Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 31 No Hope
After hearing Professor Lu Zhaoming's explanation, Jiang Yang felt a chill run down his spine.

He seemed to truly see dozens or even hundreds of high-energy particles rampaging and wreaking havoc in his body, killing the cells that were maintaining his body's normal function one by one, destroying his tissue structure one by one, and ultimately causing him to lose his life in just a few minutes.

This is a more deadly, basic, and cruel way to die than being pierced by a thousand arrows.

Every cell and every organ that makes up your body will be completely destroyed at the most basic level, beyond repair.

"But why? Why would the various elements that were peacefully residing within the human body suddenly acquire so much energy, thus generating radiation?"

Jiang Yang asked Lu Zhaoming the question that at least half of the people in the conference room wanted to ask at that moment.

Those attending the meeting at this moment, besides those with a scientific background like Lu Zhaoming, included people with strategic, intelligence, and administrative management backgrounds such as Gu Changshan and Sun Changhe.

They clearly didn't have much knowledge of physics, just like me.

"Under normal circumstances, the human body would not undergo such changes, which means that during the apocalypse, the human body must have been affected by additional factors."

The first possibility for this additional factor is that it comes from within the body.

Perhaps before the end of the world arrives, our bodies have already been modified by some unknown entity. The so-called end of the world is just the activation of this modification, like a time bomb planted in our bodies that will detonate at the appointed time.

The only difference is that the energy of a bomb would obliterate us, while this modification would act at the subatomic level, resulting in various forms of radiation.

Lu Zhaoming's tone suddenly trembled slightly: "I suggest that we immediately launch a large-scale physical examination, and select a certain percentage of people from all kinds of jobs, ages, genders and environments to conduct the most detailed physical examinations."

If that's really the reason, then perhaps this kind of transformation is already happening in our bodies right now.

If we can eliminate it in advance, we can defeat the apocalypse…

Lu Zhaoming's words aroused the many attendees with scientific backgrounds, who were filled with eagerness.

Even Gu Changshan, Sun Changhe, and others were the same.

Time is of the essence; there are only ten days left until the end of the world!
Now that we have made a discovery, we certainly cannot delay any longer and must act immediately.

but……

Jiang Yang slowly shook his head and said in a somewhat heavy tone, "No need to trouble yourself."

Including the one life I lived normally, this is now my fourth cycle. And in the second and third cycles, this kind of large-scale physical examination was always being carried out.

From the moment I brought the doomsday message until the final arrival of the doomsday, it never stopped.

But we found nothing unusual. So, Professor Lu, your first possibility... is ruled out.

As if a bucket of cold water had been poured over their heads, the online meeting room, which had just become lively, fell silent in an instant.

Lu Zhaoming raised his head with a slight tremor, his old and cloudy eyes fixed on Jiang Yang, as if trying to see a negative answer in Jiang Yang's eyes.

Jiang Yang did not flinch, meeting his gaze directly.

After a moment, Lu Zhaoming sighed softly, his energy and spirit dissipating considerably.

"if it is like this……"

He did not elaborate on the second possibility, but instead said to Sun Changhe, "Then we can make a judgment now: in this life, we have no chance of defeating the apocalypse. Our deaths are already inevitable."

The attendees, who had no scientific background, were all shocked, their faces showing disbelief.

The sudden convening of an emergency meeting to inform us that the end of the world was in ten days was difficult to accept, but given the evidence, the participants were able to barely accept it thanks to their mental fortitude and rationality.

After all, there is still time, and we still have hope.

By mobilizing national resources and going all out, it is not impossible to defeat the apocalypse within ten days.

However, we can already make a judgment now, that this life is destined to fail, and that we will die in ten days.

Even the most mentally strong person cannot accept something so cruel and shocking in a short period of time.

Even Jiang Yang hadn't expected that the information he brought back in his previous life, which had come at the cost of the destruction of an entire country and civilization, would result in such an outcome in this life.

Why is death inevitable? Why is failure certain?

Sun Changhe remained calm, but his gaze was as heavy as a mountain: "Why?"

"If it's not inside the body, then it can only be outside."

But let's not forget that the experimental data brought back by Comrade Jiang Yang showed that no matter where the experimental personnel were located, whether underground or underwater, they all died without exception.

Energy cannot be generated out of thin air; there must be a process of transmission. Therefore, it is clear that particles capable of penetrating rock layers and water to transmit this energy to the human body must possess extremely high penetrability and cover the entire Earth.

Faced with this indiscriminate, global-wide particle radiation, which even kilometer-thick layers of rock cannot block… we are utterly helpless. At this moment, we don't even know what these particles are.”

Jiang Yang remained silent.

His previous studies enabled him to understand Professor Lu Zhaoming's words.

Indeed, if we rule out internal factors, we also rule out the hope that humanity can overcome the apocalypse and survive in this lifetime.

This is unlike the previous life. In the previous life, people at least had the hope of finding a way to fight the apocalypse by massively requisitioning particle accelerators to search for the speculated "radiation formula".

There is no hope in this life, not even a sliver of hope of defeating the apocalypse.

No one lost their composure in the online meeting room. All participants remained silent.

Jiang Yang knew that those who were urgently summoned to participate in this meeting must be people who had experienced countless storms and had incredibly strong mental fortitude.

Even the impending doomsday execution ten days later could not break their defenses.

But Jiang Yang still noticed that everyone's spirits had dropped at this moment.

If we are destined to fail in this life, what can we do?

Sun Changhe looked at Lu Zhaoming's figure, his voice devoid of any emotional fluctuation: "Is this result your own opinion, or the result of a rigorous evaluation by the scientific community?"

Lu Zhaoming said in a low voice, "There is no difference. For anyone who has received systematic training in physics, this question is as simple as one plus one equals two."

(End of this chapter)