Chapter 138: The Karn Clan
Dr. Wells continued to light up the various areas of the Green House, introducing the living, energy, and research areas of the Green House.
Because these scientists have lived and worked underground for many years, the U.S. government has equipped this miniature underground city with extremely complete living facilities.
In order to allow them to adapt to the underground life as much as possible, the construction department not only simulated the blue sky and white clouds, wind, frost, rain and snow, spring and summer in the living area through virtual projection, but also established a special botanical garden to purify the environment inside the green house.
In addition, the researchers in the "Green Room" are all vetted before entering the department, and everyone is basically a staunch patriot, even to their own families, they will not easily reveal the situation in the "Green Room".
And most of the researchers' families also live in cities near District 51, and they return to the ground for about three months every year to reunite with their families.
It's just that no matter whether they are traveling with their families or doing anything, as long as they are still on the ground, there are basically FBI agents around to monitor and protect them.
As for the energy supply inside the "Green House", it is powered by two sets of Westinghouse's million-megawatt AP1000 pressurized water reactors, with a design life of 60 years, and the safety system adopts passive design and is arranged in a containment vessel with a double-layer structure, an outer layer of prestressed concrete, and an inner layer of steel plate structure.
This reactor is considered the safest and most advanced third-generation nuclear reactor on Shijie, with only the most basic maintenance required on weekdays, and the nuclear fuel replacement cycle is more than 30 years. It is the guarantee of the energy supply of the entire "green house".
Because the "Green House" was built under extremely secret conditions, the annual operating expenses and scientific research funds of the "Green House" are all through the secret channels of Congress, and the budget is as high as tens of billions of dollars, and ordinary congressmen do not know the existence of this fund at all, and even those old congressmen who know some secrets do not know what the money is used for.
After giving a general introduction to the situation in the Green House, the light screen in front of Dr. Wells suddenly lit up, and Dr. Wells turned his head to Okuguanhai and said, "Mr. President, the thawing procedure is ready." It's ready to start!"
Okukanhai nodded. He handed Wells a USB device in his hand and said, "This is the activation password, let's unfreeze it!"
Dr. Wells took the device from O's hand and connected it to a USB port on the main console.
Soon. A garbled text flashed on the light screen. A virtual button on the left side of the light screen that was originally red turned green.
Dr. Wells then pressed the button. Everyone at the scene felt a slight tremor from the ground, accompanied by a faint roar.
Dr. Wells said, "The compressor has started!"
At this time, the holographic projection screen of the control center suddenly changed. Four glass containers filled with pale green liquid appeared on the projector, and the bodies of several strange-looking creatures were faintly floating inside.
"What is this?"
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton felt numb at the sight and involuntarily clenched her handbag.
No one answered Hillary's question, and Ao Guanhai turned his head and asked Wells, "Doctor, how long will it take to complete the thaw." ”
Dr. Wells said, "As a rule of thumb, Mr. Kahn will not meet with you until at least 12 hours later. ”
Ao Guanhai nodded, glanced at Hillary beside him, and then turned to the people behind him and said, "Then let's go to the lounge and wait first!"
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In the lounge, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who had been puzzled before, said to O'Guanhai: "Mr. President, can you tell us the ins and outs of this base now?"
Secretary of Defense Gates and CIA Director Leon Panetta, who came with Ao Guanhai, also looked at Ao Guanhai with doubts.
In fact, among the people present, except for Ao Guanhai and Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, everyone else only knew part of the specific situation of the "Green House".
Ao Guanhai nodded, thought for a while, and said, "You should all have heard of the 'Roswell' incident, right?"
Everyone present nodded.
Roswell is a city in southeastern New Mexico, United States, located in the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It has a population of 39,000.
On July 8, 1947, the Daily News of Roseville, New Mexico, USA, published a "sensational" message: "The Air Force found a downed flying saucer in Roseville. ”
The news was immediately picked up by the New York Times and other major newspapers, and radio waves spread all over Shijie. This news caused an uproar among the American public like a bombshell.
The U.S. government later insisted that it was just a crashed U.S. military reconnaissance balloon, but widespread claims were that it was a crash of an alien flying saucer.
Since then, "Roswell" has become almost synonymous with UFOs.
Hillary frowned and said, "Mr. President, you mean that the legend of the crash of the 'Roswell' alien spacecraft is true?"
Ao Guanhai smiled bitterly: "This matter is not only true, but the truth is really more exaggerated than you imagined!
The crowd then turned their attention to Dr. Wells, who had accompanied the military and political leaders to the lounge.
Dr. Wells said, "You must have seen the broken flying saucer and the Karn body under the glass cover of the control center just now, right?"
Several people in the lounge nodded.
"Their name is the Karn?" Hillary said, in surprise.
Dr. Wells snorted and said, "During the Roswell incident, we found a total of ten Karn bodies and the wreckage of a flying saucer! Six of the ten Karns died of their injuries, and the remaining four were immersed in the four glass containers we saw earlier. ”
Professor Wells paused, and continued, "The word Karn is their name for their own civilization, and we don't know much about the specifics, only they know. According to previous information, the Kahn came from the distant Large Magellanic Nebula, and they came to Earth on a scientific research ship more than 5,000 years ago!"
The people at the scene sighed in unison, and Alexander, the director of the NSA who was born in science and engineering, was even more surprised: "How is this possible?"
Professor Wells shook his head and said: "I don't understand, they are not the intelligent civilization of the Milky Way, but the satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, the Large Magellanic Cloud (orbiting the Milky Way, about 160,000 light-years away, about 1/20 of the diameter of the Milky Way, and about 10 billion stars) This kind of cross-river flight has exceeded my imagination, but I think they should not bother to deceive us on this." ”
"And then?" asked Hillary.
"Later, we rescued four of the ten people, and when one of them woke up, he was proficient in English and communicated with the staff at that time, and most of the information we know today was obtained from that time. (To be continued......)