Chapter 40: The Survivors

"Announcement:

Due to the world government's blockade of the Death event, the official website of the Asteroid Warning Center reports that the Death Star impact probability data is no longer accurate. In order to ensure that everyone can get accurate first-hand information, our Ark Base has specially sent a hacker team to hack into the official website of the Asteroid Warning Center and get real first-hand information. You can follow in real time. ”

In the Ark communication group chat app, the temporary person in charge released a message. As soon as this news was released, it immediately caused a lot of angry scolding.

"I said that the probability of impact is only 8% at the highest, and it will no longer rise, and it will continue to decline, it turns out that the world government has blocked the news!"

"Haha, they can't do anything about the Grim Reaper anyway, what else can they do if they don't block the news?"

"They also debunked the rumors! Rumors refuted! Say that the possibility of impact has been ruled out! Damn, the odds have climbed to 19%! ”

"The choice of the world government to block the news is very reasonable and the best option in the current situation. This is true regardless of whether the Reaper ends up hitting the Earth or not. ”

"Yes. If the impact had occurred, the blockade of the news would have at least averted the social unrest and chaos before the apocalypse. If the impact doesn't happen, you can just go over as if there was no such thing. ”

"There's a ball! No matter how much we toss, we will die in the end, and only we can live! ”

"We are the masters of the earth!"

"If you want me to say, it's better not to block the news, everyone has a few days of carnival before the apocalypse, and there is no regret if you die."

"Carnival? Carnival fart, only the strong can carnival, and the weak can only be calamitous. Without the shackles of morality and law, and without the future, the end is coming, and you can't imagine how bad people can be. ”

"It's none of our business to mess around. After the end of the world, we just need to restore order. ”

"Look, everyone! The impact probability exceeded 20% for the first time, and now it is 21.2%! ”

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At the heart of the Ark base, the Holy Chapel.

A sacred church is a place where the gods are worshipped and where the Son of God abides in absence. Only the Divine Son can enter this place, and it is also the most heavily guarded place in the entire Ark base, and it is also a place where the main systems of the Ark base can be directly controlled.

In addition to the identity of the Son of God and the ability to predict the future, the identity authentication system of the Holy Church is the most important tool to ensure that the Son of God rules the entire base.

At this moment, the Son of God was sitting on the wide "Divine Seat", with fragrant tea in front of him, and a total of sixteen girls wearing white robes, slender figures, and delicate faces knelt on the ground, waiting for the Son of God to summon at any time.

From the very beginning of their birth, these "imaginary beings" who have created bodies through cloning technology and have consciousness through "mind copying" technology have been rooted in their brains with the idea of eternal loyalty to the Son of God, and they will never betray him.

They are the most trustworthy. They can do anything with the word of the Son of God. Even if the Son of God asked them to die, he would not hesitate in the slightest.

Miko picked up the tea in front of him, took a sip of it, and put it aside. A girl who seemed to be a human immediately got up silently, took the remaining tea away, and quietly put down a cup of steaming new tea.

A set of movements is smooth, as if it has been rehearsed thousands of times.

In front of the Son of God, in front of the wide throne of God, there is a huge screen. Above the screen is an endless starry sky, and in the middle of the starry sky is a dumbbell-like star, with two large ends and a thinner star in the middle.

This is taken directly from the Asteroid Warning Center's real-time observation of the Reaper.

It is black-gray as a whole, and the surface is full of unevenness, sharp rocks and deep cracks. On one side of it was completely dark, completely invisible, and on the other side facing the sun, under the heat of the sun, there was a constant spew of gas.

This obviously means that there are things such as water ice, dry ice, solid methane, solid hydrogen, etc. inside the asteroid.

They exist in a solid state at extremely low temperatures during long journeys. At this moment, once they get close to the star, their temperature rises, and they turn from solid to gas, and then escape directly into space, turning into part of interstellar dust.

This also means that it should not have been near a star since its birth. Because it has been established so far, there is not much gas on it. And if it had been close to the star, the small amount of gas would have been evaporated.

However, without getting close to a massive star like a star, without the gravitational acceleration of a star-level star, it is difficult to explain its high speed at the moment.

Perhaps, it comes from a galaxy that already has an extremely high speed of its own compared to the solar system?

There are stars in the Milky Way that have a very high velocity relative to the Sun. Contiguous, the rest of the stars in such a star system, such as planets, moons, asteroids, comets, etc., naturally have a higher velocity relative to the solar system.

It may have been orbiting away from the star. Then, in the event of an impact or the gravitational engagement of several larger stars, it was expelled from its original star system and became a wandering planet, embarking on a long journey to the stars.

The speed of more than 300 kilometers per second seems to be extremely fast, but compared to the empty and vast cosmic space, it is still so slow that it is almost like a snail crawling. Even if you get here from the closest star system to the solar system, it will take about 3,500 years at this rate.

And if I remember correctly, there is no star system around the solar system that has such a high speed on its own.

This means that this asteroid is at least a few dozen light-years away.

That's a long voyage of at least tens of thousands of years.

The long passage of time has obscured many things, making many things impossible to verify. The question of where this asteroid came from could not be clearly determined until the world in which he was located, when human civilization was finally completely destroyed.

Shenzi, or Tang Yun, thought silently.

But the question may not be important. The important thing is that even if the probability is so low and so incredible, it finally comes.

It's the same as in the previous life.

Fate is repeating itself. In this life, there is no difference from the previous life, except for oneself.

