That old man was the highest leader of the Human Alliance. The few people accompanying the old man were also important figures in the Human Alliance. When he had just seen these few people, Zhao Huasheng had vaguely anticipated that something big was going to happen, but it had come too suddenly, and in fact, until now, Zhao Huasheng had not yet calmed down.
Li Qi died, killed himself, but before he did, he left himself a blank sheet of paper. In what is almost certainly the highest profile meeting, attended by the Supreme Leader, the Supreme Leader is still asking himself "what happened to the sun".
"Sorry, sorry." Zhao Watson muttered a few times, threw up his palms and slapped himself hard on the head a few times, and sat down in his seat again with his eyes closed in silence for a while, digesting what he had heard and come into contact with at the moment, and calming down with great difficulty.
"Can you tell me what the hell is going on? What the hell is going on?"
The old man signalled to Montjo, who said, "At about three o'clock this morning, the solar observation telescopes deployed in the western hemisphere, the fifteen solar observation satellites deployed in Earth orbit, and the observation satellites deployed at Lagrangian points and in circumsolar orbit all simultaneously reported a message to the Department of Crisis Prevention, all of which read exactly the same thing, which was. The intensity of solar radiation had been reduced by ten per cent in a few minutes and was still decreasing rapidly. After receiving this information, the Crisis Prevention Department quickly reported it to the Führer's Office and contacted Director Li Qi of your Stellar Physics Institute, and after discovering that Director Li Qi was unreachable, we at the United Security Department joined in this incident and went directly to Director Li Qi's residence."
"After knocking on the door and failing to get a response, we forced open the door of Director Leach's residence. We then found that Director Leach was dead, and at the scene we found traces of a fire, but strangely enough, it appeared to be a controlled fire that had occurred only in Director Leach's bedroom. Director Leach's body was also severely damaged, and an autopsy showed that Director Leach died in the fire. The scene of the fire was in a state of disarray, except for this safe, which we have reason to believe was purposely kept by Director Leach for you as a means of conveying a message to you."
"We checked that Director Li Qi was normal for a few days before he committed suicide, except for last night, when Director Li Qi, who never drinks alcohol, asked you to drink with him at the top floor restaurant of the Century Building and talked to you for at least an hour. By going through Director Li Qi's past research records, we have also come to the conclusion that, Director Li Qi has known about the impending drastic changes in the sun at least a year ago, but for some reasons, Director Li Qi has not been able to release these research results to the public."
"Well, there's one more thing, and that's the time of Director Leach's death. The autopsy showed that Director Leach died exactly one hour before the dramatic change in the sun occurred."
"According to this, we can know that Director Li Qi knew about the upcoming changes in the sun a long time ago, and he also knew what the reason for such changes was, he knew everything, but he didn't say anything, instead, he had a conversation with you before he died and left you a blank piece of paper, and also left his last words saying that you could answer all of our questions ... So, Zhao Watson, can you tell me what this is all about?"
Meng Zhuo's tone of voice remained level, not fluctuating at all. However, these words set off huge waves in Zhao Watson's mind. Zhao Huasheng's brain thoughts had almost come to a standstill, yet Meng Zhuo's words were still like a bullet forcing its way into Zhao Huasheng's mind.
"No... impossible, how could the solar radiation level suddenly decrease by ten percent... this is not right... if the solar radiation level decreases If the level of solar radiation decreases, it won't be able to withstand its own enormous pressure, it will reduce its size and increase its density as a way to increase its core temperature and thus raise its radiation level again. ... This is a dynamic equilibrium process. ... This is common sense... ... "Zhao Huasheng muttered.
The old man once again signalled to Meng Zhuo, who then took a stack of information and placed it in front of Zhao Watson.
This was a schematic diagram of the changes in the level of solar radiation, as well as preliminary observation data from various observation satellites, and some preliminary conclusions from the analyses. These were things that Zhao Watson was in regular contact with, so Zhao Watson understood what was described here at a glance.
All of the detection equipment is unmistakably indicating one conclusion, "The level of solar radiation has decreased, but the mass, volume, and density of the sun have not changed much."
"You know what a ten per cent reduction in solar radiation levels means, right?" The old man slowly said, "It means that the entire planet will enter the most serious ice age ever, the equator will become a temperate zone, the temperate zone will become a cold zone ... The Antarctic ice cap will even border South America, the Greenland ice cap will touch the Asian continent, and most of the entire planet will become uninhabitable. inhabitable areas, food production will be drastically reduced, tens of millions and hundreds of millions of people will be starved to death, and if the level of solar radiation continues to decrease ... our human civilisation will completely collapse, and we will degenerate into primitive people are not certain."
