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The small research spacecraft "Mantis" released by the quantum spacecraft, carrying Lynch Clark and others, turned the ship's engine micro-spouts, turned the bow of the Mantis in the direction of the fleet, and slowly slowed down to approach the water droplets.

In the lens, the smooth surface of the water droplets reflects the starry Milky Way.

At the head of the water droplet, you can see a huge rectangular fleet array a thousand kilometers away reflected by the mirror.

This shot reminded Pang Xuelin of a three-body fan short film "Water Drops" he had seen in the real world.

The short film, through the specular reflection of water droplets, gradually magnified from the atomic level, exposes the imposing and even "designed" human fleet at the micro level.

Combined with the human interview voice in reverse order, it brilliantly shows the small, ignorant and arrogant personality of human beings, and there is a kind of magic that makes people's mouths open wider and wider the more they look at it.

That short film left a deep impression on Pang Xuelin.

Now, Pang Xuelin really feels such a scene.

"The main fleet is too close to the drops!"

Pang Xuelin frowned.

A distance of 1,000 kilometers can be crossed in a few seconds for a water droplet.

According to his requirements, the Fifth Fleet was far scattered on both sides of the main fleet, and it was 100,000 kilometers away from the water droplets.

Xu Shaomin said: "Commander, don't worry, we have so many warships, there should be no problems." ”

Pang Xuelin pondered for a moment and said, "Help me connect with Steven Eddie!" ”

Xu Shaomin was slightly stunned, nodded and said, "Commander, wait a minute!" ”

Soon, the figure of Steven Eddie, commander-in-chief of the Solar System Fleet, appeared in front of Pang Xuelin again.

"Professor Pang, what's the matter?"

Steven Eddie looked a little impatient.

Pang Xuelin said: "Mr. Eddie, the fleet is too close to the water droplet. I propose to bring the distance of the fleet to more than ten thousand kilometers from the droplets, and all warships to remain in a deep-sea state in order to carry out combat missions at any time. The enemy we are facing now is the three-body civilization that has looked down on us for two whole centuries, and we must not look down on the other party because the other party is just a small detector! ”

Steven Eddy laughed and said, "Professor Pang, if you enter the deep sea, the fleet members will not be able to watch this historic moment when humans first come into contact with water droplets. As for distance, don't you think that such a distance is just enough to show the oppression of the fleet? If you go any further, the momentum will be much weaker. And we now have a full 2,500 stellar-class warships, in front of such a fleet, no matter how advanced the other party's detectors are, how many waves can they set off? ”

After a pause, Steven Eddy continued: "Okay, Professor Pang, I put the Fifth Fleet under your command before, completely out of respect for my predecessors and your role as the founder of Fleet International, I hope you can recognize your position, it is now the year 205 of the Age of Crisis, not the 38th year of the Age of Crisis!" ”

Anyway, Steven Eddie didn't give Pang Xuelin a chance to refute, and his figure disappeared directly in front of Pang Xuelin's eyes.

"How can Mr. Eddie talk like that!"

Zhuang Yan, who was standing beside Pang Xuelin, said indignantly.

Xu Shaomin frowned and turned his gaze to Pang Xuelin: "Commander......"

She was a little worried.

Although from the bottom of her heart, she was also a little dissatisfied with Pang Xuelin's orders, but making trouble like this with the commander of the solar system fleet was obviously extremely detrimental to Pang Xuelin's next development.

As for the high-ranking officers on the "Natural Selection" such as the Oriental Continuation, there was an expression on their faces that they wanted to laugh but did not dare to laugh.

They secretly felt that Steven Eddie could directly slap Pang Xuelin like this.

After all, it was Pang Xuelin who made the Fifth Fleet miss the opportunity to fight with extraterrestrial civilization aircraft for the first time.

Pang Xuelin smiled faintly, not angry at all Steven Eddie's arrogance, he turned his gaze to the side of Dongfang and continued: "Dongfang, switch the communication system to the public channel!" ”

Dongfang continued to be slightly stunned, and frowned: "Professor Pang, what are you going to do?" ”

Xu Shaomin said: "Dongfang, have you forgotten what I said before?" Just switch it directly, the commander's order is my order! ”

"Yes!"

Dongfang continued to be a little aggrieved.

