Volume 1 The Gold Rush Threat Chapter 21 The Lost Planet

There is no way to know, except for Kim Wen-so himself, there is no known reason. This incident, like Du Yun's defection, has become a mystery.

Qiao Yuan now finally understands why the two bigwigs who were nominated gave this false position to themselves. They didn't want to fall into this fire pit and die an unknown death like Kim Wen-so.

Although it is a fictitious position, Qiao Yuan still has his own team. From food and living to the security system. A few days ago, he was still locked up in a repressive iron prison and suffered, and now he immediately lives a comfortable life in high society, which makes him a little unbearable.

After all, the Spark Project is currently top secret. Although he is free to move around, he is strictly controlled for safety reasons. Anyone who approaches him must pass through strict security checks, as well as United Nations approval.

After a few days of experience and understanding, this position is completely empty. In addition to receiving a large amount of money every month, it is almost like eating, drinking, and Lazar in a big mansion, and there is no special arrangement, and you can't go anywhere. For Qiao Yuan, it can really be regarded as lying down to make money.

After all, Yao Feizhuang had the experience of protecting him and was appointed as his personal bodyguard. Li Shun became his secretary, after all, he needed someone who was familiar with politics and recognized by all forces.

With an old smoking gun by his side at any time, Qiao Yuan's heart refused. But the appointment of the United Nations, he now has no authority to change. According to Yao Feizhuang, now is the time to employ people, and there are not too many people to protect him, so he was specially appointed as an elite in the top ten.

Qiao Yuan knew in his heart that now, this strategy was the most meaningless in the entire Spark plan, and the United Nations didn't want to waste too many resources.

The rescue strategy is in charge of the Chinese scientist Academician Wang Ziheng.

In the Qiannan region of Guizhou, a super-large radio telescope with an aperture of 500 meters was built several decades ago. With the efforts of Wang Ziheng, it was later expanded into a super eye with a diameter of 2,000 meters in the past few decades.

When Li Shun told Qiao Yuan that Academician Wang Ziheng wanted him to go, he was a little excited. After all, after being under house arrest for so long, you can go out and breathe, so why not?

When he saw this old man, Qiao Yuan couldn't believe that there could be such a pure scientist in the world.

Wang Ziheng is not tall, and he can't find three taels of flesh on his dark face, giving people a feeling of thinness and vigor. The white shirt was a little yellowish, the cuffs were hairy, and the pockets of the jacket were stuffed with sticky notes and paper balls.

When he saw Qiao Yuan, he took off his yellow hard hat and showed a mouthful of tea-stained teeth:

"Chief Qiao, welcome to this barren land in the mountains, take good care of it, and bear with me."

"It's really an eye-opener to see the majestic projects that shock the world."

In Wang Ziheng's body, Qiao Yuan didn't feel anything unnatural at all. This man has become one with the mountain, with the great project, with the steel beast. He even felt a hint of the simplicity of a peasant in him, and if Li Shun hadn't introduced him to him, he might have thought that he was a construction worker who repaired the infrastructure, or a nearby farmer.

After the greetings, Wang Ziheng took Qiao Yuan and Li Shun to the workshop.

This is the core control room of Super Sky Eye, but it gives people a feeling of emptiness, and there are few decent pieces of equipment in sight. Compared to the Heavenly Palace, everything inside seems primitive.

Wang Ziheng asked his assistant to make tea. Qiao Yuan and the others sat opposite him, and for the invitation of the old academician, the two of them were full of doubts about their arrival.

He didn't mean to talk about business immediately, and said while pouring tea for the two: "This is a specialty here, Maojian tea." I've been in the mountains for a long time, and I've become a mountain man myself. ”

"Oh? How many years has Mr. Wang been working here? ”

"35 years, now it feels like it's just a dream, haha, it's time to wake up!"

"When you wake up?"

