Chapter 19: Final Preparations, Before Entering the Shelter
Whether the missile defense system, which the Federation people are proud of, will be able to intercept the meteorite Chen Xin does not know, he only knows that the meteorite is really going to fall nine times out of ten this time.
Although the hostess on the TV who was still excitedly saying that the Lucia spacecraft would guide the nuclear bomb to destroy the meteorite, although she was still pretending to be calm and saying the same thing, her expression had now become very serious, even a little nervous and panicked.
After all, the original more than 20 nuclear bombs were prepared for a meteorite with a diameter of four kilometers, although there was a suspicion of excess yield, but it was enough to block the impact of the meteorite.
But now the mission of Lucia and more than 20 nuclear bombs is still to intercept meteorites, but the targets they need to intercept have changed from a meteorite with a diameter of four kilometers to three meteorites with a diameter of five kilometers, and these three meteorites are still in a kind of gravitational pull to do a disorderly three-body movement, making the difficulty of the interception task skyrocket.
In this case, even if Chen Xin's astronomical knowledge is not very professional, he feels that the chances of Lucia being able to successfully intercept all three meteorites are slim.
They might be able to knock out one or two, but all three would be too difficult for the Lucians, who were in charge of directing the nukes at this time.
In the previous live broadcast, in order to increase the public's confidence in this nuclear bomb interception, the host once made a special explanation that all the nuclear bomb orbits have been calculated and adjusted, in order to ensure that all nuclear bombs can arrive at the interception site at approximately the same time, and then the Lucian spacecraft will be guided at the end to achieve the purpose of one-time accurate hit.
But this also led to the Lucians having to take aim, and then all the nukes smashed over in one wave.
If there is only one goal, then if you don't say it, just go up.
If you have two targets, as long as you don't just go one after the other, you can also defeat them all.
But now the Lucians are facing three targets, or are they doing Brownian motion, and their trajectory is irregular, only knowing that they will collide with the three targets of the Blue Star!
You must know that multiple nuclear warheads on both sides will arrive at the same time, as long as one of the three meteorites is in front of the other two meteorites, then all the nuclear bombs will be smashed on one meteorite, and the two meteorites behind will be unscathed!
In this case, the Lucian being able to knock out two meteorites is already the best result, and the character is against the sky!
As for the four-kilometer meteorite that crashed into North America, Chen Xin didn't bother to care about it, and whether or not the missile defense system, which the Federation people are proud of, could intercept it was a question that did not need to be asked at all.
The so-called missile defense system is not designed to intercept meteorites, but to intercept ballistic missiles launched by other countries.
Although it is undoubtedly more difficult to hit a ballistic missile than a meteorite with a diameter of four kilometers, the former only needs an ordinary missile to collide with it, while the latter requires a large-yield strategic nuclear bomb saturation bomb to destroy, and the difficulty of interception is obviously an order of magnitude more difficult than the former.
Moreover, this system is designed to intercept missiles, and its core ground-based interceptor missile is just an ordinary missile, not a ballistic missile equipped with a nuclear warhead, and there is a question mark over whether the Federation can intercept it in time, not to mention the use of high-yield nuclear bombs in low-earth orbit!
That's going to spill the radioactive dust from the meteorite debris all over the atmosphere! Especially in the case that a nuclear bomb cannot blow up a meteorite at all, in order to ensure that the meteorite can be destroyed, the Federation will definitely use a saturation strike and use multiple nuclear bombs.
If you're lucky, you might pollute a place in North America, and if you're unlucky, the whole world will start a nuclear war wasteland copy together.
In the face of such a situation, no matter how much Chen Xin hopes that mankind can withstand this crisis, he can only prepare for the worst.
After packing the TV, wrapping it in the last futon that was left for sleeping, and then tying it with a rope, Chen Xin glanced around his home, and after saying his final goodbye, he walked towards his underground shelter without hesitation.
With the meteorite impact, it is likely that I will not have a chance to return to this room, and even if I can come back, I am afraid that I will not live here again.
This thought made Chen Xin a little sad, but after a few minutes of emotion, he still picked up the bedding and TV that had been tied, locked the door, left the room, and walked towards his shelter with his things in his arms.
In the days to come, it will be his new home.
As they walked towards the shelter, Chen Xinxing's mobile phone was still playing the live broadcast of the TV station, and the Lucia had already begun to intercept it, and the screen was full of tail flames from rocket thrusters carrying nuclear bombs, which looked dense at a glance, and even the meteorites as large as mountains in their direction were blocked.
Seeing this scene, Chen Xin couldn't help but stop.
With so many nuclear bombs, maybe, should, and probably be able to blow up the meteorite?
If the meteorite blows up, you don't have to hide in a shelter, right?
With such expectations, Chen Xin made his last prayer, praying that the so-called gods and fate would favor mankind and grant good luck to mankind in this last struggle for fate.
On the screen, more than 20 nuclear bombs carrying the hope of mankind flew towards the three meteorites, and the fate of mankind all over the world is tied to these more than 20 nuclear bombs at this moment.
It is a great irony that weapons that once represented destruction and killing now carry the hope of human survival.
But no one cares about this at the moment, all they hope is that the nuclear bomb will destroy the meteorites and blow them into a pile of splinters.
Carrying the hope of mankind, the first nuclear bomb came into contact with a meteorite and burst out with a bright and dazzling light, like a flower of hope blooming in the universe.
Chen Xin couldn't help but look up and look at the sky, where a little flash of light lit up, which was the light produced by the explosion of the nuclear bomb.
Immediately, more flashes of light lit up, illuminating Chen Xin's mobile phone screen into a white expanse, and at the same time, the most powerful weapon ever made by human beings also bloomed the grandest fireworks above Chen Xin's head.
The light from the explosion of the nuclear bomb was connected in the sky, dazzling as if a second sun had risen.
"Did you blow it up?" Chen Xin's eyes stared at the dazzling white spots in the sky like the second sun, and he was unwilling to move away even a second from the stinging pain of the dazzling light, just to be able to know the result for the first time.