Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 425 During the journey
The true shape of the earth is a Möbius strip. Once this is established as a premise, the educational theories about celestial movement that ordinary people have received since childhood will become strange.

Even now, Xia Shou still feels that the planet in the Möbius strip is too abstract and incomprehensible. It is even more ridiculous than the Flying Spaghetti Church and the Flat Earth Theory. It is the kind of speech that would definitely be regarded as a cross-dressing statement if posted on a forum.

If you say in a serious manner on the Internet that the earth is flat, netizens may regard you as an idiot, but if you say that the earth is a Möbius strip, you will most likely be made into an ironic emoticon.

In ordinary astronomy education, the planets revolve around the sun, and then there are spring, summer, autumn and winter.

This makes sense, as the temperature difference and length of day and night are due to distance and orbit.

The equator is the hottest and the North and South Poles are the coldest, which makes perfect sense.

But if the earth becomes a Möbius strip, then the originally simple and clear conclusion will become complicated, confusing and difficult to understand.

Where is the equator?
How do the sun and the moon shine?

If you reach the edge of a Möbius strip, what will you see? Will you fall straight down, or will the cities and land on both sides stand symmetrically in mirror images?

While Xia Shou was still thinking about these absurd and interesting astronomical questions, there was a slight vibration under him and the plane took off.

The plane began to taxi and sprint, the scenery outside the window began to move backwards at an accelerated speed, then the fuselage left the ground and began to rise in altitude, and then became higher and higher.

Soon, the plane reached above the clouds.

Up to this point in the journey, the view outside the window was exactly the same as Xia Shou's usual impression. However, as the plane continued to rise in altitude, the clouds below became farther and farther away, and soon only the sun and a blue sky were left outside the window.

The visual environment became unreal. The sky became extremely clear, as if there was no dust. Even the sunlight did not produce the Tyndall effect. The sun was like a decorative pendant on a blue canvas, and the windows of the airplane seemed to be covered with a layer of oil painting.

"Minister, do you know how high we are now?" Xia Shou couldn't help but ask Shangguan Yan in the front row.

"Altitude is meaningless. Do you really think you can go to the moon by riding a rocket? Forget your previous astronomical knowledge. Don't try to apply them to each other. They are completely different things.

For example, the sun is not actually a planet, but an occasional super-critical anomaly that has manifested itself differently in different places throughout history.

According to historical records, the sun once had nine clones in China, and eight of them were shot down by Houyi.

There is also a similar story to Amaterasu in Japan.

In short, the sun is a very changeable being. It usually shines on everything, but in dangerous times it can bring down terrible disasters.

What ordinary people see with astronomical telescopes is the sky curtain laid out by our ancestors. This arrangement was made much earlier than the birth of the Control Bureau. This also shows that the ancients' use and understanding of the extraordinary may be even better than today."

"It's all in vain that I went to school." Su Yue sighed.

"It's not in vain. Astronomical knowledge can still be applied to reality. All the locations on ordinary maps can perfectly match astronomical knowledge. Astronomical theory as a tool may not match the truth, but it is still useful. Our predecessors have taken it into consideration for us."

After that, Shangguan Yan continued like a teacher, adding: "People's cognition is always being updated, just like the heliocentric theory back then and the constant speed of light now."

Although it was outrageous, Xia Shou actually found this novel thing very interesting.

Outside the window, the sun's position in the sky remains motionless, the background blue does not change, there is no movement without a reference point, and the steadily flying airplane appears to be stationary.

Su Yue quickly accepted this bizarre worldview and began watching the online courses of the Control Bureau.

Xia Shouze opened the official website of the Control Bureau and read Vogt's case to pass the time.

In the middle, he took a nap. When he woke up, the still picture outside the window was no longer there. The rolling clouds reappeared and the sense of reality returned.

The plane's broadcast began to announce that we were about to arrive at our destination, reminding all passengers to be careful, and the land below also came into view.

They were flying toward a huge, booming city.

Next to this city is another ruined city with thick smoke billowing out.

Jiang Wengao, who was sitting in the back row, asked a question, and Bai He answered concisely:
"The city of zombies." Jiang Wengao was very curious: "Aren't you going to clean it up? It's just zombies, it shouldn't be difficult to deal with them, right? Even if we don't use nuclear bombs, thermal weapons should be enough to deal with it, right?"

“If it was just a phenomenon like the biohazard, it would have been dealt with long ago, but this anomaly appears to be a virus, but in fact it is a natural disaster.

The active status of humans and zombies in this city determines the spread of this abnormal phenomenon, so more than 100,000 civilians have been living in this dangerous city.

As you said, it is not difficult to rescue all these people. With the combat power of zombies, ordinary thermal weapons can deal with them, let alone superhumans.

But if you really do that, it will cause the zombie virus to spread.

And the spread of the virus cannot be stopped, and it is currently believed that this is a causal effect.

Just like the Yin-Yang fish, the zombies here cannot all die out, but humans cannot all die out either. The active indicator of humans is survival, and the active indicator of zombies is infection. There must be people who cannot resist zombies living in this city.

The more people like this there are, the smaller the city’s area can be, and the easier it will be to control the zombies’ combat effectiveness.

There was once a time when control failed, causing the virus to spread further and invade surrounding cities. The zombies, which could have been suppressed by thermal weapons, evolved into iron bodies that were invulnerable to swords and guns, and underwent large-scale mutations.

That period was called the zombie frenzy period, and it was Captain Li Wei of the Lion Army who resisted this wave of attacks.

A large group of reservists abandoned their weapons and moved into the city to live, which eventually curbed the spread and reduced the city's area to its original size.

During that period, Lin Rizhe replaced Li Wei to guard the city for a long time. "

Jiang Wengao in the back row was silent, perhaps because he was shocked.

After waiting for a long time, Jiang Wengao asked, "What about the civilians living inside? Aren't we going to help them?"

"With limited help, neither zombies nor humans can gain too much of an advantage. Once the balance is broken, expansion will occur. There is nothing we can do about it.

Don't be sentimental about this sort of thing; the annual death rate in war zones is much higher than in this city.

Even though more than 5 people live among the zombies, through scientific research on survival strategies, the annual casualty rate of city dwellers has been reduced to %.

Compared with the physical risks, the mental damage is more worthy of attention now.”

Xia Shou frowned slightly and couldn't help but complain about Baihe in his heart.

It doesn’t feel good to instill such pessimistic and negative thoughts into newcomers from the very beginning.

This unsolvable strange phenomenon can easily undermine their work enthusiasm.

Wu Lang, who was sitting opposite him, immediately added: "The annual death rate of our three departments is higher than this. Don't worry, this city is safer than us."

"Do you know how to speak?" Kurosawa Ye from the Ninja Wind Team cursed.

Then there was Goro's cry of pain, and then the air became quiet.

No one spoke.

Xia Shou sighed and looked at Su Yue.

Her expression was also somewhat solemn, probably because she was irritated by Goro's words.

The vibration came from under me again, and the plane slowly landed at the airport outside the city of Vogt.

The destination has arrived.

(End of this chapter)