Son of the Stars

Chapter 207 Collapse
The business of the Jincheng Welfare Home where Blue Swordsman works is definitely not heavy. In fact, the entire welfare home has not been operating at full capacity for almost twenty years.

Every year, children who lost their guardians due to the Great Depression were sent to orphanages, as were children evacuated from the Mediterranean region. But overall, the number of new arrivals each year was roughly equal to the number of children who were able to leave orphanages when they reached adulthood.

Normally, the orphans are escorted to the welfare house by staff from the Civil Affairs Bureau. Most of the time, one car is enough, but occasionally two or three cars arrive at the welfare house together.

But Blue Swordsman searched his memory chip and couldn't find a scene that matched the current scene, or even a close one - the outside of the orphanage was full of children, and they were all children who were obviously accompanied by guardians.

The entire orphanage was somewhat surprised. The children living in the orphanage looked at the crowd outside curiously. The children outside looked confused and uneasy, and the guardians tried their best to maintain a smile. But such efforts did not seem to be very successful. There would always be some people who suddenly burst into tears - and then caused a small commotion.

Those people would embarrassedly try to smile, then turn their backs so that their children wouldn't see them wiping their tears.

The AI ​​baby-sitting robots are still working hard, and the few human employees in the welfare home are already trying to communicate with the people outside - with so many people gathered around the welfare home, they must have other requests.

The Blue Swordsman looked at the crowd outside, then looked at the sweaty dean who was communicating with the crowd.

It sent a reminder to its colleagues through the communication channel, "Clean all sealed dormitories and take out all sealed beddings for cleaning and disinfection."

The director of the welfare home had just emerged from a state of collapse about three hours ago, and he was also surprised to see at least a thousand people gathered. He walked out of the door with a strong sense of weakness and began to ask the parents waiting at the door about their purpose.

"We read the news that ordinary people may suffer from quantum energy release syndrome." A young couple standing at the front explained their purpose. "We plan to stay together forever - even if there is an explosion. But the child cannot make a choice yet, he should have other options."

The poor dean had just woken up and had no time to watch the news. He was suddenly thrown such a reason, which made him doubt his hearing level and the logical thinking ability of the people in front of him.

What is quantum energy release syndrome? Where is the explosion?
After half an hour of evidence and bombardment from various sources, the dean basically accepted the fact that Quantum Energy Release Syndrome existed. He put down his slightly hot phone and asked a question that had been bothering him, "Quantum Energy Release Syndrome has no age limit. Basically everyone, including me, will be at risk... Then why send the child to me? The population density here is high, isn't it more likely to be dangerous?"

This question remained unanswered for a long time, whether it was the young parents standing at the front of the crowd, the slightly older man next to them, or the mother behind him who was alone with her two children.

"I don't want to turn into a bomb and blow up my mom and dad." Perhaps because he was tired from waiting for too long, or perhaps because of some other reasons, the young couple's child spoke. The little boy looked about six or seven years old. He seemed a little worried and even a little scared when he spoke, "We...we all think so."

The children all around him echoed in agreement. "I... this is just my own selfish thought." The young father touched the top of the child's head with a trembling hand, "Our child is the continuation of my and her life. No matter what, I don't want him to die because of the misfortune that happened to us...

The director looked at the young parents, then at the children around them who were obviously in fear. He sighed and turned his head to look at the welfare home behind him.

The entire welfare home was bustling with activity. The old child-rearing robots opened their sealed dormitories one after another. The Blue Swordsman made a "everything is ready" gesture to him.

"Children who can remember their parents' names and contact information can enter the park directly," he said to the people waiting in front of him. "If they are too young, please check the information with the childcare robot."

After 25 years, Jincheng Welfare Home is once again fully operational, and this time, no one knows how long this situation will last.
-
"At least there is still one fusion reactor." In the dormitory area of ​​Central University, Estera was trying to cheer everyone up, but the last Sicilian had poor social skills, and his consolation was always a little ineffective. "Saving one fusion reactor is better than having no two."

Estra's consolation had no effect, because everyone present knew that it was difficult for a single fusion reactor to achieve the engineering goal. Not to mention the inevitable energy supply interruption problem of a single fusion reactor, after the electron concentration of the fusion reactor dropped by half, the electron concentration that actually reached the earth was even less than half of that of the dual-engine operation. With this concentration of electron tides scattered across the earth, it was hard to say whether the original goal could be achieved.

Everyone is aware of this problem, but the practical difficulties lie here - the second fusion reactor closest to Mars is still in the landing capsule of Dawn 6, and Dawn 6 is expected to take another five days to carry out the landing procedure.

Based on the number of suspected cases of quantum energy release syndrome on Earth, all people will be sick in three days at most. No one can say whether the electron tide can reverse the disease. If it can't be reversed...humanity will be doomed.

That's why Lu Chen and others would take the risk to keep Wu Hou and agree to work with it to plot against S3C7 - S3C7, which had been killing people in illegal settlements in the Near East Valley, was not easy to convince. Thanks to the fact that the United Government had not yet resumed normal operations, Lu Chen was able to take over and give the astronauts a nationality.

S3C7, which was contaminated with nuclear radiation, had a good brain and took the most decisive measures on Mars to try to save the fusion reactor. Unfortunately, Watanabe Masao's illness was too fast, and Valentina quickly realized what happened after he lost his ability to move. But she had no time and no way to deal with this situation alone.

Now, it was time for Lu Chen and his team to come up with a solution. The news of the Quantum Energy Release Syndrome spread everywhere, and welfare institutions in more than two hundred cities reported large-scale "planned abandonment" incidents. Almost all grassroots governance units and structures of the coalition government collapsed. With Tang Qinglong's authorization, Lu Chen could only command the AI ​​robots that were still on patrol.

The robots are also busy, trying their best to stop large-scale riots and looting. But the effect seems to be quite limited - roads in various places have not yet been fully restored to normal function, and the most optimistic estimate of the Durkheim time in these places is more than 48 hours.

The human social structure is rapidly collapsing, and the entire research group, which has now taken over the control team and is now ruling the highest authority over all of humanity, is helpless.

(End of this chapter)