Space Command Center.

In the evening, after everyone had finished dinner, the astronaut training center sounded the assembly order.

A row of twenty-three astronauts, all standing.

"Liu Changquan."

"Here."

"Zhang Qiliang."

"Here."

"Liu Xin."

"Here."

"Those who are named are left behind, and the others are disbanded."

Brush!

The people who didn't have their names named, all left.

Only three people remained.

The three of them are the ones who went to the moon today to carry out the mission, and they are also the ones who arranged for Feng Yuanxing to work.

"Next you're going on a top-secret mission, and then someone from the military will pick you up, and now you have fifteen minutes to contact your family and disband."

The person in charge of the space command center said to the three of them.

After listening to this, the three of them did not have any objections.

As soldiers, they don't need to know what the task is waiting to perform, they just follow the arrangement.

After the three of them went back.

I made a phone call home and said I was going on a mission.

The family is also very understanding.

Fifteen minutes later, the trio boarded the plane and arrived at Crimson.

Tang Rui did not come forward.

It was Gao Yang who received them.

"I'll be in charge of the next tasks, do you have any questions?" Gao Yang said to the three of them.

"Nope." The three shook their heads.

"Very well, follow me."

After Gao Yang finished speaking, he took the three of them to board the space shuttle, and then under the control of Honglian, he turned on optical stealth and took off slowly.

"The task this time is very simple, we have to stay in one place, we can't go out of the house, we can't contact the outside world, we can't let people know that we are there, and then wait for the next order."

"Report!"

"Speak."

"May I ask, where are we going to stay?"

"Yes, the place we're going to is Nevada, near a villa in District 51."

Then, Gao Yang told them the specific content of the task, but after listening to it, they all felt that this task was a bit strange.

Staying in a villa, not going out, not being able to contact the outside world, and then there is nothing else to do.

Who is this?

Vacation assignments?

They are astronauts, or rather fighter pilots, and it stands to reason that they should not be used for such missions.

After all, their value is high.

The cost of the state to train them is more expensive than a fifth-generation aircraft.

The same proportion of gold is worth less than half of the three.

Outcome.

It also carries out missions on the moon during the day.

I'm going to go to Hawk-chan's house in the evening.

I don't understand.

After three hours of secret flight.

The shuttle landed quietly on a small farm in Nevada without attracting any attention.

Open the hatch.

Gao Yang quickly entered the villa of the farm with the three of them.

"Password."

The man in the villa raised a gun and asked the three people.

"Death from the sky." Gao Yang said four words.

"The stars are moving." The other party put down his gun and also gave the order.

There's not much more to say about the rest of the matter.

Under the arrangement of the other party, Gao Yang took the three of them to the third floor of the villa, and then began to rest.

Nothing was lacking in the villa.

Not only food, drinking water, but also weapons and equipment.

But this mission, they don't need to fight.

Just stay here honestly and wait for the next order, and they don't need to do anything.

Gao Yang: After they arrived at the mission location.

Tang Rui in China has been observing the dynamics of the asteroid, but so far, the orbit of the asteroid has not changed.

But Tang Rui was not in a hurry.

He has the means to destroy the asteroid, so he is not in a hurry at all, if it does not change its orbit, at most it will be destroyed.

"Red Lotus, record the situation of the asteroid, I'll go to sleep first." After Tang Rui finished explaining, he went home.

Three o'clock in the morning.

A new round of solar storms has erupted.

The asteroid is affected by a solar storm and the temperature rises again, causing the temperature of the inner core to rise.

Large-scale gasification of ice crystals inside.

Boom!

The location of the crack in the shell burst open again.

A column of air several hundred meters long erupted.

Under the influence of strong thrust, the asteroid changed its orbit again.

But before the orbit could change much, water vapor also erupted on the other side.

So.

The asteroid's thrust has reached a new equilibrium.

Two thrusts caused the asteroid to accelerate again.

Red Lotus has been monitoring the asteroid's situation, and when its orbit changes, it starts calculating.

By the time the asteroid's orbit change has accelerated, it has already calculated the new orbit.

Placement.

Nevada.

The next day.

Tang Rui woke up and asked Honglian as soon as possible.

"Red Lotus, what's the situation with the asteroid?"

"Master, under the influence of the solar storm in the early hours of this morning, the internal pressure of the asteroid has increased, and water vapor has erupted again, causing changes in orbit and speed."

"Tell me directly, where is the new landing point?"

"Nevada District 51 Farm."

Tang Rui looked at the holographic projection map in front of him, the corners of his mouth slowly curled, everything was as he expected.

Is it a coincidence?

Coincidental.

After all, no one can control the outbreak of solar storms.

