Written before the second part: Another World Interlude 1

The world is still that world, and we are still familiar with it.

Even if the Doomsday Bell is dialed twice again, the world is still relatively peaceful. You may say, "This is just scratching the surface. "Yes, the fear of death still makes us feel primitive, and people's nerves are getting more and more tense, but unfortunately (and gladly) the Third World War did not break out, thermonuclear weapons were still sealed in warehouses, and bioviruses remained in games or laboratories......

The world is still that world, and we are still familiar with it.

The open and covert struggle between countries has heated up and eased, and the world pattern has not changed, but the gap between countries is getting smaller and smaller. The rapid development of science and technology has changed people's lifestyles and changed the way of checks and balances between countries, but it is only a "check and balance", and "seckill" only exists in the boastful and arrogant media propaganda; The "new Cold War" has not materialized as promised, but the deadlock of fighting but not breaking is obvious and continues to be maintained......

The world is still that world, and we are still familiar with it.

A full-scale food crisis has not occurred at all, water resources are basically meeting the demand, and fuel resources are still active in the market as new oil fields and mineral deposits are constantly discovered; The earth is not depleted, the land is not barren, the atmosphere does not need animals to help us light tankers to protect it, and the ice in the Arctic and Antarctic can still support polar bears and penguins to survive; Population growth has not exceeded its limits, and life is still as pure and smooth as a babbling stream......

The world is still that world, and we are still familiar with it.

— until the earth becomes no longer familiar to us.

It all started someday in the middle of 2045 A.D.

On the first day, the global communication signal was blocked because some communication satellites deviated from orbit.

On the fifth day, the positioning and navigation system completely failed, and gradually recovered after emergency repair;

On the seventh day, the data of the water level observation station showed that the tide information in the past week seriously violated the historical law;

On the 10th day, the tsunami hit many coasts and ports around the world without warning, causing heavy casualties because no early warning of any undersea earthquakes was received. ……

On the thirteenth day, a variety of electronic equipment around the world failed, the network was interrupted for a time, rumors spread in areas where information exchange with the outside world was lost, and people fell into panic, even in the fastest areas to restore communications, the repair time exceeded 8 hours; ……

On the 16th day, two large cities in the northern and southern hemispheres were devastated by earthquakes of magnitude 8 or higher at the same time, and frequent aftershocks caused the rescue progress to be extremely slow. ……

On the seventeenth day, Iceland's Eyjafara volcano erupted, and the crater was like a big mouth that breathed fire, blowing volcanic ash into the air, seriously affecting European aviation business. ……

On the twentieth day, an Atlantic earthquake triggered a tsunami, and the highest wave hit the torch of the Statue of Liberty; When a nuclear power plant in Asia almost leaked due to an earthquake, countries began to step up efforts to strengthen nuclear power plants, and some nuclear power plants stopped operating......

On the 21st, more artificial satellites deviated from orbit, and wireless communications in some of the affected areas were completely cut off, which undoubtedly made the disaster areas even worse when rescue work was difficult to carry out. ……

On the 24th day, Mt. Fuji erupted, local residents were evacuated, and the recent tsunami struck the city, and the ruthlessness of fire and water was vividly reflected here; ……

On the 25th day, the seismograph erected on the moon sent back a message showing that there were hundreds of moonquakes with a magnitude of more than 4 on the moon in the past week, and it is difficult to exceed a magnitude of 2 in normal times.

On the twenty-sixth day, the water level of the Nile rises sharply, and the scene of floodwaters pouring into the cities along the river is reminiscent of the disaster film "The Day After Tomorrow"; ……

On the 29th day, there was another earthquake and tsunami, Big Ben and the Sydney Opera House were destroyed, even if they were prepared to deal with it, they still caused great casualties, and rescue work was quickly launched; ……

On the 32nd day, the eruption of the volcano in Yellowstone National Park in the United States, although far less destructive than expected, caused unprecedented panic, and people worried that the clips from the movie "2012" would come true, and there were several mass suicide tragedies; ……

On the 33rd day, data from the Fairband Observatory in Alaska showed that no aurora had been observed for more than a month, which is rare in history for the "Northern Lights Capital" that can observe the aurora for more than 200 days in a year;

On the 35th day, floods, earthquakes and tsunamis, the Golden Gate Bridge, which had been destroyed countless times in film and television works, was completely destroyed and could no longer be used; ……

On the thirty-ninth day, the Southern European Observatory observed that Jupiter's Great Red Spot was closer to Jupiter's equator than before; Due to the impact of the earthquake, the northern outer wall of the "sarcophagus" of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine collapsed, and in order to prevent nuclear leakage, Ukraine, the European Union, Russia and other neighboring countries sent professional technical teams to carry out maintenance operations. ……

On the fortieth day, the Sahara Desert in North Africa experienced heavy rainfall and a short period of sharon rolls; ……

On the forty-second day, volcanoes erupted, this time Vesuvius and Kilimanjaro; ……

On the forty-third day, earthquakes and tsunamis ......;

