After the natural disaster struck, the original social order failed.
Prior to this, the supply of most resources relied on the borderless market under the capital system, which allowed people to adopt an isolated posture in modern cities without the need to rely on or establish small groups.
On the one hand, this reduces the need for people to socialize, and on the other hand, it also makes individuals feel particularly helpless in the face of a giant society.
Since the arrival of severe winter, the situation has changed significantly, and citizens have tried to rebuild social relationships with their neighbors.
Some use streets, apartments and communities as units to exchange contact information and discuss solutions, and some choose to establish associations based on occupation or identity, such as the Whaling Station Association, Youth Association, Teachers Association, Programmers Group, and Survivor Mutual Aid Association.
Street gangs...are formed rapidly within a few months.
They unanimously choose to build and join small communities, because only in this way can they improve their ability to resist risks, exchange materials and information when transportation capacity is insufficient and goods are in short supply, and make up for the shortcomings of individual strength.
Due to its remote location, citizens have only heard of the "Nisto Community" model on the big island, but have not followed it.
Nowadays, the Nisto community on the main island has already formed its own system and is working together to overcome the difficulties. The residents of Ibei City are only now hastily following a similar model, which has many shortcomings. Now they understand the foresight of Nisto Company.
But there are still a large number of lonely people who make a living on virtual games and online entertainment, never leaving their homes. Without Internet services at this time, they are bored, but they have nowhere to go and nothing to do.
Useless, homeless.
Many people simply open the door and plunge into the heavy snow. In just one minute, they will be forgotten by the whole world.
The network service has not yet been repaired, and communication with each other currently relies on radio stations. Some of them are old stocks in electrical appliance stores, and more are handmade by electronics enthusiasts. They provide real-time information to the citizens of Yibei in the ice and snow.
"The wave of monster attacks is approaching from the north, east, southeast and other directions!"
"Don't leave the city! Don't leave the city!"
"Frost Giant sighting on Route 45!"
"Super large creatures flying across the sky!" Terrifying news kept coming, making people tremble.
They can barely survive the extreme cold, but monsters attacking the city are another story.
After hearing these horrifying news, many citizens put on their warmest clothes and left their apartments under the cover of work robots.
What I saw in front of me was despairing. The streets were piled with snow, completely covering the traffic signs on the highway. No vehicles could travel under such conditions, and citizens' home shuttles could not take off in the severe snowstorm.
The mountains surrounding Yibei City are shrouded in frosty white mist, and gray clouds cover the sky.
They looked everywhere, holding flashlights, and could only see the blurred light and shadow in the hands of another group of people across the street. Apart from that, all sounds were lost in the strong wind, and all objects were blurred in the blizzard.
In extremely hot conditions, people want to move, while in extremely cold conditions, they just want to retreat into the building where they are hiding.
Many people gathered together just to confirm that they were still living in a human society. All the stoves were turned on 24 hours a day. They kept touching the heating pipes to express their gratitude that the Nisto Heat Tower in the center of Ibei City was still working.
Supplies are still scarce. Batteries, fuel, guns and ammunition... are the targets that everyone is trying to hoard. Each group is beggar-thy-neighbor. If the situation is critical, they can only attack each other to compete for survival resources.
"Wow..."
"It's so cold..."
"There is less and less food to eat."
"I have to think of a way..."
"More than 300 people live in the small apartment next door... They have enough stuff to last us a long time."
At this moment, a group of young and middle-aged men were sitting indoors, smoking and stamping, sorting out their guns and knives, preparing to fight, modifying people to move their armored prosthetics, and reviewing battle files.
They were originally gang members, but due to the popularity of online games, they became addicted to gaming.
In particular, the new game "Paraiso" under "Yezi-Xisheng Company" has raised their great fantasy to a whole new level, and many young people have switched to playing this new game.
But the boss is still playing the online game "Dimensional Eternal Life" and is keen to drive his younger brothers to expand territory for him in the game world.
As the network center was damaged and the communication service went offline, the boss also left the virtual warehouse and picked out the younger brothers who were enjoying life in the new game to accompany him in the real world.
These gang members even lacked clothes to keep out the cold. They were very embarrassed at this time and had no other choice but to grab a handful.
They pulled up a few old electric flying skateboards, which were light and portable. As long as they were used properly, they could send them all to the opposite side of the window and kill the tenants inside.
"Let's have a fight."
"It's been so long and I can't stand it anymore."
"We are also forced to..."
Bullets loaded.
——At this moment, an insignificant buzzing sounded throughout the city.
The gang leader lowered his head and saw a new message being uploaded to his cell phone.
Since the connection has been disconnected for a long time, there are hundreds of push messages accumulated, and a large number of new messages have appeared in the mailbox, as well as messages that have not been processed before, all of which can be seen at a glance.
"Wow!"
"The new version 20.0 is online!"
"Get the reward!"
"Resources are exhausted!"
"The enemy group is coming!"
"Boys, let's go, let's go, let's go -" the boss shouted, leading everyone back to play games, and people scattered.
Only one gang member was thrown outside and was responsible for purchasing nutrient solution specifically for the virtual warehouse for the bosses.
"It's not bad... Who on earth has the ability to repair the Internet?" He muttered.
He put on thick clothes, armed himself with a hat, mask, gloves and multiple layers of clothing, then carried a box of ammunition for trading and walked out into the frosty and snowy streets.
He looked at everything in front of him with dumbfounded eyes.
