Chapter 66: A Different Mindset
The Oort Nebula is almost two light-years away from the Sun, and the Kuiper Belt is only 40 to 50 astronomical units away from the Sun, and the Kuiper Belt is already near Pluto, which means that this object is already close to the range of Pluto, and it is only more than 40 astronomical units from the Earth.
"Where was this object found?" Although Liu Xuan already had the answer in his heart at this time, in order to determine his conjecture, he also had to rely on the calculation of a supercomputer.
"In the vicinity of the Kuiper Belt, it has now skimmed the orbit of Pluto and is gradually approaching Neptune." The speed of the supercomputer is quite fast, Liu Xuan has just asked a question here, and the supercomputer on the other side has already answered Liu Xuan's question.
"Predict when the object will reach Earth." Liu Xuan continued to let the supercomputer do the calculations.
"Fifty days are expected to reach Earth." The results of the supercomputer were said in the next time, but it surprised Liu Xuan, because the number of days calculated by the supercomputer was different from the speed he imagined.
"Examine the calculations and tell me how fast the object is currently flying." Liu Xuanmeng stood up on the ground and said to the supercomputer that if there was really such a long time, they could also try to do something.
"The results of the calculation are completed twice, and it is estimated that there will be forty-nine days and eight hours to reach the earth, and the current speed of the object is close to one astronomical unit a day." The results were not long in coming.
"Huh? The speed has slowed down, which makes no sense. Liu Xuan was also surprised when he heard the speed of the supercomputer, after entering the Kuiper belt, this mysterious object did not accelerate, but slowed down, which made Liu Xuan very incomprehensible. From the perspective of an extraterrestrial civilization, it simply doesn't make sense. The closer you get to the locked target, the more likely it is to be discovered, and this is the time to speed up so that the civilization has no time to defend. But what does this slowdown mean? Give the civilization of the earth a chance to fight back against them?
To be honest, Liu Xuan is already completely confused, this is simply a blessing from heaven, in two months, they can still do something, at least it is much better than not being able to do anything.
However, Liu Xuan has always been a very cautious character, which is a habit developed by Liu Xuan in this industry, after all, in the field of aerospace, one less decimal point is a catastrophe, and Liu Xuan cannot be careless. So in what seems to be a good thing, Liu Xuan also wants to figure out what happened to cause the alien mysterious object to slow down.
"Establish a flight line for the observed object and display three extension lines at the same time!" Liu Xuan gave another command to the supercomputer.
The three extension lines refer to the simulated extension of the mysterious object after passing through the Oort Nebula, the extension of the travel of the alien fleet after crossing the Oort Cloud, and the extension of the path of the mysterious object discovered in the Kuiper Belt.
Among them, the two extension lines of the mysterious object should coincide, if the two extension lines deviate, it means that something happened to the mysterious object after entering the solar system.
It still takes a little time to calculate these things, and Liu Xuan also has a chance to talk to them about his thoughts.
"We still have a chance, if we can intercept that thing, we still have a chance to live." Liu Xuan swept away the decadence just now, turned around, and said to his three partners.
Spit out such words in Liu Xuan's mouth, the three of them were like a reassuring pill, even Wang Meng, who was very impatient just now, raised his head and looked at Liu Xuan with blazing eyes. Liu Xuan is the backbone of the four of them, and this sentence is indeed true. It's just a sentence full of confidence, which is to let the three of them no longer hesitate.
"What chance do we have?" Xuan Mu also asked anxiously, although Qin Ming and Wang Meng did not ask directly, they also looked at Liu Xuan with anticipation.
"Time is our greatest tool, and we still have a lot to do in two months. But the most important thing is to rely on the Federation. Liu Xuan explained to them.
The three of them are also confused, this matter should be a very confidential matter for the Federation, how to tell the Federation.
Liu Xuan also saw the puzzled expressions of the three people, and immediately continued: "We don't know the secrets of the Federation at all, this is what we observed by chance, and we went to the Federation just to tell them about this important matter." As he spoke, Liu Xuan showed an unfathomable expression.
"Good idea, so we can work directly with the Federation and be involved in this. However, we should need to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Wang Meng was the first to react, and he stood up directly, slapped his palm, and changed his language to agree after feeling that it was inappropriate.
Qin Ming and Xuan Mu also gradually understood that this secret was observed by themselves, and had nothing to do with the Federation, they didn't find out about this matter because of the Federation's unreasonable behavior at all, it was discovered by their own detector by accident, and they told the Federation that this matter was also because of worrying about the country and the people, so thinking about it, they directly changed from the crime of investigating the secrets of the Federation to a model of worrying about the country and the people.
This matter is actually good for the Federation, and the achievements of their Transwarp Company in the past few years are obvious to all, and being able to cooperate with them has also reduced a lot of pressure on the Federation.
The most important thing in this matter is to pretend that the Federation does not know about this matter, and they just tell the Federation about it, rather than questioning the Federation because the Federation has hidden this key information.
Sometimes, with a slight change of thinking, a better solution to the same thing will be achieved, and the goal will be the same. A person can't be brainless all day long, can't go one way to the dark, change the angle, change the road, it may be the sea and the sky, that is, the sea is wide and the fish jumps, and the sky is high and the birds fly.
Even Qin Ming, who is also calm, admires Liu Xuan, it is very difficult to calm down in a crisis, and it is even more difficult to come up with a better solution after calming down, Liu Xuan at this time has already achieved the latter, and Qin Ming can only do the former.
Just when they agreed with Liu Xuan, the final result of the supercomputer finally came out, and in mid-air, a three-dimensional view of the solar system appeared, and then three extension lines of different colors also appeared.
Liu Xuan also immediately observed it carefully, the two lines he mainly observed were very clear, just a glance, Liu Xuan just let out a sigh of relief, he knew why the object slowed down.
"What does this mean?" Qin Ming asked suspiciously beside him.
"See these two lines? These two are the presumed and actual path of the object after it passed through the Oort Nebula. You see, these two lines coincide until this place. Liu Xuan stretched out his finger and pointed to a place.
In that place, it was obvious that the two lines that originally coincided actually had an obvious angle, and then after flying for a distance, a curve with a large arc appeared, and the two paths became two relatively parallel lines. But from a distance, the two lines are not parallel, they just extend too far to be seen. However, they also saw the intersection point, where the earth was, that place, at that moment, the earth just turned to the point where the two lines intersected.
"You guys should understand what's going on, right?" Liu Xuan asked with a smile, now he finally let go of a hanging heart.
"This mysterious object touched something at this angle, and then caused a change in course, and finally corrected it to determine the target of the earth!" Xuan Mu also reacted, and immediately expressed his conjecture.