"Today is the first day of lower solar radiation levels. Because of the atmospheric circulation and the insulating effect of the oceans, we won't be able to notice much of a change yet, and at most we'll feel that it's getting a little colder. But if we don't have a way to raise the level of solar radiation, the temperature will keep slowly dropping, all the way down to the point where we can't bear it. So, Zhao Watson, you tell me, what should we do?"
"I don't know, I don't know." Zhao Watson mumbled.
"In the course of last night, what words did Director Leech say to you? You repeat it back, not a single word wrong." One of the attending physicists said.
"I ..." Zhao Watson calmed down a bit, said slightly bitterly: "Yesterday was Friday, after work, Director Li Qi found me, said he wanted to take me to open my eyes... ...We came to the Century Building top floor restaurant, Director Li Qi told me to sit down, and then order food ... and then drink, he asked me how the situation recently, there is no idea, after talking for a while, Director Li Qi will lead the topic of human civilisation how small above ..."
There was a clerk next to him who was rapidly recording what Zhao Watson had said. During Zhao Watson's recollections, this clerk did not interrupt in any way and kept recording silently. After Zhao Watson finished speaking, the clerk checked the record and then asked, "On the way you and Director Li Qi left the Institute and headed to the underground car park, did Director Li Qi say 'It's a nice day today' or 'It's quite cool today '?"
Zhao Watson recalled and said, "It's that it's a nice day."
"How many times did Director Leach actually complain about traffic jams on his way to take you to Century House in his car?"
"Three times." Zhao Watson thought for a moment, then replied.
Zhao Watson possessed a very good memory, and when he was in college, Zhao Watson had even won a memory competition. Because of this, Zhao Huasheng was able to recall every detail of last night.
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"Are you sure Director Leach didn't say something like 'come in and have a seat' before he went home and closed the door?"
"No." Zhao Watson replied.
"Okay, here's the full transcript of the conversation between you, look for any omissions." The clerk said.
Zhao Watson took the sheets of records and quickly skimmed through them before saying, "There are no omissions."
"If you think of anything else, remember to report it to Montjo at any time. Meng Zhuo, you will follow Watson during this period of time." The old man said.
"Yes." Monjo spat out a word.
Just at this time, a knock sounded at the door of the conference room. After receiving consent, a person with gold-rimmed glasses and dressed as a secretary walked in.
"Chief, the results of the paper testing have come out, it's just an ordinary A4 paper, it hasn't been treated by any technical means after it was produced, and it doesn't have any invisibility agents on it. The cryptography experts did not obtain any valuable intelligence from the paper's fibre distribution, indentation and other details. The paper was produced three months ago, purchased from an ordinary office consumables shop, produced by a forestry company named 'Flying', the raw material for the paper is fast-growing poplar, with a growth age of three years and one hundred and fifty-two days, a total of six tonnes of the same batch of paper was produced, five tonnes of it has been brought to the market, the remaining one tonne has been sealed, and of the five tonnes brought to the market four point five tonnes have been Recovered four point five tonnes, the remaining zero point five tonnes have been dispatched to the residence of each buyer, the waste transfer centre to continue to trace, contact with the batch of paper a total of three thousand and seventy people, has been all launched background checks ... So far, we have not found any valuable information."
"Organise an expert group of psychologists to immediately launch a psychological investigation into Li Qi, and at the same time, gather experts from all areas to immediately analyse and research all the research materials Li Qi left behind, and all the items he touched. I want to know in the shortest possible time the reasons for Li Qi's suicide, why Li Qi has long predicted this disaster and refused to make an early warning, why choose to commit suicide before the disaster finally occurs, why leave Zhao Huasheng a blank sheet of paper ... and how Li Qi predicted this disaster, Li Qi for the moment of the sun changes have any unique research, and the most important thing is that Li Qi has a lot of experience in the field of psychology. what unique research, and most importantly, whether Li Qi has a way to solve this crisis or not, and if so, what the solution to the crisis is."
"At the same time, relevant scientists from across the Union are immediately summoned to immediately begin analysing the solar changes."
The old man gave one unquestionable order in a flat tone. After saying all this, the old man rubbed his temples slightly tiredly, glanced at Zhao Huasheng, and said, "Huasheng, from today onwards, to a certain extent, the fate of mankind ... is in your hands."