Chapter 2: Brothers and sisters back home, can you see me?
Pacific Ocean.
Da Qian’s No. 4 Aircraft Carrier.
Small conference room.
A young Military Officer with a solemn expression stood beside the projector, reporting to the people below:
“…Satellite detection results show that the Floating Continent is an irregular polygon, with cliff-like structures at the edges. Multiple creature traces have been captured inside, and a possible atmospheric circulation system exists.
The fog sphere enveloping the continent has an electromagnetic interference effect. All electronic devices fail at a distance of 10 kilometers from the fog sphere. Sound wave detection shows that there are regular low-frequency vibrations within the fog sphere, and the source is unknown.
Currently, we have used weather balloons to carry sampling equipment and collected a portion of the fog droplets. Experimental analysis is still underway…”
After listening to the report, Liu Wang, the head of the landing affairs coordination team, rubbed his temples and asked:
“Little Li, what’s the latest progress?”
The young Military Officer, Little Li, immediately replied:
“The visibility within the fog sphere is extremely low, and there is electromagnetic interference. Currently, neither the reconnaissance UAVs nor the weather balloons we’ve sent out have been able to obtain any valuable information through the fog sphere.
As for landing, after the first batch of team members failed to land, the detection equipment, exploration equipment, and even UAVs and even gorillas used for experiments that we deployed afterwards, could not go beyond fifty meters after entering the fog sphere, and were all destroyed by the thunderstorm.
And that thunderstorm exists in every corner of the fog sphere, forming a barrier, which envelops the entire Floating Continent.
Currently, we do not know how thick that thunderstorm barrier is, whether there is any regularity in its appearance, and we do not have the conditions to land before safely passing through the thunderstorm barrier.”
“What about other countries?”
“According to the information we have received, Lighthouse Country, the Polar Bear, and Gaul Country, etc., have also failed to land successfully, and have stopped in front of the thunderstorm barrier. Some other Small countries do not have the detection conditions at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters, and are currently only gathering on the ocean, and have not yet taken any actual action.
As for the various countries’ civilians, there are also some Rich men who have spent a lot of money to form exploration teams around the fog sphere, but they have also failed to obtain any substantial detection results.”
“The Floating Continent has already appeared for three days, and we still know nothing about it.”
Liu Wang walked to the window and saw the boundless, heavy cloud, his expression becoming extremely serious:
“This is a continent of nearly one million square kilometers. If it suddenly falls, it will be a disaster for the entire human race.
In fact, even if it only exists here, it is already constantly affecting the entire world. We must find a way to get inside, find out the situation, and solve the problem before the worst result appears.”
The people in the room were silent.
Although they all knew this truth, how could they solve it when they couldn’t even get in?
Moreover, even if they got in, they might not be able to solve the problem.
If this Floating Continent suddenly falls, even if all the mushroom eggs in the world are thrown up, at most, they can only blow up a layer of insignificant soil, and it is impossible to destroy it.
The power of mankind is too small in the face of the great power of nature.
“Actually, in my opinion, these are secondary issues.”
An old member of the group slowly said:
“We don’t know when the Floating Continent will fall. In terms of our current technological level, we are simply unable to deal with this level of disaster. Even if we build underground fortresses or space cities, it will inevitably take decades or even hundreds of years. This is destined to be an extremely long-term work.
There is a more urgent problem before us than it, and that is the panic of the people.
Every time a doomsday prophecy appears in history, it will cause social chaos. False rumors are already like this, not to mention the real doomsday hanging over our heads. If we don’t appease the emotions of the people, the society will collapse in advance without waiting for the Floating Continent to fall.”
Faced with this problem, everyone present spoke out:
“First, notify the Media to cover up the news related to the Floating Continent.”
“Such a large continent, anyone can see it, how can you cover it up?”
“Covering it up is definitely not going to work. Even if you can cover it up domestically, you can’t cover it up abroad.”
“The speed of information dissemination now is much faster than it was ten or twenty years ago. In my opinion, it is better to do a good job of guiding, severely punish negative news such as doomsday theory and destruction theory.”
“Negative news is more likely to spread. The more severe the punishment, the more likely it is to cause public suspicion.”
“What about launching missiles? Maybe missiles can break through the thunderstorm barrier, and at the very least, it can let the people know that we are taking action.”
“Launching missiles is absolutely not allowed. Before we figure out the situation of this continent, reckless attacks may cause it to fall on the spot. No one can take this responsibility.”
“This won’t work, that won’t work, let’s just do nothing!”
“Are there any other hot topics that can temporarily divert the public’s attention? Anyway, the Floating Continent is in the Pacific Ocean, so far away from ordinary people, and if they don’t pay attention to it often, people won’t be affected by it in their lives.”
“How can there be such a big hot topic? Even if there is, the heat is only temporary, and it cannot last for a long time, while the Floating Continent has always existed.”
……
Everyone argued constantly, arguing with flushed faces and thick necks, and couldn’t make up their minds for a while.
Liu Wang frowned and smoked his cigarette.
And at this moment, Little Li pointed outside the window and said in a trembling voice:
“Everyone… leaders, look, what is that?”
Including the team leader Liu Wang, everyone looked up in the direction he was pointing.
Then they saw a huge, square Light screen spread across the sky, as if someone was holding a projector, using the sky as a screen, the coastline as the side length, exhausting the field of vision, and projecting an unprecedentedly huge image.
Everyone was stunned for a moment.
The cigarette in Liu Wang’s hand fell.
When they came back to their senses, they couldn’t help but look at the picture presented in the Light screen.
The picture in the sky was very clear, without any interference from ambient light. Inside, it seemed to be in a remote Dense forest, with dense Woods and lush grass filling the entire field of vision, a desolate and quiet scene.
This scene was not only projected on the Light screen in this sea area. At the same time, in all places on Blue Star where humans gathered, millions of Light screens appeared in the sky, almost covering the entire planet.
In the city, in the desert, on the ocean… no matter where they were, no matter what Race, no matter what Skin color, as long as they could look up at the sky, everyone would see the same Light screen, and the same picture in the Light screen.
And as they felt shocked and bewildered, a young voice suddenly entered everyone’s mind:
“Hey hey hey, folks at home, can you see it?”
