489: Chapter 482: The Return of Light 489: Chapter 482: The Return of Light In Liuyuan County, skyscrapers rose one after another.
If an earthquake were to occur, the entire county would be in danger.
The closest open area to the county town was naturally the riverside without a doubt.
Seeing that the situation was wrong, some people hurried to the riverside, and Chen Hai was not the only one with such foresight.
When he arrived at the riverside, in groups of three or five, many people had already gathered there before him.
Although Chen Hai was carrying a person, his running speed was still astonishingly fast, but unfortunately, some people lived right by the river, just a few steps away.
Where there were people, there would be the glow of mobile phones, illuminating a small area around them.
After reaching there, Chen Hai also slowed down and set Ye Qingqing down.
“Young man, it’s nice to see you have filial piety, knowing to carry your elderly mother to the riverside…”
A few steps away, an old man, by the light of a mobile phone, happened to see this scene.
He showed his approval, giving Chen Hai a thumbs up.
Hearing this, Ye Qingqing felt extremely embarrassed, and Chen Hai’s face instantly darkened.
“What are you talking about?
This is my wife, not my mom.”
“I’m actually older than my wife by a bit, I just look young!” Chen Hai glared fiercely at the elder, retorting.
“This is your wife…” The old man chuckled with a meaningful look.
He did not believe Chen Hai’s explanation at all.
His eyes were not that poor; he could naturally see the huge age difference between Ye Qingqing and Chen Hai.
Without Chen Hai’s explanation, the old man might still think he was filial.
But after the explanation, the way he looked at Chen Hai was filled with obvious disdain.
Perhaps, he saw Chen Hai as one of those young people who did not want to struggle in life.
“Chen Hai, there’s no one over there, let’s go to that spot!”
Although Chen Hai wanted to keep explaining, a very embarrassed Ye Qingqing pulled at his clothes,
She pulled him to a deserted corner near the flood embankment, deliberately keeping their distance from the spots where people were gathered.
“That old master was talking nonsense, don’t take his words to heart, Qingqing.”
“In my eyes, you are not a bit old, you are still as young and beautiful as before.”
“Don’t worry about the matter of longevity, I will definitely make you regain your youth, you believe me.”
Knowing that Ye Qingqing must be feeling upset at the moment, Chen Hai held her hand, speaking softly and soothingly.
“I’ve wronged you, Chen Hai…”
Crouched by the flood embankment, her head buried in her knees, Ye Qingqing remained silent for a while before she finally managed to squeeze out a few words.
“Boom boom boom…” This thunderous noise continued for one or two hours before it finally calmed down slowly.
The ground under their feet, although constantly trembling, strangely, the buildings within the county showed no signs of collapsing.
In this open area by the Yuan River, the loitering people finally began to slowly disperse, each returning to their homes.
A few small supermarkets on the road had their own diesel generators, brightly lit inside, and were still open for business as usual.
However, the prices inside were shockingly high.
Staples like vegetables, rice, oil, and salt were many times over their normal price.
Those who profiteered from the disaster, whether in the past, present, or future, would never cease to exist.
The only regret for these small supermarket owners was that due to the lack of network preventing payment by scanning QR codes, there were many customers entering the supermarkets, but their business remained so-so.
After all, in this day and age, it was really rare to see people who carried a large amount of cash on them.
Cash was something Chen Hai never lacked.
Inside his storage pouch, there were lots of colorful banknotes, not just Yanhuang currency, but also foreign currencies.
He himself had long practiced fasting and could live without food or drink.
However, considering that Ye Qingqing was an ordinary person, when passing by a certain supermarket, he purchased a lot of cooking oil, vegetables, rice, and various foods.
The darkness continued, and the sun had still not reappeared.
By the third day, the lights in the city had become very rare.
Not to mention items like mobile phones and emergency lights that could be used for illumination, even vehicles couldn’t keep their lights on for long using their batteries.
If they kept the engine on, the fuel would be exhausted and, as of the current situation, there was nowhere to refuel.
