People breathed a sigh of relief. But the expected revelry didn't happen, and what happened next was beyond everyone's imagination.

After the celebratory rally in the dungeon, I came to the surface alone in a sealed suit. The mountains familiar with my childhood have been leveled by super excavators, and the ground is only bare rocks and hard frozen soil, which is dotted with white patches, which are salt stains left by the tides. The large city of 10 million people where Grandpa and Dad spent their lives in front of him is now in ruins, and the exposed wreckage of the steel bars of the high-rise buildings drags long shadows in the blue light of the light pillars of the earth's engines, as if they were the fossils of prehistoric giants...... Floods and asteroid impacts have destroyed everything on the ground, cities and vegetation on all continents have been wiped out, and the surface of the earth has become a Mars-like desert.

During this period of time, Kayoko was uncertain. She often left her children behind, went out on a trip alone in a flying car, and when she returned, she only said that she had gone to the Western Hemisphere. Eventually, she dragged me along.

Our flying car flew at four times the speed of sound for two hours before finally being able to see the sun, which had just risen over the Pacific Ocean, when it looked the size of a baseball, casting a faint, cold glow over the frozen ocean.

Kayoko hovered the flying car at 5,000 meters in the air and pulled out a long thing from behind, and when I removed the envelope, I saw that it was an astronomical telescope, the kind used by amateurs. Kayoko opened the window and pointed the binoculars at the sun for me to see.

From the tinted lenses I could see the sun at hundreds of times magnification, and I could even clearly see the slowly moving light and dark spots on the surface of the sun, and the faint sunset at the edge of the sun.

Kayoko connected the telescope to the computer in the car and captured an image of the sun. Then she brought up another image of the sun and said, "This is an image of the sun from four centuries ago." The computer then compares the two images.

"See?" Kayoko said, pointing to the screen, "their luminosity, pixel arrangement, pixel probability, hierarchical statistics, and other parameters are exactly the same!"

I shook my head and said, "What does this mean? a toy telescope, a low-level image processing program, plus you ignorant layman...... Don't bother yourself, don't believe those rumors!"

"You're an idiot. As she spoke, she retracted her binoculars and drove the flying car back. At this moment, above and below us, I saw several flying cars in the distance, hanging in the air like we had just now, with a telescope protruding from the window of each car facing the sun.

In the months that followed, a terrible story spread like wildfire around the world. More and more people are spontaneously observing the sun with larger, more sophisticated instruments. Later, a civil society sent a group of probes to the sun, and they passed through the solar sphere three months later. The data sent back by the probe conclusively confirmed that fact.

Compared to four centuries ago, the sun has not changed at all.

Now, the dungeons of the continents have become volcanoes of turmoil, and the situation is on the verge of eruption. One day, in accordance with the decree of the coalition government, Kayoko and I sent our son to a childcare center. On the way home, we both felt that the only bond that held us together was gone. Walking to the downtown square, we saw people giving speeches and others handing out weapons to citizens around the speakers.

"Citizens! The earth has been betrayed! Humanity has been betrayed! Civilization has been betrayed! We are all victims of a super-deception! This deception is so great and terrible that God will be shocked by it! The sun is still the original sun, it will not erupt, it will not be, it will not be, it is a symbol of eternity! What has exploded is the insidious ambition of those in the coalition government! They have made it all up just to build their dictatorial empire! They have ruined the earth!

They have ruined human civilization! Citizens, citizens of conscience! Take up arms and save our planet! Save human civilization! We will overthrow the coalition government, control the earth engine, and drive our planet back to its original orbit from this cold outer space! Drive it back into the warm embrace of our sun!"

Kayoko silently stepped forward, took a submachine gun from the person who distributed it, and joined the ranks of the citizens who had received the weapons, and without looking back, she disappeared into the fog of the dungeon with the huge queue. I stood there dumbfounded, my hand clutching tightly in my pocket the medal that my father had bought for his life and loyalty, the corners of which pierced my hands with blood......

Three days later, rebellions broke out simultaneously on all continents.

