(This chapter is a background introduction, so don’t jump ahead if you don’t like it.)
Earth, NASA, Planetary Observation Program.
"Hey Jack, I have a photo here, do you want to see it?"
"Please, Tom, don't waste my time!" Jack said without looking up.
"I think you'd better come over and take a look." Tom insisted.
Jack raised his head in confusion: "What did you find? A new exoEarth-like planet?"
"No, this is a photo of the edge of the solar system. There is a fuzzy little dot here." Tom pointed to the photo on the computer screen and said.
The photo is just a black background with a lot of irregular small light spots. Except for professional astronomers, no one who sees this photo can connect it with the starry sky.
Jack carefully identified it before confirming that it was not Tom's misjudgment: "What do you think it is? The tenth largest planet in the solar system?"
When Pluto was first discovered, it was just an inconspicuous pixel on a photo.
Tom shrugged: "I don't know. Although its position is in the ecliptic plane, its speed is incredibly fast!" Then he changed to another photo, and the blurry point had moved half a centimeter away.
Jack was shocked: "Tom, have you confirmed the interval between the two photos?"
"Confirmed, seven days apart, in the same direction."
"This is impossible!" Jack stood up. "If it flies so fast, it will have already surpassed the third universe. How can it keep orbiting?"
"I'm surprised too." Tom nodded in agreement, "Jack, should we follow it for a while? At least determine what it is."
"Keep an eye on it, don't let it escape your sight!" Jack said seriously, "Also, don't let the SETI people know about it yet."
Tom laughed: "Come on Jack, are you going to discover aliens before SETI?"
Jack said angrily: "Shut your mouth, Tom."
"Okay, I listen to you!" Tom raised his hands in surrender.
From this day on, the two began to secretly monitor this shadow with extremely abnormal speed, but there was still no sufficient evidence to prove its identity. Two months later, the shadow was blocked by Jupiter and never appeared again.
Half a year later.
"Are you just going to give up?" Tom was extremely unwilling and felt that he had just missed the Nobel Prize. "Jack, can't you think of another way?"
Jack let out a long breath: "Voyager 1 and 2 are both in other directions... Keep monitoring, maybe it will come out on its own tomorrow."
However, this wait lasted twenty years.
Twenty years later, China.
On a summer night, the stars are bright.
Ye Fengchen said mysteriously: "Son, today is your birthday, daddy gives you a gift."
The child jumped up and down with joy and acted coquettishly around his father: "Dad, daddy, where is my gift? Where is it? Where is it?" The child regarded his father as a big tree and tried his best to climb up.
Ye Fengchen laughed heartily, struggling to pick up the child, who was half a person tall, and raised it high above his head. The laughter of the father and son spread far and wide.
Ye's wife showed a knowing smile: "Old Ye, you are such a big person, why do you still look like a child?"
"Don't the kids like it?" Ye Fengchen smiled and put the child down.
The child who landed on the ground said reluctantly: "Dad, Dad, where is my gift?"
"Here he is!" Ye Fengchen led the child to the balcony and pulled off the flannel covering the shelf.
The child let out a cry of surprise: "Telescope? Thank you, Dad!"
The child was ecstatically playing with the brand-new astronomical telescope, but he still couldn't get it right. He had to ask for help pitifully: "Dad, teach me!"
The father, who was well prepared, laughed confidently: "Look at Dad!"
The young mother smiled and rolled her eyes at her husband: "Virtue!"
Ye Fengchen took a moment to adjust the focus and quickly took out the eyepiece: "Look, this is Jupiter!"
The child hurried over and immediately saw a red planet covered with stripes, a few inconspicuous satellites surrounding it, and a faint halo around his waist.
The child suddenly shouted in panic: "Dad, why is Jupiter gone?"
Ye Fengchen patted the child's head lovingly: "Didn't Dad tell you that the planets revolve around the sun, and Jupiter is always moving, and after a while, it will run out of your lens."
"Oh!" The child suddenly realized. He moved his eyes closer to the camera again and searched around Jupiter with curious eyes. Sure enough, he found several very conspicuous large satellites.
Suddenly, another large satellite appeared behind Jupiter. The child's eyes lit up: "Dad, I found the satellites. There are five of them!"
"What?" Ye Fengchen was shocked, "It's impossible, let me see!"
