Two years later.

Tuesday, July 28, 2015, Jiangcheng, early morning.

Jingle Bell Bell -

Yang Jing turned over, turned off the alarm on her mobile phone, opened her eyes in a daze, and looked at the time, just after seven o'clock.

When I got up and came out of the room, my father was reading the newspaper on the couch, and my mother was busy in the kitchen.

The familiar voice of the CCTV host was heard on the TV.

"Good morning, and welcome to today's "Morning News" program. ”

"Today's content is mainly ......"

"The Mathilde asteroid is located 123,259,454 kilometers from Earth and is expected to arrive on Earth in 378 days. ”

"At 10 o'clock yesterday evening capital time, the Newton space elevator located in the waters near the island of Madagascar completed its first test operation, and the largest space-to-earth transportation system in human history is about to be launched. ”

At noon on the 27th Eastern time, the Council of the Earth Alliance held a press conference in New York, confirming that a gigatron giant nuclear bomb would be used to blast the Mathilde, and the explosion would attempt to deflect its orbit. Some scientists said that the mass of the Mathilde asteroid is more than 2 billion tons, and a thermonuclear bomb with a TNT equivalent of one billion tons is unlikely to change the orbit of the Mathilde asteroid, and the probability of success of the program is less than 50 percent. ”

"Yesterday afternoon, China's central government held a working meeting in the capital, which will further accelerate the promotion of genetic identity cards, and it is expected that genetic identity cards will be basically universalized nationwide by the end of the year......"

Yang Jing entered the bathroom to wash up, and when she came out, her mother had already put breakfast on the table.

White flour steamed buns, congee and pickles, plus one egg per person.

Mother seemed to know that Yang Jing didn't like to eat steamed buns, so she deliberately cut Yang Jing's share of steamed buns into small slices. Then put it in the toaster and bake it until browned.

Yang Jing said a little strangely: "Mom, didn't Dad go to the supply and marketing cooperatives yesterday to get rations? Why is there no milk today?"

Since the resumption of food rationing in May last year, although the problem of having a full stomach is basically not large, all kinds of special snacks in the past are gone, and all the catering enterprises outside have basically closed down, and the market is depressed. Supermarkets have become supply and marketing cooperatives, and even cigarettes have become luxuries.

Yang Jing's monthly recipe can only be supplied by the state, 20 catties of rice, 5 catties of noodles, 5 catties of pork, 30 eggs, one frozen chicken and duck, and two frozen fish per month.

That's all the energy and protein sources of poplar jing.

I can't say it's bad, but I only eat these every month. Without the dazzling array of snacks and drinks, and without Yang Jing's favorite ice cream, milk is one of the few drinks that can make Yang Jing reminisce about her previous life.

Fruits and vegetables are still available in the market, but the prices are at least twice as high as before.

For this reason, the green belt of their community has been cleared and is now all turned into vegetable fields.

The father took a sip of gruel and said, "It's good to eat some, anyway, when the asteroid hits, you young people can walk as much as you want." We might as well die on earth as an old bone!"

The mother glared at her father and said to Yang Jing, "Don't listen to your father's nonsense. This month, the milk is gone, but it has been replaced by frozen beef, and the three of us can receive ten catties of beef this month. When you come back from a business trip, your mother will make you your favorite tomato brisket. ”

Yang Jing sighed and said, "I don't know when I will be able to come back this time!"

Yang Jing is now a reporter for Jiangcheng TV, since the news of the asteroid about its impact on Earth spread two years ago. The urban life column she was in charge of suddenly became unpopular, and the first thing everyone looked at when they turned on the TV every day was how far the Mathilde was from the earth.

Now Yang Jing goes to work every day, that is, three days of fishing, two days of drying nets, anyway, it is the same whether she does it or not, if it were not for the sudden business trip arranged by the unit, she would not get up so early.

In fact, it's not just her. Except for the students and the factory employees involved in the space industry, most of the people on the planet are waiting to die in this way.

Mother took out a wooden Buddha pendant from her pocket, hung it on Yang Jing's neck, and said: "Jingjing, this is the talisman that my mother asked for from Qingyun Temple, the elders of Qingyun Temple said that this talisman can bless you with peace and security, you have to wear it closely, don't lose it!"

"Mom!"

Yang Jing knew that her mother was begging God and worshiping Buddha again, and she just wanted to say a few words to her, but when she saw her mother's pleading eyes, her heart suddenly softened again.

Yang Jing pulled a small suitcase to the bus stop at the entrance of the community, the original busy street has been empty at this time, since the state announced the cessation of oil supply, now can drive on the street, in addition to the government buses, there are only a few taxis and buses that use metal batteries.

The only thing that makes Yang Jing feel comforted is that in order to facilitate the travel of citizens, the route and density of buses are several times larger than before, and there is no traffic jam, Yang Jing starts from home to all parts of the city much faster than before.

Yang Jing got on the bus, all the way, most of the shops on both sides of the street were closed, half an hour later, the bus arrived at Jiangcheng TV Station, Yang Jing got off the bus, and there were already more than a dozen men and women standing at the door of the unit, all of whom were transferred to a business trip this time.

As for what he was going to do on this business trip, even the leaders of the units leading the team were not clear.

Yang Jing said hello to several colleagues who knew each other, and it didn't take long for the bus to pick them up.

Once on board, the bus heads straight to the airport.

When she arrived at Jiangcheng Airport, Yang Jing found that the terminal was already bustling with nearly 1,000 people, including government civil servants and employees of major enterprises and institutions.

They are also grouped according to their respective occupations.

Yang Jing's Jiangcheng TV station was arranged into the media group.

Until now, no one knows exactly where they are going or what they are going to do on this business trip.

And Yang Jing also found that the person responsible for picking them up was actually three Airbus A330 long-range passenger planes, Yang Jing is naturally no stranger to this kind of aircraft, when she and Ling Wei studied in France, they took the Airbus A330 back to China every time.

Thinking of Ling Wei and her mysterious boyfriend, Yang Jing couldn't help but sigh, and she didn't know where she went, two years ago, she and her family suddenly moved, and she cut off any contact with her classmates and friends, Yang Jing had been looking for a while, but unfortunately there were no clues.

The passenger plane quickly took off, carrying more than 1,000 people from Jiangcheng, and flew towards the vast unknown area. (To be continued......)