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To be honest, it's common for aerospace equipment sensors to issue alarms.

Even beyond aerospace sensors, aviation sensors are also hypersensitive.

They would rather give a false alarm than miss a real situation, basically adhering to the principle of "better to falsely report ten thousand times than to overlook one."

Spacecraft generally have multiple sets of sensors installed, providing redundancy and mutual verification. A single sensor alarm is likely a false alarm, but it must never go unreported.

Once there is an alarm, immediate manual confirmation is required, and the alarm can only be turned off after confirming there is no problem.

If you find it annoying and lower the sensitivity of the sensors, you are courting disaster.

There are too many such incidents in aerospace history.

Especially in the early days of space activities, there was a lack of experience and sensors were not sensitive enough. Errors occurred without alarms, and astronauts sacrificed their lives.

The current safety designs have all been explored with the lives of predecessors.

Just like when manned spacecraft are launched and return to the atmosphere, astronauts must wear helmets.

Now that sensors are very sensitive, spacecraft often have false alarms.

For example, on the International Space Station, a little dust falling on a smoke detector can trigger a fire alarm, or a system malfunction can trigger a toxic gas leak alarm.

There was also a fire alarm during the first extravehicular activity by Tianxia astronauts on Tiangong-2, which turned out to be a false alarm.

The final investigation revealed that after the hatch was opened, sunlight shone on the equipment inside the cabin, causing the temperature to rise, and the computer mistakenly judged it as a fire, triggering the fire alarm.

Don't think that each alarm just causes the astronauts to fuss around for a while, only to find out it's a false alarm. These are their life guarantees.

This time it's a false alarm, but what about next time? Even the slightest negligence could cost them their lives.

It could even write off expensive spacecraft, leaving large amounts of space debris in orbit, obscuring humanity's path to the stars.

This time is the same. The computer automatically alarmed, and the command hall quickly locked the alarm location and sent engineers to check it.

"No. 6 fuel loading port is abnormal."

Hearing this, most people breathed a sigh of relief, as it was likely not a rocket issue. Now it depends on the engineers' manual inspection. Hopefully, the problem isn't serious.

The engineers quickly checked the No. 6 fuel loading port and found no problems. It was a false alarm.

Since it was a false alarm, the launch mission naturally continued, but before long, the system alarmed again.

The engineers had plenty of patience and quickly conducted a manual inspection of the alarm location, but it was still a false alarm.

Okay, twice, that should be enough, right?

They had been checking until now and had confirmed that there were no abnormalities anywhere.

The technology purchased from Tang Chue was indeed awesome.

But before long, the system alarmed again.

Not only the engineers, but even ordinary people felt something was wrong.

Clearly the inspection showed no problems, so why was the system constantly reporting errors?

Quick manual confirmation revealed, as expected, a false alarm!

If the rocket has no problems, then the problem must be with the launch center's system.

Investigate!

They didn't know until they investigated, but they were shocked to find that a launch center employee had inserted a USB drive into a computer.

An idea flashed through people's minds.

"Espionage!"

This was terrible. The investigators directly entered the scene, and everyone was told to stay where they were and not move.

Tang Chue and Zhao Li were invited to a conference room.

They had been to this conference room a few days ago, and the same big shots were there, but unlike the smiling faces of the previous days, everyone now looked solemn and frowned.

Only after entering did the two of them learn that there was a spy in the launch base, and the previous false alarms were not accidental.

Only one spy has been discovered so far, and they are being interrogated.

This spy was an internal staff member, the kind that was temporarily bought off. They didn't have any professional spy skills, so they quickly confessed everything they knew.

However, the information was very limited.

They had never met a real spy. They got the USB drive from a box at their doorstep. The box also contained a letter that combined coaxing and threats, as well as 100,000 in cash.

The letter told them to insert the USB drive into the launch center's computer, and the 100,000 would be theirs, with another 400,000 after success.

A total of 500,000.

If they didn't do it, or even reported it to the police, they would be killed, because the police couldn't protect them forever. Once there was an opportunity, they would be killed.

