The next day, Jiang Zhi woke up to find the sun shining brightly outside her window.
The sun is coming out?
Jiang Zhi instantly regained her composure. She glanced at the thermometer on the wall; the temperature was 14 degrees Celsius.
They no longer needed to wear thick down jackets; the snow hadn't completely melted, and there were water stains everywhere. The base made a last-minute decision to let the survivors of the underground city come out in batches to get some fresh air and see the sunny world outside.
Many people hadn't been to Earth for years, and upon seeing the sun outside, they couldn't help but shed tears.
"My God, is this really the sun we've been missing for so long? Is our world about to return to normal?"
"Please, Jade Emperor, the Three Pure Ones, Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva, please give us a way to live!"
"It's the sun! Ahhhhh, my dear sun!"
"As long as we have it, we can photosynthesize and grow food!"
"We're saved! We're saved!"
...
"Mommy, it stings my eyes!" The child buried his head in the woman's arms, covering his ears and whispering.
The child, who was a little over three years old, had never seen the sun since birth. He was quite timid when he saw it for the first time.
Chen Kun stood beside Jiang Zhi, muttering to himself, "Is this the calm before the storm?"
"What do you mean?" Jiang Zhi asked, turning around.
“Even a proper ice age couldn’t have frozen for only three years. There’s research to back that up. I have a feeling this might be the last time we see it.”
Although Chen Kun was very reluctant to believe this feeling, he always felt that it was destined to happen.
The imagined drought may not come.
Jiang Zhi was quite surprised. Chen Kun was not a psychic, yet he had such a strong feeling, and this feeling actually became a reality.
"Minister Jiang, an emergency meeting has been held at the base. Dozens of high-level psychopaths have predicted that something bad will happen in the future. Mr. Zhou is currently waiting for everyone in the conference room."
Han Xing handed Jiang Zhi a document, and Jiang Zhi nodded and followed Chen Kun.
Pang Tongming met Jiang Zhi on the road and told her about some information he had obtained from reading ancient books the night before. Jiang Zhi also came to a similar conclusion, but there was no time to discuss it at the moment, so the two agreed to talk about it later.
Wang Wan waited anxiously at the door, wanting to tell Jiang Zhi the news as soon as possible so that she could be prepared.
"You don't need to say anything, I know everything." Jiang Zhi patted Wang Wan's shoulder, her eyes reassuring him.
The seriousness of this matter concerns the lives of every human survivor.
Once everyone had arrived, Zhou Renchang used the remote control to turn on the screen. After the screen flickered twice, it displayed the image inside.
It's not the scene of millions of people basking in the sun, singing and dancing on the snow where the ice and snow haven't completely melted yet that's playing all the time, but rather something that's happening right now.
If it weren't for this news, perhaps no one would have such gloomy expressions on their faces, but it was precisely at the happiest time that they suddenly received this terrible news.
One can't help but wonder, is God playing a joke on us?
They don't want to give humanity even the slightest chance to survive!
"This morning, news came from the experimental base on the other side of the ocean, which is similar to what we have learned. We must take measures as soon as possible."
Is it darkness?
"That's right, the sun is moving away from us, and quite fast at that."
"Perhaps humanity is about to become extinct."
Someone said something discouraging.
Jiang Zhi asked, "How did you arrive at the conclusion that the sun is moving away?"
"Observations through telescopes show that the Earth's rotation is slowing down, and it is very likely that the Earth will stop rotating in just one month," explained Minister of Science and Technology Ruan Dongxue.
She was a woman who had just turned fifty, with completely white hair, and she frowned as she spoke.
"Was it something that happened suddenly, or was it discovered a long time ago?" Jiang Zhi asked again.
“Start with raising the temperature.” Ruan Dongxue took out her tablet, swiped a few times, and displayed the image on it.
Jiang Zhi looked at it and asked in confusion, "But the sun has gone far away, so it shouldn't be getting warmer."
"Could it be an illusion or a delusion?" Hoshi couldn't figure it out.
If the sun were to move away from Earth, there would be no warming, but rather a continuous cooling and the onset of eternal night.
Just as everyone was at a stalemate, unsure of how to explain, a woman in a lab coat in the corner raised her hand.
“It’s a torrent of time and space,” she whispered.
Jiang Zhi looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the girl looked timid and seemed a little scared.
She walked up to the girl and glanced at the nameplate on her chest.
"Xuan Yu, right?"
Xuan Yu lowered her head and replied, "Yes, I work in astronomy research at the Ministry of Science and Technology."
"How do you explain the spacetime torrent you just mentioned?"
Jiang Zhi had already formed a bold idea in her mind, but she needed sufficient evidence to prove it.
The phrase "the torrent of time and space" sparked a thread in her chaotic thoughts.
Seeing Xuan Yu's hesitant manner, Jiang Zhi encouraged her, "It's okay, speak boldly. The situation is extremely urgent right now. The more possibilities we have, the more hope we have of surviving."
"To be precise, what we see may be an illusion. For example, the sun may move away but we feel warmer, and the ice and snow outside may be melting. People's senses are real, but their eyes are being deceived."
After Xuan Yu finished speaking, she looked up at Jiang Zhi, then walked to the computer, inserted the USB drive, and exported the model she had made.
This is a map of Earth's coordinates, surrounded by other planets orbiting Earth.
"This needs to be considered from the very beginning of the apocalypse. It came suddenly, triggering a series of animal mutations and global meteorological and geological disasters. What kind of force can directly change the state of the Earth itself? I guess there are two directions: one is from inside the Earth, and the other is from outside the Earth."
Human society is but a drop in the ocean on Earth. The Earth has existed for 4.5 billion years, experiencing several known eras, and what we've excavated only dates back a few million years. What if human civilization existed before? How was that civilization annihilated? Was it by internal or external forces?
"Suppose there is a spacetime folding shockwave that we cannot see with the naked eye... We just feel that the sun is moving away, but it is not actually moving away. Perhaps we are just caught in it... Perhaps the eternal night will not last long."
Xuan Yu finished explaining her theory in one breath.
She said the eternal night wouldn't last long, but for humanity, a year, two years... ten years, a hundred years, that would be endless pain and torment.
Ruan Dongxue said, "I will immediately set up a relevant team to organize experiments and observations."
"No matter how harsh the conditions, we must always stay true to our goals and beliefs, and never lose faith. If we all become weary of surviving and give up, how will so many ordinary people and children in the underground city survive?" Ruan Dongxue added.
"So, assuming this is the case, please come up with an emergency plan immediately, and make sure as many people as possible survive." Zhou Renchang's voice trembled slightly.
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