Earth Era

Hearing Wang Tang's words, Zhao Huasheng didn't react at all. Wang Tang paused, observed Zhao Huasheng's reaction, and then continued: "You know, the Crimson Heart spacecraft carries the hope of our human civilization to a certain extent, and every second of its observation time is very precious. , we have no capital to waste them."

"I won't go, and I won't say why I did it." Zhao Huasheng shook his head, "but I will go to meet the head of state and tell the head of state why I did it. After that, let the head of state come. Make a decision."

Zhao Huasheng's inference is too surprising. Before obtaining the most important evidence, Zhao Huasheng will not publish it. Because the announcement in advance will bring many unexpected troubles, and may even cause panic.

"If you insist on doing this." Wang Tang shrugged, "but you'd better hurry up. Your observation mission is seriously draining the astronauts' energy and time. Although they have no complaints, the people in the medical department There have been warnings and protests about it. They think it will have a very serious impact on the health of the astronauts."

"I know." Zhao Huasheng nodded, "I have made an appointment for tomorrow morning. In the morning, I will go to meet the head of state, and tell all my reasons and reasons, without any reservations."

"Although I'm curious about your reasons and inferences, I think... you probably won't tell me about them. So be it, good luck, young man." Wang Tang patted Zhao Huasheng on the shoulder , turn away.

Wang Tang, who pushed open the door and left, left Zhao Huasheng's residence, but at the same time he let a cold air invade Zhao Huasheng's room. Zhao Huasheng couldn't help shivering.

The weather is getting cold. Even if he stayed indoors, Zhao Huasheng had to turn on the heating and air conditioning to the maximum. Even, people have measured the latest low temperature record at the equator, this record is minus 57 degrees Celsius.

The scientific research robots left by the north and south poles also reported the lowest temperature record in the polar regions, and that number was... minus 203 degrees Celsius.

The oceans are already enveloped in thick ice sheets, so shipping has completely stopped. Clearly, no ship can break through an ice sheet of this thickness. For today's human society, shipping is responsible for at least 40% of the material transportation volume.

If the supply line is cut off, many people in Equator City will die due to lack of energy. Without energy, there will be no electricity, and without enough warmth, factories that produce materials necessary for human survival will stop working, and hundreds of millions of people will die of cold and starvation.

But that didn't happen. While ocean shipping was forced to come to a complete stop, another mode of transport is quietly emerging. Because the ice sheet is extremely thick and strong, large trucks weighing more than 100 tons can safely drive on it. And the ice surface is smooth, almost like a road. As a result, many observation stations and supply stations have been built above the sea, and countless icy road routes that can be safely driven by large trucks have been determined. Oil, coal, steel and other materials produced in various places on the earth come to Equator City continuously through such a line. Its transportation efficiency is even higher than the original sea freight. Even if it weren't for the fact that it was not suitable to build a railway on the ice surface, the people in the engineering department even planned to lay the railway on the ice sheet.

But ice is not a road after all. The intrusion of ocean water, the movement of the Earth's crust, and even the pull of the moon's gravity can cause ice to break up. It's also too slippery on top, and high-speed trucks are prone to accidents. According to statistics from the Ministry of Crisis Prevention, at least 1,000 people die every day on this nutrient artery that feeds the entire human society. There are various causes of death, such as loss of control by a truck, drowning by ice breaking, and freezing to death by low temperature...

But human society is still increasing the amount of freight transported on icy roads. Because there is no other way for the human government other than to take human life to fill it. So far, truck drivers have surpassed those left behind in non-equatorial regions and become the most common job in human society.

They support more than 30% of Equator City's energy and material consumption. Zhao Huasheng knows this very well. Zhao Huasheng knows that a large part of the clothes he wears, the food he eats, the electrical appliances he uses, and the heating are supported by these people with their lives.

Therefore, Zhao Huasheng has always had a sense of urgency in his heart. But this sense of urgency has not spread in human society. On the next morning, on the road to the head of state's office, looking at the empty street, Zhao Huasheng felt that there seemed to be a dark cloud covering Equator City. The name of that cloud is despair, and numbness.