Along with their family, they would all die.

That's it, nothing more.

They didn't know which country the other party was from, whether there were other people in the aerospace center who had been bought off, or even what was in the USB drive.

Because the spy letter told them not to look at it. Once it was plugged into the computer, the program would start.

If they wasted the USB drive on another computer, they would be dead.

Even the first and second alarms, they thought were just coincidences.

It wasn't until the third time, when their colleagues felt that something was wrong, that they began to suspect something.

Finally, when they saw the investigators walking towards them, they knew that it was what they had done, and that their actions had been exposed.

Soon, the investigators found the money at their home, exactly 100,000, not a penny less.

According to them, "They didn't dare spend a single penny."

Moreover, their situation was indeed difficult to explain. They were not actually corrupted by money, but were threatened with their lives, not only their own, but also their family's.

Thinking of this, the aerospace center contacted the police and put the person's family under protection as well.

Thinking that there might be other spies lurking in the base, ready to cause trouble at any time, they no longer hoped for a timely launch. They just wanted to ensure that the Long March 9 rocket was safe, so they sent people to surround the rocket, layer upon layer.

Don't even think about a fly flying over.

The rest was to find all the spies.

It was strange, the base couldn't have confirmed the first spy so quickly, but when they were checking the computer system, they suddenly discovered abnormal information, and then followed the clues to find this brother.

Tang Chue also noticed this problem. He carefully looked at the currently obtained information and found that the appearance of that abnormality was indeed a bit abnormal.

Well, it's like actively reporting locations in a game.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at Zhao Li, only to find that this guy was also looking at him.

This reminded Tang Chue that this guy seemed to be the captain of an information gathering team in the earliest days, and was very sensitive to information, comparable to an aerospace sensor.

"You also feel that this is a feint to the east and attack in the west?"

"Yes," Zhao Li nodded, "These few false alarms actually have no destructive power at all, but every time an alarm is given, the entire base becomes busy, especially now, after a spy has been found, the entire base is even busier. I feel that the real spy must be planning something, using this time delay."

Tang Chue very much agreed with this view, but what exactly did the real spy want to do?

Just like Zhao Li said, the other party definitely didn't come to cause a few false alarms, after all, false alarms wouldn't work after one or two tests.

The ultimate goal must be on the Long March 9.

Stop it from launching?

Definitely.

Even destroy it?

If there is a chance, they will definitely do it.

Tang Chue's brain was working frantically, he was analyzing all the information.

Assuming the other party wants to destroy the rocket, but it is surrounded by several layers of investigators and is now very safe.

Even if there are traitors in the investigation team, they have no guns or explosives and cannot destroy the rocket.

If anyone makes extra moves, they will definitely be caught.

Similarly, if anyone wants to attack from the program again, it is the same, impossible.

If it is impossible inside, then it can only be outside the base.

Yes, the other party wants to make the entire base busy, so that everyone's attention is on the base, and naturally there is no time to pay attention to the outside.

It can even be guessed that there should be only one bait in the base.

Now that the base has been controlled, it is impossible for anyone to cause damage again, so they can only take advantage of the base's lack of attention to the outside to prevent the rocket from launching from the outside, or cause damage to the rocket.

What to use to destroy it?

Gun?

Impossible.

The closest place to here that can directly observe the Long March 9 is also several kilometers away. Guns can't shoot that far.

Artillery can hit it, but that's even more impossible. This is not a war zone, nor is it America. Where would artillery come from?

That's all he could think of for the time being. After telling everyone present his thoughts, they also felt it made sense.

If this is the case, then isn't there no problem?

Even the Long March 9 can still be launched as usual.

After such a period of tossing, it is almost time for the previously announced launch window.

Although so many things have happened here, the news of "terminate the launch" has not been announced, so the outside world has always thought it will be launched on time.

The weather is very good now, with clear skies and few floating objects in the air, which is very suitable for rocket launch.

And when Tang Chue heard this, he suddenly reacted. This pure sky seems suitable for a new weapon.

Laser cannon!