On February 18th, the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the so-called February day in the world, the spring breeze is late, the cold snap has not yet receded, and the temperature in Haizhou has not yet broken free from the influence of winter, and it is still so low that people can only be wrapped in thick clothes.

Today is the "rain" in the 24 solar terms, and after the rain, it means that the weather is warmer and the rainfall is increasing. As if to confirm this statement, the sky has been overcast since the morning like an inverted bowl, and countless dense water vapors are fixed hundreds of meters in the air, as if they will pour down at any moment.

In recent years, Haizhou has developed rapidly, urban planning is becoming more and more mature, and the low gray old town is slowly disappearing from this city that has suffered from history......

――――――――――――――――

This is a corner of the city, a fog scattered in the middle of the city as low as twilight. On a cold and wet winter's day, a group of children on the street scrambled to play in the open space next to the park, kicking the soccer ball into the low-lying water several times, but soon a child stepped on the water and kicked the soccer ball away from the water.

The grass grows and the warbler flies in the February sky, and the willows are drunk with spring smoke. The children returned early from school and were busy releasing paper kites in the east wind. In ancient times, February said that it was the second month of the lunar calendar, and it should be the appearance of March and April in the Gregorian calendar, and now that the New Year has just passed, of course, there is no time to fly kites, but with the joy of the New Year, coupled with the madness before the start of school, the vicinity of Haizhou Park is full of vitality.

Just when the children were playing lively, and the parents were smiling and watching not far away, the sound of falling into the water came, and everyone turned around in surprise. found that in the park pond, an emaciated figure was struggling in the water.

"Not good. Someone has fallen into the water!" With an exclamation, a large group of people hurriedly ran towards the pond.

At this time, the pool water is cold and biting. The people who rushed to the edge of the pool were all wrapped in coats, and when they saw someone struggling in the water, everyone on the shore knew that they had to be rescued immediately, but there were not many people who really dared to jump into the pool to save people in such a cold day.

Just when everyone was at a loss, a young man quickly took off his clothes and jumped into the pool.

When the man who fell into the water was rescued by the young man, there was applause of admiration. Soon the ambulance arrived, and the person who fell into the water was carried to the ambulance and taken to the hospital, and the surrounding people quickly dispersed. For what happened in the morning, I mostly mentioned it to my friends with great interest.

……

After the New Year, Gao Xiang's holiday also came to an end, early in the morning, he got on a hitchhike to the base of Kuocang Mountain, and at noon, he entered the base through heavy sentry posts.

There seems to be something wrong with today's Kuocangshan base, and the personnel are a little deserted, but I think that the Spring Festival has just passed. The researchers all went home, and Gao Xiang understood a little. But no, although there were far fewer researchers and sentinels standing guard in the base, he seemed to smell a solemn smell in the air.

The sentinels were all in good spirits. It's more serious and cold than ever.

"Lao Gao, do you feel that something is wrong?" A man in a black trench coat walked behind him, it was Gao Xiang's friend astrophysicist Zhan Hua.

Gao Xiang nodded: "You think so too?"

"yes. The atmosphere was a bit oozing. Zhan Hua carried a suitcase in his hand and said with a faint smile. "But who knows, maybe it's because of the weather. ”

Gao Xiang raised his head. Although it was noon at this time, the mountains in the distance were still gray, and there was a bit of a mountain rain about to come and the wind was full of buildings, and this gloomy environment did give people a very depressing feeling.

"How's it going, how is this year?" stretched out his hand to take a cigarette handed over by Zhan Hua, Gao Xiang asked.

"It's okay, it's rare to go home, there are so many relatives to leave, it's busy enough. I always feel more tired than when I was doing research!" Zhan Hua showed a helpless expression, took a puff of cigarette, and said with a light smile: "I met a former colleague when I went back this time, he didn't understand my secondment, and asked me when I would return to the Urumqi Observatory." ”

Gao Jun smiled dumbly: "I forgot, you are still the backbone of the Urumqi Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences! Without you, your unit must feel very uncomfortable in the field of radio astronomy observation." ”

Zhan Hua previously worked at the Urumqi Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, engaged in radio astronomy observation and research, focusing on radio astrophysics and VLBI research.

"I have to leave it to the young people to do that!"

Zhan Hua said inscrutablely, "The mantle of research should be passed on as soon as possible, don't you see that the people who are now carrying the beams in the aerospace field are young researchers in their early thirties, we can't show weakness, and we should withdraw early to cultivate those young people." ”

"I think you're taking the opportunity to run here and be lazy. Gao Xiang joked.

There was nothing to do, and the researchers at the base returned to their jobs one after another, just when Gao Xiang thought that today was going to pass like this, and was about to bring a roast duck and a few bottles of wine with Zhan Hua to drink with other researchers, a notice came down to summon everyone to the large conference room for a meeting.

