On the plains near the "Bird's Nest" base, the Apollo spacecraft has completed refueling and is ready for flight.
Zhang Fan and Ivanka have already put on their spacesuits.
"Fan-kun, you need to be careful." Yui's eyes were red.
"Yes, take good care of yourself while I'm gone," Zhang Fan said, patting Yui's head to comfort her.
"So slow." Ivanka glanced sideways at the two of them. "It's not like it's a matter of life and death, they're just going out for a while, they'll be back in a week."
"Mind your own business!" Zhang Fan glared at her. "I'm cleaning up your mess, you have no right to speak!"
"Are you sure you don't need me to come along?" Katerina stood to the side, pouting, clearly dissatisfied. "The more people there are, the more effort we'll put in."
"No, your staying here with Yui is the biggest help you can give me." Zhang Fan didn't dare leave Ivanka and Katerina together, in case one of them suddenly had another attack.
"Bob, you need to keep an eye on the house and my two beauties, big and small."
Bob turned away in the hammock, too lazy to pay him any attention.
Zhang Fan, carrying a suitcase, left the "Bird's Nest" base with Ivanka and boarded the "Apollo" spacecraft.
Ivanka sat in the driver's seat, after all, she was more familiar with "Apollo".
“I say, this is completely futile,” Ivanka said as she started the spaceship. “Even going to Phobos won’t solve anything.”
"How do you know it won't work if you don't try?" Zhang Fan fastened the safety buckle on his seat. "What if it works? You know it won't work, but you still came along?"
"I'm doing this to make you give up!" Ivanka had already started the spaceship, and everything around her began to shake. "Apollo" was gradually shaking off Mars' gravity. "It's a deal, once we get back from this trip, you can't blame me anymore, okay?"
"Try to be optimistic. How do you know I can't do it?"
"Tch, anyone can talk big. Want to take a gamble?" Ivanka said with a look of disdain.
"What are we betting on?"
"If you fail, transfer the 'Phoenix' privileges to me when you come back."
"What if I succeed?"
"That's impossible!"
"What if?"
"If you succeed, you can do whatever you want."
“Ivanka, I’m reminding you, as a woman, you should be careful before saying those words.”
"Pshaw! If you actually succeed, I'll accept my loss."
"It's a deal!"
"It's a deal!"
...
Phobos, the "Helios" space station.
Only by being there in person can one truly appreciate the grandeur of the orbital station. After all, it is a product of 10 years of research and development by two countries, ranking among the top three in space exploration capabilities, and incorporating the highest technologies from both nations.
Zhang Fan couldn't help but sigh, "If only they had used these resources to benefit humanity, instead they created this thing."
Ivanka led Zhang Fan into the main control room of the rail station.
"Is this it?" Zhang Fan pointed to something that looked like a memory card on the main computer.
“Yes, this is the chip.” Ivanka pulled the chip out directly. “The orbital station has already launched all the missiles, so this chip is actually useless now.”
"Not necessarily." Zhang Fan took the chip, opened the briefcase he had brought, and inserted the chip into it.
"What is this?" Ivanka was very curious about what the strange box Zhang Fan was carrying was.
"Actually, I don't know what this thing should be called either." Zhang Fan scratched his head.
"You made this yourself, and you don't even know what it's called?" Ivanka was also bewildered by Zhang Fan.
"Well, its proper name should be silicon-based... never mind." Zhang Fan scratched his head again, "Just call it a 'quantum controller'."
"Quantum controller?" Ivanka was still completely baffled.
You should understand 'quantum entanglement,' right?
"I know, but what does that have to do with this?"
"The principles are similar..."
Quantum entanglement is a theory that was proven in the last century. Simply put, it is the phenomenon that occurs when two quantum particles are coupled together and then separated.
No matter how far apart the two separated quanta are, when one quantum is manipulated and its state changes, the other quantum will immediately undergo a corresponding state change.
You might find it amazing, but that's just how amazing this world is.
"Ultimately, the flight trajectory data of the 10 'Helios II' heavy nuclear fusion interplanetary cruise missiles all came from this chip."
"If we can find the quanta that have been coupled with these in the chip, theoretically we can manipulate these quanta and use the phenomenon of quantum entanglement to change the data of missiles thousands of miles away from the inside."
"Don't scare me." Ivanka's eyes widened. "Is this technology that humans can currently master?!"
"I don't know either." Zhang Fan scratched his head again, feeling a headache himself. "Anyway, someone has succeeded before. Who cares? We'll only know if we try."
Zhang Fan quickly completed the search and operation, and Ivanka immediately and swiftly activated the orbital station's long-range radar.
