Without hesitation, Su Yan picked up the phone on his desk and dialed a series of numbers, and the phone was quickly connected.

"Staff Officer Sun, I have an important situation to report to General Wu."

A moment later, General Wu's deep and magnetic voice came from the phone: "Xiao Su, tell me something."

"General Wu, when we were observing, we found that there was a bright spot on the B52, a total of three times. Based on our previous research, this is not normal. ”

"You're saying there's something on the B52 that shouldn't be there, isn't it...

"I'll go now." General Wu paused, then said.

"Okay, let's keep observing." After Su Yan finished speaking, he hung up the phone and continued to stare at the screen. In between, that bright spot appeared two more times. An hour later, General Wu arrived.

"General Wu, just now we observed that the bright spots appeared twice, and combined with the previous three times for analysis, the interval between the appearances is getting shorter and shorter, and the frequency is accelerating. What to do next, please instruct! ”

"Where are Starships 1 and 2 at the moment?"

"Starship 1 and 2 have arrived at the rendezvous site 50 minutes ago, and in view of the abnormal situation, the scheduled landing work has been suspended, waiting for the next instructions, and is currently accompanying the B52 at a speed of 19.87 km / s."

"Give an order to Starship 1 to change the original landing plan and send a reconnaissance ship to the vicinity to reconnoitre. After ascertaining the situation, we must not be careless this time, and we must ensure that nothing goes wrong. ”

"Yes." Su Yan took the order and left.

"Starship 1, quickly send a reconnaissance ship close to the B52 to conduct reconnaissance and transmit back real-time data."

Two or three minutes later, I saw the Starship No. 1 hatch open, and a small reconnaissance ship flew out quickly, drawing an arc, and then slowly approached B52, but did not land, and when it was close enough, it also began to maintain a speed of 19.87 km/s to accompany the asteroid. Once the speed is stable, turn on the HD camera and other observation devices.

The screen in the hall now displays two images, one is the complete picture captured by the Earth Cannon Space Telescope, and the other is a partial picture of the asteroid captured by the reconnaissance ship's high-definition camera.

As the cameras on the reconnaissance ship turned, the image on the asteroid was clearly displayed.

When I turned to the raised position in the middle of the asteroid, the picture froze, because in addition to the asteroid, a humanoid object appeared on the screen, and there was a bright light from the humanoid object.

"Reconnaissance Ship No. 1, continue to approach, the camera locks on an unknown object." Su Yan continued to order.

The reconnaissance ship continued to approach the asteroid, and because there was a target, the reconnaissance ship flew directly to the central bulge and stopped at a distance of 100 meters, because it was equipped with a high-definition camera, and the scene on the asteroid was unobstructed.

"It's him, I thought I'd never see him again." General Wu also walked down from the leadership observation seat at some point, and came to Su Yan's side and was closer to the middle. General Wu, who was strong, calm and unfazed in the past, is now in two lines of tears.

"Su Yan, order Starship 1 and Starship 2 to temporarily change the landing plan and order the reconnaissance ship to land immediately to welcome him back."

"Greet whom? That broken robot? Su Yan asked suspiciously.

"No, he's not a broken robot." General Wu shouted excitedly.

"He is a hero of the whole country and even the world, all mankind, Shi Hao!"

"He's General Shi?!" Su Yan's face changed from doubt to surprise, and then excitement.

"Resolutely complete the task and welcome General Shi home immediately." Su Yan said excitedly.

The other unknown personnel were stunned for a moment, but immediately put themselves into their work.

"Starship 1, Starship 2 suspended the landing of engineering ships. Starship 1 immediately arranged for the reconnaissance ship 1 to land General Shi, oh... It's that robot that received Starship 1, and there is no room for error. ”

"Starship 1 understands."

"Starship 2 received."

"Starship 1, when you pick up General Shi, you must first test him once and don't have secondary damage." General Wu said softly as he looked at the robot with a missing arm on the screen, a quarter of his face missing, and an eye that had become hollow.

After General Wu finished speaking, he gently put down the microphone and stared at the screen expectantly.

"General, do you think General Shi is still alive now, to be precise, still conscious?" Su Yan asked carefully after going through the wording in his head.

"Sure, he's not dead, and he's not dying that easily. Although our technology was not so advanced 35 years ago, it was the best for him, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the power of the whole country. The white flash you see, which is the bright spot you mentioned, is actually a signal indicator that has the effect of calling for help, but on the other hand, it also shows that his core is not damaged. He was powered by a nuclear battery that was already in mature use at the time, with a service life of up to 100 years. ”

"Thirty-five years ago, at the last moment of the mission, in order to save the hard-won asteroid rock, he forcibly ripped off one of his arms and sent the rock to the return spacecraft. Although he has the body of a robot, his consciousness is human. ”

"The last image that came back from the camera was that he flew out, and we thought he had drifted into the depths of space. Unexpectedly, he has been on the asteroid for 35 years, and he can see his old friends again. General Wu began to feel sad again, and Su Yan also raised his head and looked carefully at the dilapidated but majestic robot on the asteroid.