Soon, Pang Xuelin's voice sounded throughout the fleet: "I am the founder of Fleet International, the former wall-facing Pang Xuelin, and now I am speaking to all the captains of the solar system fleet!" As a wall-facing person who has had direct communication with the Three-Body Civilization, I hope you can listen to my advice, the Three-Body Civilization is not as simple as we imagined. Until it is certain that the water droplets are not a threat to us, all warships will immediately enter the deep sea state! All warships, now enter the deep sea state! I want everyone to remember that weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is! ”

In just a few seconds, all the three thousand stellar-class warships on the scene received Pang Xuelin's information.

For a time, the whole fleet was lively.

Some captains directly asked the command ship whether they should follow Pang Xuelin's orders.

There were also some captains with a mocking smile on their faces, directly ignoring Pang Xuelin's speech.

Only a small number of captains listened to Pang Xuelin's speech and ordered the battleship to enter the deep sea.

Soon, Steven Eddie's angry and distorted face reappeared in front of Pang Xuelin.

"Professor Pang, what are you doing here?"

Pang Xuelin smiled: "I am doing my duty as a human being!" ”

Steven Eddy said: "Professor Pang, you are acting ultra vires, and after successfully capturing the Trisolar-American Probe this time, I will directly submit your behavior to the International Supreme Council of the Fleet!" ”

"Whatever!"

Pang Xuelin said lightly: "Mr. Eddie, I hope you can remember what I just said, don't be arrogant, arrogance will ruin the future of mankind!" ”

"Professor Pang, I am a veteran with more than 40 years of experience in the Space Force, and I know more about modern space warfare than you!"

After speaking, Steven Eddie's figure disappeared in front of Pang Xuelin again.

……

At this time, the Mantis spacecraft was already within two kilometers of the water droplet.

In the circular cabin of the spacecraft, Professor Lynch Clark, dressed in a spacesuit, and two other officers from Fleet International also received messages from the public channel.

One of them, a tall and good-looking major officer, Xizi, said with a smile: "This Professor Pang also takes himself too seriously, I don't think many people will listen to his opinion!" ”

The other lieutenant colonel nodded approvingly.

Lynch Clark was staring at the image of the water droplets captured by the Mantis camera, and the flawless appearance of the water droplets made him faintly have a bad premonition.

He said lightly: "Child, don't easily underestimate the advice of a wall-facing person. I also came from that era, Professor Pang is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of mankind in the past two hundred years, at the beginning of the crisis era, he once warned all countries of mankind to pay attention to the possibility of a great trough, but unfortunately mankind did not listen to him, and later because of his foresight, mankind was able to put the threat of hunger in just a few years. It is precisely because of his efforts that the current fleet international and solar system fleets are ...... Now his advice to the Solar System Fleet reminds me of his advice to the nations of mankind back then! People are often prone to death from arrogance! ”

Xizi was slightly stunned, and said with some doubts: "Professor Clark, do you think the water droplets will be dangerous?" ”

Lynch Clark said: "Don't be deceived by its beautiful appearance, there are things that have an extremely beautiful appearance, and often hide the great horror ......"

With that, he transferred the Mantis's communication system to the quantum not far away.

"Captain Fan, let the Quantum enter the deep sea state, just in case!"

Soon, there was a response from the captain of the Quantum, Fan Minh Thanh: "Professor Clark, is there anything wrong with the water drops?" ”

Clark said: "I haven't found any problems for the time being, but I have a bad premonition that the quantum is ready to evacuate at any time!" ”

"That'...... Let's go! ”

Pham Minh Thanh hesitated for a moment, but accepted Lynch Clark's opinion.

At this time, the Mantis was only less than a hundred meters away from the water droplets.

The artificial intelligence on the Mantis slowly drove the Mantis close to the water droplets, and then the robotic arm opened to successfully capture the water droplets and slowly put them into the mantis's science capsule!

There were no problems with this process.

The real-time footage was simultaneously transmitted to the three thousand nearby solar system fleets, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

There was even a burst of cheers from inside the bridge of the Natural Selection.

Dongfang continued to glance at Pang Xuelin a little proudly, as if to say if you are too worried.

Pang Xuelin didn't care about the surrounding discussions and eyes at all, his eyes stared at the real-time broadcast screen transmitted back from the Mantis without blinking!

