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In a room in a residential building in the center of Watson City, Zhao Lan, who was sleeping, was awakened by a rapid phone ringing. , Zhao Lan opened her hazy sleepy eyes, pulled out the phone from under her pillow, pressed the button, and a video call message that had been recorded long ago appeared in front of her eyes.

Because the distance between Mars and the Earth is too far - the closest distance between the two planets is more than 50 million kilometers, and it takes more than three minutes for electromagnetic waves to complete a one-way journey - which means that the communication delay between the two places is at least more than six minutes, so it is impossible to communicate in real time between the two places, so if people have communication needs, they will generally record the information and send it over. Now the message Zhao Lan received is such a video message that was recorded in advance and then sent.

Zhao Lan glanced at the contact information and found that it was a message sent by the Xinghai Sky Survey Observation Base. The specific sender is his colleague in the Xinghai Sky Survey Observation Base, Zhang Ya.

"Zhao Lan, there is an emergency, you must end your vacation early and come back to work."

In the video message, Zhang Ya's always delicate face is a little dull here, and her hair is a little messy - it is clear that this is because the matter is too urgent, so Zhang Ya sent this message without having time to put on makeup.

As a friend, Zhao Lan knows what it means to Zhang Ya to go out without makeup. That must have been the case when something extremely urgent happened. Therefore, the sleepiness that lingered in Zhao Lan's mind finally disappeared at this moment. Zhao Lan sat up on the bed, gathered her energy and continued to watch the video.

"Zhao Lan, do you know? Haishan II finally broke out. Just half an hour ago! We received very intense gamma and X-ray bursts from seamounts. This is different from the fake outbreak of 1843. Now we are extremely sure that this time the seamount II really broke out! ”

"What?" Looking at Zhang Ya's face full of excitement, listening to her voice that became a little hoarse because she was too excited, Zhao Lan also covered her mouth in shock.

Seamount II is a very famous star, and the observation of the evolution of this star plays an extremely important role in the well-constructed supernova explosion mechanism and stellar evolution mechanism of human beings, so people have never relaxed their observation. It's just that the predicted eruption of Seamount II will occur in about 10,000 years, and no one has ever thought that Seamount II will erupt now.

It is foreseeable that this will be the most important stroke in the history of the astronomical development of human civilization. Human civilization has not experienced supernova explosions in history—the most famous of which was observed during the Song Dynasty. That eruption formed the famous Crab Nebula - but it was the first time that a supernova had exploded in such good observing conditions for human civilization to have sufficiently sophisticated observation equipment and be so close to Earth. The supernova explosion of Seamount II is bound to attract the attention of all mankind in an instant and become the hottest topic in human society. Compared to Haishan II, no matter what kind of entertainment star or famous person such as sports superstar, they all have to give way.

The most critical point is that Zhang Ya's words confirmed the authenticity of this outbreak. This is a real explosion, not a false supernova explosion that has happened in the past.

Supernova explosions are also real and fake. In 1843, there was a fake outbreak in Haishan II. In that eruption, Seamount II was even brighter than Sirius, visible during the day. However, the outbreak was eventually turned out to be fake. After observation and research, people finally believed that it was because the internal activities of Seamount II were too intense. As a result, its luminosity exceeded the Eddington luminosity limit, and the internal radiation pressure exceeded its own gravitational pull, so that about one-fifth of the mass of the sun was ejected by it, and eventually its luminosity increased abnormally.

This outbreak was anything but different. It's a real explosion, a huge star that instantly turns to ashes, an infinite amount of stellar matter is ejected into interstellar space, and a black hole representing its corpse forms inside it......

The eruption of Seamount II will drive the world's celestials and physicists crazy. As a member of the Heavenly Family, Zhao Lan is naturally no exception.

In the video, Zhang Yana's excited voice was still coming out, but Zhao Lan couldn't care about listening to it. Zhao Lan got up from the bed as fast as she could, put on her clothes, washed her face casually, pulled up her suitcase and left here.

Through Watson City's large, transparent, fully enclosed glass cover, Zhao Lan saw the bright star in the sky with his own eyes. In Zhao Lan's eyes, that star seemed to have some kind of strange magic, so that Zhao Lan just wanted to look at it closely, and didn't want to take his eyes off for a moment.

