Chapter 202: Dark Sky
Contrary to what many people expected, this black hole will not be transported directly to the Earth's harbor, which is tens of thousands of kilometers away from the surface, but only a few hundred kilometers from the surface.
This scheme is designed after precise calculations. The reason is simple, the farther away from the earth's surface, the faster the space elevator will orbit the earth, and the lower the gravity, until the earth's gravity disappears completely, and centrifugal force dominates. The black hole is transported hundreds of kilometers away, where it can orbit the Earth stably, neither detached from the Earth's gravitational field because it is too fast, nor fall to the Earth's surface due to excessive gravitational force.
In such a place, the black hole can be briefly thought of as "free-floating", and in such a situation it is safest and fastest to operate on the black hole.
Hundreds of giant cranes stretched their long mechanical arms towards the black hole at the same time, and the ultra-high-strength ropes created by the latest technology collapsed straight at this moment. The huge box containing the black hole, the electric field equipment, and the load balancing equipment was lifted by the giant crane and placed into the huge transportation equipment on the ground side of the space elevator.
Tens of thousands of military personnel were involved in security security throughout the process. Countless soldiers with loaded guns surrounded the entire space elevator ground, and even Zhao Lan couldn't walk around in it at will. Anyone or anything entering or leaving the area was subject to the strictest checks, and the Führer signed a special order giving the soldiers the authority to shoot without warning.
Other words. As long as the military considers a person to be a threat. At the same time, the person only needs to show the slightest sign of refusal to cooperate. Soldiers have the right to shoot them directly.
Zhao Lan welcomed this order, because Zhao Lan knew very well what he was doing now. It can be said that if a terrorist or anti-human wants to destroy the entire earth or the entire human civilization, this is the best time for him to act. Because if a powerful bomb explodes next to the electric field control box and destroys the equipment of the electric field control box, or destroys the load balancing equipment, the black hole will fall to the earth and destroy the entire planet.
Special measures are adopted in special times. At this time, no amount of drastic security measures can be overstated.
Thankfully, there were no accidents during the transport of the black hole into geosynchronous orbit. It was true that unidentified people tried to get close to the space elevator, but the military personnel decisively shot and killed seven people, and the rest disappeared without a trace, and all that remained was to arrest two drunks and kill a wild dog.
Not even a wild dog is allowed to approach here without permission. Because wild dogs may also have pre-planted bombs in their bodies, such things should not be taken lightly. Shooting it to death is the best option.
The Führer and Zhao Lan participated in the entire transportation process together. It was only after receiving that this black hole had been successfully put into orbit and began to orbit the earth at a constant speed from then on, that the heads of state and Zhao Lan completely let go of their hearts.
According to the laws of mechanics. The greater the mass of an object, the more difficult it is to change its state of motion. And this black hole has a mass of up to 100,000 tons. At this moment it is already in orbit around the Earth, which means that no one can push it into the Earth from now on unless the government takes large-scale action. In other words, the Earth has since completely eliminated the threat of this black hole.
It's not a good experience to have a black hole on the same planet as yourself, and now that this guy has finally been sent out, everyone can rest assured.
However, the mission is not over yet, and there is still a lot of work to be done.
In space, a heavy cargo ship operated by a task force began to slowly approach the black hole that was floating freely in space orbiting the Earth, and then opened the hatch and swallowed the electric field control box into itself like a monster with its mouth open. After securing it, the heavy cargo ship began to slowly accelerate. It orbited the Earth twice before it gained the velocity to break free from the Earth's gravitational field, so it left the Earth in a parabola and began to travel towards the third space node.
After counting the mass of this black hole, the total mass of the heavy cargo ship rises to a somewhat frightening level. The originally designed high-thrust engine was a little inadequate in the face of such a mass, and even though the engine worked at full strength at the risk of overloading and burning, it was still unable to increase the forward speed of the spacecraft to an appropriate point. As a last resort, the Earth side urgently installed six boosters on top of the spacecraft, which increased the forward speed and sent the black hole to the third space node at a predetermined point in time.
