October 3, 335, 10:00 AM.
In a villa on the outskirts of Jing City, ten people with memories of their past lives gathered together.
Tang Li had spent two days finding Peng Yue, Peng Yixuan, Bai Xunyang, Lin Xi, Zhong Heng, and Lu Wan, and had helped them awaken their past life memories.
She then came to Jing City and met Xue Keyue and Elder Xue, helping them awaken their past life memories as well.
Song Pinxuan found Elder Song, administered the longevity and enhancement serums to him, and told him about his rebirth, instructing him not to spread the word for now.
After Tang Guo administered the longevity and enhancement serums to her grandmother, she also came to Jing City.
Everyone gathered at Xue Keyue's villa.
As Elder Xue was an important figure, he did not come in person. Instead, he went to find his old comrade, Elder Song, to recount the events of the previous life.
Therefore, only the ten people who had consumed the 'x' substance in Tang Li's second life were gathered at Xue Keyue's villa.
The matter they were discussing today would determine the historical trajectory of this timeline and humanity's future.
"First of all, regardless of the plan, we still need to replicate the technological products from our previous lives. Everyone agrees on this, right?"
Tang Li said to everyone.
Everyone nodded, indicating their agreement.
"All the technological data is in my space. In the past few days, I've also collected some paper and ink and put them into my space. Brother, this afternoon I'll copy all this data for you, and you'll be responsible for replicating all the technological products."
Tang Li said to Song Pinxuan.
Song Pinxuan nodded in agreement, readily accepting the responsibility.
"Secondly, we cannot reveal the information about the apocalypse in advance like in our previous lives. Even if we build underground cities and underwater cities, we must do so secretly, without letting other countries know, to avoid global panic."
"Although it might sound cruel, I have to say it. It would be best, like in the first and second lives, to make the other countries in the world disappear so that humanity can unite."
"Some people from other countries can be left behind, but their regimes must disappear! Do you all agree with this?"
Hearing Tang Li's words, the other nine people exchanged glances.
In the previous life, it was precisely because all countries were hoarding supplies and building underground cities that humanity descended into chaos before the apocalypse even arrived.
Even resource-poor countries like Japan experienced internal unrest because they couldn't buy supplies from other nations.
High-ranking officials, knowing that the end of the world was imminent, had no inclination to deal with the lower-class populace. They directly took the few useful resources their countries possessed and fled to countries capable of building underground cities.
The refugees generated from the collapse of these countries also impacted other nations.
Furthermore, a significant number of countries built underground cities that could only accommodate the elite, leaving large numbers of the lower-class populace abandoned.
Even though these lower-class citizens were used during the construction of the underground cities.
In the end, they were only given useless waste paper – money.
After the apocalypse arrived, they were not allowed into the underground cities, and even with money, they couldn't buy anything.
When the apocalypse arrived, the citizens of these countries attempted to storm the underground cities, only to be massacred inhumanely by the elite.
Only a few countries, such as Z Country, allowed all their citizens to inhabit the underground cities.
However, this also led to strained resources within the underground cities.
Although the underground cities had their own production, the large number of people surviving on Earth in this life meant that the supplies allocated to each person were very limited.
Moreover, because other countries on Earth still existed, the Z Country government could not use global resources to support its citizens as they did in the second life.
This forced over a billion people to huddle on less than 7% of the land and ocean, utilizing these limited resources.
As a result, the construction plan for the space city was repeatedly delayed.