Chapter 508: A Strange Planet
"At that time, everyone was staring at the catastrophe that was raging on the earth, staring at the internal contradictions in the Anthropocene realm, but few people paid attention to that aura."
"Questions?"
"It's not just a halo, it's a mirror."
"What?"
"The halo is formed by dust, and each dust is about the same size, so it can reflect the electromagnetic waves of a certain frequency band to the ground after strengthening, and can also emit some electric ions from the solar wind to the earth, making the earth's electromagnetic field useless."
"This ......"
"If exposed directly to these strong radiations, living beings die instantly. Even with shielding, long-term exposure can lead to mutation. ”
"To exterminate humanity?"
The figure shook his head with a smile and said: "If the purpose of the invaders is to exterminate humanity, then when the moon collapses, only a fragment with a diameter of about 100 kilometers needs to hit the earth, and humanity will be completely finished, even if a few people survive, because the ecological environment has been destroyed and science and technology have been lost, they will not survive the next century." There is no doubt that the purpose of the invaders was not to exterminate humanity. ”
"What's that?"
"Let humanity be cornered, let humanity give up everything in order to survive."
"This ......"
"Disasters are only means to an end."
After suppressing the revolting civilians, the Earth Federation accelerated the pace of migration to the Space City, and focused on expanding the size of the Space City.
This uprising also made the Earth Federation realize that if not everyone, it must save most people.
If 95 percent of the population had to stay on Earth and continue to suffer, no matter how powerful the Earth Federation government had, the social structure of humanity would not be sustainable, and there would be more uprisings, and more people would stand up against the unfair social system.
In the following century, in order to survive, human beings began to expand the space of cities at all costs.
Although the rebellion did not stop, and the exiles formed the "United Front of the World Realm", and the ranks continued to expand and grow, it did not stop the stupidity of the Earth Federation. As the scale of space cities grows, more and more people become "space humans".
By the year 228 of the Tribulation Calendar, that is, in 2345 AD, the size of the space city had increased tenfold and was able to accommodate five billion people to settle down. Although the human population is also expanding, even excluding the exiles, there are nearly 16 billion people, but almost a third of the population will be able to settle in space cities, and the Earth Federation has declared that all citizens will be eligible to settle in space cities three hundred years before the catastrophe. The internal contradictions of mankind have been greatly alleviated, and the prestige of the Earth Federal Government has been greatly enhanced. All of a sudden, almost everyone thought that a new era without poverty and hunger was coming.
A new era has indeed arrived, but it is a much more serious disaster.
The earth's crust is collapsing!
As early as the first year of the catastrophe, some scientists proposed that after the disappearance of the moon's gravitational field, the plate structure of the earth's crust would definitely be affected. It's just that these effects aren't immediately apparent. The main thing is that among the factors that support the structure of the earth's crustal plates, the role of the moon's gravitational field is not the most important, and even the first three cannot be dispatched, so the impact of the disappearance of the moon's gravitational field needs enough time to accumulate before it will be revealed.
It is a pity that the warnings of these scientists were ignored.
Two hundred years have passed, and even the most stubborn scientists, not to mention those forgetful politicians, will have doubts about the conclusions reached two hundred years ago.
The catastrophe did not come suddenly, there were many signs, and some people found them.
"Who?"
"Song Wenjie."
"The geologist?"
The figure nodded and said, "He woke up with Luo Jinyong and has been working for the Earth Federal Government. After I formed the rebel army, Luo Jinyong persuaded him to join the rebel army. Two hundred and twenty years after his eighth awakening, he came to the conclusion of the increasingly frequent geological activity that the tectonic structure of the earth's crust had loosened and would collapse completely in the near future. ”
"This ......"
"He built a mathematical model and concluded through simulations that the geological disaster would come any day after the catastrophe calendar of 225 years."
"You took action?"
"Based on this conclusion, we did everything possible to help those who remained on the planet, and managed to convince the administrators of several settlements to agree to an emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the settlers' administrators see us as the destroyers of the existing order, consider us to be the public enemy of humanity, and do not heed our warnings at all. ”
"And then?"
"A catastrophe of all kinds."
On April 5, 228, the Pacific Plate collapsed first. Over the next few days, all other large plates of the earth's crust collapsed.
It can be said that the use of "vicissitudes of life" is not enough to describe what has happened in the past few days.
