Flying out of the solar system's magnetic field, Poseidon was still accelerating, and after a distance of about 2,000 astronomical units, Poseidon finally reached a maximum speed of 0.7 times the speed of light, and then it turned off its main engines and began to enter the inertial cruising phase, 32 days after its departure. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

According to the plan, Poseidon will maintain its current inertial cruising speed for a long time in the future, and leave the gravitational radiation range of the solar system in 26 months, completely becoming a wandering spacecraft in the universe. At that time, the three support ships will find the right time to bridge with the Poseidon and transfer the energy materials needed for the future.

However, there is no way to understand these with traditional communication methods, because once Poseidon enters the high-speed cruising stage, its space-time plane has been misaligned with the outside world, and the time lapse speed of Poseidon is only equivalent to more than two-thirds of the outside world, which makes it impossible to transmit information in real time no matter how it is communicated.

Even quantum communication, which theoretically ignores spatial distance, has to comply with the "rules of time" in this case.

At this time, if the Earth Fleet wants to understand the actual situation of the Poseidon, the communication with the Poseidon needs to be corrected, and the information needs to be sent at intervals.

For example, the Earth Fleet took fourteen minutes to send a message, and the Poseidon felt like it took ten minutes to receive this message; The clock on board the corresponding Poseidon spacecraft took ten minutes to send the message, but in the eyes of the Earth Fleet, it took a full fourteen minutes to send this message, and of course it would take fourteen minutes to receive this message.

Such differences in time and space make it necessary for the Earth Fleet to adjust the sending and receiving of messages sent to the Poseidon. Fortunately, this feeling is not obvious, and if the speed is increased a little more, just communication will become a headache.

This time, Zhou Chen did not stay in the earth station for too long, and after assigning the task of selecting the person in charge of the discipline, he returned to the earth with Yang Xi.

After Zhou Chen left, the Earth Station once again entered a busy stage, but all scientists who had a little hope were full of energy to attack the position of the head of the discipline. When Cao Jiangfeng formulated the selection plan, he not only took into account the problem of knowledge, but also took the results achieved by himself as a reference for the selection, which accounted for a large proportion.

As a result, many scientists have begun to bury their heads in the laboratory, like students who are about to face the college entrance examination, making the final sprint.

After returning to the earth, Zhou Chen finally had spare time, the daily coarse rice and weak tea, plain as water, neither expensive nor cheap, except for occasionally going out for a walk with Yang Xi, most of the time nested in his own territory, calming down, no distractions, silently deducing the flash of thought in his heart, and many times he could find the beat of the chain database.

And Yang Xi seems to have matured since she went to the Earth Station, when Zhou Chen was busy, she helped take care of the meals, added laughter on weekdays, and had more books in her hand, and began to concentrate on studying. made Concubine Hua joke that Yang Xi was close to Zhu Zhechi, and he was also ready to take the title of "associate professor".

Time passed lightly, passed softly, and poured himself a drink.

Internationally, a turbulent change has suddenly set off huge waves in the calm appearance.

Just when the international community was generally optimistic that China and the United States would enter the honeymoon again, and the world pattern was expected to open up the grand plan of "ruling the world together", what happened in a shallow bay late one night made all this come to naught, and all current affairs commentators booed and were dumbfounded.

In the early hours of January 7, 2016, the South China Sea (South China Sea), off Cam Ranh Bay.

A U.S. Freedom-class littoral combat ship sailed into a traditional fishing area in the South China Sea, and unexpectedly encountered 21 Chinese distant-water fishing grounds that were fishing in the fishing grounds, and in the dark night, the littoral combat ship collided with the fishing boat, causing damage to its own starboard side, and rammed and sank an old fishing boat.

Later, a Ticonderoga-class cruiser that happened to be cruising nearby arrived and confronted two Chinese coast guard ships that had rushed to hear the news.

As of this incident, the situation has escalated in an all-round way, and a certain formation of the South China Sea Fleet, which was about to conduct a joint exercise on the surface and underwater in nearby waters, rushed to the scene after receiving the order; although the Ticonderoga-class cruiser is an advanced US warship, it still appears outnumbered in the face of a formation composed of several advanced Type 052D missile destroyers of the South China Sea Fleet. After being surrounded by groups, the top level of China and the United States urgently activated a military hotline to adjust and communicate, and finally, at the strong request of the Chinese side, the Ticonderoga-class cruiser was temporarily detained by the South China Sea Fleet.

As the news spread in the morning, the spokesmen of the Chinese and American defense ministries accused each other of "unprofessional" operations in front of the media as the main reason for the escalation of the situation.

The whole world was stunned all of a sudden, what kind of trouble is this, yesterday was fine, but he was almost called a brother, and today he will become an enemy of blood and hatred?

In the midst of the mutual bargaining between the two sides, the keen reporters gradually showed the ins and outs of the matter, a Chinese fishing boat and a coast guard ship were sunk, and the US Ticonderoga-class cruiser was detained.

When the news reached the United States, the American people, who were preparing for a leisurely weekend, collectively lost their voices, and immediately expressed their strong anger at the seizure of the Ticonderoga-class cruiser, and their anger was directed at the caretaker government led by Barack.

"The weak government under the weak leadership of Barack has sent our brothers, sons and daughters across the ocean!"

"Without the American compromise, the heroic Ticonderoga would have returned to his home port from his planned final journey, which is now ruined by the government of Barack."

The people's firepower is basically directed at why Barack agreed to hand over the Ticonderoga-class cruiser to the Chinese side for detention, you must know that this is absolutely not in line with the hawkish demands of the US military. The U.S. Pacific Command immediately announced a state of combat readiness, awaiting exact instructions from the new president when he takes office.

Because of this incident, large and small demonstrations were launched in the United States, and in China, after the incident was reported by the media, there were silent people and righteous indignant people, but more of them were voices of support after the seizure of the other party's cruiser.

Naturally, there are people in the two countries who find the situation too strange, and they think about it carefully, will all this be too coincidental?

What are the littoral combat ships doing when they sail into the traditional fishing areas of the South China Sea, and are they passing by? But why do 21 Chinese distant-water fishing boats meet when passing by, you must know that this is not its ideal shipping lane! And even if it's dark at night, the littoral combat ships won't even be able to spot the huge ocean-going fishing boats?

What's even more strange is the Ticonderoga-class cruiser that has been cruising nearby, this class of ships usually travels with American aircraft carriers, why did it appear there alone at that time, and after sinking the coast guard ship, the formation composed of 052D missile destroyers was too coincidental, and it perfectly surrounded the cruiser, plus Berrack's slight relaxation, the Ticonderoga-class cruiser was detained.

One link after another, so that people who find the strange suddenly have a ridiculous feeling that "China and the United States are acting".

The voice of reason calling for peace was quickly drowned out, and everyone knew that the friendly situation created by the two countries before had disappeared after this incident, and the changes in state-to-state relations were so subtle that they climbed to the extreme like a roller coaster and then plummeted, frightening many investors who were originally optimistic about the relationship between the two countries.

The stock markets of the two countries began to plummet, and there was a faint hint of social turmoil.

The military conflict turned into an economic winch, and a huge shock wave began to sweep the economy of the entire world.

At this time, some clowns in the South China Sea did not dare to make trouble, as if they were frightened, and instead began to preach the idea of peaceful development of the South China Sea.

In the midst of the disturbances, the Chinese side remained secretive, and apart from a few innocuous statements issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National Defense, the wording of the tone was gradually improved, but there was no substantive action.

On the contrary, President Barack, who is about to leave office, is becoming more and more shaky in the tide of public opinion.