Just when the entire Ming Empire was cheering loudly for the phased results of the Mars program, but at this time, from the edge of the solar system, a message came back from the external radar of the solar system in the Kuiper belt, which made the high-level of the entire Ming Empire, including Zhu Lei himself, suddenly become serious, and their hearts were also full of worry.

Due to the continuous development of neutrino technology, the level of human communication has made a qualitative breakthrough compared with the previous two years, and now human communication can be shared in real time in the solar system, so even at the edge of the solar system, the external neutrino detection radar arranged on the periphery of the Kuiper belt can find any special situation, and the Ming Empire can instantly know what is happening there.

In fact, it was the external detection radar of the Kuiper Belt that discovered the existence of this suspected artificial spacecraft as early as a few days ago, after all, natural comets and asteroids in the general universe cannot reach a speed of one-tenth of the speed of light, but after carefully analyzing this object in a cautious manner, the scientists of the Ming Empire determined that this is an unnaturally formed object, but a spacecraft made by an intelligent race.

And according to the size of the object, the scientists of the Ming Empire quickly confirmed that this is a detector, and it is not yet known whether there are intelligent beings operating on this detector, but according to the size of the object, this should be an unmanned detector.

According to the information sent back before, at a distance of less than one light year from the solar system, the radar detected a mysterious object flying towards the solar system at high speed, and the speed of this mysterious object reached about one-tenth of the speed of light, although this speed is a little worse than the speed of the most advanced aircraft of mankind, after all, the speed of the most advanced unmanned detector of mankind can reach 0.4 times the speed of light, compared to the speed of the detector made by human beings, the speed of the barley detector is much slower.

But in fact, if it is calculated according to the level of civilization, since the other party has been able to reach the level of one-tenth of the speed of light, then the other party's civilization must have reached the standard of intermediate civilization, and Zhu Lei and the high-level leaders of the Ming Empire cannot be sure whether this detector is the most advanced detector of the other party's civilization.

However, the Ming Empire and Zhu Lei himself are very happy, after all, if the other party's probe arrived in the solar system more than ten years ago, then even if the other party arrives in the solar system, Zhu Lei and the Ming Empire may not be able to discover this probe that is coming to the solar system.

So when this news was confirmed, the high-level of the entire Ming Empire suddenly exploded, although the high-level leaders of the Ming Empire knew that there must be other high-level civilizations in the galaxy, and they also knew that the people of the United States were waiting for a monstrous disaster.

However, the high-level of the Ming Empire, although most of the people in the capital said that they had great worries in their hearts, they kept their mouths shut about it, and they very much hoped that the spaceship captured by the Mi people would not send back to the other party's civilization.

However, although I fantasized in my heart, in fact, the Ming Empire was also making various preparations in the past few years, such as arranging various external detection radars at the edge of the solar system, and arranging various defensive measures in the Kuiper belt, as well as the orbits of Saturn and Jupiter, in case of being caught off guard by the sudden arrival of alien civilizations.

But when the alien civilization's aircraft really flew towards the earth as they thought, everyone's hearts were still very worried, after all, no one knew the real situation of the alien civilization, but fortunately, due to the preparations in the past few years, human beings have made preliminary preparations for such a thing.

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The Ming Empire's Solar System Defense and Security Center, this is a department that the Ming Empire only began to set up five years ago, and the supreme commander of this department is Zhu Lei himself, at this time, there are many people in the Ming Empire's Solar System Defense Center, most of them are senior generals of the Ming Empire, in addition to all the members of the Ming Empire's cabinet, who are also sitting in it with a worried face at this time.

In addition to this, there was also a small number of famous scientists of the Ming Empire in the defense center who were also sitting in it at this time.

At this time, although there were already many people sitting inside, it was very quiet, everyone sat silently thinking about this matter, and no one spoke, after all, as the host of the meeting at this time, Zhu Lei had not yet come.

At this moment, the door of the Solar System Defense Center was opened, and Zhu Lei walked in from the outside.

