Volume I. The Wandering Race Chapter 0024.Planets

In the conference hall of the University, all the seats were occupied, and there were many officers standing on either side, and none of the representatives of all the factions in the Galactic Exile Fleet who currently held real power were absent. Wu Xunxing sat in the first place, his face was solemn, and all the information about the long-range reconnaissance ship Hongyun and the new planets detected by the Hongyun had been sent to the personal terminals of everyone present.

Everyone looked at the information with solemn faces.

After a long time, Wu Xunxing knocked on the translucent conference table:

"You've read it all, right? Tell me what you think. ”

"First of all, we need to determine the authenticity of this information." A gray-haired old man projected the light curtain of his personal terminal into the center of the conference hall, so that everyone could clearly see the data he calculated, "According to the information collected by Hongyun in the past month, it is not difficult for us to calculate that the orbit of this planet does not conform to the laws of the celestial body. ”

"That's right, Liu Zhen and I have already conducted hundreds of operation simulations on the way to the conference hall, and the trajectory of this planet is very strange, and what Hongyun has discovered may not be a real planet." The middle-aged woman sitting next to the old man nodded slightly.

The two of them are the most outstanding scientists in the fleet who have studied the stars, and when they learned that a telescopic reconnaissance ship had discovered a planet suspected of having living beings, they rushed to the conference hall as soon as possible to conduct a preliminary verification of the information sent back by the Hongyun ship.

Wu Xunxing looked at the planets simulating on the screen and frowned. In fact, this is not the first time they have discovered planets that are suspected to be habitable for humans, but there are mostly mirage-like cosmic wonders that make it almost impossible to distinguish between real and fake when not landing.

"The two of you are the top scientists in the fleet, can you analyze the possible factors that led to this trajectory?"

"Unless it's the planet's moon that hits it hard, and the moon is at least 100,000 kilometers in diameter." The old man named Liu Zhen rubbed his wrinkled forehead and sighed: "If you really want to be hit by a satellite of this diameter, this planet will almost be useless, and it will be impossible to live there anymore." ”

"I think it's better to continue to wander as we are now." At the end of the chamber, a man with his whole body covered in brown robes spoke, "We don't have much energy to squander, and every time we change course, we always get nothing, so it's better to just keep going in the current course, let it be, and whether we can find a new planet depends on the arrangement of fate." ”

"You wanderers like to go with the flow, I think it's sitting still!" On the other end, a man who was clearly at odds with the brown robe said sarcastically.

"Then you think about how many times we've searched for planets in the past and wasted so much energy. Originally, we could still wander peacefully for tens of thousands of years, but now the entire fleet is only a few hundred years of power, and your behavior is self-defeating! ”

"Strong words!"

"That's it!" Wu Xunxing interrupted the dispute between the two, Wu Xunxing was also very troubled by the wandering faction who advocated going with the flow, as a staunch star seeker, he had long been displeased with this faction, and at the same time, there was also the garrison faction who advocated living in the ship forever, which was also an obstacle to his exploration of new planets.

Fortunately for his tenure now, he can suppress all kinds of opposition from the Wanderers and the Garrison faction, and if it is the turn of the parliamentarians who lean towards their faction to take up the post of Chief, then during his tenure, the exploration of the Expedition Ship will probably be stopped immediately, and the time will be wasted on promoting his own faction.

"We don't have much energy left, this planet can be said to be our last hope, Lieutenant General Xu Zhi has just died, and there is a turning point. Although we believe in science, there is a drink and a peck between all things, and we have suffered so much since we fled, and it is time for us to see hope! Now, vote on the planet, or ...... Keep sailing! ”

Wu Xunxing still hasn't said a word, after this term of office, he is afraid that he will not be able to wait for the next round, the wandering faction is right, it has been less than five hundred years to provide energy for the operation of the fleet, if you don't take advantage of the current effort, who else can you count on?

In the conference hall, Liu Zhen's terminal projection dissipated, and the number of supporters of the two options was displayed in mid-air.

Five minutes passed, and there were two fewer votes to investigate the planet than to continue sailing, but as the current commander of the Galaxy Fleet, Wu Xunxing had two votes, so in the end, the ratio was tied.

"......" Wu Xunxing silently glanced at a few people present, this wandering faction actually attracted a few more people who were originally neutral in power.

"It's better to organize an advance team to go over and explore, with the speed of a long-range reconnaissance ship, it will be able to reach the target area in about a year, and it won't cost too much energy."

Speaking was one of the fleet's four assault ships, Angie, the captain of the Upenetllo.

As the only female captain among the crowd, Anji is calmer than male captains, and has received a super high evaluation of 94 in the extremely strict captain's mock assessment, ranking second in the historical captain record of assault ships.

"In fact, the Hongyun that discovered the new planet is already in the process of landing operations, and judging from the latest beacon records, they are going very well."

