“…… According to the news of the Allied Academy of Sciences, the power of this solar storm is really rare, although it will not destroy the ground facilities, but it is likely to cause a large-scale power outage, in addition, radio communications will inevitably be interfered with, at present, Icarus has begun to evacuate in an orderly manner, about the regional power outage, as well as the shutdown time of various regional communications and navigation satellites, you can visit the website of this newspaper, or the official website of the Allied Academy of Sciences......

-- The Alliance Times

***

"Are you already convinced?"

At the same time, it was already early in the morning on Icarus, the chief of the general staff of the Allied Space Force, Edward . Wordsworth sat behind his desk, looking at the report in his hand and frowning.

Thirty minutes earlier, Admiral Edward, who had been working until midnight and was about to leave work, was suddenly detained by an urgent report from the Academy of Sciences, and Edward, 55, who was a true junior in the military, quickly skimmed through the report, and the three-page report had only one core content: 72 hours later, Icarus would usher in a large solar storm that would last more than 17 hours.

Solar storms can be described as man-made spacecraft killers, and Icarus is naturally not exempt, although it will not be paralyzed by ordinary solar storms, but if the necessary defenses are not carried out, it will also cause huge losses.

It stands to reason that for Edward, Chief of the General Staff of the Space Force, who has the title of Doctor of Astrophysics and has served in the Air Force Space Department for more than ten years, although solar eruptions are not commonplace, there are always so many times a month, and there is nothing surprising. But at this time, he frowned.

The reason is time.

"Why did you get it now, it stands to reason that there should have been a relevant report a week in advance."

Edward glanced at the Academy of Sciences liaison standing beside the orderly and asked his own question.

"This time it was very sudden, and we preliminarily judged that there were some unexpected factors."

The liaison officer of the Academy of Sciences nodded very calmly, and then pushed the bottom of the beer, which was twice as thick as Han Fei, although myopia can be cured, there will be some troublesome complications after old age, so the Academy of Sciences is still an army of various glasses.

"Surprises?" Edward raised an eyebrow. Waiting for explanation.

"Yes. According to our solar monitoring network and mathematical models, this eruption will not exist at all," the liaison officer of the Academy of Sciences continued to explain slowly, "and there must have been some unexpected factors that disturbed the equilibrium of the sun." Probably a meteorite that we didn't observe. Or maybe it's something else we don't understand yet. ”

"That's ......," Edward nodded. Although this answer is not accurate, it is quite satisfactory to him, as the chief of the general staff of the Space Army. There must be a certain scientific spirit, and the core of the scientific spirit is to admit that science cannot solve a problem.

"Upload the specific outbreak time to the relevant departments, start acting in accordance with the emergency avoidance plan No. 3, immediately contact the presidential office, start the temporary government affairs handling process, and let those congressmen move their butts and go back to Washington." Edward sighed, "It's a pity that if you change the track urgently, you will have to ask those councillors for the fuel money again." ”

The so-called emergency avoidance is to use Icarus's own propulsion device, on the basis of consuming a lot of valuable fuel, to let the entire space station hide behind the earth during the solar storm to avoid being directly attacked by the solar storm, which means that Icarus needs more than twelve hours of continuous orbit change, and the fuel burned will be an astronomical amount when the orbital elevator has not been repaired and all the materials are transported on the ground.

What's more, with such a huge fuel consumption, it is impossible to reserve a large amount of Icarus, if an emergency orbit change is carried out, then Icarus will lose its ability to maneuver in a short time, and even the number of ground attack weapons delivered to Rios will have to be reduced, after all, Rios's fuel source is also Icarus.

The lunar base must be put on the agenda as soon as possible, Edward thought a little farther, the current lunar base is only a few spaceships converted into scientific research and living modules, and a large amount of materials still need to be transported from Icarus......

However, fortunately, the engine technology of prehistoric civilizations was advanced enough and the fuel efficiency was high enough, otherwise they really could not afford such an emergency orbit change.

"Yes, sir."

The orderly saluted a military salute, turned around and walked out of the office, according to the evacuation plan, the council on Icarus must be evacuated back to the ground, and other government agencies only keep the basic personnel on duty, the reason for this is because during the evacuation period, due to the interference of the solar storm, the radio communication inside and outside the entire atmosphere will be severely interfered with, although there are a large number of quantum communication equipment on Icarus, but different areas on the ground are not all equipped with fully functional receiving devices, so the general plan is still the council, the military apparatus and key government agencies were evacuated to the ground, with the military apparatus concentrated in Asia, while the parliament and the president went to Washington in North America.

"You can go down." It's just that these things have nothing to do with Edward, he doesn't need to leave Icarus, so the admiral put the electronic board in his hand on the table and waved at the liaison officer of the Academy of Sciences, who gave a military salute and turned to leave, and the moment he closed the door, Admiral Edward stretched and unbuttoned his shirt.

It's time to go to bed.

***

"Didi-Di-Di-"

Just as Admiral Edward was about to go to bed, in the Lobniya barracks on the other side of the world, a series of hurried prompts suddenly sounded on the computer terminal in Han Fei's room.

Han Fei was still leaning back in the large sofa, his eyes closed, as if he hadn't heard at all.

"Didi-Di-Di-"

However, like an indomitable warrior, the communication prompt kept emitting a slightly piercing prompt sound, and finally, after about four or five minutes of ringing, Han Fei opened his eyes, stood up, put on his glasses, and walked to the terminal.

"I'm Han Fei, I'm in a bad mood, I have something to say quickly."

