Time flies, in the blink of an eye, to 2050, time is like the occasional slippery wind, inadvertently, has blown the sun down the city, leaving layers of decay spots behind him. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

As the New Year's bell comes from the ancient pagoda at the top of the mountain, the loud sound waves are transmitted like thunder, indicating that the new year has arrived!

Chinese New Year's Eve in 2050 is a day with special feelings.

Just a day ago, the United Nations Space Programme-led human landing program on Mars was well underway, and 16 astronauts from all over the world sent greetings to the distant Earth through "electromagnetic waves" on Mars. Among them are six Chinese astronauts who will only be able to spend this year's Chinese New Year's Eve on Mars.

However, on January 30, 2050, the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, on a quiet afternoon, the website of the Space Planning Agency under the United Nations Science Committee suddenly issued an early warning.

"Due to the influence of the jet of a star 46 light years away, a high-frequency pulse storm is coming towards the Earth, and it is expected to arrive on the Earth in ten days, when all communication and power facilities on the Earth will be affected, and it is expected that there will be a large-scale power outage and network outage, so governments are requested to take corresponding measures as soon as possible."

There was no warning before this warning appeared, but not long after it appeared, it was seen by some reporters who were squatting, so the news was quickly reprinted by the media and further spread.

A pulse storm of stellar jets is heading towards Earth?

A few minutes later, a slightly scary report appeared on social media, which quickly caused some people to be nervous, many of whom mistakenly thought that this pulse storm was a gamma-ray burst, and the earth was in danger of being wiped out!

It's a bit alarmist, but people seem to like it. For example, the faint-hearted love to read ghost stories, and the more scared they are, the more they want to watch them; Obviously a person who doesn't want to encounter any disasters, but he prefers to watch apocalyptic movies, the more disasters and disasters, the more energetic he can watch!

It seems to reveal a kind of cheapness in his bones, or the negative emotion of liking to see others suffer misfortune.

Someone once said: News is a piece of paper, a pen, "tear" out of a piece of humor, then at this time they are naturally indispensable! Media reporters keenly noticed that this was a hot topic, so they took action and began to verify the accuracy of the news.

Two hours later, the Space Planning Agency held a press conference to confirm the authenticity of the warning to reporters from all walks of life around the world.

However, it is specifically pointed out that this pulse storm is only the last sound of the end of life for a star in old age, and the scale is not a gamma-ray burst that makes people talk about tiger color, and there is no danger of destruction on the earth.

That's good news, but the bad news is that the planet will experience widespread communications and power failures due to the impact of this pulse storm, and it is expected that it may take several months to fully repair.

As soon as the news came out, the whole world was in an uproar, and now social technology has penetrated into all aspects of people's lives, although some scholars have proposed that if we return to the world without electricity and no network, what will happen to our lives, but in fact, not many people pay attention to it, because it is almost impossible to happen.

But now this situation is about to become a reality, and the culprit is the influence of an old star 46 light-years away!

"Damn, if there is no Internet, there is no latest drama to watch, how can you let me live?" An otaku who was guarding in front of the computer saw the message pushed by the window, and immediately logged in to the forum where he usually hangs out to post to express his grief.

"I'll die without a new look......"

"Is this what people do, no, is this what the planet is supposed to do?"

"How long can the phone run standby when looking for a power bank online? If you watch it continuously, how long can you watch it, and where is there a request for a good work, online, etc., it's in a hurry!! ”

As soon as I refreshed it, I saw that the screen was full of messy posts.

Of course, in addition to this kind of obviously entertaining witty complaint, there are also many people who have expressed concern about the arrival of the pulse storm, and they are really worried about their lives being affected! Small entrepreneurs, in particular, are worried about the potential stagnation of factories caused by power outages.

Naturally, the media will not let go of this opportunity to make them shine, and for a while, whether it is on the Internet or on the real TV screen, the screen is full of popular science about pulse storms and some life tips.

The whole world seems to be in a carnival because of the impending "disaster", people have no intention of working, and supermarkets are beginning to compete for drinking water and other household supplies.

At this time, of course, it is also the best time for all kinds of rumors to appear, and some clichéd "doomsday remarks" are once again in full swing, and one cult after another and organizations have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and for a time they have taken on the appearance of a hundred ghosts walking at night.

Naturally, listening to the thunder in silence, unlike the media and the government, who are busy reassuring their own people, some experts in the scientific community are now making some discordant voices that seem to the outside world.

On January 31, 2050, the day after the Space Planning Agency announced the warning, Eleanor, a professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and Anse Air, a professor of astronomy at the University of Cambridge, and seven other astronomical researchers held a press conference in the Berkeley press room.

At the press conference, Eleanor and others strongly questioned the professionalism of the Space Planning Agency, saying that they had not found the so-called anomalous star at 46 light-years since they had observed it over the years, so the pulse storm released by the Space Planning Agency would not have occurred.

Since Eleanor and the astronomers in attendance were well-known figures in the industry, their words carried a lot of weight, so the matter became very interesting, and the world was once again confused, whether there was a pulse storm? Will the Earth be affected?

Two groups that seem to be very authoritative, but the answers given are two completely different views, which side should people believe?

Governments and the media are scratching their heads and don't know who to listen to.

On February 1, 2050, People's Daily Online interviewed Zhou Chen, president of Huaxia University, and asked him what he thought of the matter.

Zhou Chen said in an interview with the media: "Stars will inevitably go to the other end of 'life' in their later years, and small stars will experience red giants and eventually become white dwarfs, such as our sun, while stars much larger than the sun will have supernova explosions, collapse into neutron stars or collapse directly into black holes." This is the process of star 'death', which is accompanied by the ejection of matter throughout the process, and as far as I know, there are indeed no anomalous stars 46 light-years away, but the warning issued by the Space Planning Agency is also correct......"

Zhou Chen impartially attacked the Space Planning Agency and the scientists led by Alianor, although he denied the Space Planning Agency's stellar theory in his later years, but he supported the early warning itself.

"It may be a star swallowing event caused by a small black hole in a distant star field, but the end result is a black hole attempt, and the lucky star escapes the black hole's devouring and only loses a little mass. Of course, for a small fraction of the star, it is also a very large lump for us, probably the size of Jupiter. ”

"This star-swallowing event caused the star to eject a powerful pulse storm, and the black hole itself disappeared without a trace......

Because of an interview with Zhou Chen, the controversy in the scientific community was finally finalized, at this time Zhou Chen was already an existence that could influence scientific debate, and his words, even if it was nonsense, others would take it as the truth and think twice, this is the importance of status.

The scientific community was unified, and governments began to plan responses.

……

February 9, 2050, predicts the day when a pulse storm will arrive on Earth.

At this time, in the orbit of Neptune, rows of high-power electromagnetic pulse emitters were arranged in the air, which was a dense array composed of 100,000 transmitters, although each transmitter was not large, but when combined together, it also formed a huge plane.

At the Earth Station, Zhou Chen and a group of leaders waited quietly in the command hall.

"It's almost time!" After looking at the time, Zhou Chen signaled to the commander at the scene.

The commander nodded in understanding, and then instructed his subordinates to enter the countdown.

"The high-density pulse transmitter begins to store energy, and the countdown begins—"

"Three!"

"Two!"

"One!"

"Launch!!"

With a buzzing oscillation, a storm of electromagnetic pulses, invisible to the naked eye, swooped down on a blue planet 30 astronomical units away......

(To be continued.) )