Chapter 346 What's the situation? !

   Cooper's doubts about his companion's delay in showing up continued until the moment before boarding the rocket.

  Jody came hurriedly to him and said:

   "You act alone first, and your partner will teleport to your side through the time-space tunnel after you enter the Eternal."

   Hearing this, Cooper took a deep breath.

   More than ten years ago, when he went to the sky for the first time, he was driving the Prowler spaceship by himself. There was an accident that time, and now he is going to space alone?

  To be honest, Cooper was a little nervous.

  Jody saw this and patted him on the shoulder: "It's okay, the technology is very mature this time, and everything will go smoothly."

   Cooper nodded, and then the whole person followed the arrangement and instructions. When he came back to his senses again, he was already sitting in the manned spacecraft.

   Then he just had to sit and wait for the sky.

  The spacecraft will automatically dock with the Eternal, and then he goes up and disables the ground control system, and then he can officially start the transformation of the Eternal.

   Outside the rocket, many people's eyes are on the top at this time.

  Although the Eternal to be docked is not under their control, no one has the slightest worry in their hearts, and Professor Brand is still in the mood to chat and laugh with his daughter.

   “10, 9, 8…”

   The countdown sounded.

  Cooper sat in position, folded his hands and prepared to endure the charge.

   "3, 2, 1—"

   "Shoot!"

  The rocket took off in the tremor, and the manned spacecraft was a little too empty, so that Cooper once again remembered when he made a mistake in driving the Prowler more than ten years ago...

   But he couldn't allow him to think too much.

  The ground's instructions came one after another. Although he didn't need to do anything, he still had to observe the spacecraft data all the time.

   Across the ocean.

  Since Professor Brand fled with Jody, the NASA base has been under martial law, and all kinds of work have come to a standstill.

   Because most of the projects are listed, they find that the boss of their project has already "treasoned".

  It’s fine without the top boss. Some projects even run away from the deputy of the leadership. In this case, each project is like a fly without a head, and they don’t know what to do at all.

   And even if they want to work it's not that easy.

   The person in charge of censoring them has arrived at the base, and now everyone is the object of suspicion. As long as they are a little more positive about their work, they may be suspected of being a member of Brand's left behind, trying to steal information from inside and outside.

   Before the end of the review, most people usually live in a small dark room alone in their room.

  The entire base operates with minimum working standards, that is, only some extremely important positions will be manned.

   Such as the monitoring of missile warning satellites.

  Through the strong infrared response when the missile or rocket is launched, the missile early warning satellite can quickly detect the danger and automatically give an early warning.

  Although there is no army now, these important departments have always been preserved.

   After the rocket carrying Cooper was lifted into the air, the missile warning satellite alarm was triggered soon. Electronic reports echoed in the duty room, and various orbit prediction data of the rocket had appeared on the screen.

  The two staff members in the duty room were stunned for a moment, and then quickly reported the matter.

   If it was in the past, there is no need to do this. They have better methods, such as fully automated operation, if they determine that the orbital landing point is their own country, they will automatically connect to the interceptor missile.

   But it's different now.

   goes straight back to basics.

  Although the emergency system in the base is also under review, it is still in operation after all, and someone was alerted to them soon.

   "Is it a missile?" the boss asked on the phone.

   The monitor looked at the blurry image taken by the satellite on the screen, and the size of the rocket monitored: "No, this should be a launch vehicle with a length of fifty meters."

   The boss on the other end was relieved immediately.

   The fifty-meter-long missile is a bit exaggerated. They haven't deployed troops on Mars. They don't need such a long guy to deal with them. Shorter ones are enough.

   "Since it's a rocket, let's continue to figure out the purpose of their launch, and we may need this data next."

  As a responsible base leader, he has set his sights on the future. The departure of many experts such as Brand is a major blow to Operation Lazarus.

   But this plan will be restarted one day in the future.

   If you don't say anything else, if you don't find a new home, where are these people going to flee?

   Did he die on earth like everyone else?

  They fled to a new planet with a "population bomb", and it was the right way to build a new colony of humans.

   This is exactly the Plan B proposed by Professor Brand, and it is the most suitable plan for them now.

   So now you have a little more information about the spaceflight on the other side, and maybe it can be a reference for them in the future...

   The boss hung up the phone, thinking about how to restart Plan B, but it didn't take long for him to receive another internal call from the duty room.

The monitor on the other end said in a panicked tone:

   "He...their spaceship...is now in low-Earth orbit, at the same height and in the same direction as our Eternal!"

  ? ? ?

   A few question marks appeared on the head of the boss holding the phone.

"what's going on?"

   He instinctively felt bad.

   Even if he is a layman in aerospace, he knows that in space, a spacecraft occupies a single orbit. How can there be such a thing?

   Aren't you afraid of crashing?

unless!

Thinking of a terrifying possibility, the boss ignored the phone and threw him away. He ran to the lodging area of ​​the aerospace expert, and slipped out an expert who was still in confinement awaiting review. I told him clearly.

   After listening to this, the aerospace expert's complexion also changed drastically.

   "They want to forcibly dock the Eternal spaceship!"

   "We must stop them now!"

   After Cooper's spacecraft entered the same orbit as the Eternal, the intent was too obvious.

   When I heard that the Eternal might be kidnapped, the base that had been silent for a long time suddenly boiled.

   The person in charge of the review also had to give in, temporarily releasing the staff of various departments to try to get them to prevent the next docking.

   "We have remote operation rights to the Eternal. As long as we control it to change its orbit through the program, we can immediately thwart their conspiracy!"

  Experts commanded at the scene, and the staff sat in front of the operating table, their faces were full of tension, and cold sweat dripped drop by drop.

  Behind them, there is a grim censor, wearing sunglasses, scanning everyone in the operation hall...

   (end of this chapter)