Chapter 139: One-hour Apocalypse
The apocalypse has not only already arrived, but it will be in the near future, within 100 days!
At this moment, Liu Fangyuan, specially appointed by the World Government and serving as the group leader of the Doomsday Plan Hibernation Team Working Group, instantly looked up and gazed at Jiang Yang.
Everyone in the entire conference hall, whether the 99 people from the Future Plan or the other staff, all looked at Jiang Yang.
The hall was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop.
After a moment, Sun Changhe slowly stood up: “Comrade Jiang Yang, are you sure?”
Jiang Yang nodded vigorously: “I, I’m sure.”
Sun Changhe looked at Liu Fangyuan: “In that case, Team Leader Liu, it’s time to activate the emergency plan.”
“Yes!”
Liu Fangyuan decisively put down the briefing document in his hand and picked up his mobile phone.
At this critical moment, he had the authority to communicate directly with the World Government Decision-Making Group.
After a brief conversation, Liu Fangyuan stood up and looked straight at Sun Changhe ahead: “The Decision-Making Group has decided to reestablish the Apocalypse Project Command. From this moment on, the Future Plan Hibernation Team is automatically reorganized into the Consultant Group, fully participating in matters related to the Apocalypse Project Command.”
“Yes.”
At this moment, the 100 hibernators stood up simultaneously, their expressions full of solemnity and gravity.
Hundreds of hibernations, decades of waiting—now, our war has arrived.
As key witnesses to the apocalypse decades ago, this time, we will rely on our experience to help our civilization survive this catastrophe.
Like a sudden addition of a segment of murderous sound to a soothing and gentle melody, the originally smoothly and orderly operating human world suddenly became tense and urgent.
One car after another, one airplane after another, one radio wave after another shuttling through—this massive organization, far more powerful than any single nation’s team in the past and managing the entire human civilization and the entire Earth, was operating at an unprecedented speed.
One hour later, all the hibernators arrived at the meeting room. On the large screen ahead, figures of current Deliberation Council members, Decision-Making Group members, and scientific research scholars appeared.
Sun Changhe stood up solemnly and came to the microphone.
“According to the current intelligence, we can confirm that the occurrence time of this apocalypse is between the 52nd and 100th day after today, that is, sometime between September 10 and October 28, 2078, within these 48 days.”
Jiang Yang knew that in the previous life, after this awakening at this moment, he had hibernated again, then awakened again, and encountered the apocalypse during the process of hibernating again.
After dying due to the apocalypse, he would be reborn 100 days before the apocalypse. So there was a time range: exactly when did the apocalypse arrive—right at the beginning of the third hibernation, or near the end?
If it arrived near the end, then rewinding 100 days, his rebirth time would be at the end of this just-completed first hibernation, giving them nearly 100 days of preparation time.
But if the apocalypse struck right at the start of the third hibernation, then the time he reborn to would also be the beginning of the first hibernation.
In the next nearly 50 days, he had wasted them all in hibernation, failing to report the information to the World Government in time, leaving the human world with only about 50 days of preparation time.
This seemed unfavorable for the human world to confront the apocalypse. But there was no way; this was the only plan that could balance extending his own lifespan with ensuring humans had the longest possible time to confront the apocalypse.
Sun Changhe continued: “The second piece of intelligence is that we can confirm the time from the apocalypse showing signs to truly annihilating the entire human civilization will not exceed one hour.
Because the current hibernation equipment can already awaken hibernators and restore their consciousness within one hour. Yet in the previous life, we obviously did not do so.
The only factor preventing us from doing so must be that the apocalypse happened too quickly, leaving no time. From this retro-thrust, we can determine the duration of the apocalypse.
The fourth piece of intelligence is that our hibernation base is extremely sturdy and located at a geologically stable point. According to current geological research, geological disasters such as earthquakes and volcanoes are almost impossible within at least 1000 years. Moreover, even if nuclear bombs with millions of tons of equivalent directly and continuously bombard the surface, it can ensure at least one day of stable operation, which is enough time to awaken all hibernators.
The fourth piece of intelligence is that our space-sky-surface-underground four-in-one risk monitoring network, as well as moon-based astronauts, space station astronauts, and others, all failed to detect signs of this apocalypse more than one hour in advance and failed to issue timely warnings.
This is all the intelligence we currently have. So, experts, what form of disaster do you think could erupt suddenly within a short hour, without triggering any of our risk monitoring networks, and take all our lives?”
What greeted Sun Changhe was a long silence.
“Everyone present is the elite of our human civilization and the only ones who can shoulder the heavy responsibility of saving humanity and continuing civilization. I hope everyone can digest, absorb, and think about this information in the shortest time possible, then throw themselves into work.
The meeting is now adjourned for one hour; the meeting will resume after one hour.”
The large screen image disappeared, and in the hibernators’ conference hall, Sun Changhe looked at his companions: “Everyone, take a rest too.”
One hour later, the meeting resumed.
An expert raised his hand and said: “The form of the last apocalypse was high-energy neutrinos targeting human genes, triggering secondary radiation inside the human body, ultimately killing all humans indiscriminately.
Could this apocalypse still be some mechanism targeting human genes?”
In the Hibernation Team, Lu Zhaoming, who bore the responsibility of science advisor, pondered: “That’s possible.
In the previous life, the alien equipment exciting high-energy neutrinos was on the Moon. So this life, around Earth, have we discovered any space facilities not belonging to humans?”
“I can confirm, no. The risk monitoring network not issuing an early warning is proof.
Not to mention alien facilities hundreds of meters in size, even asteroids smaller than one meter, we can detect them after they approach Earth.”
A contemplative expression appeared on Lu Zhaoming’s face.
He vaguely sensed that they had fallen into almost the same dilemma as at the beginning of the previous apocalypse.
Effective in a short time, inescapable no matter what protection one was under.
And this necessarily meant that this killing method had extremely strong penetration.
Last time it was neutrinos; this time… perhaps still neutrinos?
He knew that this life, they probably wouldn’t harvest useful information.
This life’s human civilization was once again doomed to annihilation. The only thing they could do was the same as what the nation had done in those cycles described by Jiang Yang.
Collect intelligence to provide decision support for the next life’s human civilization.
