Chapter 854: Determination (please vote for this huge chapter)
"It's still unclear whether it's a relic or not."
Li Cheng looked at Rodel and shook his head slightly.
If it is a relic, if a high-quality dwarf planet with a diameter of more than a thousand kilometers comes directly to the main world, even if the issue of the gods behind it is not discussed, the gravitational chaos caused will shatter the gravitational balance of the entire earth-moon system.
.
When the time comes, secondary disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and even earth-moon impacts will most likely directly lead to the destruction of the world.
Obviously, everyone is aware of this.
The atmosphere in the entire conference room was a bit dull.
"so,"
Ji An on the side looked up at He Ao and asked slowly, "What is the relationship between this thing in the sky and the Blood Sun?"
This is what Li Cheng mentioned before, and it was He Ao who reminded him to look at the sky.
Nodel also looked up at He Ao.
"eclipse."
He Ao looked at the two people and said calmly.
The two of them were stunned at the same time.
He Ao looked at Li Cheng.
"Although this huge 'transparent ball' in the sky transmits light, in essence, it is very similar to the 'moon' and is still a huge 'light-blocking object',"
Li Cheng turned on the projector on the conference table and inserted a USB flash drive into the computer. A simple slideshow showing the relative positions of the sun, moon and planets was placed on the wall.
"The distance between the earth and the moon where we are is about one-fourth of the distance from the sun, and the diameter of the moon is also about one-fourth of the sun, so the angles of the sun and the moon in our field of vision are both
About 5 degrees,
"For this reason, the sun and the moon in our field of vision are 'about the same size'.
"Because the sizes in the field of view are almost the same, when the moon is between the planet and the sun, people in the blocked-out area can see that the 'moon' just blocks the 'sun', forming a solar eclipse.
"Of course, because the relative distance between the three planets is not constant, and the sizes of the sun and the moon in the field of view are not necessarily exactly the same, various situations will actually occur, but this is beyond the scope of our discussion today.
"
Li Cheng switched to the next slide, which was still a schematic diagram of three planets, except that the moon was replaced with a blood-colored translucent planet.
He continued, "The 'transparent planet' currently hanging above our heads is, in a sense, a small 'moon'.
"Its diameter is about one-fifth of the moon, its distance from the earth is also about one-fifth of the moon, and its viewing angle is about 5 degrees. If this thing were tangible, its size in our field of vision would be about
It’s as big as the moon and the sun.”
"so,"
Ji An came to his senses. He looked at the slide and asked, "Now this planet is right above our heads, 'blocking' the sun's light? Is the 'Blood Sun' essentially a transparent planet?"
"Strictly speaking, it doesn't completely block the sun,"
Li Cheng nodded and said slowly,
"The sunlight has still 'passed' through the center of this transparent planet, but it has undergone some kind of change after passing through. The overall wavelength has become longer, and the color of the light is redder. When it is cast on the earth, the color becomes more
Blood red and other colors of light have not disappeared, but their proportion has become smaller.
"This is also similar to the red color of the sun we see in the morning. The red sun in the morning is essentially a red light that has stronger diffraction and better passes through the atmosphere at a low elevation angle, causing it to be projected onto the ground.
There is more red light in the sunlight, so the sun appears red.
"Of course, it is essentially different. A transparent planet achieves this effect by 'turning' other light in the solar spectrum into red, and the proportion of red light is much greater than that of morning sunlight."
"cough,"
At this time, Li Cheng glanced at Rudel and Ji'an who looked a little confused, coughed slightly, and explained, "This transparent planet is equivalent to a huge 'lens'. As long as you look at the sun through the lens,
Everything you see is red. Of course, after the sunlight passes through this 'lens', it also undergoes some extraordinary changes."
"So Blood Sun itself is not a transparent planet?"
Ji An reacted somewhat, "But the 'sun' we see through the planet?"
Scientific, but not entirely scientific.
He Ao stared at the slides behind Li Cheng.
In fact, he has already read all this information, and the main content of this slideshow was quickly sorted out by him and Li Cheng on the way here.
"But our biggest problem at the moment may not be limited to the scope of the bloody sun,"
Speaking of this, Li Cheng glanced at He Ao.
He Ao naturally walked to the projection, took over Li Cheng's position, and switched the slides. The latter part was his discovery, or 'guess', during the discussion with Li Cheng.
The slide behind him turned into a schematic diagram of three planets connected together. The top one is the largest and is labeled as the sun, the middle one is the smallest and is labeled as a transparent planet, and the bottom one is labeled as the earth.
He glanced at the people below, placed his hand on the transparent planet, and said quickly,
"We can see from the introduction just now that this transparent planet does not turn all the light that passes through it into 'blood red'.
"The 'starlight' captured by the space telescope in low-Earth orbit passing through this transparent planet shows no change in color except for a dimming in brightness and a slight shift in position."
