The Senate of the Gaia civilization had a heated discussion on this, but no matter how much discussion or even speculation could not come up with a result, as for the patriarch of the Paradise Flower Family, Oaks, at this time, he quietly retreated from the center of the vortex, as if this matter had nothing to do with the Paradise Flower Family.

At this time, the Pioneer spacecraft, which had been away from the earth for more than a year, had really left the solar system, the Oort Nebula had been left behind them, and the faint light of the sun could no longer be found in the starry universe, and in front of them, a starry sky that human beings had never set foot in.

Now, the distance between the Pioneer spacecraft and the Earth is more than 2.3 light years, according to the speed of the Vanguard, it actually does not take that long, but because this time they are not only to get in touch with other cosmic civilizations in the galaxy, but more importantly, to prepare for human beings to set foot on the cosmic routes that have never been explored, so as to prepare for the future Earth civilization to really face other cosmic civilizations.

Along the way, Vanguard made three stops, the first time inside the Oort Nebula, the second time at the edge of the Oort Nebula, and this was the first time that Vanguard actually flew out of the solar system to other small galaxies.

According to the Earth's understanding of the universe, including the speculation of the Oort Nebula, scientists currently believe that the Oort Nebula is the edge of the outer solar system, it is a planetary generation around the solar system, this view is basically recognized on the Earth, but when the Pioneer actually flew out of the Oort Nebula, they found that this view was completely wrong, because they found that the Oort Nebula is just a special area that separates the solar system from other small galaxies. Beyond the Oort Nebula is the existence of new small galaxies, and not just one, but a full six small galaxies, judging by any of these six small galaxies. The Oort Nebula is likewise their edge.

It wasn't until they saw this scene that the people on the Vanguard suddenly realized why the Earth, as a member of the Milky Way, had not been discovered in advance by other cosmic civilizations in the Milky Way for such a long time. First, because of the special position of the solar system in the Milky Way, from the perspective of the entire Milky Way structure, the solar system located in the arm of the cantilever arm of Orion is not in the middle of the Milky Way. Rather, in the remote regions of the Milky Way. Second, coupled with the protection of the huge Oort Nebula, the solar system is like a small area hidden in the depths of the forest, if it were not for the Gaia civilization to come to the depths of the Oort Nebula by mistake, maybe in tens of thousands of years, other cosmic civilizations would not be able to find that there is still a living planet in this area full of countless cold planets and comets.

These six small galaxies are scattered around the Oort Nebula, creating a bizarre sight. Unfortunately, none of these six small galaxies have any signs of a living planet, and some of their "suns" are smaller than the sun, and some are almost 10 times larger than the sun. There are as few as 7 planets revolving around them, and as many as 42, just like the small galaxy to which Vanguard flies to its destination, its "sun" is slightly larger than the sun in the solar system, about 1.77 times the volume of the familiar sun, but only 1.1 times the mass.

There are 11 planets revolving around this "sun", all of which are of equal size, according to the calculations of the spaceship Zhi Brain and Su Li. These planets could not have any signs of life because of their distance from the Sun. Including the radiation and illumination of the "sun", as well as the various numbers of revolution and rotation, it can be concluded that these planets are either too hot or extremely cold, and in this case there are no conditions for organic life to survive.

Of course, there used to be a saying in the scientific community. In addition to organic life, there may also be inorganic life in the universe, and even according to the origin of life, organic life evolved from inorganic life, so that a single inorganic life can form another kind of life under special conditions, that is, the so-called silicon-based life is also possible to exist in reality.

This theory began in 1891 when Julius Sheiner, an astrophysicist at the University of Potsdam, in his essay on the possibility of silicon-based life on the ground. For more than 100 years, it has been studied and hypothesized by people, and even boldly described the existence of this life in many science fiction novels.

However, Su Yichen clearly knows that theoretically inorganic life, that is, the existence of silicon-based life, is theoretically valid, but in fact, this has never happened in the entire galaxy. Because the reason is very simple, under certain conditions, the probability of the emergence of organic life far exceeds the emergence of inorganic life, not to mention that organic life also has an incomparable advantage of inorganic life, that is, the evolution of life. In the early stages of life, organic life can emerge from inorganic life and thus begin to evolve, and only then does the separate evolution of inorganic life naturally become obsolete, or this is a characteristic of the evolution of life.

This small galaxy was temporarily named the Golden Galaxy, a rather vulgar name, but no one in the Vanguard raised any doubts, because when they were exploring this small galaxy, they found an extremely interesting planet in one of the planets in the third position away from the "Sun", this planet's material structure is quite special, and its distance from the "Sun" is exactly a certain distance, and the material on the planet actually has about 47% gold metal, In other words, this is a planet formed almost as a whole structure of gold metal, and the remaining 53% is composed of various materials such as silver, selenium, bismuth, antimony, silicon, sulfide, etc., and its volume is about one-third of the earth's, which is a veritable golden ball.

"I can't imagine that if this planet is transported back to the solar system, maybe the whole earth will go crazy for it!" When he learned about this situation, Gao Jian was dumbfounded, the value of gold as a precious metal on the earth Everyone knows how much gold reserves there are in the world, and as a government official of the Earth Federation, he also knows some, but he didn't expect to find a planet in the universe that is all composed of gold.

"What's so strange about that." For Gao Jian's dumbfounded, Kevin. Adams said lightly, "As long as the conditions allow, let alone gold, there is nothing surprising that it is a planet made of diamonds." This substance abounds throughout the universe, but it is only rare on Earth. Besides, you can afford to ship such a large planet back? Don't be stupid, lad. What if you ship it back? Without the value of rare metals, what is the difference between gold and iron? ”

"That's right...... That's ....... Gao Jian patted his head and suddenly realized, and then he was a little embarrassed for the fuss he made just now. Looking at the answer between the two of them, Su Yichen and his wife couldn't help but laugh secretly, because Gao Jian didn't pay attention, but they understood it. When the material of this golden planet came out, Kevin. Adams' eyes also widened, and his expression of surprise was better than Gao Jian's.

