"Come on, just to give you a heads-up, you're leaving Diego Garcia soon, anyway. Back in China, the Yankees have great abilities, and it is impossible to send ten beautiful women to rebel against you, right? Besides, as long as you are in the country, I will definitely send more beauties to stabilize you. ”

"Lao Zhang, you're really endless."

"Professor, I'm not kidding you." Zhang Xiaogang lit a cigarette and said, "You have to remember that no matter how high the price the Yankees set to buy you, I can pay a higher price to keep you." Again, as long as I live, don't think about the problem of choosing a good tree to live in. ”

"If you talk nonsense again, I'm going to turn my face."

"Alright, let's get down to business. When you return home, you have to do two things quickly. ”

"Which two?"

"When the time comes, Yang will always tell you."

"Can't say it now?"

"You haven't returned to China, and it's useless to talk about it now."

"Okay, I'll go to Mr. Yang when I go back."

"By the way, your house has been taken care of, and you will be able to move in when you go back." Zhang Xiaogang extinguished the cigarette butt, "Considering that you seriously lack the ability to take care of yourself, I arranged a driver and a secretary for you, both of whom are beautiful women, but they can only be eye-catching, don't distort their crooked ideas." ”

"Sent to spy on me?"

"Of course not, but if you think so, I can't help it." Zhang Xiaogang smiled and said, "Besides, it's not my idea. When I return to China, the treatment will be the same as yours, or even more miserable, and I am afraid that there will be two strong men who are more powerful than Lao Chu as my driver and secretary. ”

"Is this an arrangement made by Mr. Yang?"

"I hope you can understand the necessary arrangements, and if you don't understand, you can't do anything."

Luo Jinyong sighed, indicating that he understood what Zhang Xiaogang meant. Persons like them, who have been abroad for a long time and have had close contact with intelligence agents of other countries, will certainly have to undergo a period of examination after returning home to determine whether they are still loyal to their homeland.

"Don't worry, those two beauties are just your shadows, and they will help when necessary."

"What helps?"

"For example, if you go to a bar and they will check out the bill. If you bring the chicks home, they will fill the bath with hot water in advance. If you have a special need, they will also help you get your sex toys ready. In addition to not being directly involved, they will provide everything to facilitate your event. ”

Luo Jinyong rolled his eyes and said, "This is called help?" ”

"You're not satisfied? Why don't I call Lao Yuan and ask him to send two big men with expressionless faces and muscles all over to serve you? ”

"Fart, isn't that forcing me to go to Liangshan?"

Zhang Xiaogang laughed and said, "So, be content." ”

"Okay, I'm content, and I'm content with that." Luo Jinyong also laughed, "Let's go, it's almost time, let's go to the command center." ”

By the time the two arrived at the command center, Operation Courage had already entered its final stage.

Howard is still the commander-in-chief, except that Burke is on his side. Seeing Zhang Xiaogang and Luo Jinyong arriving, Burke immediately greeted him.

Zhang Xiaogang knew that Lu Dao Burke was here to find Luo Jinyong, so he deliberately slowed down and let Luo Jinyong go to the front.

"Professor Luo, you're finally here."

"What, is there anything else about me?"

"Your suspicions have been confirmed, and we found that small fragment."

Luo Jinyong's brows jumped a few times, and Zhang Xiaogang was also interested and followed behind the two.

Walking over to a console, Burke told the U.S. officer to get up, then pulled up a photograph. "This is a picture taken by the Hubble-2 telescope ten minutes ago, and it happens to be at the most appropriate angle, can you see this bright spot?" After saying that, Burke also pointed to the highlight on the photo.

Luo Jinyong nodded, he noticed this highlight at first sight.

"It has been calculated that this fragment has a relatively regular shape, either oval or olive-shaped, with a long diameter of between 120 meters and 150 meters, a short diameter of between 80 meters and 100 meters, and an estimated mass of about one million tons, which is much larger than previously guessed."

"If it's only a million tons, the mass isn't that big."

"The mass we measured by gravitational accumulation should be more accurate."

"What about the size data?"

"It's also more accurate, and the deviation won't be too big."

"In that case, there's a good chance the shard will be hollow." Luo Jinyong let out a long breath and said, "Can you intercept it?" ”

"No, the debris in front is too big, and the time difference is too small to intercept it in time."

Luo Jinyong nodded, and didn't say anything, he had already made a similar judgment.

"Professor Luo......"

"How?"

Burke hesitated for a moment and said, "What are we going to do?" ”

"I don't know what to do." Luo Jinyong replied very simply.

"Professor Luo, I already know what happened to the beginning of the Dao, General Howard really did something wrong, at least you shouldn't be held responsible. But ......"

