After confirming that the signal received by the communication antenna was the weak signal from the windmill detector, Xia Lan and Wei Xu immediately went to the Western Theater Operations Command Center.
When they arrived at the combat command center, they happened to meet the commander and Zhao Yao, who had just been picked up by helicopter from the northwest. Staff officers and other officers were surrounding them to express their respect and congratulations. Zhao Yao in the crowd was beaming to his comrades around him.
They said:
"You haven't seen how spectacular it is when the vast Qaidam Basin in the Gobi Desert turns into the Qaidam Lake shrouded in clouds and mist! Anyway, my language skills are not good, so I can't describe it to you!"
The officers were listening to Zhao Yao's story with great interest. The commander on the side took the hot water from the staff and said angrily:
"Don't listen to this kid's nonsense! When we came down from the glacier, the desert was full of rushing heat. There was no Qaidam Lake at all. Instead, boiling hot water gushes out from a gap several kilometers wide.
The scene is really shocking!”
Zhao Yao blushed and scratched his hair:
"General, you are boring."
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The commander chuckled and said:
"But let me tell you, neither the Qaidam Basin, which turned from a desert into a lake overnight, nor the Tarim Basin, is as worthy of mention as your boy's feat! It was you who risked your life to save me and a group of people.
More than a hundred soldiers, I should say thank you."
After saying that, the commander put down the water glass in his hand. After standing at attention, he gave a solemn military salute to Zhao Yao. The comrades around him also gave him a military salute. Zhao Yao, who had just been so complacent, felt embarrassed and said repeatedly:
"The mission is completed, it's no big deal."
At this time, the commander saw Xia Lan and Wei Xu standing at the door looking anxious.
"Dr. Xia Lan, Dr. Wei Xu, are you here for something?"
Xia Lan took out the information and explained the situation to the commander and officers.
"In other words, is it possible that the windmill probe you launched a few years ago is now on the earth?" the commander asked.
"We have checked the signal emission frequency of the windmill detector. If the signal comes from distant outer space, the electromagnetic wave will have a Doppler effect and cannot be the current frequency.
Based on the strength and frequency of the signal, I can be sure that this signal comes from the earth. Moreover, in theory, it is possible that the redundant nuclear energy battery installed on the windmill detector can still emit signals now," Wei Xu replied.
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The commander asked again:
"So does the signal carry something?"
Wei Xu shook his head:
"The detector was designed with two sets of signal transmitters, one for transmitting data back. However, because it consumes a lot of power, it will only be triggered within a period of time after the detection is completed, or after receiving a ground signal.
When the detector hit the broken ice belt and spore swarm, it lost contact due to strong electromagnetic interference.
The other signal transmitter will always emit a fixed signal to facilitate us to track its location. Now we receive that fixed signal, which is equivalent to a distress signal. It will only let us know that it is still there, but it will not tell us.
What happened to it? The information carried by the detector is still in its storage."
Zhao Yao looked at the messy information on the table and asked in confusion:
"But this is wrong. Even if the probe survived when it hit the ice fragments and spore swarms, how could it pass through the atmosphere without being burned?"
"We participated in the design and development of the Windmill Project. In order to obtain information on extraterrestrial organisms as quickly as possible, the Windmill launch required a detector with small mass, high strength and impact resistance.
We use the latest technology of super-strong titanium alloy for the core components of the detector. So I think it is possible for the detector to be brought back to low-Earth orbit with the broken ice, and still maintain basic functions after falling into the atmosphere."
Wei Xu replied.
"We can use radio triangulation to find out the specific location of the detector," the staff officer said.
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The commander immediately issued the order:
"Do it immediately!"
"yes!"
The commander looked at Xia Lan:
"If the detector's storage unit is still basically intact, how helpful will the information inside be to us?"
Xia Lan replied:
"Based on the current situation, molecular biologists have not found genetic material in the samples brought back by Lieutenant Colonel Zhao Yao, and the microorganisms discovered this time are completely different in form and function from the ones we found in Yanshan. This can at least show that,
Their microbial morphology is diverse.
At present, it is relatively reliable to speculate that their genetic information should be stored in primitive stem cells. And such primitive cells can only be found in spores or the place where they are made. If we have their genetic information, we will have
Methods to reshape the entire biological information.
In other words, we can predict what else they can create and how they will deal with us! With this information, we will no longer know what will happen until the disaster strikes. This is very important to us.
The next battle is crucial."
An officer flipped through the scattered pages on the table with his hands and shook his head slightly:
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"Judging from the feedback from the Guanxian Observatory, there are no more spores in low-Earth orbit. What else can they do?"
Xia Lan's eyes flashed, her face was full of worry, and she said in a low tone:
"Don't forget, before they destroy our space telescopes. We have observed more than once that biological production on Titan has revived, and a new batch of spores may arrive near Earth again in a few years.
Orbital. What's more, we have no idea what they are doing outside of Sichuan!"
Due to the success of the water diversion operation a few minutes ago, the relaxed and happy atmosphere that filled the combat command center disappeared, and the familiar yet suffocating invisible pressure returned to everyone's shoulders.
The commander's brows tightened and the corners of his eyes twitched slightly:
"In less than two months from the beginning of the invasion to now, most of our country's territory is no longer suitable for human habitation, and the population is only 1/5 of what it was before the war began. The enemy destroys our cities indiscriminately.
, killing our women and children, a billion lives lost.
This is just our situation, it may be worse in other parts of the world. These are fierce battles that have never been seen in human history, and they are coming for the entire earth. Now although we have got a temporary respite, the fighting
It’s far from over.”
Xia Lan said seriously:
"Although I'm not sure whether there is any information recorded in the storage unit of the detector, or whether that information is useful to us. But if we continue to passively wait for them to launch the next round of attack, we may not necessarily still have the information.
Opportunities are as lucky as this one, and we can resolve the disaster before it happens."
At this moment, the staff officer stumbled in:
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"The location of the detector has been found!"
"So fast! Is the positioning accurate?" Zhao Yao asked in surprise.
The staff officer gasped:
"The current electromagnetic environment is very clean, and the frequency emitted by the detector is very special. We can easily find its location. It should be somewhere 300 kilometers south of Jinling now!"
Everyone looked at each other in shock, because the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, which was more than two thousand kilometers away from Shuchuan and had a long history, had now become a ruin intertwined with swamps and oceans.