doomsday exile

Four months later, Huaxia Shangdu.

Today is New Year's Eve, and there are three hours before the Lunar New Year in China.

The cafeteria of the base research institute was full of people, and a special New Year speech by the head of Yanjing was being broadcast live on the TV screen.

"...We are about to face the most severe test, the most important battle for mankind!

"Meteorite Yermungand, numbered 203107, humans discovered its existence 20 years ago. This is an asteroid with a diameter of 10 kilometers. Because of its major threat, the Earth Federation was established in November of that year...

"This war of human beings fighting for survival and against the end of natural disasters has lasted for 20 years. Everything we do today is the efforts of countless people. There are me, you, and those who are listening to this passage everyone."

Even office workers who used to squeeze the subway and work overtime every day in the office building.

Even ordinary people who are queuing up in the refuge to receive free New Year supplies.

——As long as it is a person who has worked hard for life.

The nation, the country, and the large social group of human beings are composed of countless ordinary people.

Even a grain of rice, a piece of cloth, or an electronic component is social wealth, and at a larger scale, it is war materials that support soldiers and scientists.

"...In recent months, Huaxia has received selfless help from the Earth Federation and various countries.

"Humanity has not chosen passive defense. From the meteorite traction plan established by the Earth Federation to the upcoming meteorite decomposition plan, mankind has been working hard...including our last asteroid defense system. Humanity will not be defeated.

"Even if we launched the space station, promoted interstellar migration, and established a Mars base, but—"

"Humanity still won't give up on Earth."

The scene shifts to a huge silo.

An elliptical spaceship is held inside by a launch pad.

There are three very clear words on the cabin of the spaceship, "Yuhui".

This is the Cactus Building of the Earth Federation Headquarters, and the Eden Space Station was launched from here.

"Look, Lao Xia." Professor Zhang Xun's sharp eyes caught sight of a familiar face in the camera.

During this time, Zhang Xun had a heart problem again, so he had to withdraw from the preparations for the Yuhui, and stayed in the Shangdu base to watch the live broadcast.

"Xiao Zhu is also there."

The person sitting next to him reacted quickly, pointing at the screen and saying.

***

The Passover is a miracle.

A miracle that would never happen under normal circumstances, countries did not interfere in the process of research and development projects, mainly because they were willing to only give materials and not take other responsibilities.

As a result, the Overglow became the only ideal masterpiece completed by Chairman Simsacco, which was co-operated by human beings.

After the truth about the meteorite was exposed and the Statue of Liberty lost contact, no one was optimistic about China's proposal to go to space to solve the meteorite's plan.

Needless to say, for small countries, half of the large countries did not ask about the specific content of this plan.

Speaker Sinsakho prepared a false plan of "destroying meteorites with a large number of weapons" to deal with some countries that he thought were unreliable. Everyone responded very unanimously and basically agreed, but they did not want to contribute.

The Earth Federation came to ask for materials, but they didn't want to give them.

After asking for it again and again, I am willing to exchange materials.

Specifically, the Earth Federation and China used weapons to make deals with small countries, and used quantum transmission technology and a complete Mars base plan to make deals with big countries, obtained enough energy and space materials, and recruited a group of scientists.

——Unprecedented in history, there are no spies and agents mixed in.

Agents also need to eat and live, and it takes a lot of money to raise them.

To guard against the nuclear weapons of hostile countries, to suppress domestic turmoil, to protect the safety of government officials, and to secretly raise supplies, where is the extra manpower!

In fact, many countries have fallen into chaos, and there are only a handful of countries that can barely maintain a certain order.

More than half of the earth's population is struggling on the death line. They live in areas with frequent earthquakes and natural disasters. They lack food and clean drinking water. They are struggling to migrate under the sky covered by volcanic ash. Some people come to the sea to fish, and some hide in the mountains. Then died in the tsunami and flash flood.

Money has become waste paper, only guns and bullets are hard currency.

Too many people died, and the plague began to prevail again.

The land actually controlled by many countries is shrinking sharply, and there are no neighboring countries to invade those abandoned areas, because the land is full of starving corpses, and there are piles of ruins that do not want to be cleaned up, and the living people are still lingering. ,attacking each other.

The spaceships that were originally planned to be launched by various countries did not move.

——Scared by the loss of contact with the Statue of Liberty.

What the Earth Federation and Huaxia are planning to do with the Yuhui now gives them a chance to wait and see.

If successful, everyone is happy.

If they fail, they can also take this opportunity to launch the spacecraft, and then sail in the opposite direction of the meteorite to escape from the earth.

There are also some politicians who don’t have spaceships in their own countries and are planning to take the spaceships of countries with large thighs. Now they simply give up and dig deep again on the basis of the original refuge, thinking that as long as they hide deep enough, meteorites will not take them away.

As for what the experts say, what the science says, they don't want to listen at all, and just carry out the "safest and most old-fashioned plan".

Seeing the ostrich, Chairman Sinsaco no longer showed any anger.

Although he was very painful when he saw those corpses, those ruins, and those refugees, he couldn't even stop to take a look. He could only use limited resources and limited manpower to try his best to save those who were caught in disaster and could not get help. the scientist.

