Chapter 169: What The Hell?!
Looking at the data in front of him and the conclusion reached by the scientist teams after collective careful discussion, Sun Changhe slowly said: “Combining the above intelligence, the truth and process of this apocalypse are very likely to be like this.
First, the Reaper Civilization influenced the sun through some unknown means, causing certain changes in the sun.
And these changes, through some mechanism unknown to us, influenced Earth, ultimately causing extremely high-intensity movement in parts of Earth’s mantle, which in turn affected the crust, leading to severe earthquakes covering the globe, and finally destroying our civilization.
In this entire process, is there anything that violates physics and logic?”
He looked toward the scientist team.
Moments later, that scientist who already had some white hair murmured: “From an overall perspective, it does not violate physics and logic.
The sun’s radiation energy per second is 3.8*10^26 joules, while the total mass of the mantle is about 4*10^24 kilograms. To violently perturb the mantle to the point of triggering severe earthquakes covering the globe, the external energy input needed is around 10^24 joules.
As an analogy, this is roughly equivalent to the energy of 240 trillion tons of TNT explosives detonating simultaneously.
Accounting for losses during the process, we can raise this number by another order of magnitude, that is, estimate it at about 10^25 joules, which is equivalent to about 2.4 quadrillion tons of TNT explosives detonating simultaneously.
This number is large, but compared to the sun’s radiation energy per second, it is still only about 2.6%.
In other words, 2.6% of the sun’s radiation energy per second would have the ability to cause such earth-shattering changes on Earth. From the perspective of order-of-magnitude estimation, this is completely consistent with physical theory.”
Sun Changhe was silent for a moment, then looked at him again: “Then, do we have the ability to influence the sun?”
That expert shook his head slightly, his face full of numbness: “No. Not at all, impossible.”
His tone was unprecedentedly firm and affirmative.
Jiang Yang, like all the other attendees, fell into silence.
He had long known it would be this result, but before this, he still harbored some extravagant hope in his heart—perhaps with the rapid advancement of human technology, we now have some sufficiently ingenious way to influence the sun?
And this expert used an indisputable, resolute attitude to completely shatter the last bit of luck in Jiang Yang’s heart without leaving any room.
Yes, after all, that is such a massive star—how could the human world possibly influence it?
Even if humans exert all their efforts and concentrate all nuclear weapons on Earth into the sun, the influence on the sun would be far less than a speck of dust blowing onto the human body.
No matter what, the sun is right there.
No matter how the human world struggles or what means it takes, it is there and will not produce any extra changes.
The enormous difference in orders of magnitude is enough to nullify all efforts of human civilization.
At this moment, Jiang Yang felt some extra anger in his heart toward the Reaper Civilization.
Are you overestimating our human civilization too much?
Creating an apocalypse on Earth by influencing the sun… isn’t that really overkill?
Is it necessary?
It’s like blowing up the entire Mount Tai just to kill a nest of ants at its base.
Is it really necessary, you bastards?
But it is precisely this world destruction method that far exceeds conventional scale that made Jiang Yang, and everyone present, clearly and unmistakably feel the determination of the Reaper Civilization.
Perhaps… this is the follow-up to the failure of the last world destruction harvest?
Since the neutrino annihilation plan failed last time, switch to another method.
By pooling the power of the entire civilization, you indeed have an extremely tiny probability of achieving self-rescue, destroying our harvest tools, and escaping the harvest.
So this time, how will you solve it?
No matter what, this harvest must proceed and be completed.
After a brief anger, Jiang Yang’s heart was left only with full powerlessness.
Even after countless life-and-death cycles, even though he already considered his mind as firm as iron, even though he possessed the unimaginable ability of time loop and countless opportunities to attempt, at this moment he felt a touch of bewilderment and despair.
Give an ant 100 million chances, it still couldn’t level Mount Tai in less than three months.
Give the human world 100 million chances, it still couldn’t influence the sun in that time.
Not to mention solving this apocalypse, but simply influencing the sun.
Whether good influence or bad influence, simply influencing the sun is already impossible.
So… does our struggle still have meaning?
Thousands of attendees fell silent at this moment, not a single one speaking.
Any words at this moment seemed so meaningless and unnecessary.
At this time, Jiang Yang was slightly surprised to see a smile appear at the corner of Sun Changhe’s mouth.
“Using the momentum of Mount Tai crushing down to deal with our tiny nest of ants—heh, what a grand move.
We indeed have sufficient reason to despair at this moment.
But…
74,000 years ago, the supervolcano eruption on Sumatra Island covered the global sky with volcanic ash, temperatures plummeted by 5 degrees Celsius, large areas of plants froze to death, animals died from lack of food, and the global population sharply dropped to just a few thousand.
Facing the bone-chilling cold, the ancestors who migrated for survival, looking at the icy snow-covered land beneath their feet and the sky full of wind and snow—did they despair?
About 20,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Maximum, the global population fell below one million, the seas froze, icebergs rose, facing this icy world—did they despair?
More than a hundred years ago, when that Eastern Country fell into darkness, countless righteous people sacrificed their lives and shed hot blood, yet still could not save the nation, only watching as the land sank—under that dark sky, did they despair?”
Sun Changhe sighed lightly: “We all know the answer—despair, of course they despaired.
But!
Despair does not mean we do nothing!
Hope does not come for free—precisely because in desperate situations they could still hold firm to their beliefs and persist relentlessly, there was finally the dawn of hope!
Tens of thousands of years ago, human ancestors did not accept fate in desperate situations but continued to persist in the boundless darkness where hope was invisible, ultimately welcoming the dawn and giving rise to our current human civilization;
More than a hundred years ago, the predecessors of that Eastern Country did not give up in the dark days either, ultimately creating that powerful nation, solving the first apocalypse, and with that nation as the mainstay, building the framework of our current world government.
Today’s us have unprecedentedly high technology levels and unprecedentedly great engineering power.
We have sufficient wisdom to understand and modify the world, sufficient power to pursue a better life, and we even master equipment and weapons that our predecessors dared not even dream of to confront the enemy.
How can today’s us accept the current situation because of despair?
Even if despairing, we must persist, continue to investigate the truth of the apocalypse, and seek self-rescue methods.
Even in dark days without light, we must persist in moving forward—perhaps in the next life, we can welcome the dawn of hope!
Respected attendees, respected members of the Deliberation Council and Decision-Making Council, I suggest that in this life, the doomsday plan must continue to be implemented. Not only can we not relax, but we must invest on an even larger scale to investigate the truth and seek hope!”