Seeing Zhu Lai walk in, all the people in the defense center stood up, and then the head of the Ming Cabinet who was standing in front asked, "Lord Wang, how is the situation?" ”

"Fortunately, according to the scientific and technological level of the other party's probe, our scientists believe that the other party's scientific and technological level should not be much different from ours, and may even be weaker than us, but the other party's civilization should have entered the intermediate civilization for a while, although I don't know how much time they have entered the final Chinese Ming, but it must be much longer than us."

So the other side must know a lot more about interstellar warfare than we do.

And although the other party's probe is still nearly a light-year away from us, we can't be sure if the other party's fleet is directly following the probe. ”

"This time, the solar system defense radar found that the direction of the opponent was the direction of Proxima Centauri, the star closest to the sun.

This detector is not very large, less than 100 meters in length, and its diameter is less than 10 meters, and we can't tell if the power system is too far away, but according to the speed of this detector, it should use the same controllable fusion energy as us.

Because its speed is only about one hundredth of the speed of light, we judge that the controlled nuclear fusion technology he uses does not reach the scientific and technological level of the earth, or that the direction of the other party's controlled nuclear fusion technology is very different from the controlled nuclear fusion technology of human beings on the earth, after all, our controlled nuclear fusion technology is developed in combination with the method of cultivation, so on the whole, the controlled nuclear fusion technology they use is not as advanced as that of the earth.

This probe entered the detection range of our solar system defense radar three days ago, because our solar system defense radar has a detection range of just about one light year, and the detection technology used is neutrino detection technology.

Therefore, according to the beginning of the scientists, it will take at least ten years for the other side's probe to reach the outer reaches of the solar system, so we must be prepared to deal with aliens. When I arrived at the conference room, I didn't go to my seat, but walked to the stage in the middle of the meeting and said to everyone.

"Lord Wang, does that mean that our Mars program must be temporarily stopped, and everything is tilted in the military direction, after all, we still don't know anything about the technological level of alien civilizations." The head of the Ming cabinet asked.

"My personal opinion on whether or not the Mars program should go ahead is that the Mars program must be carried out, regardless of the outcome at that time.

Although we don't know the specific level of technology of the other civilization, based on the speed of the detector and the size of the detector, the other civilization may be slightly inferior to us humans.

However, according to the speed of the other party's probe, then this probe should have been launched 20 years ago, and at that time, mankind had not yet entered the space age, so the other party may have a serious underestimation of the scientific and technological level of human beings.

It should be 20 years ago that our Ming Empire has not yet unified the world, there are many countries on the earth, conquering each other, no country has gone into space, and even manned spaceflight cannot do it, so for today, 20 years later, the other party's perception of human beings is still very likely to stay 20 years ago.

However, according to the inference of scientists, the probability that we can defeat this time is not very high, and it is not very likely that we will completely defeat the opponent, and the final result depends on the level of science and technology of the opponent.

So you don't have to be too alarmed about this matter, after all, we have built a relatively sound solar system defense system in recent years, and now the entire Ming Empire's spaceships are close to 150,000, of which nearly 1/3 are military spaceships, it can be said that we humans now have a relatively powerful space fleet, so there is no need to be too afraid of the same level of civilization, although the other party's technological level may exceed that of humans, but we can not have no chance of winning.

Not only do we have a relatively sound solar system defense system, but we also don't have to worry about supply, after all, we are fighting near the mainland, and it is relatively easy, and the other party is coming from afar, especially their spacecraft speed will definitely not exceed the speed of the probe they sent, so their supply is quite difficult.

Unless they occupy the solar system at once and destroy all the spaceships of our human race, otherwise if the war continues, but the other party's technological level surpasses that of human beings, it is impossible to win, after all, the current human beings are no longer the human beings of 20 years ago. ”

Hearing Zhu Lei's words, all the people present breathed a sigh of relief, after all, no one wanted to be defeated, because everyone present knew very well that war in the universe was not as simple as the war between countries on the earth 20 years ago.

