Chapter 008: A Vision of the Starry Sky
Zhang Xinyu opened Yue Rong's cyberspace again, and after reading Yue Rong's latest post again, she couldn't tell what she felt in her heart. Is there really such a thing as the end times coming? She shouldn't believe this kind of groundless and incredible thing, but how could Yue Rong deceive people? How could they write down those prophecies with all their might?
Zhang Xinyu hesitated, took out her mobile phone and dialed her cousin Zhang Tianyu's number.
"Brother Tianyu, it's me Xinyu. My classmate posted a post, can you see if it's true? Zhang Xinyu asked her cousin Zhang Tianyu for help, and among the people she knew, the person she admired the most was her cousin Dr. Zhang Tianyu.
In China, Zhang Tianyu is a well-known scholar in astrophysics, and he can always look at problems from other levels, and he is a very credible figure in the whole family, and has always had a great influence on Zhang Xinyu's growth.
"Oh, it's Xiao Xinyu, what kind of post, you can send it." Zhang Tianyu is not as busy as other scholars, he works at the observatory, the time scale of changes in the vast universe is too large, most of his time is actually idle, idle, idle sometimes he feels like a stone about to be overgrown with grass.
Zhang Tianyu and his cousin chatted on their mobile phones, asking Zhang Xinyu about her studies, asking about her uncle's family, and passing the time. From Zhang Xinyu's tone, he heard that his cousin seemed to pay special attention to the person who posted the post, thinking that his cousin had changed from a small hairy head to a big girl in the blink of an eye, and it seemed that he had reached the age when he should fall in love, and he couldn't help but smile and feel that he was older.
Clicking on the network link sent by Zhang Xinyu and seeing the title of "2021.11.06 The End of the World", Zhang Tianyu couldn't help but smile and shook his head. There have always been so many sensational rumors and assertions about the end of the world that the most famous Mayans predicted the end of the world in 2012.
Zhang Tianyu, who had nothing to do, looked down patiently because of his cousin Zhang Xinyu's request, and couldn't help frowning as he read it. He had a special feeling that the person who wrote this post seemed to have seen those zombies and bugs, and they used fear and sorrow between the lines. On the contrary, he didn't care much about those prophecies, he didn't believe that there were really prophets and such illogical prophets in mankind.
Zhang Tianyu read this post written by Yue Rong several times in a row, and always felt that the content in it seemed to have a faint connection with him, he leaned back in the computer chair, looking at the white wall in a daze, exploring the source of this feeling.
Time slipped by bit by bit, and it wasn't until Zhang Xinyu asked Zhang Tianyu for the twelfth time on the Internet chat tool when he was not there, and Zhang Tianyu didn't notice it.
"Yes, I just thought about it." Zhang Tianyu replied. I felt that my stomach was empty, and I forgot to eat because I was thinking about things.
I don't know when the sky outside the window has completely darkened, and countless stars twinkle in the night sky, like a beautiful painting. This is an observatory, far away from the city, and the visibility in the air environment is excellent, but Zhang Tianyu glanced at the night sky outside the window, but it froze.
He got up and walked to the window with some hesitation, looking at the starry sky in the night sky, suddenly he was cold, his body staggered back two steps, closed the curtain and didn't dare to look out the window again.
Zhang Tianyu sat back in his chair, and hurriedly found the star maps that he remembered from the computer, saying that it was not accurate, it should be called a dust cloud mirror in space.
In the dust cloud there are several tiny round or oval rings of dust that look like several stones have been thrown into the calm water, and the ripples on the surface of the water are intertwined.
After reading those few dust cloud mirrors, Zhang Tianyu once again confirmed his thoughts, and sat in the chair decadently, without any strength. These images were observed two months ago during an observation of the Oort Cloud. It is about 50,000 to 100,000 astronomical units from the Sun, almost a light-year, and is dotted with inactive comets that have been his main subject of observation.
When he discovered this strange phenomenon, he thought that he had discovered some new comet, but after exhaustive calculations, the astonishing data that came up made him finally abandon all his original ideas, and directly put these pictures into the database, and never looked through them again.
