Today's weather is very good, the heat of the day has dissipated in the previous few hours, and there is wind at the moment, but it is not too big, and the blowing on people's faces makes people feel like a lover's hand is gently caressing themselves.

The air was still filled with the scent of unknown flowers, flashing neon lights everywhere, and happy crowds everywhere. It was a beautiful night, and everything was perfect except for the absence of stars in the sky.

As the night wore on, the bustling streets quieted down. The scientific research department is still brightly lit and crowded.

This is destined to be a sleepless night, not only Zhao Lan, but also the head of state, many high-ranking officials in the government, and all the staff of the Ministry of Scientific Research. Because tonight is when the Space Interruption Plan is finally executed.

As the countdown number slowly decreased, Zhao Lan's heart became tighter and tighter. After checking all the arrangements again and confirming that all the arrangements were not missing, Zhao Lan began to wait slowly.

The Führer sat next to Zhao Lan and watched the staff busy. The Führer's expression was calm, but Zhao Lan could still see the deep worry in the Führer's eyes. Obviously, the Führer has always distrusted Zhao Lan, even now. A plan that the Führer would never have accepted had it not been for the final necessity.

Zhao Lan didn't know what the Führer was thinking, but Zhao Lan knew the pressure on the Führer at the moment. As the leader of all mankind, the Führer is about to face his own life, and the greatest adventure in the entire history of human civilization. Success or failure is directly related to the survival of human civilization, and the final result will be revealed in an hour.

The atmosphere in the control hall was tense and serious. All the staff were busy in silence, even if all the work had been done at the moment. They were still mechanically testing the previous setup over and over again. Zhao Lan can understand this behavior. Because under this oppressive and solemn atmosphere. If you don't have something to do, it always makes people feel very uncomfortable.

The countdown gradually beat to thirty minutes. At this time, Zhao Lan stood up and left here quietly.

Zhao Lan left the scientific research department and walked to the street outside. At this moment, there are no pedestrians on the street, and in the middle of the night, even if it is summer, there is a hint of coolness in the wind. Zhao Lan tightened her clothes, walked slowly, and unconsciously came to Watson Square. Came to Zhao Huasheng's huge sculpture.

Zhao Lan raised his head again to observe the sculpture. Zhao Huasheng's expression lasted for hundreds of years, and it has not changed since the statue was built. The statue was still full of flowers, and Zhao Huasheng's gaze was still calm and distant. Zhao Huasheng kept looking into the distance like that, as if he was looking at the future of human civilization.

Zhao Lan looked at the statue stupidly, and at the same time prayed silently in his heart: "My ancestors, please bless our civilization and bless me." ”

Zhao Lan suddenly felt very scared, just like he was afraid of imaginary ghosts or demons when he was a child. But there was nothing concrete to scare Zhao Lan right now. Zhao Lan looked up at the sky, and understood in his heart.

"I've been very determined to carry out my plan, but I've been scared...... Fear of failure. Fear has buried the entire human civilization...... Yes, I'm scared. ”

When I was scared when I was a child, I could run into the arms of my parents. So...... What about when you're scared now?

Zhao Lan sat down under Zhao Huasheng's huge sculpture pedestal, leaning back against the pedestal, then clasped her knees with her hands and buried her head in her arms, like a little girl who had been bullied. Zhao Lan has long had no parents, and there are no relatives to rely on in this world, although An Liya and they have become their friends, their emotions at the moment are not suitable to confide in them.

So...... I confided it to Zhao Huasheng and confided it to my ancestor who had given him confidence and warmth.

But Zhao Lan didn't know what to say. Zhao Lan felt a little warmth in his heart, but the fear still continued. So Zhao Lan kept looking at the sky, kept watching, and didn't move.

Time slipped away bit by bit, Zhao Lan raised his wrist and looked at his watch. It shows that there is still one minute left before the final detonation time of the hydrogen bomb. In a minute's time, life or death will be revealed.

Zhao Lan waited for a while, and then saw a flash of light coming from the extremely distant western sky. The flash of light flickered like a meteor and lasted only a few seconds. Zhao Lan silently recalled it in his heart, and then remembered that it was the direction of the twenty-first space node. At this moment, there was a flash of light, which proved that the hydrogen bomb ship above that space node had exploded.

