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Chapter 112 Accident

The nature of the choice faced this time is almost no different from the last time, it just expanded its scale a lot.

What I faced last time was the four-day capacity of the space elevator, and a hope to find out the truth. This time, it was the new home plan and the hope of winning 50-200 years for civilization.

Yes, it's just hope. There are too many uncontrollable factors in this plan and it's very likely to fail. Even if it succeeds in the end, there are too many accidents that may occur.

Decision makers were unable to make decisions now. So, after about a week of preparation, a conference was about to be held.

This conference included almost all the senior leaders of human civilization, whether they were officials or scholars. Of course, during this period, the New Home Plan has been underway, and the preliminary preparations for the Butterfly Plan - a new name given to a series of plans proposed by people for Xu Zhenghua - also began immediately.

I would rather waste all the preliminary preparations than truly confirm the time when the plan is to be implemented, but lose the feasibility because of wasting time.

No one has forgotten that at this moment, there are only about 190 days left before the expected darkness touches the earth, and there is really no time to waste it.

Xu Zhenghua firmly supported the implementation of the Butterfly Plan. As early as when he chose whether to occupy the four-day space elevator capacity, he had already figured it out and understood this. He would rather bet on everyone to fight for a bright future for the human world than to place hope on the illusion of the future. So during this period, he naturally became the leader of supporting one side, and those who supported the implementation of this plan naturally united and surrounded him.

Those who firmly oppose the Butterfly Project united around another great scientist whose achievements and contributions were almost second only to Xu Zhenghua. The scientist was named Chen Yue.

The confrontation between the two forces will determine the outcome in this meeting.

This meeting will be held in the Human Building. On this day, Xu Zhenghua came here early. His face looked calm and he could not see any emotional fluctuations.

It was still early and many participants were still on the way.

At this moment, about twenty minutes away from the Human Building, a bus was escorted by several police cars. On the bus, more than thirty opponents led by Chen Yue were silent, and no one spoke.

Any of them is a great scientist who is famous throughout the civilization and has made great contributions to civilization.

Now, they will once again go to the battlefield to fight for the future of human civilization.

Each of them knew that if the butterfly plan was denied, the earth would be destroyed and they would have no way to live. But before the fate of civilization, personal life and death were no longer important. They had long been ready to sacrifice their lives in the future disaster, just to preserve the hope of continuing civilization.

This is pure, transcendent, without any personal interests, but is just a judgment based on a sense of responsibility for the future destiny of civilization and a position of choice. If those who choose to support Xu Zhenghua may have impure motivations and are afraid of death, no one dares to say that they have private considerations.

Whether their choice is ultimately proven to be right or wrong, it must be out of public interest, because they have proved it with their lives.

The bus was moving forward quickly in silence. But when passing by a bridge, the car suddenly showed signs of being out of control.

This bridge is very high, and is at least forty or fifty meters away from the river below.

The driver who can drive this car to send scientists to the conference must have the best driving level. After realizing that the vehicle is incorrect, he almost subconsciously made an impeccable response.

Press the brakes, light up the double flash, observe the road conditions on both sides, and try to pull over and stop.

But he suddenly realized that the brake pedal became very hard and could not be stepped on at all. He tried to downshift and used other means to stop the vehicle, but the steering wheel suddenly tilted to the left without being controlled.

Almost the next moment, the car had already violently hit the guardrail next to the road. And all this took less than two seconds from the beginning to now, so fast that there was no time to react.

The next moment, the bus rolled over and fell off the bridge.

When dozens of police cars and ambulances pulled the sirens to the river, fished the bus out of the river, and opened the car door, what people saw were more than 30 still intact corpses that were still fixed on the seats by seat belts.

The investigation team, co-chaired by three decision makers of the world government, was quickly established.

At such a sensitive moment, it is hard to believe that such a big thing that can affect the future fate of the entire civilization is just an accident. But the final result once again exceeded people's expectations.

