Chapter Seventy-Three: A Message from the Jade Rabbit!
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President Barack is convening a very important meeting in the White House chamber, attended not only by his personal staff and secretary of state, but also by the main leaders of the Department of Defense, the Department of National Security, and the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives.
In addition, the head of NASA headquarters, Dr. Elvis, the executive of the Juno project, and Stanley, who has just been elected as the new president of the United States but has not yet officially taken office, and his team also participated in the meeting.
At this time, President Barack's mood was very complicated, listening to Dr. Elvis on the stage while switching slides and explaining, President Barack's mind was no longer on this, and his thinking gradually drifted away.
Last Tuesday, Stanley, who sat across from him, won the election for the new president of the United States, and according to the election process, Stanley has basically locked in the throne of the new president, and only needs to formally vote in the "Electoral College" next month to be established as the new president.
In other words, President Barack's ruling career has entered the countdown, and as the top person in charge of the caretaker government, this meeting should be the last grand meeting he convened during his presidency.
Thinking of this, he felt a sense of emotion, and couldn't help but feel a wave of sentimentality.
"Dr. Elvis, are you sure it's not April Fool's Day?"
A voice interrupted President Barack's reverie, speaking from Levine, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, from the Democratic Party.
President Barack came back to his senses, looked at Levin, who was from the same party as himself, and then at the report submitted by NASA headquarters on the left-hand side, and his whole mood became even worse.
It's like bad luck and bad luck!
He took a deep breath, managed to calm himself, and then glanced at everyone present with a calm, but sharp gaze.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the main reason for calling you here today has been made very clear, and I believe you have a general understanding! What I want to say is that whether you believe it or not, there is no doubt about the authenticity of the news. ”
As he spoke, he turned his head to look at the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and said in a calm tone: "Mr. Levine, this is the data that Juno has just passed back, and it will not be wrong after the technical appraisal of NASA headquarters." ”
"I'm sorry." Levin shrugged his shoulders and looked flat.
President Barack nodded slightly, he flicked the pen lightly on the table, stood up and said: "The question now is tricky, if the picture shows the truth, then what does it mean?" We, the United States, no, our entire human civilization, will face a difficult choice! ”
"How do we deal with visitors from the other side of the universe? Are they friends or enemies? President Barack asked with an unusually serious face.
"I'm afraid the choice is not ours!"
The crowd looked away, and it was Stanley, a newly elected political figure with gray hair, whose cautious but wise style of conduct was considered steady among all previous presidents, and gave the impression that he was the best at dealing with unexpected situations.
However, at this time, this political figure with strong psychological quality, his heart is not as relaxed as he appeared, as the new president who is about to take office, he originally had more than a month to prepare, but because of the urgency of the situation, he, the reserve president, was also called to participate in this meeting, and it almost does not take too much guesswork to know that this difficult choice will definitely fall on his shoulders in the end!
Who made him the newly elected president!
Stanley has a good eloquence that he wouldn't have been able to win from the crowd, and Stanley said, "What we need to do now is face reality." Friends or foes, these are no longer up to us, and since they have arrived in the solar system, they at least have more advanced technology than us! The question now is what is the purpose of their coming to the solar system? ”
"Is it the hope of discovering intelligent life other than itself, as some of our scientists do, and putting it into action? Or is it simply for the sake of conquest......" said Stanley and glanced at Dr. Elvis, who represented the majority of astronomers at this time, couldn't help but blush.
President Barack nodded: "If it's the former, then of course it's good!" But if it's the latter......"
"So...... Human civilization is about to suffer an unprecedented catastrophe......" Stanley spoke everyone's mind on behalf of everyone.
At this point in the meeting, the atmosphere has become very heavy.
The entire chamber sat a group of people representing the supreme power of the United States, and they had always claimed that the United States was the guardian of the whole of humanity, so in their view, this meeting decided the fate of mankind.
The heavy topic requires them to think carefully, and from another perspective, it means that their minds are wandering, and their decisions are swayed by all kinds of possibilities, and they hesitate, so the meeting unknowingly falls into a stalemate.
"So what do we do next!" After a long silence, the head of NASA headquarters broke the silence of politicians, and as an executor, he needed a pragmatic direction.
"There's no time for us to hesitate!"
President Barack realized the urgency of the time, "We have to figure out what the nature of the spherical craft that appears in the photographs taken by the Juneau!" Whether it is the vanguard of an alien civilization or just a probe is a crucial question that lets us know how much time we have left! ”
Next, the idea of the meeting gradually took shape in the dispute and persuasion of you and me, and finally came up with a brief plan of action.
