Earth Era

Contrary to what many people expected, this black hole will not be transported directly to the Earth Harbor, which is tens of thousands of kilometers away from the surface. It will only be transported to a place only a few hundred kilometers away from the surface. .

This plan was designed after precise calculations. The reason is simple. The farther the space elevator is from the surface, the faster it orbits the earth and the lower the gravity, until the earth's gravity completely disappears and centrifugal force dominates. Transport the black hole to a place hundreds of kilometers away. At that place, the black hole will just be able to orbit the earth stably. It will neither escape from the earth's gravitational field because of too fast speed nor fall due to excessive gravity. Go to the surface of the earth.

In such a place, the black hole can be simply regarded as "free floating". Under such circumstances, it is the safest and fastest way to operate the black hole.

Hundreds of giant cranes simultaneously extended their long mechanical arms to the black hole, and the ultra-high-strength ropes made with the latest technology collapsed straight at this moment. The huge box containing the black hole, electric field equipment, and load balancing equipment was hoisted by these giant cranes, and then placed into the huge transportation equipment on the ground end of the space elevator.

Throughout this process, tens of thousands of soldiers participated in security and vigilance work. Countless soldiers with guns and live ammunition surrounded the entire ground end of the space elevator, and even Zhao Lan could not move around at will. Anyone or anything entering or leaving here will undergo the strictest inspection. At the same time, the head of state also signed a special order giving the soldiers here the power to shoot without warning.

In other words, as long as the military believes that a certain person is a threat and the person shows even the slightest sign of being unwilling to cooperate, the military has the right to shoot him directly.

Zhao Lan welcomed this order because Zhao Lan knew exactly what he was doing. It can be said that if there is a terrorist or anti-human element who wants to destroy the entire earth or the entire human civilization, now is the best time for him to act. Because as long as a more powerful bomb explodes next to the electric field control box, it will destroy the equipment of the electric field control box. Or if the load balancing device is destroyed, the black hole will fall into the earth. Then destroy the entire planet.

Special measures are adopted in special times. At this time, no matter how stringent security measures are taken, it is not too much.

Fortunately, no accidents occurred during the transportation of the black hole to geosynchronous orbit. There were indeed unidentified people trying to get close to the space elevator, but the military personnel took decisive action and killed seven of them. The remaining people disappeared without a trace and no one knew where they went. The rest only arrested two drunkards. And just killed a wild dog.

Not even a wild dog can come near this place without permission. Because wild dogs may also have pre-placed bombs in their bodies, we cannot take such things lightly. Killing it is the best option.

The head of state and Zhao Lan participated in the entire transportation process. Only after receiving the news that the black hole had successfully entered orbit and started orbiting the earth at a constant speed, the head of state and Zhao Lan finally felt relieved.

According to the laws of mechanics, the greater the mass of an object, the more difficult it is to change its state of motion. The mass of this black hole is as high as 100,000 tons. At this moment, it is already in orbit around the earth. This means that unless the government takes large-scale actions. Otherwise, from now on, no one can push it into the earth. In other words, the earth has completely eliminated the threat of this black hole.

Having a black hole on the same planet as yourself is not a good experience after all. Now that this guy is finally sent out, everyone can feel at ease.

But this mission is not over yet. There is still a lot of work to be done after that.

In space, a heavy-duty cargo spacecraft controlled by a special operations team began to slowly approach the black hole that was floating freely in space and orbiting the earth. Then it opened the hatch and opened its mouth like a monster. The electric field control box was swallowed into his own body. After fixing it, the heavy cargo spacecraft began to accelerate slowly. It flew around the earth's orbit for two times before it gained the speed to break away from the earth's gravitational field, so it left the earth in a parabola and began to move towards the third space node.

After counting the mass of the black hole, the total mass of the heavy-lift cargo spacecraft rose to a somewhat terrifying level. The originally designed high-thrust engine was somewhat powerless when faced with such a mass. Even if the engine works at full capacity at the risk of being overloaded and burned out, it is still unable to increase the forward speed of the spacecraft to a suitable level. Forced. The Earth urgently installed six boosters on the spacecraft, which increased the forward speed and sent the black hole to the third space node at the predetermined time.