While he was speaking, everyone subconsciously glanced at the photos taken by the telescope printed out on the desktop.
He Ao left some time for everyone to digest, and then switched the slides.
The new slide draws two lines. These two tangent lines are on the left and right sides, tangent to the sun and the transparent planet. These two lines intersect with the earth respectively, forming a trapezoidal shape with a larger top and a smaller bottom.
He Ao put his hand on the joint with the earth and continued,
"According to the principle of solar eclipse, the satellite completely blocks the sunlight, and the shadow cast on the ground is called the umbra. In a normal solar eclipse, people in the umbra area can see a complete total solar eclipse.
"In our current situation, if a person is in the umbral area of the 'transparent planet', all sunlight passes through the transparent planet, and what he sees is the 'blood sun',"
He Ao cut out a map and roughly drew a circle on the map.
"Because the planet's surface is curved, this shadow is not a perfect circle. It is probably an area of more than 200 kilometers at its widest point, covering a total area of about 150,000 square kilometers.
"This is the coverage area of the 'Blood Sun' we saw. It probably covers the entire western part of the Republic of Ika and a small area in the north of Jordan.
"According to the information we have obtained, this part of the country is basically a large plain with a very high population density. It is one of the areas with the highest population density in the entire Western Territory."
He Ao looked at Rodel.
"Yes,"
Rudel nodded, his expression a bit grim, "Including the floating population, there are probably more than 60 million people in this area."
Even if 60 million people want to evacuate, they cannot evacuate in a short period of time.
Judging from the current situation, the bloody sun in the sky may not give them much time.
They can't even count how many people are missing now.
"But it might not be the worst,"
He Ao shook his head and switched to the next slide.
In this slide, there are still two tangent lines extending from the edge of the 'sun', but this time they are not directly tangent to the 'transparent planet', but first cross and then tangent to the transparent planet, and finally extend to
On the earth.
Howe's finger traced the point where these two tangent lines intersected the earth,
"Except for the umbra area contained in this entire area, the rest is called the 'penumbra' area. If it is a solar eclipse, people in the penumbra area can see a partial eclipse.
“In this case, these people in the ‘penumbra’ area did not see the ‘half-blood sun’. In other words, the transparent planet did not change the ‘sunlight’ in these penumbra areas too much.
"We don't know yet how it does it. It may be some kind of supernatural force."
Having said this, he paused, looked at everyone present, and continued, "But people in these penumbra areas who are illuminated by 'normal sunlight' may not be affected by the extraordinary power of the 'Blood Sun'."
"you mean?"
Rudel was stunned.
"According to the information from the institute,"
He Ao glanced at Li Cheng and continued, "People who leave the Blood Sun area will still receive 'calls', but the frequency and intensity are not as high as in the Blood Sun area."
Rudel subconsciously turned to look at Li Cheng.
As the 'elder' of the Western Land's main extraordinary organization, World Tree, he didn't even know about the news. How could the institute know about it?
He Ao paused his speech and gave Li Cheng time to explain.
"cough,"
Li Cheng covered his mouth and coughed slightly, "Our person in charge in Ruodan happened to be investigating something in Enke City in the north, which happens to be within the area covered by the Blood Sun."
At this time, Rodel seemed to remember that Rodan was indeed under the "trusteeship" of the institute.
At this time, Jie An also raised his head and looked at Rudel, "Don't you have anyone under you to organize the transfer of personnel?"
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Hearing this, Jodel was silent for a moment.
In fact, before he came here, his people didn't even understand what this bloody day was and what impact it had.
It was not until before the meeting that they realized that the person who answered the phone might be missing after being notified by the researcher named Song Xiao from the institute.
Seeing his reaction, everyone quickly reacted.
Everyone has long known that the organizational structure of World Tree is a mess, so they did not continue to embarrass Rodel.
Ruo Del subconsciously covered his old face. The group of people under him, in the territory that he has managed for decades, are not even as successful as the young people who just took over Ruo Dan for a few days.
However, He Ao did not give Rudel any time to be 'embarrassed'. After confirming that the problem was over, he looked at everyone present and continued,
"There are two possibilities for leaving the Blood Sun area and still being affected by extraordinary powers. One is naturally that these extraordinary powers follow the people who left the Blood Sun area and continue to affect them.
"And the other is,"
He paused and switched to the next slide. A huge map of the Western Land was projected on the wall. "The 'normal sunlight' in the penumbral area is actually mixed with the extraordinary power of the transparent planet, but it is not available for the time being.
It takes effect on people who have not been exposed to the bloody sun.
"Then the scope of this incident may be 'expanded',"
He turned back and glanced at the map behind him, "Due to its characteristics, the diameter of the penumbra area will be larger than the diameter of the transparent planet. According to current estimates, the penumbra area of this transparent planet is at least
Covering the city of Mote, the capital of the Republic of Ika, as the core,”
He turned around and drew a huge approximate circle on the map,
"An area of more than a thousand kilometers in diameter."
