Chapter 19 Chapter 19 Ma Sitong really regrets not being hanged by everyone sooner

Capitals and important cities of the old and new continents, as well as remote towns, await in terror.Newspapers have sent the news all over the world, and the time corresponding to midnight on Mount Kilimanjaro at different longitudes and 35° east longitude can be easily calculated.The sun moves one degree every four minutes, and the following are the corresponding times in major cities: Example: Paris……………9:40pm Petersburg………11:31pm London………9:30pm Rome………………10:2pm Ten minutes Madrid ... 9:15 p.m. Berlin ... 11:20 p.m. Constantinople ... 11:26 p.m. Calcutta ... 3:04 a.m. Minutes in Nanking... 5:05 a.m. Twelve hours after the sun crosses the Kilimanjaro meridian, Baltimore time is 5:24 p.m.

At this moment, there is no need to repeat the torment and pain that people are suffering.Even the decadents, the greatest writers of our time, have trouble describing them. Yes, Baltimore residents are not in danger of being swept away by the ocean's furious tide!Yes, they would see the Hisapeake Bay emptied of water and become Cape Hatra's mountains towering over the dry Atlantic.But will the city be knocked down, with houses crumbling and streets sinking into an abyss of cracked ground?Such fears are inevitable, both for the city and for the rest of the planet. On that fateful night, everyone was terrified and out of their wits.The only exception was that of the engineer Algird Pierre, who was too short of time to let the astonishing discoveries of his final calculations be known.He went to one of the most exclusive bars in the city, ordered a glass of champagne, and toasted the eternal health of the old world.

The time corresponding to midnight on Kilimanjaro was five twenty-four in Baltimore.This moment has passed. Baltimore... nothing happened! London, Paris, Rome, Constantinople, Berlin... nothing happened, not the slightest vibration. John Milne observed the seismometers he had installed at the Takeshima Coal Mine and found no abnormal movements in the Earth's crust. Nor did Baltimore detect any unusual movement in the Earth's crust.Also, the sky was overcast and night had fallen, making it impossible to see if the arrangement of the stars had changed.If there is a change, it means that the axis of the earth has changed.

Maston spent the night in a retreat known only to Mrs. Evangelina Scobie.What a night it was!The anxious gunner was almost insane, he was restless, like pins and needles!He lived like a year, and when he really thought about it, the next morning, he could see that the curve of the sun's movement had changed-a solid proof of the success of the experiment. On the morning of September 23, he failed to see the change.On this day, in all regions of the earth, the sun seems to be rising as usual on the eastern horizon. European representatives gathered on the balcony of the hotel and moved extremely sophisticated instruments to observe whether the sun was still drawing a curve precisely on the equatorial plane.

Nothing changed.A few minutes after the sun has risen, the radiant disk is habitually tilted toward the southern hemisphere. The operation of the sun is still the same. Major Tang Lan and his colleagues cheered enthusiastically towards the sun, giving him a "start" as they often say in the theater.At this moment, the weather is clear and sunny, and the horizon clearly appears from the night fog.The scene is so spectacular, and no great actor has ever stepped onto such a beautiful stage and faced such a fascinated audience. "The sun is where astronomy marks it!" exclaimed Eric Baldnak.

"It's the bearing calibrated by our original astronomy," Boris Karkov pointed out. "The dream of those madmen to destroy it has gone bankrupt!" "They spend money, lose their face, and go crazy!" Jacques Townsend seemed to be speaking for the whole of the Netherlands. "The North Pole will always be covered under ice!" Professor Jane Hallard also justified. "Cheers to the sun!" Major Tang Lan shouted, "It is still the same, meeting the needs of the world!" "Ulla!...Ulla!..." The representatives of ancient Europe cheered in unison.

Dean Tudrink, who has not yet spoken, offered a rather judgmental insight: "Maybe they didn't launch?" "Didn't fire?" cried the major. "I dare say they did, and not once, but twice!" Maston and Mrs. Evangelina Scobie are also considering the above issues.The development of the situation made scholars and ordinary people think of coming together. This is a question that Algid Pierre has repeatedly thought about.He added: "It doesn't matter if they launch or not! The point is that the Earth hasn't stopped spinning on its old axis, and it's still spinning."

People don't know what's going on on Kilimanjaro.But, before the end of the day, the questions all of humanity have asked have been answered. The U.S. Consul in Zanzibar, Richard Wood Trust, sent a telegram to China. The telegram is as follows: To Secretary of State John S. Wright's launcher dug in the southern foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, the launch took place at midnight yesterday.Projectiles whizzed by, terrified.The province was devastated by the storm, which lifted the sea as far as the Mozambique Channel; numerous boats were damaged and lifted onto the beach, cities and villages were destroyed.Everything else is fine.

