Chapter 300: Mine Planet (One Update, Asking for Votes)
Cheng Shi naturally couldn't travel a long distance of more than 2 million light-years in order to send a spaceship. He asked the Bridge to plan a route based on the star map of the elven ship, and he was to explore the planets marked by the elves while going to the Kobleno space market.
After the Kate Eagle arrived in the Ushuaia system in the main universe, it took less than a second for the information bridge to complete the route planning.
According to the route planned by the Information Bridge, the nearest elf-marked planet is about 50,000 light-years away from the Ushuaia system. At a slightly more comfortable speed, the Kate Eagle would have been able to cover this distance in about four Earth-hours.
"Let's go, let's go to that planet." Cheng Shi ordered.
Four hours passed quickly, and the Kate Eagle had arrived in the star system where the target planet was located, and soon came to space around the target planet.
Cheng Shi's mission goal is to explore whether there are man-made facilities on the planet marked by the elves, so after the Kate Eagle came over, the first thing he did was to circle around the target planet a few times, and first roughly draw a holographic projection of the target planet.
"Xiaoqiao, is there anyone on this planet?" Cheng Shi fluctuated the holographic projection of the target planet on the console, and asked in surprise when he found a huge man-made structure on it.
"It may be that there is a certain advanced civilization in the main universe mining on this planet, and the building is fully enclosed, and there are a lot of construction machinery parked outside, not like an intelligent race that has lived here for a long time." Information Bridge analyzes with its own first-hand information.
"So, isn't this planet from a small universe?" Cheng Shi asked again.
"Not necessarily, judging from the current known situation, the higher intelligent races in the main universe just can't survive for a long time on the planets that came from the small universe, that is, they can't be used as colonized planets for migrating populations. But if they just want to mine minerals here, they don't have to have a lot of people coming to the surface of this planet, and they can use the landing robot to operate it remotely. The information bridge explained reasonably.
"Then if we go down and take a look, it shouldn't be considered as interfering with the development process of the advanced civilization mining here, right?" Cheng Shi said as he stared at the holographic projection of the target planet in front of him.
"Of course not, the intelligent race that can mine across planets will not be curious about the spaceship, the master, as the enforcer of the main universe, can come over to patrol normally, and this galaxy is already under the jurisdiction of the master."
"Let's go down and have a look."
After receiving the order, the Kate Eagle found a relatively flat ground and landed, and did not encounter any obstacles the whole time.
Compared to the Thousand Islands Planet, the natural environment on the surface of this planet is much harsher. The place where the Kate Eagle landed was surrounded by cracked rocks, and it really looked like a mining site.
The planet's surface has a thin atmosphere with extremely low oxygen levels, almost negligible. But the amount of sulphur in the air is very high, and of course, this is only relative.
Cheng Shi combined the geomorphological characteristics of this planet and decided to name it after a famous silver mine in Guatemala on Earth, namely the Planet Escobar, and the galaxy in which this planet is located is called the Escobar Galaxy.
After putting on the life support suits, the group officially set foot on the land of the Escobar Mine Planet.
If he hadn't come to the land of this planet, Cheng Shi would really not have been able to appreciate the enormity of those mining machines.
Some of the machines resemble excavators on Earth, and one of its wheels is even larger than the entire Kate Eagle. And such a huge machine on the land of this planet, I don't know how many there are.
"With so many huge excavators, are they going to mine or dig holes?" Cheng Shi thought silently in his heart.
At Cheng Shi's request, the ship model quickly scanned an excavator and found that it had a spacious cab, and the cab had two pilot seats. By analyzing the size of the driver's seat and the various control devices on the car, the information bridge speculated that the intelligent beings driving such machines had at least a body structure that was extremely similar to that of humans on Earth.
"Master, through the comparison of material information, this ship found that this planet, like the Thousand Island Planet, is also a universe module of human civilization from the small universe. However, it is impossible to tell whether this planet was an ecological planet before, but it is currently a wild rock planet.
In addition, the ship also analyzed the material composition of the surrounding rocks, which are some common material elements. Even for the humans of the earth today, these rocks have little mining value.
"And the middle and high civilizations in the main universe, if they want to mine on a planet, the minerals they want to obtain are at least nuclear fuel. Therefore, the ship speculates that it is possible that they are not mining here. The information bridge was acting as an artificial sun, while analyzing.
