Chapter 1: Sun Chaser Arrow

On April 29, 2018, at 10:15, an American "Combat Shadow" test reconnaissance aircraft flew away from the airport.

Two hours later, it was found to have crashed in the eastern Indian Ocean, about 170 nautical miles from the military port. The nearest naval base sent a search and rescue team to the accident area.

Pilot Bailey parachuted to escape and was rescued safely.

After checking the cause of the accident, it was found that the reconnaissance aircraft hit a foreign object at an altitude of 6,000 meters while flying at high speed, and the wing was damaged. Because the speed was too fast, the degree of damage continued to expand, and it failed to return and eventually crashed.

The military employees who investigated the accident found it very strange. According to the pilot's description, no flock of birds was detected at the time of the accident.

It was a very small object that hit it. It was just flying at high speed, and it was not expected that there would be foreign objects in the high altitude. The joint detector did not detect any metal reaction.

Fortunately, in the cockpit video, through the reflection of the pilot's helmet, a blurred image of the object that hit the wing at the time of the incident was seen.

"It's a stick-shaped object. It's definitely not a bird."

"How can there be a stick at an altitude of 6,000 meters? Is it space junk falling?"

"Even if it is space junk, if it falls to 6,000 meters from the surface, even if the surface is not burning, there must be a falling airflow trajectory."

"But there is none of these, which means that when it hit, the stick was flying horizontally in the sky? Unfortunately, the video only shows a little bit, and its trajectory cannot be determined."

"Anyway, space junk must be ruled out. The reconnaissance aircraft failed to detect any metal products at the time of the incident. It may be that the metal content of the foreign object is too low. In this case, it is impossible for an object that is not made of heat-resistant materials to fall from space to an altitude of 6,000 meters. It should have evaporated long ago."

Several investigators analyzed for a long time, but they couldn't figure out what was going on.

Foreign objects at high altitude, flying horizontally, and the aircraft hitting the target at high speed caused damage to the wing. This kind of accident cause, I don't know how to write it in the report, because it is more like being attacked.

After they reported it honestly, a military weapons expert soon paid attention to the matter.

Dr. Robert said, "It may be some special invisible alloy material that escaped our joint detector."

"The foreign object itself has propulsion, which makes it rigidly bear force in the air without support and crash the wing."

"This may not be an accident!"

Someone else was surprised: "In other words, it may be a stealth missile? Or a micro-aircraft?"

"It is very likely that this is a new type of weapon that we don't know yet. Theoretically, this propulsion is most likely the acceleration of falling, but the video proves that this is not a high-speed falling object, so it must have self-propulsion ability and should be an aircraft." said the doctor.

Soon, the ships still in the accident area reported that no foreign objects were found in the nearby sea area, and there were no fragments of foreign objects in the wreckage of the aircraft.

"It may still be in the air, send more air search forces."

Although the flying object was not detected, the aircraft of the search formation still found the foreign object.

Because the speed of the foreign object is supersonic, as long as you search carefully at a certain height, you can still see the object that passes through the clouds and causes sonic shock waves.

However, this thing does not emit any signal. If it had not shot down one of their planes and locked a rough trajectory, it would really be impossible to find it passing by such a high altitude.

"It's a supersonic stealth fighter... No, it's not a fighter, it's too small, it should be an unmanned aerial vehicle!"

"We don't even have this kind of supersonic stealth unmanned micro-aircraft technology, and the size is too small. How do you solve the fuel storage problem?"

"Is it the latest drone?"

"Chase!"

After discovering the high-speed flying foreign object, the military quickly determined the flight trajectory.

A supersonic fighter was sent from the military port to pursue it.

"The target speed is about 500 meters per second, and it is expected to catch up in five minutes."

"There is such a high-performance unmanned aerial vehicle..."

"Its target may be above the base, can it be shot down?"

"No, the speed is too fast, and the detector can't detect any signal from it..."

The US military quickly sorted out a lot of information about the mysterious flying object.

Although this mysterious flying object is supersonic, it is still far behind the real supersonic fighter.

The real scary thing about it is that it is extremely small and has an incredible radar stealth function.

If it had not only flown straight at an altitude of 6,000 meters, its trajectory would have been too obvious. Instead, it had been pulled up to an altitude of 8,000 meters or even 10,000 meters, there would have been no way to detect it.

No electromagnetic waves were detected, no control signals were intercepted, and even no metal reaction was found. Its material is completely unknown.

"Previous videos show that this stick-shaped flying object broke into several pieces during the collision. Why can it still maintain such a high flying speed now?" Dr. Robert asked in confusion.

"Does it have a nano-repair function?" The bystanders said in shock.

Just as they were wondering, five minutes passed in a flash, and the pursuing aircraft sent a message: "I caught up with it, its trajectory is very straight, I can attack it, is it allowed to be shot down?"

The doctor said: "Didn't it change its course? This may not be a flying vehicle, but a warhead?"

"Try to be parallel to it and send the image over."

Soon, the supersonic fighter was about 20 meters close to the target. If the target exploded within this distance, it would have time to evade.