Richard Wood Trust Zanzibar at 7:27 am on September 23rd Yes, all is well.Everything remained the same except for parts of Vamase that were destroyed by the blast and the shipwreck due to shifting air.Wasn't it also the case when the famous Columbian cannon was fired towards the moon?Wouldn't the tremors caused in Florida be felt within a radius of a hundred nautical miles?However, this time the effect was increased a hundredfold. In any case, the telegram told the inhabitants of the old and new continents two things: 1. Giant cannons were manufactured on the mountainside of Mount Kilimanjaro.

2. The launch was carried out at the scheduled time. As a result, the whole world was overjoyed, cheering and laughing. Barbicane's attempt failed miserably!Ma Sitong's formula is only worthy of being thrown into the wastebasket!The Arctic Experiment Association can only declare bankruptcy!Ah, that's ridiculous. Could it be that the secretary of the Gunners Club made a mistake? "I think I'm probably in love with the wrong man!" thought Mrs. Avengerina Scobie. Among all the parties involved, Ma Sitong was the most embarrassed.Seeing that the earth had not changed at all, and was going on as usual, he had consoled himself with the hope that some accident had delayed the experiments of Barbicane and Nicole.

However, Zanzibar sent a telegram, and he had to admit that the experiment had failed. Failed, those equations, formulas!He had thought it would be a success.Is it not enough for a cannon 600 meters long and 27 meters wide to use 2,000 tons of Mery-Merorit explosives as the propelling force to shoot out 180 million kilograms of objects with an initial velocity of 2,800 kilometers? to shift the poles?No, this is not acceptable! But it is true. Ma Sitong was tortured by extreme fanaticism, and claimed that he was leaving the shelter.Mrs. Evangelina Scobie could not stop him.The danger was over, and his life had nothing to worry about.It's just that people can't help making fun of the unfortunate calculator, ridiculing him, and making jokes.She didn't want him to suffer this. More seriously, how would his colleagues at the Gunners Club treat him?They don't blame the secretary for failing, do they?The failure made them lose face, and shouldn't the full responsibility for the failure be borne by the person in charge of the calculation? Ma Sitong couldn't listen to anything.Mrs. Evangelina Scobie ignored her pleas and tears, and emerged from her hiding-place on the streets of Baltimore.He was recognized.Those whose property and lives had been threatened, who had been terrified by his silence, were now ready to mock him. Listen to those American urchins, they are more powerful than the clever and naughty children on the streets of Paris! "Oh, my poor shaft corrector!" "Hey, to hell with it, bad watchmaker!" "Hmph, watch-repairing trash!" The Secretary of the Gunners Club was scolded so badly that he had to go back to the New Garden Residence.Mrs. Avengerina Scobie offered him all her tenderness, and it was of no use to him.It seems that Ma Sitong is going to follow in the footsteps of Niobe.His cannon exerted only a little more force on the earth than Saint-Jean's firecrackers! After a false alarm, the world returned to normal, and the plan of the Arctic Experiment Association was gradually forgotten. During these fifteen days, neither Director Barbicane nor Captain Nicole heard from him.Had they been robbed and killed at Wamasse?The biggest burlesque of our time cost them their lives? No! After the loud explosion, both of them fell to the ground, and the sultan, ministers and thousands of natives were also disgraced.Then they climbed up, safe and sound. "Did the experiment succeed?" Barry asked, rubbing his shoulders. "Have you any doubts?" "I...doubt...but when will I know?" "In a few days," replied Director Barbicane. Did he know the experiment had failed? ... probably know.But facing King Wamasai, he might not want to admit it. Forty-eight hours later, the two gunners bid farewell to Bari-Bari.They paid a large sum to compensate for the disasters caused on the land of the kingdom.The money went into the sultan's private treasury, but his subjects received not a single dollar.Therefore, His Majesty has no reason to regret this lucrative business. The two colleagues came to Zanzibar with ten foremen and boarded a ship that was about to sail to Suez.From there, they arrived in Marseilles on the cruise ship "Maurice" of the French shipping company under a false name, transferred to the Paris-Lyon-Marseille train to Paris, and then took the west train to Le Havre safely.Finally, take the passenger ship "Bacaugne", cross the Atlantic Ocean, and arrive in America. It took twenty-three days to arrive in New York, USA from Wammase. At 3:00 p.m. on October 15th, the two of them knocked on the door of Xinyuan Residence....A moment later, they came before Mrs. Avengerina Scobie and Ma Sitong.