Chapter 127 Understanding Pain_1

Zhuang Yu clearly saw that such a disaster could be described as an existential calamity for humanity.

The same disaster, for the Trisolarans, they would likely deal with it quite easily, but for humans, it almost meant complete helplessness.

Although the original text did not specifically describe the disasters experienced by humanity during the Great Ravine, it only mentioned a few keywords, but one thing was clear, humanity's ultimate refuge was underground.

There are also many problems with living underground, the first being the issue of the underground ecological cycle. However, the original text made it clear, the ecological experiment station on the Moon Base had been operating without any problems for a hundred years, let alone the underground ecological issues on Earth.

The ecological spheres of the Escape Fleet had also been in use for thousands of years, indicating that humans had indeed solved the problems of the ecological cycle quite well.

As mentioned before, Lin Sen had made many preparations for dealing with the Great Ravine.

The first was the preparation of food, which could stabilize people's hearts to the greatest extent.

The second was the construction of underground shelters, with Lin Sen advising the government to massively build Permanent Shelters five years before the crisis.

This was mostly undertaken on a large scale only by Huaxia under the impetus of Chang Weisi, while other nations built them in lesser quantities. Now, countries around the world were scrambling to accelerate construction.

The third was the construction of the Synchronous Light Rings, with every second counting for the lives of countless people. After the disaster, the Synchronous Light Rings also bore the mission of restoring the Earth's climate, striving to recover the global climate within 50 years.

The fourth was spiritual construction, providing faith. Although intangible, it was also very critical.

If humanity's faith was not strong enough, they would end up like the new humans after the disaster, rendering all of Lin Sen's efforts meaningless.

By destroying the Earth-Trisolaris Organization, Lin Sen also demonstrated to everyone that the Trisolarans were not invincible, and that it was not defeat that was frightening, but the loss of the resolve to resist.

The humanity of now was much stronger than those in the original timeline, because the Wallfacers had given them firm beliefs.

There were also many other preparations, such as the space elevator on the Moon, one of whose purposes was to transport a large amount of food back to Earth.

With a global population of 8 billion, according to the minimum food energy block (food produced on the Moon, mixing synthetically made carbohydrates, fats, proteins, etc., in a certain ratio with salt and other ingredients, compressed into cube-shaped food), 2.5 million tons were needed every day.

Due to climate deterioration, crop production decreased, and reserves had already been used globally, which was obviously not a long-term solution.

The food gap on Earth would widen further after this storm, with the average daily shortfall requiring 1 million tons from the Moon, all of which needed to be prepared by the Moon Base.

Actually, food wasn't the most critical issue, the most important was the management of humanity itself—one should never underestimate the evil in human nature.

The space elevator on the Moon, although only one, had a transport capacity tens of times greater than the earth-bound sky elevators, and moving one million tons a day was also reaching over half of its capacity, with the remaining space mainly for transporting Moon-unique plasteel materials.

In fact, it isn't necessary to transport so much food every day. There's a saying that's quite right, under crisis, humanity should not be fed to fullness.

The Moon had a reserve of 2 billion tons of food materials, and providing 1 million tons a day could last five to six years, while both the Moon and Earth would gradually use nuclear fusion and genetic engineering to produce food.

In terms of food, it is expected that in 10 years, humanity may forever escape the food crisis, with food becoming the cheapest living material.

Furthermore, the underground shelters provided humanity with the ultimate place of safety. It is certain that very few such shelters were built in the original timeline, with most people likely fleeing to low latitudes.

The eventual consequences are imaginable: too many people crowded together, which would only lead to the collapse of social order.

Lin Sen also pondered how humanity in the original timeline had survived, even predicting that this disaster alone would result in the deaths of over 2 billion people, with subsequent food crises further reducing the population.

Reflecting on the future new humans, in the original Naruto storyline, when Logic awoke and asked the nurse about the Great Ravine and the Underground City,

They disdainfully regarded the pre-Great Ravine humans as a joke on one hand, while explaining on the other hand that the construction of the underground city after the Great Ravine was for the ultimate battle.

Because by then the surface would be a sea of fire, so the majority of cities around the world were built underground.

This was a typical contradiction. If the Trisolarans were not formidable, why worry about surface warfare and build cities underground?

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One could only say their thought processes were like those of children, severely lacking some basic cognition.

There was only one fact: even after 200 years, the surface of the Earth was still unsuitable for building cities, which suggested the extent of the disasters that the surface must have gone through.

The Great Ravine lasted for 50 years, and even more than a hundred years after the Great Ravine, the Earth's environment had not recovered; instead, the underground environment was relatively stable and more suitable for living.

What exactly happened during the Great Ravine is something anyone would never wish to recall. It's no wonder that the new human beings were born after the Great Ravine; it seems the Common Era People also had no right to criticize the new humans.

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Thinking of this, Lin Sen wondered, faced with natural disasters, was there really no way out?

Planetary disasters are difficult to change, but is humanity really doomed to enter the abyss and bury itself further in it?

Having traveled here, was Lin Sen truly content with being unable to do anything? No, perhaps there was still a way.

Perhaps humanity needed to get accustomed to such disasters, to feel pain, experience pain, accept pain, understand pain, and grow through pain.

To know love is to carry the burden of hate, and to understand pain is to shoulder responsibility.

To give up on responsibility is also to lose one's destiny.

Perhaps this natural disaster was also an opportunity for humankind to struggle for survival in the universe.

There must be a way...

Lin Sen stared intently at the large screen, suddenly seeing red, as if something glistening appeared at the corner of his eyes. His voice was somewhat hoarse, as if it came from hell:

"Zhuang Yu, have you heard of the trolley problem?"

Although Zhuang Yu was somewhat distracted, he heard Lin Sen's question and was somewhat perplexed:

"Of course, I've heard of it. It's about a trolley whose brakes have failed. Ahead on the track, there is a switch leading to a spur. There are five people tied up on the original track, and one person is tied on the spur track.

"If you don't switch to the spur, you will run over five people, but if you do, you will run over one person. What would you choose?"

Lin Sen: "What about your choice?"

Zhuang Yu: "From a legal standpoint, inaction is better, as the death of the five people is not necessarily related to me in terms of the law.

"If I switch to the track where one person is tied and that person dies, it's my doing, and I'll have to deal with the legal consequences.

"But from a moral and utilitarian ethical standpoint, I should switch to the spur.

"So the question is asking what kind of person I am, right?

"If it were me, I would choose the spur track, even though it's against my own interests, because I know what I need.

"Destiny is only in one's own hands, I'd rather pay the price for my own choices."

The cold words of Lin Sen continued:

"Let's add one more condition, the person tied up on the spur track is your relative.

"What... would you choose?"

PS: Feel pain, experience pain, accept pain, understand pain. Those who do not know pain will never understand what peace is. -- Naruto, Pain

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