Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 168 Direct Evidence
The next moment, consciousness slowly returned to his body.

Jiang Yang opened his eyes and saw the familiar face of Shen Wei, the director of the hibernation base.

"Comrade Jiang Yang, this is your 237th time waking up from hibernation. How do you feel?"

Memories flooded back like a tide, causing his breathing to quicken in an instant.

"Get a pen and paper!"

At this moment, the atmosphere in the previously relaxed hibernation base suddenly became heavy.

The laughter and chatter vanished in an instant. Everyone in the base, from staff to the rest of the hibernation team who had just awakened, turned their gaze to Jiang Yang.

Shen Wei's expression froze for a moment. The next moment, as if by conditioned reflex, he pulled over the sketching table that had been prepared before each awakening from hibernation, as required.

That was to prevent Jiang Yang from losing his memory and to ensure that he could start writing as soon as he woke up from hibernation after experiencing the apocalypse.

Jiang Yang picked up his pen and quickly sketched on the sketchpad. In a short while, a pattern composed of numerous color blocks and lines appeared on the paper.

"Comrade Jiang Yang, is it..."

"Yes, it's the end of the world, the end of the world is coming!"

The expressions on people's faces instantly turned serious.

"I will report to my superiors immediately."

Shen Wei left in a hurry, while Jiang Yang sat on the stretcher bed of the hibernation device, his expression constantly changing.

Damn it, I never expected this...

This apocalyptic experience was filled with far too many unexpected events that neither Jiang Yang nor the Earth staff had anticipated.

First, when the apocalypse arrives, even the space station, located hundreds of kilometers above the Earth's surface, will be severely affected, resulting in serious damage.

The original plan to live on the space station for a long time and observe the changes after the end of the world could not be carried out at all.

Secondly, it was originally thought that the apocalypse was caused by some changes on Earth, but it turns out that the sun was also involved.

That's the sun, a massive star!

Humanity is already powerless in the face of such a small planet as Earth.

Even with such advanced technology, it would still take the combined efforts of the entire world to barely break through the Earth's crust and drill six holes.

What does a thin layer of crust mean to the Earth as a whole?
The Earth's crust is no more than 100 kilometers thick, while the Earth's radius is more than 6000 kilometers!
By analogy, what the human world is doing right now is roughly equivalent to some bacteria making a small wound less than 0.5 millimeters deep on the skin of an ordinary person.

That human might not even be aware of it.

And what is Earth compared to the Sun?
The mass of the sun is 33 times that of the earth, and its volume is 130 million times that of the earth!
The two are not of the same magnitude at all.

If drilling such a tiny hole on Earth has exhausted all of humanity's strength and wisdom, what can humanity do for the sun?
After a flurry of organization, Jiang Yang and the many members of the hibernation team sat down in the conference room again.

Experts from various disciplines, officials from various administrative agencies, members of deliberative and decision-making groups, and others also reappeared on the big screen.

"The end of the world is coming. It will happen in 86 days, on October 14, 2078, at 7:00 AM!"

The type is a massive, global earthquake; there is nowhere to hide, nowhere to escape. This isn't my first time looping through this apocalypse; we already knew some information before. In the previous life, we carried out the ion drilling project, drilling through the Earth's crust to directly probe the mantle in an attempt to determine the cause of the apocalypse.

In our previous life, we gained the following…

Jiang Yang slowly recounted his experiences from his previous life.

Sun Changhe, who served as the chief consultant for the Doomsday Project, solemnly addressed Jiang Yang and the many attendees present: "Through data reconstruction, we have deciphered the image that Comrade Jiang Yang remembered."

The data is as follows.

A wealth of data was presented to scientists in geology and geophysics.

After a period of discussion, the leading expert spoke again.

"Although the total amount of this data is not large, the types are very complete, covering all relevant data such as crust, mantle, plate movement, helium isotope determination, and geomagnetic changes at the time of the apocalypse."

However, due to insufficient observation time—according to Comrade Jiang Yang's description and combined with the changes in the space station, we believe that the apocalypse was caused not only by the large-scale earthquake damaging the observation equipment, but also by the large-scale electromagnetic pulse that caused the communication to be interrupted. Multiple mechanisms occurred simultaneously, resulting in us only being able to collect about 20 seconds of observation data at the time of the apocalypse.

From this data, we cannot confirm many details, but one thing is certain.

The expert looked at the many participants on the screen and said in a deep voice, "Mantle movement."

An unknown force stirred the mantle, causing widespread crustal movement, which in turn triggered massive earthquakes that covered the entire globe, leading to the demise of our civilization.

According to Comrade Jiang Yang's report, at the time of the apocalypse, he observed with the naked eye that the brightness of the three planets—the sun, the earth, and the moon—all increased.

The root cause of this change is clearly the increase in the sun's brightness. In other words, at the time of the apocalypse, some force exerted some influence on the sun.

Given the unusual movements observed in Earth's mantle, we have ample reason to suspect that some change occurring on the Sun, through some unknown mechanism, affected the mantle, ultimately leading to the apocalypse.

Jiang Yang knew that at this moment, the expert's suspicion that the sun was related to the end of the world was merely a suspicion.

No one has any concrete evidence.

But judging from common sense, the sun was perfectly normal before the end of the world, but suddenly became bright when the end of the world arrived on Earth. The two things happened at the same time. It can’t be a coincidence, right?
Furthermore, it's not just the brightening that's confirmed so far; there's also a large-scale electromagnetic storm.

Jiang Yang had already noticed this when the No. 6 space station was damaged in his previous life.

The interaction between charged particles and the Earth's magnetic field can cause extremely strong geomagnetic induced currents to be generated on conductors, thereby destroying all electronic devices.

Aside from electromagnetic storms, Jiang Yang couldn't think of any other possible factors that could have caused the incident on the space station.

Experts clearly share this view.

With such intensity and such a wide range of disturbances, Jiangyang could not find a second alternative besides the sun.

It would be impossible to do this relying solely on Earth or the Moon.

Only the sun possesses this ability.

This is yet another piece of direct evidence that "at the end of the world, the sun influenced the earth."

(End of this chapter)