Gu Zhuo was right. The underground river under their base was not an underground river that extended in all directions and connected various cities. It was just a piece of seeping water that accumulated over time. If Gu Zhuo's former adventure enthusiasts knew this truth, they might not be able to figure it out.
How frustrating.
After all the seepage water was drained, only a dry and barren river channel was left in the original underground river. The river channel was dark and filled with old rocks.
There was nothing else under the rock, let alone any other living things. Gu Zhuo speculated that all the edible things in this underground river were eaten by the big whitebait, so it could grow like this.
After pumping the water, Jia Sheng and others felt that the cave was much less cool, but it was still much cooler than above.
"Gu Zhuo, what should I do with this big whitebait?"
A few people were preparing to move the water pump back when Jia Sheng saw the big whitebait on the ground and asked Gu Zhuo.
"I took it with me. It would be too uncomfortable to leave it here to rot."
"Want me to come with you?"
"No, you go up, I can do it alone."
After Gu Zhuo finished speaking, he grabbed the tail of the big whitebait and carried it on his shoulders, looking very relaxed.
Seeing this, Jia Sheng didn't ask any questions and went up with the others.
Gu Zhuo was the last to leave.
He carried the big silverbait, fixed it on his shoulder with one hand, grabbed the ladder with the other, and climbed back up to the stone hall.
Back at the stone hall, Gu Zhuo threw the big whitebait on the ground. Sam led the wolves to sniff it, then sneezed and walked away.
"This fish must be disposed of quickly, otherwise it will rot at this high temperature and the smell will be unbearable for us."
"Let us handle it."
Yue Cen led Liu Liu and Zhang Wenhong to the side of the fish. They both had knives in their hands and seemed to be ready to handle the fish at any time.
"You guys handle it, make it clean, and treat this fish as dinner tonight. Otherwise, it won't last too long."
Gu Zhuo warned them.
"clear."
Yue Cen and the others nodded, put on gloves and masks, and began to handle the big whitebait.
Chaoying has been staying in the conference room of Shitang and has not gone down. Judging from her appearance, it seems that she is still studying the reason for the appearance of the two suns.
Gu Zhuo asked everyone to go and rest for a while, while he walked to Chao Ying and asked her:
"how's it going?"
Seeing Gu Zhuo coming over, Chao Ying shook his head, sighed, and looked solemn:
"Do you know what the appearance of two suns means?"
"I don't know, but this hot high temperature will definitely affect the survival of many creatures, right?"
Gu Zhuo asked her.
"It's not just the heat that will have a serious impact. The two suns will change the sun's gravitational pull on the earth, causing the earth to fall into the sun or move away from it. I don't know how much the mass of this new sun is compared to the original sun.
Anyway, if there is any deviation, it will cause serious consequences."
Chaoying answered him.
Hearing this, Gu Zhuo asked with luck:
"What if the masses of the two suns are the same? Will the gravity be balanced?"
"meeting."
Chaoying answered him in the affirmative, but the next second, she changed the subject again,
"But even so, the earth cannot escape destruction."
"Why!?"
Gu Zhuo panicked. He originally thought that the impact of the two suns was just that it became extremely hot. He never thought that there would be so many things.
"Perhaps under gravitational balance, the Earth has returned to a stable orbit and continues its normal revolution, but when it revolves around the two suns, the Earth's orbit will inevitably become farther away.
"Imagine a small ball being attracted by two big balls and rotating around the two big balls. Then at a certain point, it must be on the dark side where neither of the two big balls can shine. That's the way the earth is.
A situation.”
Chaoying paused and continued:
"Because there is not enough light, the earth will turn into an ice ball at polar night, which will be even more terrifying than the severe cold we experienced before. As described in "A Song of Ice and Fire", winter will
to."
Winter is coming...
Gu Zhuo knew this concept, so there was no need for Chao Ying to explain the rest.
Moreover, apart from the cold winter, the most terrifying thing is the extreme changes in extreme cold and high temperature. It is impossible for earthly creatures to adapt to such temperature changes. What will greet them then is the total extinction of species.
"Is there no way to change?"
There was only silence waiting for him.
It had been so long since the apocalypse, and Gu Zhuo had fought against people and monsters, but he never expected that he would eventually lose to an irresistible fate.
He sighed and saw that no one was around, not even Jia Sheng or the others. Gu Zhuo gently asked another question:
"Then how much time do we have left?"
