Planet Vs Aliens: Space User Saves the World

In the apocalypse, nearly everything just...stopped. Things stopped growing, and most things stopped producing.

The existence of a skilled scientist was tantamount to saving millions of lives in the long run. With the space, they did not lack these things, so how could they miss out on it?

Not to mention, Dock mentioned that he just wanted to explore in peace, without worries for the basic needs like food, shelter, and safety. Wasn’t that just what they needed?

Dock, for an introvert, mixed in fairly quickly. He seemed to get along better with the teens, though.

"Wow! A real mad scientist!" Hans said, tone full of admiration and inquiry. Linlin was the same.

Kids these days do not mean these things in a derogatory way. On the contrary, many of them find intense passion towards a field quite cool.

"I’m not mad. I’m quite sane," Dock corrected them.

"Where are we going?"

"Near the capital, but not quite."

"Are they building a base there?"

"Somewhere there, yes."

Dock nodded and observed everyone. While a bit frazzled, everyone was in good condition. This was in stark contrast with the people outside, who hadn’t even absorbed the fact that the world had already irredeemably changed.

"You all seem well-prepared," he commented, looking quite cool despite looking worse than a beggar. "How much do you know about this?"

"Didn’t you read my letter?"

"I... did. Well, some," he said. "I read what you meant, but how did you know so much?"

"From a book," Hans said, handing over a copy of Linlin’s book. They had already decided to use this as their main PR explanation. No one knew Linlin was the writer, anyway. It was certainly much easier to explain that one of them had precognitive dreams.

Both Naia and Kael had mentioned that their references/dreams were limited, and not everything would happen to them so precisely. If people believed the information came from them, then this could put an unnecessary burden on them. Such a burden was thankless and could even bring trouble instead.

Dock nodded and thought more about the disasters, studying the reasons behind them.

The heart of the Capital base was located in the military district nearest to it. It expanded towards the suburban areas, with the tallest buildings as midrise buildings. They pointedly avoided the business districts and their high-rise buildings.

Their villa was within the scope of this capital base, and its location was not bad. Not too central, but not at the peripheries either. It was also pretty nicely protected because it was a rich neighborhood with a lot of rich and powerful residents who likely donated to the building of the base in some way or form.

In fact, even if the government didn’t prepare, as long as they were already aware of the sequence, it should be fine.

The initial fall and the impact were too variable and too intense. What if they prepared, placed all the warehouses in one place, and then it ended up becoming an ejecta’s landing place? Who would be blamed?

Overpreparation wasn’t necessarily useful. It was best to make sure the personnel could react properly no matter what happened, and that the resources recovered would be maximized.

In the end, the best preparation the government could do was to become flexible and adaptable.

It was unlikely that everything would be dealt with; after all, these were major infrastructure that would cause billions of losses if turned off, but they couldn’t help but hope that there would at least be lesser damage now.

There was also a short flooding period, but it wasn’t a problem compared to the strong winds that could, according to people from the previous generation, throw a person a hundred meters away.

As for the exact magnitude of this mega storm...they didn’t have much information except that it was really strong and tornadoes became a common sight.

As mentioned, people’s experiences were different, and those who survived were either from the same place or in totally different places, so the stories and memories often didn’t match reality completely.

People didn’t, couldn’t, keep things like diaries to make records either. A lot of information was lost. It was why Naia and Kael didn’t want people to depend on their ’precognitive’ dreams.

While this was all happening, there were also various changes happening underground. Of course, these were mostly theoretical, with the surviving scientists putting together the puzzles they could get.

According to the theories, the big meteors targeted magma chambers and volcanic rift zones. They caused pressure spikes and resonant seismic pulses, and they amplified natural tectonic oscillations.

Within a week, crust and magma destabilization would happen, propagating through fault networks and shallow magma chambers.

In areas near fault lines, there would be a number of aftershocks happening over the next few months, but to be honest, the minor aftershocks would just be minor occurrences by then.

Dozens of major volcanic eruptions would continue to happen, and ash and sulfur would continuously reach the stratosphere. Combined with the damaged surface from the impact, the planet couldn’t balance itself anymore.

Stratospheric aerosols spread globally in weeks, noticeably reducing sunlight, and the temperature drop began.

Within a month, the onset of a Volcanic Winter started. Most areas experienced drops of at least twenty degrees, even in tropical areas, much more so in other places. Then, as time passed, it went lower and lower.

It was naturally harsher in places that experienced winters even before the apocalypse, but not many survivors reached their base, so they were unclear how harsh it was.

It was not a true long ice age, but a compressed cryogenic shock, and this was also why it was so memorable.

By this time, a fraction of the population had already perished. Not to mention the cold, where would people get their food? The supplies would run out eventually, and a lot of them got wasted and rotted.

The plants would have had a hard time growing in those conditions, and the entire ecosystem would have been disrupted.

"That’s...really not a very bright future," Dock said, shivering. "Where would I do my experiments, then? I need to maintain room temperature, at least!"

Ah, as expected of a mad scientist. His priorities were very unique.

Then, when Naia brought him into space, he looked at her as if she were a goddess.

Suffice it to say, another scientist was secured.

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