The conference room fell silent for a moment before Academician Ge said, "It most likely won't be a disaster. Even if a few people who hate their own country are making snide remarks online, they're only a small minority."
"The original Gaia Consciousness might have given Zhang Ming some benefits, made him stronger, and so on... but now he's outside its service area, so there's nothing it can do."
"I think humanity as a whole probably shares one unspoken belief... that our country is a Land of Abundance."
"As a result, earthquakes may become somewhat less frequent here."
"However, that will be difficult to verify statistically. Earthquakes worldwide are already tending to become less severe. It's not like a month ago, when magnitude-eight earthquakes were frequent, and even magnitude-nine quakes kept occurring..."
The thought of those terrifying magnitude-nine earthquakes still left everyone shaken.
Those scenes of the earth splitting apart and the heavens shattering were suffocating even when viewed from above through satellite imagery.
It was hard to imagine how desperate the people trapped in those disaster zones must have been.
Fortunately, that earthquake hadn't struck Great Xia. Otherwise, none of those present could possibly have continued working here.
Academician Ge continued, "There's also a second possibility: we may enjoy favorable weather and somewhat higher crop yields."
"If the Gaia Consciousness can produce mirages and earthquakes, controlling the weather should be effortless."
"However, we'll need long-term observations to obtain evidence of that as well."
"As for the third possibility, the trajectories of the tectonic plates may undergo subtle changes. We originally predicted that Pangaea would form within ten years."
"Now, under the influence of this wave of public opinion, the chances of our country ending up at the center of Pangaea may increase substantially."
The name Pangaea had been proposed