24 hours to save the world

The Earth is destroyed.

On November 7, 2045, in the northern hemisphere, it was 10:00 a.m. local time in Jiangcheng.

Without any warning, a burst of energy exploded from a height of 10,000 meters, like a bomb with the power of an asteroid hitting the earth exploding over Jiangcheng, producing a blue light covering the entire sky.

The blue light produced by the explosion spread from 10,000 meters in the air, spreading to the entire earth in a perfect sphere in less than half a second.

For people living in Jiangcheng, the first thing they felt was the shock wave.

As the blue light exploded, the shock wave spread from the sky, sweeping everything that could be affected from top to bottom, including buildings, cars, people... Jiangcheng, which was exposed directly below the explosion, was destroyed into ruins by the shock wave within half a second!

At the same time, the gas produced by the explosion was compressed and released at a very fast speed, and the heat generated immediately burned all combustibles into ashes, and the entire city turned into a sea of ​​fire in less than a second.

And in this second, if God passed by the world, he would see a spectacular and wonderful scene - the sky, the earth, the buildings... everything within his sight turned blue. If God zoomed in, he would find that not only Jiangcheng, but the entire earth was covered by a touch of blue light.

The spherical blue light started from the earth and spread at a speed close to the speed of light. After about 9 minutes, it reached the sun and enveloped the sun in blue light. The trend of the blue light spreading came to an abrupt end.

When the four celestial bodies of the sun, Mercury, Venus, and the earth were covered by blue light, the spherical blue light began to shrink continuously. The four celestial bodies seemed to be pulled by invisible forces. While the blue light was shrinking, it was constantly collapsing inward with the earth as the center of the sphere, and the speed was equal to the speed of the blue light.

Finally, after 24 hours, the blue light wrapped the sun, Mercury, Venus, and the earth, and collapsed into a dense celestial body with a mass close to that of the sun, but a volume of only one millionth of the sun's volume.

So, the earth was destroyed.

…

Jiangcheng University, student dormitory.

Zhu Shijiu woke up.

He dreamed of the end of the world.

To be precise, it was not even a dream, because this "dream" lasted only a short second.

The content of the dream was extremely clear - in the dream, he saw a blue light suddenly burst out from the sky of Jiangcheng 10,000 meters without any warning, and then there was a shock wave that destroyed the world - it only lasted half a second... or one second, and his dream ended just like that.

The moment he sat up from the bed, he subconsciously held his forehead and reached out to touch it. His forehead was full of sweat. He felt his body that was a little numb from sleeping, and his whole body was also soaked in sweat.

"Huh... What the hell?"

Zhu Shijiu exhaled a long breath, and his whole body became extremely stiff, and his heartbeat was extremely fast. This feeling was like the body's instinctive reaction after escaping death.

Although this dream was very short, it was the most real dream he had ever had!

While Zhu Shijiu was still in shock, his roommate Li Hua's voice came from the side: "Brother Zhu, are you awake? What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"

Li Hua was typing away on the keyboard to play games, and a voice prompt of a triple kill came from the computer.

Zhu Shijiu wiped the sweat from his forehead, calmed his breath, and shook his head: "No, it's not a nightmare. What time is it now?"

Li Hua glanced at his phone: "Ten o'clock."

"Ten o'clock?!" Zhu Shijiu's heart skipped a beat. He still remembered that the end of the world in his dream was exactly ten o'clock in the morning.

Li Hua asked while typing frantically: "What's wrong? You're so shocked."

"Nothing..."

Zhu Shijiu felt a little strange. For some reason, he always felt that this scene was familiar, as if... he had experienced it before.

"Is this afternoon Lao Zhang's class?" Zhu Shijiu suddenly asked.

Li Hua didn't even turn his head back, and the external game voice prompts him to complete a quad kill.

"It's boring. I'm alone. Lao Zhang doesn't usually call out names."

Zhu Shijiu was a little dazed: "No, I feel Lao Zhang will call out names this time."

"Anyway, I won't go."

"Okay."

