The Science Fiction World of Xueba

Bad news comes every day, and casualties are tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands.

Pang Xuelin was unacceptable and shocked at the beginning, and then gradually became numb.

This is a world struggling to survive in the apocalypse, and death has long been a daily life for human beings.

This indiscriminate bombardment of the earth lasted for two full months. Due to the snow project, the planetary engines in the northern hemisphere performed better than expected, and only lost less than five percent.

But the southern hemisphere is completely unrecognizable, densely packed with impact craters, making this beautiful sapphire-like planet completely turn into a pockmarked face.

When Pang Xuelin took Yao Bingxia's hand and walked out of the dungeon, what appeared in front of them was an unrecognizable world.

The whole air looked foggy, and the light shone through, and a clear gray passage could be seen.

The sky became completely pitch black. This was the darkest night that Pang Xuelin had ever seen. The stars and the sun had completely disappeared. The ice field that was originally white was now covered with a layer of black dust.

The impact that lasted for more than two months made mankind seem to have entered the era of nuclear winter.

The dust all over the sky completely covered the earth.

Fortunately, the vast majority are still alive.

In the distance, the restarted planetary engine can faintly see the blue light emitted by it.

The humans hiding in the dungeons began to return to the surface, licking their wounds silently.

This is just the beginning of a long journey of 2,500 years, and no one knows how many hardships they will endure in the future.

Pang Xuelin finally agreed to Liu Xin's invitation to work in City of Hope and became a member of the Science Committee, mainly in charge of global materials science and mathematics research.

For him, joining the Science Committee is due to his sense of mission as a scholar on the one hand, and on the other hand, in the following earth-wood crisis, Jiangcheng No. Pang Xuelin believed that he had a chance to save Jiangcheng.

As for the future crisis of rebellion, Pang Xuelin has not yet figured out how to deal with it. In his view, this crisis is almost an unsolvable knot, and he can only take one step at a time.

With the endorsement of the snow project, Pang Xuelin was elected to the scientific committee, which did not cause much hindrance.

The United Earth Government Science Committee has a total of thirty-nine members, each of whom is held by thirty-nine scientists with profound attainments and prestige in various fields. Among the thirty-nine members, there are eleven chairmen who are responsible for presiding over the Science Committee Liu Xin, as the secretary-general and chairperson, leads the scientific committee.

Pang Xuelin can only be regarded as a little transparent in the Science Committee at present, but no one dares to underestimate him.

After all, a young man in his early twenties is already on an equal footing with a group of old guys with an average age of sixty.

Although he is now in the Science Committee, Pang Xuelin is still a newcomer.

But ten years from now, twenty years from now?

Who knows if this guy will become the next Liu Xin?

...

After passing through the asteroid belt, the earth circled the aphelion and fell towards the sun again.

This time, instead of traversing the asteroid belt, the Earth just brushes past its edge.

When they arrived at perihelion, Pang Xuelin and Yao Bingxia came out of City of Hope and took a plane to Shanghai to pay homage to their parents.

It's just that during this trip to perihelion, I didn't see the scene where the glaciers on the earth melted and the spring flowers bloomed when it was close to perihelion in previous years.

The thick dust cloud still covers the earth, and it is difficult for sunlight to penetrate the dust cloud, which makes the temperature rise.

The average temperature on the earth's surface is only minus 30 degrees, the ocean and the land have not thawed, and only a halo of sunlight can be vaguely seen in the sky.

It was not until five years later that the dust cloud in the sky completely dissipated.

Humans also started to pass the perihelion for the last time. Pang Xuelin and Yao Bingxia had the honor to witness the fastest sunrise in the history of the earth

The sun jumped up from the sea level, quickly crossed the sky, and came to the top of the sky. The shadows of all things on the earth were changing angles at a very fast speed, as if the shadows of countless sundials recorded by cameras were played at an accelerated speed.

This is the longest day in the history of the northern hemisphere. From then on, the light of the sun will always shine on the northern hemisphere, until as the distance gradually recedes, within half a century, it will merge into the night sky and become one of the stars.

But the southern hemisphere will be plunged into eternal night, until 2,500 years later, the sunlight projected by Alpha Centauri will wake it up again.

...

Minutes of the 1298th meeting of the Earth's United Government Science Committee.

Time: 8:00 am to 9:00 pm on February 7, 2065.

Conference theme: "Possible Crisis at the Intersection of Earth and Wood"

Moderator: Liu Xin, Secretary-General of the Science Committee

Participants: All members of the Science Committee

The main issues discussed and the minutes of decisions at the meeting are as follows.

1. The meeting listened to the astrophysicist Ronald's technical report on the intersection of earth and wood, and discussed the emergency response plan for the crisis that may be caused by the intersection of earth and wood.

2. Regarding Professor Pang Xuelin’s proposal that the Earth and Jupiter converge, the gravity of Jupiter may disturb the Earth, causing the crustal plate to rupture and causing a large-scale shutdown of the planetary engine. The Science Committee decided to organize astrophysicists and geologists to conduct a special seminar.

3. The meeting preliminarily reviewed the 2065 scientific research budget report (draft), and prepared to print and distribute it to various departments, extensively solicit opinions from various disciplines, and then make further revisions.

...

At half past nine in the evening, Pang Xuelin pushed open the door wearily.

His wife, Yao Bingxia, was watching TV on the sofa. When she saw Pang Xuelin coming in, Yao Bingxia got up quickly and said, "Brother Xiao Lin, I'm back. The food is still hot. I'll bring it out to you now!"

Pang Xuelin nodded, took off his coat, hung it on the shelf beside him, and sat down at the dining table.

Soon, Yao Bingxia brought up the meals one by one, she sat down beside Pang Xuelin and said: "Really, this year is the first day of the new year, I finally took a day off, but you have to work overtime and have a meeting, originally I wanted to have a meeting with you Go out for a stroll, it's very lively outside today!"

Pang Xuelin smiled when he heard the words, and said: "There is no way. This meeting has been delayed for a long time. Before the committee members traveled all over the world, it was difficult to gather people. Finally, all the members are here. There is nothing Elder Liu can do about choosing this time."

Yao Bingxia smiled and said: "Grandpa Liu is really not easy. He is so old and still working so hard. By the way, Brother Xiao Lin, I have the same phone call with Dad today. As long as the earth and wood meet in three months, Dad will After completing his service on the Navigator space station, he can come back and live with us at that time, if you have time at that time, can we take him around the world?"

Pang Xuelin was slightly taken aback, nodded and said: "It is possible, but..."

"Just what?"

Pang Xuelin sighed: "The danger of the intersection of land and wood is probably not as simple as we imagined."