Proxima Centauri, 2 astronomical units on the periphery of the Kuiper Belt.

In the dark and cold void, a strange ripple visible to the naked eye appeared, and immediately after, a space fleet suddenly appeared.

Soon after the fleet appeared, it had already begun to release some observation satellites, and various long-range detection equipment was also nervously probing in all directions.

"Discover Centauri α star A and α star B! Discover Proxima Centauri! ”

"The position is confirmed, the fleet is on the periphery of the Kuiper Belt of the Triad Galaxy."

"Found signs of life on the second planet near Proxima Centauri's ring!"

"Found the trapped fleet, 28 astronomical units from the fleet! Confirmed to be ten life-class ships! ”

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After the detection, a series of reports sounded from the brain.

Wang Dingnan looked at Sun Jiaming in surprise and said, "There really is a living planet near Proxima Centauri?!" ”

Sun Jiaming also hurriedly retrieved the photos of the battleship's observation equipment, and in the holographic projection, it was clearly seen that there were three dust rings near Proxima Centauri, and near the first ring, there was a first planet 0.05 astronomical units away from Proxima Centauri.

Between the first and second rings, 0.8 AU from Proxima Centauri, there is a second planet. It is on this planet that signs of intelligent life have been detected.

Preliminary exploration of the surface, the planet is about 1.2 times the size of the Earth, but why is there no atmosphere? There's no ocean, and it feels like it's in the same state as Mars.

In previous studies by geoscientists looking for terrestrial planets, Proxima Centauri b was supposed to be the first, and no signs of life have been detected so far, and no atmosphere has been detected.

Unexpectedly, Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf star, is the least bright star in the triad galaxy, but there are two planets, and one of them has signs of life.

The planet is 1.25 AU from α binary star Centauri, and careful calculations show that the planet does not actually orbit Proxima Centauri, but around the mass of three stars.

Its entire orbit is always in a very clever equilibrium with the three stars, so that it has obtained an excellent temperature suitable for the birth of life? But without an atmosphere, what kind of life is born?

"Order, immediately the cruiser 'Guan Yu' and the two city-class will go to the planet for verification!" Wang Dingnan gave instructions to Zhi Brain.

As the flagship, the "Sun Wu" has the authority to convey the commander's orders to the other brains of the entire fleet.

"Brother Dingnan, are the three battleships thin? After all, this is the hometown of the 'Three-Body Man'. Sun Jiaming teased.

"It's okay, you look at this planet, there is no trace of development at all, and the signs of life there have been detected at present, but they have only appeared near the equator of the planet, maybe the life on this planet has just begun to develop? Maybe it's another alien base?

As for the 'Trisolaran', if it can really control the cutting-edge scientific research of another civilization from a distance of 4.3 light years, and can also carry out dimensionality reduction strikes, etc., with such a level of technology, how can its fleet take hundreds of years to reach the earth? I've never figured this out.

Well, how did you get into it? If there really is a 'Trisolaran' now, it is just right for these three warships to be the vanguard. They are an exploration and reconnaissance team, going to obtain further information, and by the way, they have deployed relay communication satellites. If there is a case, they will be able to withdraw completely at their speed.

After all, our main task is on the extragalactic fleet. Wang Dingnan explained.

Sun Jiaming nodded and suggested, "Then let's send some 'Pathfinders' to the direction of the life-class spaceship fleet first, and search and move forward in this way to detect the mysterious area." ”

Wang Dingnan nodded, and ordered again: "Send twenty city-class warships to go 10 million kilometers forward, release all the 'pathfinders' they carry, and be sure to detect the abnormal airspace range." ”

After the war with the Ninth Fleet of the Divine Eye Empire, especially the battle with Heyin, Li Chunfeng had a deep understanding of battlefield information.

Therefore, the original "Pathfinder" has been comprehensively upgraded, which can not only be used as a communication relay in all directions, but also can detect various modes such as visible light, infrared, energy, space fluctuations, sine waves, life and so on.

In addition, it can also be used as a variety of interference sources to interfere in multiple modes and form a certain range of information masking.

Once a certain number of "pathfinders" are launched, a battlefield information network that is beneficial to oneself can be formed in a large area.

Therefore, Li Chunfeng prepared a large number of new types of "pathfinders" in each warship. A city-level usually carries 10,000 "Pathfinders" and can lay out an information network within tens of millions of kilometers.

Wang Dingnan dispatched 20 city-class ships in one go, which means that 200,000 "pathfinders" will be launched at one time, and an information network with the range of one or two astronomical units will be formed.

In this way, once the Void anomaly is discovered, there is enough distance to react in advance, after all, the speed of the battleship is very fast now.

With the city-class battleship in place, the "Pathfinder" was dropped out in batches through the launch rail, and these guys who looked like meteorites flew in the direction of the trapped fleet at a faster speed than the battleship after gaining a huge muzzle velocity on the guide.

In the process of this flight layout, the fleet cautiously approached the direction of the trapped fleet.

"Send a radio signal to the fleet, telling them that we are the Aeolus Empire rescue fleet, and we have been ordered to come to rescue them, please report the relevant situation in time." Wang Dingnan ordered Zhi Brain.

At this time, on the other cruiser "Zhao Yun" in the fleet, the members of the Admiral's Observation Group were analyzing the living planet near Proxima Centauri around the holographic projection projected by the Zhi Brain.