On the forty-fourth day, floods and hurricanes ......;

On the forty-fifth day, the mudslide ......;

……

In less than two months, geological disasters, natural disasters, and meteorological disasters have swept all over the world, and their frequency and scale far exceed those of various "once in a century" and "once in a thousand years". Environmental groups blame the government for failing to stop the spread of the greenhouse effect, which led to the disaster. Conspiracy theories are rife that countries are experimenting with secret weapons that have led to frequent disasters, even if they are victims of disasters; The displacement of people and the harsh weather environment led to the spread of the plague, and some infectious diseases even appeared in less affected areas...... Protests, demonstrations, and demonstrations against governments have taken place in almost all countries and regions, leaving governments already overwhelmed by various disasters in the face of coping.

When the network was restored again with the joint efforts of the technicians, everyone was surprised to find that there were few places on earth that were not spared, only light and heavy. In some countries, governments have even shut down, relief efforts cannot be organized, relief supplies cannot be transported in a timely manner, and humanitarian crises can erupt on a large scale at any time......

I don't know when communications and networks will be cut off again, but the heads of government and regional leaders have agreed to quickly launch a "borderless rescue campaign", all countries will immediately open their borders, unconditionally allow rescue teams to cross the border to rescue, the less affected areas will organize people to help themselves, and the hard-hit areas will send rescue teams and armed forces to help restore order in the local areas while providing rescue, and the rescue teams and armed forces of all countries must save all lives in the spirit of humanitarianism, at any cost. In order to ensure that communications and networks are no longer blocked, the military satellites and military communication facilities of various countries should be immediately converted to civilian use and set up as a unified communication frequency band, and the wireless network signal modulation should be the strongest, and no password should be set to ensure that any communication tool can be connected at any time.

In this way, this series of catastrophes that affect the fate of all people prompts governments – nay, all of humanity to unite and respond together!

……

Disasters continue to occur in various places, and well-trained and experienced rescue workers are fearlessly going deep into the disaster areas to rescue the stranded people, and non-governmental rescue groups have also taken action. Under the impetus of the "Borderless Rescue Movement", the political disputes, geopolitical conflicts, religious contradictions, territorial disputes, and value orientations that have plagued countries have ...... Forgotten by the fact that people of different faiths helped each other, the armies of the two warring sides worked together to rescue the people of both countries, the border crossing disputed territory was no longer condemned and obstructed, and the border wall was opened to ensure the passage of relief supplies...... It was once thought that only the explosion of the sun, monsters from the bottom of the sea, and invading aliens could make humanity show unprecedented unity, and people who have experienced various disasters have also seen the dawn of hope in the midst of danger-

Human beings still have infinite possibilities.

……

On the 267th day, the construction of the No. 42 large-scale resettlement site for disaster victims was completed, and so far, more than 80 percent of the affected people have been properly resettled, with a total of 240 million people.

On the 280th day, the earthquake struck several cities again, with minimal casualties as residents had moved away from high-rise buildings to open areas. According to statistics, the frequency of earthquakes and tsunamis has decreased significantly compared with before, and the earth's crustal movement is still active, but it is approaching the normal value.

On the 300th day, nearly one year since the beginning of a series of disasters, official data released by the United Nations showed that a series of disasters killed nearly 70 million people, more than 2 billion people around the world were affected, and more than 400 million people lost their homes.

For the three hundred and twenty days, there had been no disaster for a month, and although we could not let our guard down, people still celebrated it; The heads of state held a real-time video conference and agreed to jointly safeguard the achievements of the "Rescue Without Borders" campaign, form more rescue teams, jointly build disaster prevention and mitigation facilities, and continue to ensure the smooth ...... of communications and networks.

From 335 to 340 days, rocket launch centers in China, the United States, Russia, Western Europe, India, and other countries successively launched several groups of carrier rockets with "one arrow and multiple satellites" to send hundreds of state-of-the-art communications satellites into space to replace the previous satellites that failed due to deviation from orbit. ……

On the 365th day, NASA held a press conference that was broadcast live to the world, to announce a major discovery:

“…… We found a new object in the orbit of Jupiter, and it was as if it had suddenly appeared there......"

A photograph is displayed on the large screen: a pitch-black universe in the background, with a pale blue mist-like sphere in the center; Then the photographs taken by the infrared astronomical telescope showed that the interior of the aerosol was hollow.

“…… This mysterious object is positioned exactly opposite Jupiter, and the two are located at opposite ends of Jupiter's orbit and do not interfere with each other. The object is almost confirmed to be moving in the same direction as Jupiter in its orbit, with an estimated orbit period of 11.86 years around the Sun (consistent with the orbital velocity of Jupiter), and we are currently trying to measure its mass and density, but ......"

Then a set of data is displayed on the screen, one of which is extremely glaring.

"What is unusual is that this object is not large, but it has a large gravitational pull...... Based on the facts and inferences we know, we have reason to believe that this celestial body is most likely to be—

"—wormholes."