Chapter 20:
A volunteer organization to save the Earth has been established!

After taking a deep breath, Jing Qizhen finally raised his head with a blank expression.

The next time he takes the Earth’s words seriously, he will be a pig!

Perhaps the changes on Jing Qizhen’s face were too complex and his eyes were too dark, Tang Song who had always been optimistic and cheerful was cautious when asking him again, “What’s wrong? What bad news did Earth say?”

Jing Qizhen said, “Just act like I didn’t say anything just now because I was worrying in vain.”

Tang Song was puzzled, “Huh?”

Jing Qizhen closed his eyes, took a moment, and then spit a few words out through his teeth, “The Earth says it can rotate.”

Tang Song: =口=???

After a pause, Tang Song was still a little confused and asked, “The Earth can rotate… and it can also revolve. We all know this. What does it have to do with the erosion area?”

Jing Qizhen said expressionlessly, “Let’s go back in and talk.”

Tang Song nodded quickly, “Ah, okay.”

He hesitated because Jing Qizhen’s face was not very friendly. After a while, Tang Song reached out and patted Jing Qizhen’s shoulder twice with a comforting touch, and then the two of them turned around and returned to the conference room.

Manman raised her head and looked at the two of them without hesitation, and asked directly, “What’s going on?”

Jing Qizhen explained his previous worries about the scope of the erosion area and the justification given by the Earth that it would rotate. Everything was told at once.

Jin Guijuan was already very sleepy, and now her head was even more dizzy. Her big eyes were full of confusion, and she subconsciously asked. “If the Earth rotates, won’t other balls rotate with it? If a ball had hit the Mariana Trench from the beginning, the erosion area would have formed there and it would have stuck together like a marshmallow. Wouldn’t the other ball always stay there? Humans still wouldn’t be able to get in.”

Wilcox on the side kept nodding, “Besides, after the erosion area is formed, the two balls cannot be separated casually, right? If the Earth rotates, other balls will follow. It will be useless even if the Earth can rotate, right?”

The Earth: =口=???

Manman thought about it for a while and happened to catch a glimpse of a small globe placed on the bookshelf in the conference room, and suddenly she got an idea.

“I know!” With her exclaim, she stood up and went to get the small globe.

The Earth had not noticed this before, and suddenly shouted in surprise, “My model! My model! My model! It’s even gold-rimmed!”

Jing Qizhen said expressionlessly, “The way you are yelling now is like a fool.”

The Earth: …>.<!

Manman took the small globe and placed it on the conference table, pointing to the bag of marshmallows that Tang Song had taken away.

Although he didn’t know why, Si Jiayang immediately reached out and took back the bag, and asked softly, “Baby?”

Manman reached out and took out a pink marshmallow from the bag, and directly spun the globe with her other hand. Without looking at any specific position, she immediately pasted the marshmallow on the rotating globe – it landed on the Atlantic Ocean.

The marshmallow was flattened under her hand directly and stayed attached to the globe. There was a gap with the support rods of the globe, so the marshmallow did not hinder its rotation. However, the rotation became less balanced.

Manman directly took a light green marshmallow and spun the globe again. This time, she aimed the marshmallow at the same height but it was stuck in the European area.

Done with her demonstration, Manman pushed the globe to the center and said briefly, “This is it.”

Everyone suddenly understood.

Before another ball comes over, the Earth’s rotation can indeed change the tangent position between itself and another ball.

Jing Qizhen stopped thinking and asked Earth directly, “So, what’s going on that causes other balls to come over and form the erosion core in tangent to you?”

The Earth: 0.0? “How many humans do you have? The number of erosion cores on the ball may be greater than your population.”

Jing Qizhen understood instantly.

The erosion core does have a traction effect, but the formation of the erosion core will only be completely revealed after the two balls are tangent to form an erosion area.

Before the erosion area was formed, there were too many things on the Earth that may form erosion cores. They are everywhere and are extremely common.

To put it bluntly, the Earth has existed for more than four billion years, and the continental plates have been formed, broken, and drifted for countless eons. What piece of land doesn’t have some ancient stories and legends? They can potentially be affected by different parallel worlds, and then form new erosion cores…

However, the Earth also deliberately allowed other balls to come in tangent in places with a large human flow and a dense population, to make it easier for humans to quickly enter the erosion area and eliminate the erosion core.

Tang Song took the globe with the marshmallow stuck on it. After spinning it twice, he took a short video and shared it with the experts and professors who looked confused.

Finally, Tang Song also communicated with the Earth through Jing Qizhen, “Actually, we can also handle the uninhabited islands in the Pacific. After all, they are just difficult to develop, but ships can dock and helicopters can fly over there. We can send our staff to go to the islands and actively enter the relevant erosion areas.”

Jing Qizhen said expressionlessly, “The ball said it is afraid that you will accidentally get lost at sea.”

The Earth also said, “Some of those uninhabited islands are really too small! I’m afraid that a cruise ship will accidentally sail into the erosion area. After all, cruise ships are not like aircraft carriers or warships, full of strong and young people. Those who sail around the world on cruise ships are the elderly on holidays!”

Jing Qizhen continued to pick out the key points and said, “The ball said that if there is an erosion area on the sea, it will choose the aircraft carrier fleet instead of the luxury cruise ships with dense elderly passengers.”

Tang Song: “…Pfft, I’m sorry!”

Struggling to control the expression on his face with amazing perseverance, Tang Song couldn’t help but look away. After a while, he regained his composure and said to Jing Qizhen calmly, “Ah, that’s good… I thank you for your compliment on behalf of the U.S. Navy’s largest aircraft carrier battle group in the world.”