"I really didn't expect that there really is a living planet in this galaxy, it seems that the activity of observing and searching for terrestrial planets from the earth is not very reliable, even the planets of this nearest galaxy cannot be observed, and other planets dozens of light years away, I am afraid that the photographed may not be real."

"You say, what is the level of civilization on this planet? Is there anything higher than the Earth? ”

"How is that possible? You don't see, and it is very clear from this projection that there are basically no traces of intelligent life on the planet, only a small area near the equator. Look at it again, if there is not even an atmosphere, how can there be a civilization of a higher level than the earth? ”

"I said what are you in a hurry, I didn't see that Boss Wang has already sent a reconnaissance team, we are 35 astronomical units away from that planet here, and it will take about 21 days for the team to arrive there."

"Lin Tao, this is the army, I want to call General Wang! Don't make us look like gangsters. ”

"Chen Qingquan, why do you have so much to do? Boss Wang commanded the first place in the professional PK competition, and it is not too much to call the boss. Lin Tao said disapprehantly.

Chen Qingquan said solemnly: "This makes you call the boss, it's just a game." Look at the Führer's record, this is the real knife and real gun, that is the boss of all of us. ”

"Eh, I said Chen Qingquan, you are raising the bar, the head of state is our common idol, how can you compare it with us." Lin Tao said angrily.

"I said you two fight together, is it interesting? We're studying this planet! Someone next to him couldn't help but say.

"We're studying here, and we can't get results, and that's what the experts should do."

"Your attitude is not right, whether it is your command profession or our staff profession, in interstellar warfare, these things must be studied, otherwise you will suffer a big loss."

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While the generals were arguing, in one of the compartments of the flagship "Sun Wu", a group of experts was discussing various information about the trapped fleet.

In the holographic projection, the "Pathfinder" has flown tens of millions of kilometers, and its speed has been accelerated to 4,000 kilometers per second, and so far, nothing abnormal has occurred.

The fleet's long-range observation system is transmitting various information about the trapped fleet and displaying it in the projection in real time, so that experts can study it more intuitively.

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Trapped in a fleet, a compartment inside one of the life-class ships.

It's a small conference room, and at the moment there are five people in the room coming together for a meeting.

"We've been trapped for half a month, and the speed of the spacecraft still can't be increased, Academician Yang, can't you still find out the reason? Could it be that there is a problem with the ship that Fengshen Technology delivered to us? A middle-aged man asked.

Yang Zhonglie shook his head and said: "It's not the problem of the spaceship, all parts of the spacecraft are very normal at present, and the engine is running at maximum power, so the tail flame proves that the engine is fine, but I don't know why, and there is no propulsion."

This is supposed to be some kind of physical phenomenon that humans have not been exposed to, and we need physicists and mathematicians in the fleet to come together and work together to make comprehensive calculations to try to find out why. ”

Another general with three stars on his shoulders asked, "Will there be any problems with us being stuck here for a long time?" What danger does this void have other than immobilizing our spaceship? Can we prevent it? ”

An old man replied: "We are still more than 60 astronomical units away from Proxima Centauri now, and we should still be outside the Kuiper Belt of the Triad Galaxy, there are no big asteroids here, and there should be no asteroid impact problems."

If it's a small asteroid or a meteorite, although our spacecraft is not fully armed, we still have a close-in laser cannon system, and we won't let this kind of thing hit the spacecraft, so we are relatively safe. ”

"Academician Ning's words reassure us, we have to believe that scientists are the only ones who can solve all kinds of problems encountered in navigation in the vast space. Academician Ning, you still have to pay close attention to research and tackling key problems, and strive to solve this problem as soon as possible.

Deputy Director Shen, you are responsible for calming the possible panic among the people. Chief Fang, you are responsible for doing a good job in the army, and you are always ready to deal with all kinds of threats. The old man sitting at the head of the conference table said.

"Yes." The crowd responded in unison.

At this moment, there was a knock on the hatch, and a young man who looked like a secretary came in, handed a document to the old man in front of the first seat, and said softly: "I just received a clear-code radio message. ”

After speaking, he walked out of the conference room briskly.

The first old man took the document, his gaze quickly swept over it, and his face was suddenly moved.

He then handed the document to several other people to see.

After seeing that everyone had seen it, the old man asked, "What do you think?" What's going on with this Anemo Empire rescue fleet? Could it be related to Fengshen Technology? ”

Yang Zhonglie's face soothed a lot, and said: "It should be related, maybe it is the force behind Fengshen Technology, they helped us win the aliens and found that we were trapped here, so they sent a fleet to rescue us." ”

"How can they find out that we are trapped here? They intercepted the message we sent to China asking for help? Deputy Director Shen asked.

"If the Anemo Empire is the force behind Aeolus Technology, then it will be easy for them to intercept our messages and discover us." Academician Ning said.

"Why do you say that?" Deputy Director Shen asked.

"The life-level spaceship that Fengshen Technology has given us is very high-tech, including the main control computer and energy technology, engine technology and various technologies in the ecosystem, which surpass us by a lot.

So if it's the force behind it, then it's only going to be stronger, then intercepting our radio signals, and finding us should be easy. Academician Ning explained.

"Chief Fang, what do you think?" The old man in the first seat asked.

"Suggestion, immediately reply to the other party, inform us of the current situation."