Chapter 22 (1/2)
Kedu Town, Pingtang County, Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province.
The world's largest single aperture spherical radio telescope base, also known as China's ”heavenly eye” command center. In the conference center on the third floor underground, Xu zhe was walking in with his back hands, and all the people present stood up in unison.
The guard at the door ”snapped” a military salute. Xu zhe nodded, went straight to the front of the conference room and sat down first.
The rest of the people also took their seats. The meeting room was quiet and frighteningly quiet.
”The chairman has issued the highest instructions to the three armed forces. All active servicemen cancel their holidays and return to everyone. Do you know?” Xu zhe said after sitting down and looking down at the information in front of him.
”Yes, the instructions have been conveyed. Our army is ready for first-class combat at any time!”
”I want to listen to the opinions of all the experts here. After all, this is a situation we have never encountered before...” Xu zhe raised his eyes from the data. Although he was sitting in a chair with a back, he didn't lean back at all. He just sat with a straight waist and stable shoulders, fully showing the basic quality of a soldier.
”General!” Dr. Nan Jin, the general director of Tianyan project, stood up. ”These two days, countries with space observation conditions all over the world are trying to contact the upcoming alien civilization, but... Without exception, they have not received any reply.”
”Can we rule out the two points of technical means or language barrier?” General Xu zhe was really not a layman and put forward his own doubts very sensitively.
Dr. Nan Jin shook his head: ”I'm afraid we can rule out these two items. We have used all the communication means that human beings can use so far, whether visible light, sound wave, electromagnetic wave... All sent the same greetings to the visiting alien civilization, but, as I said, there is no reply.”
”Is it a group of deaf people?” general Xu Zhe could not help but make complaints about it.
”I'm afraid not. How can a civilization with such advanced aerospace technology be deaf...” Dr. Nan Jin smiled miserably. ”We infer that the other party may be deliberately avoiding contact between civilizations and may be hostile!”
”How are the preparations in the military region?” General Xu zhe looked at a lieutenant general present.
Lieutenant general ”pa” stood up and stood at attention: ”please rest assured, our three armed forces have all been in place, Xichang Satellite Launch Center and several mobile military fortresses have been established, the signal station of Taihang Mountain linkage counterattack has been in place, and all weapon systems have been debugged!”
”Well, very good!” General Xu zhe motioned to the other side to sit down and talk. ”It's an extraordinary time. Let's not be so polite... How can aliens suddenly reach the solar system?”
Dr. Nan Jin didn't stand up this time. He just clicked the desktop in front of him, and an operation interface was transferred out. Then, the air brush behind him lit up, and a three-dimensional screen appeared out of thin air!
”General, in fact, we have observed part of this unidentified alien spacecraft for a long time,
On October 19 last year, the pan-starrs1 telescope in Hawaii first discovered the object. At that time, it had completed its' visit to the earth 'and was returning to interstellar space.
Astronomers observed and found that the asteroid was different from any known asteroid. At that time, American scientists estimated that its length was about 1300 feet, or about 396 meters.
Subsequently, the asteroid was initially named a2017u1 and later officially called 'oumuamua', which translates into Chinese as' silent '. At that time, most of the opinions thought that it might be part of the splash of planetary collision, but in a series of behaviors of silently leaving the solar system, we found evidence of its artificially adjusted track, so we came to the conclusion that the asteroid has life Inferences.
But unfortunately, when we realized this, it was too far away from us. Our interstellar exploration ability was far from enough to observe it more. After that, it disappeared in our vision. ”
”Oh... I also read this news at that time. What's your opinion, Mr. doctor? If it is an” advance team ”of alien spacecraft, what should be the main purpose of exploring the earth before the arrival of the main force?” General Xu zhe asked.
Dr. Nan Jin touched his gray beard, shrugged and said, ”at that time, our sky eye telescope was still in the final debugging stage. There was no effective observation data. When the other party approached the earth and what to do is unknown.”
”Well, let's go back to the root of the problem. Most countries in the world still have the final illusion about this huge space vehicle. They think that the other party has actually entered the reasonable attack range in theory, but still remains calm, and the possibility of launching a war is not great...” general Xu zhe looked around at everyone present, ”what do you think?”
Cai Hongan, a military strategy expert, stood up and said: ”Yes, general, the other side has already crossed the orbit of Mars. In fact, on the interstellar scale, it can be considered that they have reached the earth. In fact, the Death Star... This is the name given to it by some foreign colleagues using the name in science fiction movies. The Death Star has completed the final deceleration and is now docking smoothly into the orbit of the moon.
One day at most, we will be able to see each other with the naked eye in the earth's night sky. There is no attack intention, which is in line with our basic judgment on the attack ability and intention of alien civilization. If we want to launch a war at the interstellar level, it may have started long ago. ”
”So we can think they came for peace?” retorted Dr. Nanjing contemptuously. ”Then why don't they give any response to our friendly questions?”
”Maybe the other party is looking for an appropriate way of expression?”
”What if a dog that might bite doesn't bark?”
The two men couldn't help arguing fiercely and didn't give in to each other.
”Well, let's put aside the dispute and start with the worst plan...” General Xu zhe calmed the mood of both sides, ”do the best preparation and the worst plan. Isn't this our consistent style of doing things?”
”Yes, general, we are ready to fight!” Lieutenant General Cai Hongan replied.
Xu zhe shook his head: ”I mean 'we', not our country, but the whole human world!”
”We have sent a request to the United Nations three days in advance for unified preparations for war. However, in addition to the response from Russia and North Korea, NATO and the countries of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the United States and some countries in Eastern Europe have all remained silent...” Lieutenant General Cai Hongan reluctantly spread his hand.
”These guys!” Xu zhe angrily knocked on the table with a finger. ”Up to now, they are still making their own plans. They all want to be the first country to contact extraterrestrial civilization. They want to make small calculations and win more technical resources, regardless of the immediate danger. If the global strategy cannot be unified, what can they do temporarily?”
”General... It seems that your position tends to be hawkish...” Lieutenant General Cai Hongan asked carefully.
Xu zhe sneered: ”I just don't want others to get under my nose before I get up and wash my face!”