Chapter 22

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!"

"But with all due respect, general, even if there is a real war, we can't do anything..." Lieutenant General Cai Hongan said helplessly.

Xu zhe narrowed his eyes, looked at him, and then asked seriously, "I want to ask, how long can we support if the other party launches a sudden attack?"

"Space war?" Lieutenant General Cai Hongan pondered. "General, it is no exaggeration to say that mankind's current space combat capability is zero!

The aircraft we can launch into space are only limited to some very small exploration satellites, and none of them are for combat purposes. Most of them are military or civilian navigation satellites, which is the limit of human space ability.

If space is compared to the sky

The only tools we can use for combat are carrier pigeons and kites, and the enemy's combat capability is much higher than the most advanced B2 bomber in mankind! "

"So... Can we only give hope to God?" Xu zhe frowned and sighed deeply. Everyone present became heavy at once

In the narrow bedroom of low rent housing in the suburbs of Beijing.

The dark room, gray sheets, messy tables, piled with many leftover plastic bags, instant noodles and biscuits, seemed to have not been cleaned up for a long time. The house was full of dust. There was a half open window. Outside the window, the gloomy moonlight slanted in

Hao zhileng leaned half against the windowsill, holding his head and crying bitterly. For three days, he still regretted that he couldn't save Wang Yanke. He hated himself and watched his beloved girl die in front of him, but he didn't even have a chance to block her!

More importantly, he tried countless times, but he couldn't turn back time by one second.

His ability disappeared, his body was as weak as being evacuated, and he could not capture the source of that mysterious power.

Song Xiaojia came out after taking a bath. Her long hair was curly and wet, jumping on her white shoulders.

She hasn't been home for three days. One by one, her family urged her to go home. She hung up without looking at it. She stubbornly stayed with Hao Zhi and watched him drink and get drunk. Then she smashed everything in the house. After vomiting, she lay in bed talking nonsense.

She carefully swept up the broken glass again and again, like cleaning up Hao Zhi's broken glass heart.

Sometimes, he would be awakened by nightmares, and then endless remorse. He beat his head with his life and tossed until dawn.

Song Xiaojia sat cross legged beside him, put his head in his arms and said comforting words repeatedly until he was tired and fell asleep again.

Sorrow is greater than heart death. He can't extricate himself from his remorse.

Hao Zhi drank the last bite of Erguotou up his neck, and then threw it out along the window. The wine bottle fell to pieces on the road of the community at midnight. His eyes were blurred. He looked everywhere for the wine bottle with red eyes, and irritably lifted the newspapers and magazines on the table all over the sky.

"That's enough!" Song Xiaojia came up and grabbed him. "If you drink like this, you'll die drunk!"

"You... Spread!" Hao Zhi said with a short tongue, but he couldn't hide his anger.

"Do you look like a man? She's dead and you have to live on! You're still young and there are many good girls in the world!"

"Nonsense! I want to drink... Let go!" Hao Zhi tried to withdraw his hand, but song Xiaojia's wrist strength was not something he could break free.

He just felt that his hand seemed to be hit by an iron lock on the concrete wall, motionless. He tried to pull it twice, and was instantly angered. His eyes seemed to stare and bleed. The wine rushed up to his head. He raised his left hand and a bus palm fan came over!

"Pa!" the crisp slap echoed in the room at midnight. Song Xiaojia didn't hide or flash. Her beautiful blond curls flew up and pasted wet on her face. She looked back coldly at Hao Zhi with stubborn provocation in her eyes.

"How dare you hit me?"

Song Xiaojia raised her chin and looked at him. The moonlight outside the window sprinkled on her face, blurring her delicate outline. A pair of smart big eyes glared in the background of the night and twisted two shallow eyebrows.

"I..."

Hao Zhi sobered up a lot in a moment. He didn't expect that he would suddenly slap him. The loud slap in the face was more like hitting him in the face. He was silly and stared at her.

"Sorry, it hurt you..."

After a while, Hao Zhicai reflected and touched her beaten face with his hand. The beaten place was hot and burned his hand.

Song Xiaojia felt that the man's hand caressed her face roughly, with a heavy smell of wine and sweat. Her nose was slightly sour after three days of hard work and grievance.

She stared at him. Hao Zhiguang was wearing a pair of worn jeans. His face was full of fatigue, but his eyes were still bright, with tears of apology.

She painfully reached out to touch his haggard face. Hao Zhi raised her hand to block it and inadvertently held song Xiaojia's hand. The room on summer night was hot and restless, and the slippery sweat was greasy between the palms of the two people. There was a smell of fishy and salty, and her skin was dry, like ceramics exposed to humid air, smooth as water.

Song Xiaojia suddenly withdrew her hand, and the embarrassing atmosphere spread between them.

Her face turned red and slowly approached Hao Zhi, close enough to see her nervous shadow in his black pupils.

The tip of the nose that the two people gradually approached rubbed and hurriedly avoided. Song Xiaojia wanted to say something, but he only sighed