With the sun gone and the world plunged into darkness, how long this state would last was something no one could tell.
Just last night, some started making torches and started walking the streets.
An unspeakable sense of panic spread rapidly throughout the city.
The shops on the streets had completely closed their doors and ceased business.
Incidents of smashing, looting, burning, and the like were increasing by the day, and even murder cases had occurred at least a dozen times.
The government was still making efforts to maintain order.
All police forces, including the majority of public servants, patrolled the streets tirelessly, around the clock.
Unfortunately, their efforts were almost negligible.
After all, in a city where light was exceedingly rare, everywhere was engulfed in darkness.
For the average person’s eyesight, in this darkness, it was very difficult to see clearly what was happening even a few meters away.
Even if there was just a sliver of light, the areas the patrol personnel could see clearly were only those immediate surroundings.
Should a murder occur right before their eyes, once the perpetrator slipped into the darkness, they would be very hard to find again.
This action by the government thus only served to stabilize public sentiment a bit.
By the seventh day, the entire city could be said to have completely lost control.
Boundless darkness began to be filled with crimes everywhere.
Even many of those patrol personnel had turned into one of the thugs themselves.
Ordinary people, as long as they had food to eat, mostly chose to hunker down at home, and no one dared to stroll outside casually anymore.
As for Chen Hai, he naturally did not fall into the category of ordinary people.
Most of the time, he stayed at home, accompanying Ye Qingqing, but occasionally, he would go out to wander and meanwhile gather some supplies to bring back.
When the endless darkness persisted into the twelfth day,
the whole earth suddenly shook violently once more.
In an instant, the darkness completely dissipated, and bright sunshine lit up every corner of the city.
Suddenly returning to the light from endless darkness, this drastic change was something ordinary people struggled to adapt to at first.
It was only after several minutes that the silent city began to erupt with loud cheers.
Those thugs in the darkness, after cleaning the bloodstains from their bodies, once again became good citizens.
Those who had been cooped up at home for many days began to cautiously step out from their houses.
The short span of a dozen days felt incredibly long, and now, it was like seeing sunlight again after a long time, an excitement that was simply indescribable.
The only slight regret was that the entire city was still without electricity and the internet.
But for those who had lived through over ten days of darkness, sunlight alone was enough.
Electricity and internet access, one could slowly figure out the solutions, which would eventually be resolved.
“My God, why are there two suns in the sky?” Suddenly, a shocked cry came from somewhere.
People just stepping out of their houses felt the sunlight extraordinarily glaring and did not look up at the sky in detail at first.
After this shocked cry, almost everyone’s gaze turned upwards.
“There really are two suns in the sky, impossible, this absolutely can’t be…”
“Good heavens, what on earth has happened to our world?
Are we still on Blue Star?”
“Is the whole world like this?
Or is it only here in Liuyuan County that we can see two suns?”
…
Cries of alarm arose, and the feeling of having survived a calamity lingered.
Just having escaped the darkness and seen the light once more, people began to panic again.
Chen Hai, mingling with the crowd while accompanying Ye Qingqing, also looked up at the sky.
Since the return of light, he could clearly feel with every breath he took, the mysterious streams of energy flowing into his body had become at least ten times more concentrated than before.
He was not sure if this mysterious flow was what legends referred to as Spiritual Energy.
If this thing truly was Spiritual Energy, then with the current situation…
Merely the thought sent a shiver of cold sweat down Chen Hai’s spine.
He did not believe it was a resurgence of Spiritual Energy but speculated that their Blue Star had been captured by some formidable power and integrated into a larger world.
After all, the great powers in legend were capable of grasping stars and seizing moons.
When darkness had first descended, it was as if the heavens had collapsed, with a continuous roar.
And when light returned, the ground beneath their feet also shook violently.
While Chen Hai pondered, a new change occurred in the sky above.
One of the two suns suspended high in the sky, unexpectedly unfurled a pair of giant wings, slowly transforming into a golden bird.