In the history of human science and technology, there has never been a weapon that can deal with a weapon moving at Mach 23 in the atmosphere. This speed even exceeds the strategic intercontinental missile warhead when re-entering the atmosphere. If the Sword Angel really moves on the surface at the first cosmic speed, then Humans probably couldn't do anything about it. Chen Yu had a bad feeling in his heart. After taking samples and taking pictures, they returned overnight, drove the car on the dark road, and successfully drove into the ditch beside the road. .
The four people had no choice but to come down to repair the car. At this time, it was completely dark, and it was wet and cold outside. They were in the wilderness a hundred kilometers away from 151. Contact was cut off and the phone could not be reached. Chen Yu leaned against the car door and shook his hands. The electricity dangled towards the dark trees in the distance.
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"Is there any problem with the chassis?"
"No problem... I just rubbed it a little bit. I don't think it's a big problem." A staff member from the intelligence department got up and patted the dirt on his body, turned around and asked, "How much natural gas is left?"
"Enough for us to drive back."
Chen Yu turned the brightness of the flashlight to the maximum, and the bright beam of light pierced into the darkness like a sword.
Strictly speaking, except for the Sichuan Basin, the whole world is an uninhabited wilderness. Since Seraph came to the earth, human living space has been compressed to 1% of the original. Since then, except for Sichuan, everything has been an abyss.
Chen Yu has always had this imagination: No one can tell what kind of changes the arrival of angels has brought to the earth. What if there are more than just angels appearing in this world?
"Have you ever heard of a famous American urban legend called the Mothman?" Chen Yu asked.
"I've heard it. It's said that the Mothman foretells disaster, misfortune and death. Anyone who encounters the Mothman will not have a good end." Someone knows this allusion, "Why, tell me, have you seen the Mothman?" What?"
"I'm not sure if that's the Mothman. It's on the way we came. Behind the black trees, there's a dark shadow, as high as five or six stories high. One leg is straddling the road, and the other is Across the road, there is a very long neck, like a snake." Chen Yu stared at the road where he came from, "It has four red eyes and a mouth of white teeth. Smiling at us.”
Everyone turned their heads in horror and looked in the direction of Chen Yu's flashlight beam. They saw the dark and turbid air filled with thin mist, and nothing else.
It's hard to say whether Chen Yu really saw it or faked it. He might have really foreseen something that night, that weird shadow - it might be a creature or not. If you have to find a word to describe it, The most suitable one is Death. On that dark and damp road, on the way back after encountering the traces of the Sword Angel, Chen Yu felt that he had foreseen someone's death.
The four-person team finally stumbled back to 151 at 1:30 in the morning. The four of them were so tired that they almost fell apart, but they had no time to rest and were immediately pulled into a meeting by the base headquarters and the Joint Fingerprint Center.
The observation of a brand new angel is of great significance to the entire human society. It means that human beings have one more enemy to face, and it means that the human world is one step closer to the end. The discovery of the Knife Angel also confirmed another conjecture - like the sun and the moon, the earth also has satellite angels. They orbit the earth at the first cosmic speed, hanging high in the sky above the Kármán line, within the orbital radius. No one can detect them until they are small enough to make contact with the surface.
Knife Angel No. 093 may be the first satellite angel to come into contact with the earth's surface. It is foreseeable that since it is lowering its orbital altitude, there is no reason to stop this trend. No matter in the three-dimensional universe can stop the four-dimensional manifold. It will fall into the center of the earth along a spiral orbit and cut the earth completely.
From this perspective, it will be the sharpest knife ever seen in human history.
This is another world-destroying angel.
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"We have speculated the possible trajectory of Angel 093 based on the existing surface traces. There are 31,750 scenarios in total. Of course, these are only preliminary guesses at the moment. They may not be accurate. After all, we know almost nothing about it. To accurately predict 093 The trajectory of Angel No. 1 still requires a large amount of more accurate, intuitive and detailed data.”
Thirty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty white spirals are densely packed around the earth, looking like a messy ball of wool. Everyone's eyes are focused on the monitor. Everyone knows that the more than 30,000 predicted trajectories are meaningless.
At the joint staff meeting between the Science City, the Joint Fingerprint Center and the 151 Command, all the remaining experts in human society were present. It was so urgent that 151 could not even wait to go to work the next morning. This was a three-morning meeting. At the meeting held at 30:30, the participants were all blown out of bed by the phone calls.
"Is it really moving that fast?" someone asked.
"If gravitational force dominates, then it should be this fast." The Science City expert on the other end of the line replied, "The orbiting speed is the lowest speed at which the satellite angel orbits the earth. It may even be faster."
"Is it possible that it will pass through the Sichuan Basin again?"
"If it is a celestial body, then its movement should be regular." Science City replied, "Of the more than 30,000 trajectories we estimate, more than 88% of the cases will pass through the Sichuan Basin at least once again."
“In your predictions, what is the worst-case scenario?” someone asked, “Tell me about the worst-case outcome.”
The experts from the Science City looked at each other on the screen.
