Ma Wu and Austin were the first to arrive at Yinglong Shipyard.

Austin was blowing on the gum bubbles and asked, "Poo! Captain, is this our new ship?"

"Explorer III, one of the replicas of the Marauder, has a space jumping device." Ma Wu took off his sunglasses and replied.

The livery of Explorer III is different from that of Explorer II, which has a silver-gray livery, while Explorer III has a black livery, which almost blends in with the Void background.

The Explorer III's hull is in the shape of a twin ship, like two battleships spliced together, and although it is a replica of the Marauder, Yinglong Shipyard has done a lot of work to improve it.

For example, adjustments to the dormitory area, living quarters, etc., after all, the maximum passenger capacity of the original Marauder is about 150,000 people, while the Explorer 3 is only about 4,300 people when it is full.

So a lot of things have to be adjusted.

In particular, on the curvature engine, the maximum speed of the original curvature engine of the Marauder is only 31 times the speed of light, which is obviously out of place, and Yinglong Shipyard directly replaced it with the PP-QL-16 curvature engine produced by The Paper, and the maximum speed can reach 132 times the speed of light.

If you have a space jumping device, why should you have a curvature engine?

The reason why this was done was mainly just in case, when the Marauder was brought to the Orion cantilever area by the spatial turbulence, if there was no curvature engine, it would really be called heaven and earth.

In addition, the space jumping device has a time gap of more than ten seconds, and in case of emergency, it may be very passive, and the curvature engine can be used for emergency at this time.

Ma Wu took over the acceptance documents from the person in charge of the shipyard on the side, and beckoned Austin to board the spacecraft and carry out the acceptance inspection.

The artificial gravity system made the interior of the spacecraft feel like it was on the ground of the Blue Star, and Ma Wu carefully inspected every area and those important equipment.

"Captain, where are we going on an expedition this time?"

"The Sagittarius cantilever, then the three-thousand-second cantilever, the Large Magellanic Galaxy, the Magellanic Galaxy."

"Sagittarius cantilevered?" Austin wrote it down, and she was going to check the astronomical database, after all, the information in this era was updated very quickly.

"I heard you're studying cosmic dark matter?"

"Anyway, sailing will not affect learning, now distance education is carried out, and people who go to adult universities are office workers, so how can they have time to sign in to school every day."

"My classmate is a Governor over there in the Dark Dwarf Galaxy, so if you want to buy some dark matter samples, let me know." Ma Wu said as he started the backup antimatter reactor.

"Then thank you Captain in advance, there is no problem with reactor No. 6 and no problem with reactor No. 8......"

Ma Wu quickly ticked the options on the acceptance documents, and sometimes wrote down some adjustments or modifications.

"The captain's classmate is Governor Liao Qingsong, right? The first batch of graduates of the astronaut major of United Universe University are all great people! Austin said with a smile.

"Haha, I'm the worst mixed with Lao Ma."

Fang Haibo appeared behind the two.

"I thought you kid wasn't coming back, then." Ma Wu threw the acceptance documents over.

As soon as Fang Haibo raised his hand to catch the acceptance documents steadily, he said with some embarrassment: "I'll just run a Sagittarius cantilever and then I plan to work within the alliance for a while." ”

"What are you embarrassed about? I'm not one to look away. Ma Wu patted him on the shoulder and smiled.

As more and more crew members returned, it took three days to finally complete the acceptance of Explorer 3 under the joint inspection of a group of crew members.

……

Ma Wu submitted acceptance documents to Yinglong Shipyard, asking them to modify some of the equipment and settings of Explorer 3.

The person in charge, Zhou Bolin, suddenly said: "Do you need to install a set of dark matter stealth armor?"

"Dark matter stealth armor? What's that?" Ma Wu asked in surprise.

"It is a new product that is being experimented, which can avoid the detection of most dark wave radars, and can also resist the erosion of dark matter and dark energy." Zhou Bolin explained.

"Experimental product? Is the technology sound?" Ma Wu asked suspiciously.

Zhou Bolin took out a document and gave it to Ma Wu: "This is the product manual of Neutron Star Materials Company, and the technology is very stable, but because it is the first generation of products, there are loopholes in two frequency bands, and the cost is relatively high." ”

Ma Wu glanced at the offer, it was relatively high? Are you kidding? For Explorer III, the price is 57 billion.

Am I floating? Or do you treat me like a stupid person with a lot of money?

Ma Wu didn't think about it, and handed the document back directly: "You guys better go and fool the Supreme Command!" If I agree to this, the Department of Space Exploration will probably throw me into neutron star. ”

"Huh...... Why don't you get a 50% discount?" Zhou Bolin smiled bitterly.

"......" Ma Wutou ran away without looking back.

The Explorer 3 spacecraft is going to the cantilever area and the Big Magellanic galaxy to explore, not to fight, why do you want dark matter stealth armor?

What's more, the price was too touching, he agreed, and the Department of Space Exploration wouldn't agree to it nine times out of ten.

After a week of intensive revisions, the Explorer III finally met Ma Wu's expectations, and all the crew members were in place.

On the space dock of Yinglong Shipyard in South A Industrial Star, Explorer 3 slowly left the shipyard and headed for deep space.

"Report, it's 20 units from the nearest planet."

"Reportedly, there are no ships within 15 units in the vicinity."

Report ......

Ma Wu pointed to the star map of the Milky Way and chose the central region of the Sagittarius cantilever, an area with relatively sparse stars: "Head towards the Sagittarius cantilever." ”

"Roger." Fang Haibo enters the positioning coordinates on the space ball.

Explorer III's space-hopping device unleashed a powerful gravitational pull, and countless antimatter was annihilated in the reactor.

In the void about 300,000 kilometers away from the head of the spaceship, a black dot suddenly appeared, and then expanded rapidly.

Until the black dot turned into a pitch-black circle with a radius of 5 kilometers, Austin immediately pushed down the photon engine lever.

Suddenly, Explorer 3 rushed straight into the pitch-black circle, and as Explorer 3 completely disappeared into the pitch-black circle, the pitch-black circle surface quickly shrank, and finally disappeared into the void.

On one side of the Orion cantilever is the Sagittarius cantilever.

At this time, a spaceship rushed out of the pitch-black circle and came to this strange starry sky, and the spaceship was none other than Explorer 3.

"The communication group activates the communication system and tests whether the communication with the Space Communication Center is normal?" Ma Wu commanded.

"Communication is normal."

"Radar group, scan the surrounding 3,000 light-years to build a Centauri astronomical database."

"Roger."

Fang Haibo quickly set up three emergency jump coordinates on the space ball to avoid being in a hurry due to unexpected situations.

Austin turned off the photon engine and commanded the crew of the proton group to quickly release the proton robots in all directions, an action inherited from the Explorer II era.

The expedition work is carried out in an orderly manner, and they are the external pioneers and explorers of the Alliance.

They will spend long years in the universe, with stars as companions, in a race against time, and with unknown civilizations.