Chapter 492: Redemption or Destruction
The super uplift particle accelerator located in the northeastern area of China is currently a place of concern to the whole world. As early as after the asteroid impact on the earth was exposed worldwide, an army was stationed here and a military restricted area was set up to prevent accidents.
Now, this place has become the hope of all mankind.
All the population in the local urban area has been temporarily moved out, because the instant burst energy level generated by the upward particle beam will reach an incredible level, and it is not safe for the people to stay in the urban area.
Outside the safe area, millions of people are currently gathering around the city. Today's weather seems to be infected by the whole world. The sun has not appeared. The sky above the Northeast is gloomy. Above the sky, the asteroid of 2028qa1 drags its long comet tail, which is extremely dazzling and breathtaking.
At this time, the space position of the asteroid was already within the orbit of the moon, which means that the relative distance between it and the earth was shortened to 400,000 kilometers.
Today, February 17, 2030, is the traditional Lantern Festival in China.
People from all over the world have not gone to work, school, or entertainment and vacation today... People walked out of the house and walked up the way, their eyes looked up at the starry sky, staring at the dazzling comet above the sky. It is so dazzling and like a goddess of death that makes people fear.
Today, everyone lingers between hope and despair, shouts between sorrow and expectation, and waits in destruction and redemption.
The vast majority of the general public can do nothing else.
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"Feeling? What do you feel? What do you feel when I am alone at the bottom of society? Buddha... In addition to placing hope on Mr. Li and the scientists in the world, the result will be good. The worst thing is that people die and the eggs are facing the sky. At least they can watch a grand firework. It's good. It won't be like a foreigner who will do a crazy move after the destruction, right? Isn't this half of hope? "
A reporter from the Global Times interviewed a young man in China and received such a response. The young man's response was enough to represent the overall sentiment of the people of this country. The country is currently the most stable compared to the whole world, because the genes of this nation have interpreted since ancient times: man can conquer nature!
Therefore, this legend circulated in this nation was that Dayu controlled the flood, Jingwei reclaimed the sea, and Yugong moved the mountains...
On the contrary, the legend of Noah’s Ark is in a sense a manifestation of incompetence in Eastern civilization. But now facing the eve of this catastrophe from heaven, the Western world is in chaos.
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"This is a CNN reporter's online report. The anarchy in downtown Detroit has lasted for 55 days..."
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"The British Prime Minister officially announced his resignation..."
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“So far, 77% of New Zealand citizens have fled their homeland, and government agencies are already semi-paralyzed…”
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In Paris, known as romantic, there are a large number of riot brigades on the streets that are still maintaining stability. Some local people lit the flasks and threw them hard, demanding that underground shelter facilities be opened immediately.
The French "Tinder Plan" also broke out.
Tonight in Romantic City is not only not romantic, but also blood and conflicts everywhere.
Somewhere in Paris, a middle-aged and elderly man with a beard walked on the streets that were either bright or dark in expression. He was staggering, with a serious smell of alcohol on his body, his clothes were covered with dirt, and his whole body looked like a homeless man.
He stopped and slowly looked up at the sky under the night. The dazzling comet seemed to be frozen in the starry sky. After a long time, he suddenly recited the poem written by the British Dylan Thomas:
"Don't walk into that good night gently"
"The day is approaching, and the old age should still burn and roar."
"Super angrily, angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily angrily ang
"Although at the end of the day, the wise know that they should embark on the night path."
"Because their words have never burst out with lightning."
"Good people, when the last wave passes, shouting at their fragile good deeds."
"Maybe I could have danced happily on Green Bay"
A luxury convoy was escorted by an armed team and chanted alone from middle-aged and elderly people. The convoy gradually stopped. A luxury car opened the window. A French rich man glanced at the old man who was indifferent to the outside world and chanted to the sky, then stretched out his head and roared in dissatisfaction: "Damn it, why did you stop? I contributed 2.2 billion euros to build underground facilities... The beautiful star was about to fall down in 15 hours..."
"Sorry, sir, the front is quite chaotic. Our people are evacuating obstacles. You should know that the whole world has been in chaos lately!"
"That's faster!"
"So, they angrily rebuked the disappearance of the light"
"The madman seizes the fleeting sunshine and sings for it"
"And realize that it's too late, they've always been sad for the time."
"Serious people, at the end of their lives, see with blurred eyes."
"Blind eyes can shine like a meteor, and be happy"
"And you, my father, are in the extreme sorrow of life."
"I beg you to curse me with your tears now and bless me."
The convoy slowly set off again after a few minutes of stopping, and the French rich man on the car silently stared at the oldest man chanting poetry outside until the window closed again, until the convoy left and disappeared into the darkness.
The poem written by Dylan is an angry cry for the god of death to bring lovely people away from this world, and angering the disappearance of light. It is incomparable to the melody of death and redemption of the whole world. It is read from the mouth of the old man who wanders on the street, and it is full of shock, and every word hits the heart of the rich man.
But so what? The rich man was indifferent and walked towards the underground facilities with the convoy.
Before this, this old man was not a homeless man or an ordinary person, but a professor at the Paris Polytechnic School and a contemporary astrophysicist.
In the history of human science, there are many scientists who commit suicide, including Alan Turing, Wallace Carrothers, Victor Meyer, etc. The asteroid of 2028qa1 has led to the biggest tragedy in the history of human science. So far, 58 contemporary scientists have committed suicides worldwide, including some well-known scholars.
All these scholars who choose to end their lives independently have a strong sense of mission. They subconsciously believe that at this time of life and death, the burden of salvation and hope is on them, and they take the initiative to carry it on their shoulders.
So they frantically looked for a solution, but in the end they became futile. This sense of mission put a lot of pressure on their nervous system. Finally, after several mental breakdowns, the tight string completely broke, either took a leap, took sleeping pills, or ended their lives in one way or another to seek relief.
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100,000 kilometers, the asteroid of 2028qa1 officially broke through to within 100,000 kilometers of the earth.
At this moment, in the northeastern hemisphere, in the night sky, the asteroid's body shape is larger than the moon in the eyes of people on Earth, and its brightness is higher than that of the moon.
At this moment, even the thousands of people with Buddhist mentality became extremely nervous. After all, there are only a few people in this world who can truly face death calmly.
Who doesn’t want to be alive?
Countless couples in their prime snuggled up to each other under the starry sky, silently staring at the dazzling white light above the sky. If tonight was the last night, at least the starry sky was beautiful.
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"After 128 minutes, the target approaches the limit radius of Roche, 128 minutes to prepare!"
The command and control center of the super upstream particle accelerator, hundreds of controllers, were almost breath-holding workers, and issued necessary work commands, and no one said much even a useless word.
"Accelerator charge loading, energy output, normal!"
In this huge control center hall, there is almost no one who has no sweat.
The hope of the whole world is in their hands. There is only one chance to launch, only one, one failure, and two preparations will take more than an hour. What is about to usher in the future of billions of living beings... is it redemption or destruction?
Chapter completed!