Darkness is Coming

   Yu Qian hid the edges and corners, but there was still a guy who liked to be sharp-edged in the conference room. As soon as Qi Xinwu's voice fell, Ou Yang immediately questioned.

"Director Qi, I think the first possibility you raised can be directly ruled out. If there are other awakened people lurking in the moon's underground base waiting for an opportunity to retaliate, then he or they shouldn't kill everyone. It's not surprising that his army was killed, but why deal with scientists and engineers who have no grudge against the Awakened?"

"Even if this Awakened hates everyone, he has no reason to kill everyone, right? If all these people are killed, who will run the moon base? It can't be said that this Awakened is also a lifeless person. madman?"

"Moreover, since there are less than 20,000 people who have been screened to immigrate to the moon, their background identities should be strictly checked, and there should be no awakeners lurking in them, at least not when they land on the moon, and After landing on the moon, they will not be able to wake up again...I remember it like this? Only people in the disaster area have the possibility to wake up."

   Ou Yang shook his head and finished speaking, and turned his head to a computer on the conference table. A person in charge of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was participating in the conference through computer video. In terms of science, he should be the most authoritative among all the people present.

   "Academician Zhu, hello."

   Facing the leader of the Chinese scientific community across the screen, Ou Yang put away his smirking smug look, and asked respectfully: "Excuse me, is the second hypothesis proposed by Director Qi possible?"

After thinking for a while, Academician Zhu shook his head, nodded again, and replied, "Hello Xiaoou, I don't think it is very likely that this virus exists on the moon. Generally speaking, viruses are obligate parasitic microorganisms. It is difficult for the host to survive outside the cell for a long time. Even if it can spread in the air or water, it must rely on the protein shell to protect its nucleic acid. Based on our current understanding of the moon, um, the moon has no atmosphere, no magnetic field, and no Liquid water, there are no conditions to produce life and no environment to sustain life."

   "So there is no life on the moon? Including microorganisms?" Ou Yang asked.

"This, I can't make a conclusion. I remember that a few years ago, a research team in the United States Federal Nessa (NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Academician Zhu's pronunciation is not standard) put forward a statement that they landed on the moon for experiments. The mission's probe is likely not strictly sterilized, so it is possible that the probe put bacteria from Earth on the moon, but this claim has not been confirmed."

Ouyang asked again: "But in another world, the ending of World War II was rewritten, and the United States and the former Soviet Union never landed on the moon, so this statement is impossible to talk about? If there is something in the moon base that can affect the human mind Viruses or microorganisms, that should also be brought to the moon by the lunar immigrants, right?”

"It's still hard to say." Academician Zhu denied it again and said rigorously, "According to the latest research results, the interstellar dust flow is extremely large, and space dust can travel in space at a speed of 70 kilometers per second, while small biological particles can Floating at an altitude of more than 150,000 meters, you can enter space and follow the space dust to rely on the earth's gravity. If there are very few microorganisms that can survive in the space environment, they may even be carried to other planets by the space dust. Come and see, if other planets have such microorganisms that can survive in space, they may also be brought to Earth, of course, cannot pass through the atmosphere, but the moon does not have an atmosphere."

   "Without the protection of the atmosphere and magnetic field, those microorganisms should be destroyed by cosmic rays, right?" Ouyang keenly caught a loophole.

Academician Zhu nodded and sighed: "Theoretically, this is true, but we know very little. The theories we have concluded by relying on our own observations and thinking in the past may not be correct. Until today, there is no A researcher can figure out how the dome works..."

"Hey, take the T-primarch as an example, if there really is a high-level civilization with a technological level that exceeds ours by millions or even hundreds of millions of years, they can create such miraculous microorganisms as the T-primarch, and naturally they can also produce space radiation resistant. microbes, or, more simply, they can be sent in containers."

"This container does not have to be the spaceship or petri dish we imagined, or it can be some kind of thin film-like organism, which is used to provide a safe environment and nutrients for the microorganisms inside. When it reaches the destination, the container will naturally Digestion. Or, this container can be an asteroid, and we began to consider the possibility of asteroids or comets bringing life to the earth very early. Or, just like in Nandu, tearing a gray hole and using space Transmission technology is passed on.”

"Since all those impossible things have happened, even a second and third Earth... no, to be precise, even a second, third or even more solar system has appeared, then we must not Bind your imagination with previously recognized laws."

  Yang Xiaoqian nodded in approval, it is precisely because of this that Ouyang, a guy whose imagination and behavior is like a wild horse, will have a seat in the conference room. However, Academician Zhu, an old man who is almost old, can so calmly let go of his past achievements and accept the new rules humbly, which is really surprising.

"It turns out that in addition to the theory of planet-comet collision, there is also a theory of space dust propagation? The collision between space dust can actually push living beings to travel between planets. Maybe this will become one of the theories on the origin of planetary life in the future. I have to write it down. , it is convenient to write a new book." Ou Yang murmured in a low voice, completely not aware of being in a confidential conference room, and even thinking of writing materials for a new book in an extremely serious occasion, even Yang Xiaoqian couldn't help clenching his teeth secretly after hearing it.

I can't let Ou Yang continue to mess around, I have to return to the main point immediately, Yang Xiaoqian thought so, and asked before the others, "Academician Zhu, I don't have enough knowledge in this area, I want to ask you , If there is an asteroid with a diameter of 500 kilometers flying towards us, how long in advance can we observe it? Is there any ability to intercept it or push it out of a dangerous orbit?”

"It can be predicted 22 to 24 months before the impact, as for intercepting, destroying or launching dangerous orbits..." Academician Zhu shook his head, sighed, and said, "Director Qi, please play it first. The second video on the hard drive."