The transport plane flew north over the Arabian Sea.

For decades, Pakistan has been one of China's staunchest allies, despite not signing a treaty of alliance. After the Planetary Defense Council was exposed, the Chinese ambassador, in his capacity as the special envoy of the president, promised the Pakistani leaders that China would regard Pakistan's interests as its own interests and fully defend Pakistan's interests in the Planetary Defense Council, while the Pakistani leaders promised to support China as always.

Not far in front of the transport plane, it was none other than four JF-20 fighters of the Pakistan Air Force. This is the Pakistani version of the Chinese J-10 fighter, which is higher than the J-10 of the Chinese Air Force, and has been improved for the special requirements of the Pakistan Air Force.

In two hours, the transport plane will enter Pakistani airspace.

Zhan Pengfei and Wang Kaiyuan are relaxed, and the transport plane is controlled by the autopilot, so there is nothing for them to worry about. In the unseen distance, there is at least one KJ-2000 of the Chinese Air Force with several J-20 fighters. Besides, after the exposure of the Planetary Defense Council, no matter how bold the Indian Air Force is, it will not dare to provoke the Chinese Air Force, let alone have the courage to deal with Chinese aircraft serving the Planetary Defense Council.

The transporter shook slightly, and information appeared on the display indicating that turbulence had been encountered.

Zhan Pengfei frowned, lifted the autopilot state, and then activated the self-test equipment of the transport plane. As the plane shook, he heard a muffled noise. And more importantly, the transport aircraft flies at a cruising altitude of 11,000 kilometers and encounters turbulence in the stratosphere?

"Lao Zhan, what's wrong?" Wang Kaiyuan began to doze off.

"It's a bit unusual."

"Anomaly?"

"There should be no problem, the four engines are working normally, there are no problems with the hydraulic system and power supply system, and the cabin pressure is also within the normal range."

"It's good that there's nothing wrong with it." Wang Kaiyuan closed his eyes again.

According to the arrangement, the transport plane will not land in Pakistan, but will fly directly to the country. After completing in-flight refueling near Yecheng Air Base in the northwest, fly to Beijing. The flight lasted almost ten hours, so the two pilots had to take turns resting.

At this time, Luo Jinyong had already woken up. He also noticed the beginning of the shaking.

After getting on the plane, Luo Jinyong closed his eyes and recuperated. He was accompanied by Tong Shaowei and other scientific researchers, and only a few scientific researchers stayed in Diego Garcia to assist Zhang Xiaogang in his work. Luo Jinyong felt that it would not be long before Zhang Xiaogang would return to China with other personnel.

With so much happening, the contradictions between the member states have developed to the point of irreconcilability, and the Planetary Defense Council is nearing its death.

Luo Jinyong can't play power tricks, but he is very self-aware, and with Zhang Xiaogang's reminder, he naturally understands the importance of leaving Diego Garcia in time. If he stays in Diego Garcia, on the day of the disintegration of the Planetary Defense Council, he will be the most important hostage in the hands of the Yankees.

Only when he returns to the country can his safety be guaranteed.

Based on his performance in the past two years, the US authorities will definitely not let him go, and Yang Fanglie is likely to declare war on the US for him.

Thinking of what happened in the past two years, Luo Jinyong was very emotional.

Two years ago, when Zhang Xiaogang came to the door and told him about the 2014X1 asteroid, Luo Jinyong agreed to Zhang Xiaogang's invitation without thinking about it. At that time, he naively believed that for the common future of mankind, the ten most powerful countries would surely cooperate sincerely.

Looking back now, Luo Jinyong couldn't help but sigh.

Lu Xun, a generation of writers, once attributed the bad habits of the Chinese people to "inferior roots", how can human civilization not be like this, and the struggle for power and profit is the inferior nature of human beings.

In the cabin, more than 30 researchers were either dozing off, reading books, or playing games on their computers.

