It was the same familiar view of Earth from space. Its blue oceans made it look like an enormous sapphire, floating quietly in the universe, gleaming with life.
After all these years, Earth had actually changed quite a lot.
The Western Continent had been destroyed by a world hunter. From above the atmosphere, the devastation left by nuclear explosions was visible everywhere. The intensity of the Third World War had exceeded Zhang Ming's imagination. Hydrogen bombs had become conventional weapons.
The entire Western Continent was now being rebuilt.
Fortunately, the Eastern Continent was still intact. As long as the technological system survived and industry remained intact, humans were like weeds. As long as they were not wiped out, they would always sprout again with the spring breeze, one crop after another.
At that moment, Zhang Ming discovered the second candidate recognized by the Gaia Consciousness-Qin Yiwei, who resembled a statue that had lost its luster.
"Old Qin..."
A faint sadness rose in his heart.
The man was gone. Zhang Ming had not even had the chance to exchange a single word with him before everything had been swept away by wind and rain.
Zhang Ming knew too few details about Qin Yiwei's merits and faults to judge him, but he believed history would give Qin Yiwei a fair assessment.
"When I get back, I'll light a stick of incense for you."
Zhang Ming felt the sudden premonition stirring in his heart. However, he could not contact All Living Beings through the Gaia Consciousness, so he could only reach out once again to his old friend Wang Fumin and ask what exactly had happened to trigger it.
Old Wang was holding a meeting in his office. When he noticed the Gaia Consciousness contacting him, he immediately dismissed the meeting.
The sight