Everyone's phone is filled with videos of planets passing through Earth's atmosphere.
The apocalypse seemed to have never even begun, and everyone started cheering, even though they felt like they had been fooled by the experts.
So this day was designated as a carnival day, and people took out the food they had stored for a long time and began to eat, drink, and squander it.
Those experts who predicted the end times were proven wrong and never appeared on television again.
Just when people thought the apocalypse was just a farce, Lu Yuan remembered it clearly.
Yesterday, the sun rose above the horizon at 6:42, while today it will rise at 6:45.
No one noticed anything unusual, and everyone continued to eat and drink as usual.
Lu Yuan knew that according to the Earth's orbit, it was already March, and the sun should be rising earlier and earlier, but now it was rising later and later.
Others may not know why this is the case, but Lu Yuan and the relevant departments are aware of it.
Because the Earth's rotation is slowing down, and it will continue to slow down until it stops.
The consequence of this is that the length of day and night will become longer and longer. Originally, a day and night could be completed in 24 hours, but it gradually evolved into 25 hours, then 26 hours, and eventually it became polar day or polar night.
The apocalypse has officially begun!
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Finally, this situation was discovered by everyone, and the first to notice it were some elderly men and women who liked to do morning exercises.
Grandma had nothing else to do besides washing clothes and cooking at home every day, so she also joined the ranks of those doing morning exercises.
"Oh dear? What's going on today? It's seven o'clock and it's still not light! I wonder if those girls went or not!" Grandma muttered as she changed her clothes.
Grandma used to go out around 6:30, but now it gets light later and later, so the time for the group of old ladies to exercise has gradually been pushed back.
The second batch consists of students who have already started school. They usually start school at 7:30 a.m. and get up around 6:30 a.m.
However, the sun rises later and later, causing many students to wake up when it is still dark, and the time it takes for the sun to fall at night is also gradually lengthening.
It started getting dark at six o'clock, then gradually changed to six-thirty, and then seven o'clock.
Finally, this anomaly drew public attention, and various experts stepped forward to analyze it once again.
"The increasing length of day and night cycles is mainly due to the arrival of a planet, but this period will not last long. Because of the sun's gravitational pull, the Earth's orbit will not change, and it will return to normal after a period of time. Please do not worry."
"Some unreliable experts have analyzed that the increase in the time between day and night is due to the planetary belt passing through the Earth. This statement is extremely inaccurate. The Earth has been revolving and rotating for billions of years, during which many planetary and meteorite impacts have occurred, but there are still no problems."
"The main reason for this anomaly is the recent increase in sunspot activity. This anomaly won't last long!"
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A flood of various opinions emerged, and the public's sense of crisis seemed to have shifted slightly.
However, what has attracted more attention from the public are the various meteorites that came with the planet, because everyone saw golden minerals on the planet's surface, and some people thought that this stuff was gold, and that the meteorites that came down with the planet were very likely to contain gold.
For a time, a gold rush began in various places.
Unfortunately, a factory near Lu Yuan's home was hit by a meteorite. That night, a fierce fire broke out, and the factory, which was hundreds of square meters in size, was burned to ashes. His father said that a huge crater with a diameter of about ten meters was also found in the fire.
However, because there was a fire station nearby, fire trucks rushed in and evacuated the people immediately after the fire broke out.
My dad originally planned to go and join in the fun, but he arrived too late and didn't see anything. He only heard that the area had been tightly sealed off and no one was allowed to approach.
In the past few days, Lu Yuan has seen various black jeeps carrying experts in cleanroom suits and various instruments rushing into the meteorite crater every day.
"Have you heard? A meteorite nearly five meters in diameter was found in Liu Laosan's factory. Experts say it has an extremely high gold content!"
"What the hell! Has Liu Laosan lost his mind? Why call the police for something so good? Wouldn't it have been better to keep it for himself?"
"Tch! The higher-ups have been on it for a while. The moment a meteorite strikes, the fire brigade will rush in and cordon off the area. Trying to hog it all? You'd better think about how many years you'll be in jail!"
People's curiosity about the mysterious meteorite is growing, and all sorts of rumors are circulating, leaving people overwhelmed.
It seems they've overlooked what happened at the beginning of the apocalypse. Lu Yuan understands, though. After all, in a money-driven society, no one can stop people's dreams of getting rich. As for whether there really was gold in the meteorite, Lu Yuan doesn't actually know.
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On this day, the day-night cycle had reached thirty-five hours, with about seventeen hours of daylight and eighteen hours of night, completely disrupting people's sleep schedules.
At eight o'clock in the morning, just as the sun was setting, Lu Yuan rubbed his eyes and crawled out of bed. To prevent his family from having their days and nights reversed, he had specially placed timed lights in each room.
The lights are on normally during the day, but all the lights are turned off at night, and all three layers of curtains are closed.
Aside from these time-related disruptions, the biggest feeling people have is that the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the temperature difference between day and night is getting bigger and bigger.
During the day, the temperature will gradually rise from minus seven or eight degrees Celsius, and can even reach around thirty degrees Celsius at its highest.
It's late March now, which is considered the beginning of spring. Temperatures in the thirties have melted all the snow from the winter, but by night, the ground is frozen solid again.
To prevent his family from catching a cold due to the large temperature difference, Lu Yuan specially prepared various kinds of clothing for his family.
Sometimes my dad needs to go to work, so he brings two sets of clothes to change into, in case he gets off work late at night.
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However, there is some good news recently: one of the golden fruits in Lu Yuan's dimensional space is about to ripen.
To prevent Dahuang from stealing food, Lu Yuan never let Dahuang into the space again. Now the space has 80 square meters of land, 80 square meters of grassland, 80 square meters of fishpond, and 80 square meters of small house.
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