Annihilation of the solar system

Early the next morning, Zhou Cheng arrived at the Capital Airport as planned. In the maintenance room, Liu Chaowen and Song Shi had already arrived. The staff of the space center were putting on his space suit. When Liu Chaowen saw Zhou Cheng, his face immediately showed

The standard smile of an etiquette student:

"Teacher Zhou, you are here!"

Zhou Cheng felt a little strange, but couldn't tell what was wrong. He simply replied:

"Um!"

The staff opened a box the size of an ordinary suitcase, which contained a newly developed lightweight space suit. In this box, helmets, gloves, shoes and temporary life support equipment accounted for 3/4 of the box's volume, and

The spacesuit itself takes up only a small amount of space.

"Chaowen, how have you been lately? Is your dad okay?" Zhou Cheng asked while putting on his space suit with the help of the staff.

"It's all good!" Liu Chaowen answered loudly and enthusiastically. This made Zhou Cheng a little suspicious. Is Lao Liu exaggerating the parent-child conflict between him and his son, or is Liu Chaowen lying?

"Why did I hear your dad say that you have some communication problems recently?" Zhou Cheng asked.

Liu Chaowen almost didn't think at all, as if he had expected Zhou Cheng to ask this question. He answered with the same loud voice and enthusiastic attitude just now:

"Oh, maybe I have been too focused on work during this period. I rarely communicate with my father. I will pay attention to it in the future. Thank you for reminding me."

Liu Chaowen's answer sounded perfectly normal, and even flawless. This made Zhou Cheng even more confused. He couldn't tell for a moment because Lao Liu might have been in a low mood last night and unintentionally exaggerated the extent of the matter.

. Or does Liu Chaowen really have something hidden?

However, in front of so many people in the maintenance room, it was inconvenient for him to ask more questions. When they arrived at the moon base, they should have some alone time together, and then complete the tasks entrusted by Old Liu.

At this time, a man who had already put on a space suit walked into the maintenance room. This man was Lu Yuanzhou. He performed a military salute and said in a sonorous voice:

"Hello, experts! I am Lu Yuanzhou, the commander of your mission. I am responsible for transporting you to the Yutu 2 Space Station. The carrier aircraft has been prepared and we are ready to leave at any time!"

Zhou Cheng was no stranger to him. He had met Lu Yuanzhou when Xia Lan carried out the last mission to Venus. But he didn't expect that this time he would go into space and Lu Yuanzhou would be their commander.

They had also put on their space suits, and the engine under the belly of the Kunpeng-like BC-170a "Valkyrie" super transport aircraft on the runway outside the window also made a rumbling sound. This "Valkyrie" super transport aircraft was built a few years ago

An improved model of the BC-170 that Xia Lan and the others were riding.

There is no obvious difference in appearance. The main improvement is the replacement of 6 variable cycle ducted turbofan engines with greater thrust and 6 rotating detonation transcendent ramjet engines. This not only increases the range of the aircraft

and load, allowing the aircraft to fly at a speed of Mach 12 in 50,000 meters of thin air.

This allows "Project Karmen" to perform launch missions at any large airport around the world, rather than necessarily at an airport near the equator.

And these improvements also allow her to carry larger shuttles, like this lunar mission. Large shuttles can fly directly to the moon without stopping at the near-Earth space station after leaving the earth. This not only saves cost and time,

It greatly improves the efficiency of space transportation.

The staff put on the space helmets for them, tied them to the seats, connected various pipelines, and left the shuttle. During this process, Zhou Cheng had been quietly watching every move of Liu Chaowen, who was sitting on the seat next to him.

During the whole process, there was no abnormality at all. He cooperated very well with the staff's movement requirements, and when he was finished, he even thanked the staff. However, the smile he kept maintaining was as standard as if he had been trained

etiquette.

Amidst the roar of the "Valkyrie"'s 12 super-large engines, they flew to an altitude of 50,000 meters at a speed of Mach 12. At this time, the sky outside the porthole window had turned into transparent black, and dots of starlight were falling above. And below.

The ground with obvious curvature shows a gem-like blue color.

"Crack!"

With a slight vibration, the originally noisy engine sound suddenly became ethereal and gradually faded away. Soon, the heavy roar sounded again, and accompanied by an unsettling vibration, the shuttle flew into space on a steep climbing curve.

For Zhou Cheng, who was performing his first space launch mission, nervousness was inevitable. He gritted his teeth and resisted the impact of the strong overload on his body, clutching the armrests of his seat with both hands and staring intently at the cockpit ahead.

Lu Yuanzhou and the dark space outside the windshield.

Suddenly! A strong blue light flashed outside the windshield. The dazzling brightness made Zhou Cheng instinctively close his eyes. But in just an instant, the bright light disappeared. When Zhou Cheng opened his eyes again, what he saw made his whole body go cold.

picture.

The several screens in the front cockpit that originally displayed various parameters and graphics were now covered with snowflakes. Most of the buttons and indicators that looked like colored candies had been extinguished. The ones that were still on were as random as marquees.

It was flashing. The sound in the cockpit was not loud, but the extremely obvious alarm sound only intensified Zhou Cheng's fear.

Lu Yuanzhou held the joystick with one hand and pressed it with the other hand like a whack-a-mole on the dotted bridge.

"What's wrong!" Zhou Cheng shouted.

Lu Yuanzhou half-turned his face, and through the visor of his aerospace helmet, it could be seen that his forehead was already covered with beads of sweat.

"Damn! We might have hit an atmospheric shower!"

It could be seen from Lu Yuanzhou's distorted face that he shouted these words at the top of his lungs. But his voice could only be heard clearly because the shuttle's communication line had stopped working.

As a physicist, Zhou Cheng knew very well what Lu Yuanzhou meant by "atmospheric shower". It refers to ultra-high-energy gamma photons produced in space due to extreme astronomical phenomena such as supernova explosions, neutron star mergers, or black hole mergers.

, after a long journey into space, it is a physical process that collides with the molecules of the Earth's atmosphere at the speed of light and fragments into countless more secondary particles.

Such photons often appear in single form and contain dozens of orders of magnitude more energy than the high-energy particles produced in the most expensive high-energy collider on Earth.

Atmospheric showers themselves are not a rare physical phenomenon. On the contrary, because of their commonness, they are used by scientists as an important means to study the evolution of basic particles of matter and celestial bodies. However, few people have seen atmospheric showers so close.

Scientists usually use ground-based atmospheric shower detection arrays to detect the secondary particles that fall to the ground after the shower, and then restore the shower process.

But as a physicist like Zhou Cheng, he saw with his own eyes the blue Cherenkov rays produced by atmospheric showers. He was also the first person in the history of science. But for Zhou Cheng and this ship, it was still flying at high speed with tail flames.

This is not really a lucky thing for the shuttle.

At the moment when the shower occurred, Liu Chaowen felt as if his body was squeezed into a small ball, and then suddenly expanded! If there is really a soul in the human body, then what he feels at this moment is that his soul is being tied up

On the rotating arm of the mixer, it stirred rapidly in my body!

Every nerve cell in his body from the top of his head to the soles of his feet seemed to be having a wild rock party, making him feel like he was sitting in an electric chair with insufficient voltage and being tortured. All the mirror images in front of him became like abstract paintings.

It was just as chaotic, with only the countless flickering and exploding little sparks being extremely clear.

He concentrated his remaining will and closed his eyelids tightly, which felt heavier than the weights in the gym. However, the countless little sparks were still exploding in his mind endlessly.