Under parallel flight, the image of the mysterious flying object can finally be seen clearly.

After observing carefully, the pilot was completely stunned and immediately transmitted the image of the foreign object back to the base.

"What? Arrow?"

The so-called foreign object is a pure carbon arrow.

Due to the previous impact, the arrow had been shattered into pieces. The arrow shaft was broken into more than a dozen pieces, and the arrowhead was detached.

However, these fragments still stabbed diagonally into the sky at a speed of nearly 500 meters per second.

This was completely inexplicable, and everyone in the base who saw this scene was dumbfounded.

They were looking for a mysterious aircraft, but what they found was an even more mysterious flying arrow.

It was still a broken arrow. There was obviously no jet stream or rocket propulsion, but it just flew at supersonic speed.

At high speeds, the arrow body is obviously hot, with a small amount of steam lingering on the surface. However, the pure carbon fiber material has good heat resistance, and less than twice the supersonic speed is not enough to burn it.

"It did not burn, but there was steam following it... Could these steam be the gases that evaporated when it hit the 'Battle Shadow' before? Why did these gases also follow this broken arrow at supersonic speed?"

Dr. Robert looked at the impact in astonishment, sensing the absurdity of the image.

What does this arrow rely on to propel itself?

Why can it be pushed forward even if it is broken?

Why can gas still move forward even though some of the matter has evaporated?

Where is this inexplicable flight going?

Many doubts suddenly shocked this weapons expert.

When there was dead silence in the hall, a colonel said solemnly: "Dr. Robert, please give me the information. This matter is classified as 3A secret."

The doctor was stunned: "Huh? It's..."

The colonel immediately sent out the information compiled by the doctor, and soon the superiors issued an order: "Two other supersonic fighters have arrived to assist, and let the pursuing pilots cooperate to capture it."

The colonel who received the order immediately conveyed it to the pilots near the arrow.

Not long after, two other fighters were also parallel to the flying arrow.

One of them was an unmanned aircraft, which launched a tight catching net and successfully captured the pile of scattered flying arrows.

"Gradually slow down!"

The drone began to slow down, but as soon as it slowed down, the drone lost its balance!

The place where the metal catching net was connected to the bottom of the plane was stretched straight, and the flying arrow actually dragged it to maintain its own speed without slowing down at all.

"Off balance! Off balance!"

The plane responsible for towing was spinning behind the arrow, but no matter which direction it flew, it could not stop the arrow from slanting toward the sky.

The speed of the arrow measured by a nearby parallel aircraft was still 500 meters per second.

"Cut off the catching net!"

In desperation, the superiors ordered the capture net to be abandoned, and the pile of arrow parts continued to fly with the net, while it took a long time for the unmanned aircraft to stabilize again.

"Oh my God, what is this?" Dr. Robert looked at the screen and collapsed.

I couldn't help but ask: "Is this a UFO?"

The colonel shook his head and said nothing.

There was no news from the commander's superior, who seemed to be discussing how to deal with it.

The three planes responsible for the pursuit could only keep following, as time passed by.

The flying arrow gradually crosses the American base in the Indian Ocean. After a while, the aircraft will no longer be able to follow. Whether it is fuel restrictions or free flight zone restrictions, American aircraft will not be allowed to follow the flying arrow around the earth.

At this time, Dr. Robert also gradually calmed down, and his scholar's instinct allowed him to continue analyzing and thinking based on this absurd basis.

He seemed to have thought of something and suddenly said: "Huh? It seems to be always chasing the time zone?"

"Time zone?" The colonel was stunned.

Dr. Robert controlled the computer, pointed out the path of the arrow and said: "If you compare carefully, you can find that it is always facing the sun. Its speed is about 500 meters per second, which is just a little more than the rotation speed of the earth at 35 degrees north latitude."

"The arrow flies from east to west. If it keeps this speed, it can circle the earth in twenty-four hours. And in the process, it will almost always be at the same local time."

He called up the time when the battle shadow was hit and said: "The impact time was just after twelve o'clock at noon. The arrow passed over Indu at this speed. When it reached the west coast, it was also the local twelve o'clock. Continue to move forward, crossing When we cross the Indian Ocean and reach the sky above the peninsula, it will also be twelve o'clock locally. "

The colonel asked in surprise: "What does this mean?"

Dr. Robert shook his head and said: "I don't know, this is like an arrow chasing the sun..."

"Chasing the sun? Shouldn't chasing the sun fly straight out of the atmosphere? Why should we circle the earth?" the colonel asked puzzled.

Dr. Robert seemed to have thought of something and was calculating wildly. After a while, he stood up suddenly and said: "Actually, it is not orbiting the earth!"

"I know why it is so fast! It is not rotating with the earth! So for us, its speed has reached supersonic speed! And it is always illuminated by the sun."

Robert quickly built a model, and saw that in the model, the flying arrow remained unchanged as an anomaly, while a sphere rotated aside.

That sphere represents the earth, and one rotation of it represents one day. So for that abnormal point, one day later, it will pass through the sky above the earth.

