Obviously, the name 105 Research Institute comes from the one hundred and five river-level celestial bodies that have anomalously disappeared. But Zhao Lan and all the staff of the 105 Research Institute all knew that if there were no accidents, this number would definitely continue to rise. As for what it means, and what it means to the earth, no one knows, as it is written in that top-secret document.

After all, these things are too far away from Earth - even the most recent disappearance star is more than 8 billion light-years away from Earth. But science is about being forward-looking, and scientists have to figure it out before it gets close to Earth. If it finally comes to the vicinity of Earth to study it, it will be too late.

The 105 Institute was built 2 million kilometers from the Earth, where it revolves around the Sun in the same cycle as the Earth. In this way, it is always on the far side of the earth and will never be disturbed by sunlight. It can be regarded as a medium-sized space research base overall, but it is still expanding, and various observation and research equipment are constantly being transported from the Earth and the moon base, and when it is finally completed, it will become the largest space research base built by human civilization.

After all, the unknown from a certain aspect∵ actually means progress, for the development of science and technology, the most terrible thing is not to find the answer to the question, but to find the question at all. The bigger the question, the more you can get from solving it. The disappearance of the astral anomaly is a big question. The scientific community of human civilization hopes to solve this question and give birth to some physical theorems again. It would be even better if the basic theory could be developed by leaps and bounds.

Zhao Lan and a group of scientific elites mobilized from all over the world began to explore this question. This can be a very complex issue. Therefore, the 105 Institute has a high level of authority in this regard. If you need the cooperation or help of scientists or departments in any field. Often, all that is needed is a letter to the Central Academy of Sciences. The organization department of the Central Academy of Sciences will forward the letter to the corresponding scientific research department. The scientific research department will immediately mobilize forces to answer the questions of the 105 Institute.

But in the early stages of the study, it wasn't that complicated. In fact, Zhao Lan and his colleagues are now working more on searching, observing distant objects in the celestial sphere, seeing which celestial bodies have disappeared, and then exploring the common characteristics and possible internal connections between these anomalous objects. There is no breakthrough in the theoretical aspects for the time being.

Just as Zhao Lan thought at the beginning, the number of anomalous disappearing celestial bodies really continued to increase. As a result of the observations of the 105 Institute and reports from other observation bases, the number has increased from 105 to 876, more than eightfold. And all of this happened in less than a month.

Zhao Lan faintly felt it. The rate at which the astral anomaly disappears is accelerating, and it is constantly approaching Earth. So far, the nearest anomalous vanishing object to Earth is less than 7 billion light-years away.

Zhao Lan and her colleagues still don't know what that means. When Zhao Lan looked up at the starry sky, Zhao Lan would even feel that a huge monster appeared in the depths of the endless universe, and this huge monster was devouring the universe where the earth existed from the edge, and it was getting closer and closer to the earth, and it would eventually swallow the earth......

Aside from scientists who are interested in this matter, the disappearance of the astral anomaly has not yet had any effect on the world of ordinary people. Because those stars are inherently invisible to the naked eye, they will not be aware of their disappearance. But Zhao Lan couldn't help but have such a terrible scene in his heart: the stars in the night sky of the earth began to disappear one after another. Eventually, the Earth's night sky turned pitch black. There is not a single star, not a single star is gone......

Zhao Lan would even be unable to sleep all night because of these terrible scenes. Zhao Lan couldn't imagine how terrifying it would be to have a dark night sky without any stars—although such a scene would occur on a rainy day, it would be different from now. Even on a rainy day, Zhao Lan would know that those stars did not disappear, but hid behind the clouds. And now, those celestial bodies are literally disappearing......

The faintest star in the Earth's night sky is a sixth-magnitude star, and there are no more than 10,000 stars visible from the entire Earth, including the Southern and Northern Hemispheres. Of the less than 10,000 stars, most of them are less than 10,000 light-years away from Earth. The farthest object visible to the naked eye is the Andromeda Galaxy, and the distance between the Andromeda Galaxy and Earth is about 2.5 million light-years.

