Chapter 21 The Shadow of the Enemy in the Darkness
In front of Professor X, there was almost no one who could hide their thoughts, so we finally figured out why they were doing this.
"We must maintain our advantage so that we can rule them better. Any society is dominated by a few elites. As for the life and death of civilians, it is just some numbers. After a while, they will naturally forget. Maybe they will know the truth, but it can only be the truth we tell them. As for whether they believe it or not? Anyway, it is enough for us to believe it."
We were angry and we were confused, but we didn't have the power to judge. As for how to solve this matter most importantly...Dr. X and I were really tired that month, but we were both very happy because we saved a lot of people, not only now, but also the future.
"Leo meteor shower..." I muttered this term, for some reason, suddenly I felt a little palpitations, or, in other words, had a very bad premonition. After hesitating for a moment, I picked up the phone.
"Hello, Planet Daily, here is Clark Kent."
"Mr. Clark, I'm sorry, but I can only trouble you. You know tomorrow is the night of the meteor shower. I originally asked Peter to take some photos for me, but he happened to have something to do tomorrow, so..."
"Ah, there's no problem with this, will it be tomorrow night? Then I have to prepare immediately."
"Please, Mr. Clark."
"It's okay, goodbye."
"goodbye."
"Cara, are you going out?" Louis asked looking up and saw his partner who was about to get up and go out after putting down the phone.
"Ah, sorry, suddenly something urgent happened." Clark replied.
"It's okay, I can go with Jimmy in the afternoon." Louis smiled and began to continue working.
On the other hand, I was about to go to Professor X's place - Superman to reconnaissance. Of course, we had to achieve real-time communication. Naturally, there was no such condition at home - the phone on the desk rang again.
"Hello, I'm Lina Harvey."
"Miss Lina, I'm Charles."
"Oh, Doctor, hello."
"Miss Lina, do you... have any opinions on this Leo meteor shower?"
“You feel it too?”
"It's not just me, but also Qin and many other spiritual and prophetic mutants have some senses."
"I have invited Superman to go for reconnaissance, and I will come to your place soon. I think we can talk about it after meeting."
Half an hour later, in the X Academy, I was wearing a white robe and Professor X in a wheelchair heading to the communication room. Originally, this communication room was established to be able to communicate with Mars at any time. After all, according to the traditional method, only when the earth and Mars are in the same orbit plane, but this cannot meet our needs at all, so we used a large number of satellite relays to set up a communication network inside the solar system. After the "new technology", this communication network has extended to the edge of the solar system.
"It was probably this morning that I suddenly felt a palpitations, as if something terrible was about to happen. Soon after, Qin and Phoenix also felt this. Next, within an hour, all the mutants in the Department of Mind and Prophecy in College X had more or less senses." Professor X, who was sitting in a wheelchair - this wheelchair is also new. Due to the "new technology", this new wheelchair can be controlled by Professor X's will. "Not only that, Eric also sent a message not long ago, and they were the same."
"This should be a biological instinct. Because we have had corresponding exercises for sensing in the past, we have this feeling now." I frowned and said, "It seems that this time is true. It depends on whether Superman can find something. Otherwise, if there is no evidence, the government will not agree to the evacuation plan."
As we spoke, we had entered the communication room. This was about a room of about 100 square meters. The room was covered with very "science fiction" instruments. Facing the wall was a huge display screen. In front of the operating table under the display, Qin and Phoenix were busy, and the display was a fast retreating cosmic picture - this was sent back by the aircraft that Superman was riding.
Wait, aircraft? That's right, after having "new technology", we began to secretly manufacture... parts of many defensive weapons, but we are not without making other things, such as the satellites that form the communication network - if the original technology is used, ten thousand satellites are not necessarily enough to cover the entire solar system - such as faster transport aircraft, and small reconnaissance aircraft with stealth capabilities, Superman is now driving this.
Since there are special reconnaissance aircraft, why choose Superman? It's very simple, because among the many superheroes, many people can survive in the universe for a short time, but few people can still maintain strong combat power in the universe. Superman is the best among them. Because the enemy is unknown, I don't know what the result of this reconnaissance is. But even if the worst result occurs, Superman will have a greater chance of returning safely.
"Dr. Lina, Superman has just passed through Uranus orbit and is expected to reach near Pluto's orbit in twenty minutes." Seeing us in, Phoenix introduced us, while Qin was staring at the screen and operating it on the console from time to time - she was switching the satellites that transmitted signals to ensure the stability of the signal.
