Chapter 194 Survivors

"announcement:

Since the world government has blocked the Death Star event, the Death Star impact probability data on the official website of the Asteroid Warning Center is no longer accurate. In order to ensure that everyone can get accurate first-hand information, our Ark Base has specially dispatched a team of hackers to invade the official website of the Asteroid Warning Center and obtain real first-hand information. Everyone can follow it in real time. "

In the Ark Communication Group Chat APP, the temporary person in charge posted a message. As soon as this news was released, it immediately caused a lot of anger.

"I asked why the probability of impact only reached 8% at the highest and then stopped rising and kept falling. It turns out that the world government blocked the news!"

"Haha, they can't do anything about the Death Star anyway. What else can they do if they don't block the news?"

"They also refuted the rumor! They refuted the rumor! They said that the possibility of impact has been ruled out! Damn it, the probability has obviously risen to 19%!"

"It is very reasonable for the world government to choose to block the news, and it is also the best choice under the current circumstances. This is true regardless of whether the Death Star will eventually hit the earth or not."

"Yes. If a collision occurs, then blocking the news can at least avoid social unrest and chaos before the end. If the collision does not happen, we can just pass by as if it didn't happen."

"There is a ball! No matter how hard we try, we will all die in the end. We are the only ones who can survive!"

"We are the masters of the earth!"

"If you ask me, it's better not to block the news, and everyone can party for a few days before the end, and there will be no regrets even if you die."

"Carnival? Carnival is nothing. Only the strong can carnival. The weak will only be in disaster. Without the restraints of moral laws and the future, the end is coming. You can't even imagine how bad people can be. "

"No matter how chaotic it is, it's none of our business. After the end, we just need to restore order."

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

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The core of the Ark base is the Holy Church.

The Holy Church is a place where gods are worshiped and the permanent residence of the Son of God. Only the Son of God can enter here. It is also the most heavily guarded place in the entire Ark Base. It is also the place where major systems in all parts 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 is sitting on the large "God's Throne" with tea in front of him. There are sixteen "bionic human" girls in white robes on the left and right, with slim figures and delicate faces, kneeling on the ground, waiting for the Son of God at any time. call.

From the very beginning of their birth, these "androids" who created their bodies through cloning technology and gained consciousness through "thought copying" technology had the idea of ​​being forever loyal to the Son of God embedded in their brains and could never betray him.

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

Shenzi picked up the tea in front of him, took a sip, and put it aside. An android girl immediately climbed up quietly, took away the remaining tea, and quietly put down a cup of steaming new tea.

A set of movements flowed smoothly, as if they had been practiced thousands of times.

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

This is a real-time observation screen of the Death Star taken directly from the Asteroid Warning Center.

It is overall black and gray, and its surface is full of bumps, sharp rocks and deep cracks. One side of it is completely dark and cannot be seen clearly. On the other side facing the sun, gas is constantly ejected under the heat brought by the sun.

This obviously means that there are things like water ice, dry ice, solid methane, and solid hydrogen inside the asteroid.

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

This also means that it should not have been close to the star since its birth. Because it has been determined that there is not much gas on it. And if it has been close to the star, the originally small amount of gas should have evaporated completely.

However, if it has not been close to a massive star like a star, and has not been accelerated by the gravity of a star-level star, it is difficult to explain its high speed at this moment.

Perhaps it comes from a star system that has an extremely high proper motion speed compared to the solar system?

There are some stars in the Milky Way that originally have very high velocities relative to the sun. Together, other stars in such a star system, such as planets, satellites, asteroids, comets, etc., naturally have higher velocities relative to the solar system.

It may have been orbiting far from its star. Then, or in a certain impact or a gravitational battle between certain larger stars, it was expelled from its original star system, and since then it has become a wandering planet, embarking on a long and distant journey into the starry sky.

The speed of more than 300 kilometers per second seems extremely fast, but compared to the vast and empty space, it is still as slow as a snail. Even if we get here from the nearest star system to our solar system, it would take about 3,500 years at this speed.

And if I remember correctly, there are no star systems with such high proper motion speeds around the solar system.

This means that this asteroid came from at least dozens of light-years away.

That is a long voyage of at least tens of thousands of years.

The long time has obscured many things, making many things impossible to verify. The question of where this asteroid came from could not be clearly judged until the final and complete destruction of human civilization in the world in which he lived.

The Son of God, or Tang Yun, was thinking silently.

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

Just like in the previous life.

Fate keeps repeating itself. There is no difference between this life and the previous life except for myself.

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

He never thought that after he finally met his death in despair, fate would favor him so much and give him another chance.

