Note! Level 5 Alert!

Mengxian's field of vision was covered by red light, and a serious warning sounded, and the slightly harsh volume and the different environment under the red reflection couldn't help but make people's attention highly tense.

"Wang Mengxian reports on the 2nd shift of the power 2 area, ready to be on call at any time!"

It wasn't the first time Mengxian had felt such an atmosphere, but his body still trembled slightly under the nervous spirit, and he clenched his fists hard, and he felt better.

In fact, there will be similar drills on the ship, which are used to test the response speed and execution status of personnel in various positions to deal with crisis states, but this time it is obviously different, the warning language is formal, there is no drill prompt, and it is definitely not an emergency drill.

"The power zone 2 and 2 shifts auxiliary system Qingyu is on standby, the self-inspection is completed, everything is normal!" Mengxian saw Qingyu beside him stand up from his seat and replied immediately, showing a completely different state from usual.

After receiving their reply, the system stopped the alarm, the red flashing changed to a constant red light, and the atmosphere of the room became solemn. Within a minute, the official notice came down.

"According to the supreme instructions of the General Headquarters and the General Staff, due to the influence of an unknown gravitational wave that did not enter the detection range in the early stage, the next course adjustment time was carried out in advance, and all personnel at all posts canceled all activities and rested, and all were on standby."

"The command and the general staff are working on a detailed plan!"

"The meeting time of the whole ship is 1 hour, 19 minutes and 19 seconds! Please be on time to go online! ”

Repeat......

After three times, everything fell silent, and the countdown card that suddenly appeared in the upper left corner of Mengxian's eyes, his gaze couldn't help but fall on the last two red numbers, the rapidly changing numbers, making his eyes quickly turn to his temporarily interrupted work, he needed to finish as soon as possible.

Gravitational waves can be said to be a ubiquitous force in the universe, which can be small enough to affect the motion of an atom or large enough to tear apart the entire galaxy.

This kind of cosmic conventional phenomenon does not highlight much danger in the scope of the human solar system, but human beings make good use of this power through calculation and prediction, and provide great help for the acceleration of spacecraft and water sources in the early stage of the Kuafu Project.

However, when the spacecraft really enters the unknown space, this power shows its unknown fangs and becomes one of the nightmares of the spacecraft, which is the most nightmare in a sense.

Its existence is invisible, its range cannot be accurately measured, its strength is variable, and its speed is uncertain, sometimes it flashes quickly, sometimes it is as slow as if it is still in a certain space.

According to the research data, the generation of gravitational waves in motion is mainly caused by the sudden change in the state of massive stars, generally explosions, collapses, etc., the initial state of gravitational waves is violent, and the direction of force in the range is mostly relatively single, which generally violently changes the state of the object.

The propagation range of its violent state can span hundreds of light-years at most, and as it is affected by the gravitational field of various stars along the way, it is very likely that it will transform its relatively single state into an extremely complex state, forming countless gravitational swirls, these gravitational swirls are as big as stars, as small as the tip of a needle, and the violent force field will turn all the matter involved in it into pieces, and even Nirvana, atoms, very terrifying.

"Mengxian, you end your current work as soon as possible, the system is temporarily taken over by me, you are ready to tell me, according to the requirements, we should be online within 5 minutes." Qingyu approached Mengxian and said, her voice was calm and calm, and her speed of speech was slightly faster.

"Well," Mengxian operated quickly, his fingers were indeed a little uncontrollably trembling, and he replied briefly to Qingyu's answer, because his current energy was completely focused on the work at hand.

"Alright," Mengxian was much faster than usual, and quickly completed the handover, "Qingyu, let's start connecting." ”

"The review is correct, and the online request is submitted to the switchboard...... The request is passed, ready to connect with the switchboard, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, successfully connected, the master control distribution information is confirmed, and entered. ”

Mengxian took advantage of this to adjust his posture and check the life support and safety equipment on his body, and only then did he feel that his hands and feet were cold, and his palms were wet and uncomfortable.

He clenched his fists again, wanting the blood to warm his limbs quickly, because he knew that the next step would be the most important moment in his life, and he must remain calm so that he could accurately deal with the next crisis.

The Level 5 incident is related to the fate of the whole ship, the life and death of all people, and more importantly, the development and destiny of all mankind, which is the first real test for him.