Everywhere the rebels went, the people responded in droves, and by now, few suspect that they have been deceived. But I joined the Coalition Army, not because I believed in it, but because I had three generations of my predecessors who had served in the military, and they planted the seeds of loyalty in my heart, and it was unthinkable for me to betray the Coalition Government under any circumstances.

The Americas, Africa, Oceania, and Antarctica fell one after another, and the coalition government shrank its defenses to hold on to East and Central Asia, where the Earth's engines are located. The rebels quickly formed an encirclement posture here, and they had an overwhelming advantage over the government forces, and the reason why the offensive did not make progress for a long time was entirely due to the Earth engine. The rebels did not want to destroy the Earth engine, so no heavy weapons were used in this vast theater of operations, allowing the coalition government to survive. In this way, the two sides held each other for three months, and the 12 armies of the coalition government defected one after another, and the defense lines of Central Asia and East Asia collapsed on all fronts. Two months later, the coalition government, along with less than 100,000 troops, was besieged at the Earth's Engine Control Center near the coast.

I am one of the major in the remnants of the army. The control center is the size of a medium-sized city, and at its center is the Earth Wheelhouse. I dragged an arm scorched by a laser beam and lay in the wounded shelter in the control center. It was here that I learned that Kayoko had been killed in the Battle of Australia. I, like everyone else in the shelter, was drunk all day, unaware of the fighting outside, and uninterested. I don't know how long it took, but I heard someone talking loudly.

"Do you know why you are like this? You blame yourself, you are on the side of the anti-humanity in this war, and so am I. ”

I turned my head to see that the speaker had a star on his shoulder, and he continued, "It's okay, we have one last chance to save our souls." Earth's wheelhouse is only three blocks from us, let's take it and hand it over to sane humans outside! We've done our duty for the coalition government, and it's time to do our duty for humanity!"

I drew my pistol with my uninjured hand, and with the sudden frenzy of wounded and unwounded men, they rushed down the steel passage towards the wheelhouse of Earth. Unexpectedly, we met little resistance along the way, but more and more people joined us from the various branches of the intricate steel passages. Finally, we came to a huge steel gate, which was too high to reach the top. It rumbled open, and we rushed into the Earth wheelhouse.

Despite having seen it on television countless times before, all of them were shocked by the grandeur of the cab. The size of the place is not visually apparent, as the cab is submerged in a giant hologram, which is a simulation of the solar system. The whole image is actually a black space that stretches infinitely in all directions, and as soon as we enter, we are suspended in this space. As much as possible to reflect the true proportions, the sun and planets are small and tiny, as small as distant fireflies, but can be distinguished. Centered on the distant point of light representing the sun, a striking red spiral spreads out, like a rapidly spreading red circle on the vast black ocean. This is the course of the earth. At the outermost point of the spiral, the course turns bright green, which is the unfinished journey of the Earth. The green line passed over our heads, and as we looked along, we saw the brilliant sea of stars, and the green line disappeared into the depths of the sea of stars, and we could not see the end of it. In the vast black space of the desert, there were still many shiny dusts floating, and a few of them drifted closer, and I found that they were virtual screens, with complex numbers and curves tumbling on them.

I saw the bridge of the earth, which seemed to be a silver-white asteroid floating in black space, and it was even more difficult for me to grasp the enormity of the place - the bridge itself was a square, and now there were more than 5,000 people standing on it, including the main members of the coalition government, most of the interstellar migration committee responsible for carrying out the Earth voyage plan, and those who were loyal to the government in the end. That's when I heard the voice of the Supreme Archon echoing throughout the black space.

"We could have fought to the end, but that could have caused the Earth engine to spiral out of control, and if that happens, the excess fusion material will burn through the Earth, or evaporate the entire ocean, so we decided to surrender. We understand all people, because in the midst of the hard struggle that has been going on for forty generations and a hundred generations to come, it is indeed a luxury to remain sane forever. But please also ask all of us to remember that the more than 5,000 people standing here, here are the top consuls of the coalition government, and there are also ordinary privates, we have persevered in our faith to the end. We all know that we will not see the day when the truth will be confirmed, but if mankind survives for all generations, all people in the future will shed their tears at our graves, and this planet called Earth is our eternal monument!"

