Chapter 177: The Amalgamation of Ice and Fire
The drunk Ling Pingan barely managed to bring the kitten Bastet downstairs, and his footsteps staggered.
He touched his face and felt that it was boiling.
He struggled to hold onto the stairs and slowly climbed up.
As soon as he was in the living room, he could no longer hold on.
He threw his head back on the sofa and fell into a deep sleep.
“Buzz, buzz, buzz…” in his dream, he heard a strange sound.
“Buzz, buzz…”
“Buzz, buzz… Buzz, buzz…”
“Boom, boom! Boom, boom!”
“What is the sound?” Ling Pingan thought in a daze.
Finally, at a certain moment, he remembered.
“Music of the Spheres of a Pulsar?”
When he was in university, he had visited the Empire’s s.p.a.ce Museum and heard a strange sound similar to the one in his dream.
It was said that those were the sounds recorded by the Empire’s radio telescopes, satellites, and s.p.a.ceships from the pulsar signals.
But the problem was…
Hearing the sounds of astronomical objects in his dreams?
Wasn’t that a little strange?
But in his dreams, Ling Pingan couldn’t help but follow these sounds and slowly danced.
Click, click…
Bang, bang! Bang, bang!
Tap, tap…Tap, tap…
Amidst these strange sounds, Ling Pingan felt drowsy in his dream.
Thus, he fell asleep.
He fell asleep in his dream.
He felt his consciousness slowly fall into a deeper dream.
In his daze, Ling Pingan heard countless voices.
“It has been raining for two months in Xinping County of Beizhou… Should we stop it?”
“It has been three months since it rained in the South Kunlun Gonghe Country of Kunlun state… Do you want to make it rain?!”
“The wind regulation of the Fran in the Land of Qin…”
These voices made Ling Pingan feel as if he had become the boss of a large company.
When he went to work, countless subordinates were busy reporting on their work.
Moreover, it seemed that there was already a lot of work to be done.
Therefore, when the subordinates saw that there was finally a leader who could make a decision, they stuffed countless doc.u.ments and official doc.u.ments into his hands.
But the problem was…
Why was the dream so strange?
Ling Pingan didn’t quite understand.
When he opened his eyes, he saw the appearance of a planet in front of him.
The thickness of the clouds, the speed of the ocean current, the pressure of the cyclone, and the amount of water vapor were all within his sight.
The incessant urging voices that were just beside his ears were coming from the mountains and rivers within the planet.
Ling Pingan scratched his head and immediately laughed. “I’m drunk…”
“I’m starting to have such dreams!”
However…
“Anyway, it’s a dream. It doesn’t matter anymore!” As he said that, he reached out to touch the planet in front of him.
“Aren’t climatologists always talking about global warming and the melting of the ice sheets in the north and south poles too fast?”
Ling Pingan grinned and reached out to the two poles.
“Come, come, come…” he gently stirred the temperature of the Arctic. Looking at the high temperature of 20 degrees, Ling Pingan curled his lips. “Let’s first drop it by ten degrees!”
He remembered that in the summer of the Arctic, the temperature of 10 degrees was very suitable!
That way, the melting speed of the ice layer would be greatly reduced!
However…
The temperature of the Arctic had dropped. There had to be a place where the temperature rose to compensate for it.
Otherwise…
Ling Pingan turned his gaze to the hottest place on the planet.
“There’s no one in this lousy place anyway…” Ling Pingan said, “It shouldn’t be a problem for the temperature to rise by four or five degrees, right?”
Thus, he raised the temperature of the Kunlun state’s Kunlun desert by five degrees, from 40 degrees to 45 degrees.
It was a desert anyway, so let’s roast it!
He casually raised the temperature of the other uninhabited deserts on the planet.
He smoothed out the compensation for the cooling of the Arctic.
After doing that, Ling Pingan felt a little tired.
“This is strange…” he thought, “I’m tired even in my dreams?”
However, the sounds coming from the mountains and rivers were still lingering in his ears.
Ling Pingan had tried to contact the places where the sounds came from, but unfortunately, it seemed that the sounds in his dreams were all instinctive inquiries.
It was like a machine that automatically collects data and sent the request code to the host.
Therefore, listening to the countless voices, Ling Pingan frowned. “This dream of mine… is troublesome…”
“If I answer them one by one, who knows how long I’ll be spending my time on it?”
Thinking about that, Ling Pingan’s eyes suddenly lit up.
“Can’t I just approve all of them?”
It was a dream anyway!
With this thought, fatigue and sleepiness immediately invaded his mind.
Ling Pingan once again fell asleep in his dream.
This time, he didn’t have any more dreams and slept extremely soundly!
… … … ..
The Arctic!
A team of Federal Empire’s Arctic expedition team was taking a boat and walking in the melted ocean.
The temperature in the Arctic had broken the record that year.
A few days ago, it had already broken the record of 22 degrees!