"Lord Wang! There's a saying I don't know whether to say or not! Just then, a major general of the military stood up and asked.

"Please, there is nothing to be afraid of discussing here today." Zhu Lei said.

"That's the case, I don't think we can let the other party's probe enter the solar system, after all, the other party is a probe, and it must want to detect the virtual reality of the solar system, so we can't let him get what he wants, and we must directly destroy it or capture this probe before the other party's probe enters the solar system." said the major general outside.

Another young major general sitting next to him also said: "Lord Wang, I also think so, the reality of our solar system must not be exposed to the other party, especially the fortifications of our solar system, after all, during the war in the Pangu galaxy, we have been profoundly told that we cannot give the other party any chance." ”

The others present also nodded, apparently agreeing with the two major generals' proposals.

"I very much agree with what the two generals said, we must destroy this probe, but before destroying it, we must first conduct further analysis of this probe to understand the scientific and technological level of the other party, but the premise is that the other party cannot enter the solar system and expose the true scientific and technological level of human beings.

And we also want to send probes to conduct detailed reconnaissance of our neighbors to find out the true level of each other.

In addition to this, probes are also to be sent to investigate other information near the solar system. Zhu Lei said.

For Zhu Lei's words, everyone agrees very much, after all, for the surrounding galaxies of the solar system, it is necessary to understand whether there is an intelligent civilization on these systems, the degree of development of civilization, and what kind of threat it will pose to mankind.

"By the way, Lord Wang, whether the alien civilization probe is going to be made public." At this moment, the head of the cabinet of the Ming Empire said.

Although he is the chief assistant of the cabinet of the Ming Empire, he is completely incapable of making decisions on such a major matter, and he must discuss with the military and the royal family of the Ming Empire before making decisions.

The senior generals of the Ming military are basically already at the meeting site, the royal family and the royal family of the Ming Empire, and now there is basically Zhu Lei to do it for him, after all, in the past few years, the emperor and the prince of the Ming Empire have completely given up the power in their hands, as a thorough and dashing emperor, and the royal family, especially the emperor, can not make the Forbidden City The provision has been canceled three years ago, so now the emperor of the Ming Empire has completely gone wild, and the prince is the same.

Hearing the words of the head of the cabinet of the Ming Empire, Zhu Lei lowered his head and thought for a while and then said: "Let's make it public, after all, we can already say that we have experienced an interstellar war, although that time is no different from a child's house, after all, both sides are just primary civilizations, but no matter how you can't deny that this is an interstellar war, so I think the people of the Ming Empire now have a clear understanding of the interstellar war, If it is once ready for war, it is not only a matter of our military, but also a matter of the entire Ming Empire, and a matter of the entire human race.

So I think the ordinary people of the Ming Empire also have a certain understanding of interstellar warfare, and they also have a certain ability to resist pressure, not to mention that once the war starts, we don't know how many spaceships the other party will come back, so once the other party's fleet is huge, then we must requisition civilian spaceships, after all, these civilian spaceships are not all manufactured according to military standards, and some armor performance is even higher than that of military spaceships of the same level, So I think people have a right to know about it. ”

As soon as he came out and finished speaking, everyone in the military nodded in agreement, and that side behaved differently, some people bowed their heads and said nothing, and some people shook their heads to say that they did not agree with this opinion, anyway, there were many different opinions in the entire cabinet.

But now that the royal family and royal family represented by Zhu Lei, as well as all the military personnel present, agreed, in fact, the opinion of the cabinet is no longer important, the important thing is that after this news is made public, whether there will be civil strife in the Ming Empire, whether someone will take advantage of the fire to rob, and maintaining the stability of the Ming Empire after this news is made public is the most important thing.

So for these people, after Zhu Lei discussed with the military and the cabinet, he was directly sentenced to death, after all, this is already related to the safety of the entire human race, and the war has not started, but there has been a split within the human race, or there is civil strife, then the war with aliens will be over without fighting and directly admitting defeat.

The meeting lasted until just over 12 o'clock in the evening, and there was so much involved in something so important that it was already so important.