Obviously, the name of the 105 Institute comes from the 105 celestial bodies of the river level that have disappeared abnormally. But Zhao Lan and all the staff of the 105 Institute know that if there is no accident, the number will definitely continue to rise. As for what it means and what it represents to the earth, it is just as written in the top secret information, and no one knows it.

After all, these things are too far away from the earth. Even the nearest disappearing star is more than 8 billion light-years away from the earth. But science is to have this forward-looking nature. Before it approaches the earth, scientists must understand all this clearly. If it waits for it to come to the near to the earth before researching it, it will be too late.

The 105 Institute was built at a distance of 2 million kilometers from the earth, and it revolves around the sun in the same period as the earth. In this way, it will always be on the back of the earth and will never be disturbed by the sun. It can generally be regarded as a medium-sized space research base, but it is still expanding. Various observation and research equipment are constantly transporting from the Earth and the Moon bases. When it is finally built, it will become the largest space research base built by human civilization.

After all, unknown means progress in a certain aspect. For the development of science and technology, the most terrible thing is not that you cannot find the answer to the question, but that you cannot find where the question is. The bigger the question, the more you can get after it is solved. The disappearance of the astral anomaly is a big question. The human civilization and scientific community hopes to solve this question and give birth to some physical theorems again. If the basic theorems can be developed in a leap forward, it would be even better.

Zhao Lan and a group of scientific elites mobilized from various places began to explore this issue. This may be a very complex issue in the field. Therefore, the Institute of 105 has high authority in this regard. If scientists or departments in any field need cooperation or help, they often only need to send a letter to the Central Academy of Sciences. The organization department of the Central Academy of Sciences will forward the letter to the corresponding scientific research department. The research department will immediately mobilize forces to answer the questions of the Institute of 105.

However, the initial stage of the research is not so complicated. In fact, Zhao Lan and her colleagues are more about finding and observing distant celestial bodies in the celestial sphere, seeing which celestial anomalies have disappeared, and then exploring the common characteristics and possible internal connections between the celestial bodies that have disappeared. There is no breakthrough in theoretical aspects yet.

Just as Zhao Lan thought at the beginning, the number of abnormally disappearing celestial bodies continued to increase. Under the observations of the 105 Institute and the reports of some other observation bases, this number has increased from 105 to 876, a total of more than eight times. All this only happened in less than a month.

Zhao Lan vaguely felt that the speed of the abnormal disappearance of the star body was accelerating, and it was constantly approaching the earth. So far, the closest abnormal disappearance celestial body from the earth has only a distance of less than 7 billion light years.

Zhao Lan and her colleagues still don’t know what this means. When Zhao Lan looked up at the starry sky, Zhao Lan even felt a huge monster appearing in the depths of the endless universe. This huge monster is starting to devour the universe that exists from the edge, and is getting closer and closer to the earth, and will eventually swallow the earth...

In addition to scientists who are interested in this matter, the abnormal disappearance of astral bodies has not had any impact on the world of ordinary people. Because those astral bodies cannot be observed by the naked eye, the disappearance of those astral bodies will not be noticed by them. However, Zhao Lan always couldn't help but have such a terrible scene in his heart: the stars in the sky in the night sky on Earth began to disappear one after another. In the end, the night sky on Earth turned into darkness. There was no star, and there was no star...

Zhao Lan even couldn't sleep all night because of these terrible scenes. Zhao Lan could not imagine how terrible the night sky without any stars would be, although such scenes would also appear on rainy days, but that was different from now. Even on rainy days, Zhao Lan would know that the stars did not disappear, but hid behind the clouds. And now, those celestial bodies are truly disappearing...

In the night sky of the earth, the darkest star that the naked eye can detect is the sixth-class star. The entire earth, including the southern hemisphere and the northern hemisphere, can see no more than 10,000 stars. Among these less than 10,000 stars, most of the distance between the earth is not more than 10,000 light-years. The farthest celestial body that the naked eye can see is the Andromeda Galaxy, and the distance between Andromeda Galaxy and Earth is about 2.5 million light-years.

