Wanjie Shop 31 "Is there any hope for us?"

"Come on, come on, the cafeteria is ready, everyone line up to watch the Spring Festival Gala!"

"Have you prepared the melon seeds, drinks, and peanuts?"

"It's all ready, just waiting for people to come over!"

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Due to confidentiality and other factors, no one at the research base can go home, but it's nice for everyone to get together and watch the Spring Festival Gala.

At 4 p.m., the cafeteria treated everyone to a hot pot meal, and then before the Spring Festival Gala began, they hurriedly cleaned up, rearranged the tables and chairs, and created a venue that could accommodate everyone to watch the show.

Roasted melon seeds, fried peanuts, various small platters of braised food, and fresh fruit platters are all served on the table.

Even the artificial intelligence Xiguang was busy helping them debug the projection playback effect of the Spring Festival Gala.

"Academician Li! Dr. Jiang! Your seats are at the front, the best seats for viewing the movie! Come on, come on!"

Li Wangruo was pulled out of the room by Jiang Xueyi.

He originally wanted to write quietly and go to sleep when he felt tired.

Jiang Xueyi insisted that he had been busy for several years and it was a rare day for him to have fun with everyone, so he dragged him to the cafeteria.

The aroma of hot pot from dinner in the cafeteria had not yet dissipated, and it was filled with the flavor of oranges and fruits.

As soon as Li Wangruo sat down, a pile of food was placed beside him.

Chef Wang from the cafeteria smiled and said, "You're welcome! Eat as much as you can! If you don't have enough, there's more!"

Li Wangruo: “…”

I haven’t digested the hotpot I had in the afternoon yet, so there’s no room left in my stomach.

But his face was still full of smiles.

Jiang Xueyi sat next to him and picked up a tangerine.

"Try our improved sugar oranges this year. They're bigger, juicier, and sweeter. We can't even sell them all over the country."

Li Wangruo took a look and found that the fruit was indeed much bigger. In previous years, the sugar oranges were small and could be eaten in one bite after peeling. But this one could be eaten in a few more bites.

He pressed his stomach and felt that he might not be able to finish the whole thing, so he reached out directly to Jiang Xueyi.

Jiang Xueyi generously gave him half: "Why don't I see Xiao Xie and his wife?"

Li Wangruo glared at him: "You didn't go to call them?"

Jiang Xueyi paused and said, "They live together, I'm embarrassed to knock on the door."

What if the couple were doing something private behind closed doors, and he would be so embarrassed if he knocked on the door?

Li Wangruo naturally couldn't confess about instigating the two men to go out for fun. He pretended he didn't know and abruptly changed the subject: "How big has the Jade Pendant Farm been upgraded to now?"

When the jade pendant farm was first acquired, it only had two million hectares of plains. After years of unremitting efforts, it was finally developed to ten million hectares!

It is half of the total arable land area of ​​China before the catastrophe!

It has reached the point where even if you drive inside, you can’t cover all the territory in a day.

Therefore, it has been fully mechanized. Each planting area is assisted by the latest intelligent robots in planting and picking. The picked products are then put into space backpacks and transported out.

Jiang Xueyi said proudly: "I'm not exaggerating. Sooner or later, people all over the world will be able to eat what I grow."

"That has to happen only after the disaster is over. Only then will we have enough energy to export the food to all countries." Li Wangruo knew that China was now upholding the humanitarian spirit and exporting food aid to some countries, but there were still restrictions.

We don’t know when the disaster will end, so we have to keep a full warehouse of food at home so that we can have enough to support others.

Jiang Xueyi sighed, "The drought and rainstorms we had earlier came every few months, so how come the cold snaps have persisted for so long?"

Li Wangruo: "It would be fine if it was always a cold snap. We have invested too much in this and are used to this kind of life. If it suddenly changes, it would be troublesome."

Jiang Xueyi smacked his lips twice. "How come you think this is a good thing?"

Li Wangruo smiled and said, "As long as things don't get worse, that's a good thing!"

"That's right! Haha."

Time ticked by as we chatted, and the Spring Festival Gala started on time. After the lively song and dance performances, the fresh-faced host of the Spring Festival Gala came on stage, saying auspicious words.

"Why is there no one familiar?"

Someone cracked melon seeds and grumbled, then realized something and swallowed the words.

This is the Spring Festival Gala that has been reopened after a decade. In the past, so many profound truths were always added to various language programs, but now it seems that it only wants to make everyone happy and laugh.

The cafeteria was just bursting with laughter at a skit when suddenly the content on the projection screen flashed and the song announcement came to an abrupt end.

Everyone was silenced by the sudden movement. At this moment, Xiguang's cold mechanical voice rang out.

"All medical staff, please proceed to the infirmary."

"Academician Li Wangruo, Dr. Quan Feng, Dr. Ke Wenrui... please go to Conference Room 1."

Xiguang's two instructions plunged the entire cafeteria into silence.

Xiguang is very intelligent. If you are just looking for someone, it can directly notify each person individually.

Such a high-profile base-wide announcement could only be a major event.

Only three people in the entire base have the power to issue such an order that can be notified to the entire base.

Li Wangruo frowned, pushed away the table in front of him, and hurried to the meeting room.