The entire conference room's breath froze.
Even Li Cheng, who already knew this inference, held his breath slightly.
Everyone had no other thoughts at the moment, staring at the land and ocean that had just been 'circled' by He Ao.
This huge circle encompasses almost one-third of the land in the Western Territory. It includes most of the big cities in the Western Territory, most of the fertile farmland, most of the industrial areas, and most of the population.
Rudel opened his mouth and said tremblingly, "There are 700 million people here."
Not to mention evacuation, it would take a lot of time to notify all these people.
"According to information from the China Civil Aviation Administration,"
He Ao said slowly, "The transparent planet is constantly adjusting its position to ensure that its shadow can cover these areas most of the time. The good news is that currently, only large-scale extraordinary events have occurred in the Blood Sun area.
"But if the 'bloody sun' continues to shine, not only will the number of victims increase, but their power will also become stronger. When the evil god comes, everything will be irreversible,"
He looked at everyone, "I'm afraid we have no way out this time."
"you mean?"
Jie An looked at He Ao.
"This is an 'invasion,'"
He Ao put his hands on the table, looked at everyone, and said calmly, "The best blocking battle should take place outside the homeland."
The entire conference room fell into an eerie silence, and the blood-red light sprinkled on everyone's cheeks.
"Many people have disappeared under the bloody sun,"
In this dim silence, Ruodele slowly spoke, "Is the arrival of the other party unstoppable?"
"Some unconfirmed news,"
He Ao patted the table with his hand and continued, "Those missing people may not be 'dead'. The other party's 'ritual' should still be in the beginning stage, but as time goes on, we won't know."
The conference room fell into silence once again.
"The 'angel-level' weapon in Li Cheng's hand should have taken shape, right?"
Jie An suddenly spoke slowly.
The tip of the angel-level weapon "Andavir's Spear" in Li Cheng's hand was once stored in the moonlight, but was later snatched away by Li Cheng and completely formed into a spear.
Ji An looked at He Ao and continued, "If several B-levels come together and have angel-level weapons, we may be able to fight against an angel, but we still know nothing about our enemy."
At this moment, the entire sky suddenly flickered, and then turned black for an instant.
"what happened?"
Li Cheng raised his head and looked out the window.
The distorted bloody sun disappeared without knowing when, and the red light all over the sky had faded away like the tide, leaving only a sun completely covered by a dark shadow, just like a 'total solar eclipse' that was continuing to occur.
Jian and Ruodel raised their heads at the same time and looked out the window.
"A little test,"
In this dim and pervasive darkness, He Ao spoke slowly, his face under the light was unusually calm, "Currently, what we need to face is only 'angels', but,"
He took a gentle breath and continued, "Even if we have to face the power of gods, I'm afraid we don't have the right to choose."
Everyone, including Li Cheng, looked at He Ao with slightly shocked eyes.
This mysterious 'Hao Yi' seemed to have had a confrontation with the 'bloody sun' in the sky before they knew it.
This kind of power has exceeded the category of B level.
Darkness seemed to fill the silent conference room from the window.
"What's your plan?"
Jie An spoke again, "I'm afraid our enemies are not in this starry sky."
"interaction,"
He Ao then said, "Since that transparent planet can significantly interfere with our world, then we may also be able to spy on the scene on the other side through that planet."
"You want to try to land on that planet from here?"
Jian's eyes widened slightly, "Can the Velora get there directly?"
"For some reasons, no."
He Ao shook his head.
In the absence of exact coordinates, Velora can only operate on the surface of the planet, and the altitude of 110,000 kilometers has exceeded the range that Velora can cover.
"but,"
He Ao looked up at the sky and continued, "Human power can."
In the main world, human aircraft have already been able to visit the moon and return, but the technology for manned landing on the moon is not yet mature.
The core point is that the safety of astronauts cannot be guaranteed, but this is not a big deal for B-class extraordinary people.
In a battle involving angels, extraordinary beings below B level cannot help.
The still silence echoed in the darkness.
In fact, He Ao has made it very clear that this time it is very dangerous and no one knows what they will face.
The people sitting here already have a relatively deep understanding of the extraordinary world. In this case, the more unknowns there are, the higher the mortality rate.
If you stay here, you may be able to survive for a while longer, but if you participate in the "intervention", you will most likely die on an alien land.
Finally, Jie An raised his head, looked at He Ao, and said slowly, "To be honest, I hate this old boy Li Cheng, and the troubles in Xi Tu have nothing to do with me, but,"
He paused, stood up, and looked at the map on the projection, "Count me in."
"Then I am an old guy..."
Ruo Del also smiled and spoke, ready to stand up, but was directly held down by Jie An's shoulders.