President Barack knocked on the table: "Ladies and gentlemen, today's matter is very important, and you need to keep it a high degree of secrecy, and the next step is the specific division of labor!" ”
"NASA, for its part, is now going to immediately terminate Juno's mission to Jupiter and let Juno explore the unknown spherical vehicle instead! It's the only tool we have at our disposal at this stage! If we can, we'll take the initiative to communicate with it! Find out their purpose! ”
"Other departments must pay close attention to domestic and foreign trends, and must not allow the news to spread, and the crackdown on rumors must also be strengthened! Don't let the momentum builders take advantage of it! ”
"As for intelligence sharing with other countries...... You can take a break and wait until we confirm the news! ”
"Stanley, based on practical considerations, the unified coordination of the entire incident will be left to you to complete, anyway, you will be in the White House soon, no one is more suitable for this job than you!"
Stanley nodded, "I understand. ”
"Next, let's ask God to bless us!" President Barack said with a sigh.
How much of a sensation caused by the fact that Juno "inadvertently" photographed the "Wang Fatty" aircraft on the side of the American high-level, Zhou Chen didn't care, many things came from accident, if there was no mistake by "Wang Fatty" to catch Juno as space junk, then there would be no follow-up changes.
Zhou Chen's purpose is very simple, so simple that he does not have any bad intentions, he does this, just to stimulate those in power on the earth, and give them a dozen preventive shots in advance, so as not to give them the process of integrating their thoughts when the Earth Fleet led by him is officially unveiled.
Of course, after deliberately reminding the US authorities, Zhou Chen couldn't favor one over the other, and he asked Dandan to arrange for several other major powers to intercept the intelligence from NASA in the United States very coincidentally, so that they vaguely knew something about the situation, but they didn't know the details in the clouds.
In fact, in Zhou Chen's eyes, except for a few big countries that are capable and trustworthy, the rest of the countries are not trustworthy, and telling them too much will only cause trouble.
Asia, Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center.
Wu Ming, deputy director of the general office, was directing the telemetry of a high-precision metal arm to control the millimeter-level precision control, and at this moment, the sound of "Di Di Di" suddenly sounded in the general room.
"What's the situation?" Wu Ming and several of his men looked at the control platform suspiciously.
"Director Wu, there seems to be signs of telemetry information returning." One technician said with some surprise.
"How is it possible, there is no observation mission now!"
Wu Ming reflexively retorted, but looking at the flashing "connection request" signal on the screen, he had a trace of doubt, "Is there really a message returned?" ”
At this time, a technician who came to the console first suddenly shouted loudly: "Director Wu, come and see, it's the Jade Rabbit!" The Yutu spacecraft in the Hongwan area of the moon sent back a data request message! ”
"How is that possible!"
Wu Ming was taken aback, this was his first reaction, the Jade Rabbit had completed its final mission as early as the end of July, and had completely entered a state of complete dormancy, how could it still maintain data communication with the ground! Not to mention that it took the initiative to connect it.
"Director Wu, it's really a data request sent back by the Jade Rabbit!"
This is another technician who walked to the console and turned to Wu Ming and shouted.
"Is it true?" Wu Ming's whole person was in doubt, it was as if someone told you that a deceased person sent you a text message, and at the same time, he was surprised, but he should still be scared!
Wu Ming slowly walked to the console, cast his eyes suspiciously, and through the screen, the request application made him stunned, and he opened his mouth incredulously: "Actually...... It was really sent by the Jade Rabbit! ”
"Director Wu, what should I do, do you want to approve the request?"
Wu Ming's eyes flickered, and he shook his head and said, "Wait for now...... Check the data channel now to verify that it was sent by the Jade Rabbit! ”
"The channel has been verified, it meets the characteristics of the data management module of the Yutu, and it is confirmed that it is from the Yutu!" After a while, the technicians under his command came to give feedback.
"Well, agree to the data connection!"
Wu Ming bowed his head lightly and gave the order decisively.
"The connection is successful, and the data channel is established! The Jade Rabbit is transmitting data! ”
"Director Wu, the data has been transmitted, and it is a photo taken through the panoramic camera of the Jade Rabbit, there are five in total!"
Wu Ming said: "Immediately carry out imaging processing, and then display it on the big screen!" ”
"Yes!" With a technician's answer, the sound of tapping on the keyboard crackled, and in a short time, five photos appeared on the big screen.
"It's ......"
Wu Ming cast his eyes on the big screen, and then including him, more than a dozen staff members at the scene were collectively stunned.
I saw that in the picture, you can clearly see the outline of the moon and the shadow of the crater under the sun, but this is not the point, the point is that not far from the Jade Rabbit, a spaceship actually appeared!
A black, falcon-like ship with extremely smooth lines!
It's a masterpiece! But the question is, why did such a spacecraft appear on the moon and what does it mean?
Suddenly, Wu Ming felt a cold current surging up along his spine, and the whole person seemed to be in the ice and snow.