Lynch Clark and the two Fleet International officers floated into the science module in in-cabin spacesuits.

The water droplet floats right in the center of the science module, and its colors have completely changed and become much duller and softer than what had been seen through the extravehicular camera.

This is obviously due to the fact that the outside world is reflected differently on its surface, and the fully reflective surface of the water droplets itself is devoid of any color.

Lynch Clark slowly floated in front of the droplet and placed a hand on its surface. He could only touch it with gloves in case of frostbite from the absolute zero mirror.

Then, both Saiko and the lieutenant colonel officer began to touch the droplets.

"It looks too fragile, I'm afraid I'll break it." Xizi whispered.

"I don't feel the slightest friction." The male lieutenant colonel was amazed, "Its surface is too smooth. ”

"Look at the surface of a water droplet with a microscope!"

Xizi retrieved a cylindrical instrument from the shelf next to the science cabin, which was a microscope.

She touched the watery surface with the lens, from a small display that the instrument carried. You can see an image of the surface after magnification.

What is shown on the screen is still a smooth mirror.

"What's the magnification?"

Lynch Clark Road.

"A hundredfold."

Xizi pointed to a number in the corner of the microscope's display and adjusted the magnification to a thousand times.

The magnified surface is still smooth and mirror-like.

"Is the microscope broken?"

Lieutenant Colonel Officer said.

Saiko picked up the microscope and aimed it at the mask of her spacesuit.

The spacesuit mask looks as flawless to the naked eye as a drop of water, but when magnified a thousand times by a microscope, it becomes as rough as a rocky beach on the screen.

"Make the multiplier ten times more."

Lynch Clark Road.

This was beyond the ability of optical magnification, and Xizi performed a series of operations to switch the microscope from optical mode to electron tunneling microscopy mode, and now the magnification is 10,000 times.

The magnified surface is still smooth and mirror-like.

"Up to 100,000 times." Lieutenant Colonel Road.

What they see is still a smooth mirror.

"A million times." Smooth mirror finish.

"Ten million times!"

At this magnification, the macromolecules are already visible, but the screen is still smooth and mirror-like, with no signs of roughness, and its finish is no different from the surrounding surface that has not been magnified.

"Turn the multiplier up a little more!"

Lynch Clark's voice trembled slightly.

Xizi shook his head and said, "Professor Clark, this is already the extreme value that an electron microscope can achieve. ”

……

The strange atmosphere in the science cabin seemed to have spread to the three thousand warships that were watching the live broadcast.

Inside the Natural Selection, Pang Xuelin's face was expressionless, and his tone did not have the slightest wave: "Commander Xu, have you heard of the science fiction of "2001: Space Odyssey"? ”

Xu Shaomin looked at Pang Xuelin in surprise, shook his head and said, "I don't know." ”

Pang Xuelin said lightly: "This is written by a science fiction writer named Arthur C. Clarke in the Golden Age. He described a black obeli left on the moon by an extraterrestrial super civilization, and the investigators used an ordinary ruler to measure the three sides of the obe, the length ratio of which was 1:3:9, and later, no matter what more precise way was used, exhausting the highest accuracy of the earth's measurement technology, the ratio of the three sides of the obeli was still accurate 1:3:9, without any error. In his book, Clark wrote: In this way, that civilization arrogantly showed its power! Now, the Three-Body Civilization is showing us an even more arrogant power. ”

"Professor Pang, you mean that water droplets are dangerous?"

At some point, the look on Dongfang Continuation's face also became serious.

Pang Xuelin said: "Only the surface of a neutron star can reach this level of smoothness, but its quality is normal, so this cannot be a neutron material." Judging from the data sent back by the Praying Mantis, the surface of the water droplets has reached absolute zero, which can only show that the molecules of this thing, like a guard of honor, are neatly arranged and consolidated with each other at the same time, do you know how strong this knot is? As if nailed to death, the molecules vibrate themselves. Only strong interaction forces can achieve such an effect. This material, which is a hundred times stronger than the strongest material in the solar system, and all the matter in this world is as fragile as a piece of paper in front of it, and it can pass through the earth like a bullet through cheese, without the slightest damage to the surface. At present, in our human physics community, this material only exists in the imagination of some scientists, and to do this is equivalent to shooting a bow and arrow to the moon! The Trisolarans did it! ”

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