Chapter 149: The Lazarus Plan
Emilia Brand ignored Louis and continued to hold on to what he had said earlier: "If you don't make it clear, I won't let you see the others." ”
Louie looked at the woman with a serious face and knew that she was not joking, so he said the second paragraph about the ongoing NASA program, this time distorting the shocked face of Emilia Brand in front of him: "I know that Professor Brand has solved the algorithm, he already knows that the data he has so far cannot take the super-large space station out of the Earth's gravity, and I know how to get the part of the data he needs." ”
How the algorithm uses gravity anomalies to achieve the key point of getting the space station away from the Earth has never been solved, in fact, because of the lack of some data.
Professor Brand had already discovered this, but he didn't tell anyone the truth, only that it would take time to complete the algorithm, so that these people on Earth were still hopeful and working hard for tomorrow.
Even his daughter Emilia didn't know about it, and only learned the truth after arriving in another galaxy through a wormhole and receiving a communication from Professor Brand before her death.
So when she heard Louie's words at this time, Amilia's first reaction was not to believe it, but after thinking about it calmly, she thought of another question: what reason does this person have to do this?
Just when Emilia was in a state of confusion, Louis suddenly stretched out his hand and introduced himself: "My name is Louie, and I am a pilot, I think your Lazarus Project is short of pilots?"
Emilia thought for a while and decided to ask her father in person, and this pilot named Louie had to stay here for the time being, and they had to find out what the origin of this person was?
"Follow me!" Emilia stretched out her hand and shook Louie's hand that had not been withdrawn, "Emilia Brand, Professor Brand is my father. ”
"Nice to meet you. The hand he was holding lightly shook and took it back, Louis didn't hold it and didn't let go, it wouldn't make a good impression.
Seeing Louis such a gentleman, Emilia also showed a smile for the first time - I have to say that the smiling Emilia seemed to be able to get the whole world, and laughed......
Following Emilia, Louis soon arrives in the conference room, where Emilia has asked the robot Tass to notify key NASA personnel to go to the conference room, including her father, Professor Brand Sr.
It may be that those people are not far from the conference room, or it may be that Emilia took Louie to make a special detour so that Louie could not figure out the structure of the place, and when the two of them arrived at the spacious and bright conference room, all the important people were already sitting inside, waiting for Louis and Emilia to arrive.
Louis swept around, and saw several important people in the Lazarus Project, including the two scientists who went to another galaxy with Cooper in the original story, and after being introduced, Louie learned that one of these two people was named Romilli, the black scientist who had been waiting alone on the spaceship for more than 20 years.
Another white scientist named Doyle died under the terrifying waves of the first planet.
Professor Brand Sr. was sitting there looking at Louie, who had learned from Tarth what Louis had said earlier, and was surprised at first when his greatest secret was revealed, but soon he began to rejoice.
Because Louis claimed to have been sent by 'them' to help these people with the Lazarus Plan, does that mean they could have avoided that terrible ending?
Louis sat down, and the three scientists stared at Louie in unison, but none of them spoke first, and finally it was Professor Brand Sr. who asked the question: "Who are you?"
"I think you've already looked into my identity, there's no need to waste time on this kind of thing. ”
A white-haired old man with glasses opened a document in front of him, he was supposed to be one of the administrators of the space agency, and read it aloud: "Louis Hunt, a former Navy Lieutenant Pilot, performed well during his service, and then turned to civilian propaganda work...... The whereabouts of the Navy after its disbandment are unknown...... Major Hunt, we did check your information, but we want to know how you knew about this place, and how did you know about the Lazarus Project?"
In the interstellar earth, the army has been disbanded because of the depletion of resources, and Louis knows that in this world, he left the army for this reason.
He didn't take the initiative to introduce himself, he just wanted to see what kind of information these people had about themselves, and it seemed that they would use their 'past' experiences as before.
"As I said, 'they' asked me to come. ”
The white-haired man with glasses didn't believe it, but the other scientists only looked at each other a few times, and Professor Brand interrupted the man with glasses and asked, "How did they tell you about this place and the Lazarus Project?"