The Earth: =.= “Jing Qizhen, you￥%&…(*&) I’m not! I didn’t! I treat all of you humans of different colors equally!”

Jing Qizhen raised an eyebrow, “Oh, then you are really great.”

After being placated by Jing Qizhen, the Earth thought carefully for a while, and finally admitted in a low voice, “Okay, okay, I admit. Indeed, if there is an aircraft carrier fleet and a luxury cruise ship floating in the Pacific at the same time, I would prefer the people chosen to be military personnel…”

Jing Qizhen said expressionlessly, “Yeah, you’re pretty good.”

The microphone’s ambient noise reduction effect was very strong. Neither Jing Qizhen nor Tang Song spoke into the microphone at this moment. The professors in the video conference didn’t know what they were discussing just now. They could only look at the uncontrollable smile on Tang Song’s face and were confused.

The foreign professor was even more confused and asked, “What are you talking about?”

Tang Song finally took the microphone and said, “It’s nothing.” After that, he took the marshmallow-pasted globe and explained briefly to the professionals about the Earth’s tendency to choose where the erosion areas are formed.

At this moment, in the domestic geology professor’s camera appeared a woman of the same age who looked like a scholar even though she was wearing home clothes.

Grandma Fang whispered, “The friend Old Song just mentioned who studies seismology is Professor Shen. They are a couple.”

Jing Qizhen suddenly felt that with an old couple, one studying geology and the other studying seismology, it was no wonder Professor Song was so familiar when talking about earthquake monitoring data before, as familiar as if he was sitting in someone else’s office…

Professor Shen, who had just appeared, suddenly asked a question that no one had thought of before.

“A piece of marshmallow is equivalent to a ball in a parallel world. Since a ball can be tangent to our Earth to form an erosion area, and n balls can be tangent to the Earth at the same time, forming n erosion areas, then is it possible for two balls represented by the two marshmallows of different colors to tangent to the Earth at point p at the same time, or for the three balls to form the same erosion area?”

Si Jiayang reacted subconsciously, “Is that possible? If n balls in parallel universes are tangent to the Earth, forming at most n erosion areas, is it also possible to form n-1, n-2 erosion areas, or even all the balls are tangent at one point, forming only one erosion area?”

Jing Qizhen: …

Tang Song: …

The Earth cried, “It sounds so scary! I can guarantee that the situation of that erosion area must be complicated beyond your imagination.” QAQ

Tang Song looked down silently. In front of the globe, Manman threw a bag of marshmallows over. “Try to paste them together?”

Tang Song did as suggested.

Looking at the marshmallows all huddled together on the globe, everyone fell silent.

In Jing Qizhen’s mind, the Earth even swallowed clearly, “No way!”

After a long while, Jing Qizhen finally reminded, “As you said, you can spin.”

The Earth grunted, “What if I get stuck and can’t turn around? We will die together…”

Jing Qizhen: …I don’t want to die with you!

Oh my god, the Earth’s rotation can also get stuck. What do you think you are? Free mobile broadband?

Tang Song took a deep breath and put his hands on the conference table. “So, to be on the safe side, we should clean up all the erosion areas as soon as possible and reduce the number of other balls in the parallel universe close to the Earth.”

Everyone nodded.

After Old Xiao nodded, he suddenly realized what he was doing and started to sweat again. He stumbled and probed, “What are we going to do?”

Tang Song looked at him and suddenly smiled, “Become a volunteer to save the world.”

Wilcox stretched out a finger and pointed back at himself, “Including me?”

Tang Song looked at the foreigner and nodded seriously, “Of course, you also have the right to choose to return to your home country.”

Wilcox shrugged, “No, no, no, I don’t want to go back for the time being, so I happily decide… okay, I’ll join!”

“The erosion area is a global problem, and every human being may be affected. It has nothing to do with your country, belief, ethnicity, gender, wealth or poverty. No one can be the savior of everyone.”

Tang Song then finished what he said next, “Be the volunteers who are prepared or an unsuspecting missing person; there is indeed a choice. After all, the crisis is always present.”

Jin Guijuan raised a hand, “I want to help, but there is a problem… What about my work?”

Tang Song blinked at her and said, “Perhaps you would consider getting a state-run job that may be dangerous, but is relatively long-term and stable, and can provide certain protection for your loved ones even if there is an accident.”

Jin Guijuan’s eyes lit up. She stood up and said, “Of course!”

After a pause, Jin Guijuan clenched her fists, bit her lip and said seriously, “But I don’t need protection for my relatives. If something really happens to me, please donate my death pension.”

Yan Hong, who had been silent all the time, reached out and patted Jin Guijuan’s head.

Jin Guijuan was startled, “Ouch!”

Yan Hong said with a straight face, “Young lady, what are you saying with such sadness? We will all come back ali–”

Si Jiayang covered Yan Hong’s mouth with his hand.

Manman stopped combing her hair, took a deep breath, shook her finger, and emphasized every word seriously, “Be reasonable. Do! Not! Plant! Flag!”

Immediately, everyone looked at each other and burst out laughing together.

The professors participating in the video conference could not see the scene, but they could vaguely hear the sudden laughter from a group of people.

The foreign professor became more and more confused and couldn’t help but ask in Chinese with a weird accent, “What happened?!”

Jing Qizhen took the microphone, cleared his throat, and spoke in a voice that even his own mother could not recognize. The voice replied slowly, “We just solved a small matter. We have just established a volunteer organization to save the Earth.”

Experts and professors: …???

The Earth exclaimed, “Ehhhhhh? So you guys set up a volunteer organization to save the Earth… Oh no, warriors from Earth, charge forward!”