The giant radio telescope base in the mountains of Qian Province, Huaxia, had lost both power and internet. As the largest telescope base in the world, it naturally had more than one line. But over the past two years, one line after another had been destroyed, and the chaotic situation had prevented repairs. So for the past few months, they had been relying on the last backup line.
Now even that last backup line had been destroyed. A mountainside dozens of kilometers away had collapsed, leaving the severed cables exposed. The ground within dozens of meters had been scorched black, and sparks crackled now and then.
The high-voltage power cable and the fiber-optic internet cable, separated by more than ten meters, were both severed. Half of a pangolin nearly twenty meters long protruded from the ground, its body charred black and smoking. Clearly, the destruction of the lines was its handiwork...
The damaged lines had not left the base completely crippled. The backup battery bank was enough to keep it running normally for twenty-four hours.
"With nobody coming to repair the lines, the equipment only has twenty-four hours of power. I won't be able to watch the Earth's destruction from start to finish through the equipment..."
Slumped in front of the computer, Zhao Nan muttered to himself.
But even if he couldn't monitor the whole thing through the equipment, so what? After twenty-four hours, even in broad daylight, they would be able to clearly see a bright celestial body flying toward Earth across the heavens!
Wouldn't the whole world see it then?
Time trickled by. With less than thirty-eight hours left before the celestial body destroyed Earth, a very unusual craft arrived at the base, a place visited only by armed helicopters that came each day to clear out the