Ring India City.

This is a very ordinary day for Li Quan in recent years. When he woke up in the morning, he was happiest to learn that his wife was about to return from a moon tour. In order to welcome his wife's triumph, Li Quan rarely cooked in person, and made the family's favorite meal with the assistance of the chef robot.

A teenager slipped into the kitchen with hazy sleepy eyes, saw Li Quan who was busy, and said with a rare face: "Lao Li cooks himself?" Is the sun coming out of the west? ”

"The sun always comes out of the west in the city. Let you learn a little bit of astronomy, but you have to learn what plants I do. Li Quan waited for the young man to approach, put his index finger lightly on the young man's head, and scolded with a smile: "Also, don't call Lao Li all day long, I'm your father." ”

The young man stole his mouth noncommittally, and after his mouth was full, he sat down at the table in the restaurant next to him, touched his chin and thought about it, and suddenly a flash of inspiration and his eyes lit up: "Could it be that my mother is coming back?" ”

"Mom is back? Where, where? ”

With a crisp and pleasant voice, a beautiful girl in a cute nightdress kicked and whistled into the kitchen and asked the two. The girl's big eyes flickered, and she suddenly laughed: "Daddy, brother, good morning!" ”

Li Quan dotingly stepped forward and rubbed the girl's long hair, and replied with a smile: "Calculate the time, it should be almost there." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the electronic door at the entrance gently opened, and a shadow appeared at the door: "I'm back!" Immediately, the figure slammed into Li Quan's arms, who was still holding a spatula, like a gust of wind, and buried his head deep in.

The two hugged each other for a long time.

The young man sat at the dining table and pouted for a long time, coughing: "Hey, you ......"

The girl stood by and looked at the pair after a long absence.

Li Quan smiled, he hugged the delicate body in his arms, he could feel that her love for him had not diminished in the past 20 years. He apologized for that. But it's more of a heartfelt response to her love. He was also deeply in love with her, there is no doubt about it.

Even today, more than 20 years later, Gu Yan still maintains her youthful and beautiful appearance, even though she is a mother of two children, she looks like an older sister in terms of age. The girl who was standing next to her smiled and hugged the two of them as a light bulb. It looks like four siblings.

Gu Yan got out of Li Quan's arms a little shyly, and she lovingly hugged the girl beside her and walked into the restaurant. After a while, there was a laugh of two girls and a teenager in the restaurant, and a burst of surprise and admiration from the teenager and girl. Li Quan continued to be busy in the kitchen, smiling at all this.

A good meal is a footnote to all happiness. After a full meal, the family of four sat around and watched a 3D projected TV show, as usual.

Live coverage of the launch of the United Nations Space Exploration Agency's Liaison Spacecraft 01 is being broadcast in the news.

This sub-light spacecraft, which carries the voice of all mankind and will take the initiative to fly 0.1 light-years to make contact with the Swan fleet, has attracted the attention of countless people around the world. She will carry the greatest kindness and heartfelt blessings of mankind and communicate with extraterrestrial advanced civilizations for the first time in human history.

In front of the television, teenagers and girls of eighteen or nineteen years old were laughing and laughing at the spaceship on the TV. Gu Yan curled up on the sofa gently and elegantly, quietly, but her eyes were not on the TV. She was paying attention to Li Quan's expression.

Li Quan's face was expressionless, not knowing what he was thinking.

It is February 2043. Eleven months have passed since the first close encounter between humans and the swan fleet.

……

In the evening, in the bedroom.

Li Quan's arms are warm and soft delicate bodies. Gu Yan's head was buried in his chest, and her long hair was rubbing against his chin, like a kitten to be petted. Li Quan lowered his head and sniffed the bursts of incense, his hand caressed the cold and silky touch, and asked with a hint of triumphant evil smile on the corner of his mouth: "Your travel plan in the solar system is only half realized, so you don't plan to go again?" ”

Gu Yan raised her head, and there was a blush on her face, and after she glanced at him with disgust, she replied, "I'm not going anywhere." For the rest of the time, let me be by your side. ”

"As it stands, it's not impossible to have peaceful contacts or something......

"I know."

"But if it fails, the battle will soon begin. Or you ......."

"I know. But I've already decided. Gu Yan looked at him with pleading eyes, very serious: "No matter what, let me stay by your side......"

"Well, the kids ......"

"As planned."

"That's fine." Li Quan sighed with a wry smile and said, "I can't help you." Originally, I said that I would send you all into the system space half a year in advance. However, even if you stay outside, with me, you won't be in any danger. ”

"That's right. So, I'm not going anywhere. Hum! Gu Yan raised her face arrogantly and said, and immediately, she leaned close to Li Quan's ear and said softly, "I still want to ......."

Li Quan raised his eyebrows, and the corners of his mouth brought a strange smile: "Then I'm welcome......

……

In late July 2043, five months after departure, the human liaison spacecraft traveling in the opposite direction made contact with the Swan fleet.

The synchronous live broadcast signal is transmitted to the earth in real time through the quantum communication channel. The live event captured the attention of everyone around the world, with more than 10 billion people watching the live footage from 570 billion kilometers away.

