Chapter 168: Direct Evidence
The next moment, consciousness slowly returned to his own body.
Jiang Yang opened his eyes and saw the familiar face of Hibernation Base Supervisor Shen Wei.
“Comrade Jiang Yang, this is your 237th hibernation awakening. How do you feel?”
Memories surged in like a tide, making his breathing become rapid in an instant.
“Bring paper and pen!”
At this moment, the atmosphere in the Hibernation Base, which had been full of ease, suddenly became solemn.
Laughter and conversation disappeared in an instant. Everyone in the base, whether staff or the other members of the hibernation team who had just awakened, all turned their gazes to Jiang Yang.
Shen Wei’s expression stiffened for an instant. The next moment, like a conditioned reflex, he pulled over the sketchpad that was prepared according to regulations before every hibernation awakening.
It was prepared to prevent Jiang Yang from experiencing memory loss, ensuring he could immediately begin writing after experiencing the doomsday and awakening from hibernation.
Jiang Yang grabbed the pen and quickly sketched on the sketchpad. In moments, a pattern composed of numerous color blocks and lines appeared on the paper.
“Comrade Jiang Yang, is it…”
“Yes, it’s the doomsday. The doomsday has come!”
People’s expressions became solemn in an instant at this moment.
“I will report to superiors immediately.”
Shen Wei hurriedly left. Jiang Yang sat on the stretcher bed of the hibernation device, his expression changing uncertainly.
Damn it, I didn’t expect it, I really didn’t expect it…
This doomsday experience had far too many surprises that neither Jiang Yang nor Earth’s staff had anticipated.
First of all, when the doomsday arrived, even the space station located hundreds of kilometers above the surface was severely affected, leading to serious damage.
The original plan to survive long-term in the space station and observe the changes in Earth after the doomsday could not be executed at all.
Secondly, they originally thought this doomsday was only caused by some changes on Earth, but unexpectedly, it also involved the sun.
That was the sun, a massive star!
Facing a small Earth alone, humanity was already powerless enough.
Even after advancing technology so much, they still had to unite the power of the whole world just to barely penetrate the crust and drill only 6 holes.
What was a thin layer of crust compared to Earth as a whole?
The crust was at most a hundred kilometers thick, while Earth’s radius was over 6000 kilometers!
By comparison, what the human world was doing at this moment was roughly equivalent to some bacteria drilling a small wound less than 0.5 millimeters deep into the skin of an ordinary person.
That human might not even feel it.
And what was Earth compared to the sun?
The sun’s mass was 330,000 times that of Earth, and its volume was 1.3 million times that of Earth!
The two were not even on the same scale.
Drilling such a minuscule hole on Earth had already exhausted all of humanity’s power and wisdom, so for the sun… what could humanity do?
After a flurry of hasty organization, Jiang Yang and numerous hibernation team members sat once again in the meeting room.
Figures of experts from various disciplines, officials from administrative agencies, deliberation council and decision-making council members, and others appeared again on the large screen.
“The doomsday is coming, in 86 days, on October 14, 2078, at 7 a.m.!
The type is a severe earthquake covering the globe, with nowhere to hide and nowhere to escape.
This is not my first cycle in this doomsday. Before this, we already knew some information. In the previous cycle, we implemented the ion drilling plan, penetrated the crust, and directly probed the mantle in an attempt to determine the cause of the doomsday.
In the previous cycle, we had the following harvest…”
Jiang Yang slowly recounted, fully describing the experiences of the previous cycle.
Sun Changhe, who served as the chief consultant for the doomsday plan, said solemnly to Jiang Yang and to all the numerous participants at this moment: “Through data restoration, the image remembered by Comrade Jiang Yang has been deciphered by us.
The data is as follows.”
Numerous data appeared before the geologists and geophysicists.
After a period of discussion, the leading expert began speaking again.
“Although the total amount of this data is not large, the types are very comprehensive, covering all relevant data such as crust, mantle, plate movement, helium isotope measurements, geomagnetic changes, etc., at the time of the doomsday’s arrival.
But due to insufficient observation time—according to Comrade Jiang Yang’s description, combined with the changes in the space station where he was, we believe that at the time of the doomsday, not only did large-scale severe earthquakes damage the observation equipment, but there was also a massive electromagnetic pulse outbreak at that time, causing communication interruptions. Multiple mechanisms erupted simultaneously, leading us to collect only about 20 seconds of observation data at the moment of the doomsday’s outbreak.
From this data, we cannot confirm too many details, but one thing can be confirmed.”
The expert looked at the numerous participants on the screen and said gravely: “Mantle movement.
Some unknown force stirred the mantle, causing large-scale crust movement, which in turn triggered a severe earthquake covering the globe, leading to the annihilation of our civilization.
According to Comrade Jiang Yang’s report, at the time of the doomsday’s arrival, he observed with the naked eye that the brightness of the sun, Earth, and moon all increased.
The root cause of this change is obviously the increase in the sun’s brightness. That is, at the time of the doomsday’s arrival, some force exerted some influence on the sun.
Combined with the abnormal mantle movement on Earth, we have sufficient reason to suspect that some change occurring on the sun, through some unknown mechanism, affected the mantle, ultimately causing the doomsday.”
Jiang Yang knew that this expert’s suspicion at this moment that the sun was related to Earth’s doomsday was merely a suspicion.
No one had any concrete evidence.
But judging purely by common sense, the sun was completely normal before the doomsday, yet it suddenly brightened exactly when the doomsday struck Earth—these two events happening simultaneously couldn’t be a coincidence, right?
And what can currently be confirmed is not just the brightening; there was also a large-scale electromagnetic storm.
As early as when Space Station No. 6 suffered corresponding damage in the previous cycle, Jiang Yang had already noticed this.
Charged particles interacting with Earth’s magnetic field would generate extremely strong geomagnetically induced currents on conductors, thereby destroying all electronic equipment.
For what happened in the space station, aside from the electromagnetic storm, Jiang Yang couldn’t think of any other possible factors.
The experts obviously made the same judgment.
And for a disturbance of such intensity and scale, aside from the sun, Jiang Yang couldn’t find a second alternative.
Relying solely on Earth or the moon alone could not achieve this.
Only the sun had this capability.
This was another direct evidence that “at the time of the doomsday, the sun influenced Earth.”
