Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 7 The tip of the iceberg

Jiang Yang, who was engrossed in the game, was awakened by the sound of a door being pushed open.

He looked up and saw Gu Changshan sitting opposite him, and his heart instinctively tightened: "Commander Gu?"

"I've come to inform you of some things. After discussion, our decision is as follows..."

He methodically explained the subsequent decisions, while Jiang Yang stared wide-eyed in disbelief.

"The highest guiding principle is to assume that the end of the world is real..."

He was somewhat dissatisfied that his doomsday prophecy was not truly trusted. But upon closer examination, it was actually quite reasonable.

National decision-making requires absolute rationality, eliminating any emotional influence. Having this guiding principle is sufficient.

He murmured, "Alright, that's good, but is it just about gathering intelligence and passing it on to the next life? What else? Are we just going to do nothing at all?"

"Of course we do."

Gu Changshan's words remained steady: "The various scientific groups under the physical verification team have been fully mobilized, using all the means available to us humans to investigate any factors that could cause the apocalypse."

Near-Earth asteroids, plate tectonics, supervolcanoes, gamma-ray bursts, supernova candidates, solar activity, rogue black holes, and so on and so forth.

"But the apocalypse I experienced did not seem to be caused by any of the above factors."

"That's exactly the reason. It's because the type of apocalypse you described is so bizarre that we have no concrete direction and can only verify all the known factors that could lead to the apocalypse."

Jiang Yang fell silent, his heart growing heavy: "I thought that with the country's intervention, everything would be invincible."

Gu Changshan smiled slightly: "A country is made up of individual people. We are all human, there are no gods."

This is already the seventh day of the cycle you mentioned. In just over three days, the apocalypse will arrive, and we still know nothing about it. How can we possibly resolve the apocalypse…?

He smiled and shook his head: "Impossible."

But... so many people, including you and me, when we all come together, can unleash power surpassing that of the gods.

He patted Jiang Yang on the shoulder: "I still want to thank you for your trust in the country and for trying to contact us as soon as the incident happened. Otherwise, we probably wouldn't even know if the end of the world came."

Jiang Yang felt a bitter taste in his mouth and simply shook his head slightly.

"I didn't attend this meeting and don't know what happened, but I want to ask, is it really that simple to just give up this time, accept our fate of destruction, and focus all our efforts on gathering intelligence to support the next cycle?"

He murmured, "That's a matter of life and death for civilization, and it concerns the lives of every single person, including you, him, him, and him..."

"Except for me, including every one of you."

Gu Changshan's stern face still wore a smile: "Rationality is an essential quality for making important decisions."

"Get ready, we're moving to Doomsday Base Seven immediately. It's bigger there, with more and better facilities, allowing us to carry out our work more effectively."

Jiang Yang looked up: "There's another question. As far as I know, my prophecy post has caused quite a stir. Should we just ignore it?"

Gu Changshan calmly replied, "The standard approach is to delete posts, suppress the buzz, and control the scope of the impact."

"I'm afraid this won't be of much use."

"so what?"

Gu Changshan looked at Jiang Yang: "If the apocalypse is real, everyone will die then, so we don't need to worry about it."

The doomsday prophecy is false; people will naturally realize it's a rumor when the time comes, and we won't need to care. So why bother?

Jiang Yang sensed something was off about Gu Changshan's words, but couldn't refute them.

"Well, then we should at least take some measures..."

Jiang Yang muttered, "Even if we don't deal with public opinion, well, you've analyzed it, the apocalypse is still a possibility. Opening up some shelters, letting people stockpile some resources, and taking some precautions might be of some use..."

Gu Changshan calmly shook his head again: "I've said it before, the more important the decision, the more rational we need to be."

With only days left until the possible apocalypse, the nation is preparing to fight it… Do you want to make the world even more chaotic, cause order to collapse completely, and kill even more people?

Jiang Yang was taken aback, then fell silent.

……

The helicopter roared as it flew over the towering mountains.

Looking at the five fully alert armed helicopters surrounding his helicopter, Jiang Yang said, "Isn't this a bit much?"

Gu Changshan shook his head slightly: "To ensure your safety, no amount of fuss is too much."

Jiang Yang sighed softly, looking down at the mountains hundreds of meters below, and at the winding mountain road that resembled a long dragon. He saw countless fully loaded trucks lined up, struggling to climb the mountain road.

Jiang Yang finally saw a tall building built against the mountain at the end of the long line. It was dozens of meters high and covered an area of ​​tens of thousands of square meters.

The building was enormous, but it was clearly disproportionate to the numerous trucks winding their way through it.

"This is just the entrance to Doomsday Base No. 7; the main building is underground."

Jiang Yang nodded silently.

The helicopter roared as it landed on the helipad. Jiang Yang saw that at the same time, at least four other helicopters were landing on the same helipad.

Some helicopters disembarked personnel, while others carried large quantities of cargo. After unloading personnel or cargo, the helicopters quickly took off, and other helicopters immediately landed, without any delay.

There were at least a hundred helicopters circling in the sky. Planes kept moving away, while helicopters kept flying in from a distance, joining the group of aircraft circling and waiting to land.

Upon entering the building, Jiang Yang saw at least several hundred people coming and going, a scene of bustling activity.

The dedicated freight elevator sped back and forth between the underground and the surface, like a monster that could never get enough to eat, swallowing up every shipment it brought.

Every time the passenger elevator arrives, it is completely full, and the people inside quickly leave. After a brief moment of emptiness, it is immediately filled up again, and then it goes underground.

Jiang Yang knew that at this very moment, because of his words, this vast country had begun to function. And what he was seeing now was merely the tip of the iceberg of the country's unimaginably vast power.

"The Doomsday Base No. 7 is out in the open. It was built to deal with potential doomsday factors such as extreme weather, asteroid impacts, and volcanic eruptions, not to deal with war, so there is no need to worry too much about secrecy."

Entering the private elevator, Gu Changshan casually explained to Jiang Yang, and then said, "It is located 700 meters underground in Luoyun Mountain. It has seven floors and a total area of ​​about 200 million square meters. It has a complete self-circulating system. Electricity, air, water and energy can all operate on its own. If necessary, it can completely cut off contact with the outside world."

Nuclear explosions, radiation, air pollution, and so on can all be defended against.

For your absolute safety over the next few days, please do not leave the base unless absolutely necessary.

The elevator descended rapidly and finally stopped after a few minutes.

(End of this chapter)