Sending the last injured scientific researcher to the temporary emergency center, Zhang Xiaogang breathed a sigh of relief.

After Luo Jinyong left, seventy-seven scientific researchers remained in Diego Garcia. Zhang Xiaogang counted three times, and there were no less than seventy-seven people. No one was killed, four were seriously injured and more than thirty were slightly injured. Most of them were injured by falling objects during an earthquake.

The U.S. military's underground facilities were built extremely solidly and did not collapse in the earthquake.

If it is a tofu scum project, none of the thousands of soldiers in the command center and the thousands of scientists in the scientific research center will want to come out alive.

The catastrophe exposed the fragility of the Planetary Defense Council.

When it came to treating the wounded, the personnel of the 10 countries were looking out for each other, without assisting each other, and no one cared about the personnel of the other countries.

Fortunately, Zhang Xiaogang had been prepared, and the scientific researchers were mainly injured and were easy to treat.

"Lao Zhang ......"

Alerted, Zhang Xiaogang turned around and found Smith walking towards him with two American guards.

"Don't act rashly, wait and contact Lao Yuan, and say that Smith called me." Zhang Xiaogang gave an order to the guards who were on high alert and walked towards Smith.

"Zhang, you made me look so hard." Smith, as always, was very polite to Zhang Xiaogang.

"What, what's wrong with me?"

"The meeting of the chiefs of the general staff, all the commissioners have to attend, General Yang is looking for you. In addition, Professor Luo's assistant is also inquiring about you. ”

"A meeting now?"

"yes, let's get over there."

"Okay, wait for me to change my clothes." When treating the wounded, Zhang Xiaogang's clothes were stained with blood and dust.

When changing clothes, Zhang Xiaogang gave another order to his guards, and told them to take care of the injured and prepare to return to China.

Stark did convene a meeting of the Chiefs of Staff, and asked all the commissioners to attend.

In the command center, the U.S. military has managed to repair the communications equipment and remove all the damaged equipment. There were only a few control terminals left in the huge room, and it looked empty.

Howard is giving a briefing, apparently related to the Doomsday Force.

Each of the ten commissioners has a position, and each has a set of video communication equipment in front of him, and Zhang Xiaogang's position is between Smith and Jankovic.

Seeing Zhang Xiaogang appear, Yang Fanglie breathed a sigh of relief.

In the aftermath of the disaster, the Planetary Defense Council faced its first test in more than two years, whether the relationship between the 10 member countries could be sustained.

The key is in the United States.

If the US authorities believe that the crisis has passed, it is quite possible to do so, first of all to control the personnel of other countries in Diego Garcia. Because the commissioners of various countries are all high-ranking intelligence officers, and the guards are also intelligence officers, as well as chief scientific advisers and many scientific researchers, as long as the US military moves quickly, not only will none of these people want to escape, but the other nine member states will also be afraid to rashly turn against the United States.

Now it seems that the US authorities do not consider the crisis to be over.

“…… Decisive action is necessary to prevent the situation from spiraling out of control, and since disaster has already occurred, the actions of Doomsday Force will not have an impact on disaster relief efforts. After saying the last sentence, Howard sat down. This guy is a typical military man, even when he is in a video conference, he will stand up and speak.

"Guys, do you have any other opinions?" Stark asked.

The other nine chiefs of the General Staff did not speak, saying they had no other opinions.

"According to the old rules, we vote."

"What's going on?" When the chiefs of the General Staff were voting, Zhang Xiaogang asked Jankovic on the left.

"Howard suggested sending Doomsday Force to the impact site to collect the wreckage of the impacting object."

"Now?"

Jankovic nodded and said, "The relevant information is in the central computer, and the reconnaissance satellite has discovered that an island has appeared near the impact point." ”

"What?"

Jankovic didn't say anything more, and Zhang Xiaogang didn't ask any more questions, and called up the data from the shared storage of the central computer.

An island indeed, an island created by impact.

Although the water depth at the impact site was more than 5,000 meters, and the solid rocks that formed the earth's crust were underneath the seabed, the huge pressure and high temperature at the time of the impact turned the rocks into liquid, and the crust bounced back to the surface of the sea. As the pressure suddenly disappears and the temperature drops rapidly, the flowing magma solidifies into rock before it is submerged by the sea.

It is a deserted island that is bare and shows no signs of life.

The size of the island is not large, not even one square kilometer, and it is unconventional, like a volcanic island formed by an undersea volcanic eruption.

Do you have to send Doomsday troops over? Zhang Xiaogang was a little puzzled.

