Chapter 22: The Gate of the Ark
Asteroid? Doomsday?
The first time he heard this, a thought flashed in Lu Ming's heart.
"Nonsense! Which cult is this swaggering in the name of doomsday? ”
The number of such cults is never small. No matter what period of human civilization it is, there will be cults that declare that the end of the world is coming, and only by believing in xx gods can we get salvation and so on. The purpose is nothing more than to reap the IQ tax of believers.
Even in modern times, there are too many such cults to count. I don't know how many believers have been harvested to the point where their homes are broken and their wives are separated. But even if the family is ruined and the wife is separated, the believers still believe in it, which is really sad and lamentable.
But the next moment, Lu Ming's heart sank again.
If it is a cult organization that declares the end of the world, it can naturally disbelieve it completely, and even crack down on it.
But if it is a secret organization that has successfully predicted flight crashes, sunspot outbreaks, potato mutation blight, earthquakes, and landslides through an incredible, unimaginable ability that is beyond human imagination, they have made a prediction of the end of the world......
Do you want to believe it?
This secret organization is not the same as the kind of cult that is so low that it explodes. There is an essential difference between the two.
After hearing Ke Ling's words, even Zhang Dingshan was moved.
Today is September 28th! There are only more than 50 days left until the prophesied November 19th, and even two months are not enough!
Ke Ling smiled miserably and continued, "...... In order to continue human civilization, the Son of God deliberately selected the right person to live in the 'Ark' to escape the catastrophe of this annihilation. After the catastrophe has passed, a new human civilization will be reborn from the ashes with the 'Ark' as the starting point.
The Son of God adheres to the will of the gods and has the power to predict the future. He is the spokesman of the gods who walk on earth.
However, the person who is selected to know the prophecy only has the qualifications to enter the Ark, and he also needs to sincerely believe in the gods and the Son of God in order to truly open the door of the Ark and avoid this catastrophe.
In order not to alarm the demons in the world, you must act in secrecy. The Son of God has already made a plan for each of us chosen ones to 'fake our death' so that we can quietly leave the human world without attracting the attention of others.
If, one day, I think I have completely devouted my faith in the gods and the Son of God, I can set out according to the plan below and go in search of a helmet. Once found, put it on your head and recite the names of the gods and the Sons of God: Modovira and Lachia, and you will open the door of the ark and enter the ark.
It was also written on the piece of paper that in the process of opening the door of the ark, great pain would befall him. In the process, the chosen one must concentrate on maintaining their spirits and continually praying to the Divine Spirit and the Son of God.
If the faith is religious enough, it will be able to sustain these sufferings. But if the faith is not religious, there is a risk that the doors of the ark will fail to open, leading to something terrible, resulting in serious injuries or even death. ”
Well?
Lu Ming was stunned for a moment.
He remembered that when He Wei was tracking the Wenyu River, he took pictures of the Wenyu River jumping off the cliff and dying.
Could it be that Wen Yuhe's death was a punishment for not being pious enough to believe?
"A road map is drawn underneath this piece of paper. I took a look, and it wasn't far from the sea fishing spots I often visited. I know there's a desert island, but I haven't been there. The location of the helmet they marked was there......"
Lu Ming knew that in the face of the prophecy on this note, Ke Ling must be very hesitant and difficult to decide.
On the one hand, there is the mysterious existence of the successful dammed lake, and on the other hand, the slightly absurd prophecy of the end of the world.
On the one hand, the prophecy of the end of the world comes true, and he can enter the ark and successfully avoid the temptation of the catastrophe of the world, and if he chooses to give up, he can only die tragically in the catastrophe of the world.
On the other hand, the prophecy of the end of the world is just a lie, and he listened to the words of this mysterious organization, fell into their control, and his future fate was unpredictable. And if you don't believe it, you may still maintain your current peaceful life.
How to choose, it's really difficult.
In those days, Ke Ling had been thinking about it, which led to a great deviation from his daily behavior. This point is truly reflected in the psychological model presided over by He Wei at the beginning.
In those days, he triggered an average of at least seven alerts a day.
But then, it was clear that Colin chose to believe this prophecy.
"I've always been an atheist. And now, I began to force myself to believe in the gods and the Son of God.
When I actually did it, I realized that it wasn't that hard. It's nothing more than treating the so-called gods and gods as some kind of aliens who have mastered super technology.
In this way, their existence does not conflict with my worldview. And the so-called faith, in my opinion, is nothing more than a way to show loyalty and tameness.
It's only fair to get the benefit of avoiding the catastrophe of the world in this way.
In addition, in the process of opening the door of the ark, there will be great suffering, and people must continue to pray to the names of the gods and the Son of God, and my personal understanding is that the way to reach the ark from the human world may be through methods such as 'space teleportation'.
Spiritual cohesion and prayer may be some way to protect the human brain, or to orient oneself.
In short, since this is the operation method issued by the 'gods', I just follow it.
So every day when I came down at leisure, I followed the teachings they had taught me, 'Pray to the gods Modovila, Son of the gods, Rachia, save your devout believers,' and I just recited this sentence every day.
Of course, when reciting, you should concentrate and concentrate wholeheartedly. I don't dare to slack off on this, after all, when you put on your helmet and open the door of the ark, if you are not pious enough, you may fail to teleport, and you may die.
When I was sure that I could recite this sentence with all my heart and mind, whenever and wherever I wanted, I declared that I was going out to fish, and went alone to the desert island to look for the helmet, but I did not find it. You'll all know the rest of the story......"
That's all Ke Ling knows.
"What about the note?"
Ke Ling smiled bitterly.
"How dare I keep this kind of thing? After reading it and remembering it, I burned it long ago......"
Lu Ming was silent.
Ke Ling's disposal is very reasonable.
