Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 365 Rumors and Rumors

2034 4 Month 30 Day.

Los Angeles City in southwestern California, Commonwealth of America.

John is a senior manager of a securities company with a good income and owns a villa in the hilltop villa area on the outskirts of the city.

After get off work, he drove home in his own daily speed car.

Although he dislikes the Orientals, he still has to admit that the industrial products made by the Orientals have excellent performance. Although the price is very expensive, they are worth the money.

In their circle, it would be embarrassing to use industrial products produced by the European and American Federation.

Although the Federation has repeatedly advocated support for domestic products, it has had little effect.

Looking at the dilapidated city buildings on the ground and the homeless men in ragged clothes, compared with the Asian cities he has been to, they are far behind.

John sighed, times had changed.

In the European and American Federation, from the government to the big companies, although they don't talk about it, they have actually given up on the development on the earth and shifted their focus to the development of outer space.

Maybe ordinary people don't know it, but as a veteran of the financial industry, he is too aware of the flow of capital.

John didn't express too much emotion, it's none of his business!
His mind was drawn to another thing, he is an amateur astronomer, observing and looking for asteroids in the solar system is his hobby.

In the past two days, he accidentally discovered a strange thing. The Icarus asteroid numbered 1566 deviated from its orbit, and what was even more terrifying was that it came straight to the earth.

For a while, he wondered if his eyes were blurred, or there was something wrong with the astronomical telescope.

For this reason, he specially asked his astronomical telescope to be overhauled today.

He will observe again tonight, let the things that tortured him during this period of time have a conclusion, of course he hopes in the bottom of his heart that if it is true, then he will become famous overnight.

After dinner, while waiting anxiously, night finally fell.

John aimed the lens of the astronomical telescope that had been prepared at the starry sky. About 10 minutes later, a small light spot in the night sky entered his line of sight. Yes, he captured the figure of Icarus again.

After comparing with the coordinates in the star map, John was pleasantly surprised to find that his observation was correct. Icarus was closer to the earth by more than 600 million kilometers compared to last night, and he was still accelerating.

He quickly calculated that according to this acceleration, Icarus will collide head-on with the earth at a speed of 1 kilometers per second in at most one and a half months.

A catastrophe is coming!
And he was the first to discover it!
In fact, John did not know whether it was intentional or unintentional when calculating the trajectory of Icarus, so he calculated it to coincide with the earth.

Because if Icarus keeps accelerating, he should pass the earth, but isn't the effect much worse?

John sorted out the observation data, and released it on the "Today's Hot Spot" channel of the world's largest online social platform "Second World".

John is a high-quality astronomy creator of "Today's Hot Spot" and has a large fan base.

The title: "On June 2034, 6, Earth Terminator: Icarus strikes!" Once the video was released, it immediately attracted the attention of fans.

With data, pictures, and theories, this video immediately caused a sensation, with 1 hits and millions of retweets within an hour.

Four hours later, the news of the coming catastrophe on the earth disappeared and spread rapidly in the "Second World", causing a global shock.

The next morning, "Today's Hot Spot" sent reporters and experts to interview John, and then issued a headline report: "Earth catastrophe, are we ready?"

In this feature article, in addition to quoting John's observation data, some other astronomers' observation data are also quoted, with expert comments.

Finally, it also called on the three major federations to immediately organize forces to destroy Icarus and save the earth.

This report immediately confirmed the news that Icarus was about to attack the earth, which caused great panic among the people.

Because today's people have great distrust of the efficiency of the federations, one and a half months is not enough time for them to hold meetings and discuss them.

This kind of panic spread rapidly under the fuel of the major news media, and there were even riots in the European and American Federations.

At 3:[-] p.m., the Asian Federal Space Administration held a press conference, and Director Wu Tie personally refuted the rumors.

He solemnly announced that it is a fact that Icarus left the original orbit and came to the earth.

But this is the result of the efforts of the Red Star Heavy Industry Group Company under the authorization of the Asian Federation.

This is a great pioneering work in human history, capturing asteroids!

Subsequently, the relevant pictures and videos he released strongly proved this point.

The picture of a human aerospace plane dragging a huge asteroid in the starry sky immediately dispelled the rumors of the catastrophe of the earth.

The red star icon on the aerospace plane clearly shows that this is the product of the world's largest company, Red Star.

And the hundreds of lavender rays of light emerging from behind the asteroid also proved that this is the main product of Red Star Company, the Zhurong electric pusher, which is pushing Icarus forward.

Humans have successfully tamed such a huge celestial body!

While the people of the world were surprised and proud, they were also shocked by the strength of Red Star Company.

The direct consequence is that the stock price of Red Star Company rose by 0.3% within two hours before the market closed, which is very amazing for a big company like Red Star Company.

In Wu Tie's speech, he mentioned the opening ceremony of the space elevator construction held by Red Star Company two months ago. Red Star Company captured Icarus just to serve as a counterweight for the space elevator.

At the time, the news was unremarkable.

Because there have been too many companies wanting to build space elevators in these years, but the end result is that there is nothing but thunder and rain.

Red Star Company has been silent for ten years, and most people are not optimistic about such a huge project as soon as it shows up, thinking it is just a publicity campaign.

But now that they want to capture an asteroid to act as a counterweight for a space elevator, Red Star's "ambition" has become known to all.

All of a sudden, capital from all over the world flocked to Red Star Company.

All of this is the conspiracy of Zhong Cheng and Yang Shuzhen. The second phase of the Nantianmen project is extremely large. If it is to be completed in a short period of time, it must rely on the strength of domestic and international capital.

To make capital optimistic about Red Star Company, it needs to create hot spots, and catching asteroids is the most eye-catching hot spot.

For this reason, as one of the rewards for "delivering express delivery" to Ceres, Zhong Cheng persuaded Wu Tie to cooperate with Red Star Company's star-picking plan, and jointly staged a drama of spreading and refuting rumors.

As for the other protagonist John in this drama, it has nothing to do with them.

Because Zhong Cheng calculated correctly, Icarus left the original orbit and turned to the earth. Such an obvious astronomical event must be discovered by someone.

It's just that it may be John and Tom, or it may be Zhang San and Li Si.

According to the pre-designed script, Wu Tie should hold a press conference on the third day after John sent out the video, so that the news can be more fully brewed.

But I didn't expect that it would cause riots in the Western world the next day, so I had to proceed ahead of schedule.

However, the effect achieved was so good that they were surprised.

Within a week, the stock price of Red Star Company continued to rise, absorbing 10,000+ billion funds.

On the contrary, the stock prices of other space development companies led by Solar System Dynamics and Xingwang have plummeted, and their market value has shrunk sharply.

This was not Zhong Cheng's main purpose, it was a mistake in the auxiliary vehicle.

(End of this chapter)