The elderly person was the highest leader of the Human Alliance. The several people accompanying the elderly person were also important figures in the Human Alliance. When Zhao Huasheng saw these people, he vaguely anticipated that sothing big was going to happen, but it all ca too suddenly. In fact, until now, Zhao Huasheng still hasn't cald down.
Li Qi died, committing suicide, but he left a blank piece of paper before his death. It was almost the highest specification, and the highest leader was attending the eting. At this mont, the highest leader was still asking himself, "What happened to the sun?".
"Sorry, sorry." Zhao Huasheng muttered a few tis, waved his hand, and slapped his head a few tis, then sat down and closed his eyes for a while, digesting all the information he had heard and contacted. After a lot of effort, he finally cald down.
Can you tell what is going on here? What happened?
The old man gestured to ng Zhuo, who said, "At around 3 oclock this morning, the solar observation telescope on the west hemisphere, the fifteen solar observation satellites on the Earths orbit, and the observation satellites on Lagrange Point and the solar orbit all reported the sa ssage to the Crisis Prevention Departnt: the solar radiation intensity had dropped by ten percent in just a few minutes and was still rapidly decreasing. After receiving this ssage, the Crisis Prevention Departnt quickly reported it to the Pri Ministers Office and contacted Li Qi, the director of your Stellar Physics Research Institute. When Li Qi could not be contacted, our Liaonan Departnt joined the event and went directly to Li Qis residence."
"After knocking on the door and not getting a response, we forced open Li Qi's residence door. We then found that Li Qi had already passed away, and we noticed the signs of a fire at the scene, but it was strange, as if it was a controlled fire that only occurred in Li Qi's bedroom. Li Qi's corpse was also heavily damaged, and the autopsy showed that Li Qi had died in the fire. The fire scene was a ss, and only this safety deposit box was preserved intact, leading us to believe that it had been purposely kept by Li Qi to deliver a ssage to you."
"We investigated and found that Li Qi had been normal in the days leading up to his suicide, except for the fact that he, who never drank, invited you to the top floor restaurant of the Century Building for drinks and talked with you for at least an hour last night. Through reviewing Li Qi's past research records, we also concluded that Li Qi had known at least a year ago that the sun was going to undergo a great change, but for so reason, Li Qi never publicly disclosed these research results."
ng Zhuo spoke in a calm and steady
tone, yet his words stirred up a huge wave in Zhao Huasheng's mind. Zhao Huasheng's thoughts were almost stagnant, yet ng Zhuo's words kept forcefully drilling into his mind like bullets. "Well, there's one more thing, the ti of death of Li Qishou. The autopsy report shows that Li Qishou died exactly an hour before the solar drama. From this, we can know that Li Qi had known about the impending changes in the sun and the reasons for it, yet he said nothing and had a conversation with you before his death, and left you a blank paper, and left a last will saying that you can answer all our doubts... So, Zhao Huasheng, can you tell us what's going on?"
"No... that's impossible, how could the solar radiation level suddenly drop by 10%... This isn't right... If the solar radiation level decreases, it won't be able to resist its own imnse pressure, it will shrink in volu, increase in density in order to raise the core temperature and thus raise the radiation level again... It's a dynamic balance... It's common sense..." Zhao Huasheng muttered.
The old man gestured to ng Zhuo again, and ng Zhuo took out a stack of materials and put it in front of Zhao Huasheng.
This was a schematic diagram of changes in solar radiation level, as well as preliminary observational data from various observation satellites, and so preliminary analysis conclusions. All of these were things that Zhao Huasheng was familiar with, so he imdiately understood what was described on them.
All the detecting devices have clearly indicated one conclusion: "The solar radiation level has decreased, but the mass, volu, and density of the sun have not changed much."
"You know what a 10% decrease in solar radiation ans, right?" the old man said slowly: "It ans the whole earth will enter the most serious glacial period ever seen, the equator will beco temperate, temperate will beco cold... the Antarctic ice sheet will even border South Arica, the Greenland ice sheet will touch the Asian continent, most parts of the earth will beco uninhabitable, food production will be greatly reduced, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people will starve to death, if the solar radiation level continues to decrease... our human civilization will completely collapse, and we may even devolve into primitive humans."
