In the control center of the Joint Program for Satellite Navigation and Positioning (JPO), a controller let out a scream: "Contact is lost on the 65th!" ”

"Another one!?"

The director of the center slammed his fist on the table: "WTF! This is the fourth one! ”

He hesitated, but picked up the phone: "Pick up the Pentagon...... Immediately inform the Minister of Defense that the fourth GPS satellite has lost contact and the GPS system is about to fail! ”

In the Pentagon, in the office of the Secretary of Defense, a bunch of officials crowded at the door, looking anxious, and the minister waved impatiently and came over to close the door in person.

"Fifteen minutes ago, we lost another Olympia! So far, in less than four days, we have lost 21 reconnaissance satellites, 3 laser satellites, 15% of our military satellites in orbit! ”

"This is definitely not an accident, this is war! It must have been done by the Chinese people! They have been aggressive in space! What the? They also lost satellites? Certitude? No, I don't believe in the Chinese ......"

The assistant outside the door couldn't help but knock on the door: "Minister, everyone is here, including the space commander and the planetary defense officer!" ”

The Minister of Defense sighed helplessly: "Okay, I will continue to coordinate the follow-up of various departments." ”

In an altitude orbit 3,200 kilometers above the earth, a silvery-white, strip-like spacecraft approached a satellite and kept a distance of twenty or thirty meters from the satellite. In the recessed groove in the middle of the hull, two mechanical arms stretched out, unfolding one by one, up and down, accurately holding the satellite.

A large hatch opens above the spacecraft, and the robotic arm recovers, sending the satellite into the compartment under the hatch.

Sitting in the manned capsule of the Singularity, Xia Ming's AR glasses are a huge cabin at the front of the Scavenger, and the satellite is fixed in the middle by the robotic arm in the cabin.

"Run, keep running......"

Xia Ming muttered that this satellite is the latest generation of "Angry Birds" reconnaissance satellites in the United States, which is small but capable, and highly maneuverable. When he caught it for the first time, this guy happened to change the orbit and chased it from an altitude of 2,000 kilometers to 3,200 kilometers before catching it.

He is not rash, although he has already managed twenty or thirty reconnaissance satellites, but this one is more powerful and worth spending some effort.

The terahertz scanner clearly presented the structure of the satellite, and Xia Ming operated a more delicate robotic arm to get busy on the satellite, and after a while, the communication control part of the satellite was revealed. The robotic arm connected the data line to the satellite line, and Xia Xiaoyan began to try to crack and rewrite the program.

After a while, Xia Xiaoyan reported: "The satellite communication system carries neuronal chips and machine intelligence developed based on proprietary language and closed systems, which takes a long time to crack and is difficult to find the backdoor, so it is recommended to build another control system." ”

"It's very easy to use", Xia Ming smiled, since it can't be cracked, then scrap it physically, and directly use his Zhiyin chip to build a control system.

Everyone is guarding against the hacking of military satellites, but they can directly capture satellites in space, dismantle the control chips in satellites, and replace them with other chips.

Half an hour later, the hatch opened again, and the large mechanical arm outside the hull reached in, putting the satellite back in its original place, and through the control intelligence on the scavenger, it was confirmed that the satellite had a good attitude and normal communication, Xia Ming smiled coldly: "Come and see, what fish ...... are still hidden in this orbit."

The optical detector showed the satellites found around one by one into the AR field of vision, looking at a satellite that was huge in size and could be classified as a space station, with a slender body, pointing to the other side of the orbit like a long sword, Xia Ming showed an expression on his face: "Spike railgun...... In less than two years, you are really ready for a space war in such a short period of time. ”

He flew the spacecraft in Earth orbit for four days, capturing and modifying three American satellites equipped with ultra-high-power laser transmitters, which were obviously used for anti-satellite purposes, in addition to GPS satellites, reconnaissance satellites, and some commercial communications satellites.

In contrast, Huaxia has more laser satellites, he has only modified two, and now his main target is the Americans.

When he was still on Earth, although there were also military satellites in the Earth's orbit, the vast majority of them were reconnaissance satellites. There are occasionally a few satellites with weapons on board, and they are all experimental in nature.

In the past less than two years, there have been more than a dozen or twenty laser satellites over the earth, and space railguns that have been only on the drawing board have been seen. The situation on both sides of Huaxia and the United States is just the opposite, Huaxia has more laser satellites, after all, the laser technology is mature, and the United States has fewer laser satellites, but it has deployed the first railgun with actual combat capability.

Although the size of this space railgun is smaller, its overall appearance is similar to the spike railgun that the United States prepared to develop during the Cold War. It is really doubtful that it can be deployed to the sky in such a short period of time.

Xia Ming steered the spaceship close to the railgun, the main body of this guy was about the size of his spaceship, and the solar panels were larger.

Using a terahertz scanner, Xia Ming was silent for a moment, and suddenly laughed, laughing so loudly that tears were about to burst into laughter.

The railgun is powered exactly the same as his singularity spacecraft, with three 20 megawatt VASIMR engines! The internal structure of the engine is basically the same, this is not copied from Kunpeng, where else will it come from?

Not only that, VASIR's superconducting intelligent magnetic field is similar to that of the railgun, and after eating this part of the technology, the railgun will be ripe, no wonder the Americans will move so fast.

