Chapter 166: The True Culprit!
Jiang Yang sat quietly in his seat, with all his attention focused on the huge screen in front of him.
Although theoretically speaking, even the most violent earthquake on Earth would be unlikely to affect the space station in space.
But people had no way to determine whether this apocalypse contained only the apocalypse itself as its influence.
Perhaps there were some other influences that would make the space station unable to escape unscathed?
Therefore, forced memory in a short time was still necessary.
Astronaut Zhuo Fangting walked over carrying a briefcase.
“Consultant Jiang, these are some medicines that help soothe the mind, enhance attention and memory…”
“I understand, thank you for the trouble.”
He directly extended his arm, allowing the needle of medicine to slowly inject into his body.
The next moment, Jiang Yang felt his brain enter a supercomputer state, instantly becoming much “smarter.”
His brain was unprecedentedly clear. Some problems accumulated during the previous learning process were not deliberately thought about at this moment; they were just unintentionally touched upon by his wandering consciousness, and answers were instantly obtained.
This even gave him a feeling of great enlightenment.
“Damn, this medicine’s effect is really awesome.
It’s just a pity that the side effects are a bit strong…”
A corner of his consciousness silently sighed, then all of it gathered onto the huge display screen in front of him.
An image was already displayed on it at this moment.
This image contained valuable data collected during the process of the human world in this life conducting a full-body check on Earth, after screening, as well as process and method data for ion drilling equipment, super-scale project organization data, and so on.
Subsequently, if new data is generated at the moment the apocalypse arrives, this image will begin to change slowly based on this moment and eventually freeze.
Theoretically speaking, it would only be necessary to let Jiang Yang memorize the final frozen image. But after careful research and discussion, Earth scientists ultimately decided on the mode of dynamic change followed by final freeze.
This way, Jiang Yang’s brain memory ability could be maximized, not only greatly improving the accuracy rate, but also increasing reliability again.
At this moment, time had arrived at the last minute before the apocalypse.
The image in front of him still showed no change.
“As expected, just like last time, this apocalypse will also erupt suddenly only at the predetermined time point? No signs at all before that…”
He knew that the Earth scientists’ attempt to find some apocalypse clues through numerous mantle detection bases and the Earth detection network, and thereby make judgments on the cause, had failed.
At this moment, Earth No. 1 Supercomputer base.
Almost all members of the decision-making council, deliberation council, hibernation consultant group, and scientist team had gathered here.
And the absolute core among them was undoubtedly the Earth detection team composed of geophysicists, geologists, and other related scientists.
Everyone’s gazes were focused on them. And their sights were respectively focused on dozens of different large screens.
Those screens would display in real time the data obtained from numerous detection systems on Earth at this moment. Once the apocalypse descends, they could make some judgments on the cause of the apocalypse through changes in this data.
The countdown had now reached 5. Then it became 4, 3, 2, 1, 0…
A slight vibration suddenly came from the land under their feet. Accompanying this vibration, countless data on dozens of large screens began to change wildly.
Over a hundred geophysics-related scientists almost instinctively stood up at this moment, their eyes wide open, faces full of shock.
At this moment, they instinctively ignored the vibration of the land under their feet, ignored the life they were about to lose in the next moment, ignored everything around them.
Their world contained only that changing data.
So…
“Mantle substance viscosity is decreasing! Movement speed is increasing! Temperature, temperature… temperature has not changed!”
“Continental plates are shifting! Speed has reached about 1 centimeter per hour, over 1000 times normal conditions, and still accelerating!”
“Earth’s magnetic field is changing! Earth’s core is also affected!”
The vibration of the land under their feet became more and more intense; people at this moment could no longer stand steadily. Things also began to fall from the specially reinforced ceiling above their heads.
Everyone in their hearts clearly knew that death was no longer distant.
So…
A decision-maker used all his strength and shouted loudly: “What exactly is the cause of the apocalypse!”
“We cannot fully determine yet, but based on existing data judgment, it’s the mantle! It’s the mantle!”
“Mantle substance has been perturbed by unknown power, leading to a series of changes, affecting the crust above and the Earth’s core below, thereby affecting Earth’s magnetic field—it’s the mantle!”
The next moment, the rapidly changing data on dozens of large screens suddenly stopped, and the image instantly froze.
People knew this was not because all data had been collected, but because communication had been cut off.
It could be confirmed that the global Earth detection network was still continuously generating massive amounts of data, but that data could no longer be transmitted here.
Earth No. 1 Supercomputer had disconnected from them.
The heavy ceiling emitted a teeth-gritting creaking sound, and in the next moment, it suddenly collapsed.
…
Hundreds of kilometers above the surface, Space Station No. 6.
At the moment the apocalypse countdown reached zero, Jiang Yang saw the pattern composed of numerous color blocks and lines on the screen in front of him begin to change slowly.
He knew this was Earth No. 1 Supercomputer filling in the large amount of data it had obtained.
He stared carefully at those changes, so the image he had memorized in advance also slowly aligned with the newly formed image, as if forcibly adjusted by external force.
This was not memorizing a brand-new image, but making adjustments on the existing memory, thus allowing him to remember more complex images and more information and data.
At this moment, he did not know what secrets were exactly contained behind these images, nor whether people had made judgments on the truth of the apocalypse.
He did not care about these things. At this moment, his entire world had only one thing left.
Memorize this adjusted and changed image and hand it over to the scientists of the next life for declassification.
But this apocalypse seemed not to leave him enough time.
For some reason, the brightness of the screen in front of him suddenly began to increase, just like an overloaded light bulb.
After the brightness increases to the limit, the bulb will explode with a bang. And at this moment, this huge screen hundreds of kilometers away from Earth also met the same fate.
With a boom, fragments flew everywhere.
