The room was directly across from Zhou Xue's.
After Chen Shouyi finished checking in, he opened the door.
Seeing the long-missed lights come on inside, he couldn't help feeling as if he'd returned to the civilized world.
He sighed wistfully for a while, then put down his luggage.
Though the room was small, it had everything one could need. Besides a television, there was also a desktop computer.
He no longer felt any urgency to go out for lunch. He immediately found the remote and turned on the TV.
But there wasn't the slightest signal.
He felt a little disappointed, though not particularly surprised.
Whether satellite television or cable television, both required satellite signals. The former received them through a satellite dish, while the latter relied on ground stations to tune the satellite signal into channels, then send it out through cables.
Both depended on satellites.
And now that every satellite had gone offline, it was only natural that the television wouldn't work.
Next, he turned on the computer.
After waiting several dozen seconds, the startup screen appeared. Seeing the network icon, Chen Shouyi finally breathed a sigh of relief. At least the computers here could still access the internet.
The desktop was connected by fiber-optic cable, which transmitted signals as light.
Although light, like radio waves and radar waves, was a form of electromagnetic wave, its wavelength was far shorter than those of long waves like radio waves and radar waves, and the energy it carried was much higher.
He quickly opened a news website:
"National President delivers important speech during visit to the Academy of Sciences: Science is a practical method for understanding the world. No matter how the situation changes in the future, science will never become obsolete. I hope all researchers will prepare for both possibilities,