If he hadn't seen the post "2021.11.06 The End of the World" today, he wouldn't have vaguely remembered it. It was calculated at that time that the object passing through the dust cloud reached almost 40% of the speed of light, which is a super speed of 120,000 km/s. It's ridiculously high, and no comet can fly at such a speed without collapsing. Zhang Tianyu really couldn't understand and imagine what kind of acceleration the comet had to go through to reach such an incomparably amazing high speed.
At that time, he calculated the time it took for the objects to pass through the Earth's orbit, because the observation point was about a light-year away from the Earth, and when he saw this strange phenomenon, it was actually a year after the objects passed through the dust cloud. According to the speed of the other party approaching 40% of the speed of light, when he discovered this phenomenon, the other party's position in the Earth's orbit was actually only about 0.2 light years. If those objects continue to maintain this speed, then it should approach or pass by the Earth's orbit around the beginning of October.
The time mentioned in the post is almost a month later than the time expected by Zhang Tianyu through calculation, and the only common reason that can be explained is that the other party is slowing down. Could it really be that aliens are going to invade Earth? Zhang Tianyu didn't want to accept this reality, but those objects that were obviously not the speed that comets could reach were speeding towards the interior of the solar system, what were they?
Zhang Tianyu was sweating profusely, trembling in two streams, and almost felt difficult to breathe. Maybe ordinary people don't know the gap between the two sides, but as far as he is concerned, what he feels is boundless fear and irresistible sorrow. The speed of light at 40% is just like this, which represents all the pride of human beings, and it is nothing more than a pile of scum in front of each other.
The maximum speed that various space vehicles made by humans can reach now is only 20 km/s, while the speed of the other party is 120,000 km/s! Gaps, unimaginable gaps!!
Zhang Xinyu's avatar in the chat tool was still flashing, but Zhang Tianyu didn't have the strength and heart to click on it, he didn't know how to tell Zhang Xinyu, let alone believe that post.
Zhang Tianyu opened the post in Yue Rong's cyberspace again and read it carefully, this time he finally paid careful attention to the prophecies. It was discovered that the prophecies were concentrated in September, the most recent one was just a few days later, and it was an event that could not be falsified at all, and would be known to the whole world.
If there was really an earthquake in the Devil Country on that day, even if it was not the magnitude that Yue Rong said, as long as the location of the occurrence did not deviate too much, he would definitely go and visit the person who wrote this post. Zhang Tianyu thought about it, his heart became more and more bottomless, and he didn't know what to do in a panic.
"Cousin, if the first prophecy in the post happens, don't stay at school anymore, go to that classmate of yours, stay with him until after November 6th. I don't know if what he said would have happened, or if his predictions were accurate, but I think you should stay with him all the time. Zhang Tianyu replied to his cousin Zhang Xinyu, and his intuition told him that it might be safest for his cousin Zhang Xinyu to stay by that person's side.
Zhang Xinyu came out of the shower, glanced at her phone, and saw that her cousin Zhang Tianyu had finally sent her a message back. But after reading the message replied by her cousin Zhang Tianyu, she was a little squirming and didn't know what to do, she also wanted to go to Yue Rong, but what kind of reason should she use? In addition, Yue Rong still has a girlfriend.
Speaking of which, Zhang Xinyu should only be regarded as an alumnus of Yue Rong. Yue Rong studied in a vocational high school, and after graduation, he worked in the factory at home, but his first girlfriend Ren Fang was admitted to the Yanjing Dance Academy, so he went through the procedures for taking a break from work in the factory and went to Yanjing together. In a metropolis like Yanjing, where Yue Rong's diploma and skills are almost useless, he spends his spare time studying sales and foreign languages.
Yue Rong occasionally went in and out of Zhang Xinyu's Beijing University to listen to lectures, and the two often listened to lectures in the same classroom, and gradually the two became familiar with each other. As their time grew, Zhang Xinyu's affection for Yue Rong became deeper and deeper, but she knew that Yue Rong had a girlfriend who was not inferior to her, and she was shy and never dared to express it, so all along, it seemed that Yue Rong didn't know her little thoughts.
Now her cousin's reply instantly disturbed her mind, and she didn't know what to do. The end of the world is coming, zombies and insects are too distant and unreal for Zhang Xinyu. She didn't realize the crisis of the metaphor behind her cousin's reply, nor did she realize the cruelty and horror of the future world in Yue Rong's post, and all her thoughts were on her own little bit of children's affection.
Women are sometimes so strange, almost incomprehensible!