So all of this is arranged by God.

"Red Lotus, how long is it until the impact time?" Tang Rui asked.

"There are 83 hours, 21 minutes and 17 seconds left until the impact time."

"Very good, print out the asteroid's orbit data and simulated impact data, and give it to me when I finish breakfast."

"Okay, master, Red Lotus knows."

After breakfast.

He took the information printed out by Red Lotus and came to Lin Chao and asked him to pass the information to it.

"Mr. Tang, is this true?"

"Absolutely."

"Okay, I'll go."

In the blink of an eye.

The day passed.

In smooth water.

What asteroid hit Earth?

There is no such thing.

Tang Rui was not surprised by this situation at all.

The next day passed.

It's another calm day.

But what's the matter.

Many of our intercontinental airliners have begun to be overhauled in China, and the reason is very simple, the recent solar storm is too strong.

Overhaul the aircraft's navigation system.

In case something goes wrong, who can afford to do that.

On the evening of the third day.

Our space command center suddenly discovered an asteroid that was rushing towards the earth.

It's scared to death.

The entire space command center was in an uproar, urgently reported the news, and at the same time began to calculate the asteroid's orbit.

In the spirit of humanitarian principles.

Let's inform Eagle Sauce of this news.

What?

Asteroid impact?

Eagle Sauce immediately began to verify the news.

The third director of NASA immediately received the order to adjust the satellite monitoring network and the ground monitoring network.

The Eagle Sauce family has a deep space exploration agency to defend against asteroid impacts, although the ones they found would not hit the earth, and they didn't find those that hit the earth.

But you also have to admit that this agency is still moving quickly when it has accurate data.

Less than half an hour.

The Eagle Sauce family determined that it was indeed an asteroid.

Although the volume is not very large, and the mass is not very large, the position is very coquettish.

Because the asteroid is spewing water vapor all the time.

Due to the uneven rotation and internal pressure, it remains in a certain flight trajectory though.

But to some extent, it retains the ability to change direction at any time.

This makes it a crash for ground monitors when calculating the asteroid's orbit and landing point.

There are only thirty or so underground areas that could be impacted.

Not to mention covering their entire territory, even the next door is within the impact range.

I want to determine the true landing point.

Hard.

The asteroid changes direction all the time, but it can fly back to its original orbit when it changes back and forth.

Just highlight one word.

Elegant!

The third director of NASA of the show has a numb scalp.

Recent times.

The position of director of NASA is not a good position.

The first one went in with his back.

The second interim supervisor was transferred away in a relationship.

He was the third director.

I thought there was nothing wrong, but I didn't expect to encounter an asteroid with such a beautiful position.

It's literal.

A phone call in the last five minutes to ask where to land.

He's also helpless.

In the face of an asteroid that may change direction at any time, the landing point is so easy to calculate.

It can only be ruled out a little bit according to probability.

Let's start with a rough range.

Finally.

After more than five hours of fighting.

NASA gave an approximate range, that is, the entire state of Nevada, and the specific location is really impossible to guess.

But the impact time is very well calculated, and it comes out as soon as it is calculated.

The current distance from the impact.

There are 32 hours, 42 minutes and 51 seconds left.

In that white house on Pennsylvania Avenue.

The think tank of the Eagle Sauce family.

Got together again for a meeting.

What to do?

What a headache.

Raised his hand and touched his hair, it thinned again.

"Do you want to notify the Nevada people to evacuate?"

"Can they all be evacuated?"

"If order is maintained, there will be enough time."

Keeping order?

To hell with it.

"The citizens on the other side are asking for their evacuation, and the planes have already been sent, are we going to stop them?"

"There's no need, there's no need to make small moves in this kind of thing. If they hadn't reminded us sooner, we wouldn't have known when the asteroid landed above us. ”

"Okay, so what are we going to do next?"

"Interception, we have only one way to go, if that asteroid hits down, it is equivalent to a mushroom bomb with a yield of 2 million tons."

"Can't you change its orbit, say hit it with a mushroom bomb, and let it hit someone else?"

"It's very difficult, the key is that its flight trajectory changes every moment, even if the mushroom bomb wants to hit, it is very difficult, let alone deliberately calculate the trajectory to make it deviate."

"That's right, this deviation is uncontrollable, what if it falls to New York? Nevada, we can afford it, but New York, Washington, Los Angeles...... If it falls on these cities, we can't afford that loss. ”

"In fact, the best way is to let the asteroid disintegrate before it reaches the atmosphere, so that the impact will be much less powerful."

"It's too far away to be able to do it, and it's so fast that we only have one chance to intercept."

"What about using space-based weapon platforms?"

"It's not powerful enough."