In the last life, human civilization was completely extinct. In this life, with oneself, the fate of human civilization will be completely different.

He never imagined that after he finally ushered in death in despair, fate would take such a turn for him, and he would give himself another chance.

Rebirth, crossing, this kind of thing that only existed in the past, actually happened to me.

Although my own scientific literacy tells me that this kind of thing has long been denied by science, it ...... Who cares?

Whether it's really reborn and crossed, or something that doesn't violate the laws of science, it's similar to rebirth and crossing, or you don't cross at all, but you have some inexplicable future memories in your head for some unknown reason - what's the difference?

It doesn't matter. The effect is the same.

At this moment, even though nearly forty years have passed since he remembers, he still clearly remembers the terrible things that happened to him in his previous life.

It's different from this life. In his previous life, because he did not pay special attention to the asteroid threat, this asteroid approached the Earth at an extremely high speed and was not accidentally discovered by an astronomy enthusiast until three days before the impact. It took another day before it was confirmed by the official observing agency.

The events came so quickly, and the time was so tight that the world government was caught off guard and had no time to react.

In addition to urgently transporting a batch of supplies to various possible safety zones as reserves, it is not even too late to allocate personnel and build disaster-proof buildings.

Time is too tight and too tight.

The seven alternative safe bases were all proven to be wrong after the asteroid impact finally occurred.

Tsunami, earthquakes, volcanoes, strong winds, thunderstorms, torrential rain swept across the globe. Countless people are still asleep, and they don't know what happened and they lost their lives. The splendid human civilization is like a sand castle on the beach, which is gently washed by the sea and collapses without a trace.

Overcast clouds obscured the sky, and dust obscured the sunlight. It's autumn, but the temperature has dropped to a few tens of degrees below zero.

There was wreckage everywhere, death everywhere.

In such a short period of time, the total number of people on the planet has plummeted from nearly 10 billion to less than 10 million.

He is one of the survivors.

Compared to the rest of the survivors, he was more lucky. Because he happened to be discovered by a helicopter, and the pilot of the helicopter actually received an emergency global broadcast from the Provisional World Government and learned the location of the Temporary Security Zone.

The so-called Temporary Security Zone is actually just an underground military base that was left behind and fortunately not damaged too badly.

There are certain reserves of food, energy, machinery, etc. here.

Fortunately, the location of the Temporary Security Zone, which is not far from where it is, is completely within the range of the helicopter.

From there, I came to the last settlement of human civilization.

The rest of the survivors, who were not as lucky as themselves, waited for what their fate would be, and it was not to be asked.

Eventually, the number of people gathered in the Temporary Security Zone reached about 2 million.

But there is a lack of food and clothing, extreme cold, extreme drought, and the air is not suitable for breathing, and the life-sustaining equipment in people's hands is simply not enough.

A large number of people die every day. In desperation, the Provisional Government decided to move to a real place, least affected by the impact, and most likely to allow civilization to continue.

That's where the least affected has been fact-tested, not the least affected in computer simulations.

The environment there is just as harsh, but it's much better than here. With the help of the tools you have at this moment, it is not impossible to build a base there that is more suitable for people to survive.

The process of migration was arduous and difficult, and many people fell along the way. Less than a million people have reached the finish line.

Relying on the knowledge inherited from the pre-apocalyptic world, people here have built a base from scratch to shelter their own survival with the help of their original and various tools obtained from the ruins of the city.

Tang Yun still clearly remembered the hardships he endured during that time.

Every day, some of the comrades-in-arms die. Every day, I think about myself, don't hold on any longer, just fall like this, and there will be no pain at all.

Every day, I think about how great it would be if I could know before the impact that this is the real "safe zone", the least affected place, and then build a huge base here in advance, with sufficient reserves of food, water, oil, energy, medicine and other materials, so that people can comfortably avoid the end of the world, and then rebuild the base of civilization.

I finally persevered and persevered until the base was built.

The remnants finally have a place to live. But the days ahead are not going to be any better.

Secondary disasters are frequent, the base is too simple, and materials are in short supply......

On top of that, too many people died in the process of building the base. As a result, although it is barely stable at the moment, there is no room for expansion of the area of the shelter, or more development and reclamation activities.

The population must be expanded as quickly as possible, and a large number of cheap, hard-working, and massively expended labor force must be quickly available.

It is simply impossible to reproduce by relying on nature.

In desperation, the Provisional Government decided to lift the ban on biological research aimed at humans, hoping that through cloning technology, the population could be quickly restored, and enough manpower and labor could be quickly obtained.

As a biologist, he became the person in charge of this research as he should, and began to lead the only scientists to carry out relevant research with the full support of the provisional government.

Human research has advanced by leaps and bounds since the ban was lifted. Even in such a humble environment, his team quickly overcame many difficulties and mastered human cloning technology.

Human cloning here is not just a simple cloning of an embryo that is then transferred into the womb of a human female to allow it to develop slowly.

This cloning is too cumbersome. From embryo to birth, it takes ten months. From birth to the formation of the labor force, it will take more than ten years.

It's too slow, and human civilization can't wait at all at this moment.

What I have researched is more similar to the "human body" technology. That is, it does not create an embryo, but directly creates an adult body.

But with the body, what about the mind?

These people are as simple as a blank sheet of paper, completely ignorant of the social rules of human beings, they will only follow instincts, without any moral concepts, like wild beasts, they will eat when they are hungry, they will drink when they are thirsty, and if they have nothing to eat and drink, they will rob and kill, and they do not know how to control themselves at all.