Chapter 40 Bottom of the Valley
"No, the Head of State is not worried about causing confusion." Zhao Huasheng's tone was still faint, "Have you noticed that in the Equator city, the suicide rate has increased from one ten thousand to twenty-nine thousand, a full 290 times. Twenty-nine out of every thousand people commit suicide. The total number of suicides has exceeded 150 million. Do you know what this means..."
"This means that our human society has lost its vitality and people are despairing their hearts. Even, I am looking forward to another riot in our human society at this moment. Because riots also mean resistance, but now, there is no riot in our human society." Zhao Huasheng said powerlessly, "People... have lost the courage to fight. If we continue like this, before the sun crisis exterminates us humans, we humans will exterminate ourselves. So... human society needs this extremely explosive news. I hope that this news can arouse the hope for the future deep in people's hearts, let the desperate sky break a hole, and let the light of hope shine again..."
"So, the Head of State agreed to my proposal to publish this message. Of course, this will take place after my speculation has been verified. Whenever the Red Heart spacecraft got what I wanted, I will publish this message."
"You... are you confident that your speculation must be correct?" Meng Zhuo asked.
Zhao Huasheng nodded: "This time, I won't make any mistakes. I have enough confidence."
Meng Zhuo nodded and stopped talking. The car was quickly approaching Zhao Huasheng's residence, but when he was a few kilometers away from his destination, Meng Zhuo found that the car could no longer move forward.
Because there were many people in front, even so many that the road was completely blocked. After the car, many people were quickly gathering here and integrating into the crowd gathered together. There were more and more people.
"What are they doing? Are they rioting? But they don't look like that." Zhao Huasheng was a little confused.
"It's very dangerous here, let's leave here immediately." Meng Zhuo made a quick decision and immediately turned around and left here. But Zhao Huasheng stopped Meng Zhuo. Because Zhao Huasheng realized that the air was still quiet at this moment, and the crowd was quiet. No one shouted loudly, no one attacked others, no riots, no blood.
People seemed to be just gathering here, waiting for something. People were all quiet. This could not be a riot. So Zhao Huasheng pushed open the car door and walked down. Meng Zhuo followed him down and protected Zhao Huasheng tightly.
"What are you doing here?" Zhao Huasheng asked casually to someone next to him.
The man turned around and after seeing Zhao Huasheng, an excited glow suddenly burst out in his eyes. He quickly suppressed his emotions, and then said in a trembling voice that although he tried hard to control it, he still said: "We are waiting for you."
"Are you waiting for me? What are you waiting for me to do?" Zhao Huasheng asked.
"Waiting for you to save us," the man replied. While he spoke, in addition to being excited, there seemed to be more pious in his eyes, just as the believer faced the gods he believed in.
During this question and answer, everyone around them had already noticed what was happening here. Many people turned their heads and looked here, with hope and praying in their eyes.
Meng Zhuo's muscles were already tense. At this moment, Meng Zhuo had made up his mind that if an uncontrollable congestion occurred soon, even if he killed these civilians, even if he left his hands covered with blood, even if he died, he must protect Zhao Huasheng from leaving here safely. Just like when Meng Zhuo killed the polar bear in the North Pole, "Human hope cannot be destroyed in your hands."
Recognizing Meng Zhuo's nervousness, Zhao Huasheng gently patted Meng Zhuo's shoulder and signaled Meng Zhuo to relax. Zhao Huasheng already knew what was going on here.
"People in despair put the last hope in their hearts on me. Although I am not a savior, at this moment, I have to take on the responsibility of savior." Zhao Huasheng thought silently, "Fortunately, I have a good news that is not good news to tell them."
"Notify the reporters of major media and ask them to go to my residence immediately to prepare for an interview with me, and at the same time, let them prepare to start broadcasting the interview with me. All and all media are coming. I want everyone in the world to hear my voice." Zhao Huasheng said. Meng Zhuo nodded. So after a moment, Zhao Huasheng saw more than a dozen helicopters marked with major media flying in the sky. The direction of the flight was Zhao Huasheng's home in Equator City.
Zhao Huasheng turned around and said to the person who had just talked to him: "Don't worry, I'm here, I will save our entire civilization."
"Thank you. You are the only hope for our human civilization now, and you are the savior." The man bent down with devoutness and bowed deeply to Zhao Huasheng.
Zhao Huasheng nodded, and then walked forward with Meng Zhuo. In this quiet crowd, wherever Zhao Huasheng went, he would automatically make way for a passage. Countless people were bowing to Zhao Huasheng, and countless people were folding their palms at Zhao Huasheng. But the crowd was always quiet, and no one was making noise.
This place is a few kilometers away from his residence. Zhao Huasheng moved forward in the crowd and walked until his residence. The security personnel were nervously maintaining order here, and a cordon was drawn twenty meters before the community, prohibiting any unrelated personnel from approaching. People also cooperated with the security personnel's command, without any congestion.
Zhao Huasheng saw that more than a dozen helicopters had been stopped before his residence, and many staff members holding recording equipment were intensively debugging. In front of him, a simple rostrum had been built and a set of audio equipment had been prepared.
At this moment, the scenes here appeared on all the TV stations, broadcasters and public screens in the entire Equator City. The host was nervously explaining the situation here: "Today, more than 200,000 people gathered in front of Zhao Huasheng's residence, begging Zhao Huasheng to save our civilization. Zhao Huasheng's research work also seemed to have progressed. He is preparing to announce some news to us today. As for whether these news is good or bad, let us wait and see."
"If there is really a savior in this world who can save our entire human civilization, then this savior is undoubtedly Zhao Huasheng. Only Zhao Huasheng can assume this responsibility. Now, let us start praying together. The fate of our human civilization is about to be sentenced by Zhao Huasheng."
Zhao Huasheng walked to the rostrum that had been built. Countless spotlights were aimed at Zhao Huasheng at the same time. From now on, every word and action Zhao Huasheng said will be transmitted to the whole world through these cameras, and to the eyes of every person who is standing in front of the TV or other communication tools.
"I have some news to announce to everyone today." Zhao Huasheng said calmly. His voice was not only transmitted to all the media through the camera, but also through the audio equipment installed on the scene, and to the ears of all the people gathered here. Zhao Huasheng's voice was like rolling thunder. With the help of the audio equipment, it reached a place several kilometers away.
"However, before I announce this news, I need to apologize to everyone first. Yes, sorry. Because I have not fully completed my work. My work is divided into two stages. The first stage is to explore what happened at this moment, what exactly caused the sun to cool down, and the second stage is to find a solution to this factor. So far, I have only completed the first stage of work. I only found out the reason for the sun to cool down, but unfortunately, I have no idea how to solve this problem."
"What I'm even more sorry about is that at this moment, I can't tell you why the sun is getting colder. Because there is still a last point in my speculation that needs to be verified. Before the verification results come out, I cannot publish it irresponsibly. What I can tell you about this is that I am very confident and sure about my speculation. I can feel that I have solved the mystery left by Director Li Qi."
"In addition, I have good news to tell everyone." When talking about this, Zhao Huasheng stopped.
In the whole world, whether it is people working on the cold construction site, people hiding at home in thick clothes, or left-behind people from all over the world, everyone's hearts were raised at the same time.
"Our human civilization has endured too much suffering during this period, and there is too much bad news that we know. It seems that our human civilization has no hope. It seems that we can only slide down like now, never stopping until we finally fall into the bottomless abyss... The situation has indeed been getting worse, and our living environment has been getting worse and worse. The weather is getting colder, the food is getting less and less, and the hope is getting less and less..."
Chapter completed!