Mengxian closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths, adjusting his breathing rate.

When he opened his eyes again, the scene in front of him completely changed, a huge room appeared in front of his eyes, the light was very bright, but not dazzling at all, in the space with white as the main color, rows of operating tables were neatly arranged together. Outside a semicircular translucent glass enclosure in front of the room, the endless starry sky carries an unknown mystery, which fascinates everyone who sees it, and infinitely awe.

In the center of the screen is an oval world map with a slightly darker region of China as the center, the outline of the main Pangu spacecraft protrudes faintly in the middle, the world's landmasses are displayed in a slightly heavy golden yellow, and the location of Beijing, the capital of China, is replaced by a bright red five-pointed star. Directly below the logo, is the word Kuafu of the seal. The entire logo is set against the backdrop of an endless starry sky, allowing everyone who understands this period of history to feel the fearless spirit of humanity rushing into the universe.

There are already 4 people sitting on the rostrum under the glass cover, they are the current core of the leadership of the Kuafu, 1 commander-in-chief, 2 deputy captains and 1 chief of general staff, I don't know if there are other tasks, 1 deputy captain did not attend. The four people on the stage did not communicate with each other, just sat there quietly observing the entire online hall, Mengxian felt unprecedented solemnity from them, under their shock, the entire hall was quiet, there was a sound of needles falling, and it felt that there were nearly 100 people here.

Mengxian turned his head and looked around, most of the people were already sitting in their places, quietly looking at the rostrum. In addition to the rostrum, Mengxian can't see the appearance of people in the distance clearly, which is not surprising, due to the limitation of computing power by the master control system, the holographic system does not perfectly present the environment, after all, most of the computing power must always provide guarantee for the entire online work.

Qingyu sat next to him on the right side, the screen in front of him was shared with Mengxian, and next to her was Fuxin from the third class of Mengxian's second power group. Fuxing is a middle-aged woman, which is rare, because of women's physiological deficiencies, it is difficult to be competent for the more difficult power group duty.

On the other side of Monghyun is Hui Ha of Group 1, a relatively young man who just replaced the previous one who was suspended for multiple missteps two years ago. Mengxian didn't have any special emotions for this person, after all, they didn't usually have much opportunity to communicate. The three of them were relatively familiar, but due to the special environment, they didn't speak, but Fuxin nodded lightly to him, which was regarded as a greeting.

"The time has come, Chief of the General Staff! Check the number of people on duty. The commander-in-chief's voice was a little hoarse, and the slightly tired voice was quickly hidden after the first note.

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief!" A voice replied, "The number of people in each department should be counted, only 2 people have not been connected, and they ......." ”

"Alright,"

The Chief of the General Staff just wanted the intelligent assistant to check the reason for being late, but he was quickly interrupted, and the commander-in-chief's voice was a little heavier, "Level 5 combat alert, no matter what the reason, did not report the personnel on time!" Record 1 failure in the comprehensive assessment. ”

As soon as the words fell, there was a slight noise among the people below, but they immediately calmed down.

1 failure in the comprehensive assessment is equivalent to half a foot into the return list, and if someone fails the last assessment, they will be eliminated directly.

The competition mechanism has always been the eternal theme of human social progress, especially in the middle of the population explosion, when the severe shortage of earth's resources caused a huge demand gap. According to incomplete statistics, even in the high-tech era of great development of material production, nearly a quarter of the world's population still implements a strict resource planning and rationing system. Not only are these people undersupplied with food and supplies, but they are also severely restricted from traveling.

In most countries and regions, the basis for judging whether a person is classified into this group is the comprehensive value of the individual, which is a standard data that is widely recognized by the society during a special period. As a comprehensive standard, individual value comprehensively considers 56 indicators such as IQ, psychological ability, life attitude, enthusiasm index, professional field bonus, technical level, etc., and is assessed every 5 years.

Every time the results are announced, the society will experience a great upheaval, many people will collapse because they can't bear the results, or take revenge on the society, or choose to end their own lives, and many people are faced with the choice of whether to separate from certain members of the family......

Although this method is cruel, in a sense, it ensures that human society can develop in an orderly and efficient manner, so as to solve the current dilemma faster.

