Infinite Sun in the East China Sea

Chapter 30 Departure Immediately
While a group of reincarnations were feeling sorry for their own kind, Xu Feng finally finished watching the movie "The Day After Tomorrow".

The film is very simple in content.

Global warming causes the melting of glaciers in the two polar regions. A large amount of fresh water enters the ocean, causing the density of seawater in the two polar regions to decrease, which in turn affects ocean currents and interrupts the thermohaline circulation.

The thermohaline circulation acts like a liquid-cooled radiator, bringing heat from the tropics to the poles and making the temperature inside the Earth's atmosphere more balanced.

When the ocean current is interrupted, heat accumulates in the tropics and cold air accumulates in the poles. When the accumulation reaches the limit, three super cyclones are formed. They start from high latitudes, one covers the Americas, one sweeps across Europe, and the other runs through East Asia.

Because these three cyclones contain so much energy and rotate so fast, even the cold air high in the troposphere is pulled down.

This results in extremely low temperatures in the eye of the storm - below -100 degrees Celsius.

At such ultra-low temperatures, the fuel in a vehicle will freeze, and people who are not properly insulated will be frozen into ice sculptures in the blink of an eye, and will almost certainly die if they are outdoors.

After the storm, most of the Northern Hemisphere was frozen. Because the ice surface reflects more sunlight, the total heat of the earth will decrease in the future, which means it will enter an ice age.

When the story takes place, the protagonist Sam is trapped in the New York Public Library during a drastic climate change. He follows the guidance of his scientist father, stays in the library, burns books to keep warm, and finally waits for his father's rescue.

After watching the movie, Xu Feng had new doubts.

He looked at the newcomer, Keitai Fukuda. "Mr. Fukuda, I just reviewed 'The Day After Tomorrow.' This disaster initially stemmed from global warming, but from a systemic perspective, the impact of global warming itself is not significant. Various disasters are the cumulative result of the butterfly effect, with the coefficients constantly increasing."

"From such a change, we can probably see that the Earth's climate is actually very fragile."

"In the movie, after the three superstorms dissipated, the Earth entered an ice age, but the climate also became stable, so stable that even helicopters could take off, and the United States rescued residents trapped in the north."

Speaking of this, Xu Feng couldn't help but laugh.

But he quickly regained his seriousness and asked, "I want to know, will the climate after the storm really be as stable as shown in the movies? The mere interruption of ocean currents can cause such a huge change in the climate. Half of the Northern Hemisphere is frozen. Over the next long period of time, the solar heat retained in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres will be completely different. What impact will this huge change have on the fragile climate?"

Xu Feng asked, "How will the climate around the world change during this impact? And what will the climate be like when the ice age finally stabilizes?"

At this time, the weather is very cold.

But after hearing Xu Feng's question, Fukuda Keitai was sweating profusely.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead, shook his head, and said, "I don't know... This kind of change can only be vaguely determined after obtaining sufficient data and running calculations on a supercomputer."

"But I'm certain that the stable climate at the end of the film won't last long. The weather at the end of the film appears stable, but the main reason is probably that the energy accumulated in the atmosphere has been released by the three superstorms. However, the main factor affecting the Earth's climate is still the sun. As different parts of the Earth utilize solar energy at different rates, the atmosphere will become unstable again. Next, perhaps even more severe storms will be born!"

Xu Feng sighed lightly.

"It seems that we have to change our decision."

He looked out the door. "Before, whether it was the more stable ideas you proposed or the more risky methods I proposed, we actually had to wait for the calm to come."

"But what if the weather doesn't calm down? What if the wind and waves get stronger?"

Xu Feng looked at his watch again. There was only one line of text, and a very simple task: enter the New York City Public Library.

There are no enemies to kill, no targets to protect.

There isn't even a time limit.

When seeing this task, Xu Feng even had the idea of delaying the completion of the task for a few years in this plot world.

Even though the Lord God restricted him from improving his physical fitness in the past few years, he could still train various skills and learn various knowledge.

Marksmanship, martial arts, hand-to-hand combat, vehicle driving, electronic information technology, mechanical processing... Even if it is just some modern knowledge, once he masters enough of it, his strength will undergo a qualitative change.

Now he is just a novice.

After watching the movie, Xu Feng's intuition told him that he couldn't delay. The longer he delayed, the more difficult it would be to complete the task.

They couldn't even hope to wait out the storm before setting off!

"Do you mean to leave now?" asked Hanasaka Shoko.

Xu Feng nodded. "It's just a thought. Maybe it would be safer to wait until the storm passes before setting off. Or maybe there will be a stronger storm after the storm."

"And the advantage of setting off for America now is... information!"

He tapped his tablet. "We know the path of this storm, how this disaster will strike, and how to deal with it. But if there really is a next time..."

"But how are we going to get there? With this kind of storm, neither planes nor ships are possible," Oshima Shinichi said with a frown. "Not counting the land distance, there's also the Pacific Ocean between Tokyo and New York. After the snowstorm, the sea level will freeze. We could drive over, but there's no way we can get there now, right?!"

"Yes, we can pass through." Xu Feng drew a line on the map. "Based on the rate of climate change in the plot, the Bering Strait should have started to freeze over by now. By the time we get there, the ice should be strong enough to support heavy trucks passing through."

"We'll start from here and drive north, first crossing the Tsugaru Strait through the Seikan Tunnel and entering Hokkaido. From Hokkaido, we'll then switch to snowmobiles and purchase supplies. These steps should take us about two days."

"At that time, we'll look for an opportunity to enter Sakhalin Island based on weather conditions, then enter the Eurasian continent from Sakhalin Island and pass through the Bering Strait... No, maybe we can consider the Arctic. The earth is curved, and the shortest distance isn't directly across the Pacific Ocean. In general, we need to choose a route based on the weather conditions at the time."

"The journey is too long. How long will it take us to walk all the way?"

Hanasaka Shouko looked at the curved line.

indecision.

"If I'm lucky, one or two months? If I'm unlucky, I don't know." Xu Feng was not sure either.

"The worst-case scenario is that we die on the road."

"Or... that's the biggest possibility!"

(End of this chapter)