But Kevin. Adams is right when he says that the value of rare metals lies in the fact that they are rare, and once they lose their rarity, then the metal is no different from ordinary steel in terms of industrial use. Of course, in industry, and even in other fields, the stability of gold cannot be ignored, it is not only a rare metal, but also a raw material that is widely used in many fields.

But for the people on the Vanguard. No amount of gold means anything to them, on the contrary, the discovery of an element or substance that has never been discovered is the most fortunate point, but it takes a long time and a certain amount of luck, the universe is so big, and it is so vast, and the discovery of some special elements, including matter, is definitely not so easy.

After staying in the Golden Galaxy for nearly a month, Starry Sky began to move on. The Star first used curvature technology to travel directly through the Golden Galaxy to reach the edge of this small galaxy. Then wait for the star path ahead to confirm before continuing the voyage.

For exploring the unknown part of the universe, Vanguard is very cautious and very appropriate. This allows you to avoid getting lost in the universe and to explore and investigate the areas you pass through along the entire voyage, section by section. Not long after, the Pioneer was detached from the curvature of the edge of the Golden Galaxy, waiting to regain its normal cruising attitude. Before Su Yichen could give a command to the spaceship brain, Su Li suddenly raised her hand and pointed in one direction and shouted, "There is a spaceship ...... over there." ”

"Got a spaceship?"

Su Li's reminder startled everyone, and everyone looked in the direction of her finger at the same time, but it was dark as far as the naked eye could see.

"Spaceship? Where is the spaceship? Friend or foe? Kevin. Adams asked nervously, his eyes glaring across the airspace. But he saw nothing.

Su Li quickly zoomed in on the image, and after the image was zoomed in, they could vaguely see that it was indeed an object similar to a spaceship in a meteorite belt, but due to the distance and the interval of the meteorite belt, they could only barely see an outline.

"The object is 4,210 meters long and 2,057 meters wide...... It can be judged to be a man-made object, with a 93% chance of a spaceship, and the surface of the object seems to be damaged, and the flight speed is ...... per second 22 km ....... ”

Su Li quickly reported her judgment results, which were jointly obtained by Su Li and the spaceship brain, and its accuracy should not be wrong.

Flying at a speed of 22 kilometers per second? This speed is not slow from the previous earth civilization, but from the perspective of the cosmic civilization, it is like a snail crawling. The meteorite belt alone flies at about this speed, which means that the spacecraft and the meteorites surrounding it are flying at the same speed, synchronized with each other in space.

More importantly, Su Li also pointed out that the surface of the spaceship seemed to be in a damaged state, and when they heard this, everyone couldn't help but look at each other, and they couldn't speak for a while.

"Could it be that the other party is injured?" Luo Yan thought about it and came up with a hypothesis.

"I think it's possible, maybe the other party was caught up in an accident during the voyage and used the cover of the meteorite belt to temporarily repair it." Kevin. Adams thought for a moment and nodded.

"I think it's better to be careful, what if the other party is a space pirate? It is not impossible to hide in a meteorite belt in this way and wait quietly for someone to crash into it. Gao Jian put forward another view.

Only Su Yichen didn't speak, he silently stared at the spaceship some distance from the Pioneer and didn't know what he was thinking.

"What do you think, Captain?" Gao Jian couldn't help but ask.

What the three of them said made sense, and Su Yichen couldn't judge accurately for a while, but he subconsciously felt that what Gao Jian proposed was unlikely. In the entire galaxy, the so-called cosmic pirates certainly exist, but the problem is that the area they are in now is not the central region of the galaxy, but a very remote region. It was hard for Su Yichen to imagine that as a cosmic pirate, he would inexplicably run to this place to rob passers-by, it was almost impossible. You must know that in this airspace for hundreds of thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years, there may not be a passing spaceship, and if the minds of space pirates were so idiotic, then they would have starved to death long ago.

Maybe this is a spaceship that has suffered an accident, Su Yichen felt that this possibility was still relatively large, he thought about it and immediately asked the Pioneer spacecraft to send an inquiry message to the other party, the message sent was sent in the universal language, if the other party was still alive, he should be able to get a response.

However, three hours after the message was sent, there was still no reply, and the huge spaceship flew quietly in the universe as if it were a dead thing.

"Lean over and see?" Faced with this situation, Su Yichen thought about it and finally proposed this proposal.

Everyone thought about it and didn't refuse, but Gao Jian still asked the Pioneer to take the necessary precautions, they didn't know anything about the other party, and in case of an accident, at least they had to ensure that the Pioneer could get out safely.

Of course, Su Yichen understands that he is not a reckless person, not to mention that it is impossible for him to directly connect with the other party by relying on the past, but only to draw in the distance between the two sides for observation. In addition, the Pioneer carries a special exploration shuttle, which can be controlled by the Pioneer's intelligent brain to detect and scan the opponent, and even enter the interior of the opponent's spacecraft to inspect the situation. Su Yichen ordered the Pioneer to approach the target, and when it approached the target to a certain distance, the Pioneer kept a synchronized flight distance with the other party, and then began to release the exploration shuttle to understand the situation of the other party.

The exploration shuttle was released, and an hour later, the shuttle entered the meteorite belt, and everyone on the Pioneer stared intently at the image transmitted by the shuttle, and when the clear image of the spacecraft was displayed in front of them, everyone couldn't help but take a breath of cold air at the same time. (To be continued......)

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