Although the United Front of the World Realm has been prepared, secretly building thousands of arks capable of accommodating tens of thousands of people in places beyond the reach of the Earth Federation, and also building more temporary air cities, and starting evacuations three months in advance, for the more than 10 billion people living on Earth, these rescue measures are only a drop in the bucket. Only a very small number of people have been helped, and the vast majority have to face the disaster head-on.
Of the more than 10 billion people who have settled on the planet, less than 500 million have survived the nearly month-long geological changes of "moving mountains to create seas". Although the space city has not been affected, the total human population has also dropped sharply from the previous 16 billion to more than 5 billion.
However, the disaster did not end there.
This natural disaster had a very critical impact, that is, the Earth Federation lost control of the Earth home.
With almost all settlements destroyed in the catastrophe, only space cities remain in the area of the Earth Federation's rule.
During the relief operation, the United Front of the World and the Continent not only established new settlements, but also gained the support and support of all the survivors, becoming the new ruling body.
Peace lasted less than a decade before war inevitably broke out.
At the heart of the United Front are exiles who have lost their citizenship and are not accepted by the Earth Federation, and the United Front controls the Earth's resources. Although after the catastrophe passed, in order to rebuild the common home of mankind, the "resource sharing agreement" signed by the United Front of the World and the Earth Federation Government won peace for mankind, but as the influence of the United Front of the World and the Earth Federation on the ground continued to expand, and the Earth Federation Government could only rule the residents of the space city, the contradictions between the two sides could not be eliminated at all.
To put it bluntly, in time, the United Front of the World Realm will definitely replace the Earth Federation.
The impact of man-made disasters such as "war" is more severe than that of natural disasters.
The war lasted two years and ended with mutual compromise between the two sides.
"Why do you have to compromise?"
"We have no other choice, humanity needs peace." The figure sighed and said, "As the war continues, no one can be the ultimate victor. The federal government of Earth needs resources, and we need industrial equipment to restore production, and people crave a peaceful life. ”
Chu Tianjiang also sighed, the civil war of the human race is indeed a disaster for everyone.
After mutual compromise, the Earth Federation and the World Realm United Front formed the "World Coalition Government", and human civilization began the difficult work of rebuilding.
It's just that people are no longer facing the familiar earth, but a strange planet.
In the vicissitudes of geological changes, the South Asian continent has sunk almost as a whole, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is no longer the roof of the world, and the South American Andes Mountain, which has been squeezed and rapidly uplifted, has formed a new plateau, with the highest peak above sea level of more than 10,000 meters above sea level and an average altitude of more than 5,000 meters above sea level. The islands of the southwestern African continent, the Australian continent and Southeast Asia have all sunk, and the South Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and the Southwest Pacific Ocean have become a new ocean. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, between the Mariana Islands and the Hawaiian Islands, a continent with an area of more than 15 million square kilometers has emerged. The North American continent as a whole drifted northward, becoming one with Greenland, and its area shrank to about 10 million square kilometers. The South American continent drifts southeast, connecting with the western tip of the African continent, covering an area of about 20 million square kilometers. The Eurasian continent rotated about 45 degrees in a clockwise direction, and in addition to the sinking of South and West Asia, Europe entered the Arctic Circle, and East Asia reached the equator, leaving a land area of about 30 million square kilometers. Antarctica was elevated as a whole without significant change in position, and its land area expanded to about 15 million square kilometers.
Along with the changes on land and sea, there is an even more serious disaster.
That is, the tilt of the Earth's orbit disappears, the equatorial plane coincides almost exactly with the ecliptic plane, and this causes severe climate change.
Although affected by the Earth's orbit, there are still four seasons in the mid-latitudes, but it is not obvious, and the areas near the equator at low latitudes are hot all year round, and the poles at high latitudes are cold all year round, and the theoretical minimum temperature at the South Pole can reach minus 180 degrees Celsius.
Climate change has had an even more serious impact.
For example, changes in the atmospheric water vapor cycle have led to perennial droughts in some areas and perennial heavy rainfall in others. Another example is the change of ocean currents, which has caused a serious uneven distribution of heat on the earth, and caused severe weather, which has made many land areas suitable for human habitation a forbidden area for life.
This is no longer the familiar Earth, but a strange planet.