And at the periphery of the Arctic, the temperature had even reached 38 degrees!
Therefore, the entire expedition team was worried.
They knew that that year, the rate of melting of the Arctic glaciers would set a new record!
If the temperature continued to rise like this, the Arctic ice sheet would disappear in a few years.
That was very common on Earth, and it was even a trivial matter!
After all, in geological history, there had been more than one time where the polar ice sheet had completely disappeared.
And it was a long process!
But…
To humans, the disappearance of the polar ice sheet was destined to cause a huge ecological catastrophe.
The first thing that would happen was that a large amount of freshwater stored at the poles would flood into the sea, causing the sea level to rise!
Beizhou would become a swamp country. That was destined just like the era of the dinosaurs.
Even the metropolitan territory…
The coastal industrial zones would probably be flooded.
For those island countries, the melting of the Poles meant that their homes would be swallowed by the sea!
Besides, the melting of the Poles would change the global climate!
The change of ocean currents would probably cause a series of climate disasters!
In any case, the last time the Poles froze, it caused the Basilosaurus in the shallow sea to extinct!
This time… who would be the ones who bear the consequences?
It might be that a series of ecological disasters and extinction of species would be unstoppable!
Suddenly, the crew on the ship raised their heads.
They found that the sun was gradually dimming.
Thick dark clouds appeared in the sky!
It was going to snow!
Ten minutes later, heavy snow fell from the sky, and the temperature dropped rapidly!
From 20 degrees, it directly fell to zero degrees!
The scientists were at a loss and hurriedly changed into their winter coats to protect themselves from the cold. They looked at the sudden heavy snow and had no idea why?
They soon learned from the radio channel that the entire Arctic region was cooling down!
They were the center of the cooling down!
The weather forecast showed that the temperature could drop to minus ten degrees in five hours!
They raised their heads and looked forward.
The glacier that was destined to melt this summer!
“It… might not melt this year…” a scientist said.
… … … … ..
In the desert of Kunlun State.
On a hot afternoon, a group of rich youngster explorers who had nothing better to do was trying to drive across the desert of death.
These people were basically from the federal empire.
Most of them were here for excitement.
“Although the highest temperature in the desert of Kunlun state this year has reached over 40 degrees…”
“But, don’t worry, this is only the highest temperature…”
This group of second-generation rich kids sat in an SUV with air-conditioning. Through the radio, they said to the people in the convoy, “Today, the weather is very good. Even now, the temperature is less than 40 degrees!”
“Let’s strive to reach the camp today…”
“Let me tell you…”
“There are many fun places in this desert!”
“As long as you can afford it, you can even take an ice bath!”
Taking an ice bath in the middle of the hottest desert in the world made the explorers excited.
“Wonderful!” An arrogant voice said loudly through the radio, “Tonight, I’ll pay for all the ice baths in the campsite!”
“I, Young Master Quan is a man of his word!”
“When we arrive at the camp, just ask the camp manager to get me to sign the bill!”
Immediately, the radio was filled with cheers.
“Young Master Quan is generous!”
“Young Master Quan is forthright!”
Even the second generation of the rich would be anxious to be able to take advantage of others.
Suddenly, a scream came from the radio.
It was a woman’s scream.
“What’s wrong?”The organizer immediately asked through the radio.
“Our tires…” a panicked voice came from the radio. “They melted!”
Bang!
Before the organizer finished his sentence, the organizer’s car was sc.r.a.ped by the scorching desert sand, and smoke came out.
Then…
Almost everyone’s car malfunctioned.
The people who were laughing and chatting just now, instantly fell into a panic mode.
That was a desert!
The vast Kunlun Desert!
They got off the car, and a scorching heatwave immediately surrounded their skin.
It scared them so much that they quickly got on the car.
However, the sun was getting brighter!
The temperature was constantly rising!
“F * ck you!” Someone cursed angrily on the radio. “It’s already 53 degrees! You’re telling me it’s 40 degrees?”
The entire motorcade was thrown into chaos.
They started to call the satellite phone for emergency help.
Half an hour later, a few federal empire’s rescue helicopters arrived in Kunlun state.
They rescued these rich kids who were almost dehydrated from the high temperature.
Their vehicles were on the verge of exploding from the high temperature!
The day’s temperature in the Kunlun desert had set an all-time high record!
The highest central temperature exceeded 65 degrees!
Even at the edge of the desert, the temperature was as high as 50 degrees!
Now, the Great Kunlun Desert had become a barbecue site!
In the areas with the highest temperature, the sand had been roasted.
But on the other end of the Great Kunlun Desert, in the Republic of South Kunlun, where there had been no rain for three whole months.
Dark clouds covered the sky, lightning flashed, and thunder rumbled.
Heavy rain was about to pour!
Countless Kunlun people raised their heads and looked at the sky, and tears of happiness flowed out of their eyes!
Because the rain had saved them, their children, and the fragile country!