"We need to keep moving forward until we reach equipment room 3094..."
Ignoring the delegates' opinions, Wang Lei continued leading the team from the front.
The others could only follow along with trepidation.
The expressions on everyone's faces on the road were not good, and many people were whispering among themselves.
They now have a certain understanding of the people in this time and space. Judging from the way those residents looked at them just now, the influence of the Migration Faction among the people is definitely not small.
What are the official thoughts?
They are still missing this most crucial piece of intelligence.
Someone quickly stepped forward, walked to Wang Lei's side, and asked him a question.
Wang Lei felt a bit amused and exasperated, but he still stated coldly, " The United Government has never proposed or initiated a full-time and spacetime relocation. Our the Wandering Earth Project has never been ongoing..."
"What is the Wandering Earth Project?"
Wang Lei hesitated for a moment, then instead of answering the question directly, said, "You'll have a more intuitive understanding in a moment..."
"Now, come with me..."
The group put aside their questions and followed Wang Lei until they reached an equipment room.
The room was filled with various protective suits and helmets, as well as identification tags for getting onto the ground and civilian exoskeleton equipment.
Wang Lei waved to signal the soldiers to help everyone put on their gear.
Everyone silently got to work.
"What kind of clothes are these?" Jack held the protective gear, looked at the tags, and felt the material, but he didn't recognize any of them.
Liu Chunshi and the other meteorologists next to him were also wearing protective suits. They had a mission to carry out on the ground, and after completing the mission, they would be able to take a temporary vacation.
Of course, they will still need to go back to the Day After Tomorrow Spacetime to take charge of the overall situation in a few days.
Upon hearing Jack's question, Liu Chunshi turned his head slightly and said, "That's a cold-weather suit. Combined with a portable life support system, it can maintain body temperature and air pressure in extremely cold environments."
"We wore similar clothes when we were in Antarctica, except back then we were wearing military-grade ones."
"So that's what it is."
Upon hearing this, Jack and his two companions immediately remembered.
They were indeed very curious about the clothes worn by Liu Chunshi and his group at the time.
Everyone quickly got dressed, and Wang Lei continued to lead them across the aerial walkway in the preparation area. Beyond the walkway was a maintenance yard for large equipment.
Large transport planes were parked on the rotating platform, and technicians were moving in and out of these behemoths with various tools. The sounds of welding and the collision of machinery filled the entire repair shop.
Besides the large aircraft, there are also many parts of large transport vehicles piled up in various places, one rear end here, one carriage there, almost forming a mountain of steel.
Seeing this scene before them, the delegates felt a sense of familiarity. Compared to the high-end and sophisticated mechs of the Pacific Rim Spacetime, they were much more familiar with what they saw here.
Although the scale is much larger than their time and space, it is still essentially repairing airplanes and cars.
This also exists in their time and space.
Therefore, this time and space seems to be more down-to-earth?
With this thought in mind, the group walked through the repair shop and soon arrived at the location of the large elevator.
Wang Lei glanced at the display screen next to him; the number on it was - meters, and it was still dropping rapidly.
"We were lucky; the express elevator just happened to come down."
As soon as he finished speaking, the elevator in front of him slowly opened, revealing the elevator lobby inside, where a large number of personnel wearing protective suits, who had been rotated down from the surface, walked out.
These people passed by the delegates, and although their movements were subtle, the delegates could still sense that many of them were secretly glancing at them.
This made them a little uncomfortable.
Jack smiled and greeted a worker who was passing by. The next second, he felt something suddenly appear in his palm...
Wang Lei watched this scene with a cold eye. Only after everyone and the goods had come out of the elevator did he calmly wave his hand, signaling the others to follow him up.
The space inside the elevator was more like a mobile house, large enough to easily accommodate hundreds of people. In addition to Wang Lei and others, there were other staff members who needed to go up to the ground, as well as a large number of small pieces of equipment.
The two groups were mixed together, and Jack and his friends waited for the elevator doors to close for nearly five minutes.
Thump!
The heavy elevator doors slowly closed, and the entire elevator shook as they joined.