Most of these scientific researchers began to work for the Planetary Defense Council two years ago, and many of them were recruited by Luo Jinyong himself. In the past two years, like Luo Jinyong, they have given up their families and lives, and devoted themselves to scientific research to defend the right to human existence. Many people have not been home for two years, and they have not even contacted their families because they cannot tell anyone about their knowledge, not even what they are doing, and they cannot tell their families where they work.

Luo Jinyong remembered Zhang Xiaogang's words, the fighters who defend the right to human existence are not soldiers, but scientists who can't wield knives and guns.

At this time, Tong Shaowei hurriedly walked over. No matter when and where, when Luo Jinyong was resting, Tong Shaowei must be awake.

"Professor......

"How?"

"Debris No. 334 did not break out of the atmosphere."

Luo Jinyong's brows jumped a few times, and after the small probability event, it was an inevitable event.

"There was no direct impact either, and it exploded less than a thousand kilometers south of Guam and at an altitude of more than forty kilometers. This was half an hour ago. ”

"How much of an impact?"

"Guam is definitely finished, but it's not the worst of it."

Luo Jinyong glanced at Tong Shaowei and asked him to explain his words.

"Fifteen minutes ago, a piece of debris fell about six hundred kilometers south of the Kuril Islands, and the point of impact was less than a thousand kilometers from Hokkaido, Japan."

"Impact!?"

"It has been confirmed that it was a direct impact."

"Contact Chief of General Staff Yang Fanglie immediately."

"It's being arranged, and Mr. Yang will also let you participate in the video conference call immediately."

Luo Jinyong stood up and said, "Go to the crew rest cabin and don't alarm the others." Also, try to get in touch with Zhang Xiaogang. ”

"Lost contact with Diego Garcia."

"What?"

"The impact triggered a super earthquake that spread throughout the world. According to the information received, the situation on Diego Garcia's side is very bad. ”

"Gather as much information as you can."

Tong Shaowei nodded, he had been Luo Jinyong's assistant for several years, and he knew very well what to do when to do.

In the crew rest cabin, video communication equipment is ready, as well as a high-performance laptop computer and an external high-speed storage device.

Luo Jinyong did not immediately participate in the video conference call held by Yang Fanglie, and he did not know much about the situation.

According to the data monitored by various seismic stations, the impact site was near 150 degrees 37 minutes east longitude and 37 degrees 54 minutes north latitude, located in the northwest Pacific basin. The average depth of water near the impact site is more than five thousand meters. The earthquake caused by the impact reached a magnitude of thirteen!

Seeing these data, Luo Jinyong frowned, and his expression was extremely grim.

There is too little data for Luo Jinyong to make accurate judgments, such as the mass of the impacted object and the velocity at the time of impact, as well as the angle of impact.

The first thing to figure out is the origin of the impact object.

Debris from the disintegration of an asteroid, or debris from a fragment shattered by a nuclear warhead, or part of the asteroid's vanishing mass?

"Professor......

"Got news?"

"Photographs taken by reconnaissance satellites."

Luo Jinyong took the micro memory handed by Tong Shaowei and plugged it into the USB port of the notebook computer.

There are many photos, mainly of major cities in mainland Japan.

Although the impact site was more than 1,000 kilometers from the Japanese mainland, the magnitude 13 earthquake caused extremely severe damage.

Prior to this, there were only nine magnitudes used to measure the energy released by an earthquake.

The largest earthquake ever recorded was only 9.5 magnitude, the massive earthquake that occurred in Chile at 3 p.m. on May 21, 1960. The earthquake re-erupted six extinct volcanoes, created three new volcanoes, and triggered one of the largest tsunamis of the 20th century, killing tens of thousands of people. A few days later, the energy released by the earthquake traveled halfway around the world, triggering a tsunami in the western Pacific Ocean that caused severe damage along the eastern coasts of Japan and the Philippines.

Each increase in magnitude means that the energy released by the earthquake increases by a factor of thirty-two!

The energy released by a magnitude 13 earthquake is equivalent to a million times that of a magnitude 9 earthquake!

What is this concept?

The energy released by the magnitude 9.5 earthquake can travel halfway around the world and cause a tsunami on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, and the energy released by the magnitude 13 earthquake will inevitably spread to the whole world!

