Chapter 873 At This Moment the Earth Is Twinkling with Thousands of Stars

Abraham is an American with a typical middle-aged Caucasian appearance (high nose, slightly fat and some slight balding), currently working for NASA as a senior technical staff responsible for space monitoring and rocket launch monitoring.

As the world's most powerful space agency, NASA has always been the coordinates of the world's aerospace industry. The first to land on the moon, the first space shuttle. The continuous space launch rockets in the space race are amazing. There are enough to carry The Hubble Telescope that entered the annals of human history.

All of this is the proud capital of NASA. Even now the space shuttle has been regarded as a project that has been suspended and eliminated, but many countries still do not have the ability to manufacture space shuttles.

In addition, Stark Industries Group manufactured the launch of the Ark spacecraft last year. Although the main technology comes from Tony Stark, NASA also invested in it. The meaning of the Ark will not be understood by Abraham. This is Enough to go down in the history books.

But now the Ark has encountered a big trouble, a sudden solar wind has disrupted all plans. The Ark, which was supposed to return home, may face the blowing of the solar wind in the universe. As an old technician, Abraham knows exactly what this means.

And there are not many things that people on earth can do. This is not a Hollywood blockbuster, not "The Martian" starring Matt Damon. In fact, in addition to observing the solar wind, NASA wants to find the most suitable escape with the least radiation There's not much you can do outside of coordinates.

A group of scientists have been arguing in the office. They can't come up with anything good.

If Apollo 13's self-rescue operation in space(Note) was a miracle, then the Ark spacecraft can only pray for a miracle to happen again.

"Coffee, Abraham." The colleague went out to the restaurant and brought Abraham a cup of coffee. Abraham took the coffee and thanked him. He is now continuing to use this thing to refresh himself.

He has been staring at the monitor for almost six hours. In fact, Abraham has been unable to go home since the solar wind erupted. The entire senior technicians of NASA are almost like this. Even if they can't do anything, they can't leave. In a tall sentence In other words: the Ark is related to the future of mankind.

This is the first time that human beings have really taken the step of self-exploration into the universe. This is no longer a child's game like picking up shells on the beach in the past few decades, but a real life that is ready to raise its style and set sail. Prelude.

Whether the Ark is a success or a failure is of vital significance to human exploration of space.

"What can we do here?" A colleague asked gently beside Abraham, and Abraham shook his head: "Pray."

As a scientific and technological person, he had to pin his hopes on the gods in the end. Abraham felt that this was ironic. Just when he was not in a good mood, there was a sound of commotion outside.

Just as he was about to go outside to find out, there was a shout from outside: "Tony Stark flew in wearing a steel armor!"

Abraham, like other colleagues, ran towards the source of the sound curiously. What is Tony doing here at this time? Everyone knows that the Ark is Tony Stark's brainchild, and he will definitely not allow this spaceship to have an accident.

The golden-red steel armor roared towards the office of the director of NASA, and flew directly in. This surprised the director who was typing on the computer.

Immediately afterwards, the director's secretary rushed in and pointed at Iron Man and said to the director: "Sir, I have no time to stop him."

The director couldn't help but rolled his eyes, this is nonsense. If you can stop Iron Man, then you are still on duty at the door of my office? He waved his hand and signaled the secretary to go out: "Okay, I see. I think Mister Stark has business for me."

After the secretary left the room, the director turned to look at Iron Man: "Mr. Tony Stark, it's not polite for you to come in like this."

Tony did not take off his steel mask, but said as Iron Man: "I know, so I apologize. But these are extraordinary times. I think you should be able to understand."

The NASA director nodded: "I know, so I didn't call the police just now."

Tony smirked: "It's really funny."

"This is bittersweet. The problems encountered by the Ark are very big. My scientists have started to negotiate behind closed doors, but there has been no progress." The director said with a frown: "This feeling is terrible. The Apollo 13 accident was even more desperate."

"That's why we need to think of other ways." Tony said, his tone made the director feel a little different.

The director asked tentatively: "Have you thought of a way?"

"Remember that other plan I mentioned earlier?" Tony Stark asked.

"What?" The director didn't react immediately.

"Xinggang Sky City!" Tony reminded.

"Is there any relationship?" The director still didn't connect the two things together: "The Ark and Sky City are two different things."

"It's the same thing." Tony reminded: "It's actually the same thing. The Starport plan has passed the approval of the Earth Federation, and we started the preparation work very early, I know that. Actually Including China and the European Space Agency, etc. have already started. Since the launch of the Ark last year, helium-3 began to be mined."