Of course, the items assessed by the indicators are very different, and the time is shortened to 2 years, and as a punishment, there is not only a system of demotion at the end and the allocation of dangerous posts, but also a more cruel system of elimination of the right to live. If the crew is ranked as the bottom 20 for 5 times, or 3 times in a row, they will be permanently included in the return list, and once a replacement is turned into a regular member, the returnee will enter the freezer and wait for the next return launch window.

Mengxian secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that there was no precedent for such a serious punishment in his memory, which made his originally calm mood suddenly rise again.

This gravitational wind seems to be very dangerous, no matter from the degree of punishment just now and the demeanor of the commander-in-chief on the rostrum, what kind of danger awaits them, can they still get away with it like last time?

"Everyone should know about the gravitational wave situation, and I won't go too much into the importance of this mission, and this is the situation we are facing now."

The commander-in-chief spoke with a lot of anger, but showed a calm and calm attitude in the face of the life and death crisis, "Let everyone secretly admire, everyone must play a twelve-point spirit, do their own work, let us face it together, overcome the disaster, and each of us will be the pride of all mankind." “

"Chief of the General Staff!"

"Here!"

"Briefing!"

"Yes!"

The Chief of the General Staff's voice was loud, and a slightly higher response than the commander-in-chief naturally attracted everyone's attention, and he took the commander-in-chief's words and began to say, "Let me briefly introduce the situation first, you should know that with our existing technology, we cannot detect and accurately predict this space phenomenon in a large area, and the sudden occurrence of gravitational waves is not uncommon in the universe, and we can detect them in time, and we cannot solve this problem well with our current technology." “

"For some special reasons, two hours ago, our radar department was lucky enough to detect this gravitational wave. After preliminary analysis, the direction of travel of this gravitational wave in front of us is very large, the speed is very fast, and the spacecraft can not avoid turning or changing the flight speed now, that is to say, we and this gravitational wave encounter has been unavoidable, since the fact is a foregone conclusion, we must work together to overcome the current difficulties. “

Yao's guess seemed to be correct, and Mengxian would remember that he had twelve points of doubt and sent Yao the report to him. In fact, in the world of Kuafu, Yao and Mengxian said very clearly, but after all, Mengxian did not know enough about this knowledge, and he also half-understood some of the inferences, because of the terrifying conclusion of the gravitational wind in the end, Mengxian agreed to transmit the information to the headquarters on behalf of Yao.

"Of course, if we want to overcome the difficulties, what we also need is to control the crisis, the current crisis is not bad to the extreme, through the accurate analysis of the scientific research department in the later stage, it has been shown that the macro strength of this gravitational wave does not exceed the design strength of the spacecraft, even if it collides head-on, it will not cause damage to the spacecraft, and fortunately, the minimum thickness of the gravitational wave is not large, according to the speed of the spacecraft after being affected, it is expected to pass in about 1 hour."

"But! As everyone knows, the biggest disaster of gravitational waves is the gravitational swirl, and the accuracy and scope of our detection devices have not yet reached the required level. “

"Therefore, you are the key to the success of the spacecraft against the cyclone current, and the other departments will fully assist, and the following tasks will be assigned specific tasks......"

Mengxian carefully looked at every word of the plan, for fear of missing any detail, and when he finished reading the plan, he couldn't help but feel a little sad. Without detailed detection data, it is almost entirely a matter of luck to fight the gravitational cyclone, which is beyond the common sense of human physics.

It is difficult for ordinary people to think that in a seemingly calm starry sky, a monster with no traces, let alone a limit of strength, is eyeing it, its strength can tear any matter that enters into pieces, even the densest and hardest matter of human beings cannot escape the fate of destruction, this is also the mysterious side of the universe, I don't know when human beings can be strong enough to face it.

Mengxian recalled that Yao showed him the first time the Kwafu fleet encountered a gravitational wind, and the footage of the recorded video kept repeating in his mind for a long time.

In an empty starry sky, the three spaceships of Kuafu, Pangu, and Nuwa were sailing smoothly, and all the crew members were routinely working at their respective posts, not realizing the disaster at all.

