After repeated consultations, the General Staff Council made a decision on 27 May to change the deployment mode of the Doomsday Force and replace the fixed deployment with a mobile deployment.

That is, the Doomsday Force is deployed on a C-17A transport aircraft. At 7 p.m. Beijing time on September 1, the time when the 2014X1 asteroid hit the Earth without deceleration, the C-17A transport plane will fly from east to west over the east coast of the continental United States. Make sure that at the time of the impact, the transport aircraft is facing away from the asteroid and will not be affected by the impact. If an anomaly occurs, such as an asteroid starting to slow down, the aircraft will land at a military airfield in the western region of the United States, depending on the situation, and then take off at the right time, and choose the right direction to avoid the impact area.

In order to ensure that the transport planes remain in the air for more than 10 hours, the US military will also dispatch several large tankers.

In addition, after confirming that the entity of the extraterrestrial civilization has descended on Earth, the transport will be able to send the Doomsday Force to the landing site as quickly as possible.

Although many scientists believe that if there are extraterrestrial civilization entities in the 2014X1 asteroid, the probability of falling to the ocean is much greater than the probability of falling to land, after all, the ocean area of the earth is several times the land area, and the Doomsday Force is not suitable for fighting on the ocean, but Luo Jinyong and Burke and other major scientific advisers believe that the probability of the entity falling on land is greater than falling on the ocean. The reason is that terrestrial organisms are much more likely to evolve into intelligent organisms than aquatic organisms, and extraterrestrial intelligent life is likely to be terrestrial organisms.

Of course, this was just Luo Jinyong's opinion a few days ago.

With a new idea, Luo Jinyong did not think that the entity of the extraterrestrial civilization must be a spaceship carrying the invading troops, or even necessarily a material entity.

If there is no question of conquering Earth, there is no reason for extraterrestrial civilizations to deliberately choose landing sites.

Luo Jinyong even believes that extraterrestrial civilizations will choose the landing site on the ocean, because the sea itself is a barrier that can disable most of the human detection methods.

It's just that Luo Jinyong didn't put forward this idea, so he didn't raise any objections to the deployment of the Doomsday Force.

"Although the U.S. military is a global deployment, when the landing point is too far from the U.S. mainland, and considering the possible contingencies, I hope that other countries, especially China, Russia and Australia, will provide active and effective cooperation with the Doomsday Force."

"It's a matter of course." Yang Fanglie immediately agreed.

"General Stark, the Doomsday Force is not an American force, but a human civilization force, are you still worried that we will not provide support?" Sergeyev spoke more clearly.

Admiral Murray, Chief of Staff of the Royal Australian Army, just nodded and didn't say anything more.

"In that case, we'll ......," Stark stopped as soon as he spoke.

A line of data appeared on the screen, and then a bust of Luo Jinyong was displayed. Zhang Xiaogang glanced at his watch, 2:20 a.m. Beijing time on September 1.

Soon, everyone understood what had happened.

2014X1 Asteroid Reaches Point O!

Hubble-2 has been staring at the 2014X1 asteroid as early as possible, taking a high-resolution photo every ten seconds, and after processing the data information in about 50 seconds, the photos taken are displayed on the information screens of all participants in real time.

A few minutes passed, and the 2014X1 asteroid did not change significantly.

Everyone's hearts were on their throats.

Although neither the Chief of the General Staff nor the Commissioner were scientists, they had received two years of "scientific education" and had mastered some necessary scientific knowledge. The later an asteroid starts to decelerate, the more acceleration is needed to decelerate, which means more material needs to be ejected.

According to Luo Jinyong's previous inference, the 2014X1 asteroid must slow down before passing through point O, otherwise it will eject too many objects.

However, the 2014X1 asteroid did not slow down!

The Hubble-2 telescope is also measuring the speed of the asteroid when taking pictures, the average speed over a 10-second shooting period to be exact.

After about five minutes, the mutation appeared.

It's not that the 2014X1 asteroid is slowing down, it's that the light it emits is gone!

Without Luo Jinyong's instructions, Professor Burke, who was in charge of assisting, immediately ordered to adjust the exposure of the Hubble-2 telescope and take pictures of the asteroid that no longer emitted light.

This time, it took about two minutes for the new photos to be revealed.

After seeing it clearly, everyone's eyes widened.

Although as early as August 26, Luo Jinyong was vaccinated and clearly mentioned that the luminous part of the asteroid is likely to be a junction, so when the asteroid disintegrates, the luminous part will definitely disappear. Conversely, if an asteroid no longer emits light, it means it has disintegrated. But when Luo Jinyong's prediction came true, when he witnessed the asteroid disintegrating into hundreds or thousands of pieces, it was still unbelievable.

"Professor Luo, this ...... What's going on? Stark broke the silence.