The long-range radar of the "Helios" space station was designed and built for a single function: to monitor the flight trajectory of heavy nuclear fusion missiles after launch.
"How is it?" Zhang Fan was also a little nervous.
“It…it’s deviated.” Ivanka’s eyes widened in horror, as if she had seen a ghost.
"This is all I can do." Zhang Fan let out a breath, his forehead covered in sweat. "There are too few quantum particles available for manipulation. I can only shift the target by a tiny bit."
Ivanka stood there speechless. The slight deviation Zhang Fan mentioned would ultimately result in a difference of thousands of kilometers projected onto Earth.
Based on the current flight trajectory, all 100 Helios nuclear warheads will hit the central Pacific Ocean and detonate in the seawater.
The coastlines around the Pacific Ocean may suffer tsunamis that are one or two meters high, but compared to the extinction of humankind, this loss is negligible.
"Ivanka, we can let Yui and the others know we're safe now." Zhang Fan was very happy. "Let's send the situation here to 'Bird's Nest' and have them forward it to Earth. Ivanka?"
"Ivanka?"
Ivanka has been keeping her head down and not saying a word since the beginning.
"Ouch, that hurts." Ivanka suddenly bent over, pressing her hand to her abdomen, her expression showing great pain. "It hurts so much."
"Ivanka, what's wrong? Ivanka!" This sudden situation left Zhang Fan at a loss.
"Fan, could you go to 'Apollo' and get me some stomach medicine? My stomach problems seem to have flared up again."
"I'll help you across."
"My stomach hurts so much I can't move, it hurts so much."
"Alright, you wait here. Where's the medicine?" Zhang Fan helped Ivanka to sit down beside him.
"I forgot where I put it. Could you help me find it? The first-aid kit should be easy to find."
"good."
Seeing Ivanka in such pain, Zhang Fan hurriedly ran towards "Apollo".
Aside from the central cargo bay, the space available for astronauts on the Apollo spacecraft was actually quite small. Zhang Fan searched high and low, looking everywhere he could, but couldn't find anything resembling a medicine box.
With no other option, Zhang Fan had to go back to the orbital station and ask Ivanka if she remembered where the medicine box was.
"Ivanka?" Back at the orbital station, Zhang Fan saw Ivanka sitting there waiting for him, perfectly fine. "Are you alright?"
"I feel much better after resting for a while."
"That's good. You... um?" Zhang Fan felt that Ivanka's current behavior was a bit off.
"sorry!"
Ivanka suddenly threw herself into Zhang Fan's arms and hugged him tightly.
Huh? Huh? What's going on?
Zhang Fan was completely stunned when he embraced the soft, fragrant woman.
“Fan, I’m sorry. I accidentally broke your ‘quantum controller’…” Ivanka hugged Fan tightly, burying her head in his chest and refusing to let go.
"Is that all? It's nothing, you fell and that's it." Zhang Fan patted Ivanka on the back to comfort her.
Why is she crying?
"You've forgiven me?"
"Forgive me, forgive me, I forgive you!" Zhang Fan thought it was nothing, it wasn't a big deal, why did he have to apologize so profusely?
"You won't blame me for this anymore?"
"No, no!"
"Swear it!"
"Okay, I swear!"
"Hmm," Ivanka responded softly, still not daring to look up. "Fan, there's something else I want to tell you."
"What's up?"
“Just before the ‘quantum controller’ broke, I accidentally changed a tiny bit of data, just a tiny bit,” Ivanka said, pointing to the screen on the remote radar next to her.
The 100 red lines point to countries outside of North America.
? ? ?
!!
Zhang Fan rushed forward and saw that all 100 warheads had resumed their original flight paths, except for the one pointing towards the North American continent, which had been removed.
Zhang Fan immediately picked up the damaged controller from the ground, only to find that the chip on the controller had been shattered into glass shards.
Is this something that could be caused by an accidental fall?
Zhang Fan turned around and glared angrily at Ivanka.
“You said you had forgiven me…” Ivanka knelt on the ground, looking like a lost soul. “You swore it… a man keeps his word…”
"Fine, fine, you're amazing!" Zhang Fan laughed in exasperation, but after calming down, he realized how incredibly stupid he had been.
They say you can't trust the words of the prettiest women, so why don't I learn from that?
“Let’s go back to the Bird’s Nest,” Ivanka said, tugging at Zhang Fan’s sleeve.
"Go back? What do you mean go back?" Zhang Fan said somewhat irritably. "Stay at the orbital station and think of any other options."
“Let’s go back soon.” Ivanka’s face was deathly pale, and she lowered her head even further.
"I just activated the self-destruct mechanism of the orbital station. It will explode in 10 minutes."
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