Dense drones rose into the sky. As network communication services were restored, the entire city's suspended transportation, logistics, defense and other modules were reborn!
As if awakening from sleep and suffering, giant robots took to the streets one after another. Although they are old and bulky, as long as they are coordinated and coordinated, they can complete their work conscientiously and clear the snow.
Many more automatic shuttles flew through the sky, repeatedly reporting the nearest shelters, warehouses and material supply channels to surrounding citizens.
Without strong network data and communication coverage, it would be impossible to complete such efficient coordination work, let alone allow the tens of thousands of old robots in stock to operate normally.
"You can access the Internet——"
“Finally fixed!”
"Great!" The citizens cheered with great joy.
It is not difficult to repair the network. At most, it only requires a remote connection with the engineers at the Nisto headquarters. However, the team that tried to repair the network center before never returned, which shows that it is extremely dangerous there.
Now someone has finally overcome the danger and repaired the site. Whoever restored network communication services deserves their full praise.
The return of the Internet has given them an additional chance of survival. Now they are no longer a desperate group isolated from each other, but can contact the information they need as soon as possible through the Internet, and can seek help from Nisto.
"Finally fixed!"
"The Sea of Hillis system is operating normally!"
"All aviation stations have begun to restart services, let's go into the city!"
"We finally got news from the city!"
"Get down!"
The wandering Nisto Company troops and transport crews were finally able to approach Yibei City, and every crew member was overjoyed.
In the absence of a stable communication link, if they rashly find a platform to land, they will only encounter countless troubles. The ground dispatch must count the conditions of each landing site and arrange the landing order of different crews.
They have brought a large amount of cheap supplies that can be traded. As long as they enter the city, they can save the most distressed citizens from killing each other. But they have been troubled by insufficient information and cannot enter the city smoothly. Now those available
The airport sends dispatch guidance, and even the heaviest heavy transport aircraft can find a suitable landing runway.
"Hurry into the city!"
"The monster is coming!"
"Go in in time! Build a defense line! All units pay attention!"
The military troops are building temporary bunkers in the outer areas of the city, preparing to stop the extremely large frost giants.
Pan Ruiyi was patrolling at high altitude. She glanced at the setting sun. Although the sun was not warm in this weather, there was almost no hope without the sun. She did not want to be left alone in the cold wind.
"Captain!" Zhang Yunxi, as Pan Ruiyi's adjutant, tried her best to drive her steel wings up to Pan Ruiyi's height.
There are about 12 other fighting witches further down, and they can only look up to Pan Ruiyi.
"Is that the guy you're talking about as the major threat?" Pan Ruiyi pointed into the distance.
"...Yes!" Zhang Yunxi reported loudly.
They all looked towards the north. A huge flying monster wrapped in frosty mist was approaching, and it was about to tear the entire Yibei City apart and turn the island into a stronghold for the creation of frost monsters.
"Fighting over the city will affect civilians, let's move forward!" Pan Ruiyi raised his star-chasing spear and took the initiative to fly towards the target.
"Walk!"
"Stop it!"
Four "Samurai"-class fighter jets cleared the way for the fighting witches and provided electronic information detection. However, as soon as the fighter jets fell into the vast frost mist ahead, they disappeared without a trace. Immediately afterwards, the wings froze and the engines stalled, causing them to fall rapidly.
.
"Too fast!"
"What is that?" The fighter pilots tried their best to regain their balance and quickly distanced themselves.
The moment they broke into the freezing fog, not only did the machine freeze, but the interior of the cockpit was also extremely cold, almost causing them to lose their consciousness.
One of the fighter jets crashed vertically into the ground and disappeared directly into the snow.
"The scope is too wide! A severe cold anomaly area with a radius of at least 10 kilometers!" Zhang Yunxi quickly conducted reconnaissance.
"I saw it -" Pan Ruiyi frowned. Her vision was very sharp, better than some electronic instruments. Her heart was pounding. If she expected it to be true, it was a whole body of corpses with a wingspan of more than 60 meters.
The dragon is flying towards here.
Pan Ruiyi felt nervous just looking at the shocking appearance. She reported the coordinates in the hope that some missiles could hit it through the cold fog.
Immediately afterwards, she saw the three surviving fighter jets launching anti-air missiles towards the target area. They were dragging their tails of flames forward at high speed, but in that extremely cold field, even the missile fuel would suddenly cool and burn out, and the engines would stop working and turn into
The harmless iron shell fell down.
Pan Ruiyi's hand holding the spear was numb. In order to defeat the powerful enemy and protect the city, she rushed forward into the freezing fog.
Lord Falosa, please grant me some favors! Pan Ruiyi prayed secretly, activated her wings, and plunged into the endless frost of the skeleton dragon. The city was in danger, and now only she could win.
As long as she silently recited the protection of Lord Falosa, Pan Rui would be able to be invincible. This was the grace bestowed upon the chief knight by Lord Falosa.
The most noble Lord Falosa...protect me...keep me from the severe cold. Pan Ruiyi kept thinking silently.
Lord Farosha...give me your protection...
Please...if only I could fly there...a little favor...a little power...help me get through the biting frost...
Lady Falosa...
She flew forward, and her body felt extremely heavy, as if a whole mountain was filled in her armor. For a long time, she felt that she was not actually moving forward.
In an instant, she suddenly saw that the mask was filled with white mist, and the ice crystals almost reflected her own face. She couldn't think.