Chapter 587 The Disappearing Fleet
After the first round of consultations between China and the United States ended, formal comprehensive talks will soon begin two days later, including representatives from the EU and the African Union. The Latin American Federation was late but could only watch without a say. The relationship between most Latin American countries and the United States is very strange. On the one hand, they rely heavily on the United States economically, but on the other hand, they have a political dissatisfaction with the United States.
Among them, especially the Caribbean countries, Cuba and Venezuela have always been incompatible with the United States, but they have to comply with the United States economically. This has led to the Latin American consortium formed by Central and South America and other countries, which hates and loves the United States. This time, the United States left the Latin American Federation to talk to China alone, which has added a lot of disgust to the United States.
The end of the first round of consultations between China and the United States means that the two countries may reach a private reconciliation, because at the subsequent press conference, the heads of the two countries seemed extremely friendly, and Shen Jiatai and Michel even took pictures with their shoulders. Afterwards, experts also analyzed that the so-called taking pictures with their shoulders was simply Michel's own initiative. Shen Jiatai was passively dealing with it, and the expression on his face was a little amused and irritated.
In fact, as long as you know US President Michelle, you will know that it must be the cowboy president again, otherwise no head of state would do such a thing in public. Some even harshly said that since Michelle became president, those who specialize in making a living with President Ps's embarrassing photos have no way out, because Michelle did too many embarrassing things, so there is enough materials without using Ps.
Regardless of the truth, this photo of the two major powers' heads crossing their shoulders quickly became a hot topic of online news. Almost most newspapers around the world have adopted this historical photo as the front page headline. Everyone is discussing happily or worriedly how China and the United States will further cooperate.
In the past 100 years, the two countries have cooperated during the World War, competition during the Cold War, and even the war crisis in the 1980s, but in the end they chose to live in peace. Now it seems that the two old enemies are going further, which is also an extremely amazing event in human history.
The EU, the African Union and the Latin American Federation are extremely difficult to do. Once the top two bosses in the world come together, and with a large group of younger brothers under their respective commands, they can completely throw the EU and other representatives aside. Once the two major powers with absolute advantages are determined to cooperate, they can almost crush any alliance that dares to confront them. Even if they tie up the EU, the African Union and the Latin American Federation, it will be useless.
But just as diplomats representing several major alliances frequently went out to inquire about news and held various social banquets frequently, another amazing news appeared. The emergence of this news even overshadowed the possible alliance between the Han Empire and the United States, making everyone stunned.
The incident happened quite dramatic. Dr. Sherman, one of the representatives of the EU, worked hard to get an invitation to attend the banquet hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Han Empire. The participants not only included several Chinese cabinet members, but also Enrique, the director of the US representative, attended. This was very helpful for Sherman to figure out the bottom line of cooperation between China and the United States, so he disguised himself as the medical expert on the invitation. Fortunately, he had a medical degree, so it would not be a mistake.
The banquet was self-service, and the guests gathered together in groups of three or three, talking softly about political or financial topics. Of course, most people still kept their hearts and cared about the group of people in the center of the venue. Among the people were Foreign Minister Han Shixi, Defense Minister Lu Jingguo, Deputy Director of the Royal Bureau of Investigation Tian Liye, as well as the US F-Prison Director Enrique and His Excellency the Secretary of State.
Dr. Sherman had a badge that did not belong to him on his chest, which was exchanged for an invitation letter. Without the badge, he could not enter the venue. He walked along the edge of the hall as if nothing had happened, used the scattered crowd to cover his sight, and quietly approached the group of people in the center. Unfortunately, due to the protection of agents from both China and the United States on the scene, he could not have approached a position that was sufficient to eavesdrop on his entire eavesdropping.
But this was not a problem for Dr. Sherman. He walked behind a tall indoor floor-to-ceiling bonsai, picked up a magazine and rolled it into a circle, and then pointed the larger opening at the group of people chatting in the center, so that he could vaguely hear some words. With his ability to master five languages, he actually heard some keywords and guessed some conversations.
Originally, Dr. Sherman would not have been discovered because the bonsai is very high and has an angle with the decorative cylinder on the side, which just blocks his body behind. He can't see him without going around. But he heard a few words that made him feel terrible, "fleet", "disappearance", "suspense", etc. Because he couldn't hear clearly, Sherman unconsciously leaned forward, but unexpectedly the pot of the plant was just a pot instead of the root-like one in the wild, and he actually overwhelmed a row of big leaves.
