Chapter 747:

The older man nodded. "I think so. Okay, let's wash up and see what dinner means."
They went down to the cold mountain stream to wash the dirt from their hands. "We had a great time today," Li Bad commented. "Although the sun goes out steadily, it is not hot at all. It is cooler than yesterday."
Mark Denning looked up at the sky, and the sun went down towards the horizon. He said: "There must be some volcanic dust in the sky." "The sun is a bit dim, have you noticed?"
Li looked at the glare with broken eyes. "There is no eruption around here. Maybe in Ecuador?"
The father shrugged. He replied slowly: "It may be thousands of miles apart." "Volcanic dust spreads all over the world, just like radioactive dust penetrated into the atmosphere through atomic tests. They said that the huge explosion dust of Krakato volcano was already in the air before the last sinking. It remained in the atmosphere for three years."
When they finished their dinner and the sun cast the last red light on the fast forbidden land, Li Huai withdrew from the expedition broadcast, installed an antenna, inserted a compact atomic battery, and tried to get news from Lima. All he got was static.
He fiddled with the dial for a long time, twisted the antenna, adjusted the wavelength, but static electricity was everywhere. He said to his father: "It's strange, that incident totally disturbed me."
Their official Peruvian guide leaned over. "Could it be her broken battery?"
Li Badi shook his head. "Not this battery," he said. "This is a brand new product, a real keen development. I have checked the wiring. This is some kind of interference that hinders reception. Maybe we are in a blind spot or something."
His father said: "I didn't die yesterday." "Maybe the eruption was radioactive."
Li Huai raised his head. "I will check the Geiger counter, Dad. Something is blocking, something powerful and powerful is interfering with this set." But when he returned, he had to admit that he had found nothing.
After the sun went down, they retired because the temperature in the high thin air of the Andes dropped rapidly.
In other parts of the world, people will not be disturbed when watching their color vision programs. The reception at the lunar base is good, the space platform has no difficulty in making reports, and the broadcast news is sent out as usual. In Lima, there is a bit of stillness, and direct communication with Brazil seems to be partially disrupted, but nothing more.
In the next five days, the Denning Expedition successfully completed the difficult climb of the next mountain range and descended on the high plateau between the two. At the same time, the world began to realize that the dimness of the sky was not a temporary phenomenon.
The weather station pointed out that the past few days have all been several degrees below average. There are reports that farmers are questioning the abnormal drop in night temperature. When astronomers measured the surface heat of the sun, they derived strange differences from previous data.
An astronomer communicated with another astronomer and started an exchange of general suggestions. Soon after, a communication was placed on the desk of the President of the United States. He scanned it and immediately forwarded it to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. The Secretary-General distributed the report among the scientific bureaus of all member states, which in turn led to a meeting of the Security Council. The meeting was held quietly and did not benefit newspaper reporters or listeners.
no doubt. The solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth has decreased. The facts are indisputable. In some places where one day should be recorded, at least 90° under the sun, but only 84° readings can be seen. The measurement results absolutely show that the surface of the sun that humans can see on Earth has darkened.
At first glance, this may not be serious, but as the scientists called on by the Security Council pointed out, as the year passed, it promised terrible things. A difference of five to ten degrees across the earth may mean the destruction of certain crops, which may mean an increase in snow and frost, which may quickly destroy the economy and habitability of many places on the earth.
The President of the Security Council asked: "But what caused the reduction in solar energy?"
Astronomers cannot answer. But they pointed out a factor. The report of the US lunar base is inconsistent with the observations of the earth. Lunar instruments claim that the drought that reaches the only satellite of the earth, the amount of sunlight on the airless surface has not decreased at all.
The reason is somewhere on earth. The Security Council requires a careful scan of the Earth from space platforms and the moon to determine the source of the problem.
Li Bai Danning also failed to find the next interesting valley. The evidence of the Inca highway on the mountain gradually disappeared. There are signs that there are human dwellings, but they are not Incas. They are just a reminder that a group of unknown primitive people used to graze sheep, build makeshift tents, and lift wooden stakes a hundred years ago.
