238: Chapter 238: A Series of Meteor Showers After the Twin Stars Disintegrated

"My mind is blown!"

"This energy, is it really possible under natural conditions?"

"Could it be a comet impact? No, no, no, that's way too far off; internal explosion? Even less likely!"

"Was it hit from the outside? That doesn't seem right either. Why hit Mars' twin brother and not Mars itself?"

"If it wasn't a natural occurrence, then?"

At this moment, an incredible, hair-raising thought suddenly surfaced in everyone's minds!

Alien civilization!!!

Could it be that in ancient times, there were people, perhaps even a highly intelligent civilization, on Mars' twin planet, and a great war broke out?

Upon thinking of this, countless viewers felt their scalps tingle.

This is definitely science fiction from the ultra-ancient era!

Although the fantasy is beautiful, stunning, and amazing, it is, after all, just a fantasy!!!

National Astronomical Observatory.

Director Wang looked grave and immediately ordered, "Quick, someone use his Formula J to roughly calculate: what level of civilization would be required to destroy the twin planet of Mars?"

Professor Zhang Qinian mentally calculated the answer on the spot, "According to the energy efficiency standards of Formula J, a Type 2 stellar civilization capable of fully controlling the entire energy output of the sun would need to absorb and concentrate the total energy released by the sun over approximately 3 to 4 hours to achieve this level of destruction."

"If it were a Type 3 civilization capable of harnessing the energy of an entire galaxy, then this might only require a momentary energy output from them, or even less. This doesn't even account for potential causal technology or other means of attack that we cannot comprehend."

As the words fell, the remaining researchers gasped, their faces filled with shock and helplessness.

"3 to 4 hours of the sun's total output!"

"A Type 3 civilization in one second!"

"This gap is simply too desperate; this is definitely not the work of human hands!"

Xiaoyu was flustered for a few seconds by the terrifying energy figures and couldn't help but ask again: "Brother, it's an alien civilization, right? If it is an alien civilization, is there any evidence?"

"This evidence, of course, exists!"

Upon hearing this, everyone was instantly stunned.

In Principal Fu's office, everyone looked suspicious, and Ren Xiaoyao blurted out: "Holy crap? There can be evidence for this too?"

In the History Staff Quarters, the four old professors' eyes lit up, and they quickly sat up straight, leaning close to the big screen to listen carefully.

Jiang Zhe looked at Xiaoyu and nodded slightly, "Assuming the solar fission hypothesis is true, according to my speculation, the Solar System should have been visited by an alien visitor with at least a Type 3 energy civilization level several billion years ago. For some reason, they took direct action and shattered the twin planet of Mars in one go."

"There are currently only two pieces of suspected evidence!"

He held up a finger:

"The first piece of evidence is that ring of what should have been a planet next to Mars. Using the Formula A I mentioned earlier, we calculated it; because math doesn't lie, what was calculated wasn't a planet, but the Asteroid Belt itself, full of rocks and debris. It is suspected to be the remains of a celestial body. Since Formula A itself is correct, it indicates that the location of that zone between Mars and Jupiter has a major problem."

His expression gradually turned serious, and he held up another finger, "The second piece of evidence!"

After saying this, he picked up his tablet and brought up high-definition pictures of Mars, filled with dense craters, "It is the traces left on Mars itself!"

He spread out the global map of Mars, and the difference in craters between the southern and northern hemispheres was shocking.

The southern hemisphere was riddled with pits, while the northern hemisphere was very cold and vast!

It was as if a meteor shower had concentrated and crashed madly toward the southern hemisphere a long time ago, leaving behind traces!

All experts and astronomy enthusiasts opened the simulated Mars map, and they all discovered the dense pits, which was intriguing!

"Xiaoyu, look, the southern hemisphere of Mars, such as Hellas Planitia and the Arabia Terra, are covered with dense, overlapping craters, just as if they had been violently swept by bullets in a short period of time."

"The distribution of the ejecta patterns of these southern hemisphere craters, the morphological chains of the secondary craters, and even the shock metamorphism characteristics of the internal minerals, all point to them being formed by a fragment cluster with a relatively simple composition, coming from the same direction in a very short time."

"This is essentially different from the mode of slow, random impacts; it is the fingerprint left by planetary-scale explosion ejecta."

"There is only one explanation for this: in the distant past, the southern hemisphere of Mars suffered a brief and violent meteor storm."

"These meteorites did not fall randomly over billions of years, but were concentrated and smashed in a relatively short time from the same direction—exactly the direction where the twin planet of Mars was located at that time!"

"It's like you standing in front of a bomb, and the bomb explodes right in front of you. Naturally, the bomb fragments after the explosion will cover your chest, face, and legs, while your back will remain relatively intact." (Ps: Because the evidence is too academic and slows down the pacing, everyone just needs to understand this and know it exists; no need to delve deeper.)

Jiang Zhe looked at Xiaoyu's stunned expression, then flipped the 3D Mars on the tablet and switched to the northern hemisphere—the surface was very flat, and the number of crater impacts was sharply reduced, like a vast grassland!

"Xiaoyu, look at its northern hemisphere now; the number of craters is pitifully small, and the terrain is much flatter."

"It's all Mars, so why is the difference in craters so huge?"

Seeing Xiaoyu's stunned expression, Jiang Zhe suddenly grinned.

His finger swiped across the tablet, bringing up another set of crucial data.

"The key lies right here."

"Look at these two sets of data—" The tablet screen showed two spectral analysis charts side by side.

"On the left is the average composition of most of the debris in that Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter—silicates, iron-rich minerals, a specific nickel-iron ratio, etc. This is a standard [rocky planet remains] recipe." He paused for 2.5 seconds, then pointed to the right. "Xiaoyu, look at the right side; this is the main impact residue composition analyzed from the southern hemisphere of Mars—especially from the inside of those densest, youngest craters and their ejecta."

Then he overlapped the core areas of the two spectral charts; the patterns and lines gradually highlighted and overlapped after being superimposed.

The coincidence rate was as high as 99.4%!

Looking at this 99.4% figure, Xiaoyu and countless viewers instantly got goosebumps.

A thought unconsciously surfaced in their minds.

Damn, we are listening to you tell a science fiction story, not asking you to play it for real!!!

Jiang Zhe nodded slightly, his tone becoming increasingly serious,

"Through spectral analysis, they are the same thing."

"The machine gun bullets that bombarded the southern hemisphere of Mars and the shell casings floating outside its orbit have the exact same material!"

"Now, string all the clues together—the directed continuous bombing, the synchronized timing, and this iron-like material match—put them together."

"Xiaoyu, tell me, does this look like someone bombarded the twin brother of Mars, and then the twin brother of Mars instantly burst?"

"After the burst..."

"The remains of Mars' brother crashed madly onto the southern hemisphere of Mars?"