After arriving at the predetermined location, the heavy-duty cargo spacecraft opened the hatch again and spit out the black hole and the electric field control box that bound it. Then the spacecraft left. After the spacecraft left, the electric field control box automatically stopped working and opened an exit above it.

From this moment on, the black hole was finally exposed to the space environment without any obstruction. But this is a near-vacuum environment. Even if it comes into contact with the outside world, it can't find anything to eat.

The thruster equipped on the electric field control box began to ignite. After leaving the black hole here, it flew into the vast space under the push of the thruster, and has since disappeared.

Its mission has been completed, and from now on, humans no longer care about its fate.

In addition to this black hole, the remaining thirty-odd space nodes have all been equipped with hydrogen bomb spacecraft with different yields as planned. All it takes is the first signal from Earth for these hydrogen bomb ships to explode. But there is still one day left before the scheduled time node, and it is not yet time for them to explode.

The Ministry of Scientific Research and the military jointly dispatched a large number of scientific research and security forces to inspect these arrangements and provide necessary protection for these devices to ensure that they will not be damaged. On Earth, Zhao Lan has been staying in the Scientific Research Department for several days without leaving. He has been nervously checking whether there are any omissions in the mission and whether there is anything he has overlooked.

The city is still brightly lit, and even late at night, the bustling areas of the city are still crowded with people. Entertainment, shopping, food, beautiful scenery, everything is as usual. Occasionally, someone would raise his head to take a look at the pitch-black sky without a single star. It would only be a glimpse, and he would look back in an instant.

This is an important operation related to the entire human civilization, and the fate of human civilization will be judged in this operation. But this incident did not affect the public. No one will waste more energy on this matter except complaining about why the sky is so dark.

The tired Zhao Lan left his job at this time and came to the top floor of the scientific research department building. He stood in front of the railing and looked at the sky and the ground.

An Liya, who serves as Zhao Lan's personal security guard, also came here shortly after.

The summer night wind is very cool, and it feels very comfortable when it blows on your body. Zhao Lan stood quietly like this, and the noise of the crowd below seemed to be transmitted here.

Zhao Lan suddenly sighed.

"The history of our human civilization has been thousands of years... How many people like us have existed in this world and in history? They are never exposed to the public eye, only in public. They are secretly engaged in work that is crucial to the entire human civilization. If they succeed, everything will remain the same, and the public will not feel any changes. If they fail, it will bring disaster to the entire human civilization."

An Liya curled her lips: "Then who knows, after all this time, human beings have come back safely. In this society, there is a division of labor. Just do what you have to do, and do other people's work. What. Just like me now, I just need to protect your safety. As for your work, I don’t care at all. Even if you fail in the end, it will only prove that it should be like this. Even if I care about it, I can’t change it. This fact."

Zhao Lan was speechless at this answer: "You have such a big heart." After a pause, Zhao Lan added: "If everything goes well, your boss will return to our universe in a few hours. In What are you going to do after your boss comes back?"

An Liya was stunned for a moment: "How to do what?" Then she shook her head: "How to do it or how to do it, but you, if I remember correctly, you don't even know what your boss looks like, right? Why, have you thought about what to say first after meeting your boss?"

This time it was Zhao Lan who was in a daze. Zhao Lan has never thought about this problem. Although Zhao Lan has been vaguely looking forward to meeting Li Yunfan, what Zhao Lan has always been thinking about is the "meeting" itself, and he has not had time to think about more things.

After being stunned for a while, Zhao Lan shook his head helplessly: "Let's talk about it then. Come on, let's go down and check the relevant arrangements for the last time. It will be time in a few hours..."

Before turning around and leaving, Zhao Lan took one last look at the dark sky without any stars, and then said to herself in her heart: "I will get back all the stars we lost..." (To be continued~^ ~)