Earth Era

Equator City has gradually stabilized. Although the environment is still harsh, and the shadow of cold and death is still lingering over Equator City, at least the situation will not continue to get worse. And as long as it stabilizes, the measures taken by the human government to deal with the disaster will reap many results.

However, the number of human beings is still in an unstoppable decline. The statistical reports of the government departments clearly show that the difference between the situation getting worse and the situation not getting worse is only in whether human civilization is dying out quickly or slowly. In other words, if the current situation is maintained, the future of human civilization will still perish, but this time course has been lengthened a lot.

"The birth rate has dropped to the lowest level, and due to the cold and various accidents, the annual death toll has reached a new high. As of now, the average number of newborns per month in the past three months has been 300,000— — This number is thirty times lower than before the solar crisis, and the number of deaths per month is 15 million, which is three times higher than before the solar crisis. Note that 15 million deaths per month The data of 10,000 people is the death toll when Equator City maintains a basically stable state, and does not count the death data during the great migration and catastrophe.”

"According to the predictions of demographers, if the earth still maintains the current situation, our human race will be reduced to less than one billion people in fifty years, and will be reduced to less than five billion people in eighty years. , the human population will be reduced to less than 10 million people. At that time, due to the shortage of scientific research personnel, our scientific and technological progress will be severely stagnant, and, due to the increasing pressure of survival and the large number of excellent personnel who have mastered a lot of knowledge With the death of the dead, there will be a fault in the inheritance of knowledge. Our human civilization will begin to degenerate slowly, until the knowledge we have is not enough to deal with the harsh environment, and then our human civilization will completely disappear from the earth.”

"At the same time, the Academy of Social Sciences and the Ministry of Scientific Research jointly made a prediction. This prediction is that if we cannot solve the solar crisis within 20 years from now, we may never be able to solve it in the future. Because our human civilization The strength of China is constantly declining. We can now organize a large number of scientific research personnel and engineers to carry out huge engineering constructions, but after 20 years, we may not still have such capabilities. Therefore, the relationship between these 20 years to the life and death of our human civilization."

This is in front of Zhao Huasheng, the information document that has just been delivered from the scientific research department.

Zhao Huasheng could understand everything described in the document. Think about it, a spaceship called the Red Heart took up all the energy of millions of excellent scientists and engineers for five years. If the total number of human beings is reduced to only tens of millions of people... Support such a huge project?

In fact, Zhao Huasheng believes that the evaluation report of the Ministry of Science and Technology is still a bit optimistic. Zhao Huasheng believes that human time is only ten years, not twenty years. Because Zhao Huasheng knew how terrifying emotions such as despair and numbness were, and also knew how terrifyingly contagious they were. After all, there are only a few people who can still maintain a high morale in adversity, and the two emotions of despair and numbness will slowly eat away at the body of human civilization before disasters crush human beings.

Zhao Huasheng put down the materials in his hand, and Mengzhuo walked in at this time, and said to Zhao Huasheng: "Everything is ready, the heads of state, heads of major government agencies, scientific research departments, people from all walks of life, media organizations, etc. are all in place. , I'm waiting for you now."

Zhao Huasheng nodded: "Okay, send me there now."

So Meng Zhuo took Zhao Huasheng to a huge meeting room in a certain place of the Equatorial City Government resident. Zhao Huasheng will tell his speculation here in front of everyone here, and through the media present, he will announce his findings to the world, and tell the entire human civilization who the enemy we are facing is.

When approaching the venue, the huge venue that could accommodate more than 5,000 people returned to silence at this moment. Everyone's eyes were focused on Zhao Huasheng, and all the cameras were also aimed at Zhao Huasheng. Zhao Huasheng's figure at this moment appeared on the screen of almost every TV or other electronic equipment on the earth, and everyone held their breath at this moment.

The staff at the venue led Zhao Huasheng forward. Zhao Huasheng sat down next to the head of state on the rostrum, and then nodded to the old man, as if he had greeted him. The old man's face remained calm, and it was impossible to tell whether it was sadness or joy.

