A Million Possible

Chapter 250 Snowball Hypothesis

“Traveler?”

The municipal staff were a little surprised. In such an early morning, encountering such a strange person, this incident was full of weirdness.

However, at this moment, they still have more serious and heavy things to do, and they have no time to take care of this strange Oriental.

“Please get out.”

“good.”

Cheng Lin walked to the side of the street and stood under a black street lamp with a white lampshade hanging.

Staring quietly at the municipal staff moving forward, sometimes when they encounter a car blocking the road, someone will step forward to check, and then there will be a dull, panic, but calm voice: “Here! Dead again. one!”

“There is this one too! There is also!”

“Oh my god, it’s dead, it’s all dead! What happened?”

“Shut up! Don’t move, our task is to clear the snow!”

Where have the city officials seen so many deaths? Almost all were panicked, only a few were able to calm down and command themselves, but their trembling voices also exposed their inner anxiety and fear.

Death.

Death is everywhere.

This big city is filled with deathly depression!

…

“Rumble…”

The snow shovel continued to move forward, pushing away the knee-thick snow. The snow was too big, and many people had never seen such a big snow before.

Cheng Lin stood quietly on the side of the road, raised his head, and glanced at the gloomy sky. There were still snowflakes dancing, but the momentum was much smaller. He already realized that this time, the world is welcoming a sudden drop in temperature and snowstorms. .

“It’s just… I don’t know how serious it will be.”

“According to the procedure, the cold wave last night covered the whole world. In other words, this is not just a disaster of one city and one place.”

“The number of people who died in the cold may be more than I expected, how many? Tens of millions, hundreds of millions?”

Cheng Lin thought about it. At this time, there was information in his mind again.

[You stand by the roadside, staring at the dead city quietly. The blizzard last night took away hundreds of millions of lives around the world. However, at this moment, people have not yet reacted, and most of the surviving people still don’t know this catastrophic news. , But soon, maybe the next second, maybe it has already begun, the number of people who died last night will be an explosive news, shocking the world, causing a global shock][This is a great disaster that humans have never encountered in hundreds of years. You feel uneasy in your heart. You decide to buy a cup of hot coffee to warm your body. Unfortunately, all the coffee shops near you are closed. Fortunately, there is one not far away. The supermarket just opened, there can meet your basic requirements]

At the same time, Cheng Lin felt that there was something in his pocket, and looked at it. It was a five-euro banknote, gray paper, with a Greek-style classical building on the front and the Gard Bridge on the north.

Cheng Lin looked at this banknote for a few seconds, as if thinking about something, but after a while he just sighed faintly.

Looking up, he saw the familiar translucent cursor on the ground. He followed the guide and walked a block along the cursor, and saw a small supermarket with a red grid on the background color and white letters. Can’t recognize the brand.

The front of the supermarket seemed to have been cleaned, and the door was wiped, but the surface was still covered with thin frost again.

Pushing open the door, the indoor lights are on and the temperature is very low. Even if the heating equipment is turned on, it is still cold. There is a middle-aged woman wearing a thick down jacket in front of the counter, rubbing her hands busy, and in front of her, it is a middle-aged woman. Slightly bald-haired man-he is wearing a blue-black clothes, a thick scarf and glasses. He has a serious expression and looks like a scholar or a lawyer.

“The situation is terrible. Prepare for the worst.” He said.

The middle-aged woman rubbed her hands: “Of course, I heard that someone froze to death last night.”

“It doesn’t seem to be, it is.”

“Oh my God, why did this happen? Mr. Durand, the weather forecast did not mention that there would be such a severe cooling last night!” The middle-aged lady looked a little excited.

The Mr. Durand said with a calm face, took the cup of hot coffee that had just been made, and said: “Perhaps, it’s not just for simple weather.”

At this time, the middle-aged woman saw Cheng Lin and was a little surprised. She asked in English, “What would you like to order?”

Cheng Lin responded in pure French: “A cup of hot coffee, thank you.”

With that, handed over the banknote.