In the orbit of the earth, China and the United States are tense, but on the Chinese side, some people have leaked everything to the Americans. Sure enough, as he expected, after he was "killed," the Americans colluded with certain people in China to divide up his "inheritance." The Americans take technology, and some people in China take dollars.

"Get some interest before you get the principal back!"

After calming down, Xia Ming manipulated the mechanical arm outside the spaceship and started another round of "Dove Occupies Magpie's Nest" operation. This guy is too big to catch in, but he has a robotic arm that can "work on the spot".

In the Pentagon's war conference room, the secretary of defense was knocking on the table, spitting on all kinds of space deployments in China, and an officer leaned into the ear of the air force space commander and whispered something, and the commander's mouth was wide open, and he muttered: "Oh--wheat-ga-de!" ”

Everyone, including the Minister of Defense, stared at him, and after a while, he woke up like a dream and lost his voice: "Spike has also lost contact!" ”

There was an uproar in the conference room, and the beautiful assistant covered her mouth and asked the officer next to her with tears in her eyes: "Is this how the war began?" ”

"We've got to fight back! Counterattack! A certain general dropped his AR glasses on the table, unbuttoned his collar, and shouted panting.

"General, we still haven't figured out what's going on, and we're at least three steps away from starting a war," the plainclothes man from the White House was still calm: "Please don't make any unauthorized remarks related to the war, this power is in the White House." ”

"Then let's find out what's going on!"

The Secretary of Defense yelled at the Planetary Defense Officer, the head of NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office, and shrugged helplessly: "There is still nothing found on the Cheyenne Mountain. ”

The Cheyenne Mountain Underground Monitoring Center is not only in charge of the military radar network all over the country or even the world, but can also requisition the resources of scientific research institutions if necessary, as long as they want, from the atmosphere to the orbit of space at all levels, they can monitor any aircraft.

But now, the United States has lost more than 30 satellites since four days ago, and even the most secret railguns have been lost, and Cheyenne Mountain still hasn't found any clues.

"I think ......" the other, glasses-weared, pedantic raised his hand in a cower, looking like a scientist in the service of the military.

After getting permission, he plucked up the courage to say, "I think it's probably caused by Xia Ming." ”

"Xia Ming?" The Minister of Defense showed an incredulous expression: "You mean, the madman who died on the planet Homo sapiens a year and a half ago was his ghost who damaged our satellite?" ”

"No, it's not that Xia Ming, don't you know?" The scientist was also shocked by the fact that the Minister of Defense did not care about science at all, and he tried to adjust his tone so as not to sound like a mockery: "It's Comet Xia Ming, a comet approaching Earth." Since a month ago, the comet has undergone an astonishing anomaly, and we still don't understand why. I wonder if the satellite thing has something to do with this. ”

"I don't understand why...... Guess...... You scientists, that's all you can do!? ”

The Minister of Defense was dissatisfied: "More than two months ago, a group of scientific maniacs said that the strong gravitational wave came from Homo sapiens and would be followed by a catastrophe enough to destroy humanity, forcing the president to conduct a disaster prevention exercise across the country......

He patted the table and said, "It's still the military's budget!" ”

"Maybe it's really Xia Ming back", the planetary defense officer said in a heavy tone: "Look, Zhishen Star is also related to Xia Ming." ”

"It's not funny!" The Minister of Defense's anger is bursting the table.

"We don't think it's funny either," said the planetary defense officer, "I just received a report that our NASA Manhattan doctor, oh, GEI's name, analyzed the timeline and orbital distribution of the lost satellites, simulated the trajectory of a certain being, something like ......this."

He clicked out of thin air, and everyone wearing AR glasses saw a dynamic scene, and even those without glasses could see it on the projection screen.

The line descends from the upper orbit, swallows the satellites one by one, and then spirals upward, switches to the apex of the geosynchronous orbit, and then eats the satellites downward. The speed had always been even, and a few hours earlier, the line had suddenly picked up, catching up with a satellite that was changing orbits, and then running towards the Spike Railgun.

"The simulation shows that Huaxia, Japan, South Korea, India and the European Union, they have also lost nearly 20 satellites, except for Huaxia, the reports of missing satellites in other countries are in line with the simulation, only Huaxia's has a gap. However, everyone knows that just as the Soviet Union had an Iron Curtain, China had smog. ”

"Dr. Manhattan believes that this is clearly a conscious, controlled behavior, not an unknown astronomical phenomenon," the planetary defense officer paused, and added: "He deduced that the other side was a spacecraft with full-spectrum stealth capabilities." ”

"I don't believe there are ghosts," the Minister of Defense muttered, asking uncertainly, "Was there anything unusual on the Homo sapiens side before?" Hell, except for that gravitational wave! ”

The planetary defense officer spread his hands: "Isn't there a department in charge of the observation of Homo sapiens?" ”

"Musk ......"

The Minister of Defense thought of something: "I give you authorization, you immediately go to him and ask him what he has found." ”

Xia Ming...... If it really is him, what exactly is he going to do? ”

The Minister of Defense whispered to himself, and a general next to him spread his hands: "Of course it's debt collection." ”

Then the two of them shook their heads and laughed, how could it be him......

"Musk, let's start with you first", in space, after taking another communication satellite for himself, Xia Ming muttered. (To be continued.) )