Wang Lei glanced at his watch and said, "15 minutes."
"The clock will bring us to the surface."
The elevator then started moving, and the height displayed on the panel continued to increase.
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The elevator travels at an extremely high speed, ascending 15,000 meters in 15 minutes, averaging 60 kilometers per hour. Combined with the oppressive atmosphere inside, everyone felt somewhat uncomfortable. (Xxs-②)
Hey, Liu.
What is the surface of this world like? Is it cold?
"Could it be that this place, like our timeline, has entered an ice age?"
Jack remained silent for a while before asking Liu Chunshi, who was calmly looking at the documents beside him.
Liu Chunshi looked up and said, "Things in this world are hard to explain right now, but it's definitely very cold. By the way, Old Li, the average temperature up here should have dropped to minus sixty degrees Celsius by now, right?"
The second sentence was a question he asked the meteorologist next to him.
Old Li nodded. "-63, that's the average temperature on the Earth's dark side, which was just released last week, and it's May now."
"May?" Jack was a little incredulous.
At this temperature... are they in Antarctica?
Liu Chunshi glanced at him. See? He wasn't lying. This is how things are in this time and space.
"You'll understand once you get up there. This spacetime has its good and bad aspects, but for us meteorologists, it's still quite good."
"Many of the materials I showed you before came from this timeline."
When the topic of meteorology came up, Jack's attention was immediately drawn to it. He took out the paper from his pocket and continued to ask Liu Chunshi and others for clarification on the new theories in it.
His colleagues, Jason and Frank, watched helplessly, unsure of what to do. They could only stand there like geese, staring at the numbers displayed on the elevator panel as they continued to rise.
Finally, after a few minutes, the elevator's speed gradually decreased, and the numbers on the panel showed that they were now only a few hundred meters away from the ground.
"Everyone, check your helmets and protective suits one last time!" Wang Lei shouted from the front.
After the soldiers finished their own checks, they also checked the delegates to make sure everyone was in order.
After doing all this, the elevator's height changed from a negative number to a positive number.
0 meters
100 meters
300 meters
600 meters
They jumped all the way to 600 meters before the elevator suddenly shuddered and came to a stop.
A temperature display has also been added to the panel.
-62.2
Wang Lei raised his hand and commanded, "The hatch is about to open, everyone prepare!"
The soldiers pressed down on the people around them, making them slightly lower their bodies. Other staff members in the elevator also consciously lowered their bodies.
Jack was also pushed down by Liu Chunshi, who put his arm around his shoulder.
The next second.
The elevator doors opened.
The instant the internal and external air pressures met, a strong gust of wind was generated, nearly knocking a person over.
The cold wind outside, carrying rain and snow, rushed in, and within seconds, the entire elevator lobby was covered with a thin layer of frost.
All signs indicate that the surrounding temperature has dropped to an extremely low level.
However, Jack felt no cold at all; with the life support system functioning, his body temperature and breathing were perfectly normal.
No wonder this device can be used in Antarctica!
The thought had barely crossed his mind when he was patted on the shoulder.
Liu Chunshi said to him, "Let's go, we'll go outside and take you to see the world's largest engine..."
"Engine?"
What's so interesting about that thing?
Jack was a little confused, but he still followed Liu Chunshi and Wang Lei out of the elevator.
Outside was a world of ice and snow, and as far as the eye could see, everything was a vast expanse of white and desolate, making it seem as if everyone was standing on a snow-capped mountain.
There were many huge construction vehicles around them, the tires of which were taller than a person.
Is this the situation in this spacetime?
Jack reached out and caught a snowflake. Looking around, he suddenly had a deeper understanding of why the people in this time and space lived underground and why the Migration Faction existed.
If the entire planet had become like this, then it would indeed be impossible to continue living there.
Is this the Ice Age?
Will our world become like this in the future?
Representatives from other the Day After Tomorrow Spacetime also stared in bewilderment at the shocking scene before them, their shock no less than Jack's.
boom!
A thunderous roar interrupted everyone's thoughts.
