doomsday exile

Shangdu, it is March 3th.

There are still one year and two months before a certain meteorite arrives on Earth.

It's been a week since Mount Erebus in Antarctica erupted.

Originally, it was a busy and ordinary morning. The subway and bus routes were loaded with people going to work and school. They flowed rapidly like blood vessels between the steel-cast cities. Now almost all of them have stopped. The main street is full of military vehicles, starting from the entrance of the community. be regulated.

The registration and planning of the resident population has been going on for a long time, and now it is just repeated confirmation.

Some people who are on business trips or tourism in Shangdu will be sent back to their respective cities within three days after receiving the notice.

All TV news is repeating the satellite live broadcast of the violent activities of the Antarctic volcanic belt, plus expert commentary, the speech of the Earth Federation spokesperson, and various orders and activities started simultaneously by countries around the world.

Antarctica is too far away, and the concept of volcanic eruptions is also vague to most Chinese people.

The main reason is that most of China's population does not live within the range of active volcanoes.

For them, volcanoes are more like a natural landscape.

Many people’s common sense that volcanoes affect the climate is only known from the Philippine volcanic eruption triggered by a meteorite last Christmas. However, those serious consequences are not so terrible in the hearts of the citizens of Shangdu—the overall temperature will drop by one or two degrees in winter?They are the coldest coastal cities where it is difficult to get snow without a down jacket. As for the crop failure?For people in the city, starvation is a matter of the previous generation, and they don't farm, and they don't care about it.

But the shocking scene broadcast on the news is a huge ice block that is sliding and breaking, which makes everyone feel anxious.

The plight of melting glaciers at the poles and rising sea levels is exactly what this generation has grown up hearing.

In general, the sea has risen by about half a meter in the past 20 years, but this is a slow process. China is not an island country, so there is nothing to be afraid of, as long as you don’t buy houses on the sea.

"...It is winter in the southern hemisphere, and these huge ice blocks will not melt for the time being, but they will drift to the equator with the ocean currents."

"According to the satellite detection results, probably in the evening this evening, the volcanic belt hidden under the sea of ​​ice will usher in a large-scale eruption."

"Yes, it is more serious than any other time...or it should be said that the eruption seven days ago completely awakened the Antarctic volcanic belt."

"We can't rule out the influence of the crustal activity in recent years. Yes, the Pacific Rim earthquake-volcanic belt... and the 2051G2 meteorite may also be the cause. This is a chain effect..."

Everyone has a computer terminal with them, and the family gets together to turn on different news channels and listen with concern.

Although the hosts are different and the content of the broadcast is different, after all, the scale of the volcanic eruption tonight determines the future fate of the earth.

The Earth Federation issued an appeal, suggesting that all residents living near active volcanoes evacuate, because the earth will enter a disaster era with frequent earthquakes.

It may take a year or two before it subsides.

This date is heard in the ears of ordinary people. Although it is difficult to accept, it can barely be stabilized-what can we do about natural disasters, and we cannot escape from the earth.

"Underground shelter registration?"

The citizens of Shangdu, who were waiting at home after suspending work and school, finally waited for the knock on the door, feeling very complicated.

Has the situation really gotten this serious?

"We are a coastal city. If there are frequent earthquakes, we will be affected by tsunamis." This is the same rhetoric of the staff in charge of registration.

Everyone thought about what happened at the end of last year and believed it.

In fact, the staff didn't know the whole story, they only knew that the disaster was not as simple as a tsunami.

It is an entire continent. Since human beings have recorded it, there has never been such a scale of crustal activity. If it is serious, it will even cause the continent to split and affect other continents at the same time. However, it is hard to say where this situation will happen. Maybe it is The Great Rift Valley, and perhaps the California fault zone.

If the sunlight is thin, the air becomes very poor, and the oxygen content decreases, it is impossible not to move.

"Our country is doing its best to observe all the crustal activities in the territory. Please rest assured that there is no active seismic zone under Shangdu. It mainly depends on the severity of the disaster on the Antarctic side tonight... Just receive the warning and prepare to evacuate. The advance notice is to tell everyone. Pack some simple luggage, including clothes and daily necessities. Remember, there is a weight limit."

"Do you still have luggage?"

"Yes, to be exact, there will be exercises in the afternoon."

After the adults closed the door, they talked anxiously over the phone or online, but the children were overjoyed.

No matter what happens, as long as you don't go to school, it's the best.

The Internet seems to be divided into two halves, some people are indulging in games and entertainment, and some people are anxiously discussing the development of the situation.

"It's not really the end of the world, is it? What about my house?"

"Have you paid off the loan? If not, don't be afraid. With reference to the major catastrophic accidents many years ago, the state will postpone the loan repayment period as appropriate."

"Upstairs, if you don't pay it back in a month or two, you will eventually have to pay it back!"

"I'm dying of laughter. If it's really the end of the world, are you still thinking about repaying the loan? You definitely don't have to!"

"...Uh, when you say that, I'm a little confused. Is it the end of the earth, and the situation is better? I worry that the disaster will not be serious, and it will last for a year and a half, and then the order of life will return, and the company I work for will go bankrupt!"

"I'm going to take the college entrance examination! There are still two months left, why is it suddenly the end of the world?"

"Let's take the exam next year or the next year! It depends on how to arrange it. I heard that there are schools in the underground shelters, and classes will still be held normally. If the disaster is really serious and lasts for more than a year, people will not be able to leave the shelters, and the college entrance examination will still be held." Execution, but only local universities. Otherwise, after the disaster is over, how scary would it be for people who have accumulated three years to take the college entrance examination together? If the admission rate does not increase, what kind of difficulty is this?"

