Chapter 140: The Apocalypse Descends Again
The meeting ended in a heavy atmosphere.
The participants each left and headed to their posts.
Although this meeting failed to reach any valuable conclusions, there were still many things that needed to be done.
In this life, the Four-in-One Risk Monitoring Network had already been built ahead of schedule and was always in operation.
Although it failed to function in the previous life and failed to issue a warning more than one hour in advance—otherwise, the staff at the Hibernation Base could have awakened Jiang Yang and let him bring back key intelligence—but perhaps it was just because there was no targeted observation?
Since the apocalypse’s return was already clear in this life, after appropriately adjusting the observation parameters and precision, there might be discoveries.
Even if it was not useful in this life, they had to send intelligence to the next life as much as possible.
The rest of the Hibernation Team all threw themselves into this work.
Their scientific vision, knowledge, and so on might already be outdated, but they possessed one extremely important quality that no one in the current human world had.
Experience.
They knew how people’s hearts would change in such situations, knew how to organize people to the greatest extent, knew how to make existing technology exert maximum efficiency, knew what accidents would occur in government agencies during operation, and so on.
Combining their experience with the resources currently held by the World Government could exert the greatest power.
This was originally the purpose of the Future Plan.
But unlike the others, Jiang Yang, and Zhou Yu, who was responsible for providing emotional support to Jiang Yang at close range, both had free time.
The next 50 days were absolutely safe time; the apocalypse would not come.
At this stage, there was nothing that absolutely required them to do.
So…
Continue studying!
During the decades of hibernation, although they had to study and learn about recent technological progress each time they awakened, the time was always too rushed.
This hard-won continuous time had to be well utilized.
Time quietly flew by in this situation, and in the blink of an eye, it was the 51st day of this awakening.
The next day, he had to set off for the Doomsday Base prepared by the World Government for him. Because after today, the apocalypse could descend at any time.
That base had the strongest defensive power under current technology. There, even if he still could not avoid the apocalypse, he would most likely be the last to die. Thus, he would have a greater possibility of bringing more intelligence to the next life.
However, before going to the Doomsday Base, Jiang Yang and Zhou Yu first came to the cemetery where the aerospace martyrs were buried.
Looking at the 64 tombstones in front of them, at the still clear photos on the tombstones, at the faces of Tong Zheng, Li Hui, and others still deeply engraved in his memory, at Zhao Jianguo still preserved in the memorial hall as if asleep, Jiang Yang and Zhou Yu silently bowed and solemnly placed the flowers in their hands.
“Comrades, you ended the last apocalypse and let our civilization continue until now.
The current world has become so beautiful that we couldn’t even imagine it before.
Energy supply is almost infinite and entirely clean without pollution, supplies are extremely abundant, and even ordinary people can live the life of tycoons from our time.
Various advanced medical equipment and medicine that we could hardly imagine, as long as a little money, can be used casually; even pancreatic cancer, formerly known as the king of cancers, can have a 15-year survival period;
Lobster and King Crab have long been fully automated farmed, and even street-side restaurants can serve them casually;
It is said that now carbon dioxide is synthesized into starch, starch is then synthesized into feed on a large scale, pigs, horses, cattle, sheep, donkeys, chickens, ducks, geese farming are all scaled and industrialized, cheap to almost free;
Even for those pursuing taste, food crops like wheat, corn, soybeans, are no longer grown in fields, but moved into automated planting buildings, using multi-layer automated planting methods, with the assistance of AI technology, one technician can manage an area equivalent to 10,000 mu of planting;
The World Government vigorously promotes returning farmland to forest and grassland, now Earth is full of forests and grasslands everywhere, full of beautiful scenery, and the climate is so good that it was unimaginable before;
After decades of continuous environmental governance, the former garbage mountains, garbage rivers, and garbage belts in the ocean are all gone, and biodiversity is also starting to improve;
Artificial Intelligence has also developed on a large scale, replacing most repetitive physical labor. Now we humans only need to do creative work, working only three days a week, and the remaining four days, even poor people can travel everywhere and enjoy life.
No one will die of thirst or hunger anymore, no one will be unable to afford medical treatment or education.
Many ideals of our generation have already been realized at this time.
Comrades, our human civilization is now in the best state since its birth.
Such a beautiful world was exchanged for by your sacrifices.”
Facing these 64 quietly standing tombstones, Jiang Yang murmured as if reporting his performance over this period to them.
Zhou Yu quietly stood beside him, with a solemn and respectful expression, as if recalling the scenes of sacrifices and heroism that she had personally witnessed and experienced “not long” ago.
“But the damn alien civilization is determined to destroy us, and those bastards have come again…
Comrades, rest assured, we will definitely protect the beautiful era you created, and we will never let those damn aliens ruin it.
In this life, you can rest at ease; protecting the world is left to us.”
Jiang Yang and Zhou Yu bowed to the tombstones again at the same time, then turned and left.
…
Doomsday Base No. 1.
This was a base built long ago, located more than one thousand meters underground.
It was not for providing large-scale shelter for the public, but had a specific purpose.
It had the most complete protection; in extreme cases, it could even be completely sealed, relying on internal various Circulation Devices to support more than 1000 people surviving for over 50 years.
Although Jiang Yang’s experience in the Hibernation Base had already shown that hiding in an underground base was not very useful against the apocalypse.
At this moment, Jiang Yang entering Doomsday Base No. 1 was just to eliminate some possibilities as much as possible and more accurately locate the cause of the apocalypse, not thinking he could survive this apocalypse.
After dozens of days of emergency modification, in the current Doomsday Base No. 1, no matter where, whether restroom or Meeting Room, corridor or passage, everywhere Jiang Yang might reach was covered with screens.
Because people could not determine the exact time of the apocalypse or where Jiang Yang would be when it arrived.
Since that was the case, they could only cover everywhere Jiang Yang might be with screens.
These screens were connected to the latest Earth No. 1 Supercomputer, and this supercomputer was connected to the Four-in-One Risk Monitoring Network.
Once the apocalypse arrived, just like the last time, analyzed data would be presented in front of Jiang Yang.
In the following time, Jiang Yang began waiting in Doomsday Base No. 1.
Gradually, ten days passed, and the apocalypse did not come.
Twenty days, thirty days…
This morning, Jiang Yang got up as usual, and together with Zhou Yu, had just finished washing up and was about to go to the canteen to eat something when the lights suddenly went out.
In the darkness, Jiang Yang clearly felt the land under his feet begin to tremble.