Today is the first day of the decrease in solar radiation. Due to atmospheric circulation and the insulating effect of the ocean, we have not yet noticed much change, at most feeling the weather getting a bit colder. But if we can't increase the level of solar radiation, the temperature will keep dropping, lowering to an unbearable level. So, Zhao Huasheng, tell , what can we do?
"I don't know, I don't know," Zhao Huasheng murmured.
"What did Li Qichang say to you last night? Repeat it word for word," said a physicist present.
"I..." Zhao Huasheng cald down and
Zhao Hua Sheng reminisced for a mont, saying: "The weather is nice today."
"On the way to the Century Building with Li Chi-chang driving, how many tis did Li Chi-chang complain about the traffic jam?"
"Three tis," Zhao Hua Sheng thought for a mont before replying.
Zhao Hua Sheng has an excellent mory. During college, Zhao Hua Sheng even won the mory Championship. It is precisely because of this that Zhao Hua Sheng can recall every detail of last night.
said with a slight bitterness: "Yesterday was Friday, after work, Director Li Qi found and said he wanted to broaden my horizons... We went to the top floor restaurant of the Century Building, Director Li Qi told to sit down and order dishes... then drink wine, he asked about my recent situation, any ideas, after talking for a while, Director Li Qi led the topic to how small human civilization is..."
Next to him, a secretary was quickly recording Zhao Huasheng's words. During the process of Zhao Huasheng's recollection, the secretary did not interject and was silently recording. After Zhao Huasheng finished speaking, the secretary checked the record and then asked: "On the way from the research institute to the underground parking lot, what did Director Li Qi say, 'The weather is nice today' or 'It's quite cool today'?"
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"Did Li Qi make any statent such as 'co in and sit down' before he went ho and closed the door?"
"No." Zhao Huasheng replied.
"Very well. This is the record of your conversation. See if there is anything missing." said the secretary.
Zhao Huasheng took the few records, quickly looked them over, and said, "There is nothing missing."
"If you rember anything else, rember to report it to ng Zhuo. ng Zhuo, follow Huasheng for a while." said the old man.
"Yes." ng Zhuo uttered a single word.
At this mont, a knock on the door sounded at the entrance of the conference room. After obtaining the consent, a person dressed as a secretary with a pair of golden glasses walked in.
"Chief, the paper test results have co out. This is just a normal sheet of A4 paper that has not been treated by any technical ans or hidden drugs after it was produced. Cryptographic experts have not obtained any valuable information from the details of the paper fiber distribution and indentations. The paper was produced three months ago and purchased from a common office supply store. It was produced by a forestry company called "Flying", and the paper's raw material is fast-growing poplar with an age of three years, one hundred and fifty-two days. Six tons of the sa batch of paper have been produced, five of which have already entered the market, and the remaining one ton has been sealed. Of the five tons that have entered the market, four and a half tons have been retrieved, and the remaining half a ton has been sent out with personnel to the residences of the buyers and garbage transfer centers to continue the pursuit. A total of three thousand and seventy people who have co into contact with this batch of paper have been investigated. So far, we have not found any valuable information."
"Imdiately assemble a team of psychological experts to conduct a psychological investigation of Li Qi, as well as gather experts from all fields to imdiately analyze and study all the research material and items left by Li Qi. I want to know the reason for Li Qi's suicide in the shortest amount of ti, why Li Qi predicted the disaster but refused to issue a warning beforehand, why he chose to commit suicide before the disaster happened, why he left a blank paper for Zhao Hua Sheng, etc. Furthermore, how did Li Qi predict the disaster, what unique research did he have on the changes of the sun at this mont, and most importantly, did Li Qi have any way to solve the crisis, and if so, what was it? At the sa ti, imdiately summon all relevant scientists within the Alliance to analyze the changes of the sun."
The elder gave a series of unquestionable commands in a plain tone. After saying all this, the elder rubbed his temples, a bit tired, and looked at Zhao Hua Sheng and said, "Huasheng, from today onwards, to a certain extent, the fate of humanity... is in your hands."
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