Taking advantage of the woman’s time to brew, he turned to look at Durand, “What do you seem to know?”

Durand looked at Cheng Lin. There are often foreign tourists in this city, and the Orientals are not uncommon, but Cheng Lin still feels very strange, even weird, to him.

“Xia Guoren?”

“Yes, I just heard you say that this is not a simple climatic reason?”

Durand pondered for two seconds and said, “It’s just a guess.”

“Appreciate further details.”

“Do you know the snowball hypothesis?” Durand said a strange word.

Cheng Lin shook his head, expressing that he was unclear.

Durand is not surprised either. He seems to simply want to find someone to talk to. At such a moment, talk can relieve his inner tension and fear:

“That is a scientific hypothesis put forward by the geology community, mainly to explain the glacial relics of the Neo-Paleo-Yuan period that have been discovered worldwide.”

“About 635 million years ago, in the New Ancient Yuan period, there seemed to be a global freezing phenomenon on the earth. The entire world’s oceans and land were frozen, and the entire earth became an ice ball completely covered by ice and snow. Internationally, it is called the Malino Great Ice Age, and in your country, it is also called the Nantuo Great Ice Age.

There are many hypotheses in the geology community. Among them, in 1992, the geology professor at the California Institute of Technology Keshi Weinke first used the term “snowball earth”, or the snowball earth hypothesis, and it has since been included. Harvard University geology professor Hoffman and other colleagues supported. ”

“It is guessed that in history, global freezing times similar to Snowball Earth have occurred three times, so…”

Suddenly, Durand didn’t say any more, just took a sip of coffee.

Cheng Lin looked at him unexpectedly: “No, it’s too sudden. Is there any evidence?”

Durand shook his head with a heavy expression: “There is no evidence, but I am always used to thinking in the worst direction. I hope I think too much. Maybe tomorrow, the temperature will slowly rise and everything will become normal.”

Well, then your hopes may be lost…

Cheng Lin thought in his heart, took his own hot coffee, took a sip, and watched Durand turned and opened the door and walked into the cold street.

When he left, Cheng Lin looked at the middle-aged woman: “That Mr. Durand told me a very strange theory just now, do you know what he does? A scholar? Or a university professor?”

Unexpectedly, the middle-aged woman was stunned when she heard the words, and said: “He…he is a vet.”

“……Thanks, bye.”

Cheng Lin pursed his lips, and also opened the door to leave the supermarket. The moment he opened the door, the warm coffee in his hand quickly cooled down, cooled, cracked, iced, and cracked the paper cup.

Throw it in the snow-covered trash can by the side of the road.

Cheng Lin looked around and found that there were already more figures on the street.

[You come out of the supermarket and quietly listen to the city in the early morning. The heavy snow hinders the spread of sound, but you still find that the city is slowly and uncontrollably noisy.

There was a harsh scream from nowhere. It was probably a woman who had met a frozen dead body by accident.

A bitter and desperate cry came from a certain corner, which was made by people who came out looking for relatives and friends.

Tears blurred their eyes, but they quickly froze, the snow shovel rumblingly turned on, and the municipal government began to clean up this semi-paralyzed city][More and more people are aware of what happened last night. The death count has increased at a terrifying and frightening rate. The city’s police stations have been surrounded by people, and major hospitals have been crowded with severe frostbite. patient.

Behind the cloud-shrouded sky, the faint sunlight poured down, without any temperature, the whole city, the whole world was recovering, and no one knew what happened. Countries blamed this incident on accidental natural disasters and were busy pacifying the turbulent. society.

However… the situation will not improve as people expect, but will continue to deteriorate]

Cheng Lin stood silently, and suddenly the surrounding scenery suddenly blurred and changed. When it became clear again, he had already come to another street.

He turned his head and saw a city public display screen lit up beside him.

Not long ago, what was scrolling on this screen were blessings from couples about true love.

At this moment, there was only a scarlet, eye-catching exclamation mark.

There is also a line of small letters at the bottom:

“The highest level, global disaster warning!”