But Zhao Lan knew that he couldn't see anything just by relying on the naked eye. It is most appropriate to rush to the Xinghai Sky Survey Observation Base as soon as possible, and then conduct data analysis with the help of the instruments there. As a celestial family, in this heroic event, Zhao Lan must fulfill his duties.

Zhao Lan stopped a car and quickly rushed to the air-space interaction base. There is a space elevator connecting the ground and the space port in the space-space interaction base, through which people can quickly leave the ground and enter space, and then take a ship to Earth in the space port.

In the early days of the interstellar age, the design of near-Earth and space-use spacecraft was explored, but it was eventually abandoned by scientists and engineers. It's not that the technology of human civilization is not up to standard, but that the construction cost of dual-purpose spacecraft is too high - it must have extremely tough armor systems to resist the high heat caused by atmospheric friction, and it must also involve extremely sophisticated ship control systems during take-off and landing. This will cause it to more than triple its construction cost. Not only that, but it also had to carry fuel for acceleration and deceleration during re-entry to break free from the planet's gravity and re-enter the atmosphere, which made it very large, which made the design of the outer armor and the overall structure more difficult. For a combination of reasons, people had to abandon this design scheme.

Instead of near-Earth and space-use spacecraft, there are air-space interactive bases, space ports, and space single-purpose spacecraft design patterns. In this mode of transportation, the air-space interaction base connects the ground and the space port, and the space port connects the starship. The starship does not have to go directly into the atmosphere, it will go directly to the harbor and moored, and the cargo or personnel it carries will be transported from space to the ground through the space elevator in the space-space interaction base.

This design solution has proven to be efficient and reliable. It is precisely because of the two giant space ports that exist in the sky above Watson City on Mars and over the capital city of Earth that the space passage connecting Mars and Earth can be opened and Watson City can prosper.

Zhao Lan's Sylvia spacecraft was moored in the spaceport. It was a small private spaceship with advanced equipment and gorgeous shape. It can reach speeds of up to 120 kilometers per second, and it can be loaded with energy and survival materials to provide a person with a comfortable life for at least ten years. In the category of civilian spacecraft, the Sylvia spacecraft can be regarded as the top private vehicle.

Originally, it was absolutely impossible for Zhao Lan to afford such an expensive spaceship, even if Zhao Lan was a member of the highest-paid group of scientists in human civilization. However, Zhao Lan is the only surviving direct descendant of Zhao Huasheng, and she inherited the honor and material rewards awarded to Zhao Huasheng by the government of human civilization, which only got this expensive small spaceship.

Now Zhao Lan is on his way to the air-space interaction base. Although the driver had already driven the car fast, and under the low gravity environment of Mars, the car was even about to fly, but Zhao Lan still felt that it was too slow. In the current situation, every second of delay in time is a crime against Zhao Lan's interest and career.

A supernova explosion releases the most information in its initial stages, and as the explosion smooths out, less valuable information becomes observable. Zhao Lan had already missed the initial stage of the most heroic outbreak, and he couldn't miss the follow-up outbreak. Otherwise, after returning to the Xinghai Sky Survey Observation Base, Zhao Lan would probably only be in a daze in front of the debris of the explosion.

In anxious waiting, Zhao Lan finally came to the air-space interaction base. After verifying his identity, Zhao Lan left Watson City on the nearest elevator and embarked on a journey to the space port.

The space elevator is 48,503 kilometers long. It is made of the latest ultra-high-strength material, which is extremely strong and has a low weight. It is connected to the ground at one end and the spaceport at the other. The space port has the same rotation rate as Mars, which means that the space port has moved faster than Mars' orbiting speed in space, so it will hang in space and never fall.

The space elevator began to accelerate slowly, which made Zhao Lan feel a little more dizzy. Zhao Lan stood up, left his seat and walked to the viewing window, looking through the huge glass window to the ground.

Watson City began to shrink rapidly in Zhao Lan's eyes, and finally merged with the vast Martian land, and could no longer be distinguished. What awaits Zhao Lan ahead is a three-hour space journey. (To be continued......)

ps: The second more later~