Chapter 500: The First Crime Scene
To find the original position of the dwarf planet, you can get a straight path by the entry point and the angle at which the dwarf planet enters the inner asteroid belt.
According to the time difference between the impact of a large meteorite and the impact of another small meteorite, we can find out how long the dwarf planet traveled to reach the inner asteroid belt after being hit by a large meteorite.
It's still the same simple physical formula, velocity x time distance.
And the result of these mathematical calculations is the sixth track.
"Outer Ring Meteorite Belt?"
I thought I could know the result immediately, and I was depressed again, although the outer meteorite belt is not as widespread as the Kuiper belt, but the scale is also very large, and it will take more time, energy, and resources for them to learn about the new civilization.
The gatherers are once again in action, and after a large number of cosmic creatures are combined into larger transport creatures, they travel to the sixth orbit, the outer circle of the asteroid belt, in this energy-saving way.
The two gatherers responsible for the resource mining of the asteroid belt in the outer circle also quickly received the task assigned by the group.
"You must carefully examine every meteorite, the race is determined to win this newly discovered civilization."
"In addition, it is allowed to mine meteorites that are judged to be useless as resources, so that the progress of resource mining will not drop much, and to other star systems, antimatter giants and star orbits are indispensable biological entities."
"Got it, we'll take care of it."
The two gatherers give feedback to the group that posted the task.
One by one, the transport creatures crossed dozens of astronomical units, each arrived at the assignment point of the mission one after another, and the transport creatures found a meteorite attached to it and began to die, and with its death, a large number of cosmic creatures inside drilled out of it, dragging the pulse tail flame, and marched towards the surrounding meteorites.
From a distance, it looks like a firework launched from the second orbit, and then explodes after an asteroid in the sixth orbit, creating a dazzling fireworks.
This time, the number of organisms involved in the survey was several times greater than in the second orbit, and they acted methodically under the orders of the commander-in-chief, sparing every meteorite, in order to find other traces of the new civilization.
"Is there really an outer ring?"
Collect people who have been looking for a while and have found nothing, and start an inquiry in the channel.
"It's the result of the physical model, unless the calculation is wrong, you know, it's very small."
"The dwarf planet is derailed by colliding with the massive meteorite in the sixth orbit, and the sixth orbit is the starting point of the dwarf planet's orbital offset."
"Don't worry about the consumption of resources, the race is not short of resources, if you can find that new civilization, the value of the resources consumed will soon be deducted."
"I see."
The search continued, and the resources were squandered more recklessly than before, in exchange for a greatly reduced search time in the sixth orbit, which was obviously larger than the asteroid belt in the second orbit, but the time spent was only two-thirds of the original search time for the second orbit, and the collectors invested blood in the search.
Finally, after they examined hundreds of thousands of meteorites in the entire sixth orbit one by one, a new discovery was made on one of them.
This meteorite is very large, with a diameter of more than 20 kilometers, and on the surface, in addition to its large size, it is no different from many other meteorites, but it has another mystery inside.
When the collectors emptied the outer layer of the meteorite from the carbonate material, a metallic structure emerged in the vacuum of the universe.
The metal structure is twisted, tending to be spherical, and it looks like it has been twisted by high temperatures and pressures, but it is still vaguely recognizable as a human creation.
A large number of tentacles burrowed into the metal wreckage and began to clean the filling inside, which was not difficult for tentacles capable of molecular-level finishing.
Once the metal remains have been thoroughly cleaned, tentacles scan its structure and send the data back to the Clan network.
Based on this data, the collectors restored the strongly twisted parts of the metal structure and rejoined the fractured parts, thus obtaining the original intact appearance of the metal object.
"It's not like a ship, you see, it doesn't even have thrusters."
"Could it be that this new civilization is so technologically advanced that it can move a spaceship through the universe without relying on thrusters?"
"Don't guess at everything, I think this wreck is part of some man-made thing, even if the technology is advanced enough to not need thrusters, there should always be a life-sustaining system, right? The men were still wearing spacesuits to protect themselves. ”
"But after searching the entire sixth track, apart from this thing, I haven't found any artifact remnants that are suspected to be the Ganren civilization."
"We may be able to think differently, since this wreckage is distorted by high temperature and high pressure, it means that such an environment once existed in the sixth orbit, but we all know that space is a vacuum, and it is not easy to form such an environment naturally."
"Wait, since it's high temperature and high pressure, it means that other metal debris must be the same, maybe we mistook those twisted metal debris for ordinary meteorites."
"! Let's stop the resource gathering of the sixth track! ”
A new command was announced, and all the creatures in the asteroid belt in orbit 6 stopped exploiting the resources.
According to the material of the metal remains, the collectors quickly locked on some meteorites, which were all metal meteorites, with a thin layer of non-metallic material attached to the outer layer, and a complete solid metal body inside, the metal material was the same as the metal remains found by the collectors.
The number of these meteorites is large, and there are tens of thousands of such asteroids among hundreds of thousands of meteorites.
The mystery is getting bigger and bigger, and it can be determined that the tens of thousands of metal meteorites and the metal wreckage were once a monolithic man-made object, very large, at least celestial-level, but now they are in pieces, and only a small piece of the wreckage can barely be identified.
Gatherers are wondering what is causing this?
"It seems that high temperature and high pressure have squeezed these metal debris beyond recognition, and it is difficult for us to restore these metal bodies in the same way that we restore metal wreckage."
"The clue is broken"
Naturally, the gatherers could not be willing to let the opportunity for the group to make a big stride disappear, and soon, some individuals came up with new ideas.
"No, it's not broken yet, we still have the obelisk found on the dwarf planet, deciphering the text on it, we may be able to make new discoveries."
"We need supercomputers, and the construction of other projects has been temporarily slowed down, and we will fully invest in the construction and implementation of the Tianji Giant Structure."
"Agreed."