All the heavens, starting as the ruler of the universe

boom!!!

A beam of blue light shot out from the crudely designed gun in Liu Ming's hand.

The blue light struck the transport vehicle where the rebels were hiding—the heavy transport vehicle that originally belonged to the CN171-09 rescue team.

Everyone watched as the car exploded in an instant.

It wasn't a fire, it wasn't smoke, it was a real explosion.

Metal fragments flew everywhere, tires turned to dust, and the entire car seemed to be torn apart from the inside by an invisible giant hand, disintegrating with a crash.

The debris flew more than ten meters away and crashed onto the ice, stirring up a cloud of ice shards and snow mist.

The rebel hiding behind the car—had vanished without a trace.

The sound of gunfire still echoed across the icy plains.

The battlefield was eerily quiet.

The remaining dozen or so rebels stood frozen in place, their mouths agape, wide enough to fit an egg.

They looked at the still-smoking wreckage, then at the gun in Liu Ming's hand that was still glowing blue. Their eyes changed from fierce to terrified, and from terrified to fearful.

"Run...run!"

Someone shouted, and the group dropped their weapons, scrambled into the two remaining armored vehicles, floored the accelerator, and fled in a frenzy.

Within seconds, only the rescue team and the crashed plane remained on the battlefield.

Liu Ming stood there, holding his gun, stunned.

He looked down at the gun in his hand, then at the pile of wreckage, and swallowed hard.

"Brother You... you call this a gun?"

He opened the chat group, his hands trembling.

You Lingfeng replied quickly: "Yeah, what's wrong? Not powerful enough?"

Liu Ming stared at the pile of wreckage where the car and its occupants had vanished, and remained silent for three seconds.

"Enough... way enough..."

He turned off the panel and turned to look behind him.

Everyone seemed frozen in place.

Wang Lei stood not far away, his mouth agape and his eyes wide open as if they were about to pop out.

The soldiers behind him froze on the spot, forgetting to put down their guns.

Liu Ming didn't know what to say.

He silently put the gun down and switched the safety on.

That thing is terrifying.

"Um..." he began.

Wang Lei snapped out of his daze and strode over. He stared at the gun in Liu Ming's hand, then looked at the pile of wreckage, and took several deep breaths before he could barely steady his voice.

"You...you gun..."

Liu Ming hid the gun behind his back: "Would you believe me if I said I found it?"

Wang Lei stared at him for a full five seconds.

Then he looked away and at the crashing plane.

"Save people."

He didn't ask any further questions.

Liu Ming breathed a sigh of relief.

The soldiers then realized what was happening and rushed toward the crashing plane.

The fuselage broke in two, with the front half embedded in the ice and the rear half lying askew to the side, sparks flying from the broken edges, and faint sounds coming from inside.

"Someone's alive!" Liu Zi shouted.

Several people rushed forward and used tools to pry open the deformed hatch.

"Don't come any closer! Don't come any closer!" Covered in blood, Li Yiyi pointed a crowbar at Liu Ming and Wang Lei as they entered, her small body trembling uncontrollably.

"Okay, okay, don't get agitated. We're from the rescue team. Put down your weapons." Wang Lei raised his hands to indicate that he was not carrying any weapons.

Upon hearing that it was the rescue team, Li Yiyi's body, which she had been holding up, went limp, and the crowbar in her hand fell to the ground.

"Zhou Qian!" Wang Lei shouted inside, and Zhou Qian rushed in and laid Li Yiyi flat on the ground.

"Where does it hurt?" Zhou Qian checked Li Yiyi's condition.

"I should be fine. How's the flint in the car?"

"Firestone? You went to rescue the Hangzhou planetary engine?" Wang Lei asked through the communicator, instructing someone to check the Firestone that Li Yiyi mentioned.

"No." Li Yi shook his head. "We have a more important mission: to rescue the Sulawesi III steering engine."

"Boss, the flint on the transport vehicle is intact, but this is the only usable transport vehicle left," Wang Lei's voice came through his communicator.

"Do you have any transport vehicle drivers here?" A glimmer of hope flashed in Li Yiyi's eyes.

"I am." Liu Ming stepped forward and looked at the genius boy from The Wandering Earth.

Li Yiyi's eyes lit up instantly: "Great! Come with me! To the Sulawesi III steering engine!"

Wang Lei's face darkened.

"What did you say?"

"The Sulawesi III Steering Engine!" Li Yiyi exclaimed. "That's the engine that changes the Earth's trajectory! If we can restart it, we can change the Earth's orbit! That's our hope for survival!"

Wang Lei stared at him and said, word by word, "My mission is to deliver the flint to the No. 1 engine in Hangzhou."

"Hangzhou?" Li Yi was stunned. "The Hangzhou engine is just a regular propulsion engine, not a steering engine! Restarting it won't save the world!"

