Wandering Earth, located on a Planetary Engine in western China that was abandoned due to geological reasons.
The howling wind almost blew people into freeze-dried jerky.
Yang Tao, dressed in incredibly thin clothes, stood atop the Planetary Engine, braving the wind and snow, gazing at the abyss-like plasma nozzle.
"Finally, this day has come…"
From the moment he stepped onto Wandering Earth with the Allspark, he had set his sights on the Planetary Engine.
This miracle of humanity must radiate an even more brilliant light.
He took the Allspark out of his backpack. The energetic Allspark emitted a faint white glow, and perhaps knowing what it was about to do, even its light began to flicker continuously.
Seeing this, a smile appeared on Yang Tao's face.
"Are you impatient too? Then let's begin!"
He pressed the Allspark directly onto the Planetary Engine. In an instant, intense energy fluctuations erupted from the Allspark, and arcs of electricity spread out from it, gradually extending across the entire Planetary Engine.
Perhaps the power was insufficient.
A sound of mechanical transformation echoed from within the Allspark.
The Allspark, originally only the size of a basketball, began to deform continuously, forcing Yang Tao to temporarily release his hand and fly to the side.
Soon, the Allspark transformed into the appearance it had when first seen at the Hoover Dam, that colossal Entity nearly twenty meters tall, with countless exquisite patterns on every face of the Allspark.
At this moment, all these patterns were emitting a bright light.
Yang Tao quietly watched all this unfold, and time passed minute by minute.
Half a day later.
The Allspark, which had originally emitted a brilliant light, now became incredibly dim.
Rumble…
A violent sound erupted, and under Yang Tao's gaze, the entire Planetary Engine came to life.
A 'mountain' began to move. No matter how carefully it moved, the commotion it created was extraordinary.
Rumble, rumble…
The 11,000m-tall Planetary Engine took more than ten minutes just to transform.
Utilizing Cybertron's unreasonable compression technology, the Planetary Engine magically transformed into a super-large Transformers only a thousand meters tall.
"Planet reporting to you, Commander."
Planet extended its massive palm, holding the Allspark, and presented it to Yang Tao.
He put the Allspark back into his backpack.
Yang Tao looked at planet's blue eyes and responded with satisfaction: "Planet? Not a bad name. Welcome, my warrior!"
He wanted to pat planet's shoulder, but its hundred-meter-plus shoulder made him abandon the idea.
…
Beijing No. 3 Underground Shelter.
Yang Tao blended into the ordinary crowd without causing any ripples, sitting in the original barbecue restaurant.
However, the current barbecue restaurant no longer offers only grilled earthworms but also many kinds of vegetable skewers.
Yang Tao occupied a table alone, observing the lively crowd around him like an observer.
At this moment, a man's deliberately lowered voice came from the next table: "I tell you, I discovered a secret, a big secret of the United Government."
The others at his table all looked at him curiously and asked: "What secret? Hurry up and tell us, don't keep us in suspense."
"Exactly, exactly."
The man looked around to make sure no one was paying attention, then said: "Our United Government has discovered aliens."
"Pfft~"
"I thought it was some big secret. At most, this is a big boob. Aliens? Are they from Nebula M78 to protect Earth?"
The man, being questioned, immediately said: "Hey, don't disbelieve me, this is real."
"I was sleeping at home that day, and I heard strange thumping sounds from inside the wall. I had just fallen asleep and was immediately woken up by it, you wouldn't believe it."
"I walked to the wall then, and guess what I saw?"
The people next to him, seeing him being so mysterious, immediately teased: "Saw what? Big boobs?"
"Hahaha…"
The table of people laughed happily.
The man's face turned red with anger and he said: "I'm serious!"
"Brother Tao, we're not saying what you said is false, it's just that we haven't had special training, so we really can't help it."
"You… You…"
In the end, the man still couldn't suppress his desire to share and said: "I tell you, my wall was directly broken open by an alien. It poked its head out and looked at me, and I instantly peed my pants. Fortunately, this alien doesn't eat people. It apologized to me and then directly blocked up the excavated wall."
"Vaguely, I also heard it muttering something about the blueprint being drawn wrong, and these humans being unreliable, and so on."
"You say, doesn't this mean our United Government is cooperating with aliens?"
The others looked at each other.
"You peed your pants?"
"Hey, hey, that's not the point, okay? The point is the aliens."
A group of people started discussing. Yang Tao picked up the carrot juice on the table and took a sip. This time it wasn't the oral solution-sized synthetic drink, but real carrot juice.
It was just a bit hard to drink, not as good as technology and ruthlessness.
He understood what the person next door said. It was obvious that some Villagers had misread the blueprint or the blueprint was drawn wrong, and they dug into a resident's home and were discovered.
However, now Yang Tao was already immune to all poisons. Whether it was carrion, White Zetsu meat, or monsters, it could be said that as long as it wasn't human, it was basically already on his menu.
"Brother, I told you to run faster, look, there's no space left!"
Han Duoduo's complaining and coquettish voice came from the entrance of the barbecue restaurant. Yang Tao looked up and saw that it was Han Duoduo and Liu Qi, the siblings.
Yang Tao was not surprised at all to encounter the plot characters. After traveling through so many worlds, he had long suspected that his attraction to plot characters was the same as an Entity, except that one was in plain sight and the other was hidden.
He raised his arm and waved his hand, attracting the attention of Liu Qi and Han Duoduo.
"Liu Qi, come and sit here."
Seeing someone they knew, Liu Qi and Han Duoduo immediately smiled. Since the barbecue restaurant started offering vegetable skewers, business here had become even better.
Liu Qi was not the type of bad student. He led his younger sister and sat opposite Yang Tao with a smile:
"Brother Yang, we meet again."
"Yes, we meet again. How have you been recently?"
"Alright, just the same every day."
Liu Qi reached out and called a waiter. Now that business was good, the boss stayed in the kitchen all day and didn't come out:
"Twenty earthworms, four potato skewers, and four cabbage skewers, hmm… and two glasses of juice."
"Brother Yang, what else would you like to eat?"
"Don't be polite, I've almost finished eating. After chatting with you, I should go."
The mischievous Han Duoduo looked at Yang Tao and asked curiously: "Brother Yang, what do you do for work?"
Yang Tao took a sip of juice and smiled: "Me? Nothing much, I just wander around, fill in pits when I find them, and dig a few if there are no pits."
Han Duoduo chuckled and said: "Brother Yang, you're too funny. Are you a road builder?"
"More or less."
Chatting with Liu Qi and Han Duoduo, he gradually understood some of the thoughts of the ordinary people in the shelter.
The good news was that those guys who protested daily and chanted slogans wanting to drive Earth back had disappeared, because no scientific data was needed, just an astronomical telescope could see the sun constantly expanding.
Without the most basic support, the resistance army directly disintegrated.
And the large-scale supply of vegetables greatly increased everyone's happiness, and some policies of the United Government were more widely supported.