On the fourth day of his vacation on the island, Jiang Chen ended his seven-day holiday early and returned to Koro Island by helicopter. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

It was all because of an email that temporarily changed his vacation schedule......

On the evening of April 4th.

A pitch-black helicopter whistled its propellers as it approached the heavily guarded island at the equator and descended in the night towards the tarmac with flashing green lights.

Before he could stop on the tarmac, Jiang Chen, who was dressed in civilian clothes, jumped on the tarmac and walked towards Kerrwin, who had been waiting here for a long time.

This is the original site of the Space Launch Center, which was renamed the Star Ring Ground Command Center after the establishment of the Ministry of Space, as the headquarters of the Ministry of Space with the most extensive business involved in the Star Ring trade.

Walking side by side on the way to the inside of the command center, Kerryn walked beside Jiang Chen and said with a serious expression.

"The night before yesterday, the astronomical observation team of our Mars colonization program made optical observations of the flight route to Mars while doing astronomical data analysis, and then discovered the number C1201 channel. It's unbelievable......"

"Is the news blocked?" Jiang Chen asked without stopping.

"It's blocked. Kerwin said seriously.

Jiang Chen nodded, "The secret level is listed as S-level, and the relevant personnel will first aggrigate them and temporarily isolate them." ”

Kirwin took a deep breath and nodded, "Understood." ”

The Mars Colonization Project Team, as the name suggests, was established to colonize Mars, aiming to solve all the difficulties that may arise in life from the departure of the colony ship to the landing of the colonists on Mars. The Eden Project on the apocalyptic side can be used as a reference, but other troubles are not small, even if the technology of the apocalypse is absorbed, many places must be designed by modern scientific researchers.

In the post-apocalyptic timeline, due to various political and diplomatic reasons, until before the war, no one in the three camps succeeded in building a colony ship to Mars, or achieving a large-scale breakthrough in space activities.

According to Lin Ling, there have indeed been colonies of the three camps of CCCP, NATO, and PAC on Mars, but they are basically scientific research in nature, and the scale is naturally quite limited. Due to the inability to achieve ecological cycles, the Earth's space elevator was destroyed, and the three colonies that depended on the supply of Earth's materials were forced to be abandoned.

It is not difficult to launch a spacecraft on Mars, NASA did it a long time ago. But building a colony that can maintain a stable exchange of goods with Earth, rather than making a trip to Mars a one-way ticket, is more than just launching a spacecraft.

Mars and the Earth have always maintained relative motion, with distances varying between 5,500 and 40,000 kilometers, ensuring a stable route from the Earth to Mars is the key to realizing the Mars colonization plan. This work was completed by the astronomical observation team in the project team.

Their daily work is to confirm whether there are meteorites, asteroids and other obstacles in the shipping route through optical and spectroscopic observation methods through the shipping route calculated by quantum computers. However, while observing the C1201 channel, they discovered something similar to a UFO.

The two stopped in front of an aluminum alloy door with the symbol of the Martian colonization project, and Kerwin took out the graphene card in his hand and swiped it on the card reader at the door.

As soon as the door opened, Kirwin walked briskly to the holographic screen directly in front of him, and the project leader who was sitting in the position immediately gave up his seat. I saw Kerrwin reach out and count the dots on the operation interface, then reached out and patted the back of the front staff chair, and ordered, "Aim the Ring 1 telescope at the channel number C1201." ”

"Yes. The staff nodded, crackling and tapping on the trackpad.

The astronomical telescope far away in Star Ring City swung the angle slightly, and the lens began to zoom.

Soon Jiang Chen saw that a pitch-black shadow appeared in the center of the holographic screen. The shape of the black shadow resembled a regular sphere, and the space around it was twisted and folded like a wave of air, exuding an ominous aura.

The pupils contracted slightly, and Jiang Chen's heart was raised to his throat in an instant.

"Through elemental spectral analysis, the target titanium content is more than 61%," Without noticing the change in Jiang Chen's expression, Kerwin called up another spectral map full of orange-red, and explained to Jiang Chen the parameters on the map.

When he heard this, Jiang Chen slowly breathed a sigh of relief, and his clenched fists also relaxed.

It's not certain if a biological civilization is armed with metal, but at least one thing is certain, since the tech tree is crooked to living things, the carbon content must be more than 50 percent, right?

Stabilizing his mood slightly, Jiang Chen raised his chin at the black sphere on the holographic screen.

"What's that?"

"I don't know," Kirwin's expression was indescribably strange, as if excited and suspicious, "we suspect it might be a UFO...... From another civilization. ”

Other civilizations?

Jiang Chen was stunned for a moment, and then frowned.

"Amplify it. ”

"Can't do it. Kerrwin shook his head.

"Can't do it?" Jiang Chen was stunned.

Kerrwin didn't explain, but chose to cover it up directly to Jiang Chen, patted the chair of the staff member sitting in front of him, and motioned him to adjust the focus of the telescope and pull the UFO in the lens in.

The next magical scene made Jiang Chen's eyes widen.

As the lens pulls in, the UFO in the center of the lens appears to tear the image. When the distance broke through a certain boundary, I saw that the pitch-black UFO began to blur as if it had been coded, and finally disappeared from the picture altogether.

Yes, it just disappeared.

The silence lasted for a while, and when the staff member zoomed back the camera, Jiang Chen said abruptly.

"Optical invisibility. ”

"Yes," Kerwyn nodded solemnly, "we think so too. ”

From this point alone, the possibility that this spacecraft was launched by the former Soviet Union or the United States is completely ruled out. At present, the only ones who have mastered mature optical invisibility are Transwarp Trade and the Future People Group.

"This UFO can be observed optically, and our technology can't explain what exactly that mechanism of action is, but one thing is certain, this function must have been damaged for some reason, otherwise we should not have seen it at all, instead of seeing an almost spherical black shadow at a specific distance as it is now. ”

At this point, Kirwin paused for a moment and uttered his guess.

If this explanation is true, then one of the remaining possibilities is that it should be the wreckage of some UFO. ”

Looking at the black shadow on the screen, Jiang Chen pondered for a long time before speaking.

"Is there a way to pick it up?"

Kirwin looked embarrassed and shook his head.

"It's too far, it's a full 30 million kilometers away from us in a straight line, and our Electric Ray X-1 series spacecraft has a cruising radius of only a million kilometers, which is simply not capable of flying outside the Earth-Moon system, let alone bringing it back. ”

"Just go up and have a look. Jiang Chen looked at Kerrwin, "We must at least know what is on it." ”

At least you have to know what is up there before the rest of the world.

After pondering for a long time, Kerryn sighed and spoke.

"Theoretically, the RM-400 ion propulsion engine used in the Electric Ray X-1 series spacecraft is already capable of interstellar travel. With the help of the ejection port of the space elevator, it is not difficult to accelerate to the second cosmic speed out of the Earth-Moon system. But the key is the battery of the Electric Ray X-1, which, according to the calculations of the quantum computer, has just enough energy for one round trip. Forcibly carry out this flight mission, which will have a high probability of being a one-way ticket. ”

Once you can't return, it's a real drifting universe, and you can almost get a death certificate.

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Chen made a decision.

"Volunteers are selected from among the active pilots of Transwarp Trade. ”

"Those who participate in this top-secret mission, regardless of whether they survive or not, will automatically be promoted to three levels. ”

"Install a dormant chamber inside the Electric Ray X-1 on mission. If it is determined that it is not possible to return, the cryo-dormant procedure will be allowed to be activated and our volunteers will be sent to the future. (To be continued.) )