"The 2014X1 asteroid has disintegrated." Luo Jinyong's tone was calm, even a little excited. "As I predicted five days ago, the 2014X1 asteroid did not slow down the ejected object, but simply disintegrated. It's just that the situation is not as serious as I expected. ”

"What?"

"What's going on?" Yang Fanglie hurriedly asked.

"It's not clear yet, we need time to make an assessment of the situation."

"We don't have time now!" Stark finally broke out.

"General Stark, we have at least fifteen hours left." Yang Fanglie obviously looked down on Stark a little. "Asteroids disintegrate, not decelerate, so the casualness that comes from disintegration doesn't approach Earth at a faster rate. I believe that Professor Luo Jinyong will not need more than 15 hours. ”

"Five hours at most."

"What?" Stark didn't care what Yang Fanglie said about him, he just wanted to get an answer as soon as possible.

"The Scientific Advisory Board is doing its best to analyze the situation, but we have too little information." Luo Jinyong was also not very polite. "General Stark, if you don't think my words are credible, you can go to Professor Burke, and I hope his answer will satisfy you."

At this point, Stark calmed down.

"Guys, in five hours, I'll report back in time. In the meantime, I hope you will be patient and not cause trouble for the Scientific Advisory Board. ”

"Professor Luo, your task is to do your job well, and I will take care of the rest." Yang Fanglie immediately expressed his position.

Zhang Xiaogang glanced at his watch, and then involuntarily showed a smile. After two years of tempering, Luo Jinyong is much more sophisticated than before.

In another four hours, Zhang Xiaogang's special plane will arrive at Diego Garcia. Luo Jinyong deliberately postponed the announcement of the results of the analysis to five hours later, and must have wanted to discuss with Zhang Xiaogang before announcing the results. Luo Jinyong's performance at the beginning made Zhang Xiaogang feel that he already knew the result.

A good scientist's judgment based on experience and intuition is often more accurate than the results calculated by a computer.

No matter how advanced the performance of a computer is, it is not possible to make a non-logical analysis similar to empirical judgment based on the information stored in the camp. The strict rules of logical operation not only give computers far more computing power than the human brain, but also make computers unable to produce spiritual substances similar to souls and thoughts, and make computers lack the most important characteristic of intelligent beings: creative ability.

For more than two years, Luo Jinyong has proven his predictive skills many times.

Of course, the only means to prove the prediction is to analyze and calculate the information obtained.

If Luo had already made his prediction, what the Scientific Advisory Board was doing now was nothing more than spending five hours to prove his prediction.

For the next five hours, the ten chiefs of the General Staff were somewhat idle.

After a few minutes of silence, Sergeyev proposed to discuss what would happen after Judgment Day in order to prepare for any possible eventuality.

In the more than two years leading up to the Second Summit of Heads of State, all the work done by the Planetary Defense Council was aimed at the pre-Judgment Day. Because no one can guarantee that humanity will be able to see the world after Judgment Day, no one cares about what to do after Judgment Day.

The wait was really boring, and ten chiefs of the General Staff, led by Sergeyev, came to be interested.

Zhang Xiaogang has no interest in the topic after Judgment Day.

In his view, discussing what happens after Judgment Day now is completely overfed, and not only is it meaningless, but it will be counterproductive. If humanity survives the catastrophe, human civilization will undergo fundamental changes. Regardless of the pattern of the world after Judgment Day, the agreements reached before Judgment Day will be worthless, and even the Planetary Defense Council will lose its value of existence.

Take, for example, the project of mending the sky that Sergeyev talked about. After Judgment Day, even if Russia becomes the number one power, the value of the project will be greatly reduced. If Russia does not become the number one power, no matter which country dominates, it will certainly not allow the project to continue to exist, at least not under the leadership of Russia. If a country acquires the science and technology of an extraterrestrial civilization in the process of resisting invasion, the national power with the power of science and technology as the core will increase rapidly, and the scientific research efforts made before Judgment Day will become insignificant.

Zhang Xiaogang understood this truth, and the ten chiefs of the general staff must understand it.

It's just that you can't let the ten chiefs of the General Staff sit in a daze, you have to find some topic. If you don't have a suitable topic, I'm afraid you'll have to create some topics.

Instead of discussing sensitive topics, it's better to talk about something inconsequential.

Zhang Xiaogang only cares about one question: What did Luo Jinyong find, or what judgment did he make?

Judging from Luo Jinyong's performance at the beginning, it shouldn't be a bad thing, otherwise he wouldn't be so tough, and he wouldn't have delayed the announcement of the results by five hours. If it is really a bad thing, Luo Jinyong will definitely bring it up immediately, so that the meeting of the chief of staff will quickly find a countermeasure.

If it's a good thing, what's a good thing?

Zhang Xiaogang thought about it for a while, but he didn't understand, so he didn't think about it again.

After waiting for more than three hours, the Y-20A finally landed on the runway of Diego Garcia.