Chapter 54: Ragnarok
A small assault boat once again floated alone on the not-so-calm sea, with ripples after ripples.
"It's been almost an hour, Luna Island won't really float away, right?" Jiang Tianming shouted to the moon whirlpool facing the wind and waves.
"Look north for a while." Moon Whirlpool stood at the bow of the boat, constantly looking around.
"I'm afraid we won't be able to go back any further, and the petrol in this dinghy won't go that far. There will be some wind and waves at sea today. ”
After the dinghy walked for a few more minutes, Moon Vortex finally agreed to turn back, and I don't know why Jiang Tianming was actually a little happy in his heart.
After returning to the beach, there was not much disappointment on Tsukima's face, and there was silence along the way, and the atmosphere was a little awkward.
"It's okay, it has to come back here every year anyway, and even if it can't go to sea, it will have to send you back on a plane." Jiang Tianming comforted.
Moon Vortex nodded, not responding further.
"By the way, why did that Rose speak Chinese when she was in Iceland? And it seems to be quite slippery. Jiang Tianming worked hard to find a topic to break the silent environment.
"Rose has lived for thousands of years, and it's normal for her to be able to speak several human voices."
"Oh."
Jiang Tianming planned to take a taxi back, but the road to the beach was a bazaar, and they had to walk through the bazaar to get a taxi, so they had to walk a short way.
Suddenly, they passed by a fruit shop, there were more than a dozen people standing in place in the store, as if they were watching something, the fruit shop was originally very small, and now there were so many people standing in it and it was even more crowded, and they looked like they were all people who came out to catch the morning market, and they were carrying vegetable baskets, and it didn't look like they were queuing up to buy fruit, what were they doing, curiosity drove Jiang Tianming into the fruit store.
Jiang Tianming found a gap and went up to take a look, and cut ~ It turned out that he was watching TV news, but when he saw the content of the news, he understood why so many people went to this fruit store not to buy fruit but to surround a TV.
Twenty minutes ago, the scene of the press conference of Airline Technology.
Zhu Shangwen slowly lit a cigar in front of all the reporters and cameras present, spit out the smoke ring, straightened his tie, and then slowly tried it on the microphone before he spoke:
"First of all, I would like to tell you the good news that Airline Technology will no longer provide RR's real and realistic eternal sleep mode service projects from today."
Saying that, Zhu Shangwen took another leisurely puff of cigarette before continuing: "This will also be the last press conference held by the airline science and technology company. "After too many reporters heard this opening remark, Airline Technology was about to declare bankruptcy.
"First of all, I want to apologize to everyone, since the introduction of the RR real fixed eternal sleep mode free service project, the official statistics of eternal sleepers is 170,000, but this data has actually been manipulated, the actual data is 7,100,000,5970." As soon as this number came out, the audience was in an uproar.
"You must ask, you brag, where you came from hid these more than 7 million people? Here I will help you calculate, each eternal sleeper only needs to lie in a closed space of less than two cubic meters similar to a capsule, seven million eternal sleepers need 14 million cubic meters of space, and the volume of a 100-story office building is about 3 million cubic meters, and to say that there are two 100-story office buildings in Xingdu, I will not show off too much here. ”
"In our country of more than one billion people, more than 7 million people have chosen to escape from real life in the past seven years, and they will never wake up in the RR real reality sensory simulation system, shouldn't we reflect on our social order slightly?" Zhu Shangwen shook the ash of his cigarette and continued.
“…… Do you remember the Ragnarok project that I proposed here five years ago? Today we have completed all the work that needs to be prepared for this plan, you must want to ask me why the name of this plan is called Ragnarok, and what is the content of the plan, as we all know, Ragnarok is the day of the demise of the gods in Norse mythology, and we humans believe in the existence of gods for thousands of years, until the development of modern science and technology, people gradually stop believing in God, but believe in science, but until today, when science and technology are so developed, there are still many crazy believers, I want to say yes, it's time to say goodbye to God, We have mastered all that God can do! Because now we have more technology at our disposal than ever before! The voice was not loud, but what he said was very infectious, and at this time Zhu Shangwen didn't seem to know what to say next, and was looking at the speech.
"Hmm...... With great power comes great responsibility, as the earth's natural environment continues to change, and the population grows expansively, as well as global warming...... There may be times when someone has to make a sacrifice for the sake of the future of humanity. He glanced at his watch suddenly, and then added, "Everyone can wait another five minutes to witness the arrival of a new era for mankind, and Ragnarok will bring new life to mankind." ”
Penglai City.
"The 'Sharp Blade' satellite military code was cracked by Airline Technology, which used satellite-powered artillery to attack a military base of a field army in southwest China, and none of the 5,000 officers and soldiers were spared." The female news anchor, who is always expressionless, also showed a rare look of shock.
"Is Airline Tech finally willing to show its true colors?" Jiang Tianming said in his heart.
Suddenly the earth started to shake, an earthquake? Jiang Tianming immediately ran out with the people in the fruit store, only to see a shock wave hit in the distance, and the glass of the buildings disappeared in an instant. The sea seemed to roar, and huge rocks rolled down and flew mercilessly into the crowd, and it all lasted less than half a minute, and the bazaar had been razed to the ground.
Apples and oranges were still tumbling on the ground in the fruit shop, glass was shattered everywhere, and the bustling and tidy market turned into an apocalyptic scene in the blink of an eye.
Jiang Tianming stood in the middle of the street, looking at the people around him who were exclaiming and fleeing in all directions, and suddenly lost his mind and stood in place for a long time.
Founder Pharmaceutical Industrial Zone, Founder Building, everyone stood in front of the TV in a daze, and no one dared to come out to break the silence.
"Let Zhu Yingyang come out and take a look." Yin Longhua suddenly spoke.
With the sound of the door opening, Zhu Yingyang, who was unkempt, lazily held a book under his armpit, and walked to the hall while stretching his waist.
"Has my father finally come to pick me up?" A languid voice sounded.
"No, on the contrary, your father will probably never come to pick you up." Yin Longhua's gaze was cloudy and cold.
Watchman Security Corporation Southwest Headquarters.
Yang Yan looked at the TV hanging on the wall with a confused look,
"Mom!" Suddenly, a hurried voice came from outside the door, and soon a teenager broke in directly, looking very anxious.
"Mom, look at the ......" Before Yang Chudao's words could be fully spoken, he found the news that was playing on the TV on the wall.
"Don't talk." Yang Yan took a deep breath of e-liquid, her eyes fixed on the TV screen.
"Is that old guy completely insane?" Yang Yan exhaled the cigarette in her lungs and muttered.
"Mom, what now?"
"Don't be afraid, there's a mother." Yang Yan's face was unshocked, and she seemed to stay out of the matter.