Cheng Shi nodded: "If it is a middle-to-high-level civilization in a certain universe mining here, the construction machinery parked here should not be all excavators." Moreover, as far as I know, the intelligent races that have reached the intermediate civilization of the main universe are at least equipped with atomic separation technology, and they can completely refine while mining, and there is no need to build so many huge machines with the function of excavators. ”
"Landlord, I also think they're not mining, it's more like digging a pit." Oldman looked at an excavator beside him and said thoughtfully.
"Maybe what they wanted was just plain metal? Although the material technology on the earth is still very rudimentary, with my understanding of magic, after mixing a certain amount of magic materials with ordinary materials, its strength will increase many times. Carl analyzed.
Barbara pointed to the huge man-made structure not far ahead, "I think Carl has a point, we haven't entered those houses yet, maybe it's a smelting factory." ”
"Didn't the car just say that these excavators were driven by people? Why have we been here for so long and not a single one has seen it? Don't they want any of these machines? Yang Yang spread out his hand and said very puzzled.
A group of several people discussed from their own perspectives, and Cheng Shi felt that what everyone said seemed to have some truth.
"Let's not forget the premise that this planet originally belonged to the human cosmic module of the small universe, and under normal circumstances, it is impossible for intelligent beings to be willing to stay on its surface for a long time. If they're really here to mine, or something else, they'll leave as soon as the project is over. Staying here for an extra day might be dangerous for them. Cheng Shi thought and said.
"However, it may also be because this is a planet that is abnormal at the level of material information rules, so those who occupy this planet do not think that there is no need to arrange a warning force on its surface. Because no one wants to stay on this planet for a long time, unless they want to die. However, these are just speculations, and when we go to the inside of that man-made structure, there may be different results. Cheng Shi then said.
The group chatted and came to the edge of the huge man-made structure. So a few people began to look at the massive building from all angles.
They saw that the surface of the building was uneven, as if it had been spliced together from a specific standard material. There are no doors, no windows, and no signs, so it's completely unclear from the outside what it's for.
"Master, have you noticed a problem, those machines and buildings here don't have any text marks on them?" The information bridge suddenly reminded in the spiritual connection with Cheng Shi.
Cheng Shi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then began to think back to the way he had come, as if it was really as the information bridge said, he didn't see a place with a text mark.
"Not to mention this building, those machines should be produced on the assembly line of the factory, how can they not even have a word logo? What's going on here? What are they trying to hide? Cheng Shi thought silently.
"Xiaoqiao, don't you have any text marks on the parts in those machines?" Cheng Shi asked puzzled.
"There may have been before, but then they were all erased. In the engine of one of the excavators, the ship found a part that should not have been worn, with signs of wear on it, probably to erase the text mark on it. ”
Cheng Shi nodded suspiciously: "This is a suspicious point, let's not care so much about it, let's go inside this building first." ”
"Landlord, I think that for the intelligent race that can come to this planet to mine, the spaceship is a necessary means of transportation," Oldman said, patting the wall of the building in front of him, "I think its door should be on it." ”
It turned out that it was the worldview on the earth that limited Cheng Shi's thinking, and he instinctively felt that all houses should have a door parallel to the ground, which was obviously a very low-level mistake.
"Xiaoqiao, go to the top of this building right now." Cheng Shi said with some embarrassment.
After a while, the ship model flew back: "Master, there is an obvious circular crack on it, and this ship is speculated to be a lifting platform for mooring spaceships." ”
After the information bridge finished speaking, before Cheng Shi could give an order, it automatically turned into the Kate Eagle spaceship. Then a pillar of light shot out from under the hull, and several people stood in the pillar of light, and in an instant they came to the spaceship. The ship then proceeded to the large circular lifting platform on top of the building.
The ceiling of this building is made of two completely different materials from its walls, and the whole thing is grayish-black, and although it looks rough on a thin level, the whole is still very smooth.
The huge circular lifting platform is now closed. There was still no sign on it, and there was not even a clear distinction in color, and if there was no signal navigation inside, it would be difficult for the spacecraft to even find a lifting platform for the spacecraft to enter and exit from high in the air.