Son of the Stars

Chapter 190 The storm is not over yet
The Great Collapse came and went as fast as a thunderstorm in East Asia in midsummer. It appeared without warning and disappeared just as quickly. In the end, there was no trace of its presence except for the rain on the ground and the mess.

Of course, the speed and pattern of the collapse's disappearance depends largely on the cause of its disappearance—whether all the people who got sick died or all the people who got sick were cured.

If it was a dead ray, then it might disappear even faster.

With the rapid decline in the incidence rate, the astronauts who had been lying on the surface of Mars for a full eight hours were finally able to stand up - after lying for so long, they had adapted to the gravity of Mars to a lot.

The matter of opening the airlock and setting foot on Mars has not been settled yet. The astronauts in the Mars landing module are entering the rest cabin one by one to change into adult diapers.

Eight hours, that's something not everyone can hold back.

The situation on Earth is similar, especially for Lu Chen and his team. After this trip, the entire research team has a bond that is stronger than a life-long friendship. After all, there are not many people in this world who would wet their pants together to save all of humanity.

Although everyone has a good relationship.

Estera took a shower with his tattooed face. He has now adapted to the urban people's concept of cleanliness and washes his face and showers every day to ensure that there is no peculiar smell on his body.

Civilized life has not only positive effects on people, but also some negative effects occasionally - for example, Estera can no longer tolerate the smell of urine on his body, which makes him use more shower gel when taking a bath.

Estela, who was fragrant to the point of being a little too fragrant, sat in the locker room, disinfecting his wounds with alcohol. He was slightly injured when he tried to subdue a patient who was about to commit suicide and had a layer of oily skin on his arm.

This kind of injury that has just bleeds but does not need to be treated is the most painful. The act of disinfecting with alcohol made Estela gasp in pain. The last Sicilian was in so much pain that tears were about to come out. In addition to cursing Italian swear words in his heart, he was also full of huge questions.

Despite receiving a social education and having lived under a coalition government for a long time, Estela still couldn't understand what the Great Collapse was all about.

The people living in the cult are all "normal people" who have never suffered a major breakdown. They look forward to the so-called "calling of God", but under such morbid expectations and fanatical love, no cult member really understands the feeling of a major breakdown.

The believers were looking forward to the great collapse happening to themselves, but none of them could understand what it would feel like.

The same goes for Estella.

Maybe it's because the ignorant are fearless, or maybe it's because the fools have good fortune. Ever since Estela tried to rescue Lu Chen outside the Argentario Mountain Base but failed, she has been dancing the cancan dance back and forth on the edge of life and death for a long time - stepping forward with one foot, jumping back with the other, repeatedly raising her legs high, switching back and forth.

But he had never been affected by the Great Collapse. Estera had seen ordinary people who had been affected by the Great Collapse and even died because of it in many places. The scene of corpses and blood flowing everywhere was not a nightmare scene for him, but a scene that had actually appeared before his eyes. Seeing such a scene, he would of course be angry, terrified, and unbelievable, and he would worry that other companions would also be affected by the Great Collapse and die.

But Estella couldn't quite understand the idea of ​​the Great Collapse that "the world is not real and only death can bring relief."

Because they were shepherds, Estera's "family" had always been the type that lived in seclusion. People in the church didn't come to communicate with Estera's family very often, and the village chief certainly didn't know that Estera's parents would occasionally talk about the believers being "people hated by God."

The Great Collapse is God's way of calling back His beloved Son. So aren't these believers who have never experienced the Great Collapse hated?

After cleaning herself up, Estella, with wet hair, joined Lu Chen and the others. The others were completely different from Estella - they had more extensive family and friend relationships, social connections... In short, they had more people to contact and needed to confirm their situations.

The atmosphere at the scene was already somewhat depressing. Although the coalition government had created and maintained a very large "major collapse response" system, during such a sudden and large-scale major collapse, not everyone was lucky enough to be rescued by the facility.

Mu Zhiran knelt on the ground, her face full of tears - her two very close senior sisters did not make it, and her 12-year-old cousin also could not be controlled and brought to a safe place in time by the equipment.

According to the AI ​​system's estimation, about 95% of patients worldwide have received at least one type of anti-collapse assistance. From restraint facilities to anti-suicide designs in public facilities, to help from healthy people who have recovered early... In the past few hours, all humans around the world have tried their best to struggle between life and death, and strive to save the lives of others.

But human power is limited, and nothing in this world can be done perfectly - at least not for the human species.

Lu Chen also looked very depressed. In order to save two sick children, Blue Swordsman fell from the sixth floor of the dormitory building. The two children who were risked to be pushed back to the room at the beginning did not survive in the end. The body of Blue Swordsman was severely damaged, and the memory module was deformed. It was not known whether it could be repaired.

Just as Estera was thinking about what topic to use to improve the current atmosphere, Tang Qinglong suddenly hung up the phone in his hand and said, "The Academic Committee is currently unable to maintain operations. I just got authorization from the regulatory team..."

He muttered in a somewhat bewildered and unbelievable manner, "We have been granted permission, and the command of the Space Administration has been transferred to us. The authorization will last for seventy-two hours."

Giuseppe rubbed his nose and asked, "Give us the authority? What are we going to order those astronauts to do? Have them do backflips on the surface of Mars?"

"The correct approach should be to do nothing." Yang Weimin shook his head. "I don't think the Space Administration will be able to resume normal operations in a short period of time. If the astronauts have anything to ask, we can at least give them some advice, right?"

"Rather than giving advice, I'm more worried about the time it takes for other monitoring systems to come back online." Lu Chen had just been looking down at the screen in his hand. On the screen, his personal assistant AI Baozi was dodging Lu Chen's fingers. "After such a large-scale collapse, the number of people who meet the conditions for Quantum Energy Release Syndrome has increased rapidly - we need monitoring equipment to analyze the situation."

(End of this chapter)