Chapter 444: Two Hundred Consecutive Draws, Did the System Have a Bug?

Under the gaze of countless people, Su Meng slowly raised his head, looked at the stars filling the sky, and his voice grew low.

"I have never seen the night, I have never seen the stars, I have never seen spring, autumn, or winter."

Hmm? Many people were stunned.

Then they suddenly realized he was telling a story in the first person.

Never seen the night, never seen the stars—was the protagonist of the story a blind man?

"I was born when the Braking Era ended, when the Earth had just stopped rotating."

The Braking Era? The Earth stopped rotating?

Everyone was baffled.

What does this mean? How could the Earth possibly stop rotating?

But the familiar flavor quickly made them think of "The Country Teacher".

So is this a science fiction story?

Everyone instantly perked up.

Quite a few people subconsciously put toilet paper within reach.

"The Earth's rotational braking took forty-two years, three years longer than the Lianhezheng Prefecture's plan. Mother told me about our whole family watching the last sunset; the sun set very slowly, as if it had stopped on the horizon, taking three days and three nights to go down..."

As Su Meng narrated, a magnificent yet tragic scene slowly unfolded, drawing everyone in.

Finally, everyone knew the root of all this.

The sun was about to undergo a helium flash explosion; all planets, including those in the solar system, would be vaporized, and the end of the world was imminent!

And facing this crisis, humanity's choice was—

Step one: Use Earth engines to stop the Earth's rotation.

Step two: Run the Earth engines at full power to accelerate the Earth to escape velocity and fly out of the solar system.

Step three: Continue accelerating in outer space, flying toward Proxima Centauri.

Step four: Make the Earth rotate again midway, reverse the engine direction, and begin decelerating.

Step five: The Earth docks into Proxima Centauri's orbit, becoming a satellite of this star!

Damn! Countless people simultaneously slapped their tables in admiration.

So this was the true meaning of "The Wandering Earth": taking the Earth to wander!

Ultimate brilliance! Ultimate romance! Ultimate tragedy!

And ultimate badassery!

Everyone's look at Su Meng was different.

How was this little head of his grown?

The story slowly advanced.

This story was not complex, with no overly brain-burning plot.

Yet within the plain words lay immense power, containing reflections on human nature, making everyone fall silent for a long time.

The Earth's wandering was not smooth sailing.

Finally, in extreme darkness and oppression, more and more people lost their sanity.

More and more people discovered that the image of the sun from four centuries ago was no different from the sun image everyone saw now.

Luminosity, pixel arrangement, pixel probability, hierarchical statistics... all parameters were exactly the same!

Finally, someone drew a conclusion—

"Citizens! The Earth has been betrayed! Humanity has been betrayed! Civilization has been betrayed! We are all victims of a super conspiracy!"

"The sun is still the original sun; it will not erupt, neither in the past, present, nor future; it is a symbol of eternity!"

"What erupted was the sinister ambition of those people in the Lianhezheng Prefecture!"

"They fabricated all this just to establish their dictatorial empire! They destroyed the Earth! They destroyed human civilization!"

The Lianhezheng Prefecture lost its credibility; rebellion erupted like wildfire, and wherever the rebels went, the people of Blue Star rose up in response!

The rebels won; they rushed into the cockpit of Blue Star.

More than five thousand people were still guarding the cockpit, but they ultimately chose to surrender.

"We could have fought to the end, but this might have caused the Blue Star engines to go out of control; once this happened, excessive fusion material would burn through Blue Star or evaporate all oceans, so we decided to surrender."

These five thousand-plus people were escorted out of the cockpit.

During the escort, "I" saw a little girl lift a large chunk of ice and, with all her strength, hurl it fiercely at an old man; her eyes, seen through the visor, shot forth mad fury.

The execution plan came out: the rebels confiscated the nuclear batteries used for heating on the sealed suits of everyone sentenced to death, then threw them onto the sea ice, letting the minus-one-hundred-degree cold slowly take their lives.

Under the cold, those anti-human criminals on the sea surface, though still all standing, were no longer living; their blood had frozen.

The rebels finally achieved ultimate victory; thus, everyone began to cheer and jump, singing "My Sun" together.

And right at that moment, the sun's helium flash erupted.

The chorus of "My Sun" abruptly stopped; the hundred-plus thousand people on the shore froze, seeming, like those on the sea surface, to have turned into a patch of rigid rocks.

The magnificent career of five billion years had become a fleeting dream; the sun was dead.

Fortunately, some people were still alive.

Su Meng's voice finally stopped.

Both the scene and the live stream remained in silence.

Everyone was immersed in it, unable for a long time to extricate themselves.

Actually, at this moment, Su Meng's heart was also extremely pleased.

The novel "The Wandering Earth" was one he had drawn out directly very early on.

However, while telling it, Su Meng made a tiny little change.

In the original work, "I" married a woman from the Island Nation named "Jiayiko".

But in the version Su Meng told, it was changed to a Dragon Nation woman.