Tony pointed to the director: "I know, including NASA, you are all making rockets like crazy. Just like the previous space race, you hoarded a lot of rockets, and your actions are too obvious. I even heard that there are Some idiot came up with a thing called a relay program to be the back when I wasn't providing Ark spaceship technology."

What Tony said is true, including China, the European Space Agency, and other countries with independent space capabilities have been preparing for the space age for more than a year.

Not all countries can get the Ark spaceship, and even if they can get it, they have to prepare with both hands. In addition, Tony proposed the Starport plan later, which makes countries around the world continue to prepare their own space programs. Everyone can Realize that the age of space and space has really arrived, and it is no longer a bridge in science fiction.

The director did not admit or deny Tony Stark's statement. He just said lightly: "So what do you want to say?"

"I need to requisition these rockets!" Tony Stark said bluntly: "I need these rockets to save the Ark! This is the first time in human history that we have taken such a big step towards the universe, and failure is absolutely not allowed!"

The director did not deny this, human beings are just an insignificant civilization in the universe. Especially in the Battle of New York, human beings really witnessed a powerful alien civilization. Even if the other party did not show any malice, it still makes people unable to relax their vigilance.

In this case, NASA's rights are further expanded, and the Star Wars plan proposed by the Reagan administration was brought up again. But this time, the object of Star Wars has changed from the human beings on the earth to the aliens outside.

"I need to use these rockets and let them begin to carry the first batch of materials to build the star port. And now two of the four Arks that the Stark Group is going to deliver to the Wuchang countries this year are almost completed, and I will also take the risk of using them. " said Tony very seriously.

The director frowned: "What exactly do you want to do?"

"Use all your strength to create a fortress that shields the solar wind!" Tony said, his tone was not frivolous as usual, only endless seriousness.

"The shell materials of the star port have been produced when the project was established. They are armors that are strong enough to resist the solar wind. I will use these armors to build a space fortress for the Ark. Let them have a place to avoid the solar wind."

"Two unfinished Arks are obviously not going to be able to carry that much material into space. So I need rockets from all of you! I'm going to put steel suits inside the Ark and let them fly in space." Adjust the positions of these armors, as long as the timing is just right, we can make the Ark escape the solar wind without any risk." Tony revealed his plan in full.

To be precise, this is not his plan but Dr. Banner's. His inspiration comes from the invisible fortress plan proposed by Li Jie.

At that time, Dr. Banner put forward this idea: "The Starport project has already started. But the Earth Federation is arguing about which route it should take in that orbit. In fact, we should have started launching and building the first base a long time ago." Yes. But because of the constant interests involved, it hurts our progress."

"The Ark is a crisis but also a turning point. We seized this opportunity to directly launch the Starport Project to shut up those politicians. And there is a more important point. We cannot protect the earth forever. Even a powerful hero will fall one day , No matter how good the original intention is, the organization will deteriorate one day. We have great power, so we are more likely to deteriorate.” Dr. Banner said bluntly.

"At that time Jason found me and asked me to join the Illuminati just because he didn't want this to happen to everyone. He hoped to use fresh blood to cool everyone's brains. But now I think it's time for me to play a role. We can't help everything Earth gets it done. It's unrealistic."

"We need to make the Earth Federation really unite. Do one thing really. Let them understand how small they are to this vast universe. The earth that is not united is extremely vulnerable in the face of real alien threats. A simple game The solar wind can destroy the hope and future of mankind!" Banner turned his head to look in Li Jie's direction.

"And even if this plan doesn't work, Jason's Starfleet and Thor will still be at the bottom. If it doesn't work, let them rescue Dr. Reed and the others. This won't cause too much loss."

Li Jie nodded, and he also agreed with Dr. Banner's idea. Anyway, Dr. Banner's idea was unexpected, not to say that he couldn't think of this way of doing things. It was because he lacked sufficient scientific knowledge and could not communicate with Banner at all. Just like Dr. Na, figured out how this whole plan needs to be arranged.

This is a very professional ability, not simply throwing pots or something. This is not Li Jie's strong point.

In the NASA Space Agency, the director is weighing the pros and cons. But just like what Tony said, this is the first real space voyage for human beings, and it is also the first step for human beings to start exploring extraterrestrial civilizations. This step cannot be tolerated. There is a loss. Otherwise, do human beings still have the confidence to take the second step?