Zhu Shijiu got off the bed and looked at his roommate who was typing on the mechanical keyboard, but his eyes were fixed on the screen on his computer. He even cared more about the next game result than Li Hua himself.

"Damn! Pentakill! I'm invincible today!"

Li Hua's excited voice sounded, and he almost jumped up from his seat in excitement.

However, compared to his roommate's excited expression, Zhu Shijiu's expression became even more dazed.

"Pentakill...actually pentakill."

Zhu Shijiu muttered to himself, and goosebumps appeared on the surface of his skin, and a lot of cold sweat appeared on his back.

"Am I awesome?" Li Hua's game screen entered the dead state, and at this time he took the time to turn around and show off to Zhu Shijiu.

"..."Zhu Shijiu didn't answer, but his face was extremely ugly.

Li Hua was startled by Zhu Shijiu's pale face and quickly put down the game: "Oh my god, what's wrong with you, brother Zhu? Why do you look so bad? You shouldn't be having a nightmare like this, right? Are you feeling unwell?"

"I feel a little uncomfortable."

Not only uncomfortable, but even a little nauseous.

Zhu Shijiu now began to doubt whether what he experienced was a dream. He woke up from the bed at ten o'clock and just witnessed the scene of Li Hua's pentakill - he always felt like he had experienced it once before!

"Are you okay? Do you want me to go to the infirmary with you?"

"It's okay, it's okay... I'll be fine after a while."

Zhu Shijiu looked at the time, 10:03 am on November 6, 2045. The end of the world in the dream is 10:00 am on November 7, 2045, and it is less than 24 hours away from this time.

Because the scene in the dream was too real, Zhu Shijiu, who woke up from the dream, was still in shock.

And for some reason, the sense of déjà vu was very serious.

In the afternoon, it was the class of Lao Zhang, the civil law teacher, and he seemed to have taken it once.

According to his "memory", Lao Zhang, who never called the roll in class, would call the roll in class, and then deduct all the scores of the ten students who were absent, including Li Hua. According to the academic ability of his roommate Li Hua, he would definitely fail the civil law course in the final exam.

Seeing Li Hua turned his head to play games again, Zhu Shijiu hesitated and hesitated for a while, but finally gave up.

After taking a few deep breaths, Zhu Shijiu picked up his clothes and took a shower in the bathroom.

After taking a shower and leaving the bathroom, Zhu Shijiu wiped his half-wet hair and said to Li Hua: "I'm going out later. Should I bring you something?"

Li Hua started another new game and answered absent-mindedly: "Please bring me a bucket of instant noodles. Any flavor is fine. I won't go out. Thanks, Brother Zhu."

"Okay."

After drying his hair, just as he was about to go out, Zhu Shijiu suddenly remembered something and turned back to Li Hua.

"By the way, I seem to have heard that the dormitory will be out of power around 11 o'clock today."

"Oh my god, is it true? I have to charge my phone quickly!"

Zhu Shijiu thought of the experience in the dream and was a little distracted: "I don't know where I heard it from either."

The experience in the dream really made Zhu Shijiu a little worried. After reminding Li Hua, he left the dormitory.

In fact, Zhu Shijiu also reminded Li Hua of the power outage in the dormitory according to the experience in the dream. Whether reality will really develop like in the dream is still unknown. Zhu Shijiu left the dormitory building while thinking about it.

Zhu Shijiu, who was worried, went to the supermarket and bought some snacks and drinks. He also brought a bucket of instant noodles for Li Hua.

The weather in November had turned cold. He sat on the bench by the lake in the school for a while. When the cold wind blew, his originally chaotic thoughts gradually calmed down.

He took out his mobile phone and checked the time. It was 10:50.

"It's about this time."

Zhu Shijiu thought that if the dream was the real future, then if he rushed back to the dormitory now, he might just happen to encounter a power outage in the dormitory.

"Am I crazy?"

Zhu Shijiu laughed at himself and felt that he was a little funny. He had a dream that felt quite real and started to think wildly.

However, he said this, but he was already worried in his heart.

