Annihilation of the solar system

The news that the Windmill probe had completely lost contact was confirmed by the space center. Everyone sat at their desks in frustration and had no idea what to do. In the eighth year of the crisis era, the Near-Earth Space Defense Research Institute where Xia Lan and the others were working, although they were working on

He has made many outstanding contributions in providing technical support for space defense and exploring extraterrestrial organisms.

However, they have never been able to figure out what these organic creatures transformed by alien civilizations on the satellites in the solar system are, and their methods have basically been exhausted. For the rest of the time, they may only be able to watch helplessly.

They are approaching the earth.

Now it is through space telescopes and observatories. Soon, ordinary household astronomical telescopes will also be able to see them. In less than a year, everyone on the earth will be able to see them with the naked eye, no matter day or night.

Two strips of light that are getting bigger and brighter.

"I remember that the working modes of Gaoming's visible light and Webb's infrared bands are to alternately observe spore groups and broken ice belts. Now Webb's field of view should be turned to the spore groups." Wei Xu's words broke.

Silence in the office.

Xia Lan flipped through the information and stared at it for a while:

"Yes, according to the observation plan. The 'Webb' that is observing the ice-breaking belt will turn to the spore swarm flying from the direction of Titan today. And the 'Gaoming' that is observing the spore group will turn to observe the broken ice belt. Wei Xu

, do you have any ideas?”

"I was thinking that Europa is gone. But Titan is still there. I have seen the current orbital positions of Titan and the spore group. During the steering process of the Webb, it only needs to slightly adjust the attitude of the telescope.

We can observe Titan." Wei Xu looked at the manuscript paper in his hand and said his thoughts.

Lin Tianyu said:

"After all the spore groups on Titan entered the transfer orbit, the EDA Scientific Committee also organized a two-year monitoring of Titan. Judging from the infrared signal and spectral analysis at that time, the oocysts on Titan

The temperatures of both the cluster and the biological pipeline slowly decreased to ambient temperature, and the organic metabolic components in the atmosphere also gradually decreased."

"The conclusion at that time was that Titan had lost its vitality as a biological factory for alien civilization. Therefore, no more equipment was invested in long-term monitoring. Half a year ago, the space telescope conducted another observation of Titan. This was further confirmed.

reached the previous conclusion." Liu Mengzhu added.

"Of course I know this. I just saw that the spore group and the orbital position are very suitable for taking a look at Titan. So, I wanted to take the opportunity to see if there are any changes on Titan. And... and, we are now

There is nothing else to do..." Wei Xu's words were full of loneliness and melancholy.

Liu Mengzhu and Lin Tianyu also turned their heads. The second half of Wei Xu's sentence indeed revealed their current situation. Xia Lan picked up the phone and walked to Wei Xu's desk:

"Wei Xu, have you calculated Titan's orbital position? I will submit an urgent application to the EDA Science Committee."

Wei Xu handed over the manuscript paper in his hand. Soon, Xia Lan's application was approved. The observation data of Titan will be completed later during the turning process of the "Webb" infrared space telescope, and will be

Data is uploaded to the eda scientific research platform.

The cafeteria of the National Academy of Sciences was much livelier than in previous years. In the first few years of the crisis, every department was as stretched as a rubber band that was about to break. Everyone put all their enthusiasm and desire for survival into it.

Arrive at work.

At the beginning of the crisis, mankind faced the invasion of unknown alien civilization. The scope of the cognitive gap was very large, and it could even be said that there was no knowledge. Every minute of work may lead to new breakthroughs. At that time, in the cafeteria

, people hurriedly packed their lunch boxes at the window and then returned to the office to continue working.

Now, everyone is eating more sumptuous meals than before and chatting about their work and life. In addition to the fact that under the strong industrial production capacity, EDA has adjusted a small part of its production capacity to enrich daily life supplies. Finally,

The main reason is that almost all scientific research departments of the Academy of Sciences have encountered the same situation as Xia Lan and others.

That is, there are currently very few unknown fields that can be broken through quickly, and the general outline of extraterrestrial civilizations has gradually been outlined in the human scientific system. And the unknown fields have also reached a bottleneck, and it is difficult to make major breakthroughs in a short period of time.

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After dinner, Wei Xu stayed in front of the computer early. Xia Lan and Lin Tianyu continued to look through the previous sky survey data at the Capital Observatory, while Liu Mengzhu and Wu Fan went for a walk and smoked. When they took the time to return to the office

At that moment, the photo he was looking forward to appeared on Wei Xu's computer screen.

"Come over quickly, there's something going on!" Wei Xu shouted.

Others gathered around him, and the infrared photo of Titan on his computer was rendered to look like a washed paint tray.

"There is another source of heat radiation!" Wu Fan exclaimed.

Wei Xu called up an infrared photo of Titan taken half a year ago. At that time, the image was like a purple cloth with a few strokes of blue casually painted with a brush. But now the image is full of cyan and

Green mottled.

"They really started to move again! Now the size of these heat sources is similar to the size of the previous egg sacs, but the temperature is not that high." Wei Xu said while calling up the photos taken at the beginning of the crisis era.

Thermal imaging photos of Titan. After image overlay and comparison, the location of the heat source just discovered completely coincides with the location inferred to be the egg sac 8 years ago.

Xia Lan immediately reported the situation to the Academy of Sciences and EDA. Soon, EDA mobilized all space observation equipment to conduct long-term tracking observations of Titan. The conclusions reached made everyone's hopes that had already hit rock bottom.

It was buried a little deeper into the ground.

Xia Lan held the observation report with slightly trembling hands and said:

"Through the results of infrared, optical, spectrum, and X-band observations, it is basically certain that the organic biological manufacturing process on Titan has begun again. Moreover, the progress is much faster than when we discovered it 8 years ago. According to deduction

As a result, they will launch spore groups into low orbit again four years later." Her voice was deep, like a stone pressing down on her vocal cords.

Liu Mengzhu sat in his seat and sobbed softly, while Wu Fan sighed long and did not speak.

"Titan is like their arsenal. It seems that as long as they fail to achieve their goal, they will continue to launch attacks. Even if we can block those things in orbit, it will be difficult..." Lin Tianyu was halfway through his words.

, I can’t say it anymore, because their goal is the destruction of mankind.

"Can't we find a way to destroy those egg sacs on Titan?" Wu Fan suddenly shouted angrily.

Xia Lan put down the report in her hand and slowly sat back on her chair. Her eyes were blank and she whispered:

"Even if we make a plan now, it will take more than ten years to be effective on Titan. Moreover, it is almost impossible for our most powerful weapon to completely destroy the egg sac on Titan, which is the size of the moon.

What's more... not to mention whether we can survive until that time, it's hard to say..."

The cold and desperate breath wrapped around everyone, making them unable to speak or even breathe. After a long time, Wei Xu stood up slowly. He seemed to be stumbling to the window, looking up at the gloomy sky.

The sky said lightly:

"I can only pray that the 'Fish Hidden Plan' that Commander Lu and the others are implementing will work. Otherwise, we, as advanced intelligent life forms, will really be completely forgotten by the universe." He spoke in a low voice, and his colleagues in the office

Maybe they didn't hear it clearly, but no one cared. Finally, he turned around and said:

"We...we may not even have the chance to carve traces of our existence...on the stone..."