Chapter 19:
Earth: I can spin! Are you stupid?! Hahahahahaha!

The emergence of erosion areas was a global problem. On the other hand, the earthquake monitoring data Tang Song requested was not particularly confidential at a certain level. Therefore, although foreign data did not arrive as quickly as domestic data, they did not wait for too long.

While they were waiting, two more images of foreigners soon appeared in the video conference room.

The Earth just saw the list of famous professors of earth science that Jing Qizhen gave it, and it immediately recognized the identities of these two people. In Jing Qizhen’s mind, it kept shouting with some excitement, “They both study earth science! They both study earth science! They both study earth science!”

Jing Qizhen placated it, “Yes, yes, okay, okay, they both study earth science, and they came here just for you. Come on, you must be calm.”

The Earth: =v= “Well, okay.”

Grandma Fang, Old Xiao, and Jin Guijuan, who could hardly keep their eyes open, were no longer sleepy because the topic of the Earth becoming conscious was too attractive. They held their coffee with eyes wide open, listening to a group of well-known professors arguing fiercely in a video conference who, from time to time, calling the ball out for a comment…

The Earth: =v= Proud!

Jing Qizhen: … Actually, I don’t want to be a sounding board.

Finally, Tang Song brought in the relevant data from foreign earthquake monitoring centers and directly shared the data with the professionals participating in the video conference. Everyone’s attention once again shifted to the ‘erosion area’.

Jing Qizhen noticed at a glance the set of energy monitoring data whose latitude and longitude coordinates were in Massachusetts. Several numbers in it had reached the peak similar to the data from Yunhai Wancheng Department Store.

Tang Song said in a deep voice, “The amplitude of energy fluctuations here is basically similar to that of Yunhai Wancheng Department Store. However, the fluctuations in this set of data last for a long time.”

Jing Qizhen asked, “This is the incident at the campus party in Boston, right? The missing students, the professor, and the Filipino maid haven’t returned and the erosion area in Boston hasn’t disappeared yet.”

The Earth jumped up and said, “If they can’t find the core, it will lead to two problems. Due to the strong gravitational force generated by the bubbles, the two balls will continue to approach, and the two balls will also change from tangent to intersecting at a point, and the erosion area will gradually expand to include the interior of both balls at the same time. The area will be affected by the environment of the two balls respectively, resulting in unexpected new changes!”

Jing Qizhen conveyed concisely, “If the erosion area cannot be resolved early, the affected area will gradually spread to include the interior, causing new changes.”

Manman was drinking tea. When she heard this, she put down her tea cup and simply took the untouched marshmallows at hand. After tearing them apart, she selected two large ones with different colors, and then put the two marshmallow pieces close and squeezed them together.

Manman exclaimed, “That’s what it means!”

Her demonstration was simple but concise and easy to understand.

The deeply hurt Earth nodded and muttered, “…Yes! I hate other balls!”

However, Manman was not done yet. After she pressed the two marshmallows of different colors together, with a little force, she tore the two marshmallows apart.

As a result, the two marshmallows that were originally similar in size were stretched and deformed. Moreover, due to the uneven force, one of the two marshmallows lost a chunk of mass. The other piece had its surface pasted with marshmallows of different colors.

The Earth jumped up excitedly in Jing Qizhen’s mind and shouted, “The ball I drove away was the one with a chunk missing! Ha, that what’s you get for squeezing into another ball! You deserve it!”

Jing Qizhen was startled, and suddenly he realized that something was wrong, “You dug up a piece of the planet from that parallel universe?!”

The Earth was very confident, “That ball was asking for it!”

Jing Qizhen: …I’ve been disrespectful. Really disrespectful.

After a pause, Jing Qizhen asked curiously, “But why didn’t I see the terrain of the Yunhai Wancheng Department Store suddenly getting higher than before?!”

The Earth didn’t care about the land but focused on its own business. “I didn’t eat alone!”

Jing Qizhen was confused, “Huh?”

He almost failed to follow the Earth’s train of thought. After a while, he came back to his senses. Then he asked, “By that, you mean when the female ghost Ms. Li disappeared, right?”

The Earth cursed, “The female ghost Ms. Li retained the habit of the real Ms. Li in Yunhai Wancheng Department Store. She took on the form of a ghost because she was affected by another ball! The shopping cards that the female ghost Ms. Li gave to you were made of its energy!”

Jing Qizhen: …I seemed to understand completely.

So when the Earth said it dug up another ball’s ‘turf’, it was actually just an adjective.

When the female ghost Ms. Li dissipated, the ball in the other parallel world was directly hammered away by the violent Earth. The energy that overflowed from the other ball when the female ghost dissipated was all absorbed by the Earth. When the Earth said it did not eat alone, it was because the female ghost Ms. Li had already used some of its energy to give to them.

Similarly, the monster samples taken by Grandma Fang and the blood-stained giant axe dropped by the ‘security guard’ were items with their own special characteristics that were completely inconsistent with the reality on Earth. They all contained the energy of the ball from another parallel world.

Tang Song didn’t turn on the camera, but when Manman squeezed the two marshmallows, he watched the whole process. He simply waved to Manman and asked for the bag of marshmallows. After he made a simple model manually, he took a few pictures with his mobile phone and shared them with the professors attending the video conference.

The professors, who just now were having an intense argument and wanted to crawl over the network cable to strangle each other’s necks and shake them vigorously to make them understand their logic and theories, fell silent.