After that, He Wei and Zhang Dingshan began to repeatedly ask questions about many details in this confession from different aspects and in various ways according to the predetermined process.
This is an interrogation technique that can confirm the truth or falsehood of Ke Ling's confession to the greatest extent.
This process can take several days. The two would suddenly interrogate Ke Ling at various times such as when he was sleeping, eating, and resting, asking these questions, and cross-comparing them to sort out his logic.
In the process, the interrogation of the remaining five people also took place. So a few people found out that among the remaining five people, two of them were innocent, and they were purely affected by the disaster of pond fish.
Because of various coincidences, these two people who have nothing to do with this matter were also judged to be targets by their own side and finally brought here.
One of them is because his middle school classmate who has always had a crush lives in Qinan City, even if both of them have married and had children at the moment, he still can't forget it. After learning that the city of Qinan might be flooded, he became uneasy, so he triggered several warnings and was finally included in the scope of suspicion.
As for the fact that a few days after the incident at the dammed lake, he planned to climb the mountain, which was suspected by investigators at the time of trying to carry out a plan to fake his death, but the real reason turned out to be that he was in a good mood when he learned that the dammed lake had been resolved and the flood crisis was resolved, so he wanted to go hiking and relax.
This made Lu Ming a little speechless.
It's a crush from decades ago, and I haven't been in touch for so long, and I've been thinking about it in my heart.
The original background investigators, no matter how powerful they were, could not have thought of this reason.
The other person's reason is similar, in short, it is all kinds of misunderstandings and coincidences that have led to the current situation.
But this situation was predicted by several people in advance. After all, your own screening method is not rigorous, and it is common to identify people who are not targets and omit people who are targets.
In the end, the two were confirmed and let go, and the remaining three were interrogated as Ke Ling in the same strict manner.
As a result, several people found that what happened to the remaining three people was not much different from Ke Ling.
The man in black, after the prophecy and prophecy were fulfilled, passed on the instructions for the next step through various secret ways, requiring devout belief in the gods and the Son of God, and cooperating with the implementation of the plan of "fake death and escape", or going to a certain secret place to find the helmet, or, at a certain time, to a hidden place, someone would personally hand over the helmet to them.
And, together, these people confessed to the same thing.
Doomsday.
10:17 a.m. on November 19. An asteroid falling from the sky will completely destroy the earth's ecology and completely wipe out human civilization. Only by hiding in the ark in advance can we survive this catastrophe and lead the human civilization phoenix to bathe in fire and be reborn on the earth after the catastrophe.
They also believed the prophecy of the end times because of the previous prophecy. And based on the principle that "if we remain in the human world, our whole family will die." If I leave the human world and enter the ark, at least I can still live", and other reasons, completing the psychological construction of leaving the human world.
Several people jointly said that it was very difficult and painful to complete this psychological construction. But without exception, this psychological construction was finally completed, and no one failed.
When several members of the second team asked them why they chose not to report to the World Government, but chose to trust the Doomsday Organization - when the Doomsday Prophecy appeared, they unanimously agreed to name this hidden organization the Doomsday Organization - and the answers were surprisingly consistent.
"The human world is incapable of fighting such a catastrophe. The only hope of fighting this catastrophe is the Doomsday Organization. If you report this matter, not only will it not help, but it will also lead to retaliation for leaking secrets, which is meaningless. ”
The ability of the Doomsday Organization to fulfill its godly and precise prophecies about the future is itself a symbol and display of strength. Based on this, if there is an existence that can fight this catastrophe, then this existence can only be the Doomsday Organization.
Therefore, it is only natural that he chooses to hide from the world government and join the Doomsday Organization.
When no new information could be unearthed from these people's mouths, and it was confirmed that all the confessions of these people were true, the four members of the second team of the operation got together again.
Of course, Lu Qingliang still participated in this meeting by video.
There is an extremely important matter that needs to be discussed by several people.
"At 10:17 a.m. on November 19, an asteroid hit Earth...... Is this prophecy true or false? ”
It has only been confirmed that the Doomsday Organization has the ability to predict the future. But that doesn't mean the prophecy is necessarily true. After all, it is possible for them to use this false prophecy to achieve the rest of their possibility.
However, when it comes to the life and death of the entire human world, no one dares to take it lightly.
Lu Ming thought for a moment and said slowly: "From theoretical calculations and practical examples, such as the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs 70 million years ago, or the several craters that exist on the earth, the asteroid that can reach the level of 'destroying the human world', I think its diameter should be at least fifteen kilometers or more. ”
The prophecy of the Doomsday Organization makes it clear that it is human civilization that will be destroyed by an asteroid impact, not just the Earth's biosphere.
These two are not the same.
With the current technological strength of human civilization, even if the earth's ecosystem is completely destroyed, there are still at least one million human beings in some bases that can survive for a long time.
This is not extinction.
To exterminate human civilization, there must be a greater energy explosion than "destroying the earth's ecosphere". Through the energy release level of the asteroid hitting the earth in the past, combined with theoretical calculations, Lu Ming finally came to the conclusion that "the diameter should be at least fifteen kilometers".
"The time of the end of the world is 10:17 a.m. on November 19, and there are still about 50 days until today. According to the approximate velocity range of the asteroid in the solar system relative to the Earth, well, calculated at 5 to 50 kilometers per second, if such an asteroid really exists, then its distance from the Earth at the moment should be between 21.6 million and 216 million kilometers, within the asteroid belt.
Within this range, the astronomical telescopes possessed by our human civilization have the ability to discover asteroids of this magnitude. In fact, even if the diameter is a little lower, even if it is only five kilometers, we can find it.
But the fact is that our Sky Survey Observation System has not reported the existence of any asteroids that could pose a significant threat to Earth. ”