Chapter 1089 - Footprints in the Snow (1/2)

Translator: _Min_  Editor: Caron_

The meeting lasted for three full hours, and the summit’s agenda today finally came to an end.

When Jiang Chen announced the conclusion of the summit, the foreign ministers left the venue at the fastest speed after they received the documents from Celestial Trade. For them, the most important task on-hand now was to communicate with their leaders and pass back the information they received.

The reporters waiting outside the parliament building were bound to be disappointed. The foreign ministers didn’t give them any opportunity to interview. They stepped into the helicopters and immediately departed.

Obviously, the summit’s agenda wasn’t to be disclosed to the public.

At least not today.

The reporters outside the parliament building put away their cameras and left the scene one after another. Although there were reluctant, they now accepted the fact that they waited for nothing.

However, many reporters still noticed an unusual expression from the foreign ministers.

Their expressions were all serious and somber.

Or anxious?

The reporters who noticed this were contemplating the reason. They were trying to dig out valuable information to get back to their bosses.

What made the foreign ministers so anxious?

Instincts told them that there was a lot of information hidden, but they wouldn’t ever know that it was because of the document Jiang Chen gave the ministers in the end.

It was an astronomical observation report.

After confirming signs of life on Gliese 581g, Kelvin took the astronomical observation team to conduct a carpet search on the space outside the Gliese 581 galaxy. Based on Jiang Chen’s opinion, they focused on the observations of the asteroid belts outside the stellar system.

Soon, they found something that became scary after facts were obtained from those asteroid belts.

Among the asteroid belts between the Earth and Gliese 581g, they observed an unnaturally formed vacuum…

Two days passed since the first round of consultation and it had been two days since the document was sent to the UA.

On June 17th, in the conference room of NASA’s headquarters, a bunch of bureaucrats who rarely visited gathered there. Even the President and the Minister of Defense made a visit which surprised NASA.

Even though NASA had recently gained some attention because of the popularity of aerospace projects, rarely did the top officials all visit together. This scene was only possible during an era of an arms race.

“Do you need a cup of coffee?”

“No.” Hill shook her head with a sullen face, and the aides sitting next to her no longer spoke.

It was the day of the results. Although they could’ve waited in their office, after they heard such shocking facts, how could they sit still?

Just then, the door of the conference room was pushed open and Bolden hurried in.

A dozen eyes gathered on him. Bolden took a deep breath and threw the documents in his arms on the conference table, working up the courage to disclose the results.

“The observation results are out.”

“What are the results?” Hill immediately asked while constantly praying in her heart that the outcome with a possibility of one in ten thousand wasn’t a reality. However, she knew that would just be self-deception. The bitter smile on Bolden’s face already explained many problems.

“The data mostly matched with the data provided by Celestial Trade,” Bolden said.

Hill was silent, and the entire conference room was silent.

They were previously optimistic. After all, with the existing astronomical observation means, it was impossible to carry out such detailed mapping. Many people even wondered if this was false information fabricated by Celestial Trade.

However, while eyes could lie, the data couldn’t.

What’s more, the other party even provided the detailed astronomical coordinates of the asteroid belt in the file and gave each country the opportunity for verification.

The NASA researchers took the information and immediately used the Hubble Space Telescope to observe the coordinate area. Although they couldn’t create a star map as detailed, based on multiple sets of data obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA obtained the same result three times.