Bad news comes every day, with casualties in the thousands, if not hundreds of thousands.

Pang Xuelin was unacceptable and shocked at the beginning, and then slowly became numb later.

This is a world struggling to survive in the apocalypse, and death has long become a daily routine for human beings.

The indiscriminate bombardment of the Earth lasted for two whole months, and the planetary engines in the northern hemisphere were better than expected due to snow engineering, losing less than five percent.

The southern hemisphere is completely unrecognizable, and the dense impact craters make this beautiful planet like a sapphire completely pockmarked face.

When Pang Xuelin took Yao Bingxia's hand and walked out of the dungeon, what appeared in front of them was an unrecognizable world.

The whole air seemed foggy, and the light shone through, revealing a clear gray passage.

The sky has completely turned into pitch black, this is the darkest night that Pang Xuelin has ever seen, the stars and the sun have completely disappeared, and the ice field that was originally snow-white is now shrouded in a layer of black dust.

The impact, which lasted for more than two months, made humanity seem to have entered the era of nuclear winter.

The dust in the sky completely obscured the earth.

Fortunately, the vast majority of people are still alive.

In the distance, you can faintly see the blue glow of the restarted planetary engine.

The humans hiding in the dungeon began to return to the surface, silently licking their wounds.

This is only the beginning of a long journey of 2,500 years, and no one knows how many hardships we will have to endure in the future.

Pang Xuelin finally agreed to Liu Xin's invitation and came to work in Hope City and became a member of the Science Committee, mainly in charge of global research in materials science and mathematics.

For him, joining the scientific committee, on the one hand, out of a sense of mission as a scholar, on the other hand, in the next earth and wood crisis, Jiangcheng No. 1 dungeon was finally destroyed, if he could enter the scientific committee in advance, Pang Xuelin believed that he had a chance to save Jiangcheng.

As for the future crisis of rebellion, Pang Xuelin has not yet figured out how to deal with it, this crisis is almost an insolvable knot in his opinion, and he can only take one step at a time.

With the endorsement of the snow project, Pang Xuelin was elected to the scientific committee, which did not cause much hindrance.

There are a total of 39 members of the Science Committee of the United Earth Government, which are served by 39 scientists with profound attainments and prestige in various fields, and among these 39 people, there are 11 chairmen, who are responsible for presiding over the daily work of the scientific committee, and Liu Xin, as the secretary general and chairman, leads the scientific committee.

Pang Xuelin can only be regarded as a little transparent within the scientific committee at present, but no one dares to underestimate him.

After all, a young man in his early twenties is already on an equal footing with a group of old guys with an average age of sixty.

Although he is now in the scientific committee, Pang Xuelin is still a newcomer.

But what about ten years from now, twenty years from now?

Who knows if this guy will become the next Liu Xin?

……

After crossing the asteroid belt, the Earth bypasses aphelion and falls towards the Sun again.

This time, instead of crossing the asteroid belt, the Earth just grazed its edge.

When they arrived at perihelion, Pang Xuelin and Yao Bingxia came out of Hope City and took a plane to Shanghai to worship their parents.

It's just that this trip to perihelion did not see the scene of melting glaciers on the earth and spring flowers blooming when approaching perihelion in previous years.

Thick dust clouds still envelop the earth, and sunlight can hardly penetrate the dust clouds, causing the temperature to rise.

The average surface temperature is only minus 30 degrees Celsius, the sea and the earth are not thawing, and only a faint halo of sunlight can be seen in the sky.

It wasn't until five years later that the dust clouds in the sky completely dispersed and humans began to pass perihelion for the last time, and Pang Xuelin and Yao Bingxia were fortunate enough to witness the fastest sunrise in the history of the earth

The sun leapt from the sea level and quickly crossed the sky to the top of the sky, and the shadows of everything on the earth changed angles at a rapid pace, as if the shadows of countless sundials recorded by cameras were sped up.

It was the longest day ever seen in the Northern Hemisphere, and the sun's rays would shine on the Northern Hemisphere until half a century later, when it would merge into the night sky and become one of the stars.

The Southern Hemisphere, on the other hand, will be plunged into eternal darkness until 2,500 years later, when the sun cast by the α Centauri awakens it again.

……

1298th Meeting of the Scientific Committee of the United Earth Government, Minutes.

When: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., February 7, 2065.

Conference Theme: "The Crisis That May Arise from the Intersection of Earth and Wood"

Moderator: Liu Xin, Secretary-General of the Scientific Committee

Participants: All members of the Scientific Committee

The main matters discussed and the minutes of decisions of the meeting are summarized below.

1. The meeting listened to the technical report of astrophysicist Ronald on the intersection of ground and wood, and discussed the relevant emergency response plan for the crisis that may be caused by the intersection of ground and wood.

2. In response to Professor Pang Xuelin's suggestion that the gravitational pull of Jupiter may disturb the Earth, thereby causing the rupture of the earth's crustal plates and triggering a large-scale shutdown of planetary engines, the Scientific Committee decided to organize astrophysicists and geologists to conduct a special seminar.

3. The meeting preliminarily reviewed the 2065 annual scientific research budget report (draft), prepared to be printed and distributed to various departments, widely solicited the opinions of various disciplines, and then made further revisions.

……

At half past nine in the evening, Pang Xuelin pushed open the door of the house a little tiredly.

His wife Yao Bingxia was watching TV on the sofa, and when she saw Pang Xuelin coming in, Yao Bingxia hurriedly got up and said, "Brother Xiaolin, I'm back, I'm still hot with food, I'll bring it out to you now!" ”

Pang Xuelin nodded, took off his coat, hung it on the shelf on the side, and then sat down at the dining table.

Soon, Yao Bingxia brought the meals one by one, she sat down next to Pang Xuelin and said: "Really, this year is the first day of the Lunar New Year, I finally had a day off, but you have to work overtime for a meeting, I originally wanted to go out with you, but today it is very lively outside!" ”

Pang Xuelin smiled when he heard this, and said: "This is also a matter of no choice, this meeting has dragged on for a long time, and the committee members have been running all over the world before, and it is difficult to get people together." Finally, all the members were there, and there was no way for Mr. Liu to choose this point in time. ”

Yao Bingxia said with a smile: "It's really not easy for Grandpa Liu, he is so old and so hard. By the way, Brother Xiaolin, I am on the same phone with my father today, as long as the ground and wood meet in three months, my father will complete his service on the Navigator space station, and he can come back to live with us at that time, if you have time at that time, we will take him to the world for a walk, okay? ”

Pang Xuelin was slightly stunned, nodded and said, "It can be, but it's just ......."

"Just what?"

Pang Xuelin sighed: "The danger of the intersection of ground and wood is probably not as simple as we imagined. ”