"Looks like tonight's party won't work. Zhan Hua shrugged his shoulders after seeing Gao Xiang, today's meeting is mostly the arrangement of the work of the new year, and after the meeting, he has to face the computer to summarize it.

Gao Xiang also had the same idea, but he didn't understand why the meeting was not scheduled for tomorrow, but when everyone was ready to have dinner. If it's a work arrangement, it's not in a hurry.

Shaking his head, Gao Xiang walked into the large conference room with Zhan Hua and other researchers.

At this time, there were already a few people sitting in the large conference room, and to everyone's surprise, Hong Tianzhong did not sit on the first seat this time, only to see him frowning slightly, holding a cigarette between his fingers, and looking trapped by troubles.

"See, the head of the army didn't sit in the first place today!" Zhan Hua whispered to a person on the side. That person was Professor Wang, the oldest of all the researchers, and his qualifications and authority were unmatched in the Kucang Mountain base.

Professor Wang pursues academic rigor. is even a little nitpicky, but he is not old-fashioned. Seeing Zhan Hua talking to him, he smiled and said, "That means that today's protagonist is not Lieutenant General Hong." Perhaps there are bigger people to attend the conference. ”

Bigger characters?

Gao Xiang and Zhan Hua nodded slightly, and an old but domineering old man immediately appeared in their minds. Is this old man going to the meeting?

As the general in charge of the XK1992 plan and the Kuocangshan base, it was naturally not the first time that the old general had attended a meeting inside the base, but when the old general came over, it was still Lieutenant General Hong Tian who presided over the meeting, but now Lieutenant General Hong Tian was smoking a cigarette with a serious face, and it didn't look like he was going to preside over the meeting at all.

About three minutes later, all the personnel were seated, and Lieutenant General Hong Tian extinguished the cigarette butt in his hand. Glancing at a conference assistant, the conference assistant immediately understood and ran to the back of the conference room to make some arrangements.

After a while, the door of the large conference room opened again, and the first person who entered everyone's field of vision was an old man with gray hair, who was the old general, and there was another person who came in with the old general.

The people who came in with the old general were dressed in military uniforms. But there is no military rank on the shoulder, and in the whole of China, you can appear on this occasion with an old general, wearing a military uniform but not worthy of a military rank. There is only one person!

Everyone immediately realized that today's meeting was not trivial, and when the old general and the man were seated, everyone sat down again.

Something big is going to happen at today's meeting. It's an earthquake for the whole of China.

This is a common awareness of all present.

Sure enough, the meeting officially began. This is more of an announcement than a meeting.

Gao Xiang listened quietly. Gradually, a horrified expression appeared on his face.

It turns out that with the sale of solid-state energy in the market recently, the original stereotyped lifestyle has undergone earth-shaking changes, and the emergence of new things is bound to change the original pattern, which can touch the sensitive point of interest groups, they are relying on the old pattern to exist, the old pattern is destroyed, they are the plucked phoenix is not as good as the chicken.

In addition, the people with interests saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, and they also wanted to take advantage of the opportunity, so the domestic interest groups, the prominent aristocrats, and the elites who were active in the political arena hit it off, and formed a community of interests driven by common interests, forming a trend of suppression and encirclement of Huaxin Technology.

On the surface, the political situation is still peaceful and the society is thriving, but secretly the turbulent waves have reached the point of sweeping the embankment. In the face of the general trend, we are facing a powerful interest group involving half of the political arena in China, and the only way to extinguish it is to use the barrel of a gun.

In the past 20 years, China's economy has achieved unprecedented development, but it still has not done much in international affairs, and looking at the world, there are few countries that are truly friendly with China and have the ability to help each other at a critical time. In China, the barrel of the gun was so pressed that he couldn't hold his head up, and he also carried many black pots because of the decisions of the literati.

After the new leader saw the power of domestic interest groups in the matter of solid-state energy, he was also chilled and shaken, as if he felt the trembling of the yellow earth under his feet.

The institution is bloated, the people's hearts are scattered, this cancer can no longer be purified, it is better to destroy it with one shot than to let it infect the whole body.

After thinking twice, the leader found the old man, and the old man was also quite simple, he convened the old ministry in the name of the old army leader several decades ago, arrested the two vice chairmen of the army as soon as possible, and smoothed the army, and then began to vigorously control and arrest.

Of course, this announcement is not the core of this meeting, in fact, there is no need to explain this kind of thing to Gao Xiang and his group of scientific researchers. The main reason for convening this meeting is to collect attention, because something else happened in the process of rectification.

These things are closely related to Gao Xiang and them, and that is...... Space Rift!!

The leaders don't want to make trouble, but after all, the KX1992 plan is a major event that the old general has been concerned about for decades, and now that space cracks have been discovered, the number has reached the point where people have to pay attention to it, and the leaders know that this is troublesome, and the top priority can only rely on these scientists, and they must find a way to solve this matter as soon as possible. (To be continued......)