Countdown: Humanity's struggle to survive against yesterday

Chapter 102 Memory Council

"A problem will always remain a problem if it's not solved."

After a brief break, a new round of meetings continued.

At this moment, someone presented a manuscript. Chen Xiao quickly glanced at it and his eyes lit up with surprise.

"Memory weighting system!"

"This new suggestion is great!"

Core principle: When time reverses, only memories remain. Those who remember more, remember more accurately, and spread the information more widely carry greater weight.

At the same time, in order to avoid oligopolistic monopolies, multiple layers of checks and balances are set up.

At the highest decision-making level, a "Memory Council" was established, with members selected from "Memory Masters" recommended by various regions.

The next level is the executive coordination layer, mainly composed of the "Sober Alliance" and representatives from various regions. Their main function is to break down parliamentary resolutions into actionable, phased tasks and coordinate resources across regions...

By the time the news reached other countries, it was already another day of regression.

The first thing everyone discussed was the "Memory Council," which will initially be composed of 100 memory masters from the last World Memory Championships.

These memory masters don't have real power, but each of them has an original vote that can decide whether a strategy goes through.

At the same time, each memory master will have periodic assessments. Simply put, the core principle is that whoever remembers more and more accurately will accumulate more votes.

Of course, in emergency situations, to improve efficiency, power is temporarily concentrated in the hands of the "three-person team":

They are the current Memory Guardian (the memory master with the most votes in the cycle), the Action Coordinator (the rotating chairman of the Awake Alliance cycle), and the Global Chief Engineer (the rotating representative of the scientific community alliance).

The three-person team must agree on all decisions, and all orders take effect automatically the following day.

Because of the great catastrophe, the world was reshuffled, and for the first time, humanity was barely able to unite and become unified. This was destined to be a historical event.

……

On one hand, there is a collective climax across all humanity, and the cohesion of the people has greatly increased.

On one hand, the staff of the Beijing Aerospace City were dumbfounded, and the entire aerospace city fell into a strange state.

Jiang Ning's worst fears came true.

A total of 20 young astronauts were selected. In order to train these 20 people, Jiang Ning waited another week before criticizing them.

Originally, they were anchored on the ground, no longer changing with the world, but trapped in space.

However, on July 18, during the first batch of launches, ten teenage astronauts went into space with the mission.

What's terrifying is that after entering Consciousness Day on July 17th, the space city really did see these ten teenagers reappear.

Inside classroom 201 on the second floor of the teaching building.

The 20 teenagers were clearly divided into two groups: on one side were the astronauts who hadn't gone into space this time, and on the other side were the ten newly recruited teenagers.

They had been gathered here for an hour; the former still looked shocked and incredulous, while the latter looked bewildered.

In the first group, Su Fei looked earnestly at Yang Haoran on the other side: "Haoran, you really don't remember what happened?"

Yang Haoran looked up at the boy who had asked the question, looking confused. The boy was very strong and tall, about 1.8 meters.

He looked back at the nine teenagers on the south side of the classroom. There were four boys and five girls, including his cousin Yang Die, who was sitting behind him and looked nervous.

"Can someone explain what's going on?" Yang Haoran stood up with a suspicious look on his face.

"Today is July 17th, it should be summer vacation! Why did I wake up here...?"

"hiss……"

The group of people behind Su Fei couldn't help but gasp when they heard this.

A round-faced girl exclaimed in surprise, "Did they lose their memory after going to heaven?"

"It's not necessarily amnesia; it seems like their memories of the past six months were abruptly cut off," another man with thick lips analyzed earnestly.

"What kind of mechanism is this?"

"You're asking me? Who should I ask?!"

The two were not keeping their conversation private, and everyone could hear it clearly, which made the ten teenagers on the south side of the classroom even more confused.

Yang Die gently tugged at Yang Haoran's sleeve. "Cousin, look at our clothes, they fit perfectly. What's going on?"

Upon hearing this, Yang Haoran noticed that he was wearing a blue and white checkered fitted training uniform, the same as the ten boys on the north side of the classroom.

These clothes are completely different from what I remember wearing.

"The secret passage was a kidnapping... No, when we gathered just now, the staff said this was a space city. Could it be that we've traveled through time...?"

Yang Haoran's thoughts raced, and he kept pondering them.

Seeing Yang Haoran's puzzled look, Su Fei took a deep breath.

He didn't quite understand why Commander Lu hadn't come over to take charge, but as the captain of Team B, he knew what he had to say.

So, Su Fei carefully considered his words and began to quickly recount to Team A, who should have been 1000 kilometers away on Earth, the story starting from the day the world went backward.

At the same time, inside the flight control building's command center.

Jiang Ning was closely monitoring the situation in the sky, while Commander Lu was communicating with Ark 3 beside him.

It's not that the group didn't know that Yang Haoran, Yang Die, and the other ten people had reappeared in the space city; now that this had already happened, there was no use in being surprised or moved.

The first thing to confirm is whether the three people on Ark III, the ten teenagers, are still alive.

Then, due to the world's backward movement, the time on the Earth's surface was out of sync with the time on Ark 3, and the signal transmission needed to be recalibrated.

This calibration took an hour.

"This is Ark 3. I am Huang Jingtao, the former commander of Tiangong."

"Received..." Seeing that the signal was finally established, Lu Zheng quickly spread out the command platform, grabbed the microphone, and said, "This is Lu Zheng. Please report on the situation of Ark 3."

"Reporting to Commander Lu, Ark 3 is currently stationary at an altitude of 1150 kilometers and has not rolled back. The 50 newly added astronauts are in good health. All 12 modules expanded from Tiangong are currently functioning well. Specific data is being manually verified, but the Tianwen system has already compiled a report that everything is good..."

Upon hearing that 50 more astronauts would be added, Jiang Ning's heart skipped a beat.

The worst-case scenario has still occurred.

Behind Jiang Ning, the five members of the Huitian Group looked at each other in bewilderment after hearing this.

Everyone frowned, their faces grave, each with their own thoughts.

Jiang Ning didn't listen to the rest of Lu Zheng and Huang Jingtao's conversation, his mind racing with thoughts:

"If someone stays close to you for too long and doesn't return to a normal history, there will be side effects."

"A large number of stranded individuals can also have side effects!"

"Now, once individuals are anchored and escape the Earth's surface, they can no longer be called a side effect; they have completely changed humanity's understanding of this planet."