Senior Superstar

With a set of natural and urgent transitions, the plot of "Wandering Down" has entered the third act.

After completing the explanation of most of the characters in the upper part in two acts, the real core crisis of the film is finally revealed step by step;

Half an hour after the Wandering Earth Ground General Command Center received the information from the transfer station of the lunar propulsion base, a group of top astrophysicists in China were summoned one after another.

And the leaders who came almost at the same time as them had gray hair.

In the conference room of the command center, the old man who used his own prestige and means to fully promote the Wandering Earth Project looked at the huge dynamic display on the wall with a serious face.

"Who can explain to me what is going on here?"

Facing his iconic tone and inquiry, someone immediately stood up from the conference table.

"This is the dynamic simulation of the sun's orbit today that we just captured. From the picture, we can see that this is a bright area."

"Keep it simple."

Following the reminder from the old man, the astrophysicist who got up to report was silent for a moment.

"To put it simply, more than ten hours ago, the dozens of monitoring satellites we had launched to the sun hit an asteroid belt in today's orbit. But this is not the point."

"So what's the point?"

Faced with a straight-to-the-top question, the astrophysicist switched to another simulation on the big screen.

It was a 3D holographic image of a solar system.

In the image, around the position between the sun and Mercury, a large foggy area is abrupt and conspicuous!

"The point is that the current asteroid belt, which is composed of a large number of celestial debris and asteroids, has reached the perihelion orbit. Moreover, its densest part is in the orbit of Mercury!"

For old people, these explanations are still too professional.

But the general meaning, he already understood.

"That is to say, our satellite's influence from the asteroid belt is secondary. The asteroid belt is really causing trouble, is it actually blocking Mercury's perihelion orbit?"

"It can be understood in this way."

The scientists nodded.

"What is the best and worst case scenario?"

After thinking for a while, the old man asked the question he was most concerned about again.

"In the best case, most of these asteroids are composed of ice. When they reach a certain distance, they will be melted by the temperature of the sun. In the worst case, this asteroid belt is composed of C-type carbonaceous, S-type silicon salt and M-type metal celestial bodies. If so, they have a high probability of affecting the orbital motion of Mercury, so that Mercury slows down. If the speed of Mercury slows down, it will not be enough to escape the gravitational force of the sun in today's orbit, In the end...it will be captured by the sun's gravitational force and fall into the sun. We can't predict what kind of consequences will result from this!"

Looking at a group of silent scientists, the old man frowned even tighter.

"So you have such a big battle at night, just want to tell me; an accident happened near the sun that we can't predict the result?"

"It's not just that."

A silver-haired astrophysicist stood up from his chair.

"The consequences of Mercury's fall into the sun are immeasurable. We compared the trajectories of the asteroids in the solar system in the past two years and found that the asteroid belt in the solar system, which was originally between Jupiter and Mars, is accelerating towards the center of the sun. Venus and The earth, sooner or later, or with a high probability, will encounter the same problem as Mercury. So."

Having said that, the astrophysics guru smiled wryly.

"Our original estimate is still a little more optimistic. In other words, the time left for us to escape the solar system is not as abundant as it seems!"

"To what extent?"

Facing the last question of the old man, all the scientists focused their attention on the simulated map of the trajectory of the asteroid belt.

"That will probably depend on what happens to Mercury in about six hours. Mercury is made up of about 70 percent metal and 30 percent silicate material, and its density is 5.427 grams per cubic centimeter, the second highest in the solar system." ...and compared to the planet with the highest density, the density difference between the two is only 0.088 grams per cubic centimeter. This planet is the Earth!"

"Earth."

"That's right, it's Earth."

Seeing Tai Dou's complex eyes, the old man nodded deeply, waved to the attendants beside him, and walked out of the meeting room.

"When there is a result, let me know as soon as possible."

The old man waited for a long time.

After the implementation of the Wandering Earth Project, as the core country for the implementation of the plan, there is a lot of work to be dealt with every day, a lot of relationships need to be coordinated, and there are also a lot of social conflicts that need to be resolved by the government or seek solutions.

Just when he was so busy that he was about to forget about this matter, a document submitted by the head of the space agency was put on his desk.

It was a simulated video file.

After inserting the USB flash drive carrying the files into the computer, a disturbing picture appeared in front of him;

Before the sun's perihelion orbit, Mercury is moving along its revolution orbit that has been running for billions of years at an absolute speed.

In front of it, there are densely packed planets of various sizes, like a huge and thick sponge asteroid belt!

From the first moment it entered the asteroid belt, a violent impact became inevitable.

Countless fireballs exploded on the surface of its planet, setting off bursts of dust, although in the simulated video, the explosions seemed insignificant. But both the old man and the secretary standing beside him knew that every explosion represented the equivalent of the entire nuclear weapons reserve on the earth!

Amidst the constant explosions, Mercury's speed began to slow down like a shark plunged into a fishing net.

When it broke through the "fishing net" with the inertia maintained for billions of years, its speed has dropped by more than one-third!

Then, it began to make human beings feel extremely small and fragile, and living in this vast universe is just a dreamlike accident.

The planet that had just experienced a nightmare and finally broke through hell, deviated from its orbit and slowly drifted towards its parent star, the sun. .

The gravity is so great that it didn't even fall into the sun completely, but it was completely torn apart!

Under the high temperature, the small fragments directly gasified, and the larger fragments rushed into the sun at a speed dozens of times that of the fastest missile.

Most of them were completely vaporized by the absolute high temperature without even touching the body of the sun.

But there was still a part of it, which smashed into the sun before it was completely vaporized!

Finally, on the surface of the sun, a large fireworks show was staged.

Until the last group of Mercury's wreckage disappeared, this silent swallowing was over for a long time.

Only the people in the office escaped from the scene that made people shudder.

"When did this happen?"

"If you mean when Mercury disappeared, it was just now."

"Boss, from now on, there are only seven planets left in the solar system!"