"...Uh, the college examinee said that he didn't know whether he should hope for a big disaster or a small disaster, so he hugged his head."

"Crazy crazy, what housing loan work college entrance examination, the most important thing to think about is not the food problem? Does the underground shelter have enough reserves? It will last for two years, do you have the basic common sense to maintain the lives of so many people? How much energy does it need to consume? Volcanic ash will cause the earth to enter the dark age, and it will not be able to absorb solar energy. At that time, people will eat people, why don’t you hurry up and exercise at home? Only a healthy body can win the competition for survival!”

After a lot of panic posts, Xianyu's speech gradually gained the upper hand.

"To be honest, whether it's exercise or the manual of survival rules in the last days, they all make sense, but...if things get to that point, it's useless to worry about it. This is not something you can solve by exercising more."

"And you're going to an underground shelter. Even if you store a bunch of food at home, you can't take it with you. Everyone can carry a limited amount of luggage."

"So let's worry about some more practical things, such as work and mortgages, such as college entrance examinations and studies."

"Everyone calm down, I don't think the situation is that serious at all."

There was a lot of noise, some people climbed over the wall and went outside to read posts and news.

"(The sticker) is just driving a camper, with a family and a dog, and the mentality is very good."

"Call for the expansion of greenhouse cultivation to avoid the impact of climate change, and suggest evacuation of coastal areas and earthquake-volcanic zones... That's all, no, it's really not that serious."

"Forget it, it's a more serious natural disaster. If our generation is unlucky, it will pass after two or three years."

"..."

Lu Di looked at the hot posts one after another, and used meteorites to do a keyword search, and found that the 2051G2 meteorites mentioned were all last year. It seemed that no one knew that there would be a big guy visiting the earth more than a year later.

It seems that China and the countries of the Earth Federation still do not intend to announce the truth.

Lu Di has long thought that if such news breaks out at this time, people's hearts may completely collapse.

According to the current process, when the meteorite visits the earth, ordinary people who stay on the surface either die or have already stayed in the refuge. If the meteorite is successfully intercepted, the disaster can be declared over.

"Is there no other news from Antarctica?" Lu Di turned off the computer terminal and caught up with Yan Long.

The Shangdu base has entered a state of emergency. The expansion project must be completed within ten days, and the population on the surface will be moved in three days later.

Although the order came suddenly, the base had already prepared for this day, and even had several plans.

The busiest thing is the scientific research team. This time Lu Di met scientists other than Professor Xia, who were mainly responsible for energy. They were the same people who inspected the graphene component factory and placed orders.

Lu Di couldn't understand their drawings, but only knew that they were transforming the surface city and using all available resources.

"After Delta created this wave of volcanic awakening, what if it leaves Antarctica and comes to attack us?"

After all, the spiritual body can go anywhere in the world without transportation, but it takes a little longer. Lu Di can't bet that the gray jellyfish doesn't know the way, and doesn't know how to get to Asia.

"Everywhere is stepping up the manufacture of pulse bombs. As a basic defense, the three pulse bombs we did not bring back will not be shipped back to China, but will be sent directly to the Earth Federation." Yan Long sighed, he stopped, and turned to look at Lu Di .

"I know this is not enough, you are worried about Lu Yun and the others in Nanyun Mountain..."

Lu Di was silent. He looked at the busy crowd around him, but he didn't say what he wanted to say in the end.

Yan Long put his hand on his shoulder.

Energy particles naturally criss-cross and then become active.

"You should have received a new mission notification?"

"Yes, the Mars experiment." Lu Di found it difficult to accept that there are frequent disasters here, and he and Yan Long still have to go to Mars according to the original plan?

They're gone, what about Shangdu?

"We don't know how to avatar, we can only do one thing well. In fact, most people are like this, so we have to choose what we can do and the best thing for the group." Yan Long lowered his eyes and said in a low voice, " This afternoon, the Federal Space Station Eden will launch, followed by spacecraft from various countries... Maybe within a month, the Kunlun has already been scheduled for April [-]th."

Lu Di lost his mind, so fast?

"I don't know at that time whether we accepted the order to stay in Shangdu or board the spaceship, but one thing is certain."

Yan Long looked deeply at Lu Di, the sound he made was like the resonance of particles, and it has been transmitted to the depths of the spiritual realm, "Borrowing cosmic strings as the quantum transmission of the network, only we can go to the third key test. If it succeeds, We can send a lot of resources to Mars, whether it's repairing the spacecraft, or bringing the embryo freezer to the Mars research station... We are bearing hope, Ludi, this is a war. Delta doesn't care what the earth becomes In the same way, we want to wipe humans off the face of the earth, but we have to continue to protect everything we care about, and for me, that includes you."

If you refuse the mission, staying at the Shangdu base is just waiting for Delta, and you can't do more.

If the mission is rejected, only Yan Long will be left to complete the Mars experiment alone.

Lu Di knew that without Yan Long... No, in fact, with Yan Long, he didn't dare to say that he could defeat that gray jellyfish.

"It's a war and it can't stop. Do you believe me?"

Yan Long's eyes, which cannot reflect anything, are uncharacteristic today, and Lu Di feels as if he is in them, a human-shaped silhouette composed of overlapping and overlapping complex lines, and a magnificent and harmonious whole formed by musical symbols and colors.

Lu Di silently raised his hand and pressed Yan Long's palm on his shoulder.

It’s actually wrong to say that it’s suppressed, it’s more like increasing the contact area of ​​energy particles.

"I believe."