"Then I came here, and I was the first to come, and it was the same as what you saw on the ground, and it was snowing heavily, and the clearing had just been cleared, and there were still tree stumps on the ground. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"I won't go into details about the future, even if I have time, I doubt that my spirit can bear it."

"You just need to know that where we are was once the world's largest research base for ball lightning, where the study of ball lightning lasted for almost thirty years, and at its peak, more than 5,000 people worked here, and the best physicists and mathematicians in the Soviet Union were involved in this research to a greater or lesser extent. To illustrate what a huge investment has been made in this research, I'll give you just one example, you-"

Germov pulled the light back, and the two of them noticed that there was a tall entrance to the cave next to the one they had just entered.

"This cave leads to a distance of 20 kilometers, and at that time, for the sake of secrecy, all the materials transported into the base were unloaded there and then transported in through this cave."

"This caused a large amount of supplies to disappear there for no reason, and in order not to attract the attention and suspicion of spy satellites, a small city was built there, and also for the sake of secrecy, there were no people living in that city, it was just a useless empty city."

"In order to hide the radiation generated by the artificial lightning in the study, the entire base was built underground. The place we were in was a medium-sized experimental city, and the rest of the base was blocked or blown up and now inaccessible. ”

"It has been equipped with the world's largest lightning simulation system, a complex magnetic field generator, and large-scale experimental equipment such as a giant aeronautical wind tunnel to simulate the environment in which ball lightning is generated from all angles to the maximum. Look at this—" Gemoff pointed to a tall trapezoidal concrete platform. "Can you imagine a platinum electrode several stories high? It was installed on this table at the time. ”

Germov bent down, feeling for something, very casually, but he did pick it up, Lin Yun shone the light on his hand, and saw a metal ball.

He handed it over, Lu Yu took it, the weight was not light, round, and the surface was also smooth, Lu Yu asked, "Dripping?" ”

"Yes."

Gemoff nodded.

"At that time, during the lightning simulation experiment, some metal components on the roof of the cave hall were melted by lightning, and after dripping and cooling, this kind of thing was formed."

Lin Yun pulled the light towards the surrounding ground, and sure enough, he found a lot of these small metal balls, no wonder this Soviet hairy man seemed very casual when he was looking for and fumbling.

"In the central laboratory, the lightning generated by the giant lightning simulator was an order of magnitude greater than the natural lightning in nature, so much so that the NATO nuclear surveillance system detected the shock wave and thought it was an underground nuclear test, and the Soviet government admitted their claims, and suffered a lot in the nuclear disarmament negotiations."

"When this lightning test is carried out, the ground shakes, and the ozone produced by the lightning in the ground is discharged to the ground, making the air in this 100-kilometer radius have an unusually fresh smell."

"In addition to the lightning simulation, we also start the magnetic field generating equipment, the microwave lasing device, and the large wind tunnel to simulate lightning under various combinations of conditions, and then input the results into the giant computer system for analysis."

"In some of the tests, the parameters far exceeded the limits of natural lightning, and super-powerful lightning was placed in a labyrinthine complex magnetic field, or in microwave radiation that can boil a small lake for a short time...... Thirty years of research have been uninterrupted. ”

Everyone looked up at the trapezoidal tower where the giant tome was placed, and a large part of it was still shrouded in tall darkness, and fell into a deep mystery, but it became a relic, and with the past of all the previous researchers, it was sealed in this unknown underground by cement.

Thankfully, they came.

"Did you get any results?" Lu Yu asked.

"Yes." Gemov nodded, with an extremely bitter smile and a gloomy look, and said, "But that was the beginning of the nightmare,"

"Sherlock Holmes said that if a case is not afraid of the bizarre, it is afraid of the bland, and the prosaic case is the most difficult to solve. If thirty years of research doesn't lead to some success, it's too bizarre, and that bizarre motivates people to keep going. ”

"Sadly, now there is no such bizarreness, only a disheartening blandness. We've succeeded, and we've succeeded in producing twenty-seven ball lightning bolts in thirty years. ”

Lin Yun's pupils shrank suddenly, and then he looked at the person beside him, only to realize how thick and vast the things he was looking for......

With the power of a whole great country at the two poles of the world, it is so hopeless that it produces ball lightning, but it is eternally separated, as if there is an extremely thick wall.

"Our traditional philosophy is yin and yang, and what seems to be success does not necessarily mean success...... Because you may only see one side and not the whole, it is a natural failure......" Lu Yu said.

"It's right to think about it now......"

Gemoff nodded.

The first successful ball lightning was in 1962, three years after research began, when I saw it with my own eyes, and after a western discharge from the lightning simulator, it appeared in mid-air, pale yellow, and flew with a light tail dragging it, and disappeared silently in the air about twenty seconds later. ”

"At that time, ball lightning was just an ordinary electromagnetic phenomenon in our eyes, and Project 3141 was not originally intended to be on a large scale."

"At that time, the top leaders of the Academy of Sciences and the Red Army, down to the scientists and engineers involved in the project, believed that for a country that had already sent people into space, as long as it concentrated its scientific research efforts, it was only a matter of time before ball lightning could be artificially generated."

"In fact, the fact that the study took three years to produce results has exceeded most people's expectations. When that ball lightning appeared, we felt just a sense of relief, no one expected that there were still 27 long years and the final failure waiting for us. ”

"Our confidence seemed to be well-founded at the time: unlike lightning in nature, the conditions and parameters of this lightning were recorded in detail, and I can still write down all the parameters of the time exactly now."

"At that time, the lightning current was 12,000 amperes, the voltage was 80 million volts, and the discharge time was 119 microseconds, in short, it was a very ordinary lightning. There is a 2.4 meters per second air flow during discharge, a microwave with a power of 550 watts, and an applied magnetic field ......"

"There are a large number of other parameters, such as air temperature, air pressure, temperature, etc., and more special ones, such as the lightning path captured by ultra-high-speed photography, as well as the on-site magnetic field strength and shape, radial indicators, etc., recorded by various instruments, and so on."