After nearly five years of planning, many changes and twists and turns in the middle, the space blocking plan finally began to be implemented at this moment.

At this moment, Zhao Lan should have been more nervous, but for some reason, Zhao Lan suddenly didn't have a little fear in his heart. Zhao Lan looked at the sky quietly, as if she was watching a fireworks show.

At the moment after the hydrogen bomb spacecraft above the 21st space node was detonated, flashes of light were heard from the southeast, northwest, northeast, and south directions. There is a delay of a few seconds or even more than a dozen seconds between the flashes, but Zhao Lan knows that those hydrogen bomb spaceships actually exploded at the same time, but because of the difference in distance, the time when their flashes were transmitted to the earth was also different.

Zhao Lan counted it, and there were a total of seventeen flashes in the sky. This is in line with the original calculation. Because there are more than thirty space nodes distributed around the earth, and some of them are on the back side of the earth, even if they explode, Zhao Lan can't see the flashes coming from there.

After the seventeenth flash, Zhao Lan never saw any movement coming from the sky again. So Zhao Lan knew that the space blocking plan had been executed and was over.

After several years of planning, the space blocking plan, which consumed a lot of financial and material resources of human civilization, came to an end.

Zhao Lan knew that the space interdiction plan must have gone very smoothly, but the success did not mean that the plan itself was ultimately successful. The only criterion for the success of a plan is its effectiveness, and if it is as expected...... Zhao Lan will see the stars in the sky in about six minutes.

It also takes a long time for starlight to cross the vast deserts of the universe, which can take billions of years depending on the distance. But Zhao Lan didn't need to wait that long, because the light emitted by those stars had been continuing, but it disappeared when it came to the distorted space near the earth, and thus disappeared from the sight of the earth, as long as the space around the earth returned to normal, those rays came to the earth from the edge of the original distorted space, and it only took about six minutes.

Zhao Lan still maintained calm in his heart, or because he was nervous and over-expected, he became calm or not. Anyway, Zhao Lan leaned against the huge pedestal of Zhao Huasheng's statue like this, looked up at the sky, his expression was calm and motionless.

It is pointless to place a probe outside the six-minute distance to observe whether the starlight returns to normal, because even if a probe is placed there, the signal sent back by the probe to the Earth will move at the speed of light, and when that signal reaches the Earth, the Earth side can detect whether there are stars in the sky almost at the same time. Therefore, human civilization did not deliberately place probes in space.

Starlight treats everyone equally. It doesn't matter if you're a civilized scientific research institution with state-of-the-art detection instruments, or you're a beggar begging for a bite to eat tomorrow about where to go. If the starlight appears, everyone can see it at the same time, and if the starlight does not appear, everyone can't see it.

So even if Zhao Lan leaves the scientific research department full of advanced instruments at this moment, Zhao Lan can also get the same information as the scientific research department at the same time. So Zhao Lan is still waiting quietly here.

Zhao Lan didn't know how much time had passed, whether it was an hour that slipped away in his waiting, or if it was just a minute. Zhao Lan has almost lost the concept of time, Zhao Lan has been looking at the sky like this, looking for the things that are important to him in the sky.

Zhao Lan's afterglow suddenly noticed a bright spot from the northern sky, but when Zhao Lan shifted his gaze, that bright spot disappeared again. Zhao Lan felt a little stunned in his heart, Zhao Lan thought, this was probably his own illusion.

But then, that little bit of brightness came again, and not only that, but it was rapidly increasing its brightness, and after only a few moments, it was incomparably brighter, like a shining jewel in the dark and empty sky.

Zhao Lan's pupils constricted suddenly. Zhao Lan immediately turned his head and saw that the sky, which was still dark and empty, did not know when it had been filled with stars. There was nothing in the sky a moment ago, but now it was like a magic trick, and it became crowded in this instant.

In this starry sky, Zhao Lan quickly found the familiar Big Dipper, the Vega Star, and the Cowherd Star......

The slow disappearance of the stars lasted for several years, but the appearance of the stars took only a moment.

There were already faint cheers in the building of the scientific research department next to him, and Zhao Lan also showed a smile at this time, and said hello to the stars in the sky: "Hey, long time no see, are you okay?" (To be continued......)