"Oh, that's an amazing thing......" Louis directly used Cooper's experience in the original story, creating anomalies through gravity, and "they" passed a lot of information to Louie and let Louie know a lot of things.
For example, the existence of NASA, the Lazarus Project, and even what happened after the implementation of part of the plan, Louis said it. In fact, Louie just relied on the fact that he had seen the movie for spoilers, and this feeling made him find it interesting.
"You two are both scientists who are scheduled to join the Lazarus Project, right?" Louie, who had said a lot of things, had already made several scientists, including Professor Brand, believe his words, and when they heard Louis ask, Doyle and Romilly nodded happily.
"If I hadn't been there, you would all have died in this operation. ”
When Louis said this, Professor Brand was nervous, the two scientists who participated in the operation were killed, could it be that the Lazarus plan failed?
But Louis didn't give a clearer answer, he just spread his hands and said, "Now you believe that what I said is true, right?"
And he has a reason to be more trusted: "Don't forget, I'm also a human being, I also live on this planet, and I'm here to save myself." ”
The crowd in the room looked at each other, and this was a very convincing statement. Anyone who learns that a catastrophe will soon be in the near future will try to save themselves, and Louie's actions are not incomprehensible.
The group looked at each other, as if to make eye contact, to determine if their companion had invited the person who had suddenly appeared to join them.
For them, a helper is too important, especially a pilot.
The environment is bad, the military is disbanded, the space agency can only operate in the shadows, and ordinary people cannot accept spending large sums of money on space exploration, especially now that most people have enough to eat.
Pilots have long been a rarity, and pilots like Louis with an excellent service resume are exactly the talents they need.
At this moment, Brand suddenly asked a question: "There is another question, who was the pilot who originally carried out the Lazarus plan?"
Since Louis knew who the scientists who participated in the Lazarus Project were, he must have known such an important membership of the pilot.
Louis gave a name directly: "Cooper." ”
"Cooper, the Cooper I know?" Cooper, once the best pilot in NASA, left NASA in an accident, and shortly after Cooper left, NASA was disbanded.
By the time NASA's scientists regrouped to make plans for humanity's survival, Cooper had become an ordinary farmer, not knowing where he was living, and the agency didn't have the resources to look for him everywhere, especially if he was alive or dead.
"That's Cooper. ”
Professor Brand was a little puzzled, he had thought that the failure of Project Lazarus was due to the lack of good drivers, so 'they' asked Louie to come and help.
But Cooper is a very good pilot, and more importantly, Cooper is one of the very few pilots on Earth who has actually piloted a spaceship, and he is a more suitable pilot for the Lazarus Project than Louis based on his resume.
So what was the real reason for 'they' to send Louie here? Professor Brand couldn't figure it out, but he still wanted Louie to stay here and formally invite him to join the plan to save humanity.
"Would you like to stay here and help us?"
"Of course, that's what I'm here for. ”
Later, Professor Brand briefed Louie on the progress and status of the current plan, and when Louie learned that Dr. Mann and the others had explored another galaxy through a wormhole nine years ago, he knew that there was still some time before the plot officially began.
In the plot, exactly ten years after Dr. Mann and others set off, the protagonist Cooper drove the spaceship off, because it was an integer of ten years, which is very memorable.
Louis estimated that this year was the time for himself to learn and familiarize himself with the piloting of the spacecraft, but it was not clear whether the space agency had enough resources for him to practice.
Finally, Professor Brand left Louie alone in the conference room and let everyone out, with whom he had something important to talk about.
After everyone had left the conference room and Emilia had closed the door tightly, Professor Brand Sr. had said about the algorithm: "I have solved the algorithm, don't talk to anyone about ......it" As if he was worried that Louie did not understand his intentions, he could only say a few more words: "People need hope, they need a direction." ”
"I know I'm not going to talk about it again...... What's more, it's not that the plan can't be successful, it's just that important data is missing. "If you want to unravel the algorithm, you need all kinds of data in the black hole, and as long as you get the data, you can save the humans on Earth.
"And I can help you get the data you need. ”