"That's my mission," Wang Lei said coldly.

The two stared at each other, and the tension in the air grew stronger.

Liu Ming stood to the side, watching this scene. He knew that the fate of the Hangzhou underground city being swallowed by lava was inevitable.

Li Yiyi panicked: "Listen to me! Only the thrust of a steering engine can change the Earth's orbit! Ordinary engines can't do that!"

"Shut up." Wang Lei interrupted him coldly. "My mission is Hangzhou. My team members and my comrades are all waiting for this spark."

"But it won't do you any good even if you go to Hangzhou!" Li Yiyi shouted. "Even if the Hangzhou engine restarts, it won't change the fate of the Earth! Thirty-five billion people will still die!"

Wang Lei clenched his fist.

Liu Ming noticed that his hands were trembling.

Just then, a series of urgent calls came through the communicator.

"Boss! The Hangzhou Underground City has been invaded by lava! The Hangzhou Underground City is gone... All 350,000 people have perished."

Wang Lei's body suddenly stiffened.

"Hangzhou Underground City... Magma Intrusion..."

He murmured to himself, his face deathly pale.

Liu Ming knew why Wang Lei was acting this way; his wife and children were in the Hangzhou underground city.

Liu Ming walked over and gently patted his shoulder.

"Wang Lei".

Wang Lei turned his head and looked at him.

His eyes were red-rimmed, but there were no tears.

"I know what you're trying to say," Wang Lei's voice was hoarse. "Mission...mission..."

"Heading south, we're going to Sulawesi." After saying this, Wang Lei seemed to have all his strength drained away, and turned to walk towards the intact transport vehicle.

But his silhouette was heavier than ever.

——————Dawn and Dusk Dividing Line

"We're about to cross the twilight line. After that, it'll be eternal night. Let's resupply at the supply station." Wang Lei composed himself; there wasn't much time for him to be sad.

There was also a broadcast system running at the supply station, constantly repeating the signal to restart the engine.

[JP041-02 rescue team has restarted the Osaka No. 3 engine]

[This is CN189-03, Kashgar No. 1 engine restarted]

[RU212 Squadron reports: Sochi No. 1 engine has been restarted]

[Report NO013-01: Turin No. 2 engine successfully restarted]

[HR011-08 Rescue Team Report: Singapore's No. 2 Engine Has Been Restarted]

"Everyone, 90% of the steering engines have been repaired, only the Sulawesi batch is left." Li Yiyi held a tablet, watching the green dots light up one after another on the 3D map, and a smile appeared on his face.

Before the fuel was even fully refueled, the eternal darkness was suddenly shattered by a towering blue beam of light.

"It's the Sulawesi III steering engine!"

"Someone restarted the engine before us! This is the last steering engine; all steering engines have now been restarted!"

Everyone stood up and looked at the blue pillar of light that stretched into the sky.

"It's a success!"

"Once the readings pick up again, we can all go home."

"The distance between Earth and Wood... is still decreasing." Li Yiyi looked at the tablet in her hand and slumped to the ground.

Just then, the broadcast system on the transport vehicle suddenly came on.

[This is the Navigator Space Station, now giving our final broadcast to the world.]

In the past thirty-six hours, humanity has experienced the greatest survival crisis in history.

Thanks to the efforts and sacrifices of 1.5 million rescue workers around the world, 71% of the propulsion engines and 100% of the steering engines were restarted at full power.

Unfortunately, Jupiter's gravity currently exceeds the total output power of all its engines.

Earth missed its last chance to escape.

To ensure the continuation of human civilization, Moss will launch the "Spark" project.

The Navigator Space Station has stored 300,000 human fertilized eggs and 100 million basic crop seeds, as well as DNA maps of all known plants and animals in the world. It also houses a digital database of all human civilization to ensure the reconstruction of a complete human civilization on the new colony planet.

You are all heroes of our planet, and we will always remember you and be proud of you.

We will carry all your hopes and fly to our new home 2,500 years from now.

Everything has a beginning and an end. In the final seven days of Earth's reentry into Jupiter, let's go home, reunite with our families, and say goodbye properly.

Best of luck to everyone!

[End of broadcast, goodbye]

"There are no more seven days! In less than a day, the air will be sucked dry, and everyone will die! There are no more seven days!" Old He cried out, his face full of grief.

"Fuck your Jupiter! Fuck your mother!"

"Li Yiyi, is there any possibility that Jupiter's surface could ignite after mixing with Earth's atmosphere?" Liu Ming's voice wasn't loud, but it reached everyone's ears through the communicator.

Li Yi, who had been sitting on the ground and had already given up, suddenly opened his eyes wide: "Jupiter is 90% hydrogen!"

He quickly got up from the ground and, dragging his numb legs, began calculating on the computer panel on the transport vehicle.