Zhao Huasheng clearly felt this. Since the last large-scale riot, there has been no major turmoil in human society. People just live numbly, work numbly, rest numbly.

Although the turmoil is cruel, it also means people's urgent desire for a better life and their own interests. Now, there is no turmoil in human society.

Lifeless, like a pool of stagnant water.

It has been more than half a year since the solar crisis broke out. During this half year, the surface temperature of the sun dropped from 6,000 Kelvin to 4,500 Kelvin. A full twenty-five percent reduction. And, no one knows whether the temperature of the sun will continue to decrease.

"Under this ice cold, people are already desperate," said Mengzhuo, "They can't see the hope of the future, and they don't know why they are still alive. The reason why the order in human society has not collapsed is probably because Because the government and violent institutions still exist, and the minimum standard of living can still be guaranteed. I bet that if the motorcades across the Pacific and the Atlantic disappeared for a day, the order in the equatorial city would collapse in an instant.”

"This is already the worst case." Zhao Huasheng said softly. But Meng Zhuo obviously didn't hear the overtones of Zhao Huasheng's words. He was still driving quietly and dragged Zhao Huasheng to the office of the head of state.

The car drove directly into the parking lot, and then Zhao Huasheng took the elevator to an office. Meng Zhuo waited outside the door, while Zhao Huasheng pushed open the door and walked in. In the office, the old man was already waiting there.

Zhao Huasheng gently closed the door, so no sound inside the office would be transmitted to the outside.

What Zhao Huasheng and the old man said, only these two people know. When Zhao Huasheng opened the door of the head of state's office and walked out, Meng Zhuo looked at his watch and found that only twenty minutes had passed. And through the crack of the door that was temporarily opened, Meng Zhuo saw the old man's face.

There was a slightly strange expression on the thin old face full of wrinkles, which seemed to be sad and angry, but not very similar. After trying to search in his mind for a while, Meng Zhuo found the most suitable word to describe this expression, confused.

That is the entire human civilization, a full seven billion - of course, now this number has been reduced to 6.2 billion, and it is still rapidly decreasing - the leader of mankind. Mengzhuo could not deny the ability of this old man. It was under his strong leadership that even if human civilization fell into such a crisis, it could still maintain the basic life guarantee and not collapse. Without him, the number of people who died in human society would not have been as small as 800 million.

Meng Zhuo stayed with the old man for a long time. In fact, before he came to Zhao Huasheng, Meng Zhuo served as the old man's personal guard for four consecutive years. Meng Zhuo thought he knew the old man very well. I have seen this old man make many decisions, and every word in those decisions may affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people, but the old man has always been calm and confident. It seemed that no danger, no suffering would affect him. He can always find the optimal solution to any problem in the shortest time~www.NovelMTL.com~Confused expression should not appear on his face.

But now, the old man is confused, and it is the deepest confusion. That kind of confusion is even worse than the confusion of the most numb, ignorant, and most hopeless people at the bottom of society that Mengzhuo has ever seen.

Zhao Huasheng's expression was always calm. After walking out of the old man's office and closing the door, Zhao Huasheng said softly to Meng Zhuo, "Let's go, let's go back."

Even with Meng Zhuo's professionalism, he couldn't contain his curiosity. Very unprecedented, Meng Zhuo asked: "What did you say to the Fuhrer? What was the Fuhrer's answer?"

"The head of state has promised to continue the observation operation on the Crimson Heart spacecraft." Zhao Huasheng said softly, "As for what happened... If I didn't guess wrong, you will know soon. Not only you, The entire human civilization will know."

As soon as the question was asked, Mengzhuo realized his gaffe. But at this moment, Zhao Huasheng's answer made Meng Zhuo couldn't help but ask the second question: "The head of state has decided to announce the truth of the solar crisis to the whole society?"

Zhao Huasheng replied indifferently: "Yes. If my speculation is really verified, the head of state has decided to publish the result of my speculation."

"Why? Isn't the Führer worried about causing confusion?" Mondro asked again.

Although he didn't know what Zhao Huasheng's conjecture was, Meng Zhuo could still know that it must be an extremely shocking and surprising answer. And to announce such an answer to the society...is it really appropriate?