"Well," Wang Ziheng took a sip of tea, "Everyone in the world knows that the ultimate purpose of the Super Sky Eye is to find extraterrestrial civilizations, and for a long time, human beings thought that they were alone in the universe. In retrospect, human beings are not only naΓ―ve, but also ignorant. ”

"Yes!" Qiao Yuan agreed, and teased, "Maybe the alien fleet will suddenly appear above you in the next second, and now it seems that it is better to be alone." ”

"Then I'll get down to business, before I get into the main topic, in order to make you understand, I'll tell you about the eye of the sky."

Wang Ziheng figured out his thoughts and began to tell the story to the two.

"When I first came here, there was no super eye in the sky, and it was called the eye in the sky at that time. At that time, radio telescopes had an aperture of only 500 meters, which was not comparable to today. At the beginning of the establishment of the Sky Eye, it had two functions: to observe pulsars and receive signals from extraterrestrial civilizations.

When I first arrived, I was mainly looking for pulsars, and it was very unlikely that I would receive a signal from an alien on Earth. However, it was also in the year I came that something big happened here. We have captured a special signal from the universe.

This signal is very faint and very different from pulsars and other electromagnetic waves. If you use the analogy of sound waves, you can see the difference between noise and music at a glance, and the same is true of this unique electromagnetic wave.

At first, we thought it was a satellite or instrument miscapture. After slow research, it was discovered that this should be a slight greeting from the alien civilization that mankind has been looking for.

This discovery quickly attracted attention in the world, and in order to receive more such signals, Tianyan increased in the next 10 years, and only then did you have the behemoth you see today.

By enlarging the Eye of the Sky, we have finally received most of this voice from the Heart of the Galaxy. Apparently they are sending a message to the outside world, in short, they are broadcasting to the universe.

Over the next 30 years, we received several such signals, the closest being the position of Proxima Centauri from 4.2 light-years. Although human voices cannot decipher the contents of this message, all science dares to guess that this is the last wail of civilization. ”

When they heard the last wail of civilization, they were both stunned.

Qiao Yuan asked, "Could it be that there is intelligent life in Proxima Centauri, and it was wiped out many years ago?" ”

"It's a bold guess, but it's not far from ten." Wang Ziheng continued, "Although the constellation Centauri is 4 light-years away from us, we can still understand it through the star map.

There is a small planet near Proxima Centauri, which can be found on star charts from years ago. Now, you can't find it anymore! The place that should have belonged to him, now he was like being erased.

The signals we receive are from this vanishing planet. In this way, the situation of the previously received signals should not be much different. ”

"So those planets are gone?"

"Yes, apparently they are all gone! In the universe, if a planet disappears, the energy that erupts from it is observable either way. This strange and unannounced disappearance is completely incomprehensible. ”

"Could it be that the instrument is wrong, or that it is blocked by another planet?"

"It's even more impossible, it sounds like a long distance, but standing on the scale of the universe, like we're facing each other now. Not only that, but one of us also suddenly disappeared. It's equivalent to you looking at me 'poof~', and I'm missing from your eyes. ”

Such an analogy made Qiao Yuan and the others understand at once, Li Shun is a soldier who never talks much, especially when talking from his superiors, he will not interject half a sentence. Hearing this groundbreaking thing, I couldn't help but interject:

"In this way, it is possible that the earth is the same, 'poof~' will disappear in one fell swoop? Is that right? ”

Wang Ziheng nodded: "So anything now is in vain!" All human struggles are in vain. It's better to live in the moment and live today! ”

Qiao Yuan: "So what kind of power are they?" Why make this planet disappear? ”

"I think Mr. Qiao knows this better than me! The universe may be like an apple tree to them, and the planet is nothing more than the fruit that grows on the tree, and they can pick the ripe apples without any scruples. ”

For this analogy, Qiao Yuan smiled and said, "Such an existence must be God!" ”

"This is also the main reason why I want to communicate with you," Wang Ziheng said, "I hope that neither of us will be disappointed on this trip." ”