and said, “As outsiders, we suddenly arrived at such a place, we definitely can’t adapt. We are required to survive for 14 days, how should we solve the problem of drinking water and eating food?
Thank you for the chapter!!!
If I was suddenly thrown into this environment, I’d probably can’t survive a day…
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All my hair would be in dust in this world
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