Magic? My Iron Torrent will sweep it all away!

Academician Qian Zhenhua's words calmed everyone down; the truth was chilling.

Yes, the end of the world came too quickly and too suddenly.

Humanity's technological tree is far too small to even light up the branch of interstellar travel.

"We humans, before this point, could even be said to have no future!"

"In the struggle for territory in the Antarctic and Arctic, all the countries fought tooth and nail. Of the nearly two hundred countries that existed before the disaster, how many are still alive today?"

"Most countries either collapse or are swallowed up, their elites are divided and absorbed by us and a few major powers, leaving hundreds of millions of civilians to stay near the equator, digging ridiculous holes and waiting to die in the disaster."

"They're fighting tooth and nail for a day's worth of bread and canned food, and they're throwing bombs at each other for a tiny 'safe zone' of just a few square meters!"

Zhao Gang took a deep breath and said excitedly:

"But things are different now. They could never have imagined that we're about to have a gateway to a completely new world!"

"That's right!"

Academician Liu Chengen slammed his hand on the table, his eyes shining, his face filled with undisguised fervor.

"To hell with them! A bunch of idiots still wallowing in the mud!"

"The World Tree is good; it allows us to eke out a living underground."

"But an interstellar portal!"

He stretched out a finger, pointing directly at the ceiling, as if he could already see the door to a new world.

"This is the stairway to heaven! This is a brand new creation! This is the path to the rebirth of our Great Xia civilization!"

"Even if we take a step back and the planet Earth is completely destroyed, turning into a magma ball, we can still relocate there with our people!"

"What do you call this? This is called a strategic retreat! This is called the continuation of the flame of civilization!"

Liu Chengen became more and more excited as he spoke, his voice filled with boundless pride:

"How about being even bolder? We're not fleeing from disaster!"

"We're going to expand our territory! We're going to colonize interstellar space! We're going to conquer an alien planet!"

"Tell me, who wouldn't want to plant our red flag all over a new planet!"

"boom!"

Liu Chengen's words ignited the ambition and passion of everyone in the conference room.

"Well said!"

Zhao Gang's eyes flashed with a sharp light.

"This door is our trump card, our future, and the new home for the people of Great Xia!"

Lin Mo, who was listening from the side, was also very excited. He slapped someone's thigh hard, making the staff officer next to him wince in pain.

At the same time, I was also very surprised.

It turns out that the situation on Earth is far less optimistic than previously advertised.

He only learned the truth now.

But it's okay, things are different now, there's a new way out!

If it weren't for the fact that everyone present was a big shot, they probably would have already been hugging each other excitedly by now.

After a moment of excitement, the pent-up emotions of the past two years erupted.

The atmosphere gradually cooled down, but the blush on Zhao Gang's face had not faded, though his eyes had regained their sharpness.

He looked around, his gaze sweeping over each of the core members.

Comrades.

His voice wasn't loud, but it instantly put everyone on edge.

"From this moment forward, all information regarding the portal is classified as top secret. Knowledge of it is limited to those of us present here. Understand?"

"Understood!" the crowd responded in unison, their voices resounding.

Zhao Gang turned his gaze to Liu Chengen, an academician at the Institute of Biological Sciences.

"Old Liu."

"Here!" Liu Chengen stepped forward.

"You and your team, immediately draft a bio-environmental risk assessment plan for Terra."

Zhao Gang tapped his fingers on the table.

"I need to know the composition of the air over there, and whether the microorganisms and viruses there are lethal to our carbon-based life forms on Earth!"

"We can't afford to be wiped out by an alien plague before the battle even begins."

"No problem!" Liu Chengen's eyes lit up, and he licked his lips.

"That's easy!" He looked at Lin Mo, rubbing his hands together.

"Commander Lin, next time you go there, please take the sterile sampling bottles specially made by our laboratory with you."

"Once you get there, just open the bottle, fill it with some air, grab a handful of soil, add a splash of water, seal it, and bring it back!"

"Give me the samples, and I guarantee I can produce an environmental report accurate to the molecular level within three days!"

Lin Mo: "No problem!"

Zhao Gang looked around at everyone:

"Everyone can also do the corresponding preparatory work."

"I will immediately head to New Kyoto to report to the leadership in person. Before I return, all members of the 'New Hope' team shall be confined to this base and placed in a state of silence. No one shall leave without authorization or engage in any non-essential communication with the outside world."

The series of instructions were clear and decisive.

After arranging everything, Zhao Gang looked at Lin Mo and asked for instructions:

"Commander Lin, what do you think of my arrangement? Is there anything I'd like to add?"

The atmosphere in the meeting room instantly became strange upon hearing this.

A group of top executives all turned to look at the young man sitting in the chair.

Lin Mo then realized that he was now... the chief commander of this project?

He cleared his throat, mimicking the demeanor of a high-ranking leader on TV, leaning back slightly with perfect posture.

His tone was flat:

"Yes, you've thought this through very thoroughly. I'm very satisfied."

"You've worked hard, go ahead."

Zhao Gang: "..."

Everyone present: "..."

The worst thing is when the air suddenly goes quiet.

Zhao Gang's lips twitched slightly.

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief."

......

In the darkness of the new Kyoto, the runway lights of a secret military airfield illuminate.

A private plane without any markings landed, the cabin door opened, and Zhao Gang hurried down the steps in the cold wind.

The chief's office was still brightly lit.

The senior official, over sixty years old, was wearing reading glasses and looking at an encrypted document.

The document is titled "Emergency Report on the Joint Annexation of the Southern Continent Alliance by the United States and Yasukuni and the Forcible Seizure of the B-7 Survival Area in Antarctica".

His brows furrowed into a deep frown.

Just then, there was a knock on the office door, and before he could answer, the door was pushed open from the outside.

The chief looked up and was somewhat surprised to see that the person who came was Zhao Gang.

"Don't worry, what's the rush that made you come all the way from Bell City?"

Without exchanging pleasantries, Zhao Gang strode to his desk, put his legs together, snapped to attention, and gave a military salute.

His voice was hoarse and trembling slightly from excitement.

"Reporting, sir!"

"A major turning point has occurred for the 'New Hope' team!"

"We...we've found the path to a new world!"

The chief's hand, holding the teacup, stopped in mid-air.

He read every day's report from the "New Hope" team. He knew perfectly well what that sentence meant.

Towards a New World?

Could it be... that, apart from Lin Mo's unique "singularity," they have found a way to allow others, including the Great Xia army, to set foot on the Terra continent?

The moment the thought crossed his mind, his heart skipped a beat.

Zhao Gang didn't keep him waiting any longer and quickly recounted the information Lin Mo had brought back.

When Zhao Gang uttered the words "Astral Teleportation" and "Stable Two-Way Portal,"

"Clang!"

The celadon teacup slipped from the chief's hand.