"I'm Zhao Huasheng." Zhao Huasheng calmly said this sentence into the microphone, and then this sentence spread throughout the venue and also to every corner of the world.

"In the past year, I have found enough evidence to support my speculation. I think I already know the reason for the outbreak of the solar crisis. After the consent of the head of state, I decided to submit my speculation to our human civilization Every individual in the world. Because I think that each of us has the right to know who our enemy is, and each of us has the right to know what kind of existence we have been fighting against.”

"To put it simply, what we need to fight against is a civilization. A civilization that, like our human civilization, has its own complete social structure, its own emotions, its own culture, and its own values. This civilization is living over the sun."

When Zhao Huasheng said this passage calmly, exclamations like landslides and tsunamis erupted in the entire venue. Although they had already guessed in their hearts, many people were still extremely shocked when they heard Zhao Huasheng's unambiguous confirmation of the news.

"In the future, I will tell you all my conjectures, the evidence basis for making this conjecture, and the cause and effect of this incident." Zhao Huasheng said calmly. After Zhao Huasheng said these words, the noisy conference hall calmed down again at this moment.

"The story starts about two years ago..." Zhao Huasheng said lightly, telling the stories that he guessed happened to Li Qi bit by bit, without any reservations.

Zhao Huasheng once again revisited the two years that changed the entire history of human civilization. Everyone in the venue, as well as everyone on the earth, also followed Zhao Huasheng's words to relive that period of time.

"As I said, Director Li Qi created a demon with his own hands, and then sent the demon back to the sun with his own hands. Although I have a very close relationship with Director Li Qi—as everyone knows, Li Qi Director Qi has always been my idol. When he was still alive, I have always maintained a close relationship with him as a teacher and friend. Moreover, his sister, Li Wei, is my fiancée. But I will still say unabashedly that it was Li Qi's mistakes that pushed our human civilization to the brink of destruction. I will not make any excuses for Li Qi's mistakes."

"I just want to say that now that our human civilization has come to this point, the current priority is not to pursue responsibility, but to solve the problem. Just like if we have a car accident, the first thing we think of is to save People will judge the same responsibility later. Solving the problem is the most important thing, and I, Zhao Huasheng, I have the confidence to solve this sun crisis. I have solved the puzzle of the first stage, and I also have the confidence to solve the sun crisis. Solve the puzzle of the second stage."

"I will take responsibility for any mistakes made by Director Li Qi. In order to solve the sun crisis, I will pay any price including my life. I will pay for the sins of Director Li Qi, and then, after I put the sun After the crisis is resolved, the choice of whether to forgive Director Li Qi will be given to everyone."

"My words are finished, thank you everyone." Zhao Huasheng stood up, and bowed deeply to everyone in the venue, to all the living or dead people in the world.

When Zhao Huasheng wanted to straighten his waist again, Zhao Huasheng felt a little hard. It was as if there was a heavy burden on his shoulders. Among the burdens are not only the expectations of human society, but also the responsibility to save the entire human civilization. Apart from these, there is also the heaviest debt. That is a heavy debt that cannot be repaid even if you sell all your flesh and blood, all your emotions, and all your wisdom.

This debt did not belong to Zhao Huasheng originally, because it was a debt owed by Li Qi, but Zhao Huasheng decided to repay it by himself instead of Li Qi.

Everyone in the venue, including the head of state, stood up at the same time at this moment, expressing their respect to Zhao Huasheng with silence and solemnity. This is not because of the ability that Zhao Huasheng may have to save mankind, but purely to express his respect to Zhao Huasheng.

Such a heavy burden, even thinking about it, will make people feel fear from the bottom of their hearts. Even Yuan Capital dare not make this promise easily, but... Zhao Huasheng took it like this.

If you don't pay respect to this responsibility and courage, people don't know what else in this world is worthy of their respect.

Zhao Huasheng straightened up, his expression still calm. At this moment, Li Wei, who was standing in front of the TV and seeing everything, had already burst into tears. At this moment, she seemed to have heard what Zhao Huasheng wanted to tell her.

"What a heavy burden that is... How can I be willing to let you bear it? My love, let me bear it all instead of you."

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