880 Doubts

Ling Yu's expression changed again and again, his brows tightening and spreading, staring at the screen without saying a word.

The Fourth Fleet is affiliated to the Beiyuezhou Fleet, but the Mars project is not implemented by Beidu alone. There are more than a dozen military attache representatives from the countries participating in the Mars project on board the Nanzhou, and their faces are extremely ugly.

According to the agreement reached between various countries, the entire impact process was broadcast live to the Earth. However, the distance between the Earth and Mars is a bit far, and it will take some time for the direct signal to reach the Earth.

Although it was not a public global live broadcast, there were many high-level officials from various countries watching the live broadcast. Ling Yu and military attachés from various countries did not know how to explain it to their own high-level officials.

In fact, there is nothing to explain. Ling Yu's command was quite satisfactory. Although there was a slight accident in the middle, the stone mountain weighing hundreds of thousands of tons hit Europa several times. From this point of view, the Mars plan was undoubtedly successful, but Who would have thought that even an astronomical impact would not be able to harm Europa?

After the nuclear explosion ended, the gap between the two lava lakes was destroyed by the explosion, and the hot lava merged with each other. However, the boundaries of the lava lakes have stabilized, and it is only a matter of time before the scars heal.

Europa was still gradually moving away from Mars. A few minutes later, Wang Tianyu broke the silence: "The target has stopped changing direction and the target orbit is being calculated!"

Ling Yu sighed in frustration: "What's the speed of Jupiter Zero?"

"Forty-four kilometers per second."

"Reduced by half!" Ling Yu's eyes were full of despair.

He had tried his best, but he got this result.

"It continues to decline." Wang Tianyu said.

Ling Yu was startled: "Still falling? What about Mars?"

"Still rising."

Ling Yu sighed bitterly: "It's better to crash on Mars!" After saying that, he exhaled heavily, "Forget it, let's report it."

"This... can't we think of another way?" Wang Tianyu said awkwardly.

He is a member of the fleet, a professional soldier, and more importantly, a member of the human race. No matter from which point of view, there is a reason to kill Europa, but the reality is so ruthless.

He didn't know if he missed this opportunity, whether there would be another opportunity in the future.

Ling Yu sighed again: "Old Wang,

I understand what you mean, but it's already this time. I've already thought of a way. I really have no other way. Do you have any? "

"No." Wang Tianyu's voice was low.

"What about you?" Ling Yu looked around.

No one spoke, including the dozen foreign military attachés who were proficient in Chinese.

"Report it." Ling Yu said softly, "It will happen sooner or later. If you report it early and prepare early, you might be able to stop it."

block? Block with what? Blow up the moon and continue to hit it?

Everyone knows that Ling Yu is deceiving himself, but what else can he do now besides comforting himself?

Wang Tianyu was silent and compiled the execution process into a formal report and handed it to Ling Yu for review.

Ling Yu waved his hand: "Just send it."

The report was sent to the earth through laser. Ling Yu unfastened his seat belt and floated: "It's all gone." After saying that, he floated out of the bridge.

Ye Han wanted to persuade but didn't know how. He opened his mouth but didn't spit out a word.

As the actual executor of the Mars plan, he was always on the bridge, but he adhered to the principle of seeing more and talking less, and never spoke.

Wang Tianyu withdrew his worried gaze: "Did you hear that? The person on duty will stay and the others will do whatever they are supposed to do."

Everyone left the bridge one by one. Wang Tianyu was about to leave when he suddenly heard a clear beep.

Looking at the multi-function display, it turns out that the new orbit of Europa has been calculated.

Out of professional habit, Wang Tianyu gave up the idea of ​​leaving and sat down to carefully study the new orbit of Europa.

His attainments in astronomy are the same as those of most military officers. He has only scratched the surface and only understands the situation in the solar system. It is common for him to calculate and check data when encountering problems. However, after being exposed to it for a long time, he has figured out some rules. , seeing the new orbit of Europa, I instinctively felt something was wrong.

The new orbit of Io does not fly directly to the Earth, but flies obliquely to the Earth's orbit. If an extension line is drawn according to the existing orbit, this arc-shaped extension line is exactly circumscribed with the Earth's orbit, and the total length is close to two astronomical Unit, almost 300 million kilometers. At Europa's current speed, it will reach Earth's orbit in three months.

I don’t have time to calculate the specific time, it’s probably just this much.

But the problem is not here. The problem is that the earth is not in that direction at all. When Europa reaches the earth's orbit three months later, the two planets will be exactly on both sides of the sun. The positions must be asymmetric, but the distance will be quite wide.

Isn’t Europa’s target the Earth? Why fly so far away? Or is it that the current orbit is just a transition, and aliens will readjust their orbit in the future?

Or else the aliens plan to fly to the earth's orbit first, and then use their speed advantage to catch up with the earth... They can obviously fly directly to the earth, but the aliens won't be so stupid, right?

The more he looked at it, the weirder he felt, and Wang Tianyu had a cautious personality. Even if he saw the clues, he didn't want to jump to conclusions directly. He looked up and saw Ye Han floating to the door, and immediately shouted: "Ye Han, come here!"

The cabin door had been opened in front of Ye Han. When Ye Dao shouted, he grabbed the upper edge of the cabin door and pulled himself back: "Chief of Staff, you called me?"

"Come here!" Wang Tianyu waved, pointed at the screen and said, "Look, what do you think?"

Ye Han looked carefully for a while, then looked at Wang Tianyu in confusion: "Isn't this direction wrong?"

"I think it's wrong too, but I can't figure out why." Wang Tianyu said.

"I don't have any idea either..." Halfway through his words, Ye Han suddenly froze.

Wang Tianyu noticed that Ye Han's expression was wrong, and his eyes lit up: "What did you think of?"

Ye Han shook his head: "Nothing, I was thinking about something else."

"What are you thinking about? Tell me so I can study it!" Wang Tianyu said.

Ye Han curled his lips: "I remembered the First Fleet. When the fleet flew to Jupiter, Jupiter's moon Zero was very close to Jupiter. There were mountains and water on it. Except that it was a circle smaller than the Earth, everything else was almost the same..."

Wang Tianyu suddenly realized: "You mean, their target is not the Earth, but the Earth's orbit?"

This is a bit confusing, but Ye Han understood it and nodded immediately: "I think it is very likely. We thought about it wrong before."

The meaning of the words is very simple. The Earth is located in the middle of the habitable zone of the solar system, which is the best position in the habitable zone. The aliens drove Jupiter's moon Zero to the Earth's orbit. It won't take long for the frozen planet to revive in the warm sunshine and become a lush and habitable planet again.