Chapter 138: The Apocalypse Has Come!
“I didn’t expect that I would actually see these projects truly appear in the world in my lifetime.”
There was a slight sadness in Sun Changhe’s voice, as if he recalled many past events, recalled the thrilling ten days of the apocalypse, recalled before the apocalypse, himself and his comrades who shared the same ideals, determined to struggle for the nation, for the entire civilization all their lives.
“From now on, problems such as poverty, hunger, war, clean water sources, electricity, energy supply, industrial goods supply in human civilization will be greatly solved. Even children in the most backward regions of Africa can go to school to receive education. The productivity of our human civilization will be greatly liberated…”
Jiang Yang knew that there was not a single bit of falsehood or exaggeration in Sun Changhe’s words.
The completion of the equatorial clean energy combination possesses such major significance.
With the support of the super energy storage device, electricity has truly become a resource cheaper than cabbage in the world today, and it is extremely abundant, available conveniently at any time.
The productivity of the entire human civilization will also increase by more than ten times due to the completion of this super giant project.
Feeling the majesty of this project, Jiang Yang looked into the distance and saw that on this vast land, majestic dams were rising from the ground one after another, firmly binding the originally wild great rivers, preventing them from causing harm to the world again;
Modern factories were rising one after another, operating around the clock without stopping under the supply of clean energy;
He also saw shipping and airplane routes, railways, wide highways extending in all directions, covering every place on Earth, allowing every person, every kind of cargo to circulate conveniently and quickly.
Obviously, the world government promoted and established by the nation has truly exerted its power during the decades he was in hibernation.
At this moment, it is still not perfect enough, and there are still some problems on Earth, but undoubtedly, compared to decades ago, human civilization has truly burst forth with vitality.
The strength of human civilization has been enhanced unprecedentedly.
Jiang Yang raised his head, his gaze piercing through the deep blue sky and extending into the vast galaxy beyond Earth.
“We humans fear no challenges.”
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One hibernation after another continued, and Jiang Yang personally witnessed the continued strengthening of the world government’s authority, former nations and ethnic groups on Earth who had fought with arms and held deep blood feuds laying down their weapons, uniting to struggle together, witnessing the gradual strengthening of human civilization.
The scale of the moon base is also growing larger and larger, with more than 100 astronauts stationed there at every moment now;
Aerospace technology is also advancing rapidly, and the scale of the aerospace industry is also expanding rapidly.
In this era, taking a rocket to space for a spin, although still not belonging to the public but rather a relatively high-end, niche activity, already has quite a number of participants.
If one has not done a space travel, one can’t even enter certain tycoon circles; saying it out would make people laugh.
There are even some wealthy people with relatively strong strength who spend huge sums of money to specifically travel to the moon for a trip, personally experiencing the living environment and work process of lunar astronauts, experiencing a delicious meal with lunar characteristics in the moon’s low-gravity environment, making countless people envious.
Jiang Yang saw that at this stage, the average annual rocket launch count has skyrocketed to more than 10,000 times, and the annual average number of people entering space has reached more than 20,000. In comparison, during the first apocalypse, the global annual average rocket launch count was only about 200 times, and the annual average number of people entering space was less than ten.
It has increased by dozens of times.
This has made rocket manufacturing a new industry, with unknown amounts of funds and wealth flowing in.
There are more than 10,000 rocket manufacturing supporting factories on Earth, and the industry personnel has reached more than ten million.
Under such circumstances, the 239th hibernation belonging to Jiang Yang’s small group began.
This hibernation time was still 50 days. Calculated as awakening for 2 days + hibernation for 50 days, up to this moment, Jiang Yang has spent as long as 34 years.
34 years have passed, even though biological technology has had several outbreaks in these years, the global human average lifespan has risen to over 90 years, and the longevity record has broken through the lifespan limit of 120 years for the first time, the social relationship circles of hibernators are also shrinking rapidly.
One after another familiar, known people die successively, and it has become routine, almost every awakening is like this.
The power of time is fully revealed here, but this long 34 years, for Jiang Yang, Zhou Yu and others, is merely a little over one year.
Their appearances have even basically not changed.
And in the foreseeable future, they will continue to remain this way.
“Then that’s it for now, we’re going into hibernation.”
After greeting the seventh hibernation base supervisor, Jiang Yang familiarly lay down in the ninth-generation new-style hibernation pod.
The familiar dizzy sensation came, and in just a moment, Jiang Yang lost consciousness. Then without any perceptible passage of time, Jiang Yang awoke again.
“Comrade Jiang Yang, this is your 237th hibernation awakening. How do you feel?”
“Oh… not bad.”
After multiple iterations, hibernation technology now has many side effects eliminated. At least the sore and tired feeling like a cold after hibernation awakening has disappeared.
In its place is only a slight dizziness, which usually disappears in no more than 10 minutes. Afterward, there is no need for long-term nutrient solution infusion and hyperbaric oxygen chamber assisted recovery; just rest for a while.
As with previous hibernation awakenings, the hibernators gathered again in the dedicated meeting room.
Here, the world government’s dedicated working group will brief them on some major events in recent times.
“In the past 50 days, the all-domain sanitation campaign in the Africa region has successfully ended. We can now announce without any discount that we have eradicated malaria globally…”
Jiang Yang was slightly stunned.
At this moment, the dizziness had completely subsided. Memories in his mind surged like a tide.
Eradicated… malaria?
If I remember correctly, in the previous few awakenings, I have already heard this news.
Then…
He suddenly looked up at the large screen beside the conference hall.
It clearly displayed that the hibernation that had just ended was the 237th. But Jiang Yang clearly remembered that the one he had just completed should be the 239th.
He suddenly stood up.
“Director Sun, Director Gu, Team Leader Liu, no, no, this is wrong! I clearly remember that the one that just ended should be the 239th hibernation, how is it the 237th!
I have already heard about eradicating malaria before, and I even know that the next time I awaken from hibernation, you will announce the completion of the Amazon River dam… apocalypse, it’s the apocalypse, the apocalypse has come!”