Along with the loud bang came a strong tremor.
It looks like an earthquake; the ice and snow on the ground were thrown up.
What happened!?
Everyone turned around in alarm, looking in the direction from which the loud noise came.
Then they witnessed a scene they would never forget.
The enormous device, piercing the sky, shot out blue beams of light, as if the earth were roaring at the heavens with thunder, shattering the surrounding clouds.
The silhouettes of heaven and earth turned into a vibrant, upward-leaping blue.
Before that beam of light, both people and construction vehicles could only be described as ants.
The snow falling from the sky melted into rain before it even reached the ground, pattering down on the ground and onto everyone.
After the rain stopped, the pillars of sunlight in the sky slowly dissipated.
At the top, out of Jack's and his companions' sight, the Planetary Engine's nozzle array had all retracted, awaiting the next burst of power.
Only then did the delegates regain their ability to think.
The shockwave from the recent jet of water had shaken away a significant amount of the surface ice and snow, and only then did they realize that they weren't standing on a mountain at all.
Beneath our feet lies steel, just like in an underground city!
The mountain behind is also a mountain of steel!
That's clearly a man-made machine!
After the vibrations swept away the ice and snow, they could see the aerial walkway above, as well as the huge, neatly arranged parts that exuded a heavy industrial style.
What place is this?
"What just happened?"
"Is this the Cannon you use to fight aliens...?"
The delegates are still in shock.
The shocking scene they had just witnessed still lingered in their minds.
Liu Chunshi laughed and patted Jack, who was also standing there in a daze:
"How about it?"
"Is this engine powerful enough?"
Jack turned his head like a zombie, looked at Liu Chunshi, then at the steel mountain in front of him, and finally uttered a sentence after a long time.
You call this thing an engine?
Several other delegates nearby heard Liu Chunshi's words, and like Jack, they couldn't understand them either.
"How could this be an engine?"
"Is this creation going to be housed in some more wondrous and enormous creation?"
The delegates subconsciously used the word "creation".
They felt that "machine" and "device" were no longer sufficient to describe the steel mountain before them.
Only "creation" is the most suitable word for it.
No one but a god could possibly create such a thing!
Looking at these people, Liu Chunshi was reminded of his first time arriving in the Wandering Spacetime, and couldn't help but laugh, "Why isn't this thing an engine?"
" Planetary Engine is still an engine, it's just that the engines you usually think of are used to propel cars and rockets, while this engine is used to propel the Earth."
"Propel the Earth?" Everyone felt numb, mechanically listening to Liu Chunshi speak.
"Yes, this Planetary Engine is said to be able to generate 150 trillion tons of thrust."
"You're lucky; you arrived just in time for its fourth test drive."
A silence fell over the crowd, unsure how to respond to Liu Chunshi.
After a long pause, someone finally asked, "Was this... Planetary Engine built by humans in this timeline?"
Why did they build this creation? What is its purpose...?
The questions from the delegates seemed endless, and Liu Chunshi couldn't keep up with them all.
However, Wang Lei quickly rescued him.
"Ladies and gentlemen, what you just saw is the BJ No. 3 Planetary Engine we built. Today is its fourth test run."
"The dungeon we were just in was directly beneath this engine."
"There are still five minutes until the next jet. I'll take this opportunity to tell you about the history of our timeline."
The delegates stood motionless in the snow and ice, like statues, listening intently to the voice channels on their helmets.
In 1977, astronomer Fu Jianming first calculated that the fusion in the core of the sun was accelerating and a 'helium flash' was about to occur... Once this disaster occurs, the Earth and even the entire Solar System will be engulfed by the expanding sun, and all living things will die from the high temperature.
"At first, no one paid attention to Mr. Fu Jianming's views. It wasn't until fifty years later, with frequent solar anomalies, that we finally confirmed that this disaster, which was closely related to everyone, was real."
"To this end, we made tremendous efforts, setting aside past antagonisms and prejudices, forming United Government, and finalizing an epic plan..."
"That is, the Wandering Earth Project!"