Chapter 345: Countdown to the End of the World - One Week Ago
A few years passed in a flash, and it was already a week before the end of the world.
The Zhulong radio telescope was damaged several times, and Li Xiang went up to repair it several times. The Black Mist Star Region is already "close at hand", and the "Heavenly Dog Swallowing the Sun" event will take place in a week at most.
The same time as the previous life.
Although Li Xiang made many efforts to make the people of the world far more prepared than in his previous life, he could not change the direction and speed of the solar system's operation, nor could he prevent the huge Black Fog Star Region from "approaching".
This "approach" is relative. From the perspective of the Earth, the Black Mist Star Region is spreading over and engulfing the solar system. From the perspective of the Black Mist Star Region, it is like a stone (solar system) flying over and falling into the lake (Black Mist Star Region).
No matter which side he is on, Li Xiang is as small as an ant. Without the ability to move stars and change constellations, he cannot change the result.
In the past few years, there have been sporadic invasions of alien beasts on Earth. They were beast eggs floating on the outskirts of the Black Mist Star Region, as well as wandering alien beasts. Fortunately, these outer beast eggs or alien beasts were not very powerful. Many of them were abandoned or expelled from the Black Mist Star Region. This also gave the countries on Earth an opportunity to train their troops. Although some disturbances were caused, they were eventually successfully killed.
The country has also carried out many exercises in various forms, including the "Polar Night-Natural Disaster Joint Defense" series of exercises, the "Eternal Night Defense Line" large-scale military and civilian joint exercise, the "Cold Wave-Beast Tide Response" multinational coordinated exercise, the "Operation Dawn" doomsday survival comprehensive exercise, and the "Black Shield Project" underground city defense stress test.
Some are city-based, some are nationwide, and some are international cooperation drills. Of course, within the city, each street and community also often organizes drills, but these are mainly based on hiding, evacuation, material distribution, firefighting, first aid, etc.
After all, an exercise is just an exercise. Without seeing the real harsh environment of the end of the world, everyone is still worried.
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In Lijia Village, the houses on the surface have long been empty, and everyone has moved to live in the underground city.
However, in the past few years, the temperature has become colder each year, leading to the death of many elderly people with underlying diseases.
In Lijia Village alone, more than ten elderly people passed away, and one year eight of them died at once, including the third grandmother.
Some of them were really old, and even though Li Xiang gave them elixir support, they still couldn't hold on and were running out of energy. There was nothing that could be done about it.
The conditions in Lijia Village are relatively good. In other countries and regions, the elderly population has dropped sharply.
However, dying in peacetime is also a kind of happiness.
For some countries, the sharp decline in the elderly population means that the pressure on elderly care has also dropped sharply. Of course, for some countries, the end of the world has come, and everyone relies on their own abilities and accepts their fate. The elderly care system has collapsed long ago. There are also many chaos and turmoil, and Li Xiang can't care so much. After all, it is much better than the previous life.
Grandma San was Li Xiang's best friend in the village, and they were like sisters, so Li Xiang's grandmother was sad for a long time. Fortunately, everyone lives in the underground city now, and Li Xiang's aunts have moved in to accompany the elderly, as well as Li Xiang's grandparents, Jiang Caier's grandparents... All kinds of relatives live together, and it's lively and lively, so Li Xiang's grandmother is in a much better mood.
Folks from all over the country have also moved to the underground city, each with their own place to live. In the past, they all lived in scattered villages, but now they all live in "snail houses" in the underground city, which is even more lively.
Every household has stockpiled sufficient supplies, especially rice, flour, cooking oil, salt, pickles, mustard tubers, instant noodles, canned fruit, compressed biscuits, etc. In addition, some commonly used medicines, band-aids, bandages, iodine, disinfectant alcohol, etc.
The world is not doing well, so it is better to stock up some food and medicine at home in case of emergency. Although there are hospitals, supermarkets, restaurants and the like in the underground city, it is more reassuring to stock up more supplies at home.
As for "Li's Breathing and Physical Techniques", everyone has a copy. Many people keep it in their pockets every day and practice it whenever they have the chance. As the end of the world approaches, everyone practices more frequently.
Guns are still banned, but a militia has been organized and anyone who joins can participate in drills and actual shooting.
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Some of the more precious plants in Li Xiang's backyard were also transplanted to the underground farm, including peach trees, gourds, pepper trees, golden thunder bamboo, wintersweets...