He leaned over to the eyepiece and counted, one, two, three, four, five, exactly five. One of them only showed a small edge, but basically he could tell that it was indeed a large satellite.
Ye Fengchen was stunned for a moment: "This, this, how is this possible?" The gift I bought for my child was just an entry-level small astronomical telescope with limited magnification. It could only see the four Galilean satellites clearly. It was impossible to see the other satellites of Jupiter.
, not to mention that the extra fifth satellite is not smaller than the other satellites.
"Dad, what's wrong with you?" the child asked curiously.
Ye Fengchen hurriedly covered it up: "No, it's nothing. Just wait for me, son!" After saying that, he ran into the house, took out his cell phone as quickly as possible, pointed the camera at the eyepiece of the telescope, and took several photos in succession.
However, the photographic effect of his mobile phone is extremely poor, and at night when there is insufficient light, the effect is even worse. Even Jupiter cannot be seen clearly in the photos taken, let alone the satellites of Jupiter, which are even dimmer than Jupiter.
Ye Fengchen once again moved closer to the eyepiece to take a closer look, only to find that the extra satellite was gone again.
He was in a daze and couldn't help but silently asked himself: Did I see it wrong?
But what about the child? The child also saw it?
Ye Fengchen couldn't help but fell into deep confusion.
Forty-seven minutes ago (Note: 1), Jupiter.
Behind the huge red planet, a celestial body covered with ice and snow slowly entered the orbit around Jupiter. The celestial body gradually approached Jupiter and happened to fly close to Jupiter 49.
The size of an aircraft carrier was defenseless. It was captured by the gravitational pull of the celestial body and fell straight to the surface of the mysterious celestial body. It was still more than a hundred kilometers away from the surface. The falling Jupiter 49 had become
It turned into a violently burning meteor.
A dim light suddenly rose from the surface of the celestial body. This light hit the meteor accurately, and the meteor immediately broke apart and turned into dozens of fragments of different sizes.
A moment later, the fragments hit the ground, causing a series of violent explosions. The flashes of explosions shot straight into the sky, illuminating the back of Jupiter.
Deep in the mysterious celestial body, two upright creatures over three meters tall stood side by side, staring at the violent explosion on the surface of the celestial body until the light dissipated.
One of them made a sound like scraping wood chips: "Your Majesty, the starship has arrived at the scheduled location." (Note 2)
"Very good." said the upright creature called Your Majesty. "Has the research yielded any results? My prime minister."
"There are results." The prime minister replied, "According to long-term observations, our armed forces are not sure of defeating the Blue Star Master."
"Isn't the aerospace technology of the Blue Star people very primitive? Are we so weak that we cannot even defeat a civilization that has not yet entered the aerospace era?"
"The Blue Star people's aerospace capabilities are not strong, but their weapons are very advanced. Our observations have found that they have mastered the laws of stars and can use the power of stars to a limited extent. This is a height that our biological civilization can never reach. Give them
Given enough time, the Blue Stars may become one of the most terrifying races in the universe."
"Then what should we do? The starship can no longer fly into interstellar space. If we cannot occupy the Blue Star, our tribe will be destroyed."
"Your Majesty, we have deciphered the life materials obtained from the edge of the galaxy. Those life materials have the same origin as the Blue Star people. This will be the key to occupying the Blue Star."
"What do you want to do?"
"Biotechnology is our disadvantage, but it is also our advantage. Although we cannot get samples of Blue Star organisms, with those life substances, we can deduce the life forms of Blue Star organisms and develop drugs that are only effective for Blue Star organisms.
Genetic viruses, using viruses to eliminate Blue Star’s most powerful ruling population.”
"Just go ahead and do it." His Majesty said.
A few days later, the International Astronomical Union announced that Jupiter had captured a rogue dwarf planet with a diameter of more than 5,400 kilometers and a mass equivalent to 86% of the Earth. This star knocked Ganymede off the altar in one fell swoop.
, becoming the largest satellite of Jupiter and the largest satellite in the solar system, no one!
A few months later, a group of inconspicuous asteroids escaped from Jupiter's gravitational range and slowly flew towards the Earth.
Nine years later, a massive meteor shower descended on the earth.
(PS: This is a pit. Only book friends who persist to the end will have a chance to dig out the things buried in the pit.)