Are all lives equal?

No, in most cases, there is only forced choice.

Now, looking at the silver alloy shell of the Yuhui, Chairman Xinsak's fingers trembled, and he tried to speak several times but failed to speak.

All those who saw Chairman Shinsacco on the Huaxia live broadcast realized one thing, this old man has aged a lot, a lot in this year.

The originally straight back was slightly bent, and the face was covered with black and brown age spots. The bags under the eyes were drooping, and he was so thin that he seemed to have lost half of his energy, leaving only the hard bones to support the old body. body.

"...I once hoped that human beings would have a civilized society of common prosperity and progress. Although there are contradictions and conflicts, human beings have become so strong that they have overcome many terrible diseases, eliminated the shadow that hangs over human beings, and made us no longer afraid of the unknown. things. Science and technology leads to fly across the ocean and sky, and reach the future.

"So a mere meteorite, plus 20 years, I believe this is just a question God has given to mankind.

"If you solve this problem, human beings will be able to achieve further and better development.

"But we underestimated the difficulty of this question.

"I didn't expect that human beings would experience so many disasters before the meteorite came. As I speak, many people are dying. They should have been watching TV at home, or at work, drinking a glass of wine with friends... They are disease-free, not poor, and living very hard... I regret that..."

Chairman Simsak raised his head, his eyes seemed to have water, he took a deep breath, and continued:

"I must say that Huaxia is not the country in my ideal, but at this moment, it is the closest to the ideal, because it still has hope, and it gave me this hope. Now I wish the Yuhui to bring good news and give hope to more people.

"Human beings are far weaker than we think, and human beings are stronger than we think.

"Humans will not abandon the earth."

The live broadcast screen was interrupted by the applause, followed by a line of countdown text.

There is still one hour and seven minutes before the launch of the Yuhui.

It is expected that the Yuhui will encounter the meteorite Yemengade head-on, and there will be 61 days left.

There are still 128 days until Yemengard arrives on Earth.

***

Lu Di sat in front of the glass window on the highest floor, looking at Speaker Shinsak who was giving a speech below.

The live camera once scanned around here, indicating that all the people sitting here are people who are about to board the Yuhui.

Through this layer of glass, the interference effect of the mental body will not affect the camera, but it is estimated that nothing can be captured at such a distance.

"Hey?"

Just as Lu Di was thinking, he suddenly saw a drone flying to the glass window, facing his face directly.

Lu Di was confused, and subconsciously looked at Yan Long beside him.

Yan Long stood up straight and raised his hand to salute the camera of the drone.

The spiritual bodies behind Lu Di also saluted in unison. Only a few people (including Lu Di, Lin Se...) reacted a bit slower, and their movements were not very standard.

The drone stayed for a full minute, as if to record all of their faces.

When it turned away from the camera, Lu Di breathed a sigh of relief and asked doubtfully, "This is..."

"Anti-jamming, it can capture all of us."

"Hey? Didn't you say that we won't be live broadcasting?" Lu Di was shocked, so he just posed in a slumped posture without any image!

Standing behind them, Lin Hai said helplessly in a low voice: "I won't be broadcasting live, because it's not easy to announce things like spirit bodies and alien AI, but he didn't say he wouldn't film us! Chairman Simsak will return later. To come, theoretically, these video materials will be properly preserved until the day of declassification."

Lu Di scratched his head, feeling that it was unnecessary to go through this process.

On second thought, no.

The future of coexistence between the spiritual body and human beings depends on this mission and these archived video materials.

"I'm still not used to it." Lu Di said awkwardly.

In the past, he was in charge of random thinking, and Yan Long wrote the report, but it turned out that once, Yan Long couldn't come back from overtime, so he was eager to do it himself.

The report was poorly written, thanks to Professor Xia leading a group of assistants to revise it.

Forget it, after Yan Long came back, the originally conceived plan sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain, and it became a huge plan in the blink of an eye. turned into a Shangdu base).

Anyway, Lu Di and the students in the training class were directly dragged to the Earth Federation Space Laboratory to simulate the environment to make up lessons.

After refilling, Ludi, a student, suddenly remembered that the orbital resonance spirit body can be simulated, but at least three orbits similar to the meteorite are needed to deceive the meteorite, which requires a lot of calculations, and biological AI alone is not enough.

Yan Long replied that he had already figured it out. The quantum computers of Huaxia and the Earth Federation have been invested in it. If it is not enough, they can find other countries through transactions.

Quantum computers around the world can be used at will!

Scientists around the world, as long as they are alive, and those the Federation can recruit, are all working.

Materials from all over the world, as long as they can be obtained, are being used to create new types of spiritual combat spaceships.

Can be extended, detached, recombined...

A spaceship can be roughly divided into the main ship and nine mechs.

Also this is an extreme spaceship with no survival system, no food...

Calling Spider Mech 2.0 is a bit ugly, so I changed the name.

After Lu Di knew about it, he once felt that he had reached the pinnacle of his life.

"No, it's better to kill Ye Mengjiad." Lu Di clenched his fists and thought.