"What's wrong with Academician Du? I heard that the leaders of the bureau called him in person, but he refused to come out!" Everyone in the space agency was talking.

"Is he not satisfied with the Nobel Prize?"

"Just kidding! That's the Nobel Prize. If you win once in your life, you'll go to heaven!"

"I don't understand why he quit the Mars mission, and now the Mars mission has just begun."

"He must have his own ideas, so let's do our own things!" Xu Lianqiu passed by with a folder in his arms and whispered.

As the discoverer of Martian microorganisms, she is now the deputy leader of the Mars mission team and has an important position.

"Du Xingyu, he must have something very important in his heart." Although Xu Lianqiu didn't know what Du Xingyu was thinking, his intuition told her that something that could make Du Xingyu so cautious is definitely not a trivial matter.

There are also some media on the Internet talking about storm, but few people pay attention to it.

Du Xingyu's social account has not been updated for several consecutive months.

Netizens sent letters to inquire:

"@Earth Observation, why don't you update it?"

"Congratulations to you for winning the Nobel Prize, where is your grandpa?"

"Didn't the author return to Earth?"

"Tell me where the address is? I'm going to send a blade!!!"

"His account on B station has also stopped being updated. I don't know what to do? Are he carrying out some confidential tasks and can't speak?"

Du Xingyu ignored all the external interference, and every day, he observed and analyzed the data.

A month later, at the astronomical Observatory, Du Xingyu was using a computer to compare the observation data sent from the Tiangong Space Telescope.

"Huh? There is a problem!" Du Xingyu discovered that a slight error occurred in the data pointing to the sensor.

This error can be almost as small as possible, but Du Xingyu believes that this is definitely not caused by machine error.

He immediately conducted data analysis, and the precision pointing sensor (FGS) collected sixty starlights every second. During a collection last night, 0.3 seconds of data fluctuated. The sunlight reflected by Neptune became darker in a very short time, and then returned to normal!

You should know that these starlights are all sunlight reflected by Neptune, and it is impossible to suddenly darken and recover. Then there is only one possibility. A celestial body happened to fly to the front of the observation point and blocked the light from Neptune! This is similar to the phenomenon of occultation, but this time it is not the ray of starlight, but the faint light of Neptune.

Du Xingyu's observation directions are Neptune's orbit and the nearby Kuiper belt. In this case, it is very likely that an asteroid temporarily blocked part of Neptune when flying.

"Did you find it?" Du Xingyu's spirit was excited. Although he did not directly observe the asteroid, he already had its traces. Then he could find its flight orbit by conducting continuous observation and comparison.

Du Xingyu not only observed himself, but also contacted the Haleakala Observatory and asked them to observe together.

A week later, Du Xingyu finally confirmed his guess. There was indeed a high-speed flying celestial body passing Neptune and heading towards the interior of the solar system.

Its orbital target is very close to the Earth's orbit. Based on the data observed every day, it can be roughly estimated that this celestial body should be an asteroid with a diameter of about 30 kilometers, mostly composed of rocks, with a flight speed of 25,000 kilometers per hour.

"The same is true for our calculations!" Professor Beth of the Haleakala Observatory said in horror. "Now we can only calculate its existence through the FGS data, and we cannot directly observe it."

Just imagine, Professor Beth felt chill all over his body, as if he was falling into hell! An asteroid with a diameter of 30 kilometers flew towards the earth at a speed of 25,000 kilometers.

According to the average speed of Neptune from the Earth at 4.496 billion kilometers, twenty years and five months later, it will reach the vicinity of the Earth, and then hit the Earth under the pull of the Earth's gravity!

This will be a world-class disaster with the extinction of dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago. Who can resist it?

"God is going to punish humanity!" Professor Beth suddenly collapsed on the ground, his face pale.

"Professor, calm down, this is just our calculation. There may be a little deviation. Its orbit may not necessarily intersect with the Earth's orbit." Du Xingyu comforted her, but the effect was limited.

Du Xingyu said: "Professor Beth, maybe you can contact the top leaders of your country and see what they do."

"Yes, you must tell them about this! You can't waste time!" Beth stood up hard, began to sort out the data, and reported his discoveries.

Du Xingyu is not sure what happened.

He only knew that when he asked Professor Beth the next day, Beth's eyes were dull and kept whispering, saying, "They are so stupid! The disaster of destruction has arrived, and no one believes that we will go to hell together! God has given up on us!"

"It's true!" Du Xingyu sighed, and he guessed something. Their conclusions were just as speculations from astronomical observations, and the big figures were first skeptical.

Secondly, even if such a thing really happens, some people may have their choice to hide it and make it public again when they really can't be covered up. They are not stupid, but because they are too "smart" and plot against each other for their own interests.

But then, it was too late!

Or these people will create their own shelters and spacecraft, and simply give up struggling and enjoy themselves... and come up with various solutions.

"If humans don't unite, all methods will be futile!" Du Xingyu knew this very well. "I must announce this news to the whole world, even if there will be panic and uneasiness... but this is a disaster of extinction in humans. There is no time for these people to continue quarrel, conceal or escape!"

In the face of this disaster that concerns human civilization, individuals, cities, and even countries and continents are very small!

Three days later, Du Xingyu could no longer contact Professor Beth. The contact person from the Haleakala Observatory told him that Professor Beth was a little unstable and sent for treatment.

No one mentioned the previous observation results again. This made Du Xingyu understand that if the breeze before the storm came too weak, it would be ignored. Only by using the thunderbolt to awaken the world!

Because the asteroid had already flew over the periphery of Neptune, the precise pointing sensor could not observe the abnormality of light at this time, and it seemed to be invisible! Even if someone wanted to find it, he could not find any clues.

Du Xingyu didn't tell anyone anymore. He knew that no one would believe this news when it was announced. He still needed evidence!

"Based on the asteroid's flight speed, orbit, and the light sensing ability analysis of the space telescope, it will take at least 30 days to fly for initial observation. The coordinates should be near this point... At that time, the reflection of the sun's light will allow the space telescope to directly see its image." Du Xingyu calculated the time and place of the asteroid's true face.
Chapter completed!