Earth Era

Zhao Lan finally entered the scientific research department building again. Only a limited number of people know about Zhao Lan, and most of the staff don't actually know what happened to Zhao Lan. They just heard rumors that Zhao Lan was arrested, and then the Star Disaster command team had a new commander-in-chief. But he didn't expect that in less than a month, Zhao Lan would return again and once again assume the position of commander-in-chief of the space blocking plan.

Looking at everyone's confused looks, Zhao Lan smiled faintly and did not give any explanation for his matter. Going directly to the office, Zhao Lan called his assistant and ordered: "Report to me all the progress of the mission during the time I left."

The assistant brought a thick stack of information after a while. Zhao Lan looked through it and found that Victor, the commander-in-chief who had replaced him for a period of time, did a pretty good job. Everything was going on step by step, everything was in order, and there was no omission. This made it much easier for Zhao Lan to take over the job.

Zhao Lan once again entered work mode, reentering the kind of days where he was busy calculating data, holding meetings, discussing plans, supervising and inspecting construction, inspecting the construction of hydrogen bomb spacecraft, and placing hydrogen bomb spacecraft at space nodes, etc. .

Unlike Victor, Zhao Lan also took on a new job, which was to check the progress of the black hole slimming plan. He used to go there secretly, but now that the existence of the black hole has been exposed, this matter has become legal. Zhao Lan finally no longer needs to act like a thief, but starts to enter the base openly.

After arriving at the base through legal means, Zhao Lan realized how strict the security measures at the base were at this moment. The human government has deployed almost all of its most sophisticated weapons and elite soldiers around the base to prevent people with ulterior motives from coming here to cause damage. The internal security level is also strict to the point of being cumbersome. The base is full of armed soldiers, and almost every corridor has a checkpoint on duty 24 hours a day. It can be said that the government has taken the security of the base to the extreme.

Cruise and An Liya, who followed Zhao Lan to the base, noticed the intensity of security at the base and couldn't help but secretly rejoice that they had not resorted to forceful attack. If a forceful attack had been taken, it would have been almost certain. Even if An Liya organizes 10,000 armed personnel to come, they will definitely be wiped out within ten kilometers of entering the base. The chance of success is not one in ten thousand. But zero.

This also reveals the government's fear of this black hole. Zhao Lan can completely understand this mentality, because at the beginning, when Zhao Lan learned that there was a black hole on the earth for the first time, Zhao Lan also felt very scared. This is different from a flood, an earthquake, or a volcanic eruption. This is a dangerous thing that can destroy the entire earth if an accident occurs.

After Zhao Lan was arrested. The black hole slimming plan that the base had been carrying out was stopped. Instead, a large number of scientists were observing the various physical properties of the black hole at close range all day long. Observing a black hole at close range is not a simple matter. Even with the technological development of human civilization to this day, the closest macroscopic black hole observed is more than a thousand light-years away from the earth. At such a distance, The data obtained from observations at a distance is really very limited.

After getting the opportunity to observe this black hole at close range, some theoretical physics and high-energy physics scientists even excitedly claimed that because of the existence of this black hole, human civilization will save at least three hundred years on the road of scientific and technological development. time. This black hole is fully capable of pushing the entire human civilization to take a big step forward.

so. When Zhao Lan announced the restart of the black hole slimming plan as the commander-in-chief of the space blocking program and the person in charge of the base, and would allow the black hole to evaporate in a month... Zhao Lan met several highly respected people. A group of at least several thousand scientists, represented by senior scientists, strongly protested. Those old men even broke into Zhao Lan's office directly. He talked for a long time and spat his saliva on Zhao Lan's face. Facing these distinguished senior scientists. Zhao Lan didn't dare to make any mistakes, so he could only explain patiently with a smile on his face.

That group of scientists actually understand this truth, and they also know very well that compared to the fate of the entire human civilization, a black hole is indeed insignificant. So they proposed an extremely complex action plan. This plan planned to reduce the mass of the black hole to 120,000 tons instead of the original 100,000 tons. In this way, the lifespan of the black hole would be reduced from about four to four years. The days have doubled, reaching a life span of eight days. Then transport the 120,000-ton black hole to the third space node - under calculation. The radiation power of a 120,000-ton black hole can also meet the needs of the space blocking plan, after the space blocking plan is completed. After the mass of the black hole is reduced to less than 40,000 tons, material is urgently injected into the black hole to rescue the dying black hole. In this way, human civilization has completed the space blocking plan and retained this black hole.