When Jiang Xueyi heard the expert calling his name, he stood up subconsciously and did not hear his own name in the end.

I just noticed that Xiguang mentioned several experts, all of whom have made achievements in the field of geology.

His heart suddenly sank, as if he had a premonition of something, and he couldn't help but reach out and bite his nails.

After Xiguang finished his announcement, he reconnected to the live broadcast of the Spring Festival Gala, but the people below had no interest in watching the show.

Inside the medical room.

Huang Yousheng and several colleagues hurriedly put on their white coats and came to stand by within three minutes. As soon as they opened the door, they saw Xie Yunsui, who was in a coma and as pale as paper. Their hearts stopped for a moment.

Although this medical room has existed since the base was put into use, it is usually very idle.

They were mainly responsible for Xie Yunsui's health, but Xie Yunsui was too healthy. They usually gave him a physical examination without blood tests every once in a while, and then stared at the inhuman health indicators with envy.

Later, the base personnel all ate the crops produced by the Jade Pendant Farm, and they were all in good health. They didn’t even have a headache or fever. They hadn’t seen a serious patient for a long time.

Why did Xie Yunsui suddenly fall into a coma?

"What happened to him?" Huang Yousheng asked while putting Xie Yunsui on ECG monitoring, while the others started other machines in an orderly manner.

Fang Xiheng wanted to know what happened to Xie Yunsui even more than he did.

He had just said that he wanted to record a video of the fireworks for Academician Li and others, but the next second his phone fell to the ground.

At first Fang Xiheng thought that it was the surge of people that caused him to lose his grip, and was about to tease and laugh at him when he suddenly saw his pale face.

Even paler than when he woke up from a nightmare in the morning!

Before he could ask him what was wrong, Xie Yunsui just held his hand and said with difficulty: "Crisis...underground..." and then passed out.

This is very wrong. Xie Yunsui was able to catch an energy gun shot from him with his bare hands, so how could he fall into a coma?

Fang Xiheng's mind went blank for a moment, until the tourists next to him thought Xie Yunsui was unconscious due to breathing difficulties and shouted for him to be sent to the hospital, and then he came to his senses.

Zhang Jingyu heard someone shouting that someone was unconscious. He turned around and found that it was Xie Yunsui. He was so shocked that he was shocked.

He hurriedly handed Nuannuan to his wife, and cooperated with Fang Xiheng to send Xie Yunsui back to the research base.

Xie Yunsui and the Wanjie Store he carries are treasures of mankind, nothing must happen to them!!

In conference room number one.

Li Wangruo and several experts who were called took their seats one after another, but they waited and waited but no one showed up, either Fang Xiheng or Xie Yunsui. Considering that the first instruction was for medical workers to assemble, Li Wangruo became a little restless and wanted to go to the medical room to check the situation.

Xiguang turned on the projector at this time, and a series of data information was transmitted.

Li Wangruo had no choice but to sit down again.

The conference room was silent, with only the faint light of the data constantly jumping on the projection screen.

Several geology experts stared at the numbers above the screen, their brows furrowed more and more.

"Are these parameters...earthquake warning?" Li Wangruo is a bit of an outsider in this area.

Quan Feng pushed up his glasses and said, "The data from all shallow seismic monitoring points are normal. No obvious crustal movement has been detected."

The data information on the screen continued to accumulate, and data from groundwater and geochemical testing, geoelectricity and geomagnetic testing, etc. were constantly being summarized. Several experts watched without blinking, and doubts gradually came to their minds.

"These data are all normal..."

"Xiguang, who asked you to provide this data?"

"Commander Fang." Xiguang responded, and the content on the screen did not stop.

Fang Xiheng asked them to come to the conference room with great fanfare just to look at these normal data reports?

Ke Wenrui suddenly pointed at a set of data and said, "Xiguang, zoom in on this data."

Li Wangruo asked hurriedly, "What did you see?"

"All other routine test data are normal, but the pressure reading at this deep ground stress detection point seems to be wrong."

Ke Wenrui asked Xiguang to retrieve the previous ground stress data, and everyone saw that starting from early morning, the originally stable pressure readings suddenly became chaotic, and two hours ago, the pressure was accumulating at an alarming rate.

Dr. Quan Feng's voice trembled. "...According to existing geological theories, stress changes in the mantle should be extremely slow, measured in millions of years, but the current speed..."

He hadn't finished his words when Xiguang pulled up data from the global geostress monitoring network. He said in disbelief, "It's not just this one! Seventeen deep-seated monitoring points around the world are reporting the same situation."

"What does this mean?" Li Wangruo asked directly.

Ke Wenrui's voice was hoarse: "If these energies are released at the same time, the world will usher in a—"

"Super earthquake!"

He didn't say anything else, but everyone understood what that meant. A super earthquake would bring about a drastic reconstruction of the continental plates, which would not only cause houses to collapse, but also global tsunamis and volcanic eruptions.

Anyone familiar with history knows that an asteroid hit their planet in the Paleozoic era. The impact generated energy equivalent to the explosion of tens of billions of atomic bombs, and its energy is equivalent to a super earthquake. The subsequent disaster directly led to the mass extinction of life.

Li Wangruo was silent for a while: "Is there any hope for us?"