Annihilation of the solar system

After leaving Davis' office, Xia Lan returned to the hotel in despair. Wei Xu came to Xia Lan's room with the ticket he had just picked up from the hotel front desk in his hand, and saw her sitting at the table with her eyes blank, her face full of sorrow.

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"Senior sister, don't worry about these old stubborns. Get some rest early, your flight will be tomorrow morning."

After saying that, Wei Xu put the ticket on the table. Xia Lan didn't look at him or the ticket. She just said lightly:

"Well! You should also go to bed early."

Wei Xu saw Xia Lan so depressed for the first time since he was on the bench at the space center last time. He added:

"Let's go back to Teacher Shen and Teacher Zhou to discuss it again. We will always find a way. Then I want to see what the expression on Davis's gentleman's face is like when the evidence they want is put on the table."

Xia Lan shook her head:

"I'm afraid by then, they won't be able to take care of the red tape."

At this moment, Xia Lan's phone rang. The caller ID was Teacher Shen's number. She adjusted her mood and answered the call:

"Teacher Shen, it's so late. You haven't rested yet."

"Haha, Xia Lan must be very busy. It's still early morning here."

Only then did Xia Lan come to her senses. She was now using Greenwich Mean Time, while her mentor Shen Manling was using East Eighth District time. There was an eight-hour time difference. Her energy also recovered.

"I'm sorry, Teacher Shen. I was a little confused just now. What can I do for you?"

In the receiver, Shen Manling's voice was as gentle as ever:

"Davis has already called me about your meeting at IAU. Don't be discouraged and adjust your mentality. There will definitely be a way, and the international community is really unwilling to cooperate. Our own fast eyes can still implement your plan.

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Xia Lan understands what the teacher means, but if the entire solar system is fully detected using the fast sky eye alone, it means that more than 2/3 of the land area and the corresponding satellites require radio silence. The detection can only be completed after the earth rotates once.

This is an extremely difficult thing. What's more, the detection plan may need to be implemented repeatedly to compare the results.

"Thank you for your concern, Teacher Shen. I'm fine,"

"This is not why I called you. I have good news to tell you." Shen Manling's tone became unusually excited.

"Teacher Shen, please speak!" Shen Manying's words aroused Xia Lan's curiosity.

"Our last Venus exploration plan failed to find definite evidence of Venusian organisms. After our press conference, NASA stepped up the implementation of their upper atmosphere exploration plan. As a result, their spacecraft also crashed due to the wrong choice of entering the atmospheric area.

Into the sulfuric acid cloud.

You know, our space program is a double backup. Our backup detector on standby in the orbit of Venus was released into the atmosphere of Venus again after adjusting the flight control parameters. This time we took a complete picture of the thing!"

Xia Lan was shaken up, and the gloom on her face was swept away.

"Really? What does it look like!"

"Chief Engineer Song from the Space Center has sent me a video material, and I sent it to your mailbox. You will receive it soon, so you better watch it yourself! They are really beautiful."

After hanging up the phone, Xia Lan and Wei Xu stood in front of the computer, excitedly and anxiously staring at the data download ring filling up bit by bit.

Finally, the video file download is completed.

The video is a front view of an aircraft. Above the clouds piled up like orange cotton, there is an object that is slightly different from the surrounding dense Venus clouds. From a distance, it appears to be similar in color to the clouds, but slightly different.

It is red in color, and its overall shape is like a large French croissant. On its lower abdomen, you can vaguely see many "filaments" that are much longer than the body.

As the aircraft approached, the picture gradually became clearer. The surface of the huge spindle-shaped body showed undulations like waves, starting from the thinner end and disappearing along the body through the thick middle end to the other end.

One layer after another, moving over and over again, it looks like a wave of people in the stands of a football match caused by fans raising their hands one after another.

Under the huge floating body, you can now clearly see that there are countless noodle-like tentacles hanging from the beginning to the end towards the ground. It's just that the tentacles near the head and tail are shorter and farther away from the aircraft.

Sometimes you can't see clearly, and the closer the tentacles are to the middle of the body, the longer they are. The tentacles in the middle 1/4 of the body have even exceeded the length of the creature itself. Those tentacles that make people feel a little numb are still following.

The air flow moves regularly.

Soon the screen was completely occupied by the huge body of the creature. At this time, the undulating ripples on the skin full of veins and lines looked as spectacular as a mountain roaring and a tsunami. And it could be vaguely seen through the translucent skin.

The structures in its huge body are only limited by the clarity of the shooting, so it’s not clear what they are.

A few seconds later, the huge cylindrical tentacles appeared in front of the bumpy screen. When you get closer, you can clearly see that the surface of the tentacles is covered with countless fine long hairs, and the transparent tentacle skin can be vaguely seen.

It appeared to be a hollow structure. The aircraft quickly passed over these huge tentacles, and the scene was frozen here.

"Oh my god! Senior sister, can you imagine, they are so huge! I thought they were microorganisms! If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I couldn't believe it." The exclamation on Wei Xu's face and the goosebumps on his arms

It has not dissipated yet.

Xia Lan stared at the repeatedly played video in a daze, and suddenly she seemed to think of something. She came back to her senses, turned off the video, and rummaged through the folder. Wei Xu obviously hadn't finished that video yet.

Addicted to it, he murmured:

"Sister, look again! I haven't seen enough yet!"

Xia Lan continued to rummage through the folders,

"I'll show you enough later. Now I want to confirm my idea. Bring your computer over and help me."

Wei Xu didn't know what was going on, but he still followed Xia Lan's request. What Xia Lan looked for on the computer was the core cornerstone of their life detection plan - the formula of life! What they had to do was to

Now the latest observational results modify the parameters in the formula of life, which is a complex and delicate task.

After several hours of hard work, they finally completed the self-consistent calculation of the life formula. Finally, when they applied the data on planets in the solar system that may have life, the results they obtained surprised both of them. Except for Jupiter

, Saturn, and the probability of life on Mars have increased slightly. The data of the other two satellites are subversive.

Europa - Large Complex Life - Probability 100%

Titan - Large Complex Life - Probability 100%