As soon as the potted leaves were overwhelmed, the agents immediately reacted, and Dr. Sherman was caught without any suspense. He was taken to the center of the hall as he wished. Enrique quickly recognized the representative and asked jokingly: "Dr. Sherman? Oh my God, I didn't expect you to start the vocational agent."
Tian Liye took the badge handed over by his subordinates and said, "John Lee, Ph.D. It seems that this guest is generous and actually gave you his invitation letter. Should I call you Dr. Sherman or Dr. Lee?"
Sherman was just captured and did not suffer any hardship. He said angrily: "You have to suffer hardships in doing this. You should share any news with everyone. If what I expected is not bad, the fleet must have moved the location. You can't find it now, right?"
Han Shixi looked at each other with the Secretary of State and asked with interest: "Did you hear it just now? You can say any suggestions. If you can't say it, I can only treat you as a spy."
Sherman said with an unhappy beard: "I am a diplomat, I have immunity, you can't treat me as a spy."
Enrique jokingly said again: "What diplomats, I only know that we caught a spy named John Lee today."
Sherman realized the mistake he made and hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, I just heard some of the words you said intermittently. I don't know the specific situation. Can you tell me in detail?"
This time, Secretary of State John took the initiative to explain. Anyway, the news will be told to other representatives sooner or later: "The fleet near Saturn's halo is gone, the noao Observatory monitors every half an hour, and the Tibetan Observatory on the Empire is once every 25 minutes. We have not found any signs of movement, as if that fleet never existed."
Sherman actually said with great certainty: "I think they were passing by the solar system. The technology level on our earth is too low to arouse their interest at all."
"What is the reason for you to make such a conclusion?" Han Shixi thought Sherman was talking nonsense, purely for getting out.
Sherman smiled for the first time after being arrested and said slowly: "I have scientific evidence to say this. According to my guess, the fleet must have made a long jump before entering the solar system. Their hull has accumulated a lot of static electricity, so they have to stay in Saturn's gravitational field to release static electricity, otherwise excessive accumulation of static electricity will cause the crew to be burned into coke."
"There is another point. They must have sent a large number of collection ships to collect resources from the asteroids of Saturn's halo. When their resources are collected and the static electricity is almost released, they will naturally continue to rush. When they come to Earth, they will not get any useful supplements. We are still using oil energy, which is useless to them. It is better to wait until the Earth has advanced scientific and technological achievements before harvesting."
These speculations are also a mainstream view in the scientific community, especially nuclear physicists, who support this view. The Empire and the United States have experts in this field, so they naturally understand it. Sherman's statement represents the views of some scientists, but some people believe that alien technology is likely to be different from humans' ideas, and it is difficult to say whether it needs to be discharged.
However, the collection of resources is barely valid. There are many easy-to-collect minerals on the asteroids, and even the technology of aliens can directly drag the asteroid away and decompose it. There is no technical problem at all. This is of certain reference value to the governments of the two countries.
After Dr. Sherman was released, he quickly told the EU representative this amazing news. He also used the relationship between the European Space Agency to get the Hubble telescope photos within 2 hours. After comparing it with the previous photos, he found that the fleet had indeed disappeared without a trace!
The news soon spread like wildfire, and major media around the world reported that most media used Dr. Sherman's statement to fool the people. However, some people with insight secretly worried that the solar system is so large that the fleet would not be able to hide behind any planet. However, not seeing it does not mean that the enemy does not exist. This state of relaxing vigilance is even more worrying.
The second round of Sino-US consultations has not been held for a long time. Many people think that there is no need for the two countries to cooperate anymore. Since the aliens have left, it is better to go back to their own families and prepare for them. Maybe one day the two countries will start to fight each other again and accuse each other of causing friction.
But the heads of the two countries are not so stupid. The alien fleet is just unable to find it now. Who knows where they are hiding in. It feels so bad that they cannot see the enemy, just like a poisonous snake staring at you in the shadow, like a ray of light on your back and a thorn in your throat.
The agreement reached in the first round of consultations was still implemented as usual, but the second round of consultations was delayed indefinitely. Many people thought that there might never be a time to start again. The facts proved that they were too simple. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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