So in the evening, Lee Bad, his father and Gonzalez acted as lawyers again. They are debating what to do next. Mark Denning reasoned that they should go inland according to the story told by the locals. Gonzalez urged them to divert and head north to areas with numerous Inca ruins.
During the past week, broadcast reception was not available. As they walked east from the mountain, the static electricity increased, but there was no news or anyone's voice. When sitting and playing with the antenna, the moon rises above the horizon. Finally, he gave up and closed it.
The discussion was over, and the three fell silent. The Indian guides have returned to their bonfire party, and one of the guides took out a pipe and blew a soft tune.
Li Bai stared at the full moon in silence, wondering if he had the opportunity to walk on the surface of the moon, or if his own future lies in exploring the human past rather than investigating the basis of its future. When he looked at it, he thought he saw a faint light in a bright star that he had never seen before.
He raised his eyes, and sure enough, he saw a tiny white light swinging more and more toward the center of the sky. He pointed this out to his father and Gonzalez. He said: "Too fast to become a celestial body." "Is it one of the space platforms or an artificial satellite?"
The two looked at it curiously. Suddenly, it seemed to become brighter and sharper, and twisted towards them along the way.
"Look!" Li Wu took a breath, but the others had already stood up.
The lights went down suddenly. A yellow flame burst out suddenly, causing the three of them to hide instinctively, and shouted the Indians. The dazzling light kept flashing until they saw something on it. The fire rushed towards the face, but still white light remained.
"This is a parachute!" Li Badi shouted. "This is a rocket or something, braked to a stop above us, and then was dropped by a parachute!"
Under the pale light of the full moon, they saw metal and shiny objects hanging from the white mushrooms of the parachute. When it hit the rocky ground with a soft, sighing whistling sound, it made a hoarse sound. The parachute's clothes fell.
They crossed the dry stones on the valley floor, but Li Badi's long, athletic legs kept others far away. He arrived first.
It is a metal cylinder, about three feet long and one foot in diameter.
Announcing: "This is the nose of the information missile-it fell from the guided missile." "Then-look!" He pointed the beam of the flashlight to its side dramatically.
It reads black heat-resistant paint: "To the Denim Andes Expedition" from the US Air Force Base in California. A missile post guided by the Tolomeus Crater controlled by a lunar base. official. There is no delay in opening.
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For a moment, all three of them were silent in surprise. "From California and the moon base, for us?" Finally, Li Wu took a breath. "But why? What do they want us to do?"
The father frowned. "The only way to find out is to open it and take a look." He knelt down and studied the cylinder carefully. Point your finger to the nose.
"It looks like a crack. Maybe it was unscrewed. Let's lift it up."
It is not as heavy as it looks because, like all rockets and missiles, it is made of a light and strong alloy, which is essential for saving weight lifting costs and fuel reserves. They stood it upright and tried to lift it up. After a little resistance, it slowly unscrewed. Inside, they found rolling documents bearing the seal of the US Air Force.
Take it out and unfold it with an unstable hand. Father is reading on his shoulders.
Gonzalez poked the empty jar impatiently. Finally, he suddenly said: "What does this mean? What do they want?"
Li Huai turned to him. "It's incredible! It's amazing! The gloomy days, the drop in temperature, it's not only here! It's all over the world!"
Soon, he continued to tell the Peruvians what they had just learned. The communication came from the NASA, which was flown directly from California from the moon base, because the exact location of Dennings can only be found from the satellite. It seems that the Denim are the only people who have been scientifically trained in the disturbed locations near the earth. This is also the cause of radio waves being covered in its vicinity. Several planes tried to find their location, but the strange interference between the ether and the atmosphere prevented the establishment of contact. In addition, even under normal conditions, the airflow distribution in the rear of the Andes is not good and is daunting in the airflow.
"In the past week, part of the sunlight and energy that reached the earth was transferred. It bends or focuses in almost the same way as the lens bends the light, and it points in a direction only seven miles away! On the last mountain," Li Huai pointed out.
Gonzalez followed his finger. Excitedly said: "Just being on the mountain is the source of trouble." "And we are the closest to it. They want us to go there and see what it is, stop it, or report back. We found us with a telescope at the moon base And found the center of the problem!"
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