"Jupiter has already captured at least 30 billion liters of oxygen. An explosion could generate a shockwave exceeding Mach 1,000, producing enough kinetic energy to propel the Earth!"

"But we're missing a single match enough to ignite the 70,000-kilometer distance between Earth and Jupiter!"

Liu Ming turned to look at the steering engine: "How's this one?"

"Which one?" Li Yiyi followed Liu Ming's gaze and saw the towering pillar of light.

"I can modify his program to make it spray even higher!" Li Yiyi's words were full of confidence.

"So, is anyone quitting?" Liu Ming asked, looking at everyone.

"Alright! Since no one's quitting, I'll assign tasks!"

Li Yi pointed to the computer screen on the transport vehicle, his finger quickly drawing several routes.

"We only have thirty minutes. The first step is to shut down the engine and gain control." Li Yi tapped the tablet facing the crowd with his pen.

"The engine has a total of seven injection nozzles. I will concentrate the energy in one nozzle so that the generated plasma stream can reach a sufficient height."

"The second step, after gaining control, is to manually unlock it, and this is where you will be needed."

Li Yiyi looked at Wang Lei and the group of people wearing power armor: "The manual unlocking is up to you guys."

"The final step is to put the flint into the reactor ignition gate to reignite the engine." Li Yi looked at the remaining people.

"I'll do it. I've learned how to install flints," Liu Ming stepped forward.

"OK, then it's you." Li Yiyi had no choice; apart from Liu Ming, none of the others present knew how to install the flint.

"Raise your hand if you have a question." After saying this, Li Yiyi looked down at the ground, pretending not to see anyone raise their hand.

He also knew that this hastily assembled group of people had not undergone systematic training and certainly did not know anything.

"Let's go. Trust me, there won't be any problems." Liu Ming believed in himself and in them. He had been preparing for this crisis for a long time.

"The control center is just ahead," Lao He said, pointing to the building in front of him.

"Proceed according to plan."

After everyone got off the vehicle, Liu Ming drove the transport truck carrying flint towards the reactor ignition gate.

After Liu Ming drove the car to the designated location, the robotic arms on both sides started moving, grabbing the flint and putting it into the ignition gate.

Immediately afterwards, the ignition gate was activated, and the ignition device, weighing tens of thousands of tons, slowly descended, enveloping the flint.

At this critical moment, the ignition device stopped moving.

Liu Ming knew he was stuck.

Without hesitation, he jumped out of the car and rushed to the ignition gate.

A crack appeared in the massive gate, revealing a pitch-black interior with only the faint sound of metal scraping against metal emanating from its depths.

Liu Ming took a deep breath, grabbed the edge of the gate with both hands, pushed hard, and flipped himself up.

The gap was very narrow, just enough for him to squeeze in sideways. It was pitch black inside, with only a faint light coming in from above.

He crawled forward along the tracks, the dim lighting and the roaring mechanical sounds making the tense atmosphere increasingly oppressive.

Finally, he saw the foreign object blocking the ignition device.

It was a steel plate about half a person's height, which had fallen from somewhere and was stuck firmly at the joint of the transmission structure. It weighed at least several hundred kilograms, and the surrounding gears had been deformed by it.

Liu Ming gritted his teeth, gripped the edge of the steel plate with both hands, and his muscles bulged all over.

The steel plate remained completely still.

He took a deep breath, putting all his strength into it, his veins bulging and throbbing, and a low, muffled roar came from his throat.

The steel plate finally moved.

He lifted it up little by little, moved it around, and then pushed it outwards with a thud.

Boom—

The steel plate crashed into the darkness, echoing with a series of impacts.

The transmission mechanism of the ignition device resumed operation, and the gears began to rotate.

But before Liu Ming could even rejoice, a tremendous roar came from above—the ignition device began to close!

"Hold!"

Liu Ming instantly changed direction, braced himself on the ground with his hands, bent his knees, and gathered all his strength into his legs.

The narrow passage behind him, which he had crawled in on his knees, was now his only way out.

He suddenly kicked off, his feet slamming into the gate behind him, and he shot out like a cannonball.

The gate is descending inch by inch, at an astonishing speed.

The light overhead grew narrower and narrower, while the roar behind him grew closer and closer. Liu Ming desperately pushed forward, his knees almost touching the ground, ignoring the elbows hitting the tracks.

Five meters, three meters, one meter...

The gate had already been lowered to waist level, and Liu Ming could almost feel the heavy pressure pressing down on his back.

At the last moment, he lunged forward and rolled through the gap.

A loud bang came from behind, and the ignition device closed completely, shaking the ground.

Liu Ming lay prone on the snow, panting heavily. Sweat slid down his forehead, condensing into a fog inside his protective mask.

Several seconds passed before he finally turned on his communicator, his voice so hoarse he almost didn't recognize himself.

"The flint has been installed."