(This chapter is a bit bland, mainly covering the basics of this world.)
"The entire planet is moving, and it's moving off its original orbit. No wonder, the Ice Age makes sense." After staring at the sky for a long time, Wang Han finally understood why the trajectories of the stars in the sky were so strange. Earth is not even on its original solar system orbit. If the positions and movements of the stars were still the same as in the original world, that would be truly bizarre.
"Is it really that world?" Wang Han muttered to himself, already having a guess that fit the criteria. However, as usual, Wang Han used the radar attachment to quickly scan the entire planet.
The images from the lightning-scanned imagery were fed into Wang Han's mind. In his mind's view, Earth was hurtling through space, its tail trailing long plumes of flame. A massive space station acted as its navigator in front of Earth. On the other side of Earth, over ten thousand enormous white pillars of fire pierced the sky, propelling the planet forward. Below these pillars were circular fire pits, each larger than a mountain—these were planetary engines, each spewing out massive blue-white jets of fire. Beneath these fire pits, vast underground cities housed the surviving humans. Only with the power of these massive planetary engines could these underground cities maintain the necessary temperatures and environments for human survival.
On the planet's surface, there are towering buildings frozen in ice, modern technological cities, and in these cities, huge vehicles, more than five meters tall and nearly twenty meters long, move like ants in the cold wind, while massive excavators dig through the rocks and soil of mountains.
"It really is 'The Wandering Earth,' no, judging by this form, it should be called 'Earth is Wandering.' Earth is wandering in the universe, not people wandering on Earth. In this endless, frozen world, ordinary people who dare to wander on Earth probably want to be made into sculptures." Half a minute later, a smile appeared on Wang Han's lips. A crazy idea had formed in his mind, and once it appeared, it spread like wildfire, unstoppable, and now he had the ability to realize this crazy idea. Then Wang Han looked up at the night sky, his white eyes (white eyes) clearly showing Jupiter. It seemed that his timing was just right, just as Earth was approaching Jupiter, although he didn't know the exact time, it should be soon.
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Within the massive walls of an underground city beneath a planetary engine, an elevator carrying over fifty people rapidly ascends from the ground. As the numbers on the elevator continuously change, a group of people dressed in matching red and white uniforms and wearing circular glass shields, resembling astronauts, wait quietly for the moment the elevator reaches the ground and opens its doors, marking the beginning of their contribution to all of humanity on the surface.
"Hiss..." Soon, the elevator reached the designated height, and the elevator doors slowly opened. A chilling wind immediately rushed into the elevator through the opening doors. Within seconds, the extremely low temperature wind had rapidly covered the elevator with a layer of ice, and it was still thickening. The temperature gauge in the elevator kept jumping, and in just a few seconds, it jumped to -84 degrees Celsius, a value that ordinary humans could not survive on. And this was not far from the huge planetary engine with its terrifying heat. If it were in other, more distant places, the temperature would be even lower, or even double.
As the elevator doors opened, outside, massive trucks drove through the icy city. Inside, people dressed in red and white braved the cold wind to exit the elevator and then joined the bustling activity outside.
Among the crowd, two red figures, using the information on their identification tags, searched among the parked large transport vehicles for a while before boarding a large transport vehicle numbered 373. Shortly afterward, the vehicle started moving.
"Those two seem to be the two main characters of this world, I think their names are Liu Qi and Han Duoduo." On the top of a frozen building, unseen by others, Wang Han, dressed in a python-patterned prince's robe, watched the man and woman board the vehicle and muttered to himself, "My timing is perfect. The plot is just beginning, and the location I randomly chose is perfect too—it's exactly where the story starts, and I've even found the two main characters. This is opportunity, fate, and luck. I'll find a suitable opportunity to contact them." (The entire timeline of *The Wandering Earth* is only three days.)
After muttering to himself, Wang Han's figure flashed and disappeared from the top of the frozen high-rise building.
On transport vehicle number 373.
"Brother, I think I just saw someone on that building." Han Duoduo, who was looking around curiously, suddenly pointed to the building where Wang Han had disappeared and said.
"You must be seeing things. How could there be anyone on a frozen building like this?" Liu Qi shook his head and said, focusing on driving.
"Oh, maybe I was seeing things." Hearing this, Han Duoduo shook her head and continued looking out the car window at the world that filled her with such curiosity. She had only seen a black dot in the shape of a human figure; perhaps she was just imagining things.
"What are they doing digging through these mountains?" Han Duoduo asked curiously, looking at the huge machines digging through the mountains in the distance. Below the machines, huge transport trucks were waiting to load the mined stones into them.
"To make fuel." Upon hearing this, Liu Qi explained, "The heavy fusion engine technology, to put it simply, is about burning rocks."
Upon hearing this, Han Duoduo nodded, then looked at the planetary engine in the distance that was spewing out a huge blue pillar of fire, and exclaimed, "Wow. A planetary engine."
"This is a propulsion engine. There are over ten thousand of them worldwide, mainly responsible for propelling the Earth forward. This isn't even the largest; the steering engines on the equator are the real behemoths. (Their function is to control the Earth's direction, stopping its rotation.)" Hearing this, Liu Qi continued to explain to Han Duoduo while driving.
"Re-fusion technology, burning rocks to release a huge amount of energy, is truly an amazing technology." On the roof of the car, Wang Han, lying on his back, listened to the conversation between the two people inside and couldn't help but look more closely at the planetary engine in the distance.
"We're getting closer and closer to Jupiter. I believe it won't be long before Earth is affected by the sudden increase in Jupiter's gravity, and things will change. At that time, should I blow up Jupiter, set it on fire, or destroy it? Or should I just drag Earth away? And the astronauts on that space station seem pretty good; they're all top-notch talents." Wang Han's thoughts slowly drifted away.
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