It was already 11 o'clock when he arrived at the dormitory. Zhu Shijiu took the elevator upstairs. The elevator was still working, which meant that the power was not out, or perhaps the elevator's electricity was not in the same system as the dormitory's electricity.

After walking out of the elevator, Zhu Shijiu stood in front of the dormitory door.

After taking a deep breath, he pushed open the dormitory door.

"Brother Zhu, there's a power outage in the dormitory!"

As soon as he entered the door, Zhu Shijiu heard a howl that made his scalp numb.

Li Hua was naked from the waist up, wrapped in a bath towel from the bottom, his hair was still wet, and he looked bitter: "I just wanted to take a shower before the power outage, but I didn't expect there would be a power outage! It's too outrageous, I took a cold shower!"

"..."

Zhu Shijiu's whole body froze in an instant.

It's true! The dream is true!

At this moment, Zhu Shijiu's mind was full of the same thought.

"Brother Zhu?" Li Hua was stunned for a moment when he saw Zhu Shijiu's face getting paler and paler.

"Li Hua..." Zhu Shijiu came back to his senses and said with trembling lips: "If... I said tomorrow is the end of the world, will you believe me?"

Li Hua looked at him with an expression of "What are you talking about?" "Uh... Is this a new joke?" While wondering, Li Hua hurriedly put on his clothes. He was almost frozen to death by the wind, and Zhu Shijiu's jokes made people laugh.

"..." Of course he would not believe it.

Zhu Shijiu actually understood that if Li Hua was suddenly awakened by a nightmare and said that he had a nightmare and the end of the world would come tomorrow, he would not believe it.

However, compared to the end of the world, it is easier to believe that a super-powerful nuclear bomb will be dropped over Jiangcheng tomorrow.

After all, it is not very accurate to think that the end of the world is coming just because you see the blue light of death in a dream. Zhu Shijiu also reacted that maybe it was only Jiangcheng that suffered, or maybe a country launched a missile at Jiangcheng, causing Jiangcheng to be destroyed into ruins in just one second.

"Don't tell me you had a dream about the end of the world."

Li Hua made a joke based on Zhu Shijiu's reaction.

Zhu Shijiu didn't say anything, but became more serious.

"Li Hua, if you believe me, go to class this afternoon, Lao Zhang will call the roll in class."

Li Hua: "..."

He now seriously suspected that Zhu Shijiu was making such an outrageous joke just to trick him into going to class.

Zhu Shijiu gritted his teeth, even if he was considered a psychopath, he decided to tell Li Hua everything he had experienced.

...

Half an hour later, Li Hua stared at Zhu Shijiu in amazement.

"Brother Zhu, you said you dreamed about everything today?"

"For example, I got a pentakill in the game this morning, and there was a power outage at noon, and Mr. Zhang would call the roll in the afternoon?"

"If I don't go to class in the afternoon, there will be ten people in the class including me who will be absent? Even tomorrow morning at ten o'clock, the whole Jiangcheng will become a ruin?"

After hearing Zhu Shijiu's words, Li Hua was stunned.

Because it was too incredible, Li Hua even felt that he was dreaming.

"Brother Zhu..." Li Hua had a painful expression on his face, wondering if Brother Zhu had taken the wrong medicine.

Zhu Shijiu also knew that it was difficult to make people believe in empty words, so he interrupted Li Hua and said: "If you don't believe it, go to class today! As long as you go to class, you will know if I am right or not!"

"..."Li Hua rationally thought that everything Zhu Shijiu described was ridiculous, but Zhu Shijiu's demeanor at this moment seemed very serious.

"Brother Zhu, stop talking, stop talking, can't I go to class?"

Li Hua felt that it was not outrageous, but at least he didn't insist on skipping class.

"That's right. You'll know what I said is right if you go to class!"

Zhu Shijiu breathed a sigh of relief and took out his phone.

"I'll buy the ticket for this afternoon in advance. If what I said is right, we'll leave Jiangcheng immediately!"

Watching Zhu Shijiu book the ticket, Li Hua also had doubts in his heart.

Oh my god, what Brother Zhu said can't be true?