Compared with the 2.5 million light-years, the number of seven billion light-years is very small, but Zhao Lan knows that as long as the stars continue to disappear and the distance between them continues to narrow, one day, Andromeda galaxies will disappear, and those stars that are only a few thousand or even hundreds of light-years away from the earth will disappear...

Where did the disappearing star body go? Zhao Lan doesn’t know. Will the earth disappear? Will the earth disappear with it? Will humans disappear with it? Zhao Lan doesn’t know.

Zhao Lan's emotions were always a little low, and the worries in her heart were always circling. Zhao Lan even began to be afraid that the Dawn Institute was actually not dawn because it was on the back of the earth. However, researchers, including Zhao Lan, were still accustomed to arranging work according to the work and rest time on the earth. They were still accustomed to calling six o'clock every morning the day was dawn because they had to start working. If nothing unexpected happens, once they started working, they would always notice that the number of abnormally disappeared objects began to increase to a greater or lesser extent. Yes, there were at least a dozen, and there were always new disappearance reports submitted every day.

Every day when we get off work, researchers in the institute gather together to hold regular meetings to discuss the news and new ideas they have gained during this day. However, as of now, no idea that can reasonably explain this matter has been proposed.

However, there is a consensus that has been accepted by all researchers, and everyone believes that this inference should be reasonable and in line with the truth.

This inference is that the phenomenon of abnormal disappearance of astral body should have nothing to do with the astral body itself. This inference sounds strange and very contrary to common sense, but it has firm logical reasoning as support.

It is obvious that if these abnormal disappearances of celestial bodies are caused by the celestial bodies themselves, based on the data of distance and the time required for light signal transmission, they must meet the "one-to-one relationship between the time when the celestial bodies disappears and the distance to the earth", that is, the celestial bodies 8 billion light years away from the earth will disappear eight billion years ago, and the celestial bodies 6 billion light years away from the earth will disappear six billion years ago. They must strictly meet this condition, and the celestial bodies observed on the earth can gather in these short months as they are now.

And this is undoubtedly impossible. After all, those disappearing celestial bodies are not a small number, they are hundreds, and nearly a thousand celestial bodies have abnormal disappearances. If only two celestial bodies seem to disappear at the same time on the earth, it can be explained by coincidence, but nearly a thousand celestial bodies strictly follow this rule, and it will not be explained by coincidence.

That is why the staff of the 105 Institute made this inference, that is, the abnormal disappearance of astral bodies actually has nothing to do with the celestial bodies themselves. Then we can draw the next inference that the celestial bodies that seem to "disappear" have not actually disappeared, and they still exist well in this universe, but for some special reasons, they cannot be seen from the earth.

This inference was widely accepted by researchers, so the researchers' research direction focused on finding reasons that may lead to such phenomena other than the causes of the astral body itself.

The theory of dust cloud obstruction believes that the solar system is moving into a interstellar dust belt at this moment. The dense interstellar dust cloud blocks the starlight illuminating the earth from all directions, which leads to the disappearance of the star body. This inference meets the above conditions, but it also has fatal loopholes that are unexplained. If all the above stars are to be blocked, the dust cloud must be very large and heavy, and then it will definitely be observed by humans. However, humans have not noticed the existence of the solar system around it.

Any interstellar dust cloud of a certain scale. Moreover, celestial abnormalities have appeared densely in the past few months. This phenomenon has never been seen in the past. If the dust cloud cover is used to explain this phenomenon, it is obvious that the solar system has not entered this dust cloud a few months ago. Did the solar system move to the inside of this dust cloud in just a few months, so that so many starlights of the stars are blocked?

Gravitational lenses are also facing the threat of their own loopholes. Although it can explain the abnormal disappearance of one or several stars, this phenomenon occurs in all directions of the universe. Are there so many strong gravitational sources appearing at the same time in so many different directions of the universe? This is too coincidental. (To be continued...)
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