The meeting lasted for a full three hours before the agenda of the summit came to an end.
When Jiang Chen announced the end of the meeting, the foreign ministers of various countries, after receiving the documents issued by Celestial Trade, left almost as quickly as possible. For them, the most important thing now was to make a phone call with their leaders, and then send the information in their hands back.
The reporters waiting outside the parliament building were destined to be disappointed. The foreign ministers didn't give them the opportunity to interview at all. After they left, they boarded a helicopter and immediately flew away.
Obviously, the summit did not reach a conclusion to be disclosed to the public.
At least not today.
The reporters outside the Parliament Building put away their cameras and left while cursing. Although they were very reluctant, they had now recognized this fact. They waited for more than three hours in vain.
However, many observant reporters still noticed a hint of abnormality from the faces of the foreign ministers who left.
Their expressions were all very serious.
Or anxious?
The reporters who noticed this were all thinking hard in their minds, trying to dig out valuable news from these leftovers so they could report back to their bosses.
What made the foreign ministers so anxious?
Intuition told them that there was a lot to be done, but even if they racked their brains, they wouldn't know it was all because of the document that Jiang Chen finally sent to the foreign ministers.
It was an astronomical observation report.
After confirming that Gliese 581g had signs of life, Calvin led the astronomical observation team of the Space Department to conduct a carpet search of the airspace outside the Gliese 581 system, and according to Jiang Chen's opinion, the focus of the observation was on the asteroid belt outside the star system.
Soon, they found some extremely terrifying things from those asteroid belts.
On several asteroid belts between Earth and Gliese 581g, an unnaturally formed vacuum belt was observed …
…
Two days had passed since the first round of consultations at the summit, and two days had passed since the document was sent to the UA.
On June 17th, in the conference room of NASA headquarters, a group of bureaucrats from the Capitol gathered. And these bureaucrats were not insignificant. Even the President and the Secretary of Defense personally came here, which made NASA, a small organization, feel flattered.
Even though NASA had gained a lot of attention due to its aerospace program's popularity, there had never been a situation like today where the White House came to visit. Only during the arms race between the United States and the former Soviet Union did NASA receive this honor.
"Do you want a cup of coffee?"
"No need." Hill shook her head with a sullen face, and the chief of staff sitting next to her tactfully remained silent.
Today was the day of the results. Although she could sit in the White House and wait for the news, how could she sit still after hearing such a shocking fact?
At this moment, the door of the conference room was pushed open and Bolden walked in quickly.
The dozens of eyes at the conference table all looked at him. Bolden took a deep breath, threw the documents in his arms on the conference table, and braced himself.
"The results are out."
"What was the result?" Hilary hurriedly asked. At the same time, she kept praying in her heart for that one in ten thousand possibility. However, she knew very well that she was just deceiving herself. The bitter smile on Bolden's face had already explained a lot of problems.
"It basically matches the data of Celestial Trade," Bolden said.
Hill was silent, and the entire conference room was silent.
Originally, the people in the room were still hopeful. After all, with the existing astronomical observation methods, it was impossible to carry out such a detailed star map mapping. So many people even began to wonder if this was false information fabricated by Celestial Trade through special means.
However, the eyes could deceive, but the data could not.
What's more, Celestial Trade wrote the detailed astronomical coordinates of the asteroid belt in the document and handed it to each country for verification.
After NASA researchers received the information, they immediately used the Hubble Space Telescope to observe the coordinate area. Although it was impossible to draw such a clear star map like Celestial Trade, based on multiple sets of data obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA calculated three times and reached the same result.
Regular vacuum belts were observed in many asteroid belts between Earth and Gliese 581g. It was obviously unrealistic to attribute this to the work of nature. There was only one possibility for this phenomenon.
That was, something passed through there.
And the size and speed of that thing were not small.
"What do you think that vacuum belt is most likely to be?" Hill gulped and asked with difficulty.
"It's footprints," Bolden said with a gloomy expression, "The footprints of beasts passing through the snow."
"I think the same as you," Carter said sternly. Carter could feel his tightly clenched palms start to sweat.
He admitted that he was a fan of Star Wars when he was young. His bedroom was also full of posters of "Independence Day" and he even fantasized that he was the pilot who drove a fighter into an alien spacecraft. But he had never thought that one day, he would really have to face off against aliens.
And as the Minister of Defense.
"What do you think our chances of winning are?" Hill looked at Carter and asked.
Carter did not directly answer this question, but said with a bitter smile, "What do you think Iraq's chances of winning against us?"
Hearing that, Hilary also smiled bitterly.
Now that the aircraft carrier of the extraterrestrial civilization had already set off, it was so difficult for them to even build a ship to "go out to sea". As for the final battle? After seeing the horror of the nest, who could muster the courage to face the tide of mutants?
"Compared to defeating them, I'm afraid it's more practical to build a spaceship to escape." Bolden shook his head bitterly and mocked himself, but he didn't expect everyone to look at him.
"This is indeed a good idea."
"Yes, at least we can save the president, just like Air Force 1."
"And we can also bring a lot of people, leaving seeds for the UA and even human civilization."
"…"
Seeing that his colleagues had already begun to discuss how to escape because of his words, Bolden suddenly had a cold sweat and quickly said.
"Do you think Congress will approve this budget? Using taxpayers' money to let the president escape? Those senators are not crazy yet. "
"That's not necessarily true," Hill, who had been silent, suddenly said.
Compared to Bolden, who was born as an astronaut, Hill, who had been in politics for many years, was undoubtedly more sensitive to politics than him. She knew very well who the Capital really served, and she knew very well who she should please the most.
"The members of Congress don't want to die, and the rich people on Wall Street don't want to die either. We don't even have to raise money from Congress," Hill's chief of staff also said.
With a glimmer of hope in her pupils, Hill and her chief of staff spoke in unison.
"We just need to set up a Noah's Ark Fund and allow investors a ticket."
Everyone's eyes lit up.
Yeah!
As long as we can convince those rich people to board the ship, there's no need to worry about not raising funds.
However, at this moment, the door of the conference room was pushed open, and Hill's assistant ran in anxiously.
"What's so urgent?" Although her face was full of anger, Hill still maintained the demeanor of a president and asked in a deep voice.
"People, people are holding signs in front of the Capital, they want you to explain," the assistant said with sweat all over his head.
"Explain what?" Hill frowned.
The assistant did not answer, opened the news page, and handed the phone to Hill.
When she took the phone, Hill already had a faint feeling that something was wrong, but she couldn't tell what it was. However, the moment she saw the news headline, her mood instantly fell to the bottom. Her wrinkles wrinkled because of anger, and she almost cursed out loud.
"Despicable!"
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