"How long can we hold on?"

"Maybe, ten days."

"What does it mean to be possible? I want an accurate number."

"We can maintain the current status for ten and a half days. Once the time limit expires, the energy in Wangxia City will be exhausted, the food will be exhausted, the guardian objects will completely dissipate, and the abyssal aura will flow into the city, and we will be completely exposed."

In the long table conference room, the man was reporting.

The screen in front is bright and shiny, reflecting on everyone's face.

The screen is a map, and the whole thing looks like an ancient city building. If you look closely, there are some differences.

At least the ancient buildings did not have so many floors, nor would they have such a modern style.

Except for the man who made the report, half of the elderly people in the room had gray hair, and the other half were middle-aged men and women with slightly white temples.

Everyone was silent, and the atmosphere seemed particularly silent.

Snapped.

The old man who first asked the question pressed the button, and the screen's viewing angle expanded to a bird's-eye view of the entire city.

"We have persisted on Earth for one hundred and fifty years."

The old man spoke.

"Now that I have persisted in the abyss for another hundred years, I can make up for two hundred and fifty years."

He chuckled, but at this time, no one could really laugh.

To be precise, the old man was not "laughing", but rather with a bit of desolation and bleak bitterness.

"time is too short."

"There was no excess, no warning, the abyss cracks just appeared, and the world was dragged into the collapse layer."

"We have spent a lot of money to explore the extraordinary path. There was a time when we thought it was possible to return to the earth."

"Looking back now over the past two hundred years, we have made at least five major decision-making mistakes."

"..."

Everyone was silent.

One major decision-making mistake can lead to the overthrow of civilization, let alone five.

These five costs have resulted in the current dead end.

But then again, given the poor information, everyone has done everything they can.

If every civilization could achieve perfection, then the Abyss would simply be unemployed.

"Chief, maybe we..."

A middle-aged man sitting on the seat hesitated to speak.

For a long time, he didn't say the next words, just sighed heavily.

"Now that I think about it, we should have insisted on the pure and extraordinary path. Now that we are neither humans nor ghosts, it is no wonder that the guardians no longer want to protect us."

The silver-haired old man stood up.

Only then can we see that his right arm has turned into a wriggling mass of mist, which is ferocious and terrifying.

Looking at other people, they are all very similar.

Everyone has very serious alienation characteristics.

Killing alien species requires a price.

When this price was on Earth, everyone thought it had been "suppressed" through various technological means.

Actually not at all.

The pollution that is truly rooted deep in the flesh and soul is difficult to remove.

At least with China's technological level, it cannot be truly eradicated.

In this world, the feeling is not obvious yet. It is only after the world has completely fallen into the abyss that this "pollution cost" fully explodes.

After being exposed to the abyss environment for several years, all high-level transcendental beings have experienced unstoppable alienation!

Physical alienation, mental alienation.

Pollution is a fatal and chronic poison to the fragile human body!

Even if we use all possible means, we can only barely delay the process, and it is absolutely impossible to delay it for more than ten years.

People initially thought this was the corrosive nature of the abyss.

It wasn't until later that they realized that they had taken the wrong path from the beginning... Falling into the abyss was just a matter of letting this hidden "mistake" burst out.

"Let's stop here. There's no point in discussing it any further."

The old man spoke.

"Chief, what's next..." The man finally couldn't hold back and asked.

The silver-haired old man paused.

"Next, everyone should go home and see their loved ones and get ready."

The old man picked up his crutch and walked out slowly, "Tomorrow, start the city-wide broadcast."

Everyone in the room had different expressions.

Some have sad faces, some are sad, and some have resolute faces.

——

He Weiguo is a thirty-year-old extraordinary person.

He is 1.8 meters tall and has a fairly strong build.

As usual, follow the team to patrol the streets in Wangxia City.

The cold wind howled, and the entire city was covered with a thick layer of white snow.

Ever since there was a problem with the city's guardians, there have been fewer and fewer pedestrians on the streets.

"This abyss ghost weather is really annoying."

A veteran in the team spoke up. He raised his head and looked at the three eternal black suns hanging in the sky, and cursed secretly again.

"Tell me, have the higher-ups found a solution? The guardian has failed. What should we do?"

"Guardian objects protect humans. Are we still humans?"

"Xiao Li." The captain shouted in a deep voice, and the half-joking team member immediately closed his mouth.

The conversation between several people stopped, and the atmosphere in the team became dull again.

Patrolling from the east of the city to the west, this city that has stood for decades once stood gloriously, but now it is in ruins.

After the day's inspection, He Weiguo walked home.

Opening the door, my wife was walking out of the kitchen carrying a plate full of dishes.

"Come back?" She smiled.

"Yes." He Weiguo closed the door and forced a smile.

"How are you today? Didn't you encounter any aliens entering the city?" the wife asked with concern.

"No, the city has been relatively peaceful recently." He Weiguo said.

After hesitating for a moment, he took out a small bottle of liquid from his pocket and put it on the table.

"I asked someone to get this from the bureau. It is considered a high-quality product. Haven't you always wanted to have a child? After drinking it, the success rate should be much higher."

It is difficult for high-level extraordinary people to have children, and it is even more difficult for people like them who have fallen into the abyss and become alienated.

"No."

The wife, who had always longed for a child, shook her head, "I won't be able to raise the baby with peace of mind in the days to come."

She turned around and continued to the kitchen to serve food.

He Weiguo remained silent.

"Don't think too much. Let's wait until the situation stabilizes and we'll see."

The snow is falling outside the window, and the stove inside the house is radiating warmth.

He Weiguo didn't speak anymore. Just as the two were about to have dinner together, a radio sound came from outside the house.

The radio that had been on in the house also turned on automatically. First there was a buzzing sound of electricity, and then the voice of the chief, who was very familiar to everyone, appeared.

"Hello fellow human beings, I am the current person in charge of Wangxia City..."

"I'm sorry to disturb everyone in the city at this time."

People who were enjoying dinner either stopped eating or walked out of the house to listen to the radio.
To be continued...