For the first time in two years, Luo Jinyong felt hopeless.

The extraterrestrial civilization clearly did not pay attention to the small skills of human carving insects, and everything they did was nothing more than playing with human beings and watching the crazy actions made by human beings in despair.

Perhaps, the sudden glow of the 2014X1 asteroid is to make mankind completely desperate.

What would it be like for more than 8 billion people to despair at the same time?

Luo Jinyong didn't dare to think about it, because he felt that if he imagined that scene, he would also despair, and thus lose the confidence to continue to resist.

You can't despair, you have to find something to do, and you won't have time to take care of anything else when you're busy.

After the meeting, Luo Jinyong turned over the orbital data of the 2014X1 asteroid in the past two and a half years, as well as various abnormal changes.

The clues that lead to the truth must be in these data and materials, but they have been ignored or forgotten.

The heavy mental work calmed down Luo Jinyong.

Since everyone has no clue, whether it is useless or not, it is better than sitting in a daze.

There was a knock on the door four times.

"Come in." Luo Jinyong didn't look up, his eyes were still focused on the computer screen. Hearing the knock on the door, he knew that it was Tong Shaowei.

"Old Luo, Professor Burke is here."

"What is he doing here?"

"Say there's something new, and I'll tell you first."

Luo Jinyong frowned and said, "Let him come in, help me make a cup of coffee, and ask Burke, if he wants to make him a cup too." ”

Each Chief Scientific Advisor has a separate office and usually uploads findings to a shared server so that other Chief Scientific Advisors can access them as soon as possible. Only the most important information, or information that needs to be kept confidential for the time being, will be passed on in other ways.

Tong Shaowei brought Burke in, and then sent two cups of black coffee.

In the past two years, most of the scientific advisers have developed the habit of drinking black coffee, mainly drinking coffee as water, and adding sugar and milk can easily lead to obesity.

Waiting for Tong Shaowei to come out, Burke took out a micro-line data storage.

"What is this?"

"I just received it, and I think I should let you see it first, and then tell others about the results of the analysis."

Luo Jinyong took the memory and plugged it into the USB port of the computer.

Soon, the computer read out the data inside, which was dozens of high-resolution pictures, each with a data capacity of more than a gigabyte.

"Hubble 2 photo?"

Burke nodded. Only Hubble 2 has a large enough resolution for the digital photographs produced in full imaging mode to be so large.

When he opened the first photo, Luo Jinyong was stunned.

"I've checked, it's not a system failure, it's not a crack in the lens."

"Definitely not."

Luo Jinyong said this, and Burke didn't say anything more.

In the photo, the light of the 2014X1 asteroid appears not only on the edges, but also on the surface of the star, and it is irregularly distributed.

Luo Jinyong opened dozens of other photos one by one, and the content was similar.

Obviously, this is a set of photos taken in succession.

"How much time did it take to take these pictures?"

"It took less than five minutes."

"How much?"

"Four minutes and forty-seven seconds."

Luo Jinyong didn't ask any more questions, used graphics software to mark out the reference points on each photo, and then started the angular velocity calculation program.

Soon, the results of the calculations appeared on the screen.

The 2014X1 asteroid is rotating on a central axis parallel to its orbit with a period of 4 hours and 12 minutes!

Seeing this result, Burke was very excited, but Luo Jinyong was not happy at all.

As early as more than a year ago, Luo Jinyong proposed that the 2014X1 asteroid is very likely to be rotating, but due to the limitations of observation methods, he has not been able to find enough conclusive evidence. Burke also supported Luo's view and believed that the asteroid's axis of rotation most likely coincided with its orbit.

Now, the suspects of the two have been confirmed.

This is a very significant discovery, and Burke should be deserved.

Luo Jinyong couldn't be happy, because he thought longer than Burke, and thought of something that Burke hadn't thought of, an incredible possibility.

While Burke was rejoicing in this momentous discovery, Luo Jinyong had already begun to prove the possibility.

"Professor Luo, we need to report this finding to the meeting of the chiefs of general staff immediately. Our guess was confirmed, and even if it was just a guess, it could ......"

"Burke, can you be quiet?"

"Professor Luo, ...... you" Burke saw the running program displayed on the computer screen.

"Be patient." Luo Jinyong picked up the coffee cup and drank it in one gulp. On the Scientific Advisory Board, no one has ever tasted coffee, not even the expensive cat coffee. If it weren't for the thirst-quenching effect of coffee, I am afraid that coffee would have been replaced by pure caffeine long ago.

After a short time, the operation is over, and a trumpet-shaped three-dimensional coordinate map appears on the screen.

"It's ......"

"Burke, we have to make a hypothesis first." Luo Jinyong felt very lucky, because he had already drunk all the coffee, and he believed that Burke would not be able to drink anything after waiting. "That is, the 2014X1 asteroid did not exist in the first place, but was formed by hundreds of stars under the action of some force. The places where the light shines are the bonding parts. To put it figuratively, it's like building a wall out of bricks and cement. ”

"This ......"