All investigation results show that this is indeed an accident. The source of the fault is that a hidden and extremely deep bug appeared in the underlying logic of the vehicle control system, and this bug was also reproduced on the other same batch of vehicles.

This almost completely ruled out the possibility of artificial intervention in assassination.

History has certain necessity, but also certain accidentality. In any case, whether this incident or accidental or inevitable, in short, more than 30 most influential opponents led by Chen Yue were all dead.

Then, the passage of the Butterfly Plan has become a necessity.

Although the time was delayed by about seven days, this result finally appeared in front of Xu Zhenghua.

In the funeral home, facing more than 30 corpses in the ice coffin and more than 30 photos hanging on the wall, Xu Zhenghua bent down deeply, then turned around and left.

There is really no need to say anything at this moment. Xu Zhenghua knew very well that no matter how different he and them had in their judgments about the future, his purpose was always the same.

Then, go and do it.

Letting civilizations survive this disaster is the best comfort for them.

This huge plan has officially begun at this moment.

Through some previous observations and analysis, screening, the subject used to implement the butterfly plan - a suitable asteroid has been selected at this moment.

It is an asteroid located in the asteroid belt, only 32 million kilometers away from the earth at this moment. It has a very beautiful name, the Star of Love.

Its size is about 13*13*33 kilometers, its mass is about 7.2 trillion tons, and it is mainly composed of rocks. There are many impact craters on it, including the two most well-known impact craters, namely Jia Baoyu Crater and Lin Daiyu Crater.

In fact, compared to the requirements of the Butterfly Plan, its mass is still a bit small. If possible, it is better to directly push a planet as big as the moon or even as the earth. However, due to the technical level, it is obviously unrealistic.

But even if such a small planet has been digested and absorbed by human civilization, it almost exceeds the limit of human civilization's strength. In the subsequent plan, people are also preparing to detonate at least seventeen antimatter bombs at some of the more fragile geological structure points on it, stripping at least 50 million tons of material to reduce its mass - at the same time, this process will provide some help for changing its orbit, and laying large areas of solar sails, relying on energy from the sun to accelerate and decelerate, so that they can barely control it.

The planetary engine has just completed the drawing production and has not yet entered the actual construction process, but the spacecraft fleet has set out in advance. Their mission is to relocate the large fusion reactor originally used for the new home plan after detonating the antimatter bomb and reducing its mass to an acceptable level, and to complete subsequent construction tasks to prepare to power the planetary engine.

Following the large fusion reactor, there are hundreds of thousands of tons of fusion fuel. Because Aesthetic lacks hydrogen and helium elements, fusion fuel cannot be used locally and can only be transported directly from the earth. However, subsequent working fluids used for reverse pushing can be used locally.

People plan to obtain materials directly from the surface of Ethan, grind and crushed, and then let the fusion reactor heat it to the plasma state and spray it directly to obtain anti-push force.

In addition, all space forces belonging to the human world are also put into operation. Whether it is gravitational wave detectors, visible light, X-ray, infrared, or neutrino detectors, as long as they help to more accurately grasp the mass distribution in the solar system, they all aim their field of vision at space. Tens of thousands of satellites, numerous space bases, spacecraft, etc. distributed in space have also undertaken this part of the mission.

The construction task of planetary engines involves millions of factories and hundreds of millions of technical workers. These factories are each responsible for producing one or several parts of planetary engines, ranging from heat insulation plates weighing several tons to a gasket weighing several grams, and will be produced at the highest technical standards.

After production is completed, they will be transported into space through space elevators and will be assembled directly in the dock factory originally planned to be used to build the new Home spacecraft.

Yes, the dock has now been transformed into a assembly plant. The objects it serves have been changed from the new home plan to the butterfly plan.

The transformation and upgrading tasks corresponding to the Dragon Supercomputer are also the top priority of the Butterfly Plan. The tasks undertaken are dozens of semiconductor chip companies, tens of thousands of engineers, and more technical workers.
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