Time cannot be reversed, and space cannot be folded.

What's bad is that humans can't even observe these two phenomena, let alone conduct repeated experiments and studies.

From the perspective of the Milky Way and the Virgo Supercluster, human civilization is nothing more than a carnival of small lives on a small planet. Compared with a moldy colony in a petri dish, it is no different after all, right?

Lan Ze stood on the side of the road, watching the long line of gray-clothed monks passing by quietly. Like him, they were all disgusted with the insignificance and arrogance of human civilization on earth. But he believed that death would mean death, and life would never be the same.

Repeat again.

The universe is so vast that there are probably many different forms of life. However, there will no longer be a species of "human" that evolved from apes elsewhere.

Lan Ze has been walking along the road for a long time. The fine road network on the ground made it easy for him to choose the branches of the road and take the straightest route, directly passing through the gaps between big cities.

There are also some capillary-like roads on the earth. They appear as light gray thin lines on the map, and there are usually no markings at the ends.

Only a few of these roads are abandoned due to broken pavement. Most of the roads seem to be in good condition, but walking along them often leads to deserted villages.

In this country, farmers still exist. However, various administrative divisions in rural areas no longer exist, so the countryside no longer exists.

There is a tourist farm that imitates a collective farm. Visitors can enjoy the ancient rural life of working at sunrise and resting at sunset. They use old-fashioned farm tools to do farm work, draw water from pressure wells, and spin a few yarns with a hand-operated spinning machine.

They use a foot-operated loom to weave a few inches of cloth. However, it is purely a place for fun, and it is usually located on the outskirts of a big city. It is very suitable for city residents to stay for a few days on vacation to improve their mood.

Far away from the city, capillary-like roads carry the country’s history of agriculture, rural areas and farmers. But it’s just history.

The places they lead to are only abandoned deserted villages, not leisurely resorts.

To be precise, those places that were once villages have been repurposed for other purposes due to cheap land prices and existing roads and power grids. For example, some research institutes seek to stay away from busy cities in order to maintain confidentiality. But the vast majority of villages,

All abandoned.

But even ground-level units such as nurseries and children's schools that pursue sunshine and fresh air are rarely built on the old sites of villages, and more are built on the edge of main roads. Those places are at least "towns".

The former site of a hierarchical administrative division, usually a prosperous town since ancient times.

Villages are deserted due to lack of people, and many towns are also depressed. But after all, the facilities in towns are more complete, which is not only suitable for the growth of children, but also suitable for retirement because it is far away from the hustle and bustle and clean.

Abandoned villages are everywhere because there are so many of them.

In the 1990s, China's total population was about 1.2 billion, and the rural population reached a historical high of about 860 million. In 1950, the rural population was nearly 500 million; at that time, the entire population of the country was only 550 million.

In 2130, due to urbanization, the registered rural population has returned to 500 million.

This is still a huge population.

With so many people spread out across the land, they all live in one- or two-story independent houses with yards; countless villages have naturally formed.

When the old people who stick to the village lifestyle pass away, the houses naturally become empty.

What became empty were first the houses and then the villages.

Especially after the popularization of nuclear fusion power stations, food and vegetables gradually got rid of the flat surface of the earth and entered the urban building space, becoming part of the city's three-dimensional ecological industry chain.

As a result, small plots of farmland and vegetable gardens far away from the city, as well as farmland and ponds in hilly areas fragmented by the undulating terrain, gradually gave way to nature.

The entire wilderness thus formed was dotted with the ruins of deserted villages.

Lan Ze still remembers that when he was a child, a teacher took everyone on a group hike. In order to replenish drinking water, he also entered a deserted village. Children always like to play in ruins exploration. Although the teacher supervised the children to keep them away from danger, in fact, the

Quite interesting.

Now he was alone. He walked towards the deserted village because he didn't pay attention at the fork in the road.

The road leading to the village is in very good condition. It may have been built with high-grade cement, which made it very strong. There are ditches on the roadside. The road surface is slightly convex, and it is wide enough to accommodate two cars running parallel;

It is also higher than the flat ground on both sides, so the road is very clean, even if it occasionally

There are dead branches and leaves falling on them, which are easily washed away by wind and rain. Withered grass and bushes grow on both sides of the roadside, growing from the flat ground into the ditches. If the plants in the two ditches are not too diverse, they will be lost due to winter.

Most of it is dry and can easily be regarded as an artificial green belt.

The ditch under the weeds has been buried only shallowly by the soil. I don’t know when in the future, the ditch will be completely filled by the power of nature. By then, the road may also be covered by soil.

buried.

But I can’t say for sure. Maybe it can exist for another thousand years.

Now that Lan Ze has walked along this misleading road, he plans to continue walking in a straight line. If there is no road at the end, then just walk blindly.

This area has hilly terrain, and mountains and rivers do not exist on the map. At most, there are some slight obstacles such as walls and canals, which are easy to overcome.

A small, flat-roofed building appeared in front of the road.

There is no door. There is a huge sagebrush growing in the doorway, which has turned yellow. The windows have long been turned into black holes.

Although the roof has not fallen down, there are huge cracks in the wall that go straight up and down, dividing the wall into several large pieces. The house has not collapsed yet, probably because the roof is pressing on it, and the large pieces of the wall are more stressed.

Balance it.

Lan Ze did not dare to approach.

The solid road is still extending forward, and there are more buildings ahead. Some are tall and some are short. Some have flat roofs, and some have two-slope roofs. Most of them are two-story flat-roofed houses, and occasionally there are three-story houses.

Most of them have obviously collapsed; some are still standing stubbornly, but all the glass in the windows is gone. There is also a small high-rise building that stands out from the crowd. The whole is intact, but in the gap in the wall on the side of the third floor, a tree sticks out diagonally.

small tree.

Buildings made of bricks and cement are actually quite strong. Unlike wooden houses that are prone to insect infestation and rot. The biggest enemy of these abandoned buildings is actually thermal expansion and contraction. First, under rapid changes in temperature, different materials shrink and expand.

The rates are different, and several cracks burst out; then the cracks begin to seep. With water, water can freeze and expand, nourish seeds, and can also directly erode the wall together with components in the air, such as carbon dioxide or oxygen. So
Chapter completed!