Chapter 537: Chapter 439: Global Reactions (Part 2)
Perhaps it’s because they were too distressed over the money.
They truly ignored an important factor.
That is the matter of everyone previously begging the Ancestors to rule Earth.
If the Ancestors really wanted to rule Earth by spreading rumors of a gamma-ray burst, then why hadn’t they responded to everyone’s desperate pleas earlier?
This is a question that anyone with a bit of sense could figure out.
Yet Raj and Trish, in their anger, completely overlooked it.
...
It wasn’t just Raj and Trish.
Many people all over the world shared similar thoughts with them.
In a small country in Europe, Delding, who had spent a fortune on a good bottle of wine to drink himself into a stupor, originally intended to perish drunk. But as he sobered up slightly, no gamma-ray burst arrived on Earth to exterminate humanity.
So, half-drunk and half-awake, he burped alcohol and went online to check the situation with others.
It didn’t matter when he wasn’t online.
Once online, Delding immediately saw a series of guesses and allusions.
As soon as he saw those guesses and allusions, he was shocked sober.
Delding trembled with anger, pointing at the computer and cursing, "Damn Ancestors! Damn Ancestors! You spread rumors of an upcoming gamma-ray burst, which made me quit my job and spend all my savings to enjoy myself. And now! Now! I have neither a job nor money!"
He even had the urge to kill the Ancestors!
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Asia, Ah San.
"Why hasn’t the apocalypse arrived yet?"
"Could it be that, as some speculations say, it was a rumor deliberately spread by the Ancestors?"
"Damn it, how could the Ancestors be so nasty? I trusted them unconditionally, thinking the apocalypse was coming, so I sent my parents, wife, and kids away first..."
"I’ve spent all my money, how can I pay my credit card next month?"
"Oh my god, the apocalypse didn’t come, but my personal apocalypse has."
"It’s all because of those damn Ancestors spreading such rumors!"
Countless people cursed the Ancestors, feeling ruined by the gamma-ray burst rumors.
...
One hundred ninety-two leaders from various countries sat in Old Ugly’s aerospace monitoring room, waiting for the detectors or satellites near Venus to relay any information about the void.
George sat seriously in front of the screen, turning to ask a white female technician, "It’s been twenty minutes past Mr. Lu’s predicted apocalypse time, have the detectors and satellites near Venus sent back any signals yet?"
The Great Emperor, Xiong Wen Si Lang, Lady Sanna, and other leaders all turned their gazes over.
The female technician immediately responded, "Sir, we have been continuously receiving signals from the detectors and satellites near Venus. As you can see on the screen, a total blackness reflects the situation from over twenty minutes ago near Venus."
The Great Emperor was taken aback, "You mean the blackness we’re seeing on the screen is not due to a lack of signals, but that the footage has been continuously playing?"
Xiong Wen Si Lang, Lady Sanna, and others, all political elites, were not well-versed in technological instruments.
The female technician affirmed, "Yes, space is a vacuum environment with almost no gas or particles, making light unable to refract, so even if sunlight shines into the endless void, no visible light appears. This is the primary reason you’re seeing blackness."
After the explanation, everyone had an inkling of understanding.
The detectors and satellites initially focused on Venus, where gases or particles refract light, allowing them to see the images. However, now these instruments are aimed at space, with no gas or particles, visible light cannot refract, making observation impossible.
George couldn’t help asking, "So, you mean that if Mr. Lu went to block the gamma-ray burst, we likely wouldn’t observe it?"
The female technician immediately denied, "No, although a gamma-ray burst, like light, doesn’t refraction using gas or particles to form visible light, its scale is immense. It would pass through many planets, including Venus, enabling us to observe it using detectors and satellites. Besides, we have specialized instruments for monitoring gamma-ray bursts to detect their arrival."
George, the Great Emperor, Xiong Wen Si Lang, and other leaders nodded thoughtfully.
Lady Sanna couldn’t help asking, "Since gamma-ray bursts can be observed and we have monitoring instruments, why is there no movement twenty minutes past Mr. Lu’s predicted time?"
The female technician replied honestly, "Professionally speaking, there are three possibilities. First, the gamma-ray burst hadn’t reached the area monitored by the detectors or satellites before being neutralized by Mr. Lu. Second, it never arrived at all. The third possibility is a delay in the signal transmission. The gamma-ray burst might have occurred, and Mr. Lu blocked it, yet we haven’t received the signal for that time frame, so we haven’t seen the situation yet."
The first and third possibilities are definitely encouraging.
But if it’s the second possibility, then the situation becomes quite delicate.
George, the Great Emperor, Xiong Wen Si Lang, and Lady Sanna, while wanting to believe Lu Li wholeheartedly, were all political masters with inherently suspicious natures.