As early as many years ago, high-definition images of 7 giant motherships in the Swan fleet 1 large and 6 small were captured by the new generation of Hubble deep space telescopes. The strange and mysterious shape, with a crimson color in the pitch black, is as amazing as half the size of the moon, all of which make human society feel fresh, and many people are even fascinated by it.

The image of the swan fleet even became a star topic for a time. TV programs with performance analysis and parameter estimation of these motherships have emerged one after another. Miniatures of the seven motherships were also sold on the market for a time. Human society has formed an extraterrestrial artistic trend that is completely contrary to earth art.

There is little doubt that these aliens, who came from 2,700 light-years away and traveled a long journey of countless years to the solar system, are the messengers of light, the mentors of humanity to the depths of the universe, and the common connoisseurs of all good things. Humanity is willing to work with them to create a more dynamic future!

"Distance, 100,000 km. The relative velocity, 0.755, meets the requirements of synchronous orbit. Request to enter a synchronous orbit with the Swan fleet. In the screen, the voice of the pilot and captain in the spacecraft was heard to report the situation.

"Request acceptance." A reply from the commander-in-chief on the ground was transmitted instantly.

The global audience cheered, and everyone's eyes were full of anticipation.

"Start into the predetermined synchronous orbit...... Track correction, complete ...... Heading towards the solar system. ”

"Roger. Preparations began for the transmission of a broadcast signal to the Swan fleet. ”

"Messenger 01 understands!"

A moment later.

"The broadcast is over. Waiting for a response......"

The tens of billions of people watching the live broadcast were all holding their breath at the moment......

Minute by minute.

In the picture, the largest mothership of the Swan fleet resembles a stationary meteorite, with an irregular dark appearance with a metallic luster, and blood-red lines scattered on the surface.

In the vast space around it, there are six man-made objects that are much smaller in size, but each one is half a moon's size.

These Swan fleet motherships are floating quietly in space, in fact, they are traveling at one-ninetieth of the speed of light. The human contact spacecraft is traveling in the same direction at the same speed at a distance of 10 kilometers, and all known band detection methods are fully activated to the maximum extent, and there will be no trace of possible response from the other side.

Over time, however, the liaison spacecraft did not detect any feedback from any of the seven motherships, other than cosmic background noise.

"Commander-in-chief, is there a secondary broadcast? Do you get close enough to get up close? ”

"Courier 01, please stand by for now."

"Roger, Courier 01 understood."

The United Nations Agency for Deep Space Exploration, which is in charge, has a team of professionals who can respond to any unforeseen situation. This is where they come into play. A large group of academics are discussing how to proceed next.

At this moment, several pilots exclaimed from the liaison spacecraft: "Oh, there has been! There is a situation! What is that? ”

The screen shows that the surface of the largest supercarrier in the center of the Swan fleet has some subtle color changes. A red speck grew brighter and brighter on its body. Even so, it would have been almost impossible to detect it at such a distance if it were not for the powerful detection equipment on board the liaison spacecraft.

Just when everyone thought that this was a response from the other party, the next moment, several pilots all shouted out in horror.

"What ......"

Before he could utter half a sentence, the images and sounds disappeared.

At the same time, some drones that had already been released to cruise in the distance transmitted the captured images back to Earth. Everyone couldn't believe what they were seeing.

The drone filmed the whole process of the disappearance of the spacecraft: a red light suddenly appeared directly above the spacecraft, and without hesitation, it hit the spacecraft, and the spacecraft turned into countless fragments without any delay and burst into space......

Countless people covered their mouths and looked at this scene with disbelief.

A moment ago, people were still fantasizing about the great scene of human beings coming into contact with the same extraterrestrial advanced civilization for the first time. The next moment, this illusion was shattered. All that remained was the countless fragments of the cold and dark space, and the twisted, mutilated body of the pilot......

Many vomited out. Many fainted instantly. Many were crying. Many covered their mouths, tears in their eyes showing confusion and fear of sudden betrayal.

The drone is still sending back footage. They filmed that as the giant mothership lit up a few red lights again, the next thing, the images from the drones also turned black one by one and disappeared.

Until the last drone fell in an eerie red light, and the real-time footage from 0.06 light-years away came to an abrupt halt.

The people of the countries who witnessed this scene fell silent.

The situation is clear. Without saying a word, the Swan fleet destroyed a human ship carrying a friendly mission. Pilot...... All killed.

Peaceful Engagement, Failure......

The tyranny of the swan fleet suddenly shattered the illusions of all those who had illusions.

Then came the anger of renunciation!

Around the world, countless people began to march in various places. They demonstrated to the government and demanded a response from the UN.

Those who had been staunch supporters of the Peace Contacts Act were angrily demanding that the government must impose the most severe sanctions on these tyrannical aliens!

The voices of the people of all countries are completely unanimous.

Li Quan, who watched the whole process in Huanyin City, stood by the porthole, looked at the dark cosmic space outside the window, and muttered to himself: "It's time to start ......."