Chapter 40: Strategic-level Weapon
At this moment, the Neutrino Telescope main body is still under tense construction.
It looks like a massive sphere with a diameter of fully 24 meters.
This means it has a height of fully 8 stories. Its cross-sectional area is over 450 square meters, larger than a basketball stadium.
Such a colossal sphere has now been constructed to about 20 meters high, and with just four more meters, it will be capped.
Inside it, hundreds of special welding workers wearing full-body protective suits are concentrating intently on welding one steel plate after another.
This is the main pressure-bearing part of the Telescope main body. It not only has extremely high purity and extremely low pollution to pure water, but also extremely high compressive strength, sufficient to seal fully 50,000 tons of water inside later.
On the steel plates that have been welded, more workers are busy.
They are installing one pipeline after another, cables, sensors, refrigerators, and so on.
Among them, the most important is the photomultiplier tube. It is another core component of the Neutrino Telescope besides pure water.
Besides that are the refrigerators, which are responsible for cooling this pure water to extremely low temperatures, minimizing any internal thermal movement as much as possible.
The vast underground base is a scene of busy activity, but everything is orderly, without the slightest chaos.
Because the Tianji System has already connected to every project team, even every worker.
Every worker clearly knows what they should be doing at this moment, approximately how long it will take, when to rest, eat, and all other such matters.
Just like warriors on the battlefield.
This information is clearly presented before Gu Changshan of Apocalypse Base No. 7, allowing him to clearly know that the construction of the Neutrino Telescope Base has now entered the right track.
All technical difficulties have been resolved. What remains to be done next is merely to maintain the input of resources and manpower; there are no insurmountable obstacles left.
Completing the construction on schedule is already a foreseeable goal.
His gaze shifted to another place, the Qinghu Lake laser interferometry gravitational wave observatory, where he received the same result.
Similarly, based on the domestic vast full industrial category industry chain, under mobilization without regard for cost or input, all obstacles have been completely resolved, and construction progress is steadily advancing.
Meanwhile, the Luo Hong Neutrino Telescope already in operation domestically has been received by a dedicated team.
Domestic matters have been completed, so it’s time to turn to foreign ones.
Five Neutrino Telescopes, three Gravitational Wave Telescopes… they must be incorporated into the observation network, directly connected to the Arctic No. 4 Supercomputer, sharing all observation data in real time.
Only in this way is there hope to collect sufficient data during the short two-minute observation window when the apocalypse arrives and Jiang Yang dies, sending key intelligence to the next life.
Sun Changhe’s information arrived shortly after.
“A press conference will be held in one hour.”
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Jingle jingle……
On the other side of Earth, in a certain core building, Intelligence Center Director Daniel Wilson, who was leisurely crossing his legs and casually flipping through his mobile phone, was startled awake by a series of urgent ringing tones.
“Damn it…”
He muttered, somewhat reluctantly picking up the telephone, and heard a voice full of urgency, even somewhat tense and chaotic: “Daniel, turn on the television, Channel 5, quick!”
“You’d better show me something interesting, or you can go fuck yourself and wait to die!”
Turning on Channel 5, Daniel was stunned for a moment.
A press conference was being live broadcast here. The organizer was… that Eastern nation?
There hadn’t seemed to be much news from there recently.
Looking at the title again, Daniel’s body suddenly shook, and his eyes instantly widened.
“Remote intercontinental ballistic missile test launch? The launch trajectory is…”
Cold sweat instantly beaded on Daniel’s forehead.
He clearly saw the missile launch diagram prominently displayed at the press conference. It showed that this intercontinental missile’s launch trajectory would pass directly over the Euro-American continent, then strike a spot in the high seas of the Atlantic Ocean, with a total range of about 14,000 kilometers.
This, this is fucking insane?
For nuclear weapons, that is, atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs, the most important thing is actually not whether they can be made, but whether there is the ability to deliver them.
No matter how large your hydrogen bomb yield, without delivery means, it can at most only explode on your own territory—who can you intimidate?
So missiles are key. And intercontinental missiles are undoubtedly the pinnacle among missiles, possessing unquestionable strongest deterrent power.
These are real heavy weapons of the nation; every intercontinental missile has strategic-level status that can sway a war situation and influence the world overall!
Correspondingly, every intercontinental missile test launch also carries extremely significant meaning and has clear strategic objectives.
But recently, although the international situation can’t be called relaxed, there doesn’t seem to be anything worth that nation test-firing an intercontinental missile, right?
Especially this intercontinental missile’s launch trajectory…
Directly passing over the US-European continent? Crossing 26 nations?
Those yellow-skinned monkeys have fucking lost their minds?
This is fucking provocation, an insult!
Though it’s passing through at over 1,000 kilometers altitude, merely passing through—but who the fuck can guarantee this thing won’t suddenly drop?
The initiative is in their hands!
No nation would accept such provocation and insult!
Most critically, they even held a press conference, brazenly announcing this news directly to the world without any cover, including launch time, impact point, trajectory, and all other information.
They hadn’t communicated with any other nations beforehand, just announcing it like this!
The phone rang again. He immediately picked up, his voice slightly trembling: “Yes, yes.”
After five consecutive emergency internal meetings, an international joint conference was convened.
Representatives from the 26 nations the missile trajectory passes through, plus some other friendly nations, totaling over 30 nations, attended this meeting.
“This is absolutely unacceptable.
This is a major threat to our national security, a provocation of war, a huge insult to national dignity.
I propose we jointly issue a stern representation and protest to them!”
The resolution was quickly passed. Less than 10 hours after the press conference, a multi-nation signed document compiling warnings and protests was sent over.
Daniel believed that, according to past patterns and his understanding of those yellow-skinned monkeys, they would certainly realize the seriousness of the matter from this, sense the determination of their side, and thus stop this.
Soon, the reply arrived.
Daniel opened the document, staring in disbelief with wide eyes.
“Our side this time is solely for test purposes, to ensure international peace, not targeting any specific nation or force; we suggest your side not be overly sensitive in spirit.”
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