On the asteroid, the reconnaissance ship found a relatively flat position in the middle and began to land. About 300 meters away from the landing position of the reconnaissance ship, a badly damaged robot is leaning on the root of a large raised rock in the middle of the asteroid, when the asteroid is running to be observed by the earth, this position is just facing the sun, when the earth cannon space telescope first found B52, this robot, to be precise, should be called Shi Hao, he has sensed the current position of B52 through the light sensor, and he also understands that he is not far from home.

Thirty-five years ago, when he didn't make it to the return spacecraft and was lucky enough to re-land on the B52 asteroid, he realized that it could take 35 or 70 years or more to get back to Earth. So the first thing he did was to reduce the energy consumption of his whole body, try to make the nuclear battery last as long as possible, and only keep the light sensor and a camera pointing into space and other necessary elements of normal power supply.

When B52 enters Earth's vision, he begins to wake himself up. When he re-landed on the asteroid, it was a hard landing, and to put it bluntly, when he was about to fly into space and fly freely, he was followed by B52, not greeted but "hard-connected", and landed on his head, and the result was that the left mouth to the chin was completely gone, and part of his left eye was taken away, and his left eyeball was missing. The two eyeballs function as indicators and distress lights at the same time as imaging sensors, but fortunately the right eyeball is still there, but the unknown fault has caused the flicker frequency to decrease, but fortunately, it can be barely used, so we can see the bright spots of the flash.

Shi Hao also did a self-examination of his body, and found that in addition to the damage of losing an arm, losing part of his face, and losing his left eyeball, the speaker also failed, which means that he could not communicate with others with his voice. After all, it has been floating in space for 35 years, and it is normal for space radiation, extreme low temperature, etc., to cause the function of some components and parts to decline.

The whole body shell and joint structure are not a big problem, after all, it took the whole country to build. The brain's biomimetic storage and nervous system are also working normally, with no signs of memory disturbance or data loss. However, the other mechanical memory attached to the body did not respond, and it was difficult to preserve images taken 35 years ago in such a harsh environment.

At this time, two people came out of the reconnaissance ship No. 1, wearing white spacesuits, spacesuits as thick as the down jackets we usually wear, wearing round spacecaps on their heads, they drove a vehicle like a motorcycle and like an all-terrain off-road vehicle to the direction of Shi Hao, this car has no cockpit and tires, the front driver drives about 1 meter above the ground to fly, and the back seat can sit two people.

About two minutes later, the car stopped in front of Shi Hao, and Shi Hao's neck also turned slightly, looking at them.

"General Shi, hello! We are on the orders of General Wu to take you home. One of them held up something that resembled a tablet, and the phrase scrolled across the screen.

The other person took out a slender thing with a lens and swept it at Shi Hao from head to toe. Then make an "OK" gesture to the first person. The first person operated on the tablet again.

"General, after being scanned by the detector, your body components and parts are in acceptable condition and can be moved."

"Let's go back to the scout ship now, please get in the car." It's another operation on the screen.

Then the person with the testing instrument came over and used one hand to help Shi Hao, Shi Hao raised his right hand, and as soon as he made contact, he felt his body float up, and was lifted up by that person with one hand.

"Are all the earthlings so fierce now? It's so strong with one hand! It's no wonder that Shi Hao thinks so, because the technology 35 years ago was not so advanced, and all kinds of manufacturing were rough, so the result was that Shi Hao's body weighed almost 200 kilograms.

After getting in the car, Shi Hao thought that General Wu was Wu Yi's kid, 35 years, and now he should be an old man Wu, and now he is a general, amazing. As for them calling themselves General Shi, it is estimated that the country has already regarded him as a martyr and given him an honorary title. Shi Hao's speaker is broken, even if it is good, it can't be used in space. In addition, there is no radio, and there is no other means to communicate, so I can only follow them, and it is estimated that the other party also knows his situation, but only informs, and has no intention of asking.

Two or three minutes later, the car drove into the reconnaissance ship, and they didn't mean to let Shi Hao get out of the car, so Shi Hao sat still. The reconnaissance ship soon flew towards Starship 1.

"Command, Starship 1 reports, Reconnaissance Ship 1 has successfully met General Shi, please instruct."

"Starship 1, you have put General Shi properly on Starship 1 for the time being, he has any requirements to meet as much as possible, and I look forward to your triumphant return as soon as possible." General Wu ordered directly.

After Su Yan saw General Wu walk back to the leadership observation seat, he took the microphone: "Starship 1, Starship 2, accelerate according to the predetermined plan, and start deploying engineering ships to land." ”

"Starship 1 received." "Starship 2 received."