Chapter 47: Burst of Energy
"Hello Angelina, I'm Ragel." After arranging his hair and beard, Raguel began to speak into the camera and tape recorder, "Maybe you already know the news of the spaceship, yes, according to Zhao Huasheng's prophecy, we are about to encounter a misfortune, and whether we can escape from this misfortune, only God knows." So, this passage may be my last words. ”
"You probably know what happened to me, my parents, my wife and my children were all killed in an accident ten years ago. I also know the misfortune that has happened to you, and if you don't choose to divorce your drunkard husband, I think you'll be tormented and crazy sooner or later. ”
"Hmm...... Sorry, I don't know what to say. Raguel smiled a little self-deprecatingly, "I can sense that there has always been a affection between us, and I think you probably like me too." I know you deliberately broke the water pipe and asked me to fix it, and if I'm not mistaken, your desk lamp was also deliberately broken by you, right? Yes, I know everything, but I never say it breaks. Because I would be glad to come to your house. ”
"And me...... Actually, I deliberately injured my hand that time, because then I had a reason to ask you for help and ask you to come to my house to help me clean up the house. Yes, I would love you to come to my house as well. ”
"I've always had conflicted feelings. On the one hand, I have been immersed in the self-blame for the death of my loved one, and on the other hand, I am very much looking forward to being with you and starting a family again. I've always been caught up in both of these emotions, so I've never confessed or promised you anything. But on what was probably the last night of my life, I figured out everything. I think that after all, people can't just live in the past. Come to think of it, even my deceased parents, wife, and children would like to see me start a new life and make myself and my loved ones happy. Therefore, I confess my heart to you at this time, because if I don't do this, I will most likely not have a chance in the future. ”
"Angelina, if I ever return to Earth, I will definitely propose to you. At the same time, there is no need to worry that Jamie's presence will hinder the relationship between the two of us. Jamie is a great guy, he's your son, and if we can get together, I'll treat him like my son. I will shoulder the burden of the family, take good care of you and Jamie, and never let you go again. ”
"That's it, it's time for me to get ready for the next day's challenge. Dear Angelina, goodbye. ”
With these words, Raguel pressed the send button and sent the message back to Earth. After doing this, Ragher spent a moment in the communication room before leaving.
The astronauts knew that there would be no reply about the information they had sent. Because they had already made their statement to the base at the time of sending this message, they would not receive any non-work messages during this time.
"Alright, it's time for everyone to go rest." Raguel said to the astronauts, "I've programmed the spacecraft to work automatically, so I don't need anyone on duty tonight." Let's get a good night's sleep and get ready for the next day's challenges. ”
The astronauts dispersed and fell asleep in silence. They all have quite strong mental qualities, so the upcoming challenges will not cause them to sleep problems.
In the vast sky, with the huge and friendless sun as the background, this small spaceship is running quietly. In contrast, there is far less time for quiet time on Earth.
There are still countless crew members busy day and night, trying to find new ways to increase the Crimson Heart's chances of carrying the sun a little more. All ground-based telescopes in suitable positions, as well as all space-light telescopes capable of observing the sun, have their lenses pointed at the sun. They were going to document everything that might have happened after the Moth Impactor hit the sun - even if the Crimson Heart was eventually destroyed, people would have to find out what was destroying the ship.
Almost all of humanity was silently waiting for the hour to come.
Zhao Huasheng is also waiting for this moment. It's eleven o'clock in the morning, and we're four and a half hours before half past one in the afternoon.
The Moth Impactor is less than 10,000 kilometers away from the surface of the sun, and has already entered the range of the coronal layer.
The coronal layer is the outermost layer of the yang atmosphere, which is warm but dense, like the ionosphere of the Earth's atmosphere. Judging by the structure of the Moth Impactor, it is far from being destroyed by the sun here. However, the strong magnetic field and signal interference caused some malfunctions in the Moth Impactor's communication equipment, which caused the Crimson Heart spacecraft to receive only some fragmentary information about the Yang atmosphere from it. After receiving this information, the astronauts immediately relayed them back to Earth.
This is the first time that a spacecraft built by humans has been so close to the sun, and it is also the first-hand information obtained directly from the surface of the sun. There is no doubt about the preciousness of this information.
Because of the distance, the small size of the Moth Impactor, and the strong background interference, the telescope on the spacecraft could no longer pick up the impactor. However, the friction between the impactor and the corona of the positive atmosphere at high speed will release its intense light and radiation, and through these rays and radiation, the spacecraft can still locate the impactor's position and track it.
The image of the impactor was thus transported to the base of Earth. On the big screen, Zhao Huasheng saw that with the vast and boundless yang as the background, there was a thin line of blazing white above it, and this thin line was constantly extending, constantly approaching the yang.
This thin line is caused by friction between the Moth Impactor and the coronal layer.
Time passed little by little, and there were only two hours and forty minutes left before the estimated impact time. It was also at this time that the image of the impactor and the signal transmitted back from it disappeared completely.
But Zhao Huasheng knows that matter cannot disappear for no reason. While humans are no longer able to capture any information about the Moth Impactor, its wreckage must be heading towards the sun in its previous orbit.
"Let's start waiting." Zhao Huasheng said.
After more than two hours, the fate of the Crimson Heart spacecraft, and whether the most important part of the Yang Exploration Program, which Humanity had spent so much effort to promote, would be in vain, and whether Humanity's efforts would be wasted, would finally be revealed.
On Earth, countless people are watching the movement of the Crimson Heart spacecraft and the progress of this incident. The largest prayer event in human society began, with tens of millions of people participating. For a time, churches, squares, and temples were overcrowded.
The astronauts have all taken refuge in the storage silos at the rear of the spacecraft, and they have even worn the spacesuits that they need to wear for extravehicular activities. All non-essential equipment was shut down, and all but the storage silos were shut down for the rest of the life-sustaining systems. All the preparations have been made, and now, just waiting for that final moment to come.
At this point, Captain Laguel asked the other four astronauts, "Do you regret choosing this path?" ”
"No, we don't regret it. If I were given another chance to choose, I would still make that choice. The other four said together. Then Lagher laughed too: "Yes, I don't regret it either. ”
As the minutes passed, the time of the impact in the measurement was getting closer and closer. Finally, after glancing at the precise clock, Zhao Huasheng said: "The impact should have happened." But the effects of the impact have not yet been transmitted to us. ”
150 million kilometers away, the surface of the sun was hit by a small man-made object. The Crimson Heart spacecraft was tens of millions of kilometers away from the point of impact, and the speed of light needed to travel one second to affect it, and it would take a full eight minutes for the Earth base to observe the impact.
After Zhao Huasheng said Fang Cai's words, another second passed. So Zhao Huasheng said again: "If the way the yang energy erupts is electromagnetic waves, then at this moment, these energies have already reached the spaceship. ”
The signal carrying the impact process is traveling towards the Earth at the speed of light, and all available observation equipment on the Earth is now aimed in the direction of the sun.
"If I hadn't anticipated the error, in ten seconds, we would have received an impact signal." Zhao Huasheng said.
The second hand of the clock is constantly beating. It took as long as a century, and finally, it went from pointing to five.
Ten seconds passed.
Zhao Huasheng raised his head and looked at Yang, I don't know if it was an illusion or what's going on, Zhao Huasheng seemed to feel that the light of Yang seemed to be a little brighter than before at this moment.
"We detected high-intensity X-rays and gamma rays, and in the visible range, the level of positive radiation has also increased by a fraction!"
Everything was just as Zhao Huasheng expected, because of the impact of the Moth Impactor, the Yang at this moment burst out with unprecedented powerful energy.
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