Jing Qizhen also specifically added, “Based on the Earth’s words, the area where the two colors marshmallows are mashed together is the erosion area. After the erosion area expands, even if we find the core inside and destroy it, the two balls will look like this after they were torn apart.”

The foreign professor said anxiously, “The people in Boston who have fallen into the erosion area are facing such a bad situation? God bless them.”

Hearing this, Jing Qizhen suddenly thought of something else, and quickly asked the Earth, “Did you choose the people who entered the erosion area?”

The Earth denied, “It’s not me!”

Jing Qizhen thought for a while, and asked from a more detailed perspective, “Are the people who are randomly selected all within the scope of the erosion area?”

The Earth hesitated for a while and said with some uncertainty, “The people who can enter the erosion area must be within the scope of the erosion area, but this selection process is not random. Those people themselves have a certain resonance with the erosion area, so they fell into it…”

Jing Qizhen’s pupils constricted for a moment, and he hurriedly asked, “In other words, if an erosion area appears in a no-man’s land, then no one will enter the erosion area at all?”

The Earth: “Of course!” 0.0

“At the beginning, the erosion area was not large. If it appeared on an uninhabited island in the Pacific, there would definitely be no one!”

Jing Qizhen: “And you said if no one destroys the core of the erosion area–”

The Earth directly announced, “The erosion area will continue to expand until sooner or later, humans who meet the requirements will enter! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!! I’m so annoyed!”

Although the Earth’s tone suddenly became irritable when it thought of the expansion of the erosion area, Jing Qizhen took a deep breath and said, “I understand.”

The Earth was so angry that it was being attacked by annoying balls, and even encouraged Jing Qizhen sincerely, “So you humans should work together! For the survival of mankind! To maintain world peace! Protecting the Earth is protecting human beings. Warriors from Earth, take up your weapons and charge!”

Jing Qizhen: …

The Earth: “You heard such an exciting slogan. Why don’t you look excited at all?”

Jing Qizhen stated, “Because I am under great psychological pressure, I have to talk to Tang Song about this first.”

In Jing Qizhen’s opinion, all speculations about the erosion area were not as important as this part; the erosion area will continue to expand, and the dangers and murderous opportunities therein are endless.

If human intervention is not carried out in the early stages of the erosion, once the scope of the erosion area gradually expands from a department store or a villa to a community or a city, then the impact of the erosion area on humans will definitely be disastrous!

Jing Qizhen stood up from the chair, patted Tang Song on the shoulder, pointed to the conference room door, and waved his hand toward him.

Although Tang Song was a little confused, he still stood up and walked out of the conference room with Jing Qizhen.

Old Xiao was so sleepy that he almost slipped off the table. When he caught a glimpse of Jing Qizhen and Tang Song’s movements, his heart suddenly jumped. He looked around and asked in a low voice, “What’s wrong?”

Si Jiayang shook his head, “I don’t know. However, seeing the serious expression on Xiao Jing’s face, I suddenly had a bad feeling.”

In the lounge next to the conference room, Jing Qizhen revealed all the information he had just communicated with Earth.

Tang Song’s originally smiling face gradually became serious.

Tang Song walked around the lounge twice and murmured, “According to the Earth, more than a dozen erosion areas are brewing around the world at the same time. Those that have not yet formed can be left alone. There are currently disappearances in several locations with fully formed erosion areas. We must prevent the expansion of these erosion areas!”

The Earth said excitedly, “You are right! Fighting!”

Jing Qizhen relayed expressionlessly, “The Earth is cheering you on! Fighting.”

Tang Song: …

After rubbing his face and adjusting his mood, Tang Song actually laughed again, showing his little tiger teeth, and joked with Jing Qizhen, “Relax, let’s show our spirit of optimism.”

Jing Qizhen looked at him, twitched the corner of his mouth and smiled.

Tang Song patted him on the shoulder and said encouragingly, “Look on the bright side. At least because of you, we can communicate with the Earth and have obtained a lot of important information about the erosion area in advance, right?

Jing Qizhen continued to look at him.

Tang Song proceeded to say, “Moreover, the earthquake monitoring center can detect the energy waves emitted when the erosion area was formed. We are not completely unprepared for this crisis! The erosion area crisis is a global problem. I will sort out this information and report it, and relevant staff will be responsible for contacting the governments of other countries and regions.”

Tang Song’s words were indeed very reassuring.

Jing Qizhen breathed a sigh of relief, and after a while, he shook his head and smiled bitterly, “Actually, the erosion areas that occur among the crowd are not bad. Although they are dangerous, there is still hope.”

Tang Song said with a smile, “I know you have a ‘but’ there.”

Jing Qizhen couldn’t help but smile, nodded, and followed Tang Song’s words, “But, what I have been worried about just now is that if this erosion area appears in the deep sea somewhere in the Mariana Trench, in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau or even on the top of the Himalayas, in the depths of the Sahara Desert, in the uninhabited land of Africa, or in any area that is inaccessible to humans. Then, how far must the erosion area expand before it can be eliminated?”

After hearing Jing Qizhen’s concerns, the expression on Tang Song’s face became solemn.

On the contrary, the Earth suddenly said, “Huh,” and asked strangely, “Why do you have such strange and inexplicable worries?”

Jing Qizhen was confused, “…? What if it happens on an uninhabited island in the Pacific? You gave the example yourself.”

The Earth couldn’t help but say, “I can spin! Are you stupid?! Hahahahahaha!”

Jing Qizhen closed his eyes and wiped his face heavily: …

! Your uncle!