(I'm really not used to writing according to the plot, so I'll leave the plot aside for now and just focus on having fun.)
"The rescue team has been dispatched." Han Ziang said, watching the transport vehicles and police armored vehicles rushing towards the malfunctioning planetary engines. However, he did not turn around. For him, getting Liu Qi and Han Duoduo to a safe place was the most important thing.
"Peiqiang, is that you?"
"Dad, Liu Qi, did you see that?"
"He's next to me; we just had an earthquake."
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Suddenly, a phone call from the space station came through in the vehicle, and Liu Qi's father, Liu Peiqiang, rang out.
Wang Han paid little attention to their conversation. He remembered that Liu Peiqiang was a technology colonel working on the space station. This man was qualified to communicate with the decision-making level of the United Government on Earth, and he was intelligent, making him a crucial figure in the negotiations he planned. However, now was not the time to contact him. Wang Han simply confirmed his appearance with the radar and then continued to close his eyes and drift off into his own thoughts.
"Vehicle No. 373, please slow down and stop immediately, and await further instructions." The police car's communication device suddenly rang, and a black armed police car used its loudspeaker to announce the order as it drove towards the transport vehicle where Wang Han and the others were.
Seeing this, Han Zi'an gritted his teeth, shifted gears, slammed on the gas, and swerved to avoid the police armored vehicle, continuing towards Jinan No. 3 Underground City.
"Vehicle No. 373, this is an emergency requisition, stop immediately." Upon seeing this, the police car immediately gave chase, and finally used the small rockets mounted on the vehicle to aim at Vehicle No. 373 before forcing the vehicle to stop.
After forcing the vehicle to stop, three police officers wearing exoskeletons and carrying automatic rifles immediately got out of the police car and walked towards the transport vehicle. At the same time, one of the police officers issued a notice to Wang Han and others.
"We are the CN171-11 rescue team dispatched to the Xingzhou No. 1 engine. According to Article 32, Paragraph 1 of the Wandering Earth Law, your vehicles and personnel... have been requisitioned."
"For thirty years, the planetary engines have never shut down. This is not a simple rescue; many people will die." Han Zian sighed, but he had no choice but to accept the requisition.
Next came the rescue operation for the planetary engine. The rescue objective, after repeated setbacks, shifted from rescuing the propulsion engine of Planet Xingzhou-1 to rescuing the steering engine of Planet Suvilasis-3. Wang Han accompanied the rescue team throughout, but aside from rescuing Han Zi'ang and other characters from the original story, he didn't perform any particularly noteworthy feats, remaining quite ordinary.
As the sky changed color, the steering engine of the Sulawesi III, which Wang Han and his team were trying to rescue, was successfully restarted, though it wasn't Wang Han and his team who restarted it.
At the supply station, Wang Han and the others, who were resupplying and resting, all looked at the planetary engine in the distance that had been restarted and was spewing out huge blue pillars of fire.
"Saturation rescue." Wang Han glanced at the restarted planetary steering engines, unsurprised. Such a crucial and dangerous rescue couldn't possibly be undertaken by only one team. However, even with all the engines restarted, it was already too late. Earth was too close to Jupiter, and Jupiter's gravitational pull was stronger. If he didn't intervene, unless he ignited Jupiter as in the original story, Earth wouldn't be able to escape Jupiter's gravity. If they got too close and ignited Jupiter, triggering an explosion, Earth would be destroyed in the blast.
This was exactly what Wang Han hoped to see—the situation most favorable to his plans. The people of this world were very united, so making them despair would be more conducive to the success of his plans. And now, it was time for him to reap the rewards. Wang Han slowly closed his eyes, his spirit already soaring towards the space station.
"The distance between Earth and Wood is still decreasing." The maintenance worker in the team had also discovered this problem and was in despair, but he did not voice his despair.
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Inside the space station, Liu Peiqiang also discovered the problem: the space station's intelligent system had abandoned Earth and begun evacuation. After some effort with his companions, he arrived alone at the space station's main control room.
"Within 0.42 seconds of activating Emergency Plan No. 3, Moss had already deduced the entire outcome. The United Government was aware of this and was still doing its utmost to organize a rescue, but it was a rescue destined to be futile. The evacuation of the space station marked the failure of the rescue operation. Three hours later, Earth would break through Jupiter's rigid body Roche limit and enter an irreversible disintegration process. Moss would make a global broadcast and execute the contingency plan, the Human Spark Project."
Listening to the data provided by Moss, Liu Peiqiang stood blankly in front of the intelligent system, Moss, at a loss for what to do. Only one thought occupied his mind: the Earth was finished, his family was finished, and he had no home left.
"Want to save the Earth? I can do it." Suddenly, an unfamiliar male voice rang in Liu Peiqiang's desperate mind.
"Who?" Upon hearing the unfamiliar voice, Liu Peiqiang quickly looked around, but unfortunately, there was no one else in the space station's main control room except for him and the intelligent system Moss. However, he was certain that the voice was definitely not Moss's.
"No need to look anymore. I'm very, very far away, you can't see me with your naked eyes. I'm communicating with you in your mind right now." The voice rang out again in Liu Peiqiang's mind. "I just passed through this star system and saw the situation on your planet."
"Extraterrestrial life." Liu Peiqiang was shocked. The extraterrestrial life that humanity had been searching for so desperately had unexpectedly appeared at the most critical time for Earth, and it seemed that the level or technology of this extraterrestrial life far surpassed that of Earth.
“You could say that,” the voice continued in Liu Peiqiang’s mind. “However, I am also human; the only difference is that I wasn’t born on your planet.”
"You said you can save the Earth?" Liu Peiqiang asked. He didn't care about the other information conveyed by the voice in his mind for the time being; his biggest concern now was the survival of the Earth.
"Saving the Earth is a very simple thing for me; I have many ways to save it," the voice in my mind replied.
"What are your demands?" Liu Peiqiang asked. Although he didn't know what the purpose of this alien life form was, Earth was now at a critical moment of life and death, and it was already the worst-case scenario. Even if the other party had malicious intentions, how much worse could the outcome be? However, if possible, he still wanted to bargain.
"Swear allegiance to me for generations." The voice in Liu Peiqiang's mind answered, "Your generations of loyalty in exchange for your generations' survival, for the survival of the earth, for your development and power, is a very worthwhile trade."
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