"wrong……"

Robert quickly overturned this model because he discovered that the arrow was not stationary relative to the earth. Even if the speed of the earth's rotation was excluded, it still had a speed of several meters per second.

This speed is exactly the speed at which the arrow leaves the ground.

In other words, its inexplicable propulsion does not simply come from the rotation of the earth. Even if the earth does not rotate, the arrow still has a strange propulsion that drives it away from the earth.

It was originally an arrow flying upward. Because the earth is rotating, its rotation speed is obviously faster than its upward speed, which makes it appear to be flying across the sky.

"Stay away from the surface... stay away from the surface... I understand! It's rising in orbit!"

Robert quickly started building the new model, but he wasn't very good at the project, he was just a weapons expert.

I could only explain to the colonel verbally: "Colonel, you are right. It is indeed flying straight out of the atmosphere, but its speed is too slow! The distance away from it is only a few meters per second."

“If an object is in a state of continuous propulsion without exceeding the second cosmic speed, it will circle the Earth and continuously increase its orbit.”

Robert casually drew a 'mosquito coil' pattern, and then at the end of the mosquito coil pattern, the line stretched out a straight line, symbolizing freedom from the constraints of gravity.

"I can't explain this inexplicable propulsion, but if this propulsion can be maintained, its height will gradually move away from the sea level at a speed of several meters per second, and eventually it will leave the atmosphere."

"For some reason that I can't understand, it always faces the sun, so it doesn't follow the rotation of the earth. The trajectory of the rising orbit is just an illusion caused by the rotation of the earth."

"When it escapes from the Earth's gravity, it will continue to move toward the sun in the vacuum...advance...until it is engulfed by the sun in the distant future."

The colonel immediately reported this idea, and his superiors soon recognized this conjecture.

An old professor appeared on the screen and said to Robert: "Your idea is right. Although it is absurd, it may be true. This arrow... is rushing towards the sun irresistibly... at an extremely slow speed. speed."

Robert looked ugly and said: "I was just thinking about it, but this is too ridiculous. This propulsion out of thin air allows it to break through the resistance of the air and the traction of the earth's rotation."

"It makes sense to exist. We can only speculate based on the facts. Just now, the flying arrow suddenly rushed to the outer space forty kilometers high at an extremely fast speed. Our plane could no longer keep up. Fortunately, we were catching it. We have placed a detector online, which will continuously report the arrow’s position and speed to us,” the old professor said.

Robert frowned and said, "Suddenly accelerated? No, doesn't this overturn my conjecture? If it can reach a speed of forty kilometers per second, why doesn't it just rush out of the atmosphere?"

The old professor explained: "No, your idea is right. This is still not its own speed, but the speed of the earth's revolution... It's not that the arrow is accelerating away from us, it's just that it suddenly stops following the earth's revolution..."

"Although this is more absurd, we can only make a series of conjectures about it."

As he spoke, a more rigorous model appeared on the screen.

The old professor said: "The idea of ​​the sun-chasing arrow you mentioned is one of the dozens of conjectures we have listed, and it is also the most likely one."

On the plane model, a dotted line was drawn between the sun and the arrow, and the earth's revolution was not a perfect circle. There are times when it is closest to the sun and times when it is farthest from the sun.

If the earth is rotating close to the sun, then the arrow will receive help from the earth, so that the force pushing it towards the sun will be superimposed on the force of the earth approaching the sun. It looks like it is bound by the earth's gravity and rotates with the earth.

It can be seen that the previously observed away speed of several meters per second is not actually its own speed. It is just because the earth was slightly close to the sun during that period. When the direction is the same, the arrow is almost not far away from the surface. .

But if the earth orbits away from the sun, even just a little, the flying arrow won't follow. Under this condition, its propulsion force seems to have been increased by a value that maximizes the benefits. After offsetting the gravity of the earth, it can actually maintain its own away speed.

Then, from the perspective of people on earth, the arrow will suddenly move away at an extremely fast speed.

In fact, the flying arrow did not accelerate, but the speed of the earth was too fast, and the two parted ways.

"The distance between the arrow and the sun is not increased by the gravitational pull of the earth. On the contrary, the arrow always heads towards the sun and shrinks the distance from the sun at an extremely slow speed... This value, through calculation, approximately throws away everything After the impact, the arrow will fly at a speed of forty-five meters per second in vacuum."

"To put it simply, no matter how much you pull on this flying arrow, you can't prevent it from flying towards the sun at a speed of less than 45 meters per second. On the contrary, it can help propel it."

"Whether there is a way to stop this unstoppable 'constant propulsion', we can no longer explore. It has already moved away from the earth."

Having said this, the old professor felt sad for a while.

Robert was also a little distracted. He had been engaged in engineering all his life and had never seen such a weird thing before.

It's simply... simply an alien product.

After the serious thinking based on the absurd reality ended, he began to fall into a state of collapse of the worldview again, and the physics in his heart was completely destroyed by this arrow.

No matter how good the analysis is, the basic premise is simply broken!

God's constant advancement, neither classical physics nor subversive physics, can explain this strange phenomenon.

"Oh God, where did this sun-chasing arrow come from?"

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