Apocalypse story, younger man
In 2120, as carbon emissions rose, Earth's surface temperature steadily climbed. The polar glaciers melted faster, sea levels rose, and the ozone layer shrank.
Unknown infectious diseases could erupt at any moment, species populations plummeted, and plants and animals mutated at an accelerating rate.
The world order rapidly fell apart. Resources grew scarce, wars raged, and the global population quickly shrank back to the levels of the Industrial Revolution. From then on, human history entered a period of decline.
The few remaining countries began building humanity's final refuges.
Associate Professor Li Banting of Beizhou University, a renowned young scholar, was tasked with constructing Life Pod No. 3. She was also given two tickets for the Ark, which she decided to save for herself and Qiu Xi.
But on the day of the evacuation, Qiu Xi was nowhere to be found.
Theme: Protecting the environment is everyone's responsibility.
