It's reasonable for me to have a two-way foil for a second-level civilization, right?

The holographic image dissipated instantly.

Chapter 229 Mercury Falling into the Sun

a week later.

The time on the calendar quietly came to 2038.

2038.1.2

The second day of the new year.

Inside Mars City No. 1.

"Professor, it's time." Wilson looked up at the time displayed on the laboratory wall, and reminded softly, "Mercury is about to fall into the sun."

Lu Yongchang stopped the experiment in his hands, raised his head, and looked solemnly at the holographic image in front of him.

Like Lu Yongchang, all humans in Mars City looked up at the holographic image in front of them.

The old chairman of the congress, sitting on a chair, stared deeply at the picture in front of him, with a trace of pain in his eyes.

In the holographic picture, a red fireball burns quietly in the dark universe.

Next to the fireball, there is a small black dot.

That's Mercury about to crash into the sun.

"Zero, zoom in on the picture of Mercury." Lu Yongchang said softly.

The holographic image is divided into two, the right side shows the red giant sun, and the left side shows Mercury at this moment.

This is the image data from the earth, so strictly speaking, this should be Mercury 5 minutes ago.

Mercury, which is extremely close to the sun, has completely melted its surface under the scorching heat of the sun, and the originally gray Mercury has become a lava ball with a dim red glow!

Time passed little by little, under the gaze of everyone, a dazzling light suddenly lit up around the small lava ball!

"It's starting to touch the outermost atmosphere of the sun." Lu Yongchang sighed slightly, "Mercury is going to disappear."

"Yes, Professor." Zero's voice sounded in the laboratory, "According to calculations, under the deceleration effect of the sun's atmosphere, Mercury will completely fall into the sun in three to ten minutes!"

"At that time, a large solar storm will erupt in the solar system."

"How will it affect us?" Lu Yongchang asked in a deep voice.

Unlike Earth, Mars does not have a magnetic field.

This also means that in the face of the invasion of solar storms, Mars has no means of defense.

Of course, like an asteroid strike, nothing will happen to Mars, but humans...

The holographic image in front of him changed again, and the solar system star map replaced the original Mercury image.

"Professor, it doesn't have much impact." Ling Yong said in a flat voice.

"Mars is on the back side of the sun, and Mercury, Venus, and Earth are on the front side of the sun."

"Although Mars has no magnetic protection, we only need to deal with a very small part of the solar storm."

With that said, the relative positions of Venus, Earth, and Mars were marked on the star map.

Looking at the star map in front of him, Lu Yongchang was taken aback: "Are Venus and Mercury in a straight line now?"

"Yes, Professor."

have to.

Lu Yongchang shrugged.

It seems that this time not only Mercury, but also Venus will suffer.

……

Time passed by minute by minute.

"professor."

"The Mercury Sunset has begun."

Zero's bland report broke the silence of the laboratory.

Lu Yongchang's eyes moved slightly, and he raised his head to look at the holographic image.

The speed of the lava ball kept decreasing, and it fell straight into the sun!

A powerful flame lit up, and a small "hole" instantly appeared in the sun's corona!

The disintegration and explosion of the lava ball instantly destroyed the balance of the corona!

In the area where Mercury fell, the brightness suddenly increased, and a violent explosion occurred in the sun's corona.

At this moment, countless coronal matter was ejected!

A crimson "fountain" appeared on the surface of the sun!

"Professor, a solar storm has appeared." Then Zero's voice sounded, "The stream of high-energy charged particles is expected to reach Venus in two days."

The moment the voice fell, the holographic image began to play a simulated video of the incident.

For the convenience of viewing, Zero specially marked the solar wind with red gold.

The red-gold solar wind "blows" straight to Venus, like a sharp sword, slashing straight at Venus without magnetic field protection!

The originally dense atmosphere on the surface of Venus was blown to the space behind in an instant!

Venus pulled out a long "tail" from its back, just like a comet.

Lu Yongchang stared blankly at the simulation screen in front of him.

Inspiration kept popping up in the depths of his mind.

In his eyes, the sun quietly turned into an extremely powerful ion beam launcher, launching a strong ion beam attack towards Venus ahead!

That was a high-energy ion beam attack that stretched for 5000 million kilometers!

The sun seemed to be his teacher, perfectly demonstrating the mystery of ion beam weapons for him!