Japan, which is closest to the epicenter, has been hit hard.

Luo Jinyong is not a geologist or an earthquake expert, so he does not know much about earthquakes and the damage caused by them.

It's just that the photos taken by reconnaissance satellites tell it all.

It took some effort for Luo Jinyong to identify it, and the first one was a photo of downtown Tokyo.

Is this the world's largest city, Tokyo?

With 24 million residents, Tokyo is the largest city in the world by population!

There are no high-rise buildings at all, not even low-rise houses, all in ruins, and ruins formed by the collapse and collapse of buildings everywhere!

"Tong Shaowei, this is ......"

"There are also satellite photos of major cities in Japan, such as Osaka, Kobe, and Nagasaki. As in Tokyo, these cities were all destroyed. ”

"Can you estimate the casualties?"

"I can't estimate it, but I'm afraid the survivors are not even a hundredth."

Luo Jinyong sighed and silently finished reading the satellite photos of major cities in Japan behind.

Japan is an earthquake-prone country, the Tokyo earthquake on September 1, 1923, resulting in 250,000 casualties, more than 100,000 buildings collapsed, so that the Japanese unforgettable, but also made Japan the world's most important earthquake-proof country, not only required public buildings to meet the standard of earthquake resistance of magnitude 9, even the seismic standard of ordinary buildings also reached magnitude 8, high-rise buildings are more solid. In addition, Japanese architects have developed a number of earthquake-resistant techniques, such as building buildings on floating bases with cushioning functions.

Even so, Japan was left in ruins by the unprecedented earthquake.

For Japanese civilians, ordinary means of earthquake resistance and response were of no use. In Tokyo, for example, all high-rise buildings collapsed in an earthquake, and even if the people inside had time to escape to the streets, they would be buried by the fallen buildings. The low-rise building collapsed directly, and the people inside simply did not have time to escape. Because the earthquake came so suddenly and so quickly, most people did not have time to evacuate.

Obviously, all cities, towns, and even villages in Japan are finished.

Luo Jinyong roughly estimated that Japan's urbanization rate is as high as 80 percent, and if only 1 percent of people survive, the survival rate of non-urban residents will increase tenfold, and more than 100 million Japanese people will die in the earthquake, and the number of survivors will not exceed 10 million.

Of these 10 million, most of them were injured.

"What is this?" After looking at satellite photos of major cities in Japan, Luo Jinyong saw a nautical chart photo.

"A photograph of the sea near the impact site, taken about ten minutes after the impact, note the two white circles."

Luo Jinyong took a closer look and immediately understood, these were two waves like mountain peaks, that is, the super tsunami caused by the impact!

How can there be two waves?

After a little thought, Luo Jinyong understood what was going on.

Because the water depth at the point of impact is several kilometers, the first waves are generated immediately when the impact occurs. When the energy of the impact is fully released, the crust that has been sharply compressed below the impact point will rebound, releasing the energy accumulated in the crust to form a second wave.

Thinking about this, Luo Jinyong came up with a way to calculate the impact energy.

"Can you measure the distance between these two waves?"

"Thirty-two kilometers, plus or minus one kilometer."

"What is the depth of the water at the point of impact?"

"Five thousand meters, plus or minus three hundred meters."

Luo Jinyong didn't ask any more questions and began to write mathematical models on the computer.

"Professor, you're ......"

"Combined with the first few data, taking into account factors such as seawater resistance and crustal stress, we can use the separation distance of the waves to calculate the impact velocity, and then combine the earthquake magnitude and wave height to roughly calculate the energy released by the impact, and use these two results to calculate the mass of the impacting object." Luo Jinyong explained briefly and said, "What is the height of the waves? ”

"The first wave is 1,500 meters, and the second is 1,200 meters."

Luo Jinyong was startled for a moment, but immediately regained his composure.

After entering the last two pieces of data, Luo Jinyong began to let the computer run the program.

Because it is only a simple estimate, it does not require too much computer performance, and it does not take much time.

After a few moments, the operation ends.