But the plan was too complicated and sophisticated. Not to mention the difficulties and accidents encountered in specific operations, the radiation power of low-mass black holes is a difficult thing to solve. Because its radiation power is so terrifying, the black hole's radiation will push matter away before it gets close to it, which will cause it to be unable to eat. To solve this problem, scientists also need to create an extremely complex device.

But... the more complex the plan, the more likely it is that things will go wrong. Even if the implementation of this plan only increases the failure rate of the overall plan by one percentage point, this is unacceptable to Zhao Lan. So Zhao Lan had no choice but to harden his heart and reject the scientists' proposal.

Zhao Lan can understand the anxiety of these scientists. In fact, Zhao Lan himself is extremely sorry. Zhao Lan also wants this black hole to be in the hands of human civilization forever, so that scientists in human civilization can study this black hole in detail. But Zhao Lan must be responsible for the entire human civilization, so Zhao Lan had to reluctantly make up his mind to sacrifice this black hole and the possibility of obtaining a large amount of experimental observation data from this black hole in the future, and reluctantly destroy it.

The scientist representatives finally left Zhao Lan's office disappointed. After their request was rejected, they did not take any other countermeasures. Instead, they began to seize every moment to surround the black hole and collect experimental data as much as possible. Zhao Lan is naturally supportive of this. As long as it does not violate the principles, Zhao Lan usually approves the observation plans of these scientists.

It was under this circumstance that the black hole slimming plan was restarted. It is already summer, and without the powerful temperature control ability of nature, the working efficiency of the tens of millions of radiators arranged around the base has been greatly hindered. And because the black hole slimming plan was suspended during the time when Zhao Lan was arrested, the original weight loss data was not reached. Now Zhao Lan must subtract more mass from the black hole in a shorter time to achieve it. Predetermined goals. This is a very difficult task. Even if Zhao Lan turns the power of the cooling system to the maximum, the black hole's mass reduction rate is still not as fast as expected.

At this time, the power of the human government intervened. While solving the dilemma faced by Zhao Lan in one fell swoop, it also allowed Zhao Lan to once again witness the huge power of human civilization as a whole. In just five days, government construction workers doubled the number of radiators and increased the heat dissipation area. As a result, the black hole's mass reduction rate finally met Zhao Lan's requirements. Zhao Lan's worried heart was finally relieved.

Time slipped away bit by bit like this, and the countdown finally jumped to the number five. This means that in five days it will be time for the space blocking plan to be officially implemented. All the hydrogen bomb spacecraft have been deployed to the predetermined space nodes, only the No. 3 space node is still empty.

Tomorrow the mass of the black hole will be reduced to 100,000 tons, and a 100,000-ton black hole will have a lifespan of about four days. At that time, it will be transported to the No. 3 space node, where it can radiate its own mass freely without artificial interference, and radiate all its energy within three hours before and after the scheduled time. , and eventually disappeared into this universe.

All transportation vehicles are ready, and the heavy-duty spacecraft responsible for transporting black holes has long been parked in the Earth Port. In order to welcome the arrival of the black hole, the Earth Port and the space elevator have implemented martial law measures five days ago. Except for people and materials with special government passes, all members of the public are prohibited from entering. During this period, the staff strictly inspected every component of the space elevator and the Earth Port, using the most stringent attitude to ensure that the black hole transportation operation was flawless.

Everything is ready, just wait for the time to start transporting the black hole.

The night was already deep, but Zhao Lan was still tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. This matter is really important. Although every preparation has been made and everything imaginable has been done, Zhao Lan still feels a little uneasy.

So Zhao Lan called An Liya, and the two came to the area around the black hole together, planning to walk around casually to see if they could find any more loopholes so that they could make up for it as soon as possible.

But just when Zhao Lan and An Liya came to the black hole feeding equipment, Zhao Lan saw a figure. (To be continued ~^~)