"What is this?" Luo Jinyong tapped the computer screen with the index knuckle of his left hand.

Burke shook his head, but he had already understood.

"We might as well make another assumption that the 2014X1 asteroid will not slow down before hitting the Earth, but will disintegrate at the right time."

"Disintegration?"

Luo Jinyong nodded and said, "If the center of the 2014X1 asteroid is the spaceship of an extraterrestrial civilization, and the extraterrestrial civilization has extremely advanced technology, it can make the spaceship infinitely light, even without mass, and there is no need to slow down by spraying objects." Before descending on Earth, the only thing for the spaceships of extraterrestrial civilizations to do is to throw off their heavy shells. ”

"So, the asteroid rotates with its orbit as its central axis?"

Luo Jinyong nodded and said, "Now, let's see the final result." ”

"The operation is not done yet?"

"Of course not, it's just a basic mathematical model." Luo Jinyong entered two basic data into the information box, and then asked the computer to start the calculation.

It only took a few seconds for the results to come out, six thousand four hundred, with a positive or negative error of fifty.

There is no need for Luo Jinyong to explain more, Burke has already understood. The two basic data that Luo Jinyong began to input were ten and twenty million.

Seeing that Burke wanted to vomit, Luo Jinyong immediately handed over the trash can.

"Professor Luo, you ...... You are indeed better than me, I ......"

"I'll talk about it when I'm done."

There was a convulsion in his stomach, and Burke bent over and vomited again, but all he vomited was stomach acid, and it looked like he hadn't eaten for a day.

When Burke finished spitting, Luo Jinyong put the tissue box in front of him.

"Professor Luo, what now?" Burke pulled out a tissue and wiped the stomach acid off the corner of his mouth.

"Desperate?"

Burke didn't speak, but his state of mind was fully revealed.

"Now, we have something more important to do." Luo Jinyong pulled up a photo of an asteroid, "Burke, take a closer look." ”

"What?"

"Don't you think there is a certain pattern to these glowing lines?"

"This ......"

"We first set up a coordinate, then we collected the intersections of all the glowing lines, and then compared the coordinates of those intersections." Luo Jinyong said as he operated on the computer. "By the way, is there a three-dimensional configuration of the front of the asteroid?"

"Yes, on a shared server."

It didn't take much effort for Luo Jinyong to call up the three-dimensional configuration of the asteroid's front. Because the asteroid's orbit is not directed at Earth, it is possible to construct a three-dimensional frontal configuration of the asteroid using photographs taken in the past two years, especially high-resolution photographs taken by the Hubble-2 telescope.

After attaching the 3D configuration diagram, the third coordinates of each intersection point are obtained.

The next thing to do is to ask the computer to cross-compare and analyze the three coordinates of all intersections to find out the similarities and internal laws.

"Burke, I need a bigger computer."

"You're now the head of the Scientific Advisory Board, and you'll be able to deploy whatever you need."

"The problem is that the fastest computer belongs to the United States, and I don't directly manage it."

Without hesitation, Burke immediately picked up the telephone microphone on his desk and called the American personnel who were responsible for managing computer computing resources.

"How long will it take?"

"There are forty-six junctions on the asteroid front, each with three coordinates. Comparing these data cross-referenced, the amount of computation is equivalent to the forty-sixth power of three. Luo Jinyong sighed and said, "I'm afraid we will have to wait for several days to know the results of the Dao calculation." ”

"About five days." Burke's mental arithmetic abilities are amazing.

The most powerful computer provided by the United States runs 1,000,000,000,000 times per second, and even if you don't do anything else, it would take about 120 hours to complete the 3 to 46 power operations if you use all the computing resources on Luo Jinyong's mathematical model.

"What now?"

"Hold still."

"What?" Burke looked at Luo Jinyong in disbelief.

"We have no hard evidence, everything we do is speculation. Wait until the results of the calculations come out to convince the ten chiefs of the General Staff of the conclusions we have reached. ”

"But ......"

"Burke, you should know that neither Stark nor Yang Fanglie likes us to make trouble with unproven inferences. Besides, the news has spread, and it is very irresponsible for us to use a guess that is not yet certain to create panic at this time. ”

Burke sighed secretly, he knew that Luo Jinyong was right.

The spread of the news has already caused a lot of headaches for the ten chiefs of the general staff, and if they go to trouble them at this time, and it turns out to be a non-existent thing later, someone will definitely be unlucky. Luo Jinyong is the head of the scientific advisory board, and he refuses to come forward, so Burke naturally can't stand out.

Before Burke left, Luo Jinyong told him to make sure that computing resources were not occupied.

Seeing off Burke, Luo Jinyong immediately called Zhang Xiaogang. After two years on the scientific advisory board, Luo Jinyong learned to keep secrets.