Suddenly, the three ships began to be pulled by an invisible force, deviating from their intended course, increasing their speed inexplicitly, changing their acceleration values and their flight directions frequently. The entire Kuafu people felt that the spacecraft was constantly rocking, and the large amount of information reported made the general control brain begin to warn, various departments began to check the equipment and data, the power department of the key department began to start the steering engine to fight against this mysterious force, the radar department expanded the detection range and accuracy, began to re-analyze the dynamics of nearby stars, the general staff re-planned the route and status, and the scientific research department investigated the cause.

Subsequently, after the General Headquarters took over the command, under the overall arrangement of various departments, the three spaceships constantly adjusted their state under an invisible storm and re-stabilized, and everyone went all out to fight against this invisible force in their respective posts.

When everything seemed to be calming down and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, the Nuwa suddenly disappeared silently into the radar of the other two spaceships. According to the information fed back by the observers at that time, the hull of the Nuwa suddenly disintegrated on the left front half of the hull, and the entire spacecraft command and control system was destroyed instantly, and then the whole ship began to fall apart in less than a second. What's even more weird is that the split parts of the hull have different forms of destruction, some parts are actually squeezed into a ball, and even the flames that exploded in them can't be dispersed, and some are broken into small pieces, the smallest volume is only a few millimeters, and the naked eye can only see a cloud of diffused dust, which is very weird and terrifying.

The video information was quickly fed back to the command system of the remaining two ships, at this time the crew of the Nuwa had no hope of survival, and the crew of the two ships quickly carried out a follow-up plan in great sadness, the power system was frantically output, the defense system of the whole ship was fully opened, and the radar began to lock on the debris trajectory energy of the Nuwa's splash, and began to formulate an air evasion plan.

But there were too many debris, and despite the best efforts of the crews of the two ships, they were hit in multiple places, and the hull was damaged. And the bigger crisis continues, after the main reactor of the Nuwa is out of control, it has completely lost control, and the residual equipment system protection cannot support it for too long, and once it explodes, it will force the Kuafu and Pangu, which were lucky enough to avoid the gravitational vortex and debris attacks, into a desperate situation......

At this time, the Pangu, which was closer to the Nuwa, made an astonishing and rational decision, it moved at full speed between the Kuafu and the nuclear reactor, blocked the front of the nuclear explosion with its huge hull, and shut down its main reactor, giving up the opportunity to escape in order to greatly protect the strength of the entire fleet.

Soon, the Nuwa power reactor unexpectedly exploded, and the power of the interstellar power stage nuclear explosion unscrupulously displayed its amazing power in the open space, and the shock wave pushed all kinds of debris to eject outward at a rapid speed. The nearby Pangu was still unable to resist the huge shock wave in a fully defended state, and was unfortunately hit by several large fragments, and nearly 60% of the ship's personnel died heroically on the spot.

The remaining crew of the Pangu were not afraid of danger, and while actively organizing self-rescue, in order to avoid the further expansion of the disaster, they tried their best to adjust the voyage, so as not to collide with the Kuafu under the impetus of the shock wave, causing greater losses.

Although the Kuafu, which was far away and was desperately protected by the Pangu, was spared, it still did not avoid the impact of several high-speed flying debris, and the hull was partially damaged, but fortunately, the overall strength was preserved......

So far, in less than one hour, the Pangu, which had experienced all the hardships, was almost wiped out, and the Pangu, which had escaped the catastrophe of full annihilation, could not be repaired because the hull was almost on the verge of disintegration, so it could only transfer all the remaining materials and personnel, and re-embarked on the journey after renovating and repairing the Kuafu......

Even if they hadn't experienced Mengxian, they were still apprehensive about the power of the gravitational vortex just through words and simulation materials, but this time they had to really face it, and the online hall was immediately enveloped in a tense atmosphere, and no one had any luck in their hearts.

No one knows what kind of disaster they will experience in the next 1 hour of their encounter with gravitational waves.

Although the Science and Technology R&D Department and the Radar Department have several sets of strain plans after decades of research, no one knows how effective the solutions that have not been verified in practice are.

Although Mengxian was encouraged by the leadership, his mood calmed down a little, and he was ready to fight for the unknown hope until the last moment of his life, but he inevitably felt a little sad in his heart. Will their journey end here, and will the efforts of more than a thousand years of human beings and the dozen generations on the Kuafu be mercilessly swallowed up by the universe?