It is undeniable that the impact object must be related to the 2014X1 asteroid, and there may be some extraterrestrial civilization technology on it, otherwise it would not be possible to hit the Earth without being discovered. The problem is that after the impact, the technological equipment of the extraterrestrial civilization will either be completely destroyed under high pressure and high temperature, and even if it is not destroyed, it will be engulfed in magma, and the probability of appearing on that island is very low.

If you want to find the scientific and technological preparation of extraterrestrial civilizations, you should not be dispatched by the Doomsday Army, but by an engineering force that is good at exploration and excavation.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaogang couldn't help but be suspicious.

The US military's reconnaissance satellites have taken pictures of the islands, and the resolution of 0.1 meter is enough to identify whether there are special objects on the surface of the islands. By the same token, the reconnaissance satellites of China, Russia, France and Israel will not sit idle, and they will certainly take a lot of pictures.

If there are no special objects on the island, there is no reason to send the Doomsday Force over.

To Zhang Xiaogang's surprise, Yang Fanglie actually voted in favor of the vote!

What the hell is going on?

Immediately after the vote was passed, Stark authorized Howard to take action. The meeting continued, and the 10 chiefs of the General Staff began to discuss relief operations.

Zhang Xiaogang listened patiently for a while, and felt bored, so he found an opportunity to sneak out.

Although the 10 Chiefs of General Staff are in favour of joint disaster relief operations and all acknowledge that only joint action can minimize the damage caused by disasters to human civilization, there is a problem that no one can think of but no one mentions. Ten countries are all mud bodhisattvas crossing the river, who can control others?

This is not a regional disaster, nor a national disaster, but a disaster for the whole world!

In less than two hours, a total of 187 earthquakes of magnitude 7 or higher, tens of thousands of earthquakes of magnitude 5 to 6.9, and countless earthquakes below magnitude 5 were induced.

This is just the beginning.

Even non-scientists like Zhang Xiaogang know that the impact will be followed by a global natural disaster. In the next few days, a variety of natural disasters will sweep the world, some of which have already been predicted by scientists or accurately predicted based on natural phenomena, but many more are unpredictable, and even the best scientists cannot make accurate predictions.

We don't know what kind of natural disasters to deal with, and how can we cooperate?

Zhang Xiaogang felt that the ten chiefs of the general staff were all overwhelmed and had nothing to do. If it is really for disaster relief, it is better to spend energy elsewhere, such as arranging for the military to participate in disaster relief operations. Of course, this deployment must have been arranged for a long time, and there is no need to dispatch a chief of the General Staff.

Zhang Xiaogang was a smart man, and naturally knew the true intention of the 10 chiefs of general staff to discuss joint disaster relief at this time.

The crisis has passed, and there is, at least for the time being, no major threat worthy of holding the breath of the more than 8 billion people in the world. If no new threats emerge in the next period of time, perhaps days, weeks, months, or weeks, the Council of Planetary Defense, which was established in response to the crisis, will inevitably disintegrate.

The question is, is the crisis really over?

Even if none of the 10 chiefs of the General Staff are from science and technology, and none of them really understand science and technology, there are excellent scientists around them.

It can be said that it is reasonable to use the "end of the crisis" to carry out public opinion propaganda and achieve the goal of stabilizing social order through deceptive means, but the 10 chiefs of the general staff know very well that the crisis has not only not ended, but has even just begun. Humanity has used almost all its strength to deal with only one 500th of the mass of the 2014X1 asteroid, and it has also caused a huge disaster due to the failure of defense. Where did the remaining 500 percent of the 499 mass of the 2014X1 asteroid go, and when and how will it appear?

Until this is understood, even the best scientists dare not say that the crisis is over.

The Planetary Defense Council cannot be disbanded, and the ten most powerful nations cannot part ways, let alone become enemies in a life-and-death struggle.

To that end, a reason is needed for the Planetary Defense Council to continue to exist.

There is no better reason than a major crisis that requires the mobilization of all human resources, and it is a crisis that all ten countries have to face and solve.

The global catastrophe caused by the impact is a matter of course.

Whether or not the 10 members of the Planetary Defense Council can work together in disaster relief, at least the partnership must be maintained.

For this reason, the 10 chiefs of the General Staff had to sit down and discuss the matter of joint disaster relief.

The truth has been revealed, and there are no secrets to be told about the relief operation, so the joint disaster response operation has little to do with the Security Liaison Office.

Zhang Xiaogang returned to the office and first opened a bottle of Erguotou.

The pure water had already been taken to treat the injured, and all that was left was the liquor that no one cared about, and a few cigarettes that Zhang Xiaogang had hidden in the cabinet.

After sitting down, Zhang Xiaogang lit a cigarette and connected Yuan Dezhi's video call.