And the whole world is waiting for the return of this batch of helium-3 ore. So without thinking too long, as an old astronaut, the director decided to do some great things that can go down in history at the end of his career.

He said to Tony: "It's not enough for you to convince me, you also need to convince the president."

Iron Man spread his hands: "Already in persuasion?"

"What?"

"I mean, I'm not actually here." The mask of the steel armor was opened, and there was no one inside.

Tony just used remote control to talk to the director. Now he is really at a loss. Because he needs to go around the world to meet the leaders of various space agencies.

And the director of Tianjian Bureau is negotiating with the leaders of various countries, pushing everyone to agree to this plan.

"Starport's plan is not only personal or national. And the Ark and Helium-3 are not only the future of a country. They are related to the direction of our world. No matter from various perspectives such as political or economic and social influence We all need to unite to do this.” Captain Rogers emphasized to the leaders through a video conference.

"We are not alone in the universe. There are enemies and friends in this universe. The history of human development has told us that the most powerful civilization often perishes due to civil strife. And the earth's civilization is still far from being strong. Everyone, The Earth Federation should do something! Not only for us, but also for our descendants, this era needs to set an example!"

The President of the United States voted first: "I agree." (I'm going to retire anyway)

Then there is China, which has been cooperating and fighting with the United States, and the leaders also voted in favor: "If we can't even reach a basic agreement on such trivial matters, then our civilization is not far from extinction."

Followed by England, France, Russia, Germany………. In the end, even Latvia, which has been fighting against other countries, expressed its willingness to lend domestic rockets and Ark spacecraft to be used.

To be honest, this incident scared a lot of people. No one knew when Dum was so kind. Will he help the Americans? Then there was a message: Dum, Susan and Reed are college classmates, and it is said that they have a good relationship......

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The Houston Space Launch Center in the United States is extremely busy. Everyone is preparing for an emergency launch. In addition to the busy people, there is Iron Man's Iron Squad, as well as the army sent from the military wearing the elf armor produced by Osborn to help. These people and machines are powerful, and they are not afraid of those poisonous and harmful products.

Their addition made preparations extremely fast.

At the launch site in the South China Sea, the huge solid-fuel rocket is being transferred to the launch pad at a gentle speed by hundreds of mutants who are proficient in magnetic field control.

At the European Space Launch Center, the rocket launcher that has been secretly prepared has been pushed onto the launch pad and is making final preparations.

In the Plesetsk base, the seemingly huge and crude machine neatly packed the materials transported by the Iron Man team into the transport cabin of the rocket launcher.

Space centers around the world seem to be busy doing the same thing at the same time. For the first time, the world is on the same position and frequency because of the same thing.

At ten o'clock in the evening on March 30th, US time, weather: clear, wind speed: low.

Abraham is about to fly another launch mission. It was the twenty-fifth time in his career that he had done this. After doing this kind of thing so many times, he should have gotten used to it logically. But today he still couldn't restrain his excitement.

The reason for this excitement is hard to put into words, because are they saving their fellow human beings outside the earth? Or is it because of the first cooperation of astronauts from all over the world?

Abraham shook his head, he drove all distracting thoughts out of his mind. Because he needed to hold his breath, when the countdown was over, he calmly pressed the launch button.

The rocket ignited smoothly, and the huge flame illuminated the entire Houston Space Launch Center, and the rocket lifted off with huge light and heat. It is like the sun rising in the dark night, and the burning flame can be seen even tens of hundreds of kilometers away.

This is the "sun" that represents the rise of human civilization, and it carries the hope and persistence of mankind. We are like children lighting a bonfire in a scary dark forest in a dark and cold universe.

There are always terrible eyes in the darkness spying on this erratic flame that seems to be extinguished at any time. The flame may be weak or it may be a kind of attraction and temptation. But when the light and heat flashes can't be ignored, that's a deterrent!

From Houston to the South China Sea, from Tanegashima to San Marco, clusters of flames rose one after another. They are like the morning stars ignited by human beings, marching towards the dark and silent universe. They declare to the world: We are here, and we will not back down.

First the first, then the second, then the third and fourth, and then it spreads up to the amount you quickly count. These "revelation stars" carrying human civilization are rising from the earth non-stop, and they have not flinched or feared. They wantonly radiate their own light and heat.

At this moment, thousands of stars on the earth are twinkling!

PS: At the third watch, the 4,800-character chapter is asking for tickets.