"Michael, look at this latest satellite image. On this small island, the Chinese are preparing to build something. But from the current perspective, I still can't see what will be built. The scale and investment of this construction are quite large. The Chinese must want to build something very important here."

Daniel Borg, an expert in spy satellite image intelligence analysis in the CIA, pointed to a high-definition image taken by the spy satellite and asked his partner Michael Jon.

On that picture, it can be clearly seen that almost all of them have become a busy construction site on a coastal island in China.

According to conventional principles, the Chinese obviously would not carry out any industrial construction on such a small island. It is twenty or thirty kilometers away from the mainland, and the transportation is not very convenient. Moreover, in terms of industrial production, this island is too small and cannot accommodate many people.

From an economic perspective, a normal entrepreneur will never choose such a place to start his own career, unless the product is extremely special and requires a relatively closed environment.

In addition, another possibility is to build a new military base here.

However, this place does not seem to have much military potential. Its location is not very special and has a strategic role. Its area is only more than three square kilometers in size. In addition, there are no military targets nearby that are worthy of attention from the People's Liberation Army. If the People's Liberation Army really wants to build any military base, it is completely more convenient to build on the nearby continent.

It is precisely because of this that Daniel finds strange that if it is neither an industrial facility nor a military base, then what exactly does the Chinese want to do to build it here with great fanfare?

Michael was analyzing other images. When he heard Daniel say this, he turned his head and enlarged the images on the big screen that confused Daniel and carefully looked at them. Sure enough, on this small island in the East China Sea, there are now large construction machinery everywhere doing their work.

The density of these large-scale machines passing through almost reaches the limit that this island can bear. It can be seen that the projects built on this island are not only large in scale, but also seem to be more anxious about building this project.

"It seems that this project has just started not long ago, and it is still dealing with earthwork and other earthwork operations such as leveling the land," Michael looked through for a while, and then called out some earlier pictures of the island taken by satellites some time ago. He was sure that this place was just an extremely ordinary island a few days ago, and this huge construction work was suddenly started recently.

"Let me see if there is any information about this island project on the Internet." Michael, who is proficient in Chinese, found out the Chinese name of the island from the location information of the island, and quickly entered it to the working computer next to it for information retrieval.

Search engines quickly searched for some information about this island. Michael saw the Chinese engineering information about the under construction of this island from a recent brief report by a Chinese media. "Oh, Daniel, according to the Chinese reports, this is a space exploration and research center invested by the famous Chinese SAL company. They will invest huge sums to build a super radio telescope on this island for the exploration of the universe."

Michael explained to Daniel in English while reading that he knew that Daniel basically couldn't understand Chinese, so he translated this report to Daniel in English.

After listening to Michael's explanation, "Super radio telescope?" Daniel asked in confusion. Seeing that the island almost turned into a large construction site, he always felt something was wrong. "No, Michael, but as far as I know, the largest radio telescope in the world is to build the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, USA, but it does not occupy such a large space. You must know that this island is only 2 or 3 square kilometers. What a large radio telescope you need to build. I think this is really incredible."

After saying that, Daniel was busy on the computer and called out the satellite image of the Arecibo radio telescope. This giant with an antenna diameter of 305 meters. Daniel scaled its size to a consistent comparison with the satellite image of the SAL company's space exploration center. Sure enough, even one-tenth of the latter is less than a tenth of the scale.

The radio telescope is not as big as it wants. Daniel still has some concepts about this thing, so Daniel judged that the Chinese people on this island not only wanted to build a radio telescope and its affiliated research center, but also had to build some other things to create such a large scale.

However, for Daniel and Michael, they could not see any clues from this early earthwork project. They wrote a complete report, reported their discoveries, and requested that the island be listed as a highly suspicious object, allowing the spy satellite to continue to track and shoot it.

In the following time, Michael and Daniel were paying attention to the progress of this island project every day. With the gradual improvement of the infrastructure of this island, Daniel and Michael's follow-up observation finally came to new results.

