" The United Government is about to announce a crucial new phase of its plan, which concerns every citizen of the planet. All residents of the Underground City are urged to cease all non-essential work."
"This global address will be broadcast simultaneously from satellite to Earth. All working groups are requested to cease all non-essential work as previously notified..."
There are still ten minutes left in my scheduled speaking time.
Instructions sent from the communications department are transmitted via satellite and lines across the surface and all underground cities.
The once bustling dungeon suddenly fell silent.
People are in their own homes, on the streets, at schools, at work...
Almost everyone stopped what they were doing and listened quietly to the AI voice coming from the Horn in the corner, or looked at the screens hanging on the street.
Police officers were already in position on the narrow streets, ready to maintain order.
A desolate, frozen surface.
A quarry near the Planetary Engine.
The giant stone excavator, standing 90 meters tall, was put off, and its 30-meter-diameter digging gears slowly came to a stop.
The last load of stones was loaded onto the conveyor belt, but instead of being driven away immediately as usual, it left the quarry and parked in a spot in the parking lot outside.
Then the driver inside took out an e-cigarette, put it in his mouth, and stared blankly at the car's satellite-connected broadcast system.
Outside the vehicle, rows of high-speed ground transport vehicles, their wheels taller than a person, stood in formation, their hazard lights flashing, waiting silently in the wind and snow.
In the hot zone, in the old town.
The rescue teams that were transporting refugees also stopped working, and the team members, wearing thick thermal suits, hid in various buildings and turned on their personal communication devices.
They were surrounded by a throng of refugees, who gathered anything that could burn to start a fire, which quickly raised the temperature inside the room a little...
"This is the United Government, this is the United Government..."
"I am here to inform all the people of the earth of an important matter: please, everyone, cease all non-essential work."
The AI stopped working, Sun Deyi's voice was transmitted around the world along with the signal.
" The Wandering Earth Project has been running for nearly thirty years. We have paid a heavy price, but we have also achieved brilliant results. We and everyone else have been working hard for the continuation of civilization and humanity."
"As it turns out, the Wandering Earth Project was the right thing to do. Over the past few decades..."
It is our only salvation in this desolate universe. Even in the future, this plan will carry our hopes and guide us to a new home.
Sun Deyi first affirmed the correctness and necessity of implementing the Wandering Earth Project over the past few decades.
Then we got to the main topic.
"But today, I have some good news to share with you all. Just two weeks ago, humanity ushered in new hope—"
We have made contact with a great and noble organization that transcends time and space...
???
At the astronaut training camp.
Everyone gathered together to listen to the speech on television.
When Zheng Yingyi heard this, he suddenly shuddered and his whole body trembled.
His unusual behavior went unnoticed by others.
Because the other astronauts reacted in much the same way he did.
How is that possible?
What is this talking about?
Is this some kind of daydream?
There was a slight commotion at the scene.
The information revealed in Sun Deyi's words was simply too incredible.
The people of this time and space did not not think that a god would save them, or rather, in the context of the apocalypse, many people held this idea.
This is also why those Doomsday Shoe Cult can burn like weeds and never be extinguished.
But absolutely no one imagined that an organization from a parallel universe would cross over to their planet to provide them with assistance.
No one would have imagined that they could migrate to another time and space.
This is just too much...
Liu Peiqiang opened his mouth, but really didn't know how to comment.
"This news is true."
Suddenly, he heard his roommate Zheng Yingyi whisper to him.
"Really?" he asked Zheng Yingyi, who nodded firmly.
"It's true. I've personally had contact with that organization, which is why I came here."
"They really can travel through time; they can vanish into thin air in the blink of an eye, leaving no time to react..."
These words had been bottled up in Zheng Yingyi's heart for a long time, and only now that the existence of the Mutual Aid Society had been officially exposed did he dare to reveal them to his roommate.
Liu Peiqiang did not readily believe his roommate's words; he turned back to look at the screen.
Sun Deyi, standing above, remained calm and wise, showing no signs of old age or senility. "Given the changed situation, therefore..."
After discussion, the United Government decided to change the previous plans and arrangements.
" The Wandering Earth Project will continue, with the same goal. The previous lottery results for living in the underground city will be invalidated, and all people will be gradually transferred to live in the underground city according to the plan."
In addition, we will cooperate with Mutual Aid Society and other organizations to add a new project for the transfer of vulnerable groups. The specific criteria are as follows...
The relocation of vulnerable groups naturally refers to the elderly, the infirm, and the disabled.
"Old" refers to people aged 55 and above.
Yes, in this time and space, 55 years old is already considered old, because in harsh environments, most people's physical condition is completely unable to keep up by this age, and many people don't even live to that point.
The next three transfer criteria are: adolescents and children under the age of 14, seriously ill patients who are unable to take care of themselves for a long time, and disabled people who are also unable to take care of themselves or are unable to work.
Transferring a large number of people into the underground city will inevitably increase the burden on the underground city, but human lives are at stake, and there are horrific scenes of death outside every moment.
Sun Deyi and his men could no longer hesitate.
Moreover, what previously hindered the upper limit of the dungeon's occupancy was not actually living space, nor anything else.
It's not food.
If there's not enough space, we can just squeeze in.
The most critical problem is the lack of food.
But things are different now. With the aid from the 2012 timeline, the United Government won't need to worry about this issue for a long time to come...
Hearing this, although he still didn't believe it, Liu Peiqiang's heart couldn't help but pound.
His wife is currently in a prolonged state of unconsciousness.
His father-in-law was born in 1999 and is currently 58 years old.
His son is only 3 years old...
All meet the transfer requirements!
Liu Peiqiang suddenly wished this were true.
He grabbed Zheng Yingyi's wrist and asked in a deep voice, "What you just said, is it true?"
Is it true?
Is it true?
"This can't be fake, can it?"
From the surface to the underground, everyone is asking.
The public officials who were questioned were at a loss for words.
They don't know either.
It wasn't until the underground city government, which governs the residents, officially issued a notice through various channels that everyone finally confirmed it.
This seems... it seems to be true?!