Unlike the beacons used as signal towers in the fleet, the beacons on the telescope ships are used as devices for ultra-long-distance information transmission, and all teleconnaisance ships will be equipped with several, and every 300 units away from the fleet will put a beacon to receive and store information, so as to facilitate the exchange of information with the flagship.

Since the exile calendar in 999 through the wormhole to escape the pursuit of the Xianyu people, the entire galaxy fleet's information transmission has been inexplicably affected, after the distance between the two ships exceeds 365 units, the information exchanged has become extremely unstable, and at least 30% of the content will be lost every time the message is transmitted, and the remote reconnaissance ship almost did not dare to explore too far during that time, until scientists have developed a long-range beacon.

The tele-reconnaissance ship outside uploads the exploration information in real time to the nearest beacon, which then transmits it synchronously to another beacon close to the flagship, and finally converges on the flagship.

From time to time, Wu Xunxing received a detailed log of the Hongyun after discovering the planet, in addition to the subjective detection information of the staff on the Hongyun, there was also a completely automatic recording of the ship's observation device.

The device is completely unaffected by humans, in order to deal with the possibility of human errors in the senses that may be affected. Some special stars that can affect the spirit of human senses are not a few in the vast universe, and the exile fleet has suffered a lot of such losses.

"Let's take a look at the observations that came back during this time." Wu Xunxing operated his personal terminal and projected the data:

Hongyun Observation Record: Ship Time 3903:246:01:44:51. Chen Ruihe, the captain of the Hongyun, took the crew Xu Xing, Charlin, and Tian Suoyu to land in the A-type landing cabin.

Hongyun observation record: Ship time 3903:246:02:39:24. The landing chamber entered the atmosphere of the planet W424 (provisional) with a medium signal reception intensity.

Hongyun observation record: 3903:246:02:48:24 inside the ship. Seven percent of the landing silos were damaged, and the four landing personnel were in good health condition, with medium signal reception strength.

One observation record after another slowly appeared, and everyone quieted down and watched quietly. Because each transmission between beacons takes about an hour, when everyone sees this information, it is more than ten hours away from the time when Hongyun sent it.

At the same time, for the sake of insurance, this information is transmitted in real time, and it is not stored and sent back at one time, so according to the interval between each observation record sent by the Hongyun ship, they also need to wait for dozens of minutes in the conference hall to see the next one.

Hongyun Observation Record: Ship Time 3903:246:03:22:41. It is completely out of contact with the login warehouse, and the information transmission is interfered by unknown factors, waiting for the login bin to start the high-strength information transmission device.

Hongyun Observation Record: Ship Time 3903:246:04:06:28. The link to the login warehouse is briefly restored, and an image file is received.

Image files! Everyone who had been waiting for nearly 3 hours was in high spirits and immediately looked at Wu Xunxing, who was in the first seat.

Wu Xunxing checked the document again and again, and when he was sure that there was no threat, he put it into the isolation channel of the Qiling ship and played it, only to see that the video was of four embarrassed crew members, two of whom had taken off their fiber glass armor, and the other two were still wearing.

Behind them was a vast blue grassland, and at the end of that grassland, a colorful light curtain reached the sky! Towering in the field of vision, you can't see the edge.

"I'm Chen Ruihe, the captain of the Hongyun long-range reconnaissance ship! We have landed on planet W424! Four of the landers, including me, were in good health, and the landing bay was 54 percent damaged and repairable. One of the four people, a short-haired middle-aged man who had taken off his glass armor, excitedly called up the video mode of his personal terminal after reporting his situation and took pictures of the surrounding scenery.

"The results of the environmental test are: the volume fraction of nitrogen in the air is about 66%, the volume fraction of oxygen is about 18%, the volume fraction of rare gases is about 2%, and the volume fraction of unknown gases is about 14%, and the preliminary examination should be harmless to humans, and the samples have been collected. Xu Xing and I are trying to experiment with exposure to this environment. ”

Looking at the crew members moving around in the video, the conference hall suddenly resounded with cheers. Finally, we have found a planet that can survive!

"It's a miracle!" Scientist Liu Zhen looked at this video in shock, and said incoherently: "This is completely unscientific!" Extrapolating from all observations, there is no ...... here There can never be life! How...... How can there be ......?"

"Maybe it's the reason for the torrent of magical energy." The female scientist next to Liu Zhen was not as excited as the others, and she was analyzing the latest information transmitted back by the Hongyun Ship.

After the landers left, the Hongyun ship will not just be a message transmitter, it will also take the initiative to scan the environment outside the planet, just now it detected an extremely huge amount of magic energy radiation, through a special method of observation, sent back a scene that shocked everyone:

On the pale blue light curtain, the planet W424 orbits around a massive star that is interspersed by three bright red dotted paths. In the illustration of the observation, the bright red dotted line path represents the direction of the torrent of magical energy, so the result of the crowd is:

This star is the meeting point of three torrents of magical energy!