“Today is the 32nd day of the 14th month in 3036, and there is still a month and 18days left till the New Year. Everyone looks very excited and looks forward to the arrival of the New Year….Hummm, today, I fixed the recording pen that slipped out of my pocket on the way to school and fell to the ground few days ago, I didn’t expect it to break so easily…Whatever I fixed it, that’s what I’ve got…“

  “Record saved.” By a robotic-sound, ” How do you feel about my day?“

  “Base on your recording…it seems pretty successful, you fixed your recording pen, and it’s about New Year”

  “…That’s why I won’t tell everything in my day to these recordings.”

  “What? I mean… but why?”

  ” Don’t you see it, you can access my records easily, they can access my records same.”

“Who?”

“The leader of this program, actually you should know it much more clear than me…Oh right, you can’t tell me the details, I know. You know why I won’t tell everything in my day to these recordings?”

  “That’s what I’m asking you since then conversation began…”

  ” I don’t want to be treated as a piece of data that people can analyze. They open up my videos, like opening up a textbook, that’s not what I’m wishing for.”

  “But you had been chosen to record your day, there are about 37500000 people doing the same thing as you, Coraline.”

  “They are doing it, dosen’t mean I have to do the same too. There must be someone else like me… Anyway, I have my privacy…Even though the world’s population cutted down by half, there are still a lot of people, but it seems like this recording pen and you, the system that “monitors” me everyday are what I owned…Have a goodnight Julian see you tomorrow.”

  “You too, have a…” Coraline shut down the power before Julian fihish what it’s saying. Only by turning off all power source, can shut this system down, but Coraline can’t shutdown the power too long, otherwise will arouse suspicion from leaders of this program. She set down on bed, then opened the recording pen,starting to record her day. She prefers this recording pen over keeping her daily records in the database.

  Since starting from the 31th centry, human might a thorny problem, due to the over-population, our resources can’t support our expend, getting drained. None of the country can take over this hot- potato, so they decide to make a coalition government. Which means all countries on Earth were now a huge county. But with it comes a cruel solution, they decide to remove half of the population. They made two lists, if your name was on the first list, congratulations, you survived, you can live in this massive country; If your name was on the second list, congratulations too, it’s just that your life won’t be so easy anymore！Because resources on Earth were running-out, we need to develop new energy. So the coalition government decided intead of exploring up- wards to the space, exploring downwards to the Earth’s core. A place we never been before, it’s almost no-information about the Earth’s core, and those on the second list will be among the first humans to explore the core, and they are unlikely to survive. Eventually, that was true, those who have officially entered the exploration of the Earth’s core have no further news, perhaps due to the need for confidentiality, but none of us knew what’s really going on under our feet. If you are neither on the first nor second list, you will be forced into the sleep pod then send to space, untill they find new resources to enable the normal operation of the country. Unfortunately, Coraline’s mother was forced into sleep, while her father was on the second list. The day this policy was officially established also became the last day they meet each other. Coraline’s mother went to space, father went underground, she is left on the Earth surface, that’s why she thought New Year means nothing to her.

  Everything is not over yet,The 31st century seems to be putting humanity to death. The attraction of Sun to Earth was getting smaller. Earth start running away from the Solar system; Even worth, that it’s getting faster and faster. The farther the distance between the Earth and the Sun, the longer it takes for each revolution around the Sun, and the longer it takes for a year, that’s why we have 15 months a year, with 50 days per month. As the distance between the Earth and the Sun increases, the sunlight also decreases, and plants and animals cannot adapt to changes in the environment…In order to prevent the complete disappearance of human civilization, the coalition government has launched this program, The Notebook. They made another list, and the people on the list have to record their daily lives, create video logs, and upload them to a huge database. This database also contain the progress of the entire development of human civilization. When civilization is on the brink of collapse, the coalition government will send this information to the space.

……

  Difficulties arise one after another; Escaping Earth, they got no- idea with the Earth’s core and space, none of us know what we will face in the future, what they can do is drifting with the Earth in the dark- cold space.

 

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