"In the current model, the worst-case scenario is that it has sunk into the Earth's lithosphere and is now moving rapidly beneath our feet, lowering its orbital altitude in circles, passing through the crust and mantle, and finally falling to the core of the Earth." Science City gave the answer, "The matter in the three-dimensional universe is no different from air to angels, but we have nothing to do with the stuff that sinks deep into the earth's crust. It can travel underground at a speed of Mach 23, and we drill A small eye a kilometer deep would take as much effort as a boss.”
"What would happen if Angel No. 093 fell into the center of the earth?"
"We will be finished before it falls into the center of the earth." Science City said, "It really has the ability to cut the earth apart circle by circle."
Most people present pictured a watermelon being cut open by a knife.
Science City realized that their thinking was wrong, and then explained: "Everyone, the earth is a huge celestial body with a mass of sixty trillion tons. Its main structure is supported by gravity, and gravity is a very stable force in the universe. The force of matter is the natural attraction and convergence of matter, so you can't cut the earth into two separate halves like cutting an apple, because it will naturally come together. In fact, it will cut the earth into two halves. If you break it in half again, even an angel might not be able to make the second one."
The atmosphere in the conference room was slightly relaxed. Many people were worried that the earth would become two hemispheres, with the mantle and core leaking out like egg yolks, and all the atmosphere escaping.
"But everyone, just because the earth won't be cut in half doesn't mean it's not fatal." Science City's tone suddenly became serious, "Don't forget that we are located in an earthquake zone."
The image on the demo screen was switched to a satellite image of the Eurasian continental plate, and an invisible red pen drew a circle on the Sichuan Basin.
"Under our feet is a large fault tectonic zone formed by the compression of the Eurasian continental plate and the Indian Ocean plate. To the west of us are the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas. They are the result of the Himalayan orogeny, which shows that we are at the junction of several large plates. , especially in the Zitong-Chengdu-Weiyuan-Guang'an area, there is a huge tension-torsion fracture structure in the Sinian to Lower Triassic strata. Huge stress may have accumulated inside the rock mass. If Angel No. 093 cuts through here, past……"
The animation on the big screen penetrated deep into the earth's crust, and experts from the Science City vividly explained to the people present that human beings were squatting on a large powder barrel.
"The result is 100% catastrophic. We estimate that the lowest intensity is 8.5 on the Richter scale. The seismic waves will radiate to the entire Sichuan Basin and nothing will be left."
There was silence in the conference room again.
Shen Jiang raised his hand.
"Comrade Shen Jiang, what's your problem?"
The girl raised her head, pressed the toilet paper with one hand to stop the nosebleed, and pointed at the screen with the other hand:
"After saying so much, it's all your guesses."
"Yes, it's just a guess based on current observations."
"Most of the guess results are unreliable, not to mention that no one is a real angel expert. You are not professional enough. It is too early to draw a conclusion now." Shen Jiang straightened up, yawned, and looked around, "093 You don’t know what Angel No. 1 looks like. No matter how much we discuss it, it’s all just fantasy. I suggest everyone go back and rest. Tomorrow, all seven high-altitude drones will be transferred over and a two-thousand-kilometer-long line will be stretched to see what happens. What the hell is that?"
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151's reconnaissance operation against Angel No. 093 was launched in full swing. The only remaining seven Yunying high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft and fourteen aerial tankers in the human world took off from three bases at the same time, in groups of three or three, and established a line in southwest China. Two thousand kilometers of optical and infrared reconnaissance lines guard the No. 093 Knife Angel that may pass under your nose.
No one knows when Angel No. 093 will pass by nearby again, so the drone's stay in the air should be extended as much as possible. Of course, we have to pray that it doesn't really sink into the earth's crust.
Facing a Tu Xingsun that moves at a speed exceeding Mach 23, humans have no choice at all.
The Joint Command Center and the base headquarters have been busy with this matter for several days, but Phytolacca, who was in the workshop system, was a little bit behind the scenes. Chen Yu worked overtime in the headquarters' operations section and worked on the floor for several days. One night, he returned The dormitory brought a change of clean clothes and mentioned it to Phytolacca, and Phytolacca knew about it.
"Newly observed angel?"
Shang Lu was holding a cup of water, sitting on the bed and sorting out Shen Jiang's opm-bci helmet adaptability experiment report. He and Shen Jiang's meg system training had come to an end, and they calculated the time and there were still one or two classes before it should be over.
"Yes, what I have discovered in the past two days has only captured traces, but I have not seen the real owner."
Chen Yu opened the drawer of the wardrobe, his eyes flickering between the balls of socks and folded underwear, choosing the right ones and throwing them into his bag.
"Don't forget to bring a few extra pairs of insoles to change over. The tunnel has been very humid recently." Phytolacca asked casually, "What number is this? The new observation angel."
"I know, when will I need your little chief engineer to teach me how to live my life? Your ability to live is zero." Chen Yu said, "As for the new angel, it is No. 093."
"093?"
Shanglu's heart skipped a beat.
"Yes, 093." Chen Yu nodded, "It is temporarily named Sword Angel."
"Clang!" With a sound, the water glass in Phytolacca's hand fell to the ground.
Chen Yu turned his head in surprise and saw the fallen water cup overturned on the floor and hot water spilled all over the floor. Phytolacca's face turned pale, his eyes were distracted, and he stared at his feet blankly, his hands shaking uncontrollably.