"Professor Burke, you're too outrageous to say that. Moreover, whoever is responsible is whose responsibility is whose responsibility, not that Howard thinks that whoever is responsible is whose responsibility. Zhang Xiaogang smiled and said, "Besides, do you think Professor Luo Jinyong will ignore the life and death of mankind?" ”

"This ......"

"Burke, I really don't know what to do now." Luo Jinyong sighed and said, "When the interception is over, let's consider countermeasures." ”

Burke didn't say anything more, and urging Luo Jinyong would not lead to other results.

By this time, the launch vehicle had already separated from the nuclear warheads, all of which had reached speeds of 350 kilometers per second and a distance from the Earth between 800,000 and 1 million kilometers. Because the Hubble-2 telescope has to keep an eye on asteroid debris, and other telescopes do not have such a strong detection ability, they can no longer see the nuclear warhead, and the ground control center is just constantly sending orbit correction instructions to the nuclear warhead. In order to reduce the mass of the nuclear warhead as much as possible, the communication system of the nuclear warhead has only the function of receiving signals, not transmitting them. As for whether the nuclear warhead received the order and whether the trajectory was adjusted according to the order, the ground command center did not know anything. Only when a nuclear warhead hits a fragment and releases strong light and electromagnetic radiation after the explosion can it be concluded that it has hit the target. If no bright light is observed and no electromagnetic radiation from a nuclear explosion is received, the interception has failed.

At this time, the countdown appeared on the big screen again.

Everyone's eyes turned to the big screen, silently counting in their hearts. When the countdown time went to zero, the big screen suddenly dimmed.

It's not all light, but it's densely covered with faint starlight.

After getting used to the dim light, everyone could see clearly that the big screen showed a vast universe, with some shadow areas distributed among them.

Those shadows are the debris generated after the asteroid disintegrates.

At this time, these debris are 1.2 million kilometers away from the earth, and the horizontal distribution range has reached 380 kilometers, and the vertical distribution range is still only more than 20 kilometers.

There is no drag in the vacuum, so the orbital velocity of the debris does not change, and the anterior and posterior intervals do not change.

One of Luo Jinyong's predictions came true, that is, the 2014X1 asteroid had a huge cannonball, which turned into a scattered shotgun. Although the debris is much smaller in size and mass than the 2014X1 asteroid, it is no less deadly. Any debris that hits the Earth directly will cause a serious disaster.

Looking at the vast universe on the big screen, Luo Jinyong suddenly had a strange idea.

Is the universe really as big as it seems?

As the saying goes, hearing is believing, but scientists have proven time and again that even what you see is not necessarily true.

Among other things, what is happening now has overturned all judgments made through observation in the past two years.

Luo Jinyong suddenly thought of the question raised by Zhang Xiaogang. The mass of the debris is only one fifth of that of the asteroid, where did the rest go?

Turning my gaze to the big screen, the thoughts that began to pop up became stronger.

Through observation, scientists have basically confirmed that the universe has existed for about 14 billion years, and the edge of the universe that humans have detected is 13.7 billion light-years away. As for the reasons for the formation of the universe, the "Big Bang Theory" has received widespread recognition and support. It is only in these theories and observations that there is a very obvious problem, that is, with the earth as the center, the universe has the same scale in all directions. This question raises a very serious paradox, that is, is the earth the center of the universe? The answer is obviously no, the Earth is a planet in the solar system, the solar system is just the most ordinary of the galaxies with endless galactic coefficients, and it is not in the center of the Milky Way, and the Milky Way itself is not the universe, but a very ordinary one among the hundreds of billions of galaxies that make up the universe. The earth, which is not even a drop in the ocean, cannot be the center of the vast universe!

If the Earth is not the center of the universe, then why is it that the cosmic anisotropic scale observed from the Earth is the same?

Or, the universe is much larger than what humans observe, and the human vision simply does not reach the edge of the universe. Or, the universe is not at all what humans observe it to be!

The former, or the latter?

At this time, a little light appeared on the big screen.

It's not too noticeable, but the brightness is very high.

Light is not scattered or reflected in a vacuum, the light source is not magnified as usual, and the visual effect of the explosion of a 200-million-ton nuclear warhead is not shocking.

Immediately after that, more and more bright spots appeared on the screen.

In the lower left corner of the screen, a bright red number is rapidly changing, and it is the statistics of nuclear explosions.

Just over four minutes later, the red number was fixed on "1128" and did not change again.

After a moment of silence, the command center was boiling, and Luo Jinyong and the other chief scientific advisors were relieved. That figure shows that all 1,128 super-nuclear warheads launched from low-earth orbit hit their targets and detonated normally, with a success rate of 100 percent.

It's just that the danger hasn't been eliminated yet, and there are still seven fragments approaching the earth!

It's seven, not six!