The huge sealed door of the control center rumbled open, and the more than 5,000 last Earth factions came out in droves, escorted by the rebels, towards the coast. The road was crowded with people on both sides, and everyone spat at them, hitting them with ice and stones. Some of them had their masks shattered, and the cold outside was more than 100 degrees below zero, numbing their faces, but they kept going. I saw a little girl, lifting a large block of ice and slamming it at an old man with all her might, her eyes shining with mad rage through her mask.

When I heard that all of these 5,000 people had been sentenced to death, I felt too forgiving. Can this death pay for their sins? Can this death pay for their sins? Can they pay for their sin of destroying the earth and destroying human civilization with a bizarre and perverted imagination and deception? They should die 10,000 times! Then I think of the astrophysicists who predicted the eruption of the sun, the engineers who designed and built the engines of the earth, they died a century ago, and I really want to dig them out of their graves and let them die 10,000 times.

I am so grateful to the executors who found a good way to die for these criminals: they took each of the people sentenced to death and put them in sealed suits and heated nuclear batteries, and then threw them on the ice of the sea, and let the freezing cold slowly take their lives.

These most sinister and shameful criminals in the history of human civilization stood in a black and oppressive area on the ice sea, and there were more than 100,000 people watching them on the shore, hundreds of thousands of pairs of teeth clicking, and hundreds of thousands of eyes spewing out the same anger as that little girl.

At this time, all the engines of the earth have been turned off, and magnificent stars have appeared on the ice sheet.

I can imagine the cold stabbing into their bodies like countless sharp knives, their blood coagulating, life flowing out of their bodies little by little, and this imaginary feeling becomes a pleasure that spreads throughout my body. Seeing those people slowly dying in the torture of the bitter cold, the people on the shore were happy, and they sang "My Sun" together.

I was singing, and my eyes were looking in one direction of the starry sky, and in that direction there was a slightly larger star that had just taken the shape of a disc that shone yellow, and that was the sun.

O my sun, the mother of life, the father of all things, my great god, my god! How can we be so stupid as we small, charcoal-based bacteria that are not even as good as dust, huddled on a small stone that revolves around you, to predict your doom!

An hour had passed, and although all the criminals against humanity on the surface of the sea were still standing, there was not a single living person, and their blood had been frozen.

Suddenly my eyes could not see anything, and after a few seconds my vision gradually returned, and the ice fields, the shore, and the people on the shore slowly appeared before my eyes again, and at last they were completely clear, and clearer than before, for the world was now shrouded in a strong white light, and the blindness of my eyes was due to the stimulation of this sudden bright light.

But the starry sky did not reappear, and all the starlight was overwhelmed by this strong light, as if the whole universe had been melted by the strong light, and this strong light burst out from a point in space, and that point was now the center of the universe, and that point was in the direction I was staring at just now.

The sun's helium flash exploded.

The chorus of "My Sun" came to an abrupt end, and the hundreds of thousands of people on the shore froze, as if they had frozen into a stiff rock like those on the sea.

The sun sprinkled its light and heat on the earth for the last time. The frozen carbon dioxide dry ice on the ground first melted, creating a burst of white steam, and then the surface of the sea ice began to melt, and the unevenly heated sea ice made an earth-shattering loud noise......

Under the sudden appearance of the bright sun, the last earthlings on the sea were still standing steadily, as if there were more than 5,000 statues.

The solar eruption lasted only a short time, and after two hours the bright light began to weaken sharply and quickly went out.

A dark red sphere appeared in the position of the Sun, and its volume slowly expanded, and finally from here, it reached the size of the Sun as seen in the Earth's orbit, so its actual volume was large enough to go beyond the orbit of Mars, and the three Earth's partner planets, Mercury, Mars, and Venus, had now turned into a wisp of light smoke in hundreds of millions of degrees of radiation.

But it was no longer the sun, it no longer emitted light and heat, it looked like a cold red paper pasted in space, and its dark red glow seemed to be the scattering of the surrounding starlight. This is where the evolution of low-mass stars ends: red giants.

5 billion years of magnificent life has become a fleeting dream, and the sun is dead.

Fortunately, there are still people alive.