Chapter 127: Civilization Public Memorial
Just like when the cycle activated, after his death he instantly reborn without sensing any passage of time, he abruptly opened his eyes again.
The stretcher bed slowly extended out, Professor Li Xianglong wearing a white coat, along with a group of medical and hibernation experts, all looked at him with full concern, exactly the same as before he lost consciousness.
“Comrade Jiang Yang, how do you feel?”
After carefully sensing his own changes, Jiang Yang murmured: “Except for feeling a bit like the soreness and fatigue of a mild cold, everything else is fine.
Uh, was there an accident? What happened? When did the hibernation start?”
Professor Li Xianglong smiled faintly: “This hibernation has already ended.
50 days have passed, and we have actively awakened all of you.”
Jiang Yang was instantly stunned.
50 days of time… just passed like that?
Although even before hibernation, Jiang Yang had already roughly understood the sensation of hibernation through Professor Li Xianglong’s explanation, when this situation truly happened to him, he still couldn’t react immediately.
“Oh, it’s already been 50 days…”
The 100 hibernators were all sent to the restroom, receiving nutrient solution infusions and hyperbaric oxygen chamber treatment to aid recovery.
One hour later, those mild discomforts completely faded, and everyone came again to a meeting room.
A staff member wearing the World Government badge—that was an image with a simplified Earth as the background, front with three hands of yellow, black, and white colors interlaced together, symbolizing the great unity of people of all nations and three skin colors in the world—walked into the conference hall.
World Government staff?
A trace of curiosity flashed in Jiang Yang’s heart: “The World Government was only just established 50 days ago, there must be a lot of opposition voices inside and out, I wonder what the situation is like now.”
That staff member first bowed to the hibernators below, then said: “Commissioned by the World Government Council, I am here to specially invite you all to attend the first meeting of the World Government Council.
In this meeting, the World Government Council with a total of 406 council members will elect World Government Decision-Making Group members, and after the election, announce a series of major decisions.
Now, please follow me.”
The convoy was ready, carrying the hibernators to an airport, transferring to an airplane then to a car, ultimately entering a bustling city.
Still en route, far from the World Building, Jiang Yang saw on the streets sentries every three steps and posts every five steps, helicopters and drones circling everywhere in the sky, vigilance at its extreme.
At the beginning, there were relatively few people on both sides of the road, but closer to the World Building, Jiang Yang saw people of various skin colors, ages, genders, and attires blocked outside the main road.
They seemed to be shouting something. Slightly distinguishing, Jiang Yang’s expression immediately became solemn.
“Give us back our freedom!”
“Vow to defend national integrity to the death!”
“Oppose the World Government!”
Amid waves of shouts growing louder, the crowd surged. The guards were like an unbreakable dam, blocking all the crowd outside.
Jiang Yang murmured: “The opposing voices are actually this strong?”
Sun Changhe remained calm: “No one likes a World Government suddenly appearing above their own nation to govern them.”
“Unfortunately, we still cannot publicly disclose the matter of the apocalypse to the public now.”
Sun Changhe smiled without speaking.
The convoy entered the World Government premises, the area called the World Building, under tight protection, got out of the car, and under the guidance of the staff, entered the large conference hall.
The conference hall was packed with people. The most core over 400 seats were the positions of the council members representing all nations globally.
The hibernators’ seats were next to the council members, at the same level as them. After that were the media seats, onlooker seats, etc., with a total of over 2000 seats.
Jiang Yang looked carefully and saw that among the over 400 seats of the council, about a quarter had faces of compatriots familiar to him.
That trace of emotion welled up again in his heart.
“Captain Tong, Captain Zhao, and all the heroes who sacrificed, fought, and paid the cost for this apocalypse… have you seen it? It is because of your sacrifice and cost that our compatriots can occupy such a significant share here…”
In the solemn and reverent atmosphere, under the host’s hosting, the voting for World Government Decision-Making Group members began.
Mr. Locke sat in the council seat, did not hurry to cast his vote, but looked toward Mr. President not far away.
Just then, Mr. President’s gaze also turned toward him.
The moment their gazes met, they immediately looked away, each lightly sighing.
At this moment, Mr. Locke felt too much unwillingness and anger in his heart.
He looked at the flag placed in front of his seat, symbolizing his nation, and a sentiment of pitying its misfortune and angering at its lack of struggle slowly surged.
He wanted to stand up and storm off, wanted to publicly announce his truest thoughts in this open occasion.
Whatever World Government, play by yourselves, I don’t care to deal with you.
But this emotion was quickly suppressed by him.
As a mature politician, he knew that even before this meeting was held, no, before the World Government announced its establishment, even earlier, the current situation had already been set.
Only this way, it must be this way.
The voting proceeded in a solemn atmosphere and soon ended.
Finally, the 12-person list of the World Government Decision-Making Group appeared on the large screen.
Looking at the compatriots’ names occupying a quarter of the total, fully three, Jiang Yang nodded darkly.
Compared to the compatriots’ names, the next highest had only two. Moreover, not only were the compatriots’ names the most numerous, one of them ranked first on the 12-person list.
The next moment, flashes gathered into a sea, and these 12 names instantly spread to the whole world.
Amid thunderous applause, the newly elected 12 Decision-Making Group members each came forward and sat in the seats behind the rostrum.
Mr. President looked toward the First Decision Maker beside him, who had an Oriental face, black hair, and black eyes, ranked first.
“Congratulations.”
Mr. President had a smile on his face, voice calm: “The future era is yours.”
His voice was calm, seeming to have little emotion. But anyone, upon hearing this, could hear the complex emotion behind his words.
The First Decision Maker, however, smiled and shook his head.
“No, the future era is not only ours, but also yours, it is for all of us on this blue planet, regardless of skin color, regardless of age, regardless of gender, regardless of occupation, regardless of nation…
All of ours.”
Mr. President’s expression showed no change, no emotion revealed, completely inscrutable what he was thinking.
And the First Decision Maker also shifted his gaze, looking toward the council members in the hall, toward the numerous media reporters and onlookers.
“I solemnly announce here that the first thing after the formal establishment of the World Government is to hold a civilization public memorial for the heroes who heroically sacrificed in the process of resisting the apocalypse and saving civilization!”