After arriving at the intended location, the heavy cargo ship opened the hatch and spat out the black hole and the electric field control box that bound it. The ship then moved away, and after the ship left, the electric field control box automatically stopped working, and opened an exit from it.
From this moment on, this black hole was finally exposed to the space environment without any cover. But this is a near-vacuum environment, and even if it comes into contact with the outside world, it can't find anything to eat.
The thrusters equipped on the electric field control box began to ignite, and after leaving the black hole here, it flew into the vastness of space under the impetus of the thrusters, and has since disappeared without a trace.
Its mission has been accomplished, and from this moment on, humanity no longer cares about its fate.
In addition to this black hole, the remaining more than 30 space nodes have all been arranged with hydrogen bomb spacecraft with different yields according to the plan. All it takes is the first signal from Earth for these hydrogen bomb ships to explode. But now there is still a day left before the scheduled time point, and it is not yet time for them to explode.
The Ministry of Scientific Research and the military have jointly dispatched a large number of scientific and security forces to inspect the installations and provide the necessary protection for the installations to ensure that they are not damaged. On the earth side, Zhao Lan has been in the scientific research department for several days without leaving, and has been nervously checking whether the mission has been neglected and whether there is anything that has been ignored by himself.
The city is still lit up, and even late at night, the downtown area is still packed with people. Entertainment, shopping, food, great views, everything is as usual. Occasionally, someone looks up at the dark sky without a single star, and it is just a glimpse, and in an instant they will retract their gaze.
This is an important action related to the entire human civilization, and the fate of human civilization will be pronounced in this operation. But this incident did not affect the public. No one would waste more energy on this than to complain about why the sky was so dark.
The tired Zhao Lan left his job at this time, came to the top floor of the scientific research department building, stood in front of the railing, looked at the sky, and then looked at the ground.
An Liya, who served as Zhao Lan's personal security work, also followed here.
The wind on a summer night is cool, and there is a very comfortable feeling blowing on the body. Zhao Lan stood quietly like this, and the noise of the crowd below seemed to be able to be transmitted here.
Zhao Lan suddenly sighed.
"The history of our human civilization has been going on for thousands of years...... You say, how many people like us have existed in this world and in history? Never exposed to the public eye, only secretly engaged in work that is vital to the entire human civilization. If it succeeds, everything will remain the same, and the public will not feel any changes, and if it fails, it can bring disaster to the entire human civilization. ”
An Liya pouted: "Then who knows, anyway, after such a long time, the human race will not come over safely." In this society, there is a division of labor, and you can do what you have to do, and do what you want to do other people's work. Just like I do now, just keep you safe, and as for your work, I don't care at all. Even if you fail in the end, it only proves that it should be so, and no matter how much I care, there is no way to change this fact. ”
Zhao Lan was a little speechless at this answer: "Your heart is really big. After a pause, Zhao Lan said again: "If everything goes well, in a few hours, your boss will return to our universe." What are you going to do when your boss returns? ”
An Liya was stunned for a moment: "What to do?" Then he shook his head again: "What to do or how to do it, but you, if I'm not mistaken, you don't even know what the boss looks like, right?" What, have you thought about it, what do you say in the first thing after meeting your boss? ”
This time, it was Zhao Lan who was stunned. Zhao Lan has never thought about this problem, although Zhao Lan has been faintly looking forward to meeting Li Yunfan, but what Zhao Lan has always thought about is the "meeting" itself, and he has not had time to think about more things.
After being stunned for a while, Zhao Lan shook his head helplessly: "Let's talk about it then." Let's go down, check the arrangement one last time, and in a few hours it will be time......"
Before turning to leave, Zhao Lan took one last look at the dark sky without any stars, and then said to himself in his heart: "I will get back all the stars we have lost......" (To be continued......