"Mr. Superman, I am Dr. X, is the signal clear?" Originally, Dr. X's claim was "Charles", but because his name of Dr. X was too loud, his real name was not very noticeable. So now, except for people who are more familiar with me or Magneto, his claim has become Dr. X.
"Yes, it's very clear." With Superman's voice, a real-time avatar appeared in one corner of the display. Superman on the picture was not a blue tights and a red cloak, but a standard space suit. After all, no one would mind having more security.
"Miss Lina is right next to me," continued Dr. X. "After we just discussed the information that many spiritual and prophetic mutants sensed, we think this Leo meteor shower may have a lot to do with the 'enemy', so I hope you can take relevant evidence to convince Congress to implement the evacuation plan."
"I understand, there are twenty minutes left before the detector can capture the information of the meteor cluster." Superman in the picture replied.
In order to avoid losses as much as possible, after I said the "omen", we began to formulate a response plan, including the enemy's encounter when it appears and the retreat when it cannot resist. However, although the plan is perfect, we are not the government after all, and if we want to convince the government, it is not possible without evidence.
Since Pluto's orbit is a flat and long ellipse, the location Superman wants to reach is 4.8 billion kilometers away from the earth. Speaking of which, it is quite close to Neptune's orbit, only more than 300 million kilometers away.
"Arriving at the predetermined location... Turning on the detector... The detector has been turned on... Start collecting information..." Looking at the orderly operation of Superman on the screen, no one in the communication room was talking, and they were staring at the set of data uploaded back on the screen - due to distance reasons, although there is signal compression enhancement technology, there is still a delay time of nearly four minutes.
"It seems that there is no problem. Although there are many, with billions, the largest diameter is not more than fifty centimeters." Superman on the screen looked at the data while looking at the meteorite group gradually approaching, and said to himself, but soon he was surprised: "What's going on? These meteorites seem to be slowly...merging?"
We have also discovered this point. From the beginning of capturing information to the present, it took about five minutes, and there was no abnormality at the beginning. Now we find that the number of meteorites is decreasing rapidly, while the volume of meteorite individuals is increasing rapidly. In just one minute, there are no meteorites with a diameter of less than one meter. Moreover, this fusion continues and there is a trend of getting faster and faster!
"Is it because it's approaching the solar system?" Dr. X murmured.
"A gravity abnormality occurred in the center of the meteorite group!" Phoenix's voice attracted everyone's attention. Although Superman could directly observe it, he could only collect information and not analyze it. After our analysis here, a three-dimensional stereoscopic image appeared on the other end of the screen, which was the structural diagram of the meteorite group.
The curve depicting gravity above is bending into the interior abnormally, and the "fusion" of the surrounding meteorites is carried out near the center. However, it is strange that these meteorites do not tend to merge into a huge meteorite, because when they reach a certain level, that is, the diameter is about twenty meters, the meteorites stop fusion.
"Does 'they' want to launch a meteor shower attack?" This is what everyone thinks, but it shouldn't be. Although these meteors fall over New York, they will indeed smash New York into ruins, but isn't the power of this attack "too small"?
"This, what is this?!" Everyone was attracted by the attention again. This time it was Superman's voice. I saw ripples suddenly appear in the center of the meteorite group, as if a stone was thrown into the calm water surface, but this fluctuation was not the water surface, but... space!
Immediately afterwards, the "stone thrown into the water" finally broke through the "water surface" and entered the "water". It was a red irregular sphere. At first glance, it looked like a meteorite, but if you look at it yourself, it was clearly an armor wrapped in the "meteorite" outside.
"This is the invader!" Whether it was Superman nearby or we, who were 4.8 billion kilometers away, realized this instantly.
"Mr. Superman, please try to use a reconnaissance aircraft to impact. The nuclear reactor on the reconnaissance aircraft is equivalent to a large-equivalent nuclear bomb. Then, no matter what the result is, please come back immediately. I speculate that we cannot cause any harm to it." I said suddenly.
"Okay." Superman opened a keyboard next to the driver's seat, entered a string of passwords on it, and then left the reconnaissance plane. After he left, the unmanned reconnaissance plane crashed into the huge "meteorite" at the highest speed...
Chapter completed!