More than 2.5 million light-years is a small number compared to 7 billion light-years, but Zhao Lan knows that as long as the stars continue to disappear and continue to shrink the distance between them and the earth, one day, the Andromeda galaxy will disappear, and those stars that are only a few thousand, or even hundreds of light-years away from the earth, will also disappear......

Where did the vanished stars go? Zhao Lan didn't know. Will the Earth also disappear? If the earth disappears, will humanity disappear with it? Zhao Lan didn't know either.

Zhao Lan's mood was always a little low, and the worries in her heart were always hovering. Zhao Lan even began to be a little afraid of dawn - because the institute is located on the far side of the earth, there is actually no dawn, but the researchers, including Zhao Lan, are still used to arranging their work according to the schedule on the earth, and they are still used to calling six o'clock every morning dawn - because they will start working at dawn, and if nothing else, once they start working, they can always detect that the number of anomalous disappearing celestial bodies has begun to increase more or less. Yes, from a dozen to dozens, and every day a new report of disappearance is submitted.

At the end of each day, the researchers at the institute gather for a regular meeting to discuss the news and ideas that have been generated during the day. So far, however, no plausible explanation has been proposed.

It's just that there is a consensus that has been accepted by all researchers, and everyone agrees that this inference should be reasonable and in line with the truth.

The corollary is that the anomalous disappearance of the stars should have nothing to do with the stars themselves. This inference may sound strange and counterintuitive, but it is backed up by firm logical reasoning.

Obviously, if the anomalous disappearance of these stars is caused by the stars themselves, they must meet the "one-to-one relationship between the time of disappearance and the distance from the Earth", that is, stars that are 8 billion light-years away from the Earth will disappear before 8 billion years, and stars that are 6 billion light-years away from the Earth will disappear before 6 billion years. They must strictly meet this condition in order for the disappearance of the stars observed on Earth to gather in this short period of few months, as they do now.

And this is undoubtedly impossible. After all, those disappearance stars are not a small number, they are hundreds, nearly a thousand of the abnormal disappearance of stars. If only two stars disappear at the same time in the eyes of the earth, it can be explained by coincidence, but nearly a thousand stars strictly follow this law, and it cannot be explained by coincidence.

That's why the staff of the 105 Research Institute made this inference, that is, the phenomenon of the anomalous disappearance of the star is actually not related to the star itself. Then the next inference can be drawn that those stars that seem to "disappear" have not actually disappeared, they still exist in this universe well, but for some special reason, they are not visible from the earth.

This inference was generally accepted by the researchers, and the researchers focused their research on finding causes that could lead to such phenomena beyond the cause of the stars themselves.

The dust cloud occlusion theory believes that the solar system at this moment is operating in an interstellar dust belt, and the dense interstellar dust cloud blocks the starlight shining on the earth in all directions, so it causes the disappearance of the star. This inference satisfies the above conditions, but it also has unexplainable fatal flaws. If all of these stars are to be obscured, the dust cloud must be very large and thick, so that it can be observed by humans. However, humans are not aware of the existence of any interstellar dust clouds of a certain size around the solar system. Moreover, the phenomenon of astral anomalies has appeared intensively in recent months, and there has never been such a phenomenon in the past, if this phenomenon is explained by the theory of dust cloud occlusion, then it is obvious that the solar system has not entered this dust cloud a few months ago, and it is only a few months of operation that the solar system has moved deep enough into the interior of this dust cloud that the starlight of so many stars has been blocked?

Gravitational lensing also faces the threat of its own vulnerabilities. It can certainly explain the anomalous disappearance of one or several stars, but this phenomenon occurs in all directions of the universe, is it possible that so many strong gravitational sources appear in so many different directions of the universe at the same time? It's a bit of a coincidence.

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