While the members of a group of think tanks from the Eagle Sauce family were gathering for a meeting, our people had already started contacting everyone in Nevada and immediately went to the airport to evacuate.

This is the embassy through customs data, directly contact me.

The student's reaction is the most normal.

After being notified by the embassy, I packed all my things, got on the arranged bus, and rushed to the airport.

Most of the people who travel are obedient, and a few are not serious and don't want to leave at all.

As for those who come to Yingjiang's house for business visits, foreign studies, accompanying their children, etc., they will be the first to receive a call from the embassy asking them to return to China.

It's not that I can't go back.

It's how to escape.

After all, there are ghosts in my heart, and I am afraid.

It is impossible for the embassy to find people one by one, and to tie people back, so they can only be notified.

Only the students are arranged to pick up and drop off by bus.

The rest depends on whether you believe in the country or not.

As planes take off, there are fewer and fewer of us.

As for those who don't answer the phone, but instead start hiding from the cat, there is really no way.

In the blink of an eye.

A day passed.

The news of the asteroid impact has spread at the level of the plutocrats.

Nevada's wealthy people have all dragged their families to evacuate.

As for the middle class, many of them have gotten the news and are also running out like crazy.

Finally.

With 18 hours to go before the asteroid impact, Eagle Sauce made the announcement.

Why was it announced at this time?

Because the plutocrats have all been safely evacuated, and the middle class has also been partially evacuated, the rest does not matter.

After Eagle Sauce announced the news, he also said the interception plan, which was to blow up the mushroom bomb.

The asteroid is not solid.

As long as it is blown to pieces, then it will burn again as it passes through the atmosphere, and there will not be much left.

Eagle sauce is blown very well.

But no one believed it, because those who believed were dead.

This caused the people of Nevada to start running out frantically, directly blocking the road traffic.

And then there was a conflict, and then ·

Nevada at night, the flames are blazing.

From the perspective of the satellite, you can see the lines spreading along the highways of Nevada.

There was a rush on the highway, everyone was very hot, and the car was also on fire.

But these things.

Nobody cares.

Time flows slowly.

NASA's command and control center, everyone is staring at the big screen.

There is now 1 hour left until the asteroid impact.

Space telescopes on the ground are already able to see asteroids.

Missiles are also ready.

But the missile calculations have not been done so far.

No way.

The asteroid's position is too showy.

There is no regular change of direction.

But no matter how difficult it is, they have to calculate, at least give a reasonable detonation range.

Otherwise, if the mushroom bomb is detonated in space, the power itself will not be very great, and it will not be blown up to the point that it only relies on thermal radiation, and it is useless.

45-minute countdown to impact.

Eagle Sauce launched missiles, five at once, three of which were mushroom bombs and two were high-explosive warheads.

"Brother Yang, now all of you, immediately board the space shuttle."

Tang Rui was at home, looking at the holographic projection screen, and also gave Gao Yang an order.

"Roger." After Gao Yang received the order.

Immediately take the three of them aboard the space shuttle.

As for the original farmer, he has long since been evacuated.

After boarding the space shuttle.

Red Lotus controls the space shuttle to take off, stealth, and flies towards Area 51, but the flight speed is not fast.

NASA's command center, everyone is staring at the missile's trajectory.

In the crimson laboratory, Tang Rui stared at the holographic projection screen, calculating the last time.

On the big screen in the NASA command center.

Countdown to missile impact: 10...... 9…… 8…… 7……

Tang Rui looked at the acceleration countdown calculated by Red Lotus: 3...... 2…… 1……

Hasten!

Under the control of Red Lotus, the Space Shuttle's nuclear-powered rocket ignites directly, ejecting a powerful stream of particles.

Moment.

The shuttle crossed the sound barrier and flew over Area 51 at breakneck speed.

It was at this moment when the shuttle reached the skies over Area 51.

The countdown to missile impact is reset to zero.

"Detonate!"

NASA pressed the detonation button.

After all, at this time, no matter whether you can hit it or not, you have to detonate it, otherwise it will be useless.

But in Tang Rui's perspective.

At the moment when the shuttle accelerated.

The asteroid suddenly changed direction strangely, flying sharply to the side, which also allowed the asteroid to dodge the missile.

The next second.

Endless light appears in outer space on Earth.

But under this blinding light, there is a small black dot, and that is the asteroid.

Rumble!

The next second.

The asteroid plunged headlong into the atmosphere and lost the ability to change direction.

At the same time, the whole began to crumble, turning into countless wreckage.

One of the core pieces of wreckage is the 12-meter iron core.

This core.

A blinding glow erupted in the air, and then smashed directly above Area 51.

Rumble!

The heavens are shaking!