Chaoying shook his head again and replied helplessly:
"I don't know, I don't have an answer. I don't know the mass of the sun, and I don't know where the earth is in its revolution now. But it won't be destroyed so quickly. There is still another cycle. At most, it will be extremely high temperature. We have enough reserves.
If so, you can still live for a while."
"How long is the cycle?"
silence.
Still silent.
"Gu Zhuo, to be honest, I don't know how long this cycle is. Unless you tell me the specific masses of the two suns, it can't be calculated at all. But now I want to know the specific masses of the two suns. Do you think it is possible?
?”
"No."
Gu Zhuo is very calm.
He has become numb.
He slumped down on the chair, flipped his hair, and suddenly thought of other forces still fighting, several people vying to seize power.
ridiculous.
All extremely ridiculous.
Fame and wealth, glory and wealth, great power and being above ten thousand people. The moment the lament of the world sounded, it was all ethereal white smoke. It all dispersed in a flash, and nothing could be caught.
Only death and loneliness are eternal in this world.
Thinking back on the bad things that happened one after another before the end of the world, the various social news and entertainment news he had read, and the rotten smell hidden behind popular stars.
Thinking of this, Gu Zhuo thought it would be better if all these people died.
Gu Zhuo was in the confused and vindictive psychological stage. His thoughts were interrupted at an inappropriate time. There was a "rumbling, booming" sound outside the base, as if a motorcade was parked in front of the base.
"Someone is coming!"
Jia Sheng hurried over and reported to Gu Zhuo.
Gu Zhuo calmly put away the hidden emotions in his heart, and without any unnecessary expression on his face, he led everyone outside the base. Chao Ying followed closely behind him.
As soon as I came out of the stone hall and stood outside, I didn't expect that the people coming outside were actually people from the Prophet's religion.
Among these people were cyborgs, normal humans, and some that Gu Zhuo thought were strange, but he couldn't say where they were.
The leader was still Wan Sui, but unlike his previous calmness, Wan Sui looked very panicked when he came today, his face was pale and his brows were furrowed.
Gu Zhuo was not in a good mood. Now that he saw an unwelcome guest, he asked Wansui impatiently:
"Master, what are you doing here? Don't you think the situation is bad enough?"
"Gu Zhuo, I'm not here to cause trouble for you, nor am I here to win over you. Something really big is going on this time. Did you see these two suns in the sky!?"
Wan Sui's voice sounded anxious, she spoke very quickly, and she no longer sounded as enchanting as before, with everything under control.
"I saw it, so what?"
"That horse-trampling was a disaster that I never expected!"
Wan Sui immediately cursed.
Hearing this, Gu Zhuo was silent for a few seconds before asking:
"So why did you come to see me today?"
"Cooperate, we must cooperate. If we don't cooperate, we will all be in trouble! The desperate situation brought about by the two-wheeled sun is unprecedented! Gu Zhuo, do you know..."
"Of course I know what the two suns will bring! It will be destruction, complete extinction of living things, we will all die, it's just a matter of time! What can we cooperate with? Do you think it will be like what is shown in the movie?
, push the earth away? Or blow up the sun?”
Gu Zhuo has been burdened with too much, and now he can vent it all out through Wan Sui.
After he yelled like this, no one in the audience spoke anymore.
Chaoying looked at him and knew that he, like himself, was burdened with too much.
The world that was originally full of hope collapsed bit by bit in front of him. Who would not collapse?
"Gu Zhuo..."
Wansui murmured,
"Only this time, we only have this chance, not to save anyone, nor for the hypocrisy of the entire earth. We only have this one chance to save ourselves. Are you willing to die?
"If you die, are you willing to watch the people around you die together?"
Not willing.
This is Gu Zhuo's voice from the bottom of his heart.
He doesn't want to.
He didn't want to die in such an unclear way.
I don’t want to have a promising future with Chaoying, only to have it quickly shattered and then die.
It's not him who deserves to die. He works so hard and struggles to live in this apocalypse, and he still tries hard to maintain the goodness of humanity in his heart, even if others sometimes can't understand it.
Those damned villains are those beasts who follow the trend, play with people's hearts, and bring out the ugliness of human nature to the fullest in the apocalypse.
Not him!
Gu Zhuo must survive and take the people around him to survive.
He has never had such firm faith.
Although the Prophetic Cult in front of him was completely untrustworthy, Gu Zhuo knew that nothing could be worse than two suns. He was willing to bet that there was still a glimmer of hope in cooperating with the Prophetic Cult.
Thinking of this, he immediately put on a determined expression and answered Wansui: