Joseph looked through the briefing in his hand without saying a word. The situation of the Morgan River was now extremely serious.

64 of the 21 crew members, including the captain, have died. Among the other 43, 8 are still under quarantine control, and the abnormal reduction has been close to half...

What makes people on board even more panic is that so far, they still have not been able to find the real cause of the crew members' illness, even though they have carried out many ship-wide biochemical disinfection operations before, and so far, the whole ship has been in SO-A1 level plan, but the fact is that crew members are still "getting sick" one after another in the past few days.

like water off a duck's back!

It can be said that so far it can be basically believed that this sudden illness should not be an infectious disease caused by any microorganism.

In addition, the information brought by the ship's doctor, Mr. Sherlock, made him feel even more horrified, that is, the crew members who were forcibly isolated, including the captain, were changing. They were changing into "another kind of creature" "...

Joseph observed a crew member who had been quarantined for 10 days through surveillance video. He could hardly recognize the guy whose muscles and bones were severely deformed and looked more like some kind of monster than a human. He is a handsome young man who was quite handsome not long ago.

In order not to cause further panic among the crew, Joseph temporarily asked the ship's doctor, Mr. Sherlock, not to inform others of these changes in the crew.

However, given the current situation, he didn't know how long he could keep this secret.In fact, there is no need for Mr. Sherlock to add this fire. The current abnormal attrition alone is enough to make the crew panic.

Fortunately, the Morgan River is a test ship after all, and the crew members are all elites from the Earth Defense Force. They were fully mentally prepared before boarding the ship, so so far, even if the number of personnel is reduced by nearly half, there has not been the most serious incident. Bad order collapse situation.

"King, how much time is left until we reach the jump position?" He turned to ask the navigator.The navigator Wang Wei did not show any "disease", which is something that everyone on the ship is very lucky to have. Otherwise, with the current subspace navigation technology, it would be difficult for them to return to the earth than to the sky...

Wang Wei is a navigator in his thirties with dual master's degrees in mathematics and space astronomy. He is also one of the first elites in mankind to pass pilot training.

At this time, he was wearing protective clothing and was crouching in front of the computer screen on the console to compare a star map. When he heard the first mate's question, he raised his head, thought for a moment, and replied: "At the current speed, , it will take about 2.5 natural days. Since our previous voyage did not reach the expected destination in the end, the voyage was changed midway, and the earlier space storm caused our voyage to deviate, so the path was recalculated. The current path, Theoretically it should be the optimal path.”

"Okay, please check the navigation path again. Our current situation requires us to return to Earth as soon as possible..."

"I understand, First Officer, I will check the path again." Wang Wei nodded. As a crew member, he was naturally very aware of the abnormal situation currently encountered in the ship.

Joseph nodded and was about to give a few more instructions. At this moment, the entire ship suddenly experienced a sharp turbulence.At the same time, a piercing siren began to ring in my ears.

"What's going on?!" Joseph hurriedly looked at the console beside him.

"Your Excellency, First Officer, we have encountered a subspace storm! Now the turbulence is carrying us forward at high speed!"

"We are deviating from our established course!"

Joseph looked solemnly at the series of data synchronized on the screen in front of him. According to the calculations of the data, they were deviating from the planned route at an extremely high speed.

This made Joseph anxious for a moment, and he naturally knew what it meant.According to mankind's current understanding of subspace, after entering subspace, ships are usually swept up by the turbulent energy tide and move forward at a speed far exceeding that of the normal universe.

If you think of the relationship between subspace and normal space as land and a river parallel to it.Then the result of the subspace storm is that the river changes its course or floods occur.This causes ships sailing in rivers to deviate greatly from their normal routes and even get lost!

According to current human observations, storms in subspace should be relatively rare and infrequent. God knows what kind of bad luck the Mogan River had, and it actually encountered two subspace storms during one voyage!

Joseph wasn't about to leave things to chance, especially when time was of the essence.So he gave the order directly.

Chapter 639 Subspace Storm

"Increase the engine output and find a way to get out of the storm!"

As Joseph's order was issued, the Morgan River began to try to turn and at the same time began to increase engine output...

Generally speaking, during interstellar navigation, the ship's engine will not travel at the maximum designed speed, because in that case, the loss of the engine will be great over time, and there is a risk of premature scrapping. Generally speaking, it will be cruised Traveling speed, for the Morgan River, the cruising speed is 80% of the maximum design speed.

"Engine output is 85%!"

"Engine output is 90%!"

"Engine output is 95%!"

"Engine output is 100%!"

........................

"Your Excellency, First Mate! The tide is too strong and we can't escape!"

Joseph gritted his teeth: "Continue to increase the engine output! Increase it to 120%!"

"First Mate, that's very dangerous!"

"Excuting an order!"

"Yes, First Mate!"

"Engine output is 105%!"

"Engine output is 110%!"

........................

As the engine output further increased, the hull began to shake violently, and the alarm in the ship tower did not stop.

"Engine output is 120%!"

The fusion engine used in starships can theoretically be temporarily increased to an output intensity exceeding 100% of the design value. However, in this case, the increased temperature will cause a huge load on the reactor wall, which may Causes the reactor wall to melt. If this happens, it may cause damage to the fusion engine, or directly cause the engine to explode.

This is common sense that every crew member knows, and Joseph naturally knows it too. Moreover, this is not the only problem he needs to face at this time.

As the engine output increased to 120%, the vibration of the hull of the Morgan River test ship had turned into a vibration close to high-frequency vibration.

This high-frequency vibration will cause great damage to the entire ship structure. If it continues, it will increase the fatigue of the ship and rapidly increase the risk of disintegration of the ship...

..............................

5 minutes later…………

"Your Excellency, First Mate, we still can't escape!! We still can't escape!!" An anxious report came to my ears for the third time.

"Your Excellency, First Officer, the engine temperature is rising and has exceeded the dangerous value! I suggest reducing the output quickly!"

Sighing, Joseph knew he couldn't continue, otherwise the engine would really explode.

"Reduce the engine output to 80%." Joseph ordered. He understood that for the present, he could only go with the flow...

***

承和37年2016年4月1日22:17格兰德阿日松省留罗旺市

Liurowang City is a small city in the southeast of Grande Grande focusing on tourism, with beautiful scenery and pleasant climate.There are a large number of holiday villas in the suburbs here, many of which were purchased by wealthy people from the Grand City, who come to live here for some time every year.

It was already late at night, and a Bison off-road vehicle drove along Route 3 and finally stopped in front of a two-story villa in the eastern suburbs of the city.

The vehicle parked directly in the open space in front of the villa, and a burly middle-aged man with a bald head got out of the car. He looked to be in his 40s. He was humming a song and took out the keys from his pocket. He looked like The mood is very good.

This is the well-known online popular science writer Born Fetterman. His studio operates 5 well-known self-media accounts with a total of more than 1500 million fans, and his popular science self-media "Voice of the World" has more than 700 million subscribers.

Thinking of the beautiful woman he met in the bar just now, Born Fetterman's heart was filled with excitement. He didn't expect that the blonde beauty was actually a fan of his account, and his bragging obviously made the beautiful woman extremely excited. He was so interested that the two of them even chatted for nearly an hour about the latest information about Fengsui Castle that he posted on the public account. If the beauty hadn’t received a call at the last minute and had to leave in an emergency, he felt that tonight should It will be even better...

However, they still exchanged contact information before leaving. Born Fetterman felt that his expectations would become a reality in not too long.

Thinking of this, he lamented that he was really lucky. The information reported to him by his friend at the Ravenssey Observatory unexpectedly attracted a lot of public attention. Throughout the day today, he had already received a lot of media calls. Many of the requests for reprinting expressed willingness to pay. At the same time, due to the reprinting and attention from various media, the number of fans that had not increased for quite some time began to increase again. Born Fetterman even had I am beginning to look forward to the fact that in the near future, the number of subscribers of my main self-media "Voice of the World" will exceed 1000 million!

We need to work harder to make this topic more popular!

Born Fetterman understands that since the "Pandea Ocean Falling Star Incident", a large number of science fiction works have been published in an endless stream, and a large number of them focus on interstellar wars, alien invasions, dangers from deep space, etc. On the other hand, for humans, any new discoveries and news about deep space are easily subject to hype.

Correspondingly, various media are also very aware of the gold content here, so when the news of a suspected nuclear explosion around Beacon Castle came out, some media follow-up was inevitable.

What's even more fortunate for Born Fetterman is that on major stock exchanges around the world, the deep space concept stocks that have been rising for a long time have invariably experienced stagflation or even decline. Many keen institutions have cooperated with them. Investors have noticed this, and therefore, various public opinions are analyzing the reasons for the decline of the deep space concept.

Although the current mainstream public opinion still believes that this is a callback after an excessive rise, some media still point the finger at the information he happened to throw out.I think there must be something worth digging into behind this piece of information.

I have to say that the timing is too coincidental!

The words are not surprising...Born Fetterman has decided that tomorrow he will release more explosive news: "According to an unnamed source...suspected UFOs have invaded the border areas of the solar system. Fengsuigao fought back, during which nuclear weapons were used..."

For this news, he specifically sent some information in his hand to a nuclear physicist he knew today. Through spectral analysis, it was most likely that it was indeed a nuclear explosion. As long as this was confirmed, nothing else would happen. Problem.

Chapter 6 The Uninvited Guest Coming Late at Night

Born Fetterman has already thought about it. Although he will not clearly state what the "UFO" is, he will hint that it is an "alien invasion". Presumably, such news will inevitably bring about another incident. It might attract a lot of attention and even trigger public opinion!

If the stock market can continue to adjust tomorrow, that would be even better!There will be people who will associate changes in financial markets with their own news, thereby further amplifying the impact of this information...

As a self-media creator, Born Fetterman clearly knows that if you want to attract attention in this era, you must learn to be non-astonishing. As for what is the truth?In fact, Born Fetterman doesn't care much. Even if he proves to be wrong in the end, it doesn't matter. He uses "hints" throughout the article. Even if he does have some responsibility afterwards, it won't be big. Compared to In terms of the social impact caused, it is completely bearable.

While planning, Born Fetterman opened the door and edited information on his mobile phone, preparing to send an instruction to several employees in his studio to ask them to revise some wording details in tomorrow's manuscript. …

After returning home, Born Fetterman first went to the bathroom to take a hot shower, then put on a nightgown and walked out, ready to go online again. At this moment, there was a knock on his door. .

"who is it?"

Born Fetterman is a little strange. This holiday villa is not his real place of residence, it is just his temporary residence. There are not many people who know his residence and will not come to visit at this time. .

Then he thought of a piece of news he had seen not long ago about a local robbery at night. The robber had tricked a single woman into opening her house and committed the crime, so he couldn't help but become wary.

He found a baseball bat, held it in his hand, carefully came to the door, and asked again: "Who is it?"

"Mr. Fetterman, it's me, Justina, do you remember me?" To his surprise, an elegant female voice sounded outside the door.

Born Fetterman was startled. This familiar voice quickly reminded him. Isn't this the beautiful woman he met in the bar not long ago?

Just...how did she find this place?

Born Fetterman murmured in his mind that he didn't remember giving his address to the other party. Could it be that the other party followed him all the way?

Although the other party is a beautiful woman who makes his heart beat, if the other party follows him, then this will make him have to be wary...

"Miss Justina, how did you find my address?" Through the door, Born Fetterman asked with a frown. He opened the peephole on the door and went up to check.

"Sorry to disturb you so late, but there is indeed something very important." The female voice outside the door was smooth and elegant, completely different from the somewhat bohemian female voice in Born Fetterman's memory: "I On behalf of the Grande External Security Bureau, I have something I want to talk to you about.”

Through the peephole, Born Fetterman saw that the person standing outside the door was indeed the beautiful blond woman he was familiar with, but at this time, she was not wearing the sexy red tight dress in the bar. It was a black woolen windbreaker, with a silver badge of crossed swords on her collar.

As if expecting that he was looking at her through the peephole, the beauty held up an open ID and pointed it at the peephole. Born Fetterman clearly saw that the profile picture on the ID was the woman in front of him. At the same time, he also noticed the words and insignia on the certificate: Grande External Security Service.

This is a department that Born Fetterman has only seen in movies before, and it seems extremely mysterious in the eyes of ordinary people.

However, when this certificate appears in front of you, even the most obtuse person knows that he is in trouble.

"Excuse me, why did you come to me so late?" Born Fetterman no longer asked how the other party found him. If he was from the Security Bureau, then it would be strange to find him.

"Aren't you going to invite me in? Let's just talk through the door?"

"Okay, please come in, Miss Justina." Born Fetterman sighed and opened the door helplessly. At this time, when he looked at this Miss Justina, he was completely The previous impulse was gone, and now that things were happening, no matter how slow he was, he had already realized that the previous contact between Miss Justina and him was obviously deliberate, and it was impossible for her to have a date with him...

It wasn't until he opened the door that he noticed that in addition to Miss Justina at the door, there was also a burly man standing next to Miss Justina on the side of the door. This man was also wearing a uniform. A black woolen trench coat.

"This is Agent Lebre, my partner." Justina introduced to Born Fetterman with a smile.

"Hello, this is my ID." The strong man behaved calmly and also showed his ID.

"You two, please come in..." Born Fetterman turned sideways and let the two of them in, but his expression was still not good: "Can I think that you have been following me?"

"This is an invasion of my privacy. Even if you are from the Security Bureau, you can't do this! I need an explanation!" After seeing the two of them entering the living room, Born Fetterman looked around and went straight to the living room. After sitting down on the couch, he also sat down on the single sofa next to him, and then said with a gloomy expression.

"Our actions at this time are dually authorized by the Convention on the Coordination and Control of Intelligence and Information of the United Nations and the National Defense Intelligence Authorization Act. Some of your recent actions involve inappropriate disclosure of important confidential information. After our evaluation, It may have a serious impact on the current national life, public opinion, economy and many other aspects, so we are allowed to use some unconventional means, please understand." Justina had a polite smile on her face.

"This is ridiculous. I'm just a popular science blogger. How can I disclose such confidential information?" Born Fetterman spread his hands with a look of disbelief on his face. " or the "National Defense Intelligence Authorization Act". He never thought that one day he would be able to be associated with these terms that sounded extremely lofty at first sight.

Suddenly, he stopped. He was not a fool. He almost immediately thought of the information he was currently operating on.

Chapter 641 The Threat from the Security Bureau

Seeing that he suddenly stopped speaking, Justina did not respond immediately, but smiled and waited for a while, then slowly said: "Maybe you have realized the problem, Mr. Fetterman, on the night of the 31st, You disclosed on your blog that your friend Andrea Silva, an astronomer at the Lassi Observatory, revealed to you that on the night of the 31st, "unusual" pictures were taken in the Beacon Fort area, and you showed One of them. You originally planned to release some of the remaining pictures tomorrow morning, hoping to use this to create hype and attract a wave of public attention."

Born Fetterman looked ugly at this time. It was indeed like this, and the "plan" mentioned by Miss Justina at this time was almost all what he revealed to the other party after drinking too much in the bar not long ago...

At that time, it was just to win the admiration of beautiful women...

Damn it!

While he was upset, he also keenly realized that the message he sent this time seemed to be a mistake, and he really encountered something big!

"I just truthfully disclosed some pictures taken by my friends. I think the public has the right to know about these things..." Born Fetterman said while considering his words: "Lassi Observatory is a As a professional observatory, we have not tampered with any picture information. As a practitioner of self-media, I think our public has the right and interest to know what is happening in the world, especially when these things may affect to their lives.”

"I don't think there is anything wrong with my previous behavior..."

Justina secretly sneered in her heart. If she hadn't listened to Mr. Fetterman's extravagant boasts in the bar before, she might have thought that he was a civil rights activist working hard to safeguard public rights.

At this moment, the cell phone next to Born Fetterman rang. He took it out and looked at the caller number, and then picked up the phone.

Opposite him was Sean, the employee on duty in his studio. He said in a rather nervous tone: "Boss,"

"Mr. Fetterman, our traffic support application to the club has just been rejected. Do you want to take a look at the background information?!"

"What's going on? Didn't you pass it before?" Born Fetterman whispered with an ugly face.

"I don't know what's going on. The background message I suddenly received just now said that the review failed. In addition, our account seems to have been restricted. I noticed that the data in the past few hours has been significantly reduced! "

After hearing this, Born Fetterman glanced at the two security personnel sitting beside him, and suddenly understood something in his heart. He took a deep breath: "Okay, I understand, I will do this." Handled..."

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