In the west of the island, it is indeed very similar to the foundation project of a large radio telescope. A huge circular area is flattened. It seems that this is prepared for the radio telescope. Next to this circular area, a steel structure frame has begun to be erected for a building with a large span. It seems that this is a building such as a computing center prepared for the radio telescope.

These all seem normal and are in line with the content reported by the media. However, in the east of the island, the foundation of a large construction site that was leveled makes Daniel and Michael look particularly familiar.

"Michael, do you think this place looks like the foundation of a Lotus Reactor nuclear power plant?" Daniel looked at the satellite pictures, and then called out a Lotus Reactor project now built in mainland China to compare it. The outlines of the two are almost exactly the same.

"Yes, this must be the foundation of the Lotus Reactor Nuclear Power Plant. I thought they would build a wind power project to drive this space exploration center. Who knew that they would build a nuclear power plant? These Chinese people are really rich. Let's take a look. Comparing this foundation area with the Lotus Reactor Nuclear Power Plant they have built, I guess how much power it will have."

While saying that, Michael compared a satellite picture of a 2.4 million kilowatt Lotus Reactor Nuclear Power Plant that had been built on the mainland.

"No way?" Looking at the two pictures almost overlapping, Michael and Daniel couldn't help but take a breath. Judging from the area of ​​this foundation, a nuclear power plant of no less than 2.4 million kilowatts would be built here.

"2.4 million kilowatt nuclear power plant?!" Daniel said to himself in a daze, "My God, what exactly do the Chinese want to do?"

Whether it is Daniel or Michael, it is certain that this is definitely not a cosmic exploration center that is simply mainly based on radio telescopes, because for radio telescopes, such a powerful output power of nuclear power plants cannot be used. Even if the Chinese want to build a large, all-round rotatable mobile radio telescope, there will never be such a huge energy demand.

For the radio telescope itself, it is only used to receive and distinguish electromagnetic signals from the universe, and does not need to transmit any information, so the relevant energy demand is not too great. Even in order to analyze electromagnetic signals from the depths of the universe, a supercomputer center is needed on the island, and such a huge power supply is not needed.

According to Daniel's understanding, even the most powerful supercomputer in the world now has no power demand of more than 30,000 kilowatts.

In other words, if this is a perfect plan, if this is a cosmic exploration center that simply uses radio telescopes to conduct universe research, the maximum demand for electricity is 100,000 kilowatts.

Therefore, if it is really a simple cosmic exploration center, the Chinese would not need to build such a huge nuclear power plant. Moreover, the construction of this nuclear power plant on the island means that it will not output electricity to the outside world and is only used on the island.

What kind of device requires such huge energy? Daniel and Michael saw a strong sense of suspicion from each other's eyes.

"The Chinese are testing electromagnetic weapons?" Daniel and Michael, as military intelligence experts, analyzed that their knowledge was naturally extraordinary. They quickly reached the most likely conclusion from these clues, and the two of them said almost in unison.

If the Chinese were building a secret military base on this island, then the most likely thing for such a huge energy demand is electromagnetic weapons. Only electromagnetic weapons have almost endless energy demand.

"The core soul of SAL is Dr. Duke. According to our information, Dr. Duke has now deeply involved in weapons research and has led the Chinese military industry to obtain many heavyweight results. Michael, would you say that Dr. Duke also made breakthroughs in electromagnetic weapons that led them to start building this secret base for experiments?"

Daniel knew that in the US military's arsenal, research on electromagnetic weapons has achieved considerable results, among which electromagnetic guns and electromagnetic catapults are relatively mature. In principle, there is nothing mysterious about this electromagnetic weapon, and it would not be surprising if China makes breakthroughs in this.

"It's very possible, Daniel, I think we should report this speculation result immediately, let the superiors verify this mysterious base and see what they want to do." Michael nodded in favor of Daniel's guess.

Duke would never have imagined that two analysts who had never left their homes on the other side of the ocean had already come close to the truth of the facts through some clues. Although this truth is still in the proposal, even people like Cai Siqiang don’t know it.
Chapter completed!