Han Fei tapped lightly on the holographic keyboard, and Anderson's oriental face instantly appeared on the screen.

"Looks like you didn't see my email to you." Anderson, who touched a nail, was stunned for a moment, but scientists will have a little strange temper, and it is not the first time that Han Fei has given Anderson a cold face, and Anderson naturally knows how to deal with it, so he quickly went straight to the topic, "There will be a solar storm in 72 hours." ”

"72 hours?"

Han Fei instantly captured the crux of the problem, and he also knew something about the monitoring model of the Academy of Sciences, which could be predicted seven days in advance, even if something changed. Five days in advance is still no problem. Why is it only seventy-two hours this time?

"That's right, it's 72 hours, Icarus has already activated the emergency evacuation procedures, and I'll be back on the ground soon." Anderson nodded. There was a pause. Ask, "What do you think?" ”

"Send me the number recorded by the perturbation model."

Han Fei pushed his glasses, then pulled out a stool and sat in front of the computer. With his right hand, he pulled out a storage drive from his pocket and inserted it into the computer, his fingers darting on the holographic keyboard.

"It was sent to you."

"I need some time." Han Fei swiped his fingers, slid the holographic keyboard to the side, his right hand jumped on the keyboard, and then turned his head to look at Anderson who was compressed in the upper left corner of the screen, "Is there anything else?" ”

"I received an encrypted email from a sender claiming to be 'Prometheus' with a piece of information." Anderson moved his fingers and sent another letter over, "The content inside, to put it simply, is about the ACA attack. ”

"ACA attack?" Han Fei frowned, and then opened Wen Jiàn.

In short, he found an ACA tactical drill for large chemical facilities, including how to breach the security system, how to cause the storage tank to burn, how to shut down the fire fighting system, etc., which he believes is likely to be a precursor to an attack.

"I know, I'll inform the relevant personnel of this later." Han Fei's right hand was still throbbing on the keyboard, but there was an impatient look on his face.

"If you're busy, do you want me to inform Ling Yu?" Anderson also frowned at this time, he was silent for a moment, and proposed a Jianyì.

"He's busy, he's not available." Han Fei flicked his backhand impatiently, "If it's okay, I'll cut off contact, and I'll let you know if there's any further progress." ”

After speaking, ignoring Anderson, who still wanted to say something, Han Fei turned off the communication connection with his backhand, pulled the keyboard back in front of him, and stared at the strings of numbers.

"Bastard!"

But soon, he found that he couldn't see the number of people in his line, Han Fei slammed his fist on the table, then took a deep breath, turned around and walked to the bed, lay on the bed, and covered his head with the quilt.

In the dark room, he fell asleep unconsciously, and not long after he fell asleep, the computer screen behind him showed the results of the calculation.

Anomalous disturbances have been detected, with a high probability of being dropped on man-made objects.

***

"Well, I thought you were going to be in bed for two more days."

At the same time, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, somewhere in the islands of Micronesia, in a secret base, Char. Pierre looked at Marshall, who was walking towards him. Colona, with a wave of his hand.

"It was fine three or four days ago, isn't this to paralyze those old immortals?"

As if to prove that he was fine, Marshall gently moved his shoulders and shook his head.

"I'll ask one last time, are you sure you want to go on your own?" Char looked at Marshall, then turned around, looked at the beach-grabbing landing ships that were disguised as civilian ro-ro freighters, and asked more, "There is no support, no evacuation, if the plan does not succeed, there is only a dead end." ”

"According to you, if I die, it will be a natural obsolescence," Marshall said, holding his right hand on his forehead with a black leather glove, to ward off the strong light from the ceiling.

"You don't have to worry about what I promised you, Grant and I will take care of it, and if he wants to, I will always take him with me." Char pushed the brim of the big cap and shook his head gently, "As for Jessica, no one will know who she is. ”

"That's enough, so that even if I die and go to hell, I'll have an explanation for Grace." Marshall pulled out his large-brimmed hat from under his armpit and fastened it to his head, "But if you just give up halfway, I won't let you go even if I become a ghost." ”

"Unless I'm dead." Char had a faint smile on his face, and behind the smile was absolute confidence, "You know, the person who can kill me hasn't been born yet." ”

"At the end of the day, do you still need this?" Marshall turned his gaze to the side, where another landing ship disguised as a freighter was carrying a container with a "chemical hazard" sign painted on it, and he closed his eyes and muttered to himself.

"I hope that Tongguò's sacrifice this time can end the war as soon as possible and put mankind on the track of high-speed evolution as soon as possible." Char lowered his head, buried his eyes in the brim of his black hat, and half-rattle, he took a silver box out of his pocket and handed it to Marshall.

"Here's what you want."

Marshall took the box and gently opened the lid, revealing a red needle.

"This is the latest model of the 'Death Knell', it is used to kill people, I hope you don't need it."

"I won't thank you, but I'll be waiting for you below." Marshall closed the box and put it in his pocket, smiling softly.

"When this qiē is completed, even if no one kills me, I will go to you...... And Grace. Char curled the corners of his mouth.

"You want to snatch Grace from me, for the rest of your life." Marshall reached out and slapped Char's chest before turning around and outstretching his fist, "May the light of evolution shine on all of humanity." ”

"May the light of evolution shine on all mankind." Char reached out and clenched his fist, and Marshall struck it gently, a sentence that was repeated by countless people every day, but at this moment it seemed extremely sacred.

Then Marshall turned around and strode towards the landing ship over there.

Char, on the other hand, turned around and boarded the car behind him without looking back. (To be continued......)