"I understand! I understand!"

Lu Yongchang's face showed ecstasy, and he said repeatedly: "Wrong! We are going in the wrong direction!"

"I know how to solve the range problem of ion beam weapons!"

Lu Yongchang's shout startled Wilson beside him.

He trembled violently, but after hearing the vague words in Lu Yongchang's mouth clearly, his expression instantly became agitated!

"Professor! Professor!" Wilson quickly rushed to Lu Yongchang, looking at him anxiously, "Speak! You should speak quickly!"

Hearing the urging sound coming from beside him, Lu Yongchang took a deep breath and tried his best to suppress the excitement in his heart.

He pointed at the holographic image in front of him: "Look! Look!!"

"what is this?!"

Wilson looked blank: "Isn't this a solar storm?"

"No! This is an ion beam launcher!!" Lu Yongchang waved his right hand and said loudly, "Tell me Wilson, what is the solar wind made of?"

Wilson's eyes moved slightly, and his expression gradually became agitated.

He somewhat understood what Lu Yongchang meant!

"Professor, it's protons and electrons!" Wilson's voice began to tremble with excitement!

"Yes, protons and electrons!" Lu Yongchang nodded with satisfaction.

"We blindly pursue the ion beam of single ions, why can't we learn from the sun?!"

"We can use two ions with opposite charges to form an ion beam."

"Under the attraction of positive and negative charges, the dispersion effect of the ion beam will be greatly weakened, and the range will also be greatly increased!"

Wilson caught his breath sharply.

He turned his head to look at the sun in the hologram, his eyes filled with excitement and gratitude.

"You are right, Professor."

"We should learn from the sun."

Lu Yongchang waved his hand: "Zero, remove all these holographic images, it's time for us to start the next experiment!"

"Okay, Professor."

Zero still had that calm tone.

The holographic images turned into light spots and quietly annihilated in the air, leaving only the initial experimental data.

Chapter 230 Chain Reaction

A week flies by.

Inspired by the solar storm, Lu Yongchang successfully established the research direction.

This greatly accelerated the development of ion beam weapons.

But is the impact of Mercury's fall to the sun simply over?

The answer is obviously no.

As a sophisticated celestial system, the dramatic changes of the sun and Mercury will naturally trigger a series of chain reactions in the solar system.

such as……

In the laboratory, Lu Yongchang and Wilson are finalizing the final design of the weapon structure.

"No, no, no, your plan won't work." Lu Yongchang waved his hands again and again, "There is no need to be so troublesome, just use two particle accelerators to accelerate the ions with positive and negative charges, and finally mix them to keep the ion beams charged. Just neutral."

Wilson, whose design proposal was rejected, flushed slightly, and was about to open his mouth to say something.

Zero's voice suddenly sounded through the loudspeaker, interrupting the debate between the two.

"Professor, something went wrong."

The laboratory suddenly fell silent.

Lu Yongchang frowned, turned his eyes away from the design drawings in front of him, and asked in a deep voice, "What's going on?"

A brand new holographic image quietly unfolded in front of the two of them.

In the picture, there are two planets imprinted in human DNA.

Earth and Moon.

At the moment when he saw the picture, Lu Yongchang only felt a thump in his heart, and a bad premonition arose spontaneously from the bottom of his heart.

"Zero, what happened to Earth?" He asked in a deep voice.

"Professor, it's not the earth, it's the moon." Zero's voice sounded from the side speaker.

"Solar storm sweeps past Venus and heads toward Earth and Moon."

"With the protection of the geomagnetic field, the damage to the earth is not great."

"But the moon..."

The holographic image in front of Lu Yongchang changed quietly.

The cratered surface of the moon is a mess.

The various facilities that were originally neatly arranged on the surface of the moon now seem to have been roasted on a fire, with scorched and twisted marks everywhere.

"This..." Wilson stared dumbfounded at the holographic screen in front of him, "These are our automatic mining equipment?"

"How did you become like this?!"

Lu Yongchang didn't speak, but just looked at the picture in front of him solemnly.

He sighed secretly in his heart.

broken.

The bad premonition came true.

"Yes, Professor Wilson." Zero's voice didn't fluctuate at all, and he answered Wilson's question in a straightforward manner, "We underestimated the power of this solar storm."

"Even if the moon is on the edge of the solar storm, that's still not energy we can resist."