Since the Golden Thunder Bamboo grows in clusters, only part of it was transplanted, and the rest was left on the surface. After the severe cold weather in the past few years, even though bamboo is one of the three friends of winter, most of it was frozen to death, but the remaining ones were all "different species". These different species have strong adaptability and stay on the surface. When Zhao Xueqing is free, she uses "Spiritual Plant Synesthesia" to help them grow. Li Xiang has high expectations for them.
Several stores have also moved to the underground city commercial plaza, and business is still booming.
"Fat Baby is chubby. He rides a horse to Chengdu. Chengdu is fun. Fat Baby rides a white horse. The white horse jumps high. Fat Baby plays with a Guandao. The Guandao is round. Fat Baby picks up copper coins. He picks up a lot of copper coins. Fat Baby buys steamed buns. There is no sugar on the buns. Fat Baby is so angry that he cries. My little darling, do you know who Fat Baby is? You don’t know. He is our Chinese national treasure, the giant panda!"
Jiang Caier later gave birth to another daughter, who is now only five months old, just learning to speak. Jiang Caier is holding her and singing nursery rhymes to her.
As for the two sons, they have gone out to play. Under Li Xiang's cultivation, the two sons are talented and outstanding, and now they are both fifth-level extraordinary people. Li Xiang does not need to worry about their safety for the time being. Although the younger brother Li Zezhao is naughty, he will not cause any trouble with his older brother Li Yuchen watching over him.
After giving birth to two sons and a daughter, Jiang Caier said that she would never have another child. If Li Xiang wanted to have a child, he should find someone else.
When Jiang Caier said this, Li Xiang felt particularly guilty, as if Jiang Caier had discovered something.
However, he also felt that Jiang Caier might be joking, because she had been immersed in scientific research and might not have made any discoveries.
The youngest daughter is named "Li Xinyue" and her nickname is "Yueyue".
"Yue": "Yue, a divine pearl" is recorded in Guangyun, which naturally means that people hope she will be as bright as a pearl. It also symbolizes that she is the apple of her parents' eyes and a treasure.
"Xin" means dawn (Shuowen says "Xin means dawn"). The reason for this word is that when Jiang Caier was pregnant with her little daughter, her "artificial micro-sun" project happened to have made a breakthrough. When her little daughter was born, the first sample had been successfully developed. Now, it is hanging in the farm of the underground city of Lijia Village.
Since this is the first generation of samples, it still needs to be experimented with and various parameters tested. Jiang Caier feels that there is still a lot of room for improvement, so it has not yet been mass-produced.
In her fourth year of school, she had already obtained eight doctoral degrees, more than ten master's degrees, completed multi-field integration, published more than 500 high-impact factor papers, and the cumulative impact factor exceeded 30,000. She was a true academic leader and shocked the world. Most people just graduated from college normally.
He is responsible for or participates in as many as seventy or eighty scientific research projects, has several national key laboratories under his command, and has over three hundred researchers, all of whom are highly educated talents.
Now, these laboratories have naturally all been moved to the underground city of Lijia Village. 90% of the scientific research team have moved here, but there are a few who are unwilling to come for various reasons, so they will not be forced.
Because some experiments are too "dangerous", laboratories are distributed in the main city and 12 satellite cities according to different risk levels. Jiang Caier rarely does experiments herself now. She just grasps the general direction, holds various project team meetings, listens to reports from her subordinates, and provides scientific research guidance.
In addition, she is also responsible for various unmanned equipment in the underground city, including a large number of drones, robot dogs, missiles, turrets, radars and other monitoring and defense equipment.
The drones include small quad-rotors and large fixed-wing reconnaissance and strike drones that can carry missiles.
The two sons grew up in Tsinghua University and attended the early education classes and affiliated kindergarten of Tsinghua University, but the youngest daughter can only study in the underground city of Lijia Village in the future.
The Lijia Village Underground City is numbered 03 among the 72 honeycomb underground cities in the country, which is already in a relatively early sequence. The first two are the Imperial Capital and the Magic City respectively.
Except for a few important urban agglomerations, the other numbering rules are from east to west and from north to south.
As for Jiang Caier's cultivation, when her son was two years old, he had already broken through to the Saint level, which is the 19th level. Later, he made another step forward and is now at the 20th level. Li Xiang has also made great progress in recent years by helping countries around the world build underground cities and underground farms, and is now at the 22nd level.
(End of this chapter)
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