Rebirth and time travel, things that only existed in novels in the past, actually happened to me.

Although my own scientific literacy tells me that this kind of thing has actually been denied by science, but... who cares?

Whether it is true rebirth and time travel, or something that does not violate the laws of science and is similar to rebirth and time travel, or maybe I have not traveled through time at all, but inexplicably have some futures in my head due to some unknown reasons. memory – what’s the difference?

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

At this moment, even though nearly forty years have passed in his memory, he still clearly remembers the terrible things he encountered in his previous life.

It’s different from this life. In my previous life, because I did not pay special attention to the threat of asteroids, this asteroid approaching the Earth at an extremely high speed was not accidentally discovered by an astronomer three days before the impact. It took another day before it was confirmed by the official observation agency.

The change happened so fast 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 materials to various possible safety zones as reserves, it was too late to allocate personnel and build disaster prevention buildings.

Time is really too tight.

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

Tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, strong winds, thunderstorms, and heavy rains swept the world. Countless people were still sleeping and lost their lives before they knew what happened. The splendid human civilization is like a sandcastle on the beach. It collapsed directly after being washed away by the sea water, leaving no trace.

Clouds covered the sky, and dust blocked the sun. It's obviously autumn, but the temperature has already dropped to dozens of degrees below zero.

There was wreckage everywhere and death everywhere.

In such a short period of time, the total population on Earth has plummeted from close to tens of billions to less than ten million.

I am one of the survivors.

Compared to other survivors, I am luckier. 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 safety zone.

The so-called temporary safety zone is actually nothing more than an underground military base that was left behind but was fortunately not too seriously damaged.

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

Even more fortunately, the location of the temporary safety zone was not far from where he was, and was completely within the range of the helicopter.

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

The rest of the survivors who are not as lucky as themselves, what fate awaits them is anyone's guess.

In the end, the number of people gathered in the temporary safety zone reached about 2 million.

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

Large numbers of people die every day. In desperation, the provisional government decided to move to a real place that would be least affected by the impact and most likely to allow civilization to continue.

That's where the least impact has been proven, not in computer simulations.

The environment there is equally bad, but much better than here. With the tools we have now, it is not impossible to build a base there that is more suitable for people's survival.

The process of migration was painful and difficult, and many people died on the way. Only less than a million people finally reached the finish line.

Relying on the knowledge inherited from the world before the end of the world, people started from scratch here, using original tools and various tools obtained from the ruins of the city to build a base from scratch that can protect their own survival.

Tang Yun still clearly remembered the suffering he endured during that period.

Every day, comrades die. Every day, I keep thinking, don't hold on anymore, just fall down like this, and there will be no pain at all.

Every day, I think about it. If I could know before the impact that this is the real "safe zone" and the place least affected, then I could build a huge complex here in advance to contain food, fresh water, oil, energy, medicine, etc. It would be great if there were sufficient reserves of supplies to allow people to escape the apocalypse comfortably and then rebuild the base of civilization.

I finally persisted and persisted until the base was completed.

The remaining people finally have a place to live. But the days ahead were not easy.

Secondary disasters are frequent, the base is too crude, and supplies are in short supply...

The most important thing is that too many people died during the construction of the base. This resulted in that, although it was barely stable at the moment, there was no room left to expand the area of ​​the shelter or carry out more development and reclamation activities.

We must expand the population as quickly as possible, and we must quickly have a large number of cheap, hard-working laborers who will not feel bad even if they die, and who can be consumed on a large scale.

It is simply impossible to rely on natural reproduction.

In desperation, the interim government decided to lift the ban on biological research on humans, hoping that through cloning technology, the population could be quickly restored and sufficient manpower and labor force could be quickly obtained.

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

After the ban was lifted, human research made rapid progress. Even in such a rudimentary environment, his team quickly overcame many difficulties and mastered human cloning technology.

The human cloning here is not just a simple embryo cloning, which is then transplanted into the uterus of a human woman and allowed to develop slowly.

This kind of cloning is too troublesome. It takes ten months from embryo to birth. It takes more than ten years from birth to forming the labor force.

It’s too slow. Human civilization at this moment simply cannot wait.

What I am researching is more similar to "human body manufacturing" technology. That is, instead of creating embryos, we directly create adult bodies.

But now that the body is there, what about the mind?

These created people are as simple as a piece of blank paper and have no understanding of human social rules at all. They only follow instincts without any moral concepts. They are like wild beasts. They eat when they are hungry and drink when they are thirsty. They have nothing to eat or drink. Yes, they just go to rob and kill, and they don’t know how to control themselves at all.